MONDAY, JUNE 12, 2017 By Matt Demirs once-drab hallway. ation came from Adrienne Khlat, who FOR THE ITEM “I love the underwater scene because worked with principal Christina Colel- Shoemaker it is so beautiful,” said Gage Under- la, the parent-teacher organization, Thanks to the Good 2 Go program and Bruce Orr from Raw Arts. at Raw Arts Work in Lynn, one of the wood, a kindergartener at Shoemaker, Khlat said she was inspired when hallway walls at Shoemaker Elemen- who said his favorite part of the mural mural is tary School has been transformed into are the fish. her daughter, first grader Kamilla Kh- an underwater scene. The work is 30 feet long and 4 feet iat, started school at Shoemaker and Completed this month, the mu- tall and hangs near the main office. noticed the hallways could use some Good 2 Go ral painted by teens brings color to a The idea for the underwater cre- color. MURAL, A7 ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK The new Raw Art Works mural at Shoemaker Elementary. Downtown Swampscott Peabody drawn goes to and quartered By Adam Swift market ITEM STAFF By Matt Demirs FOR THE ITEM PEABODY — Get ready to feed more money into downtown parking meters. SWAMPSCOTT — More than 15 ven- Nearly a year after it was initially dors and hundreds of residents from all proposed, the City Council is getting over Massachusetts and New England closer to considering an ordinance that gathered Sunday at the Swampscott would see the hourly rates at parking Farmers Market for its opening day at a meters increase from $.25 per hour to new location. $1 per hour. “This is a great opening day,” said The police department is working in Swampscott Recreation Department di- conjunction with the city’s Community rector Danielle Strauss. “We’ve created Development department and the city more community space like chairs and solicitor to create new ordinance lan- seating so families can come down and guage that would then come back be- hang out play to cornhole, giant Jenga, fore the council for final approval. and have a cup of coffee.” In addition to the increase in hourly Strauss said the location has also parking rates on downtown streets and brought in a lot of walking traffic from in city parking lots, the proposal would the beach, which was something the add parking meters on Railroad Ave- market didn’t get a lot of behind the high nue and in front of City Hall on Lowell school.” Street. The market is now held on the lawn It would also add pay-and-display of Swampscott Town Hall after moving machines at several lots, and increase from the parking lot behind Swampscott the amount of time people can park in High School. the lots. Rather than having individual PHOTO | PAULA MULLER The new location gives beach strollers a meters for each spot, there are typically chance to pop in on the action. Emily Goncalves of Salem checks out the tomatoes at Clark Farm METERS, A7 Stand at the Swampscott Town Hall Green on Sunday. MARKET, A7 Class of ’17 Heads off Medford into the future takes off Matt Demirs on noise FOR THE ITEM By Steve Freker It was an afternoon the 2017 graduates of FOR THE ITEM Marblehead High School won’t forget after a long journey growing with one another. MEDFORD — Medford The 279 graduates listened Sunday during officials are doing more commencement exercises to wise words from than just covering their school officials and classmates, who called on ears when it comes to in- graduates to build on the foundation they es- Dominic Scott creased airplane noise in tablished throughout their education. Testa was the skies over local neigh- “Kindness, Tolerance, and Empathy,” is one of six borhoods. what Valedictorian Samantha Livermore Marblehead Medford Mayor Stepha- asked her classmates to pack with them as graduates nie M. Burke has formally requested that Massport they leave their school and step into the next who were install an aircraft noise chapter of their lives. recognized for monitor atop the Andrews “You don’t need a college degree to be kind. going into the military. Middle School in the out- You don’t need a social status to be tolerant. er Wellington neighbor- You don’t need wealth to be empathic. ITEM PHOTO | hood to gauge more exact- GRADUATION, B8 OWEN O’ROURKE ly the degree and level of the planes traveling over the community. The subject of aircraft INSIDE noise in Medford has been Lynn eld’s success a continual source of con- tention among both the is etched in Stone In Malden members of the Medford Wynn to host casino City Council and the may- By Steve Krause job fair. A2 or’s office, dating back to ITEM SPORTS EDITOR the previous administra- In Lynn tion of former Mayor Mi- When the Lynnfield girls tennis team takes the Crighton bill helps cities chael McGlynn. Longtime court today against Martha’s Vineyard in the Divi- and towns manage Medford Councilors Mi- sion 3 state semifinal, the objective will certainly be downtown areas and chael Marks and Breanna to win. Main Streets. A3 Lungo-Koehn have been That never gets old to coach Craig Stone. Not when the most outspoken on he’s won more than 1,100 matches when you combine In Opinion Rounding off Lynn. A4 the issue in past and re- his totals between tennis and wrestling. cent years. But there are other ways to measure success, Stone LOOK! Studies performed by says. And that is why, after five state titles in tennis McGee opens researchers from the Mas- — the last being in 2014 — he still has the energy, headquarters. A8 sachusetts Institute of and the desire, to keep doing this, even at the age of Technology (MIT) in Cam- 67, and even after 44 years. In Sports bridge, commissioned by “It never gets old,” said Stone Friday after the Pi- Lynn eld, Swampscott Massport, which governs oneers won their 14th Division 3 North title (24 ap- ITEM PHOTO | ANNE MARIE TOBIN bow out of state nearby Logan Airport, pearances overall). “I love the competition and the tournament. B1 and in conjunction with Lynn eld girls tennis coach Craig Stone mea- STONE, A7 sures success in a variety of ways. NOISE, A7 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 HEALTH .....................................A5 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 HIGH 94° VOL. 139, ISSUE 157 LYNN .........................................A3 POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 LOW 73° OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM MONDAY, JUNE 12, 2017 OBITUARIES Virginia R. Linehan, 97 E. Ross Munroe, 69 Sharon L. McAvenia, 52 1920-2017 LYNN — Virginia joy as well. She was HAVERHILL — E. nifer J. and Matthew BEVERLY — Sha- Madison J. Kramer Ruth Linehan, 97, also a steadying and Ross Munroe, age Hale of Danville, died June 8, 2017, comforting presence ron L. McAvenia, age of New York, N.Y., two 69, of Haverhill and N.H.; two brothers, 52 years, of Bever- great-nieces Kayla at the Kaplan Fami- in times of sorrow formerly of Lynn Richard Munroe of ly Hospice House in or trouble. She was ly, formerly of Lynn, Tullercash, Emma- and Beverly, died on Connecticut and Mi- died Saturday at Ka- lin Gilchrist, and her Danvers. a strong support for June 3, 2017 at the chael Munroe of New She was born June many of her nieces plan Family Hospice ex-husband and best Baker-Katz Nursing Hampshire; a step- House in Danvers. friend Roger Tremblay 6, 1920, in Lynn to and nephews in their Home, Haverhill. brother, John Mills of Gilroy F. Linehan Sr. times of grief and Born in Lynn, she of Rowley. She was Born in Lynn, son Lynn; two stepsisters, was the daughter also sister of the lat- and Mary Virginia gracefully helped of the late Edwin L. Lori Broughey and (Briand) Linehan. She was them to fill the void left when of the late Rich- er Richard “Ricky” J. and E. Marie (Rehfuss) Mun- Kate Titus, both of Florida; ard J. McAvenia, and Mary McAvenia II. raised on Perley Street in West parents or siblings died. roe, he was raised and edu- three grandchildren, Sarah Lynn and was a lifelong Lynn Even while in the hospital, (Cook) and Robert Pigott of Service information: Ser- cated in both Lynn and Bever- Munroe, Adele Patrie and Alex Lynn. Sharon attended Lynn vices from the PARKER resident. She was a 1938 she was able to enjoy her 97th ly and graduated from Beverly Hale; his former wife, Patricia graduate of Lynn Classical birthday, which was filled with schools and graduated from Funeral Home 35 Franklin High School with the Class of (Gaudette) Radici, and several Lynn English High School, St. Lynn on Thursday at 10 High School and attended bright flowers and visits and 1965. He served in the Unit- nieces and nephews. He was comptometer school in Bos- calls from family and friends. Class of 1982. She earned a.m., followed by a funeral ed States Navy during the pre-deceased by his step- her Bachelor’s Degree from Mass at St. Pius V Church ton. She said it was a “lovely birth- Vietnam era and worked as a mother, Catherine V. Munroe, For 43 years she worked day with all her darling rela- Curry College, Class of 1986. at 11 a.m. to which relatives jet engine test technician for a sister, Rita Ball and a step- She was employed as an ad- and friends are invited to in the General Electric pay- tives.” The day was capped off General Electric Company at sister, Mary Jo Larro.