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TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021 Survey says Swampscott nets $80k to upgrade pier Marblehead By Tréa Lavery ITEM STAFF SWAMPSCOTT — The supports rink town has received a grant of $80,000 from the state’s By Tréa Lavery Seaport Economic Council ITEM STAFF for improvements to the town pier at Fisherman’s MARBLEHEAD — A survey administered by Beach, a key part of the the town has shown residents support building Harbor and Waterfront a new ice rink using donated funds. Plan adopted last year. More than 1,900 residents responded to the “In the report, we list survey, and 84.67 percent of those said they felt the pier as one of our top Marblehead should have an ice rink. In addi- priorities, so I’m grateful tion, 76.71 percent said that it was “important” to Lt. Gov. (Karyn) Polito or “very important” that the town have a rink. and the Seaport Economic The town learned in 2016 that it would receive Council for their incred- a $2.2 million donation from the estate of long- ible support for the town time Marblehead resident Larz Anderson to be PIER, A2 used for winter sports, although there is some RINK, A2 ITEM PHOTO | JULIA HOPKINS Concerts will Lawsuit soon show up unearths in Lynn contaminated By Guthrie Scrimgeour site in Salem ITEM STAFF By Guthrie Scrimgeour LYNN — It won’t be long before the Lynn Auditori- ITEM STAFF um is up and running again. The performance venue — shuttered since ear- SALEM — Overlook Acres LLC, a ly March — has been booking new shows, some of development team that recently with- which are expected to open as early as this summer. drew its plans to build a development “The auditorium is a wonderful piece of Lynn,” said Au- off of Highland Avenue, has led a law- ditorium general manager and the city’s Director of Com- COURTESY PHOTO suit against the owners of the property munity Development James Marsh. “And it will be back.” it planned to develop, alleging that they Deanna and Sidney Wolk donated $5 million to Hebrew Se- failed to disclose information about sig- While auditorium staff have been trying to book niorLife, which renamed it’s Center for Memory Care in new acts since the venue shut down, Marsh said ni cant contamination on the site. Roslindale in their honor. bands have only recently become comfortable enough The lawsuit alleges that defendants with the virus to start booking shows. Kathleen and Stephen Ingemi initiated A lineup is already prepared for the 2021 season, the sale of the site without disclosing which will kick off with Mexican Christian singer Couple donates $5M that, due to the area’s previous use as a Jesus Adrian Romero on May 22, a show that had dumping site for cars, it contained lev- already been planned but was pushed back due to els of contamination that present “sig- the COVID-19 pandemic. to ght Alzheimer’s ni cant and imminent risk of harm to “It really depends on how many people have bought the public and the environment.” tickets and if we can social distance,” said Marsh of The plaintiff alleges that Kathleen the Romero show proceeding as planned. By Anne Marie Tobin Ingemi stated in 2019 that she had The new virus restrictions under Phase 3, Step 2 ITEM STAFF “no knowledge of any contamination of the state’s reopening plan, which began this week, or hazardous materials in/about the David Viscott wrote, “The meaning of life is to nd your gift. The allow for live performance venues to open at 50 per- premises.” cent capacity, with a maximum of 500 people. purpose of life is to give it away.” After Overlook Acres had invested Since the Lynn Auditorium normally seats 2,000, Deanna Wolk, a Lynn native and former Peabody resident found nearly $1 million associated with seek- it will be allowing the maximum of 500 people into her gift while volunteering at Harvard Medical School af liate He- ing out and acquiring permits for con- performances once it of cially reopens. brew SeniorLife’s Center for Memory Health, teaching mahjong to struction of their planned 324-unit de- Auditorium staff have identi ed how to space residents and working in the gift shop. velopment, the contamination came to the seating so that audience members can remain Together, she and her husband of 58 years, Sidney, found their col- light through soil boring samples con- COVID-19 safe. lective purpose, giving away $5 million to help support patients and ducted on the site. Those samples revealed high levels of CONCERTS, A2 DONATES, A3 several chemicals, including polychlori- nated biphenyls (commonly known as PCBs) and volatile organic compounds. The remediation of the land required Love 4 Lynn to move the project forward was esti- mated to cost between $12 million to $34 million,” a price tag that the law- nonpro t is suit claims in uenced Overlook Acres’ decision to terminate its plans for the development. The lawsuit alleges that the defen- a family affair dants, since they had lived on the prem- ises for numerous years, should have By Allysha Dunnigan known that the site had been utilized ITEM STAFF as an automobile dumping ground and LYNN — Toni and Tommi Hill, sisters informed the developers of that fact. from Lynn, began Love 4 Lynn with a Overlook Acres declined to comment simple phone call. on the situation, and the defendants When Toni was away at college, the could not be reached. University of Massachusetts-Amherst, LAWSUIT, A5 her younger sister Tommi called her Toni Hill and Tommi with an idea of assisting the local shel- Hill, front, the CEO ter, but with no idea of where to start. INSIDE of the nonpro t A year and a half later, Love 4 Lynn organization Love 4 has of cially become a nonpro t organi- Opinion Lynn, are joined by zation. Tommi took the initiative during Krause: I just feel like being silly. A4 their parents, Anne the summer of 2019, when she start- LOOK! and Tony Hill, as di- ed to use her own money to purchase supplies that the shelter needed. She Milan designers hit reset button rector and treasurer during digital fashion week. A8 to increase efforts to went down to the shelter and met Kelly help Lynn residents Gaule, who works with the shelter and Sports in need. assisted Tommi with supply requests Saugus’ Myles Manalaysay named and guidance on how to incorporate Item Player of the Year for boys ITEM PHOTO | JULIA HOPKINS NONPROFIT, A3 basketball. B1 Lynn eld and Peabody combine to deliver Bare Necessities By Anne Marie 1967 song from the Dis- ing a Bare Necessities Hy- School, will bene t the and have successfully ex- again, we chose to donate Tobin ney animated movie, “The giene Drive from March shelters at Citizens Inn, ecuted multiple charity to Citizens Inn. Toiletry ITEM STAFF Jungle Book.” 1-5. an organization that has drives this school year,” items are the most-needed In the case of the Citi- The drive, in partner- worked toward ending said Tower Day School and requested items be- LYNNFIELD — “The zens Inn in Peabody, they ship with the Bethlehem homelessness and hunger Parents Forum President hind food. Often hygiene bare necessities of life will are coming thanks to an School preschool program, across the North Shore Kate DiPrizio. “Bare Ne- needs are (also) over- come to you, they’ll come initiative spearheaded Lynn eld Preschool, since 1983. cessities Hygiene Drive looked.” to you” — so says the re- by Lynn eld’s Tower Day Huckleberry Hill School “We have made philan- is unique because it is a frain from the popular School, which is coordinat- and Summer Street thropy a greater priority collaborative event. Once DELIVER, A5 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 31° VOL. 142, ISSUE 71 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 28° POLICE/FIRE .............................A5 COMICS ....................................B4 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021 OBITUARIES Donna J. Yaeger, 67 Mary A (Ukleja) Ballard, 86 Survey says 1954 - 2021 PEABODY - Mary A (Ukleja) LYNN - Donna J. Yaeger, age Ballard, 86, of Peabody, died peacefully at home Thursday Marblehead 67, of Lynn, passed away on Tuesday, February 23, 2021, February 18, 2021 surrounded following a long and coura- by her family. She was the wife geous battle with kidney dis- of the late Robert D Ballard. ease. Born and raised in Lynn, she supports rink Born in Chelsea, MA on was the daughter of the late January 8, 1954, she was a Albert & Sophie (Szarek) Uk- spaces where a rink would leja and the sister of the late RINK daughter of the late Edward J. From A1 be a natural t.” and Evelyn E. Yaeger. Donna Thaddeus and Stanley Ukleja, The town would provide was a graduate of Lynn Clas- and Jane Cwalina. She was exibility in the bequest ice time for Marblehead sical High School. She then a graduate of Lynn Classical for the funds to be used Youth Hockey and skating went on to work for mass gen- High School and has lived in for other recreational ac- instruction, as well as free eral hospital. Peabody for the past 55 years. tivities. skating. In her free time, Donna loved Mary worked as a hairdresser In December, the Recre- According to survey re- her pets and yard sales. Above at Phillip’s Coiffeurs in Swamp- ation and Parks Depart- sults, the most popular all else though, she loved her scott for many years.