Man About Canton: Backstreet Open Golf Tourney

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Foley’s Backstreet Grille will hold the first annual Backstreet Open Golf Tournament on May 7 at the Easton Country Club. The tournament will benefit the Best Buddies Organization, which offers career training and support for people with intellectual disabilities. As a member of Team Tom Brady, Karen Foley will participate in the Best Buddies Challenge, riding her bike to Hyannis in June. As part of her fundraising efforts, all proceeds from the golf tournament will be donated to Best Buddies.

The tournament will consist of a round of golf, including carts and continental breakfast, followed by a fabulous buffet luncheon at the Backstreet Grille, with award presentations and a raffle featuring premium Red Sox tickets, golf bags and many other items. Any groups or individuals who are interested in participating in the golf tournament (or sponsoring a hole) for this great cause can call Dave or Karen Foley at 781-297-0100.

According to the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, the state’s new health insurance reform law will save cities and towns about $100 million in its first year. Canton is among nine towns in the metropolitan area planning to adopt the law.

The chairman of the Canton Finance Committee is Alan Hines, and the vice chairman is Mark Porter.

The single most popular login used to access online accounts is “password,” followed by “123456.”

In the past few years, the state police and the Canton police have set up a joint roadblock on Neponset Street, near Rosario’s restaurant, usually late on Saturday night into early Sunday morning between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. Recently, in that four-hour span, 14 people were charged with operating under the influence.

The Canton Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a hearing on Thursday, May 10, on a petition of Kevin Foley to operate a health or exercise club at 960 Turnpike Street and a petition of Chad Buczek and Gerard MacDonald to operate a gymnastics academy at 255 Revere Street.

U.S. Senator Scott Brown recently made the news when he toured the Blue Hills Brewery on Turnpike Street and sampled some of their brand beers. Brown also stopped in at Queen Anne’s Diner and met with some of his supporters; and outside the diner, the senator had his picture taken with Canton’s Dottie Morris and her dog, Angel.

The one-cent coin costs 2.41 cents to make, which represents a $60 million loss for the U.S. mint each year. MAC can fondly remember buying penny candy at Canton’s many variety stores when he was growing up back in the 50s and 60s. Today, most people rarely bend over to pick up a penny off the sidewalk.

The H.T. Berry Company in Canton recently completed the installation of a 260-kilowatt solar array at its 100,000-square-foot warehouse. The project consists of more than 1,100 solar panels that will produce about 300,000 kilowatt hours of power each year.

CHS senior Olivia Murphy was named to the Patriot Ledger Girls’ Basketball All-Scholastic Team. Murphy was the team MVP and a Hockomock League All-Star.

Stonehill College men’s ice hockey coach Patrick Leahy of Canton led his team to the finals of the Northeast 10 Conference Tournament before losing to top seed St. Anselm 3-1. The team featured three Canton residents: Bryan Rooney, Kevin Aufiero and Sean McNeil.

Speaking of hockey, the Canton High School boys’ varsity hockey team placed three players on the Patriot Ledger All-Scholastic Hockey Team: junior goalie Rich Nee, center Nick O’Connor, and defenseman Kurt Leavitt. The trio led the Bulldogs to a 15-3-3 final record, a Hockomock League championship, and a No. 2 seed in the Division 2 south sectional tournament. CHS was upset by North Quincy in a shootout in the first round. On the ladies’ side, senior Haley Gaughan and junior Meaghan McKenna made the Patriot Ledger All-Scholastic Team. Gaughan finished her CHS career with 111 points, while McKenna, in only 15 games this year, put up 35 points, including 24 goals and 11 assists. She will captain the Bulldogs next year.

A higher percentage of those in the 12-20 age group use alcohol (29 percent) than use tobacco (24 percent) or illicit drugs (14 percent). This makes underage drinking a leading public health problem in the United States. Educating teens about alcohol and its dangers is very important today.

From the time (sadly) marches on department: Dick Clark died of a heart attack at age 82. Nicknamed “America’s Oldest Teenager,” Clark hosted “American Bandstand” from 1956-1989, and for many years — in fact, right up to this past year — his yearly first night party “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.” MAC remembers rushing home from school to watch all the dancers on the American Bandstand show.

The Canton Finance Committee strongly recommended that the Annual Town Meeting voters approve the article allowing the town to establish a local option meals tax of .75 percent, increasing the tax on restaurant meals from 6.25 percent to 7 percent, and TM agreed Monday night. Although this change will only increase a $100 restaurant bill by 75 cents, it will allow Canton to collect an estimated $275,000 annually from the state. Most of our neighboring towns have already adopted this option so Canton residents are often paying this tax when they visit restaurants outside of Canton.

According to the Canton Finance Committee, $86,353,444 will be appropriated by the Canton town meeting voters for fiscal year 2013.

Don’t dream up thousands of reasons why you can’t do what you want to; find one reason why you can.

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

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

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