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IT’S TIME TO SAVE THE TOWN SOME
MONEY
DID YOU
KNOW…
Each year,
our Canton Fire Department responds to over 1,000 fire
calls. The fire department also dispatches town ambulances over
2,500 times; and just about every time, they also send a fire
engine along with the ambulance. In an effort to save Canton
money, selectmen and Fire Chief Ronayne should look to the town
of Amesbury. Amesbury’s fire department is now dispatching SUVs
for fire and ambulance calls rather than sending a diesel-fueled
$500,000 engine that gets four miles per gallon; and if more
emergency support is necessary, fire personnel will call for
backup. In addition to saving a lot of expensive fuel, this
program will also save a lot of needless wear and tear on our
expensive fire engines.
Colonel
Robert DeYeso Jr. has been named Deputy Commander and Chief
of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces in Japan. Bob is a 1977
graduate of Canton High and has served in the army for the past
25 years.
 Bay
Road residents in Sharon are losing patience with Stoughton
officials over the apparent lack of action in repairing the old
stone culvert, which collapsed into a two-by-ten-foot sinkhole
and has blocked Bay Road since April. The collapsed culvert was
between Castle and Chessman drives in Stoughton.
Stoughton
officials say they are waiting for a $25,000 hydrologic report
from Consulting Engineers Camp, Dresser & McKee, which will
determine the volume of water that flows through the two-foot
pipe. However, over three months have elapsed and without that
report, engineering plans, and funding, Stoughton officials say
it may take two years to make repairs, which doesn’t please the
frustrated and aggravated Sharon residents.
Meghan
Wheeler of Canton has returned from the Olympic Field Hockey
Training Center in Virginia where she was selected to train and
compete with the 2008 United States Olympic field hockey team
during the National Women’s Championships. Meghan, who will be a
senior at U Conn, played for the New England team, consisting of
college and Olympic players; and after eight days of
competition, the New England team won the gold medal, beating
the Midwest team 3-0.
In a case
where senior citizens take it on the chin again, our
neighbors in the town of Dedham recently rejected an override
vote to fund an $8.65 million senior center.
The
Beer Institute recently celebrated the
75th anniversary
of prohibition’s repeal in Massachusetts. Its report said that
the beer industry contributes nearly $3.9 billion directly and
indirectly to the state’s economy, generating nearly 40,000 jobs
and $813 million in taxes.
For just $2
per person, Canton seniors can treat themselves to delicious
Crescent Ridge Ice cream sundaes at the Monterey Ice Cream
Social at the Canton Senior Center. The social begins at 1 p.m.
on Tuesday, August 19, and is sponsored by the Canton Council on
Aging.
MAC has
learned that Selectman Victor Del Vecchio, an in-house
attorney for Verizon, has decided to accept the lucrative early
retirement package being offered by Verizon, even though he is
only 55. Does this mean he will be starting a law practice here
in Canton?
At six feet,
four inches, Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president,
while at five feet, four inches, James Madison was our
shortest. William Howard Taft, who tipped the scales over
300 pounds, wins the title of our heaviest president, and
Warren G. Harding, who wore size 14 shoes, had the biggest
feet.
A recent
National Center for Health Statistics report said more babies
were born in the United States last year than ever before. An
estimated 4,315,000 children were born in 2007, which is
approximately 15,000 more than the last baby boom in 1957.
In case you
haven’t heard, the law has been changed and children under 8 and
less than 57 inches tall must be secured in a car or booster
seat.
According to
the Associated Press, Starbucks has named all 600
company-owned stores it plans to close in July, and among the
seven being closed in Massachusetts are stores in Sharon and
Stoughton. The store in Canton’s Village Shoppes apparently
will survive.
Jillian
Rooney of Canton, a 13-year-old student at Thayer Academy,
has made her second appearance as an all-scholastic in tennis.
Jillian, who stands five feet, ten inches, finished the season
with a 13-1 record and won the New England Prep Singles
Championship after coming in fourth as a sixth grader. In her
age group (14 and under), she is ranked number 1 in New England,
and number 35 nationally. In the 16 and under age group, she is
ranked number 5 in New England. MAC feels her talent on the
tennis court means we’ll be hearing a lot more about her in the
future.
A benefit
dinner will be held on Saturday, August 2 from 7 p.m. to
midnight at the Canton Town Club to raise money for The Molly
and Paul Shannon Education Fund. As most of you know, Molly
and Paul are the children of Ricky Shannon, who died
tragically in a fire in April. The benefit will include dinner,
DJ, raffle, a silent auction, and open bar from 7 to 7:30. All
proceeds to benefit the Molly and Paul Shannon Education Fund.
Tickets are $20 in advance, and $25 at the door. To purchase a
ticket or donate a raffle item, please contact John Blake at
781-331-1367 or by e-mail at
jblake@duxbury.k12.ma.us.
Always be
yourself, because the people that matter don’t mind; and the
ones that mind, don’t matter.
That this is all for now folks; see you next week.
Joe DeFelice can be reached at
manaboutcanton@aol.com
July 31, 2008
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