Man About Canton: Golf Tournament Fundraisers

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Would you believe that on Monday, August 19, there are three Canton fundraising golf tournaments? We have the first annual Marilyn Rodman Theatre for Kids Golf Tournament at the Spring Valley Country Club in Sharon. For information on this tournament, call Brett Rodman at 508-698-4122. Then there is the second annual Canton Veterans Golf Outing at the Wampatuck Country Club in Canton. For information on this tournament, call Canton Veterans Agent Tony Andreotti at 781-821-5005. Then we have the third golf tournament on August 19, the ninth annual H.T. Berry Open to benefit the Jimmy Fund, to be held at the Brookmeadow Country Club in Canton. The H.T. Berry Company is located on North Street in Canton.

Interstate All Battery Center in Canton recently celebrated the grand opening of its new store located at 95 Shawmut Road off Dedham Street. The company provides thousands of different styles of batteries for auto and personal devices. The Dallas-based company also recycles batteries.

The town of Canton will have an estimated $480,000 at its disposal at the end of this year thanks to the Community Preservation Act passed by Canton voters last November. The revenue collected in fiscal year 2014 will be put into a reserve fund until the CPA committee brings projects to town meetings for approval.

The Shaw’s supermarket chain recently announced that it will close four stores in Massachusetts by August 3. The Shaw’s on Route 138 in Stoughton has been identified as one of the stores to be closed down, along with stores in Taunton, Fall River, and Fairhaven.

Stoughton voters recently approved spending $75,000 to hire a consultant to prepare design plans to redesign Central Street (Route 27) where it intersects with Tosca Drive, Canton Street, Island Street, and West Street. This area has been a major bottleneck for years.

The Milton Mews Project being proposed under the state’s 40B affordable housing law appears to be in the developer’s favor of being approved. The 276-apartment complex would be built on land in Milton off Brush Hill Road and extend into land in Canton near Hemenway Drive. All the proposed buildings would be in Milton.

The town of Norwood is giving its historic 85-year-old town hall a $3 million restoration.

School Committee member John Bonnanzio recently produced an in-depth financial analysis on the impact that the Avalon Bay project, with its 196 units off Randolph Street, and the proposed 348 units at Plymouth Rubber off Revere Street would have on the Canton schools. His analysis concluded that an additional 100 students would enter the system, and the school department would need an additional $500,000 to cover operating costs. The Plymouth Rubber owners have dropped their plans for a housing development and will now pursue commercial uses.

In order to compete with FedEx and UPS, England has laid out plans to privatize the Royal Mail.

Massachusetts is one of only four states that ban all consumer fireworks. Last year, Maine legalized fireworks, and in 2010, Rhode Island also legalized low-grade fireworks. According to state Senator Robert Hedlund (R-Weymouth), neighboring states siphon off about $40 million in potential sales of fireworks from Massachusetts with an estimated loss of $2 million in taxes annually. Fireworks are a booming industry; U.S. sales in 2012 hit an all-time high at $645 million, according to the American Pyrotechnics Association.

The Foxboro Planning Board recently approved an expansion at Patriot Place next to Gillette Stadium. The Kraft Group plans to add a 122-room hotel, a quick-service restaurant, and a CVS.

Blue Hills Regional Technical School in Canton is seeking alumni who have flourished in their careers. Professions that are unusual or prestigious are highly desired. If you would like to share information about your career, contact Blue Hills Communication Specialist Judy Bass at jbass@bluehills.org.

William Regan recently died at the age of 78. Back in the 1970s, Mr. Regan invented a microprocessor and radio transceiver that could be hidden in a vehicle and linked to its electrical system. When a vehicle was stolen, police could activate the device remotely, follow the signal, and track down the car. After Regan developed the technology, he launched the LoJack Company (named to sound like the opposite of “hijack”), which is now headquartered off Route 138 in Canton.

Another inventor, Doug Engelbart, recently died at the age of 88. He may not be well known, but in 1970, he developed and patented the computer mouse. At least one billion have been sold since the mid 1980s when it was first introduced commercially by Apple’s new Macintosh in 1984. In 2000, then President Bill Clinton bestowed Mr. Engelbart with the National Medal of Technology “for creating the foundation of personal computing.”

They say that politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Some people stay so far in the past that the future is gone before they get there.

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

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

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