Man About Canton: D’AURIA MOVES ON TO NEW JOB
By Joe DeFeliceDID YOU KNOW…
Lame duck School Superintendent John D’Auria, 60, leaves his Canton job on June 30, and he is not letting any grass grow under his feet. The Boston Globe reports that, without missing a step, on July 1 he will become full-time president of Teachers 21, a non-profit education reform organization based in Wellesley.
Meanwhile, we’re still anxiously waiting to learn how much our generous School Committee plans to pay our new superintendent Jeffrey Granatino. You may recall that Granatino, 43, lives in Scituate and has been acting superintendent in Norwood since the start of this present school year. While he is scheduled to begin his Canton duties on July 1, he reportedly has been traveling across the Neponset to get a head start in Canton. The word around town is that he will be paid top dollar even though he is relatively inexperienced as a superintendent.
Incidentally, the Canton School Committee recently voted unanimously to continue its residency re-certification program next year for incoming sixth graders and to expand the program on a pilot basis to include incoming ninth graders. According to D’Auria, this year’s test run was very successful, and as a result, he says he can be certain that every sixth grader currently attending the Galvin Middle School is a “documented Canton resident.”
On another matter, Superintendent D’Auria has announced that Debra Bromfield will take over as the new director of student services beginning August 1, replacing outgoing assistant superintendent for student services Dr. Alan Dewey. Bromfield presently holds the student services position in the Masconomet Regional School District.
SUMMERTIME
Many of you will be delighted that the summer season officially begins this coming Monday, June 21. Summer is beach time, picnic time, vacation time, and hot weather time. For many, it’s bathing suit time, school vacation time, time to go barefoot, and time to wear shorts. It’s also time to sweat and be refreshed and comforted by cooling fans, cold showers, and air conditioners.
Summer is the time for fireflies, dragonflies, pesky flies, grasshoppers, incessant evening concerts by countless crickets, and colorful butterflies. It’s time when humidity will be uncomfortably sticky, and if we are lucky, our painful sunburn will turn into that tan we were trying to get.
It’s the time for mosquitoes, napping on a hammock, cold drinks, fishing, shade trees and big umbrellas to hide from the bright hot sun, and it’s time for people-watching at the beach. It’s time for strawberry shortcake, corn on the cob, boating, sunglasses, ice-cold watermelon, lemonade, dandelions, bikinis, outdoor concerts, warm rain and loud thunderstorms. It’s also time for parades, baseball, softball, ripe-red tomatoes, mowing the lawn, golf, cookouts, ice cream cones that melt down your arm, and neighborhood kids noisily playing outside.
According to the calendar, summer will end on September 22, which means you summer aficionados have exactly 94 days to enjoy yourself. So get moving … it will be over before you know it.
The annual Tom Clark Golf Tournament has been scheduled to be held at the Milton Hoosic Club in Canton from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. this coming Monday, June 21. It is nine holes with a cart and costs $75. A social will be held after the golf event. If you’re interested send an email to phannigancai@earthlink.net.
Canton-based Humboldt Storage and Moving Company of Boston Drive recently raised $11,473 during their “March for Babies” fundraising events. The money will be donated to the March of Dimes.
Canton native Hilary Witt, who is the women’s hockey coach at Yale, is returning to the USA Hockey under-22 Select Team as assistant coach for the National Festival at Lake Placid, New York, and a three-game series in Canada from August 13-21. Witt is a member of the Massachusetts Hall of Fame and the Bean Pot Hall of Fame.
Newton-based New England Development recently bought Brockton’s Westgate mall for $32.75 million. The mall’s lenders, who sold the 49-acre property, had purchased it for $51 million in a foreclosure auction from the previous owner, who defaulted on their mortgage and was forced into liquidation.
Congratulations to John Noone, who got his first hole-in-one on the 5th green at the Milton Hoosic on Friday, June 4, at the TGIF tournament. Noone and his wife were guests of David and Nancy Trerice.
Finally, the water level of Canton’s 300-acre Reservoir Pond has been lowered about two-and-a-half feet because of concern about the safety of the Pleasant Street Dam, and many neighbors are complaining about the stench of the exposed mud flats. The state’s Office of Dam Safety ordered the lower level until suitable repairs can be made, and the timetable for those repairs is up in the air. The town and the dam’s owner, the Napleton developers, are currently discussing when repairs will begin.
Edward Everett Hale once said: “I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something, and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do.” So remember, you don’t have to do everything, but you can always do something.
This is all for now folks; see you next week.
Joe DeFelice can be reached at
manaboutcanton@aol.com
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Posted by Joe DeFelice
on Jun 17 2010. Filed under Man About Canton, Opinion.
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