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Salvation, one grocery bag at a time

By | April 24, 2020
Volunteer Kim Nothnageln of Swampscott, a Lynn teacher, bags groceries for recipients at the Salvation Army food bank in Lynn on Thursday. (Spenser Hasak)
LYNN — Almost two months into the social distancing practices to blunt the spread of the COVID-19 virus went into effect, the Salvation Army has seen a dramatic uptick in the number of food-pantry recipients. Capt. Helen Johnson from the Salvation Army’s Franklin Street headquarters said Thursday that where before the pandemic began there was…
Steve Krause
Steve Krause Steve Krause is the Item’s writer-at-large. He joined paper in 1979 as a copy editor and later created a music column, called Midnight Ramblings, which ran through 1985. After leaving the paper for a year, he returned in 1988 as a reporter and editor in sports. He became sports editor in 1998; and was named writer-at-large in 2018.

Krause won awards for writing in 1985 from United Press International; in 2001 from the Associated Press; and again in 2020 from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. He is a member of the Harry Agganis Foundation Hall of Fame, a past winner of the Moynihan Lumber Scholar-Athlete Community Service Award, and was the 2012 recipient of the Jack Grinold Media Award for MasterSports, an organization that conducts high school and college coaches’ clinics. He lives in Lynn, is active on Facebook, and can be found on Twitter @itemkrause.

Steve Krause can be reached at skrause@itemlive.com

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