Man About Canton: Some Dead Evergreens
By Joe DeFeliceDID YOU KNOW…
One of MAC’s readers who lives on Bolivar Street recently wrote an interesting complaint letter to MAC, which I want to share with you and the Board of Selectmen:
“This past spring/summer, the DPW planted about 20 small evergreens on Bolivar Street in front of their buildings. Since I live directly across in Edgewater condos, I was elated knowing they will grow tall and block my ugly view of the DPW buildings. The first few days, some DPW workers watered them. Then the heat wave of the summer came, and now most of them are brown and dead. Fortunately, the weeds have grown so tall that the dead trees are not so noticeable, and my ugly view is still getting blocked. My concern is whether we, the taxpayers, paid for these 20 trees; and since they died, was it a large amount of money wasted?”
Speaking of Bolivar Street, with the new repaving job, many people feel it’s too bad the sidewalks weren’t done at the same time. They need a lot of work.
On the subject of things that need to be done, have you looked at the Gazebo at the Hemenway Senior Housing Complex? It has deteriorated to the extent that it, too, needs to be renovated.
This coming Sunday, November 7, is the time to set your clocks back one hour, thus ending Daylight Savings Time for this year.
A big congratulations and thank you to the people who are responsible for organizing the sixth annual Reebok/CAI Homecoming Road Race. This year’s races raised a net of over $38,000, which will be given back to various Canton charitable causes. Incidentally, 760 runners participated in this year’s races, which was a lot more than the 230 that ran in the first race six years ago.
The new football program at the Galvin Middle School is doing great. The program is being directed by former Canton High football coach Dave Bohane and assistant coach Jeff Eckler, and both have done a great job working with the team.
Speaking of football, Vincent Brown, a 6-foot, 175-pound sophomore playing for the Blue Hills Regional Warriors, recently gained 192 yards in 42 carries, scored five touchdowns, and converted three two-point conversions in the Warriors’ 40-22 win over East Boston. It was an outstanding performance. Brown followed up that performance by scoring four more touchdowns and two 2-point conversions in beating Southeastern Regional High School 44-16. That is 64 points scored in two games.
The Senior Men’s Club will hold its 25th annual Christmas Party on Thursday, December 9, at 12 noon at the American Legion Hall. The deadline for reservations and tickets for members and guests will be Friday, December 3. Tickets are $20 each, and entertainment will be by Tom Bruhl — “the incomparable one-man band.” For more information, members can call Frank Meissner at 781-828-6723 or Tom Hayes at 781-828-6378.
The New York Times Company, publisher of the Boston Globe, has reported a small loss for the third quarter because of one-time expenses and another drop in print advertising revenue.
The Boston Red Sox are considering widening the bullpens at Fenway Park by eight feet, which they say would make it safer for relief pitchers warming up and cut down the dimensions in right field, as well as shorten the distance from home plate to the right field fence by 9 or 10 feet.
There’s no question about us getting older. Johnny Sheffield, who played the character “Boy” in the Tarzan movies of the 1930s and 1940s, recently died at the age of 79; and actor Tom Bosley, the father in the TV series “Happy Days,” passed away at the age of 83.
CVS Pharmacy, the large retail pharmacy company based in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, has been fined $75 million under the Federal Controlled Substance Act for allowing repeated purchases of a key ingredient in the making of methamphetamine in at least five states and possibly 20 more. It was the largest civil penalty ever assessed under the act.
Thousands of small Massachusetts non-profit organizations have reportedly failed to file returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and are in danger of losing their tax-exempt status. Non-profits such as booster clubs, scholarship funds, and groups supporting disabled veterans are among the 7,900 non-profits in Massachusetts the IRS has identified for not filing a tax return since new reporting requirements took effect in 2007. Charitable groups automatically lose their tax exemption if they do not meet filing requirements three years in a row.
MAC hopes you did your civic duty and voted in the state election on November 2. If you didn’t vote and are unhappy with any of the winners, don’t complain … your failure to vote contributed to their win.
When we come face to face, our differences vanish.
This is all for now folks; see you next week.
Joe DeFelice can be reached at manaboutcanton@aol.com.
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on Nov 4 2010. Filed under Man About Canton, Opinion.
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