Volunteers, organizations work to keep up with need
By Terry Date tdate@eagletribune.com Dec 28, 2020 1 of 10
TIM JEAN/Staff photo Volunteers from local churches load boxes of food into dozens of vehicles at a distribution center on Essex Street in Lawrence.
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TIM JEAN/Staff photoPallets of food from a big box truck are unloaded at a distribution center on Essex Street in Lawrence. The food is then organized and distributed by pastors and parishioners as part of the hunger relief effort across the region.Â
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TIM JEAN/Staff photoParishioner Evelyn Sentell of Methuen, right, speaks with Pastor Luis Leonor of Iglesia Cristiana Fuente De Salvacion Church as she picks up some food for her family.Â
PHOTO COURTESY RON LAVALLEEÂ Lawrence firefighter Juan Manny Gonzalez
Firefighter Juan Manny Gonzalez talks with Lawrence Mayor Daniel Rivera in this file photo. Gonzalez, 54, beat COVID-19 but it was two months before he finally tested negativeÂ
LAWRENCE â Confined to his basement, battling a stubborn fever and a persistent cough, Juan Manny Gonzalez prayed for the safety of his wife, Gloribel. I kept praying, Keep her healthy. Let me carry the burden. Don t give it to her, said the veteran Lawrence firefighter. I prayed for my better half not to get this and, thank God, she never did.
Gonzalez, 54, beat COVID-19 but it was two months before he finally tested negative and one of his lungs was affected, requiring him to perform breathing therapy daily.Â
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JEERS to the urge to avoid a messy election, circumventing democracy, in picking someone to serve the remaining year of Lawrence Mayor Daniel Riveraâs second term.
The City Councilâs Ordinance and Intergovernmental Relations Committee is set to meet tomorrow to talk about seeking state permission to dodge a city charter requirement to hold a special election for mayor.
Rivera, elected to his first term in 2013, would be headed into his final year in office were he not recently named CEO of the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency. He addressed the council last week, formally giving notice of his resignation as of Friday, Jan. 8.
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