DEALS OF THE $DAY$ PG. 3 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2018 DEALS OF THE NSCC has a warm feeling $DAY$ PG. 3 for Swampscott coat lady Frederick By Thor Jourgensen Davern and student employees in the Kamara and ITEM STAFF NSCC Student Engagement of ce on his son Xavyer the Lynn campus handed out most of DEALSClarke re- LYNN — A Swampscott resident, a re- the coats last week, but more are avail- ceived winter tired North Shore Community College able for distribution as donations come OFjackets THE from employee and students joined forces to in. Angelina Mu- help needy local residents stay warm “People have been so generous. Some- $nozDA ofY Lynn,$ this winter. one even dropped off two brand-new LayheabPG. 3 Ly of Well-known among fellow North Shore coats,” Davern said. Lynn, and Pa- realtors, Patricia Davern reached out to Lynn resident Frederick Kamara tricia Davern generous friends and neighbors at The picked up a warm, weather-resistant of Swampscott. Residence in Vinnin Square to collect red coat to wear during the winter and more than 60 coats along with gloves, ITEM PHOTO | mittens and hats for distribution. NSCC, A3 DEALSSPENSER HASAK OF THE $DAY$ SERIAL CLIPPER ON THE LOOSE MidtermPG. 3 IN SWAMPSCOTT (AGAIN) elections DEALS broughtOF THE out $DAY$ the votePG. 3 By Gayla Cawley ITEM STAFF LYNN — In one of the most politically divisive times in U.S. history, the city fol- lowed a nationwide trend, which saw an increase in midterm election voter turnout over 2014. Experts are attributing the record-break- ing turnout to President Donald Trump and his ability to inspire a wide range of positive or negative emotions depending on the person, according to the Associat- ed Press, which estimates 30 million more people voted in the midterm election this year. Democrats were able to take the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives half- way through the rst term of the Republi- can president. The GOP retained control of the Senate. Ballots also featured races for governorship and other state elections. In Lynn, City Clerk Janet Rowe is attrib- uting the increase in voter turnout over the 2014 midterm election to an increase in new voters and the early voting option which debuted in 2016. Although record-breaking numbers were seen nationwide, Lynn only saw a slight increase in voter turnout from 2014, 46 Thief making off with neighbors’ hydrangeas David Spofford percent to 42 percent, according to Rowe. points to where his “In this election, we experienced a lot of hydrangea bush new voters who came to the of ce inquir- By Gayla Cawley have been hit as well. was damaged. The ITEM STAFF The residents believe it’s a profession- ing where they were supposed to be voting fence was put up and we also had many that ‘early voted’ in al job. The plants were cut at an angle SWAMPSCOTT — The town appears to after the damage City Hall as well,” Rowe wrote in an email. by someone they believe intends to grow have a serial clipper on its hands. was done. “Early voters accounted for over 3,000 the stems in a cellar or greenhouse over David “Dewey” and Joan Spofford, who votes in this election.” live at 23 Ocean View Road, said someone the winter and sell them for pro t to be ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE Rowe said many elderly and out-of-town has taken cuttings from their hydrangea replanted in the spring. residents, including students and people bush for the third year in a row. The re- “It’s crazy that no one’s seen anything,” with health problems, also chose to take tired couple spoke with The Item last year said David Spofford. “It’s a tight-knit advantage of absentee voting, which ac- about the theft, which also occurred in No- neighborhood and everyone is really nosy.” counted for 1,254 ballots cast. vember. Joan said whoever is doing the cutting “With more options on how to get the Their neighbor, John McLaughlin, also has “quite a business going” as they’re vote out, including social media, YouTube, reported a thief had sheared off portions of taking the cuttings for nothing. and local television programs such as his hydrangea for a third year. The Spof- fords and McLaughlin say other neighbors SWAMPSCOTT, A3 VOTE, A7 Time to Limiting screen time for your retire? kid? It’s harder than it seems. By Martha Irvine But they do not. Like many other ASSOCIATED PRESS parents, the Haileys are on a reinvig- orated mission to limit screen time Y not? CHICAGO — It is Saturday morn- for Henry and his 15-year-old brother, ing, and 10-year-old Henry Hailey is Everett. For some parents, it feels like By Bill Brotherton up at the crack of dawn. Still in PJs, an exercise in futility. They are busy, ITEM FEATURES EDITOR his microphone-equipped headphones glowing blue in the dim basement, he overwhelmed and tired of the ght PEABODY — Bruce Mac- xates on the popular online game against increasingly omnipresent donald, longtime president “Fortnite” on a large screen. screens. and CEO of the YMCA of “What?! Right as I was about to Getting Henry off screens has been a Metro North, will step down nish it, I died,” he calls out disap- constant battle, his parents say. “Then on Jan. 25, his 64th birth- pointedly to his friend Gus, a fellow once he’s off, there’s a lot of complain- day. He’s signed a one-year fth-grader playing the game from his ing and grumpiness for a while as we contract for a retirement job home just a few blocks away. “Dude, I try to coax him to do something else,” that will focus on his over- should NOT have died.” says his mom, Barb Hailey. “He’s up- seeing the completion of the The digital battles resume, and Hen- set. Mom is a crank. What is it all for?” new $27 million Y facility in ry’s enthusiasm never wanes. Would The goal, experts say, should be to Lynn, he said. he play all day if his parents let him? help kids learn to manage their own Kathleen Walsh, chief oper- “Probably,” he concedes with a slight ating of cer since 2014, will grin. SCREENS, A7 succeed Macdonald, a Y exec- utive for more than 40 years. Macdonald, a Beverly native, said a successor plan has INSIDE been in place for more than four years. Lynn Sports ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE “When I started with the Y Man arrested on Winthrop’s Castro Swampscott powderpuff Bruce Macdonald, president and CEO of the bus charged with hopes to end career ends losing streak MACDONALD, A3 YMCA Metro North, is retiring in January. bank robbery. A6 on high note. B1 against Marblehead. B1 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 HIGH 39° VOL. 140, ISSUE 279 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 BUSINESS ................................B8 LOW 28° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2018 OBITUARIES What to expect as rst pot Daniel J. Cedrone Jr., 74 shops in East nally open MARBLEHEAD — Yacht Club. He was Daniel J. Cedrone Jr., generous and kind, 74 years, of Marble- and will be missed By Bob Salsberg head, died Sunday, by all who knew him. ASSOCIATED PRESS Nov. 18, 2018 at Dan was also affec- Brigham and Wom- tionately known as The long wait for recre- en’s Hospital in “HBD” or “Handsome ational marijuana sales to Boston after a brief Big Dan” to some of begin in Massachusetts is illness. He was sur- his friends. He was almost over with the rst rounded by family a devoted husband, commercial pot shops set and friends throughout his father, and grandfather, and to open on Tuesday. hospitalization. The family his family meant everything It can hardly be termed would like to acknowledge the to him. a robust launch with great care and compassion he In addition to his wife Cyn- only two stores open- received while at Brigham and thia with whom he shared 44 ing initially, in Leicester Women’s Hospital. years of marriage, he leaves his and Northampton. But Dan was the husband of son, Daniel J. Cedrone III and they can boast of being Cynthia (Lord) Cedrone. He his wife Megan of Marblehead the rst anywhere in the was born in Boston, the son and their two children, DJ and eastern United States as of the late Daniel J. and Jenny Thomas; and his daughter, the commercial cannabis (Santella) Cedrone. He was Carolyn Cedrone of Salem. He industry looks to expand raised in Quincy, and was a also leaves a cousin, Andrew its geographic base amid graduate of Thayer Academy Santella and his wife Renee of increasing public accep- and Boston University. He and Marblehead, and many loving tance. his family moved to Marble- family members and friends Massachusetts voted to FILE PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS head in 1979. who adored him. legalize recreational mar- Dan was employed as a Service information: His ijuana in 2016, but it’s A cannabis plant is displayed on a screen at New England Treatment consultant for Corbus, an funeral will be held on Satur- taken more than two full Access medical marijuana dispensary in Northampton. aerospace company based day, Nov. 24, 2018 at 9 a.m. years to reach this point. out of Ohio. He also had his from the SOLIMINE Funeral Some things to know: chosen. as the rst to buy at Culti- sales.