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Medway Cub Scouts Medway Installs Signs to Commemorate Its Fallen Heroes Scout for Food Nov. 7 at Star/Shaw’s Each Hero’s Sign Will Mark the Neighborhood in Which He Lived By J.D. O’Gara
This sign commemorating the sacrifice of Lawrence G. Leigh, Jr. is an example of the 19 signs that were recently erected around Medway, honoring the town’s fallen heroes. Each hero’s sign is located in the neighborhood in which they lived.
By J.D. O’Gara Years ago, Col. Michael Matondi saw signs in Franklin honoring fallen heroes from various conflicts, he got thinking about them. “I said, ‘why not do it in Medway?’” he says, pointing to the 19 residents who lost their lives serving in conflicts abroad. He brought the idea
before the Medway Memorial Committee, and they received the idea enthusiastically. Richard Parrella did his homework on the getting the best signs for the best cost; Doug Downing did research on the fallen heroes, and just where their homes had been in town. That was no easy task. “Everyone who enters the military, their home address
becomes their ‘home of record,’” says Downing. The military keep track of where their soldiers’ families are if need be, says Downing. “I went to various military websites and archives, and Mary Jane White, the Town Clerk and I went through a lot of the old census records during the period of
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Tomasetti, who says that the number of boys who enrolled in the youngest three ranks of Cub Scout grew this year, to 55. The boys, he says, learn to “really understand the sense of helping those in need, of helping people that just need a little extra, especially around the holidays.” Secondly, he says, the boys really notice “the good in people.” “There will be folks that come up to the store and see kids with bags, who steel themselves – and then you get a kid who says, ‘We’re just collecting food, and then that softens those people and they want to participate. There is something different, and the boys take a lot of pride in it. We’re not out selling popcorn; we’re not asking for money. The only thing we do throughout the year with Shaw’s and Star is this one event. We’re going to be out there this time of year to give away to the folks in need.”
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On November 7, the Cub Scouts in Medway Cub Scout Pack #748 will be making an appearance the whole day long at the entrances of the Star Market/Shaw’s in Medway. They’re not selling anything. Rather, from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. they’ll be collecting food donations for the Medway Village Food Pantry to help local families and individuals in need. “We do depend on the Cub Scouts, they’re wonderful to us, the Boys Scouts, they’re huge in the food pantry,” says Marilyn Conley, of the Medway Village Food Pantry. “We couldn’t get the food without them this time of year, and we do need the food. This week, I had 53 families come in on Wednesday, and in those 53 families we fed 153 people,” says Conley. Because of what the Scouts do, we can give enough food for 4-5 days.” “I think they (the Cub Scouts) get a couple of things out of it,” says Medway Cubmaster Ryan
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