FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2020 Kowloon sets the bar high with mai tais to go By Elyse Carmosino to-go meals. ITEM STAFF “We had so many customers coming in for takeout and they all wanted mai SAUGUS — With restaurants across tais to go,” Wong said. the country forced to close their din- Although Gov. Charlie Baker may ing rooms due to the COVID-19 health soon approve a law allowing takeout crisis, Kowloon Restaurant in Saugus sales of beer and wine for the duration decided to make the best of the situa- of the pandemic, Massachusetts liquor tion and offer to-go mixes of its most laws currently prevent restaurants popular drinks. from selling any hard alcohol to-go, Carmela Dalton Owner Bob Wong said his family’s prompting Wong and his staff to come restaurant, a community mainstay up with a creative work-around. ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO since 1950, began offering mai tai “Unfortunately, we can’t sell alcohol and scorpion bowl mixes last Friday over the counter,” Wong said. “So we Bob Wong holds two bottles of mai tai and scor- Lynn eld after frequent requests from custom- said ‘we’ll do the next best thing: offer pion bowl mix at Kowloon on Thursday after- ers wanting to know if they could noon after several customers requested drinks fund purchase alcoholic drinks with their KOWLOON, A2 to go. lends its TO BUILD OR GE union support NOT TO BUILD demanding By Anne Marie Tobin ITEM STAFF shutdown Lynn eld resident Car- mela Dalton, president of The Think of Michael Foun- due to dation, announced that in response to the global pan- demic, the foundation was virus contributing $10,000 to The Gavin Foundation to assist By Gayla Cawley its Rent Relief Program. The ITEM STAFF program will bene t those individuals who are in re- LYNN — Following weeks of citing covery and currently housed health and safety concerns, the union in a certi ed sober house. representing more than 1,200 workers The Think of Michael at Lynn’s GE Aviation plant demand- Foundation was founded in ed a two-week paid shutdown of the 2019 nearly a year after Dal- factory Thursday. ton, and her husband Dick, The demand came a day after the lost their son, Michael, to an labor union, IUE-CWA Local 201, was overdose while he was in out- told an employee at the Lynn plant patient treatment. had tested positive for the coronavi- Dalton said that due to the rus, which brought a week’s worth of COVID-19 pandemic, people tensions to the boiling point. in recovery are in need of A GE employee said there’s been at help more than ever. least three positive COVID-19 diagno- “Those in recovery have ses in the Lynn plant. been devastated by the loss Workers at the city’s River Works of employment and the can- plant held protests on Monday and cellation of group and indi- Tuesday, citing the company’s failure vidual therapy and support to address their safety concerns at the meetings which are critical plant amid the outbreak. to sustaining sobriety,” said “We have been demanding PPE (per- Dalton. sonal protective equipment), sanitizer, John McGahan, president and spray bottles for disinfectant for and CEO of The Gavin Foun- weeks,” reads a union membership let- dation stated that his orga- ter posted on Facebook. “We have not nization “is very concerned seen systematic sanitization in the for people in early recovery buildings. We lack social distancing in living in sober homes, many many areas. And the virus is now here of whom will not qualify for in the plant. unemployment bene ts be- “We have tried to convince GE Lynn cause they have been out of That is the question facing contractors to adopt safer protocols and policies, the workforce due to addic- and what we have seen is too little tion. By Steve Krause McGee announces COVID-19 Construction too late. Our position is that the com- “We are most grateful to ITEM STAFF guidelines, procedures, A3 continues at pany’s sick leave policy is a disaster The Think of Michael Foun- the apartment waiting to happen.” Gov. Charlie Baker has dation and others for sup- at least May 4, per request complex on According to the letter, the union not issued a moratorium on porting our rental assistance of Campanelli Construction Munroe Street informed General Electric represen- building and construction tatives Thursday morning that work- program for individuals of Braintree, the contractor in Lynn amid projects in Massachusetts. ers wanted a two-week paid shutdown living in a certi ed Mas- for the project, YMCA Metro And until he does, most lo- the outbreak of immediately, in addition to its earlier sachusetts Alliance Sober North CEO Kathleen Walsh cal contractors say they are COVID-19. requests for an additional two weeks Home. We need to continue said Thursday. to support these individuals going to keep doing what of paid sick leave and increased sani- they’re doing. Tuesday, the Massachu- ITEM PHOTO | tation in the building. in their recovery and contin- SPENSER HASAK However, one major project setts Building Trades Coun- The union said earlier this week ue to outreach/engage peo- cil — a 75,000-member union ple in active addiction and in Lynn has been suspended that the company did not adequately — asked builders in the state get them off the streets into for at least a month. Building sanitize the building after an employ- treatment.” on the new YMCA, adjacent to suspend all construction ee was sent home last Friday after he to the current one on Neptune Michael Aschkenasy, the CONTRACTORS, A3 GE, A3 Gavin Foundation’s director Boulevard, will cease until of development, said that the Think of Michael Foundation New York could contribution “will go a long Peabody pantry a exhaust ventila- way in helping us through tor supply in days, this trying time.” Dalton said Rep. Brad Haven from Hunger A5 Jones, the minority leader of the House, played a key role Nursing home in assisting the Foundation in troubled times infections, deaths in its outreach program and surge amid lock- LYNNFIELD, A3 By Thor Jourgensen dents annually. down, A5 ITEM STAFF When coronavirus hit two weeks ago and social PEABODY — Citizens Opinion distancing warnings went Economic fallout Inn Haven from Hunger out, many regular pantry Jourgensen: The “new normal” mounts, along retooled its Willis Street clients stayed home. But — 79 years ago. A4 pantry to get food into local with competition Citizens Inn development hands, while maintaining of cer Gianna Langis said for gear, A5 How will coronavirus coronavirus social distanc- change us? A4 newly unemployed resi- ing protocols. dents have come to pick up LOOK! Drawing on food donated food with 80 people signing Patriots use Lynn Community by grocery stores and sup- up for food last week. team plane to fl y Care Fund established. A8 plied by the Greater Bos- “Normally, we get two in masks from ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO ton Food Bank, Citizens or three signups a week,” Sports Brianne Jurs, the assistant program di- Inn distributes 1.7 million Langis said. China, B1 Bob Davis continues taking care rector at Citizens Inn, packs meals for pa- pounds of food to Peabody, of World Series Park. B1 trons on Thursday afternoon in Peabody. Salem and Lynn eld resi- PEABODY, A2 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 COMICS ....................................B4 HIGH 44° VOL. 141, ISSUE 97 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 LOW 39° THIS WEEK IN PHOTOS ..............A7 POLICE/FIRE .............................B3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2020 OBITUARIES Jsusita Guy, 83 M. Gabrielle Moalli, 91 Edna Dumas, 90 1936-2020 LYNN — Jsusita “Susie” PEABODY — M. Gabrielle LYNN — Edna (Mans eld) (Martinez) Guy, age 83, of “Gay” (Fontaine) Moalli, age Dumas, age 90, of Lynn, Lynn, passed away at the Ka- 91, of Peabody, died Tuesday at passed away Tuesday, March plan Family Hospice House in her home, surrounded by her 31, 2020. Danvers on March 21, 2020. loving children. She was the She was the daughter of the She was born on June 4, wife of the late John R. Moalli. Late Bertha (Bryant) Mans eld 1936 to her beloved parents, Born and raised in Lynn, she and George Mans eld. She the late Jesus Ocha Martinez was the daughter of the late was widowed by the late Arlen and Felize (Salabia) Martinez Fred and Louise Fontaine. She Dennison and then by the late in San Antonio, Texas, and she attended St. Jean Baptiste Frances (Frenchy) Dumas. She was the cherished and adored School for 12 years. She had is survived by the late Denice wife of Arthur O. Guy. lived in Lynn for many years Dennison, the late Joanne Den- Susie was a proud and ded- before moving to Peabody. nison Shelan, her grandson Aar- icated wife and mother; she A devout catholic, Gay at- on from Illinois and his wife Jen- loved to spend time with her tended daily Mass at the Car- ny Shelan, great-grandchildren family. She made sure to be melite Chapel in Peabody. She Hanna, Grace, Luke and Jake, as involved in her children’s was also very involved with Mindy Kelly, granddaughter Teya, lives as she could, and when the Pro-Life movement, some- Arlen Dennison of Bradford, his they started to have children thing that was very dear to her wife Judi Dennison, grandsons and Kenneth “Papa” Jr., also of their own she made sure heart. She lit up a room with rington and Phyllis Pentheny.