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C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2017 Kennedy: Lynn needs a new re station By Thomas Grillo At the top of her list is winning Tues- of whether we will be able to move for- While the mayor is optimistic that vot- ITEM STAFF day’s vote for construction of two new ward with providing our students with ers will approve the ballot initiative, she middle schools. The special election on the same kind of education they receive LYNN — Mayor Judith Flanagan Ken- is considering Plan B should the vote fail. nedy won’t say whether she will seek a March 14 asks homeowners to approve a at the new Marshall Middle School,” she “We would go back to the Massachusetts third term this fall, but the city’s chief property tax increase for 25 years for the said. “I just hope there is no confusion School Building Authority and start over,” executive is sure acting like a candidate. $188.5 million project that would build a that voters need to vote yes on both ques- said the mayor, referring to the quasi-in- In a wide ranging interview with The school on Parkland Avenue and a second tions in order for it to pass. If you favor dependent government agency that funds Item this week, the mayor laid out her in West Lynn. the new schools, vote yes for both or it goals for 2017. “Next week will give us an indication will fail.” KENNEDY, A7 Swampscott C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N Huddle Lynn focuses speller on change bound for big stage By David Wilson ITEM STAFF By Leah Dearborn SWAMPSCOTT — Abbe Smith is quick ITEM STAFF to say not everyone in the room is neces- sarily a Democrat. LYNN — After 30 There may have been an independent; rounds of erce competi- heck, there may have been a Republican. tion, it all came down to But looking around, it’s safe to say that one word on Friday night any Donald Trump supporter in the room — ‘uvula.’ had an incredible amount of restraint. “Oh, so that’s what that The Swampscott Huddle — 13 men and is,” said rst-place winner women so far — got together Friday night Ashrita Gandhari after at the Panera Bread in Vinnin Square. hearing the word de ned The concept of a huddle was born out as a eshy extension at the of the women’s marches; “a small group back of the soft palate that of friends, family, neighbors and fellow hangs above the throat. marchers ... and a space to meet” is all A fourth-grader at that’s necessary, according to the website Franklin Elementary for the Women’s March on Washington. School in North Andover, The purpose of a huddle, the website Gandhari was one of more says, is to “keep the women’s march spirit than 50 participants from alive, build the movement beyond those schools across the region who marched, and set a concrete plan of who gathered at Lynn action.” City Hall Auditorium for Smith, of Swampscott, said she had a chance to compete this planned on being in Washington, D.C. on May in the Scripps Na- Jan. 20; spending the day watching the tional Spelling Bee. inauguration of the country’s rst female Gandhari, who wants to president. It was a plan that never came. be an exobiologist when “I didn’t want to be anywhere near she grows up, placed sec- Washington” on that day, she said Friday ond in last year’s bee and over a coffee. Instead, she went to Florida. took only a short break The day after Trump’s inauguration, she before she launched into was at the women’s march in West Palm studying for tonight’s con- Beach. test. “One of the reasons the women’s march “I’m really excited,” she was so powerful is it wasn’t anti-Republi- said as she clutched part of can, it wasn’t partisan and it wasn’t an- her prize, a massive Merri- ti-Trump; it was pro-humanist, it was pro- am-Webster dictionary. our values, pro-family,” Smith said. Caroline Clark of Sacred Fear of a Trump presidency was one of PHOTO | PAULA MULLER Hearts School in Haver- the topics that led off the discussion in hill placed third and So- the back room of the restaurant. We’ve Ashrita Gandhari, winner of the 32nd Annual Daily Item Regional Spelling Bee, a Valencia of Higgins got to make it another three-and-a-quar- holds part of her prize, a massive Merriam-Webster dictionary, on Friday at Lynn ter years before another election, event City Hall Auditorium. BEE, A6 organizer and Swampscott resident Brian Felder says. “I’m not so sure it’s gonna take that long,” one discussion member interjects to laughter. Still, the country will “still have” Lynn having fun with Fluff now-Vice President Mike Pence, another says. Felder said people need to be aware “it’s By Bridget Turcotte not just that we don’t like (Trump), or ITEM STAFF we’re scared of him ... but we have a damn LYNN — It’s just four ingredients, good reason to be.” but for 100 years, sweet-toothed New “What are we afraid of?” one member later asks; it was a question that silences Englanders have been stuck on Fluff. Made in Lynn, the sticky, sweet HUDDLE, A7 marshmallow spread was invented in 1917 by Archibald Query. On May 14, 1920, the Daily Evening Item announced that two young men, H. INSIDE Allen Durkee and Fred L. Mower, had formed a partnership to man- In Opinion ufacture Marshmallow Fluff after Arguments for/against purchasing the recipe. Lynn schools proposal. A4 The exact date they began the endeavor is unknown, but in 1930, LOOK! Durkee wrote that they had start- Item’s community relations ed a decade prior with one barrel of director receives honor. A8 sugar, a few tin cans, two spoons, one second-hand Ford, no customers, but ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE In Sports plenty of prospects. St. Mary’s boys heading Mechanic Brian Snider keeps his eye on the assembly line at the for another Garden party. B1 FLUFF, A7 Durkee-Mower plant. Pregnancy rights bill Malden steps up for led by Sen. Lovely recovering addicts By Leah Dearborn Lovely recently re led the By Steve Freker limited to, “what next?” ITEM STAFF bill, called the Pregnant FOR THE ITEM Many return to the situa- Workers Fairness Act, after tion they were in before they PEABODY — State Sen. it carried over from a previ- MALDEN — When some- sought detox or rehab. The Joan Lovely of the Second ous legislative session. one struggling with opioid cycle often continues, ac- Essex District is at work on Its purpose is to ensure addiction checks out of a cording to Paul Hammersley, a bill to support pregnant detox or rehabilitation fa- workers across the state. BILL, A7 cility, their options can be MALDEN, A7 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 23° VOL. 139, ISSUE 81 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 8° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS ....................................B4 REAL ESTATE .............................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2017 OBITUARIES John F. Dorgan, 87 Flake news: Late winter storm John F. “Iggy” Dor- leaves his three sons brings several inches of snow gan, age 87, died and eight daughters, suddenly Thursday, Dennis Dorgan and BOSTON (AP) — A late March 9, 2017 at his partner Trich Mey- winter storm brought snow Salem Hospital. er of Marblehead, to portions of southern Born in Lynn, he David Dorgan and New England on Friday, was the son of the his wife Kim of Lynn, and residents braced for late John L. and Mary Danny Dorgan and frigid cold and the possibil- E. (Monahan) Dorgan his late wife Tammy of ity of more snow behind it. and the husband of Lynn, Denise Carritte While far from a block- Marion C. (Cronin) Dorgan, of Lynn, Debra McManus and buster storm, by late in with whom he shared 66 years her late husband Pat, former the day it had delivered as of marriage. mayor of Lynn, Diane Maren- much as 8 inches of snow He was a graduate of Lynn gi and her husband Arthur of to Cape Cod, where sev- Vocational High, Class of Salem, Darlene Clark and her eral traffic accidents were 1948 and was the treasurer husband David of Alexandria, blamed on slippery roads. of his class. He was a Kore- Va., Donna Legere and her In Rhode Island, schools an War veteran, serving in the husband Michael of Swamp- in several communities United States Navy as a ma- scott, Dawn Dorgan and her around the state were chinist repairman. partner Rich Moleti of Nahant, closed and parking bans He was employed by the Dale Cyr and her husband were in place. Some com- General Electric Co. as a ma- Darren of Lynn, Deirdre Dorgan munities got several inch- chinist for more than 20 years. of Lynn and the late Doreen es of snow by the after- After retiring in 1992 Iggy went Dorgan, 31 grandchildren and noon, including Richmond, to work for the City of Lynn as a 10 great grandchildren. We with 6 inches, and Little parking attendant and worked would like to remember Iggy’s Compton, which received PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS most of the city lots. lifelong friend Charlie Swirka 5 inches, according to re- A U.S. Coast Guard boat patrols Boston Harbor as snow falls Friday Iggy was inducted into the and the Dorgan and Gregory ports made to the Nation- morning in Boston.
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