Man About Canton: House of Brews

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The next time you’re in Stoughton and looking for a great place for some delicious fair trade coffee and tea, amazing homemade pastries, and breakfast sandwiches in the morning and local craft brews, wine, finely crafted cocktails, and tasty light bites in the evening, the place to be is the Stoughton House of Brews at 28 Porter Street across from the Stoughton Post Office. It is owned by longtime Canton resident and 1981 CHS graduate Leo Fay. Leo and his wife, Sandra (Sam) Fay, recently celebrated their fifth year of ownership. The hidden gem also features some of the area’s best musical talents from Thursday through Saturday. MAC recently walked in and grabbed a seat on the sofa by the fire and listened to bluegrass music. The small restaurant also has a patio in the back where you can sit, enjoy your drink, and listen to some soft music. So if you haven’t stopped by yet, try it out. You won’t be disappointed.

Captain John J. Cummings, a 1985 graduate of Sharon High School and a 1990 graduate of Bates College, recently became the third commanding officer of the U.S. Navy’s USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier. It is the most advanced aircraft carrier in the world, taking nine years to build at an estimated cost of $13 billion. The giant carrier holds 508 officers and 3,769 enlisted men and women.

The Friends of the Blue Hills are holding a fundraiser with the top prize to be dinner for six at the top of the Blue Hill Observatory, the oldest continuously operating weather station in the nation. Tickets for a chance to win are $15 each or three for $35 and can be purchased at friendsofthebluehills.org/raffle2018. The drawing will be held at the organization’s annual celebration on Thursday, October 4, at the Canton Town Club.

Selectmen recently awarded a $24,500 contract to Kleinfelder Inc. to be used with the town’s hazard mitigation plan for town infrastructure. The grant was secured by Town Planner Laura Smead.

Paul Revere called Canton his home for 18 years of his life.

There will be three Massachusetts ballot questions that will be voted on during the November 6 election. Question 1 proposes a limit on the number of patients can be assigned to each nurse in a hospital. Question 2 would establish a citizens commission to promote a constitutional amendment limiting election spending and corporate rights. Lastly, Question 3 would repeal the 2016 state law that banned discrimination against transgender people in places of public accommodation.

Boston Herald’s Joe Battenfeld recently stated the following in his column: “This is a state where the Republican governor is so terrified of getting ousted from office that he has to act like a liberal Democrat in order to get reelected.” Battenfeld also said that, “This is a state where Democrats hold such a tight grip over the legislature that few Republican lawmakers here are virtually silenced into submission.”

According to the 2015 U.S. census statistics, nearly 74 percent of Massachusetts’s estimated 328,000 veterans are age 55 and older with the bulk of them having served in the Vietnam War. According to a recent article in the Boston Globe, the Veterans of Foreign Wars organization has dwindled from 2.3 million members in the 1990s to about 1.3 million today. Similarly, the American Legion has fallen to 2.2 million members from about 3.3 million just after World War II.

The Canton High School Class of 1953 will hold its reunion on Tuesday, September 25, at 1 p.m. at Conrad’s Restaurant in Norwood. For more information, contact Tula Sfougaris at 781-341-0935.

Health is like money: We never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. –Josh Billings

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

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

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