Man About Canton: Lions Club Breakfast

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The Canton Lions Club will hold its 41st annual Pancake Breakfast on Sunday, March 25 (Palm Sunday), from 8 a.m. to 12 noon at the Canton American Legion Post 24, 950 Washington Street, behind Canton High School. Tickets are only $5 per person with a maximum of $15 per family. Proceeds will benefit eye research and blindness prevention as well as other Canton Lions’ charities. According to Lions Club President Bob Lash, over the past 17 years, the Lions have donated over $273,000 to eye and diabetes research, high school scholarships, the Canton Food Pantry, the Council on Aging, and the fire and police departments, just to name a few organizations that the Canton Lions Club supports.

Kudos to the Canton Public Works employees. They have done an outstanding job plowing, sanding, and handling all of the snow, ice, and downed trees from the three major nor’easters that swept into Canton over the past month.

Free income tax assistance is still available for low- and moderate-income senior citizens through the Tax Aid Program by the AARP. A trained volunteer will be at the Canton Council on Aging office. Appointments are necessary and can be made by calling 781-828-1323.

MAC knows that many of you may not remember this day, but the Canton annual town election will be held on Tuesday, April 3, between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m., even though there is only one contested race on the ballot. The lone race will be for a spot on the Board of Selectmen where incumbents Kevin Feeney and Mark Porter are being challenged by newcomer Kathy Gibbs McCormack.

Nichola Gallagher, who currently serves on the Finance Committee, is running unopposed to fill the remaining two years of School Committee member John Bonnanzio’s term.

A write-in candidate will win a spot on the Canton Library Trustee Committee as incumbent Joyce Wiseman did not file nomination papers, and no one else sought her position.

Dr. Alan Rapoport is running for a full three-year term on the Canton Board of Health. Rapoport was appointed in September 2017 following the passing of Dr. Richard Levrault.

MAC was surprised by the Board of Selectmen candidates pledging that they “will not take any campaign contributions from individuals or businesses.” That has to be a first in Canton politics.

Canton Library Director Mark Lague plans to retire in August 2018 after 39 years of service.

Talking about the library, Lague had requested a staffing increase in the FY19 budget that would have enabled the library to be open on Sunday afternoons. However, the requested expenditure did not make the cut during recent budget deliberations by the Board of Selectmen. The plan was to staff the library from 1-5 p.m. on Sundays with four staff members at an estimated annual cost of $20,000.

Reebok International Ltd. has sold its 65-acre former headquarters in Canton to Spear Street Capital, a real estate investment firm with offices in San Francisco and New York, for a combined total of $88 million, according to records at the Norfolk County Registry of Deeds.

In case you missed it, Nick Pirelli, Canton’s deputy director of Parks and Recreation, resigned effective February 23.

Chris Sykes has been appointed by the selectmen as the town’s new highway foreman.

The Orpheum Theatre in Foxboro, built in 1912, is now called the Marilyn Rodman Performing Arts Center.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

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

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

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