Lynnfield Icon Now a Ship-Wreck a Question of Credentials in Lynn
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2017 A question of credentials in Lynn By Gayla Cawley may perform as an employee of is discussing building code and ITEM STAFF the city of Lynn.” making recommendations on But city of cials, in response, building code, then he needs to LYNN — Clint Muche, the say Muche’s role within the be a certi ed building inspec- city’s deputy building commis- Inspectional Services Depart- tor. Without knowing the facts sioner, is under state scrutiny. ment is administrative, and and circumstances, he said he “Clint Muche is not certi ed doesn’t require the certi cation. couldn’t comment further. as a local building inspector,” The city says at no point does When reached by phone, said Chris Goetcheus, spokes- Muche function as, or perform Muche said he had no comment. man for the state’s Of ce of the duties of a local inspector. But Muche’s boss, Michael Consumer Affairs and Business Goetcheus said whether Donovan, the city’s Inspection- Regulation. “We’re aware of the Muche requires certi cation al Services Department (ISD) matter and we’re looking into depends on what his job de- what duties and functions he scription is for the city — if he MUCHE, A7 Marblehead extends a helping hand to Lynn By Bridget Turcotte Fiorella and ITEM STAFF Araceli Giraldo receive new LYNN — Nearly three dozen girls at Girls backpacks from Inc. of Lynn took home backpacks, pens, and pencils to get them ready for a new school state Rep. Lori year. Ehrlich. State Rep. Lori Ehrlich (D-Marblehead) handed out the bags and school supplies to ITEM PHOTO | the girls who needed them most Monday af- OWEN O’ROURKE ternoon. Ehrlich, who pushed a shopping cart full of supplies through the front door of the yellow building on the hill, said she’s a big supporter of the organization, and nds the work Girls Inc. is doing to be extremely important. “It’s important to go and have a place and just be girls,” said Ehrlich. “Being a girl my- self, I’m aware of how girls’ voices aren’t al- ways heard. I come in and just talk to them about what I do sometime.” National Foundation for Women Legisla- tors, a nonpro t organization based in Wash- ington, D.C. that formed to assist women leg- Lynn eld icon now a Ship-wreck islators with public opinion and legislative issues, partnered with Of ce Depot to donate By Bridget Turcotte said Kevin Doherty, who seeks out The Ship Restau- 18 drawstring backpacks for Ehrlich to hand ITEM STAFF projects for the company to pursue. rant in Lynn eld out. “That was like a three-month project is being torn Jocelyn Cook, executive director of SPUR, LYNNFIELD — The grim reaper to get it down and clean it all.” down by New a Marblehead-based, volunteer-led organi- of Route 1’s landmarks struck again The company was sought after the Hampshire Dem- zation that was established to inspire good with the take-down of the iconic demolition of Weylu’s Restaurant two olition, the same deeds, heard about the project and donated Ship Restaurant. years ago, and for Route 1 Mini Golf company that an additional 18 backpacks and school sup- New Hampshire Demolition tore & Batting Cages earlier this year, but tore down the plies to ll all 32 bags. down the nautical structure Mon- were outbid on both projects. Hilltop. The materials were left over from a major day and plans to spend the next few “I like doing the landmarks for the project SPUR recently completed, in which weeks cleaning up the property. It’s exposure,” said Doherty. “Demolition more than 630 lled backpacks were given to the latest on a list of landmark prop- is forever, but there’s always going to ITEM PHOTO | children in Lynn, Swampscott, Marblehead, erties the company has introduced to be something else to take its place. OWEN O’ROURKE and Salem. the wrecking ball. Nobody wants to see them go, but At Girls Inc., children were chosen on a The team tore down Saugus’s well- they don’t have the time or money need-basis by parents income, said Executive known Hilltop Steakhouse in 2015. for the upkeep. It’s a sad thing to see “We did the Hilltop a few years ago GIRLS INC., A7 and we left up that historical sign,” SHIP, A7 STEVE KRAUSE Listening session for COMMENTARY Latino businesses An old song By Bella diGrazia “This session is a much-need- FOR THE ITEM ed resource for small business- strikes a chord es which are the engines of our LYNN — Dick Dalton, in a lis- economy,” said Mayor Judith When I get older losing my hair tening and discussion session Flanagan Kennedy, who ref- Many years from now for small local Latino business- erenced the city’s diversity in Will you still be sending me a valentine es, acknowledged that “Com- this talk with members of the Birthday greetings, bottle of wine? munities know what they need, NSLBA. I was always proudest of my hair, and more than the state does.” But the session raised ques- merciless to people who’d lost theirs. Dalton, regional director of tions about access to nancing I always had a full head of hair, and the Massachusetts Of ce of for startups, resources for orga- when I bothered to comb it and groom it Business Development, was nizations to offer, need for legal properly, it looked pretty good. The rest of ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE part of a listening session with services, and language barrier me … not so much. But I always had my small business owners, board accesses and resources. Dalton Dick Dalton, regional director of the Massachu- hair. members and local politicians and Massachusetts Growth setts Of ce of Business Development, and Ali- Then, one day, I noticed in the mirror at the North Shore Latino Capital Corporation’s (MGCC) son Moronta, loan of cer and Grant Program that it was getting thinner, and imme- Business Association (NSLBA) manager at MGCC, speak at the small business diately the panic set in. By this time, I building Monday night. BUSINESS, A3 forum Monday. was maybe 58 or 59, and I could readily see that there were sections of that head where scalp was starting to become visi- ble. Peabody tragedy INSIDE It’s only become worse. It might not be time for the Rogaine just yet, but now, when BY ITEM STAFF In Malden I go get it cut, I tell the stylist “I don’t want Malden church to see the bald; I see too much bald there.” PEABODY — A 76-year-old scores a rst. A2 To which she kindly reminds me “there’s man died after a retaining wall only so much you can do,” and then gave way and large rocks fell on In Lynn proceeds to put this powder in there that top of him while he was doing NSCC offers Gateway camou ages it somewhat. yard work on Monday, according to College. A3 I always said I’d never do the “comb- to the Essex County District At- • over” thing the way my father did, but torney’s office. City issues West Nile now I’m not so sure. I’m not ready to come Police and first responders Virus warning. A3 out yet as bald. were on scene at 327 Lowell St. If I’ve been out til quarter of three into the evening and were using In Opinion Would you lock the door? A tree of giving equipment to remove the rocks, Will you still need me, in Lynn. A4 in order to recover the body. Po- Will you still feed me,’ lice responded shortly before 4 In Sports When I’m 64? p.m. Lynn’s Gieg commits I cannot remember the last time I was Authorities are calling the death ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE to Boston College. B1 accidental. 64, A7 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 68° VOL. 139, ISSUE 223 LYNN .........................................A3 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 56° OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 BUSINESS ................................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2017 OBITUARIES Janet R. Manson, 73 Malden church scores a rst By Steve Freker unanimous vote, conclud- the churches in the region FOR THE ITEM ing a two-year search. “We to embrace the Black Lives (voted) for (Rev. O’Connor) Matter movement, dis- LYNN — Janet R. Manson, and scarves that she donat- MALDEN — He has with excitement and op- playing a banner of sup- 73, of Lynn died Aug. 21, ed to local homeless shelters. been active on both of timism,” Vickery said in port on its lawn and also 2017, after a lengthy illness. She was predeceased by her America’s coasts in sup- a statement. “He is the one of the only churches Born in Chelsea to the late parents, and her sister Arlene porting and promoting hu- person to work beside us Charles and Mary (Olivolo) Furey. in the region certi ed as man rights, including as as we act to live out our Manson, she lived in Revere Service information: A fu- a marcher in the Aug. 19 an LGBTQ Welcoming faith’s highest values for and then Lynn for the greater neral Mass will be held at Fight Supremacy action Congregation by the Uni- ourselves, our community part of her life. Janet was a 9 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 31, in Boston, where he joined tarian Universalist Asso- and our world.” secretary for several Boston 2017, at St.