Man About Canton: BURR TO RUN FOR STATE SENATOR
By Joe DeFeliceDID YOU KNOW…
Canton Selectman Bob Burr surprised everyone at last week’s Norfolk County Selectmen’s Association meeting, which MAC attended at Lombardo’s in Randolph, when he announced that he would be a Republican candidate for state senator for the Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth District, opposing incumbent Senator Brian Joyce (D-Milton). Burr, currently serving in his second term as a Canton selectman, made a run for United States senator but failed to get the 10,000 signatures needed to get on the ballot.
Emerson & Cuming Plant to Close: Recent published reports state that the Emerson & Cuming plant at 869 Washington Street, near Town Hall, will be completely closed down by 2012, and as a result, nearly 100 employees will lose their jobs. The German conglomerate Henkel, which acquired the industrial adhesive manufacturing plant in 2000 from National Starch, owns the 80,000-square-foot plant. They reportedly will transfer the work done in Canton to a Henkel facility in California.
Boston Globe members of the Boston Newspaper Guild are rightfully up in arms over how they were underhandedly mistreated by the big bosses at the New York Times, which owns the Globe. You may recall that about a year ago, the New York Times was crying poverty and demanded Globe union members cut their costs by $20 million, or the Times would be forced to close down the Globe and put everyone out of work. After much soul searching, the Globe union members gave in to save their paper. Recently, someone checked a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing and found that in 2009, Times Chief Executive Janet Robinson and Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger each received disturbingly huge raises. Robinson got a 32 percent raise to $6.2 million, and Sulzberger’s pay more than doubled to $5.9 million. The raises obviously triggered an angry outburst among Globe union members who said they were betrayed and disgusted by the hypocrisy of the Times management and demanded the money they gave up be restored.
The U.S. Mint is starting another decade of “Quarter-mania.” This time it will issue 56 new quarters featuring the country’s national parks and forests. The first coin to be issued will feature the Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas.
Will it ever end? Gasoline prices are once again headed over $3 per gallon for regular unleaded this coming summer.
The Bank of Canton recently donated $5,000 to the St. Boniface Haiti Foundation in Randolph, which is a nonprofit volunteer organization founded in 1983. The donation will be sent to help the continuing relief efforts in Haiti.
Canton-based Dunkin’ Donuts has reported that it opened 171 new stores in the United States last year, 351 new locations worldwide, and had 131 new signed franchise commitments.
By any chance, have you saved your old comic books? A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman recently sold for $1 million, smashing the previous record price for a comic book. The 1938 edition of Action Comics, which originally cost ten cents and is widely considered the holy grail of comic books, was sold by a private seller to a private buyer, neither of whom released their names. The issue’s cover featured Superman lifting a car.
Army Lt. Col. Peter J. Badoian was a member of an Army team that participated in the 2010 All-American Bowl. He is a 1983 graduate of Sharon High and the son of Canton High’s resident math wizard, Marty Badoian.
The Norfolk County Mosquito Control Project has begun helicopter application of larvicide to control mosquito larvae in the wetlands of Canton, Randolph and Stoughton.
More than 75 volunteers signed up for the April 17 “Pride of Stoughton Day,” which was organized by the local youth commission. The volunteers will spruce up the town by cleaning and picking up litter at the town’s playgrounds and will paint over graffiti. Wouldn’t it be nice if Canton had such a day?
Finally, our new U.S. Senator Scott Brown received a large amount of money for his political battle with Attorney General Martha Coakley, and he didn’t spend it all. According to recent federal campaign financial reports, he still has $6 million left in his account for any reelection bid he may make in 2012. While we’re on the subject, political financial records also say Brown received $19,200 in donations from 30 Canton residents who gave him $200 or more. In Milton, 65 people contributed $32,120 while only 14 people in Norwood gave him $8,300; and 12 Stoughton residents donated a paltry $4,000.
Accomplishment comes to those who say, “I can make it happen.”
This is all for now folks; see you next week.
Joe DeFelice can be reached at
manaboutcanton@aol.com
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Posted by Joe DeFelice
on Apr 22 2010. Filed under Man About Canton, Opinion.
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