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Dr. Kelly Warns
against Addiction
Stigma at Franklin
Coalition Meeting
5th Annual Friends of the
Poor Walk in Franklin
September 26
Walk Benefits Society of St. Vincent de Paul;
Funds Stay in Franklin
By J.D. O’Gara
By J.D. O’Gara
On September 26, 2015,
from 9-11 a.m., the St. Mary’s
Conference of the Society
of Saint Vincent de Paul will
join other Conferences across
the country by conducting
its fifth annual, local Friends
of the Poor® Walk. It invites
local residents to come down
and help make a difference for
their neighbors in need. Walkers gather pledges. Pledges are
collected at the time the pledge
is made and turned in on Walk
day.
“It’s our biggest fundraiser,”
says 25-year St. Vincent de Paul
Society member Helen Brunelle,
one of the founding five members of the St. Mary’s group,
and all of the pledge dollars from
All are welcome to get a few pledges and walk a few miles in the
Fifth Annual Friends of the Poor Walk, hosted by St. Mary’s Conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The walk will take place
on September 26, from 9-11am and all funds raised will benefit
people in need from the local area.
walkers stays in Franklin, to serve
those who look to St. Mary’s
for help. The 3-mile walk, she
says, is a good way for some of
the town’s young people to get
September 1, 2015
their community service hours
in. Garelick Farms sponsors the
event with water and orange
5TH ANNUAL
continued on page 5
On August 12, 2015, the
Franklin Community Coalition
Against Opioid Abuse kept the
momentum in the fight against
addiction going by hosting a lecture by Dr. John Francis Kelly,
Ph.D., an Associate Professor in
Psychiatry at Harvard Medical
School, the founder and Director
of the Recovery Research Institute at the Massachusetts General
Hospital (MGH), the Program
Director of the Addiction Recovery Management Service (ARMS)
and the Associate Director of the
Center for Addiction Medicine at
MGH. Following Dr. Kelly’s presentation, a question and answer
session with active participation
from the audience and a panel,
including Dr. Kelly, and
Jonathan Cabezas, the Director of Services at Number 16 in
Wakefield, MA;
• Brooke, a 39 year old recovering addict whose opiate addiction
started in 2003;
• Jennifer Rowe, a Norfolk
County ADA, who has spoken frequently about scope of the drug
issues in Norfolk County, particularly concerning opioid abuse;
• Amy Leone, a LMHC with
clinical practices in Milford and
Upton, who works with those
struggling with addiction, in the
path of recovery, or those effected
by others substance addictions;
and
• Dan Lynch, President of
Lynch Wellness and Recovery
Foundation, who has more than
20 years of experience in the field
of addiction.
Among the points Kelly
DR. KELLY
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Some Local Fall Fairs at a Glance
September 11-12
Pumpkin Patch Fair,
Xaverian Mission League
At Fatima Shrine, Rte 126,
Holliston. The hours for this “rain
or shine” event are 3-7 p.m. on
Friday and 9-2 p.m. on Saturday.
Featured at the Fair are a Farmers’ Market with local veggies and
plants and a children’s book The
Thanksgiving Pumpkin, signing by
our local author, Susan BerardGoldberg.
One-of-a-kind original and
beautiful “silk” Autumn and
Christmas floral wreaths, table
and wall arrangements as well as
decorated “faux” pumpkins will
“light up” your Holiday home.
created by the League’s talented
Craft Committee. A hot lunch
will be available both days, and a
bake sale will begin on Fri. A large
rummage sale will be held featuring winter clothing, scarves and
handbags, jewelry, Fall & Christmas decorations, knick-knacks, religious items including statues and
framed prints, kitchen items (pots
and pans, etc.), linens, and general
household items.
There is no charge for parking
or admission and everyone is invited to come and enjoy a wonderful, relaxing day at the beautiful
Fatima Shrine.
September 12
Holliston Senior Center
Annual Fall Fair
150 Goulding St., Holliston,
Rain or shine, from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m., features gently used items,
with a Bookstore, Jewelry, Baked
goods, Silent Auction, Craft Table,
Linens and Stationery, Good-asNew Shoppe: Collecting used
small items (glassware, kitchen
items, knick-knacks, etc.) Please
drop off in the Good-as-New
Shoppe, Framed art and pictures
musical instruments, sheet music
and other garage sale items, from
Everything from bikes to china. All
proceeds support programs at the
senior center.
September 20
Holliston Historical Society’s Annual Harvest Fair.
Harvest Festival at
Southwick’s Zoo
September 26
The Medway Community
Church Annual Harvest Festival
193 Main Street, rain or shine,
11 a.m. to 2 p.m., a free, fun day
packed with food and activities for
the entire family including a kids’
petting zoo by Farm Visits, from
Rehoboth, ,a bouncy house, family photo booth by Lisa Sheehan
2 Southwick Street, Mendon,
Southwick’s Zoo’s Harvest Festival during the zoo’s normal hours
of 10 a.m.-5 p.m., will celebrate
the bounty of fall with a variety
fun family activities. The event
will include a Farmer’s Market
featuring Shamrock Hives Farm,
Trolley Crossing Farm, Elzires
Acre Goat Milk Soap, and other
local vendors. Visitors will be able
to purchase fresh, locally grown
produce, potted flowers, flower
arrangements, handmade quilts,
soaps, and more. Southwick’s Zoo
will also be offering horse drawn
wagon rides as part of the fall fun,
and guests of all ages can also look
forward to face painting and a performance by the Puppet Brigade.
Bluegrass band The Stockwell
Brothers will be providing musical
entertainment during the day.
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10 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Historical
Society grounds at 547 Washington Street, Holliston, (rain date
Sept. 27) The event draws all types
of crafters and unique vendors
from all over the state, features
apple pie, children’s entertainment, bouncy houses, various food
vendors and 3-piece band Always
in Season, as well as historic house
tours.
Photography, youth sports activities, as well as barbershop harmonies– a great time for all ages! At
noon, enjoy a burger or hot dog,
delicious apple crisp and ice cream
by T.C. Scoops with entertainment by the Southeastern Massachusetts Community Concert
Band. At 1pm, listen to the musical selections of the MCC Praise
Band.
Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary’s 37th Annual Fall Fair,
Annual Fall Fair
108 North Street, Norfolk,
from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. A field full of
over 40 crafters selling their handmade wares, music, children’s
games and crafts, animal presentations, trail walks, our second annual duck derby, and more. Fee:
$4 adult/$3 child; maximum $12
family For more information, or
to reserve a space please call Stony
Brook at (508) 528-3140 or email:
[email protected]
October 3
The Church of Christ, Congregational Fifth Annual
Family Fun Fair
142 Exchange Street, Millis,
from 10 a.m, to 4 p.m. This popular community event will feature a
variety of fun activities, including
games, Touch a Truck, bounce
house, face painting, firemen’s
foam pit, a giant slide, vendors,
and a huge yard sale. Food at the
fair will include cookout and bake
sale items, as well as homemade
jams, jellies and pickles. The fair
will also feature a variety of musical entertainment throughout the
day. For more information about
the fair, or to request a vendor application, visit the church website
at www.millisucc.org, or call the
office at (508) 376-5034.
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September 1, 2015
Franklin Downtown Partnership
Progressive Dinner to be Sept. 27
The Franklin Downtown Partnership would
like to invite you out to
dinner. Instead of choosing just one restaurant,
why not go to four different eateries? You can by
joining us for the inaugural Progressive Dinner on
Sunday, September 27, in
downtown Franklin.
Your culinary exploration will begin with appetizers at one restaurant,
soup at another, an entrée
at a third, and then dessert.
You can choose from two
different flights, with each
flight featuring four downtown restaurants. Flights
will be staggered to begin
every half hour starting at
5:30 p.m. The evening will
end on a sweet note with
dessert at The Black Box
while you’re entertained
by Franklin School for the
Performing Arts students.
Participating restaurants are Artistry Kitchen,
Bamboo House, Chinese
Mirch, Hang Tai, Maguro
House, Making Whoopie,
The Cake Bar, and The
Rome Restaurant.
“We created the Progressive Dinner to remind
the community that our
businesses are open during the road construction
project. What better way
than to have people walk-
ing through downtown,
enjoying local restaurants
and entertainment with
friends?” says event organizer Jane Curran, owner
of Jane’s Frames.
Tickets are $50 per
person, including tips and
taxes. Beverages are not included. Choose your flight
when you purchase tickets, which are on sale now
through September 15 at
Jane’s Frames, The Franklin Downtown Partnership
office, and Emma’s Quilt
Cupboard. Cash or check
only.
Full menu and flight details will be available when
you purchase tickets, and
on the Downtown Partnership’s website, www.
franklindowntownpartnership.org., and Facebook
page.
Thank you to NHS
Print, Pour Richard’s Wine
& Spirits, Simon’s Furniture and The Mac Deli
for sponsoring this event.
Sponsorships are still available. Please contact FDP
event co-chairperson Jane
Curran at [email protected] for information
or with questions.
The Franklin Downtown Partnership is a
non-profit, 501©3 organization made up of
businesses, residents and
community leaders working to revitalize downtown
Franklin. The Partnership
runs events such as the
Strawberry Stroll and the
Holiday Stroll, and is involved in streetscape and
design efforts, greenspace
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more information, please
contact Executive Director
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[email protected], or
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continued from page 1
juice at stops along the route. The
Knights of Columbus also are a
great help on that day, she says.
The organization, which meets
twice a month and numbers about
30 members (new members always welcome), exists for one purpose only, to help others in need.
“When a parishioner or someone is in need of assistance, two
members visit with that person,
usually in their home. They assess
the situation and give immediate
help, generally writing a check
for rent, electric, or gas,” says
Brunelle. The members will usually, right off the bat, gather some
food from the St. Vincent de Paul
food pantry.
“We always try to bring food
from our food pantry as a goodwill gesture, and it also helps. The
money that would be used for food
could be used for something else,”
says Brunelle. She adds that this
season, the Society has two community garden plots on Forest
Street, so when the vegetables are
in season, they try to bring some
along.
“All the help is confidential,”
says Brunelle, who says that the
Society gets calls from people who
need gas to get to work or a job
interview, are young parents who
need emergency shelter, people
about to have electricity shut off,
even one person who needed
minutes on a phone so that they
could hear back after a job interview. In addition to trying to help
with emergency needs, the group
also offers an 8-page packet of
other resources to try. “We also
have hope bags we put together
for the homeless,” she adds, noting three new families had recently
approached the Society with that
problem.
Area businesses have been very
helpful with some of these needs,
says Brunelle. In cases where some
folks were in desperate need of
shelter, a couple of local hotels
have offered the St. Vincent de
Paul Society the discounted rate,
with a full breakfast and full dinner.
“This gives people a couple
days relief from ‘crisis mode,’”
says Brunelle, who adds that the
United Way has come through to
aid the Society, as have parishioners, the church and local companies. such as Local stores, such
as the Big Y, have helped, as have
the Random Smile Project, the
Franklin Interfaith Council, and
the YMCA even came through at
one time allowing some homeless
families to use their laundry facilities.
“Each one is doing their little
part, and we all come together
and it makes a difference in a person’s life” Rent and utilities are a
constant need, says Brunelle, although she has seen an increase
in the need for storage. Last year,
the Society helped 286 families as
of October first, 2014, answering 901 calls, and this year, as
of the first week in August, they
had helped about 230 families,
answering about 831 calls, about
the same number as this time last
year. Still, it’s a jump from the 150
families they helped in 2007.
Brunelle says she sees money
as the third thing people really
need.
“It’s the friendship, the hope,
and the money is the third thing
to me – someone to kind of share
their burdens, in a non-judgmental setting, a heart that listens,”
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she says. “You know how hard
it is to ask for help, and you treat
people as you would want to be
treated. It’s so rewarding, I’m glad
I’m a member.”
Registration for the Fifth Annual Friends of the Poor® Walk
will take place on September
26 in Sacred Heart Hall, in the
lower level of St. Mary’s Church,
1 Church Square, Franklin. The
walk goes from the intersection of
Church Square and Oak Street,
down Oak to Iroquois Drive to
the top of Iroquois Drive and then
turns around, retracing footsteps
back to St. Mary’s. Walkers can do
1, 2, or 3 miles of the route.
Registration forms for the walk
may be downloaded at St. Mary’s
website at http://stmarysfranklin.
org/120, or you may also register
online at www.fopwalk.org.
To donate to The Walk:
Please mail a check to
St. Mary’s Rectory
SVdP Society
1 Church Square
Franklin, MA 02038
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A Performing Arts Campus Grows Up in Franklin
For Director Raye Lynn Mercer, 2015 is a milestone year,
marking both the 30th anniversary
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kickoff to the Franklin Performing Arts Company’s 25th season.
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From the earliest ages, FSPA
programming encourages learning through doing, while building
skills, confidence and experience.
Mercer and Kim Rezendes created the Little Music School
(LMS) at FSPA in 2005. Teaching
children as young as 18 months
to play the piano, the LMS
program introduces children
to music in a way they understand, through imagination, movement, play and
peer interaction.
The innovative Mercer continues to develop new programming
and expand opportunities at FSPA.
The school launched a Musical
Theater Conservatory last year
to engage enthusiastic students
at a high level in song interpretation and musical theater scene
study while exploring possibilities
for college and career. This fall,
FSPA will introduce a new Dance
Repertory Ensemble for students
across many disciplines with opportunities to travel to NYC and
Walt Disney World for classes
and performances. Under the direction of Ballet Mistress Cheryl
Madeux, FSPA has created a
three-track ballet program to meet
the needs of dancers ranging from
those interested in recreational
enjoyment and those dedicated to
pre-professional study.
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Metrowest Symphony Orchestra
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with FSPA’s Ballet Conservatory
Ensemble, and a production of
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
FSPA’s Drama program encourages students to stretch their
imagination, build characters
and tell stories, with an interactive curriculum that includes Creative Dramatics, Improv, Scenes
& Monologues and Principles of
Acting. The Music Department
provides opportunities to jam with
Boston’s best musicians or sing in
styles ranging from classical, jazz
and musical theater to pop, rock
and country. Performing opportunities include acoustic coffee
houses, recitals, Glee Club, opera
scenes, chamber ensembles
and more.
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encouraged part
of the FSPA experience and helps
students grow and
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FSPA, entertained across England
and France this summer, marking
the group’s 12 European concert
tour. The school’s musical theater
troupes travel annually to Walt
Disney World. FSPA now stages
four all-student productions each
year – a musical, ballet, play and
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WSN Celebrating 30 Years of Women Helping Women
The Women’s Success Network started in 1985 when six
women met over lunch to share
their successes and struggles in
their businesses. They were all
actively engaged in trying to balance their commitments to family,
to careers and to themselves. They
knew that they would find better
support with other women. The
group decided to schedule some
regular meeting times to help one
another out. They wrote a press
release to invite more women to
join them, and they were amazed
at the results. There were immediately over 50 responses. They saw
that there was a need.
Thirty years later, the Women’s
Success Network (WSN) continues to grow and flourish. On September 2nd, WSN will celebrate
its 30th anniversary at Luciano’s
Lake Pearl in Wrentham, Mass.
WSN remains focused on supporting one another and they have
continued to execute their mission
statement of “Women Helping
Women, Professionally and Personally.” They offer a supportive
environment for women to grow
their businesses and
build strong and
lasting relationships.
Additionally, WSN
provides thousands
of dollars in scholarships every year
to help deserving
women achieve
their dreams.
WSN members
are dynamic and
supportive women
who meet monthly
for networking, dinner, and hear from
speakers related to
business or personal
growth. Members
have their business
listed on the WSN
website directory.
Businesses can promote their product
or service at complimentary display
tables. There are
members-to-member discounts
offered and many more benefits
in being a member.
This group has such a long
history supporting professional
women in business. Visit them at
their next meeting, as the organization commemorates its 30 years.
WSN meets the first Wednesday of the month from 6 - 9 p.m.,
and the 30-year celebration meeting will be held on September 2nd
at Luciano’s Lake Pearl in Wrentham, MA. To learn more, visit
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Exsultet! Still Seeks a Few Great Sopranos
Auditions to be Held September 14
By J.D. O’Gara
Exsultet!, a chamber choir of
12 singers, aspires to be the premier women’s ensemble of the
Metrowest area. It will hold open
auditions this month on September 14, from 7 – 9 p.m. at the First
Congregational Church of Holliston, 725 Washington Street, Holliston. Entering its third season, it
seeks vocally experienced singers
who have an aptitude and the skill
level to learn musically challenging
pieces.
“They must be able to learn
their music on their own before
rehearsal,” says Richard Larraga,
artistic director. “Typical for the
average community group is that
you learn the notes in rehearsal.
We’re expecting them to learn
the notes before rehearsal. We’re
looking for women who want a
musical challenge.”
Although Exsultet! has residence in a church, the group
is not otherwise affiliated with
any church or church group. In
fact, singers come from a variety of faiths and backgrounds.
“We are not a church choir. We do
perform a mixture of sacred and
secular music of many different
centuries and styles,” says Larraga. “We are musically flexible,
eclectic and diverse.” In addition,
Exsultet!’s performances fuse dramatic prose with eclectic, yet artistically vibrant musical selections.
Exsultet!’s last performance, for
example included “Ride on King
Jesus” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle
Boy.”
“Our musical fare runs a large
gamut of musical styles. We don’t
all into a typical pattern of serious in fall, popular in spring. We
do a mix at every
concert.” The group
presents two concerts
a year, one in January
and one in May, with
occasional smaller
performances at local
events, as permitted. Upcoming
concerts include an “Around the
World” themed concert on January 23, 2016, featuring lullabies
from around the world as well as
a spring concert dedicated to first
responders on May 21, 2016.
The group hopes to draw singers who not only sing well and
know music, but whose voice
blends well with other singers of
the same caliber.
Potential singers will be able to
download and review the audition
piece on the group’s website at
www.exsultet.us.
The group’s active season runs
from September through May,
with rehearsals on Monday evenings, from 7-9 p.m. including
holidays except for Labor Day.
Larraga also invites high school
singers to come intern with the
group.
For more information, please
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Franklin Constructs
Beach Volleyball
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of Scout
Town Administrator Jeffrey
Nutting and Recreation Director Ryan Jette are pleased
to announce that the Town
of Franklin has built a professional beach volleyball court at
King Street Memorial Park.
The Franklin Recreation
Department and Department of Public Works (DPW)
have partnered with local Boy
Scout, Jack Jenkins, to construct the court at the park
on King Street, which is open
year-round. It was ready for
use beginning Aug. 20.
The 80feet by 50feet court
features a Monson Slider
Pole System with a pro-grade
beach volleyball net that can
be adjusted from eight feet to
seven feet in height, and will
also allow for badminton play.
Jenkins worked closely with
the two Town departments
throughout the entire project,
from sod removal to the installation of the concrete volley-
ball poles. As part of his Eagle
Scout program, Jenkins has
dedicated over 100 hours of
service to the project.
“We are excited to be able
to offer volleyball and badminton for the first time to our
residents. We know the court
is going to be a popular area
in our community,” Town Administrator Nutting said. “Jack
Jenkins has been extremely
dedicated to this endeavor
and without the hard work
from him and our Recreation
Department and DPW, the
court would not have come to
fruition.”
Franklin plans to utilize the
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part of its summer camp activities. For information about
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Crafters Sought for Stony
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Stony Brook Wildlife
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reservations from local crafters and artisans interested in
exhibiting at this year’s 37th
Annual Fall Fair, to be held
on Saturday, September 26th.
The Fair is an annual community event featuring more
than 40 crafters displaying
and selling their hand-made
wares, along with children’s
games and activities, animal
presentations, live music and
more. The event runs from
10 a,m, – 4 p.m. and is a great
opportunity to visit with our
more than 1,200 visitors and
show off your crafts! You can
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TPC Boston Hosts Integration Initiative Golf Clinic
[FRANKLIN, MA] – This
summer, TPC Boston hosted two
golf clinics for members of the
Hockomock Area YMCA’s Integration Initiative. Participants
were given tips from the best,
receiving instruction in putting,
chipping, and full swing from
professional staff at TPC Boston.
Later, the newly trained golfers hit
the links and played a few holes
on the championship course, the
same course that will host the best
players in the world on Labor Day
weekend for the Deutsche Bank
Championship.
Among the participants were
some of Franklin’s shining stars:
Datta Baplata, Peter Willis, and
Douglas McNulty. They were
joined by Hockomock Area
YMCA staff, additional members
of the Integration Initiative, as
well as Patriots Legend Steve King
and several other generous donors
who support the Initiative.
This is the fourth year that
TPC Boston has hosted these
clinics. While many of the participants were golfing for the first
time, some of the kids had years
of experience and were excited to
return. Hockomock Area YMCA
President Ed Hurley observed how
some of the participants “have
been playing for several years now
as a result of this experience.” The
golfers from the Integration Initiative have developed their game
so much that the Hockomock Y
was able to start a 20-person integrated golf team in 2014, a program which is still going strong.
The day, however, was not
over after the golfers finished the
course. They were treated to some
pizza provided by Domino’s and
then given a special surprise: tickets to the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston. Hurley
smiled as he commented on how
the kids would watch the best
players in the world “and they can
tell their friends they played on the
same course.”
“I want to thank everybody at
TPC Boston...for doing this again
for us every year. It’s something
the kids look forward to and we
look forward to. It’s a great day
for our Y and the kids and our Integration Initiative,” said a grateful Ed Hurley. The Hockomock
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More Massachusetts Charities to Use
Specialty License Plates as Fundraising Tool
Senator Spilka, Representative Roy advocated for initiative in
state budget
Last month, the legislature
passed a budget for fiscal year
2016 that includes provisions to
expand the opportunity for local
charitable organizations to create and sell distinctive registration
plates, Senator Karen E. Spilka
(D- Ashland) and Representative
Jeff Roy (D-Franklin) announced.
Senator Spilka and Representative Roy have been working
since the 2013-2014 legislative
session to lower the thresholds for
charitable organizations to participate in the specialty license plate
program. Several Massachusetts
organizations, including the PanMass Challenge and the Massachusetts Association of Realtors,
have faced challenges in their
efforts to create specialty license
plates to raise money and awareness for their charitable causes.
“Local organizations are doing
terrific work in our communities – from cancer research and
treatment to housing and shelter
assistance,” said Senator Spilka.
“Specialty license plates help raise
awareness of these important
organizations and are a useful
fundraising tool. As the wife of a
twenty-plus year PMC rider, I’m
especially committed to helping to
support this worthy cause.”
“By lowering the initial threshold for specialty plates, we help
charitable groups who are finding
it difficult to raise money and keep
their programs going,” said Representative Roy, a 13-year PMC
rider. “The current system creates
substantial obstacles for smaller
nonprofit groups and now they
will have a better opportunity to
get their plates into production
and increase the long-term revenue stream they need, all at no
cost to the Commonwealth.”
The new provisions in the budget change state law to reduce
the number of pre-applications
required for specialty plates to be
produced from 1,500 to 750 applications. The budget also increases
the time an organization has to sell
3,000 specialty plates before forfeiting a portion of their $100,000
bond from two years to five years.
Since its inception in 2003, the
specialty license plate program
has allowed participating charities
to collectively raise close to $75
million. The MA Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
has raised over one million dollars
since 2005. The Firefighter plate
has raised $750,000 since 2007.
The Right Whale and two other
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Every year, more than 60 organizations attempt to reach the
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stressed was that addiction is
the top public health problem
in the country, but in comparison to funds spent on prevention
for other health problems, it has
the lowest proportion of funding allocated toward prevention.
Addiction, he said, takes root in
adolescence, with early exposure
to alcohol a significant factor in
increasing the propensity for addiction later in life. Delay of alcohol use until the 20s, he said,
significantly decreases this risk.
Most addicts, he says, are
able to achieve recovery, but the
quicker the addiction is caught,
the quicker the recovery, which
is dependent on long-term management and support. Most who
are addicted take 4-5 years before
they will seek help and need longterm management and support,
and it takes five years of recovery
for that person’s relapse likelihood
reaches 15%, or that of the general population. Half of addicts
also have some other psychiatric
condition.
Stigma of the condition worldwide is a significant problem, ex-
plained Kelly. He cited a WHO
study that listed illicit drug addiction as the top most stigmatized
conditions worldwide, with alcoholism the fourth. Kelly noted
that the words used to describe
addiction contribute to the stigma
and studies have shown that how
an addicted person is described,
ie., a substance abuser vs. someone with a substance abuse disorder, dirty vs. clean, etc., has an
impact on whether that person is
treated with punishment or with
treatment, when treatment is the
best option.
Addiction, explained Dr. Kelly,
“hijacks circuitry. When a person
is addicted, they can’t sense the
normal levels or reward,” he said.
“This dysphoria means people
find it extra hard to stop using the
only thing they remember will
help them.”
Kelly noted that the burden
of addiction is growing, a sentiment echoed by Jennifer Rowe,
from D.A. Morrissey’s office, who
pointed out that so far in 2015,
95 deaths have been attributed to
opioid use, a significant increase
over previous years.
Locally, on September 12, an
opiate addiction awareness walk
will take place in Milford, entitled “Missin Matt Walk” and
held in memory of Matt Bertuli,
who died November 3, 2012 of
a heroin overdose. The walk,
writes his sister, Meghan, herself
a recovering addict, is aimed at
not only raising awareness of the
widespread nature of this disease,
but also to “change the stereotype
that many have of a heroin addict that they are not just ‘bums
on the side of a dumpster’ but
human beings like you and me.”
The walk will begin at 11 a.m.
at the Milford Town Park Bandstand on September 12, and the
$25 entry fee benefits the Missin
Matt Foundation, whose mission
is to open a recovery center to aid
those addicted and their families.
The event will include t-shirts,
guest speakers, and informational
tables. Visit http://www.missinmatt.myevent.com/ for more information.
Nationally, this issue is also
gaining growing attention. A
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is planned for Washington, D.C.
on October 4, 2015, from 4-8
p.m. Find out more information
at www.facingaddiction.org.
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September 1, 2015
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Franklin Art Association
Sept. 2 Meeting to Look at
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The Franklin Art Association will meet Wednesday, September 2nd from 6:30-9 p.m.
at the Franklin Senior Center,
10 Daniel McCahill Street. Refreshments and socialization
will begin at 6:30. The program
will continue with a presentation from Jill Sanford, entitled
“America, An Artful Journey, an
Art for Your Mind presentation.
Art For Your Mind is an engaging, educational, interactive
art observation experience designed to
broaden the minds of its participants. No prior art experience
is necessary. America, An Artful
Journey offers a way to experience American paintings from
colonial times through the 21st
century as they tell America’s
story. From “primitive” folk art
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then on to modern abstract images. Visualize not only Ameri-
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Dean College, a private, residential college located in Franklin,
Mass., welcomed John Rooke as
Director of The Center for Business, Entertainment and Sport
Management and Distinguished
Executive Faculty in the Schools of
Business and the Arts. The Center
was created by Dean College as
an academic partnership with the
Kraft Sports Group (KSG). It will
provide opportunities for students
to gain insight from KSG officials,
including executives of the New
England Patriots, New England
Revolution and Patriot Place.
“I’m thrilled to be a part of this
initiative at Dean College,” said
Rooke. “I am looking forward to
working with the students to provide new educational experiences
through our relationship with the
Kraft Sports Group, including
the Patriots and the Revolution.
The students at Dean will be the
real winners here. It’s a chance
to learn from professionals in the
sports and entertainment industries.”
Rooke is an award-winning
broadcaster and a member of
the 2011 class for the Rhode Island Radio Hall of Fame. He has
more than 30 years of electronic,
print and new media experience
in large and small markets as well
as at the network level. For the
past 26 years, he has served as the
play-by-play voice for Providence
College basketball. Additionally,
he has served as the public address
announcer for the New England
Patriots for the past 22 seasons.
Rooke also serves as a featured
columnist for Patriots.com and
WEEI.com and has authored a
book on the history of radio in
Rhode Island entitled Rhode Island Radio (Arcadia Publishing,
2012).
A 1981 journalism graduate of the University of Texas at
Austin, Rooke has held a position as adjunct professor at Emerson College in Boston. He has
been named one of the top sports
broadcasting instructors in the
country by the Sportscasters Tal-
ent Agency of America.
Rooke also serves as a
commercial voice artist
and an auctioneer.
“We are excited to
have John join the Dean
College team,” said
Dr. Paula M. Rooney,
President of Dean College. “Evolving our
partnership with the
Kraft Sports Group and
growing The Center for
Business, Entertainment
and Sport Management
are primary goals for our
institution and John will
play a significant role in
bringing these goals to
fruition.”
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Finding Peace in Sobriety
A Franklin Native’s Story of Addiction and Recovery
By Judy O’Gara
“I had to go through all this
pain to get where I am now. To
me, pain is the greatest thing that
motivates an addict to change.
Eventually the pain that using
brought to my life was great
enough to keep me in treatment.”
That’s according to 28-year-old
Derek Getchell, who grew up in
Franklin, played sports and never
expected to become an opiate addict by the time he was in his early
twenties.
“We all have a preconceived
notion of what an addict is – of
everything – and it’s not always
the case.”
“I started drinking at a young
age,” says Derek Getchell. “I had
fun at the beginning, with no consequences,” says Derek. His habit,
he says, started with just two five
milogram percocets. A friend suggested them on top of alcohol, to
increase his high.
“They made me feel good,”
says Getchell. “With opiates, you
start off needing a low dose, but
as you continue to use them, you
need more and more to get the
same effect,” he says.
Those two pills, with a street
value of just ten bucks, in three
months turned into a $30 per day
habit four times a week, and it just
kept getting more expensive.
“At the beginning, I could still
work—could still function,” says
Derek, who had just an inclination that he didn’t drink like other
people did. “I was still in school.
I had a girlfriend. I was coaching
football...” At the same time, he
felt he needed the drug.
When he’d try not taking the
drug, he says, he’d “feel physically
sick, and then emotionally you
just don’t know how to handle life.
What was soothing you is no longer there. You were at the top of
the mountain, and then you go to
the bottom. Your mind plays tricks
on you that you need the thing
that’s taking you away,” he says.
Getchell would tell himself
that pills, that come from a doctor,
weren’t as bad as heroin, but now,
he says, “It’s no different if you’re
taking Oxycontin or Percocet 30
out of the cabinet than if you are
going on a street corner. They are
highly addictive.”
Getchell didn’t tell anyone,
drifting away from the people who
cared about him most. He tried to
kick the habit on his own.
“In my heart, I thought I was
going to stay stopped. I’d stay
sober for three weeks, or a month
at the beginning of this all, and
then what happened was I had a
lot of negative emotions - fear, resentment and self pity, and I kept
going back to the drug as my solution to my problems,” he says.
His family knew something was
wrong, and they staged an intervention.
“I finally had to confess to some
people,” says Derek, who also lost
his job. “I know what’s it’s like to
live with an alcoholic, and I’ve
been on both sides of it. I was very
aware everything I was doing was
wrong … but I was so addicted to
the drug, I couldn’t stop.”
Thus began the first time
Derek went to rehab. In detox,
he says, he was weaned off with
methodone, but the next phase
was much harder, a holding facility.’
“I wanted to rip the hair out
of my head. It’s the first time I’m
stone cold sober, and I’m restless
irritable, discontent.” He begged
his mother and his girlfriend to
come get him, and finally, his girlfriend relented.
“Then I went and copped
heroin in Woonsocket,” he says,
beginning a vicious cycle of stopping and using, turning to IV
drug use and stealing to support
the habit. Although his mother,
Kathy, “kept letting me come
home,” after he caused a serious
car accident in August of 2011, his
family had had enough.
“My family called the cops on
me,” he says, adding, “When my
family cut me off and stopped enabling me, it was one of the best
things that ever happened to me.”
Later, after Derek had been in
rehab a month, he came home for
a court date. While waiting for his
mother to take him back, he eyed
her keys on the counter. He could
get to Woonsocket in half an
hour, to get high. That’s when he
asked for help. He admitted to his
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the way.”
Nowadays, Derek is back to
coaching football, working and
taking classes.
“People have received me with
open arms when I’m trying to do
the right thing,” says Derek. “It
feels like your life’s over when you
know you need to stop, but it’s just
the beginning, and things will get
better one day at a time. And life
will 100% return, and people will
show you how to get back.”
He helps other addicts as well.
“They help me as much as I’m
helping them,” he says.
His advice?
“Don’t let the things recovery
gives you become more important
than your recovery,” says Derek.
Pouring yourself into your work,
for example, might seem like
something that would be positive,
but not if it’s taking you away from
the recovery process.
He adds, “You’re not weak,
you’re not less than. This isn’t an
issue of willpower in my opinion,
it’s a disease, and it’s 100% treatable. You gain an honest perspective of what alcohol and drugs do
to you when you accept you’re an
addict. The desire to use it will
leave when you know what it’s
going to bring you. Once you’re
comfortable in your own skin,
once you have peace in sobriety,
you are no longer seeking the solution to your problems. It’s the best
freedom in the world.”
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“You’re Not Alone”
A Franklin Mom’s Story of Addiction (to her Sons’ Addictions) and Recovery
by
J.D. O’Gara
Kathy Getchell was exhausted.
“At first you try to hide it from
everybody. I didn’t want anyone
to know, especially my family. You
think you can fix it, so you do everything for them, I don’t know
how many detoxes I took them
to.”
Kathy had two sons coping
with heroin abuse, something she
says is “a family disease.”
“You can be sicker than the
addict,” she says. “You do crazy
things. You follow them. You
check on their phones all the time.
It’s a hard way to live. You finally
kick them out, and they’re not allowed home anymore, that’s when
they start to possibly hit bottom,
and you pray that’s what happens,” she says.
“I was so mentally, physically,
spiritually drained – every ounce
of me…I couldn’t do anymore,”
she says. At one point, even
though both sons were sober at
the time, Getchell says she just
cried for days. She had to tell
someone. Once she started telling
people and talking, she says, “that
started freeing me. I felt this weight
coming off my shoulders, and I
could only have done that because
I started going to these Learn to
Cope meetings.”
Kathy actually learned about
Learn to Cope from her son,
Derek, who had gotten sober.
“You would go and sit in that
room, you can relate so much to
them,” she says. “You learn so
much from them, how not to be
an enabler, how to let (the addicts)
face their consequences on their
own, to let go of them,” she says,
of the organization founded by
Joanne Peterson, whose son is in
long-term recovery. At first, she
went to Brockton meetings, but
was grateful when last year, Learn
to Cope opened a location in
Framingham. The group even has
a website, learn2cope.org, that has
a family discussion board.
“It’s like a 24-hour meeting,
you go on there when you need
help. If you’re in a crisis, you can
call them. That helped me tremendously,” she says.
The support group has helped
Getchell understand that she was
“addicted to my kids,” in her own
words. “The constant fear, their
addiction, the constant worry.
Every day your mind is on your
children, and if they’re alive and
if they’re ok and if you don’t hear
from them, you don’t know if
they’re dead or alive. That went
on for quite a few years, and my
family kind of figured out something was going on,” she says. Her
family, she says, was “so supportive, I don’t know where I’d be if I
didn’t have them.”
Kathy had never expected to
have two children in recovery from
opiate abuse.
“I could have said, my kids
aren’t going to turn out that way,”
she says, noting how she used to
come home early from work to
meet her boys from the bus. In
fact, she had already dealt with issues from her husband, who was
an addict. Cutting her sons off was
very difficult to do, she says.
“As a mother, your instinct is
to protect your children, and then
throwing them out on the street is
so against your instinct to do as a
parent, but that’s what’s best for
them,” she says. “You have to say
no to them. No living with you, no
more money, but always, I would
say, I love you.”
Now, Getchell says, her sons
know she is very supportive of
them in their recovery, but she
understands that hers is separate
from theirs.
“I’m healthier now,” she says.
In response to her son, Derek’s
journey, she says, “We do have a
better relationship because of that,
because I’m doing my recovery,
and he’s doing his recovery.”
Learn to Cope was so helpful
to Getchell, that she has felt motivated to provide that sort of support for people in her own area of
Franklin and surrounding towns.
“After our first Coalition meeting, I met this guy Jim, and he
started talking about his problems,
and we started talking about getting a meeting in Franklin going.”
About 15 other people stepped up
as well in wanting to form a support group.
This local support group will be
called Community of Hope, and it
will meet Monday nights at 7p.m.
at the First Universalist Church,
262 Chestnut Street, Franklin.
The message Kathy hopes to
impart to other parents and loved
ones feeling the devastation of
someone they love doing or going
back to drugs is, “Don’t think
you’re alone. There are so many
people out there that are willing to
help you. Don’t be afraid to walk
into a meeting. I was petrified.”
“Doing this startup meeting in
Franklin is something I’ve always
wanted to do,” says Getchell, “and
I feel wonderful leaving those
meetings, knowing we have helped
other people in that meeting. And
they’ve helped me, too.”
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Bringing Our Veterans (All the Way) Home
Old Guard New England Seeks Volunteers for Task in Laying Soldiers to Rest
By J.D. O’Gara
Should all our country’s veterans be laid to rest with dignity and
recognition of their service? Old
Guard New England, a local
group of volunteers
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struck the hearts
of this group of
folks in New England. Old
Guard New England carries on
the mission of Missing in America
by identifying forgotten cremains
of honorably discharged veterans
and getting them to a proper resting place.
“These guys fought for our
country and deserve more than
to sit on shelves for the rest of
their days,” says Dave Cardillo,
Webmaster, and Co-chair of the
presentation committee for Old
Guard New England, an organization comprised of veterans
and non-veterans who
strive to make sure
all those who
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our country are
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Old Guard New England also
provides honor guard services for
families laying a deceased and
honorably charged veteran to
rest. These include an escort, flagfolding service, a gun salute and a
bugler.
Old Guard New England
began when Don MacNeil, its
president and founder, got a call
from Missing in America in Arizona.
“They said they were looking
for people in my area,” says MacNeil, a veteran. What they were
doing was locating unclaimed
cremains of veterans and making
sure they got a proper internment.
That was probably about 10 years
ago now,” says MacNeil, who
began his effort at a funeral home
in Worcester, Mass.
“They had 260 sets of ashes in
the basement,” he says. Of those,
18 were those of honorably discharged veterans. “It’s taken the
full 10 years to get all of them (the
vets) out of there.”
What Old Guard New Eng-
land first has to do is research.
They contact Jefferson Barracks,
part of the Department of Defense, says MacNeil, to verify social security information. They
also research on ancestry.com
“It’s a long process,” says MacNeil. “Once set of ashes could
take us three days, or it could take
us six months.” The oldest one, he
says, was a brigadier general from
the Spanish American War.
How does this happen?
“The deceased could have
been the last of a circle of family
and friends,” says Bolandria.
The effort, he says, means
something to him, and a lot of the
other volunteers, both veterans
and non-veterans alike.
Cardillo says he believes a soul
doesn’t rest if not properly buried.
“I saw a lot of guys pass away,
even in peace time, and it has to
be done,” he says. “It’s my small
way of giving back,” noting that
it pains him to see these veterans
without a proper burial.
“The group heads down to
Bourne National Cemetery twice
a year, escorting a bus full of vet-
erans from the Framingham Elks
headquarters the Sunday before
Memorial Day weekend. (They
also do a cookout for veterans
at the Holyoke soldiers’ home
each August.) In December, they
head down again to participate
in Wreaths Across America. Not
only do they help place wreaths,
but also this year, Old Guard New
England has been asked to provide
a gun salute.
Veterans’ cremains, which
have been identified, are either
brought down to Bourne, or they
are brought to a state cemetery in
Agawam or Winchendon, say the
volunteers.
“We do the full military salute,
graveside,” says MacNeil.
“I like to think of it as that final
leg home,” says Bolandria. “We’re
bringing our veterans home.”
Old Guard New England is
looking for volunteers to help
them bring these veterans home,
as well as donations. You can find
out more information at www.
oldguardne.org.
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WEEI Producer Has Last Laugh with Weight Loss
Radio listeners hear it all the
time. Innovative bits and ribbing
between the anchors and their
producers. For one producer on
the Dennis Callahan Morning
Show, 93.7 WEEI FM, that perpetual joking turned into a lifechanging event. Craig Sawisch
and a fellow producer were often
teased on air about their weight
and the subject of New England
Fat Loss (NEFL), a program advertiser, was raised.
More for the sake of the show,
and definitely skeptical on the program, Sawisch visited the NEFL
office just after Memorial Day
for a consultation. To his surprise,
his preliminary apprehension was
gone in a week when he quickly
dropped ten pounds. Intrigued
and encouraged, he continued on
and completed the 40-day, Phase 1
portion of the program.
“I can’t deny the results,”
Sawisch said. “My high point after
the 40 days was a weight loss of 47
pounds.”
Today, the 25 year-old is committed to the maintenance phase
of the program and is no longer
the butt of on-air weight jokes.
Since he began, he has shed an
impressive 57 pounds! In his
words, ‘they [NEFL] have proved
him wrong.’ Even throughout a
summer filled with tempting foods
and drink, adhering to his personally tailored meal plan demonstrates that not only does the plan
work, but clients receive valuable
information to achieve a healthy
lifestyle.
“The diet doesn’t keep me from
living,” Sawisch said. “It prevents
you from falling into bad habits.”
Sawisch admits Phase 1 was challenging, but worth the effort. He
also not only credits his success to
his personal commitment, but to
the daily support and menu tips
from Dr. John and the NEFL staff.
Most importantly, this experience
has taught him to make better
choices. He now opts for kale or
lettuce over his favorite green bean
vegetable and even learned which
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Sawisch still undergoes his
daily ribbing from the morning
show staff, but now the topics have
changed.
“I have a noticeable weight
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The Charles River Chorale will start its rehearsal
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after Labor Day. New members are welcome at any of
the first few rehearsals. The
Chorale is “non-audition,” so
anyone who can carry a tune
is welcome. The group sings
in four-part harmony, but individual parts are taught, and
we have strong members in
each section who are willing
to help.
As many know, the Chorale welcomes Ashley Nelson
as its Director for our thirtyfirst season. She will be in
place, smiling as always, and
ready to get the group working on the new music she has
chosen for the annual Holiday Concert.
In addition, the Chorale
welcomes its new accompanist, Susan Fortin. Ms. Fortin
is an active musician as accompanist, teacher, director
and performer.
Susan currently teaches
piano and K-8 general music
in Attleboro. She holds a
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Piano Performance/ Accompanying and Chamber Music
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Her piano performances
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competition), accompanist
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is also accompanist for private
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including the Foxboro and
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September Programs at the Franklin Public Library
Come to the Franklin Public
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Regularly Scheduled Programs, No registration required unless noted.
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Move Along for ages 0 – 5
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Toddler Playgroup at 11 a.m.
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Krafty Mondays for ages 6 to
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Monday, September 14
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Name your key chain. Create a unique key chain with lettered beads. Spell out your name,
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Tuesdays
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End of Summer Celebration
Concert with Midlife Crisis
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Improve your reading skills and
make a new friend by reading
aloud to a therapy dog! Bring your
favorite book or pick out one of
ours to read. The dogs and their
handlers are from Pawsitive Touch
and are trained for one-on-one
sessions. Beginning September
1st, readers may sign up for
a 15 minute time slot at the
Library Circulation Desk or
call (508) 520-4940.
Thursdays
Story and Craft for ages 3, 4,
5, and 6 at 10:30 A.M.
Stories, activities, and a craft for
children ages 3, 4, 5, and 6 who
are able to attend “on their own.”
This program lasts around 45
minutes.
Lego Club – Third Thursdays of the Month
For Ages 3 to 12
Thursdays, September 17
from 4-5 p.m.
Use your imagination and build
anything you like with our tubs of
Legos!
Genealogy Club – Last
Thursday of the Month
Thursday, September 24th
from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
The Genealogy Club meets
in the Franklin Library meeting
room and is free and open to all.
Come to a meeting any time to
join the club!
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& Roll music on the Library lawn.
Come dance and sing along to
Motown, Maroon 5, The Beatles,
The Boss, Southern Rock and
much more! Bring your family,
friends, picnic baskets, chairs, and
blankets.
Special Teen/Adult
Programs
Adult Coffee and Craft, Saturday, September 12, 1 p.m.
Book Page Wreath! Learn
how to recycle book pages into
a unique wreath. Come in and
enjoy a cup of coffee or tea and
a friendly chat while making this
decorative wreath.
Comedy-Juggling Show with
Bryson Lang, Sunday September 27 at 3 p.m.
Come enjoy a dazzling display of
comedy, juggling and a touch of
the bizarre!
Library Book Sale, Saturday, September 19th from 9
a.m.-4 p.m.
Stop by the library to explore our
book sale going on all day with
great deals on titles for everyone.
Also, from 9-10 a.m., classical
music by Betty Kushner.
Bag Sale
Sunday, September 20 from
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Come fill up a brown paper bag
with all the books you can fit in it
for only $5.
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“When you crash in rally, or
have an ‘off’ or a ‘big moment,’”
Gove notes, “you are expected to
keep going at all costs, whenever,
wherever possible. Press on regardless. It reminds me of life.”
Slapdash Racing is sponsored
by Cage This (custom roll cage
fabrication), Bavarian Autosport,
Bilstein, Banchwerks, eEuroparts,
Integrative Health Services, and
Strange Brew Signs.
The 25th anniversary running
of the New England Forest Rally,
July 17-18, featured 100-plus stage
miles over two days of competition. The course consisted of dirt
and gravel logging roads that are
known as a favorite among competitors due to their challenging
and technical demands. The New
England Forest Rally will return
to its base at Sunday River Resort
in Newry, Maine for the 26th running of the rally on July 15-16,
2016.
Courtesy of Pete Kuncis
Driver Kris Gove, of Cranston, and co-driver Dan Downey,
of Franklin, Mass., successfully
piloted their 1988 BMW 325is to
a zip tie finish at the New Hampshire and Maine Rallies. These
two rally races are the regional
competitions that are a part of
the two-day, nationally sanctioned
New England Forest Rally.
The New England Forest Rally,
celebrating its 25th anniversary
this year, has established itself as
one of the premier rally racing
events in North America and is the
sixth of eight rounds in the 2015
Rally America Slapdash Racing.
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organizations, while Downey, 24,
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FPAC presents Lost in Yonkers,
directed by Nick Paone, on Friday, September 25 and Saturday,
September 26 at 7:30 p.m., with
a Sunday matinee on September
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FPAC Announces 25th
Season Open Auditions The Franklin Performing Arts
Company (FPAC) will hold open
auditions for the hit musical comedy, The Addams Family, and three
holiday productions – Tchaikovsky’s timeless ballet, The Nutcracker, and the original FPAC
musicals, Humbug! and ’Tis the
Season! The productions will be
presented as part of FPAC’s milestone 25th season.
Open auditions for The Addams Family will take place at THE
BLACK BOX, 15 West Central
Street in downtown Franklin, on
Wednesday, September 9. Auditions will begin at 6:30 p.m. for
boys ages 10+ and girls ages 13+
and will continue at 7 p.m. for
adults. Please prepare 16 bars of
a contemporary musical theater
song. Callbacks (if needed) will be
held on Thursday, September 10
at 7 p.m. and rehearsals will begin
on September 12. For character
breakdown, including descriptions, ages and voice parts, please
visit www.FPAConline.com.
FPAC will present The Addams
Family at THE BLACK BOX on
October 24 at 7:30 p.m., October
25 at 2 p.m., and October 30 at
7:30 p.m., with two performances
on Halloween at 2 and 8:30. The
devilishly delightful musical serves
up an original story based on the
iconic characters of legendary
cartoonist Charles Addams. Inspiring a TV sitcom, TV cartoon
series and two feature films, Addams’ illustrations for The New
Yorker spawned a pop culture
phenomenon. His famously mot-
ley group – Gomez, Morticia,
Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, Grandma and Lurch – has a
taste for everything macabre. Yet
there’s a sweetness, charm and
humor at the heart of their twisted
and dark world. With book by
Marshall Brickman and Rick
Elice and music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, The Addams Family musical tests that world when
outsiders – the respectable Ohio
family of Wednesday’s “normal”
fiancé – come to dinner, setting in
motion a chain of riotous events
one memorable night!
FPAC’s magical journey of The
Nutcracker features more than 100
area dancers and special guest
artists. Presented with live professional orchestra, The Nutcracker
remains a highly anticipated and
treasured part of the FPAC season, a popular holiday tradition
for more than 20 years. Open
auditions for The Nutcracker will be
held on Sunday, September 20 at
THE BLACK BOX. Students,
ages 6 and older, from all area
dance schools are welcome. Ballet attire is required. Audition
times are 9:30-10 a.m. for ages
6 and 7, 10-10:45 for ages 8 and
9, 11-11:45 for ages 10 and 11,
11:45-12:45 for ages 12 and 13,
1-2 for ages 14+ (off pointe), and
2:45-3:45 for ages 12+ (pointe
audition; must be on pointe for
at least one year). Off-pointe
callbacks are scheduled at 2-2:30
p.m., with pointe callbacks from
3:45-4:45. FPAC will present The
Nutcracker on December 5 and 6
at the Franklin High School auditorium.
’Tis the Season! is an original
large cast musical first presented
by FPAC in 1995. The upbeat,
jazzy holiday extravaganza features members of the Kenny Hadley Big Band and contemporary
arrangements of favorite holiday
classics in musical styles including R&B, jazz, rock, Motown,
gospel and Broadway. Humbug!
is an original musical adaptation
of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas
Carol. A family favorite since debuting as part of FPAC’s 2008
season, Humbug! will be staged at
THE BLACK BOX on December 11-13. ’Tis the Season! will be
performed at the Franklin High
School auditorium on December
19 and 20.
Open auditions for Humbug! and ’Tis the Season! will take
place at THE BLACK BOX on
Wednesday, October 7 and Saturday, October 10. Students must
be 6 years of age or older on the
audition date to participate. Please
visit www.FPAConline.com for a
breakdown of audition times by
age group. Beginners and all levels are welcome. Please prepare 16
measures of a musical theater or
pop song. A simple dance combination will be taught at the audition. For more information, call
(508) 528-3370 or visit online at
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Special Tribute
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A special tribute dinner
is being planned to recognize all military members,
veterans and their families,
including Blue and Gold
Star families while also remembering the heroes and
victims of 9/11/01. This
non- political event is to
simply say “Thank You”, for
your service and sacrifices.
This free tribute dinner will
be held at the Double Tree
Hotel, Beaver Street, Milford, MA on Friday evening,
September 11, 2015 from
6-8 p.m. Help is needed
to locate and invite military members, veterans and
their families. If you know
someone we should invite,
please either send us their
contact information or ask
them to contact us directly.
All information should be
sent to Michael Shain, at
[email protected],
or call (508) 330-8487. Michael Shain is a private citizen who feels strongly that a
“Thank You” as a random
act of kindness is due all
our military families. If you
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LIVING HEALTHY
Computer Vision Syndrome: Do You Have It?
By: Roger M. Kaldawy, M.D.,
Milford Franklin Eye Center
As our scholars are going back
to schools and colleges, more and
more time is spent every day using
computer screens, and our eyes are
paying the price. Research shows
that 25 to 93% of computer users
experience a problem so common
there’s a name for it: computer vision syndrome (CVS). Symptoms
of CVS include decreased or
blurred vision, burning or stinging
eyes, sensitivity to light, headaches
and back and neck pain.
CVS is more common if we
exceed 2 hours of continuous
computer screen time a day. The
most common causes of this syndrome include improper viewing
angle or distance, glare on the
computer screen, extended computer use, staring and uncorrected
vision problems.
The good news is that these problems are easy to fix, and identifying and treating the underlying
cause usually eliminates CVS.
Here what you can do:
1. Adjust your viewing angle Studies have found the angle of
gaze plays a key role in CVS. The
angle used for computer work is
different from that used for reading
or writing. As a result, the requirements for focusing and moving
the eyes place additional demands
on the visual system when using
a computer. To achieve the best
angle, the center of the monitor
should be placed 20 to 28 inches
from your eyes and 4 to 5 inches
below eye level. Reference materials should be positioned so they
can be seen without moving your
head to look from the document
to the screen.
2. Reduce glare
Letters on a computer screen are
not as clear as letters on a printed
page. Your eyes will work harder if
there is too little contrast between
letters and background or glare
on the screen. This can result in
sensitivity to light that can worsen
under high-wattage fluorescent
or flickering lights. Position your
screen to avoid glare from overhead lights or windows. Close the
blinds on your windows or switch
to lower-watt bulbs in your desk
lamp. If you cannot change the
lighting to minimize glare, buy a
glare filter for your monitor.
3. Rest your eyes
When using a computer for an
extended period of time, rest
your eyes periodically to prevent
eyestrain. Every 20 minutes, look
away from your computer to a
distant object for 20 seconds. This
will give your eyes a chance to refocus. After two hours of continual
computer use, rest your eyes for 15
minutes.
4. Blink often
Our eyes need lubrication to see
well. This is accomplished by a
blinking reflex and leads to production of moisture (tears) on
the surface of the eyes. People
normally blink about 18 times a
minute, but computer users tend
to blink only one-fourth as often.
This increases the chance of developing dry eye. To lessen this
risk, blink more often, and refresh your eyes periodically with
lubricating eye drops.
5. Get your eyes checked
Uncorrected vision problems—
farsightedness or astigmatism,
problems focusing or coordinating
the eyes and eye changes associated with aging—can contribute
to eye strain and musculoskeletal pain. Even if you don’t need
glasses for daily activities, you may
need them for computer use. If
you wear glasses or contacts and
need to tilt your head or lean toward the screen to see it clearly,
your lens prescription may not be
right for computer use. Having the
correct prescription can help prevent pain in the neck, shoulders or
back resulting from contorting the
body to see the screen.
If the above measures don’t
work, don’t put off seeing an ophthalmologist. If the underlying
cause of CVS is not addressed,
symptoms will continue and may
worsen in the future. Your ophthalmologist can do a visual acuity
measurement to determine how
your vision is affected, test your
eyes to find a prescription that will
compensate for any refractive errors, and check how well your eyes
focus, move and work together.
Computer vision syndrome is
very common… As more screen
work is needed, more eye strain
can be expected. Our center and
ophthalmologists have state of
the art equipment to diagnose
and treat many eye problems, including CVS. We are now able to
better recognize and manage this
problem and continue to provide
world class eye care for the entire
family.
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Giving the Gift of Comfort:
Volunteers Needed to Make Blankets for Patients
Milford Regional Medical Center is looking for anyone who quilts, knits or crochets to donate their talents to make blankets to comfort patients.
Hand-made quilts and afghans are given to patients who are nearing the end of life. The
blankets are placed on beds to provide comfort to the patients, and later often become a keepsake for families.
To donate quilts or blankets, contact Volunteer Services at (508) 422-2264 or email Jane
Blackwood at [email protected].
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Warrior Thunder Ride Outgrows
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Benefits Veterans’ Programs
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The Sixth Annual Warrior
Thunder Motorcycle Ride will
take place on September 12, 2015,
with kickstands up at 11:30 a.m.
after registering, starting at 9:15
a.m. Since it has grown, the ride
has moved to the Medfield American Legion Post 110, at 110 Peter
Kristof Way, Medfield this year,
from its former location of the
Millis Amvets.
“We’ve moved from the Amvets, although they were phenomenal to us,” says Darren Bean,
Warrior Thunder founder and organizer of the event, who says that
the event has simply outgrown the
space.
The motorcycle ride, 45 miles
long, will take place from 11:30
a.m. to 1 p.m., and the fundraising event will include Blue Ribbon
BBQ, raffles, music and cash bar,
which lasts until 5 p.m. that day.
The ride costs $20 per rider and
$15 per passenger and non-riders,
which includes the barbecue.
All proceeds from this particular event go to the Fisher House,
Boston, a home away from home
where military families can stay
while a loved one is receiving inhouse treatment at a local medical
center.
“We’ve partnered with the
Fisher House to do this event
with the proper honor and dignity
with which it should be done. It’s
an open partnership to help each
others’ mission, which is really
the same mission, to take care of
veterans and their families,” says
Bean.
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a nonprofit since April of 2011.
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It was begun by Bean and a few
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ride. Since 2010, the Warrior
Thunder Foundation, Inc. (WTFI)
has raised almost $170.000 in
cash, goods and services provided to injured service men and
women, vets and their families.
The organization gives out
grants to veterans and military
in need of help, and it offers two
scholarships to children of veterans and military families, one
through a partnership with TJX
and one with NH author J.H.
Sanderson.
“We have individual grants that
we do, which a person can apply
for. We usually pay the bill collector,” says Bean.
WTFI is also involved in some
new unique programs for veterans
dealing with PTSD, depression
and anxiety that are alternatives
to traditional therapy.
“Veterans by nature are very
proud people,” says Bean, a veteran himself. “They don’t like to
talk about their issues. It makes
them feel like they’re less than the
person they are.”
“This past year, we started
working with Rebuilding Warriors. They train working dogs to
be working dogs for veterans with
PTSD and physical disabilities,”
says Bean. “We sponsored a German Shepard from a kennel in
Massachusetts, named ‘Freedom,’
and they trained her for about
nine or ten months. We turned
her over to a local veteran who
has PTSD and Traumatic Brain
Injury (TBI). It’s one of my favorite things we’ve done, because this
one this one was just so wonderful,
to see that this veteran who came
back with some invisible scars is
going to have a partner for the
rest of his life to keep him calm in
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The Warrior Thunder Foundation Inc. helps veterans and their families
with financial help, as well as by funding such alternative therapy
programs. Recently, it worked with Rebuilding Warriors to train this
German Shepard as a service dog to improve the life of this injured
veteran. WTFI will hold a fundraising motorcycle run on
September 12.
program. WTFI is working with
the organization on a healing program for veterans.
In addition to these programs,
WTFI will be hosting a number of
professionally-run programs, including yoga therapy, music therapy and art therapy for soldiers,
many of whom, due to backlog
at the VA, tend not to get the
therapy they need following initial
medication, he feels. WTFI is also
involved in a prosthetic wrap program for veterans who have lost
limbs.
Although the WTFI’s motorcycle run on September 12 is one of
its biggest fundraisers, the group
has also begun a golf tournament
to raise funds. The next one will
take place on June 9, 2016 at the
Juniper Hill Golf Course in North
Attleboro.
Bean says WTFI couldn’t do
the work it does without some
great volunteers and partnerships.
“Our golf tournament, I think
we had 60 volunteers, volunteers
who come back to us on a regular
basis. Northeast Insurance Agency,
they sponsor and their employees
come out, and it’s the same thing
with TJX Companies, out of
Framingham, they’re a sponsor
for every one of our events and
give us items to donate. Metronics
from Mansfield sent us 30 volunteers.. They’re great sponsorships
that last, and it’s a great network
of friends and support that make
it easy to do what it is we do.”
WTFI gratefully welcomes
more volunteers and donors to
its cause, accepting donations at
its website as well as at Amazon
Smile and Give Back America.
To find out more, visit www.
warriorthunderfoundation.org or
find them on Facebook. For more
information on the September
12 motorcycle run, email [email protected]
“These people are my brothers
and sisters, and I’m going to help
them for the rest of my life,” says
Bean. “We don’t want a pat on
the back. We want people to join
us. It’s about making everyone in
the nation understand what these
vets and their families have gone
through, making them aware and
part of the solution.”
September 1, 2015
Local Town Pages www.franklintownnews.com Calendar of Events
September 1
End of Summer Celebration Concert with Midlife Crisis
Band, Franklin Public Library,
5-7 p.m. Enjoy a fun evening of
great Rock & Roll music on the
Library lawn. Come dance and
sing along to Motown, Maroon
5, The Beatles, The Boss, Southern Rock and much more! Bring
your family, friends, picnic baskets, chairs, and blankets.
September 2
The Franklin Art Association
meeting, featuring Jill Sanford,
presenting “America, An Artful
Journey,” an Art for Your Mind
presentation, 6:30-9 p.m. at the
Franklin Senior Center, 10 Daniel McCahill Street. Refreshments and socialization at 6:30.
For more information please visit
our website at www.franklinart.
org and www.facebook.com/
FranklinArtAssoc
Women’s Success Network
30-year celebration meeting, 6-9 p.m., Luciano’s Lake
Pearl in Wrentham, MA.To
learn more or register by August 25th at https://www.wsninc.org.
September 4
Center Preschool Exploration
Open House, Dean College
Children’s Center, 144 School
St., Franklin 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
Parents of children 2 years old to
6 years are encouraged to bring
their child to explore the school
and learn about our program.
Applications being accepted for
5-day morning, 2-day morning,
3-day morning preschool programs or 4-day Pre-K program.
Preschool begins on September
14, 2015. For more information,
email Faith at fnickolas@dean.
edu or call 508-541-1598.
September 5 & 6
The St. Vincent DePaul Society of St. Mary’s Parish in
Franklin “Rise and Shine” food
collection. The Society is requesting back to school breakfast
items, especially instant oatmeal,
cereals, Pop-Tarts, protein bars,
granola mix, maple syrup, corn
muffin mix, peanut butter, juice
boxes, and school snacks, as well
as coffee and tea. Please no expired, damaged or open items.
All items must be in the original packaging and not beyond
the expiration date. Items may
be left in the boxes at the doors
of the church at any time.
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September 11
THE BLACK BOX presents
a Soul Kitchen Reunion Concert
and the venue’s first dance party,
7:30 p.m. Drawing musical inspiration from the legendary
Rhythm & Blues artists of the
‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s, Soul Kitchen
lays down a groove with a fourhorn section, full rhythm section
and male and female vocalists.
Sounds from Aretha Franklin
and Etta James to Stevie Wonder
and Ray Charles. $20 for adults
and $15 for students and seniors.
Call (508) 528-3370 or visit www.
THEBLACKBOXonline.com.
September 12
First Annual Missin Matt
Walk, Opiate Addiction Awareness Walk, Milford Town Park
Bandstand, 11 a.m., $25.00/
person. Includes a T-shirt & Bag
filled with resourceful information, special guest speakers, information tables, proceeds to
benefit the Missin Matt Foundation whose mission is to assist
individuals and their families on
the road to recovery by opening
a recovery center. www.missinmatt.myevent.com
Adult Coffee and Craft, Book
Page Wreath, 1 p.m., Learn how
to recycle book pages into a unique
wreath. Come in and enjoy a cup of
coffee or tea and a friendly chat while
making this decorative wreath.
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September 9
Open auditions for The
Addams Family will take place
at THE BLACK BOX, 15
West Central Street in downtown Franklin, on Wednesday,
September 9. Auditions will
begin at 6:30 p.m. for boys
ages 10+ and girls ages 13+
and will continue at 7:00 for
adults. Please prepare 16 bars of
a contemporary musical theater
song. Callbacks (if needed) will
be held on Thursday, September
10 at 7:00 p.m. and rehearsals
will begin on September 12. For
character breakdown, including descriptions, ages and voice
parts, please visit www.FPAConline.com.
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September 14
Exsultet! Auditions, 7 – 9
p.m. at the First Congregational Church of Holliston, 725
Washington Street, Holliston.
Exsultet!, a chamber choir of 12
singers, aspires to be the premier
women’s ensemble of the Metrowest area.
September 15
Brown Bag Workshop, The
United Regional Chamber of
Commerce, 42 Union St., Attleboro, “Communicating Your
Messages on Video” noon to 1
p.m., free event, bring a sandwich. Overcome the discomfort
of speaking on video. Donna
Mac of DMacVoice & Media
Communications will share with
you the guidelines for preparing,
recording and sharing your messages on video so you can reach
current and potential customers.
Register at (508) 222-0801.
Increase your Medicare IQ.
6-7 p.m., Golden Pond, 50 West
Main Street, Hopkinton. For
those approaching your 65th
birthday, over 65 and working or needing information for
your parents. Presented by The
Medicare Advisors. Refreshments served at 5:30pm. RSVP
Jen Belesi (508) 435-1250, [email protected].
September 19
Library Book Sale from 9
a.m. – 4 p.m., Franklin Public
Library, Also, from 9-10 a.m.
classical music by Betty Kushner.
September 20
Open auditions for The Nutcracker will be held on Sunday,
September 20 at THE BLACK
BOX. Students, ages 6 and older,
from all area dance schools are
welcome. Ballet attire is required.
Audition times are 9:30-10a.m.
for ages 6 and 7, 10-10:45 for
ages 8 and 9, 11-11:45 for ages
10 and 11, 11:45-12:45 for ages
12 and 13, 1-2:00 for ages 14+
(off pointe), and 2:45-3:45 for
ages 12+ (pointe audition; must
be on pointe for at least one year).
Off-pointe callbacks are scheduled at 2-2:30 p.m., with pointe
callbacks from 3:45-4:45. FPAC
will present The Nutcracker on
December 5 and 6 at the Franklin High School auditorium.
September 24
Genealogy Club – Last
Thursday of the Month, 6:307:30 p.m., in the Franklin Library meeting room, free and
open to all.
September 25
directed by Nick Paone, 7:30
p.m., Winner of the 1991 Tony
and Drama Desk Awards for
Best Play, as well as the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama, Lost in Yonkers
is a deeply moving and beautifully crafted coming-of-age story
by America’s great playwright,
Neil Simon. Striking a balance
between pain and humor, drama
and comedy, Simon’s poignant
play draws from his own experiences growing up in New York
City. For additional information
or to purchase tickets, call (508)
528-3370 or visit www.THEBLACKBOXonline.com.
WMRC Senior Expo, Franklin Senior Center, 10a.m. 1:30p.m.
September 26
St. Mary’s Conference of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, 5th
Annual Friends of the Poor® Walk,
9 a.m. - 11 a.m., Walkers
gather pledges. Pledges are col-
F
lected at the time the pledge is
made and turned in on Walk
day.100% of pledge dollars
raised in Franklin stays in Franklin, to serve those who look to
St. Mary’s for help. Registration
9 a.m. in Sacred Heart Hall—
lower level of St. Mary’s Church,
1 Church Square, Franklin, After
registering, walkers may begin
The Walk
Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary 37th Annual Fall Fair, 10
a.m. – 4 p.m., 108 North Street
in Norfolk, an annual community event featuring more than
40 crafters displaying and selling
their hand-made wares, along
with children’s games and activities, animal presentations, live
music and more. For more information, or to reserve a space
please call Stony Brook at (508)
528-3140 or email: stonybrook@
massaudubon.org
directed by Nick Paone, 7:30
p.m., Winner of the 1991 Tony
Prize for Drama, Lost in Yonkers
is a deeply moving and beautifully crafted coming-of-age story
by America’s great playwright,
Neil Simon. Striking a balance
between pain and humor, drama
and comedy, Simon’s poignant
play draws from his own experiences growing up in New York
City. For additional information
or to purchase tickets, call (508)
528-3370 or visit www.THEBLACKBOXonline.com.
September 27
FPAC presents Lost in Yonkers, directed by Nick Paone, 2
p.m. Winner of the 1991 Tony
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September 1, 2015
Franklin Sports
Franklin Flag Football Program Now One of
Biggest in State
By Christopher Tremblay
It was approximately 15 years
ago when Franklin Recreation
Department Director Ryan Jette
decided to form a flag football
league within the town. When the
Prize for Drama, Lost in Yonkers is a deeply moving and
beautifully crafted coming-ofage story by America’s great
playwright, Neil Simon. Striking a balance between pain and
humor, drama and comedy, Simon’s poignant play draws from
his own experiences growing up
in New York City. For additional
information or to purchase tickets, call (508) 528-3370 or visit
www.THEBLACKBOXonline.
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Comedy-Juggling Show with
Bryson Lang, Franklin Public
Library, 3 p.m., Come enjoy a
dazzling display of comedy, juggling and a touch of the bizarre!
Franklin Downtown Partnership’s Progressive Dinner,
appetizers at one restaurant,
soup at another, an entrée at
a third, and then dessert. You
can choose from two different
flights, with each flight featuring four downtown restaurants.
Flights will be staggered to
begin every half hour starting
at 5:30 p.m. The evening will
end on a sweet note with dessert at THE BLACK BOX
with entertainment. Partici-
program first began Franklin had
a mere four teams with 37 kids
participating, today the program
is considered one of the biggest
flag football programs in the state.
Today the Franklin flag football
pating restaurants are Artistry
Kitchen, Bamboo House, Chinese Mirch, Hang Tai, Maguro
House, Making Whoopie, The
Cake Bar, and The Rome Restaurant. Tickets $50 per person, including tips and taxes.
Beverages are not included.
Choose your flight when you
purchase tickets, which are on
sale now through September 15
at Jane’s Frames, The Franklin
Downtown Partnership office,
and Emma’s Quilt Cupboard.
Cash or check only. Visit www.
franklindowntownpartnership.
org, and Facebook page.
6th Anniversary of LET’S
LAUGH TODAY in Franklin
is on Monday, September 28th!
September 28
6th Anniversary of Let’s
Laugh Today, Franklin, 7:308:30 p.m., Meetinghouse of
the First Universalist Society in
Franklin, 262 Chestnut Street,
Franklin. Laughter Yoga, $5
donation to the church, $10
maximum per family. Please
bring your water bottle. Led by
Certified Laughter Yoga Teachers, Linda and Bill Hamaker.
Call (508) 660-2223 or e-mail
billandlinda@letslaughtoday.
com with questions. www.letslaughtoday.com.
league boasts 36 teams comprised
of 470 athletes and 115 coaches
encapsulated within 5 age divisions (6 year olds, 7 year olds, 8-9,
10-11 and 12-14).
Jack Geromini, the Franklin
flag football field coordinator, is
entering his 13th season with the
program believes the program has
evolved because of two factors.
“A lot of mothers feel a lot more
at ease with their kids playing flag
football opposed to actually playing Pop Warner football,” Geromini said. “The numbers have
continued to grow throughout the
years, because of Ryan and what
he does behind the scenes; I just
put the kids on teams.”
Since its inception, the program has come full circle to where
they are playing their games.
Originally, games were played at
the Beaver Pond Field, but when
the town decided to put a turf
field Jette had to find an alternative place to call home during the
fall. For a couple of years while
the turf was being installed, the
athletes were moved to the Remington Fields where there were no
lights.
“It took a year and a half to
redo the Beaver Pond Fields,”
said Geromini. “Unfortunately
they didn’t have lights, so we had
to bring in the lights and charge
them up every night. Franklin is
now fortunate enough to have two
turf fields with a third one at the
high school coming.”
In addition to giving parents a
sense of hope that their children
will not end up in the hospital
with a serious injury, the program
allows today’s busy parents to
get to all of their kids practices
and games. Unlike Pop Warner
football, where they kids practice
five days a week, the flag football
teams play only twice a week leaving parents with three extra days.
“This program was developed
to give the youth of the town an
opportunity to get outside and do
something instead of staying inside watching TV or playing video
games,” Geromini said. “You’re
having fun with other members of
the town. When you start playing
other towns, the games become
too competitive, so we’re staying
away from that. We’re here for the
kids to have fun without contact.”
The season will get underway
on Thursday September 10 and
will continue on Tuesday and
Thursday evenings during three
sessions (5:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and
8:15 p.m.). Teams will practice for
the first three or four nights before
taking part in a Pass, Punk and
Kick Competition and then the
season will get under way hoping
to get in 15 or 16 games depending on the weather.
Taking place on the Beaver
Pond turf field, playing sideline to
sideline, approximately 6 games
will take place each session. The
games, which will use on on-going
clock, will be divided up into two
25 minute halves with a 5 minute
breather in between them. Needless to say Geromini needs things
to go smoothly to transition from
one session to the next each night.
“We need to be extremely organized as were playing six games
(12 teams) per session,” the Field
Coordinator said. “We need to
have them finish on time and get
them out right away so that the
next session can begin on time. If
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will be given a reversible shirt, with
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approximately three coaches per
team, they will also act as referees. According to Geromini, they
tried using referees, but it provided
even more bodies on an already
crowded field.
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Franklin Sports
Optimistic Outlook
For Franklin’s Field Hockey Team
By KEN HAMWEY
Staff Sports Writer
It’s difficult for Lisa Cropper
to refrain from being optimistic about Franklin High’s field
hockey team this fall.
The veteran coach, who’s
guided the Panthers into tourney
play all five seasons that she’s directed the squad, has 22 players
returning with different levels
of experience, 13 of the 22 are
seniors and three of them were
Hockomock League all-stars last
year.
The Panthers, who saw Mansfield dethrone them as KelleyRex Division champs last year,
no doubt will be a bonafide contender to regain the division title
and again battle for a sectional
crown.
“We’ve got enough talent and
experience to contend for the
Kelley-Rex title,” said Cropper.
“I’m optimistic about our team
and firmly believe we’ll contend
for the division crown. We’ve got
depth, experience, good chemistry
and we’re a strong defensive unit
that plays a solid possession game.
Where we can improve is finishing
on the offensive end. We’ve got
to take advantage of our scoring
chances.”
Last year’s Panthers finished
their season at 10-2-3, then drew
a bye before losing, 1-0, in overtime to Dennis-Yarmouth in the
sectional quarterfinals. Franklin
will begin its journey to a tourney
berth when it opens its season at
home against Oliver Ames on
Sept. 8.
“Since we don’t rely on one
or two superstars, the keys to our
success will be to play as a team,
to stay healthy, and make sure our
depth rises to the occasion,” Cropper said. “Even though I prefer an
attacking style, I’m hoping we can
use our depth and experience to
be a possession team that controls
the tempo and pace of a game.”
Franklin’s four senior captains — Taylor Reutlinger, Kenzi
Pleshaw, Maddie Gendreau and
Abby Egan — will be counted
on to play vital roles this season.
Reutlinger plays midfield and is
a returning all-star; Pleshaw is an
all-star who patrols the backfield;
Gendreau is a quality sweeper;
and Egan can be utilized at midfield, forward or in the backfield.
“Taylor can run all day,”
Cropper said. “She controls the
midfield, has great endurance,
is versatile and solid on defense.
Kenzi is fast, strong, can stick-handle and drive the ball. Maddie is
a tiger on defense, very smart and
strong. Abby can play anywhere
on the field. She’s smart, can
stick-handle effectively and she’s a
calming influence.”
Two other dependable seniors
are goalie Samantha Jones, a
Hockomock League all-star last
year, and forward Diana Griffin.
“Samantha is athletic, agile and
instinctive,” said Cropper. “Her
aggressive style makes her our
anchor on defense. Diana has
speed, has a strong shot and she
can pass.”
Junior Dana Lewandowski
(midfielder) and sophomore Kate
Morse (back) are underclassmen
who should be major contributors.
“Dana has speed and endurance,”
Cropper noted. “She’s also feisty,
fast and aggressive. Kate is very
athletic and has good instincts.
She can drive the ball, too. If necessary, I could use her at midfield
or forward.”
Three seniors and three juniors will be battling for starting
jobs. They are seniors Maddie
Egan (defense), Julia Jette (forward)
and Kelsey McPhee (forward)
and juniors Caroline Lounsbury
(midfield), Kayla Marshall (back,
midfield) and Alex Sullivan (forward).
Franklin Field Hockey Coach Lisa Cropper has a lot to be optimistic about this year, with 22 experienced players returning, 13 of them seniors.
“All of them saw varsity time
last year,” Cropper said. “And all
of them are good athletes and
team players.”
Cropper, whose Panthers were
Kelly-Rex Division champs from
2011 to 2013, isn’t shy about staying in shape for competitive field
hockey. She tried out for the U.S.
Over-50 Masters team and was selected to play in The Netherlands
at the Masters World Cup Field
Hockey Tournament last year. She
was one of 17 players to compete
in Rotterdam during a two-weeklong competition.
Cropper was a three-time
all-American midfielder at the
University of Connecticut and
twice was a national champion —
once as a UConn player in 1981
and again in 1985 as an assistant
coach.
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to teach our girls how to be strong
independent individuals and how
to be the best student-athletes they
can be.”
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toughness are attributes Cropper
lists as crucial to be successful in
field hockey. Her players at Franklin typify those traits and no doubt
will rely on them as they seek to
regain the Kelly-Rex Division title
in field hockey.
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teacher on the trails learning
about nature. Each day will have a
special topic created to excite your
child about the natural world.
There will be crafts, activities and
lots of laughter. So come and join
the fun. This month’s themes:
Squirrels and Acorns/ Feathered
Friends in Fall. Ages 2.9 to 6 with
a parent. Fee: $5m/$6nm per
person per session
Raptor Identification
Primer: Wednesday, September
9th, from 7 – 9 p.m. It’s a bird? It’s
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of prey that migrate south for the
winter right over our heads. With
some good instruction and a little
practice we can learn to reliably
identify these amazing birds. Join
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on the mountain every day, counting broad-winged hawks, cooper’s
hawks, peregrine falcons and
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past Wachusett heights. This trip
starts at the Wachusett Mountain
State Reservation visitor’s center
at10:00 am (call for directions).
Be sure to bring your binoculars,
lunch, and layers of warm clothing. Fee: $16m/$20nm per person
Mount Watatic Hawk
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19th, from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Join
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a chance to observe some of the
thousands of hawks that migrate
south through the area each fall.
This year we are headed to Mt.
Watatic located on the MA/NH
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with a moderate hike through a
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hemlock forest. Mt. Watatic is one
of the prime locations where hawk
watchers monitor the passage of
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coopers, bald eagle, American
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spectacle you will always remember (a full lunar eclipse!). We will
not need our telescopes or binoculars to get the full impact of this
rare event but we will have them
on hand so that we can take a
closer look. While watching the
eclipse, we will have time to learn
and practice some techniques for
navigating from star to star in the
night sky and to view other celestial objects that would normally be
obscured by the light of the moon
(full the following night). We will
provide a snacks and warm drinks.
Minimum age 12.
Fee: $10m/$12nm per person
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Prepay in advance for
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family of four ($3 for each
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