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Longtime announcer Don Pardo dies at 96

By FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Few would recognize his face, but most would know his voice: that booming baritone that for nearly four decades would introduce the lineups on “Saturday Night Live.”

Don Pardo, the durable television and radio announcer whose resonant voice-over style was widely imitated and became the standard in the field, died Monday in Arizona at the age of 96.

Pardo, with a strong chin and confident smile that were overshadowed by his majestic delivery, graced newscasts, game shows and TV programs Don Pardo for more than 60 years.

During the original version of “Jeopardy!,” his answers to the statement, “Tell ‘em what they’ve won, Don Pardo,” became a memorable part of the program.

And he was an integral part of “Saturday Night Live” for heralding the cast’s names to kick off each show, which led former cast member Jimmy Fallon to comment later, “Nothing is like the moment when Don Pardo says your name.” Pardo continued at “SNL” through the end of last season, when he performed the introductions on the finale in May. His was no ordinary voice and he guarded it closely, with cough drops always at the ready.

“My voice is my Achilles’ heel,” Pardo said in a 1985 interview with The Associated Press.

“When I get sick, it’s always my voice.”

Dominick George Pardo was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, on Feb. 22, 1918, and grew up in Norwich, Connecticut.

One of his first jobs was that of ticket-taker at a local movie theater; even then, his voice was commanding.

“I’d go out there with a cape and say: ‘Standing room only in the mezzanine.

Immediate seating in the balcony.’”

His father, Dominick, owned a small bakery and had wanted his son to join the business.

Pardo followed his own dream and, after graduating from Boston’s Emerson College in 1942, began his vocal career at radio station WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island.

Two years later, he met a supervisor at NBC who hired the young Pardo immediately upon hearing his voice. He moved to NBC’s New York affiliate, and never left the network.

Pardo made his mark right away, reading news dispatches on the radio filed from the front lines during World War II. After the war, he became an announcer for such shows as the “Arthur Murray Party,” ”Colgate Comedy Hour” and “Your Show of Shows.”

In 1954, he was brought in to announce “Winner Takes All,” beginning a long run in game shows. His voice was heard on the “The Price is Right” in its early years, and he was the announcer on the original “Jeopardy!” (196475), hosted by Art Fleming.

Then in 1975, NBC launched “Saturday Night Live” with Pardo as its announcer, introducing him to a new generation of viewers with a voice as magnificent as ever — although, on opening night, he botched one of the credits. Instead of saying “The Not Ready for Prime Time Players,” Pardo introduced the show’s new comedy troupe as “The Not for Ready Prime Time Players.”

But with a voice like his, any name sounded impressive.

Aside from Season 7, when he was displaced, Pardo remained the “SNL” announcer for decades.

He also introduced sportscaster Len Berman’s “Spanning the World” compilations of funny sports moments, a regular feature on the “Today” show. (“Tune in next time … if there IS a next time.”)

In between working on all these shows, Pardo often spent several hours a day in an NBC sound studio, letting viewers know before each break

Westfield Senior Center groundbreaking Westfield Mayor Daniel Knapik, center, is flanked by John D. Leary, left, chairman of the Westfield Council on Aging Board of Directors, and Christine ‘Tina’ Gorman, right, as the three toss a shovel of dirt at the Council on Aging Senior Center Groundbreaking Ceremony at 45 Noble Street this morning. Also in attendance were state and local officials. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

City man wary of ‘IRS’ calls

By Peter Francis Staff Writer WESTFIELD – Bob Poth is a retiree from an energy plant in Hartford and a longtime area resident.

So it came as a great surprise to him when he came home recently to find a message on his answering machine from the last government agency anyone wants to hear from: the Internal Revenue Service.

Or so he thought.

“I forgot their terminology, but basically they said it was important that I call back, and the gal gave her name and a telephone number,” he said, adding that the number was a Washington D.C. area code. “She said I had to take action before they took me to court.”

In April, the IRS itself issued a warning against a similar scam that they had caught wind of, writing in a statement to be wary of “sophisticated and aggressive phone scams targeting taxpayers.”

In the statement, the IRS added that the scams “won’t likely end with the filing season” and urged people to keep their guard up.

The IRS added that the rash of scams being perpetrated at the end of the 2014 filing season were

An employee from the Southwick Highway Department uses a roller to flatten out a new adhesive strip of reflective material that is presently being used to mark crosswalks. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

New crosswalk tape tested

By Hope E. Tremblay Staff Writer SOUTHWICK – Pedestrians crossing Feeding Hills And Powder Mill roads will notice a new kind of crosswalk.

Department of Public Works (DPW) Director Randy Brown said they are testing a reflective tape crosswalk versus the traditional painted version.

“It is applied directly to the asphalt,” said Brown. “The hope is that it will last much longer than paint. Right now we paint crosswalks at least once a year – sometimes twice in high traffic areas.”

The three crosswalks are located near the school campus and will be more easily seen in the dark because of the reflective quality of the tape, which is about 12-inches wide.

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targeting recent immigrants, and threatened them with deportation arrest, and other hostilities, if they didn’t cooperate.

Other characteristics of these calls include the use of fake names and IRS badge numbers, as the scammer would generally use common names and surnames to identify themselves.

The statement said that the scammers may be able to recite the last four digits of a victim’s Social Security number, and spoof the IRS toll-free number on caller ID to make it appear that its the IRS calling.

Regarding other types of scams, the IRS said it does not initiate contact with taxpayers via email to request personal or financial information, and encourages taxpayers to be vigilant against phone and email scams that use the agency as a lure, such as through text messages of social media.

The IRS does not ask for PINs, passwords or similar confidential access information for credit card, bank or other financial accounts, and that recipients of an email requesting this information should not open any attachments or click See IRS Calls, Page 3

Historic cemetery restoration project begins

By Dan Moriarty Staff Writer WESTFIELD – The Historical Commission is set to initiate restoration of headstones at the Old Burying Grounds off Mechanic Street, work that is slated to begin tomorrow.

Commissioner Cindy Gaylord said last night that the money raised last year at the inaugural ‘ghost tours,’ as well as donations of about $5,000, is sufficient to preserve a damaged stone which is in dire need of restoration and which could harm people near the stone.

Gaylord said that a conservator has been hired to make the repairs to the Matthers Stone because an Eagle Scout candidate will be working with other scouts straightening stones on Sept.

20. Scouts, scout leaders and parents will attend a training session on Sept. 17 to learn the proper method of straightening headstones.

The real restoration effort will begin later this year when the

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Troop 821 Boy Scout Brian Mitchell and a small army of volunteers repaired historic headstones at The Old Burying Ground on Mechanic Street in 2012. (Photo submitted)

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WESTFIELD - The American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Pioneer Valley is inviting residents of the Pioneer Valley to its kickoff event from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 20 at Stanley Park’s Beveridge Pavilion.

The informational meeting for team captains, participants, breast cancer survivors and prospective volunteers includes complimentary food.

The second annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Pioneer Valley walk is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 5 at Stanley Park.

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is the American Cancer Society’s premier event to raise awareness and funds to fight breast cancer and save lives. Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is the largest network of breast cancer awareness events in the nation, uniting more than 300 communities to finish the fight.

Money raised helps the American Cancer Society fight the disease with research, information and services, and access to mammograms for women who need them.

An RSVP is required. To reserve your spot at the kickoff or for more information about Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Pioneer Valley, please contact Angel Davis, walk manager, at413.493.2126 or angel. davis@cancer.org.

Westfield resident Jeanette Halloran (top left, holding her Westfield News) spent some time at the Jersey Shore with her daughter Christine and their friends Olivia and Isabella Leo. Remember, as you travel this summer make sure to get a picture of yourself with a copy of The Westfield News and e-mail it, along with a description, to pressreleases@thewestfieldnews.com. Keep reading to find out where The Westfield News will show up next.

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Owl enters 10th story apartment, kills canary COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — An owl flew into a 10th story apartment in Coeur d’Alene, apparently opened a bird cage and killed one of two canaries inside, the residents said.

Sue Sausser said she awakened Sunday to find bird droppings and feathers all over her apartment, the Coeur d’Alene Press reported (http://bit.ly/1riwYfi).

Sausser found the brownish, yelloweyed owl between the wall and the chest of drawers on which the bird cage sits. It flew out the door and perched on their balcony railing long enough for them to take a few pictures. Don Sausser estimated the owl was 6 to 8 inches tall.

Sue and Don Sausser found one of their canaries dead in the cage. The other seemed jumpy and anxious, they said.

Beth Paragamian, wildlife education specialist with for Idaho Fish and Game and the Bureau of Land Management, said it’s strange that an owl would be flying so high in an area without many tall trees and surprising that it would enter a residence, much less open a bird cage.

“That is very unusual,” she said.

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, August 19, the 231st day of 2014. There are 134 days left in the year.

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n August 19, A.D. 14, Caesar Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, died at age 76 after a reign lasting four decades; he was succeeded by his stepson Tiberius.

On this date: In 1812, the USS Constitution defeated the British frigate HMS Guerriere off Nova Scotia during the War of 1812, earning the nickname “Old Ironsides.”

In 1814, during the War of 1812, British forces landed at Benedict, Maryland, with the objective of capturing Washington, D.C. In 1918, “Yip! Yip! Yaphank,” a musical revue by Irving Berlin featuring Army recruits from Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York, opened on Broadway.

In 1934, a plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler.

In 1936, the first of a series of show trials orchestrated by Soviet leader Josef Stalin began in Moscow as 16 defendants faced charges of conspiring against the government (all were convicted and executed).

In 1942, during World War II, about 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a disastrous raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France, suffering more than 50-percent casualties.

In 1974, U.S. Ambassador Rodger P. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet that penetrated the American embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, during a protest by Greek Cypriots.

In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Kansas City.

In 1980, 301 people aboard a Saudi Arabian L-1011 died as the jetliner made a fiery emergency return to the Riyadh airport.

In 1991, Soviet hard-liners made the stunning announcement that President Mikhail S. Gorbachev had been removed from power. (The coup attempt collapsed two days later.)

Ten years ago: Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry fought back against campaign allegations of exaggerating his combat record in Vietnam, accusing President George W. Bush of using a Republican front group “to do his dirty work.” Google began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market, ending the day up $15.34 at $100.34. Carly Patterson won gymnastics’ premier event at the Olympics in Athens, becoming the first U.S. woman to win the all-around title since Mary Lou Retton in 1984.

Five years ago:

In 1955, severe flooding in the northeastern U.S. claimed some 200 lives.

Suicide bombers struck Iraq’s finance and foreign ministries, killing more than 100 people. Four members of an elite Army special operations unit were killed when their helicopter crashed on a Colorado mountain during a training mission.

Don Hewitt, the TV news pioneer who’d created CBS’ “60 Minutes,” died at his Long Island, New York, home at age 86.

In 1964, The Beatles opened their first full-fledged U.S. tour as they performed at San Francisco’s Cow Palace.

Olympian runner Oscar Pistorius was indicted in Pretoria,

One year ago:

South Africa, on charges of murder and illegal possession of ammunition for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home on Valentine’s Day 2013; Pistorius has maintained he’d mistaken her for an intruder. A train ran over a group of Hindu pilgrims at a crowded station in eastern India, killing at least 37 people. Actor Lee Thompson Young, 29, was found dead in his North Hollywood home.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor L.Q. Jones is 87. Actress Debra Paget is 81. USTA Eastern Tennis Hall of Famer Renee Richards is 80. Former MLB All-Star Bobby Richardson is 79. Actress Diana Muldaur is 76. Rock musician Ginger Baker (Cream, Blind Faith) is 75.

Singer Johnny Nash is 74. Actress Jill St. John is 74. Actor and former U.S. senator Fred Thompson is 72. Singer Billy J. Kramer is 71. Country singer-songwriter Eddy Raven is 70.

Rock singer Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) is 69. Former President Bill Clinton is 68. Tipper Gore, wife of former Vice President Al Gore, is 66. Actor Jim Carter is 66. Actor Gerald McRaney is 66. Rock musician John Deacon (Queen) is 63. Actor-director Jonathan Frakes is 62. Political consultant Mary Matalin is 61.

Actor Peter Gallagher is 59. Actor Adam Arkin is 58. Singersongwriter Gary Chapman is 57. Actor Martin Donovan is 57.

Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Anthony Munoz is 56. Rhythmand-blues singer Ivan Neville is 55. Actor Eric Lutes is 52.

Actor John Stamos is 51. Actress Kyra Sedgwick is 49. Actor Kevin Dillon is 49. Country singer Lee Ann Womack is 48. TV reporter Tabitha Soren is 47. Country singer-songwriter Mark McGuinn is 46. Actor Matthew Perry is 45. Country singer Clay Walker is 45. Rapper Fat Joe is 44. Olympic gold medal tennis player Mary Joe Fernandez is 43. Actress Tracie Thoms is 39. Country singer Rissi (REE’-see) Palmer is 33.

Actress Erika Christensen is 32. Pop singer Missy Higgins is 31. Actress Tammin Sursok (TV: “Pretty Little Liars”) is 31.

Country singer Karli Osborn is 30. Olympic silver medal snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis is 29. Actor J. Evan Bonifant is 29.

Rapper Romeo is 25.

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‘Ghost tours’ set for fall

By Dan Moriarty Staff Writer WESTFIELD – The history of Westfield will come to life this fall when current residents portray the lives of former residents now interred in the historical Old Burying Grounds off Mechanic Street.

The Historical Commission, in conjunction with the Westfield Athenaeum and Westfield on Weekends (WOW), will conduct the ‘ghost tours’ at one of the oldest cemeteries in the country during the last weekend of September and the first weekend of October.

Commissioner Carly Bannish said last night that the inaugural program was so well attended that the commission members have decided to expand the event to meet the increase in resident interest.

“We’re going to be doing four nights this year instead of two,” Bannish said. “Tickets, $10 for adults and $5 for children, will be available at the Athenaeum.”

The commission is asking that children be of school age to attend the tours and have decided to cap the number of participants for each tour at 35 because of safety concerns posed by larger groups.

The ghost tours spotlight some of the residents who have lived in Westfield since its founding in 1669. The tours are guided to specific headstones where volunteers, dressed in period customs of the 1700 and 1800 centuries, give a first-person presentation about the individual buried there.

The one-hour tours will be presented on Friday, Sept. 29 and

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Fifth grade students from Munger Hill Elementary School provided historical tours of The Burying Ground as part of 2012’s Harvest Days. From left to right front row: Shannon Sullivan, Althea Fiordalice. Back row: Emily Gelinas, Jessica Crosby, Cindy Gaylord and Erin Olearcek. (Photo

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Restoration Community Preservation Act funding approved last week by the Community Preservation Committee goes through the City Council appropriation process.

The CPC approved a Historical Commission request for $30,000 to begin the Old Burying Grounds restoration project because of the historical significance to the city Gaylord, who ironically was attending her first CPC meeting as the History Commission representative, and who recused herself to give the presentation, said the oldest legible stone is dated 1683, just 63 years after the founding of the Plymouth Colony.

Gaylord said the historical significance of the Old Burying Grounds is that the cemetery is the final resting place of soldiers who served in the French and Indian War, as well as the Revolutionary and Civil wars.

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stonework professionals, has identified the stones with immediate need for both preservation and restoration.

“Right now the focus is on making it safe for members of the public,” Gaylord said.

Commissioner Walter Fogg said that Department of Public Works crews began trimming trees last week that pose a risk to the safety of people in the cemetery and to the historic headstones.

Chairwoman Kitt Milligan said the tree trimming “is a very big piece in preserving these stones, there has been tree damage recently.”

Gaylord said that she plans to discuss the process of hiring conservators through the MGL, Chapter 30-B procurement process to determine the options available to the commission to hire professional restoration companies.

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While another person may have grown nervous and worried, Poth grew suspicious and decided to pick up the phone and call another District of Columbia area code – the IRS itself – and get to the bottom of it.

“The agent I spoke with said that the IRS doesn’t call

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to a commercial that the last program was brought to them by a certain advertiser. As such, he was one of the last network “booth announcers” working a regular daily shift, a classic broadcasting duty that fell prey to the modern age of easily prerecorded messages.

Every weekday afternoon for several years in the 1980s, Pardo would quickly clad himself in a tie and blazer to step on camera long enough to announce the local New York station’s “Live at Five” newscast — although Pardo’s vocal alchemy rendered it as “Liiiiiiive at Fiiiiiive!”

Pardo retired from NBC in 2004.

“But (executive producer) Lorne Michaels called me soon after and asked if I would continue for three more weeks, so I did,” Pardo told the AP in 2010. “Then he called and asked if I would do five more, and so on. I never really left.”

For several years, Pardo commuted from Tucson each week the show aired. He arrived to open the show in Rockefeller Center’s fabled Studio 8H, just as he had always done, then caught a returning flight. At the end of the show on Feb. 23, 2008, he was brought on camera to blow out the candles of a birthday cake in celebration of his 90th birthday.

In later years, he recorded his introductions from home, where he died peacefully Monday afternoon, said his daughter Dona Pardo.

During his career, Don Pardo appeared in several movies, mostly as himself or an announcer like himself, including “Radio Days,” Woody Allen’s celebration of the Golden Age of broadcasting, in which Pardo played a game show host. He also made a guest appearance on Frank Zappa’s 1978 album, “Zappa in New York,” and “Weird Al” Yankovic’s 1984 album, “In 3-D.” In 2009, he made a guest appearance on the NBC sitcom “30 Rock.”

And his services were also retained for commercials. In a mid-1990s spot for long-distance provider MCI, he played host of the “AT&T True-False Quiz.” Pardo posed the question whether “every AT&T customer gets true savings.” A buzzer went off. “False!” he boomed. “Forty million save nothing.”

In 2010, he was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame.

Pardo is survived by five children.

Associated Press writer Matt Reed in Phoenix contributed to this report.

you and leave a message without your permission, and then he said they give their identification number,” said Poth. “If an IRS agent calls you, they’ll leave their badge or employee number. The IRS does not leave a message on your answering machine.”

While he hasn’t heard from anyone else in the communi-

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Continued from Page 1 DPW employees laid the new tape crosswalks Monday, lining the two sides of the walk with tape, but not striping the inside.

“This is a new product for Southwick,” said Brown. “It should last multiple years and if so, we’ll see labor savings from not painting so often.”

The tape, made by 3M, was purchased in a large roll from the DPW paving and striping budget line item. The durable tape is supposed to withstand New England weather.

“I’m curious to see how this holds up in winter with the snow plows,” said Brown. “If we get positive results, we would consider this for other crosswalks.”

ty or any more suspicious calls from people claiming to be IRS agents, Poth said he hopes that people will stay on their toes, do their due dilligence and be aware of potential scammers.

“Go in the telephone book or on the Internet, and look for numbers that are listed to contact the IRS,” he said. “If you contact them, they can point you in the right direction.”

“If we can help someone else get a little bit smarter,” he said. “That’s good.”

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Westfield Police have said that they at first received a rash of calls from residents regarding prank phone calls from people claiming to be the IRS, but that these calls have been more sporadic of

Continued from Page 1 It holds the remains of colonial pastors, poets and senators, farmers and, in general, the founders of Westfield. Many of the headstones bear family names that are recognized by residents today as the names of streets surrounding the downtown area.

The Old Burying Ground records indicate that it holds 1,600 graves, but that only 1,100 remain because of weathering, erosion, vandalism and breakage.

The Historical Commission’s goal is to “repair, restore and preserve as many (head)stones as possible before they are lost forever.”

The commission also seeks to open the historical site to the public as an education destination, related to the city’s history, for school children. The Old Burying Ground is listed on the National Register of Historic Sites.

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I just had a fun weekend at the Westfield Fair. It got me thinking that we don’t appreciate what goes on behind the scenes to make the fair happen. So I’d like to say thank you to Cory Liptak for running the big events at this year’s fair.

Without him, there would be no demolition derby, mud bogs, or big name bands like Darik and the Funbags and Aquanett.

And without that, there would be no fair for big kids like me.

So thank you again Mr. Liptak for making this year’s fair the best yet!

I still miss the old green, I know nothing can be done about it now. I like the concert series they conduct there but I still think it would have been more comfortable with a level area with shade. All those lights are truly ugly. Besides that I think instead of a bus/parking terminal put in a nice park area. A place where you would want to sit and enjoy your surroundings. Parking garages are just plain ugly. If we truly need one than buy out the old Family Dollar store on Franklin and put it there.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Re: The ‘Hanger repairs approved’ article of 8-15-2014 Gentlemen: Please be advised of an error in the well written and comprehensive article by Dan Moriarty. In the second column on page 2 of the article, Mr. Moriarty states that the Pioneer Valley Military and Transportation Museum (PVMTM) is “also considering leasing land at another location at the airport”. In fact, the PVMTM has a lease on 8 acres of land at the airport on Airport Rd., and has occupied that land for more than 11 years now. Further comment to the Museum’s activities: The Museum’s current leased land provides the opportunity for growth and expansion. The Museum has recently placed an order with Morton Building Systems for the erection of a new, approximately 7,200 s.f., hanger at its current site.

The erection is slated to begin before the end of this year. While the Museum sees great merit in its occupancy of a historic structure such as Hanger #2, and welcomes the opportunity to occupy the restored hanger, there are significant, limiting factors to be considered.

The Museum looks forward to a useful and productive negotiation with the City.

Sincerely Peter Howe, V.P.

Six Flags sorry for shirt ban

By Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. — A former Marine who wasn’t allowed into an amusement park because he was wearing a shirt with a red, white and blue rifle pictured on it has been given an apology.

Mario Alejandro, who served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, received a phone call from Six Flags Great Adventure President John Fitzgerald on Saturday apologizing, and he accepted, NJ.com reported.

Alejandro, a 33-year-old father of three from Woodbridge, New Jersey, said he went to the park with his family on Aug. 9 wearing the shirt, which was a Father’s Day gift and was bought from a nonprofit that supports Marines. He said a security guard told him the shirt, which included the phrase “Keep calm and return fire,” was offensive and he had to change it or cover it if he wanted to go into the park, located in Jackson.

“I told them [that it’s] not offensive, that it’s a military shirt and that it means something,” Alejandro said. “But they said, `I don’t care. Get out of the park.’”

A spokeswoman for the park, whose rides include the Nitro and Runaway Mine Train roller coasters, said it didn’t realize Alejandro’s shirt was related to a military charity, The Reconnaissance Foundation.

“Six Flags takes great pride in the various ways we honor, celebrate and support our military heroes,” spokeswoman Kristin B. Siebeneicher said by email Monday.

“I don’t talk about my service or brag about being a veteran.

I even have two close family friends who didn’t know I was a veteran until this story came out,” Alejandro told NJ.com.

“But when they said that my shirt was ‘offensive,’ that’s when things escalated.”

Obama shuns emotional response on Ferguson

By Edward-Isaac Dovere Politico.com President Barack Obama speaking about Trayvon Martin was connected, heartfelt, deeply personal. Speaking Monday about the ongoing violence in Ferguson, Missouri, he was guarded, reserved and deeply clinical.

Obama didn’t reflect that if he had a son, that son would look like Michael Brown, the 18-year-old killed by a police officer in the St. Louis suburb. He didn’t point out again that he, like many black men, knew well the experience of being suspiciously followed in a store, or having people lock the doors on their cars when they saw him walking down the street.

And Obama didn’t, as he did just over a year ago, call for a new chapter in a national conversation on race.

At the White House on Monday afternoon, Obama kept his clear emotional distance, saying he understood “the passions and the anger” over Brown’s death and that he’s “personally committed to changing both perception and reality” about young men of color. But despite speaking at length about Ferguson, as Obama exited the White House briefing room half an hour later, many were left still wanting to hear more.

“It’s the president’s famous even-handedness,” said Paul Butler, a former Justice Department prosecutor who’s now a law professor at Georgetown specializing in race and criminal justice. “But when you see black people protesting in the streets like the 1960s, the even-handedness seems inadequate.

If Rand Paul is speaking out more forcefully than the first African-American president, then we have a problem.”

Obama all but ruled out going to Ferguson himself, announcing that Attorney General Eric Holder would be going there Wednesday. He also did not reveal to the public information that Holder relayed to civil rights groups in a phone briefing just before the president’s remarks: The Justice Department investigation is already uncovering information that the local police aren’t getting, according to Tanya Clay House of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, who was on the call.

Holder also announced that in some of the more than 200 interviews DOJ has already conducted, witnesses are giving statements that they were “unwilling to provide to local law enforcement” because of the intense distrust of the Ferguson police, House said.

“There is a distrust, because the people who live there have to deal with law enforcement after everyone leaves,” she said.

Obama was briefly back in Washington from his vacation

from Martha’s Vineyard — for previously scheduled meetings that aides won’t provide details on — and after adding a meeting with Holder, White House watchers expected the president to speak on the events in Missouri.

The White House has stressed Obama’s level of engagement on the situation in Ferguson for the past week, on every day of his vacation and since he returned to Washington. But on Monday, what struck observers about Obama’s comments was what he didn’t say — much of anything delving into the pain of the racial divide or the underlying tensions — and what he did — repeatedly calling out what he conceded was a “small minority of individuals” responsible for looting and violence.

While putting distance between himself and Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s decision to call in the National Guard, Obama seemed to be strategically protecting himself from criticism that he hasn’t done anything beyond condemning the violence.

“As Americans, we’ve got to use this moment to seek out our shared humanity that’s been laid bare by this moment. The potential of a young man and the sorrows of parents, the frustrations of a community, the ideals that we hold as one united American family,” Obama said, appearing to read from scripted remarks, unlike the extemporaneous remarks he delivered after George Zimmerman’s not-guilty verdict, and again calling, as he had in a similarly muted statement last week, for calm.

Last year’s remarks came after the judicial process was complete, unlike the ongoing process that Obama said Monday he wants to avoid interfering with, but his initial comments about Martin looking like the son he would have had were not.

“It was almost as if for every point that he made about the young black men and the unfairness of the system toward them, he had to make a point about law enforcement and how tough their jobs are,” Butler said. “There are more fundamental issues that I thought he could have paid more attention to.”

Reflecting on the moment just before Obama took the podium, National Urban League president and CEO Marc Morial said that the demand for Obama to get more intense was very high. There’s a sense, Morial said, that after the trauma of Martin’s killing and Zimmerman’s acquittal, there’s a dangerous sense of “here we go again” that Obama needs to address.

“He’s worked very hard to be balanced, but this situation, I think at this stage in his presidency, I think he’s going to be called on to do more,” Morial said. “I don’t think we can bind See Ferguson, Page 5

Ferguson clashes: 2 shot, 31 arrested

By Jonathan Topaz Politico.com Violence continued in Ferguson late Monday night and into Tuesday morning, as two men were shot during demonstrations and the police again used tear gas in the wake of the fatal shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown.

During a press conference early Tuesday morning, Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson said “officers came under heavy fire” Monday evening. Johnson, who has overseen security operations during the Ferguson protests, said a “tiny minority of lawbreakers” threw bottles and Molotov cocktails at the police, set two fires in the streets and opened gunfire on officers, according to video of Johnson’s press conference from NBC News. He added that “not a single bullet was fired by officers Monday night.”

Thirty-one people were arrested on Monday evening, Johnson said, including at least one individual from California and one from New York. During his press conference, the captain displayed two confiscated handguns and a Molotov cocktail obtained by the police after being deployed by a “small number of violent agitators” trying to create “chaos” in an otherwise peaceful demonstration.

Police officials acknowledged that officers used tear gas against the crowd. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that police used at least three canisters of tear gas against protesters when they refused to leave the parking lot of a QuikTrip.

Johnson also acknowledged that police officers used a SWAT truck and another large vehicle to collect wounded people in the crowd. Earlier in the evening, he told reporters that all the people arrested “weren’t being peaceful.”

“We do not want to lose another life in this community,” a visibly upset Johnson said at the press conference.

Monday marked the first time that state National Guard forces arrived in Ferguson, deployed by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon after Sunday marked perhaps the most violent night of protests since Brown’s death on Aug. 9. Brown’s family also held a press conference Monday morning to discuss a preliminary autopsy that reported Brown was shot at least six times, including twice in the head.

After declaring a state of emergency and declaring a midnight-5 a.m. curfew for Saturday and Sunday, Nixon called off the curfew for Monday. The governor has not yet announced a

decision on a curfew for Tuesday or moving forward.

Among those arrested was Getty Images staff photographer Scott Olson, who was taking photos of the protests. “We at Getty Images stand firmly behind our colleague Scott Olson and the right to report from Ferguson,” Pancho Bernasconi, Getty Images vice president of news, said in a statement.

“Getty Images is working to secure his release as soon as possible.”

Mediaite video also showed at least one protester throwing rocks at MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who was reporting live. After co-host Craig Melvin helped shield him, Hayes said: “People are angry man. They are really angry,” adding repeatedly that “we’re fine.”

Also on Monday, the Ferguson-Florissant School District announced it would be closing schools for the entire week to “allow needed time for peace and stability to be restored to our community.”

Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Brown, has yet to be arrested after being placed on paid administrative leave following the shooting.

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O’Grady hopes to use new job as judge to break cycle

By BOB DUNN @BDGazette Daily Hampshire Gazette SOUTHAMPTON — When he takes the bench next month as an associate justice of Chicopee District Court, William O’Grady hopes to disrupt the cycle of opiate addiction and incarceration endemic to the court system.

“I’ve seen it in my own practice, how much that addiction just fuels the business in the district court and how difficult that it is for an individual to break away from the addiction,” O’Grady said last week during an interview at his law office.

“It doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense to continually just incarcerate someone for what is, in many cases, an addiction or an illness, only to have them back before you later on for yet another incarceration in another failure at beating the illness,” he said.

O’Grady, 59, was nominated in July

by Gov. Deval Patrick to replace retiring Judge Mary E. Hurley. He begins his tenure on Sept. 8, three days after his official swearing in on Sept. 5. “The day you get sworn in, you’re working the next business day,” he said.

O’Grady makes the move after about 34 years as a working attorney, including at his practice, Parker & O’Grady in Southampton, where he has been a legal partner with his wife, Cheryl Parker, 56, since 1985.

Parker said she was the one who made the suggestion to her husband to apply when she heard that the Massachusetts Trial Court was seeking new judges to fill some anticipated vacancies.

“I said, ‘Why don’t you apply? You’ve always wanted to do this, you know it’s basically your last shot,’?” she said.

O’Grady said “dozens and dozens” of applications came in for judicial vacancies, of which there turned out to be only two: the Chicopee position and an associate justice position in Southern Berkshire District Court, which will be filled by Pittsfield attorney William Rota.

O’Grady graduated from Boston

WILLIAM J. O’GRADY College and earned his law degree from Western New England University School of Law and has spent most of his career in litigation, he said.

He also served as associate city solicitor in Chicopee for 26 years and was head of its litigation department for about the last 10 years.

He also served as an associate city solicitor in Westfield for about the last six years, and was also hired as a special prosecutor in Hampshire County when there were conflicts with having a local prosecutor, he said.

As an associate justice, O’Grady said he will probably spend most of his time outside of Chicopee and sitting in courthouses throughout the region.

He said Chicopee already has a presiding justice and does not need a second judge as much as other courthouses such as Springfield, Holyoke and Belchertown.

O’Grady said he will very likely preside over cases with lawyers that he has worked alongside and against. He said he does not expect those situations to create any awkwardness or tensions.

“I’ve been practicing here for 34 years with the same people who do litigation.

You make the transition,” he said.

“People respect the position you’re appointed to and typically the judges respect where they came from.”

“The faces may be the same, but everybody recognizes the different roles everybody has,” he said.

The process from applicant to judge is a rigorous one, O’Grady said, involving several rounds of interviews, extensive background checks and an interview with the governor. “This particular governor won’t appoint unless he sits down with you and meets you,” O’Grady said.

Patrick offered him the job when they met in early July.

He said the governor seemed most concerned about his “judicial temperament.”

O’Grady added, “Whether I would treat people fairly and with respect. That was his overriding concern.”

Patrick “was very interested in having the judicial process fair and open so that the people felt when they came in before the court that they were getting the hearing they were entitled to,” O’Grady said.

O’Grady said he looks forward to sitting as a district court judge because of the fast-paced nature and large volume of cases both criminal and civil.

He said opiate addiction appears to be a driving force behind a lot of crime in the region. “It drives so much of the volume of business, particularly in the district court,” O’Grady said. “There’s a big push to try to address that early and address the underlying problem that leads to all the crime.

“The thinking is, if you can somehow attack that opiate issue, you get rid of a lot of the crime. I think there’s some truth to that,” he added.

When he becomes a judge, O’Grady will have to cut ties with his law practice. He announced Monday that Springfield attorney Frank Flannery will join the firm to take over O’Grady’s litigation duties.

——— Bob Dunn can be reached at bdunn@gazettenet.com.

Denis Patric Coggin Denis Patric Coggin, 57, passed away at home August 17, 2014. He was born in Springfield to Denis and Virginia (Rose) Coggin and was a graduate of Westfield High School. Patric was employed as a chef for East Mountain Country Club in the banquet facility since 1983. He loved his garden and loved animals.

Patric is survived by his loving parents, Virginia Coggin of Westfield and Denis Coggin and his wife, Renate’ of Pennsylvania, his loving children, Patric D. Coggin and his wife Sara of Arkansas and his mother, Cindy (Bein) Lent of Texas, and Jayme L. Coggin and his wife Jessica of Westfield and Deanna L. Coggin of Westfield, and their mother, Brenda (Perez) Coggin of Westfield, a half-brother, Justin O. Coggin of Pennsylvania and his two cherished grandchildren, David Joshua and Elizabeth Ann. A visiting hour will be held on Thursday from 10-11 AM in the Firtion Adams Funeral Home, 76 Broad Street, Westfield, MA followed by a Service at 11AM. Burial will follow in Center Cemetery, Montgomery.

Contributions in Patric’s name may be directed to the Westfield Animal Shelter, 178 Apremont Way, Westfield, MA 01085. Please visit www.firtionadams.com.

Mary A. Miller Southwick – Mary Amalia (Anderson) Miller, 89, passed away peacefully in Concord, NH, on August 8, 2014. Mary was born in Westfield, MA, the daughter of the late Sidney and Esther Anderson and raised in Southwick; she graduated from Westfield High School and Bay Path Junior College. As a young child and woman she attended Pilgrim Covenant Church, often playing the organ during worship.

Mary formed many long lasting friendships through her affiliation with the church. She was the bookkeeper for the Springfield Armory during WWII and various other companies. Mary was predeceased by her beloved husband Leon in 1981. Shortly thereafter, she relocated and resided with her best friend and devoted daughter Gail Poitrast and her husband Dennis in Grafton, NH. Mary and Dennis had a special loving relationship and had many “field trips” together. Sadly, Dennis predeceased Mary in 2007. Most recently Gail and Mary resided in Henniker, NH. Mary is survived by her daughter Gail of Henniker, NH; her beloved son Dean and his wife Mary Jane of Southwick, MA; her granddaughter Shannon Adamo and her husband Peter, also of Henniker NH; and her grandson Daniel Poitrast of Killington, VT. Sadly, she was predeceased by her grandchildren Melissa Jo Miller in 2000 and Mark M. Ouellette in 2010. She is also survived by her cherished great-grandchildren Madison, Elizabeth, Annabel, Peter III, and Gretchen. Also surviving Mary are her siblings, brother Robert Anderson of Amherst, MA, and her sister Clara Brown of Southwick.

Mary was proud of her Swedish heritage. One of the many things she enjoyed was knitting, and being a master knitter, the family is blessed to have so many beautiful pieces of her work to treasure. She also enjoyed gardening, baking (expert chocolatier), watching golf and NASCAR, listening to music, reading, building beautiful puzzles, and painting. Most of all, she enjoyed spending time with her family.

A Memorial Service, officiated by Reverend Dennis Anderson, for Mary will be held on Saturday, August 23rd at 11 AM in New Cemetery, 354 College Highway, Southwick. Southwick Forastiere Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements. Please consider a Memorial Donation in Mary’s memory to The Concord VNA, The Slusser Center, 30 Pillsbury Street, Concord, NH 03301 or online at www.crvna.org. For more information, please visit www.forastierefuneralhome.com.

Search ongoing for shooter in Holyoke HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — Police have released the name of the man fatally shot in Holyoke last weekend, but the search for his assailant remains underway.

Authorities said Monday that 31-year-old Alberto Xavier Rivera was shot outside a city social club just after 2 am.

Saturday.

He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Police received a 911 call around the time of the shooting, but found no victim at the scene because a friend had brought him to Holyoke Medical Center.

Investigators are looking into witness reports that the victim was involved in some sort of altercation in the street before the shooting.

Rivera’s death was the city’s second homicide of the year.

Massachusetts gas prices continue to drop BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts motorists are getting more good news as the price of gas continues to fall.

AAA Southern New England reports Monday that self-serve regular has dropped another 3 cents in the past week to an average of $3.47 per gallon, and is now down 15 cents in the past month.

The current price is also 17 cents lower than at the same time last year, but 2 cents per gallon higher than the national average.

AAA found self-serve regular selling for as low as $3.29 per gallon and as high as $3.69.

Court Logs Friday, Aug. 15, 2014 Samantha Liptak, 31, of 78 Knollwood Drive, pleaded guilty to four counts of uttering a false check, two counts of larcency over $250 in a single scheme, and two counts of check forgery brought by Westfield Police. She was placed on probation for a year and ordered to pay $549.68 in restitution.

She is due back in court on November 14 for a status review of payment.

Nathaniel Larrabee, 38, of 20 Margerie Street, admitted to facts sufficient to warrant a guilty finding on one count of possession of a class A drug and possession of a class B drug brought by Westfield Police. He was placed on probation for a year and ordered to undergo drug testing. He is due back in court on November 14 for a status review of payment for legal fees.

Angelo Gonzales, 28, of 33 Acushnet Avenue, Springfield, was arraigned on one count of violating an abuse prevention order brought by Westfield Police. He was released on his personal recognizance and is due back in court on October 14 for a pretrial hearing.

Richard Vega, 42, of 2 Lewis Street, appeared in Westfield District Court for a continued pretrial hearing on one count of assault and battery brought by Westfield Police, which was dismissed.

Christopher Roberts, 35, of 67 Shaker Road, appeared in Westfield District Court for pretrial hearing on one count of assault and battery brought by Westfield Police, which was dismissed at the request of the victim. He is due back in court on November 14 for a status review of payment for legal fees.

Monday, Aug. 18, 2014 Ashley L. Reilly, 22, of 10 Washington St., was enjoined from making any threats or violence toward the named victim when she was released on her personal recognizance pending an Oct. 28 hearing after she was arraigned on a charge of assault and battery on a household member brought by Westfield police.

Joey M. Pesce, 30, of 1515 Northampton St., Holyoke, was held in lieu of $1,000 cash bail pending a Sept. 16 hearing after she was arraigned on a charge of shoplifting merchandise

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Ernest E. Schieppe, 48, of 320 Woronoco Road, Russell, saw charges of operating a motor vehicle without a valid inspection sticker, operating an uninsured motor vehicle and operating a motor vehicle with suspended registration.

Amanda M. Cornelius, 28, of 20 Margerie St., was released on her personal recognizance pending an Oct. 29 hearing after she was arraigned on a charge of leaving the scene of a property damage accident brought by Westfield police.

Ferguson the country and get past these raw divisions without the leadership of Barack Obama. This becomes a test perhaps in the way that Birmingham tested Kennedy.”

Instead, what people got from Obama was a careful and cold analysis, a contrast to events over the past year when he has spoken out more and more on race, clearly from a place that he had been keeping shielded from the public.

His reference to his My Brother’s Keeper initiative Monday was more as a program of his administration than the way he had spoken about it a month ago.

“The only difference between me and extraordinarily talented young men that I see all across the country is I was living in a pretty forgiving environment,” Obama said July 21. “So if I made a mistake, I often had a second chance, or I often had a third chance. And some of the costs of making mistakes, they weren’t deadly. I wasn’t going to end up shot. I wasn’t going to end up in jail.”

Comparing it to Monday, there’s no missing the difference in temperature.

Continued from Page 4 “As I think I’ve said in some past occasions, part of the ongoing challenge of perfecting our union has involved dealing with communities that feel left behind, who, as a consequence of tragic histories, often find themselves isolated, often find themselves without hope, without economic prospects,” Obama said about Ferguson.

That’s the kind of careful framing Obama’s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, told American Urban Radio

Networks’ April Ryan, that he was looking for.

“In terms of next steps, I think our immediate goal is to make sure that the residents of Ferguson are safe, that the looting stops, that the vandalism stops, that the people who live in the community have confidence that justice will be done, and that’s the president’s primary objective right now,” Jarrett said.

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Another Ebola problem: Finding its natural source

By MIKE STOBBE and MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Medical Writers A scary problem lurks beyond the frenzied efforts to keep people from spreading Ebola: No one knows exactly where the virus comes from or how to stop it from seeding new outbreaks.

Ebola has caused two dozen outbreaks in Africa since it first emerged in 1976.

It is coming from somewhere — probably bats — but experts agree they need to pinpoint its origins in nature.

That has had to wait until they can tame the current outbreak, which has claimed more than 1,100 lives in four countries — the worst toll from Ebola in history.

“First and foremost get the outbreak under control. Once that piece is resolved, then go back and find what the source is,” said Jonathan Towner, a scientist who helped find the bat source of another Ebolalike disease called Marburg.

Towner works for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Others say finding Ebola’s origins is more than a downthe-road scientific curiosity.

“Confirming the source would definitely be important,” said Dr. Richard Wenzel, a Virginia Commonwealth University scientist who formerly led the International Society for Infectious Diseases.

Throughout history, some of the biggest wins against infectious diseases have involved not just limiting person-to-person spread but also finding and controlling the sources in nature fueling new cases.

Plague was halted after the germ was tied to rat-riding fleas. With the respiratory disease SARS, civet cats played a role. With typhus it was lice, and with bird flu, live poultry markets. Efforts to control MERS, a virus

In this Oct. 1, 2013, file photo, third grade teacher Melissa Grieshober teaches a math lesson at Silver Lake Elementary School in Middletown, Del. Sometime in elementary school, you quit counting your fingers and just know the answer. Now scientists have put youngsters into brain scanners to find out why, and watched how the brain reorganizes itself as kids learn math. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File)

Kids’ brains reorganize when learning math skills

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Sometime in elementary school, you quit counting your fingers and just know the answer. Now scientists have put youngsters into brain scanners to find out why, and watched how the brain reorganizes itself as kids learn math.

The take-home advice: Drilling your kids on simple addition and multiplication may pay off.

“Experience really does matter,” said Dr. Kathy Mann Koepke of the National Institutes of Health, which funded the research.

Healthy children start making that switch between counting to what’s called fact retrieval when they’re 8 years old to 9 years old, when they’re still working on fundamental addition and subtraction. How well kids make that shift to memory-based problem-solving is known to predict their ultimate math achievement.

Those who fall behind “are impairing or slowing down their math learning later on,” Mann Koepke said.

But why do some kids make the transition easier than others?

To start finding out, Stanford University researchers first peeked into the brains of 28 children as they solved a series of simple addition problems inside a brain-scanning MRI machine.

No scribbling out the answer: The 7- to 9-year-olds saw a calculation — three plus four equals seven, for example — flash on a screen and pushed a button to say if the

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The children were tested twice, roughly a year apart. As the kids got older, their answers relied more on memory and became faster and more accurate, and it showed in the brain.

There was less activity in the prefrontal and parietal regions associated with counting and more in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, the researchers reported Sunday in Nature Neuroscience.

The hippocampus is sort of like a relay station where new memories come in — shortterm working memory — and then can be sent elsewhere for longer-term storage and retrieval. Those hippocampal connections increased with the kids’ math performance.

“The stronger the connections, the greater each individual’s ability to retrieve facts from memory,” said Dr. Vinod Menon, a psychiatry professor at Stanford and the study’s senior author.

But that’s not the whole story.

Next, Menon’s team put 20 adolescents and 20 adults into the MRI machines and gave them the same simple addition problems. It turns out that adults don’t use their memorycrunching hippocampus in the same way.

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Disabilities in kids rise; not physical problems

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Disabilities among U.S. children have increased slightly, with a bigger rise in mental and developmental problems in those from wealthier families, a 10-year analysis found.

Disadvantaged kids still bear a disproportionate burden.

The increases may partly reflect more awareness and recognition that conditions, including autism, require a specific diagnosis to receive special services, the researchers said.

Meantime, physical disabilities declined, as other studies have suggested.

The study is the first to look broadly at the 10-year trend but the results echo previous studies showing increases in autism, attention problems and other developmental or mental disabilities. It also has long been known that the disadvantaged are more likely to have chronic health problems and lack of access to good health care, which both can contribute to disabilities.

The researchers studied parents’ responses about children from birth through age 17 gathered in 2000-2011 governmentconducted health surveys. Parents were asked about disabilities from chronic conditions including hearing or vision problems; bone or muscle ailments; and mental, behavioral or developmental problems that limited kids’ physical abilities or required them to receive early behavioral intervention or special educational services. Nearly 200,000 children were involved.

Results were published online Monday in Pediatrics.

Overall, disabilities of any kind affected 8 percent children

Math Skills Instead of using a lot of effort, retrieving six plus four equals 10 from longterm storage was almost automatic, Menon said.

In other words, over time the brain became increasingly efficient at retrieving facts. Think of it like a bumpy, grassy field, NIH’s Mann Koepke explained. Walk over the same spot enough and a smooth, grass-free path forms, making it easier to get from start to end.

If your brain doesn’t have to work as hard on simple math, it has more work-

by 2010-2011, compared to close to 7 percent a decade earlier.

For children living in poverty, the rate was 10 percent at the end of the period, versus about 6 percent of kids from wealthy families.

The overall trend reflects a 16 percent increase, while disabilities in kids from wealthy families climbed more than 28 percent, the researchers found. The trend was fueled by increases in attention problems, speech problems and other mental or developmental disorders that likely include autism although that condition isn’t identified in the analyzed data.

Declines in asthma-related problems and kids’ injuries accounted for much of the overall 12 percent drop in physical disabilities. Better asthma control and treatment and more use of bike helmets, car seats and seat-belts may have contributed to that trend, said lead author Dr. Amy Houtrow, a pediatric rehabilitation specialist at the University of Pittsburgh.

The developmental disability increases echo what Dr. Kenneth Norwood, a developmental pediatrician in Charlottesville, Virginia sees in his medical practice.

“I’m routinely backed up six months for new patients,” said Norwood, chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Children with Disabilities.

Norwood thinks there is more awareness of these conditions and that some, including autism, are truly rising in prevalence.

Autism is thought to result from genetic flaws interacting with many other factors. Some studies have suggested these may include parents’ age and prenatal infections.

——— Online: American Academy of Pediatrics: http://www.aap.org

Continued from Page 6 ing memory free to process the teacher’s brand-new lesson on more complex math.

“The study provides new evidence that this experience with math actually changes the hippocampal patterns, or the connections. They become more stable with skill development,” she said. “So learning your addition and multiplication tables and having them in rote memory helps.”

Quiz your child in different orders, she advised — nine times three and then 10 times nine — to make sure they really

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remember and didn’t have to think it through.

While the study focuses on math, Mann Koepke said cognitive development in general probably works the same way. After all, kids who match sounds to letters earlier learn to read faster.

Stanford’s Menon said the next step is to study what goes wrong with this system in children with math learning disabilities, so that scientists might try new strategies to help them learn.

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causing sporadic outbreaks in the Middle East, include exploring the role of camels.

In the case of Ebola, health experts think the initial cases in each outbreak get it from eating or handling infected animals.

They think the virus may come from certain bats, and in parts of Africa, bats are considered a delicacy.

But bats may not be the whole story or the creature that spread it to humans.

The World Health Organization lists chimpanzees, gorillas, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines as possibly playing a role. Even pig farms may amplify infection because of fruit bats on the farms, the WHO says.

“It’s not clear what the animal is. It’s going to take a lot of testing,” said Dr. Robert Gaynes, an Emory University infectious disease specialist who worked for the CDC for more than 20 years.

Part of the puzzle is how long the virus has been in West Africa. Previous outbreaks have been in the east and central regions of the continent.

The current outbreak began in rural Guinea, and the first suspected first case was a 2-year-old child who died in Gueckedou prefecture in December, researchers wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine in April. They did not speculate on how the child may have become infected.

Some scientists think the virus has been lurking in the area for years. They point to the case of a lone scientist who got sick in 1994 after doing an autopsy on a wild chimpanzee in Ivory Coast and to a recent study that explored the possibility that past Ebola cases in the region have gone undiagnosed.

Scientists in the United States and Sierra Leone looked back at hundreds of blood samples that were sent to a testing laboratory in eastern Sierra Leone from 2006 through 2008. The samples initially were checked only for Lassa fever, which is common in West Africa. But when the scientists recently went

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back and tested for other infections, they found nearly 9 percent was Ebola.

One or more types of Ebola virus have “probably been there in the mix” for some time but for some reason didn’t explode into a widespread epidemic in West Africa until this year, said Stephen Morse, a Columbia University infectious disease expert.

Ebola’s jump from animals to people is thought to be rare.

Experts say there may be a large degree of bad luck in becoming infected — in a cave associated with a Marburg outbreak, Towner found the virus in only 3 percent of bats he tested.

Even if an animal source is clearly identified and people are warned, “there is always likely to be an occasional exposure — someone who drives off the highway, in essence,” Morse said.

But with other diseases, control measures have paid off.

In 2003, when civet cats were tied to SARS, “you could just see the potential for animal-to-human spread” in live animal markets where they were sold and butchered for food, and control of those markets in southern China helped limit the outbreak, said Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, an Emory University professor and former head of the CDC. “If you can eliminate the market either by providing substitute protein sources” or outlawing the sale of that meat, “you can have an impact,” Koplan said.

That’s tough unless you can provide other food, Towner said.

“It can be a hard sell” to convince people trying to feed families to stay away from something possibly dangerous, he said.

——— Online: WHO on Ebola: http://www.tinyurl.com/Ebola-facts

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This undated photo made available by the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, shows the Ebola virus viewed through an electron microscope. As of mid2014, Ebola has caused two dozen outbreaks in Africa since the virus first emerged in 1976. (AP Photo/Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine)

Ebola health workers battle death, heat, rumors

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Doctors and nurses fighting Ebola in West Africa are working 14-hour days, seven days a week, wearing head-to-toe gear in the heat of muddy clinics. Agonizing death is the norm. The hellish conditions aren’t the only problem: Health workers struggle to convince patients they’re trying to help them, not hurt them.

Rumors are rife that Western aid workers are importing Ebola, stealing bodies or even deliberately infecting patients. Winning trust is made harder by a full suit of hood, goggles, mask and gown that hides their faces.

“You want to say so much ... because they’re in so much pain,” said nurse Monia Sayah, of Doctors Without Borders. “They suffer so much, but they can only see your eyes.”

The outbreak has hit three of the world’s poorest countries, where health systems there were already woefully understaffed and ill-equipped.

In Liberia, there is only one doctor for every 100,000 people, while in Sierra Leone there are two, according to the World Health Organization; there were no statistics available for Guinea. The figure is 245 for the United States.

Emotional distress conspires with exhaustion and dehydration, but doctors say it’s hard to stop working. “When the need is so great, you can’t justify not being there for a day or going home earlier,” said Dr. Robert Fowler, who recently worked in Guinea and Sierra Leone.

The critical care doctor at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Canada — now on sabbatical with the World Health Organization — said that the barrier of the protective suit is big but not insurmountable.

“There was a young girl, about 6, who came in late in the illness who was bleeding from her bowels, very dehydrated and delirious,” he said.

Ebola wiped out her immediate family — so she

was all alone.

“She was very frightened and very reluctant to engage, and just wanted to push people away,” he said. Fowler spent days trying to help her, bringing her things she wanted like Fanta soda. “She eventually developed this sense that this person in the suit who’s a bit scary is trying to help me.”

One day he brought the girl her favorite dish: cucumbers and lime. “She chowed down,” he said — a sign that she was on the mend. Fowler said the girl was close to being discharged by the time he left Guinea.

The girl is the exception rather than the rule.

Death is the fate of more than half of the West Africans infected in the Ebola outbreak.

“With the mortality rate being what it is,” Fowler said, “you know every day there will be a couple of patients on your ward who didn’t make it through the night.”

Dr. Kent Brantly — an American who fell sick from Ebola last month treating patients — echoed Fowler in speaking of the moral weight of the struggle.

“I held the hands of countless individuals as this terrible disease took their lives away from them,” Brantly said in a statement this month. “I witnessed the horror firsthand and I can still remember every face and name.”

Brantly is now being treated in an Atlanta hospital. His condition was improving.

Sayah, the nurse, said that heat makes it impossible to work continuously for more than an hour.

It means tasks have to be completed with nearmilitary precision. Her makeshift Ebola tent hospital in Gueckedou, southern Guinea, was converted from an earlier clinic set up by Doctors Without Borders to handle cholera epidemics.

“If you have to do patients’ blood work and IVs, you focus only on this, and you know your other team members will get the patients food and drink,” she said.

The tough odds don’t make it easier to see a

patient die.

“There was a very strong, resilient, gentleman, who always made an effort to sit up and open his eyes and tell us how grateful he was that we were here,” said Sahah. She said the man appeared to be improving but suddenly deteriorated. She was forced to take a break after getting dehydrated.

When he returned about 40 minutes later, he was dead.

“When a patient dies like that, it’s very upsetting because we’re their last hope.”

Cokie van der Velde, a sanitation specialist for Doctors Without Borders in Guinea and Liberia, cleaned Ebola wards — washing floors, emptying buckets and collecting bodies.

One day, she came across a harrowing sight.

“I walked into a room with four bodies and they’d all died in the most grotesque positions, with a lot of blood and feces everywhere,” she

said. “During the night, one man had crawled to the door and the other people who died, they seemed to have fallen off their beds and were bent backwards.”

Normally, the Briton spends her days in Yorkshire, England, tending to her garden and looking after her grandchildren. Van der Velde has worked on two previous Ebola outbreaks and says she does it because she believes in justice and equality.

She said the need for medical care is overwhelming in this outbreak because of the heavy toll Ebola has taken on health workers. Many of those sickened and killed have been doctors and nurses. That has sparked fear among local staffers and led to strikes and resignations.

“I can’t blame them,” van Der Velde said.

“They’re scared.”

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Liebman, adult nurse practitioner, accepting patients at Huntington Health Center HUNTINGTON – The Huntington Health Center is delighted to welcome Jonathan Liebman, Adult Nurse Practitioner.

Beginning September 2, 2014 Jon will be seeing patients and he looks forward to working in the hilltowns.

Liebman graduated from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1987 and from the Yale School of Nursing as an Adult Nurse Practitioner in 1998. He has worked in both public health and primary care roles, and is especially interested in chronic disease management, including diabetes and HIV. In his free time he enjoys bicycling, cross country skiing and spending time outdoors. heis now accepting patients. Call to schedule your appointment at the Huntington Health Center at 413-667-3009.

The Huntington Health Center is located at 73 Russell Road in Huntington and provides comprehensive medical, oral health, behavioral health care and eye care for children and adults. The health center is open Monday through Friday and every other Saturday. Most insurances are accepted and free care is available to qualified applicants. For more information, visit our web site, www.hchcweb.org or call 413-667-3009.

To learn more about Hilltown Community Health Centers, visit www.hchcweb.org or on Facebook at www.facebook. com/HilltownCommunityHealthCenters. To schedule an appointment, call 413-667-3009.

About Hilltown Community Health Centers, Inc. Hilltown Community Health Centers employs approximately 95 people and has been helping residents of the hilltowns and beyond since 1950. The health center is open six days a week. The organization receives federal, state, local and private foundation funding and accepts more than 700 different insurance plans, including MassHealth, as well as provides free and reduced-fee care to those who meet income guidelines.

‘Good Mourning’ bereavement workshop for caregivers FLORENCE, Mass. — “Good Mourning,” a new bereavement workshop for professional and family caregivers, presented by The DEMENTIA INITIATIVE, begins Wednesday, September 17, from 4 to 6 pm, and runs for 10 Wednesdays, through November 19, at Highland Valley Elder Services, 320 Riverside Drive, Florence MA. To register and to get more information about the “Good Mourning” Workshop, email: dementia-initiative@comcast.net The workshop includes facilitated discussions and creative exercises. It draws on philosophy; psychology; literature; fitness training; business theory; creative problem solving and spirituality.

SCHEDULE OF WORKSHOP TOPICS: Sept. 17: Intro & Overview; Sept. 24: Losing Connections; Grief and Disorganization Oct. 1: Acknowledging Painful Emotions Oct. 8:Walking In Quicksand Oct. 15:Holding On: Creating Memories; Integrating the Past Oct. 22: Victim or Hero? Reorganization Oct. 29: Serving Your Best Interests Nov. 5: Increasing Your Options Nov. 12:Releasing What Was: Discovering New Realities Nov. 19: From Broken Hearted to Whole Hearted Connections

Genesis Spiritual Life & Conference Center

Eight week ‘Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction’ program offered at Genesis Westfield — Genesis Spiritual Life & Conference Center is pleased to announce that the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program (MBSR) beginning in September and led by John Meiklejohn, LISCW, BCD will be presented at Genesis. The program will begin with a free orientation session on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 from 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. After the orientation session the program will continue every Wednesday morning until November 12.

Developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn and colleagues, beginning in the 1970s at UMass Medical Center, this program includes guided instruction in meditation practice, gentle stretching and mindful yoga, group dialog and mindful communication, individual support, daily home assignments, and home practice materials including practice CDs and a workbook. Over 20,000 individuals have completed the 8-week MBSR training at the Stress Reduction Clinic at the UMass Medical Ctr. Campus in Worcester, MA. Over 250 hospitals and medical centers in the U.S. now offer MBSR training.

Who Will Benefit? Over 1,000 peer-reviewed journal articles and studies confirm that this 8-week MBSR training can benefit: individuals experiencing acute or chronic stress arising from work, school, illness, finances, grief or aging; individuals with a chronic illness or chronic pain; adults experiencing anxiety, panic, depression or sleep disturbances; and those seeking approaches that generally enhance overall wellbeing and resilience.

What To Expect? The program will consist of eight weekly two-and-a-half-hour classes beginning on September 17 and a one-day retreat between sessions five and six. It is highly participatory, supportive and structured.

How To Begin? All class participants are required to attend a free pre-program orientation session before participating in the eight-week MBSR class. The orientation will give you a first-hand taste of mindfulness, an opportunity to better understand the course, and explore whether it is right for you.

Fee for the program: A sliding scale is available based on household income. For more details on the program and fee schedule please contact John Meiklejohn at 413-348-2848 or by email: j.johnmeiklejohn@comcast.net Mr. Meiklejohn is a psychotherapist who weaves mindfulness and mindful training into his private practice in Westfield, MA. He is the lead co-author of “Integrating Mindfulness into K-12 Education: Fostering the Resilience of Teachers & Students” that appeared in the peer-reviewed journal, Mindfulness. He also leads the Westfield Meditation Group.

Pre-registration is required. To register, please call John at 413-348-2848 or via email: j.johnmeiklejohn@comcast.net About Genesis: The Genesis Spiritual Life & Conference Center is located at 53 Mill Street, Westfield, MA 01085. The Center was founded in 1976 by the Sisters of Providence of Holyoke, MA and is committed to designing and hosting programs that foster holistic integration of body, mind and spirit.

The Center offers hospitality to persons of all faiths, cultures and lifestyles. Please visit GenesisSpiritualCenter.org for more information about our programs and services.

Key Club contributes Westfield High School Key Club President Caleigh Rockwall, left, and vice-president Amaya Diana, arrange a pile of backpacks that were distributed to elementary school children at the Salvation Army Service Center on Arnold Street in Westfield Monday. Members of the Key Club collected and distributed 295 backpacks to needy children. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

Westfield High School Key Club Secretary Francesco Liucci and New England Key Club Lt. Gov. Devin Kurtz, arrange backpacks that were donated to middle and high school students at the Westfield Salvation Army Service Center Monday. Members of the Westfield High School Key Club collected 295 backpacks for needy students. (Photo

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Gateway Superintendent’s Corner Despite being only a weekly newspaper, the Country Journal is often full of interesting and informative articles and letters to the editor.

Even with a potential week’s delay between news being made and then reported, I am still amazed at how much I can learn from this informative paper. Imagine my surprise, then, in reading the July 31 issue to learn that the Town of Russell had questions regarding the elementary consolidation process, including whether the district had notified the town about the consolidation process (or had followed a process at all) when no one – at the Gateway district offices, the chair and vice chair of the school committee, or the district’s legal counsel – had been asked for information by anyone from the town of Russell.

I understand that it has been four years since the consolidation and that there have been changes in town and school committee representatives, meaning that it is possible that we now have people in official positions who were not directly involved in the consolidation process. To help explain the process to

were also involved in defin- next 14 years.” ing and outlining the process While this was a difficult of consolidating elementary process to undertake, and still schools and returning each has ramifications today (i.e., unused building back to their the effort of Worthington to town by ending the lease withdraw from the district), arrangements (each of the the bottom line is that the impacted buildings already consolidation met the goals of belonged to their respective providing a better education town). In fact, the wording of for our students and saving the motion taken by the the district money. We do not school committee was pro- have multi-age classrooms, vided by the Massachusetts our students have more time School Dr. David Hopson ingBuilding Authority to devoted to special subjects, Com ensure tthat weThe covered the and our teachers are better Westfield News gus legal basis for this able to collaborate than they Auentire newer officials, I shared some 3 action.

0thThe motion (as in offi- were before the consolidainformation directly with the cial school committee meet- tion. As to savings, the Town of Russell’s Selectboard ing minutes) was “Mr. Damon Worthington ad-hoc commitas well as with the school made a motion seconded by tee’s estimated cost of reopencommittee. Much of the Mrs. Jensen to vote that the ing just one elementary school information I shared is also school committee close is almost equal to the cost of freely available to anyone Blandford, Russell and running the three schools that N F Elementary L C H ASchools, LLENG E four years ago – cerwith access to the Internet, as Conwell closed • Pick all Sunday NFL Games. all of the information on the returning each town owned tainly showing that we’ve • Beat ‘The finish with avoided the consolidation process is still building to Putz’ theirAND respective many expenses over best record overall to claim your online on the district’s web- towns and not submit a reor- these past few years. Yet gift certificate each week. site. This includes the pro- ganization plan to the we’re still facing struggles • All entries better than ‘The Putz’ will be cess, public hearing com- Massachusetts’ School with towns passing the eligible for the GRAND PRIZE drawing ments, financial analysis, let- Building thereby Gateway Budget despite havfollowingAuthority the NFL regular season. ters to and from various orga- forfeiting MSBA grant funding a projected budget lower • Entry forms will appear in Monday Fridays' editions of the nizations, and related research ingthru and certifying that theWestfield than it was five years ago. I News.committee ‘The Putz’ Picks will appear information. school acknowlbelieve we can avoid such in the Saturday In short, the towns were edges and agrees edition. that MSBA misunderstandings about the • Entries must be postmarked by midnight notified of and were involved will be recouping funds from district if town officials posed on the Friday before the contest. in the process of consolidat- the district in the amount of their questions directly to dis• Original entry forms only, duplications/ ing elementary schools. A $4,587,165 in annual pay- trict officials rather than going copies are ineligible. number of state agencies ments ofemployees $327,655 forarethe Westfield News and their relatives not eligible through for the contest. the media.

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The campaign has also launched a website where it lists a Massachusetts lawmakers authorized the licensing of up to number of prominent supporters, including nearly two dozen three Las Vegas-style resort casinos and one slot parlor in state lawmakers, a number of local chambers of commerce and 2011. business groups and labor union organizations.

MGM Resorts has been granted the state’s first casino Among their key campaign messages: that Massachusetts license for its $800 million Springfield project, pending the will “create 6,500 construction jobs and 10,000 permanent outcome of the November ballot question. Penn National jobs” with “solid wages and real benefits” by preserving the Gaming won the slot parlor license and is currently building a casino law and allowing gambling facilities to open. $225 million expansion to the Plainridge Racecourse, which On the other side of the casino debate, “Repeal the Casino hosts harness racing track in Plainville.

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By Chris Putz Staff Writer OCALA, FLA. – The lights went out at the Babe Ruth Baseball 14-Year-Old World Series Monday night. They also went out for Westfield’s team of All-Stars.

Sarasota (Fla.) put together some timely hits and held Westfield to just three hits in a 10-6 win over the Whip City in Game 3 of the World Series.

Westfield, which fell to 0-3, was officially eliminated from the championship round.

It was a long night for players and coaching staffs for both teams, as well as parents and fans. The start of Monday’s game was delayed nearly 90 minutes due to a longer-thanexpected series of games played throughout the day. The game was also halted for about a 15-minute period in the second inning when some of the lights went out at the stadium.

“It was a long night in more ways than one,” Westfield manager John Bonini said.

Sarasota seized the game’s first lead. Robert Vassallo lofted a one-out double to left field in the top of the first inning. An infield error and a fielder’s choice resulted in a 1-0 advantage.

It was the third straight World Series game that the Whip City trailed from the outset, but true to form, Westfield rallied to tie the game 1-1. Matt Masciadrelli opened up by reaching on an error. Back-to-back walks from Aidan Dunn and Mitchell Longley loaded the bases. Tyler Delgado managed to put the ball in play with one out, resulting in a fielder’s choice and the team’s first run. A strikeout ended the inning.

The home state squad stormed back.

In the top of the third inning, Christian Diaz led off with a walk and Robert Vassallo singled. Three consecutive RBI singles – from Seth Shore, Shane Rexford, and Stephen Wilmer – put Sarasota out in front 4-1. Chase Doyle’s sac-fly made it 5-1.

Westfield responded.

Walks from Masciadrelli and Longley, sandwiched around a Dunn hit-by-pitch loaded the bases. Jack Yvon followed with a run-scoring walk. Delgado followed with a liner to center field for two runs. An infield error gave the Whip City

Westfield’s team of 14-year-old Babe Ruth All-Stars display their banner during ceremonies. (Submitted photo) new life at 5-all.

The tug-of-war continued.

Babe Ruth World Series Preview - LogoSarasota reached on two consecutive errors to start the fourth inning, the second of which resulted in another lead change, 6-5. A walk, a runscoring single from Vassallo, and Shore’s two-run line drive to center field increased Florida’s lead to 9-5.

No. 10 batter Joshua Eslinger manufactured another run for Sarasota in the fifth, drawing a two-out walk, stealing second base, and scoring on a hard hit ball to center field from Diaz.

Sarasota threatened to widen the gap even further, but Westfield silenced the attack.

In the sixth, Shore walked and stole second, but was thrown out at third base. Tyler Delgado applied the tag. Rexford walked, and attempted to steal second but was thrown out.

Bonini completed the play. A strikeout ended the inning.

Westfield scraped back a run in the bottom half of the sixth.

Yvon singled, advanced to third on a double from Delgado,

and scored on a fielder’s choice. Sarasota led 10-6.

Sarasota pitcher Evan Berman, who provided 4 2-3 innings of one-run ball, retired the side in the bottom of the seventh to end the game. Berman struck out four batters and walked three.

Florida’s starting pitcher Stephen Wilmer allowed five runs (3 earned) on no hits and three walks, lasting just 2 1-3 innings.

“We made some mistakes defensively,” manager Bonini said. “We gave them some runs. When you play at this level, you can’t make mistakes. You can’t give away outs. Here they’re magnified.”

Despite the loss, Westfield pitchers Kyle Roberts (2 inn., 0 hits, 2 walks, 0 runs, 1 K) and Aidan Dunn (1 2-3 inn., 2 hits, 3 walks, 1 run) were steady in relief.

Westfield will close out its World Series run with its final game in pool play against Southeast Lexington, Kentucky Tuesday at 5 p.m.

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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS SCHEDULES Tuesday Sept. 2

WEDNESDAY Sept. 3

THURSDAY Sept. 4

FRIDAY Sept. 5

SATURDAY Sept. 6

MONDAY Sept. 8

WESTFIELD HIGH SCHOOL GOLF vs. Cathedral, Tekoa CC, 3 p.m.

BOYS’ SOCCER vs.

East Longmeadow, 4 p.m.

BOYS’ JV SOCCER vs.

East Longmeadow, 4 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY vs.

South Hadley, 4 p.m.

JV FIELD HOCKEY vs. South Hadley, 5:30 p.m.

GIRLS’ SOCCER vs.

Taconic, 4 p.m.

GIRLS’ JV SOCCER vs.

Taconic, 4 p.m.

GIRLS’ JV VOLLEYBALL at Minnechaug, 5 p.m.

GIRLS’ V VOLLEYBALL at Minnechaug, 6 p.m.

BOYS’ SOCCER at Pittsfield, Kirvin Park, 4 p.m.

BOYS’ JV SOCCER at Pittsfield, Kirvin Park, 4 p.m.

GIRLS’ SOCCER vs.

East Longmeadow, 4 p.m.

GIRLS’ SOCCER vs. East Longmeadow, 4 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY at Agawam, 4 p.m.

GIRLS’ JV SOCCER at East Longmeadow, 4 p.m.

GIRLS’ JV VOLLEYBALL vs. Longmeadow, 5 p.m.

JV FIELD HOCKEY at Agawam, 5:30 p.m.

GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALL vs.

Longmeadow, 6:15 p.m.

FOOTBALL at Amherst, noon

BOYS’ SOCCER vs.

Ludlow, 4 p.m.

BOYS’ JV SOCCER at Ludlow, Whitney Park, 4 p.m.

GIRLS’ JV VOLLEYBALL at Sci-Tech, 4 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY vs. Longmeadow, 4 p.m.

GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALL at Sci-Tech, 5 p.m.

JV FOOTBALL vs. Amherst, 5:15 p.m.

GIRLS’ JV FIELD HOCKEY vs. Longmeadow, 5:30 p.m.

SOUTHWICK-TOLLAND REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FIELD HOCKEY at Franklin Tech, 4:30 p.m.

JV GIRLS’ SOCCER at Lenox, 5 p.m.

GIRLS’ SOCCER at Lenox, 7 p.m.

GOLF vs. Palmer, Edgewood CC, 3 p.m.

GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALL at Commerce, 4 p.m.

JV BOYS’ SOCCER at Palmer, Legion Field, 5 p.m.

BOYS’ SOCCER at Palmer, Legion Field, 7 p.m.

GIRLS’ SOCCER at Agawam, 4 p.m.

JV GIRLS’ SOCCER at Agawam, 4 p.m.

GOLF vs. Monson, Edgewood CC, 3 p.m.

JV FIELD HOCKEY at Pioneer Valley Regional, 4 p.m.

JV GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALL vs.

Dean Tech, 4:30 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY at Pioneer Valley Regional, 5:30 p.m.

GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALL vs. Dean Tech, 5:30 p.m.

GATEWAY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL BOYS’ SOCCER at Sabis, 4 p.m.

GIRLS’ SOCCER at Holyoke Catholic, Rivers Park, 4 p.m.

JV GIRLS’ SOCCER at Holyoke Catholic, Nash Park, 4 p.m.

BOYS’ SOCCER at Granby, 3:30 p.m.

GIRLS’ SOCCER at Easthampton, Nonotuck Park, 4 p.m.

JV BOYS’ SOCCER at Granby, Time TBA

SAINT MARY HIGH SCHOOL GOLF at Monson, Quaboag CC, 3 p.m.

GOLF at Palmer, Quaboag CC, 3 p.m.

BOYS’ SOCCER vs. McCann Tech, Westfield Middle School North, 4 p.m.

WESTFIELD VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL GOLF vs. Easthampton, East Mt. CC, 3 p.m.

BOYS’ SOCCER vs. Smith Voke, Jachym Field, 4 p.m.

BOYS’ SOCCER vs. Commerce, Jachym Field, 4 p.m.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Baltimore 71 52 .577 — — 7-3 W-2 34-26 37-26 34-30 New York 63 59 .516 7½ 3 5-5 W-2 29-29 31-35 Toronto 64 61 .512 8 3½ 3-7 L-1 33-26 33-29 Tampa Bay 61 63 .492 10½ 6 6-4 L-2 28-34 Boston 56 68 .452 15½ 11 6-4 L-2 29-34 27-34 Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away 36-27 Kansas City 69 55 .556 — — 8-2 W-2 33-28 Detroit 66 56 .541 2 — 4-6 L-1 33-29 33-27 25-37 Cleveland 62 61 .504 6½ 4½ 5-5 L-1 37-24 Chicago 59 66 .472 10½ 8½ 4-6 L-1 31-30 28-36 Minnesota 55 68 .447 13½ 11½ 4-6 L-2 26-33 29-35 West Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Los Angeles 73 50 .593 — — 6-4 W-1 41-23 32-27 33-30 Oakland 73 51 .589 ½ — 3-7 L-5 40-21 33-25 Seattle 67 57 .540 6½ — 7-3 L-1 34-32 23-37 Houston 52 73 .416 22 15½ 5-5 W-1 29-36 25-38 Texas 48 76 .387 25½ 19 3-7 W-1 23-38 AMERICAN LEAGUE

Sunday’s Games Baltimore 4, Cleveland 1 Seattle 8, Detroit 1 Houston 8, Boston 1 N.Y. Yankees 4, Tampa Bay 2 Kansas City 12, Minnesota 6 Chicago White Sox 7, Toronto 5 Texas 3, L.A. Angels 2 Atlanta 4, Oakland 3 Monday’s Games Philadelphia 4, Seattle 1 L.A. Angels 4, Boston 2 Baltimore 8, Chicago White Sox 2 Kansas City 6, Minnesota 4 Tuesday’s Games Houston (Oberholtzer 4-8) at N.Y. Yankees (Capuano 1-3), 7:05 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 11-6) at Philadelphia (A.Burnett 6-13), 7:05 p.m.

Detroit (Scherzer 14-4) at Tampa Bay (Archer 8-6), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 13-7) at Boston (Webster 3-1), 7:10 p.m.

Texas (Mikolas 1-5) at Miami (Cosart 1-1), 7:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Tillman 9-5) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 6-9), 8:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Bauer 4-7) at Minnesota (Gibson 11-9), 8:10 p.m.

Toronto (Happ 8-7) at Milwaukee (Fiers 2-1), 8:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Shields 11-6) at Colorado (Matzek 2-8), 8:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Gee 4-5) at Oakland (Kazmir 13-5), 10:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Washington 70 53 .569 — — 8-2 W-7 38-24 32-29 Atlanta 65 60 .520 6 1 6-4 W-4 37-28 28-32 Miami 62 62 .500 8½ 3½ 7-3 W-2 36-30 26-32 29-35 New York 59 67 .468 12½ 7½ 4-6 L-2 30-32 Philadelphia 55 70 .440 16 11 3-7 W-1 27-36 28-34 Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Milwaukee 70 55 .560 — — 7-3 W-4 34-28 36-27 St. Louis 67 57 .540 2½ — 6-4 W-2 37-26 30-31 Pittsburgh 64 61 .512 6 2 2-8 L-6 39-25 25-36 29-35 Cincinnati 61 64 .488 9 5 2-8 L-3 32-29 Chicago 54 70 .435 15½ 11½ 5-5 W-2 28-31 26-39 West Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Los Angeles 70 56 .556 — — 4-6 L-3 30-30 40-26 San Francisco 65 58 .528 3½ — 4-6 W-2 32-32 33-26 San Diego 58 65 .472 10½ 7 6-4 L-1 34-27 24-38 Arizona 53 72 .424 16½ 13 4-6 L-3 25-39 28-33 Colorado 49 75 .395 20 16½ 4-6 W-2 31-31 18-44

Wednesday’s Games Texas (N.Martinez 2-9) at Miami (Eovaldi 6-7), 12:40 p.m.

Seattle (Paxton 3-0) at Philadelphia (Hamels 6-6), 1:05 p.m.

Toronto (Dickey 9-12) at Milwaukee (J.Nelson 2-3), 2:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Za.Wheeler 8-8) at Oakland (Samardzija 3-2), 3:35 p.m.

Houston (Feldman 6-9) at N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 2-2), 7:05 p.m.

Detroit (Porcello 13-8) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 9-9), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 13-4) at Boston (Buchholz 5-7), 7:10 p.m.

Baltimore (W.Chen 12-4) at Chicago White Sox (Noesi 7-8), 8:10 p.m.

Cleveland (House 1-3) at Minnesota (Nolasco 5-8), 8:10 p.m.

Kansas City (D.Duffy 8-10) at Colorado (J.De La Rosa 12-8), 8:40 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Sunday’s Games Miami 10, Arizona 3 Chicago Cubs 2, N.Y. Mets 1 St. Louis 7, San Diego 6 San Francisco 5, Philadelphia 2 Colorado 10, Cincinnati 9, 1st game Milwaukee 7, L.A. Dodgers 2 Washington 6, Pittsburgh 5, 11 innings Atlanta 4, Oakland 3 Colorado 10, Cincinnati 5, 2nd game Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs 4, N.Y. Mets 1 Washington 5, Arizona 4, 11 innings

Atlanta 7, Pittsburgh 3 Philadelphia 4, Seattle 1 St. Louis 6, Cincinnati 5, 10 innings Tuesday’s Games Arizona (C.Anderson 7-4) at Washington (Strasburg 9-10), 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Harang 9-7) at Pittsburgh (F.Liriano 3-9), 7:05 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 11-6) at Philadelphia (A.Burnett 6-13), 7:05 p.m.

Texas (Mikolas 1-5) at Miami (Cosart 1-1), 7:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Vogelsong 7-8) at Chicago Cubs (Wada 2-1), 8:05 p.m.

Toronto (Happ 8-7) at Milwaukee (Fiers 2-1), 8:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Simon 12-8) at St. Louis (Lackey 1-1), 8:15 p.m.

Kansas City (Shields 11-6) at Colorado (Matzek 2-8), 8:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Gee 4-5) at Oakland (Kazmir 13-5), 10:05 p.m.

San Diego (Kennedy 9-10) at L.A. Dodgers (Correia 1-0), 10:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Texas (N.Martinez 2-9) at Miami (Eovaldi 6-7), 12:40 p.m.

Seattle (Paxton 3-0) at Philadelphia (Hamels 6-6), 1:05 p.m.

Toronto (Dickey 9-12) at Milwaukee (J.Nelson 2-3), 2:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Za.Wheeler 8-8) at Oakland (Samardzija 3-2), 3:35 p.m.

Arizona (Cahill 3-8) at Washington (Roark 12-7), 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta (A.Wood 9-9) at Pittsburgh (Cole 7-4), 7:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Cueto 15-6) at St. Louis (Lynn 13-8), 7:15 p.m.

San Francisco (Peavy 1-3) at Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 6-13), 8:05 p.m.

Kansas City (D.Duffy 8-10) at Colorado (J.De La Rosa 12-8), 8:40 p.m.

San Diego (Stults 5-13) at L.A. Dodgers (R.Hernandez 7-8), 10:10 p.m.

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Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz heads to the dugout after striking out with two on during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels at Fenway Park in Boston, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. The Angels defeated the Red Sox 4-2. (AP Photo/ Charles Krupa)

Sox bats falter again BOSTON (AP) — The Red Sox outhit the Los Angeles Angels, just not when it mattered most.

The lack of clutch hitting led to 12 runners left on base, and the Red Sox wasted seven strong innings from Brandon Workman in a 4-2 loss to the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night.

“I thought we had a very good approach offensively — a number of opportunities,” manager John Farrell said. “Still, getting the key base hit was critical tonight.”

Boston finished 1 for 14 with runners in scoring position and left at least one runner on base in every inning but the eighth, which was the only time the Red Sox went down in order.

Sloppy defense in the top of the eighth also cost Boston as the Angels expanded their 2-1 lead with a pair of unearned runs.

The Red Sox lost for the fourth time in five games despite a solid night from Workman (1-7).

“With the exception of a two-out walk in the third and a couple of base hits to follow, he more than did his job tonight,” Farrell said.

Workman walked Kole Calhoun with two outs in the third, followed by Mike Trout’s double and an RBI single by Albert Pujols to give the Angels a 2-0 lead.

Workman hadn’t started since Aug. 7 and was strong after the extended break. He threw 59 of 89 pitches for strikes, yet ended up losing his sixth straight start.

“My velocity was better,” Workman said. “I had a chance to work on some things mechanically. I felt good tonight. I felt like I got into a nice rhythm early and was able to carry that through.”

Angels starter C.J. Wilson (10-8) labored through 5 1-3 innings, giving up one run and five hits with five walks and five strikeouts.

Kevin Jepsen worked the ninth for his first save since Sept. 16, 2012. He struck out David Ortiz with two on and none out before allow-

ing a run.

A LITTLE HELP Once again, the Red Sox didn’t give Workman much offensive support. Boston has scored just four runs in his last three starts.

Ortiz reached base four times with a double, a single and two walks. He also struck out in the ninth after Brock Holt and Dustin Pedroia opened the inning with singles.

NO STEALING Rookie catcher Christian Vazquez threw out Erick Aybar in the fourth and David Freeze in the seventh as they tried to steal second base.

Vazquez has thrown out six of the 14 runners attempting to steal on him since making his major league debut July 9.

“The catch-and-throw ability clearly is well above average. It’s outstanding,” Farrell said.

HOLT HIT STREAK Holt extended his hitting streak to 12 games, going 2 for 4 with an RBI single in the fourth to pull Boston to 2-1.

TRAINER’S ROOM Angels: Manager Mike Scioscia said INF Grant Green, on the 15-day disabled list with a strained lower back, is “close to playing in games.” He’ll likely need a few rehab starts before returning.

Red Sox: Pedroia was back in the lineup after missing Sunday’s game because he was sick. OF-1B Allen Craig (sprained left foot) started a rehab assignment with Triple-A Pawtucket. C David Ross (plantar fasciitis) is expected to be activated Tuesday.

UP NEXT RHP Jered Weaver (13-7, 3.66 ERA) goes for the Angels in the second game of the series Tuesday. He took the loss against Boston on Aug. 8, giving up four runs in six innings.

RHP Allen Webster (3-1, 4.79) faces the Angels for the second time in three starts. He earned the win against Weaver recently, holding Los Angeles to two runs in 6 2-3 innings.

MLB ROUNDUP NATIONALS 5, DIAMONDBACKS 4 WASHINGTON (AP) — Adam LaRoche hit a game-winning solo home run with two outs in the 11th inning to help the Washington Nationals beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-4 Monday night for their seventh straight win.

It was the third walk-off win in as many days for NL-East leading Washington.

BRAVES 7, PIRATES 3 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jason Heyward and Andrelton Simmons homered to begin a six-run first inning, and the Braves beat the sliding Pirates for their fourth consecutive victory.

CUBS 4, METS 1 NEW YORK (AP) — Kyle Hendricks and two relievers held New York to four or fewer hits for the fifth straight game, Anthony Rizzo and Javier Baez hit long homers, and the Cubs rallied for a victory over the Mets.

PHILLIES 4, MARINERS 1 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jerome Williams took a three-hitter into the eighth inning, Andres Blanco hit his first homer in three years, and the Phillies beat the Mariners in an interleague game.

Making his second start since joining the Phillies, Williams (1-0) allowed one run and three hits in seven-plus innings.

CARDINALS 6, REDS 5, 10 innings ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jhonny Peralta’s 10th-inning single, his third hit of the game, drove in the winning run to give the Cardinals a victory over the Reds.

Jay Bruce homered, doubled and knocked in four runs for the Reds, giving him nine RBIs in four games. Brandon Phillips returned from left thumb surgery wearing a brace and was 0 for 4 with a walk.

ROYALS 6, TWINS 4 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Erik Kratz homered twice after replacing an ailing Salvador Perez, and Jason Vargas pitched seven strong innings to lead the first-place Royals to a victory over the Twins.

ORIOLES 8, WHITE SOX 2 CHICAGO (AP) — Nick Markakis hit a two-run homer and prevented one with a leaping catch in right field, and Nelson Cruz and J.J. Hardy each added a solo shot to power the Orioles past the White Sox.

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Thursday’s Game Chicago 20, Jacksonville 19 Friday’s Games New England 42, Philadelphia 35 New Orleans 31, Tennessee 24 Seattle 41, San Diego 14 Oakland 27, Detroit 26 Saturday’s Games Green Bay 21, St. Louis 7 Baltimore 37, Dallas 30 N.Y. Giants 27, Indianapolis 26 N.Y. Jets 25, Cincinnati 17 Pittsburgh 19, Buffalo 16 Miami 20, Tampa Bay 14 Houston 32, Atlanta 7 Minnesota 30, Arizona 28 Sunday’s Games Denver 34, San Francisco 0 Carolina 28, Kansas City 16 Monday’s Game Washington 24, Cleveland 23

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Oakland at Green Bay, 8 p.m.

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Tennessee at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Washington at Baltimore, 7:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Indianapolis, 8 p.m.

St. Louis at Cleveland, 8 p.m.

Houston at Denver, 9 p.m.

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Manziel’s gesture taints Browns’ loss to Redskins

By JOSEPH WHITE AP Sports Writer LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — If the Cleveland Browns pick a quarterback based solely on numbers, there’s not much either Johnny Manziel or Brian Hoyer did to show he deserves the job.

If the choice is based on maturity, the hotshot rookie’s obscene gesture lost him some ground to the nondescript sixth-year veteran.

Manziel raised his middle finger toward the opponents’ bench as he returned to the huddle late in the third quarter of Monday night’s 24-23 loss to the Washington Redskins. Truth be told, it was one of the few times a Browns QB actually found his intended target.

“It does not sit well,” Cleveland coach Mike Pettine said. “It’s disappointing, because what we talk about is being poised and being focused. ... That’s a big part of all football players, especially the quarterback.”

Manziel called the moment a “lapse of judgment” and suggested it was brought about by another game of unprintable verbal grief from another team’s players and fans.

He was openly mocked by Brian Orakpo in the first quarter when the Redskins linebacker raised both hands and performed the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner’s “money” gesture after a sack by Ryan Kerrigan.

“I get words exchanged throughout the entirety of the game, every game, week after week, and I should’ve been smarter,” Manziel said. “It was a ‘Monday Night Football’ game, and cameras were probably solid on me, and I just need to be smarter about that.

“It’s there, and it’s present every game, and I just need to let it slide off my back and go to the next play.”

Meanwhile, Pettine needs to pick a starting quarterback. The performances were so unspectacular that the coach suggested he might audible from his previously stated plan of announcing his regular-season starter on Tuesday.

“All the options are still on the table,” Pettine said.

Hoyer started Monday night and completed 2 of 6 passes for 16 yards. His self-assessment: “It probably couldn’t have been any

worse. It’s disappointing. It was embarrassing.”

Manziel, the No. 22 pick in the NFL draft, was 7 for 16 for 65 yards and a touchdown.

Of his series early in the game, he said: “I really tried to force everything and not let it fly like I should have. I need to get better at that and throw the dang ball.”

Those stats, as mediocre as they are, were padded by series against the Redskins’ backups. In the first quarter — when Washington’s starters were in the game — Manziel was 2 for 7 for 29 yards, and Hoyer was 0 for 2.

“They both missed some throws,” Pettine said.

If there’s any hint as to which way Pettine is leaning, it’s worth noting that Hoyer started for the second consecutive game and played mostly with the first-team offense. Manziel was sent out with the reserves to play in the second half.

Manziel took advantage by leading a 16-play, 68-yard drive capped by an 8-yard pass to Dion Lewis for Cleveland’s first touchdown.

But the six points were overshadowed by the one finger.

“A lot of people just scream out things that are very, very disrespectful,” Browns cornerback Joe Haden said. “He’s just got to zone it out.”

Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel (2) celebrates running back Dion Lewis (28) scoring a touchdown on a pass, during the second half of an NFL preseason football game against the Washington Redskins Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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By Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar

Any advice wouldbe appreciated Dear Annie: My 5-year-old son has been claiming to see the paranormal. I’m sure part of it is just his imagination. But sometimes he describes in great detail people and even pets who have died. He mainly claims to see a cousin he never met, but whom he can describe accurately. Sometimes, he will sit up in bed and start talking to a wall, saying he is talking to his cousin.

Now he says he can see someone else. He isn’t sure who it is, but it frightens him. My son won’t even walk past the bedroom door without me or another adult with him and the bedroom light on.

We don’t let him watch scary movies or anything like that. Is it possible that he is really seeing these things? I’ve mentioned it to a few different ministers who just laughed it off and said there is no such thing as the paranormal. Any advice would be appreciated. -- A Fan of Your Work Dear Fan: The fact that your son doesn’t watch scary movies does not mean he hasn’t been exposed to ads for them or comments from friends. Nonetheless, our concern is not that your son is making it up. Sometimes manifestations of the paranormal can indicate a medical problem. Please take him to his doctor for a complete checkup, including a neurological exam.

Dear Annie: A couple in our social circle have developed a disgusting habit in recent years, and no one knows how to approach them about it. These people blow their noses at the dinner table every time they sit down and then return their dirty tissues to their pockets and carry on eating. This is not just a gentle dab at the end of the nose. It’s a full-blown empty-thesinus kind of thing.

These people are well educated with good jobs. I’m sure they would be devastated if we said something, but it has reached the point where we no longer accept dinner invitations if we know they will be there, because this nose blowing turns our stomachs. We can’t understand how no one in their family has mentioned it to them.

Is this a social faux pas, or are we too picky? -- Disgusted Dear Disgusted: It is definitely a social faux pas to blow one’s nose at the dinner table. One can wipe a sniffle, but blasting more than that should be done in the privacy of the bathroom. Should it happen again in your presence, simply say, “My goodness, Horace! Your allergies must be getting worse.

You’d make all of us more comfortable if you used the powder room to take care of that.” The two of them may be mildly miffed, but making people sick at the dinner table is not appropriate.

Dear Annie: I would like to contribute to the responses to “Frustrated with Noise,” who complained about young children in church.

When my sons were small, they were a wild bunch running down the aisles of our synagogue. Our rabbi never reprimanded them. If a baby cried during services, the rabbi would always ask the parents not to remove the child.

One day he explained: He was a Holocaust survivor. The first year after he was liberated from the concentration camp, there were no children at services. They had all been murdered. After a year or so, people started to have children again. Babies were born. At the first service with children in attendance, there was the sound of babies crying. It was such a joyful sound that our rabbi never again wanted to preside over a service without the sound of children. -- Agoura Hills, Calif.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www. creators.com.

HINTS FROM HELOISE SPILLED DRINK STAIN Dear Heloise: While out the other night, my kids spilled some soda on themselves. How can I remove the stain? -- Mom in Massachusetts These things do happen! Since the clothes are washable, when you get home (next time!), dab with white household vinegar, then rinse.

Repeat if necessary. If the stain still shows, use liquid laundry detergent and rub it into the area, then wash as usual. When out, rinse with cool water ASAP to help keep it from setting. Stains can be tough to get out. That’s why I have a pamphlet full of hints to remove tough stains. To get it, send $5 and a long, self-addressed, stamped (70 cents) envelope to: Heloise/Stain Guide, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001. Got a fruit-juice stain?

Rinse in cold water immediately. If you still have a stain, rub liquid laundry detergent into the area, let sit a few minutes and wash in warm water. -- Heloise COTTONWOOD CLUTTER Dear Heloise: We have lots of cottonwood trees, and the cotton gets stuck in the air-conditioner condenser unit. It can block airflow and cause the AC to stop cooling. We put mosquito netting around the unit, using clothespins. It’s easy to hose down when the cotton collects on the outside. -- Pam S., Omaha, Neb.

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YOUR HOROSCOPE Contract Bridge

By Jaqueline Bigar

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014: This year you are goal-focused. Part of accomplishing what you want will require you to intensify your networking. The more people you meet, the better off you’ll be. Your domestic life can be extremely demanding and somewhat burdensome. You will clear up any problems by next year. If you are single, you will have many suitors. Decide what kind of relationship you want, and then you will be able to make a sound decision. If you are attached, many difficulties you have had together most likely will be happily resolved. Make it OK to have differences of opinion, and learn to respect them. GEMINI always wants you to meet more of his or her friends.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

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ZACK HILL John Deering and John Newcombe

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Your efforts count. Even if you don’t reach your goal, a partner will be supportive of your efforts. Later in the day, you will see the right path. Tap into your endless creativity in order to find the right solution or approach.

Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH You might be more possessive than you realize, and someone will let you know in no uncertain terms. You could push others away if you are not careful, as some people cannot tolerate that type of neediness. Tonight: Make it your treat.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Keep your long-term objectives in mind. The unexpected is likely to occur in a meeting or with a friend. At first, you might be startled, but in time your sense of humor will take over. Try not to laugh in front of others, though.

Tonight: Wish upon a star.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Reveal less than you know right now, and maintain a low profile.

You might be more judgmental than you realize. If you express your views, it is likely that someone could shut down.

Tonight: Play until you are tired, then get some extra R and R. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Listen to a friend’s news more carefully. You have the ability to get past a problem once you detach.

When you are no longer triggered, you’ll come up with a workable solution. A meeting could be instrumental in this process. Tonight: Find your friends.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH You often feel as though you need to answer to others. As a result, you could be allowing yourself to be taken advantage of. You will have to learn how to say “no” more often. Know that this could take some time, as patterns could be difficult to break. Tonight: In the limelight.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Keep reaching out to someone at a distance. Maintain some discipline, especially with your finances.

News will head your way that offers more insight. Use this vision to find a solution. You might want to open up to a new acquaintance. Tonight: Follow the music.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Move forward in a discussion. Listen to others’ opinions before deciding which way to go. Unexpected developments could take you in a new direction, where you might need to become more self-disciplined. Tonight: Pay attention to an older person.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Defer to someone else, so that he or she can show off his or her skills. You might be taken aback by this person’s self-expression. Make several calls to someone in the know for a second opinion. You might be slightly more negative than you realize. Tonight: Go with the program.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You might feel overwhelmed by everything you need to do. Show off your delegating skills in order to accomplish as much as possible. Be open to a partner’s suggestions, as they could work. Weigh the pros and cons of each one before you decide. Tonight: Make it cozy and warm.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Your creativity is likely to emerge. As long as you tap in to your imagination, you will appear to have the magic touch. Take charge of a matter when dealing with authority figures.

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Keep conversations moving. Tonight: Go for what you want.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Settle in, and decide what your priorities are before you act. Otherwise, you could experience a big backfire. Look to someone at a distance who seems to understand you; this person always seems to give good advice. Curb wild risktaking. Tonight: Invite a friend over.

Court at 224 Elm St., Westfield THE WESTFIELD NEWS Massachusetts 01085, with a copy to Plaintiffs’ attorney, Michael J. Serduck, 256 No. Pleasant St., P.O. BOX 626, Amherst Mass. 01004, on or before 09/29/14. If you fail to file an answer on or before 09/29/14, you may be defaulted and judgment entered against you.

For mortgagor's(s') title see

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www.thewestfieldnews.com deed recorded with Hampden

CLASSIFIED Available Online 24/7 — http://thewestfieldnews.com/classifieds 0001 Legal Notices

IN BRIEF

Parks and Recreation signups

August 12, 19, 26, 2014

County Registry of Deeds in Book 8943, Page 174.

To Advertise 413-562-4181 Ext. 118

These premises will be sold and conveyed subject to and with the benefit of all rights, rights of way, restrictions, easements, covenants, liens or claims in the nature of liens, improvements, public assessments, any and all unpaid taxes, tax titles, tax liens, water and sewer liens and any other municipal assessments or liens or existing encumbrances of record which are in force and are applicable, having priority over said mortgage, whether or not reference to such restrictions, easements, improvements, liens or encumbrances is made in the deed.

DEADLINE: 2PM THE DAY BEFORE

Unless otherwise provided by E-mail: floram@thewestfieldnewsgroup.com Rule 13(a), Mass. R. Civ. P.

August 5, 12, 19, 2014 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS TRIAL COURT DISTRICT COURT DEPARTMENT WESTFIELD DIVISION

NOTICE OF WESTFIELD — The Westfield Parks & Recreation MORTGAGEE'S SALE Department is now taking sign ups for Girls Youth Field OF REAL ESTATE Hockey for grades 3-8. For more info call the Parks & Rec Hampden, SS TERMS OF SALE: office at 572-6263 or email Jim at j.blascak@cityofwestfield.

By virtue and in execution of (SEAL) org the Power of Sale contained in a No.: 1444CV161 A deposit of Five Thousand

Pioneer Valley American Cancer Society to host kickoff for Breast Cancer WESTFIELD - The American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Pioneer Valley is inviting residents of the Pioneer Valley to its kickoff event from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 20 at Stanley Park’s Beveridge Pavilion.

The informational meeting for team captains, participants, breast cancer survivors and prospective volunteers includes complimentary food.

The second annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Pioneer Valley walk is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 5 at Stanley Park. Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is the American Cancer Society’s premier event to raise awareness and funds to fight breast cancer and save lives. Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is the largest network of breast cancer awareness events in the nation, uniting more than 300 communities to finish the fight. Money raised helps the American Cancer Society fight the disease with research, information and services, and access to mammograms for women who need them.

An RSVP is required. To reserve your spot at the kickoff or for more information about Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Pioneer Valley, please contact Angel Davis, walk manager, at413.493.2126 or angel.davis@cancer.org.

Evening High School Equivalency Classes in Westfield for Fall2014 WESTFIELD-The Hi-SET Test (formerly GED) consists of a battery of five different exams in Reading, Writing, Social Studies, Science and Math. The programs available include Pre HiSET, Hi-SET Level 1 and Level 2 classes.

To register, individuals must attend the Information Night on August 26 at 5:30 p.m. at The Westfield Athenaeum in the Lang Auditorium.

For more information, go to westfieldcommunityeducation. org or call 336-3100.

Hi-SET Classes – Level 1 Begins September 2 2014 at the Westfield Athenaeum, 4-6 p.m. on Tuesdays & Thursdays for 15 weeks. Classes are free.

Text is $35.

Hi-SET Classes – Level 2 Begins on September 2 2014 at the Westfield Athenaeum, 6-8 p.m. on Tuesdays & Thursdays for 15 weeks. Classes are free. Text is $35.

Pre Hi-SET & Computer Literacy Classes Begins on September 3 2014 at the Westfield Athenaeum, 6-8 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays & Thursdays for 15 weeks.

Classes are free. Text is $35.

The Italian Cultural Center of Western Massachusetts, Inc. Announces ‘Friday Night at the Italian Cinema’ SPRINGFIELD-The Italian Cultural Center of Western Massachusetts wishes to announce that starting with ‘Rome Open City’, on Friday, September 5, we will begin a 3-month celebration of Italian movies. The movies will be shown the 1st Fridays of September, October and November. The first movie, ‘Rome Open City’, a landmark of Italian neorealism released in 1945, is often cited as one of the greatest films ever made.

Roberto Rossellini’s portrait of life under the Nazi Occupation remains remarkable for its sheer immediacy, tension and power. Dr. Rocco Mesiti will present the screening. Dr. Mesiti is an adjunct professor of Italian culture at Western New England University, the Dean of Students at Duggan Middle School, and a teacher of the Italian language at the high school of Science and Technology. He is also a writer, director and producer of film.

The movies will be held at the Italian Cultural Center of Western Massachusetts at 56 Margaret Street in Springfield.

The doors will open at 6:00pm and the movie will start at 7:00pm. With the requested donation of $7 for members and $10 for non-members, you will be given a choice of beverage and snack.

Who Does It? Local Business Bulletin Board

To Advertise Call (413) 562-4181

CUSTOM HOMES

certain mortgage given by Julie M. Emken and Jeffrey A. Emken to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., dated May 5, 2003 and recorded with the Hampden County Registry of Deeds at Book 13260, Page 337, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder by assignment from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. to Bank of America, N.A., Successor by Merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP dated July 30, 2012 and recorded with said registry on August 1, 2012 at Book 19374 Page 411 and by assignment from Bank of America, N.A. to Green Tree Servicing LLC dated June 13, 2013 and recorded with said registry on July 16, 2013 at Book 19922 Page 3, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing, the same will be sold at Public Auction at 12:00 p.m. on September 3, 2014, on the mortgaged premises located at 32 Denise Drive, Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage,

(413) 568-0341

Other terms, if any, to be announced at the sale.

GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC Present holder of said mortgage By its Attorneys, HARMON LAW OFFICES, P.C. 150 California Street Newton, MA 02458 (617) 558-0500 201311-0448 - TEA

Trustees of the Longbrook Estates Condominium Trust, Plaintiffs v. Ki Jin Lee and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., Defendants

Land referred to in this commitment is described as all that certain property situated in the County of HAMPDEN and state of MA and being described in a deed dated Sep-14-1994, and recorded Sep-16-1994, among the land records of the County and state set forth above, and referenced as follows: Book 8943 and Page 174.

ORDER OF NOTICE

CITY OF WESTFIELD PLANNING BOARD You are hereby notified that an NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING action against you has been filed in the Westfield Division of the The Westfield Planning Board District Court Department of the will conduct a Public Hearing on Trial Court of the Common- September 2, 2014, at 7:00 wealth (case # 1444CV161). P.M. in City Council Chambers, You are hereby summoned to Municipal Building, 59 Court file an answer to the complaint in Street, Westfield, MA on an apsaid matter with the Clerk of the plication submitted by Marco Court at 224 Elm St., Westfield, Liquori for a Special Permit per Massachusetts 01085, with a Section 3-91.2(2) of the Zoning copy to Plaintiffs’ attorney, Mi- Ordinance for a change of office chael J. Serduck, 256 No. Pleas- type above the first floor. The ant St., P.O. BOX 626, Amherst, property is located at 48 Court Mass. 01004, on or before St. (Map 29 Parcel 18) and 09/29/14. If you fail to file an an- zoned Court St. Mixed Residswer on or before 09/29/14, you ence/Business. The application may be defaulted and judgment is available for public inspection entered against you. during regular business hours at the Planning Department and at Unless otherwise provided by Rule 13(a), Mass. R. Civ. P., www.cityofwestfield.org. your answer must state as a counterclaim any claim which you may have against the Plaintiffs which arises out of the transaction or occurrence that is the subject matter of Plaintiffs’ claim against you, or you will be barred from making such claim in any other action.

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The land in Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, bounded and described as follows: Lot Number 22 as shown on plan title (Third Subdivision of Land of A. Stanley and Emma M. Rzowski'' dated July 12, 1955, and recorded in Hampden County Registry of Deeds, Book of Plans 58, page 130 and being more particularly bounded and described as follows: Commencing at an iron pin in the northerly line of Denise Drive, thence North 63 degrees 49 minutes 30 seconds East 140 feet along Lot Number 21 on the plan to an iron pin; thence South 26 degrees 10 minutes 30 seconds East 107 feet along Lot Number 9 on said Plan to an iron pin; thence South 1 degree 18 minutes 17 seconds west 73.72 feet along Lot Number 10 on said Plan to an iron pin in the northerly line of Denise Drive; thence westerly on a curve with a radius of 193.23 feet for a distance of 212.92 feet along the northerly line of Denise Drive to the point of beginning.

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