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Aug. 4 — BEVERLY — Two of Beverly Homecoming's greatest occasions will be held as planned on Thursday notwithstanding the possibility of temperatures venturing into the high 90s.

Coordinators of the Homecoming 5K Road Race and Senior Day in the Park said they will play it safe to safeguard sprinters and senior residents against the intensity.

"We feel the arrangements we've set up will make it ok for tomorrow evening," said Greater Beverly YMCA Executive Director Tim Flaherty, whose association puts on the Homecoming Race.

Flaherty and Council on Aging Executive Director MaryAnn Holak said they met with Mayor Mike Cahill and other city authorities on Wednesday to anticipate the intensity and think about their choices.

In excess of 500 sprinters are normal for the street race, while Senior Day in the Park ordinarily draws in excess of 300 individuals. The race begins at Lynch Park at 6:30 p.M. Senior Day is from 10 a.M. To 2 p.M. At Lynch Park.

Holak said the Senior Day occasion, which is featured by the declaration of the Senior of the Year, might have been moved to the Beverly High School fieldhouse. However, she said the fieldhouse doesn't have cooling.

Thus, the city has leased two "porta-coolers" that ought to bring down the temperature under the huge tent where Senior Day is held, she said. There will likewise be moistening stations, water bottles on ice, and a detail of crisis clinical experts and firemen. Holak said the city conveyed a robocall to each of the seniors who paid $10 for the occasion, which incorporates lunch, letting them know they can have the money in question returned to join in.

Holak said it was significant for the occasion to go on, particularly since a major one for some individuals have been stuck at home during the last two or more years because of the pandemic.

"We realize that individuals have felt socially detached and have needed to return to their practices," she said.

Flaherty said the Y will add an additional water station along the 3.1-mile course for sprinters, and individuals who live along the course have elected to chill sprinters with hoses. The Y has likewise requested additional leafy foods pounds of ice.