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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2016 A PET Coppinger PROJECT election Marblehead man provides hope for would be abuse victims a chief By Bridget Turcotte ITEM STAFF MARBLEHEAD — A Marblehead concern native is ghting back for man’s best friend. By Thomas Grillo Jordan Ross, founder of PetsEm- ITEM STAFF power, created the program to help people in crisis connect with fami- LYNN — If Police Chief Kevin Copping- lies or organizations that can tem- er wins the race for Essex County Sheriff porarily foster their pets while they in November, there could be as many as enter a shelter or access services. seven candidates competing to ll the va- It’s intended to bene t domestic cancy for top cop. violence survivors who wish to ee Among the chief candidates eligible to an abusive situation, but also offers apply from the Lynn Police Department help to people who suddenly become are deputy chiefs Leonard Desmarais homeless because of other causes. and Michael Mageary, as well as captains “This is a big issue we’re dealing Mark O’Toole, Christopher Reddy, Edward with,” Ross said. “The great majority Blake, William Borders and Michael Vail. of shelters don’t accept pets. Up to Earlier this month, Coppinger secured 65 percent of people, domestic vio- the Democratic nomination for sheriff by lence survivors, don’t leave because handily beating ve competitors. He will they are concerned about what will face off against Republican Peabody City happen to their pets.” Councilor Anne Manning-Martin and After graduating from Cornell ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE Independent candidates Mark Archer Jordan Ross and his dog Kariya, named after his favorite hockey player, and Kevin Leach in November for the PROJECT, A7 Paul Kariya. $152,000 post. Coppinger, who has been chief since 2009, declined to comment on his poten- tial replacement. He referred inquiries to Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy. Hilltop Appeals court dogged “I haven’t thought that far ahead,” said Kennedy. “I don’t know the procedure to be honest with you. The last time a police rumors in upholding conviction chief was appointed was before my time.” Joseph Driscoll, the city’s personnel direc- LYNN — The state appeals court upheld “animal” was constitutionally vague, accord- tor, said the city’s practice for civil service sizzle in the conviction of a Lynn woman who starved ing to a release from the Essex County Dis- hiring a chief has included a contract with her miniature dachshund to death. trict Attorney’s of ce. MMA Consulting Group Inc. The Plym- Tasha Waller, 36, was convicted of one count The court rejected the claim, stating it had outh-based company provides a so-called Saugus of animal cruelty in Lynn District Court in no trouble concluding that dogs are animals Assessment Center comprised of an expert 2014. Judge Cathleen Campbell sentenced as used in the animal cruelty statute. The panel that interviews the candidates, asks her to two and a half years in the House of defendant also argued that it was improper their responses to real life situations, grades By Bridget Turcotte Correction, suspended for ve years, 500 for the veterinarians in the original case to them and recommends the top three to the ITEM STAFF hours of community service and was ordered testify to their opinions on how the miniature mayor, who makes the selection. SAUGUS — Town Man- not to own pets or animals. In a decision re- dachshund, Arthur, had died since they had “In the past, the mayor has always se- ager Scott Crabtree and leased this week, the appeals court upheld not previously examined him. lected the top-rated person,” Driscoll said. the Board of Selectmen that decision. The court agreed with the prosecution’s The International Association of Chiefs of squashed rumors that At Waller’s trial in 2013, several veterinar- opinion that the opinions were based on the Police calls the Assessment Centers a pow- new roads are planned ians testi ed that her dog died due to severe vets’ observation of the dog’s body, including erful tool for making promotional decisions to access the Hilltop site malnutrition. observations made during a necropsy, that that use a series of simulated on-the-job On appeal, Waller argued that the animal eliminated other possible causes of death, ac- from nearby neighbor- COPPINGER, A7 hoods. cruelty statute was void because the term cording to the district attorney’s of ce. Letters were dropped in residents’ mailboxes that claimed AvalonBay Communities, which pur- Decorated Army chased the former Hilltop Steak House property, has plans to create access roads to the Route 1 site veteran will from Forest Street. The Virginia-based real estate investment trust serve Peabody has developed more than 43,000 housing units in By Adam Swift 10 states. ITEM CITY EDITOR “This could cause seri- ous safety issues for you, PEABODY — Stephen Patten, a decorated Army your children, your pets veteran and former prosecutor in the Essex District and even possibly lead to Attorney’s of ce, is dedicated to duty and helping higher insurance costs for others. your car or home,” the let- So when the opportunity came to apply as the vet- ter warns. erans agent in the city where he grew up and gradu- It adds that the already ated from high school, Patten jumped at the chance. busy street would see an “When you meet with Gold Star families and see “enormous increase of the sacri ces they’ve made, and even the regular traf c onto Forest Street, rank and le military who were deployed to Af- which would spill over ghanistan who were not harmed or injured, they are onto Zito Drive, Milano missing their children’s birthdays and holidays, it is Drive, Gilway and Laurine very easy to be passionate about helping veterans Road as some individuals and their families,” said Patten. “There was not a ‘short-cut’ their access question that I wanted to do this; not a doubt. It’s an to this new development honor and privilege.” rather than using the cur- Last week, the city council unanimously approved Mayor Edward A. Bettencourt Jr.’s appointment of rent Route 1 main access.” ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE But Crabtree argued PEABODY, A7 that the developer has no Stephen Patten is the new veterans agent in Peabody. such plans. “When we did the Route 1 corridor overlay, the re- zoning of Route 1, a part INSIDE St. Mary’s brings honor of that zoning does not allow access through For- In Saugus est Street,” he said. “I’ve Breaking into fall to the Old Neighborhood spoken to the purchaser at Breakheart By Paul Halloran Lynn a better place in which to of that property, Avalon Reservation. A3 FOR THE ITEM live, work and receive an educa- Bay. They don’t have any tion. Their boundless support for intention of doing that.” In Opinion LYNN — St. Mary’s School will Selectman Jeff Cicolini Shribman: present the 2016 Cardinal Cush- educating the city’s youth in and said he’s received sever- Expect hardball on ing Award to Old Neighborhood out of the classroom extends to al calls from residents Monday night. A4 Foods CEO Thomas L. Demakes generous scholarship support at panicking over the news. and his wife, Marill, at the Pea- St. Mary’s as well as to local af- Chairwoman Debra Pa- In Sports body Essex Museum in Salem on ter-school programs at Girls, Inc., netta added that she has A winning night Oct. 12. the Lynn YMCA, the Boys and for Lynn football Thomas and Marill Demakes HILLTOP, A7 teams. B1 Marill and Thomas Demakes have spent their lives making DEMAKES, A7 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 67° VOL. 138, ISSUE 249 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 44° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS ....................................B4 REAL ESTATE .............................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2016 OBITUARIES E. Brett Heenan Sr., 80 Dennis F. Hickey 1935-2016 1941-2016 CLEARWATER, Fla. — E. Brett as his sisters, Mary (Polly) Dennis F. Hickey Schultz and her hus- Heenan Sr., 80, of Clearwater, Sullivan and Hope (Leimgru- passed away peace- band Tim of Boston, Fla., passed away on Sept. 1, ber) Berg. Brett is preceded fully on Sept. 21, and numerous niec- 2016. in death by his parents and 2016, surrounded es and nephews. Born in Newton on Sept. 24, sister, Sarah (Sally) Doyle. by his family in the Dennis also will be 1935. Brett was the third child Service information: Fu- home he built for missed by his wife’s of Marion (Hickey) and Edward neral Mass will be held at them on the shore of family, originally Francis Heenan. He proudly St. Catherine of Siena Cath- Long Island Sound. from Nahant, Leland, served and retired from the olic Church, 1955 S. Belcher Dennis lived a very Heidi and David of United States Air Force and Road, Clearwater, FL 33764, full and rich life, but Massachusetts and was a veteran of the Korean on Sept. 30 at 10 a.m. Re- family was always his first pri- Holly Hussey of Brooklyn, War. Brett attended Texas A&M ception immediately follow- ority. He was born on Dec. 10, his neighbors and the many PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS University and was a graduate ing Mass will be held at the 1941 in Corinth, N.Y., the son friends who knew him as a of the Boston Architectural Col- church hall. Following re- of William Joseph and Marie kind, generous and gregari- A test drone making a UPS delivery lands on lege in Boston.