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Mom visits kids with stolen car

By Carl E. Hartdegen Staff Writer WESTFIELD – A woman who drove a stolen car to the city to keep an appointment for visitation with her children was not arrested Saturday but her companion was.

The couple came to the attention of police Friday afternoon when a caller reported that a couple in a bright yellow sports car was seen swapping packages after going in and out of stores at the Westfield Shops.

Officer Michael Csekovsky reports he found the car in the parking lot and spoke with the sole occupant, a black man sitting in the passenger seat, who said he was waiting for his friend who was visiting with her children in a nearby fast food restaurant.

The officer reports that when the man was advised of the reason for the call the man denied that he had left the car.

When the officer asked the man to identify himself he said he had no identification documents with him and identified himself verbally but the social security number he offered did not have the correct number of digits.

No record was found.

The man said that the car belonged to a friend of the woman and a check of the vehicle’s registration revealed that it was owned by a resident of Hyannis.

The man did agree to go to the restaurant with the officer to point out his friend there.

The woman he indicated left two children and another woman to speak with the officer and said that she was visiting with her children under the supervision of the other woman, a Department of Children and Families employee.

The woman told Csekovsky that the man’s name was not what he had told the officer (and had elicited no response in a records check) and told him what she thought his name was. She also said that the man had arrived at her home with the car (which she said See Stolen Car, Page 3

Town supports Southwick Days

By Hope E. Tremblay Staff Writer SOUTHWICK – Southwick Days organizer Joseph Deedy said the three-day carnival was a success, with the Parks and Recreation’s fireworks display drawing crowds Friday night.

“It was packed for the fireworks,” Deedy said. “I wish we could have fireworks every night to draw crowds.”

Deedy, a Rotarian, business owner and selectman, got the carnival rolling in response to community outcry when the annual Fireman’s Carnival was canceled this year and the Parks and Recreation Commission was concerned about funding fireworks.

Southwick Rotary Club stepped in Joseph at Deedy’s urging and the 60-plus Deedy year Southwick carnival tradition continued.

“It was great,” said Deedy. “We are looking at making improvements, such as signage for the event, and improved entertainment Saturday, but we are happy . . . it was a success.”

Fireworks Friday night kicked-off the event, which continued Saturday afternoon with children’s entertainment, and ended Sunday with the Rotary’s annual Grillin’ Daze competition.

Contractors work on the Westfield Columbia Greenway Rail Trail near the Tin Bridge area off South Broad Street in April.

(Photo by Frederick Gore)

Rail trail project rolling forward

By Dan Moriarty mated $7 million because it involved replacement of Staff Writer bridges over East Silver Street, Main Street, Thomas WESTFIELD – The second half of the Columbia Street, Chapel Street and Orange Street.

Greenway rail trail will be completed this fall, The former railroad bridge across Elm Street will extending the multiuse trail from the Southwick not be replaced. However, it will be raised to increase town line to East Silver Street. clearance to 14 feet, 6 inches. The cost of rehabilitatThe contractor, ET&L Corporation of Stow, laid ing and raising that structure is projected at $1.4 milthe first coat of asphalt last week and continues to lion. work on the two bridges in this phase. The Tin Cressotti said the city is looking at all possible Bridge over Little River is being rehabilitated and funding sources for construction of the Central Phase. two observation decks added to the structure. The The high cost estimate is due to the fact that the second bridge over South Meadow Road is also former railroad is a raised structure running through being constructed.

MARK CRESSOTTI the downtown. That fact is what makes the trail City Engineer Mark Cressotti said the contractor unique, there is only one other multi-use raised trail in laid the base coat of asphalt and poured an eightthe country, but also creates other issues, such as prifoot-wide sidewalk on East Silver Street linking vacy and funding. the trail access ramp to Coleman Avenue.

The North Phase, rehabilitation of the former railroad bridge “The last update is that they do expect to be done ahead of over the Westfield River is currently on the Transportation schedule,” Cressotti said. “They have to put down the second Improvement Project funding list for $2.2 million that would coat of paving and anticipate the start of installing the railings on become available in the fall of 2015, the start of the federal fiscal the two bridges in August.” year 2016. The federal year begins on Oct 1 of the previous The original construction timetable was to complete the trail, calendar year. being funded through a $2 million state Executive Office and The South Phase was divided, again because of funding, into Energy & Environmental Affairs, by November. two parts. The first part completed by Mass-West Construction, “Now it could be done, depending on the weather, toward the Inc., of Granby which submitted the low bid of $1,288,876, end of September,” Cressotti said. included construction and paving of about 4,000 feet of the rail The rail trail, because of the funding requirements, was divid- trail, installation of drainage to prevent erosion and protect adjaed into three phases, the South Phase, from Southwick to East cent wetlands, and construction of a 60-space parking lot abutSilver Street, the Central Phase, from East Silver Street through ting the trail. the downtown to Orange Street and the North Phase, from The second part of the South Phase is now underway by Orange Street across the Westfield River to Women’s Temperance ET&L Corporation which submitted the low bid of $2,297,538 Park. to construct the next three quarters of a mile of the trail, work The Central Phase comes with the highest price tag, an esti- that includes extensive bridge work.

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Westfield State science center Luke Beauchemin, a member of the Cow Pucks BBQ team of Westfield, sprays a fine mist of water on a rack of slow-smoking meat as part of Grill’n Daze in Southwick, Sunday. The annual event is sponsored by the Southwick Rotary Club. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

Contractors clear the land where the new $48 million science center will be built on the Westfield State University Campus. The new science and technology building will include programs which include engineering, math, technology and science. The building is essential to the growth of the new health sciences, biology and environment science degree programs. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

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New Hampshire may fix law

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire is assuring residents of the nation’s capital that they can purchase alcohol in the state despite a law that suggests otherwise. But cigarettes? Maybe not.

The New Hampshire Liquor Commission recently told retailers they should accept Washington, D.C., driver’s licenses when determining a buyer’s age, even though state law does not explicitly include them and instead refers to licenses from “another state” or Canada.

The issue came up this month when a Concord store clerk refused to sell alcohol to a 25-year-old Washington, D.C., man. The incident, first reported by the Concord Monitor, prompted Executive

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TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Monday, July 28, the 209th day of 2014. There are 156 days left in the year.

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n July 28, 1914, World War I began as AustriaHungary declared war on Serbia.

On this date:

In 1540, King Henry VIII’s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, was executed, the same day Henry married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he was increasing the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000 “almost immediately.”

In 1976, an earthquake devastated northern China, killing at least 242,000 people, according to an official estimate.

In 1984, the Los Angeles Summer Olympics opened.

In 1655, French dramatist and novelist Cyrano de Bergerac, the inspiration for a play by Edmond Rostand, died in Paris at age 36.

In 1794, Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine.

In 1821, Peru declared its independence from Spain.

In 1928, the Summer Olympic games opened in Amsterdam.

In 1932, federal troops forcibly dispersed the so-called “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans who had gathered in Washington to demand payments they weren’t scheduled to receive until 1945.

In 1945, a U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York’s Empire State Building, killing 14 people. The U.S. Senate ratified the United Nations Charter by a vote of 89-2.

In 1959, in preparation for statehood, Hawaiians voted to send the first Chinese-American, Republican Hiram L. Fong, to the U.S. Senate and the first Japanese-American, Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, to the U.S. House of Representatives.

In 1989, Israeli commandos abducted a pro-Iranian Shiite) Muslim cleric, Sheik Abdul-Karim Obeid , from his home in south Lebanon. (He was released in January 2004 as part of a prisoner swap.)

Ten years ago: The Democratic National Convention in Boston nominated John Kerry for president. A car bomb exploded outside a police station used as a recruiting center in Baqouba, Iraq, killing 70 Iraqis. Francis Crick, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA, died in San Diego at age 88.

Five years ago: The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the U.S. Supreme Court’s first Hispanic justice, over nearly solid Republican opposition. Anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder pleaded not guilty in Wichita, Kansas, to killing late-term abortion provider George Tiller. (Roeder was later convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.) The Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, better known as “Reverend Ike,” who preached the gospel of material prosperity to millions nationwide, died in Los Angeles at age 74.

One year ago: Pope Francis’ historic trip to his home continent of South America ended after a marathon week in Brazil. In southern Italy, 39 people were killed when a tour bus plunged into a ravine. An armed thief stole a $136 million diamond collection from a jewelry show at the Carlton International Hotel in Cannes, France. William Warren Scranton, 96, a former presidential candidate, ambassador to the U.N. and Pennsylvania governor, died in Montecito, California. Actresssinger Eileen Brennan, 80, died in Burbank, California.

Today’s Birthdays: Movie director Andrew V. McLaglen is 94. Actor Darryl Hickman is 83. Ballet dancer-choreographer Jacques d’Amboise is 80. Musical conductor Riccardo Muti is 73.

Former Senator and NBA Hall of Famer Bill Bradley is 71.

“Garfield” creator Jim Davis is 69. Singer Jonathan Edwards is 68. Actress Linda Kelsey is 68. TV producer Dick Ebersol is 67. Actress Sally Struthers is 66. Actress Georgia Engel is 66.

Rock musician Simon Kirke (Bad Company) is 65. Rock musician Steve Morse (Deep Purple) is 60. CBS anchorman Scott Pelley is 57. Alt-country-rock musician Marc Perlman is 53. Actor Michael Hayden is 51. Actress Lori Loughlin is 50.

Jazz musician-producer Delfeayo Marsalis is 49. Former hockey player turned general manager Garth Snow is 45.

Actress Elizabeth Berkley is 42. Singer Afroman is 40. Country musician Todd Anderson (Heartland) is 39. Rock singer Jacoby Shaddix (Papa Roach) is 38. Country singer Carly Goodwin is 33. Actor Dustin Milligan is 29. Actor Nolan Gerard Funk is 28. Rapper Soulja Boy is 24. Pop/rock singer Cher Lloyd (TV: finalist “The X Factor”) is 21.

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Government Meetings MONDAY, JULY 28 TOLLAND Board of Selectmen at 5 pm

SOUTHWICK Board of Selectmen at 6:50 pm Board of Appeals at 7 pm Board of Appeals Public Hearing at 7:15 pm

BLANDFORD Zoning Board Meeting at 7 pm

GRANVILLE Selectboard at 7 pm

TUESDAY, JULY 29 TOLLAND Board of Assessors at 10 am

BLANDFORD Assessor’s Meeting at 5:30 pm Fire Department Meeting at 6:30 pm Selectmen’s Meeting at 7 pm Pete Coppa, team captain of Fat Dawgs BBQ of Southwick, uses an electronic thermometer to check a piece of meat during Southwick Grill’n Daze at the Southwick Recreation Center, Sunday. The annual event was part of Southwick Days and sponsored by the Southwick Rotary Club. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

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The carnival owner has agreed to come back next year with more attractions and Rotarian Robert Fox said they are already planning for next year.

“It was good,” said Fox. “We’re a small group, but we have some hard workers. We got the carnival together in five weeks and people were happy that we were able to keep the event going.

We’ll do it again with everybody in town participating.”

Deedy said this morning he was going to collect fireworks donation cans from businesses around town and he expected the Rotary would “break even” on the

event.

Fox, a BBQ connoisseur, said although Sunday started off a bit wet, the competition went well and nine competitors offered some delicious barbecue.

Taking first place in the chili competition was Fat Dawgs of Southwick. Bam Bams of Connecticut took second place, and Smokey O’s of Westfield earned third place. Smokey O’s took the first place ribbon in the poultry division, with Fat Dawgs and Bam Bams taking second and third place, respectively. The pork competition heated up with Bam Bams taking the lead, followed by

Rudieye BBQ of Agawam, and Cowpucks of Westfield. The main event – the beef competition, was won by Fat Dawgs, followed by Bam Bams in second place and Rudeieye in third.

A panel of local celebrity judges – including The Westfield News owner Patrick Barry – had the enviable task of sampling all the BBQ offerings.

Fox said the “one disappointment” of the weekend was the cancellation of the vintage baseball game because of the rain.

“We’re hoping to reschedule that this summer,” he said.

Animal Shelter visit Westfield Daisy Scouts of Troop 40223 led by Donna Shibley, and Animal Shelter representative Jan Marquese, visit Westfield’s Animal Shelter to donate dog toys and food for animals in need. (Photo by Liam Sheehan)

Stolen Car belonged to a friend of his) to take her to Westfield for her visit with her children before the officer broke of their conversation so she could complete her time limited visit with her children.

While the woman visited with her children, Csekovsky continued his investigation of the man who said that the car owner had loaned it to the woman who was going to get crack cocaine for the owner.

The man also said that both he and the woman had smoked crack earlier.

Confronted with the name the woman provided, the man offered his actual personal information and a check revealed him to be the subject of an outstanding warrant issued in 2013 by the Springfield District Court.

The officer noted that the man looked nervous and was continually looking around as if he might be preparing to flee so Csekovsky performed a pat frisk for safety to ensure the man had no weapons.

Csekovsky reports that he felt something that he believed to be a crack pipe and, when it was removed from the pocket, was found to be a glass tube used for smoking crack which later tested positive for cocaine.

After the woman completed her visit the officer resumed

SOUTHWICK Park & Recreation Commission at 6:30 pm

Continued from Page 1 speaking with her and the shop was called and queried man and found they had con- about the car and, after checkflicting accounts about how ing, said that it was missing the car came to be in their from the lot. possession. The woman did The car had not been known eventually admit she had been to be missing before the police driving because the man, she called and the business owner said, was unable to operate a said that it must have been manual transmission. stolen between midnight and An emergency dispatcher 8:30 a.m. It was reported to was able to reach the owner of Springfield police to be a stothe car by phone who said that len vehicle. he had left it at a repair facilThe car was towed to a ity in Springfield on Thursday. police impound yard.

An employee of that repair Kenneth Otey, 43, of 24

Quincy St., Springfield and was arrested for possession of a Class B drug, receiving a stolen motor vehicle and on the warrant. He is expected to be arraigned Monday in Westfield District Court.

The woman was advised that a criminal complaint would be filed and she will be summoned to the Westfield court to answer a charge of receiving a stolen motor vehicle.

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SOUTHWICK Driveway Subcommittee at 7 pm

HunTINGTON Selectboard at 5:30 pm

THURSDAY, JULY 31 TOLLAND Conservation Comm Hearings -IF NEEDED

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U.S.: Rockets fired from Russia

By Associated Press Stepping up pressure on Moscow, the U.S. on Sunday released satellite images it says show that rockets have been fired from Russia into neighboring eastern Ukraine and that heavy artillery for separatists also has crossed the border.

The images, which came from the U.S. Director of National Intelligence and could not be independently verified by The Associated Press, show blast marks where rockets were launched and craters where they landed. Officials said the images show heavy weapons fired between July 21 and July 26 — after the July 17 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

The four-page memo is part of the Obama administration’s push to hold Russia accountable for its activities in neighboring Ukraine and the release could help to persuade the United States’ European allies to apply harsher sanctions on Russia.

The timing of the memo also could be aimed at dissuading Russia from further military posturing. The Pentagon said just days ago that the movement of Russian heavy-caliber artillery systems across its border into Ukraine was “imminent.”

Russian officials have denied allegations of Russia’s involvement in eastern Ukraine. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke on Sunday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, but details about their discussion have not yet been released by the State Department.

The U.S. images claim to show multiple rocket launchers fired at Ukrainian forces from within Ukraine and from Russian soil. One image shows dozens of craters around a Ukrainian military unit and rockets that can travel more than seven miles.

The memo said one image provides evidence that Russian forces have “fired across the border at Ukrainian military forces and that Russian-backed separatists have used heavy artillery provided by Russia in attacks on Ukrainian forces from inside Ukraine.”

Another satellite image depicted in the memo shows “ground scarring at multiple rocket launch sites on the Russian side of the border oriented in the direction of Ukraine military units within Ukraine.”

“The wide areas of impact near the Ukrainian military units indicates fire from multiple rocket launchers,” the memo said.

Moreover, the memo included a satellite image that it stated is evidence of self-propelled artillery only found in Russian military units “on the Russian side of the border oriented in the direction of a Ukrainian military unit within Ukraine.”

Tensions have run high in that region since Russia seized Crimea in March and Washington has been highly critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s behavior.

More recently, U.S. intelligence officials have said they have what they call a solid circumstantial case that Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine are responsible for downing the Malaysia Airlines plane. Citing satellite imagery, intercepted conversations and social media postings, officials say a Russian-made SA-11 surface-to-air missile hit the plane on July 17.

Moscow angrily denies any involvement in the attack.

U.S. officials said they still don’t know who fired the missile or whether Russian military officers were present when it happened. But until Sunday, they were unwilling to share evidence that the separatists had the technology to down a plane.

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10 years later: Obama’s hits and blunders

By Edward-Isaac Dovere and David Nather Politico.com Barack Obama’s Democratic National Convention keynote delivered 10 years ago Sunday evening started his journey to the White House.

Those 18 minutes in Boston reshaped American politics.

Obama spent a long passage of his speech extolling Democratic nominee John Kerry, but he wasn’t the one whose presidential prospects most people left the Fleet Center buzzing about.

Caught by surprise by a convention keynote that was actually worth watching, the crowd went wild. Even Hillary Clinton and Jesse Jackson were spotted clapping for him.

A decade later, the speech remains a road map to the Obama agenda — and the many places where he’s fallen short in his term and a half so far.

The parts that hold up well: transitioning from a manufacturing base, the pursuit of enemies (like Osama bin Laden), a cooperative economy, voting rights, solving the “health care crisis,” “a road to opportunity” for the middle class.

But parts come across as the oratorical equivalent of an embarrassing hairdo in a high school yearbook.

The line most associated with the speech — “there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America, there’s the United States of America” — is the part that’s probably held up the least well over time.

“The most memorable passage in that speech that he’s not been able to break through on is the real polarized division in the country,” said Robert Gibbs, then Obama’s Senate campaign communications director and later his first White House press secretary. That passage was there from the first draft and stuck around through every round of 3 a.m. emails Obama sent to his small Senate campaign staff.

But nothing prepared Obama’s staff for what happened next.

“We all read the speech, but none of us was prepared for the reaction it got,” recalls Tommy Vietor, a Senate campaign spokesman who also went on to the White House. “It was powerful on paper, but it was nowhere close to the way he delivered it. … The delivery was pitch perfect, and it was just the right speech for the time.”

Here’s Politico’s look back at key lines from the speech that defined Obama and how they’ve held up in the 10 years since: “Well, I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America; there’s the United States of America.”

Turns out there actually is. And the divisions have gotten so much worse, particularly since the beginning of Obama’s presidency, with the rise of the tea party and the hopelessly gridlocked Congress, that it’s the most famous Obama line you never hear anymore.

“I think he feels deeply frustrated and disappointed by it,” Vietor says. “I don’t think anyone wants to be constrained by partisanship, but there’s only so much he can do.”

But Obama hasn’t exactly backed away from the divide, spending over $700 million after opting out of the campaign finance system in 2008 and then over $1 billion in 2012 in a relentless us-vs.-them push against Mitt Romney.

Try to find a Republican in Washington who thinks he hasn’t been partisan. But to Obama’s team, it’s mostly the GOP that has built the wall of opposition, to the point where they’re convinced many Republicans reflexively turn against anything he supports.

“I’d love nothing more than a loyal and rational opposition,” Obama put it to a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraising luncheon last week in Los Altos Hills, California. “But that’s not what we have right now, and as a consequence we’re going to need change.”

“Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope?”

That was three years before the Shepard Fairey poster, but these days Obama has returned to the idea repeatedly, telling people, as he did in Los Angeles on Thursday, “Cynicism is a choice, and hope is a better choice.”

Now, though, Obama has to contend with the reality of a hostile, dysfunctional Congress and the limits of falling back on executive actions to get his agenda through. He does it by adding a darker message to his speeches: Washington wants to discourage you, so don’t let them do it.

Back then, though, the pitch was just starting to take shape.

He was aspirational. Now he’s weathered. Then, the crowd called “Hope!” back at him when he asked the question in the speech. Now he’s hoping he can still get Democrats inspired for the midterms.

“It’s a quintessentially forward-looking, hopeful vision for America,” Gibbs said.

But it’s also a reminder, five and a half years into his presidency, of how much of that vision Obama hasn’t gotten accomplished.

“The wonderful thing about that speech is that you could give it today,” Gibbs said, though adding, “Anybody and everybody would admit that there are things that are unfinished in that agenda and won’t be finished in his term.”

“We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states.”

Oh, right — the whole surveillance thing. Turns out people hate that.

Obama delivered that line in a very different context — when the issue on everyone’s minds was the Patriot Act and all the other kinds of post-Sept. 11 surveillance being practiced by the Bush administration. Libraries were especially concerned about national security letters, which allow the FBI to issue top-secret demands for records about Americans’ private communications.

In the Oval Office five years later, Obama surprised supporters and allies by maintaining, and in some cases expanding, the Bush-era intelligence apparatus and doing more with drone strikes and kill lists than that man on stage in Boston probably could have ever envisioned.

His private assurances to critics that he’s no Dick Cheney haven’t calmed things, especially with revelations about the scope of the National Security Agency’s surveillance, especially the bulk collection of phone records and even spying on foreign leaders. And one of the main privacy organizations, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says the administration has actually tried to expand the powers of the national security letters.

Julian Sanchez, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute who specializes in national security and civil liberties, calls Obama’s convention speech “a flashback to that innocent era when our fears about the Patriot Act involved quaint scenarios like combing through library records rather than, say, indiscriminate collection of hundreds of millions of Americans’ telephone records.”

Obama has spent much of the last year and a half talking about how to manage the balance between security and liberty.

But even as he has proposed new safeguards on surveillance, he’s telling Americans he needs it to protect the country from attacks, and he’s even defending the NSA people who conduct it. “They’re not abusing authorities in order to listen to your private phone calls or read your emails,” he said in his January speech outlining new limits on the nation’s intelligence agencies.

Obama might have been right about the red states in one sense: Civil liberties-minded Republicans are now some of the fiercest critics of his surveillance policies — particularly Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who’s probably going to run for his job.

“When we send our young men and women into harm’s way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they are going …, to care for their families while they’re gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return and to never, ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace and earn the respect of the world.”

That line still reflects Obama’s general approach to foreign policy and military conflicts. The two phrases that haven’t exactly aged well, based on the crises he’s dealing with now: “tend to the soldiers upon their return” and “secure the peace.”

Obama talked about the care for the soldiers after mentioning a conversation with a Marine named Seamus, who was about to deploy to Iraq. “I asked myself: Are we serving Seamus as well as he’s serving us?” Obama said. The Marine, Seamus Ahern, later went to work for Obama in his Senate office in Illinois — and is now the director for wounded warrior policy at the Navy.

But what’s happening to the soldiers these days upon their return? You might ask the Veterans Administration about that.

Obama set in motion a change of leadership there, but the culture that led the agency to cover up delays in medical care — and punish any whistleblowers who dared to bring them up — is deeply rooted and could take years to change.

Just last week, a modest bill to help veterans get some outside care, and give the VA some basic authority to fire people, nearly fell apart because one committee chairman called a meeting without asking the other chairman first.

And “secure the peace” is not exactly what’s happened in Iraq.

Obama was talking about the Bush administration’s failure, in his view, to send enough troops to Iraq in the first place — but now the issue is the growing instability there and the military gains made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

“I’m not talking about blind optimism here, the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don’t think about it, or the health care crisis will go away if we just ignore it.”

And with that, we have the foreshadowing of Obamacare.

It’s not like health care reform was Obama’s idea alone. By 2004, Democrats were already starting to return to the idea of covering the uninsured, recovering from the failure of Bill Clinton’s health care plan in the 1990s. Kerry would have done it by bringing health insurance premiums down, a plan Obama nodded to in his speech: “John Kerry believes in an America where all Americans can afford the same health coverage our politicians in Washington have for themselves.”

By 2008, however, Obama had to come up with a plan for comprehensive health care reform — in part to compete with Hillary Clinton. He embraced it, then pushed it through with Democratic majorities in Congress over Republican objections.

It includes help for senior citizens: more generous Medicare prescription drug coverage, still one of the main selling points Democrats use to talk about the law.

The problem, though, is that Obama used the health care line as an example of a broader point about Americans looking out for each other: “that fundamental belief — I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper — that makes this country work.” In reality, the nation has never gotten over its bitter divisions over Obamacare — in part because many of its opponents are convinced that they’re paying too much to help the uninsured.

“John Edwards calls on us to hope.”

Really, no mention of John Edwards ages well. He’s now the disgraced, philandering ex-politician, but Obama had to sing his praises in 2004 — he was the vice presidential nominee at the time. So Obama did his best.

“John Kerry will be sworn in as president,” Obama declared.

“And John Edwards will be sworn in as vice president. And this country will reclaim its promise. And out of this long political darkness a brighter day will come.”

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WESTFIELD Emergency Response and Crime Report Friday, July 25, 2014 8:49 a.m.: larceny, Heritage Park, 868 Southampton Road, a resident came to the station to complain that a family member has used her debit card without authorization, the responding office reports the woman said that her daughter was the only person with access to her missing debit card which was used for 15 purchases totaling more than $350, the case was referred to the Detective Bureau; 8:51 a.m.: burning complaint, Yeoman Avenue, a caller reports a neighbor appears to be burning illegally, the responding fire captain reports that the resident was instructed to extinguish the fire; 12:39 p.m.: found property, Southampton Road, a patrol officer reports taking custody of a cell phone found at a Southampton Road donut shop, the phone was locked so the owner could not be identified, the phone was stored for safe keeping; 2:51 p.m.: vandalism, Westfield District Court, 224 Elm St., a caller reports his bicycle was vandalized while he was in court, the responding officer reports that the complainant identified a suspect but there is no evidence to connect the suspect with the flat tire which is the only apparent damage to the bike, the officer reports security video will be reviewed; 3:56 p.m.: suspicious person, East Main Street, a caller reports two persons are swapping packages and going in and out of stores, see story in the Monday edition of The Westfield News; 6:51 p.m.: officer wanted, Meadow Street, the manager of an apartment building reports that there have been incidents in which persons in a passing motor vehicle had yelled racial epithets and thrown eggs at the building, the responding officer reports the caller said that here have been four similar incidents but only the most recent has been reported as in that case the offending vehicle was captured on security video, the officer viewed the video and said that the suspect vehicle appears to be familiar to him and he will try to remember who owns it, the caller agreed to make of a copy of the video and the officer reports that it will be made available to other officers in an attempt to identify the vehicle; 7:45 p.m.: larceny, Westfield Shops, a resident came to the station to complain that a debit card was stolen from his vehicle, the responding officer reports that the man said that he had parked and locked his car when he went to dine at a restaurant at the shops but failed to completely close the driver’s window, the man said that when he returned to the car he found that it had been entered, the contents had been disturbed and his debit card was stolen from the center console, the man said that the relevant account has been closed; 8:43 p.m.: larceny, Greylock Street, a caller reports his phone was stolen from the municipal playground, the responding officer reports the complainant said that he left his cellphone on a bench while he was playing basketball and found it gone when he returned, the man said that two known women had been nearby when he left the phone, the officer reports he found one of the women on Washington Street who voluntarily allowed him to inspect her possessions, the officer spoke with the other woman at her home who also denied taking the phone, the officer reports both women were advised that the phone includes a tracking feature which will be utilized; 9:16 p.m.: identity fraud, Oakwood Terrace Apartments, 200 Southwick Road, a resident came to the station to report that she was advised by the IRS that somebody else claimed her and her children as dependents so she owes money to the IRS, the case was referred to the financial crimes unit of the Detective Bureau; 9:37 p.m.: larceny, Southwood Acres, 342 Southwick Road, a resident came to the station to complain that her former boyfriend used her debit card fraudulently, the responding officer reports the woman said that her card had been used three times for a total of $201.45, the woman pointed out that she had been assaulted by the man a few days earlier and had reported at the time that he stole the card, the card was found in his possession when he was arrested, a criminal complaint was filed.

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Friday, July 25, 2014 Christian M. Chagnon, 40, of 9 Fowler St., was released on his personal recognizance pending a Sept. 3 hearing after he was arraigned on a charge of larceny of a motor vehicle brought by Westfield police.

Michael E. Shaker pleaded guilty to a charge of dumping more than seven cubic feet of trash brought by Westfield police and was fined $50. He was also assessed $50.

LOST AND FOUND LOST -- T-Mobile Sparq clamshell cellphone, black with silver-accented keyboard. Hand set serial #013379003366401.

Lost late Thursday (7/17) / early Friday (7/18) morning, somewhere between School St and E Silver St. If found, turn into police station.

LOST: Small address book with license inside was lost either inside of Price Rite or outside in the parking lot Saturday, July 5th. If you have found this, please drop it off at the Westfield Police Department or mail it to the address on the license.

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Tom Terry on guitar, Ethan Bausch on drums, and Joe Gordon on bass all rock-out at the MoFroYo Kids Summer Concert. (Photo by Liam Sheehan)

MoFroYo Kids Summer Concert

Tom Terry, a teacher at Performance Music, kicks off the Kids Summer Concert at MoFroYo on Friday. (Photo by Liam Sheehan)

In governor’s race, a patchwork fundraising map

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Republican Charlie Baker is not only leading every other candidate in the fundraising race for governor, but his financial support is also deeper across a wider swath of Massachusetts than any of his rivals.

A review of campaign finance records by The Associated Press shows Baker has received contributions of more than $50 from all but about 50 of the state’s 351 cities and towns.

The next closest candidate is Democrat Martha Coakley, who’s received contributions of more than $50 from all but about 90 communities.

The patchwork fundraising map of Massachusetts also shows Baker has received more than any other candidate, community by community, in large areas in central Massachusetts and north and south of Boston.

Baker is also outpacing other candidates along portions of Cape Cod, in communities stretching along the state’s southern edge and in two of the state’s largest cities, Worcester and Springfield.

In Worcester, for example, Baker has collected about

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$20,500, more than double the amount collected all the other candidates combined.

Baker’s campaign finance director Mark Fuller said the candidate is overwhelmed by the support and is “working day and night to earn the votes of Massachusetts residents in every corner of the state.”

Coakley, the state’s attorney general, topped every other candidate in several dozen communities, including Lowell, Concord, Lincoln, her hometown of Medford and North Adams, where she grew up.

A spokeswoman for Coakley’s campaign said she’s outraised every other Democrat during the past seven months.

“Martha is on the road every day, listening to families, workers, those out of work and business owners,” said campaign press secretary Bonnie McGilpin.

Another Democrat, former federal health care official Donald Berwick, showed fundraising prowess in liberal enclaves like Cambridge and Amherst. In Cambridge, Berwick raised more than $67,000 by mid-July compared to Coakley and fellow Democrat, state Treasurer Steve Grossman, who each raised about $41,000 in the city.

Berwick has captured the imagination of many liberals for his support of a single-payer health care system.

Campaign spokesman Leigh Appleby said Berwick has been able to hold his own even though he’s never run for statewide office before.

“He has consistently raised as much or more than his two primary opponents, both of whom are Beacon Hill insiders,” Appleby said, referring to Coakley and Grossman.

Grossman topped every other candidate in fewer than 20 communities, including Brookline, where he collected about $48,000 compared to about $38,000 for Berwick and $31,000 for Coakley.

There are some quirks in the map.

The candidate who reported raising the most in Boston is independent candidate Jeff McCormick, who collected around $700,000. That’s because McCormick, who lives in Boston, has given his campaign hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Coakley came in second in Boston, having collected nearly $500,000. Berwick raised nearly $370,000; Baker, nearly $174,000; and Grossman, about $122,000.

Another quirk is in Newton, Grossman’s hometown. Newton is also the hometown of independent candidate Evan Falchuk, who’s loaned his campaign hundreds of thousands of dollars and collected a total $725,000.

Grossman came in second in Newton, having collected about $121,000 there. Coakley and Berwick each raised about See Fundraising Map, Page 8

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U.S. gas prices fall 9 cents to $3.58 CAMARILLO, Calif.

(AP) — A national survey finds the average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline has plummeted 9 cents a gallon over the past two weeks to $3.58.

That’s the largest drop this year.

Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday the decrease came despite a rise in crude-oil prices.

Lundberg says U.S. refiners, enjoying plentiful supplies, aggressively cut wholesale prices to chase sales.

Midgrade averages were $3.78, and premium averages were $3.93.

The U.S. average retail diesel price is down 4 cents per gallon, to $3.90.

The lowest average price Lundberg found in the lower 48 states was $3.23 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The highest was $4.03 in San Francisco.

The lowest average price in California was $3.86 in Sacramento.

Dollar Tree buying Family Dollar for $8.5 billion NEW YORK (AP) — Dollar Tree is buying rival discount store Family Dollar in a cashand-stock deal valued at about $8.5 billion.

Stockholders of Family Dollar Stores will receive $59.60 in cash and the equivalent of $14.90 in shares of Dollar Tree for each share they own. The companies put the value of the transaction at $74.50 per share.

The boards of both companies have unanimously approved the deal, which is expected to close by early next year.

Shares of Family Dollar Stores Inc., based in Charlotte, North Carolina, spiked 20 percent before the opening bell Monday.

Shares of Dollar Tree Inc., based in Chesapeake, Virginia, are up almost 4 percent.

Russia ordered to pay $50B over Yukos DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An international court on Monday ordered Russia to pay over $50 billion in compensation to the former majority shareholder of now-defunct oil producer Yukos over the expropriation of the company more than 10 years ago.

In one of the largest arbitration cases ever, a subsidiary for GML Ltd., once the biggest shareholder in Yukos Oil Co., had sought $103.5 billion from Russia.

The Russian government under President Vladimir Putin in 2003 leveled massive tax claims against Yukos, then Russia’s largest oil company owned by the country’s richest man Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Russia imprisoned Khodorkovsky and seized See Yukos, Page 7

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U.S. companies increasingly fish for growth overseas

Easthampton Savings Bank’s Roy Named Governor of Rotary International District 7890 EASTHAMPTON — Michael J. Roy, vice president and compliance officer at Easthampton Savings Bank, has been named governor of Rotary International District 7890.

His term began July 1 and ends June 30, 2015.

Roy is responsible for providing leadership and oversight for the 2,300 members in the 60 clubs in Western Massachusetts and Northern Connecticut that encompass District 7890. He also seeks to raise the visibility of Rotary International and advance the organization’s main goal of eradicating polio globally.

Roy, who is also an attorney, first joined Rotary International in Florida in 1989 and rejoined in 2005 after moving to Massachusetts.

He served as president of the Northampton Rotary Club from 2009 to 2010 and also served as chair of the International Committee during that time. In 2010, Roy led a district Group Study Exchange to Japan.

“I got involved with Rotary to make a difference,” said Roy. “By participating in service projects and fundraisers you get a firsthand look at the impact that you’re having on peoples’ lives locally and internationally. Serving as district governor is the next natural step in moving the organization forward.”

Established in 1905, Rotary International is a global service organization that brings together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian services locally and worldwide. As district governor, Roy seeks to ensure that clubs in the district, and their members, remain active and relevant in

Michael J. Roy Vice president and compliance officer at Easthampton Savings Bank the community.

“It’s important that our clubs continually assess the needs in their communities, because those needs may be different from four years ago or 75 years ago,” he said. “Are clubs providing members with a mix of opportunities to give back locally and participate in international projects? We want to be mindful of our backyard while staying true to our roots by helping out with projects around the world.”

Rotarians take on projects that range from providing coats for needy children in their own communities to sending members to Nigeria to help immunize children against polio, Roy added.

“It isn’t only about service. It’s about fellowship,” he said. “We want to be an exciting, relevant and welcoming place for anyone looking to effect positive change, whether he or she is an established business leader or someone new to the area.”

Roy has a bachelor’s degree from Palm Beach Atlantic College and a juris doctor degree from Suffolk University Law School. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in December 1999.

Roy also serves on various compliance and real estate-related boards and committees in Massachusetts.

He is married to Mary Pat Roy, an endocrinologist in private practice. The couple lives in Florence.

To learn more about Rotary District 7890, visithttp://rotarydistrict7890.org/

China profits boost Asia stocks, Europe unenthused

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mostly higher Monday, shrugging off jitters about stiffer Western sanctions against Russia, after China reported strong corporate profits.

Benchmarks in Paris and London also rose but many other European markets drifted lower.

5,577.40.

KEEPING SCORE: In morning European trade, France’s CAC 40 rose 0.4 percent to 4,346.95 while Germany’s DAX shed 0.1 percent to 9,635.95.

Britain’s FTSE 100 added 0.1 percent to 6,796.53. Futures augured a muted session on Wall Street. Dow and S&P 500 futures were both down 0.1 percent. On Friday, the Dow lost 0.7 percent while the S&P was off 0.5 percent.

RUSSIA TENSIONS: Asian stocks rose despite declines in U.S. and European markets on Friday after weak earnings from Visa and Amazon and an agreement by European governments to tighten sanctions on Russia. They will limit trade in defense, technology and other goods and proposed restricting access to European capital markets for Russian state-owned companies.

Tensions have escalated after a Malaysia Airlines jet was shot down over a part of eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists, killing all 298 people on board.

ASIA’S DAY: China’s benchmark Shanghai Composite Index surged 2.4 percent to 2,177.95. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 added 0.5 percent to 15,529.40 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 0.9 percent at 24,428.63. South Korea’s Kospi rose 0.7 percent to 2,048.81.

Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 bucked the regional trend and was off 0.1 percent at

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CHINESE PROFITS: Profits at China’s industrial enterprises soared 17.9 percent in June over a year earlier, the government reported, boosting confidence that the world’s No. 2 economy has stabilized after a slowdown. For the first half of the year, profits were up 11.4 percent, a new high for that period.

ANALYST TAKE: “There is no sign that geopolitics is de-escalating, which See Stocks, Page 7

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Major U.S. companies are starting to reap their most rapid growth in fertile lands of opportunity far from home.

Technology trendsetters Apple Inc., Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and Netflix Inc. all mined foreign countries to produce earnings or revenue that exceeded analysts’ projections in their latest quarters.

Prodded by the steadily rising demand for Internet access and online services in developing countries, these technology companies will likely be wading even deeper into overseas markets for years to come.

“The philosophy is to start your growth in the states and then take your fight overseas,” says BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis “That’s what the big guys are doing.”

The intensifying international focus extends beyond technology.

Century-old companies such as Coca-Cola Co. and Ford Motor Co. also are hoping to make more money in countries including China and India.

Few U.S. industries are tying their fortunes to overseas markets as aggressively as the technology sector, where new sources of revenue are often just a matter of equipping people with a computing device and an Internet connection.

Soaring sales of iPhones in China, Russia, India and Brazil during the April-June period helped Apple overcome softening demand for the device in the U.S. and Europe, where consumers seem to be more interested in waiting for the autumn release of a new iPhone that’s expected to feature a larger screen.

Google generated 58 percent of its revenue outside the U.S. in its second quarter, the highest level yet for the Internet’s most powerful company.

Facebook already gets 55 percent of its revenue overseas, and the growth in those markets is outpacing by what’s happening in the U.S. The social networking service has attracted 1.1 billion users in foreign markets versus 200 million in the U.S. and Canada.

Netflix’s Internet video service added 1.1 million international subscribers, nearly doubling the number it gained in the U.S during the April-June quarter. The company expects the trend to continue as Netflix enters six more European markets, including France and Germany, in September.

Corporate profits will probably need to keep rising to sustain the U.S. stock market’s record-breaking run. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index has already climbed See Growth, Page 7

Comic-book convention organizers clash over name SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Organizers of two of the biggest comic-book conventions in the country are clashing over their names.

A lawyer for San Diego ComicCon has issued a cease-and-desist letter to organizers of Utah’s Salt Lake Comic Con demanding them to drop “Comic Con” from the name.

“Attendees, exhibitors and fans seeing use of ‘Comic Con’ in connection with your convention will incorrectly assume that your convention is in some way affiliated with (the San Diego convention),” reads the letter dated Friday.

San Diego holds the nation’s biggest comic-book convention while Salt Lake City hosts the third-biggest one. Organizers say the events feature the best in movies, television shows, gaming, scifi/fantasy and comic books. Many attendees dress up as their favorite characters.

The letter further states that San Diego organizers own the trademark for the use of “Comic Con” and are aware of “multiple instances” where individuals believed the two gatherings were affiliated because of the name.

The letter notes a car was used to promote the Salt Lake City convention around the site of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. The car featured the Salt Lake Comic Con name and dates. “Your use (of the car) ... is clearly intended to confuse Comic-Con attendees, exhibitors and fans,” the letter states.

The letter calls for a response

by Salt Lake City organizers by Aug. 6.

Salt Lake Comic Con co-founder Dan Farr called the demand baseless.

“We’re puzzled why Salt Lake Comic Con was apparently singled out amongst the hundreds of Comic Cons around the country and the world,” Farr said in a statement. “We intend to vigorously defend ourselves from this frivolous action.”

San Diego Comic-Con tried and failed to trademark “Comic Con” in 1995, said Bryan Brandenburg, co-founder of the Utah convention.

Salt Lake Comic Con set a record for the biggest turnout for a new comic-book convention last year with an estimated 72,000 people.

Nissan profit rises on strong sales, cheap yen

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nissan’s quarterly profit rose nearly 37 percent, helped by a favorable exchange rate and healthy sales in North America and China.

Nissan Motor Co. reported Monday a better-than-expected net profit of 112 billion yen ($1.1 billion) for the April-June first fiscal quarter, up from 82 billion yen a year earlier.

Analysts surveyed by FactSet had forecast a quarterly profit of 85 billion yen ($835 million). Quarterly sales jumped 10 percent to 2.466 trillion yen ($24.2 billion).

Nissan’s vehicle sales grew in the robust North American market, on solid demand for the Rogue crossover and the Altima sedan, offsetting shaky Japan, where a rise in the consumption tax dampened sales overall.

“Nissan continued to make progress in the

first three months of the fiscal year as encouraging demand for new products, benefits from recent plant investments, and improving market conditions in North America, China and Europe combined to lift both revenues and profits,” said Carlos Ghosn, president and chief executive officer.

Yokohama-based Nissan kept its full year forecasts unchanged at a 405 billion yen ($4 billion) net income and 10.79 trillion yen ($106 billion) sales. The profit figure would represent a 4 percent increase from the previous year and the sales figure a 3 percent increase.

Nissan sold 1.24 million vehicles globally during the first quarter, a 6 percent rise from the previous year.

Nissan has stepped up its global expansion, See Nissan, Page 7

In this Monday, May 12, 2014 file photo, People walk past a wall set up in front of Nissan’s showroom under renovation in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

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Pipeline proposal stirs opposition in Berkshires PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A group of lawmakers in the Berkshires is opposing a gas pipeline proposed for northern Massachusetts.

The Berkshire Eagle reports (http://bit. ly/1khyAmJ ) that the lawmakers on Friday cited environmental, economic, public safety and public health concerns.

The proposal by pipeline operator Kinder Morgan Energy Services of Texas calls for a section to be built along the northern part of Massachusetts, ending in Dracut, north of

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Boston, where it would connect with transmission lines owned by other companies.

Sen. Benjamin Downing, D-Pittsfield; Rep. William Pignatelli, D-Lenox; Rep. Gailanne Cariddi, D-North Adams; Rep. Paul Mark, D-Peru; and Rep. Stephen Kulik, D-Worthington said the proposal is not in the public interest.

The pipeline plan stems in part from a push by the six New England governors to boost the region’s supply of natural gas.

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nearly 8 percent this year, well ahead of its average pace historically, while analysts expect earnings to increase 8 percent this year.

Low interest rates and an improving economy have helped to create a climate of optimism, said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer at Commonwealth Financial.

“Everything is going well right now,” McMillan said. “That’s what’s driving the market up.”

Like many other money managers, McMillian isn’t convinced companies will be able to live up to investors’ high hopes.

Overall sales have been slow, and profit margins are at record levels after years of cost cutting. Those factors will make it tougher for companies to find ways to ratchet their earnings even higher.

The natural response for many companies?

Look abroad because that’s where most of the potential customers are. The U.S. population accounts for less than 5 percent of the world’s roughly 7.2 billion people.

The U.S., though, still boasts the world’s largest economy with a mass market of consumers who can afford more products and services than most other parts of the world.

That means growth in other countries, especially in markets outside of Europe, Japan and South Korea, often isn’t as lucrative as it is in the U.S. Apple, which has always demanded premium prices, is discovering this as it sells more devices overseas. For instance, the iPhone’s average selling price fell to $561 in Apple’s most recent quarter, a 3 percent drop from a year ago and a 13 percent decline from $647 two years ago.

Google’s growth in foreign markets outside Europe is one of the reasons that the company’s average advertising prices have been falling for nearly three years.

Advertisers so far haven’t been willing to pay as much to peddle their wares to consumers who don’t have as much disposable income as people in the U.S. Facebook is experiencing a similar phenomenon. The company reaped an average of $6.44 per user in the U.S. and Canada during the second quarter compared to just $2.84 per

user in Europe, $1.08 per user in Asia and 86 cents per user in the rest of the world.

Although the company remains profitable overall, Netflix still isn’t making money on an international expansion that began nearly four years ago. The company’s international losses have exceeded $800 million so far, with more likely to come with the move into France and Germany looming.

Most publicly held companies are willing to endure short-term financial pain in return for what they expect will be a long-term gain in growth. That’s one of the reasons Ford Motor is building four plants in China and two in India. By 2020, the automaker hopes Asia Pacific and the Middle East will account for one-third of its sales. The regions accounted for 22 percent of Ford’s sales in the latest quarter.

Coca-Cola is looking abroad for growth largely because it’s becoming tougher for beverage makers to increase revenue in a U.S. market already awash in soda and other refreshments. Things look much different in some large overseas markets where billions of people only recently have begun to develop a taste for the company’s products. In 2012, for instance, the per capita consumption of Coca Cola’s beverages was 403 servings of 8-ounce drinks annually in the U.S. compared to 39 annual servings in China and just 14 annual servings in India.

An increasing thirst for Coca-Cola products in China, India and the Middle East helped boost the company’s international sales by 3 percent in the second quarter while volume remained flat in North America.

Even large U.S. companies that are growing faster domestically realize they need to keep pushing in countries where many consumers may not make enough money to buy their products yet. That’s one reason General Motors CEO Mary Barra told analysts on a conference call last week that her company remains bullish on China, even though car sales there have been slowing.

“As the market grows, we need to participate in that growth...in a disproportionate fashion to make sure that we are seizing the opportunity,” Barra said.

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Continued from Page 6 should benefit safe-haven assets,” while the “macro backdrop in Asia should be one of improvement,” said Credit Agricole CIB in a report.

Yukos

STOCK TO WATCH: Shares of Nissan Motor Co. rose 0.8 percent ahead of the automaker’s quarterly earnings report. After the close of trading in Tokyo, it said April-June fiscal first quarter earnings rose nearly 37 percent to 112 billion yen ($1.1 billion), a positive start to a slew of Japanese earnings this week.

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the company’s assets when they couldn’t pay.

The move was widely seen as retaliation for Khodorkovsky’s support for opposition political parties. Russia says it was merely seeking payment for back taxes and penalties that Yukos evaded in the period 2000-2003. Yukos shareholders received no compensation for that.

Khodorkovsky spent ten years in prison before he was pardoned by Putin in December last year. Khodorkovsky has said he is not party to the case and is not interested in its outcome.

GML, formerly Group Menetap Ltd., said the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s ruling found Russia had sought to bankrupt Yukos and appropriate its assets and that it was determined to do whatever was necessary to achieve this purpose.

“The majority shareholders of Yukos Oil were left without compensation for the loss of their investment when Russia illegally expropriated Yukos,” GML Executive Director Tim Osborne said in a statement. “It is a major step forward for the majority shareholders, who have been battling for over 10 years for this decision.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, commenting earlier Monday, said Russia will be appealing the ruling.

“Authorities who are representing Russia in this trial will use all possible legal means to defend their position,” Lavrov said.

The ruling adds to tensions between Russia and the international community at a time when relations are at their lowest ebb since the end of the Cold War. Following the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, the U.S. and European Union are debating further economic sanctions against Moscow because of its support for rebels suspected of launching the attack.

“It is GML’s belief that the ‘Yukos affair’ was a major strand in the Russian government’s strategy to bring Russia’s natural resources under direct Kremlin control and to use those resources as a tool to reassert control over Russia’s former sphere of influence,” Osborne said in testimony before the U.S.

Helsinki Commission in 2009. “It marked a turning point” as Russia moved away from its “commitment to the rule of law, property rights, and energy security.”

GML sought relief from the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands, under the Energy Charter Treaty, which creates the legal basis for an open international energy market. The holding company claimed that Russia violated the treaty, which requires swift and fair compensation if assets are expropriated.

GML says that even before Russia filed its tax claim against Yukos, the company had paid $15 billion in taxes for the period on total income of $29 billion. The government claimed the company owed an additional $27 billion, bringing Yukos’ total tax liability for the period to $42 billion — more than the company’s gross income, according to GML. “This is not taxation,” Osborne said in testimony before a U.S. House Financial Services subcommittee in 2007. “This is confiscation.”

Britain reopens way for fracking LONDON (AP) — The British government has reopened the way for energy firms to explore for shale gas, three years after seismic tremors led to the suspension of fracking.

Business and Energy Minister Matthew Hancock says shale gas has the potential to improve energy security but stresses national parks will be protected.

He said Monday that, “Done right, speeding up shale will mean more jobs and opportunities for people and help ensure long-term economic and energy security for our country.”

On Monday, firms will be able to bid for licenses to start exploring, though further permits are required for drilling.

Drilling for shale gas, a process known as fracking, caused two earthquakes near Blackpool, a town in northern England, in 2011 with magnitudes 2.3 and 1.5. That led the government to stop operations.

US OUTLOOK: Traders were looking ahead to U.S. economic data due out this week.

Second-quarter gross domestic product due to be reported Wednesday is expected to show growth picking up. Forecasters expect employment on Friday to show the United States added 235,000 to 255,000 new jobs in July.

CURRENCIES, OIL: The euro edged up to $1.3440 from the previous session’s $1.3431.

The dollar rose to 101.88 yen from 101.83 yen. The price of benchmark U.S. crude for September delivery declined 39 cents to $101.70 per barrel.

Nissan

Continued from Page 6 opening new plants in Brazil, Indonesia and earnings. Japanese exporters get a perk Thailand and other emerging markets where it because it lifts the value of overseas earnings. sees strong growth.

Nissan said the company gained several bilBut Nissan, which makes the Infiniti luxury lion yen in operating profit from the currency model, March subcompact and Leaf electric rate but declined to give a specific number. car, is also doing will in the U.S., a developed Nissan said its green image was enhanced market. by the accolades for its zero-emission Leaf Its U.S. sales volume grew 14 percent from electric vehicle. the previous year, and Nissan’s market share Nissan has now sold 124,000 Leaf vehicles, in the U.S. edged up by 0.5 points to 7.9 per- still a niche market but significant as a plus for cent. its image because of the concerns about global Nissan is also holding up in Europe, boost- warming and the environment, according to ing vehicle sales in Russia by 31 percent. the automaker.

The automaker sold fewer vehicles in Japan, Nissan boasts one of the most successful where demand waned following an April 1 alliances in the auto industry with Renault SA, sales tax hike. Its market share increased by and sharing common basic parts on which the 0.1 point to 11.5 percent. products are manufactured has been a key part The cheap yen continued to boost Nissan’s of its strategy, helping slash costs.

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Fundraising Map Continued from Page 5 $72,000 there.

The map showed the most volatile part of the state for fundraising was western Massachusetts, where Baker, Coakley, Grossman and Berwick each could claim to have raised the most in different communities.

Western Massachusetts also had the highest concentration of communities where residents decided to keep their wallets closed. Of the 30 communities statewide where no resident had contributed $50 or more to any gubernatorial candidate, 25 were located in western Massachusetts.

As of mid-July, Baker had the most cash on hand in his campaign account

($1,110,687), followed by Grossman ($819,012), Coakley ($371,218), Berwick ($202,182), Falchuk ($130,123), Republican Mark Fisher ($39,326), McCormick ($16,857), and independent Scott Lively ($3,684).

Baker also benefits from the fundraising muscle of his hand-picked running mate, former Shrewsbury state Rep. Karyn Polito. As of mid-July, Polito had about $511,000 left in her campaign account.

On the Democratic side, there is a five-way primary for lieutenant governor.

Whoever wins will team up with the winner of the gubernatorial contest for the November election.

No Booze Continued from Page 2 Councilor Colin Van Ostern to approach the commission.

“New Hampshire depends more on tourism, liquor sales and democracy than probably any other state, so anything that threatens the combination of those certainly raises red flags for me,” he said. “Even if it’s only been a few instances, I think it’s a bad message to send.”

Tourism is New Hampshire’s second-largest industry, and the state rakes in money from out-of-staters lured by its taxfree booze. It also prides itself on having the nation’s largest state Legislature and its first-in-the-nation presidential primary, which gives lesser-known candidates a fair shot and attracts political visitors from around the country.

Van Ostern said he believes new legislation likely is needed to permanently fix the problem. As it stands, the commission’s clarification doesn’t take into account residents of U.S. territories, he noted.

“I have no doubt this was an oversight, and I do think a fair reading of legislative intent would be to allow all those IDs, but I don’t think we should be putting it on individual store clerks to be trying to decide what legislators meant 20 years ago when they passed a law,” he said.

It’s unclear how many other laws might unintentionally snub Washington residents, but at least one regarding cigarettes and other tobacco products includes the same language as the alcohol law.

Other laws, however, specifically mention Washington. For example, one law prohibits gun ownership for those convicted of various crimes in New Hampshire, “any other state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any territory of possession of the United States.”

State Sen. David Watters, D-Dover, said he would be willing to sponsor a bill in the next legislative session to address the law’s language.

“It looks like we need to do something like that,” he said.

“As a member of the joint committee on legislative and administrative rules, I know that we’re very careful to make sure that whatever an agency does is actually authorized in statute.”

IN BRIEF

SPL’s Adult Suntime Reading continues SOUTHWICK - The Southwick Public Library’s Adult Suntime Reading Program is in its third week having handed out two weekly prizes to lucky patrons who read either a fiction or biography from the library’s vast collection. The theme Literary Elements is highlighted in the myriad of suggested reading materials available at the Checkout Desk or on the Circulation Display Shelf or OPAC Display area. Six weekly winners plus a bonus winner will be drawn during the six-week program which will end August 15. Prizes including gift certificates from Subway, Summer House, Dunkin’Donuts, Big Y, Mrs. Murphy, and Moolicious will be awarded. Also, library totes, library logoed materials and goodies including books, CD books, and DVDs will be awarded with each certificate.

After reading or listening to a Southwick Public Library selection, all a participant need do is fill out an entry form with name, phone number, card number, and the title of the completed book. One form per book, please. Each Friday of the program a name will be chosen with the bonus prize drawn along with the weekly prize on the final Friday of the program.

Pancake Breakfast at the Westfield Senior Center WESTFIELD - Volunteer Alan Sudentas whips up scrumptious pancakes at the Westfield Senior Center on the third Friday of every month from 9-10 a.m. Participants get two big pancakes and a cup of coffee for two bucks. Tickets can be purchased at the Senior Center Greeter’s desk on the morning of the breakfast. No advance tickets, no sign-ups, and no reservations for these monthly pancake breakfasts are necessary. In addition, the Center’s Wellness Nurse, Jennifer Pappas, is also at the Senior Center on the third Friday of the month to take blood pressures, review medications, and discuss medical and health concerns. Invite some friends and treat yourself to breakfast “out!” The Westfield Senior Center is located at 40 Main Street. Free parking is available in the Stop & Shop lot or, for no more than three hours, in the municipal lot behind Bank of America.

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Connecticut seeking upgraded heavy freight rail line

By STEPHEN SINGER AP Business Writer HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — From the port of New London on Long Island Sound north through Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and into Canada, a 390-mile freight rail system linking New England to the rest of the Northeast lacks a key element: a 21st-century rail line in Connecticut.

Elected officials in Connecticut, backed by regional business owners and Genesee & Wyoming Inc., owner of New England Central Railroad, are lobbying federal transportation officials for $8.3 million to upgrade railroad tracks to accommodate heavier freight and move more products to market. New England Central is contributing $2 million.

Officials say it would be the first north-south heavy rail capacity corridor in Connecticut and could lead to expanded passenger rail service in eastern Connecticut.

“You can see point-blank the rail line is rusty, bolted together, not that stable in terms of bearing weight,” said Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., one of several elected officials lobbying for the federal money.

The New England Central Railroad moves commodities such as lumber, panels, plywood, newsprint, printing paper, compressed gas, chemicals, fuel oil and construction debris. The Great Recession hit New England hard, but business is returning, said Charles Hunter, assistant vice president of government affairs at Genesee & Wyoming. Rail also looks attractive in comparison with truck transport, which relies on rising gasoline prices, he said.

“The interest seems to be gathering,” he said.

State officials say the rails on the Connecticut portion of the New England Central Rail corridor do not support the rail freight carload standard of 286,000 pounds, falling short by about 23,000 pounds.

Andrew Clark, owner of Limb-It Less, a North Franklin logging company, said increasing capacity of rail cars will help him ship more logs and lower his cost of doing business. He moved his business from Essex to North Franklin for its access to rail transportation, he said.

“If we upgrade, we’re going to be able to attract more business,” he said.

State officials are pushing the economic development potential of replacing 19 miles of track in eastern Connecticut communities described as “economically distressed.” Improving the freight rail line would particularly help redevelop vacant

Hospital Fundraiser SOUTHWICK - A fundraiser for Shriners Hospital will be held on Sunday, August 17 at The Cove in Southwick from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be the Melha Clowns, vendors of all types, activities for the kids, music, mobile arcade, dunk tank, raffle and much more. It will be fun for the whole family. Admission is free. For more information, call Wendy at (413) 314-5909.

Southwick Senior Mohegan Sun Trip

Shelter Tag Sale

SOUTHWICK-Mohegan Sun Casino,Southwick Senior Center,Tuesday August 12.

Cost will be $19.00 pp. Receive $15.00 meal credit or free buffet and a $20.00 Bet Bus will leave the center at 8:00am and leave the Casino at 3:30pm Sign up in the office or call 569-5498.

Payment must be received by August 5

WESTFIELD The Westfield Animal Shelter is now accepting donations for our annual tag sale in August.

It’s time for spring cleaning!

Donate your unwanted items and help raise money for the shelter. The tag sale will be held on August 22 and 23 at the vacant lot across from the shelter. We are looking for gently used items but please no clothing or televisions. We are able to accept tag sale donations Monday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. .

Southwick Senior Center hearing clinic SOUTHWICK - Free Hearing Clinic by Avada will be held Wednesday, August 13, starting at 9:30 a.m. Appointments needed, please call 569-5498 to make one. Hearing Aides also cleaned at this time.

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In this Aug. 8, 2008 photo, a Housatonic Railroad freight train heads north through scenic terrain along Middle Road in New Milford, Conn. Elected officials, regional business owners and the owner of New England Central Railroad are lobbying federal transportation officials in 2014 to upgrade the state’s railroad tracks to accommodate heavier freight. (AP Photo/The News-Times, Norm Cummings)

industrial sites, some of which were polluted by previous manufacturing uses, state officials say.

Increased freight rail also could bring more business to the New London port, Connecticut’s easternmost outlet to Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean.

Massachusetts also is upgrading a rail line from the Vermont line to Springfield in a project initially costing $73 million that’s intended to accommodate higher speed passenger trains and higher

capacity freight service.

The town of Palmer, Massachusetts, is backing the rail upgrade in eastern Connecticut as part of a drive for a regional north-south freight rail line, Town Manager Charlie Blanchard said. Calling itself “The Town with Seven Railroads” because of its railroad heritage, Palmer is home to businesses that distribute products delivered by rail and would benefit from an upgraded freight line, he said.

Vermont’s segment of the

line has been upgraded using nearly $80 million in grants and other sources, said Dan Delabruere, rail program director at the Vermont Agency of Transportation.

The rail line extends from Massachusetts to St. Albans and a $9.8 million grant will replace a freight rail line before the winter from St. Albans nearly to Canada, he said.

“We’re virtually all new line, border to border,” Delabruere said.

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THE WESTFIELD NEWSSPORTS Hard-knock battle

Westfield Babe Ruth Baseball 13-Year-Old All-Stars Jimmy Hagan (3) hands the bat to the team’s bat boy after scoring. (Photo by Chris Putz)

Westfield Babe Ruth Baseball 13-Year-Old All-Stars first baseman Mike Nihill, left, keeps Arlington’s base runner close to the first base bag. (Photo by Chris Putz)

Westfield Babe Ruth Baseball 13-Year-Old All-Stars third baseman Cam Parent (8) makes a defensive play as an Arlington player runs down the first base line. (Photo by Chris Putz)

By Chris Putz Staff Writer NEWTOWN, CONN. – The Westfield Babe Ruth Baseball 13-Year-Old All-Stars took their competition by storm in Game 2 of the eastern regionals tournament, schooling them in the art of hard knocks.

Westfield rallied for six runs in the seventh inning to overtake Arlington (Mass.) 10-8 Sunday to improve to 2-0 in the New England regionals tourney. The Whip City’s ballplayers made ESPN-type, highlight reel plays, and suffered some injuries in the process.

It was an inauspicious start for Westfield when starting pitcher Carter Cousins collided with first baseman Mike Nihill on a firstinning pop fly. Nihill held on to the ball, but Cousins was carted away by ambulance after suffering a blow to the head.

Players for Westfield pledged to honor their injured teammate by dedicating the game to him. Cousins should be proud.

Westfield took advantage of some wellplaced hits, and some defensive ineptitude for Arlington to put together an early 4-1 lead.

Arlington took advantage of reaching on a few errors of its own, and surged into a 4-4 tie in the third and a 6-4 lead in the fifth.

It was the seventh-inning rally that determined the final outcome.

Ryan Paro led off Westfield’s half of the seventh with a base hit. Jimmy Hagan walked, and Spencer Cloutier singled to load the bases. Ethan Dolan’s hard base running on the next play paid off as he reached on an error, pulling his team within one run of a tie, 6-5.

Cam Parent tied the game 6-all with an RBI single to shallow right field. A balk put the Whip City back in front, 7-6. A two-run fielding error, and a wild pitch made it 10-6.

Hagan allowed a base hit and a bases-loaded single before retiring the side with a line drive out short, and two fly outs. Center fielder Bailey Collier was injured, making a diving catch to end the game, and preserve the victory. He walked away to a throng of cheers.

“Cousins is the heart and soul of this pitching staff, with Cloutier,” Westfield manager Mike Nihill said. “The kids were playing in a zone like they’ve never played before … running after things like I haven’t seen all summer long.” “…It was all for Carter.”

Notes: Westfield was not only cheered on by several family members, friends, and fans, but also a collection of players from the Westfield Babe Ruth Baseball 14-Year-Olds, who were given the day off after their tournament game was rained out Sunday.

Saturday, July 26 Westfield 7, Waterford (Conn.) 3 NEWTOWN, CONN. – On a warm summer evening, Westfield began its quest for a New England regional championship with a decisive victory over the Connecticut State champion.

Once again, the dynamic duo of Spencer Cloutier and Jimmy Hagan kept the opposing bats silent, scattering a total of six hits over seven innings. Cloutier opened on the mound and went four innings. Hagan pitched the final three.

Westfield took the lead in the first inning, and never looked back.

Carter Cousins, Hagan and Ethan Dolan walked to load the bases. Cam Parent was hit

by a pitch, resulting in the game’s first run.

In the second inning, Westfield loaded the bases again. Mike Nihill collected a base hit, Jack Blake was beaned, and Cousins walked, again. Hagan made it 2-0 with a long drive to center field.

In the fifth, Ethan Dolan drilled a base hit to center, Cam Parent singled, Joe Raco walked, and Bailey Collier unloaded a double down the left field line to score another run.

Westfield blew it open with four runs in the sixth.

Colton Baker led off the inning with solid base hit to right field. Cousins and Hagan followed with base hits. Cloutier drew an RBI walk. Cousins and Hagan scored on wild pitches, and Parent drove in the team’s seventh run of the game on a fielder’s choice.

Westfield had several defensive standouts, including three clutch catches by Mike Lurgio in left field, and a terrific play from Nihill, who ran down a loose ball in short right field, threw it to Cloutier, who, in turn, threw it to Parent for a tag out at third base.

Blake and Cam Davignone were solid behind the plate for Westfield.

Cousins reached base in all four at-bats with three walks and a single.

- Jim Hagan contributed to this report

Westfield Babe Ruth Baseball 13-Year-Old All-Stars manager Mike Nihill takes his discussion to one of the umpires in Sunday’s tournament game in Connecticut. (Photo by Chris Putz)

Patriots DBs train together in Phoenix

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New England Patriots tight end Asa Watson, left, grapples with defensive end Will Smith, right, during an NFL football training camp practice at Gillette Stadium, Sunday, July 27, 2014, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/ Steven Senne)

as a free agent in the offseason, to bond with three returning Patriots.

“This is great for us to get guys that are committed and want to come out to Phoenix,” Revis said.

“It was good for us to just be out there and just get more camaraderie with each other and just hang out with each other a lot every day.”

They trained with Will Sullivan, a coach at the facility who works closely with defensive backs. They did drills, watched film, lifted

weights and did other conditioning work.

McCourty went after talking about it with Adrian Wilson, a safety who spent the entire season on the Patriots injured reserve list before signing with the Chicago Bears on June 23.

“We all happened to end up on the same team this year so it worked out that way,” said McCourty, whose brother Jason is a cornerback with the Tennessee Titans. “My brother

was there. He was mad that all the Patriots were down there together.

So it was just guys working on individual skills.”

The training could have a big impact on Tavon Wilson. He had a solid rookie season in 2012 with four interceptions then regressed last season when he rarely played defense.

“Being around Darrelle and Devin and Logan was a good experience for me,” he said, “being able to become closer friends with those guys, just spend a lot of time with them. You can’t really do too much scheme stuff. They helped me out a lot as far as how to be a professional. I’m still fairly young in my career, so it was great being around those guys.”

Revis and McCourty are starters in an improved secondary.

Cornerback Brandon Browner also figures to start once he serves his four-game suspension for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy.

Duron Harmon, a rookie from Rutgers last season, appears to have the edge on the other starting safety spot.

The training in Arizona involved more than physical work.

“We watched a lot of film,” Ryan said. “That’s the best part about it.

Will Sullivan would watch your film with you from last year and games

and kind of tell you straight up, evaluate you.

“Every day would have a different emphasis for each player and everybody would work on their strengths and weaknesses. There’s no hiding anything. Everything was clear cut and out in the open.”

Now the Phoenix Four are continuing their preparation for the season with all their teammates.

“You see guys at the top of their game, All-Pros, come in there and be coachable and repeat a drill they may have gotten wrong,” Ryan said.

“It makes a younger guy like myself want to do it that much better and see why these guys are at the top of their game.”

NOTES: The Patriots have Monday off after four days of practice and return to the field Tuesday. ... Rookie QB Jimmy Garoppolo ran laps for the third straight day after messing up a play. ... Second-year WR Kenbrell Thompkins was wide open on a slant route but dropped Tom Brady’s well-placed pass. ...

Director of player personnel Nick Caserio said signing physical cornerbacks Browner and Revis doesn’t signal a change in the team’s philosophy. “We try to look at our team, try to improve our team and do what we think is in our best interest,” Caserio said.

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By HOWARD ULMAN AP Sports Writer FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The downpour began as practice was about to end for the Patriots on Sunday.

It was nothing like the conditions in Arizona where four New England defensive backs had prepared for training camp.

“You play football in whatever the weather is,” cornerback Logan Ryan said after he and his teammates scurried for shelter Sunday.

Even if it’s 110 degrees and dry.

That’s the way he remembers it when he and three teammates worked out for about two weeks in Phoenix.

“I think it rained for five minutes one time,” Ryan said. “They called it a monsoon.”

Ryan went to the Fischer Institute in Phoenix last year to hone his skills for the NFL draft combine.

The Patriots drafted him in the third round out of Rutgers and he started seven of the 16 games in which he played.

He was back in Phoenix this summer, along with other NFL players from different teams. Cornerback Darrelle Revis has done that in the past and he was joined this year by Patriots safeties Devin McCourty and Tavon Wilson along with Ryan.

It was a chance for Revis, signed

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LOCAL SUMMER SPORTS SCHEDULE BABE RUTH BASEBALL Tuesday, July 29 Monday, July 28 BABE RUTH BASEBALL 14-YEAR-OLD EASTERN REGIONALS Westfield (2-0) vs. Cranston, R.I. (2-0) Bullens Field, 7 p.m.

BABE RUTH BASEBALL 13-YEAR-OLD EASTERN REGIONALS Westfield (2-0) vs. TBD Newtown, Conn., Time TBA

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away 32-23 Baltimore 58 46 .558 — — 6-4 W-1 26-23 Toronto 56 50 .528 3 — 7-3 W-2 30-23 26-27 New York 54 50 .519 4 1 7-3 L-2 25-26 29-24 Tampa Bay 51 54 .486 7½ 4½ 9-1 L-1 24-29 27-25 22-31 Boston 48 57 .457 10½ 7½ 5-5 W-1 26-26 Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away 31-20 Detroit 57 45 .559 — — 4-6 L-3 26-25 Kansas City 53 51 .510 5 2 5-5 L-1 25-26 28-25 Cleveland 52 53 .495 6½ 3½ 4-6 W-1 29-19 23-34 24-31 Chicago 51 55 .481 8 5 6-4 L-1 27-24 Minnesota 47 57 .452 11 8 3-7 W-1 24-29 23-28 West Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away 31-22 Oakland 65 39 .625 — — 7-3 W-2 34-17 Los Angeles 63 41 .606 2 — 6-4 W-3 38-19 25-22 Seattle 54 51 .514 11½ 1½ 3-7 L-1 26-31 28-20 Houston 42 63 .400 23½ 13½ 2-8 L-5 21-31 21-32 Texas 41 64 .390 24½ 14½ 3-7 L-2 19-32 22-32 AMERICAN LEAGUE Saturday’s Games Toronto 6, N.Y. Yankees 4 Seattle 4, Baltimore 3 Tampa Bay 3, Boston 0 Chicago White Sox 7, Minnesota 0 Kansas City 7, Cleveland 5 Miami 7, Houston 3 Oakland 5, Texas 1 L.A. Angels 4, Detroit 0 Sunday’s Games Toronto 5, N.Y. Yankees 4 Boston 3, Tampa Bay 2 Minnesota 4, Chicago White Sox 3

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Washington 57 45 .559 — — 7-3 W-1 30-20 27-25 Atlanta 57 48 .543 1½ — 5-5 W-2 30-24 27-24 Miami 51 53 .490 7 5½ 7-3 W-4 28-24 23-29 New York 50 55 .476 8½ 7 5-5 W-1 25-23 25-32 Philadelphia 46 59 .438 12½ 11 4-6 W-1 22-33 24-26 Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Milwaukee 59 47 .557 — — 6-4 L-1 30-26 29-21 St. Louis 56 48 .538 2 ½ 5-5 W-2 29-23 27-25 Pittsburgh 55 49 .529 3 1½ 6-4 W-1 34-21 21-28 Cincinnati 52 52 .500 6 4½ 2-8 L-1 28-23 24-29 Chicago 42 61 .408 15½ 14 2-8 L-2 22-26 20-35 West Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Los Angeles 59 47 .557 — — 6-4 W-3 25-24 34-23 San Francisco 57 48 .543 1½ — 5-5 L-4 28-28 29-20 San Diego 46 58 .442 12 10½ 5-5 L-2 26-26 20-32 Arizona 45 60 .429 13½ 12 5-5 L-1 21-33 24-27 Colorado 43 61 .413 15 13½ 3-7 L-1 27-28 16-33

Cleveland 10, Kansas City 3 Miami 4, Houston 2 L.A. Angels 2, Detroit 1 Baltimore 3, Seattle 2, 10 innings Oakland 9, Texas 3 Monday’s Games Milwaukee (Lohse 11-4) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 6-8), 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (Dickey 8-10) at Boston (Buchholz 5-6), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Phelps 5-4) at Texas (Darvish 9-6), 8:05 p.m.

Oakland (J.Chavez 8-6) at Houston (Oberholtzer 2-7), 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games L.A. Angels (Weaver 11-6) at Baltimore (Tillman 7-5), 7:05 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 8-5) at Cleveland (Bauer 4-5), 7:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 5-7) at Detroit (An.Sanchez 7-4), 7:08 p.m.

Lost Sox ring returned by Yankees fan

By BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A lost Red Sox World Series ring is back on the finger of its owner, thanks to a nifty pickup by an ardent New York Yankees fan.

Manhattan restaurant owner Luigi Militello could hardly believe it when he found the shiny 2013 championship ring on a restroom sink at his Luke’s Bar and Grill on Thursday night.

It was the real thing, with diamonds and sapphires and rubies, set in 14-carat white gold, with the Red Sox emblem, a Boston Strong logo and an image of the team’s bearded ballplayers.

“I was like, geez, it’s big. Who would leave this here?” Militello told The Associated Press. “I’m a big Yankee fan. What are the chances of this happening?”

Drew Weber had dined at the restaurant earlier, it’s one of his favorite spots. He’s a New York businessman and also owns the Lowell Spinners, a thriving Red Sox Class A minor league team in Massachusetts.

Big league teams often reward exec-

utives throughout their organization with World Series rings. The Red Sox haven’t put a value on these pieces of jewelry — the rings they presented for winning the 2004 crown were worth about $30,000.

Weber said this was the first time he’d worn the ring outside.

“I went looking around my apartment and started having palpitations.

Sweat was pouring off my forehead,” he told the AP. “I’m looking at my finger and it’s not there.”

Hoping against hope, Weber called Luke’s after midnight. Militello answered the phone and said, yep, he had the ring.

“But this being Yankees-Red Sox, I started razzing him. I told him he wasn’t getting it so easily. I was playing with him, a lot,” Militello said.

Said Weber: “I was like, ‘Who am I dealing with?’”

They quickly put aside their rooting interests, met the next day at the restaurant, returned the ring and spent 25 minutes talking baseball.

Militello was insistent that he wouldn’t accept any money. He tried to persuade Weber to call into a local

sports radio show and disparage the Red Sox, but that didn’t work.

Instead, Weber and the Red Sox have invited Militello to make his first trip to Fenway Park for the regularseason finale on Sept. 28. That’s also scheduled to be the final game for retiring Yankees star Derek Jeter.

“Going for his send-off, that’s pretty great,” Militello said.

“He asked if he could wear his Yankees paraphernalia,” Weber said.

“I couldn’t answer him.”

Weber also is making a contribution to a charity Militello chose that helps relief efforts for Superstorm Sandy damage on Fire Island.

Militello is enjoying the benefits from his find — he posted a picture of himself wearing the ring and enjoyed telling his story, to friends and to Scott Mandel, who runs the website www. sportsreporters.com that covers sports in New York and beyond.

Weber also liked how things turned out. He met a new pal, and now feels a little wiser, too.

“The ring and Drew Weber have learned their lesson,” he said. “That ring is going on no more road trips.”

In this Friday, July 25, 2014, photo provided by Luigi Militello, New York Yankees fan Militello displays the 2013 Red Sox World Series ring he found at his New York restaurant on Thursday night. Militello returned the ring on Friday to Drew Weber, who owns one of Boston’s minor league teams.

(AP Photo/ Luigi Militello)

Milwaukee (Garza 7-7) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 6-6), 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (Stroman 6-2) at Boston (R.De La Rosa 3-3), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (McCarthy 2-0) at Texas (N.Martinez 1-6), 8:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Swarzak 2-0) at Kansas City (Shields 9-5), 8:10 p.m.

Oakland (Samardzija 2-1) at Houston (Feldman 4-8), 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Saturday’s Games St. Louis 6, Chicago Cubs 3 Cincinnati 1, Washington 0 Arizona 10, Philadelphia 6, 10 innings Miami 7, Houston 3 Milwaukee 5, N.Y. Mets 2 Atlanta 5, San Diego 3 Colorado 8, Pittsburgh 1 L.A. Dodgers 5, San Francisco 0 Sunday’s Games Washington 4, Cincinnati 2 Philadelphia 4, Arizona 2 Miami 4, Houston 2 N.Y. Mets 2, Milwaukee 0 St. Louis 1, Chicago Cubs 0 Pittsburgh 7, Colorado 5 Atlanta 8, San Diego 3 L.A. Dodgers 4, San Francisco 3 Monday’s Games San Diego (Lane 0-0) at Atlanta (E.Santana 9-6), 12:10 p.m.

Arizona (C.Anderson 6-4) at Cincinnati (Bailey 8-5), 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lohse 11-4) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 6-8), 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (A.Burnett 6-9) at N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 9-8), 7:10 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 6-5) at Miami (Eovaldi 5-6), 7:10 p.m.

Colorado (Flande 0-2) at Chicago Cubs (Wada 0-1), 8:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Worley 3-1) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 12-7), 10:15 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Arizona (Cahill 1-7) at Cincinnati (Leake 7-9), 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Garza 7-7) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 6-6), 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Hamels 5-5) at N.Y. Mets (Gee 4-3), 7:10 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 7-8) at Miami (H.Alvarez 7-5), 7:10 p.m.

Colorado (J.De La Rosa 11-6) at Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 5-11), 8:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Harang 9-6) at L.A. Dodgers (Beckett 6-5), 10:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Lynn 11-7) at San Diego (T.Ross 9-10), 10:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Liriano 2-7) at San Francisco (Hudson 8-7), 10:15 p.m.

Falcons announce eight guaranteed home dates Springfield - The Springfield Falcons announced today eight guaranteed home dates for the 2014-15 season. These dates follow the previously announced home opener, which is set for Saturday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. at the MassMutual Center.

In addition to the home opener, below are seven more guaranteed home dates. Opponents for these dates are to be determined.

Friday, Nov. 7, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 22, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 24, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 21, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.

Saturday, March 14, 7 p.m.

Saturday, March 28, 7 p.m.

The American Hockey League will release the rest of the Falcon’s 2014-15 schedule, along with opponents, next month.

Group ticket deposits are currently being accepted for these announced dates.

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The 14-Year-Old 2014 New England Regional Tournament continued Saturday evening with Westfield and Windham, Maine competing at Bullens Field. (Copyright 2014 Frederick Gore)

Offense proves to be Maine problem

By Robby Veronesi WNG Intern WESTFIELD – Construct a lineup full of offensive prowess.

Add in a number of pitchers who are capable of throwing quality start each night. Then, pack the stands of Bullens Field with screaming fans and you have the Saturday night primetime game of the 2014 Babe Ruth 14-year-old Regional Tournament.

For the second game in as many nights, the western Massachusetts champion and host team from Westfield used a first-inning offensive outburst to rally against Windham, ME, and advance to the final of the winner’s bracket with a 7-4 victory.

“For those guys to put up a three-spot in the first, which obviously gave them a lot of momentum, and for us to come back and answer was huge,” said manager John Bonini. “They came out and were swinging the bats well and it was definitely big for us to change the momentum.”

After the visitors jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead after half an inning, the hot bats of Westfield came alive early, matching Maine’s total to tie the score 3-3 after one inning. Matt Masciadrelli quickly led off the frame by singling and then advancing into scoring position before scoring on a Mitchell Longley single.

After Tyler Delgado smoked a ground-rule double, Dillon Bazegian lined a perfectly-placed single up the middle, scoring Jack Yvon and Delgado to tie the game early.

Westfield continued its threat in the second inning, thanks to three consecutive doubles by Masciadrelli, Aidan Dunn and Longley. Five different Westfield batters—Longley (2), Bazegian (2), Dunn, Delgado and Kyle Roberts—each recorded a run batted in, while nine different players recorded a hit.

“If they gave us a pitch, just hit the first pitch you see,” said Longley of the team’s mindset prior to the game. “Do what we do: that’s our motto. We know we can hit anyone that they throw and we have the confidence when we get up there to hit.”

Sam St. Jean recorded the victory on the mound for Westfield, the second straight quality outing for the host’s pitching staff. After getting off to a slow start in the first inning, St. Jean settled down and shut down Windham’s bats, allowing just two more hits while striking out six over 5 1/3 innings.

John Daley once again pitched brilliantly in relief, earning the save by throwing 1 2/3 innings of one-hit baseball.

“I think I was just too anxious in the beginning and I was thinking on that too much and just settled in,” said St. Jean.

Westfield’s Tyler Delgado, center, leaps for joy as Jack Yvon, left, slaps a high five after Delgado scored in the first inning during the 14-Year-Old 2014 Babe Ruth New England Regional Tournament against visiting Windham, Maine at Bullens Field, Saturday evening. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

“Everyone on the squad can pitch and we’ve all been contributing from the start in filling that role of ace. We’ve all had to step up and we have the confidence that we have when we hit.”

Westfield advances to Monday’s final of the winner’s bracket at 7 p.m., when they will face Cranston, the champions of Rhode Island. The Ocean State’s representative has had to fight for its pair of wins, coming from behind in both games to defeat Plymouth, Mass., 7-6 Friday and Trumbull, Conn., 6-1 Saturday.

“There’s eight teams that started the tournament and there are only two undefeated teams with two wins, us and Cranston,” said Bonini. “We’re playing in the winner’s bracket final and you expect to play good teams.

“To be the best, you have to beat the best. It’s cliché, but so be it. We’ve checked the second box and now we move on to the third one.”

Westfield’s Mitchell Longley, right, beats the tag at second base during Saturday night’s 14-Year-Old 2014 Babe Ruth New England Regional Tournament against Windham, Maine. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

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Westfield starting pitcher Sam St. Jean delivers during Saturday night’s 14-Year-Old 2014 New England Regional Tournament at Bullens Field. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

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Annie’s Mailbox

By Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar

Can you help me?

Dear Annie: When my daughter was 14, she falsely accused me of physical abuse. She is now 33 and brings up these false charges whenever she is having difficult issues in her own life.

She blames me for all of her problems. Even worse, my sister enables and promotes her negative view of me.

I want closure for all the pain she has caused my family and me.

I don’t know whether I should take legal action or whether it is simply better not to have any further contact with her.

I’ve tried my whole life to be a good person. But no matter what I do, my daughter uses our past to smear and embarrass me. Can you help me? -- Mother in Iowa Dear Iowa: Have you ever gone for counseling so your daughter could express why she accused you of abuse and you could work through it together? Even though you say the charges are false, she may believe differently, and this needs to be addressed.

And if she is simply trying to ruin your reputation, that, too, deserves an airing so you can find out why she is holding on to such animosity. If she rebuffs your attempts at reconciliation and refuses counseling, we agree that ending contact may be the best way to regain your equilibrium.

Dear Annie: This is an open letter to all stepchildren with an impending wedding.

Dear Children of Divorced Parents: I worked in divorce law for many years. When it comes to wedding planning, you have one of two choices: You can choose to honor and include both parents appropriately, or you can choose to honor an angry parent and exclude half of your family.

If you select the former, then you receive all the benefits of having both parents and families. If you choose the latter and use the wedding to injure the other parent on behalf of the angry parent, you should not expect any fruits from that excluded family.

Understand that your decision probably will determine the attitude of the other parent, and you will not have the right to expect generosity and cooperation from the excluded parent.

It might help to keep in mind that a parent whose relationship with you requires that you marginalize the other parent is not showing love. He or she is showing selfishness. It does not help your marriage or your future children.

Please get counseling to help you set standards so that an angry parent does not ensure your wedding revolves around his or her failed relationship. -- Observant Dear Observant: You have written wise words for future brides and grooms. Sometimes there are legitimate reasons to distance oneself from a parent (abuse, for example), but in too many instances, it is one parent’s petty revenge upon the other.

This is a sad way for young couples to start a new marriage.

Dear Annie: A while back, you printed a letter from “Sad in Kansas,” whose younger brother claimed the family home as compensation for time spent caring for the folks.

I have four sons. One lives near me and is always helping out, whether it’s fixing the computer or making a house repair. When I die, he will inherit the house. My other three sons have been advised of the transfer and the reasons for it. They have been understanding and supportive of that decision. -- Phyllis Dear Phyllis: We agree that children who take on the majority of care for their parents should be compensated in some fashion.

You wisely discussed these arrangements in advance, so there will be no unpleasant surprises and consequent sibling resentments.

To all of our Muslim readers: Happy Eid. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, July 28, 2014: This year could be spectacular if you can resist getting into petty quarrels. You have a new beginning in some area of your life, as you are beginning a new life and luck cycle. If you are single, you are unusually magnetic, and others notice this quality. You could be overwhelmed by your choices. Consider what type of relationship you want. If you are attached, you seem far more dominant than usual. Remember, a relationship is 50-50; include your sweetie in your life more. CAPRICORN can be a stick in the mud.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Your efforts to come to an agreement with someone could fizzle.

You are likely to pick up on some rigidity from this person. You might question whether you want to deal with him or her much longer. The question is: Do you enjoy the challenge? Tonight: Tap into your imagination.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Being stubborn, as you tend to be, might not get you the results you want. A change on a very basic, anchored level will be important to you. How you communicate this need might make or break the possibility of having an agreement here. Tonight: Stay home.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Make and return calls immediately. You don’t want a last-minute misunderstanding to affect your schedule, do you? Honor a change in how you feel about a financial matter. You could pull out if the other party involved is touchy or difficult. Tonight: Visit with a friend.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH You will be the source of your own stress, and you might not be sure how to handle a money matter. You are naturally giving and caring. Someone could be manipulative and difficult. Do your best to avoid getting into a power play. Tonight: Get some shopping done.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Your magnetism peaks, and you will be at ease no matter what you encounter. Know that there could be more going on behind the scenes. Opt to say little, and watch what unfolds. The situation likely revolves around a manipulative person. Tonight: Whatever feels right.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH A friend might mean well, but he or she could add an element of confusion. You need to tap into your ingenuity to bypass a problem. A loved one might be prone to throwing a tantrum. Know that this, too, will pass. Tonight: Go where your friends are.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You could feel as if you don’t have the control you want. Recognize that you are the only person you can control. Look around, and you’ll see that you have many supporters. Just relax.

Don’t let someone’s demands get the best of you. Tonight: Catch up on a pal’s news.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Tension builds when dealing with an older friend, relative or boss.

You might have little say in this situation, and you’ll find it to be frustrating.

Rather than cause a problem or close down as you typically might, just go along with the program. Tonight: Don’t get too mischievous.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You’ll want a mellow day, but you could discover that you’re in the midst of a financial power play. Someone might not honor your boundaries. You’ll need to hold your ground and communicate that this person has gone too far.

Tonight: Watch a favorite movie.

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In this June 30, 2014 photo, Ken Elliott searches for gold in the cold waters of the east branch of Glenn Brook in Leyden. Elliott, 78, has scoured the local creeks for gold for decades, and hopes to teach the craft to others. (AP Photo/ Greenfield Recorder, David Rainville)

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In this June 30, 2014 photo, Ken Elliott shows his largest find, a 17-pennyweight gold nugget he found in Couch Brook between Leyden and Bernardston, years ago. Elliott, 78, has scoured the local creeks for gold for decades and hopes to teach the craft to others. (AP Photo/Greenfield Recorder, David Rainville)

In this June 30, 2014 photo, Ken Elliott loosens a panful of silt with his fingers to make it easier to separate the dirt from any gold it may hide, while standing in the cold waters of the east branch of Glenn Brook in Leyden. Elliott, 78, has scoured the local creeks for gold for decades, and hopes to teach the craft to others. (AP Photo/Greenfield Recorder, David Rainville)

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By DAVID RAINVILLE Greenfield Recorder LEYDEN (AP) — A local man has scoured the county’s creeks for gold for decades — and hopes to teach the craft to others.

Kenneth Elliot, 78, says he picked up his first prospector’s pan after watching a program by the Gold Prospectors Association of America 20 years ago.

“They made it look easy, like you’d find gold every time,” he said. “So, I went out to the brook and took something that looked like a prospector’s pan — it was my dog dish!

“Once I found my first bit of gold, I was hooked.” Hooked may be the perfect word for it. Elliott’s doctors have told him time and again to give up the hobby, but he won’t.

“I’ve had 13 strokes and three bouts of lymphoma,” he said. “My family worries, but if I have a stroke while I’m out prospecting, that’s OK with me.” He’s also had both his knee joints replaced and wears thick contractor’s kneepads to protect them. He really gets into his work, wading up to his artificial knees and beyond to get at the “gold pockets” that collect in the stream’s eddies.

Naturally, he’s learned quite a bit since he got his start. “I didn’t know what the heck I was doing back then, but I picked up a few tricks over the years.” He’s started to pass those tricks of the trade on to others. Elliott offers two-hour prospecting tours, and for $40 you can get some hands-on experience, a prospector’s pan and other supplies to keep.

You can also take home whatever gold you find on the tour.

Elliott has amassed a collection of prospecting tools since his dog-dish days, and sells some of the more basic supplies to others with

gold rush fever. His homemade “gold sucker” pumps up water, silt and rock, which he squirts through sieve-like “classifiers” that keep larger rocks out of his prospecting pan. Sometimes he’ll use a sluice — a box with riffles in the bottom — to trap heavy bits of gold while silt washes away. His biggest find is a 17-pennyweight gold nugget, weighing nearly 1 troy ounce. He found it less than two miles from his house, in Couch Brook near the BernardstonLeyden line. He said he once collected about a half-ounce of smaller gold flakes in one trip.

Finds like that, however, are a rarity.

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Harmony House fundraiser WESTFIELD - There will be a fundraiser for Harmony House, a future home for the terminally ill, on Monday, July 28, from 4-9 p.m. at MoFroYo, 617 East Main St, (Rt 20) in Westfield. Besides enjoying the flavorful yogurt and toppings, we will also have a few raffles. Please come and join the Fun!

Living in Space SOUTHWICK - Discover what it is like to live and work in space. Investigate the conditions in space and what a human needs to survive. Teens (Grades 7th-12th) are invited to signup for the “Living in Space” workshop presented by the Connecticut Science Center at the Southwick Public Library on Tuesday, July 29 at 1:30 p.m. To register, please call 5691221 ext. 3 or register at the Reference Desk when visiting the library. This program is funded with a grant from the Southwick Cultural Council.

Adult & Teen Swords Through the Ages Program at Southwick Public Library SOUTHWICK - Learn about Swords Through the Ages with Jeff Lord and Jeff Goodhind of the Association for Renaissance and Medieval Swordsmanship at the Southwick Public Library on Wednesday, July 30 at 6:30 p.m. Jeff and Jeff bring different types of swords, demonstrate swordplay techniques, and show PowerPoint slides of swordsmanship manuals from the Renaissance. This is a fun and interactive program. This program is free and will be held in the library’s Community Room. Funding for this program is provided by the Friends of the Southwick Public Library

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The Friends of the Library and the Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly of Westfield have teamed up to sponsor these free workshops from 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in the library’s Community Room on Thursdays beginning August 7, followed by August 21 and 28 and September 4. Patrons of the library in good standing may register at the library or phone 569-1221. Participants should plan on attending all four sessions, and should register early as space is limited. The sessions will begin with a recap of last summer’s senior computing classes and proceed from there.

Instructor Shirley A. Keech will bring an 8-station mobile mini lab for the onsite training. Patrons with their own laptops are encouraged to bring them to learn on. With over 20 years experience in adult education and online research, Keech was formerly with the Western MA Regional Library System, and is now an independent consultant specializing in online education for adults.

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DELREO HOME IMPROVEMENT for all your exterior home improvement needs. Roofing, siding, windows, decks and gutters. Call for free quote.

Extensive references, fully licensed & insured in MA. & CT. www.delreohomeimprovement.com Call Gary A NEW LOOK FOR 2014. Let Home Decor help. Interior painting and wallDelcamp (413)569-3733. papering, specializing in faux finishes.

Servicing the area over 12 years. Call Kendra now for a free estimate and decorating advice. (413)564-0223, TOM DISANTO Home Improvements (413)626-8880.

The best choice for all interior and exterior building and remodeling. Specializing in the design and building of residential additions, since 1985. Kitchens, baths, FRESH START PAINTING. Certified siding, windows, decks, porches, sun- lead renovator. Interior/exterior paintrooms, garages. License #069144. MA ing. Power washing. Wallpapering. 30 Reg. #110710. FREE ESTIMATES, years + experience. Charlie (413)313REFERENCES, FULLY INSURED. Call 8084.

Tom (413)568-7036.

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Landscaping/Lawn Care YARD CLEANUP, thatching, leaf brush removal, hedge/tree trimming, mulch/stone, mowing. Call Accurate Lawncare, (413)579-1639.

WESTFIELD 1 BEDROOM. Kitchen and bath. No pets. $650/month includes utilities.

First, last, security. (413)2504811.

WESTFIELD 1&2 bedroom apartments, rent includes heat and hot water. Excellent size and location. No dogs. Call weekdays (413)786-9884.

WESTFIELD, BROAD STREET. 3 room, 1 bedroom carriage house apartment. On site parking, washer/dryer hookups. Storage. $725/month. (413)5622295.

0345 Rooms ROOM FOR RENT in Southwick. Kitchen and laundry privileges. Desirable neighborhood.

Call (413-636-4346.

0370 Office Space WESTFIELD 82 BROAD STREET. 850sq.ft. 4 room office suite available. Utilities included. Call (413)562-2295.

Masonry ABC MASONRY & BASEMENT WATERPROOFING. All brick, block, concrete. Chimneys, foundations, hatchways, new basement windows installed and repaired. Sump pumps and french drain systems installed. Foundations pointed and stuccoed. Free estimates. (413)5691611. (413)374-5377.

Plumbing & Heating NICK GARDNER PLUMBING, WELDING & MECHANICAL SERVICES. Professional, reliable service.

MA Lic. #PL31893-J. Certified Welding. Insured. Call (413)531-2768 Nick7419@comcast.net

Tractor Services

JIM'S TRACTOR SERVICES. Grading & leveling of driveways & short roads, trap rock Landscaping/Lawn Care and/or gravel material. Mowing and maintenance of fields and lawns. Post hole digging.

J.D. BERRY CONTRACTING. A SPRING CLEANUP. Commercial, Loader work & loam spread. (413)569-6920, Garages, additions, windows, doors, residential. Weekly mowing and main- (413)530-5430. decks, vinyl siding and more. tenance, tree removal, dethatching, mulch, gutter cleaning, etc. Shea Land#CS077728. Call Jim, (413)569-6920, scaping, (413)569-2909.

(413) 530-5430

CORMIER LANDSCAPING. Spring cleanups, lawn service, mulching, PAUL MAYNARD CONSTRUCTION. retaining walls, excavating, decks, All your carpentry needs. (413)386- driveways, patios, tree work, stone 4606. Did your windows fail with the work. Call (413)822-0739. cold weather? Don't wait another year!

Call Paul for replacement windows.

Drywall Many new features available. Windows LAWN MOWING, Spring/Fall cleanups, Home Improvement are built in CT. All windows installed by hedge trimming and all your landscaping T-BEST DRYWALL. Complete professional drywall at amateur prices. Our A.B.C. - CARPENTER/Builder 18 years Paul, owner of Paul Maynard Con- needs. Also, bobcat & snowplowing services. (413)626-6122 or visit: ceilings are tops! Call Mike 413-821- experience. Licensed and insured. struction. My name is on my work. www.haggerscape.com Restorations, decks, roofing, garages, 8971. Free estimates. additions. Free estimates, 10% senior discount. Call Dave, (413) 568-6440.

POEHLMAN ELECTRIC. All types of Home Maintenance PLUMLEY LANDSCAPE, INC. Call us wiring. Free estimates, insured. SPEtoday for all your landscape needs.

Landscape design and planting, irrigaCIALIZING IN PORTABLE AND BRUNO ANTICO BUILDING RE- JOSEPH’S HANDYMAN COMPANY. tion installation and repair, and complete WHOLE HOUSE KOHLER GENERA- MODELING.Kitchens, additions, Carpentry, remodeling, kitchen, baths, yard renovations. Drainage problems, TORS, SERVICE UPGRADES, decks, rec rooms, more. Prompt, re- basements, drywall, tile, floors, sus- stump grinding, chipper service, bobcat SMALL JOBS, POOLS. Gutter deic- liable service, free estimates. Mass pended ceilings, restoration services, service, gravel driveways, excavation ing cables installed. I answer all Registered #106263, licensed & in- doors, windows, decks, stairs, and demolition, including getting rid of interior/exterior painting, plumbing. that unwanted pool. (413)862-4749. calls! Prompt service, best prices. sured. Call Bruno, (413)562-9561.

Small jobs ok. All types of professional Lic. #A-16886. (413)562-5816. work done since 1985. Call Joe, (413)364-7038.

T&S LANDSCAPING. Highest quality, JIM FERRIS ELECTRIC. Senior dis- C&N CARPENTRY. Suspended ceillowest prices. Lawn mowing. Residenings, home improvements and remodtial\commercial. No lawns to small. count. No job too small! Insured, Weekly, biweekly. (413)330-3917. free estimates. 40 years experience. eling. Licensed and insured. Call (413)262-9314.

Lic. #16303. Call (413)330-3682. less steel caps and liner systems. Inspections, masonry work and gutter A DUMP TRUCK. Attic, cellars, yard, cleaning. Free estimates. Insured. scrap metal removal. Seasoned FireQuality work from a business you can wood. (413)569-1611, (413)374-5377. trust. (413)848-0100, 1-800-793-3706.

WESTBRIDGE MANOR TOWNHOUSES, 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, full basement, washer/dryer hookup. $800/month plus utilities. (413)562-2295.

BEAUTIFUL 2 BEDROOM TOWNHOUSE in Westfield, clean, quiet, 1-1/2 bath, carpeting, appliances, hot water included. Very reasonable heat cost. Sorry no pets. Call for more information (860)4851216. Equal Housing Opportunity.

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Tree Service

A BETTER OPTION - GRANFIELD TREE SERVICE. Tree Removal, Land Clearing, Excavating. Firewood, Log Truck Loads. (413)569-6104.

AMERICAN TREE & SHRUB. Professional fertilizing, planting, pruning, cabling and removals. Free estimates, fully insured. Please call Ken 5690469.

CONRAD TREE SERVICE. Expert tree removal. Prompt estimates.

Crane work. Insured. “After 34 years, we still work hard at being #1.” (413)562-3395.

Upholstery KEITH'S UPHOLSTERY & REPAIRS. 30+ years experience for home or business. Discount off all fabrics. Get quality workmanship at a great price. Free pickup and delivery. Call (413)5626639.

0375 Business Property MONTGOMERY 5 miles from Westfield. Spacious office includes utilities and WiFi. $350/month. Call (413)9776277.

0390 Homes For Sale WESTFIELD: HIGHLAND AVE. 8 Room Colonial home. New gas heating system, 3 car garage, adjacent lot. Call 413-5317277 or 413-237-0767.

0391 Open Houses OPEN HOUSE: FOR SALE BY OWNER. Westfield, 53 Spruce Street. Sunday, August 3rd, 13pm. Charming 3 bedroom home. Walk to Stanley Park or WSU. Move-in ready. $211,900. 413-568-2254

0410 Mobile Homes WESTFIELD: 58 Heritage Park.

Fixer-upper. Cozy 1 Bedroom, Shingle Roof, Shed, Carport, Large Yard and Driveway. Lowest in park. $8,000 DASAP (413)593-9962. dasap.mhvil lage.com

0430 Condos For Sale STONEY HILL CONDO, Westfield - Ranch with garage, deck, full basement. 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths, laundry room on first floor. Lovely private grounds, pool, golf. Call (413)977-9658 or (413)301-2314.

0440 Services A1 ODD JOBS/HANDYMAN. Debris removal, landscaping, spring yard cleanup, interior and exterior painting, power washing, basic carpentry and plumbing. All types of repair work and more. (413)562-7462.

JIM'S TRACTOR SERVICES. Grading & leveling of driveways & short roads, trap rock and/or gravel material. Mowing & maintenance of fields and lawn maintenance. Post hole digging.

Loader work & loam spread.

(413)569-6920, (413)530-5430.