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Burnt out
After 21 summers, has the popular car show outgrown Main Street?
State looks to short-change Worcester on the new “signature” bridge over Lake Quinsigamond. Come on Boston, pony up. -3 A little heat wave hits, which means shirts off all over Worcester. Problem is those who could – don’t, and those that shouldn’t – do. Let’s keep the city beautiful. Put your shirt back on. -1 Governor Patrick signs $30.59 billion Fiscal Year 2012 budget, which considering the economic climate, isn’t as devastating to the state as it could be. +1 Blackstone Canal District and Kelley Square wagon tours begin and take place every Thursday. History on horseback. +2 No major assaults, shootings or stabbings make the news in the City of Worcester this week, and the WPD’s Summer Impact program extends to August. +4 “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” stage show performs at Ralph’s. By all accounts the audience had a glam good time. +2 Worcester Film Works announces its July 28 movie on the Common: “Back to the Future.” Fitting, since this year we’ll have a downtown without a mall and a woman named Konnie Lukes running for mayor. +2 This week: +4 Last week: +2 Year to date: +16
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ummer Nationals promoter Bob Moscoffian has made nice with the City of Worcester. The planning for this year’s automotive show had no drama like previous year’s will-it-or-won’t-ithappen-here questions. “I don’t have anything negative to say about anything,” Moscoffian offers after the close of the 21st Summer Nationals. “I’ve never had such a good relationship with the city as I have now.” He adds that the event has never been as popular either, blaming bad weather on Sunday for keeping away a record crowd. In terms of gross revenue, the City would be hard-pressed to not continue a business relationship with Moscoffian. The Central Massachusetts Convention and Visitors Bureau claims the Summer Nationals is the largest automotive show on the East Coast. (The CMCVB did not get back to Worcester Mag with economic spin-off estimates.) Moscoffian has made sizable donations to the city parks department, including a $20,000 check this year. “We’ve done a lot for parks [in Worcester],” says Moscoffian, adding that more could be done with sponsorships. In return for the parks money and a boost in booked hotel rooms, however, some argue the relationship brings damages to city infrastructure, hurts local businesses and creates environmental health issues for nearby residents. In the 21 years since the Summer Nationals rolled into Worcester, North Main Street saw a steady decrease in active everyday use. Lincoln Square’s Boys and Girls Club, old Worcester Vocational school, Memorial Auditorium and old courthouse all have spent significant overlapping periods of time unused or under-used and the far north side of the road had little going on in the way of business. In recent years,
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however, a new courthouse has arrived, successful businesses have opened, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has renovated the old Crown Plaza hotel into a dormitory and construction has started on making 32 apartment units in the old Voke building. The Summer Nationals, with its closing of the street, traffic snarls in Lincoln Square, noise and a pervasive scent of melted rubber in the air from burnout contests, has a number of area residents and businesses questioning if the event has outlived this location. The Armsby Abbey, as well as the neighboring Dr. Gonzo’s Uncommon Condiments store, closed down over Summer Nationals weekends. Alec Lopez, the owner of the Abbey, estimates it costs him tens of thousands of dollars in business. Both stores’ front doors sit directly in front of the platforms where the burnout contests are held. Both owners say they’ve tried to stay open for the event, but quickly found their wares weren’t what the crowd – expecting carnival and fair staples like fried dough – was looking for. Aside from vandalism that occurred on J. Stuart Esty’s Dr. Gonzo’s property this year, another concern has been the byproduct of the popular burnout contest, in which cars remain stationary on Main
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Street and spin their wheels, causing thick plumes of smoke to rise up into the air from under the car as friction between the tire and the asphalt melts the rubber. “The city is going to basically ignore what’s going on here,” Esty says. “They have to figure out what they really want downtown.” Or, as he put it in an open letter on Facebook: “The message that this aspect of the event sends to the world is: ‘Welcome to the Summer National Burnouts. Come to Worcester. Tear it up with no accountability.’” Locals maintain that the burnouts leave a rubber, oil and bleach film over their buildings while residents in neighborhoods choke on the smell as it wafts out of downtown. The state’s Department of Environmental Protection says they didn’t do any specific air quality testing in Worcester before or after the event, but a department spokesman directed Worcester Mag to their website which shows those curious about air quality real-time measurements for Carbon Monoxide, Nitrogen Dioxide, Ozone, Sulfur Dioxide and fine particles in the air. According to measurements taken from Summer Street, just a block away from the Main Street burnout pad, particulate matter in the Worcester air spiked over
Summer Nationals weekend, remaining high a week after the last day of the event. A DEP employee was quick to caution though that a correlation shouldn’t be drawn between one event and this data. Worcester Public Health Director Derek Brindisi says little research has been done specifically on the hazards of burnouts, but generally speaking burning tires releases “hundreds of chemicals.” He passed on the following paragraph from the Energy Justice Network: “It is common knowledge that burning tires in the open is extremely harmful to human health and the natural environment. The fumes emitted are packed with the many toxic chemicals that tires contain (including volatile organic compounds such as benzene, metals such as lead, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzo(a)pyrene, and synthetic rubber components such as butadiene and styrene). Additionally, the chlorine content in tires leads to the creation of dioxins and furans (which are extremely toxic chemicals) when tires are burned.” None of this should surprise anyone, but Moscoffian says he’s not worried about air pollution because the regulatory agencies haven’t been. Despite the state DEP saying they don’t do day specific air quality testing for the event, Moscoffian says he’s seen tests that “didn’t show a spec” in Worcester. As for noise in the area, Moscoffian doesn’t have any concerns about current or future developments. He says the new apartments won’t impact the Main Street spectacle and he worked well with the city and Mass. College of Pharmacy, complied with a “quiet zone” around St. Vincent Hospital. Moscoffian created a $2,500 scholarship for Worcester students studying at the college and donated a pool table for their dormitory. Publicly, city officials have avoided drama. Parks Commissioner Robert Antonelli says that while some burnouts take place in Green Hill Park, there hasn’t been discussion about adding more. He says that “all went well” this year, and the $20,000 donation to the park comes on top of the expenses Moscoffian pays for set up, clean up and security for the event. While previous years have brought threats that the Summer Nationals had their last fling on North Main – normally because of financial reasons – the City should expect North Main businesses to press them to not issue permits next year. “This is about city pride and concern for our environment,” Lopez writes to Worcester Mag. “About wanting to stand up and say hey, this side of town is no longer abandoned it’s occupied, cherished and thriving.” Businesses also have to deal with overflowing dumpsters, litter and various bodily fluids left on the sidewalk to bake in the sun. “The detritus is still in the tunnel,” says Esty. “It’s still being kicked up every
{ citydesk } time a car goes by.” He points out that the particulates and chemicals from that end up washed into the Blackstone River. Because the chemicals stay in the area after the event, he doesn’t buy the argument that “it’s just one weekend.” Pastor Shandirai Mawokomatanda of the Wesley United Methodist Church at 114 Main St. says they’ve had issues with Summer Nationals patrons, but not to the extent that other properties have. This year the church was able to do some vending from their steps to earn some cash off of the event, but that
positive has been mitigated by Summer Nationals ticket holders leaving alcohol bottles, cigarette stubs and thick tire treads in their back parking lot. (The latter problem was solved because the church had planned to repave the area anyway. This year, the church didn’t allow parking.) Another issue has been the barricades put up and left there Sunday morning, which kept worshipers out of church. Mawokomatanda has only served as Pastor for two years, so he couldn’t say continued on page 6
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the street.� With the addition of MCPHS’ dorm, “It may not be a quiet space to that event.� Regardless of these issues, Moscoffian
says his “future plans are to stay in the city as long as they want me.� He’d like to have the 2012 Nationals organized as soon as possible and wants to meet with Worcester officials as soon as next month. “I don’t want to be told everything’s ok one month before the show.� Included in that is a guarantee that North Main will be available for burnouts. He says he has no intention of moving them all to Green Hill Park, adding that if he can’t use that area then he’ll have to move the event to a different city. (Moscoffian says he’s been courted by other cities, Providence, RI among them.) Moscoffian has cited his love for Worcester as a location because of
the car nostalgia here, along with the convenience of having the park, the Main St. tunnel and the DCU Center. But North Main businesses have committed to do what they can to limiting the room the Summer Nationals has for next year. Those physical constraints might be the least imposing obstacles Moscoffian’s organizers will have, as it sounds like the Main Street location itself has grown tighter over the years.
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It’s a little odd when an out-oftown newspaper has done more to advocate for the state’s use of the Grand Junction railroad – a stretch of track bought from CSX as part of the deal that brought the company’s freight hub to Worcester – than the local daily, but the Boston Globe took some encouraging steps this week editorializing in favor of connecting the second largest city in New England to Cambridge. “It’s not every day that the state acquires a fully intact corridor through a bustling urban center, and the property has planners daydreaming of bike paths and streetcars. For now, though, the best— and most economical—use of the land is a proposal by Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray to run MBTA commuter rail trains on the existing tracks,” the paper wrote. Cambridge residents have their concerns about at-grade traffic crossings and fail to see the benefit of having commuter rail run but not stop in their town, but the numbers back the North Station-Worcester connection: 35 percent of commuter riders disembark between South and North Station, while 13 percent of riders have a final destination of Kendall Square or North Station. The plan is still in the researching and public-hearing phases, so it’s somewhat surprising to see the Globe opine so strongly for the trains right now. But hey, we’ll take it.
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(MI)S-COMMUNICATION: Supporters of Secure Communities (S-Comm for short), a federal initiative that taps local lawenforcement agencies into a nationwide fingerprint database so police can check if criminals are in the country legally, have pointed to Boston’s use of the program as a reason why it should expand to the entire state. It looks like that’s about to change, though, as Mayor Thomas Menino wrote a strongly phrased letter to the feds outlining commonly cited concerns about the program. “As operated now, Secure Communities is diminishing trust, an essential part of the neighborhood fabric and a vital public safety tool,” he wrote, adding that Boston would pull out of the program unless Immigration and Customs Enforcement vowed to only deport “serious criminal offenders,” a key part of its conditions. But data reveals that 85 percent of those deported through S-Comm between October 2008 and March 2011 have been low-level criminal or noncriminal undocumented immigrants, including witnesses and those reporting crime – the exact demographic with whom urban police departments say they can’t have a fractured relationship…As we reported here last month, Worcester’s own Councilor-at-Large Konnie Lukes motioned that Worcester should opt-into the program after Gov. Deval Patrick rejected the state’s participation, but prospects of it gaining any traction with the city council look extremely bleak.
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Tracy Novick and District 3 council candidate Arthur Ellis both turned in enough signatures this week to have their names appear on the Sept. 18 primary ballot… Randell Ormo has dropped his at-large bid because of new job commitments but hopes that his campaign issues will still find their way into election discussions. Ormo says he wanted to increase citizen involvement with more charrettes, citing their success with Union Station and the preCitySquare Common Outlets. He’d also like to see better long-term planning for tax rates and public infrastructure and park improvements. One of his more controversial ideas is to push the Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Board’s proposal of a needed EastWest connection through the city, which would reduce rush-hour traffic and better guide traffic to the airport. (Just don’t call it an access road.)
NATIONAL RECOGNITION: Two national-level figures will be visiting Worcester within the next month as Louisiana congressman, governor and presidential candidate Buddy Roehmer will speak at a Worcester Republicans meeting on Wednesday, July 20. Swinging to the other side of the spectrum, U.S. Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske has a date next month with the Hector Reyes House to celebrate their work rehabbing alcohol- and drug-addicted Latinos.
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hen John Donas was a toddler, the other children in his preschool class didn’t interest him very much. The water table where they splashed merrily and the sandbox where they formed castles from upturned pails caused him to frown. John much preferred the solitary task of lining up with precision Matchbox cars, one after another after another. While his classmates chased each other across the playground, John chose to travel the perimeter of the schoolyard, systematically touching the fence top every few feet. Inside the school, the residue from glue sticks agitated him so much that he stubbornly refused to employ them. Removing dried paste from his fingertips would consume John’s morning, if his teachers allowed him to perseverate over such things. We didn’t. John Donas was diagnosed with autism early in life. His beautiful blue eyes rarely met mine when I was an instructional assistant in the special-needs classroom where John was placed. Those eyes would fill with tears when he was sad or frightened, but John wouldn’t tell us why; expressing himself would become the most difficult obstacle he’d need to overcome. Because of that, I will always remember him as the boy who cried silently, and when he did, my first instinct was to bundle him into my lap and soothe him the way I would any heart-broken or scared child. John wanted none of it. John Donas’ level of autism — known as Asperger’s Syndrome — placed him near the high end of the spectrum, meaning his chances for developing the necessary social skills were better than many other autistic children. Just how bright John was became clear to me the day when I dropped a stack of numbered flash cards. As I scrambled to retrieve all 100 of the scattered cards, John pointed to one. “Sixteen,” the not-yetthree-year-old said to me. I handed the card to him. The number “16” was facing me. John looked at the card and grinned. “Ninety-one,” he announced, and for a brief moment, our eyes met. That was more than 16 years ago. Yesterday I opened my mail to find a glossy photo of John Donas, the rich blue of his cap and gown making those eyes of his shine
WTHS Class of 2011 Electromechanical Engineering QCC Class of 2013 WPI Class of 2015 Computer Science A smaller card fell from the envelope. It read: “They say it takes a village to raise a child. YOU were part of the village, whose caring hands and lots of love created a MIRACLE! Thank you from the family of John Donas.” One look at the photo of the young man posing proudly for his graduation from Worcester Technical High School, and I was reduced to a puddle of tears. That his family should include me in this celebration both flatters and humbles me, for the credit for John’s incredible accomplishments goes to many. But the real powerhouse behind John’s extraordinary success is his mom, Suzette Simoncini Donas. Suzette took no excuses — not from doctors, John or his educators. Her steely determination directed those of us entrusted with his care. John was screened through the Worcester Public
Schools’ early intervention program, which led to his eventual diagnosis. His parents enlisted the help of the former New England Center for Autism, and in Suzette’s opinion, their strict, sometimes controversial methods were the reason John made such amazing gains socially. Like any recent high-school grad, John has goals. Having completed two “ pre-req” courses at QCC with a 4.0 average, he’s well on his way to achieving so much more. “Actually, I’m thinking of either going for computer science … or acting,” he says. The budding thespian played Theseus in a WTHS production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and loved it. The boy who cried silently is laughing as he recounts his experience. “I played the Duke of Athens!” he says loudly, proudly. His grin reveals the braces he resisted until recently. Tactilely defensive, John still struggles with sensory overload, and the molds made of his mouth by his orthodontist were a test of his endurance. Like every other roadblock he’s faced, the molds and braces were no match for his resolve. Sitting at the Donas kitchen table on a lovely Sunday afternoon, I can feel my eyes filling up again. That “takes a village” quote is sometimes tossed around casually, but in this case, it fits — and I’m grateful to have been part of that village, no matter how small my hut might have been. Janice Harvey can be reached at editor@worcestermag.com.
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many will dependent on Social Security as a major source of income. The Kaiser Family Foundation reports that Medicare beneficiary out-of-pocket health care spending consumes roughly the same percentage of total household expenditures as food and transportation. And an increasing number of 50-64 year olds rely on Medicaid for healthcare because they are chronically unemployed and too young for Medicare. The time to speak up is right now. Before August 1, Congress will take action on a gigantic (think trillions of dollars) economic issue: the debt ceiling. In the run up to this deadline, some politicians are proposing harmful cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. I want Senator Brown, Senator Kerry and Congressman McGovern to stand against any across-the-board cuts to the benefits I worked my entire life to earn, paying into the system – each and every paycheck. And, I know that I’m not alone. Before Congress cuts Medicare and Social Security – the health care and paychecks of millions of families everywhere – they should look at some obvious solutions to the debt problem. Cut wasteful spending. Close tax loopholes. End the tragic waste of lives and dollars in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then, Congress should work towards strengthening Medicare and Social Security for future generations, not cutting them. I believe we must raise our voices to protect these important programs for the elders of today and tomorrow. I hope you will join me.
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On February 6, while the rest of us prepared to watch the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV, Fran Shivick was immersed in an annual tradition of her own. That’s the date that the woman affectionately known as “The Tomato Lady” always plants the seeds at Oxford’s Shivick Farms with husband Raymond for what will become a thousand or so tomato plants timed to ripen on Flag Day just prior to the mid-June opening of the Worcester Farmers’ Market at Beaver Brook.
“We plant a lot,” Fran Shivick says. “We have six green houses, but because of the oil situation this year, I only did five.” She’s one of 23 vendors that work under the Greater Worcester Farmers’ Market banner at its Beaver Brook west side location on Chandler Street on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; Northeast side base at Salem Covenant Church on East Mountain Street on Thursdays; and UMass Memorial Medical Center on Tuesdays beginning July 19. In providing locally grown farm produce (and in some instances, meat) in the city, Greater Worcester Farmers’ Market is joined by Regional Environmental Council of Central Massachusetts’ (REC) Community Farmers’ Markets on Saturday in Main South at the YMCA Central Community Branch on Main Street and on every second Saturday in Great Brook Valley; and by a handful of farms that participate at the City of Worcester’s Out to Lunch on the Worcester Common during the Summer Concert Series on Fridays. Shivick has been selling tomatoes for 28 years. Her daughter, Susan Bombard, who grew up on the farm, helps her on Mondays. She recalled always getting up late and having to weed the largest rows as a result. “I was one of five kids,” Bombard shares. “The other four would get up earlier and take the shorter rows.” Along with her big juicy tomatoes, Shivick’s specialty is pickling cucumbers; her early-season romaine and buttercrunch lettuce is also popular. “You have to get here early for the best selection,” she advises. Andy O’Keefe has overseen the operation of the Greater Worcester Farmers’ Markets since 1992. “We started with eight vendors, three days a week, all down on Front Street (on Worcester Common),” he recalls. “We now average approximately 500 customers a day. Sometimes we get 100;
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some days we get 1,000. We’re open for 100 days. Some people come two or three days a week.” According to the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, the state ranks ninth nationally in selling directly to residents (via farm stands, restaurants and retail and farmers’ markets) to the tune of $42 million annually. The last U.S. Agricultural Census, taken in 2007, showed an increase of 27 percent in the number of farms in the state — to a total of 7,691 — in five years, an estimated 700 of which participate in regional farmers’ markets. “Going organic” is more than a catch phrase — organic farms more than doubled in number here over the past decade. More than 80 percent of state farms are family owned with 95 percent of those “small farms” having annual sales of less than $250,000. Around the time you read this, peaches, plums and nectarines grown at E.L. Silvia Farm of Dighton should be ripe and ready for market, followed shortly afterwards by corn. “That really kicks off the season,” says Pete Plaskon, a family friend of Edward and Jane Silvia, who own the 45-acre farm, and who drives the 50 or so mile trek to Beaver Brook. “That’s when everyone starts coming.” Right now, he’s got a basket filled with cousa (also known as kousa or kusa), a lime-green squash that is a big favorite of his Lebanese and Syrian customers. “The Lebanese shell it out so they like the smallest ones they can find,” Plaskon explains. “They have a device to clean it and then they stuff it with rice and lamb. It’s really delicious.” He knows first hand, because some customers have come back with some of the finished product for him to enjoy. “You get to talking with them about recipes and certain items, and they bring some to you,” Plaskon says. “Tomato jelly is another thing that’s been brought to me.” Another Southeastern Massachusettsbased farm, Oakdale Farms of Rehobeth, is a mainstay of REC’s Main South Farmers’ Market at the YMCA at 766 Main St. Deb Peck has been coming in with her family to run the booth for three years, waking up at 4 a.m. to prepare for the trip to Worcester. Marie and Richard Pray, Jr. own the 150-acre farm that’s been in their family for six generations. Along with its 12 W O R C E S T E R M A G . C O M • J U LY 1 4 , 2 0 1 1
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Above: Boby Jo Samek of Brook Gardens in North Brookfield sells produce at Beaver Brook and Northside Markets. Below: Fran Shivick, otherwise known as “The Tomato Lady” from Shivick Farm.
home base and 10 greenhouses, they work three other farms in Seekonk, Dighton and East Providence, R.I., growing squash, corn, cole crops and peppers. Last weekend, its offerings included broccoli, organically grown Julliete grape tomatoes and radishes. The REC markets are ever-changing affairs with a fun family-carnival atmosphere. On a recent Saturday, I arrived to the sounds of Aretha’s “Respect” playing through the speakers, a line of people waiting to buy “Food Art by Rob” (a.k.a. Robert Ramirez assisted by wife Nilsse and daughter Nichole) that included Dominican lasagna—striped plantains instead of pasta “brought together with a lot of love,” says Ramirez—grilled veggie wraps, grilled corn on the cob, and sales activity around all of its produce booths. “You want people to have fun while they’re here,” said Anthony Gardner, REC Farmers’ Market coordinator for its Main South and Great Brook Valley locations. “Kids can get their faces painted, and we have different local musicians play each week. With the economy, everyone’s struggling, so we let people sell the goods they make here. [This week] we have little kids with their own table who make their own jewelry for sale and another booth has a local woman who makes her own dresses.” The main goal of the Main South and Great Brook Valley Farmers’ Markets is making high-quality healthy food available at an affordable price to lowincome residents who don’t always get to eat as much as they should because of their limited budgets. Those with the EBT (Electronic Benefit Card) and SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) get two for one in their benefit dollars; full details can be found at recworcester.org. “I used to be on unemployment and EBT, so I know what it is to struggle,” Gardner says. “I could spent $100 at a market and still feel I hadn’t bought enough food. Here, you can load up and stock up on all the food you need and still have $150 left of your monthly $200 allotment.” As the summer progresses, Gardner hopes to expand the food offerings at both REC markets. He’d like to find a local meat-farm vendor as well as farms that grow vegetables favored by the city’s Asian community to complement Spanish and African American favorites. The pride of the market (as well as its sister site in Great Brook Valley at the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center at 19 Tacoma St., which is open every second Saturday) is the YouthGROW booth, which started the summer offering kale, collards, chard, pak choi, spinach, salad mix, cilantro, strawberries and peas, all of which was grown a five-minute walk away at the REC’s Oreanic Farm on Oread Street. “We bring the produce in a wagon — it’s never been in a car,” said REC food justice
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for when specific planting should be done. “People are surprised to find this food we sell at the farmers’ markets is all grown on Oread Street and are also amazed to learn these are kids getting their first job opportunity,” Burns says. “They’re people from the inner city with specific stereotypes that are building past that level of expectation.” A second community-run farm, Nuestro Huerto (“Our Backyard Vegetable Garden”), based on Southgate Street, is currently offering kale, collards, beet greens, herbs and peas at the Main South market. Its website invites residents to “Come get your hands dirty!” each Sunday afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m. to work the land. “I wanted to have a name that conveyed a sense of responsibility,” explains Amanda Barker, who’s originally from Pennsylvania and is in the final stages of earning her environmental science and policy master’s degree at Clark University. “It’s not my vegetables, it’s our vegetables.” Those interested in volunteering can get more information at nuestrohuerto.org. Barker had initially thought of having a garden in her own backyard, and then decided to turn her desire for a garden into a self-propelled internship. “Then it became my life,” she says. Her final degree requirement is a paper detailing her experience with Nuestro Huerto and what goes into creating a community garden that will hopefully serve as a guide to those who’ll follow in her shoes. Next year, they’re hoping to start a communitysupported agricultural program, known as a CSA in the field, at the farm where “shareholders” would pay a certain amount each week in return for a box of that week’s harvest. Nuestro Huerto sells half of its harvest at the Main South Farmers’ Market to cover its costs; the other half goes to farm volunteers and a local family shelter. Hannah Converse, who met Barker while living at the same local co-op, drives in from Western Massachusetts to work the farm and sell the produce. “We show the volunteers different gardening and
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program director Casey Burns. YouthGROW graduate Joel Dunbar, 18, Bronx-born and raised in Worcester, was encouraged to participate in the program by Burns, who he had met when she was teaching an after-school program at his junior high school. While he’s no longer in the program, he sells their produce on Saturdays. “I liked everything about the program — the people, the environment — I tried a lot of things I would have never otherwise tried, both experience and food wise,” Dunbar says. “I’ve never been a fan of veggies, even though my parents are vegetarians. I really started to like cilantro, which is used for making salsa, and they turned me onto granola and yogurt. I was so against it when I started; now I’ll eat it anywhere.” He’s joined at the YouthGROW booth — and in a new-found appreciation for cilantro — by Frankie Rodriguez, 17, of Worcester, who joined the program at the encouragement of his aunt. “She worked at farmers’ markets when she was younger,” he informs. “I’m learning more stuff about vegetables, but I do love meat more.” The YouthGROW (Youth Growing and Raising Organics in Worcester) program is a year-round operation, with early-season seedlings started at the College of the Holy Cross greenhouse in mid-January and youth leaders working the Oread Street property — and assisting with community gardens throughout the city — from April to June. Then, in July and August, for eight weeks, it employs 32 local youth who work up to 25 hours per week. “We had 100 applications for 10 open slots,” Burns reports. “It’s heartbreaking to have to turn that many kids away.” The program, now in its ninth year, looks for individuals who are super motivated, skilled and ready to step into a farming position. “We wanted people that this would make a huge impact in their life and who are ready to really thrive. They’re building up resumes for other jobs.” Its youth leaders teach Urban Agriculture 101 — each have a special area that they’re responsible for and a timeline
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harvesting techniques,” she says. Since she started working the farm three years ago, she said she’s been eating more and more vegetables. “It’s so much better fresh.” In the weeks ahead, Nuestro Huerto expects to have sweet-tasting sun gold tomatoes, green and hot peppers, tomatillos that are used in making Mexican salsa, cucumbers and green beans available. “We do our harvesting the morning of the market at 7:45 or 8 a.m. and about 75 percent of the time we bring it to market by bike,” Converse says. “It’s as local as it gets, if it’s not coming from your backyard.” The REC markets feature an array of vendors, from Woo Daddy Waffles, Traveling Chocolates (cookies made of organic vegan ingredients and fair-trade chocolate sold wrapped in a box made out of a road map), New Roots at Willow Brook Farms to the Artichoke Food Coop (natural foods) and Hillcrest Apiaries that sells honey and maple syrup. Jim Dawber of Southbridge operates the Hillcrest booth. He got back into beekeeping three years ago after an earlier five years in the field. “I’m trying to build the equipment and bees back up. You need the hive boxes and to get the bees. There’s
Farms, whose farm stand has been a landmark on Route 140 in Upton for decades, attracts people from miles around for their corn — which if it isn’t available when you read this will be within a week’s time — and fruit. Owner Rick Kelly’s great, great grandfather started the farm in 1936; he’s the fourth generation to work the land, following in the footsteps of his father, Dick Kelly. Initially, it was a wholesaleonly operation, growing lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes and shell beans for retailers. “We were on a busy street and had some extra produce, so we put out a couple of card tables and people would by it on the honor system,” Rick Kelly said. “It grew and grew and grew into a small stall. In 1970, we opened the building we have today.” Currently owning 200 acres of farmland while working 1200 acres in total, Kelly’s decided it could make more of a profit from its surplus produce by selling at farmers’ markets as opposed to selling it wholesale. “We can get a better price,” Rick Kelly said. “It’s always better to sell directly to the public and cut out the middleman.” Mary Owanesian has come to Worcester STEVEN KING
Top left: Ray Samek of Brook Gardens walks through his field in North Brookfield. Above: Jim Dawber of Southbridge’s Hillcrest Apiaries sells locally harvested honey from his own bees. on Kelly’s behalf for the past five years a number of ways to get them. You can of summer Thursdays at the Worcester buy them or get them from someone who Northeast Side Farmers Market at Salem already has bees. I’ve got eight hives in Covenant Church on East Mountain Street. multiple boxes stocked on top of each “I love the people — I love the other. The more hives that come in, the customers, especially when they come more boxes you stack. If you don’t give back year after year. They’re like family,” them boxes, they split.” she said, encouraging a customer to When he’s not beekeeping, Dawber sample its blueberries, raspberries and builds endoscopes and cuts meat partstrawberries, which are surrounded by time for Shaw’s. His “Wildflower Honey” large batches of scallions, beets, swish sells for $3-$12; the maple syrup comes chard and lettuces. “Our customers come from his uncle’s company in Barton, Vt., from the nearby Briarwood Retirement Wright’s Brookside Sugaring. He’s at Community, Great Brook Valley, East Beaver Brook on Fridays and Main South Mountain Village across the street and the on Saturdays. continued on page 14 Now in their 75th year, R & R Kelly J U LY 1 4 , 2 0 1 1 • W O R C E S T E R M A G . C O M 13
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Lincoln Street area.” Michael Wolfgang, 15, assists Owanesian. He gets Kelly’s produce ready to bring to market and assists with the set up. He noted he’s one of the few, amongst his friends, who work on a farm. Now a sophomore at Blackstone Valley Tech, he doesn’t plan to go into farming as a career. “Not really,” Wolfgang says. “I’m more into new technology. For me, it’s a fun job till I’m older, and I need a new one.” During my visit, shell peas were popular at the Kelly booth, as was the aforementioned cousa — “The Italians love it too,” Owanesian says, encouraging my return at the end of July or early August when its peaches and nectarines direct from its orchards would be ripe. “We’ll have fresh picked flowers bunches too; they’re put together by hand by the people working in the fields.” Kelly’s, and many of the other participating farms, follows integrated pest management — spraying only when necessary. All pesticides are biodegradable and breakdown in no more than a week through natural forces. No vegetables are picked till three weeks after spraying. Before ending a phone conversation with Rick Kelly, he wanted to clarify
Daily Bread of Whitinsville brings to market their fresh baked bread. something he said earlier. “Actually, there’s a fifth generation Kelly on the farm, my one-and-a-half-year-old son Ian, though I better not tell him, or he won’t want to do it,” he says with a laugh. Last August, it became legal for wineries to sell their products at farmer’s
markets. Thus, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, you’ll find John J. Samek, owner of Hardwick Vineyard and Winery, at Beaver Brook. His six-acre property has been farmland for 100 years; Samek converted it to grow grapes in 1998 after selling his herd of cows. “We hired
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liver, ground beef, stew meet, beef patties, bacon, hot or sweet sausage and fresh farm eggs. And then there’s Daily Bread, a bakery and cafĂŠ in Whitinsville, whose product won my heart two years ago and hasn’t let go since. There’s multigrain and honey-wheat, dark-rye, ciabatta, rosemary, garlic-parmesan, sun-dried tomato, cranberry-orange, sour-dough, and monkey bread (cinnamon swirl) — all heavenly. Last fall, wanting to stay in touch with their Worcester customers in the off-season, Daily Bread started delivering to Ed Hyder’s Mediterranean Marketplace on Pleasant Street. Lindsay McNealy bought the bakery last year. “We make the bread fresh every day,â€? she says. “Someone’s always up by 5 o’clock with bread rising. I’m usually there by 8; the next baker comes in at 3. We develop a relationship with it.â€? Samples are always a good way to snag new customers. I couldn’t refuse the chocolate-chip cookie offer from retired schoolteacher Kathleen Despres, who started Kathie’s Bakeshop last year. Her menu includes molasses spice cookies, whoopee pies, chocolate zucchini bread, blueberry muffins, and her specialty — short-bread fingers with chocolate filling.
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Along the Side of the Road Vanessa Formato
Local college students produce new play
While most kids are spending their summer vacations relaxing poolside, one group of local students is getting seriously productive, staging an original play with the help of the West Boylston Arts Foundation. Opening on Thursday, July 28, at West Boylston High School, with additional showings on July 29 and 30, “Along the Side of the Road (A Possum)” is a show that will leave its audience not just laughing, but thinking, too.
Look Ma Productions is what you get when five enterprising soon-to-be college juniors join forces. Made up of Jared Fancy, Ashley Hevey, Michael Perotto, Connor Sampson and Emily Stark, the company came about organically, a product of high-school friendships and shared interests in the performance arts. Together, Look Ma (then Drop the Soap) produced its first show last year, a rendition of the comedy “Beyond Therapy.” This year, they decided to take a different route by breathing life into one of Sampson’s original works. “I wrote it in my Playwriting 1 class” says Sampson, who attends New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he studies playwriting and television writing. “The assignment was to Google Image search a picture, and I found a picture of a boy lying in the road with an owl mask on. That actually inspired the first monologue of my play, which inspired the play itself.” The play, focusing on the lives of a young family in modern America, explores themes of faith, regret, loyalty and euthanasia. “I want to push [the audience]” Sampson says, emphasizing that theater doesn’t have to be campy, as enjoyable as that can be. With their diverse backgrounds in the arts, the Look Ma team has been able to work relatively independently to make this all happen. Fancy is Look Ma’s graphic designer, putting to use the skills he’s picked up at the Mass. College of Art and Design, creating sets and posters for the production in addition to acting in the show. Stark is not just an actress, but also co-directs with Sampson, who plays a lead character opposite Hevey. Perotto studies public relations at Emerson and has been handling press and promotions. “We’re all working two jobs,” Perotto says. Fortunately, they’ve had help, too. The West Boylston Arts Foundation, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to maintaining strong arts and music programs in West
Boylston schools, has lent its support by securing the performance space, helping pay many of the production costs and generally lending a hand where it’s needed. Look Ma Productions’ ultimate goal is to use its
Arts Foundation. “And they are very generously donating their proceeds to school arts and music programs through the WBAF, giving back to the school and students where they got a chance to fall in love with theater.” PHOTO SUBMITTED
The cast from left: Emily Stark (Stranger/Sheena), Jared Fancy (Charlie), Ashley Hevey (Mary), and Connor Sampson (Paul). collective talents to reinvigorate a passion for theater and the arts in its audiences through shows that are “unique, witty and touch upon themes not often seen on stage.” By performing innovative pieces, the group hopes to encourage viewers to support arts on a local scale and beyond. “Here we have former students and friends that the WBAF supported when they were in high school returning and wanting to produce their own community theater—as an organization that works hard to promote arts education, how could we not sponsor them?” asks Mark Baldi, president of the West Boylston
The whole cast and crew hopes this show will ignite that same love in everyone it touches. “When I was little, I was brought to shows,” Sampson says, “and there’s nothing like the rush of seeing a live show and being in the audience right before a show starts. I feel like people don’t get that feeling anymore. You go to movies for that feeling now, but I want to bring it back to the theater.” “Along the Side of the Road (A Possum),” July 28, 29 and 30. All shows start at 8 p.m. West Boylston High School, 125 Crescent St, West Boylston. J U LY 1 4 , 2 0 1 1 • W O R C E S T E R M A G . C O M
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Empire State by Jason Shiga (Abrams) This extremely sweet little not-a-lovestory is sure to charm you as it follows the basically platonic friendship between the naive Jimmy and more worldly, wise-cracking Sara as each moves into adulthood and New York City from their native Oakland. Sara’s trek is in the form of a new life — Jimmy’s a visit — as each
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn and Quarterly) This 1973 Manga is finally available in our country, a fictionalized World War II memoir that Mizuki calls “90% true.” Average Joe Japanese soldiers contend with the island’s greatest dangers — malaria and alligators — until the American army shows up and begins to push inward. Mizuki peppers the tale with an amiable goofiness that captures the period and his experience, but it is filtered through a graphic rage at what he and his fellow soldiers experienced. Sometimes grim and gruesome, always powerful.
Psychiatric Tales by Daryl Cunningham (Bloomsbury) Cartoonist Cunningham mixes together his experiences working in a psychiatric hospital with some brief, wider information about the conditions he encountered in order to create a fuller overview of mental illness— dementia, depression, cutting, suicide—all against the backdrop of a person just trying to do their job. Cunningham turns it into something more than a grazing of the issue, though, when in the end he makes it personal, providing a frank and sympathetic introduction to the issues surrounding mental illness. confronts the unknown territory of being a grown-up in different ways. With an ending that doesn’t pander, Shiga delivers an excellent romance for realists.
Ice Haven by Dan Clowes (Pantheon Books) Utilizing a multiplicity of cartooning styles and comic-strip presentations, Clowes presents the comings and goings in Ice Haven at the point of a childkidnapping as a dizzying collage of little moments that tell a lot about human nature, but perhaps less about the crime itself. Wrapping his dysfunctional characters and their self-involvement around a so-called communal event, Clowes tears down the world and tosses in some off-color self-deprecation — hilarious and depressing.
Red Skull #1 (Marvel Comics)
Who’d have thought a mini-series revealing the details of the origin of Captain America’s greatest foe would show such maturity — and I mean that in the best possible sense and not for the usual meaning in comics. Opening in an orphanage in Munich in 1923, author Greg Pak echoes his Magneto origin story from a few years ago to follow another road of victimization, but this one leading to evil, like an abused child acting out his hurt. Johann Schmidt watches Nazis march in with pride and cheers, and so broken is he that he thinks he might well have found his outlet to self-realization somewhere in the fulfillment of a pathetic and hateful national myth. Not one bit of clichéd superhero melodramatics or action in sight. Contact John at mister.j.seven@gmail.com.
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The Mill Restaurant offers smokehouse, Italian-American, and American comfort foods, covering a broad, general American palate in flavor at a reasonable price and served by excellent staff. We were seated right away in the back near where the live musician was playing. Our waitress was one of the best we’ve had and gave honest and thorough explanations of everything on the menu. We were never without drink for the entire meal. We started with the smoked salmon appetizer, which arrived with our choices of a soup and a salad with our respective entrees. All the smoking is done in-house, and the salmon was a good example. The rémoulade it came with was about
average, but the fish was very good and went especially well with the cup of clam chowder that I ordered with my dinner. Adding a small forkful of the salmon to a spoonful of chowder made both even better. The chowder was better-thanaverage with a sweet, but not too thick or rich, base, and plenty of clams and potatoes. There was little wait between appetizers and entrées. I ordered the Porcini mushroom ravioli while Scott ordered the full rack of ribs, which came with beans and cole slaw. The ravioli portion was generous and each ravioli was packed heavy with the delicious mushroom and the plate doused in a mild tomato-cream sauce. While a certain degree of “mild” is needed for the delicate taste of Porcini mushrooms, and I admit that milder sauces are more popular with the general demographic, I thought this sauce was just a little too mild; however, it was somewhat more appetizing if I made sure to include a bit of fresh basil with each bite. Scott’s “full rack” of ribs was really a “half rack” by most barbeque-joint standards, but the $15.99 price was a
match for the size. The meat, itself, was very good and had an excellent bark from the smoking process and the ribs could be easily separated with a butter knife. They came covered in a sweet Kansas City-style barbeque sauce, which is the most popular style of sauce. The cole-slaw tasted extremely fresh and had just enough dressing, while the beans were nice and smoky with a hint of Worcestershire sauce to give them a unique flavor. While the portions were good sized, both Scott and I found room for dessert. I had the Chocolate Fantasy cake, which is a thick layer of dark chocolate mousse atop a layer of devil’s food cake and topped with chopped hazelnuts and white and dark chocolate sauce. It was wonderfully rich and dense – and one of the biggest slices of cake I’ve ever received at a restaurant. Scott ordered the tiramisu, which he enjoyed, although it was a more Americanized version made with sweetened
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espresso and sweet whipped cream. While The Mill doesn’t excel in smokehouse barbeque or Italian food like a restaurant specializing in either, it serves up solidly good food that is engineered to appeal to a wide demographic, including finicky eaters, children, and people who want something a little different than the usual fare at the ubiquitous family-dining establishment. The price is also right on target for the quality and quantity of food you get. For an appetizer, two entrées with soup or salad, two desserts, a glass of wine, and a soft drink, our bill was $61.23. On top of that, service is excellent. All around us, we saw and heard every waiter and waitress going out of their way to please patrons – and that is an important aspect to any dining experience. So, if you’re looking for a solidly good, affordable restaurant that will likely please everyone in your party, definitely check out The Mill.
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Wasabi Japanese Restaurant has added itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name to the long list of restaurants at the Natick Collections. The restaurant, based out of Washington, DC, features sushi on a conveyor belt! The restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s facebook says the 255-foot conveyor belt will display more than 300 different items at a time. They are hoping to open August 5. 1245 Worcester Street (Route 9), Natick. wasabisushi.com.
The Niche Hospitality group announces the opening of is second location of Mezcal, the Mexican cantina, in downtown Leominster. The new Mezcal will occupy the building previously used for the Blue Marlin. Mezcal Tequila Cantina, 20 Central St., Leominster. mezcalcantina.com.
The 3rd Annual Worcester Restaurant Week kicks off the first two weeks of August. You can enjoy a three-course meal at almost 50 of the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best restaurants all for the low price of $23.11. For a complete list of participating restaurants, visit worcesterrestaurantweek.com, where you also enter to win gift certificates from your favorite local eateries.
Yankee Magazine, the magazine of New England living has acclaimed Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coney Island Hot Dogs with serving the â&#x20AC;&#x153;best hot dogs in the state of Massachusetts.â&#x20AC;? Check out Coney Islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s retro-style hot-dog joint, where you can get all the fixings when they reopen from vacation on July 20. 158 Southbridge St., Worcester. 508-753-4362 or
Worcester addition! A Japanese Steakhouse just opened named Hirosaki Prime. The mix between fresh sushi and Kobe steak is sure to fit anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s palette. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget about the extensive wine list and sake! 1121 Grafton St, Worcester. hirosakiprime.com or 508-926-8700. Beatnikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has a new patio just in time for your outdoor dining pleasure, plus a new & improved menu, and some great homemade summer specials! Stop by for good music, good times and some good food! 433 Park Ave., Worcester. 508.926.8877 beatniksbeyou.com Have a BITES tip for us? Send to editor@worcestermag.com.
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eatbeat The People’s Kitchen 1 Exchange Place 508-459-9090 What the people need is a place downtown featuring top-notch cocktails, craft beers, well-priced wines, and sophisticated food at fair prices. Located in a stylish space upstairs from The Citizen Wine Bar at One Exchange Place, TPK features an artisanal approach to food, from house-made charcuterie and dry-aged steaks to updated versions of comfort-food classics. The $20 TPK Supper, offered Sunday through Thursday nights, is a terrific threecourse deal, and most mains on the regular menu are under $20. Power to the people. Sweet T Southern Kitchen 35 Blackstone River Road, Worcester 508-756-0100 sweettworcester.com Sweet T Southern Kitchen brings a homemade southern venue of comfort to Worcester. On the back of freshly prepared recipes and classic southern ingredients, this new eatery may have carved out an up-and-coming niche that feels like home.
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Music combined with the great outdoors this summer makes living in New England worth the cold hard winter. Stop by the Elm Park Summer Concert Series 2011 tonight and catch The Red Riders and be reminded how nice the warm breeze feels. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s free! 6:30-8 p.m. Elm Park, Highland Street and Park Avenue. The Blackstone Valley Tourism Arista Award winning Canal District Wagon Tours are doubling this summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capacity to accommodate visitors who wish to enjoy this historic tour. Local high schoolers are trained as guides and interpreters bringing back to life interesting Worcester characters. Fun and informative, these students perform after rigorous training and rehearsal portraying men and woman whom have shaped our city. Free. 5-7 p.m.; 6-8 p.m.; 7-9 p.m. behind Union Station at Franklin and Harding streets; Temple and Harding streets; 90 Harding St. at Franklin St. During the Street Beat Poetry Thursday 11th Year Anniversary join host and founder Anne Marie Lucci to celebrate and welcome poet, artist, author and octogenarian extraordinaire, Eleanor Wilmot Vincelette. Vincelette will read from and sign copies of her fourth collection of poetry, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pages From My Life: SeventyFive Years of Poetry Inspired by Lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Experiences.â&#x20AC;? Vincelette has performed every genre of poetry including competing in slams and featuring at every venue of poetry in the last 15 years that she has been actively performing. Her workâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;historical, biographical as well as environmentally politicalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;spans the years of raising nine children and then going back to school after age 60 and
achieving a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in English, a Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Education, and a second bachelors in communications. She even interned at Worcester Magazine in her â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s and has several published articles to her credit. 7-9 p.m. Vasa Hall, First Floor Performance Space, 1 Ekman St. 508-479-7574, wcpa.homestead.com. Roots music and a ďŹ ne meal will await you at Ceres Bistro when The Whalebone Farmhouse Trio takes the stage. A foot-stomping fusion of folk jazz and blues, crazy ďŹ nger picking, with a unique original sound. Keri Anderson and Rocky Kramm have been bringing you roots music for almost 10 years. Enjoy an intimate summer evening on the patio listening to the sweet sounds of Whalebone Farmhouse. 8-11 p.m. Ceres Bistro at Beechwood Hotel, 363 Plantation St. 508-754-2000. More summertime tunes await you tonight during Worcester Chamber Music Societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Summer Festival Concert. WCMS and QX String Quartet will perform Bach, Reich, Ullman and Dvorak, with a preconcert conversation at 7:40 p.m. $25, general admission. 8-10 p.m. Anna Maria College: Miriam Hall, 50 Sunset Ln., Paxton. 508-849-3300. The Complete History of America (Abridged) opens tonight and runs through Saturday, July 16. Sunburns Theatre brings you this show of three â&#x20AC;&#x153;expertsâ&#x20AC;? covering 500 years of American history in 90 minutes! Previously performed by the Reduced Shakespeare Company, this production is starring Ben LaVerierre, Richard Pavis, and Michael Riggieri. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss this
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>Friday 15 Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s An Attack, American Verse, Speaker for The Dead, Marky Connolly, Bombay and Electric Barrelhouse come to The Raven tonight over at 258 Pleasant St. 508-304-8133, ďŹ nd them on Facebook. The ultimate Neil Diamond tribute band The Diamond Collection takes over Concerts on the Common tonight. Close your eyes and you just may believe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the real Neil behind the mic! This seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s series will include expanded food offerings as well as artisans & crafters, and a farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; market. Free. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Worcester City Hall Common, Front St. 508-799-1175, outtolunchworcester.com. The Worcester Jazz Orchestra plays the Ecotariumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz at Sunset series tonight. For more than 15 years, the Worcester Jazz Orchestra has amassed critical acclaim - and a local following - for its brand of big-band sound. Gates open at 5:30 p.m., lawn seating; bring a chair. Concert includes museum admission. $18, $15 EcoTarium and WICN members. 6:30-8:30 p.m. EcoTarium, Sundial Plaza, 222 Harrington Way. 508-9292700, ecotarium.org. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the annual Our Lady of Mount Carmel Italian Festival this weekend! Partake in rides, games, events for
children, authentic Italian and Italian-American foods, soda, beer and wine: Friday, 6 p.m.-midnight; Saturday, noon-midnight; Sunday, noon-midnight. On the 17th, there will also be a special Mass celebrating Our Lady with a parade down Shrewsbury Street. Each day and evening features outstanding entertainment including bands from the local music scene. Free. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Recreation Center, 28 Mulberry St. 508-797-4546.
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Seven Hills Wheelmen bicycle ride Roll out at 9 a.m. sharp from Long Pond boat ramp, Rutland, on a 42-mile bicycle ride with the Seven Hills Wheelmen. Helmets are required. Free. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Long Pond Boat Ramp, Barre Paxton Road and Crawford Road, Rutland. 508-831-0301, sevenhillswheelmen.org. Whether you’re dreaming of someday owning that 66 ½ Mustang fastback or have finally finished up restoration of your own, then Solomon Pond Mall’s 27th-Annual Mustang Fords Summer Round-Up Show is the place for you to be. The Ford Car Club of New England’s summer round-up will have more than 200 cars in the parking lot for viewing pleasure. Trophies will be awarded for a variety of categories and will also feature Fords from 1903 as well as jaw-dropping Ford Mustang restorations. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Solomon Pond Mall, Parking Lot, 601 Donald Lynch Blvd., Marlborough. 508-303-6255. 1st-Annual Tower Hill Family Picnic Families are invited to enjoy a barbeque and picnic, a fairy-house and gnome-home workshop, a children’s outdoor concert, an outdoor scavenger hunt with prizes, an Alpaca petting zoo, face painting, and more! $10, Adults; $7, Seniors; Free for Children 17 and younger and Tower Hill members. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Dr., Boylston. Call 508-869-6111. 87th-Annual Romanian Festival. This year Wally the Green Monster will be making a return appearance as well as the usual features: Shish Kebab, homemade Romanian pastries, live music by the Near East Sounds Band and more. Free; rain or shine from noon-6 p.m. St. Michael Orthodox Christian Church, 16 Romanian Ave., Southbridge. 508-765-5276, stmichaelorth.org.
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The Dive Bar presents Bop ’n Pop every Monday evening through September, featuring live jazz, blues, and funk organ band. No cover and the best beer selection in town to accompany some of the funkiest music around. 34 Green St., Worcester. 9 p.m.-midnight.
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If it’s Tuesday night you must be heading down to The Citadel for a night of Airsoft fun. The sport of Airsoft is where participants shoot round, nonmetallic pellets launched via replica firearms. If it
sounds like your kind of competitive and safe fun, then come by Tuesdays from 6-10 p.m. for open games: $20 for one, or $30 for two! The Citadel, 344 Franklin Street, Worcester, 508-799-4272, citadelairsoft.com.
Thursdays LIVE. Always great company, cash bar. Free for members; $14 for nonmembers. Worcester Art Museum, outdoors, weather permitting/The Museum Cafe, 55 Salisbury St. 508-7994406, worcesterart.org.
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Filmmaker Kaz Gamble shares a first-hand portrait of his brother’s struggle in “My Brother Tom,” a humorous yet heartbreaking documentary about growing up with undiagnosed Asperger’s Syndrome. “My Brother Tom” follows Kaz’s misunderstood and isolated brother until his family discovers a form of autism that the world is only beginning to recognize. Free. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Jacob Edwards Library, 236 Main St., Southbridge. 508-764-5426.
Join Mass Energy for a visit to Holy Name’s wind turbine during Holy Name Wind Turbine Fest. A free barbeque and Mass Energy Wind t-shirts will be provided. All ages are welcome. Free. 6-8 p.m. Holy Name Central Catholic Junior Senior High School, 144 Granite St. 800-287-3950, holynamewindfest.eventbrite.com.
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Chill out to the surf-inspired sounds of SPF4 and tour The Worcester Art Museum’s exhibition—Leisure, Pleasure, & the Birth of the Modern French Woman—during the next Third
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508-363-1888 or facebook.com. The Whalebone Farmhouse Trio. They will delight you with foot stomping fusion of folk, jazz and blues, crazy finger picking, with a unique original sound. No cover, tips appreciated. 8-11 p.m. Ceres Bistro at Beechwood Hotel, 363 Plantation St. 508-754-2000. Worcester Chamber Music Society – Summer Festival Concert. WCMS and QX String Quartet perform Bach, Reich, Ullman and Dvorak. Pre-concert conversation: 7:40 PM. Tickets available online and at the door. $25 general admission. 8-10 p.m. Anna Maria College: Miriam Hall, 50 Sunset Lane, Paxton. 508-849-3300. Audio Wasabi hosted by Brian Chaffee. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner. 978-669-0122. MTCXXXII: Truckfighters [Sweden], Black Pyramid, Mockingbird, Blue Aside. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. The Smile Makers. No cover. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. Club Days End w/ DJ Roberta - Dance off for cash. She’ll be spinning all the hottest dance tunes and hip hop beats from 9:30pm-1am. Midnight dance-off competition for awesome cash prizes. 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Days End Tavern, 287 Main St., Oxford. 508-987-1006 or daysendtavern.com. James Keyes. 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439.
>Friday 15 It’s An Attack, American Verse, Speaker for The Dead, Marky Connolly, Bombay, Electric Barrelhouse. The Raven, 258 Pleasant St. 508-304-8133 or find them on facebook. Siddharthveda Album Release Party. 9-2 a.m. Hotel
Vernon - The Ship Room/Kelley Square Yacht Club, 1 Millbury St. Peanut Butter & Jam in the Park - The Red Riders. Bring a blanket or chair. Rain location: Elm Draught House Cinema, 35 Elm Street. Free. Noon-1 p.m. Millbury Town Common, Main St. and Elm St., Millbury. 508-865-3477. Open Mic Night at Tatnuck Bookseller Gift Gallery & Cafe w/host Steve Beckwith. Registration opens at 6pm at the cafe, in the front of the store. Free. 6-8:30 p.m. Tatnuck Bookseller & Cafe, Cafe, 18 Lyman St., Westborough. 978-7795227 or tatnuck.com. Jazz at Sunset: The Worcester Jazz Orchestra. Gates open at 5:30. General admission is lawn seating. Concert includes museum admission. General admission: $18 per person, $15 for EcoTarium and WICN members. Reserved tables for 4: $90, $80 for EcoTarium and WICN members. 6:30-8:30 p.m. EcoTarium, Sundial Plaza, 222 Harrington Way. 508-929-2700 or ecotarium.org. Live Band Nightlife - Outdoor Concert. If there is 25% or more forecasted chance of rain in Sturbridge, the entertainment will be inside the hotel’s VIPs Lounge. Free. 7-11 p.m. Oxhead Tavern, 366 Main St., Sturbridge. 508-347-7393. The Killer B’s. 7-10 p.m. Lidio’s Restaurant & Lounge, 1045 Central St., Leominster. 978-534-6600. Attaboys. FREE. 7:30-11:30 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W. Boylston St. 508-796-6856 or facebook.com. Ryan Brooks Kelly Band. Free. 8-12:30 p.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner. 978-537-5111 or brothersandsistersbluestour.com. Luke Mulholland. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Black Sheep Tavern, 261 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8484. Mike Livingston. 8-11 p.m. Cornerstone’s Restaurant, 616 Central St., Leominster. 978-537-1991. The Lie, Perseide (from France), Age of Punishment, Imposter, and more. $6. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall,
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89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or luckydogmusic.com. Bill McCarthy @ Pepe’s Brick Oven. Free. 8:30-11:30 p.m. Pepe’s Brick Oven, 274 Franklin St. 508-755-1978. Live Music in the Pub - Rick Porter and The Sons of Soil. 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Fiddlers’ Green Pub & Restaurant, 19 Temple St. 508-792-3700.. A night of rock with the one and only Planetoid w/ Das Muerte, Lenkadu and Oilhead. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. Brian Kendall & Dave Miller. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Celtic Tavern, 45 Belmont St., Northborough. 508-366-6277. Chris Reddy Acoustic Loops from Hell. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Cigar Masters, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035. Dick Odgren Trio. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. DJ Pete the Polock. Free. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. 3-G’s Sports Bar, The Music Room, 152 Millbury St. 508-754-3516. I Love Fridays at Fusion with DJ B-Lo. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Fusion, 109 Water St. 508-756-2100. Jon Lacouture. Free. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Art’s Diner, West Boylston St. Mongrel. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Jillian’s - Worcester, 315 Grove St. 508-793-0900. Mr J Band. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Central St., Leominster. 978-537-7750. Touched - Classic Rock & 80’s Pop. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Chopstick’s Restaurant & Lounge, Commercial Road, Leominster. touchedband.com.
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Ukes on The Common. Informal ukelele jam session for all ages and levels to learn to play, share tunes, and have fun. Ukeleles provided if participants do not have their own. To be held downstairs at the West Boylston First Congregational Church in the event of rain. Free. 10 a.m.-noon West Boylston Town Common, Bandstand Gazebo, Intersection of Routes 12 & 140, West Boylston. Worcester Jazz Jam. Jazz jam session for professionals and amateurs. Bring your Real Book. Free. 2-5 p.m. Nu Cafe, 335 Chandler St. 508-926-8800. Where’s Tom @ Pinecroft Concert Series. No cover. 6-8 p.m. Pinecroft Dairy, 555 Prospect St., West Boylston. 508-8530717 or wherestomrocks.com. Dale LePage and The Bobby Gadoury Trio. 7 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. Live Band The Whammy Bars - Outdoor Concert. Join the party every Friday and Saturday at 7 PM. If there is 25% or more forecasted chance of rain in Sturbridge, the entertainment will be inside the hotel’s VIP Lounge. Free. 7-11 p.m. Oxhead Tavern, 366 Main St., Sturbridge. 508-347-7393. Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra Summer Family Concert. (Rain date: Sunday, July 17) Free but donations accepted. 7-9 p.m. Institute Park, Salisbury St. and Park Ave. 508-754-1234. Bill McCarthy @ Tavern On The Common Free. 7:30-10:30 p.m. Tavern on the Common, 249 Main St., Rutland. 508-886-4600. Jesse Fontaine “Trio” to perform Music From The Great American Songbook & Beyond. 7:30-11 p.m. Guiseppe’s Grille, 35 Solomon Pond Road, Northborough. 508393-4405. Fear Nuttin Band, The Force, Speak, and The Grand Arkanum. $8. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or facebook.com/fearnuttinban. KISS Tribute Band Almost Human. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Whiskey Alley, 281 Lunenburg St. Fitchburg. 978-345-4040. Oh Hey Bear. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Black Sheep Tavern, 261 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8484. The Dixie Bee-Liners. $14 advance; $18 day of show. 8-11 p.m. Bull Run Restaurant, Ballroom, 215 Great Road, Shirley. 978425-4311 or tickets.bullrunrestaurant.com. Sean Fullerton: Acoustic Blues, Rock & Fingerstyle Guitar. Sean’s live shows are fun, exciting, and audience participation is always encouraged. 8:30-11 p.m. Firehouse Pub, 3 Central St., Ashburnham. 978-827-5782 or seanfullertonmusic.
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Beatles For Sale the Tribute. Concert on the Common, sponsored by the “Friends of the Shrewsbury Library”. This is a free, all ages event. (Rain location: Shrewsbury Senior Center, Maple Ave.) 6-8 p.m. Shrewsbury, Town Common, Main St. and Boylston St., Shrewsbury. Big Jon Short. No cover. 8-11 p.m. Armsby Abbey, 144 North Main St. 508-795-1012 or armsbyabbey.com . Scott Riccuiti, Michael Thibodeau & John Donovan. 8-11 p.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439. Worcester Chamber Music Society – Summer Festival Concert. WCMS and QX String Quartet perform music of Bach, Ibert, Weber and Bartok. With guest Sarah Brady, flute. Pre-concert conversation at 7:40 PM. Tickets online or at the door. $25 general admission. 8-10 p.m. Anna Maria College: Miriam Hall, 50 Sunset Lane, Paxton. 508-849-3300. The Bobby Gadoury American Songbook Sing-aLong. Live Karaoke. No cover. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.
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Girls Night Out, every Wednesday. All females (ages 2-92) receive: Free billiards all night, $5 GameCard, complimentary appetizer buffet, chocolate covered fruit After 9 PM, 18+. Free. 6 p.m.-1 a.m. Jillian’s, Worcester, 315 Grove St. 508-793-0900. Outdoor Concert: Blues/Americana with Jumpin’ Juba. Outdoor concert, behind the Fire Station: reverbnation.com/ jumpinjuba. Rain date: 8-10-11. 6-8 p.m. Sterling Town Gazebo, Ross St., Sterling. 978-422-3041. Free Wednesday night Concert series w/ Warner Drive and David Rosenfield! Free. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or luckydogmusic.com. Vincent’s Presents: Tiki Night with Frank & Eric. 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439. Clayton Willoughby. No cover. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.
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TOWN OF MILLBURY A PUBLIC HEARING MILLBURY BOARD OF APPEALS In accordance with Chapter 40A of the Massachusetts General Law and the Zoning Ordinances of the Town of Millbury, a public hearing will be held in the hearing room of the Municipal Building, 127 Elm Street, Millbury, MA on: Wednesday, July 27, 2011At: 7:50 p.m.To act on a petition from: Travis D. Perry, 228 W. Main St., Millbury, MA For a Variance in the Millbury Zoning Ordinance relative to: frontage in order to construct a single-family dwelling at 57 Stowe Rd., Millbury Mass. Map 57, Lot 10. All interested parties are invited to attend. Richard P. Valentino, Chairman Millbury Board of Appeals 7/14 & 7/21/2011
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LEGALS/PUBLIC NOTICES SECTION 00 02 00 WORCESTER HOUSING AUTHORITY MODERNIZATION/NEW DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT INVITATION FOR BIDS The Worcester Housing Authority will receive sealed bids for the Sidewalk and Parking Lot Improvement Project – Belmont Street Property until 1:00 PM on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at the office of the Worcester Housing Authority, Modernization/New Development Office, 81 Tacoma Str, Worcester, MA 01605 at which time & place all bids will be publicly opened & read aloud. The project includes the removal and replacement of portions of the existing sidewalk, repaving of a parking lot and adjusting existing catch basins at the Belmont Street Property. Estimated construction cost is $50,000. All bids must conform with provisions of Mass. General Laws, Chapter 30, Section 39M and Chapter 149, Section 44A to 44L inclusive and the Instruction to Bidders. Bid Forms and Contract Documents will be available for pickup at Worcester Housing Authority, 81 Tacoma Street, Worcester, MA 01605 (Telephone 508-635-3304) between the hours of 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM beginning July 21, 2011. Copies of the contract documents prepared by the Lenard Engineering, Inc may be obtained on July 21, 2011, after 10 am at the above address by depositing $50 in the form of a company check, made payable to the Worcester Housing Authority, for each set obtained. The amount of the deposit will be refunded to each person who returns the plans, specifications and other documents in good condition within ten (10) days after bid opening. Bidders requesting Contract documents be mailed to them shall include a separate check in the amount of $40.00 for each set payable to the Worcester Housing Authority to cover mailing and handling costs. The Contract Documents may be seen, but not removed at: F.W. Dodge, MHC/Joseph Merritt & Co., 17 Everberg Rd, Unit C, Woburn, MA 01801 (781-430-2008) Reed Construction Data, 30 Technology Pkwy South, Ste 500, Norcross, GA 30092 (203-426-0450) Each bid shall be accompanied by a bid guaranty in the form of a bid bond, issued by a responsible surety company licensed to do business in Massachusetts, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, made payable to the Worcester Housing Authority as follows: a. By bidders for General Contract in the amount of 5% of the bid price. Attention is called to the following: a. Provisions for Equal Employment Opportunity. b. Provisions for payment of not less than the minimum wages set forth in the Specifications. c. Provisions of Chapter 14, Acts of 1966, Imposing a Temporary Sales Tax, Section 1, Subsection 6 (d) and (k) exempting the Authority from the operation of such a chapter. d. Requirement to furnish and pay for a Performance Bond and Labor and Materials Bond as set forth in the Specifications. e. Insurance Certificate indicating coverage for public liability, property damage and workers compensation, in accordance with the Contract Requirements, must be filed by the successful bidder upon signing of the Contract. Each General Bid shall be accompanied by: (1) Non-Collusive Affidavit attached to the bid. (2) Form of General Bid. (3) General Contractor Statement. (4) Form HUD-5369A Representations, Certifications and Other Statements of Bidders. (5) Previous Participation Certification (HUD-2530). (6) Bid Bond A PRE-BID CONFERENCE will be held at the Project site, Lincoln Park Tower Property, 11 Lake Ave, Worcester, MA 01604 at 11:00 AM on Wednesday August 3, 2011 at which time bidders will be invited to visit the project site(s) with the Engineer and a Worcester Housing Authority Representative. Failure to attend or visit the premises shall be no defense in failure to perform contract terms. The Worcester Housing Authority reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waiver any informalities in the bidding if it be in the public interest to do so. No bid of a General Bidder shall be withdrawn, after opening thereof, prior to thirty (30) days, Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays excluded, of the award of the general contract, without the consent of the Worcester Housing Authority. Worcester Housing Authority Arthur T. Sisko, Chairperson 7/14 & 7/21/2011
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SEALED BIDS shall be received at the Purchasing Office, 69 Tacoma St., Worceseter, MA 01605 IFBs maybe picked up at the location above or will be mailed/emailed to you . Please email purchasing@worcesterhousing.com or call (508) 695-3203, TDD (508) 798-4530. Bidders are responsible for ensuring they have received any/all addenda prior to submitting a bid. Separate awards will be made for each IFB. WHA reserves the right to reject any all responses, in whole or in part, deemed to be in their best interest. The Operating Agency shall indemnify and hold harmless the WHA and its officers or agents from any and all third party claims arising from activities under these Agreements as set fort in MGL c.258, section 2 as amended. Bid No. Release Date Project Title Bid Surety Bid Opening 11-20 7/14/2011 Vehicles (4 Current Models) N/A 9:00 a.m., July 28, 2011 11-21 7/14/2011 Solid Waste Services 5% 10:00 a.m., July 28, 2011 Pre-Bid Conference - 81 Tacoma St., Worcester, MA 10:00 a.m., July 21, 2011 11-24 7/14/2011 RFP - Security Services (Re-Bid) 11:00 a.m., July 28, 2011 Pre-Bid Conference - 81 Tacoma St., Worcester, MA 11:00 a.m., July 21, 2011 Re Cappoli Chief Procurement Officer
TOWN OF MILLBURY The Millbury Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 7:45 P.M. at the Municipal Office Building, 127 Elm Street to act on a Notice of Intent from Bruce & Michelle Hjort for replacement of existing septic system at 12 Sunset Drive. Said work falls under the jurisdiction of the Wetlands Protection Act M.G.L. Chapter 131, Section 40. Donald Flynn Chairman 7/14/2011
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TOWN OF MILLBURY A PUBLIC HEARING MILLBURY BOARD OF APPEALS In accordance with Chapter 40A of the Massachusetts General Law and the Zoning Ordinances of the Town of Millbury, a public hearing will be held in the hearing room of the Municipal Building, 127 Elm Street, Millbury, MA on: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 At: 8:50 p.m.To act on a petition from: Kelly O’Brien, 330 Henshaw St., Leicester, MA For a sp. permit in the Millbury Zoning Ordinance relative to: obtain a kennel license at 145 Providence St., Millbury, MA, to hold 20 dogs at a time. All interested parties are invited to attend. Richard P. Valentino, Chairman Millbury Board of Appeals 7/14 & 7/21/2011
TOWN OF MILLBURY A PUBLIC HEARING MILLBURY BOARD OF APPEALS In accordance with Chapter 40A of the Massachusetts General Law and the Zoning Ordinances of the Town of Millbury, a public hearing will be held in the hearing room of the Municipal Building, 127 Elm Street, Millbury, MA on: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 At: 7:30 p.m. To act on a petition from: Alfred and Beverly Silvia, 61 So. Oxford Rd., Millbury, MA For a sp. permit in the Millbury Zoning Ordinance relative to: rebuild new single-family residence at 61 So. Oxford Rd., Millbury, MA, which would be larger than the existing footprint. All interested parties are invited to attend. Richard P. Valentino, Chairman Millbury Board of Appeals 7/14 & 7/21/2011
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LEGALS/PUBLIC NOTICES Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Docket No. WO11P2083EA NOTICE OF PETITION FOR PROBATE OF WILL In the Estate of: David E Cotton Late of: Worcester, MA 01609 Date of Death: 04/24/2011 to all persons interested in the above captioned estate, a petition has been presented requesting that a document purporting to be the last will of said decedent be proved and allowed that Lawrence B Cotton of Worcester, MA be appointed executor/trix, named in the will to serve Without Surety. IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT: Worcester ON OR BEFORE TEN Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON: 07/26/2011 in addition, you must ďŹ le a written afďŹ davit of objections to the petition, stating speciďŹ c facts and grounds upon which the objection is based, within (30) days after the return day (or such other time as the court, on motion with notice to the petitioner, may allow) in accordance with Probate Rule 16. WITNESS, Denise L. Meagher, First Justice of said Court Date: June 30, 2011 Stephen G. Abraham Register of Probate 7/14/2011
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester, ss. SUPERIOR COURT DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT CIVIL ACTION No. 11-1318A To Raymond E. Hobin, Jr. of Millbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts; and Tina M. Hobin, of Millbury, Worcester County Massachusetts AND TO ALL PERSONS ENTITLED TO THE BENEFIT OF THE SOLDIERSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; AND SAILORSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; CIVIL RELIEF ACT OF 1940 AS AMENDED: Millbury Savings Bank, a banking institution with a usual place of business in Millbury, Worcester, County, Massachusetts; claiming to be the holder of a mortgage covering property situated on McCracken Road, numbered 65 on said road, in said Millbury; Massachusetts given by Raymond E. Hobin, Jr. and Tina M. Hobin to Millbury Savings Bank dated March 24, 2008 recorded in Worcester District Registry of Deeds, Book 42618, Page 322, has ďŹ led with said court a Complaint for authority to foreclose said mortgage in the manner following: by entry on and possession of the premises therein described and by exercise of the power of sale contained in said mortgage. If you are entitled to the beneďŹ ts of the Soldiersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and Sailorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Civil Relief Act of 1940 as amended, and you object to such foreclosure you or your attorney should ďŹ le a written appearance and answer in said court at Worcester in said County on or before the seventeenth day of August next or you may be forever barred from claiming that such foreclosure is invalid under said Act. Witness, Barbara J. Rouse, Esquire, Administrative Justice of said Court this sixth day of July 2011 Dennis P. McManus, Clerk 7/14/2011
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In the interests of Ashley M Cora of Worcester, MA Minor NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES 1. Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor ďŹ led on 06/21/2011 by Normalina Miranda of Worcester, MA will be held 08/02/11 8:30 AM Motion Located Court Room 2, Worcester Probate and Family Court, 225 Main Street, Worcester,MA 01608. 2. Response to Petition: You may respond by ďŹ ling a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to ďŹ le a written response, you need to: File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least ďŹ ve (5) business days before the hearing. 3. Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed f or the minor. 4. Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right to be present at any hearing, unless the Court ďŹ nds that it is not in the minorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best interest. Date: June 24, 2011 Stephen G. Abraham Register of Probate 7/14/2011
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Ryan Staples Ryan Staples juggles three passions in his life. The first is his love of comedy; the second is writing; and the third is rapping. Staples is in the process of recording a stand-up album and his July 16 show at Beatnik s will surely be an addition to the CD. The comedian loves and credits his deep roots in Worcester for the opportunities that have come his way, and we caught up with Staples to learn a little about his thoughts (and a few misconceptions) of the comedy scene.
I read that you’re in the process of recording a stand-up album, is that true? It is. I’m recording on July 16 at Beatnik’s on Park Avenue at 8 p.m. Making an album is something I’ve been thinking about doing for a while. Believe me, I’m nowhere near being a perfect comic; I have years and years to go until I’m ready for the big time.
Tell me a little about your up-andcoming show at Beatnik’s? I normally run a monthly show there called “Two Hour Mic Check” on every third Thursday. Each month, I bring in some of the best amateur-level talent that Boston, Providence, Connecticut and New York have to offer.
When did you decide you wanted to be a comedian? In 1995. I saw Dana Carvey’s “Critic’s Choice” HBO special with my cousins and sat there in awe. I didn’t get half the jokes at that time, but I noticed how much fun Dana was having. It was
just one of those moments where you realize, “Oh man, you can do that. Like, for a living.” I got serious about comedy, absorbed material from guys like Jerry Seinfeld, Mitch Hedberg and Christopher Titus, who all did something completely different, but in the best possible way – and even though I didn’t try it for years, comedy was always in the back of my mind.
Who is your favorite comedian? I love the style of so many different comics, but if I had to give you an answer, I’d say it’s a three-way tie between veterans Patton Oswalt, Mike Birbiglia and Louis CK. Then there are the breakout guys like Matt Braunger, Kyle Kinane and John Mulaney who should be on every comedy fan’s radar. As for Worcester comedians – I love working with Dan Smith, Nick Chambers, Orlando Baxter, Shaun Connolly and Doug Guertin – amongst many, many others. We have a really great scene growing here that I think needs more recognition.
So you’ve written two books; how did you become interested in writing? In 10th grade, I had an English teacher who read one of my short stories and told me that it had hints of Salinger, and he prided me on my potential. He must have just been being polite, because I’m sure it was pretty sophomoric (no pun intended), but that was the nicest compliment I think I’ve ever gotten. Writing is cathartic and even though my books may be laced with crass
humor and an occasional off-color turn of phrase, there’s some deepseeded sentiment in the pages. I pour everything I have into my writing.
MC Stapes? Tell me more about this person... MC Stapes is an alter ego; he’s my satirical stance on hip-hop culture. In all honesty, I love hip-hop for what it is, but I think it’s pretty hard to disagree with the fact that the themes are more often than not absolutely mundane and juvenile: girls, money, cars, clothes. It used to be that I’d find a good beat, throw down whatever verse I cooked up that morning and then share it with my friends – but then a few people said I should put out an album because somebody might actually dig it. So, I have a free four-track EP available at mcstapes.bandcamp.com that nobody in their right mind should listen to.
What’s the biggest misconception about comedians in your mind? That we’re hoping someone asks us to tell them a joke. A lot of us aren’t the same person off stage that we are on stage. We’re not the life of the party. At least that’s how it is with me. For the most part, it’s an act. Even though much of my performance is incredibly truthful and full of my real-life cares and concerns, I’m not the type of person who would go out of his way to perform for a group of strangers unless it was in a comedy setting. I’d much rather watch someone else make a fool of themselves.
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born and raised writer and comedian, a graduate of Burncoat High School and a former Worcester Public Schools employee. I eat at New England Roast Beef, I drink at Ralph’s, I play basketball at Kendrick Park, I worked at the Greendale Mall, and I go for runs down by Elm Park. There’s nothing about me that isn’t linked to this city. It’s home. My roots are planted deep in the community, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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