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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2014

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It’s Allie vs. Velis in special election

Barnes hangar project approved

By Dan Moriarty Staff Writer WESTFIELD – The Planning Board voted unanimously last night to issue a special permit to Whip City Aviation LLC for construction of a new hangar at Barnes Regional Airport.

The board also approved a site plan and stormwater management permit for construction of a new 7,350-square-foot hangar which will house general aviation six aircraft.

Rob Levesque of R. Levesque & Associates said Whip City Aviation will construct the new hangar on 16 acres of land it is leasing from the Airport Commission.

The City Council, at the Jan. 6th meeting, unanimously approved a 50-yearlease and a financial package as part of an agreement with Whip City Aviation as part of a plan to make a substantial investment at Barnes Regional Airport. The City Council is required to approve all leases longer than 20 years in duration.

Most of the airport leases are See Barnes, Page 3

Board approves stringent anti-choking code

By Dan Moriarty Staff Writer WESTFIELD- The Board of Health approved a local antichoke regulation which will require any establishment serving food for on premises consumption to have a person certified in choke-saving procedures.

The new local regulation becomes effective in June.

Health Department inspectors will require proof of certified training of employees when performing food service inspections.

Health Director Joseph A. Rouse said that he requested the Health Board to approve a stricter local regulation than the current state law which only requires restaurants with a seating capacity of 25 or more patrons to have trained staff.

“Under the existing state law, food establishments with 25 or more seats have to have a person certified in anti-choke training,” Rouse said. “Under the local regulation amendment all on-premise food serving establishments would be required to have staff certified.

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By Peter Francis Staff Writer WESTFIELD – The papers are in, and the race has officially begun for the 4th Hampden District seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, with an election date of April 1.

Democrat Attorney John Velis and Republican City Councilor Daniel Allie turned in their petitions containing the required 150 signatures to Westfield City Clerk Karen Fanion’s office yesterday afternoon.

The seat became available when Republican Don Humason beat Democrat David Bartley in a special election for state Senate. Humason had been 4th Hampden District Representative since 2002, before becoming a state Senator.

“Now that the petitions are turned in, we have till Friday to get everything certified,” Fanion said. “The candidates will then pick them up and get them to Boston by the 28th, either by mail or by hand delivering them.”

Velis recently returned to his hometown law practice after a deployment with the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division where U. S. Army Reserve captain was tasked to supervise the ‘Rule of Law’ operation in Afghanistan’s southern province of Zabul.

“I’m excited. I equate it to waiting and finding out which team you’re going to play in the playoffs,” he said of the campaign, adding that he and his team handed in several hundred signatures yesterday. “We’ve been pounding the pavement in rain, shine, blizzards, to get my message out to the voters of Defense attorney David Hoose, right, introduces himself, his law partner Luke Ryan, center, and their client, Cara Lee Rintala to potential jurors during the jury selection for her retrial on Tuesday in Hampshire Superior Court 1. (Photo by Kevin Gutting, Daily Hampshire

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Oleksak takes stand for first time

By BOB DUNN Daily Hampshire Gazette @BDGazette NORTHAMPTON — After emerging as a main character in the first murder trial of Cara Lee Rintala — and painted as a possible suspect in opening arguments this time around — Mark Oleksak took the witness stand in her retrial Tuesday.

Rintala, 47, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder in connection with the strangulation death of her wife, Annamarie Cochrane Rintala, 37, in the couple’s Granby home March 29, 2010.

In his opening statement Jan. 9, Rintala’s defense attorney David Hoose said just as good a case could be built against Oleksak, 48, as his client, based on the evidence.

On the witness stand yesterday, Oleksak said he and Annamarie sometimes had talks about how, if she wasn’t gay and he wasn’t married, they might date and eventually, perhaps, get married themselves.

“I believe I had a financial affair with her,” Oleksak said. “I had an emotional affair with her.”

His name was mentioned repeatedly in Rintala’s first trial, which ended last March in a mistrial with a deadlocked jury, but he was never was called to testify until now. His testimony was to continue today, the ninth day of testimony.

Under questioning yesterday by prosecutor Steven Gagne, Oleksak, a full-time firefighter in Westfield and a part-time paramedic with American Medical Response, said he and Annamarie Rintala met at work in 2002 or 2003 and quickly discovered they worked well as a team.

From that point, Oleksak said, a friendship developed and they became “very close” friends, over time.

Oleksak said the pair would go to movies, golfing, out for drinks and other activities around their work schedules, but he kept that information from his wife.

Despite the closeness of the relationship, Oleksak said it never became sexual or even physical, beyond hugs and light kisses on the sides of their mouths.

Oleksak said he would sometimes buy flowers for Annamarie and sent her a card once with the inscription: “I will always love you, whether we date or just stay friends, know that I will always love and care about you.”

Oleksak said he and Annamarie Rintala worked about 40 to 50 hours a week together and during that time, they shared personal information. They discussed their respective relationships and financial matters. During the course of the friendship, he said, he allowed her to be an authorized user on three of his credits cards in an effort to help her rebuild her credit after she declared bankruptcy.

Oleksak said he had taken steps to ensure the statements for those cards didn’t reach home, but, despite that, his wife became aware of one of the accounts and became “quite upset,” he said.

Oleksak said his wife believed Annamarie Rintala was using him and was not the good friend she claimed to be.

His wife later became aware of one of the other accounts when she tried to apply for credit at a furniture store and was denied due to a high outstanding balance, Oleksak said, which upset her further.

“She still has no trust,” Oleksak said of his wife. “I broke the trust in her.”

With the credit Oleksak had provided her, Annamarie Rintala purchased Christmas gifts, including a surround-sound system for her wife, and paid for a cruise for her parents, Oleksak said.

He said he made an arrangement with Annamarie Rintala to be given money every month to pay off the balances on the cards, an arrangement he said she honored until she couldn’t keep up with the payments.

When the balances got too high, Oleksak said, he took her name off the accounts.

Falling out Oleksak said he had also helped Annamarie get a cellphone, believing it wasn’t safe for her to be working late at night without a phone.

The pair had a falling out, he said, in July 2009 when the Rintalas were each beginning divorce proceedings, which were later dropped, and Annamarie had moved in with a former girlfriend.

Oleksak advised her against re-establishing the relationship, saying it could negatively impact how the divorce case got settled and could affect custody of the Rintalas’ young daughter, who was about 2½ when Annamarie was killed.

About that same time, Oleksak said, he

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Thieves travel College Highway

By Carl E. Hartdegen Staff Writer SOUTHWICK – Town police are working with Westfield detectives in an investigation into a series of break-ins and attempted break-ins on the Routes 10/202 corridor which occurred in the two communities during the early hours of Monday morning.

Southwick Sgt. Robert Landis reports that the first of the incidents apparently occurred at Zuber’s Ice Cream & Deli on Southwick Road in Westfield but, when Westfield Officer Matthew Preuss arrived and found a door ajar, nobody was inside and a responding key holder found nothing appeared to have been stolen.

Landis said “it looks like they continued southbound” and “over the course of a half-hour or 45 minutes” struck at a half-dozen businesses on College Highway but did not find much to steal.

“It looks like they were looking strictly for cash,” Landis said.

After the thief or thieves were apparently scared away by the alarm at Zuber’s, the next stop in the spree was apparently the Southwick Country Club where entry was not gained.

The perpetrator apparently next moved a short distance further south and gained entry to Country Auto Sales, Borgatti Auto Sales and a nearby insurance agency but an attempt to break into the Southwick Animal Hospital was unsuccessful, Landis said.

“There’s no doubt in my mind” Landis said, that the perpetrator (or perpetrators) was “somebody trying to get the quickest cash” and said that it was probably “some sort of drug thing.”

Landis said that only miscellaneous items were taken and said “it appears they continued southbound” with “the officers right behind them” investigating their previous

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WESTERN MASS - For the past few years, Hilltown Families has organized a community-wide Handmade Valentine Swap, a free event open to all families in Western MA. Last year 1,300 handmade Valentines were swapped, and we’re looking forward to having more families join in the fun again this year! A community handmade Valentine swap gives families an opportunity to be creative together while connecting with other families in Western Massachusetts Through the swap, participants mail out handmade Valentines to 10 assigned addresses, and in return each participant receives handmade Valentines from 10 other participants. The swap is intergenerational and cards can be handmade by any combination of child and adult, so if kids aren’t completely up to the task or if an adult would like to make their own design, there’s flexibility. Deadline to sign up is Friday, January 31. That Sunday, February 2, participants will be emailed their assigned names and addresses of families to mail their handmade Valentines to. Everyone is kindly requested to mail their Valentines off by February 7.

Signing up to participate in the swap is free and open to all families in Western Massachusetts. To sign up visit www.HilltownFamilies.org and for more information, visit www.HilltownFamilies.org or email hilltownfamilies@gmail.com.

RUSSELL - The COA Book Club will be reading the Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle for our February discussion. Updated versions are now being shown on PBS and CBS.... now let’s compare them to the originals written over 100 years ago! Since this is a complete set, we will all read at least the first three short stories and any others you desire. Pick up your cop at Russell Senior Center. Join us on Tuesday, February 11 at 9:30 a.m. at the Senior Center. Coffee will be served. All are welcome.

Valentine’s Day Party RUSSELL - The Russell COA will hold a February Birthday and Valentine’s Day Party on Monday February 10 at noon. Pizza, cake and ice cream will be served. There will be a Valentinemaking contest and Bingo afterwards. Please respond by Monday, February 3. Please bring donations of non-perishable food for the Food Bank in lieu of payment for the party.

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Calligraphy Course WESTFIELD - Westfield Creative Arts, in partnership with Westfield State University, presents its newest class, Calligraphy taught by Kathy MorrisseyMorini.

Art of Calligraphy is an eight-week course that explores all levels of calligraphy. The class will be held on Thursdays from 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. January 23 and 30, February 6, 13, 20, 27, and March 6. The class will cover instruction of upper and lowercase letter forms and numbers using broad edge markers, various pen nibs, ink, gouache and glair, as well as layout and design of individual and/or group projects. The cost of the course is $140 for nonmembers plus supplies. Contact instructor for supply list and fee. Calligraphy is for beginners as well as those with some experience with calligraphy.

Morrissey-Morini is a professional calligrapher who has taught calligraphy to adults and children for over 25 years. She has studied extensively with internationally recognized masters and earned a BFA in Art at UMass Amherst.

Currently, she is a part-time Elementary Art Specialist with the Pittsfield Public Schools.

A full schedule of class dates and times can be found at www.westfieldcreativearts.com . Regular gallery hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m., Thursday, 2 p.m. - 7 p.m., and Saturday 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. For more information on Westfield Creative Arts, call (413) 277-5829.

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Expect bitterly cold temperatures and wind chills today.

Even though we’ll have plenty of sunshine out there today, a brisk northerly breeze will keep highs in the teens. With winds blowing at 10-20 MPH, it’ll feel sub zero all day! It’ll remain cold through the rest of the week - expect highs only in the teens for Thursday and Friday as well! By Saturday, temperatures will return to the low-30s, but there will be a trade off - instead of sunshine, clouds and snow return to the forecast. Another chance of snow possible for Monday!

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HUNTINGTON – Gateway alumni (from any graduating class) are invited to take part in the first ever Alumni Band! This is a minimal commitment of one weekend, which will take place on February 8 and 9. This will be a fun, musical weekend; people do not need to be playing currently in order to take part. This is part of the year-long 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Gateway Regional School District. Please RSVP as soon as possible by calling 685-1003 or emailing wlong@grsd.org .

Please confirm that you are taking part and report the instrument that you play. We need all instruments, so don’t be shy! We may be able to make arrangements for the loan of an instrument; if this is a need, please let us know when you RSVP. Please RSVP by January 31.

Rehearsals will take place on Saturday, February 8. A run-through will be held on Sunday, February 9. The music will be of a “do-able” level! The weekend will end with a short concert on Sunday afternoon for family and friends. All activities will take place at Gateway Regional High School in Huntington. We also need help getting the word out, so please share this information with your friends and former band mates!

Odds & Ends Police ‘like’ wanted suspect’s online post FREELAND, Pa. (AP) — Police in one northeastern Pennsylvania town really “liked” this Facebook post.

Officers in Freeland arrested 35-year-old Anthony Lescowitch on Monday night, less than two hours after he shared a wanted photo of himself and taunted police for not being able to find him, the (Wilkes-Barre) Times Leader (http://bit.ly/1bg0cOK ) reported Tuesday.

Lescowitch shared the wanted bulletin minutes after Freeland police posted it on the department Facebook page Monday night, authorities said. He was being sought on assault-related charges.

An officer pretending to be an attractive woman then messaged Lescowitch, according to police. Lescowitch refused the offer of a drink but eventually agreed to meet for a cigarette, and was arrested at the agreedupon location.

After the arrest, police posted this message: “CAPTURED!!!!!! SHARES OUR STATUS ON FACEBOOK ABOUT HIMSELF, CAPTURED 45 MINUTES LATER.”

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TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 22, the 22nd day of 2014. There are 343 days left in the year.

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n Jan. 22, 1984, the Los Angeles Raiders defeated the Washington Redskins 38-9 to win Super Bowl XVIII (18), played at Tampa Stadium in Florida; the CBS-TV broadcast featured Apple Computer’s famous “1984” commercial introducing the Macintosh computer.

On this date:

In 1498, during his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus arrived at the present-day Caribbean island of St. Vincent.

In 1901, Britain’s Queen Victoria died at age 81.

In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for “peace without victory.” (By April, however, America also was at war.)

In 1922, Pope Benedict XV died; he was succeeded by Pius XI. In 1938, Thornton Wilder’s play “Our Town” was performed publicly for the first time in Princeton, N.J. In 1944, during World War II, Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy.

In 1953, the Arthur Miller drama “The Crucible” opened on Broadway.

In 1968, the fast-paced sketch comedy series “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” premiered on NBC-TV. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Roe v. Wade decision, legal-

ized abortions using a trimester approach. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson died at his Texas ranch at age 64.

In 1987, Pennsylvania treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, convicted of defrauding the state, proclaimed his innocence at a news conference before pulling out a gun and shooting himself to death in front of horrified spectators.

In 1994, actor Telly Savalas died in Universal City, Calif., a day after turning 72.

In 1998, Theodore Kaczynski (kah-ZIHN’-skee) pleaded guilty in Sacramento, Calif., to being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole.

Ten years ago:

South Dakota politician Bill Janklow was sentenced to 100 days in jail for an auto accident that killed a motorcyclist, Randy Scott.

(The 64-year-old Republican was released on May 17, 2004.) Enron Corp.’s former top accountant, Richard Causey, surrendered to federal authorities; he pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges. (Causey later pleaded guilty to securities fraud and was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison; he served 4 3/4 years.) Actressdancer Ann Miller died in Los Angeles at age 80.

Five years ago:

President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp within a year (however, the facility remains in operation, with Republican and some Democratic lawmakers repeatedly blocking efforts to transfer terror suspects to the United States). The Senate Finance Committee cleared the nomination of Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary, 18-5, despite un-

happiness over his mistakes in paying his taxes. A Chinese court sentenced two men to death and a dairy boss to life in prison for their roles in producing and selling infant formula tainted with melamine that was blamed for the deaths of at least six babies and sickening thousands more.

One year ago:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line bloc fared worse than expected in a parliamentary election, forcing Netanyahu to negotiate a broad coalition deal. The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution condemning North Korea’s rocket launch in Dec. 2012 and imposing new sanctions. An Indonesian court sentenced Lindsay June Sandiford, a British grandmother, to death for smuggling cocaine into Bali (Sandiford is appealing her sentence). Linda Pugach, who was blinded in 1959 when her lover, Burton Pugach, hired hit men to throw lye in her face — and became a media sensation after later marrying him — died in New York at age 75.

Today’s Birthdays:

Former Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., is 86. Actress Piper Laurie is 82.

Actor Seymour Cassel is 79. Author Joseph Wambaugh is 77. Actor John Hurt is 74. Singer Steve Perry is 65. Country singer-musician Teddy Gentry (Alabama) is 62. Movie director Jim Jarmusch is 61.

Hockey Hall-of-Famer Mike Bossy is 57. Actress Linda Blair is 55.

Actress Diane Lane is 49. Actor-rap DJ Jazzy Jeff is 49. Country singer Regina Nicks (Regina Regina) is 49. Rhythm-and-blues singer Marc Gay (Shai) is 45. Actress Katie Finneran (TV: “The Michael J. Fox Show”) is 43. Actor Gabriel Macht is 42. Actor Balthazar Getty is 39. Actor Christopher Kennedy Masterson is 34. Pop singer Willa Ford is 33. Actress Beverley (cq) Mitchell is 33. Rock singer-musician Ben Moody is 33. Actress-singer Phoebe Strole (TV: “Glee”) is 31.

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Oleksak Continued from Page 1 canceled the phone account he’d set up for Annamarie Rintala.

They reconciled their friendship around Feb. 14, 2010, after Annamarie wished him a happy Valentine’s Day via text message.

Oleksak said he also lent her $350 toward the purchase of a dog she wanted, despite his belief that she probably couldn’t afford it between repaying him and her car payment and other bills at home.

Oleksak said she was scheduled to repay him on her next payday which was a few days after she died.

Hoose has suggested that someone other than Cara Rintala may have had motive to kill her wife over money owed.

Oleksak said he and Annamarie Rintala purchased a sleeping bag to be used during overnight shifts at work when one or the other was working.

Sleeping in that bag was cited as one of the suspicious behaviors that Hoose suggested made Oleksak someone worthy of more scrutiny.

Oleksak testified he had attended

physical therapy the morning of Annamarie Rintala’s death and then went shopping and ran errands with his wife and daughter, with records and some receipts to back those claims up.

He also received some text messages from Annamarie, asking if he would hold a place for her in line at Best Buy for a new iPad model that was going to be available the next Saturday.

In the texts, Oleksak was promised a “big kiss” and an “Easter prize” for waiting in line.

Oleksak said he didn’t actually think he was going to be kissed, but instead, thought it was a flirtatious way for her to compel him to go and wait in line.

“I probably would have stood in line if she offered me nothing,” Oleksak said.

The prize, he was told, was an item Annamarie Rintala had made for him and asked that he come up with a story about having won it in a raffle so he could display it at home without raising more suspicion from his wife.

Those communications went on throughout the morning until Oleksak

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sent an unread and unanswered text to Annamarie Rintala about 1:53 p.m. informing her that his sister had become ill.

During a sometimes-contentious crossexamination by Hoose, Oleksak agreed he deceived his wife on virtually a daily basis about his relationship with Annamarie Rintala.

Oleksak said he wasn’t completely forthcoming with investigators when they interviewed him a few days after the killing because he was upset and hadn’t been sleeping much since then.

“My closest friend, someone I cared about and loved was … passed away,” he said.

During a second interview in November 2010, Oleksak detailed his whereabouts the day of Annamarie Rintala’s death.

Oleksak testified he turned over DNA, fingerprints, bank and financial records and phone records to investigators when requested to do so.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22 SOUTHWICK Block Grant Committee at 6 pm Open Space Planning Committee 7 pm

GRANVILLE EMTs at 7 pm

HUNTINGTON Selectboard at 5:30 pm

Westfield Bridge Results

SOUTHWICK — The following are the results for bridge played on Wednesday, January 15, 2014: North/South:First:Irene Riga and Jim Hanly Second:Vinnie Kane and Rick Kane Third:Dot Burke and Shirley Bienvenue East/West:First:Vi Martinell and Cindy Fullerton Second:Barbara Kress and Marilyn Breor Third:Marion Wirth and Bill Bozenhard All bridge players are welcome to play bridge on Wednesday evenings at 6:30 p.m. at the American Inn in Southwick, MA

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

LOST AND FOUND

Barnes Continued from Page 1 for terms longer than the 20-year limit.

Whip City Aviation is leasing five existing hangars, which need extensive repairs, and plans to build new hangar facilities for either general or corporate aviation clients in the future.

The lease is part of a package which also includes creation of an economic opportunity area and a special tax assessment to allow Whip City Aviation to recoup funding immediately used to rehabilitate five existing “T” hangars, a cost estimated at more than $300,000.

Levesque and the board discussed one issue of contention raised by the Barnes Aquifer Protection Advisory Committee concerning the plan. The BAPAC requested the Planning Board to require a connection to city sewers.

Levesque said that sewers are not accessible and that the plan

LOST: LARGE ORANGE CAT, male, has a black birth spot on lip. Vicinity of Lois Street and South Maple Street, Westfield.

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is to install a tight tank for the flood drains with oil/water separators which will be maintained under the special permit.

“There are no city sewers anywhere near the building site,” Levesque.

The board attached several conditions to address the BAPAC concerns, including requirements to conduct annual tight tank inspection and procedures to be used for spill clean-up, and regular testing of shut-off valve.

Other conditions require posting signage for the Emergency Spill Shut-off Valve at the drainage gate valve and that apparatus to operate the valve be readily accessible and stored proximate to the valve. No hazardous materials may be stored on site.

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Continued from Page 1 The board approved the local regulation, which goes into effect on June 1, 2014, at its Jan. 8th meeting.”

The Massachusetts Department of Health approves the procedures, known as the Heimlich Maneuver and the Sequence of Obstructed Airway Maneuvers, as recommended by the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences under 105 CMR 605.

Rouse said the choke prevention issue is “something I had been considering bringing to the Board (of Health) for several years, but that got accelerated when a resident called to relate an incident in a restaurant where a patron was choking and no one employed by the restaurant was able to perform chokesaving procedures.”

Rouse said that state legislature is now considering an amendment to state law, sponsored by Rep Ruth Balser (D) of Newton, to strike the seating capacity requirements.

Currently the state law (MGL, Chapter 94, Section

305-D) reads: “Section 305D. Each restaurant, having a seating capacity of twenty-five persons or more, shall have on its premises a device approved by the department of public health that is designed and intended for use in removing food which may become lodged in a person’s throat or each such restaurant shall have on its premises, when food is being served, an employee trained in manual procedures approved by the department of public health to remove food so lodged in a person’s throat. The department of public health shall adopt regulations listing all approved devices and manual procedures which it determines may be used effectively to remove food lodged in a person’s throat. Each such restaurant shall make adequate provisions for insurance to cover employees trained in rendering such assistance.

Any person, or employee of any person who, in good faith, volunteers to remove or attempts to remove such food in an emergency shall not be

liable for any civil damages as a result of any acts or omissions by such person or employee in rendering such emergency assistance.”

Rouse said the amendment sponsored by Balser “is very similar to what we did.”

Balser’s bill would amend Chapter 94 of the General Laws is by striking out section 305D and inserting the following section:“Section 305D. Each restaurant shall have on its premises, when food is being served, an employee trained in manual procedures approved by the department of public health to remove food lodged in a person’s throat. The department of public health shall adopt regulations listing all approved manual procedures which it determines may be used effectively to remove food lodged in a person’s throat.

Each such restaurant shall make adequate provisions for insurance to cover employees trained in rendering such assistance. Any person, or employee of any person who, in good faith, volunteers to remove or attempts to remove

such food in an emergency shall not be liable for any civil damages as a result of any acts or omissions by such person or employee in rendering such emergency assistance. Takeout only restaurants, so-called, with no customer seating on the premises, shall not be subject to this section.”

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Allie, himself an Army veteran, is a local businessman and the chairman of the city’s Republican City Committee, as well as the city’s newest at-large city councilor and is looking forward to the campaign.

“We are taking the next step. I strongly believe that we need a state representative who will stand up for the taxpayers like Don

Humason did in the House,” he said. “The people of Westfield deserve a choice in each election.”

Allie, who said he filed 500 signatures yesterday, plans to formally announce his candidacy at the East Mountain Country Club on February 18.

There was no 11th-hour dark horse candidate, as Allie and Velis both took out papers early.

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Landis said that an accounting firm was next entered and the spree appears to have ended after Bruschetta’s Gourmet On the Go restaurant at the College Highway intersection with Klaus Anderson Road was broken into.

Landis said that he suspects the suspect may have continued south into Connecticut but could have traveled west on Klaus Anderson Road.

In an incident that may be related but was not on the suspect’s apparent direction of travel, Westfield Officer David Burl reports that a 3:18 a.m. routine building check revealed that an unsuccessful attempt had been made to pry open a rear door at Shaker Farms Country Club.

The incidents remain under investigation by both Southwick and Westfield officers.

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PulseLine, I appreciate your article and I really like your newspaper but as a senior I’m sure I’m probably speaking to threequarters of your readers, we don’t have computers, because it’s not from our generation, and in our lifestyle, they’re not very useful to us. That’s why we hope you keep your phone number available to us. Thank you for being there. One comment I would like to make about the Southwick police department is: I wonder what happened to the woman police officer? Why don’t we have a female on this department? Thank you. Good day. We assume the officer left for another opportunity. The reality is that the younger seniors (65-74) are more computer savvy than the older seniors (7585+) in general. The Westfield Council on Aging offers halfhour, one-on-one computer support tutorials at the Westfield Senior Center on Wednesday mornings. Participants must sign up in advance. There is no charge for this service. Interested readers can call the Senior Center at 562-6435 to sign up for an individual session. The Russell Council on Aging has a computer learning center for seniors. They have classes several time a month and the center is open for seniors to use whenever the senior center is open. They have observed a gradual growth in the use of computers by seniors who previously had not used them. Often these seniors want to stay up with the times and communicate with their children and grandchildren.

This past holiday season numerous seniors received laptop computers as gifts and are challenged by Windows 8, the new Microsoft operating system. As part of the Southern Hilltown Councils on Aging Consortium seniors from Blandford, Granville, Middlefield, and Tolland are encouraged to make use of the computer learning center and the classes being taught.

Five facts about computer use by seniors (Boomers were those 45 to 66; seniors were those 67 on up)

• 78 percent of boomers and 52 percent of seniors are online • The two groups spend an average of 19 hours on the Internet each week, more than with TV, radio and magazines/newspapers • 71 percent of boomers and 59 percent of seniors use a social networking site daily (the most popular being Facebook) • 82 percent of viewers say YouTube is their preferred online video watching site • 77 percent use their mobile device simultaneously with another screen SOURCE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/08/senior-technology_n_3404653.html

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Critically Thinking In January 2012, the Westfield Education Association (WEA) was asked by the neighborhood group challenging the 96,000 square foot/600 student elementary school design proposed at Ashley St. and Cross St., how the union felt about the project.

The union informed us that it was shocked when hearing of the school plan, and its location, during a WEA meeting in November 2009. At that meeting, City Councilor-elect, Brown, described mayor-elect Knapik’s plan for a 600 student school .

Needless to say, the people of the Ashley St. School and Cross St. playground neighborhood were shocked and stunned when they realized they had helped to elect a Ward 2 councilor and mayor that willfully hid this agenda from the Ward 2 citizens prior to the Nov. 2009 election day.

When the School Building Committee’ plans were made public in June, 2011, many neighborhood residents attended the public meetings to voice legitimate concerns for the enormous negative impacts the school would impose on the neighboring homes including; lack of ownership of on-site parking; massive increases in vehicular traffic - just 20 side-of-street drop off spaces; no turn around areas for busses; the faculty and staff having to use St. Peter and St. Casimir’s parking lot; and especially the loss of open space and ball fields from the Cross St. playground. That December we discovered the City of Westfield was breaking state and federal open space laws – laws Westfield already knew of - protecting the Cross St. playground. Documents show the City of Westfield acknowledged these laws when it sought $500k in matching funds from the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEA) in 2010 when seeking funds to refurbish the Chapman playground.

Our efforts turned to the City of Westfield’s improper See Critical Thinking, Page 8

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Even small ball too much for Congress

By Darren Samuelsohn and David Nather Politico.com Everybody knows that Congress can’t do anything big any more - but it turns out Capitol Hill is equally hapless about getting the small stuff done as well.

All the dysfunctional partisan gridlock keeping the House and Senate worlds apart on the transcendent issues of the day also means little progress on the no-brainers, like technical corrections and minor fixes to Obamacare and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law. Revamping the nation’s energy policies with low-hanging fruit proposals championed by both Democratic and GOP lawmakers are stuck, too.

It’s a broken government with messy consequences. Absent action from Congress, the Obama administration is stuck navigating a maze of murky statutes and crafting regulations ripe for lawsuits. A glance at recent Supreme Court and federal appellate court dockets underscores what happens when inertia rules in the House and Senate.

Sure, there are exceptions — Congress just passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the government for the rest of the year, and it even managed to adopt a modest budget blueprint last month. But don’t be fooled. Funding the government is the bare minimum in lawmakers’ job description, and the overall pattern is unchanged: even the things that should be a breeze have suddenly become very hard.

Lawmakers hit a new low in 2013, passing the fewest number of laws in modern history, easily besting even the “Do Nothing” Congress that President Harry S. Truman famously assaulted. Typically, the second year of a congressional session picks up the pace, as the two chambers catch up with each other and a flood of bills pass surrounding the next election.

But this isn’t your typical Congress. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has become an expert at blocking floor votes on politically tinged amendments offered on both big bills and the benign ones. House Speaker John Boehner has declared that his legacy shouldn’t be measured by how many laws make it to President Barack Obama’s desk.

“It’s become almost a caricature,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin told POLITICO. “We soldier on with unauthorized programs and we have for a long time. But there’s no escaping the obvious. And that is, this divided government we have is divisive government. And that’s not in the best interest of managing great democracy.”

Take Obamacare. One section says subsidies are available to help people buy coverage in state health insurance exchanges, but it doesn’t say anything about the federal exchange — which serves 36 states. That could be cleaned up in two minutes, but Democrats are convinced that Republicans would never go for it, because conservatives are too busy suing to try to stop those subsidies.

There’s also unclear language about health coverage for members of Congress and their staffs, which led to the huge blowup over whether they should get subsidies to join Obamacare exchanges, and a section that says health coverage has to be affordable to workers but doesn’t say anything about their families.

Former President Bill Clinton has personally called out the so-called family glitch as an error that should be fixed.

But with Democrats and Republicans at each other’s throats over whether the law should even exist, a simple fix promises to be anything but simple. In some cases, the Obama administration has just opted to interpret the law in a certain way.

It’s providing the federal exchange with subsidies, for example, even as a lawsuit to stop the subsidies is working its way through the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. And the Office of Personnel Management declared that, yes, members of Congress and their staffs can get subsidies for their Obamacare coverage, just as most workers get contributions from their employers.

The solution works for now, but it picks new fights with Republicans who don’t think the administration has the authority to do that — and it doesn’t guarantee that any of the patches will survive after the Obama administration ends. But for Democrats, that’s less risky than reopening the law and giving Republicans a chance to gut it.

“It’s frustrating, especially since there’s never been as complex a piece of legislation like the Affordable Care Act that didn’t have a follow-up bill to correct some of the problems,” said Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the former House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman and a lead Obamacare author.

Congress remains gridlocked on making health care fixes “because the only thing the Republicans will entertain is a bill to repeal the whole law, which is not going to happen,” Waxman added. “So we’ll have to wait to a time when Republicans want to work on a bipartisan basis to be sure this law succeeds rather than just make points politically against it.”

It’s a similar story for Dodd-Frank. Multiple bipartisan proposals circulating on both ends of the Capitol would tweak the 2010 law, but the same fear exists among Democratic leadership that critics would just go gangbusters trying to unravel the whole thing.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, an outspoken Wall Street critic, wants a small carve-out so that the Federal Reserve has flexibility when conducting oversight of many state-regulated insurance companies. Another plan, from Sens. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.), clarifies an exemption for energy and agriculture interests — after all, the companies had nothing to do with the Wall Street meltdown — that use derivatives to hedge commodity price fluctuations. While Dodd-Frank’s authors said it was not their intent to apply all the requirements aimed at banks to commercial producers, business groups have continued to push for stronger language.

But Obama administration officials and many of their Hill allies maintain that financial regulators should be given time to implement Dodd-Frank before Congress makes any fixes.

Sizing up the politics of the battle, Brown said he’s also trying to send a signal to regulators that they will need to fix the unintended consequences of the law because Congress can’t.

“Sometimes legislation itself and the public debate that swirls around it gets the regulators to look at it more seriously,” the Ohio Democrat said.

Energy and environmental legislation also remains stuck in Congress, as lawmakers are a long way from agreement on a fix to the Clean Air Act that would clear the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring greenhouse gas pollution permits from very small sources like farms, restaurants and schools. Those are sites that EPA says it has no intention of regulating, but a lawsuit challenging the agency’s interpretation nonetheless may be part of a Supreme Court ruling in a larger climate-related case. Oral arguments are scheduled for late February.

“In a functional Congress, Congress would have set a different standard for major sources” of carbon dioxide, as it did for other forms of air pollution, said a senior House Democratic aide.

Even the easy stuff on energy is proving to be hard. Sens.

Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) have been trying for almost three years to pass a package of largely noncontroversial incentives for energy efficiency. Reid tried to get the bill through the floor last fall but backed away after Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) insisted first on an Obamacarerelated vote.

“In a better-functioning Senate from the old days, I think that would be sort of an easy lift,” said Frank Macchiarola, a former GOP staff director who worked on energy and health issues.

Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio) faces his own uphill climb on a proposal aimed at eliminating a decades-old Clean Air Act requirement that auto dealers certify that new vehicles comply with pollution standards. It’s seen as an outdated provision because vehicles today have their emission control systems installed at the factory.

Two weeks ago, Latta’s bill passed unanimously in the House, 405-0. But he isn’t guaranteed a win given the Senate’s paralysis and penchant for tacking on unrelated amendment votes. “It’s about one of the shortest bills I’ve ever introduced in my life,” Latta told POLITICO. “Let’s not Christmas tree it.”

Not everything has stalled, of course. Congress has passed the spending bill and agreed to a budget for the first time in years, mostly by lowering the bar almost to the ground. Obama also signed laws last year that kept the nation’s helium reserve flowing and named an Interstate 70 bridge near St. Louis in honor of both military veterans and baseball legend Stan Musial.

But even with modest breakthroughs, the level of partisan tensions, combined with other factors, like the breakdown of the normal appropriations process, has turned even easier tasks into monumental challenges.

There are nearly 60 tax breaks, for example, that are supposed to be extended each year, including popular breaks like the research and development tax credit. This time, they were all expected to be hitched to the big tax reform effort being promoted by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus.

Now, however, House Republicans are backing away from tax reform and Baucus is packing his bags to become the next ambassador to China. So the tax “extenders” have lost their vehicle, and there isn’t another one at the moment, even though the tax breaks expired on Dec. 31.

Boehner doesn’t apologize for the slow pace, telling CBS News last summer that Congress “should not be judged on how many new laws we create, we ought to be judged on how many laws that we repeal.”

The bigger issue, though, is that there just aren’t as many bills moving through Congress that can be turned into vehicles for minor fixes.

In the first session of the 113th Congress, Obama signed a modern-day low of just 72 laws. Only the opening year of the 104th Congress, when Clinton and Newt Gingrich were forced to partner up, comes even close in comparison, passing 88 laws. Obama’s 2013 total is a dramatic drop from the Great Society heyday of the mid-1960s and still far down from the 180 laws that George W. Bush signed in 2007 when he worked with a Democratic-controlled House and Senate.

“It’s impossible to make any changes, large or small, because there are no vehicles for it,” said former Republican Congressman Steve LaTourette. The annual appropriations bills can be good places to add minor fixes, but since the funding of the government keeps getting wrapped into larger omnibus spending bills, those vehicles have disappeared too, he said.

Nothing is quite as stuck as the health care law, though.

Because of the way it passed in 2010 — without the HouseSenate conference committee that usually works out a final bill — there was no time to fix minor drafting problems, like the failure to mention the federal health exchange in the section about who can get health insurance subsidies.

It’s not that the law has been completely untouched since it passed. Congress has knocked out a few pieces along the way, like an unpopular tax reporting requirement, and the Supreme Court made its expansion of Medicaid optional for the states.

And the House has passed a bill, with a veto-proof majority, that would make the administration tell customers if their personal information has been compromised — a bill 67 Democrats decided they couldn’t say “no” to.

But other fixes that could simply clear up confusion in the law are stuck. Some Obamacare supporters are in such a defensive posture that they’re not even convinced it’s a good idea for Democrats to attempt a fix to the subsidy language.

“Not if there’s a price” that Republicans would demand in return for supporting a fix, said John McDonough, a former Senate Democratic aide who worked on the law. Any Democratic attempt to push for a legislative fix “kind of concedes that there’s a problem, which I don’t think they want to do,” he said.

Zachary Warmbrodt contributed to this report.

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Court Logs Obituaries Westfield District Court

Melvin J. Gould

Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 Amy Savoy, 30, of 44 Basket St., Huntington, was released on her personal recognizance pending a March 11 hearing after she was arraigned on a charge of walking or riding on railroad tracks brought by State Police.

Sean A. Carter, 30, of 44 Basket St., Huntington, was released on his personal recognizance pending a March 11 hearing after he was arraigned on a charge of walking or riding on railroad tracks brought by State Police.

Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 Christina M. Allen, 32, of 625 Montgomery Road, was released on her personal recognizance pending a Feb 26 hearing after she was arraigned on three charges of uttering a false order for money and a charge of larceny of property valued more than $250 by a single scheme brought by Westfield police.

Alejando Rodriguez, 38, of 15 W. School St., was released on his personal recognizance pending a March 12 hearing after he was arraigned on charges of unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, possession of an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle and speeding brought by Westfield police. In a separate case brought by Westfield police in 2009, Rodriguez was also released on his personal recognizance pending a March 12 hearing after he was arraigned on a charge of unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and a motor vehicle lights violation.

Robert Wensley, 36, of 11 Russellville Road, Southampton, submitted to facts sufficient to warrant guilty findings for charges of breaking and entering a building in the nighttime with intent to commit a felony and larceny of property valued more than $250 brought by Westfield police and the charges were continued without a finding with probation for six months. He was assessed $50 and ordered to pay $626.55 in restitution.

John P. Rosario, 27, of 35 Short St., Taunton, was released on his $500 cash bail pending a Feb 7 hearing after he was arraigned on charges of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor and carrying a dangerous weapon brought

by Westfield police.

Andreina Urena, 21, of 151 Weare St., Lawrence, was placed on pretrial probation for six months and ordered to pay $500 in restitution after she was arraigned on charges of assault and assault and battery brought by Westfield State University police. A charge of disorderly conduct was not prosecuted.

John A Luppi, 34, of 3 Shepard St., was released on his personal recognizance pending a March 27 hearing after he was arraigned on charges of disorderly conduct, assault and battery on a police officer and resisting arrest brought by Westfield police.

Andrew Hartley, 44, of 65 Kane Brothers Circle, was released on his personal recognizance pending a March 27 hearing after he was arraigned on a charge of violation of an abuse prevention order brought by Westfield police.

Leo J. Poprovo III, 43, of 5 Lincoln Street, pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny of property valued more than $250 brought by Westfield police and was place on probation for three months, fined $150 and assessed $50.

Robert L. Camacho, 28, of 140 Union St., was released on his personal recognizance pending a March 13 hearing after he was arraigned on a charge of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license brought by Westfield police.

David J. Whitlock, 41, of 73 North Road, West Springfield, was released on his personal recognizance pending a March 12 hearing after he was arraigned on charges of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license, possession of a Class B drug and speeding in violation of special regulations brought by Westfield police.

Elizabeth M. Saunders, 48, of 108 Point Grove Road, Southwick, pleaded guilty to charges of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license brought by Southwick police and was fiend $2,000, assessed $390 and sentenced to a 180 day term in the house of correction with credit for time served awaiting trial. A charge of negligent operation of a motor vehicle was not prosecuted and he was found to be not responsible for a charge of speeding in violation of special regulations.

Robin Wilcox, 42, of 131 Summer Drive, Southwick, saw charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, vandalizing property and assault and battery brought by Southwick police dismissed when the alleged victim asserted his Fifth Amendment rights and refused to testify.

Dmitor O. Barynov, 27, of 57 E. Silver St., was release don $500 cash bail after he was arraigned on a charge of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license, a subsequent offense, brought by Westfield police.

WESTFIELD - Melvin J. Gould, 75, of Westfield died Friday, January 17, 2014 in Berkshire Medical Center. He was born in Tarrytown, NY and has lived in Westfield for the last thirty years. He was employed as a machine operator at International Paper Co. for over twenty years.

Melvin was predeceased by his loving wife, Sheila (Lynds) Gould in 2011. He is survived by his brother-in-law, Richard Lynds of Webster; a niece, Allison LaFlamme of Pittsfield; a nephew, Joshua Lynds of East Granby, CT. Melvin also leaves three grand-nieces and two grandnephews.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 25th at 2:00 p.m. at Firtion-Adams Funeral Service, 76 Broad Street, Westfield.

Burial at Middle Farms Cemetery will be in the spring.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105. firtionadams.com

Joseph M. Lahue WESTFIELD - Joseph M. Lahue, 51, passed away Friday, January 17, 2014 at home. Born in Westfield, MA on March 27, 1962, he was the son of the late David Lahue and he leaves his mother Barbara (Wemette) Beckett of Lee. Joseph lived most of his life in the hilltowns. He was a 1981 graduate of Gateway Regional High School. He was a U.S. Air Force Veteran. He worked as a custodian for Gateway Regional School District for seven years.

Besides his mother Joseph leaves his son, John M. Lahue of Chester and his sister, Tina Beckett of West Springfield; his step-mother, Patricia Lahue of Russell; step-brothers, Billy, Peter, Danny, Ricky, Brian, Johnny (deceased); and step-sisters, Debbie, Mary, Grace and Gail and his former wife, Melodie (Friend) Mazzaferro. He also leaves his companion, Patricia LaPointe who was by his side during his illness. He was predeceased by two sisters, Vanessa Astore and Malynda Beckett. Joe took tremendous pride in his nine years of sobriety and he loved just riding around in the hilltowns with his son John by his side.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, January 25th that 12:00 p.m. at the O’Brien Hilltown Community Funeral Home, 27 Russell Road, Huntington, MA. Calling hours will precede services from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon.

Donations may be made to the Joseph M. Lahue Memorial Fund, c/o United Bank, 14 Russell Road, Huntington, MA 01050.

Ellen J. Dineen WESTFIELD - Ellen J. Dineen passed away Saturday, January 18, 2014 in a local nursing home. Born in Ellicottville, NY, Ellen was a resident of Westfield since 1947. She was a retired 19 year employee at Columbia Manufacturing in Westfield. Ellen was a communicant of St. Mary’s Church, Westfield.

She was predeceased by her husband, John F. Dineen in 1986. She leaves two sons, Douglas of Brewster, MA and Michael of Florida; 2 daughters, Pat LaFleur and Mary Masotti both of Westfield; a brother, Thomas Dineen of Ellicottville, NY and a sister, Betty Pierce of Kenmore, NY; her grandchildren, John Bosley, Jeffrey Masotti, Autumn, Megan, Joey, Matt, Sarah, and Paul Dineen.

Her funeral will be held on Friday, January 24th at 11:00 a.m. from the Robert E Cusack Funeral Home, 94 Main Street (Route 20), followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 12:00 noon in St. Mary’s Church. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, all in Westfield. Visiting hours are Thursday, January 23rd from 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Memorial contributions to the Heart Association, c/o Founders Affiliate, 54C Wayside Avenue, West Springfield, MA 01089.

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AUBURN, Mass. (AP) — An 18-year-old Auburn man charged with seriously injuring his 11-month-old cousin has been held for a 20-day psychiatric evaluation.

Christian McFadden pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Worcester Central District Court to charges including assault and battery on a child with injury.

The Telegram & Gazette reports prosecutor Courtney Price told the court a witness said McFadden violently shook the girl.

Price said McFadden hasn’t been taking his prescribed medications.

Family members have told reporters McFadden has mental health issues and wouldn’t hurt the child intentionally.

McFadden was arrested last week after the girl was hospitalized with a cervical spine compression and fractures, as well as two skull fractures and two arm fractures that appeared older and had begun to heal.

State child welfare officials have removed three other young children from the home they share with McFadden.

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Dr. J. Michael Pepek RUSSELL - Dr. J. Michael Pepek, 66, of Russell, MA passed away on Sunday, January 19, 2014. He was the son of Dr. Joseph M. Pepek and Marjory Malligan Pepek of Westfield.

Born in Westfield, Dr. Pepek was a longtime resident of the city and opened his first orthodontic practice there in 1978; he later opened practices in West Springfield and Holyoke. Dr. Pepek was active in the community as an avid tennis player and youth sports coach.

He loved landscaping, the banjo, Notre Dame sports, and spending time with his grandchildren. Dr. Pepek graduated from St. Mary’s High School in Westfield, the University of Notre Dame, and from Georgetown University School of Dentistry. After completing his orthodontic residency at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry, he participated in post-graduate training at the H.K. Cooper Institute and the Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic for the clinical care and research of cleft lip and palate patients. Dr. Pepek served on the consulting staff at Shriner’s Hospital for Children in Springfield, where he volunteered as the orthodontist to the Cleft Lip and Palate Clinic. Dr. Pepek was the first orthodontist from Western MA to be honored as a member of the College of Diplomats of the American Board of Orthodontics. He was also a member of the American Association of Orthodontists, The American Cleft Palate Association, The American Dental Association, The Massachusetts Dental Society and The Valley District Dental Society.

Dr. Pepek leaves behind his wife of 38 years, Sharon, of Russell; three sons, a daughter, and their spouses: Dr. Joseph Pepek and Elizabeth (Stapleton) Pepek of Princeton, N.J., William Pepek of Washington, D.C., Catherine (Pepek) Allen and Ryan Allen of Newton, MA and Ian Pepek of Washington, D.C. He leaves two granddaughters, Madeleine and Laura Pepek. He is survived by a sister, Ann (Pepek) Morrison of New York, and two brothers, Dr. Patrick Pepek of Westfield, and John Pepek of West Springfield.

Calling hours will be held on Thursday, January 23rd from the Firtion-Adams Funeral Service, 76 Broad Street, Westfield from 4:00-8:00 p.m. A Liturgy of Christian Burial will be held on Friday in St. Mary’s Church in Westfield at 10:30 a.m.

Burial will follow in St. Mary’s Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, donations should be sent to Shriner’s Hospital for Children, 516 Carew Street, Springfield, MA 01104. firtionadams.com

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4 thick slices smoked bacon 1/2 cup slivered onions 1/4 cup dark amber or grade B maple syrup 2 tablespoons prepared mustard 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 bay leaf 1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves 1 teaspoon salt Drain the beans after soaking.Cook the bacon over medium heat in a large skillet until most of the fat is rendered but not crisp. Drain the strips on paper towels and chop coarsely.

Place the beans,bacon,onions,mustard,pepper,bay leaf,thyme and maple syrup in a Dutch Oven.

Add cold water to cover and bring to a boil over medium heat.

Reduce the heat and cook partially covered for about 40 minutes.

Uncover and cook until liquid is almost absorbed by the beans and the beans are tender.(about 40 minutes more).

Stir in the salt-doing this earlier will toughen the beans.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees Sprinkle the chops with salt & pepper.

Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat.

When the olive oil starts to smoke add the chops and brown both sides (3-4 minutes each side).

Remove the chops and add the remaining tablespoon of olive oil Add the fennel seed,garlic,onion,peppers and toss until soft( about 5 minutes).

Add tomato paste and stir for one minute.

De-glaze an oven safe pan with the wine, add stock and stir.

Nestle the pork into the pan and move the peppers, onions on top of the meat.

Place in the oven and roast for about 10 minutes.

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Mix together cornflakes and butter.

Sprinkle on top of potato mixture.

Bake at 350 degrees uncovered for one hour

Quick Brownies Yields 15 brownies 1 2 1 1 1

can ( 14 oz.) sweetened condensed milk cups of graham crackers ( 24 crackers) crushed cup chopped walnuts 6 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips teaspoon vanilla

Mix all ingredients together and pour into a 7 “ x 11” greased pan.

Bake at 325 degrees for 25 minutes, or longer if needed.

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Go For the Food: backbar in Somerville, Mass.

CARA RUBINSKY Associated Press SOMERVILLE, Mass.

(AP) — It takes a little effort to find backbar, hidden at the end of a dark hallway off a small alley just outside Boston. But once you take a seat in the cozy space and someone sets down a ramekin of spicy caramel popcorn and a craft cocktail, you may never want to leave.

Over the past several years, Somerville’s once-gritty Union Square neighborhood has become a drinking and dining destination. What’s happening there is wellknown in the Boston area, but it’s still off the beaten path for many out-of-towners. That may change in a few years, when a planned extension of the rail system will include a stop at Union Square. Until then, it’s a short cab ride from Harvard Square (under 2 miles or 3.2 kilometers), and well worth the trip.

The restaurant opened two years ago after someone offered the oddly configured space to the owners of Journeyman, a high-end restaurant in the same building.

Journeyman has no menu — diners pay $75 for whatever the chef feels like serving them. They recruited Sam Treadway — who had worked at Boston mainstay Drink but was living in Hawaii at the time — to return and manage backbar.

The layout made a speakeasy feel the only option, but they wanted the space to be comfortable, not pretentious or precious. They achieved that by placing cushioned benches of various heights around the perimeter, creating an interesting but still accessible drink menu, and making the atmosphere welcoming for both cocktail buffs and people who’d rather just have a beer. The crowd is mostly youngish professionals and grad students and the small space can get very crowded, so you may want to go early or make a reservation.

“We really wanted to make something worth the adventure of getting here,” Treadway said.

There is a rotating menu of 12 drinks, priced from $7 to $11. They include classics that change seasonally every three months, a modern section with choices for more adventurous drinkers (the current list includes a mushroom daiquiri with the notation “yes we’re crazy and yes it’s delicious”), and a tradesman section of drinks other bartenders want to drink.

There’s also a drink of the day, a drink of the week, and an option to just name a few things you like and have them create something for you.

All of the food comes from Journeyman, and the focus is on a limited menu of affordable small plates that people can share while they’re drinking.

“We have some of the best chefs in the city making our food, so even the small things taste amazing,” Treadway said.

Options include Japanesestyle steamed pork or eggplant buns ($8) along with the spicy caramel popcorn (the first ramekin is free, after that it’s $8 with bacon and $3 without). From 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. — known as genius hour, with free Wi-Fi — and all day on Mondays and Tuesdays, you can get a big bowl of ramen by Journeyman chef and co-owner Tse Wei Lim ($12). There’s also a cheese plate ($18) and homemade ice cream sandwiches ($6) in combinations like goat cheese ice cream on walnut shortbread and white chocolate ice cream on lavender shortbread.

If the bar snacks don’t fill you up, there are plenty of places to grab dinner nearby.

Casa B offers Caribbeaninspired tapas in a pretty space. The recently opened Bronwyn has such German and Eastern European fare as sausages, hot pretzels and schnitzel. Across the street, check out Ebi Sushi for

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BACKBAR: 7 Sanborn Court, Somerville, Mass., www.backbarunion.com , 617718-0249 CASA B: 253 Washington St., Somerville, Mass., www. casabrestaurant.com , 617764-2180 BRONWYN: 255 Washington St., Somerville, Mass., www.bronwynrestaurant.com , 617-776-9900 EBI SUSHI: 290 Somerville Ave, Somerville, Mass., www. ebisushi.com , 617-764-5556 BUK KYUNG: 9A Union Square, Somerville, Mass., www.bukkyungrestaurant.com - 617-623-7220

In this Monday, Dec. 30, 2013 photo, a bowl of ramen noodles sits next to a glass of beer at the Backbar restaurant and bar in Somerville, Mass. Over the past several years, Somerville’s eclectic Union Square neighborhood has become a drinking and dining destination. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Patrick to unveil FY2015 budget plan BOSTON (AP) — Gov. Deval Patrick is again preparing to deliver his final state budget to Beacon Hill lawmakers.

Patrick had to cancel his State of the State address yesterday because of the snowstorm but is required by the Massachusetts Constitution to unveil a budget plan today.

Patrick has already said the 2015 fiscal year budget proposal will include $12 million for nearly 6,000 summer job-training opportunities.

The funding is for a program overseen by YouthWorks — a state-subsidized jobs initiative for at-risk youth ages 14 to 21. The investment represents a $3 million increase over the budget for the current year.

Patrick has scuttled speculation that he might rekindle elements of the $1.8 billion tax package he proposed in last year’s State of the State address, including an income tax increase to finance improvements in transportation and education.

Patrick has said the budget is going to be in balance and will seek to continue “to invest in the things we know make a difference, in education, innovation and infrastructure.”

Officials in the Patrick administration and the Massachusetts House and Senate have already agreed on a single revenue estimate of $24.3 billion for the fiscal year beginning July 1.

That estimate reflects growth of about 4.9 percent above a revised tax revenue estimate of $23.2 billion for the current fiscal year.

The revenue estimate is critical to the budget process.

It guarantees that the various budget proposals all have the same bottom line. The only

Passers-by ascend snow-covered stairs near the Statehouse yesterday in Boston. A heavy snow forecast and a blizzard warning was posted for portions of Massachusetts yesterday prompting Gov. Deval Patrick to dismiss nonemergency state workers early and postpone his annual State of the State address. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) question left for each branch and the administration is the best way to spend that money.

The state’s revenue outlook has been improving.

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Civil War Parade SOUTHWICK - The Southwick Historical Society will host “Civil War Hit Parade” on Thursday, January 23 at 12:30 p.m.

This special concert will feature historical stories and songs from the Civil War. Mr. Richard Spencer will be our guest presenter. Please note that the concert will be held at the Southwick Town Hall Auditorium at 434 College Hwy. in Southwick. All are welcome to join us for this entertaining afternoon concert.

up to the House and Senate to debate their own versions of the spending plan and deliver a single compromise budget to Patrick before the end of the fiscal year on June 30.

Poll: 65 percent unhappy with government

Continued from Page 4 actions, which led us to learn of those we believe helped allow the city’s process to undermine state and federal open space laws.

These state laws are to be monitored by the EOEA, and it’s Secretary, Richard Sullivan, Jr. The state’s Environmental Justice Policy, adopted from the Federal E.J. policy by EOEA in 2002, affords poor and disadvantaged neighborhoods numerous protections for their cultural and recreational environments, and emphasizes the rights of the E.J. neighborhoods to participate in the planning of state or Federally funded projects in their neighborhoods. The Massachusetts E.J. policy is the EOEA’s policy. For over two years, Secretary Sullivan was an advisory member of this project’s School Building Committee.

In a School Committee meeting in the spring of 2011, the mayor announced the tentative opening of the proposed school for the fall of 2013. His prediction was made well before the disadvantaged neighborhood residents were ever made aware of impacts, size, and scope of this school plan.

After successful and costly legal complaints made by the neighborhood’s residents against the City of Westfield, Mr. Sullivan decided to recuse himself from the School Building Committee. In the June 25, 2012 Westfield News article ‘New School too Big?’, Mr. Sullivan says he doesn’t know where all the Article 97 protected land is in Westfield.

Well his subordinates did. In the same article, they said Westfield has to get National Park Service approval and state approval before doing any construction work that physically alters the use of the Cross St. playground. Right before the superior court

As of the end of December, revenues for the state are $281 million above estimates for the 2014 fiscal year.

Once Patrick delivers his budget, it will be

placed an injunction on the project in September 2012, the City of Westfield destroyed the Cross St. playground. Go see for yourself. Visit www. savetheneighborhood.org if you wish to learn more regarding the massive size of this project, the skewed process that bore it, and how it is planned to reduce the number of neighborhood elementary schools in Westfield.

Sincerely, Thomas Smith

By Tal Kopan Politico.com Americans are more dissatisfied than ever with the U.S. system of government and how well it works, with almost two-thirds unhappy in a new poll.

In a 5 percentage point increase from last year, 65 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the nation’s system and efficacy of government, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday. That’s 1 point higher than the previous record, set in 2012.

Dissatisfaction has doubled in the past decade, steadily increasing in the past 12 years from a low of 23 percent in 2002.

An almost identical number of people say they are unhappy

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with the size and power of the federal government, at 66 percent, a number that has also increased in the 2000s.

The erosion of satisfaction with government is largely led

by Republicans and independents: Republicans have gone from satisfaction in the 70s during the George W. Bush years to 28 percent today. Just 28 percent of independents also are happy with government in 2014, down 10 points from last year and down from 63 percent in 2004.

At the same time, Democrats’ level of satisfaction has remained consistent throughout the Bush and Barack Obama years, hovering within a few points of 50 percent.

Gallup surveyed 1,018 adults from Jan. 5 to Jan. 8 for the poll, which has an error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

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Westfield’s Chris Sullivan, left, controls the puck as Longmeadow senior forward captain Drew Kelleher, right, moves in during the second period Tuesday night at the Olympia in West Springfield. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

Westfield’s Max Bengston rounds the backside of the Longmeadow net.

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Bombers nudge Lancers

By Chris Putz Staff Writer WEST SPRINGFIELD – The Westfield High School boys’ ice hockey team landed the first punch in Round 1. The Bombers followed that up with a jab in Round 2.

Over the course of the last several years, Westfield-Longmeadow has been a heavyweight fight in high school hockey with the best team typically seizing the Western Massachusetts Division 3 hockey crown.

This season, in the two teams’ first meeting, Westfield landed a 2-0 victory. In their second meeting, Tuesday night, the Bombers escaped with a narrow 1-0 win over the Longmeadow Lancers at the Olympia.

The latest hero in this saga was Westfield’s Chris Sullivan, who wristed a shot past Longmeadow

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senior goalie Omar Natour with 3:25 remaining in the third period.

Sullivan was the recipient of a pass from Mike Santinello, who came up with the puck off the boards in the Longmeadow zone and dished off to his fellow teammate.

“We just kept on coming,” Sullivan said of his team’s late power surge. “And our defense came up huge. (Westfield goalie) Matt Blascak came up big.”

Blascak finished with 14 saves, including one with less than 10 seconds remaining to preserve the victory.

“When we can’t score a lot of goals, Matt’s been coming up big for us,” Westfield coach C.B. “Moose” Matthews said.

It was a big turn of events in the final five minutes of regulation that helped propel the Bombers (5-2-2) Westfield’s Sam Evans, right, battles Longmeadow senior forward captain Drew Kelleher, center, for control of the puck. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

Westfield’s Nicholas Aube, right, flies through the air hitting Longmeadow’s John McDonald during the first period of last night’s game at the Olympia Ice Arena in West Springfield. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

A Westfield player takes Longmeadow’s Matt Pierson into the wall near the Westfield bench. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

to victory.

With 4:41 remaining in the third period, Westfield was slapped with an unsportsmanlike penalty that would have handcuffed the Bombers for the next three minutes. But 41 seconds into the Longmeadow power play, the Lancers received a penalty for cross-checking and the teams evened up at 4-on-4, just in time for Sullivan’s big shot.

“That was a big turning point,” coach Matthews said. “We were just trying to survive and get out of here with a point.

(That goal) was something we did not expect. That’s a big plus.”

Longmeadow’s defense bent but did not break as Natour turned away several shots – 28 to be exact – and several others that went awry until late.

“We couldn’t put the puck within five feet of the net,” said coach Matthews in dismay.

Longmeadow also struggled to find the back of the net. The Lancers had a golden opportunity early in the first period.

With a 5-on-3 power play, Longmeadow’s Colin McDermott took a shot out beyond the circle. The puck rebounded back to Drew Kelleher, who tried to squeeze it past Blascak. The Westfield goalie came out on top.

A few short seconds later, Connor McCarthy attempted the go-ahead goal.

Blascak won the battle again.

While it was a big penalty-killing moment for Westfield, it was penalties that hampered Longmeadow. The Lancers had to fight off being shorthanded five times in the first two periods.

In the final period, Westfield had sev-

eral chances to score.

Adam Hosmer picked off a pass for Westfield just inside the blue line in the Longmeadow zone with more than 8 minutes, 30 seconds remaining in the game.

Hosmer attempted another shot less than two minutes later after Zane Collier stole the puck near center ice and fed it to him.

With just under five minutes left, Westfield had a 2-on-1 breakaway.

Natour turned away Santinello’s shot.

Westfield’s Craig Lacey, right, slams Longmeadow sophomore forward Jude Bonavita into the wall during the second period of last night’s game in West Springfield.

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THURSDAY January 23

FRIDAY SATURDAY January 24 January 25 WESTFIELD HIGH SCHOOL

BOYS’ HOOPS vs. Central, 7 p.m.

SKIING – PVIAC Race, Berkshire East, 5 p.m.

BOYS’ JV HOOPS at West Springfield, 5:30 p.m.

GIRLS’ JV HOOPS vs. Minnechaug, 5:30 p.m.

BOYS’ V HOOPS at West Springfield, 7 p.m.

GIRLS’ V HOOPS vs. Minnechaug, 7 p.m.

WRESTLING at Gateway, 7 p.m.

BOYS’ JV HOOPS vs. Renaissance, 5:30 p.m.

GIRLS’ JV HOOPS vs. Cathedral, 5:30 p.m.

GIRLS’ V HOOPS vs. Smith Academy, 7 p.m.

BOYS’ V HOOPS at Granby, 7:30 p.m.

WRESTLING vs. Southwick-Tolland, 7 p.m.

SKIING – PVIAC Race, 5 p.m.

BOYS’ JV HOOPS at McCann Tech, 5:30 p.m.

BOYS’ V HOOPS at McCann Tech, 7 p.m.

MONDAY January 27 BOYS’ JV HOOPS vs. Northampton, 5:30 p.m.

BOYS’ V HOOPS vs. Northampton, 7 p.m.

WRESTLING at Bert Berger Invitational, Chicopee High School, 8 a.m.

GIRLS’ HOCKEY (Cathedral/WHS/ Long.) at Matignon, Stoneham Arena, 11 a.m.

BOYS’ V HOCKEY at East Longmeadow, Olympia Ice Center, West Springfield, 4 p.m. ***Sunday, January 26*** BOYS’ JV HOCKEY vs. Cathedral, Cyr Arena, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY January 28 BOYS’ JV HOCKEY vs. Agawam, Amelia Park Ice Arena, 4 p.m.

SKIING – PVIAC Race, Berkshire East, 5 p.m.

GIRLS’ JV HOOPS at Agawam, 5:30 p.m.

SWIMMING at Minnechaug, 6:30 p.m.

GIRLS’ V HOOPS at Agawam, 7 p.m.

WRESTLING vs. West Springfield, 7 p.m.

BOYS’ V HOCKEY at Ludlow, Olympia Ice Center, West Springfield, 8:30 p.m.

SOUTHWICK-TOLLAND REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL BOYS’ JV HOOPS vs. St. Mary, 5:30 p.m.

GIRLS’ JV HOOPS at Ware, 5:30 p.m.

BOYS’ V HOOPS vs. St. Mary, 7 p.m.

GIRLS’ V HOOPS at Ware, 7 p.m.

GIRLS’ JV HOOPS at McCann Tech, 6 p.m.

BOYS’ V HOOPS vs. Renaissance, 7 p.m.

GIRLS’ V HOOPS at McCann Tech, 7:30 p.m.

GATEWAY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING at The Mounty, All Day

GIRLS’ JV HOOPS at Commerce, 5:30 p.m.

GIRLS’ V HOOPS at Commerce, 7 p.m.

SKIING – PVIAC Race, 5 p.m.

GIRLS’ JV HOOPS vs. Pathfinder, 5 p.m.

GIRLS’ V HOOPS vs. Pathfinder, 6:30 p.m.

BOYS’ JV HOOPS vs. Holyoke Catholic, 5 p.m.

BOYS’ V HOOPS vs. Holyoke Catholic, 6:30 p.m.

WESTFIELD VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL BOYS’ JV HOOPS at Pioneer Valley Christian School, First Baptist Church Community, 5:30 p.m.

BOYS’ V HOOPS at Pioneer Valley Christian School, First Baptist Church Community, 7 p.m.

GIRLS’ JV HOOPS vs. Putnam, 4 p.m.

SAINT MARY HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ V HOOPS vs. Franklin Tech, Westfield Middle School North, 5:30 p.m.

BOYS’ V HOCKEY at Chicopee Comp, Fitzpatrick Arena, 3:30 p.m.

BOYS’ JV HOOPS at Whitinsville Christian School, 5:30 p.m.

BOYS’ V HOOPS at Whitinsville Christian School, 7 p.m.

BOYS’ JV HOOPS at Southwick-Tolland, 5:30 p.m.

GIRLS’ V HOOPS at Smith Voke, 6 p.m.

BOYS’ V HOOPS at Southwick-Tolland, 7 p.m.

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Feb. 6

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Feb. 11

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Westfield’s Ben Edwards swims freestyle sprint.

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Westfield’s Erin Lewis wins the 100 yard breaststroke.

WHS, Blue Devils split NORTHAMPTON – Longtime division rivals Westfield and Northampton faced each other in a swimming/diving meet Tuesday.

While the ‘Hamp boys team has lost considerable depth over the last few seasons, the Hamp girls continue to be a powerhouse in the most elite division in Western Mass.

The Westfield girls suffered their first loss of the season, 99-87. The Bombers boys cruised, 133-41.

The Northampton girls jumped out to an early and unexpected lead by winning the 200

medley relay. The Blue Devils kept the pressure on by narrowly outscoring Westfield in seven of the 12 events. The Bombers outscored their competition in only three events, and tying points in two events.

Highpoints for the WHS girls was Lauren Longley’s win in the 50 yard freestyle, Hope Walsh’s victory in the 500 yard freestyle and Erin Lewis’s first-place finish in the 100 yard breaststroke.

Despite the loss, the Westfield girls recorded a lot of excellent times in their individual

races, which will be invaluable in the sectional championship in February, according to the coaching staff.

BOYS’ RESULTS The Westfield boys dominated their meet.

Westfield not only won, but also outscored Northampton in every individual event and relay except for the 100 yard backstroke, won by ‘Hamp’s Aiden Winn.

Westfield’s John Dolan won the 200 yard freestyle and 100 yard breaststroke, Jim Stinehart won the 200 yard individual medley

and the 100 yard butterfly, Nicolas Rosso won the 50 yard and 100 yd free, Richard Jablonski won the 1 meter diving and Roberto Morales won the 500 yard freestyle.

Bombers’ Chris Tu, Slav Ptshuk, James Wagner, Roberto Morales and Tim Kwarcinski added valuable second place points in their events.

Westfield wraps up the regular season next Tuesday on the road at Minnechaug, the area’s only other undefeated boys’ swimming/diving team. – Courtesy of Mike Rowbotham

Bombers’ Anoushka Sharma in a freestyle event.

Westfield’s Liam Thomas surges ahead with a strong breaststroke.

Bombers’ Sam Cloutier swims and scores in the 100 yard backstroke.

Westfield’s Ed McLeavey races in the 100 yard butterfly.

WHS’ Liz Gelinas is at full extension in a strong 100 yard backstroke.

NFL PLAYOFF GLANCE Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 4 Indianapolis 45, Kansas City 44 New Orleans 26, Philadelphia 24 Sunday, Jan. 5 San Diego 27, Cincinnati 10 San Francisco 23, Green Bay 20 Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 11 Seattle 23, New Orleans 15 New England 43, Indianpolis 22 Sunday, Jan. 12 San Francisco 23, Carolina 10 Denver 24, San Diego 17

2013-14 High School Winter Standings Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 19 Denver 26, New England 16 Seattle 23, San Francisco 17

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GIRLS’ HOOPS Westfield 4-6 Southwick 7-2 Gateway 4-4 St. Mary 0-7 BOYS’ HOOPS Gateway 9-1 Westfield 3-5* Southwick 1-8 St. Mary 1-9 Westfield Voc-Tech 2-1* HOCKEY Westfield 2-2-2* St. Mary 2-1* BOYS’ SWIMMING Westfield 8-0 GIRLS’ SWIMMING Westfield 7-0-1

BOYS’ INDOOR TRACK Westfield 0-0* GIRLS’ INDOOR TRACK Westfield 4-1* WRESTLING Westfield 1-1 Southwick-Tolland 0-0* Gateway 0-0*

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Monday’s Results GIRLS’ HOOPS Holyoke 69, Westfield 50 BOYS’ HOOPS Amherst 62, Westfield 50 Gateway 58, St. Mary 28 GIRLS’ HOCKEY Cathedral 1, Walpole 0

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Annie’s Mailbox

By Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar

No-Win-Situation Dear Annie: A couple of years ago, you published my letter signed “No-Win Situation in Wisconsin.” My wife and I had been sharing a vacation with another couple, and I witnessed the husband kiss my wife on the lips as they left. You said if I trust my wife, not to worry about it.

After you printed my letter, I wrote this couple a half-sincere “take the high road” letter, admitting I could have been wrong about interpreting that kiss and invited them to come for dinner and stay over. They never replied. But a month later, they drove into town and met my wife for lunch while I was at work. The husband asked my wife whether I felt “neglected.” How smug is that?

A couple of weeks later, my wife and I celebrated our 25th anniversary at a lovely vacation spot, and a week later, she stayed overnight at this couple’s home while visiting a mutual friend who was ill.

I am getting the distinct message that I am the one with the problem, and therefore, I can be completely bypassed when she makes decisions involving this couple. While I do not feel it would be right to ask my wife to close the door on this friendship, that last visit had me losing sleep. I wrote my wife a letter about my feelings, and even though I realize their relationship could be nothing, it still upsets me.

Now that this husband has retired, I fear the pace will quicken in his efforts to put our friendship back where it was, but whatever my insecurities and shortcomings, I get angry just thinking about it. Am I making sense or just going bananas? -- More Maine Madness Dear Maine: We doubt anything untoward is going on, but your wife is deliberately disregarding your feelings. She thinks you are being foolish, and so she ignores you. This makes you feel marginalized and angry. Please stop writing letters and simply talk to your wife. Tell her gently that seeing this couple behind your back only makes you distrust her, and that eats away at the core of your marriage. Tell her you will back off if she will be more respectful of your feelings.

Dear Annie: My wonderful husband delivers oil to people’s homes and works hard keeping homes toasty and warm throughout the winter. It is a demanding job, but for the most part, he enjoys it.

The problem is, some customers don’t plow or shovel paths to their tanks. Their driveways are cleared and the paths to their bird feeders, but my husband has to pull a heavy hose through kneedeep snow to reach the tanks.

By the time he gets home, he is soaked up to his thighs, cold and exhausted. This is enough to make anyone cranky. He sure would appreciate it if people could make his job easier by shoveling a path to their tank. -- Please Be Kind Dear Please: Thank you for reminding our readers that any service people who need to have access to outside areas of their homes should not get lost in a snowdrift because the path isn’t plowed. This is not only for the person who delivers oil. It’s also the postal carrier, the meter reader and the cable repairman. If you know someone is coming, please see that they can get there.

Dear Annie: I totally agree with “I Need Nice Clothes, Too.” The bigger sizes are tucked into the furthest corner of the store, the selection is small, the styles are horrendous, the sleeves are too tight and the tops are too short.

My other complaint is that the large-size models don’t look like me. They are tall with flat stomachs. I am 5 feet 4 and the grandmother of four. There are a lot of older, mature women with money to spend, so I hope the manufacturers start listening. -Inverness, Fla. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column.

HINTS FROM HELOISE BETTER BOOKMARK Dear Heloise: Why do we always use a bookmark to mark just the pages we are between? I came upon this hint: Place a two-sided bookmark HORIZONTALLY across the print where you stop reading.

My bookmark has printing on the side that I leave next to the print in the book, and a picture on the other side. The bookmark protrudes from the side instead of the top of the book, and I can always find just where I stopped reading.

Now I save time by not reading the same paragraph again until I find where I left off. -- Samantha H. in Texas CARE PACKAGE Dear Heloise: A co-worker was scheduled for major surgery and was going to be home recovering for a couple of months.

Our office collected DVDs, books and magazines to send home with her so she would have plenty of things to keep her occupied.

Co-workers can do even more (depending on office size) by scheduling food drop-offs, collecting restaurant gift cards or offering drives to doctor visits. -- Carol A. in Louisiana All good heart hints! Don’t forget, “get well” and funny cards do help to brighten a day. -- Heloise

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014: This year you have many more possibilities available to you than in the past. This change reflects your evolution and ability to see beyond the obvious.

You often detach in order to see the big picture. As a result, you are able to make excellent choices. If you are single, a friendship could be instrumental in your meeting someone. Be careful, as one person who might seem to want to be more involved is emotionally unavailable. If you are attached, the two of you often benefit from spending time alone together as a couple. Schedule at least one fun weekend away from your daily routine. LIBRA often presents a different view.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH If you wake up feeling tired, don’t be surprised -- your dreams probably have been unusually vivid. You might want to back away from a situation, especially if your intuition points that way. A gesture you make could backfire. Be careful. Tonight: Avoid an argument.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Juggling several different interests likely will succeed, but try not to allow details to fall by the wayside.

Others admire your ability to put the final touches on a project. Refuse to accept any other responsibilities for now. Tonight: Pace yourself.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Keep reaching out to someone at a distance whom you care a lot about. Listen to your inner voice before you cause yourself a problem with a loved one. Communication soars, and perhaps too much will be shared. Use your high energy well. Tonight: Romance blooms.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH You could be taken aback by someone’s efforts to change direction.

How you feel in the company of a loved one could be very different from how you might have thought you’d feel. This person understands and indulges you more often than not. Tonight: Run some errands on the way home.

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By virtue of and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Greta M. Redzko to Option One Mortgage Corporation, dated June 26, 2006 and recorded at Hampden County Registry of Deeds in Book 16022, Page 373 of which mortgage U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-OPT1 is the present holder by assignment from Sand Canyon Corporation F/K/A Option One Mortgage Corporation to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-OPT1 dated June 13, 2011 recorded at Hampden County Registry of Deeds in Book 18812, Page 258, for breach of conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same, the mortgaged premises located at 199 Susan Drive, Westfield, MA 01085 will be sold at a Public Auction at 11:00AM on February 5, 2014, at the mortgaged premises, more particularly described below, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, to wit:

said plan, ninety-nine and Trustee, in trust for the re77/100 (99.77) feet; gistered holders of Morgan Stanley ABS Capital I Trust SOUTHERLY, by Lot 126 (one 2004-HE2, Mortgage Passhundred twenty-six) as shown Through Certificates, Series on said plan, one hundred sixty- 2004-HE2, claiming to have an seven and 56/100 (167.56) feet; interest in a Mortgage covering and real property in Westfield, numbered 5 Morris Street, givWESTERLY by Susan Drive, as en by Cheryl A. Blair and Mishown on said plan, one hun- chael J. Blair to Aames Funddred (100) feet. ing Corporation DBA Aames Home Loan, dated November 7, SUBJECT TO easement rights 2003, recorded with the Hampgranted New England Tele- den County Registry of Deeds phone and Telegraph Company at Book 13766, Page 405, and under instrument dated August now held by plaintiff by assign24, 1970, and recorded in the ment, has/have filed with this Hampden County Registry of court a complaint for determinaDeeds in Book 3533, Page 244. tion of Defendant’s/Defendants’ Servicemembers status.

SUBJECT TO restrictions of record to the extent that any are in If you now are, or recently have force and applicable. TOGETH- been, in the active military serER with the right to use the vice of the United States of streets and ways as shown on America, then you may be ensaid plan. titled to the benefits of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. If For mortgagor's title see you object to a foreclosure of the deed recorded with the Hamp- above-mentioned property on den County Registry of Deeds in that basis, then you or your atBook 11861, Page 109. The torney must file a written appearpremises will be sold subject to ance and answer in this court at any and all unpaid taxes and Three Pemberton Square, Boother municipal assessments ston, MA 02108 on or before and liens, and subject to prior li- February 24, 2014 or you will be ens or other enforceable encum- forever barred from claiming that brances of record entitled to pre- you are entitled to the benefits of cedence over this mortgage, and said Act. subject to and with the benefit of all easements, restrictions, reWitness, JUDITH C.CUTservations and conditions of re- LER, Chief Justice of this Court cord and subject to all tenancies on January 10, 2014. and/or rights of parties in possession.

Deborah J. Patterson Recorder Terms of the Sale: Cash, cashier's or certified check in the sum of $5,000.00 as a deposit must be shown at the time and place of the sale in order to qualify as a bidder (the mortgage holder and its designee(s) are exempt from this requirement); high bidder to sign written Memorandum of Sale upon acceptance of bid; balance of purchase price payable in cash or by certified check in thirty (30) days from the date of the sale at the offices of mortgagee's attorney, Korde and Associates, P.C., 321 Billerica Road, Suite 210, Chelmsford, MA 01824-4100 or such other time as may be designated by mortgagee. The description for the premises contained in said mortgage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this publication.

Being designated as Lot 127 (one hundred twenty-seven) as shown on the plan entitled "Definitive Plan…East View Heights...East Mountain Road, Westfield, Mass. ...J.J. Scarfo..." as recorded in the Hampden County Registry of Deeds in Book of Plans 153, Pages 82 thru 85 inclusive, said lot being hounded and described as folOther terms to be announced at lows: the sale.

NORTHERLY, by Irene Drive, as shown on said plan, one hun- U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Merrill Lynch dred sixty and 08/100 (160.08) Mortgage Investors Trust, feet; Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-OPT1 EASTERLY, by Lot 113 (one KORDE AND hundred thirteen), as shown on ASSOCIATES, INC, P.C. said plan, ninety-nine and 321 Billerica Road Suite 210 77/100 (99.77) feet; Chelmsford, MA 01824-4100 (978) 256-1500 SOUTHERLY, by Lot 126 (one hundred twenty-six) as shown on said plan, one hundred sixty- Redzko, Greta M., seven and 56/100 (167.56) feet; 11-005301, A-4436294 and WESTERLY by Susan Drive, as shown on said plan, one hundred (100) feet.

SUBJECT TO easement rights IN BRIEF granted New England Telephone and Telegraph Company under instrument dated August 24, 1970, and recorded in the Hampden County Registry of Deeds in Book 3533, Page 244.

Abner Gibbs hosts SUBJECT TO restrictions of record to the extent that any are in pasta supper force and applicable.

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0340 Apartment

100% HARDWOOD, GREEN, $140. 3 year season. $150. 1/2 & 1/4 cords also available. Outdoor furnace wood also available, cheap. CALL FOR DAILY SPECIALS!! Wholesale Wood Products, (304)851-7666.

WESTFIELD 1 BEDROOM, kitchen and bath, 2nd floor. No pets. $650/month includes utilities. First, last, security.

(413)250-4811.

A SEASONED LOG TRUCK LOAD of hardwood; (when processed at least 7 cords), for only $650-$700 (depends on delivery distance). Call Chris @ (413)454-5782.

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

0340 Apartment WESTFIELD large 1 bedroom, off Mill Street. First floor, recently updated. $650/month plus utilities. First, last, security required. Available mid January.

(860)335-8377.

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HUNTINGTON 1 room with heat, hot water, cable TV, air conditioning included. Refrigerator and microwave. $110/week.

(413)531-2197.

LARGE FURNISHED ROOM. Parking, bus route, walking distance to all amenities. $120/weekly. Responsible mature male preferred. Nonsmoker. (413)348-5070.

WESTFIELD Large 3 bedroom, 1-1/2 bath on first floor. Lovely neighborhood off Western Ave. Hardwood and tile floors throughout. Newly renovated.

Garage. Washer/dryer hookup in WESTFIELD 2 bedroom, 1 bath basement. $930/month. Dianna AFFORDABLE FIREWOOD. condo. $875/month includes (413)530-7136.

ROOM TO RENT in a quiet Seasoned and green. Cut, split, heat and hot water. No smoking, neighborhood. Kitchen and laundelivered. Any length. Now no pets. First, last, security. dry privilege. Heat, A/C, utilities. ready for immediate delivery. (413)519-8271.

Available now to non-smoker.

WESTFIELD, 2nd floor, 2 bed- $ 6 0 0 / m o n t h , W e s t f i e l d .

Senior and bulk discount. Call room, kitchen, living room, bath, (413)355-2338 or (413)562(413)848-2059, (413)530-4820. e n c l o s e d p o r c h . N o p e t s . 7341. $825/month plus utilities. First, END OF YEAR FIREWOOD WESTFIELD reconditioned, 2 last, security. (413)250-4811. bedroom condo. $795/month SALE. Seasoned or green. Cut, split and delivered. Call for pri- heat included. For sale or rent. cing after 7p.m. or before 11a.m. Call (603)726-4595.

(413)627-9110.

SEASONED FIREWOOD 100% hardwood. Stacking available.

Cut, split, delivered. (128cu.ft.)

Volume discounts. Call for pricing. Hollister's Firewood (860)653-4950.

SILO DRIED FIREWOOD. (128cu.ft.) guaranteed. For prices call Keith Larson (413)537-4146.

0340 Apartment 1 BEDROOM, recently remodeled efficiency apartment.

Quiet neighborhood, off street parking, appliances included, washer/dryer hookups. $600/month no utilities. First, last, security. Non smoker, no pets. (413)374-8803.

5 ROOM, 3 bedroom, completely renovated Westfield/Russell area, country setting. NEW stove, refrigerator and heating unit. Large yard, parking. $895/month. No pets please.

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BEAUTIFULLY RENOVATED 2 bedroom, first floor apartment, downtown Westfield. Floors and kitchen new. Pellet stove. Fresh paint throughout. $875/month.

(413)562-2110.

WESTBRIDGE TOWNHOUSES, 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, full basement. $800/month plus utilities.

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

Quality work from a business you can trust. (413)848-0100, 1-800-793-3706.

Computers COMPUTER HELP AVAILABLE. In home training. Network setup, data recovery and much more. For more information call John (413)568-5928.

T-BEST DRYWALL. Complete professional drywall at amateur prices. Our ceilings are tops! Call Mike 413-8218971. Free estimates.

KINGER PAINT & DRYWALL. Interior, exterior, ceiling repair, drywall damage, cabinet refinishing, specializing in textured ceilings. Fully insured. Call (413)579-4396.

Electrician WESTFIELD 1 bedroom apartments, large closets, free heat and hot water included, laundry, parking. Possible pet. $785/month. (413)562-2266.

0440 Services MONTGOMERY 5 miles from Westfield. Spacious office includes utilities and WiFi. $350/month. Call (413)9776277.

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5.69 acres. Asking $160,000.

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A1 ODD JOBS/HANDYMAN. Debris removal, landscaping, garage/attic cleansouts, interior and exterior painting, power washing, basic carpentry and plumbing. All types of repair work and more. (413)562-7462.

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

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CHICOPEE Behind Banknorth. 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths 14'X67', fireplace, pellet stove, central air, kitchen island, appliances. $52,500. Call DASAP (413)5939961. dasap.mhvillage.com

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0285 Wanted To Buy PAYING CASH FOR COINS, stamps, medals, tokens, paper money, diamonds and jewelry, gold and silver scrap. Broadway Coin & Stamp, 144 Broadway, Chicopee Falls, MA. (413)5949550.

FOR SALE BY OWNER. 3 family house on 0.47ac Business A zoned in downtown Westfield.

Excellent potential for a variety of businesses. Price negotiable.

For more information call (413)454-3260.

0410 Mobile Homes

POEHLMAN ELECTRIC. All types of wiring. Free estimates, insured. SPECIALIZING IN PORTABLE AND WHOLE HOUSE KOHLER GENERATORS, SERVICE UPGRADES, SMALL JOBS, POOLS. Gutter deicing cables installed. I answer all calls! Prompt service, best prices.

Lic. #A-16886. (413)562-5816.

TURCOTTE ELECTRIC. 30+ years experience. Electrical installations, emergency service work. Generac portable or whole house generator installations. HVAC controls and energy saving green technology upgrades. Fully insured. All calls answered. Master’s Lic #A-18022.

(413)214-4149.

(413)543-3100. Lic# A7625.

Flooring/Floor Sanding A RON JOHNSON’S FLOOR SANDING. Installation, repairs, 3 coats polyurethane. Free estimates. (413) 569-3066.

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

Extensive references, fully licensed & insured in MA. & CT. www.delreohomeimprovement.com Call Gary Delcamp (413)569-3733.

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ALWAYS CALL FIRST!!! M&M SERVICES-20 Years serving the Westfield area. Painting, staining, house washing, interior/exterior. Wall coverings.

Commercial/residential. Free estimates. Insured. References. Mass Reg. #121723. Call (413)568-9731. No job too small !!

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

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

At SANTA FE PAINTING CO. We're your color specialists! Fall season is in full swing. Get all your exterior painting needs done now. Including painting and staining log homes.

Call (413)230-8141

ONE STOP SHOPPING for all your ROOFING needs! POWER WASHING/CLEANING revitalizing your roof, removing ugly black stains, mold and moss, we’ll make it look like new plus prolong the life of your roof. We do emergency repairs, new construction, complete tear off, ice and water protection barrier systems, skylight repairs.

Snow & ice removal. FREE gutter cleaning with any roof repair or roof job.

10% senior discount. Free estimates.

MA. Lic. #170091. Call (413)977-5701

A NEW LOOK FOR 2014. Let Home Decor help. Interior painting and wallpapering, specializing in faux finishes.

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

TOM DISANTO Home Improvements The best choice for all interior and exterior building and remodeling. Specializing Hauling in the design and building of residential additions, since 1985. Kitchens, baths, A DUMP TRUCK. Attic, cellars, yard, siding, windows, decks, porches, sunscrap metal removal. Seasoned Fire- rooms, garages. License #069144. MA wood. (413)569-1611, (413)374-5377. Reg. #110710. FREE ESTIMATES, REFERENCES, FULLY INSURED. Call PROFESSIONAL PAINTING & WALLTom (413)568-7036.

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ALL CALLS RETURNED! Fall RICHTER HOME Building & Remodel- cleanups, curb side leaf pickups, mowHome Improvement ing. Specializing in home improve- ing, aerating, overseeding, dethatching, ment services. Roofs, windows, mulch & trimming. Free estimates. Ask AMR BUILDING & REMODELING. doors, decks, finished carpentry, re- for Mel (413)579-1407.

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Snowplowing A.B.C. SNOWPLOWING. Westfield residential only. 15 years experience. Call Dave (413)568-6440.

SNOWPLOWING / SNOWBLOWING. On time, reliable service. Average driveway, $40.00. Also specializing in fall clean ups. Call (413)727-4787.

SNOWPLOWING, SNOW BLOWING, SHOVELING. Call Accurate Lawn Services, (413)579-1639.

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

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

liable service, free estimates. Mass Registered #106263, licensed & insured. Call Bruno, (413)562-9561.

HANDYMAN/CARPENTER. All home YARD CLEANUP, thatching, leaf brush CONRAD TREE SERVICE. Expert

hedge/tree trimming, repairs: Honey to do list, bathroom re- removal, modeling, tile work, sheetrock repairs, mulch/stone, mowing. Call Accurate C&N CARPENTRY. Suspended ceil- winterization. No job too small. 35 years Lawncare, (413)579-1639. ings, home improvements and remod- profressional experience. (413)519eling. Licensed and insured. Call 3251.

Masonry (413)262-9314.

ABC MASONRY & BASEMENT WAJOSEPH’S HANDYMAN COMPANY. TERPROOFING. All brick, block, COPPA HOME IMPROVEMENTS. Carpentry, remodeling, kitchen, baths, concrete. Chimneys, foundations, Remodeling, home restoration, home basements, drywall, tile, floors, sus- hatchways, new basement windows pended ceilings, restoration services, repairs, finish basements, bath/kitchen doors, windows, decks, stairs, installed and repaired. Sump trim/woodwork, siding/decks, windows/ interior/exterior painting, plumbing. pumps and french drain systems indoors. CSL 103574, HIC Reg.147782. Small jobs ok. All types of professional stalled. Foundations pointed and Fully licensed and insured. Free esti- work done since 1985. Call Joe, stuccoed. Free estimates. (413)569(413)364-7038. mates. Call Joe (413)454-8998.

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tree removal. Prompt estimates.

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

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