Page 10 THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, March 15, 2024 Long serving Pop Warner president retires Artwork by Sarah Morrison is on display at the Malden Public Library T he Malden Public Library will be showcasing works by local artist Sarah Morrison for the month of March. An artist reception will be held on Thursday, March 21, from 7-8 p.m. and everyone is welcome. Sarah Morrison (she/her) is an Pictured from left to right: Incoming Co-Cheer Director Kelly Drees, Incoming President Lucas Campo, Board Member Julie Turner, Outgoing Cheer Director Jenn Stelmach, Outgoing President Helen Kipnis, Mayor Gary Christenson, Treasurer Tom Robertson, and Football Director Danny Gillis. (Courtesy of the City of Malden) M ayor Gary Christenson stopped by the Annual Pop Warner Banquet to surprise longtime President Helen Kipnis on her well-deserved retirement. Helen, a lifelong Malden resident, served Pop Warner for 23 years, serving for 20 as its President. She has put in endless hours ensuring that the Pop Warner program was successful and fi nancially stable. All the while, she never turned a child away for fi - nancial diffi culties and always worked hard to teach students the values of teamwork and sportsmanship. Helen will be remembered for keeping coaches, board members and parents in line, and holding Pop Warner to higher standards than any other youth football program in Eastern Massachusetts. Mayor Christenson presented Helen with a citation on behalf of the City of Malden and thanked her for her contributions to our youth and our city. award-winning fantasy illustrator and portrait artist. Working primarily with oil paint, she focuses on fi gurative works designed to inspire narrative, with attention towards faces and fabric. Escapism through fantasy has always been a central theme to her art, and she embraces whimsy and enigmatic details. Sarah’s imagery is designed to inspire a sense of wonder, enDRIVER | FROM PAGE 1 arraignment in Malden District Court on Friday following the crash on Webster Street in Malcouraging viewers to develop stories about what might be going on in each piece. Sarah also occasionally works with printmaking techniques and textiles. You can view her work online at sarahmorrisonillustration.com them he was walking down the sidewalk with his dog when they were struck by a motor vehicle, the prosecutor said. The man’s dog was taken to a local aniThe suspect in the case is shown at his arraignment in Malden District Court on Thursday – Pierre Franzie, 36, of Fall River. (Courtesy/CBS News Boston) den on Thursday afternoon. He pleaded not guilty to charges of failure to stop for police, unlicensed driving, leaving the scene with property damage, leaving the scene of personal injury and failure to report injuries of a dog or cat. The judge set $500 cash bail after prosecutors had requested $1,000 cash bail. The condition for Franzie’s release is that he must not drive without a valid license. At about 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, police responded to 55 Webster St. in Malden due to a report of a motor vehicle crash, a prosecutor said. A resident told police that she heard the front part of her home being struck and went outside and saw that her neighbor and his dog had been struck by a motor vehicle. Police saw heavy damage to the home, including structural damage that caused the right side of house to begin to buckle, the prosecutor said. Police also found a man, bleeding from his ear, who told mal hospital, where it was pronounced dead. Another witness told police she saw a Black male wearing a red shirt and dark jeans running from the driver’s side of the vehicle. When police arrived at the scene, they found no one in the car and they could not identify the driver, the prosecutor said. Police later found Franzie, who matched the description of the suspect, about two blocks from the crash scene. When he saw police approaching him, Franzie took off and ran, the prosecutor said. He continued to run and tried to climb over a fence despite police commands to stop. Police were eventually able to speak with him. Franzie told police that he was not driving the vehicle and that “the driver ran,” the prosecutor said. Franzie told police he was going to a job interview and he said that the driver of the car was someone wearing white pants named “Calvin.” Franzie is due back in court on April 10 for a pretrial hearing.
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