MAC: Annual Reebok Canton Road Race
By Joe DeFeliceDid you know …
The 10th annual Reebok/Canton Road Race will be held on Sunday, October 5, starting and ending at the Reebok campus off Royal Street in Canton. This year’s race, which has a 7:15 a.m. registration time, will feature a 5k and a 10k, a one-mile wheelchair race, and a one-mile fun run for children 12 and under. The cost of the 5k and 10k races is $25 per runner online ($30 per runner on race day) and $20 for students ages 13-18. The cost of the kids’ race is $10 and includes a free t-shirt (there is no online registration for the kids’ race). To register online and for more info, go to www.cantonroadrace.org. The Canton Association of Business and Industry (CABI), a major contributor to the race, said that the proceeds from the race will go to organizations that support the children and community members of Canton as well as scholarships for worthy students of Canton High School and Blue Hills Regional High School. The official media partner of the road race is radio station Mix 104.1. The race is also being run on a Sunday for the first time in 10 years.
The Billy Armando Memorial Golf Tournament will be held on Tuesday, October 13, at Blue Hill Country Club. The tournament will include a shotgun start with a scramble format and will begin at 10 a.m. The fee for golf participation is $135 per golfer, which includes greens fee, golf cart, a box lunch, and dinner. The registration deadline is Tuesday, September 30, and you can register online at www.cantonrec.com. For more information, contact tournament director Larry Bogue at 617-650-3591 or bogue924@gmail.com, or call Janet Maguire at the Canton Recreation Department at 781-828-5030. Proceeds from the tournament will benefit programs that Billy Armando started at the Recreation Commission as well as scholarships for Canton High School seniors.
The Canton Council on Aging is sponsoring a wonderful fall foliage trip on Wednesday, September 17, to Pickity Place in Mason, New Hampshire, for a gourmet lunch and viewings of the beautiful landscape of southern New Hampshire, all for $63 per person. Pickity Place, also known as Grandmother’s House, is over 225 years old. For more information, call the Senior Center at 781-828-1323.
On Sunday, September 21, the Canton American Legion Riders Group will be holding its annual 35-mile charity motorcycle run to raise money for the Canton Veterans Department. The proceeds of this run will benefit our veterans in need. If anyone would like to become a sponsor or donate a raffle item or money for this event, you can leave it at the American Legion Hall for Rider President Ronnie Pasquarosa or Ladies Auxiliary President Michelle Mogan. For more information, call the Legion at 781-828-9766.
The over 55 senior softball team Deep Purple recently won the Rhode Island Ocean State Classic in a memorable fashion. Down by six runs in the last (seventh) inning in the championship game, Deep Purple scored six runs to tie it up. The opponent, Leeds Construction of Connecticut, then scored nine runs in the top of the eighth, and believe it or not, Deep Purple matched them with nine runs in the bottom of the eighth. Leeds scored two runs in the top of the ninth, and Deep Purple pulled it out in dramatic fashion by scoring three runs to win the championship. This was Deep Purple’s third championship in a row, winning the so-called Northeast Triple Crown: Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island. The team heads to the World Championship in Las Vegas in October. The Deep Purple team was represented by two Cantonites, Jimmy Shannon and Steve Sullo, as well as three members of the Hanningtons of Canton team: Chris Flynn, Allan Souza, and Brian Faria.
The original founders of the Friendly’s Ice Cream Shop that started in 1935, Prestley Blake and his little brother Curtis Blake, are still alive. Prestley is 99 and Curtis is 97. The Blake brothers sold their Friendly’s chain in 1979 for $162 million. Prestley, who will turn 100 in November, is updating his autobiography, “A Friendly Life,” and he is building a $6.5 million mansion that is the replica of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Estate in Blake’s hometown of Somers, Connecticut.
In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.
That is all for now folks. See you next week.
Joe DeFelice can be reached at manaboutcanton@aol.com.
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on Sep 11 2014. Filed under Featured Content, Man About Canton, Opinion.
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