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State official now involved in PawSox to Worcester talks

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negotiations have become more serious.

A deal for a PawSox ballpark in Worcester would likely involve money from both the city and the state. As economic development director, Ash is responsible for overseeing business development deals like one for a ballpark.

The meeting is latest of several reported meetings between the city and PawSox officials, including a trip to a Worcester Railers game last week, and several tours of the Canal District, where a PawSox ballpark would likely go.

The negotiations in Worcester come as an $83-million funding deal for a new stadium in Pawtucket have stalled. Some in the Rhode Island Legislature, including Speaker of the House Nick Mattiello, have called for the deal to be reworked or scrapped entirely in favor of a new deal. Others, including Gov. Gina Raimondo, say the deal is fine and the Legislature should vote on it. Heavy public scrutiny, in part brought on by the state’s $75 million investment several years ago in Curt Schilling’s failed game studio enterprise, has led to a cautious approach by Rhode Island legislators.

The deal for a new PawSox stadium, as

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ay Ash, the state’s secretary of Housing and Economic Development, attended a meeting at City Hall Monday, Nov. 20, between city and PawSox officials.

Both the meeting and Ash’s involvement were confirmed to Worcester Magazine by multiple sources, but the subject of the meeting remains unclear. The meeting took place in the Levi Lincoln Chambers on the third floor of City Hall and included at least two renderings of ballparks visible to a reporter from the hallway. More than a dozen people were at the meeting, including City Manager Ed Augustus Jr. and Chief Financial Officer Tom Zidelis, according to sources. The news was first reported online at worcestermag. com.

City and PawSox officials both declined to comment on the meeting, or whether or not it took place. Ash’s staff confirmed he was in Worcester Monday, but couldn’t say what for.

While the nature and content of the meeting remains unclear, this is the first reported involvement of a state higher-up in negotiations between the PawSox and the city about potentially bringing the club from Pawtucket to Worcester. His involvement may signal

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WOO-TOWN INDE X A weekly quality of life check-in of Worcester

Railers end losing streak in grand fashion, toppling the Manchester Monarchs at home, 4-1, this week. Way to go, boys! +2

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Worcester Magazine confirms talks between PawSox and Worcester with Jay Ashe, the state’s secretary of Housing and Economic Development. +3

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Thanksgiving week means great local music around Central Mass.

Check Worcester Magazine’s calendar listings for the hottest shows. +1

Fallout from the Alli Bibaud case continues, as the Worcester County DA’s office starts being scrutinized. -3

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Total for this week: In Worcester, the Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation announces $750,000 in grants to area nonprofits.+1

Joe Cox, Ecotarium president, stepping down for a new position elsewhere. Museum has grown mightily under his watch. -4

Patty Eppinger reportedly to serve as interim president of Ecotarium. She will no doubt ensure a smooth transition as Joe Cox leaves. +2

Chelsea man allegedly robs six banks, gets caught. Luck runs out. -6

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uperintendent Maureen Binienda appears headed for a near-perfect review from the School School Committee next month based on the comments made after her first self-evaluation.

The School Committee will formally evaluate Binienda’s mid-year performance at a Dec. 21 meeting, but earlier this month, after Binienda went through a review of her own leadership, school committee members gave a preview, and the verdict was overwhelmingly positive.

“Your commitment shines through in every category,” School Committee Member Dianna Biancheria said at a Thursday, Nov. 16 meeting.

Public evaluations of the superintendent are among the most central functions for school committees across the state. Along with determining public support for the district’s leader, they tend to point to a district’s strengths and weaknesses, and where officials want to see more focus.

Binienda rated herself highly in categories related to outreach and connection with the public. Of the four standards used for both self-evaluations and evaluations by school committees, one is dedicated solely to engagement. In that standard, Binienda gave herself the highest marks across the board. The standard accounts for creating a welcoming environment, sharing responsibilities with families, communicating effectively and addressing the concerns of students and the community at large effectively. continued on page 7

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Maureen Binienda evaluated herself at the School Committee meeting last Thursday.

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written currently, calls for a $23-million investment from the state and a $15-million investment from Pawtucket. Lawmakers in Rhode Island are currently waiting for a Senate Finance Committee report on the deal and its viability before making any decision. The report is expected to take into consideration financial information from the PawSox, which was confidentially disclosed to the State Audi-

tor after some protest from the organization.

The PawSox have for years indicated they want a new ballpark built by 2020, saying historic McCoy Stadium is aging and in need of replacement.

When the Rhode Island Legislature failed to fund the ballpark in July, the end of fiscal 2017, the PawSox began entertaining negotiations with other cities, and Worcester quickly surfaced as an interested party, as well as

other Massachusetts cities like Springfield and New Bedford.

Since, the PawSox and Worcester city officials have met at least a handful of times.

In July, higher-ups, including Chairman Larry Lucchino, toured the Canal District with Worcester officials, and, as Worcester Magazine reported then, took a look at the Wyman-Gordon property on Madison Street, which is essentially two vacant lots on either

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side of the street.

The property has long been cited as the ideal location for a PawSox ballpark, and Property Manager Ron Brooks told Worcester Magazine that the company is open to offers on the property.

In August, the City Council voted, 9-1, to encourage the city manager to pursue negotiations. Councilor-at-Large Konnie Lukes caste the only vote in opposition. Her argument, which is shared by some in Worcester, is that the organization is using the city as bargaining leverage with Rhode Island.

While he has taken the position that he won’t comment on specific aspects of the negotiations, Augustus has maintained a PawSox deal would be good for the city, and that his office is doing everything it can to make it happen. Recently, he has hired two consultants, Andrew Zimbalist and Jeffrey Mulla, to help with the negotiations, in another move that signals the talks are heating up.

At the state level, officials, including Ash, have expressed interest.

In August, Ash told MassLive the Baker Administration is actively courting the PawSox to Massachusetts, but declined to point to a desired location.

“We’re in discussions with the PawSox, we’re discussing with them a number of places right now,” he said. “We’ll see where they want to go and we’ll see how we can support that.”

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito is also on record supporting a move to Massachusetts. At an event in August for the opening of the Greenwood Landfill solar farm, she told reporters the state would welcome the team and would be willing to entertain a public-private partnership for a stadium project.

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School Committee member John Monfredo touted Binienda’s ability to engage with the community and build strong partnerships. His colleague, Molly McCullough, praised her for running an open and transparent administration.

“That community involvement is huge and key to what we do everyday,” she said.

For the past few years, school safety has been an issue in Worcester Public Schools, and it’s one that factored heavily in both Binienda’s evaluation of herself and the School Committee’s remarks.

Biancheria praised Binienda’s efforts in forming good relationships with the mayor and police chief, as well as her focus on school safety in implementing new policies like the ALICE training for incidents such as school shootings. She said Binienda kept safety a key focus.

“That to me is where the star is,” she said.

“Thank you for having the confidence in yourself and what you worked hard for.”

School safety falls under the management and operations standard, in which Binienda gave herself an “exemplary” rating, which is the highest out of four possible.

The standard for instructional leadership is where Binienda graded herself most harshly, giving herself a “proficient” marking (essentially 3/4).

Within that category, she gave herself an exemplary rating for data-driven decision making. This is something the School Committee also honed in on.

“Her report tonight certainly is a continuous effort to meet the needs of students using data wisely,” said Monfredo, specifically citing the push to gather data around chronic absenteeism.

Binienda also graded herself highly in the standard related to workplace environment and professional development.

Here School Committee member Brian O’Connell was in agreement. Since Binienda took over, he said, the district has undergone

a “significant cultural and structural change.”

“I very much like the direction the change has brought,” he said.

The challenge, he said, over the next few years, is to build on the foundation laid out in Binienda’s first year. But he said Binienda’s leadership has so far demonstrated a “reasonable promise of achieving success.

McCullough praised Binienda for hiring decisions she has made to pad the administration, and said she looks forward to her filling new roles.

School Committee member Jack Foley praised Binienda’s management and the administrative staff as a whole, saying the evaluations are of the superintendent in name, but in reality they’re of the whole team.

He pushed for more focus in the year to come on developing a strategic plan for the district and advocating at the state level to changes in the funding formula for public schools.

With the self-evaluation (Binienda’s first as superintendent) complete, school committee members will now write out their own evaluations of the superintendent. They will use the same criteria as Binienda and offered little last week to suggest their evaluations would be negative.

Donna Colorio, who will leave the School Committee shortly after the evaluation after losing her seat in the Nov. 7 election, had nothing but praise for the superintendent.

“Your leadership, your commitment and your communication have been outstanding,” said Colorio. “You truly deserve those ratings.

It’s been an honor to work with you and I am confident you will continue to be successful.”

Bill Shaner can be reached at 508-7493166 x 324 or at wshaner@worcestermag. com. Follow him on Twitter @Bill_Shaner.

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BATTLE LINES:

The AWARE tax coalition and the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce have both chimed in on the split tax rate decision upcoming at city council. Every year, these are the loudest two groups on the issue.

The Chamber wants the city moving in the direction of a single tax rate. The AWARE coalition wants the council voting to keep residential rates as low as possible, essentially leaving the gap right where it is. AWARE sent a public letter to the city manager’s office earlier this week, saying the tax assessor’s office is not as transparent as it could be. They allege the council may have been working off a bunk sheet where the lowest residential tax rate option, $18.75, isn’t listed. The Chamber also sent a release out on Monday, saying any other cities and towns in the area are getting rid of their arcane split tax structures, they said now is the time to move in that direction. The Chamber wants to see the council vote to adopt a $19 residential, $32 commercial split, which would raise the median residential tax bill by $200, and the median commercial bill by only $10.

Next week, the council will decide and although I’m not a betting man, I bet they’ll land on something in the middle.

MASCOT CRUSADE: The push to change the Holy Cross mascot – from something that references decades of holy war in the Middle East to something less contentious – will soon enter a new phase. The school held the final public hearing on the matter last week.

But the working group is still taking written feedback until Nov. 26. After that, according to new Holy Cross spokesman John Hill (thought you’d be done with me, eh, John?), the group that held the forums will produce a report and hand it to the school’s board of trustees.

When the board convenes in February, they’ll decide what action to take, if any. In the meantime, this is a nearperfect wedge issue between the left and right. If things heat up, I’m sure the mascot itself will take a back seat to some of the more deep-seated issues of the culture war, as the kids call it.

A MAJOR AWARD: Have I used this slug before?

Probably. But whatever, the lazy reference shouldn’t take away from the fact the city was honored by MassINC, a prominent public policy think tank in the state, for its Art in the Park series, which involves filling Elm Park for several months a year with interesting art installations.

At a summit last week in Lawrence, Worcester was one of nine honored for doing something innovative to “bounce back,” as MassLive put it. The Art in the Park series, running since 2009, was, to the judges, one of the finer municipal efforts in brightening city life among any gateway city in the state. The concerted effort for public art across the city, from this to PowWow to the art installations built into in the Blackstone Gateway Park and other municipal projects, deserves all the praise it can get. Hard to understate the importance of color in turning around the fortunes of a historically drab place.

PUBLIC INPUT: Do you agree with me on that last

statement? Do you disagree? The City Manager wants to hear from you. As part of the strategic planning process, the manager’s office is soliciting comment from the public on where the city should focus and what vision it should be shooting for. This is your chance, basically, to offer some vision of what you want Worcester to look like in 2050 and diagnose some problem keeping it from getting there. Print readers, head to www. cobaltcommunityresearch.org/worcester, and digital readers, click here, to participate. The survey will be open for a few more weeks, and the results, when they come back, should be pretty interesting.

ON THE SCHOOL SIDE: Speaking of strategic planning, the school district is also doing that.

This is not the sexiest or most salacious stuff in the world, but smart planning is good leadership.

So let’s make sure they keep doing it, and keep listening to us. You have the opportunity to do that on the school side at an upcoming forum. The forum, called Setting the Course, will be held at Doherty High (299 Highland St.) Wednesday, Dec. 20, at 6:30 p.m.

THE BIBAUD WEDGE: As this story about the doctored state police report continues to spiral out of control, early indications show this could end up being an issue in the upcoming governors race. Newton Mayor and Democratic candidate for governor Setti Warren has called for an independent investigation into the issue, saying Gov. Charlie Baker’s instinct is to sweep this scandal under the carpet with a couple of resignations and alleged secret investigation, 8

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{ worcesteria } according to MassLive. Meanwhile, Baker has spared no sympathy. He’s said Col. Richard McKeon was wrong to get involved and that police officials should not be in the business of giving big shots favors. Funny how something like this – which really has nothing at all to do with the job of governor besides vague notions of the buck stopping at the top – has the possibility of spiraling into a central campaign issue. Keep your eye on it.

TWO TAKES: While the School Committee and Superintendent Maureen Binienda

herself spoke glowingly about the district’s performance thus far under her leadership during a self evaluation last week (see the second news story this week), representatives from the Education Association of Worcester were there telling a different story. Holding signs saying, “Worcester school committee: unfair to educators,” and sitting silently in the crowd, they added an interesting contrast as Binienda rated herself exemplary in a section relative to collective bargaining agreements.

OFF PROBATION: The Albion, a notorious boarding house in Main South, is doing all right.

I caught up with Michael O’Rourke, the new owner, outside a License Commission hearing at City Hall last week, where the commission had just voted to take the property off a probationary period of more-intense scrutiny. He was beaming, saying calls to police and fire are way, way down and his staff, recently trained in the overdose reversal drug Narcan, had already themselves saved eight lives. By all accounts, the new ownership has taken the boarding house off the rolls of truly problem properties in the city. Cheers to that.

HONOR ROLL CALL: The Citizens of Color Honor Roll replica project, which has been mired in more petty controversy than it ever deserved, finally has a completion date. Officials will unveil the project, which will go across the street from the police station, Thursday, Dec. 7.

For those who don’t know, the project replaces a list of black WWII veterans that was ripped out when I-290 was built and allegedly put into storage. But it was never found again. Now, after years and years and years of petitioning, an honor roll replica is coming back. Good news for the city. A lot of good news this week, huh.

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EARLY VOTING? Remember early voting? Last November, the state tried something new,

and let people come in to vote a few times a week in the weeks preceding the election. By all accounts, the program was a success. But there’s a catch. Clerks can only do it in statewide elections. Now the Election Commission, faced with one of the poorest municipal turnouts in recent memory (15 percent), wants to see the program expanded to municipal elections.

They talked about it at length at a meeting Monday, according to the Telegram. Early voting, said some of the commissioners, could incentivize higher turnout simply by making it easier.

Folks in Worcester took advantage of it last year. Roughly 16,000 voters cast early ballots in the presidential election. That’s pretty much exactly how many came out to vote in municipal elections this year, period. Assistant City Clerk Niko Vangjeli is quoted as saying the clerk’s office is working with the city’s legislative delegation and the secretary of state to get the legislative change needed by the next municipal election, in 2019.

BYE BYE COX: Longtime EcoTarium president Joe Cox is leaving the city for an undisclosed job at a museum somewhere in the south. During his tenure, the EcoTarium has done well. A 30-percent increase in memberships as well as a partnership with National Geographic and some hefty donor gifts mark his tenure with the organization. He will be missed. Cox’s last day will be Jan. 26. As for his new job, that remains a mystery as of yet, but I’d anticipate it being something pretty flashy, given his success here and his relative youth.

WRITE-IN RECOUNT REDUX: Remember the bizarre Leominster recount I wrote about last week, the one where a write-in challenger came within 300 votes for beating a longtime incumbent? That recount is under way, and it’s possible we may know the results by the time you’re reading this. Election workers on Tuesday were physically counting the ballots. If the results come back after press time, I will update the online version of this item. Kenny Ricker, the challenger, launched his write-in campaign only a few weeks before Election Day, and lost by a mere 210 votes to Dean Mazzarella, out of 9,203 votes cast. So, depending on how this recount goes, Leominster could have a write-in mayor. Question for the history buffs out there: Has that ever happened? It feels impossible.

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ovies. Football. Shopping. Turkey. Lots of turkey.

Leftovers. Naps. And, oh yeah, a time to be thankful.

Thanksgiving is upon us once more and it seems as important as ever to remember what it means. That could be different for each of us, but one thing seems obvious: Thanksgiving is about a whole lot more than watching a movie marathon, taking in a high school football game, carving up the biggest turkey we can find, stuffing the kids’ lunches with turkey everything for the next couple weeks and taking a long post-dinner nap.

Initially, when the Pilgrims sat with natives for that first meal, it was a celebration of the Pilgrims having survived a tough winter and the resulting harvest. Sadly, when it was observed again in 1676, the reasons were much different: this time, it was about colonists’ victory over the natives. In 1777, all 13 colonies took part in a thanksgiving feast to celebrate a victory over the British at Saratoga. Thanksgiving became a legal holiday in 1941.

In the Bible, “thanksgiving” is framed around adoring and praising God, making an offering or sacrifice in His name. The Thanksgiving holiday has long been regarded as a time to gather in unity and be thankful for what we have. It can be a time for reflection, to acknowledge others who have far less. It can be a time for teaching, to pass on traditions to children and what it means to truly be thankful.

Commercially, of course, Thanksgiving means something much less sacred. It’s about getting started on Christmas shopping and finding the best deals. Christmas music starts before Thanksgiving has even arrived. Newspapers and television and radio stations are crammed with ads for Black Friday sales and deals. Conversely, small businesses compete for their share of the pie the day after.

Hopefully, we have not lost the true meaning of Thanksgiving – whatever it means to each of us. Maybe it is about remembering loved ones no longer with us. Maybe it’s about slowing down for the weekend, jumping off that spinning hamster’s wheel of life. Whatever special meaning, it is important to embrace it, to not lose sight of it.

For the religious among us, it is important to thank God for what we have, even if there is much we still desire. We would do well to adopt the attitude that, no matter what trials and tribulations we face, someone always has it worse. We should be thankful for that. And we should cast a prayer to God for those individuals who will not be gathered around a table in the warmth of a love-filled home with family and friends. We should remember the military personnel serving around the world who will not be with their families this year.

The movies and football games will entertain. Shopping can be a nice distraction from the preparation and cooking of holiday meals. A week-long menu can be mapped out and, yes, you can get that nice, long nap after dinner. But before all that, it is well worth remembering what Thanksgiving truly means. It truly is a time to be thankful.

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Janice Harvey

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hen we lose a family member, a hole in our oncesturdy fabric appears.

Maybe it’s the stuffing that never tastes the same if someone else makes it, or that one voice absent from the great cacophony of stories and laughter. Perhaps it’s the empty chair that reminds us of who’s missing from the Thanksgiving dinner. I suspect it’s all of these things, and there is no mending tape, no thread that can repair a torn tapestry.

On Nov. 11, Veterans Day, Birdie left us. Her name was Marie Louisa Tomasetta Besardi, and she was 91 years old the day she exited this world, bound for another. For the past few years, Birdie, so nicknamed by her older brothers for her small appetite, had been leaving us a little more each day. Dementia was working its way through her memory, deleting files containing faces, names and events. Birdie was my brother-in-law’s mother, but from the moment I met her, I knew that description to be deceiving. She was so much more than a person connected to our family by a marriage license.

Birdie was a Shrewsbury Street kid, born and raised on Lyon Street in the heart of Worcester’s tight-knit ItalianAmerican community. She told wonderful stories about growing up in a large family, with siblings who adored and protected her. Birdie roller-skated everywhere as a young girl, and when she put away her skates she married a fellow Italian and moved to Shrewsbury to raise three children.

She and Mike Besardi bought a cottage behind Spag’s and lived there until the legendary retailer began gobbling up the neighborhood. Her sons, Charlie and Joe, served their country proudly; one fought in Vietnam as a Marine, the other wore a policeman’s badge. Her daughter, Louisa, pursued a career in the pharmaceutical world. Calvin Coolidge was president when Birdie was born. She lived through the Great

Depression, World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, Watergate, Jordan Levy’s mayorship, Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, the demolition of the Galleria and the election of Donald Trump. She remained unaffected by it all, focusing instead on loved ones.

My 5-year-old grandson developed a bond with Birdie when he was a toddler, calling her “Mumma Ma,” yet another name that fit her perfectly. They lit up in each other’s presence, and even as her illness progressed and memories fell away, she still recognized Jack. In turn, Jack recognized in her a kindness only a child can feel and see.

My fondest memory of Birdie is of a Sunday afternoon in the fall. In the years following her husband’s death, Birdie came to stay with her son, Charlie, and my sister, Lyn. Signs of her illness had begun to appear, and leaving her alone for long stretches of time was no longer an option. I stayed with her that day while my sister and her husband took the time to recharge, a break often necessary for caregivers. Before they left, Charlie put Frank Sinatra’s greatest hits on the stereo.

As Ol’ Blue Eyes crooned, Birdie told me Sunday afternoons were her favorite times when Mike was alive. Occasionally they took rides in the car, while other times they just listened to music and danced. She walked into the living room while I made a cup of tea. A few moments later, I followed, only to find her dancing cheek-to-cheek with the memory of Mike in her arms. Always, I will remember Marie this way, reliving a simple happiness on a Sunday afternoon.

This Thanksgiving, we will not be preparing a plate for Birdie, whose appetite remained that of a sparrow. We will miss her dreadfully, though we take comfort in knowing she no longer grapples with fragmented memories, or the anxieties and fears of not knowing people she once knew well. Birdie’s troubles are over, and I hope wherever her lovely soul flies, everything she ever forgot comes back to her as clearly as the melody of an old love song.

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“I call it the Coleman-Bergman drive-by memorial.”

- Thomas Doughton, senior lecturer, Holy Cross, on his opposition to the new citizens of color World War II honor roll at Lincoln Square in Worcester. Bill Coleman and AtLarge Councilor Moe Bergman have spearheaded the effort.

“It is bad economic development policy to create a system that disproportionately targets the business community while giving a discount to the residents,”

“It is a known fact that bogus data and false information have previously been distributed through the Assessing Division, so we feel that it is only logical and necessary to ask that an explanation be provided as soon as possible ...”

- Stu Loosemore of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, on setting the tax rate, which City Council - Joan Crowell, director of Accurate Worcester Assessments on Real will do Tuesday, Nov. 28.

Estate, in a letter to City Manager Ed Augustus Jr. on why the city’s tax rate table did not provide data for all tax rate options.

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Thanks for opportunity to seek election Ed Moynihan

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hether you voted for me or my opponent (or you were one of the 300 that cast a blank ballot), you honored those who sacrificed their lives to insure that every American has the right to exercise this precious right. From the fields of Concord to Gettysburg, to the forests of the Argonne, to the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima, to the frozen valleys surrounding the Chosin Reservoir, to the jungles of Southeast Asia, the mountains of Afghanistan and the sands of Iraq, millions of American veterans shed blood to defend our right to vote in democratic and free elections.

But this precious blood has also been shed by ordinary American citizens on dark and lonely roads in Philadelphia, Mississippi, over the bridges of Selma, in the streets and churches of Birmingham, on the balconies of Memphis and the pedestrian walkways of Charlottesville, Va. and in countless, forgotten battles in between. The memory of all of these brave men and women, famous or unknown, is kept alive every time you take a ballot. Every time I vote, I think of those sacrifices and I am humbled that I have sacrificed nothing for it. I was merely lucky enough to have been born here. To see my name on that ballot so nobly defended and to have over 2,300 voters fill in that oval next to my name is one of the highest honors ever to have been bestowed upon me.

However, if the ballot were a living organism, it would be placed on the Endangered Species List. Through benign neglect, active hostility and political malignancy, the ballot limps into an uncertain future. Fewer people are willing to sacrifice the time needed to engage on the issues.

Those who do participate are afraid to take positions for fear of ridicule. One recoils at the thought of the politics of personal destruction and the pain that causes their families. Would you expose your son or daughter to hearing their family name mocked as “Joe Putty?”

Would you want your parents subjected to a consistent description of you as the head of a “Crime Family?” What husband wants to see their wife saddled with the sophomoric and derisive moniker, “Kape Kod Konnie?” Who wants to see their children’s struggles dragged through the public square for public ridicule under the premise of exposing “corruption?”

None of this personal invective relates to policy or issues. You have to ask yourself if it is really worth it. Is the sacrifice worth it? Does any of this further the dialogue necessary to create a more informed and

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enlightened electorate? No. Does this address solutions for the very real needs of our city?

No. Is this why millions died to insure our freedom? No. Make no mistake, there is a time and place for political satire. We need to find a place to mock each other and, if we have a sense of humor, give as well as we get. Unfortunately, we have decided that political burlesque substitutes for substantive dialogue. We sacrifice informed debate upon the altar of ratings and a misplaced confidence that by defining our opponents in the negative, we enhance our own sense of worth. We find community and sense of place in the negative affirmation of identifying our enemies.

In so doing, we have encouraged more people to check out of the process and let others determine their own fate. Witness that, this year, only 16,000 voters have decided the fate of over 180,000 residents of Worcester.

Witness also that only two new people ran for elected office citywide. Have we decided that we are impotent to affect the course of our lives? Have we perfected the negative campaign to such a degree that not only will good people not run, but residents refuse to take the time to vote for those who do? Have

we become so coarse that we think of this as normal?

Democracy dies through neglect. Like any relationship, it needs continuous dialogue, patient understanding and mutual trust. We promote our democracy when we reject the voices of division and derision. Embrace the voices that seek to uplift and show respect.

Do not let the politics of personal destruction hold supremacy in your decisions.

But I hold out hope. If you would be a patriot, remember the brave who fell. I challenge all of you who voted to find one more person and persuade them to vote two years from now. Become an active participant in the comprehensive long term planning hearings. Be a steward for our political process and regenerate our faith in each other.

Attend public hearings, reach out to help a nonprofit that works in your community, and volunteer to serve on a city board or commission. Read a local news source every day or find an issue-based local broadcast each week to keep yourself informed. Honor those who gave all by tending faithfully to the garden of democracy.

There are hundreds of ways we can reclaim the public square from the purveyors of character assassination and proto-fascism.

We need candidates who have the confidence to engage on the issues. We should demand that candidates exhibit the respect for the office they seek. We should seek candidates who recognize voters’ thirst for sophisticated answers to complex problems. It should never be enough that a candidate define themselves by who they are not, but by who they are and what they will do.

Thanks to the sacrifices made by so many people we have never met, the answers to these problems lie squarely with us. I hope that my campaign honored the memory of those who gave so much. On behalf of my family, I thank you for such a wonderful opportunity to run for office.

Ed Moynihan ran for and lost election to District 1 City Council.

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Where is Tubman’s $20 bill?

To the Editor: Every holiday my grandmother sends me a card with a $20 bill inside. This Halloween, I opened my card to find pumpkin-shaped confetti and a $20 bill with Andrew Jackson’s face staring right back at me. In that moment a question came to my mind. Whatever happened to Harriett Tubman?

Last year, there was a flurry of excitement when then-Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced Harriett Tubman would be the new face of the $20 bill. This decision stemmed from a petition that addressed the question posed in a 9-year-old’s letter to President Obama: “Why don’t U.S. dollars have women on them?” After the petition, a release of redesigned federal bank notes was promised by 2020. The new design would feature fearless women and people who shaped American history on the $5, $10 and $20 bills, finally giving under-recognized American heroes a recognition previously only held by white men.

The implementation of this new design ultimately rests with the Treasury secretary.

However, in an interview a few months ago current-Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin evaded endorsement on the Tubman change, and President Trump has said he doesn’t support the switch to Tubman on the $20. So we have no guarantee from this administration that action will be taken to ensure Tubman and others are represented as planned.

Representing women of color on U.S. currency would be a small, but exciting step toward equality, and these historical figures would inspire generations to follow. To help certify we get this change, contact Treasury to urge Secretary Mnuchin to endorse the 2020 redesign featuring women of color front and center. And if you can’t wait for 2020, I encourage you to look up how to make your own Harriett Tubman stamp to put on your 20s (yes, that would be legal, look it up online).

If we hold this administration accountable, then hopefully someday soon, I will open one of my grandmother’s holiday cards and see a figure who represents success and freedom for people of all colors and genders.

O LIVIA STEEN, WPI Worcester

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Worcester, MA. Municipal Election, 2013.” The pattern of colors in this map and conclusions are very similar to Ms. Mulcahy’s map and conclusions. Is this plagiarism also? Of course not. It only suggests similar voting behavior in the city in 2011 and 2013.

According to your story, Ms. Mulcahy states her maps are “first of their kind in any study in the United States.” This claim is simply not true. A quick web search shows numerous static and interactive maps of election results at various geographical scales (from precinct to state). For example, in 2010, students in a GIS class at Salem State published a 123-page report titled “Voter Participation and Demographics in Lowell, MA. A GIS Study.” This report has many maps, including “Average Voter Turnout by Precinct” maps on pages 17 and 18.

Furthermore, my web search revealed that precinct level voting maps for the entire country have been available since at least 2012, when Stanford University’s Spatial Social Science Lab produced a map of 2008 Precinct Winners.

Worcester State University researchers have not plagiarized Ms. Mulcahy’s work, and should request her to retract her unjust accusations.

I am writing to express my shock and astonishment after reading your report about the plagiarism charge by Ms. (Kerry) Mulcahy (“WPS teacher lobs plagiarism charge at Worcester State study,” Nov. 15, Worcester Magazine). Her accusations struck me as a very irresponsible act, and I feel the need to speak up and defend the work of Worcester State University researchers.

I have been teaching Geographic Information Science (GIS) and mapping for 11 years at Clark University, and have used census and voting data in my classes.

Worcester State researchers created their maps using publicly available data and basic overlay methods in GIS. Many introductory GIS textbooks and educational websites have tutorials on how to download numeric tables from the web and display them as maps.

Therefore, there is nothing unique or novel about Ms. Mulcahy’s methodology.

Shortly after Ms. Mulcahy’s dissertation, in 2015, the Worcester Research Bureau published a report titled “Don’t Boo. Just Y EL EN A O G NEVA-H IM M E LB E R G E R , Remember to Vote. Civic Engagement in the City of Worcester.” Page 4 of this report shows CL A R K U N I V ER S IT Y Worcester a map titled “Registered voter turnout in

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Anthony Barbosa. Jonathan Daige. Doug McAllister. Kate McEvoy-Zdonczyk.

Delia Shea. Doreen Samuels. What do they all have in common? They are Worcester Magazine’s 2017 Hometown Heroes.

Truly one of our most satisfying features to do each year, Hometown Heroes is all about those people in our local communities who go above and beyond without seeking fanfare or special recognition. Well, this is our chance to shine a spotlight on them.

Barbosa works with area youth at the Worcester Boys & Girls Club, and goes well beyond with his own volunteer efforts. Daige is one of Worcester’s finest, a man in blue who puts his life on the line on the job every day. In his personal life, cancer put his life on the line – and Daige has plowed through, turning

his battle into a way to help others. McAllister is a Vietnam veteran and stroke survivor who has raised more than $1 million for multiple sclerosis research.

McEvoy-Zdonczyk works at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, where she has helped foster a spirit of volunteerism that has helped countless people in Worcester who are homeless, battling addiction or otherwise in need of help. Shea is a 13-yearold whose life-threatening heart disease helped prompt a desire to help other sick kids. And Samuels is a selfless volunteer whose community involvements are many.

Samuels’ attitude pretty much sums up what it means to be a Hometown Hero: “We can’t help everybody,” she said, “but let’s help some. I believe in that.”

With that, we proudly present this year’s Hometown Heroes.

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nthony Barbosa sits behind his desk in the Boys & Girls Club Teen Center, where he is teen director, and folds his hands.

A few teenaged club members are hovering around the pool table. He takes a moment to consider why he has spent much of his young life working with community youth.

“I love seeing other people’s happiness, other people’s success, other people’s dreams come true,” he says, leaning forward in his chair. “That’s something that drives me. If something’s wrong, I want to take that from them and see how they can change that. continued on page 16

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My mentality is like a coach, I love to see people win. If they lose, I want to take that back to the drawing board and study why they lost to make sure they win. That’s kind of how I am.”

While Barbosa describes his attitude toward helping others as that of a coach, all of his individual efforts make him something a bit closer to a league commissioner.

The 25-year-old Barbosa — himself a former “Boys & Girls Club kid” — runs more than Worcester’s teen program. He also runs the newly re-founded basketball program, set to start soon, as well as his own company, American Pyramids. In addition, he hosts an annual community day and basketball tournament: the youth-oriented Worcester Summer Jam Classic, which wrapped up its second year this past summer.

“I’ve found in my life, you always have to find something that you’re passionate about, that keeps you going,” Barbosa says. “I know I didn’t want to be a teacher in a school. I know I didn’t want to be a business person. I didn’t want to be a doctor or lawyer. I knew I loved mentoring youth. Growing up, what got me where I am, is mentorship.”

Barbosa was born and raised in Worcester. He attended Worcester Tech, where his grades were “pretty bad,” before attending Quinsigamond Community College and transferring to North Adams’ Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, where he was captain of the basketball team and earned a degree in sociology.

“I really had no options,” recalls Barbosa.

“Basketball brought me to Quinsig. I couldn’t really go anywhere because I wasn’t NCAA eligible. I went to Quinsig for a year for general studies. I had a good year, so MCLA recruited me to go there in North Adams.

When I went to MCLA, I was pretty much making up for high school at Quinsig. I didn’t really know what I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to work with youth, but there were no early childhood education programs there.

Sociology was the closest thing. You kind of learn about society. Going into senior year, I had no idea what I wanted to do.”

He did, however, know he wanted to do something for area youth, so he created the “Assist Program,” a mentor program for children in low-income families.

“It’s the lowest-income town in Massachusetts and there were no programs for kids,” he says. “There’s no youth centers, no Boys & Girls Clubs. Doing that, I fell in love with programming and doing stuff for the community.”

Barbosa knows the importance of strong mentors first-hand, and says without the mentors he had growing up, he wouldn’t be where he is today.

“For me, growing up was tough,” he says.

“Both of my parents dealt with some legal issues. They weren’t around as much and we were low-income. I’m a Boys & Girls Club

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kid. I grew up at Ionic Ave., having Ike McBride and Luis Ojeda bring me in. They kind of treated me like a family member. It’s easy at that age to fall and I’m truly blessed. I’ve had the greatest mentors. I was like a sponge.

Everyone who mentored me taught me something different.”

Barbosa named several other important mentors in his youth, including his high school basketball coach, Sean Lynch. He stays in touch with all of them and wanted to give the experience that was so formative for him to area youth through his work at both the Boys & Girls Club, its programs, his own mentoring and the annual basketball tournament (which, in addition to the marquee event, also offers free food and back-toschool haircuts to area kids).

“Someone asked me, ‘How come you care so much about the community?’” Barbosa says, looking around the Boys & Girls Club teen center. “‘You’re young, your company has so much.’ It keeps a light under me. It drives me. To have that aspect in my life, some people think I’m crazy. ‘That’s something you do when you’re rich or something, why give back now?’ I just love doing it.

I love giving back. It’s important to me. It keeps me going.”

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Jonathan Daige

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e talks about it without a hint of regret or a trace of anger. It is, he says, what it is. Testicular cancer? Tumors in the lung? Cancer in the brain? For Jonathan Daige, they were obstacles not of his making. They were matters out of his control.

They merely put his life on hold for a while, not unlike the two tours of duty he served in Iraq.

Daige grew up in Leicester and worked construction with his father, who used to own Worcester County Welding and now owns Central Mass Crane Services. Daige was 19 when he joined the Army after 9/11. He went to Iraq for 10 months in 2003, returned home, worked with his father, then went back to Iraq for another deployment. When he returned home again, he worked with his father.

Daige joined the Worcester Police Department in 2006. Several years later, in 2013, he first noticed something something was wrong.

“I was working out a lot,” Daige said. “I thought I had a hernia, because I had pain. In Iraq, I ended up having a hernia, so they were familiar symptoms. I went to the doctor and found out it was testicular cancer. I went back for outpatient surgery.”

Daige, who was 30 at the time, opted for lymph node dissection, which he described as “pretty invasive.”

“So then I was cancer-free for like seven or eight months,” he said. “I was doing a lot of running. I started coughing up blood.”

When he returned to the hospital, it turned out the testicular cancer had spread. Doctors, Daige said, found six tumors in his chest and lungs.

“I went to Worcester and they said they’d start chemo in two weeks,” he said. “I went to Dana-Farber for a second opinion. They said, ‘We’re going to start chemo today.’ From there, I was hooked up to chemo eight hours a day, five days a week. I’d go home for two weeks, go back, get hooked back up for five days.”

The day after chemo, he said, was like “your worst hangover.” But he ended up cancer-free – even if it wouldn’t last.

“I went back to have lung surgery after the chemo was done, because I had residual stuff in my lungs,” Daige said, adding he had a third of his right lung removed.

During a follow-up visit two weeks later, he said, doctors found cancer in his brain.

“Then I had brain surgery, then radiation on the brain,” he said. “Then I had 10 percent of my left lung removed. Then I had chemo as an outpatient.”

Daige was cancer-free for a second time.

Once again, however, it returned, this time to a different part of his brain. Daige underwent a second brain surgery and endured more radiation. He had now spent the better part

of about two years fighting cancer. In all, he went through six surgeries, two rounds of chemo and two rounds of radiation.

As he continued his recovery, Daige, who said he loves to exercise, learned about the Pan-Mass Challenge, a long-distance bike ride that raises money for cancer research. His oncologist, Dr. Chris Sweeney, told him about it, and Daige figured, why not?

“I started cycling a little bit of it,” he said.

“I knew after my lung surgery, I wasn’t sure how my lung capacity would be. I figured cycling, I might as well try that. Of course, I was like, ‘I’ll ride 200 miles on my bike in two days.”

{ coverstory } The initial plan was to ride with his Sweeney’s team, but Daige wanted to do something different.

“I wanted to do my own thing, so I started Thin Blue Ride,” he said of the Pan-Mass team and organization he founded to raise awareness of and money for cancer research.

Joined by some friends, Daige’s team completed its first Pan-Mass Challenge in 2015, raising close to $27,000.

“The day of Pan-Mass was my one-year cancer-free mark, which was awesome,” said Daige, who is now three years free of cancer.

In December last year, Daige turned Thin Blue Ride (thinblueride.org) into a nonprofit. The goal now, he said, is to help law enforcement and military veteran families dealing with cancer.

The organization, which he said has expanded beyond the police community, has helped about four families so far.

Including this year’s ride, Daige has taken part in three Pan-Mass Challenges. Between the ride and his organization, about $75,000 has been raised to research and fight cancer, Daige said.

In addition to his own organization, Daige helps out with the 15-40 Connection, a Westborough-based nonprofit aimed at promoting early cancer detection.

Daige said he is optimistic about remaining cancer-free, particularly because of the amount of time that has passed since the last diagnosis. As for his seemingly low-key way of talking about all he has been through – and the uncertainty of it all – Daige looks at it rather simply: “You need to recognize what’s controllable,” he said, “and what isn’t.”

— Walter Bird Jr.

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Kate McEvoy-Zdonczyk

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rom her office above Dunkin’ Donuts at the corner of Main and Front streets in Worcester, Kate McEvoy-Zdonczyk has a good view of Main Street and the hustle and bustle around City Hall. She sees the city up close and personal every day – and she sees it, perhaps, a bit differently than others.

Where some might see vagrants on City Common, the 44-year-old McEvoy-Zdonczyk sees the people she helps feed once a month at a local soup kitchen. Where others see what’s wrong with Worcester, she sees where it has come from and where it is headed.

McEvoy-Zdonczyk grew up here, went to school here and works here. She lives about “100 feet over the city line” in Auburn, but

said she and her husband will be putting their house on the market “soon” and moving to Worcester. She doesn’t just love Worcester, she loves it.

Ask about her greatest personal pleasure, and you can get McEvoy-Zdonczyk started on how wonderful Worcester is.

“You’re driving through Worcester at sunset or dawn, whether it’s busy or quiet, and you see the skyline you never thought we were going to have,” she said. “You’re afraid to say, ‘We’re here, we did it,’ but we did it.”

You can credit a personal situation for McEvoy-Zdonczyk, a self-described fifthgeneration Worcesterite who serves as Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s vice president,

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Central & Western Massachusetts, developing such an attachment to New England’s second largest city.

“I never thought I’d stay in Worcester,” she said, noting she went to private school, hated it, and finished high school at Doherty. “I had applied to schools in Boston, but … I had to take custody of my sister’s kids. I was a mom to two nephews, who were 6 months and 18 months. That kept me home for two tours of duty. In that time, you have very different priorities.

Her friends, she said, were away, while she was “living in a world of diapers and formulas.”

“From that,” McEvoy-Zdonczyk said, “I found this love for Worcester I always had, but I never realized the opportunity here.

Within a year I was like, ‘I’m never leaving this place.’ This is what I want to do. I want to do Worcester.”

With Harvard Pilgrim, McEvoy-Zdonczyk’s

professional roles have her keeping tabs on profit and loss margins and business development. Beyond that, she takes pride in immersing herself and her office in the community.

She serves on boards for Discover Central Massachusetts, the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce and the 495 Partnership; she is a corporator for both the YWCA of Central Massachusetts and the Ecotarium. She also helps with many other nonprofit organizations.

Her efforts have earned her much recognition. McEvoy-Zdonczyk is a winner of the YWCA’s Katherine Erskine Award, Worcester State University’s Distinguished Alumni Award, the Mohegan Council/Boy Scouts of America’s 12 Points Award and the Worcester Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 in 2002. Worcester Magazine, where she once worked, has also named her among its “Most Powerful People in Worcester” and “Worcester’s Leading Ladies.” The Worcester Business Journal included her among its “2016 Power Players.”

McEvoy-Zdonczyk particularly enjoys helping out once a month, along with other Harvard Pilgrim employees, at the St. John’s soup kitchen, serving meals to the folks many of us drive by every day.

“It’s remarkable for our office to see a lot of folks we were noticing on the common were these same people that were getting resources and meals at St. John’s,” McEvoy-Zdonczyk said of the volunteer effort. “You look at things very differently once you’ve had the opportunity to look across at someone and see what their challenges are every day.”

McEvoy-Zdonczyk said she has seen some of those individuals turn their lives around.

She recalled working for Fallon Community Health Plan several years ago, when and she and some coworkers were serving dinner at the former PIP Shelter on Main Street.

“One guy was in the kitchen there,” McEvoy-Zdonczyk recalled. “He had moved out of the shelter into an apartment that was nearby, and was clean and what-not.

“Three or four years later, we were getting delivery of a popcorn machine. I was looking at this guy … then it hit me. We ended up alone in the elevator. He was working, he had a job and was on his feet. I was like, ‘It works!

It works! It works!’”

Aside from her day job and volunteering, McEvoy-Zdonczyk enjoys working out of her own space at Crompton Collective, where she makes wood signs under the moniker “Molly Moo and Georgie Too,” named after a couple of her dogs.

While she didn’t say exactly when she and her husband will move back into Worcester, McEvoy-Zdonczyk made it clear this is where she wants to be – and where she belongs.

“I love Worcester,” she gushed. “I’m 100 percent a Worcester girl.”

— Walter Bird Jr.

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t was over 32 years ago that Doug McAllister began what would become a lifelong crusade to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis research. To date, he has raised over $1 million.

McAllister started his crusade when a coworker was diagnosed with the disease that affects the central nervous system. Moved by the coworker’s experience, McAllister would raise much of the funds the old fashioned way: by soliciting door-to-door.

At 72 years old, McAllister has had his share of difficulties, though he has never stopped fundraising. A Vietnam combat veteran, he suffered a stroke in November last year that left him with mobility issues. In 2016 alone, he raised upwards of $67,000. His goal this year is even higher.

While McAllister was in Florida during our lead-in time to the annual Hometown Heroes issue and unable to speak with Worcester Magazine, for his selfless efforts, we have named him one of our 2017 Hometown Heroes.

- Joshua Lyford

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Doreen Samuels

oreen Samuels has spent much of her life helping Worcester and its communities in big ways, but to hear her tell it, it’s the little things that help the most.

“People always say, ‘Are you stupid? Do you think you can help every person in the world?’” Samuels said. “I say, ‘No, but if I can make one difference, I will make one difference.’”

Samuels volunteers for a number of local boards and committees, including Head Start, the Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance, the Church of the Evangelist Homeless Outreach Program, the Multicultural Wellness Center, the Clemente Worcester Advisory Board, the Worcester Community Connections Coalition and many more, in addition to her work as student liaison at the Clemente Course program in Worcester.

AMAZING THINGS HAPPEN WHEN PEOPLE WORK TOGETHER Congratulations Kate McEvoy-Zdonczyk for helping make Worcester a healthy and vibrant community!

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{ coverstory } Samuels was raised by her grandmother, residing in Canada and New York before moving to Worcester in 1991. Her grandmother, Samuels said, instilled in her the values she holds dear to this day.

“I owe everything to her,” she said. “She was a really, really good person. She was a loving, kind person. We were not rich, but not that poor. People would come by and she’d give them food and some people would say, ‘Are those people related to you?’ She’d say, ‘No, I have to give.’ I take after that grandmother, she’s always giving. She’d always say, ‘If you have a piece of bread, no matter how small it is for you, if someone wants a piece, you break it.’ I always did that. Always.”

Samuels’ path has not always been an easy one, and despite some of the obstacles she has encountered, helping others has never wavered as a top priority. In 2002, her house burned down, but as with each experience she’s had, she focused on the positive.

“When my house burned down, I went into the shelter,” she recalled. “When I went into the shelter, I saw so many different people. The perception of what I had about homelessness, it changed at the shelter. You can have people with domestic abuse, some can’t pay rent so they get evicted, there are all sorts of people in there.

The thing for me, I got a lot of help, from the school,

the parents, teachers. I gave some of that to the people in the shelter. We are all human beings and things happen. No one knows what will happen. Tomorrow is not promised to anybody. Whether it’s death or fire or illnesses. I get teary-eyed when I think about it.”

One thing Samuels has learned: it doesn’t take a special person to help others, just the ability to consider other perspectives.

“People believe you have to be rich to help people,” she said. “You don’t have to be rich to help people, sometimes people just need you to listen to what they said. Just listening is the most important thing. Maybe you’re the only person that can save that person from suicide. Maybe they just need someone to talk to.”

Samuels has helped families find new homes when theirs have burned down, as well as victims of abuse, those looking for information on applying for citizenship, at-risk children and the homeless. Last year, she helped a family of three — a single mother and her two children — find a new home after their eviction during the Christmas season.

“There’s a lot of people in the Worcester community that need help,” said Samuels. “A lot of people in Worcester won’t help. They feel like they should know, but not everybody knows. Some people don’t want

to help, they don’t want to give it to them and that’s wrong. It’s very wrong.”

Samuels pulled out an award — of which she has received many — from her purse and set it on the table before her. It is the Elizabeth “Betty’ Price Community Service Recognition certificate, dated June 27, 2009.

It reads: “Giving of one’s self is an art, to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and give it well. Doreen Samuels reflects this talent and is recognized for her gifts to many in our community, serving and enriching others as ‘Betty’ did.”

“I’ve received a lot of awards, but this one is my favorite,” she said. “I look at it every day. I didn’t think of giving as an art, but when I read that, I said, ‘Wow.’ I love this one because I am a social worker.”

For Samuels, helping others — in ways both big and small — is its own reward.

“We can’t help everybody,” said Samuels. “But let’s help some. I believe in that.”

— Joshua Lyford

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Delia Shea

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hen she was much younger, Delia Shea’s grandparents nicknamed her “Delia Love Life Shea.” She was, to hear her mother tell it, a little bundle of energy. Then, things started to change. What it was, Allison Foskett-Shea couldn’t immediately put her finger on, but Delia started to slow down. When she ate, her mother said, she would become very cold.

“I just thought it was kind of normal,” Delia said recently, sitting on a couch inside the family’s house in Auburn, where the family recently moved from Leicester. “I just thought it was kind of normal.”

As it turned out, the changes were anything but normal. During what started out as a regular wellness checkup, a heart murmur was detected. Foskett-Shea used to have one, so she wasn’t initially concerned.

Delia, who was 4 ½ at the time, ended up going to Child Heart Associates in Worcester, where a nurse took her blood pressure.

“She laughed and said, ‘Well, she’s got no pulse from the waist down,’” FoskettShea said. “I kind of laughed. Then they started doing an echo and the vibe started to change.”

Delia was diagnosed with severe coarctation of the aorta. Essentially, there was no connection between the upper and lower portions of the aorta. As a result, the blood supply for the the bottom half of her body was narrowed off. She was, her mother said, on the verge of heart failure.

Delia was also diagnosed with bicuspid aortic valve.

It was a life-threatening condition that necessitated surgery. It was 2008 and Delia was admitted to Boston Children’s Hospital, where she would spent about a month.

Now 13, Delia does not remember much about the surgery or being so sick. She does, however, remember when she was well enough to pick out and play with some toys.

“I remember picking stuff out from the treasure chest filled with toys,” she said. “You got to choose something from the treasure chest at Boston Children’s Hospital. That made me happy, Barbie dolls and stuff.”

The surgery proved successful, although Delia lives with the bicuspid aortic valve.

Two years ago, however, in 2015, she was diagnosed with high blood pressure, a common characteristic of bicuspid aortic valve. She takes medicine to help combat it.

By then, Delia was 11 – and high blood pressure wasn’t the only new challenge. Her parents also went through a divorce. At that point, the family had grown to four children: Delia; her brother, Nolan, now 11; and sisters Colleen, 6, and Mallory, 3. At the time, Mallory was just 1.

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From left, Nolan Shea, Delia Shea, Colleen Shea, Allison Foskett-Shea and Mallory Shea.

Delia has overcome heart defects and now leads a toy drive for Boston Children’s Hospital.

“I found myself very much alone with them more often than not,” Foskett-Shea said of her children. “I didn’t want to put those stresses on her. She had just been diagnosed with high blood pressure, and the divorce happened at the same time. There were things I made sure she didn’t have to do, but she really stepped up.

“Then I went back to school and she really stepped it up. I didn’t even have to ask. She just took on a little bit of that mom role.”

As she did, Delia was also processing her own feelings about her parents’ divorce.

“I wanted something positive to do,” she said. “I was feeling kind of sad. I just wanted to be happy by helping other people going through even harder times. I was like, ‘Well, I know a lot about Boston Children’s Hospital. They always need toys and stuff for the treasure chest. Why don’t I just do a

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toy drive?’”

Around January this year, she emailed her principal at Leicester Middle School, where she was a student at the time. The school secretary became involved, too. During a school assembly, Delia spoke to the other students about what she had gone through and why she was starting the toy drive.

“I made bins and made them look like a treasure chest,” Delia said. “I put it in the cafeteria. I put one on the front of our porch for a little bit.”

Her goal, she said, was 100 toys. By the end of January, Delia had collected 410.

“Me, my principal, my principal’s husband, because he has a truck, and my secretary all drove with the toys to Boston,” Delia said.

“A lot of people there were just thanking me.

I got to meet an opera singer too, which is pretty cool.”

Now 13 and going to school in Auburn, Delia wants to do the toy drive again. A member of the National Junior Honor Society, she still wants to include Leicester Middle School, and maybe branch out to another school.

A reporter told Delia her mother had nominated her for a different Worcester Magazine award earlier this year. Although she had not been chosen, Delia’s story had stuck with the staff. After she was read some of what her mother had written about her, Delia was asked how it made her feel.

“It makes me feel kind of emotional,” she said. “It kind of makes me see things in a different perspective. It makes me feel like, ‘Oh, I really did do that.’”

— Walter Bird Jr.

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Every year around this time, people start gearing up for some of the best entertainment nights of the year. The nights before and after Thanksgiving kick off the season, and many local traditions have developed.

The Silverbacks bust it out at Greendale’s, The Flock fly into the Cove Music Hall and She’s Busy take up residence at Point Breeze on Webster Lake.

Soon, they realized there was plenty of writing talent to go around.

Meanwhile, Adams and Lisa Wilson were both holding down separate solo gigs at the

This year, She’s Busy will also perform the night after the holiday as well, out in Grafton at the Post Office Pub. That is a great night out for the in-laws that have not headed back home yet. No doubt their legion of devoted followers will head out to catch these performances.

The members of this local institution have a long history of making great music. It all started with two sisters, and a shared love for singing and harmonizing. Lisa and Selena Wilson were born to sing and perform.

The Wilson sisters both sang in GB (general business) bands in their younger years. In the late 1980s, they got a place together in Charlton, and started pulling out their guitars and putting together Indigo Girls tunes. One night, they tested it out during a break of the performance of a local band. A writer was there to review the band.

“He threw a little blurb in on us as well, and we were, like, empowered,” Lisa Wilson joked.

Coincidentally, as if by kismet, the very same week, singer/guitarist Rob Adams walked into one of Lisa Wilson’s solo gigs in Milford and, said Adams, “I was like, boy, if the opportunity arises, I want to work with Lisa Wilson.” Wilson told him he was a couple days too late, because she and Selena had just decided to start a duo.

“So Rob says, ‘how about a trio,’” she recalled. “And I said, ‘You’ll have to convince my sister first.’ And he did.”

As soon as they started singing together, Adams said, right away “it was like magic.”

Right there, the trio was born.

“There was a moment where we all said, ‘Let’s each go home and write a song,” said Adams.

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same Milford club. On Lisa’s night, the magic began.

“Rob and Selena would come,” she said, “and we would open the night. As we learned

more and more stuff, it ended up taking over my solo gig. People just started coming out to see the She’s Busy band.”

Eventually, they expanded to Worcester

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and premiered in the old blues joint, Gilrein’s.

They had sent a cassette (remember those?) to then-Worcester Magazine writer Walter Crockett a week before the show.

“He gave us a great write-up before we did it, and the place was packed,” Lisa Wilson said.

From there, they expanded their base, grabbing opening spots for bands such as The Story. The trio kind of hit a wall, though, in that they were difficult to categorize. Beyond the coffee house-style venues of the time, there was a resistance to having a band with no bass or drums.

Still, they were so good they were able to book a college tour, traveling as far as Pennsylvania. And they recorded wellreceived albums in 1990 and 1994.

In 1996, due to financial obligations to his growing family, Adams reluctantly left the group. Almost as if destined, in walked Brett Brumby.

As he explains, it started at Long View Farm, the highly-regarded studio in North Brookfield once used by the Rolling Stones.

Brumby was there, recording with his band, Fertile Ground.

“She’s Busy had just finished recording, and they had those tracks still up and available to listen to,” he said. “And I’m like,

‘Holy shit, that’s good.’”

Meanwhile, his own band very quickly disbanded.

Brumby decided to pursue this intriguing new band further, and along with his former band mate, Trent Robbins, went to see She’s Busy at the Log Cabin. They asked if they could play between sets. Lisa Wilson recalled her impression.

“It was all Brett’s material,” she said, “and I’m thinking, ‘This guy’s a freakin’ good songwriter.’”

The Wilsons had been trucking on for a short time as a duo again, but they missed the extra push the third member gave their sound.

Selena Wilson remembered how much was on Lisa.

“My contribution was playing the audience.

She carried everything else,” to which Lisa quickly added, “She can sing, too.”

“When Brett came along, he just loved our music,” Lisa Wilson gushed.

Brumby started learning their originals, as well as select covers. His influences shifted the band’s sound a bit.

“When Brett came in, it was a little bit more rock,” said Lisa Wilson.

“From my perspective,” Brumby added, “She’s Busy was an original band looking to make it in that market. Shortly after my entry

into the group, our direction changed.”

Family obligations crept up, Brumby and Lisa Wilson began a relationship and life happened. “ We weren’t trying to make it any more,” Brumby added.

And so the next phase began, as the band members put down roots. Brumby and Lisa Wilson had a daughter, got married, and built a house on a cul-de-sac in Dudley.

“Living the American Dream,” Lisa Wilson said.

Of their former lives, Wilson said, “We were just rolling stones. We were just young and single, wild and crazy.”

Adams had long ago chosen the family path; now the rest of them were.

As the years went by, the group never disbanded. They played house parties, the occasional club and stayed in touch. Adams continued playing solo for a living, Brumby as well. Lisa Wilson became a high school teacher, but never stopped performing. Selena Wilson got married and started her own family, across the street from her sister and Brumby. They all continued to grace local stages, albeit not as often as the early years.

Brumby and Lisa Wilson experimented with a few different iterations, including Gigfoot, which was sort of a large “jam band.”

They lasted a few years. Then there was Brumby, which was just another name for the couple’s live performances. Lisa and Selena Wilson were also a part of the legendary local R&B band, Wilbur and the Dukes. Along with Leslie Buck, they were the backup singers, calling themselves “The Dames.”

“God we had fun,” Selena Wilson recalled with a smile.

But She’s Busy was never out of the corner of their eyes. Around 2010, their musical focus returned to the source, only this time She’s Busy was to become a full-fledged band, with Kenny Duff on bass and Ron Ouimette on drums. Since then, the band has enjoyed a second life, playing around half a dozen gigs a year, and their fan base is as solid and enthusiastic as ever.

This holiday will be no different. Longtime fans will jump into their cars and head for Point Breeze, 114 Point Breeze Road, Webster, on Thanksgiving Eve, Wednesday, Nov. 22 and the Post Office Pub, 1 Ray St., North Grafton, Friday, Nov. 24. There, once again, they will indulge in the good feeling that the bristling harmonies and broad smiles of She’s Busy bring.

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THE PROPHECY WAS FORETOLD:

Or, at least, released online. Worcester’s dark electronic collective, The Oracle, just released their debut album, “Once, I had it all,” via Bandcamp at Theoraclema.bandcamp.com. Ambient, spacey and moving, “Once I had it all” is quite the collection of tracks and worth checking out for fans of the genre or innovative music in general. The brainchild of Patrick Murphy, the prolific drummer behind bands like Mountain Man, Last Lights, I Rise and many others, the album is dark as hell, but necessary listening for area music fans. My brain is too fried to think of anything funny to say about it, but keep your eyes peeled for a story on the band coming soon.

la la. Need gifts for friends and family and want to get to announce loudly that you’ve shopped locally (or, just to buy nice things for yourself that your dog is going to chew on anyway)? You’re in luck. Taking place on Friday through Sunday, Nov. 24-26, for a donation of only five bucks, be the fanciest gift-giver in town.

CIRQUE DU ICE SKATE: I give that subhead a 6 out of 10. We’re moving up in the world here.

Regardless, I have a special place in my heart for Cirque du Soleil. We’ve had a lot of ups-anddowns. From awkwardly attending one with an ex-girlfriend because we had already purchased tickets, to traveling to Louisiana and interviewing producer Jon Landau and the cast and crew of the “Avatar” edition a year or two back, we’ve had a time, lemme tell ya. Since it seems obvious

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’TIS THE SEASON: There’s a coin flip of probability that anyone reading this is the type of person that gets annoyed by holiday music (Christmas music, see there’s no war on it folks) playing prematurely. The arts and entertainment reporter equivalent is holiday press releases and, well, ’tis the season. With that being said, the Worcester Art Museum has announced their holiday music performance schedule and it’s a doozy. There is more going on that I can sufficiently list here, so if you’re interested in performances by, for example, the Salisbury Singers or the Merrimack Valley Ringers (it’s a bell ensemble, but that rhyme scheme was clean, eh?), head to worcesterart.org for more info. They have some other events, too, like family tours, arms and armor demonstrations, community castle exhibits, a “champagne and shopping experience,” and more.

1-877-CRAFTS-FOR-KIDS (AND EVERYONE ELSE): I desperately need sleep. That’s

probably apparent in these subheads. When you write a column that basically achieves its end result as a byproduct of stream-of-consciousness typing, being fried can be a real detriment to the whole thing. With that in mind, if I ever do a “Top 10 worst subheads” column, this might

to me that Cirque is dead set on being a part of my life, they’ve made a new announcement: the latest iteration of the performance masterpiece coming to the DCU Center, called “Crystal,” will be their first ever on-ice production. Whaaaat? This could be something completely outrageous and, yes, I am genuinely excited. I have to imagine they forgot to call me to join the production, or they saw me skating at the Worcester Common Oval and swiped left. Either way, it’s headed to the DCU, Dec. 7-10, with six, count ’em, six performances.

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS: Ah, finally. I didn’t even need to come up with a subhead. God, I can’t wait to sleep. My exhaustion is irrelevant. Whatever. Minnesota punks, Off With Their Heads, are headed to the Hotel Vernon on Dec. 5. For the second time. That’s crazy. They’ll be joined by Canada’s Mobina Galore, Michael Kane & The Morning Afters and James Lynch. Grab a dollar draft or 10 and enjoy some tunes in Kelley Square.

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED (WELL, BROADCAST ON THE RADIO):

If you haven’t seen it, online radio station, Unity Radio, has gone live. You can stream it via worcestermag.com, or on TuneIn. Worcester Magazine has a daily segment from noon to 1 p.m. every day and yours truly will be on every Thursday. I’ve been told my voice is sultry with dulcet tones. You can call in at 508-471-5265 and I strongly suggest you do. The bar has been set pretty high; our first caller (with me on, I should say), was a fantastic discussion on the meaning of life and “getting it together.” I like weird conversations, so you’ve got a bit of time to prepare.

make it. The content shouldn’t be dragged down by the words in bold though, as the Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road, announced their annual Holiday Festival of Crafts this week. There will be 60 crafters on hand and a cafe from the folks at Bushel N Peck, ooh

Reporter Joshua Lyford can be reached at 508-749-3166, ext. 325, by coming to the sudden and, frankly, stunning realization that you’ve reached a level of burnout that no amount of coffee can possibly fix and you are, in fact, turning into a human stunned face emoji, or by email at Jlyford@ worcestermagazine.com. Follow Josh on Twitter @Joshachusetts and on Instagram @Joshualyford.

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Ben and Donald get their day Jim Keogh

I’m all about the simple things, which is why I love Thanksgiving. A good meal, a high school football game, family.

If I was to count blessings, that’s a pretty good place to start. But if I’m to fill a Thanksgiving-themed column, I’ll have to go deeper.

So…

I’m thankful: That the Hallmark Channel exists, because terrible actors need to earn a living, too.

That the Hallmark Channel’s “Countdown to Christmas” movie romances exist, because we must never forget Christmas is a sexy, sexy time.

That Clark University alumnus Ben Bagdikian is getting his due in the new Steven Spielberg movie “The Post,” about The Washington Post’s publication of The

Pentagon Papers in 1971. Editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) and publisher Kay Graham (Meryl Streep) were the star players, but it was Bagdikian, then the Post’s national editor, who retrieved the documents detailing U.S. involvement in Vietnam from military analyst Daniel Ellsberg, setting up a First Amendment showdown with the federal government.

Bagdikian, who passed away in 2016, is played by Bob Odenkirk of “Better Call Saul” fame.

That the Hollywood courtship ritual of masturbating in front of a horrified woman appears to be on the decline.

That Gal Gadot possesses the clout, the leverage and the kick-assery to get Brett Ratner removed as a producer from the “Wonder Woman” sequel. Six women have publicly accused Ratner of sexual misbehavior, and if you read some of the reporting, that’s probably tip-of-the-iceberg stuff.

That the amazing Frances McDormand can anchor the widely-heralded “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” yet still have “Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon” on her résumé.

That within a strange cinematic universe teeming with movies about superheroes, serial killers and characters built from Legos, a small treasure like “The Florida Project” can find a home.

That Donald Sutherland was finally given an Oscar. Yes, it was a lifetime achievement award, one of those Hollywood make-up calls meant to correct years of getting passed over. And yes, he will not be presented the statuette at the Academy Awards ceremony — he was honored alongside other luminaries at the recent Governors Awards. No matter.

Sutherland has sustained a remarkable, if under-appreciated, career in films as varied as “MASH,” “Don’t Look Now,” “Ordinary People,” “A Time to Kill,” “JFK” and even “Animal House.” His voice remains one of the most distinctive in the business — instantly recognizable in voice-over work — and, at 82, he seems uninterested in slowing down.

That James Cameron has returned to his roots by re-imagining the “Terminator” franchise. Cameron played no part in the recent installments, including the dreadful “Terminator Genisys.” He’s said the new film will be a direct sequel to “Terminator 2,” and he’s bringing back Arnold Schwarzenegger (of course) and Linda Hamilton to co-star.

If Cameron can withstand the temptation to have Arnold say “I’ll be back,” I will start a petition demanding he be given an honorary Oscar.

That “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is finally being released, so I will no longer be bombarded by molecular-level speculation about plot points, sightings of Mark Hamill at malls and headlines like this one in Elle: “Why the New Star Wars Movie Matters More Than You Think.”

That someone, somewhere thought it was a good idea to spend $300 million on “Justice League.” Despite lukewarm reviews, Warner Bros. will probably earn that back in China alone.

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Cheers to Chioda’s Trattoria Sandra Rain

Chioda’s Trattoria on Franklin Street is the sort of old Italian joint one finds on the other side of the tracks. And I mean that quite literally. Set just across the railway from Worcester’s restaurant row, Chioda’s is a scene straight out of Stanley Tucci’s “Big Night,” and the soundtrack is everything. The deep groove of a classic Italian crooner cushions each dish with earnest familiarity. Unlike Tucci’s problematic restaurant in the film, Chioda’s is bursting

with customers; weeknights at Chioda’s bear resemblance to a Brown Square neighborhood meeting.

Chioda’s dining room is the American fantasy of a Tuscan villa. Yellow stucco walls, ornately-patterned carpets, pleated curtains, wall sconces, stone sculptures, arched doorframes, and family photos crowd the space in a manner that is more endearing than it is exhausting. Servers present themselves with similar fervor, equal parts animation and curt exchange. You’ll have to ask for a tour of the menu, given that most Chioda’s customers are born regulars, but the staff will prove proud and opinionated in their recommendations.

Beverage options are limited by the glass and extraordinarily affordable by the bottle.

The Mark West California Pinot Noir ($8/$30) will offer a medium-bodied pairing ideal for pasta. Aromas of ripe raspberry give way to bolder notes of black cherry and cola on the palate. It’s “Buona Sera” in a glass.

Warm bread arrives in baskets with shallow dishes of olive oil for dipping. Chalkboards throughout the space advertise soups and salads of the day. For all of the merits of their red sauce, Chioda’s tomatoes lack a

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mozzarella cheese. I always half expect Rosemary Clooney to deliver it herself, along with a rendition of “Mambo Italiano.” It comes with a side of ziti, which wants for freshly grated cheese, but a shaker of dried parmesan has to suffice.

If you prefer a cream sauce, order the shrimp and scallops with spinach and sun-dried tomatoes ($19). The staff will push the porchetta ($17), a pork loin stuffed with ham, salami, capicola, provolone and Romano cheese. You should abide.

When an Italian place wants Shrimp and scallops with spinach and sun dried to set itself apart from the tomatoes fold, it makes you feel like a member of the family. Chioda’s has this part down. The servers certain electricity expected of dishes like the won’t coddle you and no one will claim the caprese salad ($10). The mozzarella, on the other hand, is fresh and supple, speckled with dusty bust in the corner is an original Venus De Milo. What they will do is treat you as if shredded basil leaves that offer the buzz of a you’re a guest in their home, and make you windowsill herb garden. consider that maybe Chioda’s is on the right The veal neapolitan ($21) is a house side of the tracks after all. specialty, prepared with sauteed veal The price of our last dinner for two came to cutlets, layered with Portobello mushrooms, eggplant, roasted red peppers and topped with $79.19.

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THANKFUL THURSDAY

Wooberry is hosting a food drive for Worcester County Food Bank through Thursday, Dec. 21.

Owner Brendan Melican says, “At a time when

there is so much positive change taking place locally, the statistics on poverty and food insecurity in Worcester remain sobering.

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celebrate our many successes, we must also remain mindful of the work that still needs to be done.” Generous donors will receive 10 percent off their orders at Wooberry, where the latest flavors include housemade vegan coffee, strawberry cardamom and mango con chili y limon sorbet. While you’re there, check out the new piece by Ghostbeard depicting a Wooberry woodland creature who has a taste for Oliver’s mint chip ice cream.

FREEZERLESS FRIDAY

As if Dacosta’s Pizza Bakery couldn’t get anymore quintessential, they’ve gone and added pinball machines. You’ll also find killerspin revolution, ping pong tables, 80’s retro arcade games, an 80-inch big screen, 40 feet of plush leather couches and six speakers pumping out classic hip hop. But the pizza is the main event. When asked about his secret to success, owner Marc Felicio explained, “We have a dedicated dough room that stays at 64 degrees. it helps to control consistency in the dough. We also use a sourdough starter, which definitely adds a lot of work but also a ton of flavor. Our mozzarella comes in from Brooklyn daily and we use fresh local ingredients. We don’t even have a freezer at Dacosta’s. I think this commitment to quality is what makes our pies stand out. There’s also something about cooking with wood-fire that makes everything taste better.”

SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY Saturday, Nov. 25 marks Small Business Saturday, a

national alternative to both Black Friday and Cyber Monday. This year, Crompton Collective will be asking their handmade vendors to set up shop in the White Room so patrons can meet the makers from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. In addition, Hot Power Yoga on Grafton Street will also host a Small Business Saturday event, 4-7 p.m., featuring local artists, crafts, jewelers, nutrition experts, homemade accessories, home décor, Truth Organic Spa, Hand knit by Brit, Young Living Essential Oils, homemade beauty products (plant based) and food and wine. The event will also include a raffle to benefit the Random Acts of Kindness Fund in honor of San Bernadino shooting victim Michael Wetzel.

SLOTHFUL SUNDAY

I am home sick today, a rare and dismal occurrence. The paramount reason for writing this column is that I revel in dining out as frequently as I can. But I suppose Instacart was designed for days exactly like this one.

I decided to give the grocery delivery service a try. Instacart’s recent partnership with Big Y makes ordering your groceries in Worcester fast and easy - though they will also deliver from as far away as Wegmans. Your first delivery is free and takes under two hours. A default service charge of 10 percent is added to your bill, though you can tinker with the tip if you please. Moments after completing my 2017

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MEANINGFUL MONDAY

Start your week off right by grabbing a coffee or a quick lunch downtown at the Seven Hills Cafe found on the first floor of City Hall. The cafe is an independent operation run by the Seven Hills Foundation, designed to provide teaching opportunities and workforce training for adults with disabilities through the ASPIRE model. The Seven Hills Cafe is open MondayFriday, 8 a.m. - 1 p.m.

GIVING TUESDAY

When the turkey sandwich supplies have run out and the shopping has commenced, take a moment to make a difference in the local community by participating in Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday is a day that reminds local residents to give something back. For example, a #GivingTuesday donation to United Way of Central Mass will help struggling local families and individuals by providing vitally important programs and services. United Way is planning to set up shop at a local coffee shop to make your donation as simple as possible. Show your holiday spirit by participating in this global day of giving.

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Karaoke. 8-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-8531350.

DJ Night - Every Thursday. 9 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420.

Open Mic Most Thursdays @ Barbers North. To check the schedules and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook. Bill McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is your host at another great Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it at: openmcc@verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” in the email’s “subject box”) Free! 6:30-9:30 p.m. Barbers Crossing (North), 175 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8438.

Open Mic Nights. 7-10:30 p.m. Medusa Brewing Company, 111 Main St. Hudson Ma, Hudson. 978-310-1933.

Kevin Shields. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Quinn’s Irish Pub, 715 West Boylston St. 508-459-2025.

Live Music. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Blueprint New American Bar & Grill, 9 Village Square, Westminster. 978-668-5580.

Live Music. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Blueprint New American Bar & Grill, 9 Village Square, Westminster. 978-668-5580.

Live Music. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Tavern on Central, 3 Central St., Ashburnham. 978-827-1272.

Open Mic Night With David Bazin. Acoustic Style, bring your acoustic instrument down and or sing and share your talent! No Cover.

8-11 p.m. Belfont Hotel, 11 South Main St., Millbury. 508-917-8128.

Audio Wasabi. 8:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner. 978-669-0122.

HiFi Wards electric blues. Peter Ward, Bob Berry and George Dellomo play the blues and some classic country too! No cover charge.

8:30-10:30 p.m. Dunny’s Tavern, 291 East Main St., East Brookfield.

Karaoke. DJ Nancy, of Star Sound Entertainment. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Club KasBar, 234 Southwest Cutoff. 508-798-8385.

Karaoke Party with Matty J! 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Padavano’s Place, 358 Shrewsbury St. 774-823-3022.

Sam James Performs at Loft, Thurs at 9. 9-11:59 p.m. Loft 266 Bar & Lounge, 266 Park Ave. 508-796-5177.

Thirsty Thursdays. Worcester’s New Weekly Club Night brought to you by Subterra Entertainment When: Thursdays Where: The Cove Music Hall Why: Because you like to Party! All your favorite tunes mixed and remixed! Pop | Dance | House | Remixes | Underground | Vocal $2 Drafts | $3 Beers | $3 Shots | Drink Specials Huge sound & light show! Free Street and Lot Parking all night Hosted By: Massappeal DJ Ray Toreba Spacedrift 9pm - 2am // 21+ // $5 Door Ladies Free Before 10pm No Dress Code $5 at the door- Ladies free until 10pm.

9 p.m.-2 a.m. The Cove Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or thecovemusichall.com DJ Cuzn Kev. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Whiskey on Water, 97 Water St. DJ 21+Canal. Live Dj pushing out all the latest hits for you’re listening and dancing pleasure! (Thursday is college night @ the Canal) 10:30 p.m.-1:45 a.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353.

DJ X Kaliber Performs at Loft at 11. 11-11:59 p.m. Loft 266 Bar & Lounge, 266 Park Ave. 508-796-5177.

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More TBA $7 21+ Doors at 8pm $7 at the door . The Cove Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or find them on Facebook.

Connor Bird. Connor will be playing a mix of acoustic, rock and folk covers with a few originals thrown in. Enjoy some dinner and drinks specials during the show, you’re sure to have a great time. N/A. 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, Bar/ Lounge, 65 Water St. 508-9268353 or find them on Facebook.

Thank Friday It’s Dr. Nat! Start your weekend with Nat Needle at Nick’s Worcester, 124 Millbury St. No cover charge this and most Fridays.

Thank Friday It’s Dr. Nat (TFIDN) is an unfettered romp through Nat’s musical imagination backed up by his hefty piano chops and hip vocals!

Special guests are welcome to sit in, and often do! Help me make this the time& place to connect, escape, network, chill, eat, drink, and above all be merry... but if you’re blue, why be alone? 5:30-7:30 p.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, Cabaret, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030 or find them on Facebook.

The Carlos Odria Trio. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Basil n’ Spice, Thai Cuisine, 299 Shrewsbury S. 774-317-9986 or basilnspice.com Amanda Cote. 7-10:30 p.m. Medusa Brewing Company, 111 Main St. Hudson Ma, Hudson. 978-310-1933.

Bill McCarthy Every Friday at Barbers Crossing North.

Now catch Bill McCarthy playing his heart out every Friday at Barbers North (Sterling, MA) @6:30pm Visit: BillMcCarthyMusic.com for info.

Free! 7-10 p.m. Barbers Crossing (North), 175 Leominster Road, Sterling.

978-422-8438.

Hatebreed. 7-11 p.m. Palladium, The, 261 Main St. 508-797-9696.

Hit the Bus. 7-10 p.m. Compass Tavern, 90 Harding St. 508-3046044.

James Keyes. 7 p.m.-1 a.m. 435 Bar & Grill, 435 Lancaster St., Leominster.

John Henry’s Hammer Open Mic. Join us for great local & regional open mic folks. Great place to perform and network, and get your set posted on YouTube if you like - in Worcester’s best open mic ‘listening room’. Bring a date; enjoy snacks. $3/Donation. 7-10:30 p.m.

First Unitarian Church, John Henry’s Hammer Coffeehouse, 90 Main St. 508-757-2708 or find them on Facebook.

Left-Right. 7 p.m.-1 a.m. The Monument Tap, Leominster. 978-7981242.

Dan Kirouac. Dan has been part of the regional music scene for thirty years. When not busy with the tribute band Beatles For Sale, his solo performances showcase vocals accompanied by a six-string acoustic guitar. From the one-hit wonders to the lost classics, from the 1960s to today, every show is a different experience, drawing from almost 500 contemporary and oldie songs. More information at dankirouac.com.

Free. 7:30-10:30 p.m. Marconi Club, 36 Birch St Passway, Fitchburg.

978-343-9657.

Danny Leblanc. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. South Side Grille & Margarita Factory, 242 West Broadway, Gardner. 978-632-1057.

Dave Malouin. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Happy Jack’s, 785 North Main St., Leominster. 978-466-3433.

Dave O’Brien Performs at Loft, Friday at 8. 8-11 p.m. Loft 266 Bar & Lounge, 266 Park Ave. 508-796-5177.

Dean Dimarzio. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The GazBar Sports Grill, 1045 Central St., Leominster.

Jay Graham. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Mill 185, 185 West Boylston St., West Boylston. 774-261-8585.

Kevin Shields. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Quinn’s Irish Pub, 715 West Boylston St. 508-459-2025.

Live Music. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Blueprint New American Bar & Grill, 9 Village Square, Westminster. 978-668-5580.

Live Music. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Blacksheep Tavern, 261 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-0255.

Live Music. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Blueprint New American Bar & Grill, 9 Village Square, Westminster. 978-668-5580.

Live Music. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Tavern on Central, 3 Central St., Ashburnham. 978-827-1272.

Scott Babineau. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Square,

Leominster. 978-534-5900.

Sean Fullerton and his Mad Loops Laboratory! Sean Fullerton is a solo Acoustic/Electric performer with 2 decades of professional experience specialing in Blues, Rock, Folk, Memphis Soul and Fingerstyle Guitar using a wide variety of guitars, harmonicas, guitar effects and looping, vocal harmony technology, and Bose and Tech 21 sound systems. Sean performs solo for many venues and events throughout New England year-round. Dinner, Drinks, Music, Fun. 8-10:30 p.m. Chuck’s Steakhouse, 10 Prospect St., Auburn. 508-832-2553 or find them on Facebook.

Every Friday Karaoke. 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Wong Dynasty and Yankee Grill, 176 Reservoir St., Holden. 508-829-2188.

Karaoke. 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Foodworks, Route 20. 508-752-0938.

Live Music. 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner. 978-669-0122.

Every Friday - Original Rock Bands. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Speakers Night Club, 19 Weed St., Marlborough. 508-439-9314.

Guest and House DJ’S. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. MB Lounge, 40 Grafton St. 508-799-4521 or mblounge.com Karaoke. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Partner’s Pub, 970 South St., Fitchburg. 978345-5051.

Karaoke Fridays at Three G’s Sportsbar. Join Magic Mike Entertainment every Friday night for Karaoke! Free! 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Three G’s Sports Bar, 152 Millbury St. magicmikeentertainment.com Karaoke with DJ Bruce. Free. 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Meiji Asian Cuisine, 24 Leicester St., North Oxford. 508-731-0120.

Mockingbird Duo. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Whiskey on Water, 97 Water St. Riff Raff. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350.

Sam James. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Frank’s, 274 Shrewsbury St. 774-4202253.

Scattershot. 9 p.m.-midnight JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420.

Seth Newton Live at Nick’s. Seth Newton Returns to Worcester after an extensive Nationwide tour. reverbnation.com/ National-SingerSongwriter-Multi-instrumentalist Nominated ‘Best Male Vocalist’ 2015 NE Seth Newton was born in the outskirts of Worcester, Massachusetts.

He began playing music at the age of ten and by the age of twelve was performing professionally in notable hard rock venues throughout New England. 9 p.m.-midnight Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030 or find them on Facebook.

DJs. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Compass Tavern, 90 Harding St. 508-304-6044.

Spaceout. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place.

508-459-9035.

DJ 21+Canal. Live Dj pushing out all the latest hits for you’re listening and dancing pleasure! (Thursday is college night @ the Canal ) 10:30 p.m.-1:45 a.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353.

DJ Joe T Performs at Loft at 11. 11-11:59 p.m. Loft 266 Bar & Lounge, 266 Park Ave. 508-796-5177.

Safe House Radio Show. This is a live radio broadcast with 2 living DJs hoping to drag you out of your lonely IPods and phone apps to hear the local & national metal, thrash, screamo, punk and alternative you wont hear on mainstream radio. Tune into WCUW 91.3FM in the Worcester and surrounding areas. Or stream live on wcuw.org (hit the listen live button in the upper left corner of screen) Join your DJs Summi and Momma Bear for an hour of metal, thrash, screamo, punk & alternative. You’re not alone in your digital world. Were out here live! Call in to let us know your listening @ (508)753-2284 after 11pm. Hope you tune in to hear local and national metal and more! 91.3fm or wcuw.org It’s your community radio! So enjoy it already! Sheesh! 11 p.m.-midnight WCUW Studios, 910 Main St. 508-753-2284 or find them on Facebook.

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Children of Bodom. 6-11 p.m. Palladium, The, 261 Main St. 508797-9696.

Open Mic! Come join our weekly open mic night! Hosted by Stephen Wright. All family friendly performers welcome. Show up and add your

name to the list. Look forward to having you! 6:30-9 p.m. Nu Cafe, 335 Chandler St. 508-926-8800 or nucafe.com Dana Lewis Live! Every Saturday night. Live, acoustic music, Family food, Full Bar, Lottery and Me! Playing the Hits of the 50’s to the 80’s.

“The Sound Track of your Youth” No Cover. Be there! Free! 7-10 p.m.

Nancy’s Quaker Tavern, 466 Quaker Hgwy (Route146a), Uxbridge. 508779-0901 or find them on Facebook.

Dave Ashman Jr. 7-10:30 p.m. Medusa Brewing Company, 111 Main St. Hudson Ma, Hudson. 978-310-1933.

Hip Swayers Deluxe! Always a great time at B-Man’s - Rock N Roll with the Hip Swayers! Free. 7-10 p.m. B-Man’s 140 Tavern, 348 Redemption Rock Trail, Sterling. 978-422-9763.

Jim Perry & Rob Adams. Jim Perry & Rob Adams will be playing a wide variety of great music, your sure to enjoy. N/A. 7-10 p.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, Bar / Lounge, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353 or find them on Facebook.

Amanda Cote. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Happy Jack’s, 785 North Main St., Leominster. 978-466-3433.

Bill McCarthy. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Mill 185, 185 West Boylston St., West Boylston. 774-261-8585.

Bullet Called Life~System of a Down tribute w/ Frnemy.

Bullet Called Life-System of a Down Tribute Band Members T.C. Polk - vocals/guitar Mike Shirley - guitar Chris Dube - drums Sam Nesbitt vocals/bass We are a 4 piece band inspired, by the unique songwriting of System of a Down, to recreate their creatively eccentric music to the best of our abilities. $10 at the Door 21+ 8pm $10 at the door. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Cove Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or find them on Facebook.

Dan Kirouac & Steve Kirouac. Dan has been part of the regional music scene for thirty years. When not busy with the tribute band Beatles for Sale, his solo performances showcase vocals accompanied by a six-string acoustic guitar. From the one-hit wonders to the lost classics, from the 1960s to today, every show is a different experience, drawing from almost 500 contemporary and oldie songs. More information at dankirouac.com. Free. 8-10:30 p.m. Tavern on the Common, 249 Main St., Rutland. 508-886-4600.

Dave Mack Performs at Loft, Saturday at 8. 8-11 p.m. Loft 266 Bar & Lounge, 266 Park Ave. 508-796-5177.

Jim Weeks. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The GazBar Sports Grill, 1045 Central St., Leominster.

Little Red and the Riders. Jump Blues & Swing. 8-11:45 p.m.

Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030 or Facebook.

Live Music. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Blueprint New American Bar & Grill, 9 Village Square, Westminster. 978-668-5580.

Live Music. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Blacksheep Tavern, 261 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-0255.

Live Music. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Blueprint New American Bar & Grill, 9 Village Square, Westminster. 978-668-5580.

Live Music. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Tavern on Central, 3 Central St., Ashburnham. 978-827-1272.

Maximum Recoil. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. South Side Grille & Margarita Factory, 242 West Broadway, Gardner. 978-632-1057.

Sam James. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Quinn’s Irish Pub, 715 West Boylston St. 508-459-2025.

Live Music. 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner. 978-669-0122.

Dirty Deeds Live at JJ’s. 9 p.m.-midnight JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420.

Doctor Robert. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place.

508-459-9035.

Eric Paquette Duo. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Whiskey on Water, 97 Water St. Flock of Assholes. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Breakaway Billiards, 104 Sterling St., Clinton. 978-365-6105.

Guest and House DJ’S. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. MB Lounge, 40 Grafton St. 508-799-4521 or mblounge.com Jah Spirit. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Central St., Leominster.

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Karaoke-DJ Fenton with Music and Dancing. Free. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. The Ballot Box, 11-17 Kelly Square. 774-243-1606 or on Facebook.

Little Red & The Riders jump blues & swing at Nick’s.

Little Red & Riders bring vintage sounds to a venue that matches perfectly! Join us for some great old jump blues & swing tunes in the cozy, eclectic atmosphere of Nick’s. They have some fine German fare (I love the big warm pretzels) and great beer selection. Super place for meeting old friends, family on Thanksgiving weekend! 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Live Bands. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Partner’s Pub, 970 South St., Fitchburg.

978-345-5051.

Paid in Quarters. Get ready to hear something new: Paid in Quarters is a 4-piece indie rock band who only knows how to get you out of your seat. Infectious pop-punk guitar harmonizes with fiery vocals while the Most Energetic Rhythm Section holds down the beat $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877 or find them on Facebook.

The Haverty Brothers. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Square, Leominster. 978-534-5900.

Saturday 25 Way Up South. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Frank’s, 274 Shrewsbury St. 774-4202253.

Fellowship of the King. 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Padavano’s Place, 358 Shrewsbury St. 774-823-3022.

DJs. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Compass Tavern, 90 Harding St. 508-304-6044.

DJs Upstairs. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Whiskey on Water, 97 Water St. DJ 21+Canal. Live Dj pushing out all the latest hits for you’re listening and dancing pleasure! (Thursday is college night @ the Canal) 10:30 p.m.-1:45 a.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353.

DJ Joe T Performs at Loft at 11. 11-11:59 p.m. Loft 266 Bar & Lounge, 266 Park Ave. 508-796-5177.

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Bluegrass Brunch at Bull Mansion. Every Sunday At The Bull Mansion you can now enjoy a spectacular brunch and some down-home picking and a plucking provided by a rotating roster of bluegrass rock stars. Free W/ Brunch. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bistro, Bull Mansion, 55 Pearl St. 508-755-6070 or find them on Facebook.

Jazz with Martin Goharzadeh. 2:30-5:30 p.m. Medusa Brewing Company, 111 Main St. Hudson Ma, Hudson. 978-310-1933.

Dale LePage & Joe D’Angelo. 5-8 p.m. Padavano’s Place, 358 Shrewsbury St. 774-823-3022.

Gypsy Guitar Duo of Jack Soref & Dan Hunt. Join Jack & Dan with their Gypsy Guitar wizardry at the Bull Mansion Bistro Sunday Nov 26th 6- 7:0pm. You know you’ll be sick of left overs and the food at the Bull Mansion is excellent. Come on down for a bite, a drink, dessert, just enjoy their fabulous guitar playing! 6-7:30 p.m. Bistro, Bull Mansion, 55 Pearl St. 508-755-6070.

Open Mic Sundays @ Park Grill & Spirits. To check the schedules and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook. Bill McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is your host at another great Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it at: openmcc@verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” in the email’s “subject box”) Free! 6-9 p.m. Park Grill and Spirits, 257 Park Ave. Karaoke. DJ Nancy, of Star Sound Entertainment. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Club KasBar, 234 Southwest Cutoff. 508-798-8385.

Karaoke. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Partner’s Pub, 970 South St., Fitchburg. 978345-5051.

Karaoke with DJ Soup. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Whiskey on Water, 97 Water St. Mike Melendez. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035.

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Industry Night With Keith. 5 p.m.-2 a.m. MB Lounge, 40 Grafton St. 508-799-4521.

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Karaoke. DJ Nancy, of Star Sound Entertainment. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Club KasBar, 234 Southwest Cutoff. 508-798-8385.

Wednesday Night Mayhem. The last bastion of democracy: an open, live-writing competition in character, where the audience dances, throws things, and votes for the winner! $5. 8-11 p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877 or find them on Facebook.

Worcester Academy Faculty Open Mic. No Cover. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

G-Milli Birthday Bash W/TanMan. Who’s ready to get lit G-Milli having his 21st birthday party at Electric Haze and he’s bringing the chubbylife squad with him there’s gonna be drinks at the bar all night with pool, hookah, and Cyphers so bring your rap skills let’s see what you got! And of course like always $5@ the door! So come and support your local Hip Hop artist! Hip Hop Show $5. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Electric Haze, 26 Millbury St. 508-799-0629 or find them on Facebook.

Karaoke. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Club KasBar, 234 Southwest Cutoff. 508-7988385.

Karaoke. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Partner’s Pub, 970 South St., Fitchburg. 978345-5051.

Karaoke with DJ Soup. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Whiskey on Water, 97 Water St. Karaoke with Mikey Mic’s. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. MB Lounge, 40 Grafton St. 508-799-4521.

What’s that tune Trivia. 9 p.m.-midnight The Pint, 58 Shrewsbury St.

p.m. Monday - Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, closed Thursday - Saturday. Admission: Free. 781 Main St., Fitchburg. 978-345-1157 or fitchburghistoricalsociety.org Fitchburg State University: Hammond Hall, 160 Pearl St., >Tuesday 28 Fitchburg. fitchburgstate.edu $1000 Singer/Songwriter Contest. 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Framed in Tatnuck, Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 10 a.m. to Padavano’s Place, 358 Shrewsbury St. 774-823-3022.

6 p.m. Tuesday - Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. 1099 Pleasant St. Tuesday Open Mic Night @ Greendale’s Pub with Bill 508-770-1270 or framedintatnuck.com McCarthy Local Musicians Showcase! To check the schedules Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Road, Harvard. 978-456and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook. Bill 3924 or fruitlands.org McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is your host at another Gallery of African Art, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 great Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it at: openmcc@ p.m. Monday - Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. to verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” in the email’s “subject box”) 5:30 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Admission: Donations Free! 7:30-11:30 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853accepted. 62 High St., Clinton. 978-265-4345 or 978-598-5000x12 or 1350 or find them on Facebook. galleryofafricanart.org Nick’s Jazz Jam Open Mic in Worcester. Have you ever gone Highland Artist Group, 113 Highland St. highlandartistgroup.com to see a Jazz performance and thought, “Hey, I could to this.” Well now Mass Audubon: Broad Meadow Brook Conservation is your chance at Nick’s Jazz Open Mic! Bring your favorite musical Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, Hours: 12:30-4 p.m. Sunday, instrument and perform in front of other or even with them if you have closed Monday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 414 Massasoit the chops. Free. 8-11 p.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, Cabaret, 124 Road. 508-753-6087 or massaudubon.org Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Museum of Russian Icons, Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Boogie Chillin’. Bluesy, bluegrassy, acoustic band with a twist. Jon closed Monday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday - Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Bonner - Guitar & Vocals Fernando Perez - Percussion Zack Slik Saturday. Admission: Adults $10; Seniors (59 +), $7; Students, $5; Mandolin & Vocals Dan Villani - Violin/fiddle Rose Villani - Bass Free! 9 Children 3-17, $5; Children <3, free. 203 Union St., Clinton. 978-598p.m.-midnight Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439 or Facebook.

5000 or 978-598-5000 or museumofrussianicons.org Karaoke. DJ Nancy, of Star Sound Entertainment. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Club Old Sturbridge Village, Cabinet Making in Early 19th Century New ArtsWorcester, Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 1-4 p.m. Tuesday, KasBar, 234 Southwest Cutoff. 508-798-8385.

England, Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday - Friday, 1-4 p.m. Saturday. Admission: Karaoke with DJ Bruce. Free. 9 p.m.-midnight Antonio’s Pizza by Dec. 31; Make No Little Plans, Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Free. 660 Main St. 508-755-5142 or artsworcester.org the Slice , 268 Chandler St., Worcester, MA. Fridays, Saturdays, through Dec. 31. Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Asa Waters Mansion, Admission: $3 for guided tour $7-10 for tea. closed Monday - Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday - Saturday.

Karaoke Tuesdays at 9:30. 9:30-11:59 p.m. Loft 266 Bar & 123 Elm St., Millbury. 508-865-0855 or asawaters.org Lounge, 266 Park Ave. 508-796-5177.

Admission: $28 Adults, $26 Seniors (55+), $14 Youths (4-17), free for Assumption College: Emmanuel d’Alzon Library, 500 Children 3 & Under, $14 College Students with valid college ID. 1 Old >Wednesday 29 Salisbury St. 508-767-7272 or assumption.edu Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge. 800-733-1830 or 508-347-3362 The Motown Jukebox. Join “Motown Tom” Ingrassia--Worcester’s Booklovers’ Gourmet, Sisters - Quilting & Mixed Media Expressions, or osv.org very own Agent Double-O Soul--every Wednesday morning from 9 am to Through Nov. 30. Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, 10 Park Hill Gallery, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday noon for The Motown Jukebox on WCUW 91.3FM for 3 hours of Motown a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday - Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 55 East Friday, closed Saturday. 387 Park Ave. 774-696-0909. music and the stories behind the hits. “Motown Tom” is a Motown Main St., Webster. 508-949-6232 or bookloversgourmet.com Post Road Art Center, Hours: closed Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 historian and author. His current book--Reflections Of A Love Supreme: Clark University: University Gallery, Hours: noon-5 p.m. p.m. Monday - Saturday. 1 Boston Post Road, Marlborough. 508-485Motown Through The Eyes Of Fans was named the Best Music Book of Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, noon-8 p.m. Wednesday, noon-5 p.m. 2580 or postroadartcenter.com 2016 by the National Indie Excellence Awards. “Motown Tom” has twice Thursday - Saturday. 950 Main St. 508-793-7349 or 508-793-7113 or Preservation Worcester, Hours: closed Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. been named Best Radio Personality in local media polls. WCUW streams clarku.edu Monday - Friday, closed Saturday. 10 Cedar St. 508-754-8760 or live online at wcuw.org. 9 a.m.-noon WCUW 91.3 FM - Worcester’s Clark’s Cafe and Art On Rotation Gallery, Hours: 6 a.m. to preservationworcester.org Community Radio Station, 910 Main St. 508-753-1012 or wcuw.org 1 p.m. Sunday - Saturday. Admission: Free for gallery. 310 High St., Prints and Potter Gallery: American Arts and Crafts Brown Bag Concert: All that (Holday) Jazz! The WPI Big Band Clinton. 978-549-5822 or 978-365-7772 or aorgallery.com Gallery, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday - Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, directed by Rich Falco, together with Organists Lucia Falco, William Ness, College of the Holy Cross: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 142 Highland St. 508-752-2170 or and Will Sherwood, will treat us to a powerful mix of jazz with a twist! A Gallery, Rethinking the Afropolitan: Photographs by Héctor Mediavilla printsandpotter.com Worcester Organ Concert presented in partnership with the Worcester and Christopher López, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Chapter AGO. Free Admission. Noon-1 p.m. Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St. Fridays, Saturdays, through Dec. 15. Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 Quinebaug Valley Council for the Arts & Humanities, the Arts Center, Hours: 2-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Friday, 2-4 508-752-5608 or mechanicshall.org p.m. Monday - Friday, 2-5 p.m. Saturday. 1 College St. 508-793-3356 p.m. Saturday. 111 Main St., Southbridge. 508-346-3341 or qvcah.org Open Mic Wednesdays at CJ’s Steak Loft in or holycross.edu Rollstone Studios, Hours: 11-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday Northborough. To check the schedules and open slots visit: Bill Danforth Museum of Art, Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, closed Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday - Saturday. Admission: free. 633 McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook. Bill McCarthy (originator of the Monday - Tuesday, noon-5 p.m. Wednesday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 “Half-Hour Sets!”) is your host at another great Open Mic Night! Email p.m. Friday - Saturday. 123 Union Ave., Framingham. 508-620-0050 or Main St., Fitchburg. 978-348-2781 or rollstoneartists.com Salisbury Mansion, Hours: closed Sunday - Wednesday, 1-8:30 Bill McCarthy to reserve it at: openmcc@verizon.net (make sure you danforthmuseum.org p.m. Thursday, 1-4 p.m. Friday - Saturday. 40 Highland St. 508-753put “open mic” in the email’s “subject box”) Free! 6-9 p.m. CJs Steakloft, EcoTarium, Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 10 a.m. to 8278 or worcesterhistory.org 369 W. Main St. (route 20), Northborough. 508-393-8134 or find them 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: $15.00 adults; $10 for children SAORI Worcester Freestyle Weaving Studio, 18 Winslow St. on Facebook. ages 2-18, college students with ID & senior citizens. Children under 2 508-757-4646 or 508-757-0116 or saoriworcester.com Jazzed Up featuring vocalist/pianist Mauro DePasquale. & EcoTarium members free. Additional charges apply for Tree Canopy Sprinkler Factory, Admission: free. 38 Harlow St. sprinklerfactory.

Worcester’s own Mauro DePasquale has become an institution at Bull Walkway, Explorer Express Train, planetarium programs & other special com Mansion and his duo will get you Jazzed Up! This week’s destination for event. 222 Harrington Way. 508-929-2700 or ecotarium.org Taproot Bookstore, Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. cool. No Cover. 6:30-8:30 p.m. GAR Hall, Bull Mansion, 55 Pearl St. Fisher Museum Harvard Forest, 324 N. Main St., Petersham.

Monday - Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to Little Black Dress. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Quinn’s Irish Pub, 715 West 978-724-3302 or harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu 7 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 1200 West Boylston St. 508Boylston St. 508-459-2025.

Fitchburg Art Museum, Hours: noon-4 p.m. Sunday, closed 853-5083 or TaprootBookstore.com Music Bingo Wednesdays Starting at 8. 8-11:59 p.m. Loft Monday, noon-4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 25 Merriam Parkway, Tatnuck Bookseller & Cafe, Hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, 9 266 Bar & Lounge, 266 Park Ave. 508-796-5177.

Fitchburg. 978-345-4207 or fitchburgartmuseum.org Open Mic. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. The Raven, 258 Pleasant St. 508-304-8133. Fitchburg Historical Society, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday - Thursday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday - Saturday.

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18 Lyman St., Westborough. 508-366-4959 or tatnuck.com Top Fun Aviation Toy Museum, Hours: 1:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday. 21 Prichard St., Fitchburg. 978-342-2809 or 978-297-4337 or topfunaviation.com Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: $12 Adults, $9 Seniors & $7 Youth, free to Members & Children. 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111 or towerhillbg.org Worcester Art Museum, Jeppson Idea Lab: Master Vases from Ancient Greece, Through April 8, 2018; Last Defense: The Genius of Japanese Meiji Metalwork, Through Sept. 2, 2018; Nude Drawing in the Galleries, Thursdays, through Dec. 28; Rediscovering an American Community of Color: The Photographs of William Bullard, Through Feb. 25, 2018; Sunday Public Tour, Sundays, through Dec. 17. Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Admission: Free for members, $14 adults, $12 seniors, free for youth 17 and under. Free for all first Saturdays of each month, 10am-noon. 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406 or worcesterart.org Worcester Center for Crafts, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Saturday. 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183 or worcestercraftcenter.org Worcester Historical Museum, Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 30 Elm St. 508-753-8278 or worcesterhistory.org Worcester Public Library, Hours: 1:30-5:30 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday - Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday - Saturday. 3 Salem Square. 508-799-1655 or worcpublib.org WPI: George C. Gordon Library, 100 Institute Road. wpi.edu

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Dick’s Beantown Comedy Escape at Park Grill & Spirits Friday 9pm-Saturdays 8pm -$20pp Reservations Recommended at 800-401-2221 Prices: $20 Fri/Sat pp except Special Events Drinks and Appetizers available in the show room Full Dinner Available before Show in Restaurant $5off with College ID and Reservations 2 for 1 Active Military or Veterans and Reservations $4 off with Dinner Receipt and Reservations. Fri & Sat Nov 24th & 25th Frank Santorelli Rob Pierce and Friends Fri & Sat Dec 1st & 2nd Kyle Crawford Sarah Martin and Friends.Dick’s Beantown Comedy Escape at Park Grill & Spirits. Make Reservations Early at 800-401-2221 or online at dickdoherty.com Comedy Open Mic in the Cabaret! - Mondays, Monday, May 15 - Monday, December 18. The 1st and 3rd Monday of every month!

Sign ups are at 7:30 and the show starts at 8:00! Free. 7:30-10:30 p.m.

Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. Call 508-753-4030.

A Christmas Carol - Theatre at the Mount’s production of A Christmas Carol opens Thanksgiving Weekend! Ebenezer Scrooge sums up his feelings about Christmas with a curmudgeonly “Bah! Humbug!”

But he’s forced to face his selfish ways when three ghosts on Christmas Eve lead him through his Past, Present, and Future. A Christmas Carol is a spectacular adaptation of Charles Dickens’s most well-known story.

Proving its staying power with a decade long run at Madison Square Garden, A Christmas Carol is sure to be fun for the entire family! Show dates are: November 24, 25, December 1, 2 at 8:00pm; November 26 and December 3 at 2:00pm Special Sensory Friendly performance Saturday, December 2 at 2:00pm Tickets for all performances are available online at mwcc.edu/tam or by phone at 978-630-9388 $22.

8-9:30 p.m. Mount Wachusett Community College: Theatre, 444 Green St., Gardner. Call 978-630-9388 or visit mwcc.edu The Nutcracker - Friday, November 24 - Sunday, November 26. See Discover Central Massachusetts website. Tickets are $28, $34 and $40 depending on seat location. Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St. Call 877-571-7469 or visit thehanovertheatre.org

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classes >Friday 24

White Pumpkin Paint Party. 16x20 Canvas. Guided paint party.

No experience needed. Music, lighting, and party atmosphere! $30. 6-8 p.m. The Art Lab & Gallery, 716 Southbridge St., Auburn. 508-789-7035 or find them on Facebook.

Post Thanksgiving 3 Day Boot Camp! From LA to Worcester Jymia Fitness Studio Owner & Celebrity Professional Trainer Presents.....

Post Thanksgiving 3-day rapid results boot camp Friday November 24th - Sunday Novemer 26th Friday 8:00pm - 9:15pm Saturday/Sunday 5:00pm - 6:00pm It’s simple - If you follow the plan you will see results.

If you follow the maintenance plan the results will stay. 3 days of elite training and meal planning. Q&A Workshop on last day! Find out what’s been holding you back Check him out on Instagram: @Thejyim $99 for three days. 8-9:15 p.m. Crossfit Centermass, 333 Shrewsbury St. 323204-7604 or thejyim.com

>Tuesday 28

Crocheting 101 with Haley Berube. In this fun two-hour class with Haley, you will learn the basics of crochet. You will learn casting-on, different types of stitches, making hats, scarves, and virtually anything you’d like to create. Minimum Enrollment: 2 / Maximum Enrollment: 10 If the class does not reach minimum enrollment 3 days prior, it will be canceled. Students will have the option of transferring their ticket to another class or receiving a refund. Please provide us with both a contact number & email to ensure you are properly notified of course changes.

No experience necessary. How to find us! Turn in at the Blue Hive parking lot (233 Stafford St.) drive to the back of the lot and turn right to go behind the building. There will be a large garage door. The entrance to the WorcShop is the door on the right with the blue awning. $20 WorcShop Members / $25 Non-Members. 6-8 p.m. The WorcShop, Classroom Side A, 243 Stafford St. 774-545-0720 or eventbrite.com Fear No Art, Wine & Design ~ Elegant Winter Wreath.

Fear No Art, Wine & Design. We will be having fun creating a Elegant Winter Wreath. And while getting your creativity on, sip on some great drinks and enjoy delicious food (separate purchase). Each piece of art you creative will look wonderful in your home, or give as a gift. The cost is $25 which includes a glass of wine. To Sign up or for More Information call Donna @ 508-527-7306 or email donnafearnoart@gmail.com Walk-ins welcome join us come have fun! $25 (see description). 6:308:30 p.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353.

and foster a lifelong love of nature in a safe, caring environment. For more information and to register, call 508-753-6087. There is no class the week of Christmas. $400 Child Members, $475 Child Non-members.

9:30 a.m.-noon Mass Audubon: Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, 414 Massasoit Road. 508-753-6087 or massaudubon.org

>Wednesday 29

Figure in Context #32. This is our last figure in Context for 2017!

3-hour figure workshop held by Void’s Creations at The WorcShop Featured model: TBA Set design: TBA This is not just your average nude model on a stand, we will be staging an environment for the model to pose in (local artists are welcome to volunteer to bring to life a different creative setting each session) The event will be recurring bi-weekly on Wednesday evenings from 6-9pm starting May 25th. 6-630 pm gesture 6:30-9 pm long pose All mediums are welcome, please bring your own easels and supplies. If you intend to use messy media please bring a drop cloth as well. No experience necessary. How to find us! Turn in at the Blue Hive parking lot (233 Stafford St.) drive to the back of the lot and turn right to go behind the building. There will be a large garage door. The entrance to the WorcShop is the door on the right with the blue awning. $15 General Admission / $20 with Reference Photos. 6-9 p.m.

The WorcShop, Classroom Side B, 243 Stafford St. 774-545-0720 or eventbrite.com

>Wednesday 29 – February 7

Discovering Nature as a Preschooler: Winter 2016 Wednesday. This 10-week series of nature classes is designed for young children ages 4 to 5 unaccompanied by a parent. Each week we will explore nature through self discovery, games, activities, stories and crafts. Children will be guided through their hands-on inquiry based explorations with one (or more) of our trained natural history guides. Join other children as we learn and play together and foster a lifelong love of nature in a safe, caring environment. For more information and to register, call 508-753-6087. There will be no class the week of Christmas. $200 Child Members, $275 Child Non-members. 9:30 a.m.-noon Mass Audubon: Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, 414 Massasoit Road. 508-753-6087 or massaudubon.org

lectures >Saturday 25

Meet Dick Flavin, author of Red Sox Rhymes: Verses and Curses. Dick Flavin is the poet laureate of the Boston Red Sox and voice >Tuesday 28 – February 6 of Fenway Park. He is New York Times best-selling author, playwright, Discovering Nature for Children Ages 5 to 8: Winter Emmy Award winning television commentator and nationally known 2017 Session-Tuesday. This 10-week series of nature classes is speaker. In 2011 he was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters designed for children ages 5 to 8. We’ll explore nature topics in-depth Hall of Fame. He has written and performed scores of verses and ballads through hands-on experiments, activities and investigations. Then we’ll on the Red Sox, their iconic ballpark, their storied players, their ups, their spend time outdoors, putting our learning into action on the trails of downs and their occasional glories. His book Red Sox Rhymes was on Broad Meadow Brook. Children will be guided through inquiry-based the New York Times best-seller list for sports books. Flavin serves as the explorations with one (or more) of our trained natural history guides. Join public address announcer for Red Sox day games at Fenway Park. He other children as we learn and play together and foster a lifelong love of has narrated a series of documentaries on the history of the Red Sox and nature in a safe, caring environment. For more information and to register, Fenway Park that are shown on NESN, the New England Sports Network. call 508-753-6087. There is no class the week of Christmas. $200 He was the narrator of The Teammates, an ESPN documentary that was Child Members, $275 Child Non-members. 1-3:30 p.m. Mass Audubon: nominated for three national Emmy Awards. He won seven New England Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, 414 Regional Emmy Awards for his commentaries on WBZ-TV in Boston. Free, Massasoit Road. 508-753-6087 or massaudubon.org books available for purchase. 2-4 p.m. Booklovers’ Gourmet, 55 East Main St., Webster. 508-949-6232.

>Tuesday 28 – February 8

Discovering Nature as a Preschooler: Winter 2017 Session-Tuesdays/Thursdays. This 10-week series of nature classes is designed for young children ages 4 to 5 unaccompanied by a parent. Each week we will explore nature through self discovery, games, activities, stories and crafts. Children will be guided through their hands-on inquiry-based explorations with one (or more) of our trained natural history guides. Join other children as we learn and play together

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Art Cart: Medieval. The Middle Ages! The name brings to mind images of knights and princesses, of sinners and saints, and heroes and villains. You might discover the armor worn by knights and how it was used. Or create your own heraldry so your friends (and foes) can

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identify you. Ask our friendly docent what topic will be on tap today!

(Programming subject to change) Free with Museum admission. 10:3011:30 a.m. Worcester Art Museum, Medieval Gallery, 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406.

Alpaca-Llips Farm Small Business Saturday Sale. Hand feed our alpacas or steal an alpaca kiss, take Christmas card selfies with our llamas and alpacas, shop our gift shop, and enjoy hot chocolate and cookies. MayerWoodcraft will also have many products for sale. All are welcome. Free. Noon-4 p.m. Alpaca-Llips Farm, 156 Intervale Road, Rutland. 508-330-0209 or alpacallipsfarm.com Zip Tour: Cheng: Scourge Vanquished. Zip tours are fast-paced views of one artist or work of art, and last only 20 minutes. Free with Museum admission. Tour begins in the Lancaster Welcome Center.

Free with Museum admission. 1-1:30 p.m. Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406.

Art Cart: Medieval. The Middle Ages! The name brings to mind images of knights and princesses, of sinners and saints, and heroes and villains. You might discover the armor worn by knights and how it was used. Or create your own heraldry so your friends (and foes) can identify you. Ask our friendly docent what topic will be on tap today!

(Programming subject to change) Free with Museum admission. 2-3 p.m. Worcester Art Museum, Medieval Gallery, 55 Salisbury St. 508799-4406.

>Monday 27

Santa Event. Santa is coming to ClayTime! November 27th from 3:00pm - 7:00pm 3 sessions of Painting, Story Time and Cookies Sign up for a painting time and either attend a Story time before or after your painting session. 3:00pm-4:15pm Paint with Santa 4:15pm -4:30pm Story Time 4:30pm - 5:45pm Paint with Santa 5:45pm - 6:00pm Story Time 6:00pm - 7:15pm Paint with Santa $35.00 due at booking. Price includes $30.00 towards pottery painting minimum and $5.00 fee per child for Santa Event. You may create whatever you want. We have many samples and ideas to guide you. Santa’s Elves will be on hand to assist you! $35. 3-7 p.m. Claytime Studio, 124 Boston Turnpike, Shrewsbury.

508-798-9950 or claytimestudio.com

fairs/ festivals >Friday 24 – Sunday 26

Event: Holiday Festival of Crafts. A Craft Center tradition!

Featuring over 60 artisans from across the country. Come get your holiday shopping done early. Friday Nov 24, 10AM-5PM Saturday Nov 25, 10AM-5PM Sunday Nov 26, 11AM-5PM Cafe by Bushel N Peck $5 Admission. Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road. 508-7538183.

>Saturday 25 - Sunday 26

Happy Holidays Open House. Stop by the farm for a warm cup of mulled cider while you pick out all of your holiday decorations. We will have trees, garland, kissing balls, swags all kinds of holiday decor.

We will also have hayrides around the orchard and crafts that you can make with your children, s’mores at the campfires with Christmas music playing in the back ground. It’s a great way to spend some quality family time at the farm. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the holidays.

Remember we are open year round for all your local needs! Free you only pay for activities you want to do. Lanni Orchards, Inc., 294 Chase Road, Lunenburg. 978-582-6246.

college sports Women’s Basketball

Anna Maria Nov. 27 vs Nichols, 6 p.m.

Becker Nov. 26 @ University Maine Presque Isle, 12 p.m.

Nov. 28 @ UMass-Boston, 5 p.m.

Holy Cross Nov. 26 vs Bryant, 12:05 p.m.

Nichols Nov. 27 @ Anna Maria, 6 p.m.

Worcester State Nov. 26 vs Wellesley, 6 p.m.

Worcester State Nov. 26 vs Wellesley, 6 p.m.

WPI Nov. 25 vs Bates, 2 p.m.

Men’s Basketball

Anna Maria Nov. 28 @ Regis, 6 p.m.

Assumption Nov. 26 @ Molloy, 1 p.m.

Becker Nov. 26 @ Western New England, 1 p.m.

Nov. 28 @ Springfield, 7 p.m.

Clark Nov. 28 @ Connecticut College, 7 p.m.

Holy Cross Nov. 25 vs Albany, 1:05 p.m.

Nichols Nov. 26 @ Trinity (Connecticut), 3 p.m Worcester State Nov. 28 vs Skidmore, 7 p.m.

WPI Nov. 28 vs Tufts, 7 p.m.

Men’s Ice Hockey

Assumption Nov. 28 vs Saint Anselm, 7:35 Becker Nov. 25 vs Bryn Athyn, 7 p.m.

Nov. 26 vs Fitchburg State or Stonehill, TBA Holy Cross Nov. 24 vs Arizona State, 7:05 p.m.

Nov. 25 vs Arizona State, 7:05 p.m.

Nichols Nov. 25 vs Amherst, 12:15 p.m.

Nov. 26 vs SUNY Cortland/ Framingham State, TBA

Women’s Ice Hockey Becker Nov. 25 vs Chatham, 1 p.m.

Nov. 26 vs Chatham, 1 p.m.

Holy Cross Nov. 24 @ Dartmouth, 6 p.m.

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AUTO/MOTORCYCLE 2007 Harley Davidson FXSCUS Great condition, detachable windshield & storage bag, have floor boards mounted and have original forward controls. 9100 mi. $10,000 firm.

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57K miles. $9,999. 508-8292907 AUTOS 1996 Camry 178000 orig miles Runs Great!. New timing belt/ water pump, new front shocks/ front axels and plug wires. $1000.00 508-859-8030 1932 Ford Coupe Little deuce Coupe, with a Corvette mill and four on the floor. 6,000 aprox. mi. Original hot rod, all steel, show car, looks and sounds great. Holden area. $47,000. 407-375-3917 1930 Ford Model A Sport Coupe, Grey and Black.

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2012 Ford Fusion Low mileage, 24K, black, auto, sunroof, sat radio. $8600 OBO. Call Kent at 508-865-3555 or text Jeremy at 774-230-5560 1928 Ford Model A St Rod Cobra Marine 4.3 Chevy V-6 5 spd Camaro rear S10 pickup Brookville frame 30K inv ask 28K obo. 978-537-7937 Bob

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LEGALS/PUBLIC NOTICES MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain Mortgage given by Robert Masters and Katherine Taylor to Chase Bank USA, N.A., dated June 27, 2006 and recorded with the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds at Book 39306, Page 190 subsequently assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee to J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2006-CH2, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-CH2 by Chase Bank USA, N.A. by assignment recorded in said Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds at Book 45947, Page 335; of which Mortgage the undersigned is the present holder for breach of the conditions of said Mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing same will be sold at Public Auction at 11:00 AM on December 7, 2017 at 39 Main Street, Sutton (Manchaug), MA, all and singular the premises described in said Mortgage, to wit: The land in said Sutton, in that part called Manchaug, and consisting of two parcels, PARCEL NO: 1 The land in said Sutton with the buildings thereon, in that part called Manchaug and situated easterly of Main Street in the Village of Manchaug, in said Sutton; BEGINNING: at the southwest corner of the premises at a corner of land now or formerly of Albert A. Jarvis; THENCE: East by said Jarvis land, 150 feet to line of tract No.1 as described in a deed hereinafter referred to; THENCE: by line of said tract No. 1 to a private road, 46 feet; THENCE: westerly bounding said private road, 150 feet to the town road; THENCE: southerly bounding said town road, 46 feet to the place of beginning. Together with the right in common with others to pass and repass over said private road to the Town road. Being Tract No. 2 in a deed of Albert A. Jarvis to Joseph A. Matte and Salina Matte, dated August 28, 1918, and recorded with Worcester District Registry of Deeds in Book 2160. Page 326.

PARCEL NO: 2 A certain tract of land, with the buildings thereon, situated in the Village of Manchaug, in said Sutton, on the easterly side of the road leading from Manchaug Village to East Douglas, Ma. BEGINNING: at the southwesterly corner of the premises at the corner of a lane leading to the house formerly occupied by John Darling; THENCE: northerly on said road, 40 feet to a stone post; THENCE: easterly parallel with the south line of the Catholic Church, 150 feet to a stone post; THENCE; southerly and parallel with said road to said land; THENCE: westerly on the northerly side of said land to the place of beginning. Being the same premises conveyed by deed of Laura Matte et al; dated December 15, 1977 and recorded with said Registry of Deeds, Book 6367 Pages 371, 373, 375. See 39306/188 Upon information and belief line 3 of subject mortgage legal description should read situated easterly of Main Street and on the easterly side of Jarvis Street, per vesting deed 39306-188. The premises are to be sold subject to and with the benefit of all easements, restrictions, building and zoning laws, liens, attorney’s fees and costs pursuant to M.G.L.Ch.183A, unpaid taxes, tax titles, water bills, municipal liens and assessments, rights of tenants and parties in possession. TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS AND 00 CENTS ($5,000.00) in the form of a certified check, bank treasurer’s check or money order will be required to be delivered at or before the time the bid is offered. The successful bidder will be required to execute a Foreclosure Sale Agreement immediately after the close of the bidding. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid within thirty (30) days from the sale date in the form of a certified check, bank treasurer’s check or other check satisfactory to Mortgagee’s attorney. The Mortgagee reserves the right to bid at the sale, to reject any and all bids, to continue the sale and to amend the terms of the sale by written or oral announcement made before or during the foreclosure sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. The description of the premises contained in said mortgage shall control in the event of an error in this publication. TIME WILL BE OF THE ESSENCE. Other terms if any, to be announced at the sale. U.S. Bank N.A., as trustee, on behalf of the holders of the J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2006-CH2 Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-CH2 Present Holder of said Mortgage, By Its Attorneys, ORLANS PC, PO Box 540540, Waltham, MA 02454 Phone: (781) 790-7800 16-013852 11/16/, 11/23, 11/30/17

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LEGALS/PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Ryan J. Colby and Melissa J. Colby to New Century Mortgage Corporation dated June 28, 2006, recorded at the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 39311, Page 87; said mortgage was then assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association for the benefit of ACE Securities Corp. Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 2006-NC3, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates by virtue of an assignment dated December 14, 2009, and recorded in Book 45305, Page 255; of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder for breach of conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at PUBLIC AUCTION at 02:00 PM on December 5, 2017, on the mortgaged premises. This property has the address of 14 Millers Way, Unit 6B, Woodburyville Heights Condominium, Sutton, MA 01590. The entire mortgaged premises, all and singular, the premises as described in said mortgage: The property located in Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, being Unit B (the “Unit”) in Building 6 (the “Building”) in Phase VIII of the Woodburyville Heights Condominium (the “Condominium”) created pursuant to a Master Deed dated April 8, 1986, recorded with the Worcester District Registry of Deed in Book 11798, Page 277, as amended. The mailing address and Post Office address of said Unit 14 Millers Way (Unit 6B), Sutton, Massachusetts. Said Unit No. 6B contains 2,425.8 square feet as shown on the floor plans and site plans filed with the Master Deed and on the copy of a portion of said plans (attached to deed recorded in said Registry in Book 20131, Page 188) and made a part hereof, to which is affixed a verified statement in the form required by Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183A, Section 9. Said Unit is conveyed together with: a. An undivided interest of 3.0142 percent in the common areas and facilities described in the Woodburyville Heights Condominium Master Deed, as amended. b. The benefit of, and subject to, all easements, rights, restrictions, agreements and provisions created in said Master Deed, the Declaration of Trust creating the Woodburyville Heights Condominium Trust and the BY-Laws contained therein, as the same may be amended of record, the Rules and Regulations from time and time promulgated thereunder, and floor plans. The conveyance is also subject to and with the benefit of the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183 A as now in force and as from time to time amended. Being the same premises conveyed by deed and recorded with the Worcester District Registry of Deeds in Book 33665, Page 150. Subject to and with the benefit of easements, reservation, restrictions, and taking of record, if any, insofar as the same are now in force and applicable. In the event of any typographical error set forth herein in the legal description of the premises, the description as set forth and contained in the mortgage shall control by reference. Together with all the improvements now or hereafter erected on the property and all easements, rights, appurtenances, rents, royalties, mineral, oil and gas rights and profits, water rights and stock and all fixtures now or hereafter a part of the property. All replacements and additions shall also be covered by this sale. Terms of Sale: Said premises will be sold subject to any and all unpaid taxes and assessments, tax sales, tax titles and other municipal liens and water or sewer liens and State or County transfer fees, if any there are, and TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($10,000.00) in cashier’s or certified check will be required to be paid by the purchaser at the time and place of the sale as a deposit and the balance in cashier’s or certified check will be due in thirty (30) days, at the offices of Doonan, Graves & Longoria, LLC, (“DG&L”), time being of the essence. The Mortgagee reserves the right to postpone the sale to a later date by public proclamation at the time and date appointed for the sale and to further postpone at any adjourned sale-date by public proclamation at the time and date appointed for the adjourned sale date. The premises is to be sold subject to and with the benefit of all easements, restrictions, leases, tenancies, and rights of possession, building and zoning laws, encumbrances, condominium liens, if any and all other claim in the nature of liens, if any there be. In the event that the successful bidder at the foreclosure sale shall default in purchasing the within described property according to the terms of this Notice of Sale and/or the terms of the Memorandum of Sale executed at the time of foreclosure, the Mortgagee reserves the right to sell the property by foreclosure deed to the second highest bidder, providing that said second highest bidder shall deposit with the Mortgagee’s attorneys, the amount of the required deposit as set forth herein. If the second highest bidder declines to purchase the within described property, the Mortgagee reserves the right to purchase the within described property at the amount bid by the second highest bidder. The foreclosure deed and the consideration paid by the successful bidder shall be held in escrow by DG&L, (hereinafter called the “Escrow Agent”) until the deed shall be released from escrow to the successful bidder at the same time as the consideration is released to the Mortgagee, whereupon all obligations of the Escrow Agent shall be deemed to have been properly fulfilled and the Escrow Agent shall be discharged. Other terms, if any, to be announced at the sale. Dated: October 30, 2017 HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee, in trust for the registered holders of ACE Securities Corp. Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 2006-NC3, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates By its Attorney DOONAN, GRAVES & LONGORIA, LLC, 100 Cummings Center Suite 225D Beverly, MA 01915 (978) 921-2670 www.dgandl.com 52213 (COLBY) FEI # 1078.02223 11/09/2017, 11/16/2017, 11/23/2017

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Sutton Planning Board Public Hearing Notice In accordance with the provisions of Section III.A. – Use Table and VII.A.2. Special Permits, of the Sutton Zoning Bylaw, the Planning Board will hold a public hearing on the application of Dan Cowher, 11 John Road, Sutton, MA on land owned by CRV Development, Naples, FL for the request to sell refuse vehicles out of this existing building and site. This hearing will be held in the third floor meeting room at the Town Hall on Monday, December 11, 2017 at 7:50 P.M. A copy of the application and plan can be inspected in the office of the Town Clerk during normal office hours.

Miriam Sanderson, Chairman Town of Sutton Planning Board Public Hearing Notice December 11, 2017 7:15 p.m., Meeting Room 1 C In accordance with the provisions Section 5.7 (a) of the Sutton Earth Removal Bylaw before issuing a new permit, the Board shall hold a public hearing after giving at least fourteen days notice of the time and place thereof, such notice to be by advertisement in a newspaper of general circulation in the town and by certified mail, to all abutters as they appear upon the most recent tax list and to the Conservation Commissions of the Town of Sutton. Worcester Sand, Sutton Map 6 Parcels 13, 14, 15, 203 has applied for an earth removal permit renewal for the abovestated parcels of land. The hearing will be held in the third floor meeting room 1-C at Sutton Town Hall, 4 Uxbridge Road, Sutton, MA on Monday, December 11, 2017.

A copy of the plan and application can be inspected in the office of the Town Clerk during normal office hours.

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NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Bradley A. Coles to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for American Internet Mortgage, Inc., dated June 20, 2013 and recorded with the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds at Book 51136, Page 352, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder by assignment from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for American Internet Mortgage, Inc. to American Internet Mortgage, Inc. dated January 11, 2017 and recorded with said registry on January 20, 2017 at Book 56639 Page 145, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing, the same will be sold at Public Auction at 11:00 a.m. on December 8, 2017, on the mortgaged premises located at 36 JOHNSON ROAD, SUTTON, Worcester County, Massachusetts, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, TO WIT: SITUATED IN THE TOWN OF SUTTON, COUNTY OF WORCESTER, AND STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS: THE LAND IN SUTTON SHOWN AS LOT ‘’2 REV.’’ ON A PLAN ENTITLED ‘’PLAN OF PROPERTY IN SUTTON, MASS. OWNED BY C.B. BLAIR BUILDERS, INC., SHOWING REVISION OF LOT#2, JOHNSON ROAD’’ DATED MARCH 7, 1984 AND RECORDED AT THE WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS AT PLAN BOOK 537 PLAN 68, FURTHER DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT THE EASTERLY LINE OF JOHNSON ROAD, AT THE SOUTH—WESTERLY CORNER OF SAID LOT 2 AND THE NORTHEASTERLY CORNER OF LOT 3 AS SHOWN ON SAID PLAN; THENCE N. 2 DEGREES 47 MINUTES 40 SECONDS W., 175.00 FEET ALONG JOHNSON ROAD TO A POINT; THENCE N. 80 DEGREES 15 MINUTES 33 SECONDS E., BY LOT 1 AS SHOWN ON SAID PLAN, 418.00 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE N. 1 DEGREE 30 MINUTES 00 SECOND E., BY LOT 1 AS SHOWN ON SAID PLAN, 117.00 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE S. 88 DEGREES 30 MINUTES E., BY PARCEL ‘’A’’ AS SHOWN ON SAID PLAN, 44.00 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE N. 1 DEGREE 30 MINUTES 00 SECOND E., STILL BY SAID PARCEL ‘’A’’, 135.00 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE N. 88 DEGREES 30 MINUTES W., STILL BY SAID PARCEL ‘’A’’, 44.00 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE N. 1 DEGREE 30 MINUTES 00 SECOND E., BY SAID LOT 1, 498.00 FEET, MORE OR LESS TO THE SHORE LINE OF SWAN POND AS SHOWN ON SAID PLAN; THENCE IN A GENERAL EASTERLY DIRECTION BY THE SHORE LINE OF SAID SWAN POND, 160.00 FEET, MORE OR LESS TO A POINT; THENCE S. 1 DEGREE 30 MINUTES W., BY LAND NOW OR FORMERLY OF BOUTILIER AS SHOWN ON SAID PLAN, 397.32 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE S. 57 DEGREES 30 MINUTES W., BY A MUD HOLE AS SHOWN ON SAID PLAN, 61.00 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE IN A CURVE TO THE LEFT ALONG THE MUD HOLE AS SHOWN ON SAID PLAN, 130.00 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE S. 1 DEGREE 30 MINUTES W., BY SAID BOUTILIER LAND AS SHOWN ON SAID PLAN, 83 FEET, MORE OR LESS TO A POINT; THENCE N. 87 DEGREES 30 MINUTES W., BY SAID BOUTILIER LAND, 12 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO A POINT; THENCE S. 1 DEGREE 19 MINUTES 25 SECONDS W., BY STILL BY SAID BOUTILIER LAND, 255.08 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE S. 81 DEGREES 04 MINUTES 23 SECONDS W., BY LOT 3 AS SHOWN ON SAID PLAN 557.90 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING. CONTAINING 4.6 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS. TAX ID NO: 39-95 BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED BY QUIT CLAIM DEED GRANTOR: BRIAN P. O’SULLIVAN AND NANCY F. O’SULLIVAN GRANTEE: BRADLEY A. COLES AND KATHLEEN S. COLES, AS HUSBAND AND WIFE TENANTS BY THE ENTIRETY DATED: 08/08/2007 RECORDED: 08/16/2007 DOC#/BOOK-PAGE: 41662/228 ADDRESS: 36 JOHNSON ROAD, SUTTON, MA 01590 For mortgagor’s(s’) title see deed recorded with Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 51136, Page 347. These premises will be sold and conveyed subject to and with the benefit of all rights, rights of way, restrictions, easements, covenants, liens or claims in the nature of liens, improvements, public assessments, any and all unpaid taxes, tax titles, tax liens, water and sewer liens and any other municipal assessments or liens or existing encumbrances of record which are in force and are applicable, having priority over said mortgage, whether or not reference to such restrictions, easements, improvements, liens or encumbrances is made in the deed. TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of Five Thousand ($5,000.00 ) Dollars by certified or bank check will be required to be paid by the purchaser at the time and place of sale. The balance is to be paid by certified or bank check at Harmon Law Offices, P.C., 150 California Street, Newton, Massachusetts 02458, or by mail to P.O. Box 610389, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts 02461-0389, within thirty (30) days from the date of sale. Deed will be provided to purchaser for recording upon receipt in full of the purchase price. The description of the premises contained in said mortgage shall control in the event of an error in this publication. Other terms, if any, to be announced at the sale. AMERICAN INTERNET MORTGAGE, INC. Present holder of said mortgage By its Attorneys, HARMON LAW OFFICES, P.C., 150 California Street, Newton, MA 02458 (617) 558-0500 201611-0388 - PRP

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Meeting Room 1 C In accordance with the provisions Section 5.7 (a) of the Sutton Earth Removal Bylaw before issuing a new permit, the Board shall hold a public hearing after giving at least fourteen days notice of the time and place thereof, such notice to be by advertisement in a newspaper of general circulation in the town and by certified mail, to all abutters as they appear upon the most recent tax list and to the Conservation Commissions of the Town of Sutton.

Pyne Sand & Gravel Map 51; Parcel 60, 82 has applied for an earth removal permit renewal for the above-stated parcels of land.

The hearing will be held in the third floor meeting room 1-C at Sutton Town Hall, 4 Uxbridge Road, Sutton, MA on Monday, December 11, 2017.

A copy of the plan and application can be inspected in the office of the Town Clerk during normal office hours.

Wayne Whittier, Chair Planning Board

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Worcester Probate and Family Court 225 Main St. Worcester, MA 01608 508-831-2200 Docket No. WO17C0439CA NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME In the matter of : Judith Carol Bowker Of Millbury, MA To all persons interested in petition described: A petition has been presented by Judith Carol Bowker requesting that: Judith Carol Bowker be allowed to change his/her/ their name as follows: Judy Carol Bowker IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT: Worcester ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON: 12/12/2017 WITNESS, Hon. Leilah A Keamy First Justice of this Court.

Date: November 10, 2017 Stephanie K. Fattman Register of Probate 11/22/2017 MSC

TO ALL INTERESTED INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF SUTTON In accordance with the provisions of M.G.L. Ch. 40A, §11, the Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing at the Sutton Town Hall on December 7, 2017 at 7:30pm on the petition of Michael Couture. The petitioner requests a Special Permit as it pertains to I.C (2) (d) of the Town’s Zoning Bylaws to construct a 16’x 12’ addition. The property that is the subject of this petition is located at 31 Carrier Lane as shown on Assessors Map #53, Parcel #24.

The property is located in the Residential Zoning District. A copy of the petition may be inspected during normal office hours in the Town Clerk’s Office located in the Town Hall. Any person interested or wishing to be heard on this variance petition should appear at the time and place designated.

Daniel Petrelli Board of Appeals Clerk

Invitation for Bids The Worcester Housing Authority invites sealed bids for WHA Job No. 2017-20 Security Stations at MA 12-13, 15 Webster Square Towers West and East in accordance with the documents prepared by Worcester Housing Authority.

The work is estimated to cost $20,000. Project consists of but is not limited to: adding interior storefront enclosures at two adjacent buildings to create two security stations in existing lobbies. General Bids will be received until by 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 7, 2017 at the Worcester Housing Authority, Department of Modernization, 81 Tacoma Street, Worcester, MA 01605. A pre-bid conference will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 30, 2017 at the Lobby at 1050 Main Street, Worcester, MA at which time bidders will be invited to visit the project site(s) with the a Worcester Housing Authority representative. Failure to attend or visit the premises shall be no defense in failure to perform contract terms. Bids are subject to M.G.L c149 §44A-J and Davis Bacon wage rates as well as other applicable laws.

Bid forms and Contract Documents will be made available on the Worcester Housing Authority website (http:/worcester-housing.com/purchasing.html) at no cost. Hard copies will be made available on November 15, 2017 at the Worcester Housing Authority, Department of Modernization, 81 Tacoma Street, Worcester, MA 01605 and thereafter, Monday thru Friday 8:00 A.M. through 4:30 P. M. Copies of the contract documents may be obtained by depositing $50.00 in the form of a company check, made payable to the Worcester Housing Authority, for each set of documents so 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 to be mailed to them should 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: 1. Worcester Housing Authority, Department of Modernization, 81 Tacoma Street, Worcester, MA 01605 2. Mcgraw Hill Financial, 3315 Central Avenue, Hot Springs, AR 71913 3. Reed Construction Data, 30 Technology Parkway South, Norcross, GA 30092 4. Project Dog, 18 Graf Road Unit #8 Plan Room, Newburyport, MA 01950 Attention is called to the following: 1. Provisions of Equal Employment Opportunity; 2. Provisions for payment of not less than the minimum wages as set forth in the Specifications; 3. 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; 4. 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.

The contract will be awarded to the responsible and eligible bidder with the lowest proposed contract price including the dollar amount of all accepted alternates.

Questions regarding this project shall be submitted in writing 72 hours prior to opening and emailed to Mod-Bids@ worcester-housing.com. Reference the WHA Job Number only in the subject line.

Worcester Housing Authority Joseph P. Carlson, Chairperson DATE: November 2017 END OF INVITATION FOR BIDS

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William Chambers holds a master’s in fine arts from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, a master’s in education from Antioch University and a bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College.

Chambers is dedicated to taking on nuance and complexity through interactive installation. His exhibit, “Repairs,” is an old-fashioned, street-cart repair shop, which debuted at Clark University this fall. Participants brought broken objects to Chambers, who, with the help of Clark students, either repaired and returned them or added them to his exhibit in the Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons.

In trying to fully appreciate Chambers, I believe his unconventional bio speaks for itself:

Age: 0-10 Attempts to fly off the garage roof, meditates with Indian holy men and creates a church in his attic.

10-20 Learns to sew, twirl pizza dough, dress in drag, weld, and comes into possession of a mystical cat bone necklace.

A hammer does fall on his head and bounce off with no serious side effects.

20-30 Held at gunpoint with a trunk full of his puppets in Paris, crosses the U.S. on motorcycle, learns to juggle and walk on stilts, and eats glass and one rusty staple.

30-40 Settles down, renovates three houses, fells 40-foot trees with a chainsaw, becomes a dad and plays a fire organ in front of a crowd nearly 1,000.

What is your history with the city of Worcester? I have lived in New England

on and off since I was 11 and the city of Worcester since July 2016. I love that it has a rich history, immigrants from all over the world, and that so many in this community are dedicated to making the city better. I want to be part of that.

Can you describe your career trajectory? I

studied sculpture as an undergraduate and then went on to get my master’s in education. I have taught art to every age, from kindergarten, college and beyond, for nearly 20 years. In 2013, I had the chance to get my MFA. I thought I was studying painting, but was already doing relational interactive art. That is when the art practice really took off. After teaching college for the last several years, I was

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offered the position of running the visual arts program at Bancroft School. I have always felt that teaching was integral to my art practice. I feel lucky to get to do both in Worcester.

How do you define socially engaged art? My art is about creating a conversation and exchange about what matters most in the world. When we let go of the object as the end, and instead see it as a tool for allowing a kind of sharing to happen, that is a beginning. Socially-engaged art puts the artist in the community and authors in and allows participants to be a part of the art-making process. For me, it is very much about countering passivity, creating a space where everyone is equal and has a voice.

What makes “Repairs” interactive? “Repairs” is a repair cart where volunteer “artists” offer to repair anything. People are invited to bring broken items to be repaired either artistically or practically. This may also include emotional repairs, which we have temporary tattoos to fix. The mystery is that I do not know who will come, what they will bring, or what conversation we will have. Often, the conversation meanders toward repair as a metaphor for the bigger problems we all face and how we can engage with each other around healing.

Where have you exhibited your work nationally? My piece, “Service Station,”

is the most far reaching. It has traveled to 11 cities and been performed at the Gardner Museum and the ICA in Boston, Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh and

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the streets of NYC and Seattle, to name a few. My “Spaceship of Dreams” piece has been performed and exhibited in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and Vermont, including a solo exhibition at the Brattleboro Museum this summer.

The show at Clark University is my first in Worcester.

How has the “Service Station” informed your work? “Service Station” is a mobile

embroidery unit, which asks the question, “What’s missing?” in the world or your life. Participants are asked to turn their answers into symbols and those are embroidered by them or me on the “Service Station” towel. My utter amazement at the willingness of so many people to engage with the question, to share their stories and experiences, and to sit with me and embroider. At the

beginning it was a question and now it is a 40-foot scroll filled with images and ideas from people all over the country and from many different backgrounds.

Can you describe a key piece of performance art from your career? “Spaceship of

Dreams” was a grant-funded, homemade space program where I built a spaceship in a storefront over two months and collected people’s dreams to send to space. These were visions for the world, themselves or their city. I was the costumed inventor, space program director, tinkerer, etc., and gatherer of dreams. It was fabulous to get to engage with strangers around imagination, dreaming, a bit of fictional theater. The live launch was something, preserved for eternity on YouTube.

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