DEALS OF THE $DAY$ PG. 3 WEDNESDAY JULY 21, 2021 DEALS OF THE AG works Saugus$DAY$ for Lynn, to holdPG. 3 Peabody, virusDEALS Salem OF THE $300,000 grant victim$DAY$ funds summer jobs PG. 3 By Allysha Dunnigan vigil ITEM STAFF Massachusetts Attorney By Sam Minton General Maura Healey has ITEM STAFF announced that her of ce DEALS is awarding approximately SAUGUSOF THE— Residents $300,000 in grant funding who died from COVID-19 to 74 organizations through- or at any time during the ongoing$ pandemicDAY$ will be out the state to fund sum- PG. 3 mer jobs for youth, which are commemorated in Sep- aimed at promoting health tember. and wellness. Board of Selectmen Vice Four of the organizations Chair Corinne Riley and bene ting from this funding the town announced that include the New American they willDEALS remember those Association of Massachusetts who have died and those and The Food Project Inc. in who haveOF liftedTHE Saugus Lynn, Camp Fire North Shore ITEM PHOTO | JAKOB MENENDEZ up since the beginning of the pandemic$ with$ a vigil, in Salem, and the YMCA of Mike Butler poses for a portrait wearing a mask printed with one of his paintings. DAY Metro North in Peabody. which will PG.be held 3 at Town The New American Asso- Hall on Sept. 19. ciation of Massachusetts, Riley said that the idea The Food Project and Camp for the vigil was sparked Fire North Shore will re- ArcWorks gallery on when wake services were ceive $4,000, and YMCA of halted during the height Metro North will be awarded of the pandemic; services $2,500. continued to be limited The grant program is fund- display at Lynn YMCA even when the state start- ed with health care and ed its phased reopening. fair-labor-related settlement By Tréa Lavery classes were run over Zoom, as Dodge explained that the par- “A lot of people died money through Healey’s of- ITEM STAFF well as in the studio since it re- ticipants in the YMCA exhibition alone,” said Riley. “Those ce. The program has provid- opened in September. are part of the organization’s people got in (to the hospi- LYNN — Visitors to the De- ed more than $1.5 million in “The good side of COVID was pre-employment program, and tal) and their family mem- makes Family YMCA this sum- funding through 359 grants that people really worked very want to explore art as a career. bers and friends weren’t mer will be able to enjoy art to 177 organizations in 82 hard on their artwork, because They take classes to learn artis- allowed in.” cities and towns across the created by participants at North- tic skills and techniques and visit Riley said hearing about east Arc’s community art center, there wasn’t a lot to do,” said Su- state since its inception. san Dodge, director of ArcWorks. galleries to learn more about op- people not being able to This is the seventh year ArcWorks. portunities to show and sell their grieve for their friends Twelve of ArcWorks’ artists Northeast Arc provides pro- that Healey’s of ce is imple- gramming and resources for peo- work. Participants’ work has also and family in the custom- menting this Healthy Sum- have work on display, including been shown and sold at local gal- ary way really affected ple with developmental and phys- mer Youth Jobs Grant Pro- paintings and collages with sub- leries and restaurants. her. ical disabilities. The ArcWorks gram, which allows teens to jects ranging from animals to “We try to get their work out But this vigil won’t just Community Art Center, located in have a direct impact in their people to cartoon characters. The there,” Dodge said. be a time to remember those works were created during the Peabody, provides art classes and GRANT, A7 pandemic when the program’s programming. GALLERY, A7 VIGIL, A7 Peabody Marijuana ZBA OKs talks King budding in Nahant complex By Sam Minton ITEM STAFF By Sam Minton and Anne Marie Tobin NAHANT — With recre- ITEM STAFF ational marijuana shops growing across the state, PEABODY — Much to the the Planning Board met dismay of many neighbor- Tuesday night to ensure ing residents, the path has the town is ready for when been cleared to build a 133- the business comes to Na- unit housing complex on the hant. property formerly occupied Board members spoke by J.B. Thomas Hospital on about procedures around King Street. the establishment of po- On Monday night, the Zon- tential retail marijuana ing Board of Appeals (ZBA) stores and looked into voted 4-1 to issue a com- preparing regulations for prehensive permit (with 44 those dispensaries. conditions) under Chapter Member Daniel Ber- 40B, the state’s affordable man suggested that a housing law, to Hemisphere ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK subcommittee be formed Development Group LLC for The Hadley School Reuse Committee hosted an open house at the school to discuss possi- regarding the issue and the Kings Residences project. wanted fellow board mem- ble uses for the school. Despite the fact that the ber Rob Steinberg and meeting was not open for Town Counsel JS Bianchi public discussion, it was con- to be on that committee. tentious at times, with sev- Swampscott oats new uses for Hadley Berman said he wanted eral residents attempting to By Tréa Lavery gathered feedback from residents nex is that the building does not Bianchi to sit on the sub- express their opinions. ITEM STAFF in attendance. currently have an elevator, which committee because he is This prompted ZBA Chair- Hadley was built in 1911, with is required to make the building familiar “with how these SWAMPSCOTT — The Hadley man Frances Gallugi to re- an annex connected to the main accessible under the Americans places work.” mind the audience that, “we Elementary School building will building by a walkway completed with Disabilities Act (ADA). An The Planning Board ran do not hear from people in most likely be used as a boutique into an issue of needing in 1925. All three scenarios pro- elevator cannot be added to the the audience. What we hear hotel, affordable housing for se- three members to form posed by the committee involve main structure without sacri c- from is the board and the at- niors or a mixed-use commercial a subcommittee. Bian- the demolition of the annex and ing a large amount of the limited torney.” building with arts and communi- chi added that the board construction of a new addition. space inside, but because the ex- Councilor-at-Large Anne ty space. isting annex is separate, it cannot could put the marijuana Town Senior Planner Molly Manning-Martin objected The Hadley School Reuse Advi- house an elevator that is also ac- regulations and bylaws O’Connell explained that a main immediately, reminding Gal- sory Committee presented these cessible from the main structure. on the board’s working lugi that the attorney (for- three scenarios at an open house reason the committee is recom- agenda in lieu of having a mer ZBA Chair Jason Panos) Tuesday evening, where they also mending the demolition of the an- HADLEY, A3 formal subcommittee, an represents the developer’s option that he was not in interests, not the city’s. INSIDE favor of. “He is not there to tell you “That might end up tak- what to do,” Manning-Martin Sports ing a lot of time out of our said. “You are deliberating.” Opinion Opinion St. Mary’s Cabral named Item regular meetings,” said A road less traveled Biden’s child-poverty plan is There were also other words Player of the Year for baseball. Bianchi. “(It) might not be to success. A4 great — if it works. A4 ZBA, A7 B1 MARIJUANA, A7 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 80° VOL. 142, ISSUE 191 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 CLASSIFIED ...............................B6 LOW 62° POLICE/FIRE .............................A5 COMICS ....................................B4 FOOD ........................................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM WEDNESDAY JULY 21, 2021 OBITUARIES Nisan A. Kuyumjian, 71 Margaret “Peggy” Leavitt, Mary Sharkey, 92 1950 - 2021 NAHANT - Mary (Maureen) 90 Sharkey (Conneely) died LYNN - Nisan A. Kuyumjian, Surviving him in addition to peacefully on Monday, July 19, aged 71, husband of Agavni his wife are his two children, GEORGETOWN - Margaret Mary (nee’ Brady) Leavitt, Peg- 2021, with her family by her “Julie” (Kazandjian) Kuyumjian, Shushan and Roupen Kuyum- side in Nahant, MA. Maureen passed away at North Shore jian both of Lynn. gy to her friends and family was born in Ballyconneely, Co. Medical Center - Salem Hos- Service Information: Visit- was the 5th of 7 children born Galway, Ireland on September pital on Sunday morning, July ing hours will be held at the to Irish Immigrants, the late 27, 1928 to Peter and Mary 18, 2021. Murphy Funeral Home, 85 Robert and Florence Brady, on (Burke) Conneely and emigrat- Nisan was born in Istan- Federal St, Corner of North August 1, 1930. ed to America at the age 19. bul, Turkey to Jirair and Guliug St, Salem on Thursday, July Peggy was very proud of Loving wife to the late Wil- Kuyumjian on February 24, 22, 2021 from 4:00 p.m. her Irish Heritage and visited liam (Billy) P. Sharkey, “Meme” 1950. Nisan came to the Unit- to 7:00 p.m. His Funeral Ireland on 5 separate occa- is survived by her 6 children ed States in 1975, and settled Service will be held at the sions. She also loved to travel and their families: John Shar- in Lynn where he lived his life funeral home the following to the Germany Christmas key (Mary Ellen), Joseph raising his children by instilling day, Friday, July 22, 2021 at Sharkey (Keli), Mary DeVeau Armenian values.