LYNNFIELD From A1 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2020 Four $322M in PPP saves 36,000 local jobs COVID By Mike Shanahan Top borrower by community provided they are used for ITEM STAFF TOP BORROWERS BY COMMUNITY certain expenses – princi- loan # jobs pally employee salaries. What do thousands of Lynn Greater Lynn Senior Services $ 5,857,165 500 As Congress is debating cases in local car dealers, dough- Lynnfield JM Electrical $ 5,336,482 395 a new stimulus package nut shops, liquor stores, for consumers and small plumbers, lawyers, church- Marblehead Bartlett & Steadman $ 137,200 9 businesses alike, the SBA Saugus es and funeral homes have recently released more in common? Nahant Wellesley Healthcare $ 527,400 51 Peabody NE Cabinets $ 149,861 16 complete details on re- They took out Payroll cipients of round one of schools Protection Program (PPP) Revere Complete Homecare $ 2,500,000 154 the program. An analysis loans earlier this year By Guthrie Salem Salem Glass $ 3,055,555 100 of the data by The Item through a Small Business reveals 4,847 business- Scrimgeour Administration (SBA) Saugus Atlantic Coast Dismantling $ 2,382,500 na ITEM STAFF es in its readership area emergency relief program. Swampscott Perico, PC $ 979,105 51 took out more than $300 SAUGUS — Parents The PPP was part of the million in PPP loans in were informed Mon- CARES Act passed by Con- fering the consequences of nesses with fewer than interest with up to two an attempt to save about gress in March with the day in an email from COVID-19. The program 500 employees on very fa- years to repay. The loans 36,000 local jobs. Superintendent Da- intent of injecting funds vid DeRuosi that four into small businesses suf- provides loans to busi- vorable terms: one percent are eligible for forgiveness PPP, A3 staff members, three at Veterans Elementa- ry School and one at Saugus Middle/High School, had tested pos- Lynn ferry itive for COVID-19. “We have been plan- ning for this scenario terminal during our reopen- ing planning process,” wrote DeRuosi. “We have a comprehensive to become plan in place to sanitize the school, inform fam- ilies whose students COVID were at risk of expo- sure or in close contact, and support the af- fected families as they test site navigate this stressful By Gayla Cawley experience.” ITEM STAFF Saugus Public Schools have been LYNN — A new free coronavirus largely remote since testing center will open at the Lynn they closed last March ferry terminal this month as part of in response to the on- the state’s “Stop the Spread” initiative. set of the COVID-19 The new testing site was announced pandemic, with the ex- Monday by Gov. Charlie Baker, who ception of roughly 90 said Lynn will operate one of three special education stu- new express testing centers, which dents in grades pre-K Salem hopes to pool park money are all expected to open by the end through 12 who attend of the month. in-person classes twice By Guthrie Scrimgeour ering place for kids from all neigh- The Salem City The new regional drive-through a week. ITEM STAFF borhoods of Salem, faced a variety of Council votes testing sites in Lynn, Framingham problems in recent years and needed Thursday on the and New Bedford will be operated Educators have SALEM — The City Council is set to to be frequently closed and drained by Project Beacon, the same com- been teaching their vote in a special meeting Thursday on Signature Parks due to water quality issues. Eventu- pany that is currently running the classes remotely from the Signature Parks Bond, which would Bond, which allows ally, it was deemed to be damaged “high-volume express testing site” in inside the building allow the city to borrow up to $16.1 mil- the city to borrow beyond repair and was closed at the Revere, Baker said. since Sept. 16. The lion for the improvement of city parks, $16.1 million for the end of the summer of 2017. “Their model has proven to be school committee including a new Forest River Pool. improvement of city “A public pool is an important quick and ef cient, as anyone can voted in November The majority of the funding from parks. Some of that to postpone the dis- amenity for Salem, and getting the book an online appointment or visit a the bond would be used to build the money would fund trict’s return to its best possible funding for the new drive-through testing site,” said Bak- new pool, which would be moved brick-and-mortar pool is extremely wise,” said Ward a remodel of the er. “These four testing locations will further back from the coastline and buildings until at Three Councilor Patti Morsillo. “For- Forest River Pool. have the capacity to do up to 1,000 would have a new community room least Jan. 2021. est River Park has one of the only tests per day per site. attached to the bathhouse. SAUGUS, A2 The pool, which was once a gath- SALEM, A5 ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO LYNN, A5 By Gayla Cawley Marblehead ITEM STAFF MARBLEHEAD — Thirty-eight parking tickets unveils were issued to residents who didn’t abide by the Grateful for any help she can get town’s new snow emergency policy Saturday night. This weekend’s snowstorm was the rst opportu- By Thor Jourgensen have a very low income,” she wrote. new snow nity the town had to test out its new winter-park- ITEM STAFF Her letter is not a Christmas gift list ing policy, which was approved by both Town Meet- or a chance to complain about her cir- ing and the Board of Selectmen earlier this year. An unemployed mother wrote Item cumstances. It is a humble request for parking Santa in search of help solving a prob- Instead of banning overnight parking from help from Item Santa on behalf of her mid-November to mid-April, the town will now lem familiar to so many people caught children. up in COVID-19’s blow to the economy. policy MARBLEHEAD, A3 “At the moment I am not working and GRATEFUL, A3 Mormon missionar- Missionaries begin work in Lynn eld ies Elder Carlson 19, left, and Elder Sell- By Guthrie Scrimgeour against. They then perform service for several ers, 18, stand outside ITEM STAFF hours at a local food pantry, or study scripture The Church of Jesus until late in the morning. Christ of Latter-day LYNNFIELD — Being a Mormon missionary The rest of the day is spent “proselytizing”— Saints in Lynn eld. is a full-time job for Josh Sellers and Ben Carl- trying to convert others to join their Church. son, who recently moved here from Utah with Since the onset of COVID-19, this work must the goal of recruiting members to The Church ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO be performed virtually, through social media, of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Lynn- texting and phone banking. eld. Once they have found people interested in On an average day, Sellers and Carlson, who the Church, they hold lessons on Zoom to teach use the title of Elder, wake up at 6:30, without the help of coffee, which their Church advises LYNNFIELD, A3 Opinion Krause: A tough choice … but the right one. A4 STOP THE SPREAD. FOLLOW THE RULES. LOOK! STAY WEAR A MASK NO MORE THAN WASH YOUR HANDS Happy birthday to us. A8 • Bagging up books in Peabody.A8 Sports Peabody’s Jordyn Collins FEET APART IN AN INDOOR10 GATHERING commits to Worcester State lacrosse. B1 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 36° VOL. 142, ISSUE 1 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 CLASSIFIED ...............................B6 LOW 23° POLICE/FIRE .............................A5 COMICS ....................................B4 BUSINESS ................................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2020 OBITUARIES James L. Hughes Jr., 87 Joan Frances (Doherty) Flynn, 84 Jane Reagan, 78 1933 - 2020 1936 - 2020 1942 - 2020 SWAMPSCOTT - James SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - MARBLEHEAD - Lynn native (“Jim”) Lee Hughes, Jr., age 87, Joan Frances (Doherty) Flynn, Jane A. Reagan, 78, of Conway, formerly of Swampscott, Mas- 84, formerly of Lynn, passed S.C., passed peacefully with sachusetts, died on December away peacefully at home on family at her side Nov. 28 after 3, 2020, after a long illness. Wednesday, October 7, 2020. a short battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife of 58 She was born in Lynn on Feb- Born Jane Adele Farese Sept. years, Nancy (“Nan”) Neville ruary 1, 1936 to the late Ed- 25, 1942, in Lynn, Mass., she Hughes, his three daughters, ward and Annie Mae (Briand) was the youngest, by minutes, Kimberly, Tricia, and Kristin, his Doherty. Joan lived in Lynn of nine children. She spent son-in-law Frank Dibert, and until 1980 when she moved her early childhood in Lynn’s his daughter-in-law Deb Ghez- to San Diego to be near her famous Brickyard neighbor- zi. Jim was known as ‘Papa’ to brother. hood, but lived most of her life his beloved granddaughters, Joan was the wife of the late in East Lynn. She graduated Emma and Daphne, and his Edward Joseph Flynn, who was from Lynn English High School eight grand-dogs. He is also the love of her life, and sadly in 1960, and was a neighbor- survived by his two sisters, passed away in 1982. She was hood fixture for decades as a Ann Restivo of Burlington, MA, the loving sister to the late Ann local store clerk and bank tell- and Mary Noonan of South Virginia Doherty and the late er, known and loved by many of Windsor, CT, and many nieces Richard Francis Driscoll.