Celebrate culture and community: Festival La Voz, Sunday, noon-5, Fraser Field, Lynn. For tickets and information: FestivalLaVoz.com FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2019 Kettle Cuisine still not passing the sniff test By Gayla Cawley remedies were discussed other than to ITEM STAFF say “it’s an ongoing process,” said James Lamanna, assistant city solicitor. LYNN — Despite spending nearly $1 Among the options the state has is to million to end Kettle Cuisine’s cooked close the factory until the smell is xed, onion and garlic stench on the Lynnway, or require installation of so-called Scrub- complaints continue to ood City Hall. ber systems, an air pollution control de- Complaints The numerous calls about the soup mak- vice that removes particulates and gases still linger er prompted a meeting among the Mas- from industrial exhausts. The systems over the smell sachusetts Department of Environmental can cost more than $1 million. of onions and Protection (MassDEP), Kettle Cuisine and Ward 4 Councilor Richard Colucci, garlic emanat- city of cials on Thursday. It was closed to Lynn Public Health Director Michele ing from Ket- the public and reporters were barred. Desmarais and Lamanna were invited to tle Cuisine’s City of cials said MassDEP ordered de- the session. Lynnway tails of the meeting be held con dential. facility. No one from City Hall would reveal what SMELL, A3 Raising awareness Lynn eld’s Thor Jourgensen rst school lesson will They be social, made emotional stomachs By Thor Jourgensen ITEM STAFF growl LYNNFIELD — When 2,200 town students return to classes next Wednesday, social emotional in Lynn learning will be the classroom fo- cus even as reading, writing and Tuck in your napkins: It’s arithmetic lessons begin. time to revisit the good old School Superintendent Jane dining days in Lynn, specif- Tremblay and her 300 coworkers ically the sub and sandwich will focus on building relation- shops that lled stomachs ships with students that extend and made mouths water. beyond understanding their aca- It’s hard to settle on a demic skills. more contentious subject “Parents can expect a lot of ac- than places to eat in this tivities in the rst few weeks city. Mention Earl of Sand- around getting to know students wich and someone shoots in order to teach them in the best right back with Angelina’s. way possible,” Tremblay said. Recall Sam’s Sandwich back Social emotional learning isn’t in the day on Lewis Street a concept exclusive to Lynn eld. and someone else shouts, Swampscott is among area com- “Don’t forget Tina’s Sub munities pushing efforts to under- Shop.” stand the pressures and challeng- Dial 1965 into the time es students face when they come machine and it’s easy to nd to school every morning. no fewer than 130 places Tremblay said social emotional doing business that year learning translates into balanc- across the city that served ing academics and other learn- food ranging from sit-down ing with building a relationship dinners to quick bites. To with young people with the goal understand why the city of helping them “to feel emotion- — all cities — had so many ally and psychologically safe to do places to eat back in the their best.” day, you have to understand She said the extra effort involved what eating meant a half in combining social emotional century ago. ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK learning with more traditional Back then, “lunch break” academics lays a rm bedrock for didn’t mean opening a Mayor Thomas M. McGee hoists the ag at Lynn City Hall on Thursday marking building an education. Students Tupperware container and National Overdose Awareness Month. For additional photos from the event, see spending 20 minutes eating. LOOK! Page A8. LYNNFIELD, A3 If you didn’t bring a brown bag or a lunch box to your job or school, you went out to lunch in 1965 or ate in a company or school cafeteria. PorchFest bringing the party to Swampscott Expense accounts reigned Olmstead/Monument Avenue area at the Fest Organizers International, where there supreme and lunch breaks By Bella diGrazia ITEM STAFF noon-to-6 p.m. event. were 140 reported fests across the globe. were extended versions of “I thought Swampscott would be the per- “I wasn’t surprised to nd out the concept coffee breaks in an era when SWAMPSCOTT — On Sept. 14, Swamp- fect town to have this because we have so started in my hometown of Ithaca,” he said. people worked designated scott residents will enjoy the sounds of live many porches with beautiful ocean views, “I was already living in Swampscott at that time shifts and left work music right from their neighbor’s porches. and it turns out there are so many talented time, though.” behind at the end of their The event is called PorchFest, and it is a musicians and music people here,” said Al- Swampscott’s inaugural PorchFest is shift unless they ran a small mini-music festival that began in Ithaca, exander. “It’s a great way to get people out meant to cap off the town’s annual Summer business or hustled off to a N.Y., 12 years ago and has since taken over playing on porches, hanging with neighbors Concert Series, which will have its last show second job. the world, said Swampscott co-organizer and enjoying each other’s music.” on the Town Hall front lawn on Aug. 21. Al- The Lynnway alone offered Philip Alexander. Everything from classic Alexander said he became familiar with exander, who is on the concert series’ orga- any number of places to rock to Irish music, Americana, bluegrass, the concept when Somerville debuted its nizing committee, said the summer series eat 55 years ago with Bill big band jazz, spoken word and acoustic Porchfest in 2011. He researched it and end- & Bob’s and Burger Bar as performances will be heard throughout the ed up joining a Facebook group called Porch- SWAMPSCOTT, A3 well as longtime favorite Christie’s. Plenty of people still remember Varley’s Din- er. How about the Howard INSIDE Patriots safety Chung indicted on cocaine charge Johnson’s once located at 637 Lynn and the Redwood Sports LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — New were called to Chung’s residence It is not clear whether Chung Lounge? Salem State’s Molea England Patriots safety Patrick June 25 “on a call for service” has an attorney who can speak for Only those residents pos- primed for college Chung has been indicted in New and obtained evidence leading to him. The court le doesn’t list one. sessing a gigantic appetite season. B1 Hampshire on a charge of cocaine the felony drug charge, Belknap “We are aware of the reports managed to eat their way possession, according to court pa- County Attorney Andrew Liver- regarding Patrick Chung,” the down Western Avenue a half Lynn English athletics perwork released Thursday. nois said in a statement. Patriots tweeted. “We will not be century ago. The high-num- reveals its 2019 Hall A Belknap County grand jury Livernois declined to provide ad- commenting while his judicial bered end near the River of Fame class. B1 indicted Chung, 32, on Aug. 8. ditional details on the case. proceedings take place.” Members of the Meredith, New Chung’s arraignment is sched- JOURGENSEN, A3 Hampshire, police department uled for Wednesday. CHUNG, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 80° VOL. 141, ISSUE 218 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-8 LOW 62° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS ....................................B4 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2019 OBITUARIES Leonard C. Levesque Sr., 76 Patricia A. Kenyon, 66 Evelyn R. Small, 90 1943-2019 1953-2019 Leonard C. Levesque Sr., 76, PEABODY — Patricia (Patty) Evelyn R. (Malaguti) Small, retired Peabody police officer, Kenyon, of Peabody, formerly age 90, passed away peace- died peacefully surrounded of Lynn, died unexpectedly on fully, on Saturday, Aug. 17, by his children on Wednes- Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019 at 2019 at Merrimack Valley day, Aug. 21, 2019 following her home. Health Center in Amesbury, a brief illness. He was the Born in Lynn to the late Wal- surrounded by her family. husband of the late Frances ter and Rita (Brault) Kenyon, She was born in Boston to (Woitunski) Levesque. she attended St. Mary’s High Lionel and Evelyn Malaguti. Born in Peabody on May School in Lynn and Bryant She graduated from Boston 2, 1943, he was the son of and Stratton in Boston. Catholic High School. She en- the late Leo and Charlotte Prior to her retirement, she joyed working in both medical (Skinner) Levesque. He was a and real estate settings. graduate of St. John’s Elemen- worked as an administrative assistant at Bank of Boston Beloved wife of the late tary School and Peabody High Robert E. Small, a retired and later as a patent assistant School. He had also served in Boston fire lieutenant. Loving for Ropes and Gray in Boston. the U.S. Army during the Viet- mother of Maureen Forest- nam War. She enjoyed singing in her eire of North Reading, Robert Lenny was a police officer church choir and spending Small and wife Kathy of Ames- for the City of Peabody for time in Wells, Maine. bury, and Sheryle Favreau and more than 25 years before California; his mother-in-law, Patty is survived by her aunt, CUFFE-MCGINN Funeral husband Lionel of Fremont, Service information: Fami- retiring in 1999. He had also Helen (Michalek) Woitunski Teresa Brown; and numerous Home, 157 Maple St., Lynn, N.H.