DEALS OF THE $DAY$ PG. 3 TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2019 DEALS OF THE Beer Lynn Education District will host STEM$DA fairY$ By Steve Krause major non-pro t groups who work on behalf Abramson, who sponsors ThePG. Item’s 3 Spelling ITEM STAFF of Lynn’s youth. Bee, considers STEM education the most im- may not Committee member Joel Abramson of Flag- portant part of a modern curriculum. LYNN — The Lynn Education District will ship Travel in Marblehead began talking “When you think about it,” he said, “every- sponsor a STEM fair in October that will be with Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, who is the chair- thing you do in life, and will do in life, will be on spread around ve educational institutions man, along with Rep. Joseph Kennedy, of the have something to do with a STEM subject. in the heart of the city. Massachusetts STEM (Science, Technology, Turn on your computer, startDEALS your car, leave The district is a collaborative community Engineering and Math) Council, late last someone a voice mail — it’s all because of tap for that aims to partner with Lynn students and year about the district’s interest in the cur- some aspect of STEM technology.OF THE If you watch the adults in their lives to realize their great- riculum. sports, instant replay is STEM$ technology.”$ est potential in the community. It includes Through a series of meetings with Polito The fair will run from 6-9DA p.m.Y on Thurs- Saugus representatives from the Lynn schools, the and her staff that went well into the summer, day, Oct. 24 at Lynn Tech, KIPPPG. Academy, 3 St. YMCA, North Shore Community College, the idea of a STEM fair came up. store Essex Media Group and several of the city’s STEM week runs from Oct. 21-25. STEM, A3 By Bridget Turcotte DEALS ITEM STAFF HOMELESS MAN STABBEDOF THE SAUGUS — Owners of a Main Street store want to $DAY$ sell beer and wine, but the TO DEATH DOWNTOWN PG. 3 idea is hard for the town to swallow. Owners of Great Con- venience petitioned the Board of Selectmen for a beer and wine license in DEALS December 2016 but were denied. They’ll return OF THE Sept. 4 to try again. $ $ “There is a desire and a DAY need for people who come PG. 3 to a convenience store — this is one of the products they are looking for,” said Attorney Alfred Paul Fa- rese Jr., who represents Kirit Patel, the store’s owner. Saugus has six beer and wine licenses and four of them are available, said Wendy Reed, clerk for the Board of Selectmen. There are eight other package stores within a 2.2-mile radius. But Great Convenience shares a plaza with Peas in a Pod Nursery School and, while its not against state law, selectmen worry about the sale of beer and wine so close to a daycare. “It is still a place where children congregate,” said Chairwoman Deb- By Gayla Cawley he was taken from the scene. tion and no arrests have been made. Lynn police are ra Panetta. “So that was ITEM STAFF The victim was taken to Sa- Two people said they didn’t wit- investigating a one of our biggest issues lem Hospital where he was pro- ness the stabbing, but heard that fatal stabbing (in 2016) regardless of LYNN — A 36-year-old home- nounced dead, Lynn Police Lt. at the corner of whether it falls under less man from Lynn was stabbed it was the result of an argument Green and Union Massachusetts General to death on Union Street Monday Larry Wentzell said. His identity with another person over money. Law or not.” afternoon, authorities said. has not been released. Police and a spokeswoman from streets Monday Erin Bradley, owner Police said they responded to 114 An hour after the incident, there the Essex County District Attor- afternoon. of Peas in a Pod, said Union St. shortly after 2:30 p.m. was a large police presence on ney’s of ce wouldn’t con rm that ITEM PHOTO | JIM WILSON she would worry more if and found an unresponsive man Union Street. The area was cor- account. outside. Witnesses said the man doned off with crime scene tape. SAUGUS, A3 still had a knife in his chest when The incident is under investiga- STABBING, A3 Boston Marathon-bombing memorial complete Racism BOSTON (AP) — Three stone pillars “We hope that this will help demarcate asking a bystander to take a photo of her were placed Monday near the nish line the sacredness of this spot and give peo- beside one of the pillars. “I’m pretty sure prompts of the Boston Marathon, marking the nal ple the opportunity to slow down when these three victims had cheered for me step in a $2 million effort to memorialize they’re here,” said Bolivian-born sculptor when I was going through the nish line, the bombing that killed three people. Pablo Eduardo as he put nishing touches so the least I could do was come out and community The understated monument of granite on the monuments Monday. show my support.” and bronze, which took four years to plan Nichola Forrester, a Milton resident who Patricia Campbell, the mother of bomb- discussion and develop, was supposed to be ready completed the 2013 race long before the ing victim Krystle Campbell, said she was last year for the fth anniversary of the bombs detonated, was among those paus- grateful her daughter hasn’t been forgotten. April 15, 2013, attack, but underwent sig- ing to re ect on their lunch break. By Gayla Cawley ITEM STAFF ni cant redesigns and other delays. “I said a prayer for them,” she said after MEMORIAL, A3 LYNN — Nearly 10 incidents of racist graf ti and vandalism have been reported in the city over the INSIDE Praying for the children past year, prompting a community Immigrant meeting and discussion on Monday Nahant rights support- night about how to appropriately Report of man on beach ers marching respond. exposing self turns out to from Boston Residents, community leaders be unfounded. A6 to New Hamp- and elected of cials crowded into shire stopped a room at the Lynn Community LOOK! Television headquarters to brain- Lynn eld library at St. Stephen’s Church in Lynn storm about how to respond to a hires new head of year’s worth of mainly anti-Semit- Youth Services. A8 on Monday, where they ic vandalism in Lynn, and to share their own personal experiences staged a sym- Lynn eld’s Hashian with racism and hatred. marries “The Rock.” A8 bolic funeral The consensus was that there procession Sports should be more education, teach- including a small ing people an appropriate response Graciale gets casket to honor started as Tech’s to hatred and it should start early, migrant children teaching children how to respect athletic director. B1 who died try- people who may be different from ing to enter the them. Rivera: Betts could be on country. the move this winter. B1 Dalene Basden, a homeowner in Lynn for 30 years, said she was PHOTO | PAULA MULLER RACISM, A3 Celebrate culture and community: Festival La Voz, Sunday, Aug. 25, noon-5, Fraser Field, Lynn. For tickets and information: FestivalLaVoz.com OBITUARIES ..............................A2 ENTERTAINMENT .......................A7 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 81° VOL. 141, ISSUE 215 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 71° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 BUSINESS ................................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2019 OBITUARIES MASSACHUSETTS BRIEFS Markey releases rights lawyer, and Steve video showing Warren Pemberton, a former Richard W. Sarnie Sr., 85 John D. Paine III senior executive at Wal- 1928-2018 endorsement greens. BOSTON (AP) — Dem- HOPEDALE — Mr. Richard W. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — John D. ocratic U.S. Sen. Edward Transit agency considers Paine III died Dec. 15, 2018 Sarnie Sr. died peacefully on Markey has released a fare-free buses in Scottsdale, Ariz., where he Aug. 15, 2019 at the age of video showing U.S. Sen. had resided since 2009. 85. Elizabeth Warren endors- WORCESTER (AP) — John was born Oct. 26, He was the beloved hus- ing him for re-election. A Massachusetts public 1928 in Marblehead and band of the late Carole E. The video shows the transit agency is con- graduated from Marblehead (Cheney) Sarnie, with whom Democratic presidential sidering a fare-free bus High School in 1946. John he shared 56 loving years of hopeful praising Markey system. served in the U.S. Navy in marriage. He is survived by as a leader, fighter and The Telegram & Gazette 1951. After finishing his stud- his cherished family: his son, “our country’s great- reports that the Worces- ies with a BS in Mathematics Richard Jr., daughter-in-law, est champion for clean ter Regional Transit at Northeastern University in Susan, and their children, Gar- energy jobs.” It comes as Authority Advisory Board 1952, John married G. Gloria rett and Mia; his son, Robert supporters of U.S. Rep. voted unanimously last Rio. The two were married for and his wife, Marilyn, and their Joe Kennedy are pressing week to conduct a fare 57 years before Gloria pre- children, Rachel and Jared. He him to challenge Markey analysis that includes was predeceased by his par- ceded John in death in 2009. consideration of a fare- John worked for more than in next year’s Democratic ents Sylvio and Doris (Maines) primary. free system. Sarnie and his brother, Ronald 40 years for the Sperry Cor- In a report in May, The poration, which later became Markey released the Sarnie.