Man About Canton: Canton’s All-Scholastic Athletes

MAC extends his congratulations to several outstanding Canton High School athletes who were recently named to prestigious all-scholastic teams by the Patriot Ledger newspaper: CHS senior Greg Boyd was selected to the boys’ hockey team; junior Joe McCabe to the boys’ basketball team; and seniors Jon Vaughn and Matt Sidney to the all-scholastic track team. On the girls’ teams, we have CHS junior Rebecca Pulcini named to the gymnastics team; sophomore Meaghan McKenna to the girls’ hockey team; and senior Chidimma Nwankwo to the track team.

MAC reminds you that the American Red Cross will hold a blood drive at the Irish Cultural Center, located at 200 New Boston Drive in Canton, this coming Saturday, May 28, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. All donors will receive a coupon for a free whopper small value meal from Burger King. You can make an appointment by calling 1-800-733-2767 or visit www.redcrossblood.org.

Canton-based Reebok has donated $3,000 to South Shore Stars, a Weymouth-based non-profit that provides early education to youth development programs.

Canton-based Baskin-Robbins has donated $100,000 to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.

Things are really getting tough for newspapers. Daily circulation for the Boston Globe dropped 10 percent to 214,274 over the six-month period ending March 31, while the Boston Herald dropped 7.5 percent to 123,811 for the same period. Smaller papers were also hit. Daily circulation dropped 17.8 percent at the Brockton Enterprise, 15.3 percent at the Lowell Sun, and 13 percent at the Patriot Ledger.

Canton-based CrossTech, located at 437 Turnpike Street (Route 138), has recently acquired the Norwell-based media consultancy firm of KMS Media Partners for an undisclosed amount.

Things are really winding down for World War I. Claude Stanley Choules of Australia recently died at the age of 110. He was widely identified as the last known surviving combat veteran of that war.

The 2010 U.S. Census figures show that women now outnumber men for the first time when it comes to finishing college and holding advanced degrees. According to the Associated Press, the record number of women in the workplace shows a steady decline in the number of stay-at-home mothers.

The recent Canton Annual Town Meeting approved the measure allowing the selectmen to petition state lawmakers to let the town make the position of deputy police chief a non-civil service position. Published reports say in addition to a new high-priced deputy chief, we will still have three police lieutenants, which can get expensive.

The town meeting also turned down the proposal to expand the Canton Center Economic Opportunity District to include the land of the old Plymouth Rubber Company on Revere Street. That means the unsightly and long-vacant industrial property will stay as it is, and we apparently can now look forward to an unknown type of industrial occupant.

A recent legal notice in this paper indicates that the Ponkapoag Golf Course at 2173 Washington Street (Route 138) has applied for a new seasonal beer and wine license. Another separate legal notice indicates that Barbara Walsh, owner of Unity Feeds at 626 Washington Street, has apparently sold her beer and wine license; and the new owner, Bay State Wine and Spirits, wants to transfer it to 2740R Washington Street, near Royall Street and within sight of the Great Blue Hill.

The Canton-based Dunkin’ Donuts chain has entered into contracts with Red Sox newcomers Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford, who will join Sox stars David Ortiz and Dustin Pedroia, and manager Tito Francona in a $1 million TV and radio advertising campaign for Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee.

According to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics, an increasing number of U.S. households have discontinued their conventional telephone landlines and have completely switched over to cell phones, which is a trend that reportedly is directly related to challenging economic conditions. The report states that more than one in four U.S. homes, or 26.6 percent, had only a wireless phone as of June 2010, up from 13.6 percent in 2007.

The top Canton male and female finishers of the Boston Marathon were J. Alex McKinney, who finished in 3:08:19, and Darlene Miano, who finished in 3:49:32.

Sami Merrigan of Canton is one of the two senior co-captains of the Archbishop Williams High School lacrosse team.

A tie vote of 133-133 defeated the optional town meeting proposal to increase the restaurant meals tax by .75 percent, or 75 cents for every $100 spent on meals. A reconsidered vote also failed to meet the required two-thirds vote.

Finally, the two-day Life is good Festival is returning to Prowse Farm in September, and the sponsors hope to raise $1 million to benefit an arm of the apparel company’s kids foundation. Nearly 30,000 people attended last year’s two-day event.

Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.

This is all for now folks. See you next week.

Joe DeFelice can be reached at manaboutcanton@aol.com.

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