Man About Canton: Town Warrant
By Joe DeFeliceDID YOU KNOW …
The Canton Warrant for the 2013 Annual Town Meeting will open on Wednesday, December 26, for zoning articles and close on Friday, January 11, while non-zoning articles will open on January 28 and close on Tuesday, February 12, at noon. The Annual Town Meeting this coming year has been moved to Monday, May 13. If you have a non-zoning article you wish to be considered by the Annual Town Meeting, now is the time to submit it.
Two former Canton High School basketball stars, Colleen Moriarty and Erika Bornemann, are now leading the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. In a recent game against Bridgewater State, senior forward Moriarty scored 19 points while junior forward Bornemann added 11 points and nine rebounds.
The Eastern Massachusetts Association of Interscholastic Football Officials awarded Ed Catabia of Blue Hills Regional Technical High School in Canton as its 2012 Robert Donovan Coach of the Year. Catabia has been associated with the Blue Hills football team for the past 33 years, the last five as head coach. In those 33 years, Blue Hills has had only one losing season. In 2011, his team won the Division IV Super Bowl with an 11-1 record, and this year Blue Hills won the Small School Vocational Championship, finishing the season with a 10-2 record.
The Canton American Legion Women’s Auxiliary recently participated in a “gift shop” at the West Roxbury VA Hospital. Volunteers from the Auxiliary District No. 6, which included June Teague from the Canton Chapter, went to patients’ rooms to speak with a veteran and ask them if they had a special person they would like to give a gift to. The volunteer would then go to the gift shop, pick out a gift, have it wrapped, and deliver it back to the veteran. The veteran also would get a gift. “We do this every year on the weekend of Thanksgiving,” said Teague. “We gave out 275 gifts to 128 patients at the VA. It is our way of saying thank you to our veterans.”
Canton resident Michael J. Hartman will start working on Monday, December 18, as the Stoughton Town Manager. Stoughton selectmen voted 5-0 to give Hartman a three-year contract starting at $135,000. He will not be required to establish residency in Stoughton. Hartman has been the town manager in Jaffrey, New Hampshire since 2007.
The Canton Sons of the American Legion is collecting new or clean, slightly used coats to be donated to the homeless veterans’ shelter in Boston. If you have a coat to donate, drop it off at the Canton American Legion Post #24 or leave a message and a “son” will pick it up. The Legion’s phone number is 781-828-9766.
The South Coast Rail Project is still on track to bring rail service to Taunton, Fall River, and New Bedford. Trains will originate in Boston’s South Station and travel through Canton and Stoughton. Plans are to add 10 new train stations. Final environment and impact studies are due to be completed this spring. Project Manager Jean Fox recently told the Canton selectmen that the South Coast Rail expansion is a high priority for Governor Patrick’s administration.
Canton High School’s 28-26 overtime victory over Stoughton was their 40th win in the 87-year rivalry series. Stoughton leads the series 43-40-4.
The CHS girls defeated the Stoughton girls in their annual powderpuff game 28-20, scoring the same amount of points as the boys.
The Canton Garden Club presented their Holiday House Tour on Saturday and Sunday, December 8 and 9. The houses decorated were at 14 William Street, 54 Messinger Street, and 319 Sherman Street along with Pequitside Farm at 79 Pleasant Street.
The new movie Lincoln grossed over $25 million during the Thanksgiving Day weekend. Here is a little trivia on Abraham Lincoln’s oldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, the only one of the president’s four children to live past age 18. Robert was a captain on Ulysses S. Grant’s staff and was present when General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox. He was Secretary of War under presidents Garfield and Arthur and was the ambassador to Great Britain. He also became one of the most distinguished lawyers in Chicago. On March 5, 1890, Robert lost his only son, Abraham Lincoln II, who died at age 16 from blood poisoning following surgery. Robert died at the age of 82 in 1926 at his home in Hildene, Vermont. Today, there is no direct Lincoln lineage.
Finally, as we struggle with shopping lists, holiday parties, and invitations, compounded by December’s cold weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation and people to whom we are worth the same.
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday, and celebrate just living.
This is all for now folks. See you next week.
Joe DeFelice can be reached at manaboutcanton@aol.com.
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on Dec 13 2012. Filed under Featured Content, Man About Canton, Opinion.
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