Pembroke Express 03-19-2010

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Pembroke athletes represented Titan track at the Nike Indoor Nationals for the first time last week-end, and the five Pembroke natives did not waste

their chance to put the program on the map. Two personal bests highlighted a top-20 performance in

the sprint medley relay on Saturday, and on Sunday hurdler and long-jumper Berkeley Hall launched herself onto the na-tional scene with a top-10 performance.

Hall, running as a member of Titan Track Club, started the day by breaking her record in the hurdles by running the 60-yard race in 8.99 seconds to finish 16th overall. The Dart-mouth-bound senior then advanced to the finals in the long

Grand finale

HALL OF FAME: Titan long-jumper Berkeley Hall takes off at the Nike National Indoor Track and Field Championships on Sunday in Boston. Hall, one of five Titans making their first appearance at a national competition, finished eighth in the country in the long jump. Photo by Dave Palana

Titan girls finish indoor track season among nation’s elite

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By Becca manning, exPreSS Staff [email protected]

Spring’s first big rainstorm caused quite a few problems around Pembroke, from down-ing trees and flooding base-ments to disrupting a structure that helps herring make their way to Oldham Pond to spawn — just a few weeks before they are due to arrive in town.

The “fish ladder” at Upper Mill Pond had to be removed Monday morning after the sheer volume of water push-ing over the dam threatened to wash out both the ladder and the dam and drain the pond, according to Mark Ames, chairman of the Herring Fish-eries Commission.

“The volume of water had backed up so high that it was

Blame the rainWeekend storm fills basements, takes down trees, herring ladder

FLOODING AHEAD: A sign warns motorists on Dwelley Street of water on the roadway, which was still several inches deep on Tuesday afternoon. The rain caused problems throughout town early this week. Photo by Becca Manningcontinued on page 13


With the Zoning Board’s denial of one T-Mobile tower currently under appeal, the board voted Monday night to approve another project for the wireless company — a 150-foot monopole tower on town land near Birch Street Park.

Zoning Board members made it clear Monday that the two issues were separate and that Pembroke had essentially sought out T-Mobile for the Birch Street project, picking a location that fit the town’s plans for the property and also was set back far enough from surrounding homes.

“In a way, this is almost the town saying, ‘We want to put it right here,’ and that makes a difference to me,” ZBA mem-ber Frank Baldassini said at the hearing’s conclusion.

The board, also including member Bill Cullity and alter-nate Linda MacDonald, voted unanimously to approve T-Mobile’s request for a height variance and use variance to install the pole and a 40-by-40-foot base structure.

Only one resident turned out to speak on the matter —

Cell tower OK’dBirch Street project moves forward while W. Elm case under appeal

continued on page 9


A Board of Health em-ployee who a few months ago disagreed with officials over whether she had resigned from her position learned Tuesday that her job had been elimi-nated.

“At dinner time last night, a police officer showed up and handed me a letter stating that I was no longer employed here,” principal clerk Gail McSweeney said Wednesday morning.

According to the letter, McSweeney’s position had

been cut for “economic rea-sons.” She has been placed on paid administrative leave until April 1.

Town Administrator Ed Thorne, who last year was put in charge of day-to-day op-erations of the health depart-ment, confirmed Wednesday morning that he had cut the principal clerk position but said he could not comment on the matter until he spoke with town counsel.

Selectman Arthur Boyle said the move was within

Clerk job cutBoard of Health employee notified of layoff in hand-delivered letter

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After spending many years volunteer-ing for Pembroke

Youth Soccer, Andy Goodman is now including the Pembroke Community Youth Alliance on his community service resu-mé. The group’s goal is to es-tablish relationships between high school and middle school students to ease the transitions as students move between schools.

How long have you been in Pembroke? I have been in town 17 years. I live with my wife Kate and our six kids. They range in age from one to 15. We have two at Pembroke High School and two at Hobo-mock.

What was the first group you got involved with? It was Pembroke Youth Soccer. I got involved when my son Ryan was just 3 1/2 or 4 years old. I coached at that time and have continued for almost 12 years. I ran the snack bar for two years and am just complet-ing a term of two years as the registrar for the program. I am now getting involved with the Pembroke Community Youth Alliance.

What is the Pembroke Community Youth Alliance? It is hard to define PCYA be-cause it is so wide and big. Our mission is to promote healthy choices for Pembroke youth. The group is made up of par-ents, administrators and stu-dents within the community.

How did you get involved with the group? I went to a meeting about three years ago where the survey results from the high school and middle school were shared. My wife and I were compelled by the need. We didn’t get involved at the beginning because of the birth of my daughter. Kate was also the registrar for Pop War-ner Football. As she finished up and our daughter got a little older, we decided to get more involved in the group. What I remember was a perception that most students do not talk to their parents about smok-

ing, drinking and drug use, but most students actually do.

We found that, in many ways, Pembroke is no differ-ent than other towns [when it comes to drug-related issues]. We do some things better and some things not as well as the others. When it came to usage, we were in line with others. What was a surprise was kids start earlier than I thought, in middle school, and my kids were in the middle school.

What is your role? Last year we broke into different subgroups. I am on the high school subcommittee. We are working with a group of stu-dents from Pembroke High School on helping with transi-tions. The students recognized it was a big jump from sixth to seventh grade. They are trying to plan some social events with the sixth and seventh graders to help ease the move into the middle school and be role mod-els to the younger students.

What are you hoping to accomplish by having the high school students work with the younger children? Is a sixth grader going to be more motivated by me or a 17-year-old? They are going to look up more to them; some of the students helping are athletes or leads in the play. The younger students are more likely go-ing to connect with an older

student than an adult. They are more likely to go to a so-cial event with them. They are much better suited to dictate what is ‘cool’ than us adults.

We had a great night for some ninth graders at the Historical Society building. We tie-dyed T-shirts and had pizza. People have been very generous in helping with these events.

We were going to introduce the older kids to the younger ones through the classroom. Now we are trying to do it a different way by working with a couple of students who make films on YouTube.

How would somebody get involved in helping the PCYA? The easiest place to find us is on Facebook by searching for ‘Pembroke Community Youth Alliance.’ The entire group meets once a month on the second Thurs-day at the Pembroke Public Library.

You can often be seen walking around town with your children — do you have a favorite place? The Center Library, because I think it is a jewel. It is just fantastic and they have great programs for the little kids. My youngest, Will, is on a first-name basis with everyone there. I was able to renovate my house by bor-rowing do-it-yourself books.

TEEN ALLY: Andy Goodman and his wife Kate recently got involved with the Pembroke Community Youth Alliance, working with Pembroke High School students to develop a program for making the transition to junior high and high school easier on teens.

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Anyone who has driven through the center of town recently has noticed activity going on at the Center Plaza. Two weeks ago, workers tore down the old Mobil gas sta-tion and, last week, the old house behind Sovereign Bank came down as well.

The plaza renovation proj-ect is finally underway.

The development, ap-proved with conditions set by the Planning Board in fall 2008, will feature a new, larger CVS Pharmacy at the edge of the property on the corner of Center and Mat-takeeseet streets along with a 39,000-square-foot Stop and Shop grocery store at the western edge of the plaza. The existing businesses located on the south edge of the prop-erty will be moved into a new 27,000-square-foot building set back closer to the property line.

Project manager Ben Hart-ley of Coffman Realty, which owns the property through Pembroke Plaza Limited Part-nership, was on the site Tues-day afternoon to check out the progress. He talked about what the town can expect to see over the coming months — culminating in the project’s anticipated completion some-time in 2011.

What’s been going on the past few weeks? We’ve taken down the Mobil station, the old Rockland Trust building and the Williams house [be-hind Sovereign Bank]. Right now, we’re beginning to dig the foundations for the CVS building. We’re also cutting down the tree lines along the condo property in prepara-tion for a retaining wall that has to be installed along that property line. There’s a visual/sound-proof fence that’s going to be going up, that we hope to get up at the beginning of the project to minimize the impact to the condo residents. That’s our schedule as of this point.

Who is doing the work? DMR Construction out of North Easton is our general contractor, and SLP Construc-tion out of Carver is the site

contractor.When will building be-

gin? The foundation is going to be starting — the excava-tion will begin later this week and will be going full-time next week, with the foundation poured by the middle of April. Then steel will be coming and, after that, it’s the rest of the systems and the exterior. The retail building behind the ex-isting building will be lagging behind the CVS. Our goal is to have the CVS open toward the end of this year. The new retail building we’re hoping to have ready for tenant move-in by the end of the year, but actual opening will be the beginning of next year.

How does it feel to really get this project going? It’s re-ally a good feeling to see dirt and equipment moving. We were hoping to start last year, but with things beyond our control with the overall down-turn in the economy, that just wasn’t possible. So it’s very exciting to see it move for-ward and to be working with the town. I think everyone will be pleased.

Have you seen a lot of in-terested people stopping by? Now that we’ve got equip-ment running, there is a lot of interest. It was tough times

last year, but it’s good to be under construction and mov-ing forward. We look forward to a successful project with the town. I think the town’s excited to see the plaza rede-veloped and redeveloped in a tasteful way, which it will be.

When will work on the Stop & Shop begin? The Stop & Shop is the last phase of the project. We provide them with what’s called a ‘pad-ready’ site. We bring the utilities to them and Stop & Shop builds their own building. We will be delivering their pad with all the utilities around spring of next year. And then they can begin their construction at that time.

When will you be doing road improvements? That will be something that we want to tackle during the sum-mer, to take advantage of the weather. There are close-off dates to working on the road that we certainly don’t want to run into. Our expectation and the town’s expectation as reflected in the Planning Board’s decision is to have those lights [at the intersec-tion of Mattakeesett and Cen-ter streets] operational prior to CVS opening. So, really, we’ll be moving forward with that during the summer.

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CLEAN SLATE: Center Plaza project manager Ben Hartley of Coffman Realty stands near the flattened lot at the corner of Center Street and Mattakeesett Street where the old Mobile sta-tion once stood. The building was torn down two weeks ago, and workers have been busy making the lot ready for a new CVS Pharmacy building. Hartley said the building’s foundation likely would be poured by the middle of April.

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Pembroke now has one united youth football league! The former Pop Warner Titans and the former Old Colony Titans have united into one football and cheerleading league for the town of Pembroke: Pembroke Titans Football and Cheerleading. Registration for the 2010 season will be held at Pembroke Community Middle School on Saturday, March 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Monday, March 29 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Football and cheer registration fee is $125 per child with a family cap of $300. For information about registration, e-mail Andrea Campbell at [email protected] or Liz Hartigan at [email protected].

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Woman accused of selling drugs out of van used to transport kids

A Pembroke woman hired to transport hand-icapped children was arrested earlier this month after police reportedly observed her selling oxy-codone to someone outside the Independence Mall in Kingston while the kids were present.

Kingston detectives were running surveil-lance at the mall on March 3 along with Pem-broke and Marshfield police as part of the Old Colony Police Anti-Crime Task Force when they observed a white van driven by Jill E. Baldner, 25, of Verna Hall Drive, pull up to a green Jeep in the rear of the mall. Police knew both Baldner and her passenger, Paul Tetanski, 25, of Cyril Avenue, as low-level distributors of the Class B drug, according to reports.

Police reportedly observed Baldner exit her vehicle and approach the passenger side of the Jeep, where she made an exchange with the Jeep’s female driver, then return to her own vehicle and drive away. Officers stopped Bald-ner’s van at the intersection of Cranberry Road and Smiths Lane.

During a search of the van’s two adult occu-pants, police reportedly found 20 30-mg. oxy-codone pills on Tetanski’s person. When she ex-ited her vehicle, Baldner allegedly threw a bag containing blue pills onto the ground. The bag was recovered and contained six 30-mg. oxy-codone tablets and a quarter of a tablet of sub-oxone, according to reports. Both Baldner and Tetanski were arrested.

Four children were in the vehicle at the time of the search — Baldner’s seven-month-old son and three children she was transporting through her job with Quincy-based Cerebral Palsy of Massachusetts. An officer drove the van with the children to the Kingston police station, where the children’s parents picked them up. Baldner’s son was released to her mother.

Baldner was charged with two counts of Class B drug possession, possession to distrib-ute a Class B drug and conspiracy to violate the drug law. She pled not guilty on March 4 in Plymouth District Court and is due back on April 22 for a pretrial hearing.

Tetanski was charged with possession of a Class B drug, subsequent offense, possession to distribute a Class B drug and conspiracy to violate the drug law. He also pled not guilty on March 4 and is due back April 28 for a pretrial hearing. Both were released on personal recog-nizance.

Man pleads not guilty to 2008 cocaine sale

A Mattapan man accused of selling cocaine along Route 139 in Pembroke pled not guilty to multiple drug charges last Thursday in Plym-outh District Court.

Joseph J. Clancy, 36, of Mattapan, faces charges of distribution of a Class B drug, pos-session to distribute a Class B drug, possession of a Class B and C drug and drug violation near a school.

He is due back in court on May 4 for a pre-trial hearing.

Clancy was arrested on June 19, 2008, as part of an investigation by Pembroke, Marsh-field, Hanover and Scituate police into alleged cocaine sales along Route 139 in Pembroke and Marshfield.

Around 6:15 p.m. that day, police observed a silver sedan matching the description of the vehicle used in these transactions pull into the Burger King parking lot in Pembroke. The driv-er got out of his vehicle and got into another ve-hicle parked nearby. About 15 seconds later, he reportedly returned to his own vehicle.

Police stopped both vehicles. They report-edly found two eight-balls of cocaine and 6-1/2 grams of packaged cocaine along with $243 in cash and 30 prescription hydrocodone pills inside Clancy’s vehicle. Police also found an

eight-ball of cocaine inside the second vehicle, according to reports. The transaction occurred across the street from a day care.

Clancy was later released and summonsed for arraignment.

Police: Man shoplifted condoms, strainers

A Hanover man was arrested Saturday night after he allegedly attempted to steal several packages of condoms, a box of sandwich bags and two strainers from the Pembroke Stop & Shop.

Richard Briggs, 18, of Center Street, Ha-nover pled not guilty Monday in Plymouth Dis-trict Court to charges of shoplifting by asporta-tion and possession to distribute a Class B drug — oxycodone, which was reportedly found in his vehicle.

A Stop & Shop loss prevention officer called police around 8:20 p.m. after observing Briggs conceal the items in his sweatshirt and pants and then leave without paying for the items, accord-ing to police reports.

Briggs had left his vehicle running in the fire lane outside the store, with his girlfriend waiting inside. Officers reportedly observed a clear bag with two oxycodone pills in plain view in the vehicle’s center console.

Briggs was released on $500 cash bail and is due back in court on April 23 for a pretrial hearing.

Defective headlight leads to pot arrest

Two Pembroke men who were pulled over in Hanson because of a defective headlight face drug charges after they were found with more than 2 ounces of bagged marijuana

James Bako-Berry, 18, of School Street and David E. Backus, 19, of Wampatuck Street pled not guilty Monday in Plymouth District Court to possession with intent to distribute marijuana. They are due back on May 17 for a pretrial hear-ing.

According to police reports, a Hanson offi-cer on patrol around 11 p.m. last Friday night observed Backus’ vehicle operating with a de-fective headlight and taillight and pulled him over on Meadow Lane in Hanson. The officer reportedly smelled “freshly burnt marijuana” as he approached the vehicle and questioned Back-us, who allegedly admitted there was marijuana in the vehicle.

During the police search, officers found a plastic bag containing about .68 ounces of mari-juana in the glove box and two bags containing about 1.05 ounces each underneath the passen-ger seat, where Bako-Berry was sitting.

Bako-Berry reportedly told police he was not aware the drugs had been under his seat, and Backus reportedly said the two bags of marijua-na were not his.

Both men were arrested and later released on $500 cash bail.

Dirt bike stolenPolice are looking for someone who broke

into a Kings Terrace garage early Friday morn-ing and stole a dirt bike.

Pembroke Police Lt. Mike Jenness said it appears the suspect pried open the garage door with a shovel. Police do not believe the incident is related to other break-ins that have occurred around Pembroke since the start of the year.

Pembroke police log

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FriDAY, MArCH 55:18 a.m. Suspicious activity

reported on Oak Street.2:12 p.m. Larceny reported

on Mattakeesett Street.2:20 p.m. Suspicious motor

vehicle reported on Gates Lane.2:32 p.m. Citation issued for

traffic situation on Mattakeesett Street.

2:39 p.m. Animal complaint filed on Barker Street.

3:04 p.m. Caller on Jessica Circle reported being threatened.

4:42 p.m. Abandoned mo-tor vehicle reported on Carriage House lane.

4:59 p.m. Motor vehicle crash with damages under $1,000 on School Street.

10:47 p.m. Traffic complaint for motor vehicle on Oak Street.

sAturDAY, MArCH 62:10 a.m. Suspicious party

on Church Street. Person sent on his way.

1:01 p.m. Caller on Wash-ington Street reported trespasser.

1:59 p.m. Caller reported illegal dumping/littering on Pel-ham Street.

4:18 p.m. Recreational ve-hicle complaint filed for North Boundary Road.

5:45 p.m. Shoplifting on Church Street. Helen Welsh, 59, of Marshfield, arrested for shop-lifting over $100 by asportation.

5:56 p.m. Fire incident re-ported on Tara Drive.

6:31 p.m. Suspicious activ-ity on School Street.

9:52 p.m. Parking complaint on Old Church Street.

11:32 p.m. Commercial vandalism reported on Dwelley Street.

suNDAY, MArCH 72:30 a.m. Disturbance re-

ported on Mattakeesett Street.9:02 a.m. Animal complaint

on Mill Street.9:12 a.m. Crash with under

$1,000 damage reported on Mat-takeesett Street.

9:25 a.m. Hazardous waste spill reported on Pratt Farm Road. No police service necessary.

10:20 a.m. Suspicious activ-ity reported on Kings Terrace.

11:01 a.m. Disturbance re-ported on Hobomock Streeet. Peace restored.

2:24 p.m. Speeding com-plaint on Pembroke Woods Drive.

2:42 p.m. Larceny reported on Christina Marie Drive.

3:55 p.m. Party on Lilah Lane called the highway/water/tree departments. Referred to DPW.

4:10 p.m. Recreational vehi-cle complaint called in for Lorna Avenue. Area search negative.

5:13 p.m. Officer to Beach-way Lane with warrant. William J. Logan, 46, of Beachway Lane was arrested on two default war-rants for failure to appear and on an active warrant.

5:34 p.m. Sean A. Dyer, 32, of Crescent Avenue arrested on a default warrant for failure to ap-pear.

7:23 p.m. Party on Forest Street called the highway/water/tree departments. Referred to Fire Department.

7:44 p.m. Alton J. Macharia, 39, of Fairview Avenue, arrested on two default warrants for fail-ure to appear.

8:58 p.m. John J. McBrine, 53, of Pleasant Street, arrested on a default warrant for failure to appear.

9:28 p.m. Ryan M. George, 35, of Mattakeesett Street, ar-rested on a default warrant for failure to appear.

10:31 p.m. Disturbance re-ported on Forest Street.

MONDAY, MArCH 812:35 p.m. Crash reported

with over $1,000 damage on Church Street.

2:05 p.m. Motor vehicle traf-fic complaint reported on Pem-broke Woods Drive.

3:51 p.m. Suspicious activ-ity with a motor vehicle reported on West Street.

4:50 p.m. Commercial break-ing and entering reported on Old Oak Street.

6:22 p.m. Domestic situation on Harvard Street. Summons served in hand.

11:49 p.m. Caller on Harvard Street reported being threatened.

tuesDAY, MArCH 91:43 a.m. Disabled motor

vehicle reported on Matakeesett Street. Vehicle towed and im-pounded.

6:57 a.m. Motor vehicle crash reported with over $1,000 damage on Pleasant Street and Washington Street.

10:24 a.m. Suspicious activ-ity reported on Keens Way. Ver-bal warning issued.

10:37 a.m. Crash reported on Washington Street with under $1,000 damage.

3:12 p.m. Larceny/shoplift-ing reported on Mattakeesett Street.

4:28 p.m. Animal complaint on Washington Street.

5:27 p.m. Party on Edgewa-ter Drive reported being threat-ened.

7:10 p.m. Crash reported on Queensbrook Road with over $1,000 damage.

8:27 p.m. Suspicious activ-ity on Schoosett Street. Peace restored.

WeDNesDAY, MArCH 101:22 a.m. Noise complaint

on Pembroke Woods Drive.2:43 p.m. Vandalism report-

ed on Birch Street.4:51 p.m. Suspicious activity

reported on Hil’s Mill Road.7:15 p.m. Disabled motor

vehicle on Church Street.10:04 p.m. Suspicious activ-

ity on Mattakeesett Street.

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4:44 p.m. Suspicious activity reported on Learning Lane.

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A local official is facing assault charges after he alleg-edly pushed two police of-ficers during an incident that occurred last November at his home.

Department of Public Works Commissioner Jim Kil-commons, 84, of Fairwood Drive pled not guilty on March 2 in Plymouth District court to two counts of assault and bat-tery of a police officer.

Pembroke Police Officer Wendy LaPierre and James Burns were at Kilcommons’ home on the evening of Nov. 25 when the conversation re-portedly got physical. Kilcom-mons allegedly pushed LaPi-erre in the shoulder and chest,

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Pembroke Police Lt. Mike Jenness said the officers were there collecting information on a case. He did not have details of the incident but said the is-sue had been forwarded to the Plymouth County District At-torney’s office.

Plymouth County DA spokesperson Bridget Norton-Middleton confirmed that her office was handling the case but had no further information

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Kilcommons was not ar-rested but was summonsed for arraignment. He is due back in court on May 6 for a pretrial hearing.

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This May, friends and fam-ily will honor Pembroke Rec-reation Director Pam Rowell the way they know best: with a family day on the Town Green full of fun activities all aimed at raising money for one of Pam’s favorite projects — a town skate park.

“We’re trying to have ac-tivities for all the kids to do — a few art projects, some spring plantings, a dunk tank, jumpers for both the older kids and the younger kids … It’s just going to be a fun day. That’s what Pam would have wanted,” said Maria Gratta-Pagnani, Rowell’s sister.

The event, called “Pam-my’s Day on the Green,” will be held Saturday, May 22 from 12-4 p.m. on the Town Green in front of the community cen-ter. Rain date is Sunday, May 23.

The day will be packed with the kind of fun, recre-ational activities Rowell loved, including a silent auction, arts and crafts, face-painting, clowns, a DJ, pony rides and plenty of food. The event will be run like a carnival, where tickets can be purchased at a central booth and used for each of the activities, Gratta-Pagnani said.

“The overall goal is to raise

money for the skate park. It was a huge interest of Pam’s to get the skate park up and run-ning,” Gratta-Pagnani said.

Rowell’s daughter, Kerri-Anne Rowell-Ford, is spear-heading the event along with other members of her family and volunteers from the Rec-reation Department, where Rowell worked for more than a decade.

Rowell died in September of a heart attack.

Event organizers are look-ing for sponsors, silent auction prize donations, volunteers and other support. Anyone interested in helping can con-tact Rowell-Ford at 508-759-1070.

To build support and raise some seed money for the event, the group will be selling Pammy’s Day bracelets start-ing this weekend at locations around the area, including the

recreation office at the com-munity center, The Candy Jar, Norwell Clipper Barber Shop and Mammoth Media (owned by Pam’s sons). The bracelets, similar to Lance Armstrong’s LiveStrong bracelets, are blue — Pam’s favorite color — and cost $2 each, Gratta-Pagnani said.

The bracelets also will be on sale at the Recreation De-partment’s annual community egg hunt on April 1 — one of Rowell’s favorite events.

Gratta-Pagnani said al-ready her family has seen a lot of support from people inter-ested in making Pammy’s Day a success.

“People seem to be very generous,” she said. “They loved Pam, so they’re there to honor her day.”

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WHAT: Family fun day with kids’ activities, music, face-painting, food, silent auction and more to raise money for Pembroke Skate Park CommitteeWHEN: Sat., May 22 (rain date May 23), 12-4 p.m.WHERE: Town Green, in front of the community centerCONTACT: To volunteer, donate an item for the silent auction or learn more, call Kerri-Anne Rowell-Ford at 508-759-1070.

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Military Support Group raffleThe Pembroke Military Support Group is running a calendar

raffle through April. Raffle tickets cost $10 each or three for $20. Each ticket gives the holder a chance to win prizes that will be drawn each day throughout the month of April. All prizes have a value of at least $50 and include gift cards to local restaurants, salons and shops as well as cash, jewelry, gift baskets and other items. Tickets are available from Pembroke Military Support Group members or in the selectmen’s office at Town Hall.


Other years during my va- ➢cation in Florida, I have bumped into several people from Pem-broke along the way. This year I didn’t see a soul! I do know, however, that Dan Lenyo spent part of last week on the east coast of Florida combining a little bit of both business and pleasure while he was there.

Looking for something to ➢do this Friday night? Pembroke High School sophomore Alex Nulty invites Pembrokians to check out the talents of kids across eastern Massachusetts at the HOPE FOR HAITI Youth Talent Show Competition, to be held at the Boston University Morse Auditorium. The event is sponsored by the American Red Cross Youth Advisory Board and BU Red Cross Volunteers. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the show will start at 6:30 p.m. Tickets cost $5 and are avail-able at the door. All proceeds will help the American Red Cross’ efforts in Haiti following the Jan. 12 earthquake. Nulty is a member of the Youth Advisory Board and will be emceeing the event. Along with the talents of local kids who auditioned for a spot in the show, the event will feature a performance by the R&B band AHMIR. For more information, call 617-274-5320 or e-mail [email protected].

Today is the day when one ➢of the Red Hat groups from Pembroke will be having their monthly outing. Anna Cran-dall has made arrangements for the ladies to have a workshop at Pottery Playce in Hanover. This is a paint-your-own-pottery studio where each of the ladies will select an unfinished piece of pottery to paint with glaze. After they leave, the pottery will be fired, and they will be able to pick up the finished product at a later date. Those who are not covered in too much paint after the workshop will then proceed to The Fours in Norwell for lunch.

Hopefully, spring weather ➢will be right around the corner. In preparation for that day, The Mattakeesett Garden Club held its March meeting on the 16th. Susan Moneypenny and Mary Carr provided the refresh-ments, while Jeana Homola created the centerpiece. Kay Kellen and Tracey Stewart provided the raffle prizes.

Physical education teacher ➢Dave Brogioli and art teacher Shannon DeCosta run the Heart program at Hobomock Elementary School. Heart is a combination of health, physi-cal education and art. It was developed to teach Pembroke students about living healthy lives and making smart choices. Bryantville Elementary School also has adopted the program, and teachers Kevin Weldon and Maria Dunn are thrilled to be teaching it. In addition to nutrition, fitness and making overall healthy life choices, the importance of character build-ing will be reinforced. Some recent Heart champions were students Angelina Delmonaco,

Laura McCarthy, Lindsey Budak, Christopher Hickey and Travis Hanlon.

At Bryantville Elementary ➢School, Julie Morris and her fifth grade science class have been studying the ecosystem. I understand they dissected owl pellets and categorized their findings and reconstructed skeletons of the owl’s prey and labeled it. It was a great oppor-tunity for these students to learn about the food chain.

Matt Devine, ➢ a 2009 grad-uate of Pembroke High School and a freshman at Westfield State College, was named 2009-10 Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Rookie of the Year. Matt, also a second-team all-conference selection, emerged as a dominant defensive force after becoming a starter mid-way through the season. He leads the Owls and MASCAC with 64 blocks and 50 rejections coming in the final 12 games of the season. Matt ranked 13th nationally in blocked shots per game.

Stonehill College recently ➢was victorious against Saint Anselm, 4-1, while sopho-more lefthander Eric Haughn pitched seven strong innings to earn the win on the mound. Stonehill thus picked up its first win of the season in a non-con-ference baseball match-up.

Pembroke Recreation De- ➢partment’s annual Easter Egg Hunt will be held Thursday, April 1 at 4:30 p.m. on the Town Green. Interim Recreation Di-rector Sue Roche would like you to know that donations of plastic eggs are greatly appreci-ated. Volunteers are needed for early that morning to assist with spreading the filled eggs on the green. For information, call the recreation office at 781-293-3249. Don’t forget to check out the department’s other activites at townofpembrokemass.org.

I have just returned from a six-week vacation on Marco Island in Flor-ida. John and I left the last week

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Joani Geltman, MSW, an expert in child development and parent-teen relationships, will present “Adolescent Psy-chology: The Parent Version” on Tuesday, March 23 from 7-9 p.m. She will cover the topics of physical, cognitive and social/emotional changes that occur in adolescence and how they affect relationships with parent and friends as well as school life. This event is free and open the public and is spon-sored by Pembroke SEPAC with support from Pembroke Community Middle School and Pembroke High School PTOs. Parents of teenagers as well as preteens are encour-aged to attend. For more information, call Katie DiNardo at 781-294-7325 or e-mail [email protected].

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Add beans, lentils and whole grains back into your think-ing. We have become so accustomed to purchasing Uncle So-and-So’s rice that we pass by the more nutritious and economi-cal bag of whole grains located just down the aisle. A 6-ounce box of Uncle So-and-So’s Long Grain and Wild Rice costs $2.69 and serves three. A 28-ounce bag of organic pearl barley costs $3.79 and serves 14! Uncle So-and-So’s package of rice contains nearly 20 ingredients; the barley has only one and is superior in its nutritional value. Beans are beautiful, nutritious, cost-effective and filling. Serve pretty pink salmon (purchased on sale), with spring green asparagus and mashed cannellini beans dressed with a hint of garlic and olive oil — all for less than $3 per person. Delicious, nutritious and inexpensive.

Tidbit: If you haven’t visited the indoor Farmers Market at Plimouth Plantation, try to go this Thursday between 3 and 6:30 p.m. In addition to great local products, there will be Irish music, a drop-in yoga class and a screening of “King Corn” (plymouthfarmersmarket.org).

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Because of the overwhelming attendance at last year’s event, the Taste of Pembroke is changing locations. The ninth annual event will be held at the Pembroke Country Club on West Elm Street on Sunday, March 28 from noon to 3 p.m. Get ready to sample some of the finest cuisine Pembroke restaurants have to offer. Participating restaurants include: British Beer Company, Sweet Fordy’s, Longhorn Steakhouse, Oak Street Pizza and Grill, Fedele’s Hand-Dipped Chocolates and many more.

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Paul Lyons of Milford Drive, who has been a vocal opponent of T-Mobile’s proposal on the Pembroke Country Club prop-erty off West Elm Street. The board denied that request in January, saying the company had not looked at all its options in that area. T-Mobile attorneys recently appealed the board’s decision in federal court.

Lyons said he found it “interesting” that T-Mobile at-torney Francis Parisi had sub-mitted into the record a packet of information provided in the West Elm Street case, even though the board had not spe-cifically requested it.

“I find it very interesting that T-Mobile all of a sudden — you guys were ready to close the meeting with noth-ing else — and all of a sudden they said I want to put all this information in here again,” Lyons said.

Cullity said Parisi’s infor-mation answered some con-cerns that Birch Street area residents had raised at the first public hearing on that tower, held Feb. 22. The packet in-cluded maps showing cover-age in the area, a copy of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 and studies con-ducted by the World Health Organization regarding per-ceived health effects of the radio waves issued from wire-less towers.

Parisi said he felt it would be “prudent” for him to in-clude the information, reiter-ating that, “There are no alter-natives to this site. […] We’re working with the town, but one of the things that we need to establish here is there are no other viable alternatives.”

Lyons also said he was surprised none of the Birch Street abutters showed up to the hearing and that he felt T-Mobile had found “a willing partner” in Pembroke for its towers.

“They’re targeting Pem-broke from the point-of-view that surrounding towns are not allowing this and surround-ing towns have gone ahead and written bylaws to require where cell towers can go,” Ly-ons said. “I really think that this is something the board needs to take a look at. This is twice within a year now. I understand the town looked

for this one, but every one of these towers seems to be on the edge of Pembroke border-ing another town which has zoning laws which say where and when they can put the towers up.”

Baldassini told Lyons that zoning bylaw changes must go through the Planning Board.

MacDonald also said she was disappointed that no Birch Street area residents had turned up for the meeting. She initially said she would like to see a balloon raised to show how the tower would be seen in the area, but she withdrew her request because of lack of interest.

The board’s approval of T-Mobile’s project included sev-eral conditions: that the appli-cant construct a gate at a spot agreed to by the town with a lock that would provide suffi-cient access in the event of an emergency; that utilities com-ing from the street be under-ground; that there be minimal removal of trees; that there be an 8-foot high fence secured

with barbed wire or some-thing similar; that the tower be blue-gray in color; and that the tower be located 750 feet back from Birch Street.

T-Mobile next will go to the Planning Board for ap-proval of their engineering plan. Parisi said work on the site likely would begin this summer.

Through an agreement with the town, T-Mobile will pay Pembroke $2,100 per month in rent to use the prop-erty along with $3,000 annu-ally to the Conservation Com-mission for purchase of open space, according to Town Ad-ministrator Ed Thorne.

Voters at the Nov. 3 spe-cial Town Meeting authorized the town to enter into a lease agreement for the tower.

Cullity said he felt most of the issues raised at the Feb. 22 hearing had been addressed and that, after walking the site himself, he felt comfortable with the tower’s setback from the street.

“I actually spoke to a couple of the neighbors and I did ask them their take on the Wintergreen Farm tower [lo-cated off Mattakeesett Street], where that’s one of the clos-est comparisons, and they too had a hard time spotting it, so I think they were a little more at ease,” he said.

The Mattakeesett Street tower, constructed in 2000, is 20 feet taller than the proposed Birch Street tower.

Birch st. tower approvedcontinued from page one

TOWER GETS OK: On Monday, the Zoning Board approved T-Mobile’s application for a height and use variance to install a 150-foot mono-pole wireless tower on town-owned property behind Birch Street Park. The tower will be similar to one (above) located off Mattakeesett Street, near Wintergreen Farm, but will be 20 feet shorter. Photo by Becca Manning

The Friends of the Knights of Columbus Special Needs Prom Committee will be sponsoring a St. Patrick’s Day party fundraiser on Saturday, March 20 from 2-7 p.m. at the Pem-broke Country Club. The event will feature a meal of tradi-tional corned beef and cabbage and chicken fingers and fries for the kids as well as music by Prince Edward Island fiddler Andrea Beaton and Friends and traditional Irish step dancing from The Forbes School of Irish Dance. Tickets cost $20 for adults and $10 for kids and can be purchased by contacting Greg Hanley at 781-858-0648 or Kevin McKenna at 617-529-9166. All proceeds go toward the special needs prom scheduled this spring at the Knights of Columbus.

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Perilous Parrots Brooke Rinkus and Alex Schafer get ready to compete in the next event.

Amy Darling of the team Bamboo Bombers runs back-wards with a balloon between her knees in the balloon relay race.

The Bamboo Bombers: Alyson Sullivan, Abigail Nugent, Erica Tinlin, Amy Darling, Vincent Mitchell, Michael Courtright, Antonio Seneme and Patrick McLear.

Perilous Parrot Brooke Rinkus on the run in the Laundry Relay.

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It’s just not Survivor without creepy crawly things to eat — how about live worms or a few crunchy chocolate-covered crickets. These delicacies got a big “Ewww, GROSS!” from Grace Mayer, Alex Schafer, Gillian Eva, JJ Hollstein, Joey Birilini and Ethan McCue.

Shell Shockers: Christopher Holland, Matthew Hogan, Ben Abrahamson, Spencer Campbell, Allyson Glynn, Emily Teevens, Amber Woodward, Kayla Keough and Breagh Fitzgerald.

Team Manatee Maniacs’ Ryan Napsey gives it his all at the ring toss game.

Lounge Lizards and pals Jonathan Blauuw and Bryan Musial.

Team Fearless Flying Fish: Maggie Sullivan, Colleen Martin, John Anthony, Bob Anthony, Brian LaVallee, Sarah Shaughnessey, Amanda Gately and Brianna McIsaac.

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Friday, March 19Council on Aging Activities. Every Friday: Soft-shoe line dancing class, 9:15-10:15 a.m.; games, 12:30-3 p.m. For information, call the senior center at 781-293-8220.

Saturday, March 20Bottle/Can Drive for Haiti. 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at St. Thecla Church Hall, Washington Street/Route 53. All proceeds benefit St. Boniface Haiti Foundation. For information, call Kathy Fanning at 781-826-9233.

‘New Moon’ DVD Release Party. 1:30 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Come watch “New Moon” and enter raffles to win Twilight prizes such as a life-sized cutout of Taylor Lautner. For information, call 781-293-6771.

St. Patrick’s Day Party. 2-7 p.m., at Pembroke Country Club on West Elm Street. Sponsored by the Friends of the K of C Special Needs Prom Committee. Traditional corned beef and cabbage; chicken fingers and fries for the kids. Entertainment by fiddler Andrea Beaton and Friends and The Forbes School of Irish Dance. Tickets cost $20 for adults, $10 for kids. Call Greg Hanley at 781-858-0648 or Kevin McKenna at 617-529-9166.

Sunday, March 21North River Community Church. 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sunday services. Located at 334 Old Oak St., Pembroke.

Pembroke Science Fair. 12-4 p.m., at PCMS. Take a look at all the science projects submitted by local children in kindergarten through sixth grade.

Learn to Skate. 12:30-1:30 p.m., at Hobomock Arenas, Pembroke. Session runs March 20-April 17. Cost is $87 per skater, plus $12 annual registration fee to be paid to U.S. Figure Skating membership through the Pilgrim Skating Club. For info, visit pilgrimskatingclub.com or call club room at 781-294-7575.

Earth Day Spring Concert. 3 p.m., at First Parish Church, Duxbury. Jim Scott will perform range of genres from classical to jazz to folk. All proceeds help the Duxbury Interfaith Council’s annual campership program and the TLC Backpack

Project. Advance tickets available at Westwinds Bookstore for $8. Tickets also available the day of the event for $10; children’s tickets cost $5. For information, call 781-934-8388 or visit duxinterfaith.com.

Masterworks Encore Performance. 4 p.m., at Duxbury Performing Arts Center, 73 Alden St., Duxbury. Atlantic Symphony Orchestra is teaming up with The Wellness Community-Massachusetts South Shore to raise money for programs that support people living with cancer, their loved ones and caregivers. Performance will feature pianist Lie Chen along with the orchestra. Tutorial lecture 30 minutes before show. Seating is open; free parking. Tickets cost $50 per person. Purchase online at thewellnesscommunitymass.org. For info, call 781-829-4823.

Monday, March 22Story Time. 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Open to ages 2 and up. Register at the youth services desk or by calling 781-293-6771.

Creative Writing Club Meeting. 4:30 p.m., at Pembroke Public

Library. For information, call 781-293-6771.

Youth Hockey Registration. 6-8 p.m., at the bingo hall in the community center. For boys and girls who want to participate in the 2010-11 season. For information, call Joe DiPrizio at 781-294-7110 or e-mail [email protected].

Board of Selectmen Meeting. 6:30 p.m., at Town Hall, Veterans Hall.

Benefit for the Oliveiras. 7-10 p.m., at Oliveira’s Restaurant, 300 Center St. Fundraiser to help Joyce and Eddie Oliveira recover after their home in Abington was destroyed by a fire on Feb. 8. Pizza, dessert and entertainment by musician Jim Silva. Tickets $20 each and available at Sweet Fordy’s, The Candy Jar or through Julie Thompson at 781-294-8332 or [email protected].

tueSday, March 23Sit and Be Fit Exercise Class. 10 a.m., at Council on Aging. $5 per class. For information, call the senior center at 781-294-8220.

Tai Chi. 10-11 a.m., at The Wellness Community-Massachusetts

South Shore, 273 Hanover St., Hanover. Drop-ins welcome. For info, call 781-829-4823 or visit thewellnesscommunitymass.org.

Story Time. 10:30 a.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Open to ages 2 and up. Register at the youth services desk or by calling 781-293-6771.

Newcomer’s Orientation. 10:30-11:30 a.m., at The Wellness Community-Massachusetts South Shore, 273 Hanover St., Hanover. For people living with cancer, their loved ones and caregiver to learn about TWC-MSS’ free programs and services. Drop-ins welcome. For info, call 781-829-4823 or visit thewellnesscommunitymass.org.

Seniors Living with Chronic Illness. 1-2 p.m., at Council on Aging building. Ruth Coleman, MSW, a clinical social worker, leads this support group every Tuesday for seniors living with conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, cancer, MS, lupus, heart disease, COPD and others.

Exercise Class. 3-4 p.m., at Council on Aging. $3 per class. For information, call the senior center at 781-294-8220.

Wii Mario Kart Tournament. 5-7:30 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Open to ages 11 and up. Call 781-293-6771 to register. The winner of the March 23 event will face the winner of the March 29 event for a gift certificate to GameStop

Caregivers Network Group. 6-8 p.m., at The Wellness Community-Massachusetts South Shore, 273 Hanover St., Hanover. Drop-in group for caregivers of people living with cancer. For info, call 781-829-4823 or visit thewellnesscommunitymass.org.

WedneSday, March 24Dull Men Meeting. 10 a.m., at Council on Aging. Always open to new members. Stop by the senior center, 144 Center St.

Baby Lap Sit. 10:30 a.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Drop in for literacy games aimed at ages ages six to 24 months. For information, call 781-293-6771.

Participant Support Group. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., at The Wellness Community-Massachusetts South Shore, 273 Hanover St., Hanover. For people living with cancer. Registration is required by calling 781-829-4823.

Beginners Knitting with Mary Leydon. 1 p.m., at senior center, 144 Center St. Every Wednesday. Call 781-294-8220 for information.

‘Princess and the Frog’ Showing. 4 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. For information, call 781-293-6771.

thurSday, March 25Chamber Networking Lunch. 12-1:30 p.m., 300 Oak Street, Suite 170, Corporate Park Drive. The Pembroke Chamber of Commerce along with Denece Clinton of Unicorn Realty will host a business networking luncheon with guest speaker Ed Perry of WATD radio. Refreshments provided by Oak Street Pizza and Grill. Visit pembrokechamber.org for more information. Cost is $10 for members, $15 for non-members. RSVP to Mike Tinkham at 781-682-3733 or e-mail [email protected].

Participant Support Group. 4-6 p.m., at The Wellness Community-Massachusetts South Shore, 273 Hanover St., Hanover. For people living with cancer. Registration is required by calling 781-829-4823.

Relay for Life Captains Meeting. 6 p.m., at Marshfield Lodge of Elks, 1321 Ocean St., Marshfield. Current or prospective teams for the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life are invited two pick up team captain packets, get help with using online registration and learn more about the June 25-26 event or about the society’s services. Planning Committee will meet from 7-8:30 p.m.; anyone interested in joining is welcome. For more information, call Liz Spurr in Pembroke at 781-293-5094.

Community Preservation Committee Meeting. 7:30 p.m., at Town Hall, Room 13.

upcoMingTaste of Pembroke. Sun., March 28. 12-3 p.m., at Pembroke Country Club on West Elm Street. Sample some of the finest cuisine Pembroke restaurants have to offer. Raffles and entertainment by PJ the DJ. Tickets $5 in advance or $10 at the door; all proceeds benefit Pembroke boys soccer and ice hockey programs. Purchase tickets at Sovereign Bank in Pembroke Center, the community center bingo hall, Pembroke Science Fair or boys soccer or hockey players. For information, call 781-829-8758.

Story Time. Mon., March 29. 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Open to ages 2 and up. Register at the youth services desk or by calling 781-293-6771.

Wii Mario Kart Tournament. Tues., March 29. 5-7:30 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Open to ages 11 and up. Call 781-293-6771 to register.

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COOKIES WITH CARE: Girl Scouts Bailee McCarthy, Deirdre Sullivan and Brianne McSweeney (above) and the rest of Troop 80393 collected donations throughout this year’s cookie sale to donate 50 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to the Pembroke Military Support Group to put into care packages sent overseas. During one of the troop meetings, the girls all wrote a letter to a soldier to send with the cookies. On Tuesday, March 9, the troop met up at the Bryantville Fire Station to fill the 21 boxes that the support group will send overseas this month. The girls were amazed to see all of the “little things” from day-to-day life that mean so much to a soldier. Many of the girls know someone who has already returned home or is over serving right now and it meant a lot to them to see how much Pembroke supports and cares for its soldiers. Photo courtesy of Kelli McSweeney


SEND PEMBROKE SCHOOL NEWS & PHOTOS to [email protected].

THE DEADLINE is Tuesday at noon.

Friday, March 19King Titan. 7 p.m. @ PHS auditorium. $7 at the door.

Proceeds benefit the Class of 2011.Bryantville PTO Family Night. TBA. Pizza bingo.Family Movie Night. 7 p.m. @ North Pembroke.

Sunday, March 21Pembroke Science Fair. 12-4 p.m. @ PCMS.

Monday, March 22MCAS Testing. Mon.-Fri., March 22-26. Grades 3-6.

Tuesday, March 23Pembroke SEPAC Meeting/Speaker. 7 p.m. @ PCMS

auditorium. Joani Geltman will present “Adolescent Psy-chology: The Parent Version.”

School Committee Meeting. 7:30 p.m. @ North Pembroke.

Thursday, March 25Dancing With The Staff. 7-9 p.m. @ PHS. $5.

Friday, March 26Education Subcommittee Meeting. 11:30 a.m.

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reading for relief

BRYANTVILLE & HOBOMOCK

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSMonday: Chicken nug-

gets, BBQ sauce, honey mus-tard sauce, carrot coins, wheat roll, mixed fruit cup

Tuesday: Hot dog on a bun, baked beans, pickles, mustard, relish, ketchup, muffin, peaches

Wednesday: Hamburger or cheeseburger on a bun, pickles, tater tots, ketchup, mustard, relish, diced pears

Thursday: Meat-ball sub, peas, oven fries, ketchup, tropical fruit gela-tin with topping

Friday: Choice of cheese or pepperoni pizza, green beans, roll, cookie

NORTH PEMBROKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Monday: Macaroni and cheese, green beans, bread-stick, tropical gelatin with topping

Tuesday: Hot dog on a bun, baked beans, pickles, mustard, relish, ketchup, muf-fin, peaches

Wednesday: Hamburger or cheeseburger on a bun, pickles, tater tots, ketchup, mustard, relish, diced pears

Thursday: Meatball sub, peas, oven fries, ketchup, tropical fruit gelatin with top-ping

Friday: Choice of cheese or pepperoni pizza, green

beans, roll, cookie

PCMSMonday: Baked potato

with cheese sauce, bacon, broccoli, baked pretzel, diced pears

Tuesday: Hot dog on a bun, fries, pickles, mus-

tard, relish, ketchup, corn kernels, peaches

Wednesday: Hamburger or cheese-burger on a bun, pickles, baked chips, ketchup, mustard, relish, apricots

Thursday: Meatball sub, peas,

seasoned pasta, gela-tin with toppingFriday: Cheese pizza,

carrot and celery sticks, light ranch dip, cookie

PEMBROKE HIGH SCHOOL

Monday: Baked potato with cheese sauce, bacon, broccoli, baked pretzel, peaches

Tuesday: Hot dog on a bun, oven fries, mixed vegetables, pickles, mustard, relish, ketchup, pears

Wednesday: Hamburger or cheeseburger on a bun, pickles, corn kernels, ketch-up, mustard, relish, apricots

Thursday: Meatball sub, peas, seasoned pasta, gelatin with topping

Friday: Cheese pizza, carrots, wheat roll, cookie


People read books for many reasons — to learn about a topic,

to escape from everyday life, to relax a little — but at Bry-antville Elementary School, students have been turning pages for a different reason: To help Haiti.

Starting on March 2 — the birthday of Dr. Seuss — and ending this week, students have been reading to earn money to help the people of Haiti fol-lowing the Jan. 12 earthquake. “Help for Haiti: Read for Re-lief” is a school-wide program including even the youngest students, who can count books read to them as part of a pledge-by-page fundraiser.

“You pick a book — not too long, but not too short — and you just read and however many pages you read, you could earn up to $3 for each,” said sixth grader Dylan Brand, one of Bryantville’s Ambassa-dors to Haiti. “So say if you’re reading a 100-page book, you would get $300 from your par-ents. That we would donate to the school, which we would then donate to Haiti.”

Brand is among about 60 fifth and sixth graders who an-swered a call for help and gath-ered in the cafeteria in Febru-ary to brainstorm ideas to help the struggling country.

“Many hands make the work easier. Please join us with your ideas and willingness to work hard,” read a note that was distributed to the fifth and sixth graders.

The students tossed around ideas like penny drives and hat days — where they pay a dollar to wear a hat to school — but ultimately settled on the Read for Relief program.

“Everybody can read — even the kindergarteners,” explained sixth grader Tyler Howie, a Bryantville Ambas-sador. Howie drew a map of Haiti to hang in the school hall-way and post the names of ev-eryone who meets their pledge goals.

The ambassadors also have been visiting classrooms to ex-plain the program and answer questions.

Through Read for Relief, children in grades kinder-garten through sixth collect pledges from adult sponsors

of anywhere from a penny to $3 per page. Then they record what they read and bring in the money to donate to Partners in Health’s efforts in Haiti.

As of Tuesday, about 46 students had turned in their pledge sheets, with more than a thousand pages read for Hai-ti, teacher Joe Arsenault said.

“The response has been pretty good,” he said.

On Friday, Bryantville stu-dents and staff are encouraged to wear Haiti colors of blue and red to celebrate the program’s conclusion.

Along with general concern for the people of Haiti, Bryant-ville has a few connections to the country. Their “computer guy,” James Ullyse, is original-ly from Haiti and lost a niece in the Jan. 12 earthquake.

First grade teacher Mar-tha Haddock hosted a young Haitian man a few years ago through the St. Boniface Haiti

Foundation and The Ray Tye Medical Aid Foundation, giv-ing him a place to stay for sev-eral months while he recovered from reconstructive surgery at New England Medical Center.

Haddock also is helping to organize a bottle drive among teachers at Bryantville to con-tribute to a drive going on this month at St. Thecla Church.

Another connection: Bry-antville school psychologist Allison Osgood’s father is a surgeon who visits Haiti ev-ery year and already has been to the country once since the earthquake. He is set to return in April.

“We have to make one small contribution, because us as kids, we can’t really do much,” Bryantville Ambassa-dor Olivia Hussey said. “We don’t have any money our-selves, but our parents do, so this is just a small way that we can show we care.”

BRYANTVILLE AMBASSADORS: Tyler Howie, Angelina Delmonaco, Jared Costello, Dylan Brand and Felicia Leavitt are just a few of the dedicated fifth and sixth grade “ambassadors” who signed up to organize Bryantville Elementary School’s Read for Relief fundraiser for Haiti. Howie drew a map of Haiti (above), which will be used to feature the names of students who turn in pledge money through the program.

Bryantville ambassadors organize project to raise money for Haiti — page by page

Parents Night Out April 10Hobomock Elementary School PTO will hold a Parents’

Night Out on Saturday, April 10 from 7-11 p.m. at Monpon-sett Inn in Halifax. The annual fundraiser helps the PTO af-ford field trips, enrichment programs and scholarships for Hobomock students. The event will include “Wicked Trivia” with Pat Lally, raffles and silent and live auctions. Tickets cost $20 or $150 for a table of eight. Raffle donations are welcome. Contact Kim Kibbe at 781-864-7859 or [email protected] or Kellene Falco at 781-826-3995 or [email protected].

April vacation Kids ClubOld Colony YMCA will be offering its Kids Club at

Hobomock Elementary School during April vacation week, from Tuesday, April 20 through Friday, April 23. The club is open to Pembroke residents ages 5-12 from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day.

On Tuesday, the group will venture to Fenway Park and find out what goes on behind the scenes of one of the old-est ballparks in the nation. On Wednesday, the children will participate in the Y version of spring training. On Thursday, the group will head to the IMAX Theater in Providence to view “Oceans.” On Friday, they will spend the day clowning around, learning to face paint, make balloon animals and try their hand at some skits.

The cost for each day is $35, and registration is required before April 12. Call 508-378-3913 ext. 203 for information.

Photo by Becca Manning



beginning to threaten Hobo-mock Street. The culvert there was so full that the water was going across and threatening to wash it out,” Ames said.

Made of wood, with baf-fles to break up the flow of water, the fish ladder helps the herring climb over the dam on their journey from the Atlan-tic Ocean, through the North River to settle and spawn in Oldham Pond, approximately 23 miles away, Ames said.

“If this ladder isn’t re-placed, they’ll come up as high as they can get and all just mill around and die there,” Ames said.

The herring need the still water of Oldham Pond to lay their eggs and, if too many fish get stuck along the journey, they could run out of oxygen in the water, Ames said.

Officials have contacted the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife to determine how to proceed. If the ladder cannot be replaced in time, one option could be to use equipment to essen-tially “vacuum” up the fish as they arrive and transport them manually to Oldham Pond this year, Ames said.

The heavy rain, which started Friday and let up around midnight on Tuesday morning, kept Department of Public Works crews, fire-fighters and police busy over the weekend, answering calls about flooded basements and roadways, downed trees and other problems.

Unsure when the rain would stop or how Pembroke would look Tuesday morning, the town’s Emergency Man-agement Team asked Board of Selectmen chairman Ar-thur Boyle to declare a state of emergency late Monday, which he did.

The move was a precau-tionary one that makes Pem-broke eligible for state funding relief if the town had suffered major damage, according to Emergency Management Co-Director George Emanuel.

“The fact that rain was still coming down and the forecast had extended it to go to 1:45 a.m. Tuesday morning, and at night you can’t see — if a dam overtops there’s no one around to report it — led us to de-clare the state of emergency,” Emanuel said. “The potential had built because we kept get-ting more and more rain, the ground was getting more satu-rated, trees were uprooting as the water was building con-stantly and dams were reach-ing higher levels. If the rain

continued, we could have had problems.”

The last time Pembroke declared a state of emergency was in August 2008, when E. coli bacteria were found in town drinking water samples. The state of emergency was accompanied by a week-long boiling order and was lifted at the October 2008 special Town Meeting after voters approved a budget transfer to cover ex-penses from the water crisis, about $23,000.

In all, an estimated eight to 10 inches of rain fell on Pem-broke, Assistant DPW Direc-tor Bob Demers said. By 11 a.m. on Monday, Conservation

Agent Bob Clarke had record-ed about seven inches of rain with his rain gauge.

DPW crews began work around 3 a.m. Sunday and worked through about noon that day pumping water to keep roadways clear, specifi-cally around Mill Pond Road, Glenwood Road, Hobomock Street and at Town Hall, De-mers said. Crews continued pumping and clearing fallen trees starting around 7 a.m. Monday, continuing till about 9 p.m.

On Tuesday, with the sun beginning to dry things out, crews switched gears and be-gan going around filling in potholes that had formed over the course of the storm.

“Anything you patch, the rain gets underneath the hy-draulics and it blows them out, and you get an even deeper hole,” Demers said.

Highway crews started with highly trafficked roads and continued into develop-ments such as Furnace Colony through the week, he said.

Wind and rain knocked

down many limbs and a few large trees, causing hazards for motorists, though no ma-jor accidents were reported. In one case, a Pembroke police officer on patrol on West Elm Street just missed a large tree that fell down in front of his cruiser, forcing him to swerve into a fire hydrant. The officer was not injured, though the cruiser had some minor dam-age.

“We had a lot of alarm calls, which is common when power is surged or trees are falling onto power lines caus-ing a short,” Police Lt. Mike Jenness said. “The [traffic] lights were messed up at Bry-antville on Sunday.”

Fire Chief Jim Neenan es-timated his department had re-ceived more than 100 calls as of Tuesday morning from resi-dents needing help pumping out their basements. Though the rain had let up by then, Neenan said he expected the calls would continue through the week until the water table went back down.

“Our function is to help where we can to make the house safe,” he said. “Some-times we bring a pump in, sometimes we help them with the pump they already have. Sometimes our only option is shutting off utilities.”

Though there were a few problems, in some ways, the storm wasn’t as bad as it could have been, Demers said.

“When we’ve gotten that much rain before, it was within a short amount of time, maybe five to eight hours, which re-ally makes an impact,” Dem-ers said. “This one was over three days and it was more or less constant or moderate. There were times when it was really heavy, but it didn’t last long. It was good; it gave it time to soak in and move, so, with respect to that, it wasn’t bad at all as far as working it. We were fortunate.”

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RUN ON THE BANKS: The Herring Run overran its banks on Monday as several days worth of rain fell on Pembroke. Officials dealt with issues throughout town during the storm, including flooded roadways and basements, fallen trees and electrical outages. Officials also had to remove a fish ladder on Upper Mill Pond that is used by the herring as they make their way from the Atlantic Ocean to spawn in Oldham Pond. The Herring Run is part of the herrings’ seasonal journey. Photo by Becca Manning

“The fact that rain was still coming down and the forecast had extended it to go to 1:45 a.m. Tuesday morning, and at night you can’t see — if a dam overtops there’s no one around to

report it — led us to declare the state of emergency.”

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Over the past few months, the people of New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts have sent a resound-ing, clear and consistent message to politicians in

Washington: “You are failing to represent our interests and lis-ten to our concerns and, above all, we are sick and tired of your backroom deals, overspending and com-plete disregard for the will of the gov-erned.” Yet over the past two weeks, the Obama administration, with the Congres-sional leadership, have scrambled to get a simple majority of House members to use a technicality called “reconciliation” to pass health care “reform.” Clearly, they just do not get it and will not until they are voted out of office.

These politicians are elitist snobs who have decided they know better than we do; they are going to pass “reform” whether the people of this republic want it or not. It is going to save money, improve health care coverage for all of us and be deficit-reducing. And Congress will not have to raise taxes to pay for it. I wonder whether Nancy Pelosi is delusional or a pathological liar. Not one of those things is actually true. First, it is going to cost a trillion dollars over the next 10 years. They are going to raise taxes on the wealthy, which is many

in Middle America where mom and dad are working. Congress is going to tax, at 40 percent of annual premium amounts,

any nonunion family lucky enough to keep a private plan that gives coverage considered (by Congress) to be too generous or expensive — or you could reduce your coverage and switch to the government plan. An average family in Pembroke could easily be looking at an $8,000 to $12,000 tax bill. Keep your Blue Cross Plan, but send the United States Treasury 12 grand. Of course, these same truth tellers — the President and Speaker of the House — promise you can keep your current health care coverage; they want the tax dollars after all. What they do not tell us is they are going to make it cheaper for your employer to pay a penalty to the government instead of providing health insurance to their employees. A private business could save millions of dollars, drop your coverage, pay a penalty and by default require you to enroll in the government run health care system. Not exactly sure where we had a choice here, I guess this is Washington’s definition of “choice.”

If you actually call your congressman or senator and ask for a copy of the bill, you are not going to get it. If you ask if they have read the bill and understand it, they will give you a non-answer, ignore your question or potentially just lie and say they have. The bill is 1,990 pages long. It cannot be just mailed to you or e-mailed to you, and you can be sure your congressman or senator has not read it.

As if the above were not bad enough, when the President of these United States and several senators and congressmen were asked if they would voluntarily give up their insurance and enroll in the government plan, their answer — after a period of shuck and jive — was either cricket-chirping silence or a “I’ll think about it.” Translation: Fat chance. You see, Congress and the executive branch have exempted themselves from this health care “reform.” According to the politicians in Washing-ton, we have to have this historic health care legislation. But when it comes to their wives, husbands, children and grandchil-dren, well maybe the legislation really is not that good — they will keep their private insurance that the taxpayers fund. The unmitigated gall of these politicians makes me sick.

Forget about calling your Congressional delegation or writing to reach deaf ears in the White House. Call your state legislator and tell them it is time for the states to act as a check to the federal government and begin a movement to enact an amendment to the Constitution requiring that Congress be subject to the laws they make. Also tell them to follow the Commonwealth of Virginia and 37 other states that are taking up legislation to opt out of the “individual mandate” in this legislation. How ironic it would be if Congress passed historic health care legislation but 75 percent of the states opted out and invoked their 10th Amendment privilege.

Being a resident of Pembroke in the Cross Creek Devel-

opment, the town should con-sider putting in a sidewalk the length of Birch Street as one of the conditions of the install-ment of the phone tower on

Birch Street.It would be a great way for

local residents to walk instead of driving to the playground. We were not originally against

a tower, but after seeing the bullying tactics being used to force a tower in North Pem-broke, I feel we should be ask-ing for something in return — hence a sidewalk.

Al and Barbara HolmenShortleaf Circle

Residents of the Meadows Condo Association have

filed a petition with the Pem-broke Board of Assessors questioning the fairness of the 2010 property tax assessments on their 30 units.

Because of the drop in home values locally and na-tionally in the past two years, property assessments should reflect these changes. In Pem-broke, overall assessments were reduced by an average of $32,600 or about nine per-cent. In order to offset assess-ments, the board increased the tax rate per thousand valuation from $11.65 to $12.89, a rise of $1.24 or 10.6 percent.

The result was an increase in the average homeowners’ tax bill of $57 this year. By contrast, Meadows assess-

ments were kept virtually the same (down .5 percent), caus-ing Meadows homeowners to bear the full brunt of the tax rate hike, and costing each family some $500 more this year.

I am very willing to pay my fair share of taxes but, as a unit owner, I feel it’s unfair and out of line with the whole town. Wondering if condos are treated differently from single homes, I discovered a survey that found they were also reduced in the nine per-cent range. Spot checks reveal lower priced homes as well as pricey McMansions were also reduced substantially. Why the Meadows exception?

The petition by the Mead-

ows residents included many examples showing incon-sistencies. We asked for a detailed explanation and a meeting with the assessors to express our concerns and seek a full review. So far, their re-sponse has not been satisfac-tory — that they would meet only with an individual to dis-cuss his own abatement case. Our main concern was for all who signed the petition. We were very upset by their re-fusal. What happened to the idea of “open government” and transparency? Isn’t there at least a moral obligation of public officials to meet with the citizens?

We are still hopeful that the Board of Assessors will agree to meet with our committee.

Doug PerryThe Meadows

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Steve Block Christina Marie Drive

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and will make the playoffs.”

Ann Marie Nee Chestnut Road

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person will make or break the team anyway.”

Denise Fine Monroe Street“This season, the Red Sox will not win the World Series, but they will do well.”

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A fundraiser for Joyce and Eddie Oliveira, own-ers of Oliveira’s Restaurant, 300 Center St., will be held on Monday, March 22 from 7-10 p.m. at the restaurant. The Oliveiras’ home was destroyed in a fire on Feb. 8. The event will feature pizza and dessert and music by Jim Silva. Tickets cost $20 and are available at Sweet Fordy’s, The Candy Jar or by calling Julie Thompson at 781-294-8332.

Thorne’s rights and that the Board of Selectmen, which took over responsibility for the town’s solid waste and recycling programs on Feb. 2, had agreed by consensus that Thorne should to what he could to control costs in that department.

Prior to the fall special Town Meeting, the solid waste budget was running at close to a $75,000 deficit. Officials were able to reduce the anticipated FY2010 defi-cit somewhat by changing a contracted service and raising trash rates.

“As Rep. Webster pointed out Monday, it’s only going to get worse next year, so we’ve got to make a real concerted effort to do something with the solid waste costs. That may be pay-as-you-throw, it may be single-stream recycling, it may be mandatory recycling,” Boyle said. “But he [Thorne] has to take some kind of ac-tion. because we’re out of balance again. By consensus, the board supports what he’s doing and what he’s trying to accomplish.”

Boyle said it was not un-usual for an employee to be notified by letter that their po-sition would be cut.

“It’s unfortunate that it’s in the middle of the year. You hate to see anybody’s job be eliminated,” he said. “But the taxpayers don’t have an appe-tite for an override, that’s for

sure, and the board doesn’t have an appetite for an over-ride either.”

“I think you’ll see other layoffs as we go, maybe in line with the 2011 budget, maybe sooner,” he added.

McSweeney said she was surprised by the letter but did not want to comment further.

In September, McSweeney received a letter from Thorne notifying her he had accepted her “oral resignation” on Sept. 14, when she had a disagree-ment with Board of Health secretary Carol Mirotta over how her hours had been logged in the payroll and left the office upset.

Thorne said then that em-ployees were supposed to call his office to report their ab-sence and that he had assumed McSweeney had resigned when she did not call.

The issue was later re-solved, and McSweeney re-turned to her job.

On Nov. 23, the Board of Health voted to transfer the principal clerk’s billing duties back to the health department

secretary, per the recommen-dation of the town accountant and collector/treasurer.

McSweeney, who was not present at that Board of Health meeting, said she was never officially notified of the change and had not been given a reason for it. She continued to do her other duties.

Former Board of Health chairman Scott MacInnes, who has voiced support for McSweeney over the past few months, said he felt there was more to the recent decision to eliminate McSweeny’s posi-tion than a tough economy.

Both he and McSweeney have recommended the town conduct a complete foren-sic audit of computers in the health office. But both Thorne and Boyle have said an audit is not necessary so soon after the town paid for a complete financial audit of the depart-ment in February 2009.

MacInnes documented his concerns and passed them along to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office. He said Wednesday that the office was not moving forward on the issue.

“She is the one who has been trying to do the right thing for two years, to open the place up and get some fresh air in and get some in-vestigations going, and now she’s been fired,” MacInnes said of McSweeney. “All we wanted was an audit of the three computers.”

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Pembroke residents are invited to join Josh Cutler to help kick off his campaign for state representative on Thurs-day, March 25 at 7 p.m. at the Pembroke Country Club.

Cutler, 39, is a former se-lectman, legislative aide and newspaper editor. He currently serves on the Duxbury Plan-

ning Board. The kick-off event will fea-

ture a silent auction, cash bar and disc jockey. Tickets may be reserved by calling Denise Hawes at 781-294-1669 or by e-mailing [email protected]. Suggested donation is $25. Senior citizens and stu-dents are free.

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lacrosse camp sign-upsA walk-in registration session for the Pembroke Titans La-

crosse Camp will be held Saturday, March 27 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Town Hall. The camp is open to boys ages 8-14 and will run April 20-23 from 9 a.m. to noon at Pembroke High School. Campers will be grouped according to their age, so space is limited. Camp fee is $100, and all proceeds benefit the Pem-broke High School varsity lacrosse program. For information or to obtain a registration form, e-mail [email protected]. Deadline to sign up is April 14.

Children’s health speakerThe Pembroke Public Schools health and wellness depart-

ment will present “Understanding Your Child’s Body Mass In-dex” on Monday, March 22 at 7 p.m. at Hobmock Elementary School. Body Mass Index is a measurement used to show a per-son’s weight for their height and age. The presentation will pro-vide information on developing healthy eating habits and active lifestyles for children. Presenters Gina Boutwell, MD, pediatri-cian with South Shore Medical Center, and Nicole Cormier, RD, LDN, dietician/nutritionist at South Shore Medical Center, will assist parents in understanding BMI results and implications.


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Mr. Adams served in the U.S. Marines during World War II and later in the Air Force during the Korean War.

He was later employed as a foreman at General Electric at their Riverworks Plant in Lynn. He leaves his wife, Barba-ra J. (Seppala) Adams; two daughters, Officer Deborah L. Burns (Hanover Police) and her husband Officer Grego-ry Burns (Pembroke Police) of Pembroke and Cynthia J. Long of Plymouth; one sister, Celia Huyer of Ft. Meyers, Fla.; several grandchildren,

Officer James Burns (Pem-broke Police), Sean Burns, Mellissa King and her hus-band Joshua King (Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department) and Meghan Long; and a great-grandson, John King. Visitation was held at the Sul-livan Funeral Home in Ha-nover on Monday followed by a service in the funeral home. Burial was at Hanover Center Cemetery.

John A. Adams, 82

WHERE IS IT? How well do you know Pembroke? If you can identify the location of this historic photo, drop a line to Express history columnist Karen Proctor at [email protected]. Answers must be submitted by Tuesday at noon. Correct answers will be recognized next week.

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Pembroke Youth Basketball to host shoot-out fundraiser

Boys and girls in grades 3-8 are invited to test their basketball shooting skills at Pembroke Youth Basketball’s Shoot-out Challenge on Wednesday, April 7 from 6-8:30 p.m. at Pembroke Community Middle School. Participants will shoot from designated areas of the court to score as many points as possible in one minute. They also will navi-gate a ball-handling obstacle course and be timed for speed and graded on passing accuracy. Prizes will be awarded to winners in each age group. Registration fee of $12 includes a T-shirt. Proceeds will benefit the Jett Foundation. For a regis-tration form, e-mail Ginger Comeau at [email protected]. Registrations will be allowed the night of the event, but T-shirts cannot be guaranteed.

Despite the lousy weather, a power outage and Daylight Savings Time working against

them, the Pembroke Historical Society’s pancake breakfast held Sunday, March 14 was a great success, and everyone seemed to enjoy the offerings — particularly the blueberry pancakes.

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The Express Winter Sports

AwardsMost Valuable PlayerBoys Girls

Claflin put together an incredible senior sea-son as he captained the

Titan wrestling team to their third straight Patriot League champion-ship. The 145-pounder was Mt. Greylock champion, Marshfield Holiday Tournament champion and South Sectional champion, amassing a 33-0 record heading into the All-State meet where he came in third to cement his place as the most decorated wrestler ever at Pembroke High School.

BErkElEy HAll Track

Hall only had one season of indoor track at Pem-broke High School, and

she made it count. Her eighth-place finish in the long jump at Nationals last weekend capped an indoor sea-son that saw Hall finish second in New England in the long jump and fourth in the 55-meter hurdles while also helping the 4x200 relay team advance to the New England meet.

Rookie of the YearJuSTin ryAn Basketball

The Titans had a huge hole to fill at the point guard position when

Sam Nagle graduated last spring, and Justin Ryan stepped up. The sophomore took over as the start-ing point guard when senior Ty Morse was sidelined with an inju-ry and helped guide the young and inexperienced Titans back into the postseason this year.

The girls basketball team went through a massive overhaul this season af-

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Track

After he and Paul Cina led the cross-country team to a state championship

in the fall, Kelley showed himself to be just as talented on the track this winter by winning Division III state championship in the mile run. Kelley was disappointed with an 11th-place finish in the mile at the All-State meet, but look for him to improve his senior season to make a run at New Englands.

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AlEx dAviS Hockey

The junior defenseman earned all-star and all-conference honors this

winter, anchoring a young defense that was shorthanded from the getgo by an injury to captain Jen Halloran. Davis, along with Whit-man-Hanson’s Kristie Kennedy, also provided most of the offense for the scoring-challenged team as they tried to rebuild this season. She looks to be a key player on and off the ice next year for the team to get back in the tournament.



SEniOr mOmEnTSGOOD-BYE, BLUE AND WHITE: Senior Teresa Fatemi flies around the first turn of the 200-meter leg in her final indoor track per-formance.

COAST TO COATE: Junior Michelle Coate starts the bell lap of the 400-meter leg of the sprint medley, where she ran a personal best time by two seconds.

A visit with swim team captain Teddy Crosby

Crosby started the year by helping the boys soccer team make the MIAA tournament for the fourth straight season before captaining the boys swim team this winter. This spring, he

will suit up for the boys lacrosse team before going to college in the fall. He shared his thoughts on…

… potential college landing spots. I’m looking at business schools like Bentley and Babson, but I’m also looking at Xavier

for sports management. I’ve gotten into Xavier, Johnson & Wales and UMass Dartmouth so far and I’m still waiting to hear from Bentley, Babson and Bryant. I hope to play sports, but I’d have to be a walk-on for any team. I’ll just try them all.

… sports management. I really like sports, so it sounded like a really interesting major. My dream job would be to work in the front offices of a professional sports team in any sport, really.

… the sports he plays at PHS. I like them all pretty much the same. I’ve been swimming competitively for six or seven years, I only started lacrosse in fifth grade and I’ve been playing soccer since kindergarten.

… helping the swim team grow. The first year I was on it was the second year it was offered, so we had

to do a bunch of fundraising because there wasn’t enough money in the budget to fund a full team. But now we’ve

been a team for five years and it’s a pretty successful program. We’re consistently moving up in the standings.

… his favorite sports memory at PHS. For soccer, junior and sophomore years we made it to the finals of the South Sec-tionals. That was really special, but it’s too bad we couldn’t win them.

… playing an instrument. I play clarinet in the band here as part of the concert band class, which includes the marching band. I’ve been playing since seventh grade—that was the first year the instrumental program was offered in Pembroke. My parents wanted me to play an instrument and they gave me a choice of which one. I decided to play the clarinet because it

sounded the most interesting.

Last year around this time, I made my point-of-view about the Bos-ton University vs. Boston College

hockey rivalry clear. While my editors enjoyed my columns about the Beanpot and my Terriers winning the NCAA championship, they said I needed to make the columns more localized to fit the Express’ standards.

The teams are 2-2 against each other this season and 1-1 in what you can call “bragging rights” games with BU winning at Fenway Park and BC taking the Bean-pot. If the Eagles and Terriers win on Friday (which both should do), they will face each other for the Hockey East championship next week in what will likely be the rubber game this season, because I doubt they will meet in the NCAAs.

So in honor of (hopefully) a fifth game this season and in the spirit of local journalism, I am blatantly ripping off an episode on “Man Vs. Food” I saw on my plane ride home from Hawaii and challenging any maroon-loving loser who is a Boston College fan in Whitman, Hanson or Pembroke: Face me in the Eagle’s

Challenge at Eagle’s Deli in Cleveland Circle (because Boston College isn’t actually in Bos-ton — yet another reason it is stupid).

As someone who has eaten there, I can per-sonally assure you that Eagle’s has earned their Boston’s Best recognition for great burgers, but it’s really not going to matter on this day. The Eagle’s Challenge is five pounds of beef, 20 slices of cheese and 20 strips of bacon with five pounds of fries on the side. I hate cheese, so we’ll cut that out for the purposes of this challenge, but I think somewhere around the two-pound mark, the burgers could be made in Heaven and you wouldn’t care how good they taste.

No one has ever finished the challenge, and those who fail get their Polaroid put on the Wall of Shame. I have no plans on finishing, but this is what I propose: Whoever eats the most in one hour wins, and the loser goes on the Wall of Shame and in the Express wearing the hockey jersey of the winner.

If by some fluke Maine or Vermont win and BC and BU don’t get their rubber match, the bragging rights for the season could rest on your belly. If you’ve got the gut (literally) to step up to the challenge, bring it on! I’ll be waiting hungrily.

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jump with a leap of 5.58 me-ters (18’ 3.75”) before finish-ing eighth overall.

Hall said she was disap-pointed about falling five cen-timeters short of becoming Pembroke’s first All-American with a top-six finish, but she said getting to the national competition was exciting in itself.

“I thought I ran well in the hurdles, but in the long jump I didn’t do my best,” Hall said. “But I was really excited to be here. It was really good and I really liked the whole atmo-sphere.”

“I thought both perfor-mances were fantastic,” said Greg Zopatti, who was there as a supporter at the non-coaching event. “She really wanted to go top six, but to finish eighth in the country, you can’t ask for much more than that.”

Hall will still have plenty of chances to become an All-American this spring. Last year, she advanced to the All State meet in the hurdles, triple jump and 4x100 relay in addi-tion to the long jump.

“You could see her in the hurdles and triple, the long and triple, hurdles and a relay,” Zo-

patti said. “We’re going to see how the season progresses.”

Hall’s performances came a day after the team of Becky Stoyle, Teresa Fatemi, Mi-chelle Coate and Mary Scan-lan finished 13th in the sprint medley relay.

“They ran really well,” Zo-patti said. “They knew going in that this was it for indoors, and they were going to run as fast as they could run. They have a lot to be proud of.”

“I think the experience is amazing,” Stoyle said. “Just being here and knowing that we made it was good enough. Placing wasn’t that important; it was more about running our best.”

The race was a first not only for the Titans but for Stoyle individually. The Titan junior ran the anchor leg of the 4x200 relay all season but set-tled into the starting blocks on Saturday holding the baton for

the first time in her high school career.

“That was nerve-wracking, but I definitely ran my best and got out pretty fast,” she said.

“I thought she did an ex-cellent job,” Zopatti said. “She should feel confident that she could run in any position.”

Stoyle handed off to Fatemi

for the second 200-meter leg before Coate and Scanlan ran personal bests in the 400 and 800 respectively. For Coate, who ran on the 4x400 and 4x200 teams all winter, run-ning just one race helped her break her pr by two seconds.

“It was really nice to fo-cus on one race,” she said. “I thought I ran really well and running against such talented runners really pushed me. I thought it was so cool that we made it there.”

Scanlan ran the 600 meters throughout the indoor season. Though she looked tired in the extra lap, she still shattered her mark in the 800 by four sec-onds while edging Glastonbury junior Lindsay Crevoiserat by a head at the finish line.

“It was definitely hard, but it wasn’t as bad as I was mak-ing it in my mind,” Scanlan said. “I was just trying to think that it’s only one more lap from the 600 and it shouldn’t be that bad, but you can feel it so much. Zopatti had high

expectations for me breaking 2:20 today, and I’m glad I lived up to that.”

All four relay runners will take to the outdoor track this spring, but the race was Fate-mi’s last with the Titans at the Reggie Lewis Center. While the relay team’s lone senior

was sad to see her indoor ca-reer come to a close, she added that she couldn’t ask for a bet-ter ending.

“It feels amazing,” she said. “It’s sad that I might not run indoors here again, but I’m so happy we got here. I loved it.”

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HEAD AND SHOULDERS ABOVE: Mary Scanlan edges Lindsay Crevoiserat as they cross the finish line in the anchor leg of the sprint medley relay on Saturday. Scanlan ran the 800-meter leg four seconds faster than her previous best time. For more photos, see page 23.

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READY, STEADY GO! Becky Stoyle settles into the starting blocks for the first 200-meter leg of the sprint medley. The Titan junior ran the opening leg of a relay for the first time at Nationals on Saturday.

“it feels amazing. it’s sad that i might not run indoors here again, but i’m so happy we got here. i loved it.”

— Senior captain teresa Fatemi

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Hall capped off her indoor track season by finishing

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