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Legendary matchup renewed
City preps for frigid forecast
By Carl E. Hartdegen Staff Writer WESTFIELD – The Westfield firefighters will again tangle with legends of the Boston Bruins and the public will be invited to support them as they raise funds for their charitable efforts. Ray Neilsen, the event coordinator for the Local No. 1111 of the International Brotherhood of Firefighters event, said recently that the annual hockey game between a team chosen to represent the city’s firefighters and the Black and Gold Legends, a team comprised of former members of the Boston Bruins, will be a fundraising event for the ‘Save-a-life” account of the union. That account is used by the local firefighters to fulfill many of the requests for assistance the union gets from community groups including both youth sports leagues and other civic groups. Neilsen said that the firefighters have been asked for help by numerous groups in the city for many years and have provided it. “We’ve been giving money away for years” he said. “It started way before I did and I’ve been a firefighter for 27 years.” Neilsen said that, starting on Sunday, professional solicitors will be calling local residents and businesses seeking donations for the fundraiser. He said that every year some residents who are contacted express concerns that See Legendary, Page 7
Dmitriy Stepanchuk, of Westfield, performs a backflip on his snowboard at Westfield VocationalTechnical High School yesterday. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
By Peter Francis Staff Writer WESTFIELD - As the New Year Nor’Easter passed us by, many city residents stoked their fires, turned up the thermostat, and nestled in for a long winter’s nap last night. A wind chill warning was in effect until early this morning, and the temperature was set to dip well below zero during the evening hours for the rest of the weekend, putting all who are exposed to elements at risk. “As we enter the time of year when we can expect extremely low temperatures and wind chills, we all must take precautions to minimize the dangers presented by such severe weather,” said Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) Director Kurt Schwartz. According to MEMA, excessive exposure to extreme temperatures can lead to frostbite, a condition which damages body tissue that is frozen. Frostbite causes a loss of feeling and a pale appearance in extremities, such as fingers, toes, earlobes or the tip of the nose. If symptoms are detected, seek medical help immediately. In extreme cases, hypothermia can also occur. Warning signs for this condition are uncontrollable shivering, memory loss, disorientation, incoherence, slurred speech, drowsiness and apparent exhaustion. MEMA also advises that if a person’s temperature drops below 95 degrees, they must seek immediate medical care. The organization is also informing residents to monitor local weather reports, keep outdoor activities to minimum, to keep a well-stocked Winter Home Emergency Supply Kit See Frigid Forecast, Page 7
Board of Selectmen OK pole placement A member of the Westfield Fire Department team, foreground, lines up for the pass as a host of former Boston Bruins players, background, move in during last year’s game. (File photo by Frederick Gore)
By Hope E. Tremblay Staff Writer SOUTHWICK – The Board of Selectmen approved a new utility pole on Coes Hill Road with the blessing of property owner Richard Battistoni. Jerry Molongoski of Western Massachusetts Electric Company and Battistoni both attended a pole hearing this week after working together on placement. The pole will be located westerly of College Highway on the south side of Coes Hill Road. The pole was originally proposed for the northern side of Coes Hill Road, which was not favorable to Battistoni, who owns property on both sides of the street. At the October pole hearing, Battistoni said placing it on the north
side of Coes Hill Road would be a problem at his business, Interstate Building Supply. “I don’t want a pole right in front of my building,” he said. “It’s right where I plow snow and right where the town plows snow. “ Battistoni called the pole positioning the “cheap way” to upgrade service. Selectmen favored Battistoni’s concerns and asked WMECO to go back to the drawing board. Battistoni gave an easement so the pole could be positioned on the south side of the street. Molongoski said this week that both Battistoni and town engineer Richard Grannells reviewed the new plans. “It’s been staked out and it’s fine with me,” said Battistoni. The board unanimously approved the pole placement.
New high school equivalency exam coming By Peter Francis Staff Writer WESTFIELD — State education officials are phasing out the old GED test in favor a new high school equivalency exam. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in Malden says it has selected the Educational Testing Service to administer the new exam in Massachusetts. The new series of exams will replace the General Education Development assessment, which is no longer being offered by the GED Testing Service. State Education Commissioner
Mitchell Chester said the ETS is “an experienced testing company that will deliver a high quality exam.” The new exam, which will simply be called HiSET, will continue to measure whether adult learners and out-of-school youth qualify for the Massachusetts High School Equivalency Certificate. According to guidelines, adults who are 18 years old and older may only take the high school equivalency test if they have not previously received a high school diploma, 16 and 17-year-olds may take the test only if they are no longer
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enrolled in school. The Westfield Community Education program has been in operation for five years, and graduated 24 GED students in June. The WCE program has helped over over 100 students earn their GED diplomas over the past five years, and pupils have a successful rate of completion, around 80 percent. Those who have been involved with the WCE since it’s infancy worry about where the state’s new testing will take the program. “It’s just going to be a difficult scenario and a difficult process,”
said Ann Lentini, director of Domus Inc., an organization which offers affordable housing to low and moderate income families, the homeless, and the mentally and physically disabled in nine housing buildings around the city. “There’s no indication of the cost or form, but we do know it’s going to be more expensive.” Lentini said that the next round of the organization’s former-GED, now HiSET, prep courses have a registration date of January 14, but even though classes are set to begin the next week on January 21, she believes the materials for the new
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course are going to be hard to come by. “It’s going to take more time to learn,” Lentini said. “There are still so many unanswered questions. I don’t know why they switched (tests). Everyone is just waiting to see what they’re supposed to be doing.” Regarding what her program will be doing later this month, the Domus Inc. Director borrowed an apt metaphor for the frigid temperatures outside Friday. “We’re just going to plow ahead,” she said. “We have no choice.”
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WESTFIELD– The Division of Graduate and Continuing Education will be offering Boating Safety on Tuesday nights, February 4 to April 8, 2014, from 7:00 to 9:15 p.m. Taught by qualified U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary instructor, Bob Madison, this course includes information on boat construction, life jackets, trailer handling, boat handling, the waterway marking system, reading buoys, day markers, lights, rules you must follow, inland boating, introduction to navigation, charts, chart tools boat motors, lines and knots, basic weather, and your boat radio. This course is suitable for beginners as well as for serious boaters and satisfies all states requirements for licensing. A certificate will be issued after passing the final exam. This course is designed for adults, as well as for children as young as 7th grade. The required book ($35) will be available from the instructor on the first night of class. The cost of this course is $25 for community members. Registration will be accepted until the first night of class. For information and to register, contact Brandon Fredette at (413) 572-8033 or bfredette@ westfield.ma.edu or visit www.westfield.ma.edu/ neighbors/community-education.
Terry Busiere, of Westfield, attempts to stay warm during her daily one-hour walk around the Western Avenue section of the city Friday. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
Civil War Hit Parade SOUTHWICK - The Southwick Historical Society will host” Civil War Hit Parade” On Thursday, January 23, at 12:30 p.m. This special concert will feature historical stories and songs from the Civil War. Mr. Richard Spencer will be our guest presenter. Please note that the concert will be held at the Southwick Town Hall Auditorium at 434 College Hwy in Southwick. All are welcome to join us for this entertaining afternoon concert.
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Politician resigns in Klingon INDIAN TRAIL, N.C. (AP) — Call it a politician boldly going where no one has gone before. On Thursday, David Waddell used the Klingon language to write his letter of resignation from the Indian Trail Town Council in North Carolina. Waddell says he opted to use Klingon, the language of a warrior race on the “Star Trek” TV shows and movies, as an inside joke. Mayor Michael Alvarez is calling the letter unprofessional. Waddell says he is resigning at the end of this month. His four-year term expires in December 2015. Waddell says he also needs to devote time to mounting a write-in campaign on the Constitution Party’s platform against U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan.
Police chief befuddled by ‘fool’ in bear suit GLENSHAW, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania police chief is befuddled by someone who foolishly jumped in front of a car while wearing a bear costume during a snow storm. Shaler Township Chief Bryan Kelly tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://bit. ly/1kh03nJ ) that nobody was hurt during the stunt, which occurred about 1:30 a.m. Friday in this suburb about five miles east of Pittsburgh. Kelly says the bear-suited person jumped in front of the car at an intersection, then ran down an alley. Police showed up to investigate, but couldn’t track the suspect. The area received about four inches of snow overnight, which only made the prank more dangerous. The chief says he could understand the incident a little better “if it was April. ... I could see it as an April Fool’s thing.”
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Saturday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2014. There are 361 days left in the year.
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n Jan. 4, 1964, Pope Paul VI began a visit to the Holy Land, the first papal pilgrimage of its kind.
On this date:
In 1821, the first native-born American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, died in Emmitsburg, Md. In 1896, Utah was admitted as the 45th state. In 1904, the Supreme Court, in Gonzalez v. Williams, ruled that Puerto Ricans were not aliens and could enter the United States freely; however, the court stopped short of declaring them U.S. citizens. (Puerto Ricans received U.S. citizenship in 1917.) In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, called for legislation to provide assistance for the jobless, elderly, impoverished children and the handicapped.
bile accident in Villeblevin, France, at age 46. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his State of the Union address in which he outlined the goals of his “Great Society.” In 1974, President Richard Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. In 1989, in an incident reminiscent of a 1981 confrontation, two U.S. Navy F-14 fighters shot down a pair of Libyan MiG-23 fighters in a clash over international waters off the Libyan coast. In 2007, Nancy Pelosi was elected the first female speaker of the House as Democrats took control of Congress.
Ten years ago:
In 1944, Ralph Bunche became the first African-American officer at the State Department as he was appointed to a post in the Near East and African Section.
In Iowa, seven of the nine Democratic presidential hopefuls participated in a feisty, first debate of the election year. Afghans approved a new constitution. Georgians overwhelmingly elected Mikhail Saakashvili president, two months after he’d led protests that forced Eduard Shevardnadze to step down. Louisiana State University won college football’s Sugar Bowl, defeating Oklahoma 21-14.
In 1951, during the Korean War, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces recaptured the city of Seoul (sohl). In 1960, author and philosopher Albert Camus died in an automo-
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson announced he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama’s commerce
In 1943, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin appeared on the cover of Time as the magazine’s 1942 “Man of the Year.”
Five years ago:
secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of his political donors had won a lucrative state contract. (Prosecutors later declined to bring charges against Richardson.) A female suicide bomber struck Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, killing 38.
One year ago:
The new Congress passed a $9.7 billion bill to help pay flood insurance claims to homeowners, renters and businesses damaged by Superstorm Sandy. No. 10 Texas A&M beat No. 12 Oklahoma, 41-13, in the Cotton Bowl.
Today’s Birthdays:
Actress Barbara Rush is 87. Football Hall-of-Fame coach Don Shula is 84. Opera singer Grace Bumbry is 77. Actress Dyan Cannon is 75. Author-historian Doris Kearns Goodwin is 71. Country singer Kathy Forester (The Forester Sisters) is 59. Actress Ann Magnuson is 58. Rock musician Bernard Sumner (New Order, Joy Division) is 58. Country singer Patty Loveless is 57. Rock singer Michael Stipe is 54. Actor Patrick Cassidy is 52. Actor Dave Foley is 51. Actress Dot Jones (TV: “Glee”) is 50. Actor Rick Hearst is 49. Singer-musician Cait O’Riordan is 49. Actress Julia Ormond is 49. Tennis player Guy Forget (ghee fohr-ZHAY’) is 49. Country singer Deana Carter is 48. Rock musician Benjamin Darvill (Crash Test Dummies) is 47. Actor Jeremy Licht is 43. Actress-singer Jill Marie Jones is 39. Alt-country singer Justin Townes Earle is 32. Christian rock singer Spencer Chamberlain (Underoath) is 31. Actress Lenora Crichlow (TV: “Back in the Game” ‘’Being Human”) is 29. Comedian-actress Charlyne Yi is 28. Actress-singer Coco Jones (TV: “So Random” ‘’Good Luck Charlie”) is 16.
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it did (almost 18 months ago) on the heels of the I have had the pleasure during the last few Superior Court’s decision to place an injunction months of reviewing the paperwork and files to halt construction? It is unconscionable that of former City Councilor Barbara Swords. this mess has to be the view of these neighbors. The value of these records is incredible and They suffer with this each and every day and provides an insight into Barbara’s committhat is one darn shame. ments to the environment, our city’s history, The challenge that the city faces with the and to the constituent services she provided. school construction dates back to our council Among her files is detail of the origins of the vote of August 18, 2011. That evening the councity’s bike trail. Barbara worked with a great cil had before it a motion to vote for the transfer team including municipal departments, of the Cross Street playground property from the local, regional and federal agencies, private Park and Rec Department to the Westfield businesses and individuals to help with this School Department. We did vote for this transfer undertaking. It is so enlightening to see the (the Park and Rec Commission had voted to early planning of these folks as they laid the approve the transfer just prior to this meeting). groundwork for the current infrastructure, What both this commission and the council did and the objectives of the Westfield Open not know at the time was that this land was proSpace Subcommittee as they developed the pedestrian/bicycle trail plan included aquifer MARY L. O’CONNELL tected land (under Article 97) and needed prior approval for transfer from both the EOEA protection, riverfront access, preservation and protection of natural resources, land banking, and the creation (Executive Office of Environmental Affairs) and the National of open passive recreation land, among other concerns. The Park Service. The really regrettable thing about this vote is current participants in the Columbia Greenway Trail have suc- that we were urged to suspend our rules of council to vote on cessfully built upon this early foundation and I know that this matter under immediate consideration. Barbara would be very proud. The New Year always provides an opportunity for review Barbara is no longer with us but from the items and records and reflection. The City of Westfield has undergone much she saved we gain insight into how she would have felt about change in 2013. With the infrastructure modifications comes a some current projects. One objective she supported was farm- price tag. It is my opinion, derived from phone calls and land preservation. That is why I would draw a conclusion that emails, that residents, while appreciating some of the strucshe would be unhappy with the possibility of the dissolution tural alterations in our city, are concerned with the costs. of the Wielgus farm (on Main Street) as a substitution for the Along with a look back it is also a time for a review of what playing fields destroyed on Cross Street. is in our future for the next 12 months. We have a decidedly To paraphrase Mark Twain, the news of the approval of the new council with six new members joining our seven veterans. Ashley Street School’s construction go ahead approval by the It will be interesting to see what the focus of this new council federal government has been greatly exaggerated. (Westfield will entail. It is my fervent wish and hope that we will be a News 12/5/13). In order for this project to go forth, alternate fiscally conservative group. I intend to be cautious as we move land must be acquired (and Mrs. Wielgus is certainly not in a forward in 2014. Best wishes to all for a Very Happy and Healthy New negotiating mood at the moment), the City must take the Year. replacement land by eminent domain by a 2/3 majority vote, Mary O’Connell the State Legislature must approve the replacement, the Ward Four City Councilor injunction by the Honorable Tina Page must be lifted, the con———— tractor has to re-enter the picture, and a few other matters must Disclaimer: The views expressed in this column be cleared up prior to the start of this construction. It is are those of the author and not the staff, editor, anguishing to drive down Cross Street and to view the mess or publisher of the Westfield News. that is there. Why did the demolition proceed at the rapid rate
North Adams autistic boy is generous to the needy By EDWARD DAMON North Adams Transcript NORTH ADAMS, Mass. (AP) — Nine-year-old Andrew Daniels can tell you anything about the U.S. presidents and has a wide collection of suits. His motto? “Never give up. No matter what.” Andrew who lives with his grandparents, Marcia and Mark Brown, has autism. The third grader, who attends Sullivan Elementary School, has overcome many obstacles, they say. “Teachers are amazed,” Marcia Brown said. “He’s missed one day of school because he was sick. He’s getting As and Bs.” Mark Brown explained he wants to give Andrew a wider view of the world through trips across country. The two set a goal to raise $500 to various organizations and charities at the beginning of the year. “We want to teach him to be the best he can in the community and to be an active participant,” Mark Brown said. “If everyone did a little more, the community would be a better place.” They exceeded that goal, donating close to $800. Much of that went to Cub Scouts Troops 35 and 38. Andrew has also donated $30.50 to the Friendship Center Food Pantry and $30 to the Salvation Army, and bought lunch for local police, fire and ambulance workers. He is also active in the First Baptist Church of North Adams. Mark Brown remembers watching news coverage of the earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010. He wanted to test where Andrew’s heart was, he said. He gave Andrew a choice — to use $50 he had saved to buy coins for his coin collection, or send the $50 to the earthquake relief efforts. Andrew chose the Haiti. “All he kept saying was, ‘Food and medicine, food and medicine,’” Mark said. “I said, they’re taking calls right now, and asked him if he wanted to call. He was a little scared, but he talked on the phone and sent his $50.” A bookcase in the corner of the family’s living room holds 22 photo albums, containing photos from trips to all of the state’s he’s visited. Ten are from his two years in the Cub Scouts. One album documents the family’s
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Government Meetings NEXT SCHEDULED MEETINGs
MONDAY, JANUARY 6 WESTFIELD
Westfield City Council inauguration South Middle School, 9:30 a.m. Westfield City Council meeting, City Council Chambers, Room 207, Municipal Bldg., 7 p.m.
SOUTHWICK Southwick Board of Assessors, Assessors’ Office, 3:30 p.m. Southwick Historical Commission, Conference Room 1, 7 p.m. Southwick Conservation Commission, Land Use Hearing Room, 7 p.m. Southwick Sewer Implementation Committee, Conference Room 1, 7 p.m.
GRANVILLE Monday Night Meetings in Town Hall 7pm-8:30pm Planning Board Tolland: Men’s Coffee at PSC Building at 7:45 am Board of Selectmen at 5 pm
TUESDAY, JANUARY 7 WESTFIELD Barnes Aquifer Protection Advisory Committee at 3:30 pm Planning Board at 7 pm
GRANVILLE Cultural Council at 7 pm Fire at 7 pm EMTs at 7 pm
SOUTHWICK Southwick School Committee meeting at 5 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 HUNTINGTON Planning Board
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 TOLLAND Ladies Aid at 7 pm
MONDAY, JANUARY 13 WESTFIELD Westfield School Committee on City Hall, 59 Court Street at 7 p.m.
SOUTHWICK Southwick Selectmen meeting Selectmen’s Conference Room, at 7 p.m.
GRANVILLE Monday Night Meetings in Town Hall 7pm-8:30pm
TOLLAND Men’s Coffee at PSC Building at 7:45 am Council on Aging Meeting at 9 am Board of Selectmen at 5 am In this July 2008 file photo provided by his mother Daisy Colon, Giovanni ColonGonzalez sits on the lap of his father Ernesto Gonzalez Jr., at a restaurant in Lynn, Mass. Mass. Judge John Lu dismissed charges Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 against Gonzalez, accused of kidnapping his 5-year-old son in 2008 and lying to investigators about the boy’s disappearance. The boy has never been found. (AP Photo/Daisy
CHESTER Selectmen at 6 pm
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trip to San Francisco, Calif., in 2011, where Andrew witnessed the city’s homeless problem. “He got really scared when he saw someone lying on the ground,” Marcia Brown said. Andrew took out his wallet, they said, and handed dollar bills to any homeless person he saw. He did the same thing during a trip to Washington, D.C. “I feel sick to my stomach,” Andrew said when asked how he felt seeing homeless individuals sleeping on the sidewalk. During a recent tour of the south, the family visited Moore, Okla., which was devastated by an EF5 tornado in May.
IN BRIEF
Developmental Screening at Fort Meadow Early Childhood Center for Peer Partners WESTFIELD - Families who live in Westfield and are interested in having their preschoolers attend Fort Meadow are invited to attend a developmental screening. The screenings will be held for children who are 3-5 years of age. Children will be chosen by lottery to fill current classroom openings and classes for the 2014-2015 school year. Currently Fort Meadow charges tuition for our high quality 4 and 5 day programs. Screening date will be January 10, 2014. Please call 572-6422 for a screening appointment.
Westfield DPW Notice The Public Works Department will start picking up Christmas trees on Monday, January 6, 2014. It will be picked up on the same day as your regular refuse collection, so please have it by your tree belt on that day.
Twenty-four people, including seven children, were killed. Andrew donated $20 of his own money to relief efforts, Mark Brown said, and learned about the devastation from relief workers and ministries. He also paid his respects. “He just stood there in all that devastation, and saluted people,” Mark Brown said. Andrew has also been able to have fun on his travels. His favorite state is California, he said, and was excited to sleep in a room at the Murphy Hotel, where President Ulysses S. Grant once stayed.
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I know this is probably an odd time of year to be calling in with this comment but I was riding by the Green and I was just thinking of it for some reason. I was thinking about the trees. Some of them are oak trees, I noticed last year. Do people realize what a mess that’s going to be when the oak trees grow and get lots of nuts on them and acorns decide to fall down and how hard it’s going to be to walk on the grass and all the cars are going to be crunching acorns into the street? It’s going to be a real disaster. They better think about changing the trees before they get too big and then they have to chop them down because there’s a problem with acorns. We believe there are four oak trees flanked by two London Plains on each side of the oaks and repeated either side of the Green. The lawn is populated by black gum. The oaks reflect those in front of the Athenaum. We’re not aware of those causing a problem. Join the conversation at pulseline@thewestfieldnews.com
Roman Fever By ROB GOODMAN Politico.com
The Republic succumbed to political dysfunction. Can Washington avoid the same fate? What does decline sound like? I imagine equal parts self-pity and self-flagellation, moral outrage and exhaustion. Once we could have heard it from the original Capitol Hill, the seat of the failing Roman Republic. As Caesar told Rome’s Senate, “Certainly there was greater merit and wisdom in those who raised so mighty an empire from humble means, than in us, who can scarcely preserve what they so honorably acquired.” His enemy Cato responded, “There were other things that made them great, which we lack: industriousness at home; fair government abroad; minds impartial in council.” They lived in an era of decline, and they both knew it. Do we? That exchange resonates as we look again over last year’s bruising budget battles—which, thankfully, appear to have reached their wearying apotheosis. In unsteady times, we’re compelled to look back: Tea Partiers imagine themselves as revolutionary Americans; revolutionary Americans (churning out pamphlets under names like “Publius,” “Brutus,” and “Cato”) imagined themselves as republican Romans; and those Romans measured themselves against the generations that bequeathed them an empire. We live in a nation modeled on Rome, founded by men who modeled themselves on Romans— and having traced Rome’s history in outline, from backwater republic to imperial power, it’s natural to wonder if the next step is ours as well. It’s a fair worry. Across time and place, the breakdowns of republican governments share eerie similarities, as political conflicts spill beyond the bounds of the norms designed to hold them in check. Rome’s example warns us that a cycle of crisis politics, once entered into, grows increasingly difficult to escape. There is reason to believe that we’ve entered into just such a cycle. But there is also reason to hope that we can respond with a rededication to political norms—not with the panicked cries of tyranny and self-fulfilling predictions of collapse that doomed Rome. Brinksmanship, “nuclear options” and shutdowns are not unique to American politics. The Roman Republic’s final years were increasingly prone to political conflicts so intractable that they left the government paralyzed. In 60 bce, Cato, the leader of Rome’s traditionalist optimas faction, ground the Senate to a halt for months through unprecedented use of the filibuster. His prime target was a program of land reform that would distribute public farms to Rome’s veterans, a measure that the optimates feared would create the constituency for a military tyrant. For the following year, Rome elected a government headed by Caesar, who promised to carry out the land reform, and Cato’s son-in-law Bibulus, who pledged to stop it (proving that we aren’t the first to struggle with divided government). Cato, a man of great personal courage but the politics of a brick wall, again blocked a Senate vote on the land bill. Bibulus attempted to halt public business by declaring every remaining day on the legislative calendar a religious holiday; as he announced to the public, “You shall not have this law this year, not even if you all want it!” Caesar answered with a constitutionally questionable step of his own, bypassing the Senate and pushing land reform directly through the Roman people’s assembly. Bibulus retaliated by barricading himself in his home, boycotting the government and postponing the next election for three months. Though the victory was Caesar’s, the episode left a deep
legacy of bitterness. Three years later, the optimates went on legislative strike again, in renewed protest against Caesar’s political faction. Rome’s hardline senators shut down the chamber, dressed in black mourning clothes, and, in the words of the ancient historian Cassius Dio, “spent the rest of the year as if they were in bondage and possessed no authority to choose officials or carry on any other public business.” Most significantly, they refused to schedule elections. The Republic faced the prospect of a new year with no elected government at all, until the senators backed down and allowed a vote on the calendar’s final day. By this point, stalemated government and manipulation of elections had become routine: Over the Republic’s last decade, elections were postponed in five consecutive years. And in the midst of the squabbling, the Forum heard louder and louder cries for a strongman to save Rome from the muck of self-government. History has been called “a distant mirror” for good reason. We can see our own features reflected in the past, but only vaguely. A distance of 2,000 years means that there are no easy reflections between this shutdown story and ours. But at the same time, history would be worthless to us if we didn’t try to translate truths from one age to another. And one truth that does seem to translate is this: In republican government, norms matter profoundly. Political elites aren’t simply bound by written rules; they’re bound as well by unwritten rules that are developed and refined in practice. We wouldn’t want to write the entire code of political behavior into law. Instead, we prize freedom of action and flexibility; we understand that a code of written rules that tried to anticipate every situation would be an oppressive failure. Perhaps, as a political community, we also value systems that depend on a degree of mutual trust in order to function. And yet our reliance on unwritten rules leaves us vulnerable. Built over generations of conflict, compromise and accommodation, norms can be discarded in an instant. They are far easier to break than to build—and breaking them only takes the defection of one side. The Roman Republic was nearly five centuries old when it collapsed. In that time, it had developed norms against permanent filibuster campaigns, boycotts of government, bypassing the Senate to enact policy and postponement of elections. All of the steps I’ve described were legal. They were also disastrous. Collectively, layered one on the other, they normalized a state of crisis politics. But given how far we’re already traveled down the road of norm failure, there is also some reason to fear that these developments are too little and too late. When norms collapse, they often fall in unpredictable cycles of resentment and recrimination. As two sides engage in tit-for-tat behavior, or as one side discovers that unwritten rules are hollow, republics can suffer cascades of norm-breaking. The last years of the Roman Republic saw unwritten rules called into question across nearly every dimension of its political life. Taboos against multiple terms in the highest office, and on “extraordinary,” multi-year military commands—both conceived as checks on elite ambition—were discarded. The Senate broke precedent and executed suspected conspirators without trial. Campaign spending
exploded, pumping so much money into the economy that Rome’s interest rate briefly doubled. Religion devolved from a unifying force to a political tool, as politicians increasingly claimed the sanction of gods and omens to delay elections and block unfavorable laws. It would be too facile to draw a direct causal line between each of these events. But they all took place within an atmosphere of deepening distrust and loss of faith, in which each breach made the next more likely. The political scientist Robert Dahl argued that self-government is most stable where societies develop a “system of mutual security”: where conflict is confined to a finite battlefield and political actors agree not to use all of the weapons at their disposal. What we see in the last years of the Roman Republic is a system of mutual security falling to pieces. In its last days, as Rome’s leaders met in a final effort to avert civil war, Cato himself scuttled a face-saving deal: As he shouted to the negotiators on his own side of the table, “You’re being deceived again!” The last measure of political trust had leached away. But it’s not enough to identify these vicious cycles of failing norms. What sets them in motion? Rome’s example suggests at least one cause: These vicious cycles often begin when the stakes of politics increase more rapidly than a political culture can adapt. The Republic’s consensus-driven institutions were built by and for an elite that enjoyed a rough and hardy equality. The founding republican elites, in a popular shorthand of the time, prayed to clay gods rather than marble ones. Empire changed that: In the judgment of an ancient historian who observed the Romans firsthand, “It is clear that when the state achieves considerable prosperity, lifestyles become more extravagant and men become unduly keen for offices and other objects of ambition.” Feeding on foreign conquest, power grew more lucrative than it had ever been. A term in office at home was a promise of plunder abroad. That wealth could be turned into the best Greek education for one’s children, into the purchase of political “clients” and hangers-on and into the massive outlays that would secure election again. The growth of the political stakes outpaced the evolution of new norms for a new world: Rome never discovered how to sustainably meld empire abroad and republic at home. In our time, a norm has held that a president is entitled to have qualified nominees confirmed by the Senate; yet judicial vacancies are at a historic high, and 68 confirmable positions were unfilled at the end of President Barack Obama’s first term. A norm has held that the Senate filibuster protects the rights of the minority in extraordinary circumstances; yet filibuster use has hit all-time record levels, and a 60-vote threshold in the Senate has turned from extraordinary to routine. A norm has held that Congress never threatens a debt default to gain political leverage; yet we have come within days of default twice in the past three years. All of these steps have been legal. There’s reason to hope that this autumn’s brush with default has strengthened the norm against such threats. As Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) colorfully put it, “There’s no education in the second kick of a mule.” Similarly, there’s reason to hope that Senate Democrats’ important decision to limit the filibuster will actually shift the supermajority requirement back to its historic role: a gauge to register exceptional opposition, not a chronic choke point on legislation. But growing scarcity can raise the stakes of political competition, too—and this seems to be the case in our republic. As the conservative commentator David Frum has persuasively argued, “Once it seemed possible to have the spending See Roman Fever, Page 8
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Advent Christian Church 11 Washington Street Westfield, MA 01085 Interim Minister: Rev. George Karl Phone - (413) 568-1020 Sunday - 9:45 a.m. - Sunday School for all ages; 11 a.m. Praise and Worship Service. Thursday - 7 p.m. - Bible Study & Prayer. All services open to the public, church is handicap accessible. Baha’i Community of Westfield Sundays - 10 a.m. to 12 noon worship and study classes for children and adults at Daniel Jordan Baha’i School in March Memorial Chapel, Springfield College. Open to the public. The second and fourth Fridays of every month at 7 p.m. Westfield study and discussion meetings Call 568-3403. Central Baptist Church 115 Elm St., Westfield, MA 01085 Phone - (413) 568-0429 Email:cbcabc@comcast.net website: http://www.centralbaptist churchwestfield.com The Rev. Tom Rice, Pastor Sunday School - 9:30 a.m. Sunday - Worship Hour - 10-11a.m. Christ Church United Methodist 222 College Highway, Southwick, MA 01077 Pastor Rev. Valerie Roberts-Toler Phone - (413) 569-5206 Sunday Worship - 10 a.m. Handicapped accessible. Air conditioned. Nursery available. Christ Lutheran Church 568 College Highway, Southwick, MA 01077 Rev. Jeff King, Pastor Phone - (413) 569-5151 Sunday - 8:15, 9:15, 10:15 and 11:15 a.m. 11 a.m. - Contemporary Worship with Children’s Hour and CLC Live with Children’s Hour. Childcare available. Thursday evenings - Weekender’s Worship - 7 p.m. Christ The King Evangelical Presbyterian Church 297 Russell Road, Westfield, MA 01085 Rev. Jason S. Steele, Pastor Office Phone - (413) 572-0676 ctkwestfield.org Weekly Calendar of Events: Sunday - Worship Service - 9:15 a.m. Sunday School for all ages - 11 a.m. Monday - Men’s Group - Sons of Thunder - 7 p.m. Tuesday - Women’s Bible Study Wednesday - Beginners Bible Study - 7 p.m. Childcare is available. The Episcopal Church of the Atonement 36 Court St., Westfield, MA 01085 (413) 642-3835 http://www.atonementwestfield.net Parking off Pleasant Street The Rev. Nancy Webb Stroud, Rector Sundays: Holy Eucharist at 8 am and 10 am Christian Formation for all ages following 10 am Wednesdays: Bible Study 9:30 am-10:30 am Holy Eucharist and Healing at Noon Congregation Ahavas Achim Interfaith Center at Westfield State University 577 Western Avenue, P.O. Box 334, Westfield, MA 01086 Rabbi Joyce Galaski Phone - (413) 562-2942 Friday Sabbath Services - 7:15 p.m. - 2 times/month and Holiday Services. Call for dates. An Oneg Shabbat follows the service and new members are always welcome. Monday Hebrew School - 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday School Adult Study Group. Faith Bible Church 370 Shoemaker Lane, Agawam, MA 01001 Phone - 413-786-1681 Pastor: Rick Donofrio Sunday School for all ages 9:30am Worship Services 10:30am Children’s Service 10:30am Fellowship/Refreshments-12:30am Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting and Bible Study 6:30 pm First Congregational Church of Westfield 18 Broad Street, Westfield, MA 01085 Phone - (413) 568-2833 Fax - (413) 568-2835 Website: churchonthegreen.org Email :office@churchonthegreen.org Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 9a.m.-2p.m. Rev. Elva Merry Pawle, Pastor Carrie Salzer, Church School Coordinator Allan Taylor, Minister of Music Worship Service : Sunday’s 10 AM Church School Sunday 10 AM Childcare Available - Handicap Accessible Fellowship Hour 11 AM First Spiritual Church 33-37 Bliss Street, Springfield, MA 01105 Rev. John Sullivan, Pastor Phone - (413) 238-4495 Sunday Service - 10:30 a.m., Sermon, Healing Service, Spirit Communication. First United Methodist Church (A Stephen’s Ministry Church) 16 Court Street Westfield MA 01085 413-568-5818 Rev. Valerie Roberts-Toler Email:FUMC01085@JUNO.COM Worship Service : Sunday’s 10 a.m. Sunday School: Sunday 10 a.m. Coffee Hour: every Sunday after the 10 a.m. Worship Service. Childcare Available-Handicap Accessible Grace Lutheran Church 1552 Westfield Street, West Springfield, MA 01089 Phone - 413-734-9268 Website http://www.gracelutheranonline.com The Rev. William M. White, Pastor E-Mail -pastorwhite@ gracelutheranonline.com Margit Mikuski, Administrative Assistant mmikuski@gracelutheranonline.com Sunday service - 9:30 a.m. Tuesday – 9 a.m. - Bible Study Wednesday service - 6 p.m. Granville Federated Church American Baptist & United Church of Christ 16 Granby Road, Granville, MA 01034 Phone - (413) 357-8583 10 a.m. - Worship Service, Sunday School to run concurrently with Worship Service. Childcare available 11 a.m. - Coffee Hour Monday - 8 p.m. - AA Meeting Thursday - 7 p.m. - Adult Choir Practice First Saturday - 6 p.m. - Potluck Supper in Fellowship Hall Third Sunday - 8:30-9:30 a.m. - Breakfast Served in Fellowship Hall Third Wednesday - 12 noon - Ladies Aid Potluck Luncheon & Meeting
Fourth Sunday - 11:15 a.m. - Adult Study Program led by Rev. Patrick McMahon. Holy Family Parish 5 Main Street Russell, MA 01071 Rectory Phone: 413-862-4418 Office Phone: 413-667-3350 Rev. Ronald F. Sadlowski, Pastor Deacon David Baillargeon Mass Schedule: Saturday Vigil 5 p.m. Sunday 8:15 a.m., 11:15 a.m. Daily Mass: 8 a.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday Communion Prayer Service: 8 a.m. Thursday Confession: Saturday 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. and Sunday 7:30 to 8 a.m. Handicapped accessible Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church 335 Elm St., Westfield, MA 01085 Rev. Rene Parent, M.S., Pastor Rev. Luke Krzanowski, M.S., Assistant Phone - (413) 568-1506 Weekend Masses - Saturday - 4 p.m. Sunday - 7 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. (Polish), and 10:30 a.m. Weekday Masses - Monday-Friday, 12:10 p.m. Also First Friday - 7 p.m. Holy Hour of Adoration Thursday, 6 pm. Sacrament of Reconciliation - Saturdays - 3 to 3:45 p.m. or by appointment Baptisms by appointment, please call the office. Hope Community Church 152 South Westfield Street Feeding Hills, MA. 01030 413.786.2445 Pastor Brad Peterson Sunday morning worship begins at 10 a.m. Contemporary worship, life oriented messages, from the Bible, nursery and children’s church available, classes for all ages. Weekly home groups and Bible studies, active youth group, special activities for families, men, women, and children. For more information, call the church office 413-786-2445, weekdays between 9 a.m. and noon. Please leave a message any other time. Valley Community Church and Agawam Church of The Bible merged May 2010 to become Hope Community Church Huntington Evangelical Church 22 Russell Road, Huntington, MA 01050 Rev. Charles Cinelli Phone - (413) 667-5774 Sundays - Adult Sunday School - 9 a.m., Sanctuary; Worship Service - 10:15 a.m.; Sanctuary; Children’s Church 10:15 a.m., (downstairs during second half service). Mondays - Ladies Bible Study - 9:30 a.m. Tuesdays - Women’s Guild, the 2nd Tuesday of every month in Chapel on the Green; Ladies Bible Study, (all but second Tuesday), 7 p.m., Chapel on the Green. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses 117 Southwick Road, Westfield, MA 01085 Phone (413) 568-1780 English: Wednesday & Thursday - 7-8:45 p.m.; Sunday 10-11:46 a.m. & 12:30-2:15 p.m. Russian: Thursday - 7-8:45 p.m.; Saturday 4-5:45 p.m. Montgomery Community Church Main Road-Montgomery, MA Pastor Howard R. Noe Phone - (413) 862-3284 Office Nondenominational Services every Sunday 9-10 a.m., with Coffee Fellowship following all services. Weekly Men and Women’s Bible Studies available. Mountain View Baptist Church 310 Apremont Way Holyoke, MA 01040 Pastor Chad E. Correia 413-532-0381 Email: http://www.mvbaptist.com Sunday Morning Worship - 8:30 & 11 a.m. Sunday School & Adult Study - 10 a.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting & Bible Study - 7 p.m. Thursday - Visitation & Soul Winning - 6:30 p.m. Saturday - Buss Calling & Soul Winning - 10 a.m. New Life Christian Center of the Westfield Assemblies of God 157 Dartmouth Street, Westfield, MA 01085 Rev. Wayne Hartsgrove, Pastor Phone - (413) 568-1588 Sunday - 9:30 a.m., Sunday School; 10:30 a.m. Adult Bible Study and activities for youth of all ages,Wednesday - 6:30 p.m. Sunday Evening Service - 6 p.m. New Life Worship Center 118 Meadow Street Westfield, MA 01085 413-562-0344 http://www.nlwcofwestfield.org Pastor Gene C. Pelkey Sundays - 10 a.m. - Worship and Sunday School. Wednesdays - 7 p.m. - Bible Study. Men’s and Ladies prayer groups (call for schedules) Changed Into His Image Class (call for schedules) Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Parish 127 Holyoke Road Westfield, MA 01085 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 489 Westfield, MA 01085-0489 Pastor: Rev. Daniel S. Pacholec Deacon Paul Federici Religious Education Director: Theresa Racine olbsccd@verizon.net Pastoral Associate: Mary Federici Parish Office: (413) 562-3450 Fax: (413) 562-9875 http://www.diospringfield.org/olbs Mass Schedule: Saturday 4 p.m. - (Vigil) Sunday: 7, 8:30, 11 a.m. Mon, Tues, Wed: 7 a.m. Saturday: 8 a.m. Miraculous Medal Novena Communion Services: Thur: 9 a.m. Fri: 7 a.m. Holy Day Masses: 7 p.m. (Vigil) 7 a.m., 9 a.m. Confession: Saturday 3:15-3:45 p.m. Our Lady of the Lake Church Sheep Pasture Road Southwick, MA 01077 Parish Pastoral/Administrative Staff Pastor: Rev. Henry L. Dorsch 569-0161 Deacon: Rev. Mr. David Przybylowski Religious Education: Lynda Daniele 569-0162 Administrative secretary: Joanne Campagnari - 569-0161 Office Hours: Mon.-Wed.: 8:30 - 3:30; Thurs. 8:30-noon Office, household assistant and Sacristan: Stella Onyski MASS SCHEDULE
Sat. 5 p.m. (vigil), Sun., 8, 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Weekdays: Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday 8:30 a.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. Penance/confession: Saturdays 4:15-4:45; Wed. before 7 p.m. Mass and by appointment. Baptisms: Sundays at 11:15 a.m. Arrange with Pastor and a pre- Baptism meeting is scheduled. Marriage: Arrangements should be made with pastor prior to any reception arrangements as early as one year in advance Exposition of Blessed Sacrament: 1st Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Marian Cenacle of Prayer: Saturdays 7:30-8:30 Charismatic Prayer Meeting: Thursdays 7 p.m. St. Jude Novena after Wednesday 7 p.m. Mass Miraculous Medal Novena after Tuesday morning Mass Chapel of Divine Mercy, Litany, Rosary, Friday 3-3:34 Home and hospital visits. Please call rectory Anointing of the Sick. Please call the pastor Prayer Line: for special intentions. Call Marian at 569-6244 Bible Study: Tuesdays 9:15 a.m. at rectory meeting room Pilgrim Evangelical Covenant Church 605 Salmon Brook Street, Route 10 and 202, Granby, CT 06035 Rev. Dennis Anderson, Pastor Phone: (860) 653-3800 Fax: (860) 653-9984 Handicap Accessible. Schedule: Sunday School - 9 am, Adult - Youth - Children. Sunday Praise and Worship - 10:30 a.m., Infant and toddler care available. Men’s Group Fellowship Breakfast - 7 a.m. - 8:30 a.m., the 2nd Saturday of each month. Call for a Youth Group schedule of events. You can visit us on the web at: http://www.pilgrimcovenantchurch.org. Pioneer Valley Assembly of God Huntington, MA 01050 Rev. Toby Quirk Phone - (413) 667-3196 Sunday - 10 a.m. - Service of Worship Weekly Bible Study. Call for information. Pioneer Valley Baptist Church 265 Ponders Hollow Road, Westfield, MA 01085 (corner of Tannery and Shaker Road) Phone - (413) 562-3376 Pastor James Montoro Sunday School – 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Service – 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday Service – 7 p.m. We provide bus transportation for those in need of transportation. Just call us at 562-3376. Pioneer Valley Baptist Church 265 Ponders Hollow Road, Westfield, MA 01085 (corner of Tannery and Shaker Road) Phone - (413) 562-3376 Pastor James Montoro Sunday School – 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Service – 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday Service – 7 p.m. We provide bus transportation for those in need of transportation. Just call us at 562-3376. Psalms Springs Deliverance Ministries 141 Meadow Street, Westfield, MA 01085 Phone - (413) 568-1612 Pastor Sharon Ingram Sunday School - 10 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship - 11 a.m. Wednesdays - Childrens reading hour, 5 to 6 p.m. with Pastor, 4 to 10 years old. Wednesday Evening - 7 p.m. - Bible Study & Deliverance Service Friday - Y.E.S. - Youth Excellence Services, 13 years old and up. Russell Community Church Main Street, Russell 01071 Rev. Jimmy Metcalf, Pastor Sunday - 9 a.m. - Sunday School, all ages - Fellowship, parsonage; 10 a.m. - Family Worship; 6 p.m. - Youth Fellowship, parsonage. Tuesday - 7 p.m. - AA Meeting; Family Bible Class, parsonage. Wednesday - 9 a.m. - Women’s Prayer Fellowship, parsonage. Friday - 7:30 p.m. - AA Meeting. St. John’s Lutheran Church 60 Broad Street Westfield, MA 01085 Phone - (413) 568-1417 http://stjohnswestfield.com Pastor Christopher A. Hazzard Sunday - Adult Bible Study and Summer Sunday School (Preschool - High School) 8:45 A.M. Sunday Worship 10 A.M. Tune in to the taped broadcast of our Worship Service over WHYN (.560 on your AM radio dial) at 7:30 on Sunday morning. Southwick Assembly Of God 267 College Highway Southwick,Ma 01077 (413) 569-1882 E-mailsouthwick_ag@verizon.net Pastor Dan Valeri Sunday morning worship - 9:30 a.m. (featuring contemporary worship, children’s church and nursery) Thursday night family night - 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. (featuring Adult Bible Study, Faithgirlz! a girls club for ages 5-13, Royal Rangers - a scouting program for boys age 5-18, and preschool for infants - 4 yrs. old) Nursing Home ministry - 3:15 p.m. at Meadowbrook Nursing Home in Granby, CT. Southwick Community Episcopal Church 660 College Highway Southwick, MA 01077 Phone: 569-9650 http://www.southwickchurch.com Rev. J. Taylor Albright, Pastor Saturday Evening Worship Service 5 p.m. Sundays 9:30 AM, Service that blend contemporary worship with traditional liturgy and a family-friendly atmosphere KidZone: Childcare and children’s ministry during the service Sign Language Interpreted Handicapped Accessible Women’s Group: Thursdays 9:30 to 11 a.m. Good coffee, fellowship and light-weight discussion of faith issues. Childcare provided. Southwick Congregational Church United Church of Christ 488 College Highway, P.O. Box 260, Southwick, MA 01077 Administrative Assistant: Barbara Koivisto Phone - (413) 569-6362 email:swkucc@verizon.net Sunday 10 AM Worship Service – Open Pantry Sunday Minister – Rev. Bart D. Cochran. Music – The Voice Choir Nursery Available 10:15 AM Church School 11 AM Coffee Hour 3:30 PM O.A. Meeting Tuesday 6:30 PM Bell Choir 7 PM Boy Scouts Wednesday
9-1 PM Henrietta’s Thrift Shop – open 6 PM Zumba 7 PM Adult Choir Rehearsal Thursday 6:30 PM T.O.P.S. Friday 9-1 PM Henrietta’s Thrift Shop – open 6 PM O.A. Meeting 7:30 PM A.A. 12 Step Meeting Saturday 9-1 PM Henrietta’s Thrift Shop – open 9 AM Zumba St. Joseph’s Polish National Catholic Church 73 Main Street, Westfield, MA 01085 Social Center: Clinton Avenue Father Sr. Joseph Soltysiak, Pastor Phone - (413) 562-4403 Email - Soltysiak@comcast.net Fax - (413) 562-4403 Sunday Masses - 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Summer Schedule - 8 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Sunday School - 9 a.m., social center Catechism Classes: Monday evenings Daily and Holy Day Masses as announced For more information & links: PNCC.org St. Mary’s Church 30 Bartlett Street, Westfield, MA 01085 Phone - (413) 562-5477 http://www.St.MarysofWestfield.com Rev. Brian F. McGrath, pastor Rev. Robert Miskell, Parochial Vicar Deacon Pedro Rivera Deacon Roger Carrier Weekday Mass - Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. Holy Day Masses - 4 p.m. on the eve before, 8:30 a.m. & 6:15 p.m. (bilingual) Confessions Saturdays, 2:30-3:30 p.m. (lower church) Saturday Mass - 4 p.m. Sunday Mass - 7, 8:30 and 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. All Masses are in the upper church, the 11:30 a.m. is in Spanish Handicapped accessible, elevator located to the right of the main entrance. Adoration and Benediction - Wednesdays, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. St. Mary’s Elementary School (Pre-K-8) (413) 568-2388 St. Mary’s High School (9-12) - (413) 568-5692 Office of Religious Education - (413) 568-1127 St. Vincent de Paul outreach to the poor and needy - (413) 568-5619 St. Peter & St. Casimir Parish 22 State Street Westfield, MA 01085 Rev. William H. Wallis, Pastor Parish Office - 413-568-5421 Mass schedule Daily Mon.-Thurs. - 7:15 a.m. Saturday Mass - 4 p.m. Saturday Confessions - 3 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Sunday Mass- 8:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Temple Beth El Worship Services Sunday - Thursday Evening, 7 p.m. Friday evening, 6 p.m. Saturday evening, 5 p.m. Monday-Friday morning, 7 a.m. Saturday morning, 9:30 a.m. Sunday and Holiday morning, 8 a.m. Ongoing Monday afternoons - Learning Center (Religious School), 3:15 p.m. Tuesday afternoons - B’Yachad (Hebrew High School) 6:30 p.m.; Parshat ha Shove study group, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoons - Learning Center (Religious School), 3:15 p.m.; Youth Chorale, 5:15 p.m. Thursday evenings - Boy Scout Troop #32 meets at 7:30 p.m. Friday mornings - “Exploring our Prayers” with Rabbi, 7 a.m. Unitarian Universalist Society of Greater Springfield 245 Porter Lake Drive, Springfield, MA 01106 Rev. Georganne Greene, Minister http://www.uuspringfield.orgPhone (413) 736-2324 Handicap accessible. Sunday - 9 AM First Hour Forum Sunday - 10:30 AM Worship Service, religious education and nursery for children Thursday - 7:30 PM Choir Rehearsal Monthly UNI Coffeehouse Concerts. Check uNicoffeehouse. org United Church of Christ Second Congregational Church 487 Western Avenue, P.O. Box 814, Westfield, MA 01086 http://www.secondchurchwestfield.org E-mail: office@secondchurchwestfield.org Office hours: Tuesday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 12 noon, Closed Monday. Rev. Kimberly Murphy, Pastor Phone - (413) 568-7557 Sunday - 10 a.m., Worship Service and Sunday School for preschool through high school. Sunday evening - Youth Program. Westfield Alliance Church 297 Russell Road, Westfield, MA 01085 Rev. Jordan Greeley, Pastor Phone - (413) 568-3572 Sunday - 9:30 a.m. - Bible Life a.m. for all ages, nursery care provided; 11 a.m. - Worship and the Word; 6 p.m - evening service. Word of Grace Church of Pioneer Valley 848 North Road, Route 202 Westfield, MA 01085 (413) 572-3054 Email:office@wordgrace.us http://www.wordgrace.us Chet Marshall, Senior Pastor Sunday Morning Service: 10 a.m. Sunday evening, 6 p.m. Wednesday evening, 7 p.m. Westfield Evangelical Free Church 568 Southwick Road, Westfield, MA 01085 Rev. David K. Young, Pastor Phone - (413) 562-1504 Sunday – 10 a.m. - Morning Worship, childcare available; 8:45 a.m. - Sunday School. Wednesday - 7 p.m. - Bible Study. Friday - 6:30 p.m. Awana Children’s Program. West Springfield Church of Christ 61 Upper Church Street, West Springfield, MA 01089 Phone - (413) 736-1006 Sunday - 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Worship Service; 9:30 a.m. - Bible Study. Wednesday - 7 p.m., Bible Study. Wyben Union Church An Interdenominational Church 678 Montgomery Road, Westfield, MA 01085 Phone - (413) 568-6473 Rev. David L. Cooper, Pastor Sunday Worship and Sunday School at 10 a.m. Summer Worship at 9:30am Nursery Available Bible Studies in both Church and in Members’ homes. wybenunionchurch.com
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Legendary Continued from Page 1 the solicitation is a scam of some sort and said that he wants to assure residents that their donations will stay in the community and be used to help local organizations. The hockey game will be at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, at Amelia Park Ice Arena and admission to the game is free, although cash donations will be accepted at the door. A program for the event will be available and, in addition to pictures and information about the Legends, will include pages for autographs. The former Bruins players will be available to the fans to sign autographs between the two 25-minute periods of the game. Young players attending the game will have another opportunity to get up-close and personal with the former hockey stars before the game when the Legends will offer two workshops for young hockey players. Children will be able to “pick up some tips from some of the Black and Gold Legends,” Neilsen said but added “we’re going to charge for that.” He said that pre-registration will be required for participation in one of two 45-minute workshops staged before the game. He said that a workshop for ‘Mites’ and ‘Squirts’ (children aged 4-10) will begin at 3 p.m. and a second workshop for older boys, ‘Peewees’ through ‘Bantams’ aged 10-14, will begin at 3:45 p.m. The children will need complete hockey pads and gear and participants may register for the workshops in person at Amelia Park or by calling the ice arena at 568-2503, Neilsen said. The cost of the workshops will be $30. Refreshments will be available at the game and will include firehouse chili. Neilsen said that the event will also offer a silent auction for
A group of children pose for a photo during last year’s fundraiser game between the Westfield Fire Department and former Boston Bruins players at the Amelia Park Ice Arena. (File photo by Frederick Gore) items donated to the firefighters and bids for those items will close during the second period of hockey action. “It’s a great event to help the firefighters and it’s quite an outstanding community event,” Neilsen said. “We’re looking to
fill the place.” Donations will also be accepted by mail at 34 Broad Street, Local 1111 Fundraiser, Westfield, Massachusetts 01085. For more information, contact Ray Neilsen at 413-205-8910.
Frigid Forecast with flashlights, a portable radio, extra batteries, a first aid kit, bottled water, non-perishable food items, and a manual can opener. The Red Cross of Greater Westfield is on stand-by, waiting to assist and support any “warming shelters” that may be erected. “We’re working with city officials and emergency management workers to provide food and shelter as needed,” said Dawn Leaks, spokesperson for the Red Cross. “While the cold forecast for us will be short in duration this time, it is the first arctic blast of the season and it will be extremely cold. It’s good to reacquaint yourself with some cold weather tips to get you through the season safely.” Leaks said that clothing is of the utmost importance in these conditions, and advises that residents dress in layers, as well as mittens and hats. “Most of your body heat is lost through your head, so wear a hat, preferably one that covers your ears,” Leaks said. “You can remove layers as needed if you become too warm. Mittens provide more warmth to your hands than gloves.” Leaks also advises the wearing of waterproof, insulated boots to help “avoid hypothermia or frostbite by keeping your feet warm and dry and to maintain your footing in ice and snow.” “Get out of wet clothes immediately, and warm the core body temperature with a blanket or warm fluids like hot cider or soup,” she said. “Avoid drinking caffeine or alcohol if you expect you or someone you are trying to help has hypothermia or frostbite.” Sufficient heating fuel, as well as emergency heating equipment in case of lost electricity, are also atop the Red Cross’ list of priorities residents should be considering. Westfield Gas and Electric is looking to keep city residents
Continued from Page 1 According to the National Fire Prevention comfy and cozy this weekend. “It’s been status quo thus far,” said G&E Association, heating equipment is the leading Energy Specialist Sean Fitzgerald Friday after- cause of home fires during the winter months, noon. “As far as outages, it’s been business as with about two-thirds of home heating fire deaths caused by portable or fixed space heatusual.” While there haven’t been any significant ers. To prevent fire, Leaks says to place space losses of power in the city so far during this first storm, Fitzgerald said the company has an heaters at least three feet away from anything emergency incident control plan in place with combustible, such as wallpaper, bedding, which to mobilize workers and to get the clothing, pets and people. “Never leave space heaters operating when power back on. He said the company has also taken numer- you are not in the room or when you go to bed, ous precautions to reduce the chances of out- and don’t leave children or pets unattended near space heaters,” she said. ages. A Red Cross safety checklist also lists dry“We did a lot of tree trimming (the past few months) to make sure our wires are clear ing wet mittens or other clothing over space debris,” Fitzgerald said, adding that it’s some- heaters is a fire hazard. If you use a portable generator during a thing the company has taken much more seriously since the city’s great ice storm of 2011. power outage, the Red Cross advises to always The G&E’s biggest concern at the moment operate the generator outdoors and never is home ventilation, for as these cold tempera- inside of a basement or garage, as well as not tures bring an increase in gas usage, keeping to connect a generator directly to your home’s the heat inside and the toxic fumes outside of wiring – leave that work to a professional electrician. the house is of the utmost importance. “Colder temperatures mean people will be “The safest thing to do is to connect the consuming gas for their furnaces,” Fitzgerald equipment you want to power directly to the said. “And if there is snow build-up against the outlets on the generator,” Leaks said. Connecting a cord from the generator to a vents, that carbon monoxide stays inside the home, so it’s important to keep the vents shov- point on the permanent wiring system and back-feeding power to your home is an unsafe elled and clear.” Fitzgerald added that maintaining consistant method to supply a building with power, she heat, “not cranking it too high or too low”, is added. The Red Cross also warns against overloadkey to being warm and safe this winter, and that, for a charge, G&E technicians can visit ing electrical outlets, and to be careful of your home and work on fixing any problems extension cords that present hazardous walkways. you may encounter. The organization is also a proponent of hav“Our dispatch center is always available,” ing chimney connections and flues cleaned he said. Regarding home power outages, the Red and inspected by a professional prior to the Cross also advised not to use candles for light- start of every heating season. Regarding fire safety, a fireplace screen is ing and advocated using flashlights only.
Southwick Congregational Church United Church of Christ 488 College Highway – P.O. Box 260 – Southwick, MA 01077- 413-569-6362 Rev. Bart Cochran - Minister 01/05/14 – 01/11/14 JANUARY 5, 2014 - 10:00 AM – Communion Sunday– Rev. Bart Cochran - Minister, Music – Voice Choir; Nursery Available; 10:15 AM Sunday school; 11:00 AM – Coffee Hour; 3:30 PM O.A. Meeting: JANUARY 07, TUESDAY – 6:30 PM Bell Choir, 7:00 PM Boy Scouts; - JANUARY 08, WEDNESDAY – 9-1:00 PM Henrietta’s Thrift Shop – Open – 7:00 PM Adult Choir; 7:00 PM T.O.P.S. JANUARY 09, THURSDAY – 7:00 PM All Church Committee Meeting; - JANUARY 10 - FRIDAY: 9-1:00 PM – Henrietta’s Thrift Shop – Open; 6:00 PM O.A. Meeting, 7:30 PM - A.A. Meeting; JANUARY 11, - SATURDAY: Henrietta’s Thrift Shop – Open 9-1:00PM.
First Congregational Church of Westfield 18 Broad Street Westfield MA 01085 Rev. Elva Merry Pawle, Pastor Carrie Salzer, Director of Children and Family Ministries Allan Taylor, Minister of Music Office Hours: Mon. - Fri. 9 –1 568-2833 Email:Office@churchonthegreen.org www.churchonthegreen.org Worship Service: Sundays 10 AM Fellowship Hour 11:00 AM Childcare Available -Handicap Accessible This Week at First Church Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014 9:00 AM Senior Choir Rehearsal 10:00 AM Worship Service 11:15 AM Senior Choir Rehearsal 11:15-11:45 AM Junior Choir Rehearsal Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 7:00 PM Line Dancing Wednesday Jan. 8, 2014 1:00 PM Bible Study 7:00-8:00 PM Confirmation Class Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 1:00 PM Women’s Fellowship Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014 9:00 AM Senior Choir Rehearsal 10:00 AM Worship Service 11:15 AM Senior Choir Rehearsal 11:15-11:45 AM Junior Choir Rehearsal
Citizens for Life WESTFIELD - West of the River Chapter of PV-MCFL next meeting will be held on Thursday, January 9 at 7 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 60 Broad Street, Westfield. Save the date for a spaghetti supper fundraiser to be held on February 15.
Overlock to Perform HUNTINGTON - At 7 p.m. on Saturday, January 11, Dale Overlock will give a concert at Pioneer Valley Assembly of God in Huntington. Dale Overlock is an emerging artist who has been devoted to serving Jesus through music for over a decade throughout the state of Maine as part of a Christian rock band. His debut solo album, entitled Meet Me Here represents his cry to God. Dale delivers a message of redemption through Jesus Christ with his distinct voice and expresses a need for a relationship with his creator. Pioneer Valley Assembly of God is located at 63 Old Chester Road in Huntington. For more information, call 413-667-3196 or email pvaglife@gmail. com. Worship services are at 10:30 a.m. on Sundays, with nursery and children’s church available. The Huntington Food Pantry, located at Pioneer Valley Assembly of God, is open on Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., serving Huntington and the surrounding hilltowns.
recommended when burning fires, as well as the burning of only wood, never burn paper or items like pine boughs. Another common winter hazard are frozen pipes, which the Red Cross says can be avoided with proper precautions. “Many homeowners may not be ready for frigid weather. Now is the time to protect your house pipes from freezing and bursting,” Leaks said. “With the cold weather upon us, preventive action may make all the difference.” The Red Cross advises keeping garage doors closed if there are water supply lines in the garage or in walls adjacent to it, as well as opening kitchen and bathroom cabinet doors to allow warmer air to circulate around your plumbing. Letting the cold water drip from faucets served by exposed pipes or pipes in exterior walls is also a good idea during sub-zero temperatures. “Running water through the pipe - even at a trickle - helps prevent pipes from freezing because the temperature of the water running through it is above freezing,” according to the Red Cross checklist. Leaks also advocated keeping the thermostat in your home set to the same temperature both during the day and at night is also a smart play. “By temporarily suspending the use of lower nighttime temperatures, you may incur a higher heating bill, but you can prevent a much more costly repair job if pipes freeze and burst,” she said. They also advise, if you will be going away during cold weather, to leave the heat on in your home, set to a temperature no lower than 55 degrees farenheit.
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AGAWAM - The Catholic Women’s Club of Agawam will be hosting “A Movie Night” on January 13 at the St. John’s Parish Center. The movie is The Holiday, staring Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black and Eli Wallach. The movie will be shown at 6:30 p.m. and refreshments will be served. This event is free and opened to all women of the parish. There will not be
CHICOPEE - Grace Episcopal Church, 156 Springfield St., Chicopee is hosting the first of their popular monthly dinners for 2014 on Saturday January 18 at 5:30 p.m. Dinner will be stuffed shells with all the fixings, dessert, beverage for $10.00 adults and $5.00 children 5-12. RSVP by January 16 to Joan 413-592-0571 or Sally 413-592-3596.
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Obituaries Gloria J. Lynch WESTFIELD - Gloria Jean (Slade) Lynch she was 73 years old, she born on July 5, 1940 to late the Roy F. and Louise F. (Beaulier) Slade in Londonderry, Vermont living in various towns and growing up on a logging camp that her father ran has passed away at home January 1, 2014 after a seven year battle with cancer with her daughter by her side. She attended schools in Vermont and she was a strong woman and a hard worker her whole life. She has worked at various factory’s last one being Mestek retiring in 2006. She enjoyed country music and being with her family for whom she worked hard for. She will be truly missed by her seven loving children; Frances (James ) Smith of Richmond, RI of whom was by her side, Richard E. Lynch Jr. of Mount Jouilet, Tenn , Patrick J. (Cheryl) Lynch of Huntington, MA, Cheryl M. Lynch of Mount Jouilet, Tenn, Daniel J. Lynch of Westfield, MA, Kelly A. Lynch of Westfield, and Gina K. (Lynch) Rabtor of Westfield, MA. She leaves seventeen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. She leaves her two brothers, William Slade of Bennington, Vermont and Bruce Slade of Troy, NY. She also leaves behind a brotherin-law, James Stone of Springfield, MA and many nieces and nephews. Besides her parents she was predeceased by her husband, John Chymzinski in 1991, whom she married in Hawaii on July 28, 1989; a grandson, Nathan J. Smith of Alaska; a brother, Raymond Slade of Illinois, Roy F. Slade of Bennington, VT and her sister, Sherry L. (Slade, Stone) Courtney of Troy, New York. The family would like to thank the Noble Visiting Nurses of Hospice for all they have done for her and the family. The funeral will be private and at the convenience of the family. firtionadams.com
Mary L. Conley AGAWAM - Mary L. (Bent) Conley, 74, died Tuesday, December 31, 2013. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, January 9th at 11:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church.. Calling hours will precede the service at Agawam Funeral Home, 184 Main Street from 9:0010:30 a.m. Burial in Amsterdam, NY. Full obituary to follow.
Storm prevents search for missing Brown student PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities say the winter storm has prevented them from resuming search efforts for a missing 21-year-old Brown University student whose kayak was found a few miles off the Massachusetts coast. The search for Dana Dourdeville was suspended Thursday as the storm intensified. Dourdeville, of Marion, Mass., was reported missing after he failed to return from a duck hunting trip Tuesday. Police say Dourdeville’s mother found his car parked at the West Island town beach. The U.S. Coast Guard located his kayak about 2½ miles east of West Island. There was a single glove inside and it didn’t appear the kayak had flipped.
Members of Colleen Ritzer’s family sit in court during the arraignment of Phillip Chism, 14, from Danvers, in Salem Superior Court, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, in Salem, Mass. Chism is charged in the Oct. 22 killing of a popular Danvers High School math teacher Colleen Ritzer. He pleaded not guilty to murder, aggravated rape and armed robbery charges Wednesday. He will remain held without bail. (AP Photo/The Eagle-Tribune, Paul Bilodeau, Pool)
Decision Continued from Page 5 should be given the chance of parole in part because their brains are not fully developed. The U.S. Supreme Court had previously issued a similar decision. “The Ritzer family feels a deep sense of betrayal and anguish with the recent decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court that provides more rights to those youths convicted of horrible and heinous crimes than victims and their families,” the statement issued by a family spokesman said. “If the individual charged with her horrific murder is convicted and sentenced to life in prison, he must never, ever have an opportunity for parole. Paroling such violent offenders would be more cruel and unusual punishment to victims’ families and loved ones,” the statement said. Authorities haven’t released a motive for Ritzer’s killing. Students told police that Chism, who had recently moved to
Massachusetts from Tennessee, stayed after school the day Ritzer was killed. One student who said she had also stayed after school to receive extra help that day said Chism appeared to become upset when Ritzer began talking about Tennessee. Search warrant documents described surveillance video that authorities said showed Chism following Ritzer into a school bathroom, wearing gloves and a hood, then later walking out alone. A short time later, the video shows Chism pulling a recycling barrel through the school and outside, according to the documents. A recycling barrel was found near Ritzer’s body. Authorities said she had been sexually assaulted with a stick. Chism is charged with murder as an adult. His lawyer said she would raise the issue of mental competency “if and when” she feels it’s appropriate.
AG hopeful Tolman off to brisk fundraising start BOSTON (AP) — Former Democratic state Sen. Warren Tolman is off to a brisk fundraising start in his bid to succeed Martha Coakley as state attorney general. Tolman, who entered the race in November, reported raising more than $368,000 in December. That compares with nearly $33,000 raised in the same month by Clinton state Rep. Harold Naughton, a fellow Democrat and AG hopeful. A third Democratic candidate, Maura Healey — a former top
deputy to Coakley — reported raising more than $148,000 for December according to campaign finance records. No Republicans have entered the race. Tolman was the 1998 Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor and a 2002 candidate for governor. He’s currently an attorney with the Boston law firm of Holland & Knight. Coakley is running for governor, leaving an open race for her seat.
Continued from Page 4 Very homogenous.” When itself a political act: It turns politics looks like a question the unthinkable into the of cultural self-defense, polit- acceptable, and justifies radiical norms may also look like calism in the name of liberty. empty niceties unsuited to the Rome’s political leaders urgency of the times. broke norms because they We know where this down- believed the Republic was at ward spiral takes us. But what stake—when the Republic can we do to check it? A bit was really in the norms themparadoxically, the worst thing selves. we can do in a situation like The idea that our republic is this is to predict decline and perpetually one small step collapse—because such pre- away from tyranny is our dictions become self-fulfill- most dangerous inheritance ing. from the Romans. America’s Rome’s hardliners were founders regularly branded certainly born into an unsta- their opponents as would-be ble state. But long before any- “Caesars,” and in our time, one else—long before it was a their style of argument has reality— they insisted that the blended with apocalyptic reliRepublic was not merely gion and taken on new life, unstable, but falling apart. For from Sen. Ted Cruz’s claim more than a decade, Cato that “this is an administration made his name as Rome’s that seems bound and deterprophet of tyranny. Inspired mined to violate every one of by these fears, the optimates our bill of rights,” to Gov. took dramatic, uncompromis- Rick Perry’s argument that ing action that made collapse implementing Obamacare is more likely. “a criminal act,” to Rep. On the eve of civil war, Michele Bachmann’s belief Cato declared to the Senate, that “we are in God’s end as only a spurned prophet times history.” And while could, “Now these things are Democrats in the George W. come to pass which I foretold Bush years did not practice to you!” But he failed to con- obstruction with nearly such sider that doom-mongering is apocalyptic gusto, they too
suffered their hyperbolic moments (Al Gore’s invocation of the president’s “digital Brown Shirts” comes to mind). In all, it has become the background drone of our politics, the dull hum of impending doom. Let’s understand why this thinking appeals. Envisioning decline is addictive. It offers us the chance to imagine our times as extraordinary and to cast ourselves in heroic roles to meet them. And the thrill demands a higher dose of doom each year. But let’s also understand what this thinking does. If our republic is at stake, then it’s reasonable to treat an elected president as illegitimate. If our republic is at stake, then it’s fair to nullify laws that offend us. If our republic is really at stake, then defaulting on our debts to save it—paying any price at all—is a bargain. To study the Roman Republic’s last years is to watch this pattern play out in a distant mirror. And to study the years of its strength is to come into contact with an
Roman Fever Democrats wanted, financed at the tax rates the Republicans wanted, while paying for sufficient national security and running bearable deficits. That sense of expansiveness is gone.” Whether the cause is an influx of wealth, or a dawning discovery of scarcity, the effect can be the same. Losing becomes much more costly and far more infuriating—in the first case, because of the fear that opponents will use their wealth to exclude you from power, and in the second case, because of the fear that one more election will put your political priorities permanently out of reach. And this fear is redoubled whenever politics is seen not simply as a struggle over wealth, but as a struggle over identity. The early Roman Republic prided itself as a society of small landowners who practiced the traditional virtues; the late Republic saw those small farms swallowed up by the plantations of the ascendant elite, a social revolution that added fire to the In Loving Memory of
brutal debates over land reform. And in contrast to the homogeneity of the early days, the late Republic was thrown open to the world, and a tone of cultural paranoia crept into the language of the old guard. We can hear it, for instance, in a letter from Cato’s great-grandfather: “In due course, my son Marcus, I shall explain to you what I found out in Athens about those Greeks….They are a worthless and unruly tribe. Take this as a prophecy: when those folk give us their writings they will corrupt everything. All the more if they send their doctors here.” The cultural paranoia of the optimates has its echo on today’s American right, in a nation reshaped by immigration and a shrinking white majority. Listen to an evangelical voter asked in a recent focus group to describe the disappearing world he grew up in: “Everybody is happy. Everybody is white. Everybody is middle class, whether or not they really are. Everybody looks that way…. In Loving Memory of
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entirely different cast of mind. This is the awareness that the norms that grow up over generations of experience embody more wisdom than we know, are worthy of respect for their complexity and their practicality, and, if radically disturbed, will react in unpredictable ways. It’s the calm faith that our times are likely to be no more or less extraordinary than any other times. And it’s the conviction that vigilance is liberty’s price, but paranoia is its solvent. These are all fundamentally conservative insights, and they sit uncomfortably with radicals of any age. The Romans had a name for this cast of mind: mos maiorum, “the way of the elders.” Rome’s tragedy is that the men who saw and sold themselves as guardians of the way of the elders did more than anyone to undermine it. Our hope is that we have what they lacked: the example of their failure. Rob Goodman is a former House and Senate speechwriter and the co-author of Rome’s Last Citizen.
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Westfield’s John Dolan finishes the first leg of the boys’ 200 Individual Medley during last night’s meet with Agawam. (Photo by Westfield’s Hope Walsh completes the last leg of the girls’ 200 Medley Relay during last night’s meet against Agawam. (Photo by Frederick Gore) Frederick Gore)
Westfield’s Nick Rosso completes the second leg of the boys’ 200 Medley Relay during Friday night’s meet at the Agawam Junior High School. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
By Chris Putz Staff Writer AGAWAM – There. Now they’re even. The Westfield High School girls’ swim team received a bit of a scare against Belchertown, preserving an unblemished record with a stunning tie on the road earlier this season. On Friday, the Bombers’ boys’ needed a solid finish to hold off the host Agawam Brownies, 93-90, to avoid their own demise. It took a stellar effort from Westfield’s 400 free relay team to sink the competition. Roberto Morales, Nick Rosso, Tim Kwarcinski, and John Dolan captured first place in the 400 free relay with a state-qualifying time of 3:35.85 to close out the meet, and secure the victory. The time ranks among the top times in all of Western Massachusetts. “We didn’t expect it to be this close,”
Westfield’s Maura Berry competes in the diving event during last night’s meet against Agawam. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
WHS swim remains perfect Westfield swim coach Tom Lewis said, “but we knew it would be a little tight.” “That was a really, really strong relay.” Westfield (5-0) lacked some of its depth against Agawam with nearly a half-dozen swimmers missing for various reasons. “What mattered is that we fought back,” he said. “A number of kids picked us up.” Kwarcinski (200 freestyle, 1:53.18; 100 butterfly, 55.82), Stinehart (50 free, 23.19; 100 free, 53.63), and Dolan (200 individual medley, 2:12.41; 100 backstroke, 1:00.15) won two individual events apiece, and Morales (500 free, 5:31.71) and Rosso (100 breaststroke, 1:11.15) each claimed a firstplace finish. Lewis said Sam Cloutier and Ian Canty were also critical to Westfield’s overall success, with solid finishes in the 100 fly and 100 free.
GIRLS’ RESULTS Westfield 139, Agawam 43 AGAWAM – It was another strong effort from the Westfield girls’ swim team as the Bombers (4-0-1) dominated from the outset. Lauren Longley won the 200 free (2:04.57) and 500 free (5:31.26), Hope Walsh took home first in the 50 free (27.20) and 100 backstroke (1:06.53), and Erin Lewis claimed gold in the 100 fly (1:07.37) and 100 breaststroke (1:12.64) to lead the Bombers. Westfield’s Shaylan Jurzyk was first in the 100 free (1:02.80). The Bombers also produced three first-place relay teams, and a second- and third-place diver (Madison Atkocaitis and Maura Berry). “It was a workman-like effort,” coach Lewis said. The Bombers will next take on the East Longmeadow Spartans next Friday at home.
Westfield’s Kate McCabe competes in the girls’ 100 Freestyle against Agawam. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
Westfield’s Erin Lewis competes in the girls’ 100 Fly during last night’s meet against Agawam. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
Westfield’s Madison Stinehart competes in the girls’ 100 Freestyle during last night’s meet against Agawam. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
Westfield’s Roberto Morales competes in last night’s 500 Freestyle event against Agawam. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
Sydney Liptak named MVP at WMA By Chris Putz Staff Writer WILBRAHAM – Wilbraham & Monson Academy sophomore Sydney Liptak of Westfield was recently named MVP of the Field Hockey team for the 2013 fall athletic season. “My season was very different than last year,” Liptak said. “I passed the ball more and learned how to distribute to the team. It made me grow as an athlete. I learned how to be more of a team member.” Liptak played center midfielder and center forward. She was also selected by the Western New England Prep School Field Hockey Association to play in the league’s all-star game. “Syd was our best stick handler this season and evaded many opponents on other teams with her superior skills,” WMA Coach Liz Fontaine said. “As a sophomore we relied on her for many key positions both offensively and defensively. Her teammates looked up to her as a leader on the field and as to how they should
Westfield’s James Wagner competes in last night’s diving competition against Agawam. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
Hockey, hoops games ppd.; Bombers swim on Wilbraham-Monson Academy’s Sydney Liptak competes against Westover in field hockey. (Submitted photo) complete specific skills. “Syd has a bright future here at WMA, and I look forward to working with her for the next two years.” Liptak also runs indoor track and plays lacrosse. FORMER BOMBER HOOKS ALL-CONFERENCE HONORS: Former Westfield High school football standout Joseph Hook had quite the ride his senior year at the University of Maine. Maine posted a 10-2 record and won the Colonial Athletic Association Championship, en route to a fifth place seed in the NCAA tournament. Hook was selected to the All CAA Conference second team. He has started at right tackle in three of the last four seasons, missing the 2011 season due to injury.
By Chris Putz Staff Writer WESTFIELD – It’s not baseball season, but Mother Nature continues to throw curveballs (or snowballs, for that matter) at some local high school sports teams. The entire slate of high school sporting events was erased Thursday and Friday due to inclement weather, except for one local swim meet. Westfield travelled to Agawam to take on the Brownies in a swim meet for both the boys’ and girls’ teams yesterday. Both schools’ superintendents agreed to the 4p.m. meet. The Westfield boys’ basketball team’s home game against Central on Friday night has been shuttled to Jan. 22 due to the Golden Eagles’ “no-school, no-play policy.” Most schools in Western Massachusetts were closed Thursday and Friday. The Westfield VocTech-Holyoke Catholic boys’ hoops game has also been postponed from Friday to Monday, January 6. All high school hockey games scheduled for Amelia Park Ice Arena Friday have been postponed, with no makeup date in sight.
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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS SCHEDULES SATURDAY January 4
MONDAY January 6
WRESTLING at 4th annual Bill Coelho PTWH Dual at Milford HS, 10 a.m. BOYS’ JV HOCKEY at East Longmeadow, Cyr Arena, 11 a.m. BOYS’ V HOCKEY vs. Wachusett, Amelia Park Ice Arena, 6 p.m
TUESDAY WEDNESDAY January 7 January 8 WESTFIELD HIGH SCHOOL
GIRLS’ JV HOOPS at West Springfield, 5:30 p.m. GIRLS’ V HOOPS at West Springfield, 7 p.m.
BOYS’ JV HOOPS at Commerce, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS at Commerce, 7 p.m. GIRLS’ HOCKEY (Cathedral/WHS/Long.) vs. Algonquin, Cyr Arena, 7 p.m.
Sunday, January 5
THURSDAY January 9
FRIDAY January 10 SWIMMING vs. East Longmeadow, 4 p.m. GIRLS’ JV HOOPS at Amherst, 5:30 p.m. INDOOR TRACK at Central, Smith College, Northampton, 6:45 p.m. BOYS’ V HOCKEY vs. GrotonDunstable Regional, Amelia Park Ice Arena, 7 p.m. GIRLS’ V HOOPS at Amherst, 7 p.m.
SKIING – PVIAC Race, Berkshire East, 5 p.m. GIRLS’ JV HOOPS vs. Ludlow, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ JV HOOPS at Cathedral, American International College, 5:30 p.m. GIRLS’ V HOOPS vs. Ludlow, 7 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS at Cathedral, American International College, 7 p.m.
WRESTLING vs. Agawam, 7 p.m. GIRLS’ HOCKEY (Cathedral/WHS/ Long.) at Brattleboro Union, Nelson Withington Rink BOYS’ ICE HOCKEY vs. East Longmeadow, Amelia Park Ice Arena, 8 p.m.
BOYS’ JV HOCKEY at South Hadley, Cyr Arena, 5 p.m.
SOUTHWICK-TOLLAND REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING vs. Granby, 10 a.m.
GIRLS’ JV HOOPS vs. Greenfield, 5:30 p.m. GIRLS’ V HOOPS vs. Greenfield, 7 p.m.
BOYS’ JV HOOPS vs. Hampshire, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS vs. Hampshire, 7 p.m.
WRESTLING vs. Dean Tech, 7 p.m.
GIRLS’ V HOOPS vs. Pioneer Valley Christian School, 6 p.m.
GIRLS’ V HOOPS vs. Dean Tech, 6 p.m.
GIRLS’ JV HOOPS at Mohawk, 5:30 p.m. GIRLS’ V HOOPS at Mohawk, 7 p.m.
BOYS’ JV HOOPS at Dean Tech, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS at Dean Tech, 7 p.m.
GATEWAY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ JV HOOPS vs. Westfield Voc-Tech, 4:30 p.m. SKIING – PVIAC Race, Berkshire East, 5 p.m. GIRLS’ V HOOPS vs. St. Mary, 6:30 p.m.
WRESTLING vs. Granby, 7 p.m.
BOYS’ JV HOOPS at Westfield Voc-Tech, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS at Westfield Voc-Tech, 7 p.m.
WESTFIELD VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ JV HOOPS vs. Commerce, 4 p.m.
BOYS’ JV HOOPS at Pathfinder, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS at Pathfinder, 7 p.m.
BOYS’ JV HOOPS at Smith Voke, 5 p.m. BOYS’ HOCKEY at Amherst, Orr Rink, 5:30 p.m. GIRLS’ V HOOPS at Commerce, 6 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS at Smith Voke, 6:30 p.m.
BOYS’ JV HOOPS vs. Franklin Tech, Westfield Middle School South, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS vs. Franklin Tech, Westfield Middle School South, 7 p.m.
GIRLS’ JV HOOPS at Gateway, 4:30 p.m.
GIRLS’ JV HOOPS vs. Putnam, 4 p.m. BOYS’ JV HOOPS vs. Gateway, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS vs. Gateway, 7 p.m.
GIRLS’ V HOOPS at Gateway, 5:30 p.m.
BOYS’ JV HOOPS vs. Pathfinder, Westfield Middle School South, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS vs. Pathfinder, Westfield Middle School South, 7 p.m.
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WESTFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY SCHEDULES
Ice Hockey DAY Wednesday Saturday Tuesday Thursday Thursday Saturday Thursday Saturday
DATE OPPONENT Jan. 8 at Becker College Jan. 11 FRAMINGHAM STATE Jan. 14 at Southern New Hampshire Jan. 16 SALEM STATE Jan. 23 at Fitchburg State Jan. 25 at UMass Dartmouth Jan. 30 WORCESTER STATE Feb. 1 PLYMOUTH STATE
TIME 5:35 7:30 7:35 7:00 4:30 7:35 5:35
Men’s Basketball DAY
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Monday Thursday Saturday Saturday Tuesday Saturday Tuesday Saturday Tuesday Thursday Tuesday Saturday Tuesday Saturday Tuesday Thursday Saturday
Jan. 6 Jan. 9 Jan. 11 Jan. 18 Jan. 21 Jan. 25 Jan. 28 Feb. 1 Feb. 4 Feb. 6 Feb. 11 Feb. 15 Feb. 18 Feb. 22 Feb. 25 Feb. 27 March 1
at Newbury FRAMINGHAM STATE at Bridgewater State at Salem State WORCESTER STATE MCLA at Fitchburg State at Framingham State BRIDGEWATER STATE at Western Connecticut SALEM STATE at Worcester State at MCLA FITCHBURG STATE MASCAC Quarterfinals MASCAC Semi-finals MASCAC Championship
Thursday Saturday Saturday Thursday Saturday Tuesday Saturday Tuesday Saturday
Feb. 6 Feb. 8 Feb. 15 Feb. 20 Feb. 22 Feb. 25 March 1 March 4 March 8
at Framingham State at Salem State FITCBHURG STATE UMASS DARTMOUTH at Worcester State PLYMOUTH STATE MASCAC Quarterfinals MASCAS Semifinals MASCAC Championship
5:35 7:35 7:35
NFL PLAYOFF GLANCE
TIME 6:00 7:30 3:00 3:00 7:30 3:00 7:30 3:00 7:30 7:00 7:30 3:00 7:30 3:00 TBA TBA TBA
at Carolina, 1:05 p.m. (FOX)
Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 4 Kansas City at Indianapolis, 4:35 p.m. (NBC) New Orleans at Philadelphia, 8:10 p.m. (NBC) Sunday, Jan. 5 San Diego at Cincinnati, 1:05 p.m. (CBS)
Indianapolis, Kansas City or San Diego at Denver, 4:40 p.m. (CBS) Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 19 AFC, 3 p.m. (CBS)
San Francisco at Green Bay, 4:40 p.m. (FOX)
Divisional Playoffs
Saturday, Jan. 11 Green Bay, San Francisco or New Orleans at Seattle, 4:35 p.m. (FOX)
NFL, 6:30 p.m. (FOX) Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 26 At Honolulu TBD, 7:30 p.m. (NBC)
Relish what’s coming next month! Cincinnati, Indianpolis or Kansas City at New England, 8:15 p.m. (CBS)
Sunday, Jan. 12 Philadelphia, Green Bay or San Francisco
Super Bowl
Sunday, Feb. 2 At East Rutherford, N.J. AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 6:30 p.m. (FOX)
1st. 2nd. Look for it right here January 1st. DAY DATE OPPONENT TIME 3rd. Sunday Jan. 19 BRIDGEWATER STATE 1:00 4th. Jan. 25 at University of Saint Joseph (CT) 1:00 Saturday Saturday Feb. 1 WESTERN CONNECTICUT 1:00 5th. Friday Feb. 14 New England Championships Saturday Feb. 15 New England Championships 6th. Sunday Feb. 16 New England Championships 7th. University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI Look for it right here January 8th. 1st. 9th. Men’s & Women’s Indoor Track and Field Women’s Swimming & Diving
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QUESTIONS & ATTITUDE Compelling questions ... and maybe a few actual answers
SPEED FREAKS A couple questions we had to ask — ourselves
TOP 5 DRIVERS FOR THE TITLE
2014 contenders
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What should be NASCAR’s New Year’s resolution for 2014? GODSPEAK: Even out the competition so that the “middle of the pack” teams have a better chance of winning races. Only David Ragan broke the seal in 2013. KEN’S CALL: To increase its stated efforts to put more emphasis on winning races. You can’t guarantee last-lap fireworks, but you can encourage them.
Oops, that doesn’t sound good for NASCAR’s business climate, does it? While NASCAR would certainly rather keep UPS on board, these things are fluid — companies come and go every year. Few of them are as huge as UPS. In a press-release statement, UPS Public-Relations Director Susan Rosenberg called it “strictly a business decision.” Well, yeah, of course. We weren’t assuming it had anything to do with a lack of pit passes or quality parking spots. Meanwhile, NASCAR’s chief sales officer, Jim O’Connell, went to the cabinet marked “Universal Statements, Fit for all Occasions” and released the following about UPS: “As we celebrate its long and successful tenure, we also welcome seven new companies to the family of Official NASCAR Partners.” That’s aimed at those of you — including his bosses — who might cast a sideways glance in his direction.
And Jimmie Johnson’s New Years resolution? GODSPEAK: That Hendrick Motorsports hires more racing engineers to keep with tradition and stay ahead of the curve on rules changes. KEN’S CALL: To keep Chad Knaus happy and comfortable. Sure, Jimmie could maybe win without him, but why take that chance?
Homologate? Isn’t that something they do to milk?
Sportscar testing this week at Daytona. Where’d the offseason go?
KEY DATES Dec. 6: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards, Las Vegas Jan. 9-10: Daytona Preseason Thunder testing (Sprint Cup) Jan. 11-12: Daytona Preseason Thunder testing (Nationwide) Jan. 13-14: Daytona Preseason Thunder testing (truck series) Jan. 29: NASCAR Hall of Fame, 2014 induction, Charlotte, N.C. Feb. 15: The Sprint Unlimited Feb. 16: Daytona 500 qualifying Feb. 18: UNOH Battle at the Beach (K&N Pro East, Whelen Modifieds) Feb. 20: Budweiser Duel Feb. 21: NextEra Energy Resources 250 Feb. 22: DRIVE4COPD 300 Feb. 23: Daytona 500
Did FedEx win the race of carriers? “Win” might not be the operative word, because when your opponent elects to not participate, losing is no longer an option. But FedEx can definitely boast that it outlasted UPS when it comes to NASCAR involvement. UPS has announced that it will be out of the racin’ game for good after the 2014 season. UPS ended its team sponsorship of Jack Roush’s No. 6 car in 2012 and now is taking its tens of millions of marketing dollars elsewhere — specifically to 68 college athletic programs through marketing behemoth IMG College, which is currently gobbling up every available big college as a client.
Let’s hope we see more of this in 2014 — littleteam drivers, like David Ragan, in Victory Lane.
GODSPEAK: There is no such thing as an offseason in this day and age. Folks in racing get a day off here, a day off there. I just hope they got some eggnog. KEN’S CALL: We’re in man’s Age of Diminished Attention Span. In marketing, a slow news cycle is death.
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UPS is moving out of NASCAR faster than it moved Christmas packages.
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Don’t be surprised to see a different version of this photo again at the end of the 2014 Sprint Cup Series season. We have a new year, which means a new NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, which means anybody competing for the championship is tied in points in the title chase. Yes, a 43-way tie. With that, we’ll look into our crystal ball and pick the top-five drivers to watch in the championship hunt. This is tricky because NASCAR made dramatic rule changes to the Gen-6 car, which only has one season of competition under its belt. Obviously, the elite teams with the big budgets should have an edge right out of the gate, but remember, the fastest car doesn’t always win the race. Here are the top-five picks in no particular order, other than listing the defending Cup Series champion first. JIMMIE JOHNSON: He won his sixth Cup Series championship in 2013. Now it’s on to try to catch all-time winners Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt, who both notched seven titles. Johnson has to be the odds-on favorite, since he knows how to steer a stock car in playoff mode and represents the strongest race team, Hendrick Motorsports, in the series. BRAD KESELOWSKI: If you are looking for a driver with a big chip on his shoulder, “Kez” is your man. Keselowski won the 2012 Cup Series championship, then turned around and missed the
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2013 Chase. He came out of the chute strong, with four consecutive top-five finishes, but was plagued by gremlins after that. He could be Ford’s top driver in 2014 over in the Penske Racing camp. DENNY HAMLIN: Remember 2010? Hamlin went into the final race with the points lead and exited with a frown. In 2013, he not only suffered a fracture to his backbone, but had a lackluster season. But keep this in mind — he won the season finale at Homestead, which should give him momentum going into the 2014 season. He was third on the Joe Gibbs Racing depth chart in 2013, so the incentive to perform is flush for glory. KEVIN HARVICK: After going the entire 2013 season as a lame-duck-driver, Harvick gets a clean sheet at Stewart-Haas Racing. No longer under the shadow of the late Dale Earnhardt, Harvick may go berserk and have a first-year season like Matt Kenseth in 2013. Kenseth won seven races and finished second in points. Expect those kind of numbers from Harvick. CARL EDWARDS: After a year of getting-toknow-you with veteran crew chief Jimmy Fennig, Edwards could erupt like a dormant volcano. The trick here is to pay attention to the crew chief. Fennig knows all the nuances of the sport, and if Edwards goes with the Fennig flow, the No. 99 car could become NASCAR’s new standard-bearer. The theme here should be: Watch. Learn. Listen.
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At first glance, it might appear that way. At second glance, it signals a need for the dictionary. And as it turns out, to “homologate” means to make something official, to bestow upon it the Good Housekeeping Seal.
Why do we now know this? Oh, because the FIA’s Land Speed Records Commission announced last week that Colin Braun’s record run at Daytona in October — 222.971 mph in a Ford-powered prototype sportscar — has, yes, been officially homologated by the world’s foremost motorsports authority. Oops, it appears we’re already using our new word incorrectly. If it’s “homologated,” by definition it’s official, so to say “officially homologated” is redundant, isn’t it? Let’s move on.
Staten Island is back in the game? Yes and no. That NASCAR dream of building a track in the shadow of the New York City skyline has come and gone. That property is now in the hands of a company that’s in the early stages of turning it into a marine port. And frankly, NASCAR’s higher-ups — including many of the well-heeled drivers and owners — have such a long history with floating toys, the thought of a marine port might be a “Plan B” they wish they’d dreamed up. Considering the NYC red tape that must be involved, no thanks. Ken Willis has been covering NASCAR for The Daytona Beach NewsJournal for 27 years. Reach him at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com
Kenseth was on the money with his 2013 move to Gibbs Racing In his first address to the media on Feb. 14 before the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, Matt Kenseth explained why he left Roush Fenway Racing for Joe Gibbs Racing, his relationship with crew chief Jason Ratcliff and his expectations for the season. Kenseth went on to win seven races and finish second in Cup Series points.
a great opportunity for me, for our team, for everybody. I feel like absolutely it was the right move for me to make at the right time and the way everything worked out, so I’m going to try to make the most of it.”
What has been the biggest change with your new team? “Well, again, I keep going back to we haven’t raced yet, so it’s hard to answer a lot of questions until we start getting results.” “That’s what it’s all about. We can talk and think about it and daydream about it and do all those things and work towards it, but it’s really about where you end up on Sunday. Until we get a couple of months in and kind of see where we’re at, it’s hard to say.”
What did you know about crew chief Jason Ratcliff before joining JGR? “I didn’t know Jason. I knew a lot about his history and what he’s done in the sport and Nationwide Series, and I’ve known a lot of people that have worked with him. Noticed him around the garage, but didn’t know him personally at all.”
Will the change of scenery help reinvigorate you?
What are your goals for 2013?
“It wasn’t about the scenery at all, and I didn’t really need to be reinvigorated, I guess. I always feel very energetic — really looking forward to the season starting. I always do, although every year is a little bit different.” “So, it wasn’t really about that, but I feel really great about my move. I feel like it’s
“My only goal right now is to win. I mean, you want to be a contender each and every week, but I think it’s important for us to win. I know you can’t force it and you never know if it’s going to happen or when it’s going to happen, but I think that’s my first goal is to try and go out and get a win right away.”
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Matt Kenseth was remarkably accurate about the 2013 season before the racing got started.
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Annie’s Mailbox By Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar
Tapped Out Dear Annie: We always have been encouraged to support our local businesses. However, there seems to be a common trend now where the clerks often ask for a donation to a local charity at the end of every transaction. I have been solicited at the grocery store, the pet store, the movies, at fast-food restaurants and even the bank. A simple “no, thank you” isn’t enough. I’m reminded that it’s a worthy cause and made to feel guilty. Annie, I am on a limited income and already have determined which charities will get whatever extra money I have to contribute. From now on, I am going to shop only at those places that appreciate my business and say “thank you” without expecting a charitable donation on top of it. -- Tapped Out Dear Tapped: We understand how annoying this can be, but charities are hurting, and this is a relatively harmless way of reminding people to donate when they can. Of course, it would be better if the business establishments didn’t make the patrons feel that they are being hounded. Asking once is sufficient, and “no, thank you” should be an acceptable response. Perhaps you could speak to someone in management about it. Surely you aren’t the only one who dislikes this practice. Dear Annie: I think you were sleeping at the switch when you replied to “Frustrated,” the president of a local women’s organization. She said she had tried every possible gambit to get one of the members to stop monopolizing the meetings. Does this organization have a knowledgeable parliamentarian? Most organizations use Robert’s Rules of Order as their parliamentary authority, and the bylaws should say so. There is enough information in Robert’s to cover the subject of disciplinary procedures, which, among other things, include offenses occurring in a meeting, breaches of order by members in a meeting, calling a member to order, naming an offender and more. The president should confer with the parliamentarian. If there isn’t one, perhaps they should consider hiring one. They should at least have the recommended edition of Robert’s on hand and learn the rules. I hope this helps. -- Parliamentarian Dear Parliamentarian: We hope so, although we also know that not every organization sticks to the rules. And even when they do, it can be more difficult to discipline a member than strict adherence to the rules may indicate. Dear Annie: I read in your column about so many dysfunctional relationships, adult children not speaking to each other, siblings fighting, grandparents ignored or not able to see grandchildren, and many other stories. I am so blessed and grateful for the family I have. We take care of each other, and someone is always there when we need help. I am sure I don’t tell my family often enough that I love them and appreciate them. If more families would do this, many problems would be avoided or even eliminated. This is the season for peace and love, and it starts with me and one person at a time. -- Grateful Grannie in Casper, Wy. 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. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www. creators.com.
HINTS FROM HELOISE The Toothpick Tool Dear Heloise: I am an avid reader of your column and appreciate all the helpful hints you publish. Did you know that a TOOTHPICK can be a helpful tool? Instead of using a knife or other sharp tool, use a toothpick to clean the area around the sink where it “meets” the countertop. -- Lonnie B., Warren, Ohio Good hint, Lonnie. Say “Hi” to my friends in Warren! I enjoyed my time there a few years ago when giving a speech, and my visit to the newspaper. -- Heloise MY FRESH BIN Dear Heloise: My family recycles glass, cans, bottles and jars. These items are rinsed before going into the recycle bin in the garage, but it still gets dirty and smelly. So, every week I scrub the bin with baking soda and hot water to keep it fresh! -- Liz P. in Kentucky Nice to hear that you are recycling so much! Yes, we rinse the cans, but sometimes things do get messy. Baking soda to the rescue, and it’s earth-friendly, too. Not only can you clean your recycle bin, but the garbage cans inside and outside your home as well. There are so many money-saving hints for baking soda that I wrote my pamphlet Heloise’s Baking Soda Hints and Recipes. To receive one, send $5 and a long, self-addressed, stamped (66 cents) envelope to: Heloise/Baking Soda, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001. Diaper pails also can be filled with odors! Leave a small amount of baking soda sprinkled in the bottom of the pail to keep odors to a minimum. -Heloise
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Couple promote new craft beer business model GARY DZEN The Boston Globe BELMONT, Mass. (AP) — Kate Baker and Suzanne Schalow founded Craft Beer Cellar in Belmont in 2010, and today, at any given time, its 1,500 square feet of retail space are filled with more than 1,000 beers from 350 breweries. Beers are organized by region, from Worcester to the West Coast, with an emphasis on local brews. Employees have jobs like Head Beer Geek, Ambassador of Fine Ales and Lagers, and Hoptologist and wear hooded sweat shirts emblazoned with the words “Beer Geek.” “People take two steps in the door and they don’t know how to proceed,” says Brian Shaw, who opened a Craft Beer Cellar in Newton Centre recently, joining franchises in Winchester, Westford, and Braintree. “People say, ‘Oh my God, I didn’t know there was this much beer.’?” Is there ever. And now Baker and Schalow are betting their model can work elsewhere as they expand to New Hampshire and Vermont, as well as Florida, St. Louis, and maybe Seattle. Their goal is to make people think about whether to buy a Pretty Things Jack D’Or or a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale as carefully as they would wrestle between a cabernet or a merlot. It is a risky quest. Despite craft beer’s popularity boom, creating a national franchise of specialty beer stores has not been done. One reason could be that craft beers accounted for only 10 percent of the dollars in total beer sales in the United States in 2012. Craft Beer Cellar stores carry flavorful ales and lagers that are brewed to traditional standards and can be hard to find. Baker and Schalow prefer to focus on other numbers, like the 2,403 brewers that operated in the United States in 2012, the most since the 1880s, according to the Brewers Association. Schalow and Baker hope to capitalize on this explosion by packing each small, service-oriented store with carefully curated beer while leaving out nips, cigarettes, and jugs of wine. “Beer store is still not a ‘category’ in the world,” says Schalow. “No one has done this. No one has put everything on the line and said, ‘I can teach people about great beer.’” Schalow and Baker, partners in life as well as business, met in 2002 when Schalow, then a manager at Cambridge Common restaurant, hired Baker. The first beer Baker consumed in front of Schalow was a Budweiser. “I almost fell over,” Schalow says. Around that time, Schalow wanted to take Blue Moon, a MillerCoors product, off the
bar’s tap list. When ownership said no, she challenged her staff to “sell the heck” out of something else, and Magic Hat’s Circus Boy, a craft beer, eventually replaced Blue Moon. Baker and Schalow married in 2010, and the couple decided that year to leave the restaurant and open the beer store. “When I told her craft beer store, she was a lot supportive and a little skeptical,” says Schalow. “I told her, ‘If we make it amazing, they will come, it doesn’t matter where it is.’?” The pair have scoured the region looking for craft beer from hard-to-find brewers. Stores carry multiple styles from brewers like Northampton’s Brewmaster Jack, Everett’s Night Shift Brewing, and Plymouth’s Mayflower Brewing, as well as beers from Belgium, Italy, and France. “It’s all about building and cultivating the relationships,” says Baker. “And it could be with a distributor, or a bartender, or a homebrewer who has visions of creating their brewery.” “They’re really in tune with the culture of craft beer,” says Mark Vasconcelos, craft brand manager for Burke Distributing, a Massachusetts company that delivers 37 craft brands to stores around the state, in addition to larger brands like Coors Light. “They’re proactive in letting us know if there’s something that’s going to be in demand by the consumers.” Carrying 350 beer brands is not without challenges. “Beer is the least marked up drinkable thing,” Baker says. “There’s a reason why no one has done this before.” A big reason is that light beer, in particular, remains hugely popular. “We celebrate the beer renaissance currently taking place, and we are proud to offer beer drinkers a portfolio of great beers for every drinking occasion,” Karina Diehl, a spokeswoman for MillerCoors, said in a statement. “Light beer is the largest segment in the American beer industry for a reason.” John Libonati and Chris Schutte own Social Wines in South Boston, which carries only premium beer, but also wine and spirits. They acknowledge the higher markups on wine make it easier to not carry the big-name beers. “The growth of the craft beer market right now isn’t being fueled by people who only want beer,” says Jeff Wharton, co-founder of DrinkCraftbeer.com. “I think the world is ready for more liquor stores with a craft beer ethos.” Craft beer, by definition, means small, independently owned, and brewed to traditional standards; it accounted for 6.5 percent of the
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WESTFIELD - Applications for the 33rd annual Colleen Contest are now available at the Sons of Erin Club located at 22 William Street, Westfield and also at Westfield High School, Westfield Voc-tech High School, St. Mary’s High School, Gateway Regional High School and Southwick-Tolland Regional School. Applications must be postmarked by January 14. Interested contestants must be between the ages of 17 and 22, of Irish Heritage, have never been married and have no children. Applicants must be a resident of Westfield, Southwick, Granville, Blandford, Chester, Huntington, Montgomery, Russell or a daughter of a member of the Sons of Erin. The Colleen and her court will represent the Sons of Erin and Westfield at various events in 2014 including the Holyoke St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Among other prizes, the Colleen will receive a voucher for a trip to Ireland. The Colleen Ball will be held on Friday, February 7, 2014 at Chez Joseph in Agawam, Ma. Tickets will be available soon at the Sons of Erin.
In this photo taken on Dec. 6, 2013, Craft Beer Cellar founders Kate Baker, left, and Suzanne Schalow, right, pose with Craft Beer Cellar store owner Brian Shaw in Newton, Mass. Beers there are organized by region, from Worcester to the West Coast, with an emphasis on local brews. Employees have jobs like Head Beer Geek, Ambassador of Fine Ales and Lagers, and Hoptologist and wear hooded sweat shirts emblazoned with the words “Beer Geek.” (AP Photo/The Boston Globe, Dina Rudick) volume of all beer sold in 2012, according to the Brewers Association. Schalow knows craft beer is not yet on everyone’s radar. “We’re the crazy hippies with the headbands, screaming and shouting and carrying the torches,” she says. To better reach the masses, the store has tried to engage potential customers through social media. Lee Movic, who runs Craft Beer Cellar’s social media accounts, positions himself as an advocate for craft beer, not just the store. Movic attends events, even for competing stores, pushing craft. He tweets about those events, new beer arrivals, and generally positive messages like, “Good morning, beer geeks. We hope you have a great day today.” He is luring new customers the only way he knows how. “Everyone loves great customer service,” he says, “so we start with that.” Franchising was not always the plan, says Baker. The pair spent “close to 50 hours” scouting store locations in St. Louis before hiring a real estate developer to help. They admittedly don’t know the Brandon, Fla., market as they know Belmont. Selecting new franchise sites and owners has taken them away from their base. “The first couple months were humbly painful,” says Schalow. She says the store’s
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0265 Firewood 100% HARDWOOD, GREEN, $140. 3 year season. $150. 1/2 & 1/4 cords also available. Outdoor furnace wood also available, cheap. CALL FOR DAILY SPECIALS!! Wholesale Wood Products, (304)851-7666. A SEASONED LOG TRUCK LOAD of hardwood; (when processed at least 7 cords), for only $650-$700 (depends on delivery distance). Call Chris @ (413)454-5782. AFFORDABLE FIREWOOD. Seasoned and green. Cut, split, delivered. Any length. Now ready for immediate delivery. Senior and bulk discount. Call (413)848-2059, (413)530-4820. END OF YEAR FIREWOOD SALE. Seasoned or green. Cut, split and delivered. Call for pricing after 7p.m. or before 11a.m. (413)627-9110. SEASONED FIREWOOD 100% hardwood. Stacking available. Cut, split, delivered. (128cu.ft.) Volume discounts. Call for pricing. Hollister's Firewood (860)653-4950. SEASONED FIREWOOD. Any length. Reasonably priced. Call Residential Tree Service, (413)530-7959. SILO DRIED firewood. (128cu.ft.) guaranteed. For prices call Keith Larson (413)357-6345, (413)537-4146.
0340 Apartment WESTFIELD 1st floor, 2 room apartment, all utilities included. Parking on premises. Storage area. Non smoking, no pets. $615/month. Available January 15th. Call (413)568-5905.
WESTFIELD 2 bedroom, 1 bath condo. $875/month includes heat and hot water. No smoking, no pets. First, last, security. (413)519-8271. WESTFIELD 3 BEDROOM, kitchen, livingroom, bath, 2nd floor. $950/month plus utilities. First, last, security. (413)250-4811. WESTFIELD reconditioned, 2 bedroom condo. $795/month heat included. For sale or rent. Call (603)726-4595.
0339 Landlord Services DASHE-INTEL Comprehensive Landlord Services Tenant screening including criminal background and credit checks. Call Steve or Kate (413)5791754 www.Dashe-Intel.com
0340 Apartment 1 BEDROOM, recently remodeled efficiency apartment. Quiet neighborhood, off street parking, appliances including washer/dryer hookups. $600/month no utilities. First, last, security. Non smoker, no pets. (413)374-8803. 5 ROOM, 3 bedroom, completely renovated Westfield/Russell area, country setting. NEW stove, refrigerator and heating unit. Large yard, parking. $895/month. No pets please. Call today, won't last. (413)3483431. GRANVILLE, QUIET, SECURE location. 2 bedroom, 2nd floor, utilities, laundry hookups. $800/month. New Year's Special. (413)231-2015. WESTBRIDGE TOWNHOUSES, 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, full basement. $800/month plus utilities. (413)562-2295. WESTFIELD Beautiful 2 bedroom townhouse, clean, quiet, 1-1/2 bath, carpeting, appliances, hot water included. Very reasonable heat cost. Sorry no pets. From $795/month. Call for more information (860)485-1216 Equal Housing Opportunity WESTFIELD 1 bedroom apartments, large closets, free heat and hot water included, laundry, parking. Possible pet. $785/month. (413)562-2266. PLEASANT STREET, Westfield. 4 room, 1 bedroom. $725/month plus utilities. (413)562-2295. WESTFIELD 1 BEDROOM, kitchen and bath, 2nd floor. No pets. $650/month includes utilities. First, last, security. (413)250-4811. WESTFIELD 1&2 bedroom apartments, rent includes heat and hot water. Excellent size and location. No dogs. Call weekdays (413)786-9884. WESTFIELD 1st floor, 2 room apartment, all utilities included. Parking on premises. Storage area. Non smoking, no pets. $615/month. Available December 15th. Call (413)568-5905.
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0345 Rooms HUNTINGTON 1 room with heat, hot water, cable TV, air conditioning included. Refrigerator and microwave. $110/week. (413)531-2197.
MONTGOMERY 5 miles from WHS. Beautiful office. $350/month includes utilities and WiFi. 2 adjoining offices. $525/month. Call (413)9776277.
HUNTINGTON 1 room with heat, hot water, cable TV, air 0380 Vacation Rental WESTFIELD, 2nd floor, 2 bed- conditioning included. Refrigerroom, kitchen, living room, bath, ator and microwave. $110/week. E N G L E W O O D , F L O R I D A . e n c l o s e d p o r c h . N o p e t s . (413)531-2197. Lovely home for vacation rental. $825/month plus utilities. First, LARGE FURNISHED ROOM. Two bedroom, two bath, garage. last, security. (413)250-4811. Parking, bus route, walking dis- Close to beaches. Text/call for t a n c e t o a l l a m e n i t i e s . details, 413-543-1976. $120/weekly. Responsible maWESTFIELD 2&3 bedroom available. Large yard, washer & t u r e m a l e p r e f e r r e d . N o n - 0400 Land dryer hook-up. No smoking. No s m o k e r . ( 4 1 3 ) 3 4 8 - 5 0 7 0 . pets. Off-street parking, quiet BEAUTIFUL, SECLUDED n e i g h b o r h o o d . P l e a s e c a l l ROOM TO RENT in a quiet (413)519-7257. neighborhood. Kitchen and laun- mountaintop lot in Montdry privilege. Heat, A/C, utilities. g o m e r y , M A . P a n o r a m i c Available now to non-smoker. views. Fully cleared, desWONDERFUL 1&2 bedroom $ 6 0 0 / m o n t h , W e s t f i e l d . tumped and graded. Ready to apartments in beautiful down- (413)355-2338 or (413)562- build. Minutes to Westfield. town Westfield. Carpeting, AC, 7341. 5.69 acres. Asking $160,000. parking. Starting at $540/month. Call (413)562-5736. Call Debbie at (413)562-1429.
0400 Land LAND FOR SALE in West Springfield-Tatham Section. Building 100ft. by 314ft., $40,000. Call for details (413)495-2059.
0410 Mobile Homes CHICOPEE behind BankNorth, 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, 14'x67' bay window, fireplace, pellet stove, appliances, air. Off Memorial Drive. $52,500. DASAP.MHVILLAGE.COM. DASAP (413)593-9961.
0440 Services A1 ODD JOBS/HANDYMAN. Debris removal, landscaping, garage/attic cleansouts, interior and exterior painting, power washing, basic carpentry and plumbing. All types of repair work and more. (413)562-7462.
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0285 Wanted To Buy PAYING CASH FOR COINS, stamps, medals, tokens, paper money, diamonds and jewelry, gold and silver scrap. Broadway Coin & Stamp, 144 Broadway, Chicopee Falls, MA. (413)5949550.
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CARPET, LINOLEUM, CERAMIC TILE, HARDWOOD FLOORS. Sales, MASTER ELECTRICIAN 40 years exService. Installation & Repairs. Cus- perience. Insured, reasonable prices. tomer guaranteed quality, clean, ef- No job too small. Call Tom Daly, ficient, workmanship. Call Rich (413)543-3100. Lic# A7625. (413)530-7922. WAGNER RUG & FLOORING, LLC. 95 MAINLINE DRIVE, WESTFIELD. Flooring/Floor Sanding (413)568-0520. One stop shopping for all your floors. Over 40 years in busi- A RON JOHNSON’S FLOOR SANDness. www.wagnerrug.com ING. Installation, repairs, 3 coats polyurethane. Free estimates. (413) 569-3066. Chimney Sweeps HENTNICK CHIMNEY SWEEPS. Chimney repairs and rebuilds. Stainless steel caps and liner systems. Inspections, masonry work and gutter cleaning. Free estimates. Insured. Quality work from a business you can trust. (413)848-0100, 1-800-793-3706.
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Gutter Cleaning RAIN GUTTERS CLEANED, REPAIRED. Antennas removed, chimneys repaired and chimney caps installed. Roof leaks repaired, vent areas sealed. Sr. citizen discount. Insured. Free estimates. H.I. Johnson Services. (413)596-8859 before 9p.m.
COMPUTER HELP AVAILABLE. In home training. Network setup, data re- GUTTER CLEANING. Get then clean covery and much more. For more infor- ed before the FREEZE!! Clean, flush and check for leaks. Call Matt mation call John (413)568-5928. (413)777-8381.
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T-BEST DRYWALL. Complete profesHauling sional drywall at amateur prices. Our ceilings are tops! Call Mike 413-821- A DUMP TRUCK. Attic, cellars, yard, 8971. Free estimates. scrap metal removal. Seasoned Firewood. (413)569-1611, (413)374-5377. KINGER PAINT & DRYWALL. Interior, exterior, ceiling repair, drywall A.R.A. JUNK REMOVAL SERVICE. damage, cabinet refinishing, specialFurniture, trash, appliances. Full house izing in textured ceilings. Fully incleanouts, basements, attics, yards. sured. Call (413)579-4396. Furnace and hot water heater removal. 24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE. Electrician Free estimate on phone. Senior discount. Call Pete (413)433-0356. JIM FERRIS ELECTRIC. Senior dis- www.arajunkremoval.com. count. No job too small! Insured, free estimates. 40 years experience. Home Improvement Lic. #16303. Call (413)330-3682. POEHLMAN ELECTRIC. All types of wiring. Free estimates, insured. SPECIALIZING IN PORTABLE AND WHOLE HOUSE KOHLER GENERATORS, SERVICE UPGRADES, SMALL JOBS, POOLS. Gutter deicing cables installed. I answer all calls! Prompt service, best prices. Lic. #A-16886. (413)562-5816.
AMR BUILDING & REMODELING. Sunrooms, decks, additions, bathrooms, window and door replacements and more. MA. Reg. #167264. Licensed and fully insured. Call Stuart Richter (413)297-5858.
C&N CARPENTRY. Suspended ceilings, home improvements and remodeling. Licensed and insured. Call TURCOTTE ELECTRIC. 30+ years (413)262-9314. experience. Electrical installations, emergency service work. Generac portable or whole house generator installations. HVAC controls and en- BRUNO ANTICO BUILDING REadditions, ergy saving green technology up- MODELING.Kitchens, decks, rec rooms, more. Prompt, regrades. Fully insured. All calls an- liable service, free estimates. Mass swered. Master’s Lic #A-18022. Registered #106263, licensed & in(413)214-4149. sured. Call Bruno, (413)562-9561.
Home Improvement DAVE DAVIDSON BATHROOM & KITCHEN REMODELING. “GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME” Complete Bath Renovations. Mass. License #072233, Mass. Registration #144831. CT. HIC. #0609568. Now serving CT. Insured. Quality Work on Time on Budget Since 1984. (413)569-9973. www.davedavidsonremodeling.com
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JOSEPH’S HANDYMAN COMPANY. Carpentry, remodeling, kitchen, baths, basements, drywall, tile, floors, suspended ceilings, restoration services, doors, windows, decks, stairs, interior/exterior painting, plumbing. Small jobs ok. All types of professional work done since 1985. Call Joe, (413)364-7038.
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.
House Painting COPPA HOME IMPROVEMENTS. Remodeling, home restoration, home repairs, finish basements, bath/kitchen trim/woodwork, siding/decks, windows/ doors. CSL 103574, HIC Reg.147782. Fully licensed and insured. Free estimates. Call Joe (413)454-8998.
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 Delcamp (413)569-3733.
TOM DISANTO Home Improvements The best choice for all interior and exterior building and remodeling. Specializing in the design and building of residential additions, since 1985. Kitchens, baths, siding, windows, decks, porches, sunrooms, garages. License #069144. MA Reg. #110710. FREE ESTIMATES, REFERENCES, FULLY INSURED. Call Tom (413)568-7036.
PAUL MAYNARD CONSTRUCTION. All your carpentry needs. Remodeling specialty. Additions, garages, decks, siding. Finish trim, window replacement. Kitchens designed by Prestige. (413)386-4606.
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ALWAYS CALL FIRST!!! M&M SERVICES-20 Years serving the Westfield area. Painting, staining, house washing, interior/exterior. Wall coverings. Commercial/residential. Free estimates. Insured. References. Mass Reg. #121723. Call (413)568-9731. No job too small !! At SANTA FE PAINTING CO. We're your color specialists! Fall season is in full swing. Get all your exterior painting needs done now. Including painting and staining log homes. Call (413)230-8141
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
Roofing ONE STOP SHOPPING for all your ROOFING needs! POWER WASHING/CLEANING revitalizing your roof, removing ugly black stains, mold and moss, we’ll make it look like new plus prolong the life of your roof. We do emergency repairs, new construction, complete tear off, ice and water protection barrier systems, skylight repairs. Snow & ice removal. FREE gutter cleaning with any roof repair or roof job. 10% senior discount. Free estimates. MA. Lic. #170091. Call (413)977-5701
A NEW LOOK FOR FALL. Let Home Decor help. Interior painting and wallpapering, specializing in faux finishes. Servicing the area over 12 years. Call Kendra now for a free estimate and Snowplowing decorating advice. (413)564-0223, A.B.C. SNOWPLOWING. Westfield (413)626-8880. residential only. 15 years experience. Call Dave (413)568-6440. PROFESSIONAL PAINTING & WALLPAPERING. Quality workmanship at low, SNOWPLOWING / SNOWBLOWING. low prices. Interior/Exterior Painting & On time, reliable service. Average Staining, Wallpaper, Ceiling Repair & driveway, $40.00. Also specializing in Spray. Free Estimates. Call Steve at fall clean ups. Call (413)727-4787. (413)386-3293. SNOWPLOWING, SNOW BLOWING, SHOVELING. Call Accurate Lawn Landscaping/Lawn Care Services, (413)579-1639. ALL CALLS RETURNED! Fall cleanups, curb side leaf pickups, mow- Tree Service ing, aerating, overseeding, dethatching, mulch & trimming. Free estimates. Ask A BETTER OPTION - GRANFIELD TREE SERVICE. Tree Removal, Land for Mel (413)579-1407. Clearing, Excavating. Firewood, Log
Truck Loads. (413)569-6104.
AMERICAN TREE & SHRUB. Professional fertilizing, planting, pruning, caLEAVES -CURB SIDE LEAF RE- bling and removals. Free estimates, MOVAL - FALL CLEAN UPS. Call for fully insured. Please call Ken 569your free Quote today! You rake um' & 0469. Leaf the rest to us. Residential and Commercial, Fully Insured. Visit our CONRAD TREE SERVICE. Expert website at tree removal. Prompt estimates. www.BusheeEnterprises.com for all of Crane work. Insured. “After 34 our services! Bushee Enterprises, LLC. years, we still work hard at being (413)569-3472. #1.” (413)562-3395.
RICHTER HOME Building & Remodeling. Specializing in home improvement services. Roofs, windows, doors, decks, finished carpentry, remodels, additions, basement refinishing, and much more. Quality work from a punctual, reliable and experienced home improvement company. Upholstery Licensed and Insured. MA CSL #97940, MA HIC #171709, CT HIC YARD CLEANUP, thatching, leaf brush #0633464. Call Dave Richter for an es- removal, hedge/tree trimming, KEITH'S UPHOLSTERY & REPAIRS. mulch/stone, mowing. Call Accurate 30+ years experience for home or busitimate (413)519-9838. Lawncare, (413)579-1639.
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