MAC: Canton Choral Society Concert

DID YOU KNOW …

The outstanding Canton Choral Society will perform a spring pops concert on Sunday, May 20, at 8 p.m. at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church at 1508 Washington Street. The singers will present a selection of well-known music from Porgy & Bess, work from Brahms Nanie, and the program will also include Eric Whitacre’s Five Hebrew Love Songs. Tickets are $10 per person. You can obtain your ticket from any member of the CCS or by calling 781-821-8860 or emailing Kathleen McSherry at kmcsherry@wgains.com.

Starting next year, the Annual Town Meeting will start a half hour earlier at 7 p.m. and adjourn at 11 p.m. The start date will also change from the last Monday in April to the second Monday in May.

The Canton American Legion Post #24 recently held a recognition night honoring members with 25 years or more of continuous membership. Those with 40 years included John Jorgensen and Robert Moritz; 45 years: Joseph A. DeFelice, Jr., Wilfred Fitzgerald, and Real King; 50 years: Robert Brown, John Cox, Sr., John Carroll, and William Riordan; 55 years: Henry Cook, John Tobin, Robert Curtis, and Anthony Vesay. Master of Ceremony Commander Fred Gladstone also presented two gold lifetime membership cards to John Dineen and Terry Leonard for their outstanding work in making the Canton American Legion one of the finest in Massachusetts.

The month of April in the Boston area was the second warmest on record with an average temperature of 53.5 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Taunton.

The U.S. Senate recently passed a bill allowing postal service workers retirement incentives and buyouts; but in return, it would also invalidate all current union contracts, making it easier to lay off employees. The Postal Service is scheduled to begin the process of closing a large number of local post offices and mail processing facilities across the country. In 2011, Postal Service losses exceeded $5 billion.

The Archdiocesan Pastoral Planning Commission of Boston is proposing sweeping changes in Catholic churches south of Boston. According to statistics from the Archdiocese, 70 percent of Catholics attended mass regularly in 1970. Today, only 15.8 percent go to church. Priests are retiring and not being replaced. Many parishes are struggling financially, and there is a shortage of new priests. Among the changes south of Boston, St. John the Evangelist and St. Gerard Majella of Canton would join under the leadership of a single pastor, while in Stoughton, St. James and the Immaculate Conception will also share priests. Consolidating parishes may be the only way for them to survive. Since 1990, the Archdiocese has closed 125 parishes, leaving 288 parishes in Massachusetts.

Matt Potts and Justin Rudy of the Canton High School baseball team recently hit back-to-back homeruns to give the Bulldogs a 4-3 victory over Dedham. When was the last time the CHS baseball team had back-to-back homeruns?

Sports reporter and 98.5 sports hub radio analyst Tony Massarotti tore his ACL at the 2012 Dave Cowens celebrity charity hoop game played at the Reebok headquarters basketball court in Canton.

The Canton Town Club, after 73 years, will soon vote to allow female patrons into their club. The vote will take place by the membership on Thursday, May 17. The Executive Board and the Board of Directors have agreed to proceed with the implementation of this long overdue accommodation of the ladies.

Boston has earned the distinction of being the country’s most expensive major city in which to get a hotel room. In Boston, visitors will pay at least $194 a night on average, which, believe it or not, is $22 more than in New York and $40 more than in Philadelphia.

The average lifespan of the first eight U.S. presidents was 79.8. This was during a time when life expectancy for men was under 40.

Finally, if you’re looking for the dumbest voters in the United States of America, you will find them in the town of Concord. Their town meeting recently voted to ban the sale of water in bottles smaller than a liter to become the first community in the nation to do so. At open town meetings such as this, you can “pack the meeting” like the so-called “do-gooders of Concord” and pass any article on the agenda. At the Concord town meeting, less than 800 out of the 12,000 registered voters passed the bottle ban, making the town a national laughingstock. The law is set to go into effect on January 1, 2013, unless the state attorney general finds it flawed or someone takes this “lunacy” to court. By the way, the town of Canton still has open town meetings.

The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B. In fact, life is all about how you handle Plan B.

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

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

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