TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2020 Peabody can weigh in on federal spending for housing By Thor Jourgensen ve-year consolidated plan for the peri- draft of the Consolidated Plan and the An- from community agencies and organiza- ITEM STAFF od from 2020 through 2025 and its 2020 nual Action Plan, which will be submitted tions for spending Peabody’s 2020-2021 action plan, the Consortium and city of - to the United States Department of Hous- Community Development Block Grant PEABODY — Residents can offer their cials are looking for public comments on ing and Urban Development (HUD). (CDBG) money. views Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in City Hall’s lower level conference room on how fed- federal spending. After the conclusion of Written comments are also encouraged, The money is spent in the development eral affordable housing dollars are spent the community meetings, a draft of the and may be addressed, on or before Feb. of viable urban communities by meeting in the city. Five-Year Consolidated Plan and Annu- 14, 2020, to: The Department of Com- one of two broad national objectives — The money is allocated through the al Action Plan will be created and made munity Development City Hall, 24 Low- bene tting low- and moderate-income North Shore HOME Consortium, an available for public comment. ell St., Peabody, MA 01960 FAX (978) persons and aiding — in the prevention organization made up of 30 cities and At that time, three additional public 538-5987 e-mail addresses: lisa.greene@ and elimination of slums and blighted towns in the Merrimack Valley and the hearings will be held to get feedback on peabody-ma.gov or stacey.bernson@pea- areas. North Shore. the document. The public comments re- body-ma.gov. As part of the planning process for its ceived will be incorporated into the nal The city is also seeking proposals PEABODY, A3 TO SLEEP, PERCHANCE TO DREAM Barry Park next on list of upgrades in Lynn By Thor Jourgensen ITEM STAFF LYNN — Outdoor construction contractors typically take a winter break, but city Com- munity Development project coordinators are busy drafting plans and preparing federal and state funding applications. Finishing up a multi-year, multimillion dollar Lynn Common makeover and start- ing plans for work on Barry Park top the city Community Development department’s prior- ity list, said Community Development Depart- ment Director James Marsh. “We’re doing a ton of planning with Mayor Thomas M. McGee really shaping the focus on the city’s needs,” said Marsh. Barry is the last major city park on Commu- nity Development’s upgrade and improvement list with landscaping, lighting and playing eld work needed. Marsh said plans call for applying in April or Sacred Heart students learn empathy May for a $400,000 state grant to pay for the Barry work and match that amount with fed- eral money allocated annually to Community lesson building beds for needy children Development. By Gayla Cawley Monday. From left, Elizabeth He said work planned for Barry would rough- ITEM STAFF The beds were also paid for by Sacred Espinal, 8, Luthersa ly match improvements undertaken in the last Heart students, who raised $1,250, or Buissereth, 8, and several years at Keaney, Kiley, Flax Pond and LYNN — Students at Sacred Heart enough for ve beds, through a school- Yessidel Nieves, 9, Neptune Boulevard parks. School were taught a different kind of wide fundraising effort. The “scholars” react to being tasked Play structure installations were done in lesson on Monday. raised funds through various activities with painting the Warren Street, Bennett Street and Williams Schoolchildren spent the day build- or asked their family members to do- frames for the Bed Avenue playgrounds and child-safe surfac- ing, sanding and staining the wooden nate, according to school Principal Kris- for Every Child Pro- es will be installed in the spring in the play- grounds. frames for ve beds, which will be do- tina Relihan. gram at Sacred Heart “This is all paid for through City Council-ap- nated to ve Lynn kids from low-in- Giving back to the community as part School in Lynn on proved and mayoral-approved city bond mon- come families. of Catholic Schools Week was the purpose Monday morning. “I think the building experience really of the event, which bene ted local chil- ey,” Marsh said. helped me learn some people don’t have dren through “A Bed for Every Child,” an ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO LYNN, A3 beds and you need to help people,” said initiative of the Massachusetts Coalition fourth grader Avery Brown, 10. “It’s for the Homeless, Relihan said. nice to do something for other people.” But the work wasn’t just con ned to STUDENTS, A3 STEVE KRAUSE COMMENTARY Remember what led up to Auschwitz Some anniversaries you celebrate. Auschwitz survivors warn of rising about yourselves. Some you merely observe. And some, anti-Semitism, B6. You might ask, if you haven’t stud- like Monday’s 75th anniversary of the ied it much, how the German citizens liberation of Auschwitz, you’re almost could allow this to happen. Where forced to freeze in place for a few min- had done so horri ed Gen. Dwight was their decency, their courage, their utes to re ect. And to mourn. D. Eisenhower, then the supreme moral indignation over the fact that For anyone who doesn’t know, commander of allied forces in Europe, Jews were hunted down like animals Auschwitz was a Nazi death camp in that he forced German citizens to see and slain? Poland where Adolf Hitler sent count- All good questions. The only an- footage, taken from the Buchenwald ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO less numbers of Jews to be killed as camp, that showed what had been swers — and I’m afraid they’re far part of his “Final Solution.” Auschwitz done in their name. from adequate — are that A) they The Community Development depart- wasn’t the only concentration camp I urge anyone who is still short on were stampeded into falling in line ment is planning for spring and sum- the Nazis used, but it’s come to be knowledge of this horri c chapter of with current thinking; or B) they mer projects, including the multi-year symbolic of the Holocaust, when 6 human history to get some books and were convinced, through relentless Lynn Common makeover where re- million Jews were killed. read. You might learn a few things, pairs are needed on the fountain and The discovery of what the Nazis both about the times and, maybe, KRAUSE, A3 wrought-iron fencing. Lynn Woman shot twice, Lynn eld rep wants license plate for Medal of Liberty hospitalized. A6 By Anne Marie Tobin wealth who were killed in action, died in “The Medal of Liberty recognizes the fam- Fire damages ITEM STAFF service while in a designated combat area in ilies of the commonwealth’s fallen service three-family home, the line of duty, or died as a result of wounds members who have made the ultimate sac- leaves two cats dead. A6 BOSTON — State Rep. Bradley H. Jones received in action. ri ce for our nation,” said Jones. “By creating Jr., who represents Lynn eld and North Qualifying family members are eligible for a Medal of Liberty license plate, we can fur- Sports Reading in the Massachusetts House, has one medal, and recipients are selected by a ther honor these families while also raising St. Mary’s led legislation to create a new distinctive three-member commission comprised of the awareness of this special state-issued mili- basketball holds on registration plate honoring Massachusetts state’s adjutant general and two eld grade tary honor.” to beat Williams. B1 Medal of Liberty recipients. of cers. Legislation led by Jones, who also serves Created in 2009, the Massachusetts Med- To date, the Medal of Liberty has been as leader of the House Republican minori- Saugus girls basketball al of Liberty is awarded in conformance awarded more than 500 times, according ty, would allow individuals who have been earns tournament bid with the standards and protocol of the Pur- to Jones’ of ce. It is estimated that at least awarded the Medal of Liberty to obtain a with win over Revere. B1 ple Heart and is given to the next of kin of 8,500 families may be eligible for this mili- service men and women from the common- tary honor. LYNNFIELD, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 ENTERTAINMENT .......................A7 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 41° VOL. 142, ISSUE 41 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ...............................B6 LOW 26° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 BUSINESS ................................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2020 OBITUARIES Annick Menard, 85 1934-2020 Daniel Flynn, 62 TOPSFIELD — Mrs. Annick SAUGUS — Daniel nieces, nephews and cousins. Josette Louise Menard, 85, of Flynn, 62, formerly of Saugus, Dan was a tender-hearted Topsfield, beloved wife and passed away Saturday, Janu- soul whose kindness and pos- mother, passed away peacefully ary 18, after a lengthy illness, itive nature brought him many on Thursday, January 23, 2020 in Perry, Florida. friends from all walks of life. He in the comfort of her home. Beloved son of Peggy Flynn lived life completely in the mo- Born in the ancestral family and the late Charles Flynn of ment and his family has great home in Dahouët, France in Saugus, he was a long-time memories of “Daredevil Dan” 1934, she was the daugh- resident of Panama City. adding his special joy of life PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS ter of the late Pierre Menard, He is survived by his sister to each day.