Tuesday, 2/14: Apartment Projects in Lynn, Swampscott, Marblehead – Happy Valentines Day!

Sports – Monday’s local scores are posted below.

Weather – Sunny today, temps to the upper 40s

Community News Notes – Photos – Sports (Below)

City of Newburyport Announce Valentines Day Event to Promote Organ Donation

NEWBURYPORT – The City of Newburyport will be hosting a Valentine’s Day “Have a Heart and Get Heart Event” to promote organ donation today.

In celebration of Valentine’s Day, the City of Newburyport is asking the community register as an organ donor when getting or renewing their license, Real ID or ID.

On Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 10:30 a.m. at Newburyport City Hall, Mayor Reardon, Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Colleen Ogilvie, and New England Donor Services will join heart transplant recipients and individuals touched by organ donation to celebrate and recognize National Organ Donor Day.

This celebration commemorates recipients of organ donation and those who continue to wait for life-saving transplants, as well as families of individuals who chose to be donors.

Residents and community members can register to be an organ donor online at the RMV or through the Massachusetts state donor registry here.

In 2022, 1,325 lives were saved throughout New England because of the generosity of individuals who became organ donors. This is a 7.9 percent increase from 2021, with thousands of more lives enhanced through the gift of tissue donation.

The need for life-saving transplants is growing everyday with over 104,300 patients now on the national transplant wait list.

“I want to thank all our community partners for being a part of next week’s event,” said Mayor Reardon. “I encourage everyone to come to meet those who have been personally affected by organ donation. Becoming an organ donor can help save lives.”

For more information about New England Donor Services, click here.

Peabody Essex Museum – Roses are red, Violets are blue…Today, we have a love letter to share with you! This #ValentinesDay, we’re sharing excerpts from the journal of Charles A. Benson (1830-1881) a Black sailor serving as a steward aboard the merchant vessel Glide. These journals were written over the course of 20 years, and are now available to view as part of the @PEMLibrary collection of digitized logbooks. In addition to love poems and personal reflections, Benson’s journals share everyday details of life aboard ship. They’re one of the few surviving narratives by a Black mariner in the 19th century. Take a look at these amazing pages and learn more about Charles A. Benson by clicking the link below: archive.org/details/pemlog

Peabody Institute Library – Middle & high schoolers who want to learn to code: come to the Creativity Lab at the Main Library on Thursday at 3PM and join the library’s code club! No experience needed. And there is a special challenge for February and March that you can enter for the chance to win a robot.

Sen. Brendan Crighton – Honored to be a panelist at yesterday’s Innovation in Addressing Hunger event hosted by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lynn. We discussed the increasing challenges around food insecurity and some of the great work that is being done to address it.

Sports

Peabody Athletics – Coaches added – Peabody Athletics Dept is excited to announce the 2023 Boys Lax Coaching Staff Head Coach Jason Marshall, former Peabody Lax & Boys HC Assistants Keifer Heckman, former Peabody & SNHU Lax Matt Sharon, former Peabody Athletics Trainer, Endicott Athlete & Army Vet

Beverly High School – The BHS Boys Basketball Team members dropped off 104 pounds of mac & cheese to Beverly Bootstraps. Thank you to the team and all who donated.