MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 Seaside mansion facing wrecking ball By Gayla Cawley Robert Corcoran, the own- It includes a large home/ Developer ITEM STAFF er of 133 Puritan Road, ac- mansion, carriage house quired the 1.06 acre proper- with residential space in- SWAMPSCOTT — The looking to ty in August 2014 for $1.785 owner of a Puritan Road side, tennis court and pool. build 16 property has proposed dem- million, according to land It abuts the Swampscott olition of the site’s existing records. The property is as- Harbor and includes a sea- condos in structures to make room for sessed at $2.943 million. wall, according to Peter the construction of 16 con- The property was built in Kane, director of community COURTESY PHOTO Swampscott dominiums or apartments, 1914 and is located at the development. This mansion at 133 Puritan Road could be razed to with an affordable housing intersection of Puritan Road construct three buildings with 16 condominiums. component. and Lincoln House Avenue. MANSION, A7 One’s trash is another’s treasure in Marblehead By Gayla Cawley ITEM STAFF MARBLEHEAD — After nearly three years, the Marblehead Swap Shop is open for busi- ness at the transfer station site on Wood n Terrace. Andrew Petty, director of public health, said the popular swap shop, or swap shed, is run by volunteers and has been closed for the past two and half years because of construction at the transfer station. The swap shed is open from May to October on Saturdays from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at 5 Wood- n Terrace, and allows residents to drop off usable items for other residents to take at no charge, according to the town website. Any resident with a facilities sticker may take items for free from the swap shop, and no vehicle will be allowed access without a valid Marblehead resident facility sticker, accord- ing to the town website. TAKING A STAND Petty said the shop, which opened on Aug. 5, is currently being run out of containers — 8 x 20 shipping containers — on the transfer ‘If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention’ station site until the new swap shop building no to racism and fascism. Five-month-old is constructed. By Matt Demirs FOR THE ITEM Thomas Smith- Unacceptable swap items include clothing, “There’s just so many issues going on right now,” King Fargo said. “Unfortunate- Vaughan of Lynn computer monitors, hazardous materials, LYNN — Peabody’s Karyn King Fargo ly there are many things going on that we holds up a sign at large appliances, large furniture and TVs. stood outside of City Hall, carrying a sign should feel outraged about.” the March Against Petty said swap items usually include dishes, bearing words shared on Heather Heyer’s home goods and kids’ bikes. The gathering, organized by Lynn Unit- Racism in Lynn on last Facebook Post. Saturday. Generally, Petty said people make use of the “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying ed for Change, the New Lynn Coalition, swap shop after they have bought new things attention.” and the Essex County Community Organi- and don’t want their old items anymore. Be- The message was meant to honor Hey- zation (ECCO), called on others to join the ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK cause of the demographics of Marblehead, er, who was killed during protests of white movement for social justice and demanded typically a lot of good stuff comes through the supremacists and neo-Nazis last week in community leaders break their silence and shop, he added. Charlottesville, Va. speak out. Petty said the swap shop is an important re- King Fargo was one of more than six doz- The rally started off with ECCO’s repre- source because it’s part of recycling — rather en people peacefully expressing their out- sentative singing “This little light of mine,” than items being thrown out in the trash, ma- rage on Saturday. Protesters who hailed terials can be reused. from Lynn and statewide gathered to say STAND, A3 The new swap shop building is part of Phase 2 of the Marblehead transfer station upgrade, along with a new transfer station building and new scale house, Petty said. Town of cials pre- viously said $37 million had been allocated for Medford the upgrade, but Petty did not have a gure for SWAP SHOP, A7 has a common vision STAFF REPORT By as early as next spring, city residents will be able to walk through a multi-level plaza in Medford Square over- looking Old Salem Burying Grounds. Work on the 9,700 square foot Riverside Avenue Plaza is underway with contractor Vir- gilio Construction, Inc. execut- ing a design created by Crosby Schlessinger Smallridge. “This open space is our ver- Saugus eats up nutritional sion of a common for the city,” said Mayor Stephanie M. Burke in a statement. “Our advice from a Hilltop chef goal is to have this be a gath- ering place for performances, By Bridget Turcotte basics of tness. Don Doward, arts and offers a unique way ITEM STAFF “Little things make a huge President of for residents to connect with difference,” Doward, who New England ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK SAUGUS — From sizzling pathways along the Mystic was a chef at the Hilltop for Fitness Design, steaks to nutritious shakes, A doll sits on a table at the Marblehead River, while spending time in 36 years, told the assembled presents an in- Swap Shop, which allows residents to our historic square.” former Hilltop Steak House crowd. “If you’re eating out a formative slide drop off usable items for other resi- chef Don Doward is using his lot, the rst thing you should show entitled dents to take at no charge. MEDFORD, A7 knowledge of food to help oth- do is cut your meal in half “Fitness and ers lead healthier lives. when you get it and put half Nutritional In an hour-long seminar in a take out container right Meal Design” to sponsored by the Friends of away.” an audience at INSIDE the Saugus Library, Doward, Portion control goes a long the Saugus Pub- who now works as a tness, way, he said. Even at the Hill- lic Library. In Peabody In Opinion In Sports diet, and lifestyle consultant, top, the steaks had to look School administration De ning progress Gannon Silver Classic offered tips for purchasing proportionate on the massive moves into new for Lynn. A4 lives up to its name. B1 food in a restaurant and a PHOTO | PAULA MULLER of ce space. A2 store, and talked about the DOWARD, A7 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 85° VOL. 139, ISSUE 216 LYNN .........................................A3 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 69° OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 HEALTH .....................................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 OBITUARIES Sister Lorraine Fontaine, 92 Viewing the solar eclipse safely By Matt Demirs a stack of books, Hellmer the lid of a box, scissors, Hellmer said that FOR THE ITEM said. box cutter, tape, tin foil, demonstrating how peo- MARLBOROUGH — Sister Marlborough, she remained Next, take a piece of thumbtack and piece of ple can make these eclipse If you haven’t purchased Lorraine Fontaine, a Sister of active and brought her smiling cardboard and trace the paper. viewing tools at home will eclipse viewing glasses yet St. Anne, died at Marie Esther good humor to her role in com- lenses of the binoculars. First, cut out a small hopefully create an inter- and want to safely look at Health Center in this city on munity services to the Sisters. After cutting out the small square with scissors or a today’s solar eclipse, Lynn est in the world of science Thursday, Aug. 17. She was 92 Sister Lorraine was prede- holes, cover the lens with box cutter into the center English High School Sci- and space. and in her 71st year of vowed ceased by her parents, her the cutout piece of card- of your box that is about 2 The University of Mas- religious life brother Robert Fontaine and ence teacher, Erik Hell- mer, has household tricks. board so the lenses are x 2 inches. sachusetts Amherst grad- Born in Lynn, she was the four sisters, Marie Rock, Phyllis poking out. It is important Next, cut out a piece of uate also warned people fourth of nine children born to Pentheny, Elsie Babcock and The methods involve using a pair of binocu- to cover any holes between tin foil that is about 3 x 3 not to look directly at the Frederick and Eloise (Laboss- her sister Lillian, also a Sister the binocular lens and inches and tape it on the sun when using these iere) Fontaine. She joined the of St. Anne. Her death will be lars, and items you might have around: like a box of cardboard with tape in or- box so it covers the hole. devices and in general Sisters of St. Anne in Lachine, grieved by her sisters, Mary der to project the eclipse. With your thumbtack, Quebec, pronounced vows and Jane Carr, of Florida; Gabrielle tinfoil, cardboard, and a during the eclipse. thumbtack. Without looking di- make a small puncture The partial phases will was known as Sr. Patricia Ma- Moalli, in Peabody; and Therese rectly at the sky, direct into the center of the tin rie. Sr. Lorraine earned a B.A. Harrington, of California, nieces, Both methods will proj- start at about 1:30 p.m. ect the eclipse onto a safe the lenses at the eclipse.