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SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2014

Pond patrol to deploy weekends

By CARL E. HARTDEGEN Staff Writer WESTFIELD – Although it took more than a decade, city police will bring the rule of law to the high seas – or at least to the placid waters of the Hampton Ponds – when the department’s new patrol boat, The Patti Andras, makes its inaugural cruise on Pequot Pond over the Fourth of July weekend.

Police Chief John Camerota said that the residents of the ponds neighborhood have been crying out for enforcement on the waters of the ponds where jet skis and other speedy watercraft, often unregistered, have reportedly operated recklessly with impunity for years.

He said the effort to acquire a patrol boat “actually started about then years ago and it kinda fell off the radar screen” but the requests for law enforcement on the water continued.

The chief said that the idea became a real possibility when a ponds family upgraded its boat “and they gave us the deal of the century that we couldn’t refuse.

“Plus, I was very lucky to have three Coast Guard veterans” on the force who are willing to train the officers who will staff the boat, named for the late Patti Andras, a prominent resident whose contributions to the city included service as a police commissioner, when it is deployed on summer weekends from the Fourth of July until Labor Day. He said that he took his plan to the See Boat Patrol, Page 5

Training officers Seth Florek and Jared Rowe supervise as Westfield Police Officer Jeffrey M. Vigneualt pilots ‘The Patti Andras’ back to the Hampton Ponds boat launch after a training cruise on Pequot Pond. The Patti Andras will be used to patrol the ponds on weekends this summer. (Photo by Carl E. Hartdegen)

— Richard Le Gallienne

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Council defers spending requests Westfield School Superintendent Dr. Suzanne Scallion, left, was the keynote speaker during the Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce Breakfast at The Ranch, Friday. The breakfast was attended by 120 members and Robert Brown, of First Niagara, served as chief greeter. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

Scallion touts schools at Chamber Breakfast

By Peter Francis Staff Writer SOUTHWICK – At the Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce’s summer breakfast at The Ranch Golf Course, the city of Westfield’s top education official was on hand to update the Chamber.

Westfield School Superintendent Dr. Suzanne Scallion served as the event’s guest speaker and spoke to the assembled members about the progress being made in the city’s schools adjusting to the Common Core standards, and how the Chamber can help support them.

“I hope you don’t believe all the spin you hear in the news about education today. The Common Core has been a very good thing for our schools,” Scallion said while saluting the efforts of her educators. “We have redefined the basics and it’s been very challenging, because we’ve asked them to redefine their entire curriculum, and that is a lot of work.”

Scallion said her teachers are urged to maintain their creativity while reconfiguring their plans for their students.

“When building a house, you don’t start with the wallpaper, you don’t start with the lawn, you start with the dirty work – you dig the foundation, you pour the concrete, it’s messy, hard work.” she said, before touching on the district’s partnership with the Bay State Reading Institute (BSRI). “It (BSRI) first began at the Highland School, and our students in kindergarten through third grade

are now showing in DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills), a national literacy test, tremendous success.”

Scallion also referenced the work being done at Franklin Avenue School, an institution she feels flies a bit under the radar when the discussion of academic progress comes up.

“They were our highest performing early literacy students,” she said. “Franklin doesn’t get the shoutout for academic success very often, but the reason you don’t see longstanding achievement there is because they have the highest mobility rate of any of our schools. We had more kids moving in and out of Franklin than anywhere.”

She added that nearly 90 percent of Franklin Avenue kindergarteners and first graders are showing the highest proficiency in literacy, calling it “tremendous” and “worthy of a huge shoutout” for the school’s teachers.

Scallion is firmly behind the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment Systems (MCAS) test over the controversial Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) exam.

“It would be my choice to stay in the MCAS for a couple of years so we can continue to compare apples to apples,” she said.

“I want to see our successes for a few more years so our teachers can experience their success and hard work.”

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Southwick Town Beach to open this week

By Hope E. Tremblay Staff Writer SOUTHWICK – Southwick’s Town Beach is ready for fun in the summer sun.

Set to open June 25, the beach will be open 9:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, and from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The Parks and Recreation Commission was finalizing plans for opening day this week and said the concession stand would be stocked and ready to serve burgers, hot dogs, tuna melts, BLTs, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, candy, chips and beverages.

For those who wish to bring their own food, Town Beach has picnic tables and grills in the shade.

This year, the ladies restroom/changing room was updated and is now compliant with the Americans with

“It is only on paper that one moralizes — just where one shouldn’t.”

Disabilities Act guidelines, as is the beach.

A ramp was built last year that leads from the entrance right to the water.

Commissioners said the grounds were cleaned and prepped for opening this week and staff was hired, including lifeguards who are on duty all open hours.

Commission Chairman Kelly Magni said the beach provides the community with a place to cool off with their family.

“It’s an affordable way for families to spend a day together,” he said.

Cost for a resident to visit the beach for a day is $2. Out of town and out of state visitor fee is $3, with the cost for children age 7-13 is $1, Seniors age 62 and older, children 6 and under, active military are all free.

The Town Beach is located at The Southwick Town Beach opens for the season Wednesday, June 25 at 9:30 a.m. (Photo by Hope E. Tremblay) 14 Beach Road.

By Dan Moriarty Staff Writer WESTFIELD – The City Council Thursday night deferred action on a number of financial appropriations requested by Mayor Daniel M. Knapik seeking immediate considerations.

The first item under communication from the mayor was an immediate consideration of a resolution to authorize Knapik to negotiate a nine-year lease for 6,000 square-feet of school administrative office space.

The city entered into a three-year agreement in July of 2012 to lease 6,000 square feet at the Hampton Ponds Plaza, with the option to extend annually for a total of five years. The cost of that lease is $2,750 a month, with a total of $99,000 if the full five year option package is exercised.

The Hampton Ponds Plaza, on North Road, provides 6,000 square feet of space to accommodate 25 work spaces and a conference room.

The City Council sent the resolution request to its City Properties Committee and the Legislative & Ordinance Committee for further review.

The City Council has to vote to suspend its rules to act on an immediate consideration request. Under those rules three quarters, or 10 of the 13 members have to approve suspending the rules blocks a vote on the immediate consideration request.

Immediate action is usually allowed to approve state and federal grants and other funding, such as gifts to specific municipal agencies, which do not require a local match.

At-large Councilor David A. Flaherty said that he would vote against suspending the rules for immediate consideration, and when the lease resolution is eventually put on the council floor, will vote against that, as well. Flaherty said that school funding would be better spent in other areas rather than leasing an elaborate administrative space.

DAVID “Nine-year leases are FLAHERTY extremely rare, and immediate consideration is also suppose to be rare,” Flaherty said. “There is no reason for taking it as immediate consideration. I’m opposed to this immediate consideration, I’m opposed to this lease.”

The City Council is required to approve any leases longer than three years. Financial matters typically require at least two meetings, a rule that can be waived in an emergency situation.

The Legislative & Ordinance Committee brought out a five-year lease later in the meeting requested by the Technology Department which is consolidating management of copier agreements.

IT Manager Lenore Bernashe appeared before the L&O prior to the City Council session to explain why her department was leasing 15 copiers. Bernashe said many city hall departments have their own lease agreements, agreements being consolidated and managed by the Technology Department.

The five-year lease will cost $16,205.66 a year, slightly more than the current lease agreements but Bernashe said the new agreement reduces the cost per copy by between an estimated $3,000 and $4,000 a year.

The council approved the first reading of the copier lease. The second reading and final passage will occur at the July 7, 2014 session.

The City Council also declined to act on five other requests for immediate consideration, all transfers within the Fire Department’s Ambulance Revolving Account.

Flaherty requested that all five items be sent See Spending, Page 3

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Westfield State Foundation launches scholarship and internship initiatives WESTFIELD – The Westfield State Foundation Inc. welcomed seven new members on its board this week and announced plans for providing support to students through paid internships and scholarships.

The new members are: Jeffrey Daley, former advancement officer of the City of Westfield; Mark Lambert ’85, partner/office manager at Pryor Insurance Agency in Feeding Hills; James Leahy ’99, councilor at large on the Holyoke City Council; Andrew Melendez, manager of Human Resources at Springfield Public Schools; Andrew Oleksak ’69, owner of Oleksak Lumber Company in Westfield; Hon. Joseph Pellegrino, retired judge of Springfield Juvenile Court; Eileen Swan Rockwal ’91 (Alumni Representative) , operations assistant at ONsite Mammography’s Corporate Headquarters in Westfield.

The new board members will be assisting the Westfield State University Department of Advancement and University Relations with fundraising activities. Earlier this year, the Foundation voted to allocate $134,000 for scholarships and added financial aid for the 2014/2015 school year. This represents a five year high for scholarship aid to Westfield State students from the Foundation.

“We were in a rebuilding mode,” said Executive Director for University Advancement Michael Knapik. “The Foundation had 12 members in January and now it’s up to 19 members. We’ve come far in a substantial number of ways and I’m looking forward to the assistance and support the new board members will bring both to the Foundation and to the university as a whole.”

Other Foundation board members are: Edward Marth ’69, Chair; Robin Jensen, 1st Vice Chair; Roland Joyal ’61, Treasurer; Gina Barry ’95, Clerk; Sheridan Carey ’65, Past Chair; Matthew Carlin ’17, Student Representative; Professor Patricia ConantHolman, Faculty Representative; John Davies; James Huffmire; Mary Larrivee ’70, Vice President; Robert Piper ’61; Kevin

Queenin ’70, University Trustee Representative.

The Westfield State Foundation is implementing the State University Internship Incentive Fund for the 2014 fiscal year.

Through this program, Westfield State will provide paid internships to students in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), and financial services positions. The Foundation raised $124,000 through The Westfield State University 175th Anniversary Scholarship Gala and other fundraising efforts and private sources to fund the program, which was matched by the state for a total of $248,000, which will support an estimated 50-60 paid student internships.

“Most internships are unpaid, which causes students to choose between gaining experience in their field of study or working in unrelated jobs,” Knapik said. “This program takes the financial pressure off of the students, allowing them to focus on their career paths.”

In addition to the internship program, funds raised from the Gala are being allocated to establish a 175th Anniversary Scholarship. Knapik said the scholarship funds will be invested and the Foundation is working with reunion classes and the fall Homecoming event to further fundraising efforts. The scholarship will launch in the fall of 2015.

The Westfield State Foundation fuels the university’s effort to change lives. Classified as a tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) organization by the IRS, the Foundation effectively raises funds and carefully manages charitable gifts for the support of the university.

Working with the university and other partners, the Foundation operates under the leadership of a board that’s made up of respected community professionals and alumni whose purpose it is to support the university through active fund-raising and advocacy. The Foundation is located at 2 Broad Street in downtown Westfield.

MICHAEL KNAPIK Executive Director for University Advancement

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Tony the Tiger stays put at Louisiana truck stop BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s governor has signed a law that the owners of a truck stop where Tony the Tiger lives think is grrrrrrr-eat!

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s signature grants an exception to Louisiana law that lets the tiger stay in his quarters at a Grosse Tete (TATE) truck stop.

The bill becomes Act 697.

Animal rights groups had pressured the governor to veto it, saying the environment was not good for Tony.

Truck stop owner Michael Sandlin asked Jindal to keep the tiger in the only home he’s ever known.

The bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Rick Ward III, a Republican from Maringouin, applauded the governor’s decision Friday.

Sandlin told Nola.com/The Times-Picayune (http:// bit.ly/1qyxh49 ) that he was relieved the threat of Tony being taken away is gone.

In this Dec. 2, 2010 file photo, a bengal tiger rests in its cage while on display at the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete, La. (AP Photo)

2 not guilty pleas in Washington fake kidnapping PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — Two people accused in a fake kidnapping that alarmed people at a Sequim (skwim) park pleaded not guilty Thursday to disorderly conduct charges.

Jason Holden and a relative, Shellie Baskins, were arraigned in Clallam County District Court in Port Angeles. A third person, Jesse Holden, was scheduled to be arraigned, but the hearing was postponed until next Thursday to allow him time to find another lawyer.

The Peninsula Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/1qn0oFp ) the three could face nearly a year in jail or a $5,000 fine if convicted.

The Holdens wore ski masks and grabbed Baskins’ 4-year-old son April 13 at Carrie Blake Park and drove off in a van. They later said they were making a video to promote childabduction awareness. Parents and other witnesses were outraged.

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Saturday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2014. There are 193 days left in the year.

Summer arrived at 6:51 a.m. !!!

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n June 21, 1964, civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney were slain in Philadelphia, Mississippi; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. (Seven people were convicted of conspiracy in the case; none served more than six years in prison. Edgar Ray “Preacher” Killen, a former Ku Klux Klansman, was convicted of manslaughter on June 21, 2005 and is serving a 60-year sentence.)

On this date: In 1788, the United States Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.

In 1834, Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine.

In 1913, Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick became the first woman to parachute from an airplane as she jumped over Los Angeles.

In 1932, heavyweight Max Schmeling lost a title fight rematch in New York by decision to Jack Sharkey, prompting Schmeling’s manager, Joe Jacobs, to exclaim: “We was robbed!”

during a fire at a military hospital in Yuma, Arizona.

In 1955, the David Lean movie “Summertime” starring Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi opened in New York.

In 1963, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen during a conclave of his fellow cardinals to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope took the name Paul VI. In 1964, Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched a perfect game, 6-0, against the New York Mets at Shea Stadium; it was the first “perfecto” in the National League since 1880.

In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Miller v. California, ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.

In 1982, a jury in Washington, D.C., found John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three other men.

In 1989, a sharply divided Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment.

Ten years ago:

In 1942, German forces led by Generaloberst (Colonel General) Erwin Rommel captured the Libyan city of Tobruk during World War II. (Following his victory, Rommel was promoted to Field Marshal; Tobruk was retaken by the Allies in November 1942.)

The SpaceShipOne rocket plane punched through Earth’s atmosphere, then glided to a landing in California’s Mojave Desert in the first privately financed manned spaceflight.

Connecticut Gov. John Rowland resigned effective July 1, 2004 amid graft allegations and a federal investigation.

(Rowland, who ended up serving 10 months in prison, was succeeded by Lt. Gov. M. Jodi Rell.)

In 1943, Army nurse Lt. Edith Greenwood became the first woman to receive the Soldier’s Medal for showing heroism

Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari was among hundreds

Five years ago:

of people arrested during the Tehran government’s crackdown on nationwide protests over Iran’s disputed presidential election. (Bahari was released nearly four months later.)

Greenland expanded its powers of self-rule on its national day, in a move many residents viewed as a step toward independence from Denmark.

One year ago:

A one-page criminal complaint unsealed in federal court accused former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden of espionage and theft of government property in the NSA surveillance case. President Barack Obama nominated James Comey, a top Bush-era Justice official, to head the FBI, succeeding Robert Mueller. The Food Network said it was dropping Paula Deen, barely an hour after the celebrity cook posted the first of two videotaped apologies online begging forgiveness from fans and critics troubled by her admission to having used racial slurs in the past.

Today’s Birthdays:

Composer Lalo Schifrin is 82. Actor Bernie Kopell is 81.

Actor Monte Markham is 79. Songwriter Don Black is 76.

Actress Mariette Hartley is 74. Comedian Joe Flaherty is 73.

Rock singer-musician Ray Davies (The Kinks) is 70. Actress Meredith Baxter is 67. Actor Michael Gross is 67. Rock musician Joe Molland (Badfinger) is 67. Rock musician Don Airey (Deep Purple) is 66. Country singer Leon Everette is 66. Rock musician Joey Kramer (Aerosmith) is 64. Rock musician Nils Lofgren is 63. Actress Robyn Douglass is 61. Actor Leigh McCloskey is 59. Cartoonist Berke Breathed is 57. Country singer Kathy Mattea is 55. Actor Marc Copage is 52. Actress Sammi Davis is 50. Actor Doug Savant is 50. Country musician Porter Howell is 50. Actor Michael Dolan is 49. Writerdirector Lana Wachowski is 49. Actress Paula Irvine is 46.

Rapper/producer Pete Rock is 44. Country singer Allison Moorer is 42. Actress Juliette Lewis is 41. Musician Justin Cary is 39. Rock musician Mike Einziger (Incubus) is 38. Actor Chris Pratt is 35. Britain’s Prince William is 32.

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Councilor Allie: Budget is opportunity

Westfield Budget Dilemma is an Opportunity to Get Our Priorities Right

billion dollar transportation bond bill.

Unfortunately the governor cut the portion for local road maintenance to only 200 million dollars. For the entire state!

Simply voting is not enough! Write letters to the editor, call talk radio and fill up the PulseLine. Make copies of this article and share this info with your friends, family and neighbors.

DAN ALLIE Every concerned taxpayer, business and home owner, parent, business, senior living on fixed income, and city and school official, needs to make their voices heard, and contact our state legislators, the Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo and Governor’s office to respectfully ask them to restore local aid, and increase education funding during the supplemental budget process this July. Remind them this is our money, and we want it back.

The budget submitted by the mayor had an increase of 3.14 percent. This exceeds our ability to raise taxes under Proposition 2 1/2, and taxpayers’ ability to pay higher property taxes due to stagnant wages, a sluggish economy and inflation. Adding to our budget dilemma, is the fact that Westfield has lost a million dollars a year in local aid, for 5 years in a row.

Education and local aid should be at the top of the state’s priority list. Local officials need certainty when setting their budgets in June. Citizens and city officials should expect that lottery revenues (local aid) would be distributed directly to cities, for funding education, fire and police, according to the state law that created the lottery in 1971.

The state has taken about $700 million out of the lottery fund in the last five years. This is completely unnecessary and needs to stop.

State Representative John Velis Last year, Massachusetts had a $900 million surplus in reve617-722-2582 nues above projections, and is on track to do the same this year. email:? neesha.suarez@mahouse.gov The state should have left the lottery funds alone and used a small portion of the surplus to help cities provide some tax relief to our State Senator Don Humason citizens, and fix our roads.

64 Noble Street, Westfield, MA 01085 A Missed Opportunity 617-722-1415 In April, the state house leadership sponsored rules not allowemail: ?Donald.Humason@masenate.gov ing any amendments or debate on local aid, education funding or EBT reform during the state budget process.

Speaker of the House Robert A. DeLeo A Second Chance State House, Room 356 Boston, MA 02133 State lawmakers will have the opportunity to restore local aid, 617-722-2500 as they consider two supplemental budgets in July. Money for email: Robert.DeLeo@mahouse.gov local aid is already in the lottery funds. This year lottery revenues are officially forecast to exceed estimates by $20 million dollars.

Governor Deval Patrick The state has a surplus in revenue again this year.

617.725.4005 A Call to Action – If The People Will Lead, The Leaders To contact the Governor’s office online, visit this website, Will Follow fill out and submit form.

Government should work for us. Not against us. It is time for www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/ ordinary citizens to act like we are in charge of government, and not the politicians or political parties. We cannot afford to sit back By mail: and hope our elected leaders will do the right thing. When people Western Massachusetts Office of the Governor are afraid of what their government is doing, that is tyranny.

State Office Building I have met many good people who had no idea the state had a 436 Dwight Street surplus, and thought cuts in local aid were inevitable. The state is Suite 300, Springfield, MA 01103 cutting funding for education and cities. People are being taxed out of their homes. It is time to let our voices be heard. One of Disclaimer: The views expressed in this column are those of my goals is to make people aware and highlight the effect cuts in the author and not the staff, editor, or publisher of this publicalocal aid have on our city budget and property taxes. tion.

I have placed two public policy questions on Westfield’s ballot in November. One is to increase local aid back to 2007 levels, before the state started taking our funds out of it. The other question seeks to increase funding to cities and towns for road repair and maintenance. Neither would raise taxes. The funds are in the Lottery and the state just passed a 12.5

Councilor Figy: City at a crossroads

A lot has transpired since my last article appeared in the Westfield News. Most of it has been positive in nature. The Gazebo on the Green has been started by the students at Westfield Vocational’s Construction Program.

Under the leadership of Mr. Falcetti, the steel was raised in less than four hours. The Gazebo is set to be finished this fall when student return to school.

The rail trail continues to rush towards completion. The steel has been laid for one of the replacement bridges and the grass is growing.

The council completed the required work for the west side access ramp now that project can be planned.

The bond for the new senior center will come up for a final vote at the July 7th meeting. A waiting period will then be required before the actual construction can begin. This is a long awaited dream for many of our senior citizens and is long overdue. The senior population in Westfield continues to grow and is now over 20 percent of the total population. The seniors have made due with substandard facilities for far too long. I commend the staff of the senior center for making the best of a poor situation. Once completed the Veterans Affairs office will relocate to the senior center providing our veterans with an adequate facility, as well. I will be proud to vote for this project.

A sincere thank you goes out to Chief of Police John Camerota, Traffic Commissioner Brian Baldini, and DPW Commissioner Jim Mulvenna for making handicap parking on Main Street a reality. Citizens, please be careful as to where you park as the handicap spots are marked with a sign and a blue emblem on the pavement.

The city council is facing a Writ of Eminent Domain for the taking of the Wielgus property off of Main Street. This project has been in the works for the past several years and is not a new initiative. Councilor Adams has been working on acquiring this property for new playing fields since he was elected into office. I am in support of this property acquisition, as it will benefit more than just Ward 2, it will benefit the whole

city. Westfield High School is the only school in western Massachusetts that does not have an all-weather track and field complex. At this point in time Westfield High School rents the track at Westfield RALPH FIGY State University on a daily basis, an additional cost.

The last new playing fields to be developed are at the high school and they were used this spring for the first time. WHS soccer and lacrosse teams will be able to use these two fields. The issue still remains that the youth programs are still without home fields. Westfield Youth Lacrosse and Westfield Youth Soccer are still dependent on Stanley Parks’ generosity. Unfortunately, Stanley Park would like to get out of the youth sports business. Slowly the park is cutting down on the number of fields being made available to these two growing youth sports programs. Before the Boardman Fields were constructed, the last fields to be developed were on North Road. Woronoco Fields were developed by a group of Westfield United Soccer parents in the mid 90s.Westfield continues to have a greater need for playing fields than the city can provide, not just baseball fields.

A landowner has a lot to gain if the government takes their property by eminent domain rather than by a purchase and sale agreement. The owner will not be responsible for paying capital gains taxes on the sale. The owner will save a considerable amount of money this way. The owner also has a right to go and petition the court for relief. This means the owner has three years to ask the court for more money saying that the owner did not receive fair market value. The offer of $260,00 for 33 acres is close to the price paid for the best farmland in Massachusetts. The average price for prime farmland in Ohio is $7,000 per acre. One needs to remember that the property in question is in a flood plain making other uses limited. Unfortunately, this project is now tied into the new Cross Street School.

We are now at a crossroads for education in the city of Westfield. By this time next year the lease on Juniper Park will expire. The city will need to find a home for these students. This brings me to the point of the Cross Street School. This is a decision that takes a lot of thought and deliberation. There are two sides to this issue and I respect the work,

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Government Meetings SATURDAY, JUNE 21 TOLLAND GTDFS 40th Anniversary Event at 7 pm

MONDAY, JUNE 23 TOLLAND Men’s Coffee at Town Hall at 7:45 am Men’s Coffee at PSC Building at 7:45 am Board of Selectmen at 5 pm

GRANVILLE Monday Night Meetings at 7:30 pm

Spending Continued from Page 1 to the Council’s Finance Committee because the transfers are all related to Fire Department labor contracts now under review by that committee. Flaherty argued that the transfers on the Thursday agenda represent only a portion of the total cost of the contract salary increases.

“These are incremental increases, not the full cost of the first year,” Flaherty said The Finance Committee had requested the CHRISTOPHER council to approve keeping the two fire conKEEFE tracts, and a third for departmental supervisors, in committee until Knapik provides the financial information for on the cost over the first year of the new contracts.

Finance Chairman Christopher Keefe said the committee would not act to bring the contracts out of committee until that information is provided, as required under Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 150-E, Section 7 which states that the executive branch “shall submit to the appropriate legislative body within thirty days after the date on which the agreement is executed by the parties, a request for an appropriation necessary to fund the cost items contained therein.”

The law further states: “If the appropriate legislative body duly rejects the request for an appropriation necessary to fund the cost items, such cost items shall be returned to the parties for further bargaining.”

time, and effort that the opponents have put into this issue. I must disagree with their conclusion that the school is not needed in the proposed location. This is an issue that needed to be addressed long before now. The new school has passed all of the permitting requirements and passed the Planning Board unanimously.

A six hundred pupil school at capacity is not that far off of the capacities of Munger Hill, Highland, Paper Mill and South Hampton Road schools all with a capacity of 550. Eminent domain has been used in the past to take land for city schools. The current high school, South Middle School, and Highland School were all eminent domain takings.

The consequences of not continuing to build the new Cross Street School will be financially devastating to the city, in my opinion. The city will need to repay the Massachusetts School Building Authority all of the design payments that have already been made. This amounts to over $1.5 million. The general contractor is required to be paid his profit whether the school is built or not. This is estimated to be $1 million, as well. There is over $1 million of building supplies in a warehouse waiting to be used that are specific to this school and cannot be returned.

I spoke at length with the Town Manager of Lincoln, Mass. as his community is in a similar situation as is Westfield concerning a school building project. Lincoln signed contracts and accepted money from the MSBA for a new elementary school. At the town meeting, the bond was rejected. The town of Lincoln was required to pay back all of the money to the MSBA and to start the process over with no state reimbursement for the design and for the feasibility study.

Once the design plans and feasibility study are redone, the town must reapply to the MSBA for consideration. The town manager does not think that they will receive a favorable recommendation, effectively negating any chance of financial assistance in the near future.

When I spoke to the MSBA, I was told that if Westfield backs out of the deal, Westfield’s projects would need to be re-evaluated and would not be looked upon favorably. The proposed projects at Westfield High School and at Westfield’s Vocational Technical High School, both would be re-evaluated. Both projects are needed for continued accreditation. This has the potential to adversely affect the quality of colleges that will accept Westfield graduates.

Westfield High School lost accreditation once before when the high school was on double sessions. We do not need or want history to repeat.

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St. Mary’s Cub Scout Pack 109 is hosting a car wash Sunday, June 22 at 1 p.m. at Zuber’s on Southwick Road.

Please come support this pack!

I am quite interested to see what Cindy Harris and Dan Allie will do to reduce property taxes. They promised to control spending and reduce tax increases. I’m looking for them to make suggestions and get the majority of the city councilors to go along with them. Let see what they do on Thursday!

Mr. Mayor - stop the tax increases. Cut the budget! We’ve had enough! We can’t afford more taxes! You’re blaming the state, but they aren’t controlling your spending. These budgets are your responsibility. Councilors, please cut the budget, lower our taxes, disband the BID, and don’t waste money on the farm or the monster school. Want to make us happy? Fix the roads and improve our schools! Senator Humason, Representative Velis, Former Senator Knapik, and Chief of Staff Sullivan: we need your help to save Juniper Park! You can’t tell us that there is nothing you can do. We know you can work magic. Step up! Be the hero! Please convince Westfield State to adjust their plans, and build their own temporary buildings if needed during their science building construction, so that our kids can continue to receive a wonderful education at Juniper Park. Please do not punish these kids for the mistakes made by the city and the college.

The Western most part of Robinson State Park is in Westfield, and all Westfield residents are invited to Robinson State Park Day this Saturday. The Friends of the park have planned an 8 am bird walk and then a variety of walks and activities for children, adults and families from 10 am - 2 pm.

The Westfield River Watershed Association is also holding their canoe cruise on the Westfield River, ending in the park at about 3 pm. All of the walks and activities start at the Trestle Pavilion. Just enter the park at the main entrance on North Street and follow signs. Please come and help us celebrate this beautiful park.

Good job Government Relations Sub-committee on your hearing last night on the petition to dissolve the Business Improvement District (BID). Where was the discussion of contradictory facts presented at the public hearing? Who verified that the petition included over 50% valid signatures of BID members? The public hearing presented contradictory facts. Why was none of that discussed? All I heard was the members’ personal opinion, no facts. Where was the staff work to clarify inconsistencies? There was none. Looks like the “good ole boys” of Westfield will be winning another one whether it is good or not for the City. I keep hearing this is taxation without representation. That is incorrect; all were represented by the State Legislature who voted to make membership mandatory. Those that initially opted out lost their vote, their choice. Looks like some Council members need to go back to a government 101 class. There are multiple cases where legislative bodies vote for the good of the whole, even if that is a minority. We have a representative democracy, not a pure democracy and our representatives are asked to make hard choices, frequently against the majority. If we could get the majority of voters in the City to sign a petition against the 2½% tax increase the Council is about to vote for, would the Council not increase our taxes? My point is most residents do not want a tax increase but for the betterment of Westfield, we probably will have one. The BID is good for Westfield and I hope a majority of the City Council will see it that way. I also encourage Council members to get out and visit retail businesses in the BID and see what they want and be true representatives before they vote to dissolve it. Oh yes, I will be looking to see how hypocritical the petitioners are at the concert next week. If we do not need the BID, then do not attend the concert. City Council, make a hard choice and vote to keep the BID and let BID members vote to do away with it in 4 years if that is the right answer.

Hi! Anybody out there in PulseLine Land know where the hummingbirds went? I’ve been feeding them for quite a few years and they always come back. I’ve got fresh feed out there and fresh nectar but I haven’t seen any of them for like two weeks now. If anybody has got any information on it I’d appreciate it if they would call in. Thank you.

As a senior citizen I’ve enjoyed seeing all the pictures of the high school proms and graduations for they are our future. The young people are our future and I’ve enjoyed it very much.

Thank you.

Regarding Councilor Bean’s comments about the hearing requests hoping councilors are doing this to help the public and not hurt the budget process. Listen up, sir! Those three councilors are always looking out for the public.

Just wanted to say what a pleasure it was to watch the city council meeting tonight. Thank you, thank you, thank you for correcting the video.

Nice try Councilor Figy, have you ever heard of the old expression “...like putting lipstick on a pig”? “A landowner has a lot to gain if the government takes their property by eminent domain...”. Sounds like they “gain” a lot of future legal bills! “We are now at a crossroads for education in the city of Westfield.” This point I agree with you on, do we throw good money after bad for a school that is on a postage stamp sized lot compared to your other examples of “...Munger Hill, Highland, Paper Mill and South Hampton Road schools all with a capacity of 550.”? It is not the taxpayers fault that the Mayor has made one poor decision after another on this issue.

I don’t care if “The consequences of not continuing to build the new Cross Street School will be financially devastating to the city....”, there is difference between what is right and what is wrong. Too bad you and other City officials can’t or won’t admit it. “Will Westfield become the next Detroit?”, (another scare tactic, good one!) this will occur only if you and the other councilors who chose to run for office don’t rein in spending on the School Department.

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WH unveils new immigration plan

By Seung Min Kim Politico.com The White House unveiled a new plan Friday that would effectively speed up deportations of the recent surge of immigrants trying to cross illegally into the United States through the southwestern border.

The changes include opening new detention centers that can accommodate families, expanded use of ankle bracelets to monitor immigrants awaiting hearings and sending more immigration judges to southern Texas that would expedite and streamline the court hearing and removal process, according to administration officials and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), a border-state lawmaker who was briefed on the changes by the White House Friday morning. ”We are surging our enforcement resources in a way … to make sure that we are dealing properly with this particular surge” of unaccompanied minors, said Cecilia Muñoz, the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.

In addition to the ramped-up enforcement moves, the Obama administration is also taking on additional efforts to spread awareness in central America about the dangers of trying to enter the United States illegally, and that immigrants who are arriving now won’t benefit from administrative relief from deportations that first began in 2012, nor immigration reform legislation pending in Congress.

The recent surge of unaccompanied minors along the southern border has become a serious crisis demanding attention from Washington. On a conference call with reporters Friday, administration officials said about 52,000 unaccompanied children have been apprehended along the southwestern border this fiscal year as of June 15.

And about 39,000 adults who have children have been apprehended this fiscal year as of the end of May, the officials said.

Obama has called it an “urgent humanitarian situation” and has assembled an interagency task force to assemble a response. Vice President Joe Biden was convening a summit

on Friday in Guatemala with top officials in the region to address the crisis. The meeting will include Guatemalan President Pérez Molina, President Sánchez Cerén of El Salvador, as well as a top government official from Honduras.

The increased enforcement is sure to cause anger among immigrant-rights advocates. A spokesman for Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) said the lawmaker “does not support the idea of putting children and families fleeing violence in detention while they await our courts to catch up to the current crisis.”

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said he has “grave concerns” with the administration’s proposal to expand family detention facilities, adding, “I don’t think small children should be locked up in jail.”

“Without addressing the violence driving the children to migrate, we are basically sending them back into a war zone where their lives are in jeopardy,” said Kevin Appleby, the director of migration policy for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “The danger they face at home is far greater than they face trying to reach safety in the U.S. or other countries.”

Still, others welcomed the changes. Cuellar said the additional enforcement was necessary because “if we don’t send a strong message” that immigration laws will be enforced, immigrants will continue to travel illegally to the United States.

The White House response came amid calls from congressional Republicans to step up its response to the border crisis.

Earlier Friday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) fired offa letter to Obama on the issue, urging him to deploy the National Guard to the border “immediately” to aid in the response.

Boehner blamed the Obama administration’s immigration policies for perpetuating a belief that “once they reach U.S. soil, they will be able to stay here indefinitely.” That has been an argument used increasingly in recent days by congressional Republicans who view Obama’s immigration policies as too lax.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Letter to the Editor In response to the article “Sexual Predator Held on Bail” reported by Carl E. Hartdegen on June 11th, I’d like to make a clarification.

As the property manager for Heritage Park, I want to make it explicitly clear that at no time was Mr. Michael Asay approved to be living within our community. He purchased a home that was to be moved per our contract. At no time was he or anybody else permitted to live in said home. It’s deplorable and disheartening what those animals and kids were put through.

At Heritage Park, we engage in a thorough screening process for all residents and adult occupants including a criminal background check. Mr. Asay, for all intents and purposes, was a trespasser.

Thank you for allowing me to clarify this.

James Cook Property Manager for Heritage Park

Officials want to spread awareness about the dangers of entering the country illegally. (Getty/Politico) The National Guard could deal with the needs of the undocumented children apprehended while trying to cross the border, which in turn would allow border patrol agents to focus on guarding the U.S.Mexico boundary, Boehner said.

“While we understand that many of these individuals are coming to this country to escape violence and hardship in their home country, the current climate along the border and our enforcement policies are only encouraging them to risk their lives and those of their children,” Boehner wrote.

“It is time that we confront the crisis along the border head-on through immediate and aggressive action.”

And other top House Republicans also wrote to Obama, urging his administration to crack down on the surge of unaccompanied children trying to enter the country illegally through tougher enforcement of immigration laws.

The recommendation by key committee leaders include detaining families who have recently crossed illegally into the country in “appropriate shelters” along the southwestern border, deporting the immigrants who are ineligible to stay in the U.S., and making public-service announcements in U.S.-based Latino media on the dangers of coming illegally from central America into the U.S., via Mexico.

“To end this dangerous migration, it is essential that the U.S. enforce our immigration laws and create effective and necessary deterrents so that potential illegal immigrants understand that their dream of reaching and being allowed to remain in the U.S. is unrealis-

tic, and it is a virtual certainty they will be repatriated to their home countries,” the Republican lawmakers wrote.

House lawmakers who signed the letter Friday were Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.); Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Carter (R-Texas); Commerce, Science, Justice Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Frank Wolf (R-Va.); Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Jack Kingston (R-Ga.); Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas); and Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.).

Republicans have increasingly seized on administrative actions from the Obama administration on immigration — such as the 2012 initiative that allowed many young undocumented immigrants who have been here for years to stay in the country with work permits — as a key factor that has been driving the crisis on the border.

Democrats have disputed that as the root cause, instead pointing to the rising levels of violence and gang activity in their home countries. The children come mostly from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. In his letter, Boehner also urged State Department officials to “immediately” begin talks with those three countries that would streamline the process by which the apprehended immigrants would be returned home.

Under the Obama administration policy — known as Deferred Action for Childhood See Immigration, Page 7

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Boat Patrol Continued from Page 1 mayor who gave it his blessing and said that the city councilors representing the area also supported his plan.

Camerota reports that patrol of the ponds, which are in both Hampden and Hampshire counties, have shoreline in two municipalities and prominently include a state park, is not the city’s responsibility but he said his department now can fill the longstanding need for a police presence afloat which, he said that state authorities have been unable to provide. But the chief said that the Environmental Police leadership has agreed to beef up the presence of shore based enforcement while his department’s new boat is patrolling the waters.

Camerota said that on summer weekends the state park will be staffed by an Environmental Police Officer who will be augmented either by a state trooper or a city officer.

Camerota said that the boat will usually be staffed by a crew of two officers but said “we’ll probably have three guys (on board) on the Fourth because it’s going to be a crazy day”, particularly as it will be the first weekend the officers put the Training officer Jared Rowe gives Officer Juanita Mejias (seated) and Officer Stephen Gonglik instruction in the boat in the water for real.

He explained that while the shore officers (either state or controls of the new police patrol boat which will start city) will work off duty details funded by the Environmental patrolling the Hampton Ponds this summer. (Photo by Carl E. Police, the boat crew will bring additional officers to regular Hartdegen) duty who will be paid from his overtime account. will not be permitted by officers at the ponds.

In addition to the benefits that will accrue by extending the The chief said that the three training officers – Daniel long arm of the law out to the middle of the pond, the chief Gustafson, Seth Florek and Jared Rowe – have agreed to teach predicts that the police presence will be felt at the boat ramp the boat officers basic boat handling and safety and also said where, like the members of the public, the police officers will that the officers will be expected to refresh their knowledge of launch and recover the patrol boat. Camerota said that when the laws pertaining to small boat operations. the ramp area is busy users are not always scrupulously tidy Gustafson said the training team will have 18 officers qualiand sometimes leave a mess behind. In addition, he said, some fied for duty by the Fourth after they complete four hour trainparents allow children to play and swim in the water near the ing sessions on the water this week and complete the indepenramp, an obvious safety concern due to the boat traffic, which dent study materials provided by the department.

Obituaries Carolina M. Darpino SAN JOSE, CA - On February 2, 2014, Carolina M. (Parenzo) Darpino passed away peacefully at the tender age of 92, in San Jose, CA. She was born and raised in Westfield, and always commented about how she missed it.

She was one of the last surviving U.S. Navy WAV’s from WWII, and served as a courier in Washington, D.C. for the Defense Department during the war. She was a loving Mom, with a positive attitude and affection for life. She will be missed.

She leaves her sons, Nick and Ralph Darpino of San Jose, CA and her grandson, Jeff Darpino of Santa Cruz, CA. She was the daughter of the late Christopher Parenzo and Antoinette Parenzo. She was predeceased by her siblings: State Representative Anthony Parenzo, Ralph Parenzo, Frank Parenzo, James Parenzo, Philip Parenzo and Lewis Parenzo, Jane Malone, Christine Masciadrelli, and Victoria Masciadrelli.

Services are private, and her ashes will be scattered in Westfield at Pine Hill Cemetery. Donations may be made to the American Heart Association. For any information please call Albert J. Masciadrelli at (413)568-5754.

Police Logs Court Logs Westfield District Court

WESTFIELD Emergency Response and Crime Report Wednesday, June 18, 2014 6:52 a.m.: motor vehicle violation, Elm Street at Chapel Street, a patrol officer requests a tow for a vehicle found to have expired registration, the car was towed to the police impound yard; 10:45 a.m.: North Road, a detective reports a traffic stop, the operator was found to be the subject of an ongoing investigation, Stephen J. Danneker, 40, of 2 Pheasant Drive, was arrested for larceny of property valued more than $250 by a single scheme; 11:12 a.m.: motor vehicle violation, High Street, a patrol officer reports he encountered a parked with expired registration, the vehicle was towed to the police impound yard; 11:58 a.m.: jaywalking, Court Street at Holland Avenue, a patrol officer reports he observed a known person cross the street without utilizing crosswalks which were located about 100 feet both to the right and left of the pedestrian; 2:14 p.m.: larceny, Woodbridge Lane, a resident came to the station to report fraudulent purchases made with his credit card, the responding officer reports that the complainant said that somebody had accessed his credit card account and had made changes in addition to making purchases totaling $2,675.38, the case was referred to the financial crimes unit of the Detective Bureau; 6:23 p.m.: animal complaint, Larchley Avenue, a caller reports an injured cat has taken refuge in her garage, the responding animal control officer reports the cat was transported to the Homeless Cat Project; 6:24 p.m.: suspicious persons, Westgate Plaza, a caller reports she was solicited about makeup in a parking lot, the responding officer reports he found that two men were directly marketing their company’s line of makeup and were advised that they need a permit to solicit in the city, the men were compliant and left the area; 6:39 p.m.: weather complaint, Jefferson Street, a caller reports a tree limb has fallen on to her car and brought down wires, the caller was advised to stay in the car and the G&E was notified, the responding G&E workers report the wire is a telephone line which they tied off, the DPW was advised of the fallen limb; 9:00 p.m.: assist other police department, West School Street, a Chicopee officer requests that city police seek the owner of a car registered in the city believed to have been involved in a Chicopee crash, the responding officer reports the vehicle was found and towed to the police impound yard; 10:04 p.m.: disturbance, Church Street, a caller reports a domestic disturbance, the responding officer reports an unwanted guest left the area; 10:04 p.m.: disturbance, St. Paul Street, a caller reports his mother’s former boyfriend entered their apartment, smashed her cell phone and will not let her leave her bedroom, the responding officer reports he found a boy outside the residence who indicated a window when asked where his mother was, the officer reports he looked in the window and saw a woman on a bed and a man standing next to it keeping her there, the officer separated the two persons and the woman said that when her dog came to her assistance the man kicked the dog repeatedly, Brandon I. Heard, 30, was arrested for assault and battery in a domestic relationship, assault and battery, intimidating a witness, cruelty to an animal and malicious destruction of property valued more than $250.

Thursday, June 19, 2014 1:13 a.m.: larceny, Elm Street, a clerk from a gas station and convenience store reports a person put merchandise in his pocket and left the store, the responding officer reports a search of the area did not reveal a suspect; 4:37 a.m.: disturbance, Powdermill Village, 126 Union St., a caller reports the defendant of a protective order left her home after smashing a window in her door and threatening to kill her, the responding officer reports the protective order was confirmed and he observed a window in the door to be smashed, the suspect was found at his home, Daniel R. Lemarier, 37, of 10 S. Maple St., was arrested for malicious destruction of property valued less than $250 and for violation of an abuse prevention order; 8:33 a.m.: animal complaint, the animal control officer reports she searched for a boxer dog reported to be roaming the area and found the emaciated gelded male dog on Larchley Avenue, the dog was transported to the municipal animal shelter; 9:13 a.m.: violation of a protective order, Edgewood Apartments, 134 Union St., a resident came to the station to complain that a former boyfriend has violated a protective order, the responding officer reports the woman said that her former boyfriend had violated the ‘No contact’ clause of the order by sending numerous text messages as well as messages via a social networking website, a criminal complaint was filed; 9:21 a.m.: annoying phone calls, Granville Road, a detective reports she investigated a complaint of annoying phone See Police Logs, Page 7

Friday, June 20, 2014 Jamie L. Brown, 25, of 198 North Lane, Granville, was released on her personal recognizance pending an Aug. 12 hearing after she was arraigned on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct brought by Southwick police.

Richard B. Greenway Jr., was released on his personal recognizance pending an Aug. 12 hearing after he was arraigned on two charges of larceny of property valued more than $250 by false pretenses brought by Westfield police.

Christopehr R. McHugh, 24, of 78 Corona St., Springfield, was enjoined from making any threats or violence toward the victims when he was released on his personal recognizance pending an Aug. 12 hearing after he was arraigned on five charges of disorderly conduct, three charges of vandalizing property and two charges of defacing property brought by Westfield police.

Joshua A. Belise, 26, of 87 Cochran St., Chicopee, was enjoined from making any threats or violence toward the victims when he was released on his personal recognizance pending an Aug. 12 hearing after he was arraigned on five charges of disorderly conduct, three charges of vandalizing property and two charges of defacing property brought by Westfield police.

Noel Torres, 25, of 85 Brown St., North Adams, pleaded guilty to charges of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license and possession of a Class D drug with intent to distribute brought by State Police , and was placed on probation for three months. He was ordered to remain drug free, be subject to unannounced drug testing and was assessed $150. Charges of operating a motor vehicle not meeting Registry of Motor Vehicle safety standards and speeding were not prosecuted.

Jarrett M. Hebert, 36, of 15 Clark St., was released on $2,500 personal surety pending a July 18 hearing after he was arraigned on a charge of violation of an abuse prevention order brought by Westfield police.

Matthew J. Hebert, 28, of 162 Russell Road, was released on his personal recognizance pending an Aug. 6 hearing after he was arraigned on charges of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct brought by Westfield police.

Councilor Figy

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Another councilor has made statements that some would see as contradictory to the above statements that I just wrote. My colleague has spoken to the Director who issues the “official” policy of the MSBA. The Director also stated that the money already given to Westfield may not be required to be paid back! May Not? My information has come from an employee that spoke to me after a meeting at City Hall. He explained the above to me saying that any application can be evaluated and deemed worthy or not worthy for funding. My colleague is correct that there is no longer a list but each application is evaluated and prioritized. This is the new list. Do we want to risk the future of our students to the decision making of the state or do we take advantage of the opportunity that we have some control of? This is an extremely high-risk game that I do not want to take part in. Remember the fears that the town manager from Lincoln has that echo the same fears that I have.

Leasing is an option that may save the city money instead of buying usable items such as cruisers and trucks. Leasing is not a viable option when it comes to buildings, especially schools. The amount of money that the city has paid Westfield State for the Juniper Park School is close to the cost of a new elementary school over the years. The bottom line is, Westfield will still need a new elementary school.

Another factor to consider is the last election. I feel that the silent majority spoke loud and clear in support of the new school and other issues. Mayor Knapik won Ward 2B convincingly over his very vocal opponent. In my conversations with Ward 2 residents I have found considerable support for the new school but the opposition intimidates residents.

Where can this money be found? It is my fear that an increase in property taxes will not come close to covering this. This means that most of the city budget will need to be channeled into this area. That would cause major cuts in existing services. Will Westfield become the next Detroit? No, it is too late to reverse the decision on the school in my opinion. In order to prevent this from happening I will vote for the taking of the property and for the continuation of building the new Cross Street School.

Ralph Figy, Ward 2 Westfield City Councilor Disclaimer: The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not the staff, editor, or publisher of this publication.

IN BRIEF

The American Legion Post 356 of Russell presents ‘Hot Rods For Heroes’ RUSSELL — The showing of these hot rods will be at Strathmore Park off of Route 20 in Russell on Sat June 28th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be food, music and raffles. A good time for all. Come and join us!!! For more information call Gary at (413)562-1346.

LOST AND FOUND LOST: READING GLASSES, Brown frames, in the vicinity of the Maple Leaf on Arnold Street, or The Hangar, School Street or Court Street and Whitaker Road. Call Tim (413)454-

7243.

LOST Dog - Chester Hill/ Huntington — Missing since 5/21/14 - Bromley is an eleven year old border-collie mix. He is friendly and much loved. He lives on Bromley Road in Chester. He has been suffering from seizures and went outside after one but never came home. He is a homebody who never goes far. We have scoured the woods for him and are hoping maybe he just wandered off and someone noticed he was confused and picked him up. He had on a blue collar with tags including one with his name and our phone. We are heartbroken. If you see him, please call Tom or Barbara Huntoon at 413-6675690. (5-21-14)

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RELIGIOUS LISTINGS First Congregational Church of Westfield 18 Broad Street Westfield MA 01085 Rev. Elva Merry Pawle, Pastor Sara Popp, Church School Director 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, June 22, 2014 10:00 AM Worship Service Monday, June 23, 2014 7:00 PM Line Dancing Tuesday, June 24, 2014 4:00PM Community Table 7:00PM Diaconate Meeting Wednesday June 25, 2014 1:00PM Bible Study Thursday, June 26, 2014 10:00AM-2:00PM Women’s Get Together

The Episcopal Church of the Atonement 36 Court Street, Westfield, MA 01085 413-562-5461 www.atonementwestfield.net Sundays - Holy Eucharist at 8 am & 10 am Wednesdays - Holy Eucharist & Healing at Noon The Rev. Nancy Webb Stroud, Rector Sunday, June 22 The Second Sunday after Pentecost 8 am Holy Eucharist 10 am Holy Eucharist, Cribbery Monday, June 23 8-9 pm AA Meeting Tuesday, June 24 9:30am – 5:30 pm Farm Share Pickup Wed., June 25 Noon Healing & Holy Eucharist 7-8:30 pm OA Meeting Thursday, June 26 1:30-5 pm Farmer’s Market (Front Lawn) 5-7pm Strawberry Festival (Front Lawn) 4:30-5:30 pm WW Meeting 7:30-9 pm NA Meeting

Friday, June 27 7:00 pm West Coast Swing Dance Class Saturday, June 28 11:00- 12:30 AA Women’s Fellowship Sunday, June 29 The Third Sunday after Pentecost 8 am Holy Eucharist 10 am Holy Eucharist, Cribbery Upcoming Tuesday, July 1 6 pm Healing & HE, 7 pm Tavern Theology Friday, July 4 Church Office Closed July 21-25 Vacation Bible School

A Little Night Music Every Thursday evening during July SPRINGFIELD — Trinity United Methodist Church, 361 Sumner Avenue in Springfield, is pleased to host “A Little Night Music” every Thursday evening in the month of July. At 6:00 PM an informal concert will be held in

the Sanctuary featuring some of Trinity’s professional singers and instrumentalists as well as guest performers from the Greater Springfield/Hartford area. At 7:00 PM a Carillon Concert will be presented on the church lawn featuring guest carillonneurs from around the United States, Canada, and Russia. Each week the food tent offers a light supper as well as “make your own” ice cream sundaes for dessert.

The July 3rd 6:00 the concert entitled “The Classic Piano Trio” will feature violinist, Brunilda Myftara; cellist, Anne Berry; and pianist, Rodrigo Queiroz. Ms. Myftara was born in Albania and educated at the Conservatory of Fine Arts in Tirana. She has performed throughout Europe as well as with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and is concertmaster at the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Berry holds degrees from the Hartt School of Music. the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Duquesne University, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She is an active performer and teacher and is a member of the

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Advent Christian Church 11 Washington Street Westfield, MA 01085 Phone: (413) 568-1020 Email: info@westfieldadventchristian.com www.westfieldadventchristian.com Pastor Merle Beal Sunday: 10:00 a.m. Sunday School for all ages 11:00 a.m. Praise and Worship Service Wednesday: 7:00 p.m. Bible Study Friday: 6:30-8:00 p.m. Youth Group for grades 5-8 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. John Marquis, 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 01086-0489 Pastor: Rev. Daniel S. Pacholec Parochial Vicar: Rev. Steven G. Montesanti Deacon Paul Federici Deacon Paul Briere Pastoral Minister: Mary Federici Parish/Religious Education Office: (413) 562-3450 Parish Fax: (413) 562-9875 www.diospringfield.org/olbs Mass Schedule: Saturday: 4 p.m. (Vigil) Sunday: 7, 8:30, 11 a.m.

Monday- Friday: 7 a.m.

Saturday: 8 a.m. Miraculous Medal Novena Confession: Saturday 3:15- 3:45 p.m.

Handicapped accessible.

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.

Living Hope Church Pastor Dan Valeri 267 College Highway Southwick, MA 01077 413-569-1882 Living Hope Church - Hope for everyday living!

We are a church that proclaims a message of hope and healing for the hurts and problems of everyday life through the message of Jesus Christ... info@livinghopechurchag.org Service time: 10 AM Thursday Family Night 6:30pm Office hours - Mon through Thurs 9:30am-4pm 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

West End String Quartet.

Born in Brazil, Dr. Queiroz has been the winner of many competitions for chamber music performance.

He received degrees from the Hartt School of Music and the University of Connecticut and currently serves as the music director at Saint James Episcopal Church in Farmington, Connecticut and is a co-founder of the ecumenical choir, Vallis Musicae.

The 7:00 PM concert on the front lawn will feature guest carillonneur, Russian born, Tatiana Lukyanova.

She studied piano and organ performance at the Novosibirsk State Conservatory and the State University of St. Petersburg and the carillon at the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium. In December of 2012 Ms. Lukyanova moved to the United States to marry her husband, an organist and organbuilder.

The featured food theme for the evening is “The Great Grinder.” The concerts are free and open to the public although donations will be accepted for all food items.

Church members are on hand to conduct tours of the building and the bell tower. You are encouraged to bring a blanket or lawn chairs and if you prefer, your own picnic supper to enjoy on the church More information available at www.trinityspringfield.org

Hebrew School slots open WESTFIELD – Congregation Ahavas Achim of Westfield has spaces open in its Hebrew School starting for the next school year in September for third through seventh grades. The Hebrew School meets weekly on Mondays from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Second Congregational Church next to Westfield State University.

Support for the program is provided by the Jewish Endowment Foundation of Western Massachusetts, a division of the Jewish Federation of Western Massachusetts, Inc. For more information, call Andy at 569-1148.

VBS 2014 SOUTHWICK — Southwick Congregational Church, UCC, invites area children to our VBS 2014 program – Workshop of Wonders. This is a full day (8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.) program for kids 3 – 12. Explore and experience how the ordinary becomes extraordinary with God! The fun begins Monday, July 21 and ends Friday, July 25 at 488 College Highway in Southwick. The adventure includes music and rhythm band- joyful noise activities, interactive Bible stories, crafts, hands-on mission work, delicious snacks and fun games. In the afternoons, we’ll have interactive programs from Rainbow Reptiles, Mad Science, and more. To register, visit the church website at www. southwickucc.org or call the church office at 413-5696362.

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Barrington Stage’s ‘Kiss Me, Kate’

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By MARK AUERBACH Correspondent PITTSFIELD – “Kiss Me, Kate” opens Barrington Stage’s summer main stage season, and like last season’s sparkling revival of “On The Town”, it’s bound to be a crowd-pleaser.

Cole Porter tuneful and witty music and lyrics, Bella and Samuel Spewack’s very funny script, and William Shakespeare’s comedic “The Taming of The Shrew” combine to provide a laugh-filled evening of showtune standards, from the Broadway musical anthem “Another Openin’ Another Show” to the sizzling “Too Darn Hot”, and the pun-filled “Brush The ensemble in “Too Darn Hot” from Barrington Stage’s Up Your Shakespeare”.

“Kiss Me, Kate” (Photo by Kevin Sprague) According to theatre legend, producer Saint Subber came up with the idea of “Kiss Me, Kate” after working as a stagehand on a touring production of “The Taming of The Shrew” starring the famous on-stage/off-stage theatre couple, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt. They quarreled onstage and offstage. Cole Porter was engaged to provide music and lyrics. “Kiss Me, Kate” became one of Broadway’s biggest hits in the late 1940s, alongside classics like “Guys and Dolls” and “South Pacific”. After a long Broadway run, the film version was released. It’s a classic worth seeking out for Ann Miller’s and Bob Fosse’s footwork. “Kiss Me, Kate” was last revived on Broadway in 2000, and a video version of the touring cast is available.

“Kiss Me, Kate” is the story of a theatre troupe trying out a new musical version of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of The Shrew”. Producer/director star Fred Graham (Paul Anthony Stewart), and co-star, his former wife Lilli Vanessi (Elizabeth Stanley) are playing Petrucio, who comes to Padua in search of a wife. He gets Katherine, the town shrew. The show’s ingenue, Lois Lane (Mara Davi), is flirting with Graham and also Bill Calhoun (Tyler Hanes), who builds up a major gambling debt, and signs the IOU as Fred Graham. As the company performs the Shakespearean classic, two gangsters (Carlos Lopez and Michael Dean Morgan)

calls and criminal charges are pending; 9:59 a.m.: training exercise, Westfield Middle School South, the police director of emergency response reports a lockdown exercise was carried out at the school which returned to normal operations at 11:12 a.m.; 1:46 p.m.: motor vehicle violation, Dartmouth Street, a patrol officer reports a traffic stop, the vehicle’s registration was found to be expired and the car was towed to the police impound yard; 8:19 p.m.: officer wanted Green Ave., a caller reports an adult struck young child and yelled at her when she questioned him, the responding officer reports he was told that the adult had restrained the child who was running toward the roadway; 8:42 p.m.: incapacitated person, Meadow Street, a caller reports a male party who appears to be intoxicated is walking in and out of the roadway, the responding officer reports the man was deemed to be too intoxicated to care for himself and he was placed in protective custody; 10:27 p.m: larceny, Broad Street, a resident came to the station to report his bicycle was stolen, the responding officer reports the complainant said that his bike had been on his porch when it was stolen by a known party; 10:26 p.m.: violation of a protective order, Thomas Street, a resident came to the station to report the defendant of an abuse prevention order has violated the ‘No contact’ clause of the order, the responding officer reports that the complainant said that the man violated the order by attempting to contact her through her mother and by online messages though their children in common.

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Immigration Continued from Page 4 Arrivals — these minors who recently crossed wouldn’t qualify because they didn’t arrive in the U.S. before June 15, 2007. Nor would they qualify for legalization under the Senate’s sweeping immigration bill passed last June — the cut-off date in that legislation is Dec. 31, 2011.

Still, Republicans contend that the current crisis of unaccompanied children at the border was a crisis of Obama’s own making. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said in response to the administration’s decision to step up enforcement: “After years of ignoring the law and sending a very dangerous message to Central American families, the administration is finally taking small steps to address this enormous problem.

“Now, it remains to be seen if the president will follow through,” Cornyn added.

Congressional Democrats rolled out a proposal to deal with the crisis one day earlier, which largely urged focus on anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking efforts, as well as programs to combat violence in the minors’ home countries.

Democrats also called for alternatives to detaining immigrants who crossed illegally.

“This is not an immigration crisis,” Menendez, a key player in immigration policy, said Thursday as he outlined his plan. “This is a humanitarian and refugee crisis.”

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), whose committee oversees immigration policy, separately sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Thursday with a list of 20 questions about the crisis on the border, including the number of people trying to cross into the United States illegally and how they are attempting to do so.

The Republican-led House will hold two separate committee hearings on this issue next week — one in McCaul’s committee and another in Goodlatte’s panel.

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Kiss Me, Kate Continued from Page 7 come backstage to collect. It’s fair to say that hilarity, spiced with some rhymed couplets and double entendres, is guaranteed.

Darren A. Cohen and orchestra bring out the best of Cole Porter’s bountiful score (the orchestrations are uncredited), but the jazz undertones are fresh and contemporary. Joe Calarco’s staging, using every level of James Kronzer’s multi-tiered sets, is slick. Lorin Latarro’s choreography, which combines ballet and jazz dance, dazzles, and the ensemble performs every move with style and athleticism.

Elizabeth Stanley, star of last season’s “On The Town” (and hopefully Broadway-bound with the Barrington Stage production) is a winning Lilli and Kate, with a strong voice that climbs the scales effortlessly and is a winning, nimble comedienne. Paul Anthony Stewart as Fred/Petruchio hits his stride with Porter’s “Where Is The Life That Late I Led?” He and Stanley play well together in taut choreographed scenes of physical comedy. Mara Davi as the flirtatious Bianca and Tyler Hanes as her bad-boy boyfriend are a fine dancing duo. The gangsters, Carlos Lopez and Michael Dean Morgan, turn the often showstopping “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” into the real thing.

There are some other winning performances. Nyla Watson, as Hattie, sings “Another Opening, Another Show” with verve, and her dancing in “Too Darn Hot” is a joy to watch. Hanes, KC Fredericks, and Calvin Cooper, Bianca’s “Tom, Dick, or Harry,” dance the daylights out of “Tom, Dick or Harry” with Davi. The ensemble

KC Fredericks, Tyler Hanes, Mara Davi and Calvin Cooper in “Tom, Dick, or Harry” from Barrington Stage’s “Kiss Me, Kate.” (Photo by Kevin Sprague) gives the second act opener “Too Darn Hot” some serious heat and kudos to Matthew Bauman for setting that number’s pace.

Ed Chapman’s sound design could use some tweaking. The orchestra drowns out some of the singers’ Porter renditions, when you want to hear every double entendre in his lyrics.

“Kiss Me, Kate” has been absent on Broadway and on area stages for a while. It’s nice to see this treasure revived, and after

watching excerpts from Broadway’s current offerings on The Tony Awards, there’s no comparison between the classics of Broadway’s Golden Age, and what passes for musical theatre today.

Incidentally, Barrington Stage celebrates its 20th Anniversary with “Kiss Me, Kate”. Artistic Director Julianne Boyd moved the theatre to downtown Pittsfield, and this company, along with The Colonial Theatre (Berkshire Theatre Group) have infused the city with a new cultural life, and the shops, restaurants, and retail that thrive with live theatre in the neighborhood. Barrington Stage is synonomous with Boyd. Pittsfield and the area owe Boyd and company a lot of thanks.

Barrington Stage Company presents “Kiss Me, Kate”. Music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Book by Bella and Samuel Spewack. Directed

by Joe Calarco. Choreography by Lorin Latarro. Musical direction

by Darren A. Cohen. Scenic design by James Kronzer. Costume design by Amy Clark. Lighting design by Jason Lyons. Sound design by Ed Chapman. Cast: Elizabeth Stanley (Lilli Vanessi/ Katherine), Paul Anthony Stewart (Fred Graham/Petruchio), Mara Davi (Lois Lane/Bianca), Tyler Hanes (Bill Calhoun/Lucento).

Through July 12 at the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. For tickets: 413-236-8888 or www.barringtonstageco.org ——— Mark G. Auerbach studied theatre at American University and the Yale School of Drama. He’s worked for arts organizations and reported on theatre for newspapers and radio.

Superintendent Continued from Page 1 According to Scallion, the city’s middle schools are seeing greater success now that these institutions have been supplied with up-to-date materials.

“For a couple of years, our teachers were teaching with materials that weren’t aligned with the new Common Core. They didn’t have the materials needed to teach the basics. Now we do,” she said. “That was part of huge investment on the part of the city and City Council.”

Scallion spoke briefly about the amount of savings incurred by the city’s bringing it’s special education programs within city limits and the benefits that will be enjoyed by these students.

“We have a significant number of kids in Westfield, as in any community, with autism. Five years ago we were inclined to put that child on a bus and transport them to programs an hour away,” she said. “The tuitions cost $60,000 to $70,000 a year, and that child would come home at the end of the day tired, on a bus for an hour, and not developing any relationships with kids in their community.”

Scallion mentioned the partnership the district has fostered with Westfield State University’s Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) program called the Clear Program, an effort to better accommodate students suffering from autism, along with the Quest Program, a middle school initiative which debuted last year to focus on the needs of students on the AspergerAutism spectrum.

“Because of this partnership, we’ve achieved a cost avoidance of $2.4 million. I don’t look at things because of the pricetag – I look at them because they’re the right thing to do for our children,” she said.

“To me, the most important thing is that these kids are growing up in our community, and developing lifelong

Westfield School Superintendent Dr. Suzanne Scallion, right, was the keynote speaker during the Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce Breakfast at The Ranch, Friday. The breakfast was attended by 120 members and Robert Brown, of First Niagara, servd as chief greeter. (Photo by Frederick Gore) school’s newsletter. connections in the community.”

“Kate (Phelon, executive director of Greater Westfield Chamber) Regarding ways for the business community to help in the mission of Westfield’s schools, Scallion called upon local business- and I talking about the adopt a school program, but there are lots of ways we can work together to support the schools in our commupeople to provide incentives for student achievement.

“We do giveaways, raffles, little things like that, so perhaps your nity,” she said, adding that she hopes local business leaders can businesses can help with our Positive Behavior Intervention help bring more interactive whiteboards into district schools.

System (PBIS),” she said regarding a nascent program the district “Southampton Elementary School has managed to put a whiteboard in every classroom. They’re the only school that did.” is employing.

Scallion said that it shouldn’t fall on the shoulders of parent Scallion spoke of her tenure as a principal in California’s Napa Valley, where she worked with local vineyards to implement the teacher organizations to fund these smartboards, and referred to Adopt A School program. Wineries donated wine which was sold them as a “basic school supply.”

She also cited the advanced math scores at the school, which rose at auctions to benefit the school and sent volunteers to help beaufrom 10 to 50 percent in three years due to using the boards. tify classrooms on weekends.

“There’s a direct correlation between those interactive white“Do some of our classrooms need painting? Sure. Do some of our walls need painting? Sure,” Scallion said, referencing a hard- boards and the components of mathematics – no question about it.” ware store which adopted her school in California, along with a Scallion said. “Using the Envision mathematics program, that is window company who was in turn given free advertising atop her completely dependant on that kind of technology.”

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Cortina Tile third baseman Sean Mitchell, left, attempts the tag on Camfour baserunner Michell Longley during last night’s Babe Ruth game at Bullens Field. (Photo by Frederick

Cortina Tile first baseman Steve McKenna, left, holds Camfour Devin Baker on base during last night’s Babe Ruth game at Bullens Field. (Photo by Frederick Gore/www.thewestfield-

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Cortina Tile tips Camfour

By Chris Putz Staff Writer WESTFIELD – It was better late than never for Cortina Tile in the opening rounds of the Amanti Cup tournament.

No. 3 Cortina Tile broke a 2-2 tie with a three-run sixth inning, and held on to defeat second-seeded Camfour 5-4 in Friday’s postseason action. Chris Boyden landed the big hit, a two-run RBI double.

It was a well-played ball game throughout.

Both starting pitchers – Camfour’s Mitchell Longley and Cortina Tile’s Boyden – waged a tug-of-war through the first part of the game before giving way to their respective bullpens.

Boyden scattered six hits through three innings. He allowed just one earned run, a Rory Tettemer RBI single, before turning the ball over to Spencer Cloutier to begin the fourth.

Boyden was backed by a sensational defensive effort from right fielder Jalen Bodendorf who scooped a pop fly in shallow field with two baserunners on for the third out, and made a spectacular throw to home plate to complete a double play.

Longley allowed an RBI single to Garrett Collis in the second inning, and a sac-fly RBI to Boyden in the fourth. Boyden’s flyout scored Dunn, who reached on a double.

In the fifth inning, relievers Quinn Powers (Camfour) and Cloutier escaped jams. Both pitchers allowed two baserunners to reach to begin the inning but buckled down to retire the side.

Then, in the sixth, Cortina Tile surged ahead.

With one out, John Daley singled and stole second base. Dunn walked. The runners pulled off a successful double steal.

Jack Yvon was intentionally walked. A wild pitch broke the 2-2 tie. Boyden drove a ball

Cortina Tile’s Ryan Rix connects during last night’s Babe Ruth game at Bullens Field.

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to deep left-center field for a double, clearing the bases and giving Cortina Tile a 5-2 lead.

Camfour managed to get two runs back in the seventh, courtesy of a walk, runscoring error, and fielder’s choice RBI, but came up one run short.

Longley finished 3-for-4 at the plate with two runs scored and two stolen bases.

Cortina Tile’s Steve McKenny went 2-for-2 with one run scored, stole two bases, and was hit by a pitch.

AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL

Irzyk, Houle mow down Easthampton Westfield Post 124 5, Easthampton 1 EASTHAMPTON – It was a glorious reunion of sorts on the mound for two local pitchers on Westfield Post 124.

Westfield starter Brent Houle (5 Ks) pitched four scoreless innings and reliever Matt Irzyk (4 Ks) allowed just one run in picking up the victory Friday night. The two pitchers made a name for themselves in leading Westfield High School to its second straight Western Massachusetts Division I baseball championship in 2013.

The battery was charged by a big sixth inning.

In the sixth, Chris Riga hit an RBI single, Sam Blake bashed a two-run triple, and Colin Dunn knocked in a run with a double.

Cortina Tile baserunner John Daley, left, beats the tag Post 124 tacked on an insurance run on a of Camfour pitcher Nathan Boucher during last successful double steal with Tim Donahue night’s Babe Ruth game at Bullens Field. (Photo by scoring from third, and Connor Sas swiping second.

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away 21-16 Toronto 41 33 .554 — — 3-7 L-3 20-17 1 — 8-2 W-4 17-16 22-17 New York 39 33 .542 Baltimore 37 35 .514 3 2 5-5 L-1 16-17 21-18 14-20 Boston 34 39 .466 6½ 5½ 6-4 L-1 20-19 13-23 Tampa Bay 29 46 .387 12½ 11½ 5-5 L-1 16-23 Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away — — 5-5 W-2 19-19 19-13 Detroit 38 32 .543 Kansas City 39 33 .542 — — 9-1 L-1 18-16 21-17 14-24 Cleveland 37 37 .500 3 3 4-6 L-1 23-13 14-20 Chicago 35 38 .479 4½ 4½ 4-6 L-1 21-18 Minnesota 33 38 .465 5½ 5½ 4-6 W-1 16-17 17-21 West Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Oakland 45 28 .616 — — 6-4 W-3 22-14 23-14 18-19 Los Angeles 38 33 .535 6 ½ 5-5 L-1 20-14 20-16 Seattle 37 36 .507 8 2½ 3-7 L-2 17-20 Texas 35 37 .486 9½ 4 4-6 L-2 16-19 19-18 13 7½ 4-6 W-1 17-20 16-22 Houston 33 42 .440 AMERICAN LEAGUE Thursday’s Games Cleveland 5, L.A. Angels 3, 10 innings Detroit 2, Kansas City 1 San Diego 4, Seattle 1 N.Y. Yankees 6, Toronto 4 Tampa Bay 5, Houston 0 Minnesota 4, Chicago White Sox 2 Oakland 4, Boston 2 Friday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 5, Baltimore 3 Detroit 6, Cleveland 4 Houston 3, Tampa Bay 1 Toronto at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m. (late results) Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m. (late results) Seattle at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m. (late results) Boston at Oakland, 10:05 p.m. (late results) Texas at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m. (late results) Saturday’s Games Baltimore (B.Norris 6-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Nuno 1-3), 1:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Rienzo 4-4) at Minnesota (Correia 3-8), 2:10 p.m.

Seattle (C.Young 6-4) at Kansas City (Vargas 7-2), 2:10 p.m.

Boston (R.De La Rosa 2-2) at Oakland (J.Chavez 6-4), 4:05 p.m.

Houston (Peacock 2-4) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 2-7), 4:10 p.m.

Toronto (Happ 6-3) at Cincinnati (Leake 4-6), 4:10 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 6-7) at Cleveland (Bauer 2-3), 7:05 p.m.

Texas (N.Martinez 1-4) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 7-6), 7:15 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Detroit at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Washington 37 34 .521 — — 5-5 L-1 21-16 16-18 Atlanta 37 35 .514 ½ 1½ 4-6 W-1 20-18 17-17 Miami 37 36 .507 1 2 4-6 W-1 25-16 12-20 Philadelphia 33 38 .465 4 5 8-2 W-4 16-21 17-17 New York 33 41 .446 5½ 6½ 4-6 L-1 16-20 17-21 Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Milwaukee 44 30 .595 — — 6-4 W-1 20-15 24-15 St. Louis 39 34 .534 4½ — 7-3 L-2 21-16 18-18 Cincinnat i 35 36 .493 7½ 3 6-4 L-1 17-17 18-19 Pittsburgh 35 38 .479 8½ 4 5-5 L-1 21-18 14-20 Chicago 31 40 .437 11½ 7 6-4 W-2 16-14 15-26 West Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away San Francisco 43 29 .597 — — 2-8 L-5 23-15 20-14 Los Angeles 40 34 .541 4 — 7-3 W-3 18-20 22-14 Colorado 34 38 .472 9 4½ 5-5 L-3 19-14 15-24 San Diego 31 42 .425 12½ 8 3-7 W-2 18-19 13-23 Arizona 31 45 .408 14 9½ 3-7 L-1 13-27 18-18

Toronto at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m.

Houston at Tampa Bay, 1:40 p.m.

Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 2:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.

Seattle at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.

Boston at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Texas at L.A. Angels, 8:07 p.m.

Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

Boston at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Thursday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 3, 12 innings Milwaukee 4, Arizona 1 San Diego 4, Seattle 1 Atlanta 3, Washington 0 N.Y. Mets 1, Miami 0 Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 1 Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs 6, Pittsburgh 3 Atlanta at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

Miami 3, N.Y. Mets 2 Toronto at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m. (late results) Philadelphia at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m. (late results)

World Cup of big surprises smiles on Americas

By JOHN LEICESTER AP Sports Writer RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The World Cup of surprises is turning into a sweet samba party for teams from the Americas.

Having already stunned one former world champion, little Costa Rica shocked another on Friday and sent a third one home. Then the French exploded with five goals against their Swiss neighbors.

In the evening game, Ecuador downed Honduras 2-1.

The story so far: Two European powers — Spain and England — are out of contention after just two games. European teams have played eight teams from the Americas and won just twice.

The nine teams from Africa and Asia have contrived to win just one game between them.

But for teams from the Americas, their record as of Friday against nations from other regions: played 12, lost just two. Ole! In short, the new world is embarrassing the old one.

None of the previous seven World Cups in the Americas were won by teams outside

Latin America. On current evidence, this one looks increasingly unlikely to be the exception.

Although the score was just 1-0, Costa Rica was a convincing winner Friday over four-time champion Italy in the coastal city of Recife.

Having also won its first match, 3-1, against two-time winner Uruguay, Costa Rica is now guaranteed a spot in the knockout stage.

Costa Rica’s win also killed off England’s faint hopes of advancing. Italy and Uruguay will play each other Tuesday to determine which of them joins Costa Rica in advancing from Group D and which will join 1966 champion England and 2010 winner Spain in phoning their travel agents.

Costa Rica, with just 5 million people, was seen as the easy opponent in the group — the first ever with three former world champions.

Instead, the Ticos have looked the hungriest team of the four, and are already preparing for a knockout game.

The only two European nations to have beaten Americas teams so far in Brazil are France and

Switzerland, which overcame Honduras and Ecuador, respectively, in their first Group E matches. On Friday, France and Switzerland played each other in Salvador, also on the coast. The French were rampant winners, 5-2, all but guaranteeing they, too, will advance to the last 16 for only the second time since they won the title in 1998.

Switzerland coach Ottmar Hitzfeld tipped France to go “very far in this tournament” after it shredded his team’s defenses and reputation as tough to break down. Five different players scored for France.

If it stays on top of Group E, it will likely face Iran, Nigeria or Bosnia in the last 16. They should all be manageable opponents for the talented French who are rebuilding their reputation ruined by a training ground strike by players at the last World Cup. Friday marked the fourth anniversary of that debacle in South Africa.

Attackers Olivier Giroud and Karim Benzema each scored one goal and created another against the Swiss.

Benzema went 15 games

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1st Place

Jim French & Dave Liberty 79.0 Points 2nd Place Joe Hebda & Tom Baker 73.0 Points 3rd Place Barry Slattery & Bob McCarthy 71.5 Points 4th Place Frank Kamlowski & Angelo Mascadrelli 70.0 Points 4th Place Fran Siska & Bill Wallanovich 70.0 Points 4th Place Terry Clark & Mike Clark 70.0 Points 5th Place Tom Pitoniak & Bob Berniche 68.5 Points 6th Place Bill Murphy & Chris Olsen 67.0 Points 7th Place Ed Harrington & Jim Crawford 62.5 Points 8th Place Paul Joubert & Ron Bonyeau 61.5 Points 9th Place Ray West & Harry Pease 61.0 Points 10th Place Ed West & Bob Czarnecki 60.5 Points 10th Place Hank Bartniki & Jack Kennedy 60.5 Points 11th Place Butch Rines & Gary Marcoulier 55.5 Points 12th Place Erroll Nichols & Mark Dunn 54.0 Points 13th Place Jim Johnson & Al Szenda 53.5 Points 14th Place Dick Williams & Ron Sena 52.0 Points 15th Place John Kidrick & Milt Holmes 51.5 Points 16th Place Carl Haas & Bill Frothingham 51.0 Points 16th Place Jack Leary & Jim Liptak 51.0 Points Low Gross Butch Rines & Bill Wallinovich @ 44 Low Net Ron Bonyeau @ 24 Closest to pin on 11th hole Butch Rines Closest to pin on 16th hole Rich Chistolini Closest to pin on 18th hole Mike Clark Shell Faunce we miss you on the course.

France’s Mamadou Sakho, center, blocks a shot by Switzerland’s Xherdan Shaqiri during the group E World Cup soccer match between Switzerland and France at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Brazil, Friday, June 20, 2014.

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without scoring for France in 2012-2013. He now is among just four players to have three goals in Brazil.

“Karim is confirming that he’s in very, very good form.

He’s in great shape athletically,” said France coach Didier Deschamps. “Having such an efficient player is very important in a competition like this.”

The outcome of Group E remains undecided even after Honduras’ loss in Curitiba to Ecuador, its second defeat of the tournament. France, with two wins and most goals scored and fewest allowed, is best placed to go through.

Costa Rica had never beaten Uruguay in eight previous attempts or Italy in their only meeting in 1994. If it beats England in the teams’ first-ever encounter next Tuesday, Costa Rica will complete a hat-trick of victories over those former champions with seven World Cup titles between them.

Their victory over the Italians was no fluke. Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon made several diving saves. But he couldn’t reach Bryan Ruiz’s pinpoint header in the 44th minute off Junior Diaz’s long, curling cross from the left.

Costa Rica ground to a standstill as government employees took the day off to watch the game and many schools shut down shortly after the victory to allow children to join celebrations. Crowds shouting: “Yes, we did it!” blocked streets of downtown San Jose, the capital. In Brazil, players began to receive photos of the party on their smartphones. Costa Rica’s only other appearance in the knockout phase came in its World Cup debut in 1990. It didn’t get beyond the group stage in 2002 and 2006.

“It was the squad with the lowest profile in the group, but you don’t advance on profile alone in big tournaments,” said Italy coach Cesare Prandelli.

Milwaukee at Colorado, 8:40 p.m. (late results) San Francisco at Arizona, 9:40 p.m. (late results) L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 10:10 p.m. (late results) Saturday’s Games Milwaukee (W.Peralta 7-5) at Colorado (Friedrich 0-0), 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (deGrom 0-4) at Miami (Koehler 5-5), 4:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Hamels 2-3) at St. Louis (Wainwright 9-3), 4:10 p.m.

Toronto (Happ 6-3) at Cincinnati (Leake 4-6), 4:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Teheran 6-4) at Washington (Fister 5-2), 7:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Worley 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 7-5), 7:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Beckett 4-4) at San Diego (T.Ross 6-6), 10:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Vogelsong 4-3) at Arizona (McCarthy 1-9), 10:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Mets at Miami, 1:10 p.m.

Toronto at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Washington, 1:35 p.m.

Philadelphia at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 4:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Colorado, 4:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.

Monday’s Games Miami at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

Washington at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

SUMMER SPORTS SCHEDULE Saturday, June 21, 2014 Westfield Post 124 vs. Aldenville 337, Westfield State University, 1:30 p.m.

Monday, June 23, 2014 Westfield Post 124 vs. Amherst Post 148, Westfield State University, 5:45 p.m.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 Westfield Post 124 vs. Wilbraham Post 286, Westfield State University, 5:45 p.m.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 Westfield Post 124 at East Springfield Post 420, Forest Park, 5:45 p.m.

Friday, June 27, 2014 Westfield Post 124 vs. Greenfield Post 81, Westfield State University, 5:45 p.m.

Saturday, June 28, 2014 Westfield Post 124 at Ludlow Post 52, Whitney Park, 1:30 p.m.

Monday, June 30, 2014 Westfield Post 124 vs. West Springfield, Bullens Field, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014 Westfield Post 124 vs. Longmeadow, Westfield State University, 5:45 p.m.

Thursday, July 3, 2014 Westfield Post 124 vs. Agawam Post 185, Westfield State University, 5:45 p.m.

Sunday, July 6, 2014 Westfield Post 124 at West Springfield, Mitteneague Park, 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014 Westfield Post 124 vs. Springfield Post 21, Bullens Field, 7 p.m.

Friday, July 11, 2014 Westfield Post 124 at Longmeadow, Longmeadow High School, 5:45 p.m.

Sunday, July 13, 2014 Postseason Begins

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QUESTIONS & ATTITUDE Compelling questions ... and maybe a few actual answers Why are the Boys from MIT upset with Keselowski?

SPEED FREAKS A couple questions we had to ask — ourselves Five straight wins for the Hendrick team. How surprised are you?

HOT TOPICS: 3 ISSUES GENERATING A BUZZ

SECOND THOUGHTS

Site of season finale settled?

For now, it appears. Many factors go into deciding a race schedule, including weather, size of market, quality of racing at particular tracks, etc. But the trump card in the deck is green and includes a little portrait of a long-dead president. HomesteadMiami Speedway and the Ford Motor Co. announced a five-year extension of its “Championship Weekend” contract, with an option for five more.

GODSPEAK: Now that Jimmie Johnson has found his running shoes, this could be a long streak.

KEN’S CALL: The sun’s daily dive into the western horizon surprises me nearly as much.

Lock it in?

Since Homestead’s track is owned by a parent company whose leadership also runs NASCAR, and since NASCAR naturally decides NASCAR’s schedule, yep, lock it in. Unless, of course, they exercise an “out” that we’re guessing is inserted into such contracts.

It’s in there somewhere between a “Therefore” and “Whereas.”

Homestead will keep the season finale. The good news?

GODSPEAK: At the very least, we won’t have to listen to the rumors that Daytona will host the last race of the season.

KEN’S CALL: Since that Staten Island track never left the drawing board, the Miami area is as good as any.

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If it means anything, he’s rather popular at the University of Toronto.

Brad Keselowski was asked why his team — Team Penske — has so many Canadian engineers on its shop roster, and Kez indicated there’s a shortage of race-quality engineers in the U.S. these days. Not sure if that’s an indictment of our clunky educational system or auto racing’s current lack of pull among the slide-rule set. Then again, it might just be Kez talking out of school.

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Kevin Harvick trades the helmet for his “thinking cap,” and is likely wondering why he doesn’t already have five or six wins this season. He’s certainly had the opportunities.

Kevin Harvick was in no mood to talk after his third consecutive second-place finish at Michigan International Speedway.

The top-three finishers are required by NASCAR law to make an appearance in the media center following Sprint Cup races.

The following is Harvick’s postrace interview, verbatim: Kerry Tharp (NASCAR public relations): “We’ll go ahead and hear from our race runner-up.

That’s Kevin Harvick. Kevin drove the No. 4 Budweiser Chevrolet today here at Michigan. Another tough one for you; maybe just talk about how things went out there today.”

Harvick: “I mean, the car was fast, just wound up on the wrong side of all the strategy. We finished second, and that’s it.”

Tharp: “Kevin, six of the top eight were Hendrick engines. This is a pretty big track in terms of horsepower. How well positioned are the Hendricks right now?”

Harvick: “I think it’s pretty obvious. Self explanatory. Good question.”

Tharp: “Kevin, thank you. We’ll see you at Sonoma.”

ROOKIE RUN Kyle Larson had an eventful outing at Michigan on Sunday.

His No. 42 Ganassi Racing Chevy got beat up early in a multicar crash, then he was caught speeding on pit road. He fought through the afternoon to score an eighthplace finish.

As part of the repair process, Larson’s pit crew had to trim away part of his rear bumper, which actually increased the speed of the car by removing downforce off the back tires.

“We had to fight really hard,” Larson said. “I hate it for whoever got collected in my spin in the beginning.

“We fought our way back to the top five and pretty much stayed there for most of the race, and then with under 50 laps to go I sped on pit road.

“I was really bummed about that because I knew we would have a shot to win.”

It was Larson’s seventh top-10 finish of the season. And just for

good measure, Larson finished 10 positions ahead of the driver he replaced, Juan Pablo Montoya, who was wheeling a Team Penske Ford.

Winner: Marcos Ambrose Rest of the top five: Kurt Busch, Kasey Kahne, Clint Bowyer, Carl Edwards Dark horse: AJ Allmendinger

FEUD OF THE WEEK

WHAT TO SAY? What does a driver say when he crashes on the first lap of 200-lap race? It happened to Travis Kvapil, who was driving the No. 32 Ford, at Michigan.

“I feel horrible,” he said. “We started last and had plenty of time. I saw it and was getting slowed down and was creeping down by the grass. It was almost like a situation where I was going too slow, instead of just driving through the wreck.

“Once I got to the grass, I couldn’t go any lower. The car wouldn’t turn in the grass, and he just kept coming down and it peeled the right-front off of it.

The car is hurt pretty bad, so I feel bad for the Go Green Team.

Bummer. Lap 1. What a disappointing day, but we’ll go out there and ride around and finish it out.”

GODWIN’S SONOMA PICKS Godwin Kelly is the Daytona Beach News-Journal’s motorsports editor and has covered NASCAR for 30 years. Reach him at godwin.kelly@news-jrnl.com

Ken Willis has been covering NASCAR for The Daytona Beach News-Journal for 27 years. Reach him at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com

Disappointment: Tony Stewart First one out: Brian Vickers Don’t be surprised if: A roadcourse ace, fresh off Le Mans, makes a top-five charge.

KYLE LARSON

MARTIN TRUEX JR.

Kyle Larson vs. Martin Truex Jr.: Larson spun his No. 42 Chevy on Lap 8, igniting a multicar crash that swept up Truex’s No. 78 Chevy.

Godwin Kelly gives his take: “Fortunately for the rookie Larson, Truex chalked it up to his bad racing luck this season. Whew.”

WHAT’S ON TAP? SPRINT CUP: Toyota/SaveMart 350 SITE: Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway SCHEDULE: Friday, practice (Fox Sports 1, 3 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.). Saturday, qualifying (Fox Sports 1, 1:40 p.m.). Sunday, race (TNT, coverage starts at 2 p.m., green flag at 3:19 p.m.)

NATIONWIDE: Gardner Denver 200 SITE: Road America; Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin SCHEDULE: Saturday, qualifying (ESPN2, 11:30 a.m.), race (ABC, 2:30 p.m.)

WEEKLY DRIVER RANKINGS — BASED ON BEHAVIOR AND PERFORMANCE JIMMIE JOHNSON Peaking too soon?

Doubtful

JUNIOR EARNHARDT Will take top-15 at Sonoma

JEFF GORDON Fan favorite this week

KEVIN HARVICK How long can he stay calm?

BRAD KESELOWSKI Staying in trifecta picture

MATT KENSETH Victory Lane remains a rumor

JOEY LOGANO Finishes 12th this week

CARL EDWARDS Gibbs bound?

Probably

KYLE BUSCH Middle name is Thomas

KYLE LARSON Home game for him this week

MICHIGAN REWIND

No, this isn’t Rick Hendrick’s first lengthy winning streak Hendrick Motorsports won its fifth straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race when Jimmie Johnson took the checkered flag at Michigan. It is the third time the team has fashioned a winning streak this long.

Hendrick did it twice in 2007, actually running the string to six victories one time that year. Team owner Rick Hendrick joined his winning driver and crew chief Chad Knaus in the Michigan media center following Sunday’s victory.

Talk about this win and just about how the overall organization is performing.

“Well, this is a great win for a lot of reasons. One for here in Michigan for Chevrolet, and being a

Chevrolet dealer and racing Chevrolets, this means a lot to win this race. It’s good to see Jimmie after leading so many laps here close the deal because we’ve run out of gas, broke motors, blown tires.

“I think I remember a couple times coming off of Turn 4 and losing it. For him to be able to finish it off, it was really good.

“And again, to keep the streak going, get five, that’s great. This was a good race, and it just played out the way we needed it to play out, and all our cars ran well, and I think we were a little off early in the year, and we’ve been kind of clicking here lately, and (I’m ) real proud of all the guys at Hendrick Motors-

ports because of working hard together.

“This is just a tribute to all the crew chiefs and drivers working hard, working together, the engine shop, chassis shop. Everybody is really putting out a lot of effort right now, and it’s paying off.”

When things are going really well, do you take a hands-off approach and let the guys do what they do?

“If they need me, I’m there to help them. I sit in their Tuesday meetings and listen to the feedback from the drivers and the crew chiefs and the engineers, the motor shop and all, and it’s just got to be a crisis for me to get involved.”

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Rick Hendrick, right, strikes a familiar pose.

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TRAVEL HINT Dear Heloise: My travel hint is that I always take a power strip (the plug with five or six outlets) to keep all my chargeable items in one place.

Most cruise ships and hotel rooms don’t have many outlets, and I can plug in both our phones and tablets, and whatever else we have, in one place. Another advantage is when we get ready to leave, the chargers are all together, and we no longer stand the risk of leaving one behind.

-- Judi in Anaheim Hills, Calif.

EARPIECE CLEANING Dear Heloise: I enjoy reading your column in our little local paper, The (Huntingdon, Pa.) Daily News. Here is my helpful hint: If you wear one of the small cellphone headsets that just sticks in your ear and rests against your face, over time the tiny holes will get clogged with makeup and dirt. Just take a soft toothbrush and gently clean out the holes. -- Peg K., Huntingdon, Pa.

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By Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar Dear Annie: I am a 61-year-old woman. I am retired, and I live off of my investments, which generate enough income for me to live comfortably. I have paid off my mortgage on the home in which I’ve lived for 30 years.

I’ve known “Joseph” for 25 years, but we have only begun dating in the past six months. Despite having a high-paying job, Joseph has only a quarter of the assets that I have. He is talking marriage, but I’m afraid if we later divorce and divide our combined assets, I would no longer be able to afford to stay in my house.

I love Joseph, but I worry about this. He let his ex-wife handle all of their finances and, as a result, has little in the way of retirement savings. He also still works in a job where he can stay for many more years -- whereas, if we divorce, I’d have trouble finding a job that would pay enough to live decently.

What do you think of a prenuptial agreement in our case? -Wedding Jitters Dear Wedding: We are in favor of prenups whenever one party enters a marriage with substantially more assets than the other. It is particularly important later in life when a financial setback is more difficult to recoup. There are various ways to handle this, so we suggest you speak to an attorney with experience in this area.

Dear Annie: A co-worker of mine sent a wedding “Save the Date” card addressed only to me. I’ve been married for eight years. When the invitation came, my name was the only one on the envelope, and the response card was already filled out, marked for one person attending. Obviously, my husband is not invited. After speaking to a few other co-workers, I realized I was not the only one. All of the other invitations were the same: no spouses.

My husband has decided it is too awkward for him to attend this wedding. The consensus among my co-workers is that this is quite rude, and a lot of people’s feelings have been hurt. The bride is only 24. She’s been here a year, and I have to continue working with her. I’m not sure how to proceed. What should I do? -- Minus One Dear Minus: It is rude to invite half of an established couple to a wedding. But let’s be generous and assume your co-worker doesn’t know any better. She undoubtedly figures that coworkers are in a separate category and she doesn’t need to include their spouses. One of you might inform her that she is incorrect and has unintentionally created some ill-will. Other than that, however, it is your choice whether or not to attend.

When the festivities are over, please say nothing more about it.

Your work relationship does not need to be affected by her poor manners outside of the office.

Dear Annie: Your advice to “Spinning the Wheel in Pennsylvania” was so right. I have a daughter, and my twin sister has a son. They are a few months apart. Even though my daughter was four months younger, she was ahead of her cousin, but my sister and I understood that girls are a little more advanced than boys at that age.

We were disgusted by how family and friends compared the children constantly, as if my nephew had to prove himself to them. Of course, we were there to reassure both of our children how awesome they were. Today, my son and my niece are college graduates and super-successful.

Never hold back a child in order for them to move at the same pace as another child. And when anyone, be it family or friends, compares the kids, back up your child! -- Twin Moms Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Saturday, June 21, 2014: This year you are unusually creative, and you don’t mince words. You are direct yet very nurturing to your inner circle of friends and loved ones. You maintain a high profile and often take the lead. If you are single, you naturally will meet someone of interest simply by living your life. Always keep your longterm relationship goals in mind. If you are attached, the two of you enjoy spending time together more and more.

You are likely to make a major purchase this year as a couple. TAURUS will always be a loyal friend.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Make this a people day. Drag your friends out to a baseball game or some other fun sports event that many of you enjoy. You’ll put that extra oomph into whatever you do. Others admire the fact that you do everything 100 percent.

Tonight: Out on the town.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH You might not be in sync with many people around you. Perhaps you want to take a break from your daily hassles and become unavailable. You may feel as if you don’t have the energy to go through any interpersonal relating right now. Tonight: Maintain a low profile.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You might go overboard, no matter what you choose to do. You like what you are doing, and you can’t seem to get enough of the good times. You could push someone away by being excessive. Reach out to a friend you often want to spend time with. Tonight: Make it early.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH The Sun moves into your sign, announcing its presence with the summer solstice. If you are not invited to a party to celebrate the season, decide to throw one yourself. A parent might encourage you to play a more active role in your social life. Tonight: The later, the better.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH If you are in the mood for a daytrip, take off early. You could have mixed feelings about a loved one who might be meeting you halfway on your excursion. Try to avoid crowds as long as you can, as you will enjoy the quiet of visiting with only a few people. Tonight: Call the shots.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You might want to understand more of what is expected from you. You will want to join friends, but you won’t be in sync with the details of their plans. Don’t make it a big deal, and let go of some discomfort. Tonight: Be entertained, rather than entertaining others.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH One-on-one relating gives you the most satisfaction. However, there is so much going on that you might not be able to take as much time during the day with a key person as you’d like.

Make plans for later today to visit.

Tonight: Let someone else make the first move.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Continue with plans to throw yourself into a project that you feel must be done. Do not minimize what is happening with a special person in your life.

Make plans with this person in the near future. You will relax more once you have a chat. Tonight: Suddenly, so many invitations.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You might want to respond to a loved one who keeps tossing new opportunities your way. You could feel overwhelmed by everything that is going on between you. Tap into your ingenuity when trying to appeal to your sweetie. Tonight: Be your naughty self.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You might need some time at home with a roommate, a pet or a loved one. You put so much of yourself into everything you do, it’s no wonder you might feel drained. Recharge your batteries before your energy dips any lower.

Tonight: Play it low-key.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You are full of energy, and you’ll want to touch base with several important people in your life. If you have no plans, you are likely to have some by the time you complete your to-do list. Don’t accept any invitation that does not intrigue or delight you.

Tonight: Hang close to home.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Pay your bills first, and then make sure your checkbook is balanced before going window shopping. You’ll want to make a good choice for you. Some of you might be looking for a gift for a loved one. Be careful, as you easily could go overboard. Tonight: It is your treat.

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The Forgotten Valley program set HUNTINGTON - The Huntington Historical Society will present “The Forgotten Valley, Forgotten No More” on Sunday, June 22, from 2-5 p.m. at Stanton Hall in Huntington. The event focuses on the early history of the Town of Norwich, a former name for Huntington, and the valley areas of Knightville and Indian Hollow affected by the construction of the Knightville Flood Control Dam in 1939-41 on the east branch of the Westfield River.

Through use of photographs, audiovisual equipment and the spoken word, the period from 1773 to 1941 will be covered. Special guests Winnie Bates Smith of Huntington and Albert Edward Strong of Westfield, both in their 90’s, will tell about growing up in the valley in the 1920’s and ‘30s, before the dam was built. Several descendants of first settlers

of Norwich will also be on hand with information about their families.

The program is free and includes refreshments, with donations gladly accepted.

Stanton Hall, located at the junction of routes 20 and 112 on the town green, is air-conditioned and fully accessible. Call Historical Society members Bill at 667-3049 or Jill at 667-5794 for further information.

DRIVERS CONSTRUCTION. Class A&B dump, lowbed and/or vac tank. Minimum 3 years of experience with clean driving record. Located in hilltowns. Call between 9a.m.-5p.m. (413)8482858.

WESTFIELD - Forest Park brings its mobile zoo to Stanley Park on Wednesday, June 25. This program will give children the opportunity to get up close and personal with wildlife. They can pet every animal and ask questions about their natural environments and eating habits. Every child, no matter what his or her age, will enjoy this presentation.

This program is free of charge and will be held rain or shine in the Westfield Bank Children’s Pavilion “B” from 12- 1 p.m.

Westfield Public Schools is currently accepting applications for the coaching positions listed below for Fall Season 2014 at Westfield High School:

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SITE MANAGER in the Pioneer Valley to oversee a 4 person co-ed residence serving individuals with acquired brain injuries. Qualified candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree or LPN and two years’ experience working with individuals with brain injuries. Two years management experience is required. Experience supporting people with brain injuries through medical situations and personal care preferred.

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SEPTIC SYSTEMS, house sites, demolition, land clearing, driveways, stumping, patios, retaining walls, walkways. CORMIER LANDSCAPING, (413)822-0739.

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HUNTINGTON CENTER. 2 bedroom apartment. Refinished, new high efficiency heating system. For more info call (413)2380303.

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Chimney Sweeps HENTNICK CHIMNEY SWEEPS. Chimney repairs and rebuilds. Stainless steel caps and liner systems. Inspections, masonry work and gutter cleaning. Free estimates. Insured.

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ALEKSANDR DUDUKAL ELECTRICAL. Residential, Commercial, Industrial. Licensed and insured. Lic. #11902. Service and emergency calls. Call (413)519-8875. alexdudukal@yahoo.com 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.

D I R E C T O R Y

Flooring/Floor Sanding

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

House Painting

Masonry

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 !!

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.

A RON JOHNSON’S FLOOR SANDC&N CARPENTRY. Suspended ceilING. Installation, repairs, 3 coats ings, home improvements and remodpolyurethane. Free estimates. (413) eling. Licensed and insured. Call 569-3066.

(413)262-9314.

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.

Hauling #1 PHIL'S DUMP RUNS/DEMOLITION. Removal of any items in cellars, attics, etc... Also brush removal and small demolition (sheds, decks, fences, one car garages). Fully insured. Free estimates. Phil (413)525-2892, (413)2656380.

At SANTA FE PAINTING CO. We're your color specialists! Brighten up your home for Spring! Get all your interior painting needs done now.

We paint and stain log homes. Call DELREO HOME IMPROVEMENT for (413)230-8141. all your exterior home improvement needs. Roofing, siding, windows, A NEW LOOK FOR 2014. Let Home decks and gutters. Call for free quote.

Decor help. Interior painting and wallExtensive references, fully licensed & papering, specializing in faux finishes. insured in MA. & CT. www.delreoServicing the area over 12 years. Call homeimprovement.com Call Gary Kendra now for a free estimate and Delcamp (413)569-3733. decorating advice. (413)564-0223, (413)626-8880.

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.

wood. (413)569-1611, (413)374-5377.

A.R.A. JUNK REMOVAL SERVICE. Furniture, trash, appliances. Full house cleanouts, basements, attics, yards.

Furnace and hot water heater removal.

24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE. Free estimate on phone. Senior discount. Call Pete (413)433-0356. www.arajunkremoval.com.

Landscaping/Lawn Care

A SPRING CLEANUP. Commercial, residential. Weekly mowing and mainPAUL MAYNARD CONSTRUCTION. tenance, tree removal, dethatching, All your carpentry needs. (413)386- mulch, gutter cleaning, etc. Shea Land4606. Did your windows fail with the scaping, (413)569-2909. cold weather? Don't wait another year!

Call Paul for replacement windows.

Many new features available. Windows CORMIER LANDSCAPING. Spring are built in CT. All windows installed by cleanups, lawn service, mulching, Paul, owner of Paul Maynard Con- retaining walls, excavating, decks, driveways, patios, tree work, stone struction. My name is on my work. work. Call (413)822-0739.

Home Improvement

R.J. FENNYERY HOME IMPROVEA.B.C. - CARPENTER 18 years expe- MENT'S. Professional roofing & sidrience. Licensed and insured. "No job ing contractor. All types of home too big or too small, we do it all." Call repairs. Expert emergency leak reDave, (413)568-6440. pair. Reasonable rates. MA Lic. #CS066849. MA Reg. #149909. Call Bob (413)736-0276. RJFennyery.

ADVANCED REMODELING & CON- com STRUCTION. 25 years experience. Licensed and Insured. Free estimates.

Call Don (413)262-8283. When Qual- Home Maintenance ity, Integrity, and Value count.

MODELING.Kitchens, additions, decks, rec rooms, more. Prompt, reliable service, free estimates. Mass Registered #106263, licensed & insured. Call Bruno, (413)562-9561.

FRESH START PAINTING. Certified lead renovator. Interior/exterior painting. Power washing. Wallpapering. 30 years + experience. Charlie (413)3138084.

KELSO FAMILY PAINTING. Filling summer schedule for exterior painting, interior painting anytime. Call Kyle CONTRACTING. (413)667-3395.

J.D. BERRY Garages, additions, windows, doors, decks, vinyl siding and more.

A DUMP TRUCK. Attic, cellars, yard, #CS077728. Call Jim, (413)569-6920, scrap metal removal. Seasoned Fire- (413) 530-5430

JIM FERRIS ELECTRIC. Senior discount. No job too small! Insured, free estimates. 40 years experience.

BRUNO ANTICO BUILDING RELic. #16303. Call (413)330-3682.

MASTER ELECTRICIAN 40 years experience. Insured, reasonable prices.

No job too small. Call Tom Daly, (413)543-3100. Lic# A7625.

Home Improvement

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.

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LAWN MOWING, Spring/Fall cleanups, hedge trimming and all your landscaping needs. Also, bobcat & snowplowing services. (413)626-6122 or visit: www.haggerscape.com

PLUMLEY LANDSCAPE, INC. Call us today for all your landscape needs.

Landscape design and planting, irrigation installation and repair, and complete yard renovations. Drainage problems, stump grinding, chipper service, bobcat service, gravel driveways, excavation and demolition, including getting rid of that unwanted pool. (413)862-4749.

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

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

Loader work & loam spread. (413)569-6920, (413)530-5430.

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

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

CONRAD TREE SERVICE. Expert tree removal. Prompt estimates.

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

Upholstery

KEITH'S UPHOLSTERY & REPAIRS. 30+ years experience for home or busiT&S LANDSCAPING. Highest quality, ness. Discount off all fabrics. Get quality lowest prices. Lawn mowing. Residen- workmanship at a great price. Free tial\commercial. No lawns to small. pickup and delivery. Call (413)562Weekly, biweekly. (413)330-3917.

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