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Uptick in COVID cases makes Salem and Saugus see red
LHAND CARES about
low-income families
By Gayla Cawley ITEM STAFF
LYNN — The Lynn Housing Au-thority & Neighborhood Develop-ment has received nearly $400,000 in federal funding to support low-in-come families and others who have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
LHAND is one of many public housing authorities throughout the state that will receive funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which has been made available through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Eco-nomic Security (CARES) Act.
On Tuesday, the HUD announced more than $17.8 million in CARES Act funding was being distributed to help low-income families in Mas-sachusetts during the coronavirus pandemic.
In Lynn, LHAND will receive $396,342, which will allow the hous-ing agency to support residents who need assistance with their rent, util-ity, and mortgage payments through a variety of existing programs, ac-cording to Carly McClain, executive counsel for LHAND.
“It’s just to continue to provide a continuity of services to members of our community and also expand on the services we’re already offer-ing and providing,” said McClain. “We had to pivot pretty signi� cantly since March and some of that pivot has given us an opportunity to em-brace a larger portion of our commu-nity in terms of services.”
For instance, LHAND is usually limited to providing services for in-dividuals and households that make up to 50 percent of the Area Medi-an Income (AMI), but the emergen-cy funding through the virus relief package allows the agency to help some people who make up to 80 per-cent, McClain said.
That higher-income group of peo-ple would not typically be eligible for bene� ts, but may be in need due to the economic downturn that has re-sulted from the virus, which includes a high level of unemployment.
In some cases, the funds would be supporting tenants who cannot af-ford to pay their rent or utility bills, but in other instances, the landlords may also be in need of support if their tenants are not able to make their monthly rent payments, Mc-Clain said.
Small property owners who fall into that higher income bracket have to provide documented proof that
By Elyse CarmosinoITEM STAFF
SAUGUS — Saugus is now considered a high-risk zone for COVID-19, according to a numbers report released by the state Wednesday.
Previously pegged as a moderate-risk communi-ty, Saugus was one of 11 Massachusetts munici-palities identi� ed for the classi� cation after it re-ported an average daily incidence rate of 9 cases per 100,000 people between July 29 and August 12.
In particular, 36 new cases were reported in Saugus over that 14-day period, tying the town with Holyoke for the state’s � fth-highest daily av-erage.
“The Board of Health and the Saugus Health Department will be partnering with the state
Splashing through summer
ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK
Nora De Leon of Lynn swings her daughter Alexandra, 3, through a water jet at the Flax Pond Playground splash pad in Lynn on Thursday as they cool off on a hot summer afternoon.
Countdown is on for
Lynn census count
By Thor JourgensenITEM STAFF
LYNN — More than a month after accelerating publicity for census counting efforts, city of� -cials and community leaders are reaching out to “hard-to-count” residents.
The clock is ticking on the count: According to the U.S. Census, the goal is to collect all Census infor-mation by Sept. 30 for processing by Dec. 31, as required by federal law.
Mandated in the U.S. Constitu-tion and vital to assuring feder-al funding � ows to communities, the census is conducted every 10 years. Lynn in past census counts have had poor participation in some neighborhoods. But City Clerk Janet L. Rowe said the city response rate stands at 59.2 per-cent compared to the 65.7 percent statewide response rate.
Rowe said local census organiz-ers are taking a multi-pronged approach to pushing up the per-centage.
Rowe said more than 200 peo-ple are committed to encouraging census participation through “so-cial media blasts” publicizing the census’ importance and outreach efforts.
City youth workers are
School sports guidelines are
falling into place
Saugus’ Varone was a ‘great guy’
Swampscott investigating uses for old station
OpinionJourgensen: A superhero steps up. A4
SportsNorth Shore Baseball
League playoffs heat up on second day. B1
By Steve KrauseITEM STAFF
SWAMPSCOTT — The old Swampscott Police Station sits on Burrill Street, in the middle of a block that contains most of the town’s municipal buildings.
It has sat vacant since 2013, when the new headquarters on Hum-
phrey Street were completed. Now, the town is actively engaged in try-ing to make a decision on how to use it.
“We are looking to breathe new life into the building,” said Town Administrator Sean Fitzgerald. “It’s one of the key municipal buildings in the town, across from the library, Town Hall, � re station and Reach
Arts, so it has a ton of potential to be something extraordinary. It’s been mothballed for too long, and the town is looking for the right partner who has a vision and a can-do idea that will support our master plan.”
The master plan includes goals,
By Mike AlongiITEM SPORTS EDITOR
The Massachusetts Ex-ecutive Of� ce of Energy and Environmental Af-fairs (EEA) released its updated guidelines for youth and adult ama-teur sports on Thursday, speci� cally noting the modi� cations that sports will have to make in or-der to be safely played. The guidance will com-plement the forthcoming recommendations from the Massachusetts De-partment of Elementary and Secondary Educa-tion (DESE) on how K-12 schools can safely admin-ister sports, which is set to be released within the next 24-72 hours. Once
the DESE recommenda-tions come in, the MIAA Board of Directors and the MIAA COVID-19 Task Force will then meet to make a decision on what to do about fall sports.
The MIAA also released a statement saying that the Board of Directors will meet no later than three business days after the release of the DESE guidance.
The guidance begins by addressing which sports fall into which categories, with no changes coming since the last update. As of now, the sports are cat-egorized as follows:
By Elyse CarmosinoITEM STAFF
SAUGUS — Building in-spector and beloved resi-dent Fred Varone has died at 81 following a long bat-tle with cancer.
“He wasn’t a mean-spir-ited person,” said Board of
Selectmen chair and long-time friend Anthony Cog-liano. “I developed a great friendship with him. He would do whatever he could to help people and explain how they could do things to get their projects moving
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Saugus and Salem join Lynn, Revere, Chelsea, and Everett on the state’s list of higher-risk communities for COVID-19.
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Drive-in movie night postponed
Due to new restric-tions on public gather-ings, the City of Lynn Drive-In Movie Night is being postponed, accord-ing to EDIC/Lynn Ex-ecutive Director James Cowdell.
The free, pop-up event, sponsored by Mayor Thomas M. McGee, EDIC/Lynn and the Of�ce of Community Development, was sched-uled for Tuesday, Aug. 18.
Cowdell said it would be rescheduled for a later date.
In the wake of rising cases of COVID-19, Gov. Charlie Baker has reduced the limit on outdoor gatherings from a maximum of 100 to 50 people in a single space. For smaller spaces, a limit of 25 percent of the area’s maximum occupancy — or eight people per 1,000 square feet — applies. The new order went into effect on Tuesday.
New coronavirus cases are on the rise in Lynn and Saugus
By Gayla Cawley ITEM STAFF
New coronavirus cases were reported in Lynn and Saugus on Thursday, but numbers remained un-changed in several other North Shore communities.
An additional death was also reported in Saugus, to bring the town’s death toll to 39.
Saugus has reported 12 new cases since last Fri-day. The town now has 616 cases and was added to the state’s list of high-er risk communities on Wednesday.
Municipalities that have been deemed “higher risk
communities” have a high level of infection over the past two weeks and will receive additional support from the state to curb the spread.
Lynn, which reported 16 new cases on Thurs-day, was designated a higher risk community on Tuesday, when Gov. Charlie Baker’s of�ce re-leased the �rst version of a map showing the rate of COVID-19 infection across the state.
On Tuesday, four com-munities held that un-fortunate distinction, but data released by the state Department of Public Health a day later showed
seven new cities and towns had been added to that high risk category.
The list now includes Chelsea, Everett, Fall Riv-er, Granby, Holyoke, Hull, Lawrence, Lynn, Revere, Salem, and Saugus.
As of Thursday, Lynn has 4,276 cases and 111 deaths. Of the city’s case-load, 629 cases are active and 3,536 people have re-covered from the virus, ac-cording to city data.
Lynn’s positive test rate over the past 14 days in-creased to 7.47 percent on Wednesday, which is among the highest in the state, according to the DPH.
Elsewhere, numbers re-mained the same in Nah-ant (50 cases, six deaths) and at press time, had not been updated in Lynn�eld, Marblehead, Peabody, Re-vere, or Swampscott.
As of Wednesday, Lynn-�eld had 111 cases and 11 deaths, Marblehead had 255 cases and 30 deaths, Peabody had 1,185 cases and 174 deaths, Revere had 2,170 cases and 94 deaths, and Swampscott had reported 146 cases and 10 deaths.
Gayla Cawley can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @GaylaCawley.
Ten businesses cited for not following virus safety mandates
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Ten Rhode Island businesses have been cit-ed for failing to comply with the state’s virus safe-ty regulations in the last two weeks, the state De-partment of Health said Thursday.
The agency said eight of the establishments cited by the state’s COVID-19 Enforcement Task Force were food businesses and two were barbershops.
State inspectors ob-served staff and patrons not wearing masks, and
staff and patrons not prac-ticing social distancing, according to the health department.
Some restaurants were also serving customers drinks at a bar without a physical barrier and not maintaining an employee work log for contact trac-ing, the agency said.
The six businesses is-sued a compliance order can remain open but will be re-inspected in ten days, the health depart-ment said.
The four that received an immediate compli-ance order were closed immediately because the violations represent an “imminent threat to pub-lic health,” the agency said.
Coronavirus compli-ance orders are posted online by the state De-partment of Business Regulation.
State health of�cials also reported one new death and nearly 100 ad-ditional cases of the virus on Thursday.
That brings Rhode Is-land’s death toll to more than 1,000 and its total positive COVID-19 cas-es to more than 20,000 since the pandemic started.
Health of�cials also re-ported Thursday that 80 people are currently hos-pitalized with the virus.
United States jobless claims fall below 1 million but remain high
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A customer leaves a Pier 1 retail store, which is going out of business, during the coronavirus pandemic in Coral Gables, Fla.
By Christopher Rugaber
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans ap-plying for unemployment dropped below 1 million last week for the �rst time since the coronavirus outbreak took hold in the U.S. �ve months ago, but layoffs are still running extraordinarily high.
The �gures show that the crisis continues to throw people out of work just as the expiration of an extra $600 a week in federal job-less bene�ts has deepened the hardship for many — and posed another threat to the U.S. economy.
Applications for job-less bene�ts declined to 963,000, the second straight drop, from 1.2 mil-lion the previous week, the government said Thurs-day. That signals layoffs are slowing, though the weekly �gure still far ex-ceeds the pre-outbreak re-cord of just under 700,000, set in 1982.
The virus is blamed for more than 166,000 deaths and 5.2 million con�rmed infections in the U.S. — eas-ily the highest totals in the world. The average number of new cases per day is on the rise in eight states, and deaths per day are climbing in 26, according to an Asso-ciated Press analysis.
Worldwide, the scourge has claimed more than 750,000 lives and caused over 20 million known in-fections.
The virus, the shutdowns
meant to �ght it and the reluctance or inability of many people to shop, travel or eat out continue to un-dermine the economy and force companies to cut staff. Over the past few months, 23 states have paused or reversed their business re-openings because of a re-surgence of the virus.
Overall, fewer people are collecting unemployment, a sign that some employ-ers are hiring. The total declined last week to 15.5 million, from 16.1 million the previous week.
“Another larger-than-ex-pected decline in jobless claims suggests that the jobs recovery is regaining
some momentum, but ... much labor market prog-ress remains to be done,” said Lydia Boussour, se-nior economist at Oxford Economics.
Hiring is believed to have slowed since the spring, when states reopened and millions of workers at bars, restaurants and stores were rehired. The job gain in August will probably fall short of the 1.8 million added in July, analysts say.
For months, on top of their state bene�t, un-employed Americans also collected the $600 a week in federal jobless aid. But that expired at the end of July, and negotiations
in Congress to extend it, probably at a lower level, have collapsed in rancor.
Last week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that would provide $300 a week to replace the expired $600. But experts say it could take weeks for the states to reprogram their com-puters and process and dispense the payments.
A crush of bene�t applica-tions earlier in the outbreak resulted in huge backlogs that left millions of the un-employed waiting. Washing-ton state went so far as to call in the National Guard to help process applications.
Saugus’ Fred Varone was a ‘great guy’
forward. He brought a lot of stability to the position and he was a good step in the right direction when he joined the town.”
Considered by many to be a pillar of the Sau-gus community, Varone, a widower who served in his position for more than two decades, was a “great guy” with a hard-hitting sense of humor, Cogliano said, adding that his own per-sonal friendship with Varone stretched back decades.
The selectman noted his children grew up playing sports alongside Varone’s grandchildren.
“I loved listening to his crazy stories about the past,” he said. “I think the thing I’ll miss the most about Fred is that no matter what I went to see him for, no mat-ter what type of permit I needed, he would always say, ‘nope. Can’t do it. Not going to happen.’ Just to break my chops. That was Freddy.”
Even at 81 and dealing with an advanced illness, Cogliano said Varone still held out hope he’d be back to work soon.
“He was phenomenal at what he did. He knew the building code inside and out, and I think the best thing the business community and builders would tell you about Fred is that he was fair,” Cogli-ano said. “You weren’t go-ing to get away with some-thing that was wrong.”
He later added: “We had a crazy fun relation-ship where we could be
screaming and yelling at each other one minute and then the next day we’d be having a beer. I’m going to miss him.”
Outside of work, Varone continued to make an im-pact in his community.
Neighbor Corinne Riley said the building inspec-tor was also a talented carpenter who had for-merly taken on something of a mentorship role with her now-adult son.
“When my son wanted advice or wanted to see how things were done, Fred always met with him,” she said. “He was so good to him.”
Riley, who serves along-side Cogliano on the Board of Selectmen, de-scribed Varone as “real-ly personable,” adding: “there really wasn’t any-one who said anything bad about him.”
“He was very funny to talk to, and always with his cigar,” she said. “He’s going to be missed by a lot of people. My condo-lences really go out to his family.”
Town Manager Scott Crabtree also gave his condolences to Varone’s family, calling Varone a “dedicated” commissioner and valued Saugus resi-dent who attracted many friends throughout his long tenure.
“He had a huge person-ality,” Crabtree said. “He’ll surely be missed by all of us.”
Elyse Carmosino can be reached at [email protected].
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LHAND CARES about low-income families
they are behind on their mortgage payments in or-der to receive assistance from LHAND.
“The program is really aimed at getting the mon-ey out quickly to main-tain people’s housing,” said McClain. “We really want to help people. We don’t want to see a wave of people out on the street potentially by mid-Octo-ber.”
McClain is referring to past estimates from state housing courts, which an-ticipate about 20,000 evic-tion cases will be �led as soon as the state’s mora-torium on evictions and foreclosures expires on Oct. 17. She said she has heard more recent esti-
mates that put that num-ber at closer to 30,000.
“It’s going to be dan-gerous,” said McClain. “If you have a bunch of fam-ilies that are evicted and homeless, the rate of infec-tion is going to skyrocket. It’s not going to be good for anybody.
“The (federal) money is good, but the bigger is-sues need to be solved. No (amount of) money is going to be enough to keep people housed and safe if there’s still a pandemic raging and the threat of homelessness is on the horizon.”
Since the CARES Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump in March, McClain said LHAND has received about $4.5 million through the legislation.
With the most recent
round of funding, McClain anticipates LHAND will be able to provide assistance for 300 to 600 individuals and households, which is dependent on how much each person receives.
Most of the time, �nan-cial support is capped at about $4,000, but there are some instances where people will receive more, she said.
McClain said LHAND is grateful for the contin-ued �nancial support from the federal government, but she anticipates much more will be needed as the pandemic does not appear to be going away anytime soon.
“We’re relieved and grateful that the money continues to come in,” she said. “However, there just doesn’t feel like there’s an
end in sight and if people aren’t able to return to work safely — their kids are not going to school probably through Decem-ber — it’s going to take a lot more rounds of money to keep people housed and safe.
“Once the moratorium is over, thousands of families are going to be in jeopar-dy. We’re grateful for the money. Truly we are, but we’re very concerned.”
Housing authorities in Peabody, Revere, Saugus and Salem will also bene�t from the most recent round of CARES Act funding.
Gayla Cawley can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @GaylaCawley.
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Uptick in COVID cases make Salem and Saugus see red
to work on a planned re-sponse (to the rise in cas-es),” said Town Manager Scott Crabtree. “They’ll be analyzing the data from the past couple weeks and develop speci�c strate-gies to combat the spread through additional en-forcement and prevention measures.”
In order to be determined a high-risk — or “red” — zone, towns must report an average daily incidence rate of 8 cases per 100,000 people within a 14-day pe-riod. Neighboring North
Shore communities of Lynn, Revere, and Salem, as well as Lawrence, Hull, Granby, Fall River, Ever-ett, and Chelsea, have also been identi�ed as “red” areas warranting state in-tervention.
On Tuesday, Gov. Char-lie Baker announced that the state would begin releasing a weekly map identifying the infection rate status of all Massa-chusetts towns and cities, classifying each as being “high” (red), “moderate” (yellow), or “low” (green) risk.
Communities with high-er infection rates may see
their playgrounds, parks, and even some businesses shut down or restricted if those locations are found to have contributed to new outbreaks.
“Regardless of where your community sits, COVID is not going away,” Baker said during a press conference Tuesday. “Your actions, no matter where you live or work, will de-termine in many respects whether and how this vi-rus spreads.”
Since March, Saugus has reported 616 cases of COVID-19, including 39 deaths.
Although formal track-
ing data is not yet avail-able, the town’s high in-fection rate may at least in part be due to its close proximity to more popu-lated cities, as well as its busy commercial industry along Route 1, where busi-nesses often see hundreds of patrons on any given day.
“Saugus obviously has its challenges because we’re surrounded by com-munities that are red and that are more densely populated,” Crabtree said. “We’re also pretty tran-sient in the sense that we have a lot of visitors here because of Route 1 retail
and restaurants. That poses a unique challenge for Saugus because of the �uctuation in population during the day.”
He added that Saugus continues to take the safe-ty of its residents seriously.
“We need to do what-ever is necessary to keep ourselves, family mem-bers, neighbors, and com-munity safe,” he said. “I was fortunate enough to speak with the lieutenant governor last night, and they’ve given us the full support of the state and their resources to assist us in coming up with strate-gies in our response to the
numbers.” Selectwoman Debra Pa-
netta said that regardless of the town’s classi�cation, residents should continue to be careful when inter-acting with others.
“Safety is of the utmost importance, and we all should be wearing masks when we go out into public places unless we hear oth-erwise,” she said. “We need to be diligent, not just for ourselves, but … for other people we come in contact with.”
Elyse Carmosino can be reached at [email protected].
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Countdown is on for Lynn census count
dropping brochures print-ed in 15 languages and including census reply telephone numbers and online reply options.
“They have distributed more than 20,000 to date and are still going,” Rowe said.
Rowe also said Lynn public schools Compliance Of�cer Charles Gallo, with the support of Super-intendent Dr. Patrick Tut-wiler, partnered with U.S. Census Specialist Dr. Phil D’Agati this week to pro-vide a U.S. Census Mobile Questionnaire Assistance Team at the school admin-istration building on Ben-nett Street.
“The team is assisting parents to complete the census while they are out-side waiting to register their children for school. The census team is us-ing iPads and adhering to COVID-19 precautions. We hope this will be a suc-cess,” said Rowe.
She also said New Amer-ican Center representa-tive Michelle Guzman is hosting census outreach events on August 16 and 22nd at Compare Market and Price Rite in Lynn.
Rowe said Leading through Empowerment Opportunities is sponsor-ing a lawn sign event to publicize census partici-
pation with signs avail-able by contacting Lillian Romero, [email protected]
The city is also organiz-ing automated “robocalls” to residents featuring cen-sus completion reminders.
“We have been trying to get the message out that each year billions of federal funding goes to hospitals, �re departments, schools, roads and other programs, all based on the census. Lynn is looking to get their fair share and we can only get that by being counted. Please spread the word that Lynn is all in — answer your census,” said Rowe.
According to the U.S. Census, households can still respond now by com-pleting and mailing back the paper questionnaire they received, by respond-ing online at 2020census.gov, or by phone at 844-330-2020.
Census takers are hired from local communities. All census takers speak English, and many are bilingual and they are trained in COVID-19 safe-ty measures.
Census takers are easily identi�ed by a valid gov-ernment ID badge with their photograph, a U.S. Department of Commerce watermark, and an expi-ration date on the badge.
Thor Jourgensen can be reached at [email protected].
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Swampscott investigating uses for old station
policies and strategies on topics ranging from housing, economic de-velopment, historic and cultural resources, open space/recreation and transportation, accord-ing to the Planning De-partment.
Toward that end, the Select Board discussed results from a Request for Information (RFI) propos-al at a meeting earlier this month.
“What we were looking for was to see if there’s any interest out there,” said Fitzgerald. “There may be some great ideas out there. There may be a place for some nonprof-its. This neighborhood is almost a campus, if you will, with all the mu-nicipal buildings on the street. There’s got to be some way this building
can �t the needs of every-one around it.”
Fitzgerald is allowing himself to think big.
“What are the exciting ideas we could ponder?” he asked. “Maybe we could put some kind of a coffee shop there, or a store. That would really serve the needs of the people there. You can buy yourself a cup of coffee and go to the li-brary to read. Or sit on a bench by the beach and read.
“It could be a good place for �re�ghters,” he said. “There are any one of a number of ideas that would germinate successfully. We want to reach out and get the best ideas. The town just doesn’t have the luxury of just holding onto the building.”
He concedes that there may be some work that needs to be done, and a lot of that depends on the ul-
timate decision on it.“The building is de�nite-
ly dated,” he said. “Cer-tainly, there are different standards of code compli-ances, depending on who moves in there.”
The building is used basically for storage now. And it has its curious quirks.
“The (holding) cells in the basement are paint-ed pink,” he said. “I guess that’s because there was some study that sug-gested a color like pink would make the pris-oners calmer once they were down there. I don’t know.”
He rattled off possible uses, saying that it’s only himself speculating, and not anything of�cial from the town.
“It could be a region-al veterans’ center,” he said, “or it could be pub-lic health. Right now, we’re just trying to get
the best ideas we can. Then, we’ll sit down and have a conversation about its future possibil-ities.”
Since the area is zoned for residences as well as municipal buildings, if there were to be a store or coffee shop in there the designation would have to change to include busi-nesses.
“We may have to look at that,” he said, “but any-thing’s possible. You have all sorts of busy things happening in Swampscott, and wouldn’t it be nice if you could have something where you could just walk over and pick something up?
It could really add to the fabric of the community.”
Steve Krause can be reached at [email protected].
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• Low Risk (golf, cross country, crew, individual swimming, tennis, biking, sur�ng, gymnastics)
• Moderate Risk (base-ball, softball, soccer, �eld hockey, team swimming, track and �eld, fencing, girls lacrosse)
• High Risk (football, basketball, boys lacrosse, ice hockey, wrestling, com-petitive cheer, martial arts)
There was also no change in the four levels of play for each risk cate-gory:
• Level 1: Individual or socially distanced group activities (no-contact workouts, aerobic condi-tioning, individual skill work, and drills)
• Level 2: Competitive Practices (Intra-team/group games, contact drills and scrimmages)
• Level 3: Competitions (Inter-team games, meets, matches, races, etc.)
• Level 4: Tournaments (Outdoor only)
Sports in the “Lower Risk” category will be al-lowed to participate in all levels of play, but after that is where the updated guidance kicks in.
Sports in the “Moderate Risk” category are allowed to participate in Level 1 of play as traditionally played, and will only be allowed to participate in Levels 2 and 3 if the new Minimum Mandatory Standards for Modi�ca-tions to Play are institut-ed. Sports in the “High Risk” category face the same standards as sports in the “Moderate Risk” category.
These new Minimum Mandatory Standards for Modi�cations to Play are de�ned as follows:
• Identify measures that can be implemented to signi�cantly limit con-tact and increase physical distancing. Modify play and practice as much as possible to keep players spaced six feet apart for the majority of a game or practice.
• Conduct the activity or sport outdoors where possible, as outdoor par-ticipation is generally safer than indoors and allows for greater dis-tancing.
• Shorten activities, practices, and game play or perform the activity with fewer participants to the extent possible.
• Modify the activity or sport to reduce the shar-ing of equipment or to al-low for cleaning of shared equipment between par-ticipants.
• Incorporate protective equipment in a safe man-ner to further reduce the spread of respiratory par-ticles.
For “Moderate Risk” and “High Risk” sports, the guidance says that the mandatory modi�cations should strive to keep par-ticipants six feet apart for the majority of play and must eliminate all deliberate contact. Such modi�cations include, for example:
• Stagger Starts: In race-like activities where players typically start or �nish together, mod-i�cations must include staggered starts to avoid close contact. Starting lines should also be ad-justed to allow for six feet distancing between
participants at the start (e.g., have runners in ev-ery other lane, spacing competitors on start line six feet apart). If space is limited, staggered start times should be used to allow appropriate spacing for participants for each starting group.
• Eliminate Deliberate Contact: Deliberate close contact must be elimi-nated. Deliberate close contact includes but is not limited to collisions, body checking, tackling, blocking, and racing/rid-ing in packs.
• Minimize Intermittent Contact: Game situations that result in intermit-tent close physical or face-to-face contact must be modi�ed or eliminated, in-cluding: restarts, faceoffs, throw-ins, scrums for the ball/puck, or similar activ-ities. These activities may be allowed if face masks are used during contact (e.g., face-offs could take place with face masks worn by each player in-volved).
Sports that cannot mod-ify play as outlined above will not be allowed to en-gage in Level 3 play but may be able to participate in Level 2 play if they can incorporate the following modi�cations:
• Training activities must be performed in “co-horts” of the same small group of individuals that performs all training activities together and without interacting with other individuals or co-horts.
• Cohorts can be no larg-er than 10 participants and the same cohort as-signments must be used for every training session or class. Participants can-
not be a member of multi-ple cohorts, nor can cohort assignments rotate.
• Training areas or boundaries must be marked so that training cohorts are separated in all directions by at least 14 feet. Class siz-es should be capped by the number of available training areas based on the size of the facili-ty and in no event more than 25 people on a play-ing surface.
• A cohort can compete against other cohorts if each cohort performs sep-arately from other cohorts (e.g., pair �gure skating, or small group synchro-nized swimming) and no contact occurs between cohorts.
The new modi�cations that have been put in place will likely have a direct on what sports can be played during the fall season. Based on the rec-ommendations, golf and cross country appear to have the best chance of being played, while foot-ball currently has the lowest chance. Sports such as soccer and �eld hockey, which fall into the “Moderate Risk” cate-gory, are in more of a lim-bo state.
“I think it’s all kind of what we expected would be released,” said Swamp-scott athletic director Kelly Farley. “It de�nite-ly makes you wonder what’s next, and it’s go-ing to be pretty tough for the fall season because a lot of the sports involve contact. But at the same time, we’re still holding out hope. Nothing’s been canceled yet, so we’re just waiting to see what hap-pens.”
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Jose Toro is a hero. The describes someone who sets their own self interest and safety aside to save the life of another. That’s what Jose Toro did earlier this month when he saw a woman lying unconscious on Union Street.
The 51-year-old Lynn resident jumped into ac-tion and started CPR and mouth-to-mouth re-suscitation in a bid to re-vive the woman. He did this with disregard to his health, including exposure to coronavirus.
Toro told The Item that he helped the woman be-cause he knew she was dy-ing. “I knew exactly what I had to do because I’ve done this before. I’ve saved other people’s lives.”
He lives on Union Street and he said the other peo-ple he saved were dying from drug overdoses. Toro worked to save the wom-an’s life while coworker Jeff Hurley, a Lynn�eld resident, called emergency 911 for help.
Toro said he didn’t think about coronavirus while he was compressing the woman’s chest and breath-ing life into her lungs. Someone’s life sudden-ly depended on him and
“that was just the chance I took.”
Hurley described Toro as a superhero. But Toro said he was simply someone placed in the right place at the right time to save a life.
That modest explanation is easily applied to all of us. At any moment we could be called upon to be a hero in the same manner in which Toro earned the title.
It’s a hard calling to heed at a time when we are wearing masks and avoiding human contact to avoid coronavirus expo-sure. Isolation and virtual, online interaction are our refuges during a pandem-ic. Jumping into action to physically help someone else seems like more than a sel�ess act; it seems like a life-or-death decision.
When terrorists at-tacked our country, we slapped the hero label on �re�ghters and other pub-lic safety workers. When coronavirus struck, we found more heroes: Gro-
cery store workers, front-line medical workers and long-haul truck drivers.
They earn the title day in and day out and the rest of us are only one sel�ess act, one smile or helping hand, away from earning it.
In this strange time when our faces are half hidden and we have aban-doned handshakes and hugs for social distancing, every sel�ess — never mind, life saving — ges-ture is magni�ed.
There are people who need our helping hand, who need our money, if we can spare it, who need hope and encouraging words. At a time when “quarantine” and “virtual” are words partly de�n-ing our existence, we still have opportunities to act directly and dramatically to help someone.
Jose Toro didn’t wait for other people to act before he started saving a wom-an’s life. He acted with an understanding that it was his time to make a differ-ence and step up.
Jose Toro is a superhero.
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In picking California Sen. Kamala Harris to join the Democrats’ 2020 presidential ticket, Joe Biden has shown that, unlike the man currently holding the job he seeks, he’s not afraid of strong women.
It would have been disappointing but understand-able if Biden had dismissed the highly quali�ed Harris as his running mate. She had also sought the nomination, and during the course of the primary she harshly criticized Biden’s position on busing to integrate schools and other racial justice issues. Be-fore one CNN debate, Biden quipped, “Go easy on me, kid.” She didn’t. That’s not Harris’ style; she’s been a prosecutor for most of her professional life, not a therapist.
For this, Biden aides reportedly tried to block her selection as vice president, suggesting she lacked suf�cient loyalty and deference and had too much ambition to make a good sidekick. And if Biden won, critics warned, she might spend most of her time in the West Wing preparing to run for president. That’s an absurd reason to reject a candidate. The vice pres-idential spot has always been seen as a launching pad for the presidency; it’s not like veeps have a whole lot else to do.
Besides, isn’t ambition something you want in a leader? Or is that a trait admirable only in men? Indeed, Harris is ambitious. She had to be to over-come the obstacles she faced as both a woman and a person of color (her mother is from India and her father is Jamaican). And Harris didn’t just advance, she pioneered. She is the state’s �rst Black district attorney, the �rst woman to serve as California’s at-torney general and the second Black woman to serve as a U.S. senator.
Now, she’s the �rst woman of color to join the Dem-ocratic presidential ticket.
As Biden heads into the most consequential presi-dent election in modern history, he sees what we do: Harris has a lot to offer the campaign and the ticket beyond being a symbol.
For one thing, Harris brings an unusual blend of social justice progressiveness and law-and-order conservatism. She has a long career of �ghting to protect the downtrodden and looking for ways to re-form the criminal justice system while still locking up plenty of the proverbial bad guys. She’s gone after for-pro�t colleges and the mortgage industry when they preyed upon her constituents. She’s outspoken (at least when she wants to be) on issues she cares about, will not be cowed by bullying, and is not afraid of being seen as overly aggressive, which can be a career killer for women. Just ask Hillary Clinton.
Her debating skills are not in doubt, as Biden well knows from personal experience. After seeing her recent exchange with Senate colleague John Cornyn (R-Texas) over a police reform bill, we look forward to watching Harris go head to head with Vice President Mike Pence in the fall.
As any elected of�cial with a long record of service, Harris has had missteps along with the successes. She pushed some policies as a prosecutor that were harmful, such as her wrong-headed if well-intended campaign to curtail truancy, which fell particularly hard on low-income families and communities of col-or. (In her defense, Harris saw chronic truancy as a theft of a child’s future prosperity.) The of�ces she led sometimes made the wrong decisions in speci�c cases.
Our chief criticism of her over the years has been her aversion to taking �rm positions on controver-sial topics, including some that should have been in her wheelhouse when she was attorney general. For example, when California voters were considering a major criminal justice reform initiative in 2014 to reduce certain nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors, Harris refused to take a stand on it or distance her-self from the law enforcement community’s fear-mon-gering. The initiative passed anyway.
That tendency carried on to some extent in the presidential primary campaign, when Harris took safe and seemingly malleable stances on some ma-jor issues, such as enacting Medicare for all and al-lowing felons to vote. That’s not a deal breaker for a vice presidential nominee, but presidential candi-dates must be clear on their positions. Win or lose in November, Harris has at least four years to get that right.
Madam Vice President Like many, if not most,
women of color, we often �nd ourselves seated at tables with no one who looks like us. We are told to wait our turn, told we were wrong, and told the time or place just isn’t right to raise issues that are important to us, like valuing caregiving or ad-dressing systematic in-equality. But maybe some-thing is changing.
Over the last few months we’ve seen people from all walks of life stand together against systemic racism, demanding equality and justice. And on Tuesday, former vice president Joe Biden announced Sena-tor Kamala Harris as his running mate and partner in rebuilding the country from unprecedented public health and economic crises.
As women of color, we are thrilled to see the Dem-ocratic Party nominate the �rst Black and Indian American woman to join a presidential ticket. Harris is a smart, strategic �ght-er who understands the issues that matter most to Americans — especially women of color.
Women of color are often the canaries in the coal mine for issues facing so-ciety. As caregivers, reg-istered nurses, teachers and child care workers — women of color are on the front lines of the pandem-ic. They do this despite be-ing at higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19. Our research at the Cen-ter for American Progress �nds that workers of color — especially Black, multi-racial and American Indi-an/Alaska Native women — have been dispropor-tionately suffering from COVID-19 due to issues that women of color have long been advocating to �x: lack of access to afford-able, culturally competent care and racism in the health system.
Women of color aren’t only leading our country’s response to the pandem-ic, we are also a growing force in the electorate. The surest way to earn our support is to develop an agenda that not only sup-ports us through crises, but also advances systemic policy changes to meet our needs. This requires hav-ing a deep understanding of the lives that women of color lead. It means eradi-cating the structural bar-riers and systemic racism
hindering access to quality, affordable health care. It means understanding the substantial economic role that women of color play in their families and commu-nities, ensuring they have paid leave and child care. It means addressing wage and wealth disparities and the inequities in work-place protections. It means recognizing the essential work that many women of color carry out in profes-sions that have been his-torically undervalued. And it means creating a new normal where we drive the conversation about policies critical to our lives.
Senator Harris under-stands this. We know, be-cause when she talks about issues like structural rac-ism in maternal health care, she centers the hard truth: Black women in America are three to four times more likely to die of preventable deaths than non-Hispanic white women. She knows that if we want to disman-tle bias in the health care system, we have to listen to Black women and their experiences. She’s spent her career in public service �ghting to expand access to health care and champi-oned bold ideas as a senator and presidential candidate on equal pay, paid leave and criminal justice reform.
Most recently, she in-troduced the COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Dispar-ities Taskforce Act, which
would create a team of pol-icy experts, regional lead-ers and federal of�cials to develop recommendations on how to effectively di-rect resources to commu-nities most impacted by the virus. Not only does the bill respond to the cur-rent pandemic but it also calls on this task force to address the longer term, structural issues causing the racial and ethnic dis-parities in wellbeing we’ve seen for generations.
Women of color comprise one of the most powerful and in�uential voices in this election. Come Novem-ber, we will remember who stood with us, not only in times of crisis, but all along. We’ll also remember all of the women of color through-out history who have been the heart and soul of the progressive movement. We’ve long known how vi-tal it is for women of col-or to be at the table — as candidates, as voters and as agents of change. Harris knows this. And in choosing her to be the nation’s �rst Madam Vice President, Joe Biden makes clear he knows this too.
Shilpa Phadke is the vice president of the Women’s Initiative at the Center for American Progress. Danyelle Solomon is the vice president of the Race and Ethnicity Policy at the center. They wrote this for InsideSources.com.
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LYNN
Arrests
Guerdema Gabriel, 29, of 41 Light St., was arrested and charged with assault and bat-tery, assault with a dangerous weapon and larceny under $1,200 at 1:09 p.m. Thursday.
Julia Ketsoian, 29, of 117 Judge Road, was arrested and charged with OUI drugs, negli-gent operation of a motor ve-hicle, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, Class E drug possession, and marked lanes violation at 2:46 p.m. Thursday.
Accidents
A report of a motor vehicle crash at 12:49 p.m. Wednesday at Chatham and Timson streets; at 1:54 p.m. Wednesday at Ames and Summer streets; at 2:07 p.m. Wednesday at 190 Franklin St.; at 4:06 p.m. Wednesday at 15 Maple St.; at 6:27 p.m. Wednesday at 10 Sidney Ave.; at 6:34 a.m. Thursday at Barrett and Boston streets; at 10:32 a.m. Thursday at Harmon and Walnut streets; at 10:49 a.m. Thursday at Har-mon and Walnut streets; at 11:26 a.m. Thursday at Essex and Sheridan streets.
A report of a motor vehicle hit and run crash at 10:16 p.m. Wednesday at 38 Union Court; at 10:34 a.m. Thursday at East-ern Avenue and New Ocean Street; at 11:42 a.m. Thursday at Lynn Community Health Cen-ter at 269 Union St.; at 3:24 p.m. Thursday at 147 Washing-ton St.; at 3:45 p.m. Thursday at Honey Dew Donuts at 1067 Western Ave.
Assaults
A report of an assault and battery at 2:14 p.m. Wednes-day on Kingsley Terrace.
A report of an assault at 6:53 a.m. Thursday on Kingsley Ter-race.
Breaking and Entering
A report of a motor vehicle breaking and entering at 4:28 p.m. Wednesday at MBTA park-ing garage at 186 Market St.; at 10:36 a.m. Thursday at 497 Summer St.
Overdose
A report of an opiate over-dose at 8:34 p.m. Wednesday on Union Street
A report of an overdose at 4:18 p.m. Thursday on Barker Court.
Theft
A report of a motor vehicle theft at 12:22 p.m. Wednes-day at 47 Bennett St.; at 1:16 p.m. Wednesday at 18 Morris St.; at 10:57 a.m. Thursday at PriceRite at 395 Lynnway.
A report of a larceny at 2:01 p.m. Wednesday at 11 La Grange Terrace; at 11:48 p.m. Wednesday at 550 Walnut St.; at 6:30 a.m. Thursday at 55 School St.; at 8:11 a.m. Thurs-day at 170 Oxford St.; at 10:23 a.m. Thursday at 180 Alley St.
Vandalism
A report of vandalism at 4:58 p.m. Wednesday at 36 Nahant Place; at 8:34 p.m. Wednesday at 80 Sagamore St.
MARBLEHEAD
Arrest
Steven L. Strogoff, 54, of 3 Yolande Road, was arrested on a warrant at 5:36 p.m. Wednes-day.
Accidents
A pedestrian was reported-ly hit by a car at 11:43 a.m.
Wednesday at Nahant and Kim-ball streets. Police reported the victim was not injured and did not want to pursue the matter.
A report of a motor vehicle crash at 12:06 p.m. Wednesday on Pleasant Street.
Assaults
A report of an assault at 6:40 p.m. Wednesday on High Street. A caller reported a man with a baseball bat chased him down the street while he was walking home from the park. He said the man threatened him, but did not strike him with the bat.
Complaints
A report of suspicious activi-ty at 4:24 p.m. Wednesday on High Street. A caller reported a man shook the doors of a neighbor’s house and looked in the windows. The homeowner said he did not know the man.
NAHANT
Arrests
Abdelkader A. Anys, 27, of 25 Hume Ave., Medford, was arrested on a warrant at 3:17 a.m. Wednesday.
Sabino A. Fuentes, 34, of 637 Western Ave., Lynn, was ar-rested on charges of unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, leaving the scene of property damage, possession of an open container, and reckless opera-tion of a motor vehicle at 8 p.m. Wednesday.
Accidents
Of�cers received an initial call at 8 p.m. Wednesday reporting “drag racing” on the causeway. Of�cers then received a second call from a party stating that someone was trying to race him on the causeway and struck his motor vehicle. One party was later arrested and one vehicle towed.
A caller requested police presence at Knights of Colum-bus for wires down at 9:44 a.m. Wednesday. A dispatched of�cer reported a motor vehicle
accident involving a commer-cial beer truck that took a pole down.
Complaints
A woman reported a dead animal, possibly a groundhog, near the edge of the rock across from Little Nahant Rd at 1:10 p.m. Wednesday. The Depart-ment of Public Works was noti-�ed and removed the deceased animal.
At 11:37 a.m. Wednesday, a caller reported a vehicle cut him off on the causeway, causing him to take evasive action and almost causing an accident. The caller stated the vehicle then raced up behind the vehicle in front of it and started �ipping him off. Of�cers located the ve-hicle at the registered owner’s residence and reported that the operator made counter accu-sations. A verbal warning was given and peace was restored.
A resident called at 11:19 p.m. Tuesday to complain about “dirt bikes screaming up and down the beach or parking lot” near Long Beach Lot. State Po-lice were noti�ed.
PEABODY
Accidents
A report of a motor vehicle crash at 9:55 a.m. Wednes-day at 208 Andover St. and Route 128 North; at 2:22 p.m. Wednesday at Eastern Bank at 37 Foster St.; at 3:37 p.m. Wednesday at CVS at 79 Lynn-�eld St.; at 4:59 p.m. Wednes-day at Rantoul Distributors at 0 Centennial Drive.
A report of a motor vehicle hit and run crash at 1:36 p.m. Wednesday at Peabody Com-munity Life Center at 75R Cen-tral St.
Assaults
A report of an assault and battery at 4:46 p.m. Wednes-day on Pulaski Street. A neigh-bor dispute was reported. Jo-seph Bain, 55, of 6 Pulaski St., was summoned for assault and
battery.
Complaints
A report of suspicious activity at 5:05 p.m. Wednesday at 58 Pulaski St. The property manag-er said several tenants had told him catalytic converters were stolen from their vehicles on the property.
Theft
A report of a larceny at 1:08 p.m. Wednesday at 3 Sabino Farm Road. A cooler of water was reported stolen.
Vandalism
A report of vandalism at 1:07 a.m. Thursday at 20 Keys Drive. A caller reported she had no-ticed glass on the �oor of her apartment when she came home.
SAUGUS
Animal Welfare
A caller at 7:26 p.m. Wednes-day reported a small dog had been locked inside a car near Border Cafe on Broadway. Dis-patched of�cers reported the animal appeared to be in dis-tress. The owner was located. A/C was turned on and the owner left with the dog.
Complaints
Police received a 911 call at 4:43 a.m. Thursday from a neighbor reporting an argument between an intoxicated male and a female nearby. Of�cers were dispatched to Newhall Ave where they reported the male party had too much to drink and was being loud. No argument. The parties agreed to keep it down for the night.
Police received a call at 10:06 p.m. Wednesday from a female party reporting her friend’s old-er brother was throwing things around the house and she was afraid for her safety. Of�-cers were dispatched to Walnut Street where they determined the commotion was over a TV
dinner. Peace was restored. A 911 caller at 8:18 p.m.
Wednesday reported she was a victim of a road rage inci-dent on Broadway. She believed a male party in a black Audi brandished a �rearm. She was unable to give a description of the �rearm and did not wish to identify herself or �le a report.
A 911 caller at 7:32 p.m. Wednesday reported she was engaged in a verbal argument with the staff of Border Cafe on Broadway over the caller’s check. Of�cers were dispatched and determined the argument was over the con�scation of a margarita. Peace was restored.
Department of Public Works
Police received a call at 7:08 p.m. Wednesday about a big tree limb that came down in front of a home on Walnut St. The caller said he dragged the branch out of the road but that it was in the breakdown lane. The Department of Public Works was contacted.
Theft
Of�cers received multiple 911 calls at 8:21 p.m. Wednes-day reporting a male grabbed some merchandise and ran out of the store. Of�cers were dis-patched to Staples on Broad-way for more information.
Managers at Dick’s Sporting Goods on Broadway called at 6:57 p.m. Wednesday to report two males ran out of the store with over $500 in merchandise and �ed the scene. Of�cers were dispatched for a report.
SWAMPSCOTT
Accidents
A report of a motor vehicle crash at 6:11 p.m. Wednesday at 207 Forest Ave.
Theft
A report of a larceny at 5:13 p.m. Wednesday at 82 Essex St.
POLICE/FIRE
Trump’s EPA dumps methane emissions rule for oil, gas �eldsBy Marc Levy and Ellen Knickmeyer
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HARRISBURG, Pa. — President Donald Trump’s administration is undoing
Obama-era rules designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas �elds and pipelines, formalizing the changes Thursday in the heart of
the nation’s most proli�c natural gas reservoir and in the premier presiden-tial battleground state of Pennsylvania.
Andrew Wheeler, the
Environmental Protection Agency administrator, signed the rollback of the 2016 methane emissions rule in Pittsburgh as the agency touted the Trump administration’s efforts to “strengthen and promote American energy.”
The EPA �rst proposed the rollback last year, accusing the Obama ad-ministration of enacting a legally �awed rule, and agency of�cials said it would save companies tens of millions of dol-lars a year in compliance requirements without changing the trajectory of methane emissions.
But states, including California, and a coalition of environmental advo-cacy groups have warned that the changes would be illegal — not to men-tion a setback in the �ght against climate change — and are expected to quick-ly sue to block it.
The White House took the event to Pittsburgh, home to the headquarters of many companies explor-
ing the Marcellus Shale, the booming natural gas reservoir that vaulted Pennsylvania to the na-tion’s No. 2 gas state, be-hind Texas.
“EPA has been working hard to ful�ll President Trump’s promise to cut burdensome and ineffective regulations for our domes-tic energy industry,” Wheel-er said in a statement.
Re�ecting the ever-pres-ent politics of the presi-dential campaign, Wheel-er’s statement also cast blame onto the presump-tive Democratic nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, saying that “regula-tory burdens put into place by the Obama-Biden Ad-ministration fell heavily on small and medium-sized energy businesses.”
Pennsylvania is of prime importance in November’s presidential election, and the natural gas industry is already playing a cen-tral role in TV attack ads being aired in the state by Trump’s allies.
Preventing methane
leaks from well-site equip-ment and pipelines has become important for reg-ulators because methane is a potent greenhouse gas, over 80 times more powerful than carbon di-oxide in trapping heat in the atmosphere over a 20-year period, according to climate researchers.
The oil and gas industry was responsible for nearly 30 percent of the nation’s methane emissions in 2018, and methane accounted for 10 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the EPA.
The Trump administra-tion is eliminating the re-quirement that companies �x methane leaks discov-ered from twice-yearly inspections on all equip-ment installed after 2015 at well sites and down-stream segments, such as pipelines, compressor sta-tions and storage tanks.
Supporters of the rule maintained that, based on reports the companies �le, it seemed to be helping re-duce methane emissions.
Crews try to tame California wild�re as heat wave arrivesBy Christopher Weber
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — Crews scrambled to pro-tect homes from a huge wild�re that prompt-ed evacuations north of Los Angeles and of�cials warned the blaze could �are up again Thursday as a blistering heat wave descended on California.
The �re exploded in size within hours after it broke out in dense forest on Wednesday afternoon, sending up a towering plume visible for hun-dreds of miles around.
Flames raced across ridges and steep slopes, including in some areas that had not burned since 1968, �re of�cials said. By Thursday morning, the blaze had consumed near-ly 16.5 square miles of timber and brush. There was no containment.
Light winds and scat-tered thundershowers
early in the day helped �re�ghters tame the �ames somewhat. But as the cloud cover cleared and temperatures spiked Thursday afternoon, of-�cials prepared for a re-peat of the ferocious �re activity seen a day earli-er.
“This will be a major �re for several days,” said Chief Robert Garcia with the U.S. Forest Service.
About 100 rural homes were evacuated in the Lake Hughes area of the Angeles National Forest, some 60 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
Preliminary damage assessments found that at least three structures burned, but authorities warned the toll would likely be higher. It wasn’t immediately clear if any residences were damaged, but a photograph for The Associated Press showed what may have been a
house on �re. Kenny Reynolds lost his
home. The �re came down the
hill and across the street, “engul�ng on both sides,” he told KABC-TV.
Reynolds and others re-treated “and then it just kind of rolled in,” he said. “It was taking everything as it kind of went down.”
Evacuation centers were designated for residents and animals, but because of COVID-19 concerns, people were told to stay in their cars in the parking lots.
The cause of the blaze, dubbed the Lake Fire, is under investigation. It’s one of several wild�res burning in the region.
The heat wave was ex-pected to last through the weekend, bringing triple-digit temperatures and extreme �re danger to large portions of Cali-fornia.
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A �re�ghter works against the Lake Hughes �re in Angeles National Forest on Wednesday, north of Santa Clarita, Calif.
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The sun shines through clouds above a shale gas drilling site in St. Mary’s, Pa. President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to undo Obama-era rules designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas �elds and pipelines, formalizing the changes in the heart of the nation’s most proli�c natural gas reservoir and in the premier pres-idential battleground state of Pennsylvania.
A6 THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2020
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Ten candidates are vying to represent Massachusetts’ 4th Congressio-nal District that Rep. Joe Kennedy is vacating as he seeks a seat in the Senate.
10 candidates vie to �ll Kennedy’s seat in CongressBy Steve LeBlancASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON — The Dem-ocratic primary contest between U.S. Sen. Edward Markey and U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III may be the most closely watched campaign on the Massa-chusetts ballot this year, but it’s far from the most crowded.
That distinction goes to the race for the state’s 4th Congressional District seat — the seat Kennedy is vacating.
Ten candidates — eight Democrats and two Re-publicans — are vying to represent the district that winds from the Boston suburbs of Newton and Brookline south through
Attleboro, Taunton and Fall River. It was previ-ously represented by for-mer Democratic Rep Bar-ney Frank.
Democratic candidates include Jake Auchin-closs, Becky Grossman, Alan Khazei, Natalia Li-nos, Isshane Lecky, Jesse Mermell, Ben Sigel and Chris Zannetos. A ninth Democrat, Dave Cavell, suspended his campaign Thursday.
Whoever wins the Demo-cratic primary will be con-sidered the favorite in the November general elec-tion in the heavily Demo-cratic district.
Two Republicans are also running — Julie Hall and David Rosa.
The candidates hail from a range of backgrounds. They include former mem-bers of the military, immi-grants, political veterans, entrepreneurs and those with backgrounds in the nonpro�t sector.
The race is also the �rst for an open seat in Congress in Massachu-setts since the surprise win by Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley in 2018, who defeated incumbent Democratic Rep. Michael Capuano.
All the Democratic can-didates live in the north-ern, wealthier tip of the district, with two hailing from Newton, one from Wellesley and �ve from Brookline.
Man guilty in terror plot to be released from prison
By Alanna Durkin Richer
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON — A Rhode Island man sentenced to 15 years in prison for participating in a plot to behead a blogger on be-half of the Islamic State group will be released early because of the coro-navirus pandemic, a fed-eral judge has ruled.
The judge ordered Nich-olas Rovinski’s release this week after his law-yers argued that Rovins-ki’s medical conditions, including cerebral palsy and hypertension, make the 29-year-old particu-larly vulnerable to seri-ous illness from the virus.
“The Court concludes that there exist extraor-dinary and compelling circumstances that war-rant granting this motion for compassionate re-lease,” U.S. District Judge William Young wrote in his order.
The judge reduced Rovinki’s sentence to time served and ordered him to spent the next 10 years in home con-�nement with electron-ic monitoring, with the �rst six months in “strict home con�nement.” Young denied prosecutors request Thursday to de-lay Rovinski’s release for
30 days while they decide whether to appeal.
Rovinski was previous-ly supposed to be released in 2028. His attorney, William Fick, declined to comment on Thursday.
Rovinski was sentenced in 2017 after pleading guilty to conspiracy for his role in the plot to kill Pamela Geller, who orga-nized a Prophet Muham-mad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, in 2015. Rovinski testi�ed against David Wright, who pros-ecutors described as the mastermind of the plot.
The cartoon contest Geller organized end-ed in gun�re, with two Muslim gunmen shot to death by police. The plot to behead Geller was nev-er carried out. Instead, Wright’s uncle Ussamah Rahim told Wright on a recorded phone call that he decided to go after “those boys in blue,” re-ferring to police. Hours later, Rahim was fatally shot by authorities after he lunged at them with a knife when they ap-proached him in Boston.
Wright was sentenced to 28 years in prison but is scheduled to be resen-tenced next month after an appeals court over-turned one of his convic-tions.
Geller said releasing
Rovinski “sends the mes-sage to thousands of oth-ers like him that they can plot freely to murder those who say things that offend their evil ideolo-gy, and the consequences will be slight.”
“He terrorized our lives,” she said in an email. “He has caused me and my relatives physical and emotional distress, as well as the crippling �nancial costs required as a result of his mass murder plot. This will never end for me, and so it should never end for Nicholas Rovinski.”
Rovinski’s attorneys described him in court documents as a “unique-ly vulnerable young man” who for a period of time embraced a violent ex-tremist ideology but “nev-er came close to causing or participating in any actual violence” and was “uniquely illequipped ever to do so.”
“It is unspeakably trag-ic that the disabilities that �rst rendered Mr. Rovinski vulnerable to the odious siren song of his co-conspirators now also expose him to severe illness and death while he serves the extremely harsh sentence that the law required this Court to impose,” his lawyers wrote.
ACLU sues Boston police for use of force,
surveillance documentsBOSTON (AP) — The
American Civil Liberties Union has sued the Bos-ton Police Department for withholding records relat-ed to recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations and other policing issues.
The civil rights group’s Massachusetts chapter said Wednesday that it has �led nine public records re-quests with the department in the last year-and-a-half that are all “well past-due.”
Among the things the ACLU has requested are use of force records from June’s anti-racism demon-
strations as well as from the controversial “Straight Pride Parade” in 2019.
It has also requested in-formation about the depart-ment’s use of teargas and pepper spray going back to 2016, the location of sur-veillance cameras in Bos-ton, and any communica-tions between city of�cials and federal immigration enforcement agencies.
Matthew Segal, the or-ganization’s legal director, said release of the infor-mation has taken on “new urgency” amid nationwide calls for police reform.
“Transparency is at the heart of accountability,” he said in a statement. “The public has the right to know what the police are doing in their name and with their tax dollars.”
Massachusetts law re-quires public agencies re-spond to records requests within 10 business days, but the ACLU says Boston police have a “longstanding pattern of delay” that vio-lates the law.
A police department spokesperson declined to comment Thursday, citing the pending litigation.
Boston University faculty protest reopening plan
BOSTON (AP) — Mem-bers of Boston University’s faculty are raising con-cerns about the school’s plan to reopen the campus this fall amid the corona-virus pandemic.
Faculty held a drive-by rally Thursday calling on the school to provide em-ployees the option to work from home and provide free personal protective equipment to all faculty, staff and students. They are also demanding free COVID-19 testing for res-idents of the neighbor-hoods surrounding the university.
“Concerns about the im-plementation of health and safety measures are widespread among faculty, staff, and students,” Se-
nior Lecturer Jason Pren-tice said in an emailed statement. “To all of us — and the surrounding com-munity, to which we also belong — BU has a moral responsibility to prioritize health and safety.”
A BU spokesperson said it is con�dent in its safe-ty plans, which include a testing program for fac-ulty staff and students, physical distancing and contact tracing.
“We look forward to im-plementing them along with faculty, staff and students this fall,” Colin Riley said in an email. “As you can see, a lot of care-ful thought, extraordinary effort and thorough plan-ning has gone into this.”
Massachusetts reported
21 newly con�rmed deaths linked to COVID-19 on Thursday -- bringing the total number of con�rmed and probable deaths to 8,790 since the start of the pandemic.
The state also on Thurs-day reported 319 newly con�rmed cases of the dis-ease caused by the corona-virus.
That brings the total number of con�rmed and probable cases to more than 122,600 in Massa-chusetts since the start of the pandemic.
There were 401 peo-ple reported hospital-ized Thursday because of COVID-19, while 61 were in intensive care units.
Fauci to talk school reopening with governor, parents onlinePROVIDENCE, R.I.
(AP) — The nation’s top infectious disease expert is discussing the reopen-ing of schools with Rhode Island’s governor during an online forum Thurs-day.
Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo said in a re-lease that the Facebook Live chat with Fauci will focus on “how to re-open our schools in a way that balances health and safety concerns with our children’s need for a high-quality education.”
She says Rhode Island
parents and other viewers can submit their questions to her of�ce.
Raimondo on Wednesday delayed the start of school in Rhode Island from Aug. 31 to Sept. 14 as virus cas-es continue to rise in the state and elsewhere.
More than 1,000 people have died in Rhode Island from COVID-19, and the state has had more than 20,000 positive cases of the virus since the pan-demic started.
Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Al-lergy and Infectious Dis-
eases, has found himself, at times, at odds with Re-publican President Don-ald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
In an online discussion hosted by Brown Univer-sity last week, he urged states to take quick action to stamp out even slight upticks in COVID-19 cas-es.
Fauci also said he’s “cautiously optimistic” a COVID-19 vaccine could be developed soon, but ac-knowledged the chances it would be highly effective are “not great.”
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2020 THE DAILY ITEM A7
THIS WEEK IN PHOTOS
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Top, a man and woman look through the goods for sale at Beverly Bees’ new shop on Art-ists’ Row in Salem. Right, Beverly Bees has a wide range of molded beeswax candles to choose from.
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A man walks past the Boys & Girls Club of Lynn which is near-ing the completion of the �rst phase of its renovation.
Freddy Rivera of Lawrence touches up green paint on the stairs of the Boys & Girls Club of Lynn as phase one of the renovation nears completion. Green paint indicates the licensed childcare center and blue represents the common activity area for teens.
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Top left, Jameson Hat�eld, 4, makes contact as the Redwings take on the Storm during a Swampscott Little League game on Saturday. Top, LJ Paglia-ro, 9, helps his sister, Layla, 5, get in a proper stance for batting. Bottom left, Todd Longin helps his son, Nate, 5, get into position at second base.
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Artist creates origami crane memorial for COVID-19 victims
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An artist in Los Angeles is memorializing each of the thousands of peo-ple who have died from COVID-19 in the United States with a delicate origami crane.
Karla Funderburk started making the cranes three months ago, stringing the paper swans in pink, blue, yellow and many other colors togeth-er and hanging them in
her art gallery. “I was feeling the loss,
and one way to process that was I started folding cranes. Cranes are a tra-ditional Japanese symbol of carrying the soul to heaven,” she said.
She tried making 10 cranes each night but when on May 14 the number of deaths ticked to 88,000 she realized it would take her 24 years to complete them and she
asked for help. Now volunteers drop
off scores of the elegantly made paper swans daily.
“I started receiving box-es and bags. Sometimes I would get one crane with one name on it, some box-es had 300,” she said.
Hundreds now hang from the ceiling of her Matter Studio with others sitting on tables and stacked in boxes waiting to be added to the sad reminder of the
virus’ toll. The gallery’s website also lists hundreds of names of virus victims.
“I feel like this space is holding, holding the place, for the remembrances of the souls we are losing,” she said.
Funderburk had 9,300 cranes as of Thursday. More than 165,000 people in the U.S. have died of COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Artist Karla Funderburk, owner of Matter Studio Gallery, adjusts one of the thousands of origami cranes hanging during an exhibit honoring the victims of COVID-19, Tuesday, in Los Angeles.
By Matthew JordanPENNSYLVANIA STATE
UNIVERSITY
Since the start of the pandemic, the film indus-try has been in free fall.
As deaths have con-tinued to climb, so have studio losses, with crowded theaters – once a source of collective entertainment and escapism – now seen as petri dishes for the virus.
Familiar blockbuster franchises whose summer releases studios banked on to balance bleeding ledgers have been barred from shuttered theaters. The 25th James Bond film, “No Time to Die,” the 7th “Mission Impossible,” Marvel Universe’s “Black Widow,” “Wonderwoman 1984” and Spider Man’s latest iteration, “Far From Home,” have all been de-layed. The billions of dol-lars invested in producing and marketing these films alone are sums that could make or break the studios.
Desperate to survive, AMC – the biggest of the three mega-chains of the-aters – and movie studio Universal recently agreed to cut the exclusive theatri-cal release time down from 90 to 17 days before films
could be streamed. Huge opening releases have long been crucial for both theater chains and studios, so AMC giving up its big-gest source of revenue for a small cut of Universal’s profits can be seen as a sign of desperation.
The motion picture industry has endured pandemics and the threat of home viewing before. But in each instance, the existing way of doing things was upended.
During the current crisis, it seems that shifts in the industry that have been going on for some time are accelerating. While the movie theater will likely survive, moviegoers can ex-pect a change in what they can see on the big screen.
Before World War I, the American motion picture industry was a loose collection of independent film producers, distribu-tors and approximately 20,000 theater owners. In the fall of 1918, the industry was rocked by the emergence of the Spanish flu. As wave after wave of influenza deaths spread across the country, between 80 percent and 90 percent of theaters were closed off-and-on for months by public health
decrees, described across the country as “flu bans.”
Theaters that needed ticket sales to recoup advanced rental fees fought to stay open using strategies that are eerily familiar to our COVID-19 moment. Industry leaders lobbied governments to let them reopen. Theater owners denounced “flu hysteria” and handed out gauze masks to patrons. Some ejected sneezers or used staggered seating to socially distance audi-ences. The industry ran national public relations campaigns promoting hygiene and promising theater cleanings and new ventilation systems to help calm patrons’ fear of sitting shoulder-to-shoul-der with someone who might cough. Even after “flu bans” were lifted, it took about a year and a half for skittish audiences to venture back.
As the pandemic ravaged the country, consolidation fever consumed the indus-try. Opportunists took ad-vantage of the real victims of the flu bans: independent theaters. The big chains, armed with capital, bought out their hobbled competi-tors, while bigger distribu-tion companies gobbled up
smaller ones. A new Hollywood stu-
dio system dominated by money and profits slowly started to take shape. Trail-blazer Adolph Zukor used Wall Street financing to take control of the reeling Famous Players-Lasky company and merged it with Paramount distribu-tion, creating a studio that cranked out films with Ford-like efficiency. With its soaring profits, it contin-ued turning independent theaters into exclusive Par-amount exhibitors across the country to monopolize access to audiences.
Others companies fol-lowed suit. Loews theaters, Metro pictures and Gold-wyn distribution consoli-dated into MGM. Industry players desperate to recoup their pandemic losses trad-ed their independence to be a part of the post-pandemic Hollywood, an oligopoly of vertically integrated com-panies that only distribut-ed and screened the films they produced.
Audiences previously com-fortable watching all variety of shorts quickly developed a taste for the studio system’s expensive, feature-length, formulaic films.
Movie theaters are on life support – how will the film industry adapt?
By Jake CoyleASSOCATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Even mock elections require wall-to-wall coverage, so when Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine set out to docu-ment Texas’ Boys State, the week-long summer camp of civics simulation run by the American Legion since 1935, they hired seven cin-ematographers to stay close to a handful of the 1,100 participants -- all 17- and 18-year-old boys, some with very real political ambition.
In the often patient and plodding world of documentary filmmak-ing, it was an intense pace keeping up with the campaigns of two fictional parties -- the Federalists and the Nationalists -- as they picked their candi-dates and established a party platform.
“We’re used to filming over two years, doing re-search. There’s a slow burn to that,” said McBaine in an interview alongside Moss, her husband. “This one was a wildfire.”
The result, “Boys State,” is one of the most ac-claimed documentaries of the year; it took the grand jury prize for documenta-ry at the Sundance Film Festival in January. It’s an uncommonly engaging, thoughtful and often funny documentary, so much so that Apple and A24 paid a Sundance record of $12 million for it. It debuts Friday on Apple TV+.
“Boys State” may sound like a mere mock govern-ment exercise, but the film finds in Boys State a microcosm of American politics, one that frighten-ingly reflects much of the
tenor of today’s Washing-ton and, in other ways, counters our more cynical grown-up government with stirring idealism. “Boys State” will give you both hope and fear for America’s future.
“The film is an unvar-nished depiction of what we encountered,” says Moss. “And that includes the horrifying but also the profoundly moving and the uplifting.”
Boys States are run throughout the country by the American Legion, along with correspond-ing Girls States. Some notable names -- from Bill Clinton to Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh to Mark Wahlberg -- have gone through the pro-gram. Moss and McBaine were unaware of Boys State before reading a 2017 Washington Post article about a first in the program’s history: Texas voted to secede.
The filmmakers sensed they had found a prism through which to view the changing nature of civic discourse in the U.S. following the election of Donald Trump. Paul Barker, then Chairman of the American Legion Texas Boys State, was im-pressed by McBaine and Moss’ previous film ( “The Overnighters” ) and fig-ured a documentary could expand the program. He had one suggestion.
“When kids are 17-years-old, sometimes their mouth gets ahead of their brain,” says Barker. “But you have to see that as part of a learning process. My only caution to them was to let the needle run.”
In ‘Boys State,’ American politics in a teenage microcosm
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Robert MacDougall in a scene from “Boys State.”
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Boston Celtics’ Semi Ojeleye (left) drives past Washington Wizards’ Jerome Robinson (right) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Thursday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Wizards beat Celtics as Boston
rests starters
North Shore Baseball League playoffs heat up in Day 2
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Clemente Parra of the Swampscott Sox went 2-for-3 in the Sox 10-3 loss in Day 2 of the � rst round of the North Shore Baseball League playoffs Wednesday.
By Mike AlongiITEM SPORTS EDITOR
The North Shore Base-ball League playoffs are in full swing, and now three different series � nd themselves headed to a deciding third game after a great night of baseball Wednesday.
There was only one team that clinched its spot in the semi� nal round on Wednesday, and that was the No. 2 Roley Nor’Eas-ters. The Nor’Easters knocked off the No. 7 Manchester Marlins by a score of 6-0 to win the series 2-0. Noah Wachter pitched a great game in the loss for Manchester, tossing six innings and allowing no earned runs while striking out 14.
The other three se-ries all got tied up on Wednesday night, start-ing with the battle be-
tween the No. 5 Swamp-scott Sox and the No. 4 Beverly Recs. The Sox — who won Game 1 by a score of 3-0 — had a chance to clinch the se-ries, but Beverly came out swinging and earned a 10-3 victory. Brandon Bingel had a massive night at the plate for the Recs, going 2-for-3 with two home runs and � ve RBI. Andrew Olszak went 1-for-3 with a home run and three RBI, while Matt Burgess went 4-for-4 with two RBI. Nick Col-anto earned the win on the mound after tossing four innings and allow-ing three runs on � ve hits with four strikeouts.
For the Sox, Joe Kasper went 2-for-4 with two RBI and Donnie Weisse went 1-for-4 with one RBI. Clemente Parra (2-for-3), Ryan Graciale
(1-for-4), Wilber Rosario (1-for-3) and Zach Elwell (1-for-1) added hits in the loss for Swampscott.
Game 3 between the Sox and the Recs is set for Thursday night (8) at Cooney Field in Beverly.
The No. 6 North Shore Storm also kept their season alive with a win Wednesday night, knock-ing off the No. 3 Kings-ton Night Owls in a 11-1 blowout. Game 3 between the Storm and the Night Owls is set for Thursday night (8) at Trinity Stadi-um in Haverhill.
The � nal game of the night was between the No. 1 Northeast Tides and the No. 8 Peabody Champions, a game that the Tides won 6-2 to even the series at one game apiece. The Tides were led by the bats of Keagan Calero (2-for-3, HR, RBI),
Zack Clough (2-for-3, RBI), Jonathan Dube (1-for-4, RBI) and Max Mali-la (1-for-4, RBI), while Tommy Lawrence earned the win on the mound. Lawrence pitched a com-plete game, allowing two runs on six hits with eight strikeouts.
The lone RBI from Pea-body came from Brayden Clark (1-for-1), while Mark Shorey (2-for-3), Chad Martin (1-for-3), Andrew O’Neill (1-for-3) and Peter Messervy (1-for-3) added hits in the loss. David Hoar took the loss on the mound, getting chased from the game in the � rst inning after giving up four runs without recording an out.
Game 3 between the Champions and the Tides is set for Thursday night (7:45) at Twi Field in Danvers.
BOSTON (AP) — The Celtics have signed coach Brad Stevens to a con-tract extension, the team announced Wednesday. Terms of the new deal were not disclosed.
The Celtics signed Ste-vens to a six-year deal when they hired him in 2013. They gave him an initial extension in 2016 that would have expired following next season.
Stevens, 43, has a 318-245 record in seven sea-sons in Boston. His wins rank fourth in franchise history, trailing Red Au-erbach (795), Tom Hein-sohn (427) and Doc Rivers (416).
The Celtics are 48-23 this season and have won at least 48 games each of the last � ve seasons. Bos-ton already has clinched the third seed in the East-ern Conference for the
playoffs starting Monday, which will mark its sixth straight trip to the post-season under Stevens.
During Stevens’ tenure, the Celtics made back-to-back trips to the East � -nals in 2016-17 and 2017-18, the � rst time since the 1986-87 and 1987-88 sea-sons that they’ve reached the conference � nals in consecutive seasons.
“Brad is an accomplished coach and an outstanding person,” Celtics lead own-er Wyc Grousbeck said in a statement. “We are proud to have him lead our team forward in our quest for banner 18.”
President of basketball operations Danny Ainge called Stevens “a great teammate.”
“His character and in-tegrity have contributed to a culture that we all high-ly value here,” Ainge said.
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Brad Stevens has the fourth most wins in fran-chise history (318) as head coach of the Celtics.
Celtics sign coach Brad Stevens to
contract extension
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Thomas Bry-ant had 26 points and nine rebounds to help the Washington Wizards beat the Boston Celtics 96-90 on Thursday for their lone win in the restart.
Troy Brown Jr. added 17 points and eight re-bounds for the Wizards, who had long been elim-inated from the playoff race and had lost their � rst seven games in the bubble. The Wizards avoided being the only winless team in the re-start.
Washington coach Scott Brooks knew coming in the focus would be on building toward next sea-son. Bradley Beal, second in the league this season at 30.5 points per game, opted out of the restart with a lingering shoul-der issue. Davis Bertans, No. 2 on the Wizards in scoring and a top 3-point threat, didn’t want to risk injury with free agen-cy ahead. And All-Star guard John Wall missed
the entire season recov-ering from a torn Achilles tendon.
“I think we had a great experience here,” Brooks said. “We had a lot of good growth, a lot of good bonding experience. A lot of positives came out of it. The only thing -- we didn’t win the (games) that we wanted to win.”
The Celtics, who al-ready were locked into a playoff matchup with the Philadelphia 76ers, rest-ed their starters.
Rookie Javonte Green took advantage and scored a season-high 23 points for Boston.
“He played with great intensity on both ends of the � oor, was trying to do all the right stuff and ob-viously made a big impact offensively and did some really good things on the glass,” Celtics coach Brad Stevens said.
Semi Ojeleye added 13 points and eight re-bounds for the Celtics.
CELTICS, B2
Varner III, Hoge, Sloan share Wyndham Championship lead
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Harold Varner III misses his birdie putt attempt on the seventh hole during the � rst round of the Wyndham Championship golf tournament at Sedge� eld Country Club on Thursday.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Harold Varner III, Tom Hoge and Roger Sloan each shot 8-under 62 on Thursday to share the � rst-round lead at the Wyndham Champi-onship, the PGA Tour’s � nal regular-season event before the FedEx Cup playoffs.
Varner started the go-low parade at at Sedge-� eld Country Club with an eight-birdie, no-bogey round that matched his career best on the PGA Tour
Hoge and Sloan, play-ing together, followed suit later in the round, Hoge also matched his career low on tour, while Sloan’s score set his per-sonal best.
There were 33 players on the course who had not � nished when the round was suspended due to bad weather.
Hoge looked like he might have a shot at 59 after he went ea-gle-birdie on the 15th and 16th holes to reach 9 under.
But Hoge, who � rst played on the PGA Tour in 2015 and has never won, missed a 10-footer for birdie on the 17th before his only bogey on No. 18 to drop into the tie.
Sloan had birdies on the 16th and 17th holes and had a chance at 9-under to take the lead alone, but came up short on a 15-foot birdie try on the � nal hole. The strong
start was especially cru-cial for the 33-year-old Canadian, who came into the tour’s last regu-lar-season event at 178 in FedEx Cup points — well out of the 125 cut off to make next week’s � rst postseason event, the Northern Trust in Boston.
Sloan is projected to rise into the top 50 should he maintain his position.
“Honestly, I don’t have to do anything,” he said. “I’m very blessed that I have status on the PGA Tour next season. That’s important. I’m going to get starts, I think that frees you up.”
All three leaders are seeking their � rst tour wins.
The trio were two shots in front of Harris English (64). A large group was at 5-under led by former Masters champion Pat-rick Reed.
Past U.S. Open champi-on Webb Simpson led an-other pack at 4-under 66.
Paul Casey, who tied for second last week at the PGA Championship, was at 67.
Some other PGA Championship contend-ers last week were not as fortunate.
Both Brooks Koepka and Justin Rose, each in the mix in the � nal round of the year’s � rst major, could not keep that going in this one.
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B2 SPORTS THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2020
TV/RADIOBaseball
6:37 p.m. ...............Tampa Bay at Toronto ...............................................FS17:05 p.m. ...............Boston at NY Yankees .....................NESN, WEEI-FM 93.78 p.m. ....................Milwaukee at Chicago .................................MLB Network9:40 p.m. ...............LA Dodgers at LA Angels ..........................................FS1
Pro basketball4 p.m. ....................Miami at Indiana ................................................... ESPN6:30 p.m. ...............Oklahoma City at LA Clippers ................................. ESPN8 p.m. ....................WNBA: Seattle vs. Dallas .....................................NBA TV9 p.m. ....................Philadelphia at Houston ......................................... ESPN
Golf7 a.m. ....................LPGA: Scottish Open ................................................Golf11 a.m. ..................Senior Players Championship ....................................Golf2 p.m. ....................PGA: Wyndham Championship ...................................Golf7 p.m. ....................US Amateur (quarterfinals)........................................Golf
Pro hockey2 p.m. ....................Arizona at Colorado .................................... NHL Network3 p.m. ....................Montreal at Philadelphia ......................................NBCSN6:30 p.m. ...............Vancouver at St. Louis ................................ NHL Network8 p.m. ....................NY Islanders at Washington .................................NBCSN10:30 p.m. .............Dallas at Calgary .................................................NBCSN
Horse racing1 p.m. ....................Saratoga Live ...........................................................FS2
Men’s soccer9 p.m. ....................Champions: Bayern Munich at Barcelona (tape) ....CBSSN
Tennis11 a.m. ..................WTA: Lexington..................................................... Tennis
MLB
American LeagueEast Division W L Pct GBNew York 12 6 .667 _Tampa Bay 11 8 .579 1½Baltimore 9 7 .563 2Toronto 6 9 .400 4½Boston 6 12 .333 6Central Division W L Pct GBMinnesota 12 7 .632 _Detroit 9 7 .563 1½Chicago 10 9 .526 2Cleveland 10 9 .526 2Kansas City 8 11 .421 4West Division W L Pct GBOakland 13 6 .684 _Texas 8 9 .471 4Houston 8 10 .444 4½Los Angeles 7 12 .368 6Seattle 7 13 .350 6½
National LeagueEast Division W L Pct GBMiami 8 4 .667 _Atlanta 11 9 .550 1New York 9 11 .450 3Washington 6 9 .400 3½Philadelphia 5 8 .385 3½Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 12 3 .800 _St. Louis 2 3 .400 5Cincinnati 8 10 .444 5½Milwaukee 7 9 .438 5½Pittsburgh 3 13 .188 9½West Division W L Pct GBColorado 12 6 .667 _Los Angeles 12 7 .632 ½San Diego 11 8 .579 1½Arizona 8 11 .421 4½San Francisco 8 12 .400 5
Thursday’s GamesSt. Louis at Detroit, ppd., 1st gameBaltimore at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m.Tampa Bay at Boston, 4:30 p.m.St. Louis at Detroit, ppd., 2nd gameFriday’s GamesBaltimore (Wojciechowski 0-2) at Washington (Strasburg 0-0), 5:05 p.m., 1st gameTampa Bay (TBD) at Toronto (Roark 1-1), 6:37 p.m.Boston (TBD) at N.Y. Yankees (Cole 3-0), 7:05 p.m.Cleveland (Civale 1-2) at Detroit (Nova 1-0), 7:10 p.m.Washington (Strasburg 0-0) at Baltimore (Milone 1-1), 7:35 p.m., 2nd gameKansas City (Junis 0-0) at Minnesota (Odorizzi 0-0), 8:10 p.m.St. Louis (TBD) at Chicago White Sox (TBD), 8:10 p.m.
Texas (Lynn 2-0) at Colorado (Castellani 0-0), 8:40 p.m.Seattle (Kikuchi 0-1) at Houston (Valdez 0-2), 9:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 1-1) at L.A. Angels (San-doval 0-1), 9:40 p.m.Oakland (Montas 2-1) at San Francisco (Cueto 1-0), 9:45 p.m.Saturday’s GamesCleveland at Detroit, 6:10 p.m.Tampa Bay at Toronto, 6:37 p.m.Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:07 p.m.Oakland at San Francisco, 7:07 p.m.Kansas City at Minnesota, 7:10 p.m.Seattle at Houston, 7:10 p.m.St. Louis at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m.Washington at Baltimore, 7:35 p.m.Texas at Colorado, 8:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, 9:40 p.m.
NBA
EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic DivisionW L Pct GBy-Toronto 52 19 .732 —x-Boston 48 24 .667 4½x-Philadelphia 42 30 .583 10½x-Brooklyn 35 36 .493 17New York 21 45 .318 28½Southeast DivisionW L Pct GBy-Miami 44 28 .611 —x-Orlando 32 40 .444 12Charlotte 23 42 .354 17½Washington 25 47 .347 19Atlanta 20 47 .299 21½Central DivisionW L Pct GBz-Milwaukee 56 16 .778 —x-Indiana 44 28 .611 12Chicago 22 43 .338 30½Detroit 20 46 .303 33Cleveland 19 46 .292 33½x-clinched playoff spot
WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest DivisionW L Pct GBy-Houston 44 27 .620 —x-Dallas 43 31 .581 2½Memphis 33 39 .458 11½San Antonio 32 38 .457 11½New Orleans 30 41 .423 14Northwest DivisionW L Pct GBy-Denver 46 26 .639 —x-Oklahoma City 44 27 .620 1½x-Utah 43 28 .606 2½Portland 34 39 .466 12½Minnesota 19 45 .297 23Pacific DivisionW L Pct GBz-L.A. Lakers 52 19 .732 —x-L.A. Clippers 48 23 .676 4Phoenix 33 39 .458 19½Sacramento 31 41 .431 21½Golden State 15 50 .231 34y-clinched divisionz-clinched conference
Thursday’s GamesWashington 96, Boston 90Sacramento 136, L.A. Lakers 122Dallas at Phoenix, 4 p.m.Milwaukee at Memphis, 4 p.m.San Antonio at Utah, 6:30 p.m.New Orleans at Orlando, 9 p.m.Portland at Brooklyn, 9 p.m.Friday’s Games
Denver at Toronto, 1:30 p.m.Miami at Indiana, 4 p.m.Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 6:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Houston, 9 p.m.Saturday’s GamesNo games scheduled.Sunday’s GamesNo games scheduled.
EASTERN CONFERENCEFIRST ROUND
At Toronto(1)Philadelphia 1, (8)Montreal 0
Wednesday, Aug. 12: Philadelphia 2, Montreal 1Friday, Aug. 14: Montreal vs. Philadel-phia, 3 p.m.Sunday, Aug. 16: Philadelphia vs. Montreal, 8 p.m.Tuesday, Aug. 18: Philadelphia vs. Montreal, 3 p.m.x-Wednesday, Aug. 19: Montreal vs. Philadelphia, TBDx-Friday, Aug. 21: Philadelphia vs. Montreal, TBDx-Sunday, Aug. 23: Montreal vs. Phil-adelphia, TBD
(2)Tampa Bay 1, (7)Columbus 1Tuesday, Aug. 11: Tampa Bay 3, Columbus 2, 5OTThursday, Aug. 13: Columbus 3, Tampa Bay 1Saturday, Aug. 15: Tampa Bay vs. Columbus, 7:30 p.m.Monday, Aug. 17: Tampa Bay vs. Columbus, 3 p.m.x-Wednesday, Aug. 19: Columbus vs. Tampa Bay, TBDx-Friday, Aug. 21: Tampa Bay vs. Columbus, TBDx-Saturday, Aug. 22: Columbus vs. Tampa Bay, TBD(3)Washington 0, (6)N.Y. Islanders
1Wednesday, Aug. 12: N.Y. Islanders 4, Washington 2Friday, Aug. 14: N.Y. Islanders vs. Washington, 8 p.m.Sunday, Aug. 16: Washington vs. N.Y. Islanders, noonTuesday, Aug. 18: Washington vs. N.Y. Islanders, 8 p.m.x-Thursday, Aug. 20: N.Y. Islanders vs. Washington, TBDx-Saturday, Aug. 22: Washington vs. N.Y. Islanders, TBDx-Sunday, Aug. 23: N.Y. Islanders vs. Washington, TBD
(4)Boston 1, (5)Carolina 0Tuesday, Aug. 11: Carolina vs. Bos-ton, ppd to August 12Wednesday, Aug. 12: Boston 4, Caro-lina 3, 2OTThursday, Aug. 13: Carolina vs. Bos-ton, 8 p.m.Saturday, Aug. 15: Boston vs. Caroli-na, noonMonday, Aug. 17: Boston vs. Caroli-na, 8 p.m.x-Wednesday, Aug. 19: Carolina vs. Boston, TBDx-Thursday, Aug. 20: Boston vs. Caro-lina, TBDx-Sunday, Aug. 23: Carolina vs. Bos-ton, TBD
WESTERN CONFERENCEFIRST ROUND
At Edmonton, Alberta(1)Las Vegas 1, (8)Chicago 0
Tuesday, Aug. 11: Las Vegas 4 Chica-go 1Thursday, Aug. 13: Chicago vs. Las Vegas, 5:30 p.m.Saturday, Aug. 15: Las Vegas vs. Chi-cago, 8 p.m.Sunday, Aug. 16: Las Vegas vs. Chi-cago, 6:30 p.m.x-Tuesday, Aug. 18: Chicago vs. Las Vegas, TBDx-Thursday, Aug. 20: Las Vegas vs. Chicago, TBDx-Saturday, Aug. 22: Chicago vs. Las Vegas, TBD
(2)Colorado 1, (7)Arizona 0Wednesday, Aug. 12: Colorado 3, Ari-zona 0Friday, Aug. 14: Arizona vs. Colorado, 2 p.m.Saturday, Aug. 15: Colorado vs. Arizo-na, 3 p.m.Monday, Aug. 17: Colorado vs. Arizo-na, 5:30 p.m.x-Wednesday, Aug. 19: Arizona vs. Colorado, TBDx-Friday, Aug. 21: Colorado vs. Arizo-na, TBDx-Sunday, Aug. 23: Arizona vs. Colora-do, TBD
(3)Dallas 0, (6)Calgary 1Tuesday, Aug. 11: Calgary 3, Dallas 2Thursday, Aug. 13: Calgary vs. Dal-las, 10:30 p.m.Friday, Aug. 14: Dallas vs. Calgary, 10:30 p.m.Sunday, Aug. 16: Dallas vs. Calgary, 2 p.m.x-Tuesday, Aug. 18: Calgary vs. Dal-las, TBDx-Thursday, Aug. 20: Dallas vs. Cal-gary, TBDx-Saturday, Aug. 22: Calgary vs. Dal-las, TBD
(4)St. Louis 0, (5)Vancouver 1Wednesday, Aug. 12: Vancouver 5, St. Louis 2Friday, Aug. 14: Vancouver vs. St. Louis, 6:30 p.m.Sunday, Aug. 16: St. Louis vs. Van-couver, 10:30 p.m.Monday, Aug. 17: St. Louis vs. Van-couver, 10:30 p.m.x-Wednesday, Aug. 19: Vancouver vs. St. Louis, TBDx-Friday, Aug. 21: St. Louis vs. Van-couver, TBDx-Sunday, Aug. 23: Vancouver vs. St. Louis, TBD
NHL
CELTICSFrom B1
Both teams shot below 40 percent overall. The Wizards led 78-77 after three quarters, then out-scored the Celtics 18-13 in the fourth. The Wiz-ards held the Celtics to 22 percent shooting in the final 12 minutes.
TIP-INSWizards: Rui Hachimu-
ra sat out with a sore quad. ... Ish Smith scored 11 points and Jerome Robinson added 10. ... Outscored the Celtics 18-12 at the free throw line. ... Johnathan Williams had 16 rebounds.
Celtics: Sat Jaylen Brown (rest), Gordon Hayward (rest), Mar-cus Smart (rest), Jayson Tatum (left ankle), Dan-iel Theis (right foot) and Kemba Walker (left
knee). ... Made 8 of 35 3-pointers.
QUOTABLEBrooks, joking about a
conversation with Ha-chimura: “I was walking off the court and I said ‘Rui, man, I made a mis-take. I should have never played you the other sev-en games. We might have won a couple of those.’ He didn’t know how to take it. He doesn’t know my humor yet. But we
laughed and joked about it.”
STAT LINESBryant averaged 18.6
points and 8.9 rebounds in the bubble. His season averages entering the game were 13.0 points and 7.2 boards per con-test.
UP NEXT:Wizards: Season over.Celtics: Play the Phil-
adelphia 76ers in the playoffs.
Wizards beat resting Celtics team as Boston prepares for playoffs
WYNDHAMFrom B1
Koepka was 10 shots behind after a 72. Justin Rose �nished a stroke worse at 73.
Koepka said he was �at after playing sever-al weeks in a row. “A bit tired, to be honest with you, so de�nitely came out �at,” he said. “But I’ve got to play, I’ve got no other option.”
Koepka said even mov-ing up a spot or two in FedEx Cup standings is helpful to advance, so that’s why he passed up a
week off to compete.He also said he apolo-
gized for his comments after Saturday’s third round last week that he didn’t know “a lot of the other guys” on the leader-board.
“I get it, I get how it came across and I apolo-gize for that,” Koepka said.
PGA Championship win-ner Collin Morikawa is off.
Varner had eight bird-ies, including four in a row midway through the round, without a birdie his �rst 15 holes. He �nished with three pars.
Varner, who went to high
school in Gastonia about two hours away and col-lege at East Carolina, was disappointed he couldn’t play in front of friends and family due to the ongoing pandemic.
“It’s unfortunate this year because I enjoy the cheers and stuff,” he said. “But we’ll get through this year and �gure it out. Yeah, it’s just good to be close to home.”
Hoge started crunch-ing the numbers after he reached 9-under with two holes left. “I thought we could birdie the last two, but you’ve got to put it in
the fairway,” he said after his tee shot on No. 18 went into the rough leading to bogey.
Divots: The PGA Tour said there have been 510 tests for COVID-19 done at the Wyndham without any positives. ... Charl Schwartzel is the man on the bubble, at 125 on the FedEx Cup points list, he’s the �nal qualifer for next week’s playoff coming into the week. The 2011 Masters champion opened with an even-par 70. ... Defending champion J.T. Poston opened 12 shots behind after a 74.
Varner III, Hoge, Sloan share Wyndham Championship lead
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Brooks Koepka found himself 10 shots behind the leaders after shooting a 72 in the �rst round of the Wyndham Championship golf tournament at Sedge�eld Country Club on Thursday.
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Red Sox pitcher Kyle Hart made his MLB debut Wednesday night against the Rays but un-fortunately it wasn’t a night to remember. Hart pitched two innings, allowing �ve runs on seven hits, walking three with four strikeouts in a 17-8 Red Sox loss in which every Rays batter scored.
Rays rout Red Sox 17-8 behind four home runs
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2020 THE DAILY ITEM B3
NATIONMail delays likely as new postal
boss pushes cost-cutting
Distrust of authority fuels virus misinformation for Latinos
Federal appeals court: Male-only draft is constitutional
Is it safe to drinkfrom a fountain
during the pandemic?ASSOCIATED PRESS
Is it safe to drink from a water fountain during the pandemic?
There’s no evidence you can get COVID-19 from the water itself. But since the virus may linger on surfaces, experts say to avoid fountains if you can or to limit any direct con-tact when using them.
In New York City, for example, posters instruct people to use gloves or a tissue to turn on water fountains. If you don’t have those handy and need to touch the foun-tain, experts recommend you wash your hands af-terward and avoid touch-ing your face until you do. And you shouldn’t let your face touch the spout when leaning in for a drink.
Filling a water bottle is also better than drinking directly from the fountain, says Angela Rasmussen, a virus researcher at Co-lumbia University. That helps ensure you don’t leave saliva on the foun-tain, making it safer for
others.The precautions are
recommended because surfaces are believed to contribute to the spread of COVID-19, even though experts say the main way the virus spreads is through droplets people spray when they talk, cough or sneeze.
To minimize direct contact with fountains, schools and businesses should encourage every-one to bring their own water from home, says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fountains should still be cleaned and sanitized for those who need to use them, the agency says.
The CDC also says schools and businesses should check fountains for other safety issues before they reopen. Prolonged closures could increase the risk for Legionnaires’ and other diseases asso-ciated with water, since standing water in plumb-ing systems can cause bacteria to grow.
By Matthew DalyASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Mail deliveries could be de-layed by a day or more under cost-cutting efforts being imposed by the new postmaster general. The plan eliminates overtime for hundreds of thousands of postal workers and says employees must adopt a “different mindset” to en-sure the Postal Service’s survival during the coro-navirus pandemic.
Late trips will no longer be authorized. If postal dis-tribution centers are run-ning late, “they will keep the mail for the next day,’’ Postal Service leaders say in a document obtained by The Associated Press. “One aspect of these chang-es that may be dif�cult for employees is that — tempo-rarily — we may see mail left behind or mail on the workroom �oor or docks,’’ another document says.
The changes come a month after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a ma-jor donor to President Don-
By David Klepper, Adrian Sainz and
Regina Garcia CanoASSOCIATED PRESS
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — When Claudia Guzman sus-pected she had caught the coronavirus, her friends and family were full of advice: Don’t quarantine. Don’t get tested. A homemade tea will help cure you.
“They were saying, ‘Don’t go to the hospital,’ because supposedly, if you are admitted into the hos-pital, they administer the virus into your body,” said Guzman, who was born in Chicago to parents from Mexico and now lives in Memphis, Tenn.
False claims and con-spiracy theories, ranging from bogus cures to the idea that the virus is a hoax, have dogged efforts to control the pandemic from the beginning. While bad information about the virus is a problem for everyone, it can pose a particular threat to com-munities of people of col-or who alreadyface worse outcomes from the virus.
Among Latinos in the U.S., misinformation around the coronavirus has found fertile ground because many in their communities have higher levels of distrust in gov-ernment, less access to medical care and may need to be reached by Span-ish-language public health resources. It’s a dangerous mix that could discourage people from taking pre-cautions, participating in contact-tracing efforts, or getting treatment.
“There isn’t much evi-dence-based information in Spanish for them. And this is a new disease, so the science is evolving every day,” said William Calo, a Pennsylvania State University research-er who studies Hispanics and public health. “We are struggling with providing good information in En-glish — just imagine add-ing a second language.”
With a population of 60 million, Hispanic people in the U.S. are now four times more likely than non-Hispanic white peo-ple to be hospitalized be-
By Kevin McgillASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court in New Orleans upheld the constitutionality of the all-male military draft system Thursday, citing a 1981 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
In a decision that over-turned a 2019 ruling by a Texas-based federal judge, a panel of the 5th U.S. Cir-cuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said “only
the Supreme Court may revise its precedent.”
The case was argued in March and was the result of a lawsuit by the National Co-alition for Men and two men challenging the male-only draft. They argued that the 1981 case was decided at a time when women were largely absent from combat.
Thursday’s unanimous ruling from the three-judge panel acknowledged that “the factual under-
mail volume fell 15 to 20 percent week to week in April and May, agency leaders told Congress. Losses will increase by more than $22 billion over the next 18 months, they said.
Bills approved by the Democratic-controlled House would set aside $25 billion to keep the mail �ow-ing, but they remain stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate. Congress has ap-proved a $10 billion line of credit for the Postal Service, but it remains unused amid restrictions imposed by the Trump administration.
A spokesperson said Wednesday that the agen-cy is developing a business plan to ensure it will be �nancially stable and con-tinue to provide reliable, af-fordable and secure delivery of mail and packages. While the plan “is not yet �nalized, it will certainly include new and creative ways for us to ful�ll our mission, and we will focus immediately on ef�ciency and items that we can control,’’ said spokes-person Dave Partenheimer.
pinning of the controlling Supreme Court decision has changed. However, the judges noted, “that does not grant a court of appeals li-cense to disregard or over-rule that precedent.”
Plaintiffs in the case could seek a rehearing before the full 17-judge appeals court or go to the Supreme Court. Harry Crouch, president of the National Coalition for Men, said organization leaders will discuss their next move with attorneys. “All I can tell you is we will be moving the case for-ward,” he said.
The U.S. government stopped drafting young men into the military in 1973. But every male must still register for the draft when he turns 18.
Earlier this year — after the arguments before the 5th Circuit — a federal commission recommended including women in the military draft system.
“The Commission con-cluded that the time is right to extend Selective Service System registra-tion to include men and
women, between the ages of 18 and 26. This is a nec-essary and fair step, mak-ing it possible to draw on the talent of a uni�ed Na-tion in a time of national emergency,” the commis-sion’s �nal report said.
The 2019 district court decision declaring the male-only draft unconsti-tutional had been appealed by the Selective Service System, the federal agency that administers the draft. The appeal was argued during a series of 5th Cir-cuit hearings at Tulane University. The judges were Carl Stewart, Don Willett and Jacques Weiner.
Arguing for the National Coalition for men was Marc Angelucci, an attorney who was shot to death in July. Authorities later linked the killing of Angelucci in Cali-fornia to Roy Den Holland-er, 72, who was found dead of a self-in�icted gunshot wound on July 20, the day after an ambush shooting in New Jersey that killed U.S. District Judge Esther Salas’ 20-year-old son and wounded her husband.
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Paul Falcon unloads a custom made “Priority Mail” box that organizers said contained two million signed petitions from postal customers asking Congress to approve emergency fund-ing for the Postal Service, Tuesday, June 23, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Claudia Guzman poses for a photo inside the medical clinic where she works in Memphis, Tenn.
cause of COVID-19, ac-cording to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Other stud-ies also show Latinos in some areas are also twice as likely to die from the illness. (Native Americans and Black people face sim-ilarly stark disparities.)
These vulnerabilities have many causes. Among them are the fact that many Latinos are less like-ly to have health insur-
ance or access to quality health care — sometimes because they can’t afford it and sometimes because of their immigration status. Many work in industries that are deemed essential and cannot be performed remotely, such as food service, sanitation, meat packing, construction and retail. And many live in larger, multigenerational households where social distancing is dif�cult.
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Female soldiers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division train on a �ring range while testing new body armor in Fort Campbell, Ky.
ald Trump, took over the sprawling mail service. In a memo titled “PMG Expecta-tions and Plan,’’ the agency said the changes are aimed at “making the USPS fun-damentally solvent which we are not at this time.’’
The memo cites deep reve-nue losses from a decadelong decline in mail deliveries that has been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandem-ic and says an overdue “op-erational pivot” is needed to
ensure the agency’s health and stability.
Postal Service of�cials, bracing for steep losses from the nationwide shutdown caused by the virus, have warned they will run out of money by the end of Septem-ber without help from Con-gress. The service reported a $4.5 billion loss for the quar-ter ending in March, before the full effects of the shut-down sank in.
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ROCK HILL, S.C. — Helena Miller listened to teachers, terri�ed to reenter classrooms, and parents, exhausted from trying to make virtual learning work at home. She heard from school of�cials who spent hun-dreds of hours on thou-sands of details — buses, classrooms, football, arts, special education. She spent countless nights, eyes wide open, her mind wrestling over the safe-ty and education of the 17,000 children she swore to protect.
She thought of her own kids, two in high school and one middle-schooler — the reasons she ran for Rock Hill’s school board six years ago.
And she made the hard-est decision of her life: a vote to reopen schools amid the coronavirus pan-demic, splitting students into two groups that would each spend two days a week in classrooms, with virtual learning the other school days.
“We have an impossible decision to make. And we still have to make it,” Miller said from a tiny box on Zoom at the board’s July meeting.
This Board of Trustees in suburban South Car-olina is like thousands of school boards nationwide,
where members are tack-ling a simple but hefty question — do we return to school amid a pandem-ic? — with no right or even good answers, in the face of inconsistent testing and a near-constant increase in con�rmed coronavirus cases.
Behind that question is pressure. Pressure from teachers and bus drivers and janitors, scared to re-turn to work but in need of a paycheck. Pressure from parents and guardians, who need to return to their own jobs but fear for their children’s safety. Pressure from a president who de-clares on Twitter “OPEN THE SCHOOLS!!!” but whose administration pro-vides little tangible guid-ance for doing so.
In Rock Hill, everyone has an opinion. The district has more than 17,000 students, and that means about 17,000 proposals on how to go back to school, trustees say, only half-joking.
And in South Carolina, with some of the country’s worst virus numbers, even state leaders can’t agree. Gov. Henry McMaster contradict-ed his education superinten-dent and said schools must allow a �ve-days-a-week option for working parents. School boards were left to untangle the mess - Rock Hill called an emergency meeting and ultimately kept its staggered plan.
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Rock Hill School Board member Windy Cole, right and Brett Faulkenberry, left, attending remotely, listen to a question during a board meeting in Rock Hill, S.C.
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Who said this? “Acting is the ex-pression of a neurotic impulse. It’s a bum’s life. Quitting acting, that’s the sign of maturity.”
There are several signs of maturity in a bridge player. One is avoiding the impulse that befell West in this deal.
Since North couldn’t respond ini-tially, South should have passed out two spades. However, when he bid a third time, North, with three trumps, a ruf�ng value and an ace, was jus-ti�ed in jumping to game. Also, note East’s one-no-trump overcall. In the balancing — or passout — position, this showed only 11-14 high-card points.
Declarer won the �rst trick with dummy’s heart ace, played a di-amond to his queen, cashed the diamond ace and led his low di-amond. Greedily, West ruffed with
the spade jack — and gave away the contract. Declarer trumped the next heart, ruffed a diamond in the dummy and ran the spade eight. Another trump from the dummy re-stricted East to his spade ace, and South lost only two spades and one club.
West should have discarded at trick four. Probably, declarer would have ruffed in the dummy, crossed to the club ace and led a fourth diamond. But now West could have gone in with his spade jack and con-tinued with either a heart or the king and another club. As South couldn’t have gotten into the dummy, East would have scored two spade tricks for down one.
The original comment was made by Marlon Brando, who obviously didn’t practice what he preached.
BRIDGE
Try to restrain that impulse
DEAR ABBY
Aunt’s memory issues put her family at a crossroadsDEAR ABBY: I’m part
of a large, close-knit fam-ily. My mother and her sisters have condomini-ums in the same complex. One dear aunt is having a great deal of trouble with her memory and word retrieval. She re-cently stopped recogniz-ing her daughter and no longer calls any of us by name.
The problem is, some of this aunt’s children are in denial. They refuse to believe there’s anything wrong with their mom and insist that she is showing signs of normal aging. They have stated this so strongly that the other siblings are afraid to raise the issue of an assessment for fear of an-gering them further. It is a very dif�cult family dy-namic.
Normally, we wouldn’t comment on or intervene in such a private matter. However, seeing my aunt deprived of a medical di-agnosis and associated care that might alleviate her suffering, it is very
hard to stay quiet. It may or may not be possible to reduce her symptoms, but it seems like it is el-der abuse to rob her of the chance to try. Please advise.
CONCERNED FOR AUNTIE
DEAR CONCERNED: Close family members are typically the �rst to notice memory issues or cogni-tive problems, but often they are hesitant to say something even when they know something is wrong. A recent Alzhei-mer’s Association survey found that nearly 3 out of 4 Americans say talking to a close family member about memory loss, think-ing problems or other
signs of cognitive decline would be challenging.
Initiating these chal-lenging conversations is important. Discussion can enable early diagno-sis, which has important bene�ts, including better disease management, more time for critical care planning and providing diagnosed individuals a voice in their future care. It also provides an oppor-tunity to address con-cerns before a crisis situa-tion arises.
While our cognitive abilities decrease with age, your aunt’s inability to recognize her own daughter is NOT a sign of normal aging. Helping relatives understand the seriousness of the situa-tion as well as the import-
ant health bene�ts of re-ceiving a proper diagnosis may convince them. If your aunt’s children �nd it too dif�cult to have the conversation, another close relative, a friend perhaps, or her doctor can take the lead.
To encourage families to have these conversa-tions, the Alzheimer’s As-sociation has partnered with the Ad Council in creating “Our Stories” (alz.org/ourstories). It features real stories of people who noticed changes in their loved ones and took the dif�cult step of having a conversa-tion. It also offers custom-izable conversation start-ers, a list of early signs and symptoms of Alzhei-mer’s, bene�ts of early di-agnosis and a download-able discussion help guide. In addition, the Alzheimer’s Association’s free 24/7 Helpline (800-272-3900) is available for families addressing these important conversations and other caregiving con-cerns.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2020 THE DAILY ITEM B5
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Converse with people who share your beliefs. If you show potential and that you are reliable, someone will offer support. Don’t settle for less than what you want.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Refuse to let your emotions take the reins. Common sense and practicality will save you from making a mistake. Let go of the past, and concentrate on making your future bright.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
Make plans to do something special with someone who brings out the best in you. Taking a healthy approach to life will make you feel good. Distance yourself from negative, demanding individuals.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 22)
Learn from observation and experience. A romantic gesture will enhance your life and encourage you to carry out a promise. Attack projects with determination and �nesse.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21)
Honesty, communication and commitment will help solve a personal problem. Compromise will bring you closer to a lifestyle that offers peace of mind, content-ment and a better future.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Take a load off your mind by directly addressing �nancial or contractual matters. Lay your cards on the table, and �nd out where others stand on important issues.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
Touch base with someone who always lifts your spirits. Dealing with children will lead to an awakening that will bring about a positive change. A discussion will bring you closer to a loved one.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20)
Mix the old with the new. The people you associate with will affect the way your day unfolds. Avoid indulgent situations, and embrace a healthier lifestyle. Romance is favored.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Keep your emotions under control. An intelligent and practical approach to getting things done will help you reach your goal. Don’t let an emotional incident ruin your day or plans.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Consider what will make you happy, content and ready to get on with your life. Be forgiving of others as well as yourself, and look for the good in all things. Romance is on the rise. 4 stars
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
Figure out who is trustworthy and who isn’t before you pick sides or get involved in a new project. If something doesn’t feel right, ask questions.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
It’s OK to make a change once in a while. Stop fearing the unknown, and start discovering what life has to offer. Be imaginative, and follow your heart.
HOROSCOPE EVENING TV LISTINGS FRIDAY’S TV AUGUST 14, 20207:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 1:00
BROADCAST STATIONS WGBH ^ PBS
Greater Boston
Steves’ Europe
Antiques R’dshow
Open Studio
Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide Planning for retirement.
Amanpour and Company (N)
Greater Boston
Steves’ Europe
Frontline
WBZ $ CBS
Wheel of Fortune
Jeopardy! (N)
The Greatest AtHome Videos (N)
Magnum P.I. “A World of Trouble”
Blue Bloods “Glass Houses”
News Late Show-Colbert Late Late Show With James Corden
WCVB % ABC
News-Center 5
Chronicle Shark Tank 20/20 (N) News-Center 5
Jimmy Kimmel
Nightline (N)
Jimmy Kimmel
Tamron Hall
WBTS * NBC
Boston News
Ac. Hol-lywood
The Wall “Holly and Michael”
Dateline NBC (N) Boston News
Tonight Show-J. Fallon
Late Night With Seth Meyers
WFXT 9 FOX
Ent. Tonight
TMZ (N) WWE Friday Night SmackDown (N) Boston 25 News at 10PM (N)
Boston News
TMZ Live (N) National News
Boston News
WUTF = UMA
Película Jesús Noticiero Univisión
40 y 20 Película Nosotros los.
WSBK F MNT
Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory
CSI: Miami “Special Delivery”
CSI: Miami “About Face”
WBZ News 10p (N) Seinfeld Big Bang Theory
Seinfeld How I Met Mike & Molly
WGBX L PBS
The Great British Baking Show
Washing-ton Wk
Greater Boston
Firing-Hoover
Frontline “Love, Life & the Virus”
POV Shorts
PBS NewsHour (N) Washing-ton Wk
Firing-Hoover
Greater Boston
WWJE R JN
Secrets Of The Morgue
Murder She Solved The Last 24 Cruise Ship Killers FBI: Criminal Pursuit
Bizarre Murders
Bizarre Murders
Killer Kids
WLVI X CW
Gold-bergs
Gold-bergs
Masters-Illusion
Masters-Illusion
Being Reuben
Being Reuben
7 News at 10PM on CW56 (N)
Modern Family
Modern Family
Family Guy
Family Guy
Bob’s Burgers
WNUE ¨ TELE
Exatlón Estados Unidos (N) Cennet (N) Enemigo íntimo “El teléfono es clave”
Noticiero Noticias Boxeo Telemundo (N)
WABU ¥ ION
Law & Order: Spe-cial Victims Unit
Law & Order: Spe-cial Victims Unit
Law & Order: Spe-cial Victims Unit
Law & Order: Spe-cial Victims Unit
Law & Order: Spe-cial Victims Unit
Law & Order: Spe-cial Victims Unit
Law & Order
CABLE STATIONS
A&E (6:00) Live Rescue Live Rescue “Live Rescue -- 02.17.20” Live Rescue “Live Rescue -- 02.24.20” Live Rescue “Live Rescue -- 02.17.20”
AMC (5:30) ››‡ “Ghost-busters II”
››‡ Demolition Man (1993, Science Fiction) Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock.
››› True Lies (1994) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis. A man lives the double life of a spy and a family man.
BRAVO (6:02) ››› “Catch Me if You Can” (2002) Leonardo DiCaprio. ‘PG-13’
››› Catch Me if You Can (2002, Comedy-Drama) Leonardo DiCaprio. A teenage scam artist poses as a pilot, surgeon and lawyer. ‘PG-13’
›››› E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
DISC Abandoned Waters: Sharkmania (N)
Alien Sharks: First Contact (N)
Lair of the Great White (N)
Tiger Shark King (N) I Was Prey Shark Week 2 (N)
Alien Sharks: First Contact
Great White
DISN Raven’s Home
Sydney-Max
Sydney-Max
Coop & Cami
Bunk’d Raven’s Home
Bunk’d Gabby Duran
Sydney-Max
Coop & Cami
Bunk’d Jessie Jessie
ESPN (6:30) NBA Basketball NBA Basketball SportsCenter (N) SportsCen-ter
ESPN2 UFC Live (N)
eSports UFC - The Walk
UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2 From Aug. 17, 2019. UFC Live Basket-ball
FREE ››› The Emperor’s New Groove (2000, Children’s) Voices of David Spade.
›››‡ Bolt (2008, Children’s) Voices of John Travolta, Miley Cyrus.
The 700 Club ›› My Little Pony: The Movie (2017, Children’s)
FX (5:30) ››‡ “Pitch Perfect 2”
›› Pitch Perfect 3 (2017, Musical Com-edy) Anna Kendrick, Hailee Steinfeld.
››› Girls Trip (2017) Regina Hall. Girlfriends get wild at the Essence Festival in New Orleans.
››› Girls Trip (2017) Regina Hall.
HBO Hard Knocks
››› Walk the Line (2005, Biography) Joaquin Phoe-nix, Reese Witherspoon. ‘PG-13’
Real Time With Bill Maher (N)
Room 104 (N)
Real Time With Bill Maher
Room 104
Perry Mason
HIST Ancient Aliens Ancient Aliens “Aliens and Stargates”
Ancient Aliens Ancient Aliens “Earth Station Egypt” Extra-terrestrials; Egypt.
Ancient Aliens “Aliens and Stargates”
Ancient Aliens
LIFE King of Queens
King of Queens
›› Madea’s Witness Protection (2012, Comedy) Tyler Perry. Madea uses tough love on a Wall Street banker and his family.
›‡ Traffik (2018, Suspense) Paula Patton, Omar Epps, Laz Alonso.
Madea’s Witness
MTV Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
NBCSB Early Edition Best of Felger & Mazz Radio (N)
American Ninja Warrior
Boston Sports Tonight (N)
Boston Sports Tonight
World Poker Tour: Season 9
World Poker
NESN MLB Baseball Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees. Yankee Stadium. (N)
Extra Innings
Red Sox Final (N)
NESN After Hours (N)
MLB Baseball Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees.
NICK To Be Announced Danger Force
Unfiltered Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends
SHOW (5:45) ›› “Die Another Day”
We Hunt Together ›››› Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, Science Fiction) Arnold Schwarzenegger. ‘R’
››‡ Mr. Brooks (2007) Kevin Costner. A man has a murderous alter ego.
STARZ (5:50) ››› “Spider-Man 2” (2004)
›› Bloodshot (2020, Action) Vin Diesel, Guy Pearce, Eiza González. ‘PG-13’
›› White Chicks (2004) Shawn Wayans. ‘PG-13’
›› XXX: State of the Union (2005, Action) Ice Cube, Willem Dafoe. ‘PG-13’
SYFY (6:30) ››› “Twister” (1996, Action) Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes.
››› Rush Hour (1998, Action) Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson.
Futurama Futurama Futurama Futurama Futurama
TBS ›› Suicide Squad (2016) Will Smith, Jared Leto. Armed supervillains unite to battle a powerful entity.
››‡ Justice League (2017, Action) Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot.
ELEAGUE From Paris, Feb. 21-23.
Batman v Sup
TNT Bones ››‡ Tag (2018, Comedy) Ed Helms, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner. Five competitive friends play a no-holds-barred game of tag.
›‡ The House (2017, Comedy) Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler.
USA NHL Hockey NHL Hockey Chrisley Knows
VH1 (6:00) “All About the Benjamins”
››› Friday (1995, Comedy) Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long.
›› Next Friday (2000, Comedy) Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Justin Pierce.
›‡ Friday After Next (2002, Comedy) Ice Cube, Mike Epps.
EVENING TV LISTINGS THURSDAY’S TV AUGUST 13, 20207:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 1:00
BROADCAST STATIONS WGBH ^ PBS
Greater Boston
Steves’ Europe
This Old House
Ask This Old H’se
Rick Steves Special: The Holy Land, Israelis and Palestinians Today
Amanpour and Company (N)
Greater Boston
Steves’ Europe
Murder Myster.
WBZ $ CBS
Wheel of Fortune
Jeopardy! (N)
Big Brother (N) Young Sheldon
The Unicorn
Bull “The Flying Carpet”
News Late Show-Colbert Late Late Show With James Corden
WCVB % ABC
News-Center 5
Chronicle Holey Moley (N) Don’t “Don’t Quit Your Day Job” (N)
To Tell the Truth (N) News-Center 5
Jimmy Kimmel
Nightline (N)
Jimmy Kimmel
Tamron Hall
WBTS * NBC
Boston News
Ac. Hol-lywood
Coronavirus & the Classroom (N)
Ellen’s Game of Games
Law & Order: Spe-cial Victims Unit
Boston News
Tonight Show-J. Fallon
Late Night With Seth Meyers
WFXT 9 FOX
Ent. Tonight
TMZ (N) To Be Announced To Be Announced Boston 25 News at 10PM (N)
Boston News
TMZ Live (N) National News
Boston News
WUTF = UMA
Inseparables, amor al límite Jesús Noticiero Univisión
Simón dice
Inseparables, amor al límite Nosotros los.
WSBK F MNT
Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory
Law & Order: Crimi-nal Intent
Law & Order: Crimi-nal Intent
WBZ News 10p (N) Seinfeld Big Bang Theory
Seinfeld How I Met Mike & Molly
WGBX L PBS
The Great British Baking Show
Miss Fisher’s Mur-der Mysteries
800 Words The Tunnel PBS NewsHour (N) Ask This Old H’se
This Old House
Ask This Old H’se
WWJE R JN
Secrets Of The Morgue
Murder She Solved The Last 24 Cruise Ship Killers FBI: Criminal Pursuit
Bizarre Murders
Bizarre Murders
Killer Kids
WLVI X CW
Gold-bergs
Gold-bergs
Killer Camp “A Killer Finale” (N)
Penn & Teller: Fool Us
7 News at 10PM on CW56 (N)
Modern Family
Modern Family
Family Guy
Family Guy
Bob’s Burgers
WNUE ¨ TELE
Exatlón Estados Unidos (N) Cennet (N) Enemigo íntimo “El secuestro” (N)
Noticiero Noticias Titulares y más
Cennet
WABU ¥ ION
Chicago P.D. Chicago P.D. “Fagin” Chicago P.D. “Army of One”
Chicago P.D. “Fork in the Road”
Chicago P.D. “Reform”
Chicago P.D. Chicago P.D.
CABLE STATIONS
A&E The First 48 “Trap House”
The First 48 “1,000 Cuts; Draw”
The First 48 “Death in Desire” (N)
Court Cam (N)
Court Cam
Court Cam
Court Cam
The First 48 “1,000 Cuts; Draw”
The First 48
AMC (6:00) ››‡ “Jurassic Park III”
›››‡ Ghostbusters (1984) Bill Murray. Four paranor-mal investigators battle mischievous ghouls.
››‡ Ghostbusters II (1989, Comedy) Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver.
Double Jeopardy
BRAVO Housewives/NYC Housewives/NYC Housewives/NYC Watch What
››› A League of Their Own (1992) Tom Hanks, Madonna. A women’s professional baseball league debuts in 1943. ‘PG’
DISC Extinct or Alive: Land of the Lost
Air Jaws 2020 (N) Sharkadelic Sum-mer (N)
Mako Nation (N) Expedition Un-known (N)
Air Jaws 2020 Shark-adelic
DISN Zombies (2018, Adventure) Milo Manheim. ‘NR’
Zombies 2 (2020, Romance-Comedy) Meg Donnelly. ‘NR’
Bunk’d Bunk’d Bunk’d Raven’s Home
Raven’s Home
Jessie Jessie
ESPN NFL Live To Be Announced SportsCenter (N) SportsCenter (N) SportsCen-ter
ESPN2 WNBA Basketball Los Angeles Sparks vs Washington Mystics. IMG Academy.
WNBA Basketball Minnesota Lynx vs Las Vegas Aces. IMG Academy. (N)
NFL Live UFC Unleashed Around the Horn
FREE (6:30) ›‡ “The Waterboy” (1998, Comedy) Adam Sandler.
››‡ Jumanji (1995) Robin Williams. A sinister board game puts its players in mortal jeopardy.
The 700 Club ›› My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016) Nia Vardalos.
FX ›››‡ The Martian (2015) Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig. A stranded astronaut tries to survive on Mars.
›››‡ The Martian (2015) Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig. A stranded astronaut tries to survive on Mars.
Times Presents
HBO Perry Mason “Chap-ter Seven”
Perry Mason “Chap-ter Eight”
››‡ Aquaman (2018) Jason Momoa. Aquaman must save Atlantis from his power-hungry brother.
I May Destroy
››› Harriet (2019, Biography) Cynthia Erivo. ‘PG-13’
HIST Mountain Men “Tom’s Big Day”
Mountain Men “Strike it Rich”
Mountain Men Josh hits the jackpot. (N)
Alone “Pins and Needles” (N) Mountain Men
Mountain Men Josh hits the jackpot.
Mountain Men
LIFE Married at First Sight
Married at First Sight (N)
Married at First Sight (N)
Married at First Sight (N)
Married at First Sight
Married at First Sight
Married at First
MTV Jersey Shore “And the Wall Won”
Double Shot at Love Revenge Prank (N)
Revenge Prank
Revenge Prank
Revenge Prank
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
NBCSB Early Edition NBA Basketball Washington Wizards vs Boston Celtics.
Boston Sports Tonight (N)
Boston Sports Tonight
World Poker Tour: Season 9
World Poker
NESN MLB Baseball
Extra Innings
Red Sox Final (N)
My Story Behind the B
Bruins Academy
NESN After Hours (N)
NESN After Hours MLB Baseball Tampa Bay Rays at Boston Red Sox.
NICK Sponge-Bob
Sponge-Bob
››‡ The Karate Kid (2010) Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan. A Chinese master schools an American boy in the martial arts.
Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends
SHOW (6:30) ›‡ “Jexi” (2019, Comedy) ‘R’
Shameless “Father’s Day”
On Becoming a God We Hunt Together Desus & Mero (N)
›‡ Countdown (2019, Horror) Elizabeth Lail. ‘PG-13’
Desus & Mero
STARZ ›› Little Man (2006, Comedy) Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans. ‘PG-13’
››‡ Bad Boys for Life (2020, Action) Will Smith, Martin Lawrence. ‘R’
P-Valley “Belly” ››› Spider-Man 2 (2004) Tobey Maguire. ‘PG-13’
SYFY ››› Beetlejuice (1988, Comedy) Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis.
››› Twister (1996) Helen Hunt. Storm chasers race to test a new tornado-monitoring device.
››‡ Trick ’r Treat (2007) Anna Paquin, Brian Cox.
›‡ Rings
TBS Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory
Lost Resort (N) Conan Lost Resort Conan New Girl
TNT (6:30) NBA Basketball (N) NBA Basketball (N) Inside the NBA (N) NBA Basketball
USA “Harry Potter and Half-Blood”
Cannonball “Swim-ming With Socks”
Chrisley Knows
Chrisley Knows
Cannonball “Viva el Mustache!” (N)
Chrisley Knows
Chrisley Knows
Chrisley Knows
Chrisley Knows
Cannon-ball
VH1 ››‡ Just Wright (2010) Queen Latifah. A physical therapist falls in love with her patient.
›› Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family (2011) Tyler Perry, Shad “Bow Wow” Moss.
›› Soul Plane (2004, Comedy) Kevin Hart, Tom Arnold.
The Great HeistNet�ixNew Series!Inspired by true events, this series (also known as El robo del siglo) follows the assault on Colombia’s Bank of the Republic that was perpetrated in 1994. Dubbed the “robbery of the century,” the heist saw a band of thieves making off with $33 million in U.S. dollars and turning the country upside down.Project PowerNet�ixOriginal Film!Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jamie Foxx headline this sci-� thriller. When a pill that gives its users unpre-dictable superpowers for �ve minutes hits the streets of New Orleans, a teenage dealer and a local cop must team with an ex-soldier to take down the group responsible for its creation. Machine Gun Kelly and Courtney B. Vance also star.Summer Under the Stars: “Steve McQueen”TCM, beginning at 6 a.m.Catch a Classic!A lasting symbol of Hollywood cool, Steve McQueen exuded that charisma seemingly effortlessly in his �lms, many of which are featured today. Included in this SUTSlineup are The Sand Pebbles (1966), the war �lm featuring McQueen in a Best Actor Os-car-nominated performance; another classic war drama, 1963’s The Great Escape; the in�uential action classic Bullitt (1968), with its iconic chase scene; the 1968 crime �lm The Thomas Crown Af-fair; the true-life prison drama Papillon(1973); and plenty more.Shark Week 2020Discovery Channel, beginning at 8 p.m.Shark Week 2020 continues tonight with Alien Sharks: First Contact, about mysterious and bizarre sharks that live in the depths; Lair of the Great White, in which experts try to learn why one population of great whites off of western Australia is particularly aggressive; Tiger Shark King, a search for what as-yet-unknown beast was captured on �lm assaulting a massive tiger shark in the Caribbean; and I Was Prey, in which survivors recount their shark attack experiences. Martha Knows Best: “Paths”HGTV, 10 p.m.Trusted lifestyle expert Martha Stewart invites view-ers to follow along as she completes a variety of beautiful outdoor projects at her Bedford, N.Y., farm. Tonight, Martha Stewart builds a stone pathway that leads to her peacocks, getting help from the fore-man of her outdoor grounds crew. Actress Lupita Nyong’o calls Martha for advice on how to arrange fresh �owers and what �owers are good for beginner gardeners.
TV BEST BETS
By Paul HallJack (Micheál Richardson)
is in the middle of a divorce and the gallery he manag-es in London is about to be ripped out from under his guidance, mainly because it is owned by his soon-to-be ex-wife’s parents. All he knows and all he believes he is made of is wrapped up in his work there, so he will do everything to get the money to purchase the building for himself — which leads him back to his father in the new film Made in Italy.
Robert Forester (Liam Nee-son) was an accomplished artist but more notably, is Jack’s father. The two have rarely spoken since the death of their wife and mother. Now they must come together to sell the family home in Italy, which they both own half of, if Jack is going to raise the
money for the gallery.While things have been icy
between Jack and Robert, the journey back to Italy provides an opportunity for them to learn more about each other than they ever bothered to in the years that have passed. But, time together does not always mean quality time. Sometimes it takes restoring the old to the new to bring out the best in all of us.
Along the way we are graced with colorful char-acters like Natalia (Valeria Bilello) the local restaurateur who endears herself to both of the men with her cooking and Kate (Lindsay Duncan), the real estate agent who is showing the dump — or should I say home — that needs a lot of work. These women have different stories but all are made in Italy.
As I journeyed through the countryside with the charac-
ters created in Made in Italy, I became enthralled by the simplicity of it all. The im-portance of family and those whom we consider family is never more evident than in Made in Italy. Richardson is the real-life son of Neeson and the late Natasha Rich-ardson, which only enhanced my love of the film. The two men give us a relationship onscreen that many fathers and sons experience. It’s an unspoken love that neither knows quite how to move for-ward with. Jack longs for his father’s approval while Rob-ert just doesn’t want to hurt his son.
Bilello’s Natalia helps view-ers understand that not ev-ery life is perfect and that’s OK. Family matters to all of these characters. She is the warmth to the icy relation-ship between the men.
And then there is the pictur-
esque views from the home. I looked out at the beauty that surrounds the pain and the tranquility engulfing the anxiety and it is absolutely breathtaking. I could have used more of these juxtapo-sitions in the film, as they brought a level of peace to me as a viewer and a notion of all being right in the world.
I loved the way Made in It-aly helped me to draw forth my personal experiences and add peace to my own life. It is a far-from-perfect film, but the mix of comedic moments with true emotion made for a wonderful diversion from life. I would like more of the coun-tryside, more of the views and more of the beauty of old world Italy, but I’ll happily settle for this smorgasbord of good friends and warm feel-ings. Family forever.
Paul’s Grade: B
THIS WEEK IN MOVIES
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By Yuras KarmanauASSOCIATED PRESS
MINSK, Belarus — Crowds of protesters in Be-larus swarmed the streets and thousands of workers rallied outside industrial plants Thursday to de-nounce a police crackdown on demonstrations over a disputed election that ex-tended the 26-year rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Beginning in the morn-ing, hundreds of women formed long “lines of soli-darity” in several areas of the capital, Minsk. Many were dressed in white and carried �owers and por-traits of loved ones who have been detained during protests that began shortly after Sunday’s vote, which they said was rigged.
The human chains grew throughout the day, �lling the main central squares and avenues as motor-ists honked in support. In Minsk and many other cities, thousands of fac-tory workers also rallied against the police violence, raising the prospect of strikes in a new challenge to the government.
Amid growing public
dismay, dozens of military and police veterans post-ed videos in which they dumped their uniforms and insignia in the trash. Several popular anchors at Belarus’ state TV sta-tions have quit.
Nearly 7,000 people have been detained and hundreds injured in the clampdown on demon-strators protesting the of�cial results that said Lukashenko won 80 per-cent of the vote and his top opposition challenger got only 10 percent. Police have broken up protests with stun grenades, tear gas, rubber bullets and se-vere beatings.
“Belarusians have seen the villainous face of this government. I argued with my husband and voted for Lukashenko. And this is what I got in the end — I can’t �nd my relatives in prisons,” said Valentina Chailytko, 49, whose hus-band and son were de-tained in protests Sunday. She has been unable to get any information on their whereabouts.
One protester died Mon-day in Minsk after, the Interior Ministry says, an
explosive device he tried to throw at police blew up in his hand. Some media reports have challenged that of�cial version. Nei-ther the ministry nor the media outlets have provid-ed evidence.
Thousands of people con-verged Thursday on the place where he died, many carrying �owers. Europe-an ambassadors also laid �owers at the site earlier in the day.
The authorities also con�rmed that a detainee died in the southeastern
city of Gomel, but the cir-cumstances of his death weren’t immediately clear.
Hundreds of medical workers joined the demon-strations Thursday in Minsk and many other cities.
“There is a feeling that a war is going on, but it’s a war against us,” said Mikhail Portnov, a 33-year old general practitioner. “We, doctors, see the price of this war as no one else. We were ready for vio-lence, but the brutality of it has crossed all limits.”
By Josef Federman, Matthew Lee and
Jon GambrellASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM — Israel and the United Arab Emir-ates announced Thursday they are establishing full diplomatic relations in a U.S.-brokered deal that required Israel to halt its contentious plan to annex occupied West Bank land sought by the Palestin-ians.
The historic deal deliv-ered a key foreign policy victory to President Don-ald Trump as he seeks re-election and re�ected a changing Middle East in which shared concerns about archenemy Iran have largely overtaken traditional Arab support for the Palestinians.
A spokesman for Pal-estinian President Mah-moud Abbas said the deal amounts to “treason,” and should be reversed.
The agreement makes the UAE the third Arab country, after Egypt and Jordan, to have full dip-lomatic ties with Israel. They announced it in a joint statement, saying deals between Israel and the UAE were expected in the coming weeks in such areas as tourism, direct �ights and embassies.
Trump called the deal “a truly historic moment.”
“Now that the ice has been broken I expect more Arab and Muslim coun-tries will follow the United Arab Emirates,” he told re-
porters in the Oval Of�ce.In a nationally televised
news conference, Net-anyahu echoed Trump’s remarks.
“Today we usher in a new era of peace be-tween Israel and the Arab world,” he said. “There is a good chance we will soon see more Arab countries joining this expanding cir-cle of peace.”
But Netanyahu said the annexation plan was on “temporary hold,” appear-ing to contradict state-ments from Emirati of�-cials who said it was off the table.
Emirati of�cials de-scribed the deal in prag-matic terms. Anwar Gargash, a top Emirati of-�cial, said they had dealt a “death blow” to an ag-gressive Israeli move and hoped to help reshape the region.
“Is it perfect? Nothing is perfect in a very dif�cult region,” Gargash added. “But I think we used our political chips right.”
Omar Ghobash, assis-tant minister for culture and public diplomacy, told The Associated Press: “I don’t think anything was written in stone. We are opening a door. We are hoping the Israelis will see the bene�ts to this step.”
“I would assume that this is political maneuver-ing within a very complex political society,” he added.
Israel and the UAE do not share a border and have never fought a war. But the UAE, like most of
the Arab world, long re-jected diplomatic ties with Israel in the absence of a peace deal establishing a Palestinian state on lands captured by Israel in 1967.
That steadfast support for the Palestinians, how-ever, has begun to weaken in recent years, in large part because of the shared enmity toward Iran and Iranian proxies in the re-gion. Crown Prince Mo-hammed bin Zayed Al Na-hyan, the day-to-day ruler of the UAE, also shares Is-rael’s distrust of Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and the Gaza Strip’s ruling Hamas mili-tant group.
Netanyahu has long boasted about fostering closer behind-the-scenes ties with Arab countries than publicly acknowl-edged. The UAE has made little secret of those budding ties, allowing Is-raeli businessmen to en-ter the country on foreign passports and welcoming Israeli of�cials and sport-ing �gures. Next year, Israel will take part in the UAE’s delayed Expo 2020, the world’s fair being hosted by Dubai. A secret synagogue also draws practicing Jews in Dubai.
Still, the timing of the deal was unexpected, and perhaps tied to the upcom-ing U.S. election.
For Trump, it gave an important boost to a pres-ident trailing in opinion polls and facing heavy criticism for his handling
of the coronavirus crisis. It was also a rare achieve-ment for his Mideast team, led by adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, whose Mideast plan has made little headway since it was unveiled early this year.
Israel and the UAE are among Trump’s few close international allies, and Thursday’s deal may have been seen as an election gift.
U.S.-Israeli author Joel Rosenberg, who met with the crown prince in 2018 alongside fellow evangel-ical Christians, said the announcement could in-�uence religious voters
who may “struggle to de-cide” between Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Thursday’s agreement offers “a feel that this is historic” and a change for Trump to “have a series of big moments in the months ahead.”
In a statement, Biden praised Israel for freezing the annexation plan.
“The United Arab Emir-ates and Israel have point-ed a path toward a more peaceful, stable Middle East,” he said, adding that a Biden presidency “will seek to build on this prog-ress.”
Netanyahu chalked up a diplomatic victory at a time when his shaky coali-tion government has been plagued by in�ghting and faces the possibility of ear-ly elections. He also fac-es a corruption trial over charges stemming from a series of scandals.
But even his rivals praised the deal.
Netanyahu has seen his popularity plummet as the country grapples with a renewed coronavi-rus outbreak, mass street protests and skyrocketing unemployment as the re-sult of earlier lockdown measures.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2020 THE DAILY ITEM B7
INTERNATIONALUAE and Israel to establish full diplomatic ties
PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Donald Trump, accompanied by, from left, U.S. special envoy for Iran Brian Hook, Avraham Berkowitz, Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, President Donald Trump’s White House se-nior adviser Jared Kushner, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, smiles in the Oval Of�ce at the White House, Wednesday.
Thousands in Belarus form ‘lines of solidarity’ in protest
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People with �owers and old Belarusian nation-al �ags gather to protest against the results of the country’s presidential election in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday.
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The MT Wila is boarded by Iranian navy com-mandos in the Gulf of Oman off the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates, Wednesday.
U.S. says Iran brie�y seizes oil
tanker near Strait of HormuzBy Jon GambrellASSOCIATED PRESS
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Iranian navy boarded and brie�y seized a Liberian-�agged oil tanker near the stra-tegic Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions between Tehran and the U.S., the American mili-tary said Thursday.
The U.S. military’s Cen-tral Command published a black-and-white video showing what appeared to be special forces fast-rop-ing down from a helicopter onto the MT Wila, whose last position appeared to be off the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates near the city of Khorfak-kan.
The Iranian navy held the vessel for some �ve hours before releasing it Wednesday, said a U.S. military of�cial who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonym-ity to discuss details not yet made public. The Wila made no distress calls be-fore, during and after the seizure, the of�cial said.
The Iranian helicopter involved appeared to be a Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King, which only Iran’s navy op-erates. The Iranian navy also handles all operations in the Gulf of Oman on the eastern side of the Strait
of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of all oil traded passes. Two other Iranian naval vessels took part in the seizure, Central Com-mand said.
The International Mar-itime Security Construct, which is a U.S.-created maritime group to protect Persian Gulf waterways, called the Iranian board-ing “a blatant violation of international law that un-dermines freedom of nav-igation and the free �ow of commerce.” It said one of its vessels “monitored the incident” but did not intervene.
“We call on Iran to ar-ticulate to the interna-tional community the le-gal basis for its actions,” the group said in a state-ment. “This type of reck-less, aggressive behavior by Iran destabilizes the region and threatens the rules based international order.”
Iranian state televi-sion later on Thursday acknowledged the brief seizure, referring to the operation as a routine in-spection without elaborat-ing.
Of�cials in the UAE, a U.S.-allied federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula, did not respond to a request for comment.
Abandoned by state after explosion, Lebanese people help each other
By Hend KortamASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT — In the southern Lebanese town of Haris, a newlywed couple is living in one of Safy Faqeeh’s apartments for free. He’s never met them before, and they aren’t on a honeymoon. Their apartment in Bei-rut was wrecked when last week’s massive explo-sion wreaked destruction across the capital.
Faqeeh is one of hun-dreds of Lebanese who have opened their homes to survivors of the Aug. 4 blast.
The explosion, which was centered on Beirut’s port and ripped across the
capital, left around a quar-ter of a million people with homes un�t to live in. But they have not had to crowd into collective shelters or sleep in public parks.
That’s because in the absence of the state, Leb-anese have stepped up to help each other.
Some have let relatives, friends and neighbors stay with them. Others like Faqeeh extended a helping hand even farther, taking to social media to spread the word that they have a room to host people free of charge.
The couple saw Faqeeh’s offer on Facebook for a free apartment he owns in Haris, some 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of
Beirut. They can stay as long as they need to, the 29-year-old Faqeeh said, and he has a second apart-ment available for anyone else in need. “This is not help, it is a duty,” he said.
When he was a teenager, Faqeeh’s family home was damaged in the 2006 war between Israel and Hez-bollah, and they had to stay in a house in Tripoli, clear on the other end of Lebanon. Now he’s paying it forward. “We have expe-rienced several wars and they (people) hosted us,” Faqeeh said.
The help that Lebanese are giving goes beyond a place to stay. Armed with helmets and brooms, hun-dreds of volunteers have
circulated through Bei-rut’s heavily damaged neighborhoods, cleaning up people’s homes and doing free basic repairs, often enough to enable the residents to stay there.
The explosion left entire blocks in shambles, with streets blanketed in bro-ken glass, twisted metal, broken brickwork. Yet within days, some streets were clean, the debris neatly sorted in piles. That was thanks to volunteers, often using social media to organize where to target.
In some places, they were sweeping streets and hauling away wreck-age while security forces or soldiers stood nearby, watching.
NEW YORK (AP) — An-other afternoon fade for stocks left Wall Street just shy of a record on Thurs-day, after the S&P 500 brie�y crossed above its all-time closing high for the second straight day.
The S&P 500 dipped 6.92 points, or 0.2 percent, to 3,373.43. At one point during the day, it climbed above 3,386.15. That’s the record closing level it set in February, before in-vestors appreciated how much devastation the new coronavirus would cause for the global economy.
The Dow Jones Industri-al Average dipped 80.12, or 0.3 percent, to 27,896.72. The Nasdaq composite climbed 30.27, or 0.3 per-cent, to 11,042.50.
It’s just the second loss for the S&P 500 in the last 10 days. The index began stumbling in the early afternoon, as Treasury yields were accelerating following an auction of 30-year bonds by the U.S. government. Higher yields mean prices for bonds were falling.
“We saw a sell-off in bonds, and that led to a
little bit of weakness in stocks,” said JJ Kinah-an, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade. “It’s not a ter-rible day by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s also a summer day,” which are traditionally slow for markets.
Yields had already perked up before the auc-tion, following a report showing that 963,000 U.S. workers �led for un-employment bene�ts last week. It’s an incredibly high number of layoffs, but it’s also the �rst time the tally has dropped be-low 1 million since March, before widespread busi-ness lockdowns caused a tsunami of layoffs.
Economists said the drop in jobless claims, which was better than the market was expecting, is an encouraging step. But they also cautioned that it could be more of an outli-er than a trend, and more data reports are needed to con�rm it.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury climbed to 0.71 percent. It was at 0.57 per-cent just on Monday.
Wall Street has erased
almost all of the nearly 34 percent drop the S&P 500 suffered from late Feb-ruary into March, even though the economy is still hobbled despite some recent improvements.
Massive efforts to sup-port the economy by the Federal Reserve and U.S. government helped trigger the rally, and investors are now waiting for Congress and the White House to deliver another round of
aid after unemployment bene�ts and other mea-sures in the last tranche expired.
Democrats and Repub-licans are still far apart, but hope remains on Wall Street that they’ll reach a deal on stimulus that investors say is crucially needed.
“The news out of D.C. has really been shrugged off by the market,” said Jason Draho, head of asset
allocation for the Ameri-cas at UBS Global Wealth Management.
He said investors have also gained more con�-dence about a broader economic recovery as data reports continue to show steady improvements.
“There’s still a lot of weakness, but various parts of the data are show-ing improvement,” he said. “There’s a moderation, but not a reversal.”
Most stocks in the S&P 500 and across Wall Street were weaker on Thursday. Energy producers had some of the sharpest loss-es, but resilience for Apple and several other Big Tech stocks helped to keep the losses in check.
“The pause in stocks right now is more related to the fact that the S&P 500 is essentially battling with an all-time high right now,” said Randy Fred-erick, vice president of trading & derivatives at Charles Schwab. “There’s a huge level of (technical) resistance.”
He said it’s similar to how the market scuf�ed for several weeks until
late July, when it turned positive for 2020 again.
Cisco Systems slumped 11.2 percent for the big-gest loss in the S&P 500, even though it reported better results for its latest quarter than Wall Street expected. It gave a forecast for the current quarter that fell short of analysts’ forecasts.
In Asian stock markets, Japan’s benchmark Nik-kei 225 jumped 1.8 per-cent, South Korea’s Kospi gained 0.2 percent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng slipped 0.1 percent. Stocks in Shanghai were virtual-ly �at.
In European markets, Germany’s DAX lost 0.5 percent, and France’s CAC 40 fell 0.6 percent. The FTSE 100 in London dropped 1.5 percent.
Benchmark U.S. crude fell 43 cents to settle at $42.24 per barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, fell 47 cents to $44.96 a barrel.
Gold for delivery in De-cember rose $21.40 to set-tle at $1,970.40 per ounce.
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BUSINESSLate afternoon fade costs Wall Street a record
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Wall Street has erased almost all of the nearly 34 percent drop the S&P 500 suffered from late February into March.
By Craig Trudell and Andre Tartar
TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
On the surface, carmakers have staged a remarkable recovery toward pre-pandem-ic production. But within the walls of U.S. auto plants, it was incredibly challenging to pull off — and is proving dif�cult to sustain.
Manufacturers rushed to restart assem-bly lines months ago because sales stayed surprisingly buoyant in the midst of the pandemic. Several companies said they restored output completely within weeks after reopening, and the industry has avoided the nightmarish outbreaks seen at meatpacking plants. But along the way, automakers have been stretched thin by absenteeism, distancing protocols, quar-antines and supply-chain constraints.
In several of America’s biggest au-to-making facilities, foot traf�c appears to have never gotten back to February levels, according to Orbital Insight, which col-lects a large, stable and nationwide sam-ple of mobile-device location data. While some carmakers downplay the challenges they’ve been having, others acknowledge coming under serious strain in getting their factories �red back up.
The data is surprising because of just how standout a comeback the auto indus-try has staged. Since April, the motor-ve-hicle and parts sector has added 289,000 to U.S. payrolls, a more than 45 percent surge that dwarfs employment growth in other manufacturing categories. Cars also have been the bright spot in the Federal Reserve’s monthly report on industri-al production. Boeing Co., by contrast, continues to be plagued by scrapped orders that have had a debilitating effect on other aviation businesses, including jet-engine maker General Electric Co.
Toyota Motor Corp.’s factories are emblematic of the unevenness of the foot-traf�c recovery across some of the industry’s most important plants. Activ-ity is picking back up at its Highlander sport-utility vehicle factory in Indiana but lagging at its facilities making trucks in Texas and Corollas in Mississippi, accord-ing to Orbital Insight’s data.
“We do not anticipate our operations to ‘return to normal’ for some time,” Toyota said in an emailed statement.
Other plants that are far from bounc-ing back or struggling to sustain their foot-traf�c recovery include two key Ford Motor Co. SUV facilities, a Daimler AG factory that is a key source of Mer-cedes-Benz vehicles globally and Kia Mo-tors Corp.’s only U.S. manufacturing site.
Automakers caution that the number of people in their plants may not necessarily correlate with production. Foot traf�c at Ford’s factories is down primarily because the company is limiting admittance to critical staff, a spokesperson said. Many suppliers that drop by in normal times have called off visits. Public tours have ceased at its full-size pickup plant in Dearborn, Michigan.
Gary Johnson, Ford’s chief manufactur-ing and labor affairs of�cer, acknowledged at an Aug. 3 investor conference that
automakers and their suppliers have been struggling with absenteeism. But said the company says it has been operating at close to 100 percent of pre-virus produc-tion levels.
For Ford and General Motors Co., the stakes involved in keeping plants crank-ing out vehicles — particularly pickups and SUVs — are massive. GM almost broke even in North America during the second quarter, a phenomenal feat consid-ering the amount of time its plants were shut down during the period. But both companies count on the region in normal times for vast portions of their pro�ts.
At GM, production was down for eight out of 13 weeks during the quarter. The number of vehicles it shipped to retailers plummet-ed 62 percent, and U.S. inventory is a little more than half what it was a year ago. Yet Dhivya Suryadevara, the automaker’s de-parting chief �nancial of�cer, cautioned last month that wholesale levels will remain below normal in the second half.
“Even though production is running all-out, it is not quite back at the levels, that pre-Covid ability to run all-out,” Suryadevara said during GM’s July 29 earnings call. She is leaving the automak-er to become CFO of �nancial-technology company Stripe.
While the Orbital Insight data suggest that foot traf�c at GM’s truck factories in Michigan and Indiana hasn’t gotten back to where it was in February, the two facil-ities are among those that have recovered the most. Dealers are champing at the bit for Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups — “Send me all you can get” was the message Mike Jackson, chief execu-tive of�cer of retailer AutoNation Inc., delivered on Bloomberg Television in May.
But production may not return to nor-mal this year because of weak demand from �eet customers — both rental com-panies and government agencies — and since the company is not running plants on overtime, said Jim Cain, a spokesman. GM has kept open facilities in Texas and Missouri despite calls by the UAW to shut them down over Covid-19 concerns.
Elon Musk has not brought up absentee-ism speci�cally regarding Tesla Inc.’s lone U.S. auto assembly plant, although the
CEO did allude to “a bunch of �re�ghting on supply chain and production issues” during the electric-car maker’s July 22 earnings call.
Representatives for Tesla didn’t re-spond to requests for comment on Orbital Insight’s data, which suggests there has been a bit of a decline in foot traf�c since June at its plant in Fremont, California.
Orbital Insight detected a pick-up in activity around the time that Musk said he would reopen the facility regardless of a local shutdown order. By the time county authorities signed off on the com-pany resuming production, the number of devices detected was close to the levels seen before the CEO gave in to pressure to suspend operations in March.
In a regulatory �ling last month, Tesla said its ability to sustain output will depend in part on “a stable and motivated production workforce.”
BMW AG resumed the �rst shift at its X3, X5 and X7 SUV factory in Spartan-burg, South Carolina, in early May after a �ve-week hiatus. It took until the end of the month for the German carmaker’s supply chain to return to full strength and enable the company to restore a sec-ond shift, said Phil DiIanni, a spokesman. All furloughed workers have been rein-stated since then.
Production at the plant — its largest in the world, employing 11,000 and boasting annual capacity to make 450,000 vehi-cles — has approached pre-virus levels, DiIanni said, and BMW has trained staff to be able to �ll in at different stations to maintain output.
Daimler, on the other hand, appears to have much lower foot traf�c at its Mercedes GLS and GLE SUV factory in Alabama than it did in February.
While staf�ng levels haven’t been im-pacted at the plant — it had more than 4,200 employees at the end of last year — Daimler has staggered shifts to reduce personal contact as much as possible, according to a spokesperson. Those who can complete tasks at home are working remotely, and the company is limiting non-essential business visits.
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claw backBy Austin Fuller
TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Red Lobster is facing the “most challenging time” in its history during the coronavirus pandemic, CEO Kim Lopdrup says, at the same time that outside analysts worry about a looming $355 million loan the company has due next summer.
The privately held seafood chain of more than 700 restau-rants has a $380 million term loan, with more than $355 million outstanding, reaching maturity next July, according to a June report from Moody’s, which earlier in the year cut the company’s credit rating to Caa1, de�ned as “poor.”
Upcoming �nancial events mean it is “critical to repair the balance sheet,” said John Gor-don, a San Diego-based restau-rant analyst.
“Most of the casual dining restaurant operations have had a very dif�cult time and most will have a dif�cult time for some considerable time going forward,” Gordon said. “I hope that Red Lobster is doubling down wherever and however they can in terms of takeout and delivery business.”
Lopdrup said in a statement that this is “the most challeng-ing time Red Lobster has faced in our 52 years of operation.”
He noted the mandatory shutdown of the restaurants in March prompted by the virus and restrictions such as limit-ed capacity in place even after most of the company’s locations have reopened their dining rooms.
“Our priority is to make sure Red Lobster is one of the sur-vivors of this crisis,” Lopdrup said. “While there are many un-knowns, I am optimistic about Red Lobster’s future. We have a great team, and I’m proud of how nimbly they reacted to a fast-changing situation.”
Red Lobster is offering free delivery on orders larger than $30 placed on the company’s website or app Monday through Thursday, Lopdrup said.
Inside restaurants, Lopdrup said employees are wearing masks and have their tempera-tures checked when coming into work. Other safety measures include hand sanitizer stations, single-use menus and pay-at-the-table technology.
Moody’s also gave Red Lob-ster a negative outlook.
“Over the next 12 to 18 months we think that things can get more challenging,” said Bill Fahy, vice president and se-nior credit of�cer for Moody’s.