Lynn’s Cory Moore had a tryout with the Boston Red Sox organization last Tuesday at LeLacheur Park in Lowell, home of the Lowell Spinners.

Moore, an all-star pitcher at Curry College, threw 30 pitches in the workout that was watched by high-level Red Sox scouts for the Northeast region.

Moore, a 22-year-old right-hander, was very pleased with his performance in the tryout.

“It went very well – they really liked my slider,” said Moore, who hit 90 mph on the radar gun. “They (Sox officials) talked to me afterwards and they wanted to get me signed to the Worcester Tornadoes for a trial period, but it was too late in the season.”

Also encouraging news for Moore was that fact that he was the only prospect with whom the Red Sox conferred following the workout. Sox officials indicated they would be keeping in touch with him in the fall.

“I’d love to get signed by the Sox and have an opportunity to play some rookie ball,” said Moore. “I’ll also probably be going to a couple of more tryouts.”

Sox officials were no doubt impressed by Moore’s size (6-foot-4), his arm strength, and his repertoire of pitches (fastball, slider, curve, and changeup).

Moore’s senior year at Curry College this spring was a spectacular one. He compiled a 6-0 record with 1.79 earned run average to earn the Commonwealth Coast Conference pitcher of the year award and All-CCC honors for the second time.

Curry won the conference title and had the No. 1 seed for the post-season tournament, but was ousted.

Moore concluded his collegiate baseball career by pitching one inning for the Division 2-3 team in the rain-shortened New England College Baseball All-Star Game at Fenway Park. Moored mowed down the Division 1 team’s 4-5-6 hitters from Central Connecticut, Boston College, and Maine on a groundout and two strikeouts in the second inning. The game was called after three innings due to rain.

“I threw mostly fastballs with a couple of sliders,” said Moore. “It was a dream come true being out there – growing up and watching the Sox and just being able to step on that mound at Fenway. Not many people get to do that.”

Moore also had the opportunity to play college baseball with his brother, Kyle.

"I played baseball with my younger brother, Kyle Moore, for the past two seasons," said Moore. "He is going into his junior year and also a pitcher. It was a great privilege to play two seasons with my brother and to get to spend my final year of college ball with him next to me, I couldnt ask for anything more."

Cory Moore burst on the local baseball scene as a standout on the 2000 East Lynn Little League All-Star team that advanced to the state finals at Harry Ball Field in Beverly. East Lynn emerged undefeated from the winner’s bracket only to be stunned by Pittsfield twice (2-0, 6-0) in the finals. Chris Carroll and David Kolozetski were two of his teammates on that squad.

“We had a day off in between [the winner’s bracket final and the finals] and I think we lost some of our momentum,” recalled Moore, whose team had rolled through the districts and the sectionals.

Interestingly, it was the first year that the state Little League finals had gone to a double-elimination tournament. Had the tournament remained single elimination, Moore and the East Lynn team would have advanced to the Northeast Regionals, the last stop before Williamsport.

Moore, who is working this summer for the Lynn Housing Authority, said he was grateful to his uncle, Scott McDaniel, for his support and guidance. McDaniel is the former president of the Wyoma Little League.

Garelick Farms has been fined $1,000 everyday since August 4, according to lawyers in the city’s law department.

As of Monday the 23rd, Garelick Farms owed the city $19,000 as the result of an order sent to the law department by Mary Ann O’Connor, the direct or of the city’s Health Division.

The milk giant owned by Dean Foods is facing a court date on September 1 if the odor emanating from its Lynnway plant has not been eradicated.

On that date, the city will seek to lodge a criminal complaint against the corporation, according to the law department.

In addition, the firm’s licensing approval for beverage production is scheduled to be suspended unless and until the odor is eradicated.

In such a scenario, the company would be forced to close its doors.

The continuing odor emanating from the Garelick Farms plant on the Lynnway, if not eradicated by September 1, will continue to cost the firm $1,000 a day in fines until a long and short term solution is worked out, according to city attorney Vincent Phelan.

“Garelick Farms has come to the end of our patience,” said City Council President Tim Phelan.

“They now have to perform or the city will take strong action to send out a message to other polluters of the environment here. We won’t stand for it any longer,” he said.

Phelan has been the most outspoken city leader leading the offense against the milk giant.

Councillor Peter Capano has also been a sturdy, angry voice in bringing Garelick Farms to take responsibility for a stench emanating from its plant for the past three years.

Capano represents the area directly impacted by the stench.

During the past week, the odor has remained, noticeably so, along the length of the Lynnway from the car wash to the bowling alley.

The rain and decreased temperature masked by mitigation efforts to cover it up rather than to get rid of it entirely, decreased the stench but did not eliminate it.

Butler, Brogna lead L’il Phunk Boyz team to USA hip hop title

Nashaun Butler and Jevonn Brogna are best friends who let their incredible dance moves do their talking.

Butler, 9, a student at Aborn School in Lynn, and Brogan, 12, a student at Beebe School in Malden, recently returned from the International Hip Hop Dance Championships in Las Vegas where they helped the L’il Phunk Boyz team win the United States junior division national title and finish fourth in the world.

The L’il Phunk team trains at the Phunk Phenomenon Dance Complex in Everett and consists of seven boys, ages 9 through 12. L’il Phunk bested several teams from across the country to win the national title. Japan, Canada, and Ireland finished ahead of the U.S. champs in the world competition before 2,000 fans at the Orleans Hotel Arena. Last year L’il Phunk took home the world championship.

“It was exciting,” said Butler, who is the group’s front dancer. “We had a lot of fun. I’m proud of our team. The host [Mookie] was amazing. But what I liked most about Las Vegas was the pool in our hotel. It was also fun meeting kids from other countries like Japan.”

The boys have mutual respect for each other’s dance abilities. “Nashaun’s a great dancer,” says Jevonn, who has impressively won four U.S.A. and world medals in the past three years.

Dressed in red, white, and blue jerseys, skinny jeans and white Nike Blazers [sneakers], the L’il Phunk Boyz had their fans in Vegas on their feet with a spectacular 90-second routine that featured full-speed flips, twists, and signature hip hop moves.

“I felt we hit our routine very well,” said Nashaun, who has been dancing since he was three years old and is nicknamed “Nay.”

“We practiced our routine for two months,” added Brogna, who also plays basketball.

Butler and Brogna are getting used to being in the spotlight. Butler has danced on the Maury Povich Show and performed on a Fox 5 news show in New York City where he and Jevonn met National Football League stars Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco. They also performed regularly with the Junior Celtics Dancers at Boston Celtics games during the past season.

Nashaun is the son of Amber Auger and Parrish Butler and the grandson of Sherie Auger. Jevonn is the son of Linda Brogan and Armetrus Mann.

“I want to thank my family for supporting me, especially Noni [Sherie Auger]” said Nashaun, who aspires to be a professional dancer.

“These young men are totally awesome,” said Noni. “I was so excited when they won. I want to thank Lynn businesses, Ernie’s Harvest Time, John’s Roast Beef, Brothers Deli, Prince Pizza, Juliana’s Hair Salon, Lynn Shore Rest Home, and Atlantic Street Rest Home, and everybody that supported our children through fundraising."

Brogna also thanked his family for its support. “I want to thank my mom, my two uncles, Paul and Dino, and my grandparents for raising the money for me to go to Las Vegas and win the gold medal,” said Jevonn.

“I have represented the restaurant association for more than two years. Of all the meetings that I have attended that have been held the idea of an adult entertainment zone and or strip clubs has never once been raised or discussed by the association or its individual members,” Riley told the Journal.

“The media coverage of their alleged positions has caused them great embarrassment and harm to their public images and businesses. The adverse publicity they have received has not helped their businesses,” added Riley.

Subero has said he asked questions about locating an adult entertainment enterprise in the city, admitting he was curious about the rules and regulations and whether or not any existed in the first place.

“Asking a few questions about how the system works and actually making the legal and business moves to open a strip club are two entirely different things. Mr. Subero has publicly gone on the record that he is opposed to a strip club and an entertainment zone in Lynn. He should be taken at his word. His word has been good during the time I have represented the restaurant association,” said Riley.

However, City Council President Tim Phelan said he is standing against an entertainment zone and a strip club on principal and that he will be asking the city council to pass an ordinance severely limiting where a adult entertainment zone could be located in the city.

The ordinance, which will apparently be passed unanimously this week will give some teeth to the city’s desire to keep such zones and possible strip clubs outside of the city.

Phelan said that even if they couldn’t be banned entirely, such an ordinance could restrict their locations to heavy industrial areas and not allow alcohol to be served.

Riley said that the city has made too great a deal over Subero’s questions.

“The association has been working closely with the Lynn Chamber of Commerce in order to improve and enhance the restaurant business in Lynn. That is what the association is all about,” Riley added.

The city has finally shown its teeth in all its might and is now threatening to stall or to remove entirely its beverage production license which would close the plant.

This part of the drama will play out in court September 1, a date set by the city when it will enter a criminal complaint against Garelick.

In the meantime, the odor continues.

Everyone notices it.

Businesspeople along the Lynnway are sick of it – and we would imagine that everyone working at the milk plant itself cannot stand it.

Garelick needs to become the kind of corporation that this city can tolerate.

Right now, Garelick is intolerable and the odor coming from its plant is worse.

It is either unable, unwilling or feels it cannot afford to spend the money necessary to operate its plant the way General Electric does.

There is such a thing as being a good neighbor as Walmart is, as the Lynnway’s numerous automobile dealerships are and then there is Garelick Farms – with a terrible stench coming out of its operations and causing an environmental nuisance everyday.

The leaders of Garelick Farms may need a larger fine everyday in order to move them to where they ought to be.

We suspect the money they’ll have to spend is what’s holding up the end of the odor.

At the same time we are feeling the Garelick Farms people are coming closer to the understanding that Lynn is at the end of its patience and that the court will force the company to comply with state and federal law as well as with the city.

For the life of us, we cannot imagine why it has to come to this when in other communities with much larger production companies the companies comply with high standards on their own.

Passing by the Lynnway last week on Thursday and Friday, we noticed a huge crane and construction work going on the exterior of the Garelick Plant.

We wondered – did they get a permit from the Building Department for the new bits of steel being attached the way a homeowner would be inclined to seek a permit for a new set of front stairs being built?

We doubted it – but we don’t know.

All we know about this company are its products, which many of us tend to buy, and the odor, which they don’t seem to care about.

GE Retiree, active Shriner

Kenneth D. Palmer Jr. of Lynn died on August 20. He was 73 years old.

He was the husband of 17 years of Gerda (Kleuver) Palmer and of the late Carole A. (Balser) Palmer. Born in Lawrence on September 7, 1936, he was the son of the late Kenneth D. Palmer, Sr. and Amy R. (Franklin) Palmer. He moved to Lynn in 1960 where he raised his family and resided for the past 50 years.

Ken worked at General Electric in Lynn at the River Works where he retired as Computer Operations Manager in 1992 after 37 years of service. Early on, he was active as a volunteer for the Boy Scouts with Troop 9 in Peabody. As a Shriner, he devoted many of his retirement years as a volunteer driver for burn patients.

He enjoyed the outdoors, especially in the Fall, and loved to spend time with friends and family at the camp in New Hampshire. He had unwavering devotion to his family and an uncanny ability for evaluating situations, getting things done, and doing the right thing. He will always be remembered as a loving father, grandfather and husband.

In addition to his wife, he leaves two sons, Kenneth D. Palmer of Peabody and Bruce A. Palmer, Sr. of Lynn; a step-daughter, Claudia, and her husband, Helmut Fahrig, of Cologne, Germany, and a grandson, Bruce A. Palmer, Jr., of Malden.

A private graveside service was held in Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, with arrangements by the Cuffe-McGinn Funeral Home 157 Maple Street, Lynn. Donations in his memory may be made to Shriners Hospitals for Children, 51 Blossom Street, Boston 02114. For online guestbook please visit www.cuffemcginn.com

Leonard Dzierzak

Electrical Engineer

Leonard M. Dzierzak of Peabody, formerly of Lynn, died suddenly at home on August 15. He was 52 years old.

He was born in Lynn, the son of Josephine (Domiziewicz) and the late Michael Dzierzak and was a graduate of Lynn Vocational Technical School and Wentworth Institute as an Electrical Engineer. He was employed by the Carl Deiss SMT Company and was president of the Tenants Association of the Mobile Estates in Peabody.

He is survived by his mother, two sisters, Patricia and Linda Dzierzak, both of Lynn, several aunts, uncles and cousins.

Funeral arrangements were by the Nadworny Funeral Home, Lynn. Burial was in St. Joseph’s Cemetery.

Mary Denehy

Of North Reading, formerly of Lynn

Mary (Yannetty) Denehy of North Reading, formerly of Lynn, East Boston and Chelsea, died on August 14.

Mrs. Denehy was a member of the Lynn Senior Citizens YMCA Group, a long time volunteer at Union Hospital, attended Spectrum from 2004 to 2007 and was a member of the Red Hats Society of Spectrum.

She was the wife of Francis Denehy; mother of Jane Blake arid her husband, Richard, of North Reading and Fran King and her husband, Henry, of Danvers; daughter of the late Ceasar and Michelina Yannetty; beloved nonna of Christine MacNevin and her husband, Ryan, Gabriel Finocchietti and his wife, Elicia, Emily Blake, 1st Lt. US Army William King, James Blake and Lisa Finocchietti; sister of the late Caesar and Edward Yannetty; sister in law of Rosemary Yannetty of East Boston, Margueritte Yannetty of Winthrop and Lorraine Dockerty of Peabody. She is also survived by several loving nieces and nephews.

Funeral arrangements were by the Cota Funeral Home, North Reading. Burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her name to either the Spectrum Adult Day Health Program, 600 Cummings Center, Suite 176X, Beverly, MA 01915 or Angel Flight NE, 492 Sutton St., North Andover, MA 01845. www.cotafuneralhomes.com

The North Shore Navigators, led by Manager Jeff Waldron of Lynn, celebrate after winning the New England
Collegiate Baseball League championship last Tuesday night at Fraser Field.

The city would then be forced to issue cease and desist orders – the club owner would immediately seek relief in Superior Court – and we’d be in for a big and costly fight.

In the end, the city would probably lose – as our neighbors in Revere lost many, many years ago.

In that city, the Squire Club operates almost without notice on Squire Road, right across from the National Amusements theater complex.

The city didn’t collapse or implode. The grandeur of the society that has come to be in Revere during the past 300 years has not been compromised. If you didn’t know where it was, you wouldn’t even know it was there.

So much for the effect of a strip club if it suddenly opened in Lynn.

That being said, this is an instance when the mayor in concert with the city council, the legal department and the police need to act and immediately.

So far, only Council President Tim Phelan has spoken out officially and strongly.

To many, many people in this city Phelan is acting more like a mayor than the mayor herself.

There is presently no zoning on the records here against such a thing happening, ergo, such a thing could happen and then public officials would be fighting a lost cause instead of emplacing zoning guards against such a scenario.

The key to all this is that it must be on the books and legal before someone comes in and opens a strip club – and it certainly sounds like someone is ready to take the leap.

There is a constitutional law of the land that does not allow for ex post facto litigation of this kind.

In other words, you can’t set up the zoning after the place has taken hold.

It must be done before such a scenario unfolds or the city would likely be sued, as Revere was sued when it tried to rid itself of a dirty book store on the American Legion Highway after it had been there for a decade by enacting new zoning that put it out of business.

That lawsuit brought by the dirty book store owner cost the city $1 million and this is the exact direction Lynn is heading in if it doesn’t have the mayor at the top of the political and leadership pile calling the shots and letting everyone know: Lynn is not the place to come if you’re thinking about a strip club.

On the other hand, perhaps the city, which seems not to care very much at all about the horrific odors emanating from a half dozen businesses off the Lynnway – trash transfer station with no ventilation, Garelick Farms, with an open milk sludge pit, the Lynn Water and Sewer treatment plant and a fat rendering company (what’s next?) ought to consider allowing the strip club and locating it right in the middle of all that stench off the Lynnway.

When you think about it, who would complain, and why would it matter?

In the end, a strip club in the midst of all that filth and stink, would fit right in.

The city is seeking $35,000 in pay that Clancy claims he is owed.

The mayor filed a law suit against Clancy in behalf of the city.

She hired outside counsel.

Clancy answered with his own law suit in which he is seeking the money he is owed and damages as well as asking for his legal fees to be paid.

The lawsuit is in Suffolk Superior Court in Essex County.

Clancy is seeking a jury trial.

Local lawyers familiar with municipal law questioned the legality of the mayor’s lawsuit.

Protocol apparently requires the mayor to first receive the permission of the City Council and the city’s Legal Department before entering a lawsuit on her own on behalf of the city.

“At no time did the Law Department inform me of the existence of any requirement that the City Solicitor notify the City Council and the Committee on Claims prior to hiring outside counsel,” the mayor told the Journal.

“In fact, in the 18 years that I have been involved in city government, I have never before heard any mention of a so-called ‘Committee on Claims,’”she added.

City Solicitor Michael Barry refused to comment on the matter.

However, a local attorney familiar with the lawsuit said that the city’s lawsuit could be called into question until and unless the proper approvals are gotten by the mayor.

For her part, the mayor claims such a protocol is the stuff of ancient city hall history.

Former Mayor Clancy refused to comment on the matter.

It is outrage mixed with surprise.

It has led to a special meeting being called by City Council President Tim Phelan in room 402 at 6:00p.m. Tuesday evening.

It is expectd this meeting will be well attended.

The request for strip club information came from the head of the city’s Restaurant Association, Rafael Subero.

Subero made it clear he was asking about what it would take to locate a strip club in the city.

City Council President Tim Phelan came out staunchly against Subero’s request and went way beyond.

“I will fight with everything I have to keep this from happening in our city. A strip club has no place in Lynn,” said Phelan.

“I’m shocked the head of the restaurant association would even entertain such a possibility,” he added.

Phelan has proposed an ordinance outlining the steps the city needs to take to prevent such a possibility.

“I’m having it marked up for immediate council action,” he said.

That action, or at least the likely basis for it, will take place at city hall Tuesday evening.

Since officially asking about the possibility of a strip club in the city, Subero has back tracked a bit.

He apparently said he was asking for someone else – not for himself and not on behalf of the organization he leads.

However Phelan sees the handwriting on the wall.

“This is not going to happen on my watch. This kind of place has no place here,” he said emphatically.

Phelan responded to Subero’s questions made to the city’s Legal Department and the Inspectional Services Department.

Phelan is attempting to enlist the interest of his colleagues on the city council, the mayor, the city solicitor, the police chief the director of ISD and the chairman of the Licensing Board.

A number of local businessmen, all members of the local Chamber of Commerce, who wished to remain unnamed, said they were frankly amazed by Subero’s request for information about a strip club.

Leslie Gould, the Chamber’s Executive Director, said the Chamber is presently crafting an official statement to be issued at the Tuesday evening special meeting at city hall.