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Wine Notes
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Join the A.D. Makepeace Company and the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers’ Association for our annual Harvest Celebration on Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11, 2009, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Featured activities Cranberry harvest tours, helicopter rides, wagon and pony rides, children’s activities, jugglers, juried crafts, live music performances by some of the region’s biggest musical talents, and cooking demonstrations.
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Admission is $2.00. Under 7 years, admission is free. Portions of the fees collected will be donated to local non-profit organizations that help staff the event. No dogs, no pets please.
Come in and browse through our assortment of gift items and enjoy the sense of shopping in a friendly, local market of times past. Visit www.tihonetvillagemarket.com for hours, special events and more. Call for daily specials: (508) 295-5437.
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CONTENTS IN EVERY ISSUE
Bordertowns
FLASH
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Contributors
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From the publisher
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On my mind: Home remedy wanted
by Paul E. Kandarian
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Book Picks: Techie tips
by Magoo Gelehrter
COVER STORY
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Testing a prospective drug
by Paul Chervinsky, MD
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Rehab in the South Coast
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by Stacie Charbonneau and Michael Vieira
Learning after 50
East Providence by Paul E. Kandarian
Business
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How’s business? by H.B. Ussach
Hop on the train by Stephen C. Smith
YOUR HOME
Discover your roots
by Dan Logan and Robin LaCroix
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Painless painting
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by Paul E. Kandarian
42 St. Anne’s Cancer Center
expands
things to do
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Cranberry Harvest
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Happenings: Spring into fall
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MattSail Gala
Lizzie lectures by Michael Vieira
by Jennifer Read
Moving made simple by Elizabeth Morse Read
by Joan McKinley
WINE NOTES
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Four ways to stay fit by Jason Perry
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The other cabernet by Alton Long
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On the cover The Tihonet Village Market, owned and operated by the A.D. Makepeace Company, is an oldfashioned country store specializing in locally grown and created items. Stop in for lunch, a fresh-baked treat, fresh local produce, and unique gifts. 146 Tihonet Road, Wareham. Hours: Tues-Sat 9:30 am-6 pm. Call 508-2955437 or visit www.tihonetvillagemarket.com
CONTRIBUTORS STACIE CHARBONNEAU HESS is a mother, a graduate student, and a freelance writer based in New Bedford, Massachsuetts, where she lives with her husband, three children, and too many pets to mention.
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Paul ChervinskY, MD, graduated from Tufts College and Tufts Medical School where he received the C.V. Mosby award for outstanding student in medicine. He trained at New England Medical Center. He has conducted over 1,000 clinical research studies and has published more than 100 articles of allergy and asthma research. He is certified by the American Board of Allergy and Immunology. Paul Kandarian is a lifelong area resident and has been a professional writer for the past 23 years whose work has appeared in Yankee, Banker and Tradesman, American History, a variety of alumni magazines and many other publications. He writes regularly for The Boston Globe, and is a contributing editor and columnist for Rhode Island Monthly magazine. Robin LaCroix is a freelance writer and photographer who is a partner in Tightrope Photography, a Rehoboth-based company specializing in family history. Dan Logan is the author of “Close the Gaps: 10 Cool Tools for Mastering Windows” Essentials. E-mail him at dlogan@thegrid.net Alton L. Long is a freelance writer, educator and event producer specializing in wine, food and travel. He and his wife Dorothy live in Tiverton.
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TOM LOPES is a regular contributor to The South Coast Insider. His work has also appeared in a number of local publications. In addition, he has taught classes and exhibited in various galleries. Joan McKinley is Publicity co-chair of Second Half and contributor to The South Coast Insider. ELIZABETH MORSE READ is an award-winning writer, editor and artist who grew up on the South Coast. After twenty years of working in New York City and traveling the world, she came back home with her children and lives in Fairhaven. Jennifer Read, of Tiverton, is a Junior at the College of the Holy Cross, majoring in English; she is the Editor-in-Chief of The Crusader, and a writing tutor. STEPHEN C. SMITH has been Executive Director of SRPEDD since 1983. He lives with his wife Maria in Assonet village. When he’s not on boats, they enjoy traveling, cooking and gardening together. H.B. Ussach is a college writing instructor and freelance journalist with an M.A. in print journalism and communication from American University in Washington, D.C. He writes often on business issues and worked for many years as a retail manager. MICHAEL VIEIRA, Ph.D. is the Acting Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bristol Community College. Mike has written for several newspapers and magazines and is an editor of The South Coast Insider and South Coast Prime Times.
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After somewhat disappointing summer weather, September provides another chance to enjoy warm days while appreciating the changing season. In this issue, you’ll find both hot things to do and cool ideas for the month that usually brings both types of days.
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We may be proud of the South Coast, but one of the things that makes it so special is its location. Not only can you easily get to Boston, Providence and the Cape in under an hour (on a good day), but there are other treasures that surround us. This month, we introduce a new feature: Bordertowns. Enjoy our look at East Providence, the first in a series about the Rhode Island towns that surround us. It might be back to school time for kids, but September is also a good time to focus on life-long learning. Joan McKinley shares how The Second Half can stimulate the mind of folks over 50, while Dan Logan and Robin LaCroix offer tips on exploring your family tree.
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After the frozen drinks and backyard feasts of summer, now’s the right time to get back in shape. Check out four unique ways to stay fit, but also discover how research and rehabilitation in the South Coast can improve our region’s health. Plus there’s more: a look at how local businesses are surviving, tips for home improvements, wine and food suggestions. And don’t forget to visit www.coastalmags. com for more information and explore www.SouthCoastGo.com, our free online classifieds. You’ll be glad you did. Enjoy,
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Saturday, September 12, 2009 5 - 8 pm An evening of music, wine & light fare with a live auction to benefit the Preservation Society in the garden at the New Boston Bakery. Tickets $25 available at the New Boston Bakery or call the Preservation Society 508.673.4841 rain date: Sunday, September 13
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Please try this at home by Paul E. Kandarian
Does anyone have a home remedy for home remedies? As I write this in mid-August, I’m in the grip of a scorching outbreak of canker sores that make me feel like a fire-eater on a bad day. My inner lips and tongue are riddled with cankers (they are neither viral nor contagious, so it’s ok to kiss me..within reason…and, no, buddy, not you), it hurts to eat, it hurts to drink, it hurts to swallow, it hurts to speak, it hurts to say the word “hurt,” it’s one of the worst pains you can imagine. Millions of people get them, one to three sores at a time usually, and they last a week or so and even the smallest one on, say, the tip of the tongue can make it feel like it’s caught in a sewing machine, the pain is that amplified. So imagine dozens and dozens lining your lips and torturing your tongue. Welcome to my world. About 13 years ago, I had a similar outbreak, which then as now can be attributed to stress (amazing what stress can do isn’t it? I hear about good stress from time to time, any clue on what it is and where to find it?) That first time I had it worse. I was in bed for five straight days, couldn’t eat or drink, could only drool and slurp Pedialyte through a straw. The silver lining in that cloud of agony was that I lost 25 pounds and quit smoking, though it’s not a diet and smoking-cessation course I’d heartily recommend. So this time, it started as a bad sore throat, or so I thought, but it was actually cankers deep down that worked their way up, insidiously, slowly at first then with
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amazing, throbbing rapidity. I went to my doctor twice, and after he did all he could, drawing on his umpteen years of expensive medical training and experience, I did what most normal people did. I went to the Internet! What a wealth of information, none of it regulated, all of it geared toward curing me of the lifelong curse of canker sores! Why do we need doctors when we have millions of them on the Internet eager to dispense medical information for zip?
Googling & Gargling First of all, you Google “canker sores treatment,” you get 272,000 results. Seriously, 270,000. Man, by the time I get through just reading all that, my cankers will be gone! See how well the Internet works for us? I hit a few right off. I like this, great, cheap home remedies. Salt-water gargle. I try that. Scream like a man with his tongue caught in that sewing machine! I mean salt in a wound, c’mon? But it’s on the Internet, it must be ok. Milk of magnesia rinse. Sounds good. I try. Nothing, except for the milk-of-magnesia aftertaste that reminds me of gagging this crap down as a child when I was sick. OK, moving on. Oh, this looks promising: Hydrogen peroxide, it works on boo-boos, right, and cankers are just boo-boos in the mouth? I rinse with a big old mouthful and my mouth foams up like a wolfman at full moon. Works for a bit, numbs the pain but nothing lasting. I need lasting. Hmmm, here’s something called a slurry made with carafate, which is used for
peptic ulcers. Actually, my doctor prescribed this; it’s in a suspension of Maalox (another lovely tasting medicine) with lidocaine and it did numb it for awhile as I rinsed my mouth and pink drool dribbled out of the corners of my mouth. But it says here carafate is not FDA approved for canker sore treatment. Oh, great, I’m a guinea pig. Hey, who cares, so long as it works. Alas, it doesn’t, not for more than 20 minutes or so and the prescription says rinse once every four hours. No, can’t be waiting four hours for relief. The Internet will be my savior. I plunge onward, seeking, clicking, reading and hoping. Hey, cool, a site on how to get rid of things, conveniently called getridofthings. com (do people actually make money at these sites? Wish I could figure out how, that would greatly reduce my stress and therefore my canker sore outbreaks). I like this site, guy’s cool, even has a picture of what I presume is his open mouth with a big old white canker showing. That’s guts.
No cause, no cure No known cause, no known cure. He’s straightforward, too. But there’s nothing new here, just same old stuff, up to and including rinsing with Listerine, which I did.
And which, because Listerine hurts even with a healthy mouth, made the top of my head feel like it was going to blow off. Still, it did numb my mouth for a considerably longer time. So far, Listerine tops my list of go-to remedies. Wait, the Mayo Clinic’s weighing in on the topic of canker sores, this should be great. Except for the part that mentions acid treatments. Seems an acid solution converts the sore to a burn, allowing it to heal more quickly. That makes Listerine seem a more soothing nectar by comparison. The list is endless and includes things that include what is best described as modern-day snake oil medicine, or herbal treatments, maybe pasting a wet tea bag on them to soothe with tannin, or using myrrh or sage, perhaps changing your toothpaste, changing your toothbrush, using specific mouthwashes, using no mouthwashes, changing your diet, changing your sleep patterns, all of it adding up in my case to nothing but a mouthful of continuing pain. And best of all on the home-remedy pages? The admonition if nothing works and they don’t go away, check with your doctor, it could be cancer! Please, someone send me a home remedy for home remedies: Quick!
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is one in a series of stories about Rhode Island towns on the South Coast borders. Each has its own unique history, culture and flavor.
I was born in Providence and raised in Seekonk, making me somewhat of an expert on the little city in the middle— East Providence, if for no other reason than I traversed it so much as a kid and still do as an adult, getting to Rhode Island’s capital city by driving down Route 44. Nowadays, you do that by hitting Route 195 into the city. Then, you took the old Red Bridge, a great clackety old steel span on the Seekonk River that, as a child, scared the heck out of me. Hey, I was little, it seemed huge at the time. Actually, I think what scared me more was the view to the left—the Stuck-Up Bridge, as it’s known, which was built in 1908 and connected East Providence to the East Side of Providence, the train disappearing into tunnels bored through the hilly landscape and emerging downtown. It’s a bit of East Providence transportation history that fascinates me still every time I see the Stuck-Up Bridge, now from my right as I drive on
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Route 195 into the city. East Providence has always held a special place in my memory. It was always the kind of place that, when I was younger, was easy to make fun of. I mean, we thought, what the heck is there? But then again, we came from Seekonk, and beyond the Speedway, the drone of which every Saturday night I could hear at my house, so what the heck did we have? Not a lot, except farmland and the then new Route 195 cutting by my front yard. East Providence was, and is, the buffer town ‘tween Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and loaded with pretty cool stuff.
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Providence Country Day School is there, one of the finest prep schools in the area, small at 300 or so students but putting out big in terms of quality education and athletics. Terrific grounds there, great place to take in school sports and also Babe Ruth ball (if you’re driving by the field in baseball season, keep an eye open, foul balls have been known to smack passing cars). Speaking of great fields, right nearby is East Providence High School where, as a 20-something who thought he was in shape, I once ripped up my hamstring playing softball and trying to run full out from first to second. Thankfully, there as a walkin clinic within limping distance. East Providence is also home to many watering holes of note, including the Red Bridge Tavern, Bovi’s Town Tavern, and the Watchemoket Bar. But one always holds a place near and dear to my heart: the Towne Pub, which my dad owned when I was a kid and my grandfather worked at, a place that, when I stepped in with my mom, suddenly erupted in silence, a respectful absence of usual bar profanity that was testimony perhaps to more polite times.
I think maybe the kinship I feel for East Providence stems from it being part of Seekonk way, way back. In 1661, Plymouth completed the “North Purchase” from which Attleboro, North Attleboro, and Cumberland were later formed. Over the whole the authorities gave the name Rehoboth. The center of this large settlement, which is sometimes referred to as Old Rehoboth, is within the borders of modern East Providence. In 1812, the western half of Old Rehoboth was set off as a separate township called Seekonk, Massachusetts. Old Rehoboth’s town center now became the heart of Old Seekonk. Finally, in 1862, the western part of Old Seekonk was ceded to Rhode Island and incorporated as East Providence. Other fond memories of East Providence include Shore Dinners at Crescent Park in Riverside, a village of the city, where you’d get a full lobster shore dinner for less than four bucks. Nearby was Crescent Park, home of the famous Looff Carousel. The park’s long gone, but the carousel remains.
Another fond memory Haircuts at Angelo the Barber’s on Waterman Avenue, Angelo being the father of future Rhode Island boxing legend Vinnie Pazienza. Angelo always had one long little-fingernail, why I don’t know. I also remember being a kid in the chair and seeing shady-looking guys walking in the back room with Angelo and coming out with stuff, Angelo laughing and patting them on the back. From infamous to famous, one East Providence notable native is Meredith Vieira, co-host of the Today show. She and I are the same age and I’ll swear to anyone who’ll listen that I hit on her at parties back in our day. Is it true? Who knows, I hit on everyone and chances are, one could have been Meredith, so that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
And the food! One thing East Providence is famous for is great eats, from all manner of Portuguese restaurants (Cattails on Waterman is my favorite), to down-home diners, to Miller’s Roast Beef on Warren Avenue and just down the road from that, Young China Restaurant, which has been around officially forever since I ate there as a child and revisit from time to time just to reflect—and chow on great egg roll. One of my all-time favorites is the New York Coney Island System weenie joint across from city hall, open to all wee hours of the morning when the small walk-up window is bathed in big-city neon glow and you can grab grub there or sit inside and chat up Steve the counterman. I recently learned Steve is son of a man who worked here forever, Johnny—who was in the Coast Guard with my dad. A small world is always smaller still in Rhode Island. East Providence may be a place on the way from here to there but it’s also a great spot to stop for awhile.
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Are we on the verge of an economic upswing like President Barack Obama and others are suggesting? The general consensus seems to be that even though sales are down, South Coast businesses are holding steady and weathering the bad economy, by a combination of loyal customers, weather (in some cases), product and promotion, and cost cutting. Nobody we spoke to has had to lay off employees. Here is what South Coast business owners are saying:
Home Improvement Chris Paul, Bath Cove, N. Dartmouth and Middletown: In spite of the challenging retail market, “green” products are more popular than ever. Consumers want kitchen and bathroom fixtures that support water conservation, save money, and help the environment. The Bath Cove not only has a wide selection of environmental friendly products, but also provides service, selection and competitive pricing. Patty McMillen, Ecin Bedding and Futon, Fall River: We are not behind, about the same as last year. We are a contract provider of supplies to colleges. Jobs like those are keeping us strong. We have not had any layoffs yet.
Consumers want kitchen and bathroom fixtures that support water conservation, save money, and help the environment.
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Kristine Burke, Armand’s Carpet and Linoleum, Fall River: We’re treading water. It’s a struggle. Construction is down, so are residential sales—people are holding on to their money. But commercial sales are up—new stores and restaurants keep opening. We sell a lot of flooring for nursing homes and elderly housing. Jeff Moran, New Environomics, Westport: I exhibited at the recent Barnstable and Westport fairs but saw no consumer confidence. Energy technology is changing so fast that people seem to be waiting and holding on to their money. Business is down a lot but people are interested in solar energy—they don’t trust the utilities. I’m getting decent activity on my website which means people are doing a lot of research. Generally I’m confident and positive. Joe Pires, Pioneer Basement, Westport: Despite the rain, business is still significantly less than what it would have been three, four years ago, but we’re fortunate that we’re still strong and busy. About 40 percent of our business comes from good customer referrals.
Customers are staying with high end feed and food— they won’t compromise on their pets’ food. —Bob Bamberg, Old Attleboro’ Old Barn
Zach Burns, Burns Power Tools, Fall River: It’s tough in the building trades right now but we’re doing okay—school purchase orders are steady. We haven’t had any layoffs yet. I hope the stock market bounces back but I don’t see any immediate changes in everyday business. Bob Bamberg, Old Attleboro’ Old Barn, Attleboro: We’re down substantially over last year— people are not spending money, they’re doing their own lawn care. Bird feed is holding its own. Customers are staying with high end feed and food—they won’t compromise on their pets’ food. We try to have sale prices but there’s not much wiggle room.
Health& Fitness Kim Camara, Yester’Year Cyclery, New Bedford: Business is off the charts—up 35 percent over same time last year. We hired three new workers this season. Part of this is due to attrition of other bike dealers and to people exercising more, but we’re doing a lot of repair and service work—there’s a lot of money in that. Also in used bikes and rentals. Kerry McElroy, Barbelle Real Fitness for Woman, Swansea: We’re doing very well—better than expected. More people are working out to relieve stress and we’ve picked up a lot now in our fourth year. We have new dance classes and run specials.
People are finding new energy and taking action on their own behalf. — Sheryl Turgeon, nutritionist
Sheryl Turgeon, nutritionist, Your Health Potential: I have seen more customers in the last eight months than previously. People are finding new energy and taking action on their own behalf. Jonathan Vieira, barber, The Barber Shoppe, Swansea: It’s not bad. People are still getting their hair cut. Maybe a hot lather shave and trim also makes them feel better or look good for an interview.
Hospitality Pat Lassonde, Travel’n On Travel Agency, Somerset: Business is picking up. People are traveling and staying longer when on vacation. Instead of one week they are staying ten days to two weeks…one long trip instead of maybe two or three trips in a year… many people are planning ahead for the years 2010 and 2011. Linda DiFazio, Seraphim, Tea and More, Seekonk: We opened in late October 2008…business has been like a roller coaster, with no logical prediction of whether a day will be extremely busy or very slow. We flew right into the holidays in November and December and business was brisk. We didn’t hit a super month until May and Mother’s Day weekend. The recent six-week rainy spell upped our business—just the opposite of al fresco and waterfront restaurants. This summer we see a drop in business so the weather definitely affects attendance at our Tea Room. Jeff Hirsh, The Lobster Pot, Bristol: Business is okay. The East Bay relies on customers and general population. The Cape and other areas rely on tourism. People are not going out as much as usual and poor weather hasn’t helped, but southern New England has it a bit better— we are within a close drive for people—20 percent of the U.S. population lives within eight hours of Providence. We are watching costs and avoiding layoffs.
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Specialty Shops Nancy Crosby, Partners Village Store, Westport: We are optimistic. Kitchen sales are noticeably way up. We have a loyal following from Marion to Fall River. We have been here two years. October through Christmas was good, then down. But we’re cutting back in-house expenses and doing things ourselves. Cards and toys are less bad than last year at this time. Things generally are less scary. Lea McBratney, Dartmoor Gifts, Dartmouth: We had the best July in five years due to a good summer crowd, maybe the weather. August is a bit slow but new customers are checking us out. Ann Squire, Country Woolens, Westport: Business is steady. People are up and about but the bad along with the economy has affected business. Customers are not buying summer clothes in the cool weather.
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Our wedding bands are popular and with a new line of christening gowns we are focusing on growing families. —Joe Riley, The Irish Shoppe Joe Riley, The Irish Shoppe, Fall River: It is very tough. July and August are slow, our traditional Irish customer base is down, but we are gearing ourselves toward a younger generation. Our wedding bands are popular and with a new line of christening gowns we are focusing on growing families. Wayne Williams, G.I. Joe’s Army & Navy, N. Attleboro: Business is strong; business is better than it’s been in 10 years. We still buy, sell and trade on vintage military items. We’re well worth the drive. They’re driving from Worcester, Providence, the Cape and New Bedford. Paula Rodrigues, Time & Thyme Again, Bristol: Sales were flat last year. But this year I’ve seen growth after the first month or two of the year. July was my best month since 2 1/2 years since I’ve been open. I’m saying August will be a very good month, probably better than July. Definitely seeing a change in people’s attitudes in spending their money. They’re cautious, but still willing to spend money where as last fall and winter, nobody wanted to spend a penny, because they were afraid. Sally Emmett Dwyer, BeachHouse, Newport: It’s very optimistic for us. People are shopping. We don’t see a difference from last summer to now. But it’s a huge difference compared to when the media was hyping the bad economy. It’s definitely picked up.
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Clinical research in the South Coast by Paul Chervinsky, MD
Most people realize that a great deal of research takes place before a drug is approved for marketing. Few realize that residents of the South Coast may participate in this necessary testing. “As a patient for the past 10 years at the research department, I find that all the staff members are very professional, compassionate and understanding to all your needs for each and every study. I would recommend anyone who qualifies for a study should try it just once. [There’s a] good chance you will be looking forward to the next study.” (JMM, North Dartmouth) Located in Dartmouth, Northeast Medical Research conducts clinical studies in all phases of clinical research which are required by the FDA before a drug is approved for marketing. Before any study, the prospective new medication is evaluated in many animal studies which usually take several years to carry out. “Prior to any of the procedures being performed in the study, the patients are required to read, sign and date an informed consent which outlines the conduct of the 16
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study and explains the potential risks and benefits to be derived from participation,” Dr. Paul Chervinsky said, adding “This would include any financial incentive which would be made.” It is important to note that clinic personnel must explain the purpose and duration of the study as well as trial procedures involved. Participants always have the right to withdraw from a study at any time without penalty. It also shouldn’t cost you to participate. Patients do not pay to participate in a study and all procedures and examinations along with study medication are provided by the trial sponsor. All studies of a drug are carried out under a protocol which has been approved by the FDA and an independent review board to insure safety and rationale. The protocol Continued on the page 18
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Phase I studies evaluate the safety and metabolism of the drug in a small number (20-100) of healthy volunteers and subjects who have the disease studied. Many of these studies require overnight visits at the clinic. Phase II studies evaluate the effectiveness of the drug and are usually carried out “blinded” with a placebo control group and utilize several hundred patients. In these studies various doses of the drug are administered to decide the best dosage form to be used. After the study is completed, a statistical analysis is conducted to determine the benefits and safety of the study drug. Depending on these results the sponsor can continue the process of evaluation through Phase III and apply for FDA approval or discontinue the study or compound. On completion of these studies, if the safety and value of the drug is evident, Phase III studies are carried out in several hundred to several thousand patients, and on successful completion the pharmaceutical company can apply to the FDA for approval to market the drug. After approval, Phase IV studies are conducted to further evaluate the drug against other similar marketed drugs and to monitor long term effectiveness and safety. “They have been very good to us and the medicines have helped enough that [he] has not had to have allergy shots.” (MJ, New Bedford)
Compensation Patients who participate in these studies are not only compensated for their time and travel, which can vary from $200 to $3,500, but also receive the benefit of being carefully evaluated and followed during the conduct of the study and gain greater knowledge of their disease and the best ways to cope with the disease. In addition, they help others by contributing to medical research.
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For more than 50 years, Northeast Medical Research has been conducting studies focused on allergy and asthma drugs, but in recent years because of the expertise gained in the allergy respiratory area, Northeast Medical Research now also conducts studies in COPD, (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) arthritis, migraine and pain. Presently, Northeast Medical Research is conducting several studies evaluating new and hopefully better formulations of drugs currently on the market and several new and innovative drug for the treatment of asthma. A study for a safer and better tolerated medication for the treatment of allergic rhinitis will shortly be underway as well as studies of a new approach to the treatment of migraines.
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ortheast Medical Research Associates, Inc. is an outgrowth of a division of Allergy Associates, Inc. which was started with the intention of providing the most up to date treatment of allergic respiratory diseases to its patients. The site currently is administrated by two medical directors, Dr. S. David Miller and Dr. Paul Chervinsky. Dr Chervinsky started doing clinical studies in 1955 and has published over 100 articles detailing results of his studies and has made presentations throughout the country and at international meetings. Dr. Miller has been involved in the studies program for 20 years and has also been extensively published. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer of CRN/Allergy & Respiratory, which is a group of more than 43 Investigator sites which conduct clinical research in allergy and asthma. He is responsible for the clinical management of the studies. In addition to the medical directors, the staff includes four physicians, a nurse practitioner and eight research coordinators. The site occupies approximately 5000 square foot in the Watuppa Building at Dartmouth Place located at 49 State Road, Dartmouth, MA. Volunteers interested can view the site at www.nemresearch. com or call 508-992-7595 for further information.
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Rehabilitation options Help is close to home by Stacie Charbonneau Hess and Michael Vieira
What would you do if you or a loved one had a stroke, accident, or severe injury? How would you take care of yourself or that special person? In the South Coast, we have several facilities that address the needs of people of all ages requiring special attention. When choosing a rehabilitation hospital for yourself or a loved one, there are several factors to consider. Location, location, location Location is important. Is the facility close and convenient, especially if it will be used for outpatient services? But consider other things. What are the qualifications of the staff, the accreditation of the facility, and the satisfaction rates of the patients? Does the facility have the programs and treatment that suit your needs? What are the costs and what insurances are accepted? Some consider the Vanderbilt Rehabilitation Center at Newport Hospital to be unique. “We’ve been around for forty years,” Senior Public Relations Officer Margaret O’Keefe said, “We have very high patient satisfaction rates.” In addition, the Hospital was just re-designated a magnet facility from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). They were awarded a national designation of Excellence in Nursing that only 2% of hospitals in the nation obtain. Hospitals with this designation are shown to have shorter recovery times and higher patient satisfaction rates than other
Clifton opened the doors to it’s expanded outpatient therapy clinic in the fall of 2008. The clinic now boasts additional treatment space and a stateof-the-art heated therapy pool
hospitals. The magnet process is an arduous one and is not taken lightly; at Newport Hospital this meant two years of review from the ANCC.
Vanderbilt offers options The Vanderbilt Rehab Center also features three different programs. The first is an acute rehabilitation inpatient program, the most intensive program that provides medical supervision by a physician, 24 hour rehab nursing care, and three hours a day of therapies. The second program is outpatient rehab. This focuses on therapy and recovery: physical therapy, occupational therapy, language pathology and a prosthetic and orthotic clinic. The third program offers education and a monitored exercise program for clients with cardiac diagnoses. One of the best things about having both in and outpatient services, says O’Keefe, is that as patients get better, they can stay in familiar surroundings. “They can keep coming back to the same place for treatment when they transition from inpatient to outpatient. They will have
the same medical director, the same level of care, the same physician,” she said. While the Vanderbilt Rehabilitation Center treats people of all ages, the majority of its clients are 55 and older. “The need is greater as we get older, since we are more likely to have suffered a stroke or a fall requiring medical treatment,” says O’Keefe. To learn more about the Vanderbilt Rehabilitation Center at Newport Hospital, call 401-845-1605 or visit www.lifespan. org/newport/services/vrc.
Rehab in New Bedford New Bedford Rehabilitation Hospital is a 90 bed, long-term acute care hospital located in the northern section of the city. It specializes in the treatment and rehabilitation of chronically and critically ill ventilator-dependent patients, and patients with severe and chronic lung diseases. It also provides comprehensive wound management and medical programs to those recovering from trauma or surgery. Thomas Heenan, Director of Business Continued on next page
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Continued from previous page Development, explained how the facility differs from others. “New Bedford Rehab Hospital is the only long-term acute care hospital in the Southeastern Massachusetts region and offers services not readily available elsewhere in the region,” he said, “Our state of the art programs in ventilator weaning, wound care management and complex medical care are our specialties and are generally not available at nursing facilities.” The Hospital offers the services of a 24 hour physician, as well as nursing and respiratory therapy coverage. NBRH seeks to respond to its patients’ medical needs as swiftly as possible, identifying and meeting them on a timely basis. Therapies include physical, occupational and speech. Therapists and physicians work in tandem to maximize a patient’s rehab potential and provide a smooth transition home. “Our program allows patients to be discharged from an acute care hospital into a smaller, more personalized setting while maintaining a high degree of medical intervention,” Keenan said. The New Bedford Rehabilitation Hospital
Get the help you need at a local rehabilitation center. A trained professional helps a patient (above) at the Vanderbilt Rehabilitation Center of Newport Hospital
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Tim Pedersen, MS,PT, Director of Rehabilitation Services for the Clifton Healthcare Campus treating a patient in their new custom designed heated aqua-therapy pool.
is located at 4499 Acushnet Avenue in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The admissions department is open Monday through Friday and can be reached at 508-9956900. For more information visit www. newbedfordrehab.com.
Clifton clinic & center Thanks to a recent expansion project, the Clifton Outpatient Rehabilitation Clinic sounds like one part health spa and one part rehab hospital. It boasts a brand new, 4,000 square foot, state of the art physical therapy pool where patients can flex and heal their muscles after surgery or injury. “We are super excited about the pool. It really adds to the rehab element,” says Clifton co-owner Andrea Greenwood-Syron, “It offers a place where you are buoyant. This means less pressure on the muscles. With regular exercise you can return sooner to normal activity and hasten your return home.” In addition to the pool, the Outpatient Clinic features modern exercise equipment, outdoor practice fields and private treatment areas. As an organization, Clifton is over 50 years old. It is family owned and operated, a local business caring for the community in the truest sense of the word. In addition to the Outpatient Rehab Clinic, the Clifton Rehabilitative Nursing Center provides inpatient services on the same campus. The Nursing Center provides all the services a patient would expect: in-house
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doctors and nurses, physical and occupational therapists and their assistants in a 142 bed facility. But what sets Clifton apart is that both in and out patient services are available in the same building (the Outpatient Clinic has its own private entrance.) Greenwood-Syron points out the benefits of this arrangement. “One of the neatest parts of our programs is our follow-through care. The same therapists are available for both in and outpatient services.” Clifton continually looks for ways to help their clients, and the recent construction and expansion project was one way to do that. While the Nursing Center treats people who’ve had hip or knee replacement surgery and the like, the Rehab Clinic focuses on everything from athletes with injuries to post-surgical therapy. “The Clinic is really for everyone. We like to say ages nine to ninety,” says Greenwood-Syron. “There could be a child who has a baseball injury in one room, Mom in another room, and then Grandma.” Clifton has not entirely completed its upgrades. “The expansion project is still going on,” says Greenwood-Syron. “We are redoing the whole building. The most important point of the project is improving rehab care, to get you back home as fast as possible.” For more information about Clifton’s Nursing Center or Rehabilitation Clinic, call (508) 675-7589. You can find them at 500 Wilbur Avenue in Somerset.
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Supporting summer sailing by Paul E. Kandarian
The Third Annual MattSail Summer Gala was a resounding success this year, again lending support to the William E. Mee Youth Sailing Program, which teaches kids the ins and outs of boating. The event, held Aug. 1 on the sprawling grounds of Drs. Bert and Laima Zarins’ home on the Mattapoisett waterfront (she an internal specialist in Boston, he an orthopedic surgeon and team physician for the New England Patriots), was held by the Mattapoisett Community Sailing Association, which runs the Mee Youth Sailing Program.
Mee was a sailor of supreme note, those in attendance said, plying the local waters with expert precision and always lending a hand to those who needed it. Mee died in a car crash 2006, and one year later the program bearing his name came into being. The Gala was a sellout with 251 tickets sold in advance and more at the door, rather the entrance to the tent that covered one corner of the Zarins’ spacious lawn. Many of the vendors supplying services did so at cost or free, organizers said. Music was supplied by the McCarthy-Richards
Band and a live and silent auction raised more money by selling items like Red Sox and Patriot tickets, vacation packages and, fittingly, all manner of nautical supplies, courtesy of local vendors. In addition, the night honored two long-time area yachtsmen, Arthur “Art” McLean and the late David “Westie” Westgate. The Mee sailing program started in 2007 with four borrowed boats and 15 kids. This year, 90 young sailors used more than a dozen boats owned by the program, thanks to donations and the fund-raising efforts of the Gala.
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ago, 128 people—your great great great great great grandparents—were busy paving the way for your birth. When the Pilgrims arrived in 1620, they established southeastern New England in the history books as one of the earliest settlements in North America. It has been estimated that more than 35,000 people from our area can claim genealogical links to the Pilgrims. But this area also served as the first stop in America for members of other nationalities and ethnic groups. Southeastern New England has a diverse population, “having seen waves of immigration from Ireland, Québec, Italy, Portugal, Asia, Latin America and Africa,” according to the Wikipedia. It’s no wonder that the area is now a valuable repository for genealogical information about generations of New Englanders, from the First Comers to much more recent arrivals. According to the Genealogy.com web site (www.genealogy.com/25_kory.html) more than “85,000 book-length family histories have been published since the 1840s” about New England families. You may have someone in your tree who has already done much of the research and will make it available to you, or has already published on the Internet.
your family’s roots Getting started So how do you get started researching your ancestry? Learning a bit about how to do genealogical research will smooth your path. The National Archives and Records Administration branch in Waltham (www. archives.gov/northeast/boston) regularly offers workshops to the public starting with an introduction to genealogy and ranging over a wide variety of topics. “The National Archives and Records Administration is a good place to get some basic training in genealogy,” says Fred Lincoln, a long-time genealogist from Brockton. Beginning from scratch, the best approach is to begin locally and work outward geographically in your search for information. Start a file folder where you can stash information about yourself and your immediate family. Fortunately or unfortunately, genealogical research isn’t a one-stop shopping activity. Some of the information you want may be found in clusters. Other data must be tracked down item by item.
Finding the records The most important documents include birth, marriage and death certificates. Once you find these for your parents and grandparents, the information on them opens doors to previous generations of your ancestors. Birth certificates lead to marriage certificates, and marriage certificates to death certificates. Such records often list locations and occupations and offer clues to siblings. Death certificates can lead you to the obituaries in old newspapers kept on microfilm, and also to the cemeteries where you might find unexpected information carved on the headstones. All the data you uncover must be double-checked. You want at least two sources for every bit of information. One of the bugaboos of genealogy is the way reasonable but incorrect conclusions can be drawn from a thin slice of information. As an example, the same given name frequently occurs in multiple generations or even in the same
generation. You may think you’re reading about one generation, but you’re somewhere else entirely. For someone living in that generation casual references to an individual were clear to all parties, but looking back from the future the references aren’t so transparent. It can be very confusing. If you’ve ever read Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, you know what we mean.
to generate charts, reports, family trees and other documents. At the Ancestry.com web site you can do some free research into your family, look at sample family trees, and start developing your understanding of the world of genealogy. Many genealogically oriented Web sites also host forums where people can communicate directly with others doing similar research.
Interviewing people
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Interview relatives as soon as possible and ask for specifics. Get as many names, dates and places as possible, so you can verify the information with other family members or sources. Bring along a tape recorder to your interviews. Something that might not seem important enough to write down may turn out to be critical later on. Don’t put off interviewing the oldest members of your family, for obvious reasons. These are the people who can give you the personal flavor of what their parents and grandparents were like, not to mention information about family history and politics. The juicy gossip, as it were. Frequently people offer up details it would never have occurred to you to ask about. Also start collecting as many family photos as possible—put faces to names. These days, copiers and scanners make collecting family photo easier than in the past. A family member might not want to give over a precious photo to your care, but they may be willing to scan or copy it for you.
Close to home, you might find the pickings good at libraries and local historical societies. Taunton has been a crossroads for travel across southeastern New England since before the Pilgrims, and the Old Colony Historical Society (www.oldcolonyhistoricalsociety.org) in Taunton houses a large collection of regional historical documents maintained by a helpful staff. Much of Nathaniel Philbrick’s research for his book Mayflower was done there. The Providence Public library (www.provlib.org) at 150 Empire Street is another good source of genealogical information, but wherever your family has roots, check the local library’s collection of genealogy materials for information that will help you. City and town halls, registries of deeds, probate courts, churches, the Massachusetts Genealogical Society, the Military Genealogical Society, the New England Historic and Genealogical Society (www. newenglandancestors.org) and hundreds more sources have information that may help your cause. Getting the sense there’s a lot of work involved in genealogical research? You’re right, but you may happen upon a treasure trove of relevant information at any time in your hunt. Genealogical research can lead you on new adventures. If you’re the gregarious type, it may encourage you to take the opportunity to travel and meet people. (Many families hold reunions, some held annually for years on end.) Or you might choose to do your research in the quiet comfort of your own home. Either way, you can find out fascinating details about the lives of the ancestors who ultimately produced you.
Software Personal computers and the Internet have had a profound effect on genealogy, making it easy to build collections of data and easier for individuals to conduct research. Currently there’s lots of software available for carrying out genealogical research. For example, Ancestry. com offers Family Tree Maker 2009, a popular and easy to use program for organizing genealogical materials including photos and audio and video files. Once you input your data, the software can be used
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COVER STORY
THE SECOND HALF
NEW OPPORTUNITES FOR LEARNING & FUN by Joan McKinley
Do you have time, many interests you would like to pursue, and want to make new friends? Are you seeking something which is both fun and mentally stimulating? Look no further. The Second Half: Lifelong Learning Institute has a wide array of courses with something for everyone. This is a program of the University of Mass. With very little effort, and not much money, you can be involved in something which has been challenging seniors for ten years. Founded by Ellen Christie, The Second Half has grown and spread mostly by word of mouth. People have found satisfaction with the subjects offered, and the intelligent people they meet. Participants are drawn from the surrounding area, including Rhode Island. The members of the Second Half are all volunteers. Aside from the Director, Beverly Stevens, no one is paid for the many hours spent in preparing and teaching courses. The program is sustained with the help of UMass and its resources. The enthusiasm and joy of participation of the members of this program is evident. Those who teach courses are usually retired and proficient in their fields. Remaining active both mentally and physically is a priority for all. 28
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Most of the courses require no books, tests or grades. This study is purely for the fun of learning. Of course, reading book groups will have required books, and there will be suggested outside reading. But, there are no textbooks. Many facilitators hand out printed material to highlight the discussions, and the copier in Beverly’s office is often busy. Here is a sample of some of the 21 courses that will be offered this fall: The Art of Alfred Hitchcock by James McNamee; French Conversation through the Arts by Lorraine Carey; Supreme Court in American History by Joseph Cote; Conversational Spanish by Mariano Merino; three courses in bridge: Beginner by Cris Ghilarducci, Intermediate by Peggy Fellouris and Advanced by Al Humphrey. Bob Piper is the coordinator of the bridge classes. Also, courses will be given on our health care system by Katherine Meyer and Bonnie Hsu. There is tennis for Fun, Knitting for Fun, Making Holiday Ornaments, Cabaret: A Theater Experience, and much more. To see a complete list go online to www.umassd. edu/secondhalf. Classes are given at the UMass facility at 139 Main Street in Fall River in the old Cherry and Webb Department store building across from the new Court House. The three bridge courses will be held at the Bay View Retirement Home, Exit 8 off Rt. 24. Parking is in garages in the area or on the street, and free at the Bay View. An Open House will take place at 139 Main on Aug. 26th at 1 p.m. in Room 313. You can learn more about the program, and meet the teachers of the courses.
The cost of the program is modest. The annual membership is $25 and the cost for each semester of courses is $100. That includes as many courses as you can fit into your schedule! It really is a bargain. The Registration deadline for all classes is September 4, 2009 and most classes begin the week of September 21. In order to secure your preference, it’s best to sign up early. You can request the proper information by either calling or emailing the Office of the Director. If you have a specialty, and would like to teach a course, you would be welcomed. There is a Curriculum Committee headed this year by Jennifer Brindisi and Lorraine Carey. The Second Half’s Board of Directors include James McNamee (the President); Carol Munger is Vice President, Ellen Christie is Secretary, and the Treasurer is Russell Carey. These people make the major decisions on courses and the policies of the group. In addition to regular classes, there are special interesting lectures several times during the year, pot luck lunches and dinners at the end of each semester—where members get to show off their best cooking and other members entertain the group with their talents. Some courses include field trips to concerts, shows, or other activities to highlight the course content. This past spring a Photography course called “Hit The Road With Your Camera” included trips to take pictures on Main Road at Westport Point, and also at Little Beach near Allen’s Pond. The class returned to the Fall River facility to critique everyone’s photos. The final class featured not only a guided tour of New Bedford’s historic district, on a trolley, but some home-style clam chowder made by Lynn Keith, one of our teachers. Larry Brownell was the other instructor. Everyone got more familiar with their cameras and picture taking skills while having a fine time doing it. So, for innovative ways to learn new things, consider the Second Half. You may find yourself getting involved and having fun too.
Second Half for lifelong learners Folks over 50 can take advantage of a series of special lectures ranging from the art of Alfred Hitchcock to French or Spanish conversation and writing. There are also trips, social events and more activities sponsored by The Second Half, a learning community of people in Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Most classes are held in downtown Fall River, at the University of Massachusetts Professional and Continuing Education Center on South Main Street. It boasts a cafe on the ground floor, and a parking garage across the street for easy access. A few classes are held off site. All classes are held during the day. A fee of $25 per academic year makes you a full member. A flat tuition of $100 per semester allows you to join any number of study groups on any topic being offered. For more information, contact us at 508-677-4694, or secondhalf@umassd.edu
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A New Path To Good Health
4 Unique Ways to Stay Fit
by Jason Perry
Finding a form of exercise that works for you takes an open mind and willingness to try new things. So, we asked four experts to educate us on the alternative exercise they practice. A word of caution: Please consult your personal physician before participating in any of these exercises.
Ex-Soviet Union and U.S. Armed Forces trainer, Pavel Tsatsouline, introduced the fitness world to this Russian strengthening tool in the U.S. in 1998.
A vigorous form of Hindu-inspired stretching that synchronizes movement and breathing to build muscle fexibility and stamina.
The Expert: Jeff Waters, owner of LiftKettleBells.com.
The Expert: Tanya Dumaine, owner of Divine Power Yoga in Fall River.
How it works: “Kettlebell (KB) training is extremely dynamic and looks a bit more like the Olympic jerk and snatch. The KB’s handle and offset main weight make swinging movements feel natural. The dynamic nature of the movements require multiple muscle groups to act in unison, which in fact is much closer to how these muscles need to behave in real life.” Recommended for: “[Anyone looking to] inherently build up core strength, stamina, and cardio performance simultaneously.”
German health guru and gymnast, Joseph Pilates, created this unique fitness system of yoga and aerobic postures that trains both the mind and muscles. The Expert: Marcia Hathaway, Healthtrax Pilates instructor. How it works: “Pilates is a holistic approach to fitness and wellbeing, offering a method of body control and conditioning by both strengthening and stretching the muscles, while improving flexibility and balance.” Recommended for: “Everyone since we all need to train the “powerhouse” muscles, as Joseph Pilates called them, in order to strengthen, stretch, and balance our bodies to protect against injury. Pilates is preventative medicine of the best sort!” 30
he beauty of getting, or staying, in shape is there’s more than one approach. Not everyone enjoys running on a treadmill for 10 miles, dripping with sweat in an aerobics class, or bench pressing the weight of a Volkswagon Jetta. Fortunately, the world of physical fitness is vast with an infinite amount of avenues available for one to take on his/her quest to good health.
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How it works: “Exclusive to Divine Power Yoga, Hot Power Vinyasa combines three yoga styles— Ashtanga, Bikra, and Lyengar—performed in a hot studio set at about 90 degrees. Postures are linked through movement and breathing, providing a full cardiovascular workout and body stretch while relieving tension, building core muscles, and detoxifying through sweating.” Recommended for: “Anyone. Yoga, of any kind, can always be adapted to your individual needs, whatever the circumstances.” This ancient Chinese martial art is based on self-preservation and selfdefense. The Expert: Colman Fink, 4th degree black belt in Yuishinkai Kobujutsu and Taiji instructor at the Wareham Recreation Center. How it works: “Taiji promotes balance, coordination, and strength through slowly performed movements without tension. As you become older, it becomes tougher to keep up with the other high-impact exercises or martial arts, but with Taiji, there is no limit to how much softer or slower you can go.” Recommended for: “Anyone with any physical health problem. It can be done anywhere and performed by anyone regardless of age, sex, size or athletic ability.”
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YOUR HOME
Taking the pain out of painting by Jennifer Read
There isn’t a homeowner who doesn’t understand the eternal endeavor of painting. Familiar to many are the struggles of trying to paint a surface while juggling a paint can and maintaining one’s balance on a ladder. Several have experienced the painful arm contortions required to apply paint in a precise, neat manner. An unhappy majority has scrubbed hardened paint off clothes and wooden brushes. Luckily, two South Coast residents have found solutions to these annoyances. The Right Brush While many ideas for inventions come from hours of thinking and praying for the proverbial light bulb to appear, Mark Wholey accidentally invented The Right Brush. When a paintbrush he was using broke, he used masking tape to hold it together at a right angle. When he continued painting with his newly masking-taped paintbrush, Wholey said it felt “strangely comfortable.” After doing some research, Wholey was surprised to find that a similar paintbrush had not yet been invented. “I couldn’t believe there hadn’t already been a brush invented like this, but there was nothing anywhere,” said Wholey, “Right after putting together that broken brush, I made a prototype and a drawing and filed it with the U.S. Patent Office.” Wholey says the process of attaining a
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patent is not as intimidating as it sounds. “I recommend anyone who has a decent idea to try to get a patent. You can get one fairly easily if you follow the steps that the U.S. Patent Office tells you.” Wholey received a design patent after tweaking his invention for about a year with the help of the U.S. Patent Office. “The people there are responsive, patient, and have been very nice. If there’s a mistake in the design, they help you to resolve it.” The final design for the paintbrush included a white plastic handle attached to high-quality bristles at a right angle. It comes in one size and one style as a 21/2 angled cut brush. It also features a hook on its corner that allows it to be hung on the inside or outside of a paint can for efficient cleaning or storage. The easy-to-clean plastic handle has contours made for the
palm, thumb and fingers to rest comfortably. “The reason the brush works so well is because it’s at a right angle to your arm,” said Wholey, “You’re cradling the brush with a nice amount of handle in your hand. The muscles being used are those in your forearm and shoulder instead of those in your fingers and your hand. The orchestration between the hand, arm and brush is harmonious.” At the time Wholey was awarded a patent, he was living in Italy and didn’t take many steps towards producing and marketing his design. “I just sat on the patent for about five years and thought, ‘What a good boy am I,’ and did nothing. Eventually, I came back to Rhode Island from Italy, settled in Warren, and thought, “Okay I have to give this paintbrush a chance to live.” Wholey began producing and distributing The Right Brush with ArroWorthy, a manufacturing company in West Babylon, NY. The Right Brush can now be found online at www.therightbrush.com or www. amazon.com. A “Painting Demo with the Right Brush” is available on YouTube. It is also sold in numerous hardware stores across Rhode Island.
The Pouch Painter In a similar fashion, Phil Martelly came up with the idea for The Pouch Painter through his own struggles with painting. “I had some dormers to paint and it was a very steep roof, so I was trying to figure out how I should paint them without falling off the ladder or spilling paint on the roof,” said Martelly. The Pouch Painter was born. The Pouch Painter is an adjustable, paint-resistant apron with a kangaroo-like pouch on its front (hence, the Kangaroo logo) that holds a specially designed plastic paint bucket with room for a paintbrush as well. The paint bucket itself has a concave shape to ensure a secure fit against the abdomen of the wearer. It also has a removable plastic cap that allows for the insertion of a plastic bag to use as a liner. Martelly has obtained design and utility patents for both the apron and the bucket in Canada and the U.S. Of all its attributes, The Pouch Painter perhaps stands out most for its safety. The ability to hold a paint can and brush within the front pocket of an apron allows the
wearer use of both hands when climbing a ladder. Once the wearer begins painting, one hand is still free to hold onto the ladder or to maintain balance while painting in an awkward position. Like Wholey, it took Martelly a couple of years to go through the process of designing the Pouch Painter, choosing fabrics, making prototypes, patenting it, and finally producing the actual product. Once he had settled on his design, however, marketing his product was a breeze. “Believe it or not, it actually sells itself,” stated Martelly, “When people see it, they understand exactly what it does and how safe it is. The marketing part hasn’t been very difficult at all.” The Pouch Painter has been featured on The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, the Today show, and The New York Times Magazine as one of the “Top 10 Inventions of 2004.” Although marketing his product may have been simple, Martelly finds his difficulty lies in manufacturing and distribution. “It’s very complex to manufacture, wholesale and retail a product,” said Martelly, “I’m not in that business, so we’re working with a company who will take care of those steps for us. That’s what we’re in the process of doing right now.” The feedback Martelly has received on the Pouch Painter so far has been positive. Other creative minds have even invented alternative uses for The Pouch Painter. “It’s really used for painting, but we’ve had people e-mail us with all different ways to use it, like changing a light bulb for instance,” stated Martelly, “They say you never have enough hands to change a light bulb on a ladder. Everyone loves it.” The Pouch Painter can be found online at www.pouchpainter.com, as well as in many hardware stores, including some in Rhode Island (like Ace Hardware in Barrington) and Massachusetts (at Somerset Paint and Hardware in Somerset). For a demo, try “The Pouch Painter” on YouTube. Wholey and Martelly have epitomized the same entrepreneurial spirit that has led to some of the world’s greatest ideas. By coming up with such novel solutions to everyday inconveniences, these two local inventors have proved that opportunities for ingenuity and creativity exist almost everywhere.
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BOOK PICKS BY BAKER by Magoo Gelehrter Courtesy of Baker Books – www.bakerbooks.net
This month we examine the new generational gap between those of us who are slower to embrace technology and those who are for the most part younger and who take to it intuitively. Are we really moving ahead into a brave new world or is the next generation heedlessly rushing into a dead end alley, too distracted by texting, cell calls, and web browsing to notice? Could a return to civility and good manners save us all, or should we just relax and buy one of those new fangled phones that are basically a personal computer in your pocket? THE WAY OF THE WORLD: TRUTH & HOPE IN AN AGE OF EXTREMISM by Ron Suskind HarperCollins $27.95 hardcover A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist gives us a startling look at how America lost its way, and the nation’s struggle to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. Suskind’s story connects world leaders to the forces waging today’s shadow wars and to the next generation of global citizens. He delivers historic disclosures with this emotionally stirring and strikingly original portrait of the post- 9/11 world.
AGAINST THE MACHINE: BEING HUMAN IN THE AGE OF THE ELECTRONIC MOB by Lee Siegel Random House $22.95 hardcover From the author dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as “one of the country’s most eloquent and acid-tongued critics” comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about the most consequential cultural development of our time: the Internet. It’s become not only our primary 34
medium for communication and information but also the place we go to shop, to play, to debate, to find love. Siegel argues that our immersion in life online reshapes our minds and culture in ways with which we haven’t yet reckoned. DUMBEST GENERATION: HOW THE DIGITAL AGE STUPEFIES YOUNG AMERICANS by Mark Bauerlein Penguin $15.95 paperback This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today’s under thirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings. Do the digital diversions cut kids off from history, civics, literature and fine art? The author convincingly shows this is the case.
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will be reshaped in their image. How are these digital natives different, and what is the world they’re creating going to look like? HELLA NATION by Evan Wright Penguin $25.95 hardcover Evan Wright, the award-winning and New York Times— bestselling author, has always had an affinity for outsiders—what he calls “the lost tribes of America.” Here are his stark but sympathetic portrayals of sex workers in Porn Valley, a raw portrait of a Hollywood agent-turnedwar documentarian and hero of America’s far right, runaway teens earning corporate dollars as skateboard pitchmen, radical anarchists plotting the overthrow of corporate America, and young American troops on the hunt for terrorists in the combat zones of the Middle East. WHY WE HATE US: AMERICAN DISCONTENT IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM by Dick Meyer Random House $24.95 hardcover Americans are as safe, well fed, longlived, and free as any human beings who have ever lived. But we are down on America. Why do we hate us? Dick Meyer examines our disenchantment with our own culture: he absolutely nails America’s current mood disorder, and identifies the why-we-hate-us germs, including the belligerence of partisan politics that perverts our democracy, the decline of once common manners, the vulgarity of Hollywood entertainment, the superficiality and untrustworthiness of the news media, the cult of celebrity, and the disappearance of authentic neighborhoods and voluntary organizations.
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Often considered the poor cousin of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc has a life of its own and a good following as well. It’s ancient home is France, where it is a staple for blending in the red wines of Bordeaux. It is especially dominant in some of the blends of the Pomerol region in the northern part of Bordeaux. The great Chateau Cheval Blanc of Saint Emilion, located on the border of Pomerol, is 60 percent Cabernet Franc, 34 percent Merlot, with just a tad of Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon. It is considered the greatest of the wines of St. Emilion region and one of the finest and most consistent red wines of the world. Cabernet Franc is also produced as a single variety, in other regions of France, primarily in the Chinon and Bourgueil region of the Loire, but also Sancerre as well as Saumur-Champigny and Touraine. This relative of Cabernet Sauvignon produces an excellent red wine often described as being spicy and having a pie cherry character and even hints of olives when it is young. Some of the best are those blended with a little Merlot. Many wine lovers find it goes well with Italian food including those with tomato sauce. It also goes well with ham, pork and even veal. Some consider it a great pizza wine but in gourmet circles they prefer it with rich game like venison and boar. There are dozens of producers of Cab Franc on the west coast of the U.S. At the 2002 Pacific Rim International Wine Competition, the 1999 Geyser Peak Winery Alexander Valley Winemaker’s Selection Cabernet Franc was awarded a gold medal and best of class honors. At that competition there were 31 Cabernet Franc entries. Last year there were at least 40 California wineries producing a wine with the Cabernet Franc label. One of the very best is Pride Mountain Cabernet Franc 2002, priced at $65. Pride Vineyards is located in the Mayacamas Mountains just north of Napa Valley.
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and in the western provinces of Canada. In fact, one of the few west coast Cabernet Franc wines available in this region is Les Vigneaux 2002 Cabernet Franc from Columbia Valley, made by Andrew Rich. It can be found at Cardoza’s shops for $23. Cabernet Franc does especially well in southeast New England, New York, Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina, as well as in southeastern Canada. Inniskillin, the noted Canadian producer of dessert wines made from frozen grapes, released a Cabernet Franc Ice Wine at $130 per half bottle, available in select outlets.
Hmmm, that must be very good! There seem to be few Cabernet Francs in our local southeast wine shops, but do not worry, as there are many producers located in this area. One of the first to produce it locally was Sakonnet Vineyards. Currently, their major Cabernet Franc product is label Claret, the old English name of good French Bordeaux. It is about 90 percent Cabernet Franc and 10 percent Merlot. Sakonnet offers several delicious proprietary red blends, some of which this writer suspects include Cabernet Franc. The primary red wine of Greenvale Vineyards is their Cabernet Franc. They have been adding up to 25 percent Merlot. The current 2005 vintage is 83 percent Cabernet Franc and 17 percent Merlot. The wine is barrel fermented and aged in oak. It has the expected pie cherry character, but with hints of other fruit and oak blended in with a floral component, creating a delicious aroma and flavor. There is usually significant tannin which disappears when paired with good red meats and also softens with cellaring. Greenvale’s reds, like the classic great wines of France, will profit with cellaring. Even after almost 15 years, a 1995 Cabernet Franc was as fruity and aromatic as a 2005, albeit a bit smoother. Greenvale also produces a Meritage wine, which is a blend of Cabernet Franc and Merlot, all aged in fine French oak. The 2005 release is made with 60 percent
Merlot and 40 percent Cabernet Franc and also a bit of Malbec. The Meritage wine runs $25. At a private tasting this wine was reminiscent of young Bordeaux and maybe even the great Cheval Blanc (although I have never had the experience of tasting that wine before it was mature; that would be infanticide!)
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More local Cab Francs Newport Vineyards’ Cabernet Franc is described as being spicy and toasty with notes of dark fruits. (I found plums.) It is priced at $19. It is a “drink now” red, thought it might improve after a year or so in cellar. Langworthy Farm, in the southwest corner of Rhode Island, also produces a fine Cabernet Franc. They age it in French and American oak for 14 months. It has an interesting hint of black pepper which makes this wine a real winner. Running Brook Vineyards has been producing Cab Franc since they open and released their 2002 Cabernet Franc. They are currently offering 2005 Vintage that has been aged in oak for over a year, and three years in the bottle, allowing it to become smooth and very pleasant. Truro Vineyards offers an Estate bottled Cabernet Franc, made from grapes grown in their Cape Cod vineyards. This 100 percent Cabernet Franc is aged in American oak barrels to give it that special character. They use this same wine in two of their blends. One is their proprietary blend called “Triumph”—a blend of Cabernet Franc with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot from California—this wine has a complex aroma, a rich flavor and a great aftertaste. It has won several awards. The other blended red wine is named Maritime Red. It is a blend of Merlot, Zinfandel and Cabernet Franc. It too is aged in American oak barrels, but is a bit softer than the other two reds. It is more like a Gamay wine, being fruity with ripe plums, berries in the aroma and flavor and ending with a spicy and herbal finish. Cabernet Franc wines, produced throughout the northeast, were at one time considered too spicy, too acid, and not good enough to be a good commercial wine. Today as vines have matured and wine makers have learned to tame this wine, the results are paying off. At the 2009 Atlantic 5th Annual Atlantic Seaboard Wine Association competition, there were about 2 dozen Cabernet Francs entered in the competition with 3 winning gold medals and Sunset Hill Vineyards’ of Virginia taking “Best of Category” and was in the finals vying for “Best in Show.” Remember it’s the “other Cabernet that has the word “savage” in its name. Great Cabernet Franc wines are available in this area and it’s great to try something different from the same-old-same-old. Give the local Cabernets Francs a try as well.
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YOUR HOME
A moving experience by Elizabeth Morse Read
Americans are a restless lot—according to some estimates, we move at least five times in our lives, and approximately 20% of the population moves every year, whether cross-country or locally. Moving is considered one of the most stressful life experiences, right up there with divorce or a death in the family, especially in these times of a shaky economy and very tight credit. But there’s hope and home-grown advice on how to make moving as stress-free as possible. I recently managed to sell my twelve room house (with a 20'x 40' in-ground pool), after my youngest child graduated from high school, and downsize to an oceanside cottage smaller than the old swimming pool. And I’ve lived to tell the tale… Here are some practical tips you won’t find anywhere else. Free yourself of clutter and chaos Before you even select a realtor, choose a closet or cabinet or cubbyhole each day —and keep a garbage can at your side. Be ruthless—you don’t want to move and store broken toys, outgrown clothing, or outdated paper records. Create a pile of “save/store,” and “donate/sell” in boxes you’ve collected from local delis/liquor stores. You can combine and label them later, but it’s important that you attack this logically before you even put the house on the market. Get your
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kids, family and friends involved—what do they want to take now or have you store for later use? And barter your unneeded lawn furniture for help on moving day or boarding your pets!
How to pack without going insane Unless you’re planning on having everything in your house professionally packed, you’re better off doing it yourself after you clean out. Buy clear plastic trash bags from the hardware store so that you can immediately distinguish between the collected teddy bears and the couch pillows or bed linens. Buy boxes of foam sheets at Staples and wrap your valuables and dishes yourself. Use large mailing stickers on each box and label them as to contents and intended location in your new house (e.g., “dishes/kitchen”; “garden/shed”; “books/storage”; “photos/den”).
Be creative about donations Yes, you can bag up used clothing and put them in a Goodwill box, but why not contact non-profit organizations that will give you a charitable donation letter for next year’s taxes? On the South Coast, you can contact Catholic Social Services to schedule a free pick-up of your housewares and furnishings (except for mattresses, due to state health laws) by calling 508-997-7337. You can do the same by contacting Big Brother Big Sister Foundation at 800-483-5503—in addition to the above items, they’ll also take cars and boats! Cartons of my used books went to the Oxford Book Café in North Fairhaven; some of my furniture and decorative items are now props for a theatre company on Cape Cod; items that didn’t sell at my yard
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You can save up to half of your moving costs if you do your own packing, rent a U-Haul truck and enlist all your family and friends to help out. Here’s why this may not be a good idea. One, family and friends don’t always show up when you need them. Two, family and friends who do show up are often not capable of moving a refrigerator or piano (and you’re not covered by insurance for injuries or damage) or else they’ve brought along kids/pets who need to be fed/entertained. You’re better off hiring a local moving company and planning a BBQ the next week for all those family and friends who helped you pack and clean out the old house.
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Murphy’s Law on moving day
Advice from a professional mover There’s plenty of advice and information out there about how to choose a moving company, but here are some little-known facts that experienced movers wish more people would consider: n The end of a month or the very beginning of a n Always choose the earliest mover-arrival time month is the prime moving time, so make your of the day you move out/in—delays are inevitable reservations early. Do you want to compete with and rushing increases the chances of damage or people moving into summer homes in late June or mistakes. students moving to college around Labor Day? These n Be nice to the moving guys. They’re hard-working are known as “hell weeks” by moving companies. laborers and deserve some consideration. Give them n Do not schedule moving out of your old house and clear and polite instructions, offer them cold drinks into your new one on the same day you close on the and tip them well after you make out the check. It’s new house. It may cost a bit more money, but you not their fault there was a traffic jam on Rt. 195 or should pack up everything the day before, store it that some glasses broke because you didn’t pack overnight, and stay in a motel. There are too many them carefully. If there is any damage or loss on unknowns and potential delays/disasters that can their fault, they will file a legitimate insurance claim (and do) happen if you try to schedule everything to cover it—most moving companies are familyon one day. owned and they rely on word-of-mouth for referrals. sale went to a Westport church raffle and a scholarship fundraising auction. All it takes is a few phone calls and a little networking —everybody knows someone who needs donations.
Sell with savvy Yes, you can make some quick cash by setting up a yard sale—but they’re usually more work than it’s worth. Contact local antiques dealers/jewelers—they’ll come to your home to evaluate and pay cash for quality items. If you have especially highend items, contact an estate auction house (my favorite is Sandwich Auction House, formerly Compass Rose, at 508-888-1926 or www.sandwichauction.com.) If you’re computer-savvy, you can give away or sell your stuff on Craigslist.com – but be careful of scams and no-shows.
Pack your papers carefully! Even if you’ve got a well-organized filing cabinet, invest in portable see-through storage totes that you’ll be able to find easily in your new home. Current bills, school-related papers, medical insurance paperwork, all documents/notes pertaining to the house sale – you’ll have to hit the ground running when you’re in your new home and you don’t want to go digging through packed boxes or file cabinets in search of something. I even created and labeled totes
for computer-related supplies and manuals, another for “lighting” (bulbs, cords, surgebars), another for “office/mail” (envelopes, pens, stamps, address book). Your new home will have a completely different layout and “flow”—and you’ll need instant access to important papers until you create a new order and place for them.
And don’t forget the pet! Don’t wait until the last minute to make arrangements for your pet before you move, whether long-distance or locally. Birds and small caged animals probably won’t notice anything, but dogs and cats will not be happy with the chaos and stress of moving. Try to make arrangements for them to be temporarily housed before you move until there is some semblance of order and familiarity in your new home. Know that if you want to board them with a vet or kennel, you must prove that they are up-to-date on their shots and don’t have special needs (like insulin shots). If possible, have them stay with friends of yours whom they’ve met before—and don’t be surprised if at first they “misbehave” in any way when they move into the new home. It’s as much of an adjustment for them as it is for you.
No matter how carefully you schedule, plot out or plan for your moving day, SOMEthing can and will go wrong. The movers will show up late. Your cat will freak out and escape when you stop at a highway rest area. Your grandfather clock will end up facedown in the driveway. The people you sold your old house to will show up with a camera and a lawyer, ready to sue you for the scratches on the stairway they didn’t catch at home inspection. (I’ve dealt with all of the above, and more). As I said at the beginning of this article, moving is a high-stress life experience, whether local or long-distance – so just roll with the punches and get through the day as best you can. “Menchen trucht und gut lacht,” Yiddish for “Man plans, God laughs,” and Robert Burns’ lines “The best laid plans o’ mice an’ men/Gang aft a-gley” rule every moving day. It will be a new day in your new home when everything’s over. Bon voyage!
Don’t leave home without it By law, moving companies are prohibited from moving certain items in their vans, so make plans beforehand for either packing these in your car on moving day or disposing of them properly before you move: n Flammable/Explosive items – get rid of old chemicals, paints, solvents, aerosols/bleach before you move. Lawnmowers etc. need to be drained of gasoline before moving.
Plants, like fish, don’t like to be moved to a different environment. If you’re moving overseas, you can’t take any plants with you, so find a new home for them before you move. Even if you’re moving within the U.S. or locally, there may be restrictions, so find out beforehand what plants you can ship or transport to your new address.
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REGIONAL NEWs
So much more than a train by Stephen C. Smith
we have been asking, cajoling, lobbying and demanding a commuter rail connection to Boston for over two decades. We have endured doubletalk and setbacks so often that some have been tempted to abandon this dream altogether. Even today, we are still short of our destination, with major hurdles still to overcome —most notably the approval of a preferred route by federal agencies and a financial plan to pay for the project. Nevertheless, we are making our way through the tunnel and daylight may soon come into view. For this progress we need to thank Governor Patrick and the South Coast Rail project, which, at the very least, has provided an accurate if arduous roadmap to follow on this journey. There have been some interesting side trips along the way, including most recently the release of the South Coast Rail Economic Development and Land Use Corridor Plan. This report with the unmanageable title is a key milestone for this project 40
and will be a pleasant and productive side trip and one that will move us closer to our ultimate destination. This plan will insure that we maximize the investment and reap the full benefits from the railroad.
Corridor plan benefits One of the fears of South Coast Rail is that it will produce rapid growth in the form of sprawl, eating up precious open space and farmland. The Corridor Plan is our insurance against that fate. It is the guide for each city and town to reap the rewards
The Corridor Plan announcement brought Governor Deval Patrick and Congressmen Frank and McGovern to the South Coast. Their support is helping get the train on track.
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from South Coast Rail, whether they are directly on the route or not. Perhaps the greatest benefit of this project is the promotion of new investment opportunities around the proposed stations in Fall River, New Bedford, Freetown, Taunton and other communities (depending upon the route chosen). There is great potential for revitalization in the cities and smart new development in the less developed locations. But this will not be the same development we have been seeing in Southeastern Massachusetts for decades.
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It will be transit oriented development characterized by high density housing with a small retail component. To serve the train riders, it will include some upscale housing and bring new economic vitality to the area where it is located. The Corridor Plan includes conceptual development plans around the Fall River Depot Station (Davol St.), Assonet (South Main St.), New Bedford Whale’s Tooth and King’s Highway locations, and three potential Taunton locations. These station areas will be the new hubs of activity along the rail corridor.
A focus on housing We desperately need more housing choices in the region if we are to become economically sustainable. Today, only one third of our region’s households are traditional families with husband, wife and kids, and yet 84% of our housing stock is being built for this segment. Other households like retirees and DINKs (double income no kids) are not seeing their needs met in the current market. Transit oriented development will help fill that need and keep and attract these people to our region. The Corridor Plan lays out the strategy for meeting that need, both around the stations and in other priority development areas. It also explicitly addresses the need for open space and environmental protection by identifying dozens of priority protection areas throughout Southeastern Massachusetts. These areas were chosen based upon an extensive civic engagement process that was part of South Coast Rail. These priority development areas and priority protection areas represent the core of the Corridor Plan. We have been asking the state for rail service for a long time, and we are expecting the state and feds to lay out more than a billion dollars to get it done. It is our obligation as a region to make sure that the state gets a return on its investment in the form of good development and a better region overall. The South Coast Rail Economic Development and Land Use Corridor Plan is the vision that will make that happen. To see the Corridor Plan in full, go to: www.southcoastrail.com.
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St. Anne’s cancer care expands Saint Anne’s Hospital Regional Cancer Care celebrated the opening of its new radiation therapy center in Dartmouth with a community open house on August 8. The $21 million center, located on the grounds of Hawthorn Medical Associates on Faunce Corner Road, features the region’s most comprehensive radiation therapy treatment capabilities for patients from Greater New Bedford to Upper Cape Cod. Staffed by radiation oncologists who also work, conduct research and teach at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, the center is part of Saint Anne’s regional cancer care program, the largest communitybased program in Massachusetts.
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6th Annual Cranberry Harvest Celebration set for Columbus Day Weekend Join the A.D. Makepeace Company and the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers’ Association at the sixth annual Cranberry Harvest Celebration on Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The event is held at the A.D. Makepeace Company headquarters, 158 Tihonet Road, Wareham. The highlight of the day is a guided tour of working cranberry bogs. View berries being loaded into delivery trucks from an observation deck, watch berries being picked right in front of you or take in an aerial view of the harvest by helicopter. Talk with growers, employees and friends of the industry to learn everything cranberry. Make sure you give yourself time to see everything! “Whether you live in the area and make it a point to watch the harvest every fall, or you’ve never seen it, this is a great experience,” said Michael P. Hogan, president and CEO of the A.D. Makepeace Company, the world’s largest cranberry grower. This fun family event features over 35 juried crafters, cooking demonstrations, live local entertainment, jugglers, pumpkin painting, face painting, children’s activities, pony rides, wagon rides, live chainsaw wood carving, participation by local nonprofits and much more. Don’t miss the food court with all your favorites. “This is a wonderful opportunity for the grower members of the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers’ Association to share the beauty of the cranberry harvest with our friends and neighbors” stated Jeff LaFleur, Executive Director. “We welcome people
from throughout the region and world to witness the harvest of America’s native fruit” continued LaFleur. Cooking demonstrations will feature culinary professionals and students from Johnson and Wales, showing how to prepare seasonal and regional favorites. Makepeace’s own deli and bakery, Tihonet Village Market, featuring specialty cranberry products, bakery, deli and ice cream products will be open throughout the weekend. Admission is $2, with children 6 and under admitted free. Parking is also free. Event held rain or shine. Portions of the admission fee will be donated to local non-profit organizations that help staff the event. No pets are allowed at this event. For directions visit, www.admakepeace.com or call 508-322-4000. The Cape Cod Cranberry Growers’ Association, established in 1888, is one of the oldest farmer organizations in the country. By maintaining focus on grower issues, the goal of the Association is to “enhance the economic viability of the Massachusetts cranberry grower.” Their mission is to support and promote the cranberry growers of Massachusetts. The A.D. Makepeace Company, based in Wareham, is the world’s largest cranberry grower, the largest private property owner in eastern Massachusetts, and a recognized leader in environmentally responsible real estate development and land stewardship.
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HAPPENINGS Music• Food• Festivals September 4-6 - Rhythm & Roots Festival. Ninigret Park, 4813 Old Post Rd., Charlestown, RI. 5pm on Friday; 12pm on Saturday and Sunday. Various prices and packages. 1-888-855-6940 or visit www.rhythmandroots.com September 5 - 5 Mile Dinner, Slow and Sustainable. Westport Rivers Vineyard and Winery, 417 Hixbridge Rd., Westport. Ticket information available at 508-636-3423 x2 or by visiting www.westportrivers.com Group Fitness Classes Ball Blast • Step/Pilates • Yoga SPIN • Step/Flex/Stretch • Body Pump Zumba! Childcare, personal training and nutrition counseling available Hours: Monday-Thursday 6am-9pm Friday 6am-8pm Saturday 7am-2pm Sunday 8am-12pm
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September 5-7 - Newport Waterfront Irish Festival. Newport Yachting Center, Newport, RI. 11am. Ticket information available at www. newportirishfestival.com September 13 - 4th Annual Chowder Festival. Noon-4pm Rain or Shine under the large tent in Custom House Square, Downtown New Bedford. Fee. For tickets and information call 508-9902777 or visit www.downtownnb.org September 24-27 - Newport Mansions’ Wine and Food Festival. Rosecliff and Marble House, Bellevue Ave., Newport, RI. Various times and prices. 401-847-1000 or visit www.newportmansions.org
September 26-27 - New Bedford Working Waterfront Festival. New Bedford Waterfront, Pier 3, New Bedford. 11am. Free. 508-993-8894 or visit www.working waterfrontfestival.org September 25-27 – 40th Annual Bourne Scallop Fest. For more information call 508-7596000 ext.11 or visit www.bournescollopfest.com
General Events September 3 - East Greenwich Main Street Stroll. Main St., East Greenwich, RI. 5pm. Free. 401-886-8662 or visit www.eastgreenwichri. com September 3 – Mayoral Forum. 6pm. Free. BCC, Elsbree Street Campus Auditorium. September 5-6 - Falmouth Dream Cruise and Car Show. 210 Shore St., Falmouth. 9:30am. Free. 508-540-7426 or visit www.falmouthdreamcruise.com September 8-13 - Six Metre World Cup. Narragansett Bay, Newport, RI. All day. 401-8461983 or visit www.sailnewport.org
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An open-air market will feature fresh local produce and fresh seafood. Visitors will enjoy cooking demonstrations, occupations skills demonstrations, plus music—on three stages —films, vessel tours, and the Blessing of the Fleet. Food vendors will serve up a wide selection of seafood meals (and other choices too). New Bedford hosts the Working Waterfront Festival on the piers and waterfront parks of America’s largest fishing port, September 26 and 27. The festival is free, and free parking is available. The full schedule is posted on www.workingwaterfrontfestival.org
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H for mayor H Invites You to Join the Campaign Sunday, Aug. 30 - 6PM - FREE Organize for Victory! ALL ARE WELCOME! Campaign Headquarters - 64 North Main Street Wednesday, Sept. 2 - 6PM - FREE with Refreshments and Speeches
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Wild, wondrous raptors are decending on the Audubon Environmental Education Center Owls, falcons, eagles and hawks…winged creatures with long sharp talons, hooked beaks that slice and tear, and highly developed eyesight and hearing. They’re raptors, the superior hunters of the avian world. Birds of prey with keen adaptations that provide speed and accuracy for the hunt. And they’re coming to the Audubon Society of Rhode Island’s Environmental Education Center for Raptor Weekend, September 12-13, 2009.
September 11 - Reflection Ceremony at Battleship Cove. Battleship Cove, Fall River. 21-gun salute at 8:46am. Free. www.battleshipcove.org
September 19 - Waterfire. Waterplace Park, Memorial Blvd., Providence, RI. 6:51pm. Free. 401-272-3111 or visit www.waterfire.org
September 12-13 - Raptor Weekend. Environmental Education Center, 1401 Hope St., Bristol, RI. All day. Ticket information available by calling 401-245-7500 or by visiting www.asri.org
September 19-20 - World War II Weekend at Battleship Cove. Battleship Cove, Fall River. All day. Ticket information available at www. battleshipcove.org
September 12-13 - Revolutionary War Living History Weekend. Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI. 10am. $10 for adults; $5 children 6-17; $25 for families. 401-841-0707 or visit www. fortadams.org
September 19 - Costume Bazaar, Benefit for Adoption Community of New England. To donate costumes, contribute to the bake sale, or for more information call Victoria Barrett 401-6244689, vickieduc@yahoo.com
September 15-18 - New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup. New York Yacht Club, Harbour Court, Newport, RI. 8am. www.nyyc.org/worldinvitationalcup
September 22-27 - 12 Metre World Championship. Bowen’s Wharf, America’s Cup Blvd., Newport, RI. 9am. 401-662-9171 or visit www. goldenyear2009.com
September 16 - Lost Houses of Newport. Rosecliff, 548 Bellevue Ave., Newport, RI. 11am. $5. Advance registration requested. 401-847-1000 x154 or visit www.newportmansions.org
September 26-October 12 - Experience the crispness of the air, and all the stunning colors of the season at Blithewold Mansion’s Autumn Splendor. 10am-4pm Wed.-Sun. 401-253-2707 or www.blithewold.org
September 19 - Fall Family Festival. Green Animals Topiary Garden, Cory’s Ln., Portsmouth, RI. 10am. $11 for adults; $4 for children 6-17; free for children 5 and under. 401-847-1000 or visit www.newportmansions.org
Thursday, Sept. 3 - 6PM - FREE Mayoral Forum sponsored by B.O.L.D. and The Herald News B.C.C. – Elsbree Street Campus – Auditorium Thursday, Sept. 10 - 6PM - $50 Campaign Countdown Kickoff (Cash Bar) Deluxe Hors D’oeuvres and Live Music Belmont Club – 34 Franklin Street Friday, Sept. 11-2PM (after school) FREE Youth Rally and Celebration Refreshments, Speeches and Live Music Papa Gino’s – 307 Elsbree Street Friday, Sept. 11 - 7PM - $20 Lebanese Dinner Oliver’s – 320 Airport Road Saturday, Sept. 12 - 7PM - $20 Portuguese Dinner St. Michael’s Club – 63 Webster Street Sunday, Sept. 13 - 7PM - $20 Polish Dinner Patti’s Pierogis –1019 South Main Street Monday, Sept. 14 - 6PM - FREE Rally and Organize For Victory Welcome! Campaign Headquarters - 64 North Main Street
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September 30 - The Diocesan Health Facilities and Saint Anne’s Hospital will co-host the Fourth Annual Pain Management Symposium at Rachel’s Lakeside in Dartmouth. 8am-4pm. Call Kris Walker at 508-235-5644, kristine.walker@ caritaschristi.org.
Fundraisers September 12 - Preservation Society of Fall River Inc. presents our third annual soiree fundraiser, “A Summer Evening’s Soiree”, hosted by Jim Souza in the garden of the New Boston Bakery (Rain Date: September 13.) 5-8pm. An evening of music, open wine bar, and light fare with a live auction to benefit the Preservation Society. $25. For tickets and more information call 508-673-4841.
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September 19 - Casablanca Night to benefit Battleship Cove. Heritage State Park, Fall River. 6:30-9:30pm. Ticket information available by calling 508-678-1100 x101 or visiting www. battleshipcove.org September 24 - 2nd Annual Golf Classic. Hosted by The Diocesan Health Facilities. LeBaron Hills Country Club in Lakeville. All day. Registration required. 508-679-8154. September 25 - 9th Annual Derek Pimentel Scholarship Event. 107 South Main St., Acushnet. 7pm. $25 for one ticket; $45 for two. 508-993-2084.
Watch for this and other exciting changes to The South Coast Insider. We’ll keep you posted with announcements in the magazine and online.
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Theatre September 5-6 - The Little Theatre presents free performances of “Alice in Wonderland”. Noon and 3pm. Free at the Kennedy Park. Fall River. September 11-October 11 - Trinity Rep kicks off its 2009-2010 Season on September 11th with Cabaret. Tickets are on sale now at the Trinity Rep box office, 201 Washington Street; by phone at (401)-351-4242; and online at www.trinityrep.com. September 16-20 - Life..love..sex..death & other works in progress. Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street, Providence. For tickets and information call 401-621-6123 or visit www. arttixri.com September 26 - The Gerwick Puppets present Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. Courthouse Center for the Arts, 3481 Kingstown Rd., West Kingston, RI. 7pm. 401-782-1018 or visit www. courthousearts.org September 29-October 4 - Young Frankenstein. Providence Performing Arts Center, 220 Weybosset St., Providence, RI. 7pm. $48-73. 401-421-2787 or visit www.ppacri.org/ September 30 - Robin Trower. Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel, 79 Washington St., Providence, RI. 7:30pm. $25 advance; $30 day of show. www. lupos.com
Celtic Shenanigans Abound! Newport, September 5-7 Céad míle fáilte! This Labor Day weekend, come join the Newport Yachting Center in celebrating all things Celtic at the Newport Waterfront Irish Festival, one of the largest Irish festivals in the country. Sat. 11am-9pm. Sun. 11am-8 and Mon. 11am-6pm. Purchase tickets online at www. newportwaterfrontevents.com
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Historical Society presents Lizzie lecture series by Michael Vieira
The Fall River Historical Society is planning a lecture series to be held in the fall. Sponsored by the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, the programs will be held on consecutive Monday evenings beginning on September 14 through November 2, excluding October 12, Columbus Day. Lectures will be presented in room C111 at Bristol Community College, and will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free. The series will cover several aspects of the life and legend of Lizzie A. Borden, approaching her story through a variety of avenues, from historical to literary, from psychic to theatrical, and more. Those scheduled to speak are as follows: actress, Jill Dalton; medium, Kim Dennis; author, Dr. Annette M. Holba; Borden scholar, Stefani Koorey, Ph.D.; director of the Somerset Public Library, Bonnie Mendes; filmmaker, Ricardo Rebelo; and legal scholar, Cara Robertson. For more information, call the Historical Society at 508-679-1071, Ext. 101 or 102.
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Fall River Hstorical Society—Lecture series calendar September 14
Stefani Koorey
Myth-busting Lizzie Borden: Facts on the Life of an Enigmatic Woman
September 21
Bonnie Mendes
Readings from the upcoming publication Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie A.Borden and Her Fall River
September 28 Annette M. Holba
Lizzie Borden as “Conscious Pariah”: A Discussion About Private Life
October 5
Cara Robertson
What the Jury Heard: Evidence in the Trial of Lizzie Borden
October 19
Kim Dennis
Lizzie Borden: Her Side of the Story
October 26
Jill Dalton
Lizzie Borden Live: From the Page to the Stage
November 4
Ricardo Rebelo
The Myth and Media of Lizzie Borden The South Coast Insider / September 2009
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For more information about our services, please call 800.500.5715 (hospital) or 888.836.8877 (skilled nursing centers). LONG-TERM ACUTE CARE HOSPITAL Kindred Hospital Northeast - Stoughton Stoughton, Massachusetts 781.297.8200
Crawford Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Fall River, Massachusetts 508.679.4866
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Highlander Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Fall River, Massachusetts 508.730.1070
MASSACHUSETTS SOUTHSHORE SKILLED NURSING CENTERS Blue Hills Alzheimer's Care Center Stoughton, Massachusetts 781.344.7300 Goddard Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Stoughton, Massachusetts 781.297.8411 Embassy House Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Brockton, Massachusetts 508.588.8550 Colony House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Abington, Massachusetts 781.871.0200 Sachem Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center East Bridgewater, Massachusetts 508.378.7227 Country Gardens Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Swansea, Massachusetts 508.379.9700
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Kindred Healthcare is the largest provider of postacute care in Massachusetts. Our integrated network includes long-term acute care (LTAC) hospitals, nursing centers and assisted living residences – qualityfocused facilities that share a sense of community and compassion. Our nationwide network of LTAC hospitals provides care to medically complex patients who require prolonged treatment plans and extended recovery time. Our nursing centers provide a full range of medical services to treat the residents who live with us and the patients who come to our facilities for shortterm or rehabilitative care. Our assisted living residences offer a full range of services, from housekeeping to restaurantquality dining.
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Joint Replacement • Sports Medicine • Arthroscopic Surgery • Shoulder Surgery • Hand Surgery • Foot Deformities Spine Surgery (limited) • Pediatric Orthopedic Care • Orthopedic Trauma Care Emergency Room care at both Charlton Memorial and St. Anne’s Hospital • 235 Hanover Street, Fall River
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Whaler’s Cove Assisted Living Centrally located between Boston and Cape Cod, Whaler’s Cove Assisted Living offers a supportive setting for older adults who need assistance with daily activities. Whaler’s Cove residents enjoy a comfortable environment enriched with cultural diversity and social stimulation.
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Our 2009 HealthGrades report card SPECIALTY EXCELLENCE AWARDS • HealthGrades Cardiac Care Excellence Award 2007, 2008, 2009
• HealthGrades Angioplasty/Stent Excellence Award 2008, 2009
CLINICAL ACHIEVEMENTS • Ranked among the top 10% in U.S. for Overall Cardiac Services — 2007, 2008, 2009 • Ranked among the top 5 hospitals in Massachusetts for Overall Cardiac Services — 2007, 2008, 2009 • Ranked among the top 5 hospitals in Massachusetts for Angioplasty/Stent Procedures — 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
• 1 of only 3 hospitals in Massachusetts ranked among the top 10% in the nation for overall heart services 3 years in a row — 2007, 2008, 2009 • Ranked among the top 5% in U.S. for Angioplasty/ Stent Procedures — 2008, 2009 • Ranked among the top 10 hospitals in Massachusetts for Cardiac Surgery — 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
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Our porch is so inviting a pleasant place to stay We visit there with friends on a warm sunny day
At times we all debate which views are the best The boats on the water some sailing, some at rest
But my favorite includes the flowers with countless colors to see It’s so relaxing in my rocker with a cool glass of iced tea
I’m convinced ours is “The Best Porch” absolutely perfect for your health It’s at the “Inn” at Clifton please come see for yourself
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ASSISTED LIVING ACCOMMODATIONS START AT ONLY $2650 PER MONTH……. When compared to other assisted living communities, the “Inn” offers so much more…our almost all-inclusive rates start at just $85 per day and consist of amenities that many other facilities charge extra for—including.......three meals daily…personal care services…housekeeping and laundry services… medication management…emergency monitoring systems…daily activities…registered nurses to monitor your health and well-being…24-hour CNA staffing…planned transportation…and much, much more....... Contrary to living alone in a large oversized house, especially when assistance is needed, the “Inn” at Clifton can be significantly less expensive. At the “Inn” we have no typical apartments—each one is different and prices do vary according to apartment size, location and specific amenities. We encourage you to call Diane, make an appointment and learn more about the advantages of our unique Clifton Healthcare Campus.......and compare.
CLIFTON HEALTHCARE CAMPUS
CLIFTON ASSISTED LIVING COMMUNITY
444 Wilbur Avenue, Somerset, MA, 02725
508-324-0200
Clifton is a fourth generation local family organization that, since 1954, has been providing the highest quality of healthcare services to your community, which is also our community.