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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2020 Man injured in one-car crash on Lynnway By Gayla Cawley ITEM STAFF LYNN — A horri c single-car crash on the Lynnway near North Shore Community College left the vehicle mangled and a 72-year-old man with serious injuries on Tuesday afternoon, State Police said. The Lynn Fire Depart- ment had to use tools to extricate the driver from his 2017 Acura Sedan. The man was the only one in the car, and was taken to Salem Hospital, authori- ties said. A witness, Chris Bates, said he was driving behind the car on the Lynnway when the driver sudden- TIES THAT BIND ly drove over a curb and smashed into a tree. He pulled over and called 911 Threads 4 Care brings hope to report the crash. “I heard a bang and I to women in recovery looked up and I saw the car shake like crazy,” said By Elyse Carmosino Jessica Diaz Bates, 41, of Lynn. “I came ITEM STAFF looks through the to a stop and debris was clothes on hand ying and I was expect- LYNN — Threads 4 Care hosted its rst at the Threads 4 ing another vehicle. I just Lynn event for women in recovery at East Care pop-up at couldn’t believe what I Coast International Church’s “The Mansion” “The Mansion.” saw when I got there.” last weekend. Shortly after 1 p.m., Founded in 2016, the non-pro t organization ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK the Acura was a man- initially aimed to provide foster children and gled mess. Most of the car former foster children ages 12 to 25 with op- had been torn apart from portunities to “shop” for clean, in-style cloth- the impact and the front ITEM PHOTO | GAYLA CAWLEY ing free of charge. engine was complete- Now, four years later, the mobile boutique has ly exposed. Crews were A 2017 Acura Sedan was torn apart and the front en- expanded by offering its service to a number working to clean up parts gine was completely exposed after colliding with a tree on the Lynnway Tuesday, leaving the 72-year-old driver BOUTIQUE, A3 CRASH, A3 hospitalized with serious injuries. Biden NSMC gets Hall of a donation surges from Marblehead couple By David McLellan Law Foundation, Chewonki Foundation, on Super ITEM STAFF Forest Society of Maine, and The Enter- prise Center at Salem State. MARBLEHEAD — Gordon Hall has According to North Shore Medical Cen- Tuesday been a lover of the outdoors since he was ter spokeswoman Allison Epstein, the a young child, when he would go y sh- cardiac treatment facilities at Salem By Steve Peoples ing with his father on Moosehead Lake Hospital will be renamed the Hall Family and Will Weissert in Maine. Heart Center. ASSOCIATED PRESS Now at age 89, with three arti cial Hall has had several cardiac procedures joints and having undergone several car- over the last two decades. He and his wife WASHINGTON — Ber- diac procedures, Hall is still able to get decided to make the donation after the ex- nie Sanders seized Super outside and cross country ski, and he cellent treatment he received allowed him Tuesday’s biggest prize credits North Shore Medical Center for to continue activities, including skiing, with a victory in Califor- his continued vitality. playing tennis, and sailboat racing, into nia, while a resurgent Joe Marblehead residents Hall and his his old age. He still is able to cross country Biden scored wins across wife, Taffy, have donated $500,000 to the ski, and said the community deserves an the country with the back- North Shore Medical Center’s Depart- “excellent hospital” like that in Salem. ing of a diverse coalition ment of Cardiology. Hall is a retired real “Gratitude is a powerful motivator,” as the Democratic Party’s Gordon Hall and his wife, Taffy, donated estate investor and broker, and currently Hall said. once-crowded presidential $500,000 to North Shore Medical Center’s De- serves on the board of several New En- eld transformed into a partment of Cardiology. gland nonpro ts, including Conservation DONATION, A3 two-man contest. The two Democrats, lifelong politicians with starkly different visions Opinion for America’s future, were Embracing Lynn’s Senior Center seeking a new home battling for delegates as residential 14 states and one U.S. renaissance. A4 By Gayla Cawley the Senior Center. As part of the change, city of cials territory held a series of ITEM STAFF and Greater Lynn Senior Services (GLSS), came to LOOK! an agreement to move the center from the GLSS high-stakes elections that Renee Leavitt to play LYNN — The City of Lynn is seeking a new space building at 8 Silsbee St. to a new facility in June. marked the most signi - Kowloon Friday. A8 cant day of voting in the for the Senior Center, which it will lease from a pro- “It’s an exciting time,” said James Lamanna, assis- party’s 2020 presidential spective landlord for ve years. tant city solicitor. “We’ve never had a Senior Center. Sports The City’s Council’s Public Property and Parks nomination ght. English boys basketball It’s a challenge, but it’s an opportunity.” Committee voted, 4-0, Tuesday night to release a Re- The clash between Biden punches ticket to Div. 1 Lamanna said the goal is for the facility to be op- and Sanders, each leading North nal. B1 quest for Proposals for the new facility, which will be erational by July 1, but he told the committee at coalitions of disparate posted on the state’s Central Register next week. their Feb. 24 meeting that a build-out could make demographics and polit- Newhall gets 300th win as The city will lease the new facility from the select- that “date real tight.” The RFP reads that the city ical beliefs, peaked on a St. Mary’s tops Fenwick in ed bidder. The bid document outlines 12 sets of com- may provide nancial assistance for any necessary day that could determine Div. 3 North semi. B1 parative criteria that will determine how proposals repairs or renovations. whether the Democratic are evaluated, which includes space and parking re- The RFP calls for a building that would house battle will stretch all the Winthrop girls’ run ends quirements. 7,000-9,000 square feet of space for the Senior Center, way to the July conven- in Div. 3 North semi. B1 Mayor Thomas M. McGee announced this past fall tion or be decided much that the city would be taking over management of SENIOR CENTER, A3 sooner. The former vice presi- dent and the three-term senator took aim at each other from dueling vic- Wells Fargo gives $10K to Lynn YMCA, RAW tory speeches separated LYNN — The local YMCA and Raw Art get into college or explore career opportuni- to help revitalize and strengthen local neigh- by 2,500 miles Tuesday Works (RAW) got $10,000 each as part of the ties. night. borhoods. Massachusetts is a vibrant state, “People are talking 2019 round of donations from nancial ser- “We want to create greater impact in un- and we’re lucky to have so many leaders and about a revolution. We vices company Wells Fargo & Company. derserved communities across Massachu- nonpro ts invested in its long-term stability started a movement,” Wells Fargo announced $7.7 million in do- setts,” said Briana Curran, vice president of and success,” she said. Biden charged in Los nations went to Massachusetts nonpro ts communications and community relations at According to RAW Executive Director Kit Angeles, knocking one of over the past year. In Lynn, the YMCA used Wells Fargo New England. Jenkins, support from organizations like Sanders’ signature lines. its $10,000 for programming for teenagers, “By collaborating with community orga- Wells Fargo help RAW offer paid opportunities and RAW continues to provide arts education nizations, we aim to provide philanthropy, BIDEN, A2 and arts therapy to youth, and help students volunteers, knowledge, and other resources WELLS FARGO, A3 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 51° VOL. 142, ISSUE 71 POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 38° ENTERTAINMENT .......................A7 COMICS ....................................B4 FOOD ........................................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2020 Baker casts ballot, won’t discuss his preferences By Matt Murphy ence the election. STATE HOUSE In 2016, a little over a NEWS SERVICE year into his first term as governor, Baker endorsed SWAMPSCOTT — then-Gov. Chris Christie When it comes to discuss- days ahead of the New ing presidential politics, Hampshire primary, and Gov. Charlie Baker has spent a weekend cam- been nothing this cycle if paigning in the Granite not consistent. State for his fellow gover- After months of resist- nor. PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS ing questions about who “I don’t ever want to be he would vote for on Su- in a position where people Democratic presidential candidate former per Tuesday, the state’s say you didn’t have a po- Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a primary top elected Republican sition on something of sig- election night campaign rally Tuesday in Los showed up at the First nificance and importance,” Angeles. Church in Swampscott on he said at the time. Tuesday night and cast a Christie dropped out secret ballot. of the race shortly after And secret it shall re- a disappointing showing Biden surges on main. PHOTO | SHNS in New Hampshire, and “I said before I wasn’t Gov. Charlie Baker checked in at his polling Baker never endorsed going to get into presiden- place, First Church in Swampscott, before vot- again in the race, though Super Tuesday tial politics and I’m not go- ing around 7 p.m.