Old Neighborhood Foods Gives Its Staff a Shot Lynn Schools Map Out
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SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2021 Old Swampscott police station has Anchor By Tréa Lavery request for proposals (RFP) in August where will we end up, and will we be ITEM STAFF for the building, with submissions able to continue?” due in October. Because 86 Burrill St. is a town- SWAMPSCOTT — The old police “You’re calling it short-term. I’m owned building, the town may allow station building at 86 Burrill St. will calling 12 months long-term because any community-based organization, be the home of Anchor Food Pantry we haven’t had that stability,” said such as Anchor, to occupy the space for at least the next 12 months, the Laura Spathanas, president of the temporarily, as long as rent is not Swampscott Select Board announced food pantry, saying she was thank- charged. Thursday. ful to both the town and the Senior The space is currently occupied by The organization entered a year- Center, which has housed the organi- Cataldo Ambulance, which will share long, rent-free temporary use agree- zation since it opened last year. “I’ve ment with the town, which put out a had a lot of sleepless nights thinking, ANCHOR, A3 Lynn schools map out bus plan By Allysha Dunnigan ITEM STAFF LYNN — Superinten- dent Dr. Patrick Tutwil- er announced tentative plans to resume trans- portation for students on a staggered schedule at Thursday’s School Com- Satanic mittee meeting. Transportation for all students was tempo- temple rarily suspended at the end of March, a decision Tutwiler said was due to Springs a statewide shortage of ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK bus drivers. He plans to outline the Maryanne Sheckman, RN, administers the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 specifics of the district’s into Salem vaccine to Old Neighborhood employee Rosible Iraheta of Lynn as her new transportation plan 5-year-old, Jessie, looks on. during a virtual town ITEM PHOTO | By Guthrie hall meeting, which is SPENSER HASAK Scrimgeour scheduled for next Tues- Heather ITEM STAFF Old Neighborhood Foods day, April 13. Meri Stew- SALEM — The Satanic “In an effort to meet art’s “Sacred Temple of Salem is reopen- every student’s trans- Tools VII” is ing with Incipit Spring, gives its staff a shot portation needs, we have on display a new community-based explored numerous al- in the “In- ternatives and evaluated exhibition focused on re- By Allysha Dunnigan ployees. cipit Spring” multiple options, all of growth and renewal. ITEM STAFF “There’s just been a lot of people that exhibition at Walking into the tem- which have not yielded a have been nervous and apprehensive the Satanic ple’s Milton Hall, a LYNN — Old Neighborhood Foods host- substantive, comprehen- about getting the shot,” he said. “That’s Temple in visitor’s eyes are im- ed its first of two vaccination clinics Fri- sive, reliable and safe Salem. mediately drawn to ornate- day for employees and their families at the feedback that I’ve been getting talking means for transporting ly-patterned blue velvet the company’s Waterhill Street headquar- to people.” students,” Tutwiler said. walls, on which paintings ters. He said the goal of the clinics is to cen- Transportation has and sculptures celebrate Andrew Demakes, director of opera- tralize the process, while also offering been suspended because spring and rebirth with a tions for Old Neighborhood Foods, said he a $100 bonus to entice people to get the there are only 18 bus hopes the centralized vaccination location drivers, who would be TEMPLE, A3 will ease the nerves and hesitancy of em- NEIGHBORHOOD, A2 responsible for providing transit for about 600 stu- dents, Tutwiler said. “This number of driv- DAVID M. SHRIBMAN ers is enough to provide transportation for ap- proximately 60 percent Trump is now in history’s hands of students who have it He hasn’t even been the former discover facts through research, has been something of a histo- on their individual edu- president for three months, but who tend to be more contempla- rians’ tradition; Princeton Uni- cation plan,” he said. “Be- already it has started. The his- tive than emotive, are not his versity Press, which has com- cause we cannot provide torians’ evaluation of Donald J. best focus group. And a Chroni- missioned this process, produced transportation for all, we Trump is underway. It’s not as cle of Higher Education survey of swift historical evaluations short- temporarily suspended easy as it looks. 2016 voting patterns in counties ly after the presidencies of George it.” Of course, many commentators holding each state’s flagship pub- W. Bush and Barack Obama. Now Tutwiler said outreach and historians made tentative lic university — the 2020 election the historians are onto Trump, to families regarding the judgments while he still was in doesn’t count, because so many and they cannot avoid questions new transportation plan is underway, but the pro- the White House. Professional students were home because of like these: jected start date of that historians aren’t exactly the jury the virus — showed that Trump Was Trump’s election the result plan would not be until that the 45th president would prevailed in only 20 percent of of his own personal appeal, or at least May 12. ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK choose; men and women who them. teach in universities, who seek to Making quickie assessments TRUMP, A3 Officer Richard Heath BUS, A3 Peabody INSIDE Opinion officer a There are remedies for North Shore’s service housing crisis A4 superhero LOOK! Item wins 3 awards. A4, A8 By Anne Marie Tobin • ITEM STAFF Lynn’s Conti sworn in PEABODY — Peabody as fire lieutenant. A8 Police Officer Richard Heath is the recipient of Sports the 2021 North Shore Com- Swampscott football munity Action Programs’ cruises past Saugus. B1 (NSCAP) Frederick E. Berry Community Service • Award. Lynnfield football can’t Heath will be honored handle Ipswich. B1 OFFICER, A2 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 68° VOL. 142, ISSUE 105 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 48° POLICE/FIRE .............................A5 COMICS ....................................B4 REAL ESTATE .............................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2021 OBITUARIES Juliette Theriault, 88 1932 - 2021 PEABODY - Juliette Lorraine a pet; and she was particular- (Beaulieu) Theriault, age 88, ly fond of her cats Missy and passed away unexpectedly on Dennis. In her younger years, Saturday, April 3rd at Salem Juliette would enjoy spending Hospital. She was the be- summers by the pool, and loved wife of the late Raymond was known to have been an Theriault, with whom she had excellent cook. Above all else shared many wonderful years though, Juliette was a doting, of marriage. compassionate, and loving Born in Salem, MA on June mother. 5, 1932, she was a daughter Surviving Juliette is her be- of the late George and Rose loved son, Raymond Theriault Beaulieu. Following Juliette’s of Peabody, and his girlfriend high school education, she Cynthia Pini of Revere. completed a certificate pro- Arrangements: At the re- gram in Boston. She then quest of the family, and due went on to work for Stop and to Covid-19 restrictions, all Shop as a front end manager services for Juliette will be for almost 40 years, until her held privately. To leave an on- retirement. line message or condolence, In her free time, Juliette loved please visit www.cuffemcginn. playing card games, especially com. ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK cribbage, watching her soaps, Peabody Police Officer Richard Heath checks in on members of the homeless community be- and reading her magazines. hind Peabody Institute Library as part of his daily duties as the community police unit’s down- Her entire life, she always had town liaison. Peabody officer a service superhero Jean Murphy Porath, 90 mary role is to work with Officer Heath is a cham- vide information on safety 1930 - 2021 OFFICER From A1 the library and downtown pion of low-income fami- protocols. businesses to address any lies and people struggling “It was complicated be- MARBLEHEAD - Jean Murphy virtually on April 22 at with homelessness.” Porath (90) of Jackson, NH problems they may be ex- cause the CDC (Centers NSCAP’s Spring into Ac- periencing. A 1980 Peabody High for Disease Control and and Marblehead, MA hauled tion Heroes Gala event. anchor and peacefully set sail “He has a strong con- graduate, Heath said his Prevention) rules on en- “It’s an incredible honor nection with the homeless role involves dealing with campments said they on her final voyage on March and I am humbled to be 26, 2021. Jean was born in population and does a quality of life issues in cannot be disrupted,” said chosen,” said Heath. “I’ve great job — kind of take- finding solutions when Heath. “The best thing we 1930 in Lynn, MA to Henry never given any thought and Lucille Murphy. Jean was the-bull-by-the-horns guy the interests of business could do was make sure to anything except I’m who loves walking up and owners and homeless and the persons living there the last surviving child of her just doing my job. I’m three siblings: Henry “Hank”, down Main Street,” Grif- vulnerable people living had the equipment and grateful to Chief (Thom- fin said. “He’s a great re- in crisis collide. information they needed Edward and Paul. as) Griffin for seeing my source for everyone and “It’s finding a way to to be protected from the After graduating in 1951 ability to be able to make we always are receiving co-exist,” Heath said. “The virus.” from Simmons College with a this work and giving me strong feedback from the community knows what Heath has also been rec- BS degree in psychology, Jean the opportunity.” social services agencies, the homeless communi- ognized by the Peabody and a friend packed up an Heath is one of three like Citizens Inn, the ty deals with, but they Clergy Ministerial Asso- MG TD and drove across the officers who serve in the country to San Francisco.