SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2020 A CONVERSATION Saugus in WITH A COP dilemma, school move set in stone By Elyse Carmosino ITEM STAFF SAUGUS — Saugus administrators are in a bind after learning the district is still contractually obligated to Suffolk Construction, the company tasked with building the town’s new combined mid- dle-high school, to vacate Saugus High School by April 24. Teachers and staff were originally told they would have spring vacation — be- tween April 20 and April 24 — to move all belongings out of the old high school building. However, on March 13 it was announced Saugus schools would close through at least March 27, and the reopen date has since been extended inde nitely. Unaware school doors would remain locked until well after vacation, students and faculty left behind a completely fur- nished and stocked building that the ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK town now must gure out how to vacate while adhering to strict health regula- By David McLellan tions handed down by the state. ITEM STAFF “We’re not going to have teachers go into Of cer Ralph the school, and we certainly don’t want LYNN — There’s not the same “nighttime silliness” in down- kids going into the school,” said school Sirois sees board vice chair Ryan Fisher. “We may town Lynn these days. But there are more domestic calls, from need to hire a private company to pack up, a noticeable people cooped up inside. but obviously there are privacy concerns.” Board member Arthur Grabowski difference on Lynn Police Of cer Ralph Sirois is in his 18th year working agreed, adding he was concerned about with the department, having spent nine previous years with liability issues and laws regarding stu- the streets of the Nahant Police Department, and time with the Essex Coun- dent medical records. “I don’t want unknown people going into Lynn since the ty Sheriff’s Of ce before that. Sirois said there’s a noticeable the school and rummaging through this difference in the city, especially in the downtown and Central stuff,” he said. “How many students have coronavirus personal belongings that are valuable to Square area he’s patrolled for more than a decade, due to the them in their school lockers? iPads, elec- outbreak outbreak of COVID-19. tronic devices, and other mementos. Who’s OFFICER SIROIS, A3 SCHOOL, A3 Lynn eld 8th-grader a 3D helper By Anne Marie Tobin ITEM STAFF LYNNFIELD — A middle school student is using his ingenuity to help doctors and nurses stay safe on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis. Cameron Sullivan, an eighth-grader at the Lynn eld Middle School, was looking for a way to help those people who are at the greatest risk contracting the virus. With stories popping up everyday about people making do-it-yourself protective ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK COURTESY PHOTO masks, and a new 3D printer he received for Christmas, the 14-year-old self-de- Lynn has partnered with Salem and Beverly to create a new homeless Lynn eld eighth-grader scribed inventor kicked it up a notch to cre- shelter, a “temporary quarantine site,” in Salem High School’s Veterans Cameron Sullivan displays ate a high tech plastic model of the N-95 Memorial Fieldhouse for the region’s homeless population so the homeless a protective masks he is facemask. In the process, he also found a will be safe during the COVID-19 outbreak. making and donating to medical professionals. MASKS, A3 Beverly, Lynn and Salem ●Worldwide Face it: Cover them deaths provide a shelter in this storm from the By David McLellan state as of Thursday, according to the Mas- in Swampscott coronavirus ITEM STAFF sachusetts Department of Public Health. hit Residents served by shelters run by the By David McLellan gency” meeting Friday af- SALEM — For the homeless people of 100,000, A5 Lynn Shelter Association, 100 Willow St., ITEM STAFF ternoon. Lynn, Beverly, and Salem, there has been Lynn, Lifebridge, 56 Margin St., Salem, The order becomes effec- nowhere to quarantine if they come in and Riverhouse, 56 River St., Beverly, may SWAMPSCOTT — Resi- tive this Sunday. ●Trump contact with someone with COVID-19, be sent to the shelter to protect themselves dents going to the few “es- The masks people should prompting the three cities to join together and the general public from COVID-19 in- sential” businesses still feels no wear are explicitly “cloth face in creating a temporary shelter and “quar- fection. open — such as grocery need coverings” that are either antine location.” “Establishing a temporary quarantine stores and pharmacies — for counsel bandanas or other home- Lynn, Beverly, and Salem have partnered location for the most vulnerable popula- will have to cover their nos- made cloth masks that cov- from with the Massachusetts Emergency Man- tions has been a es and mouths. er the nose and mouth. The predecessors, agement Agency (MEMA), North Shore shared priority of the mayors of the North They will also have to masks should not be “surgical A5 Community Health, Lynn Community Shore since the onset of the COVID-19 cri- wear the masks as work- masks or N95 respirators,” Health, the Northeast Homeland Security sis,” said Lynn Mayor Thomas M. McGee. ers at those businesses, or which should be reserved for Regional Advisory Council (NERAC), and “Together, we will do everything we can to when walking or exercising ●Virus rst responders and medi- the homelessness organization Lifebridge ensure that those who face housing inse- in public places, or picking cal professionals, Board of shows to set up a temporary quarantine site for curity, will have a digni ed place to shel- up food from a restaurant, Health Chairwoman Mari- benefi t the homeless at the Salem High School ter, as they are affected by the spread of and stay at least 6 feet anne Hartmann said. of learning eld house on Willson Street in Salem. COVID-19.” away from others, after the The temporary shelter opened this week According to the U.S. Cen- from According to Elizabeth Gervacio, spokes- Swampscott Select Board ters of Disease Control and with the goal of keeping the region’s home- woman for Lynn Mayor Thomas McGee, and Board of Health passed other less safe during the coronavirus outbreak, the order during an “emer- SWAMPSCOTT, A3 nations, A6 which has infected more than 16,000 in the SHELTER, B3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 51° VOL. 141, ISSUE 103 OPINION ...................................A4 POLICE/FIRE .............................B3 CLASSIFIED ...............................B6 LOW 34° LOOK! .......................................A8 COMICS ....................................B4 REAL ESTATE .............................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2020 OBITUARIES Union Hospital will Joseph N. O’Donnell, 59 Clair Walton, 80 get respiratory clinic 1961-2020 1939-2020 ITEM STAFF REPORT In its Friday statement, Died suddenly in his home Of Sandown, N.H. passed NSMC said urgent care at the age of 59. Beloved son, away on March 27, 2020 at LYNN — Union Hospi- patient volume has been brother, uncle, cousin and Catholic Medical Center in tal’s urgent care center “very low, with many pa- friend. Joe was born and lived Manchester, N.H. She was 80 will become a respiratory tient visits being managed most of his life in Lynn. He years old. She was the wife of clinic by the middle of next by telephone and video.” graduated from Lynn Tech and the late John Walton, also of week to aid in the corona- Mayor Thomas M. Mc- Fitchburg State College, and Sandown, NH with whom she virus fight, North Shore Gee on Friday said NSMC was a member of the Carpen- spent 35 years of marriage. Medical Center (NSMC) President Dr. David J. ter’s Union. He is predeceased Born in Swampscott, MA on No- announced on Friday. Roberts contacted him to by his parents, Charles and vember 25, 1939. She was the “These changes will en- discuss the changes and Rita O’Donnell of Lynn. He daughter of Charles and Mary hance our response to said state public health leaves behind a sister, Rita (O’Leary) Kummel. Clair was a COVID-19 and better meet officials approved the ur- Hill of Lynn, a brother, Charles breast cancer survivor which led the needs of our patients, gent care center’s transi- O’Donnell of Tennessee, to her early retirement from Gen- physicians and staff, “ said tion to a respiratory clinic. nephews, Chris, Brendan and eral Electric Riverworks of Lynn. Steven Kapfhammer, Pres- In response to the Colin O’Neil, nieces Michay- She was a member of the Local ident of North Shore Physi- COVID-19 outbreak, and la and Michenzie O’Donnell, 201 Union for three decades. cians Group, in a statement. North Shore Physicians too many aunts, uncles and She enjoyed political banter NSMC in the statement Group (NSPG) are mak- cousins to mention and way on social media as well as with said the clinic will be for ing operational changes too many friends. As per his vices. He was loved and will family and friends. During her She leaves behind her children, Partners HealthCare pa- on the Lynn campus. wishes, there will be no ser- be missed. retirement, she enjoyed boating William Paradise of Venice, FL, tients with both COVID-19 on Jaws III, her boat. She also Robert Paradise of Nantucket, NSMC Urgent Care, Lynn and non-COVID-19 respi- Effective Monday, the enjoyed many trips across the MA, Cheryl Wade of Dover, NH, ratory conditions in need country on Route 66. She es- Randy Paradise of Peabody, NSMC Urgent Care Cen- of evaluation.