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EDICIÓN NO. 238 • AÑO 11 • ABRIL 1, 2006
BEVILACQUAELECTED CHAIRMANOF NBCVB BOARD OFDIRECTORSMerrimack ValleyChamber of Commercepresident/CEO JosephJ. Bevilacqua has beenelected Chairman ofthe Board of the Northof Boston Conventionand Visitors Bureau forthe year 2006-07. P19
Este grupo de voluntarios, dirigidos por la Concejal del Distrito B Grisel Silva, recogió más de 20 bolsas y toda esta basura de doslotes vacíos en la Calle Eutaw. En la foto, también aparecen Carlos Campana y Nelson, el esposo de Silva, entre otros voluntarios.
CLEAN-UP CRUSADE STARTED This group of volunteers, led by District B Councilor Grisel Silva, collected over 20 bags and all thistrash from two empty lots at Eutaw Street. Also pictured, Carlos Campana and Silva’s husband, Nelson, among other volunteers.
El Reporte del Alcaldede Haverhill
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Sebastian Sicari, president/CEO de kSARIA, explicando al Congresista Marty Meehan y alAlcalde Michael J. Sullivan una breve historia de su compañía durante la visita de estos a laplanta. PÁGINA 3
LAWRENCE IS FLYING HIGH Sebastian Sicari, kSARIA president/CEO, giving CongressmanMarty Meehan and Mayor Michael J. Sullivan an overview of his company during their visit to thefacility. PAGE 3
Art Mccabe, presidente/CEO, 29 South Canal LLC dando una gira por la nueva exhibición aRobert L. Culver, MassDevelopment president/CEO. PÁGINA 23
ARTIZAN, THE CANADIAN CONNECTION Art McCabe, President, 29 South Canal LLCgiving a tour throughout the new facility to Robert L. Culver, MassDevelopmentpresident/CEO. PAGE 23
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EL SENADOR KENNEDYEN LAWRENCE
El Alcalde de Haverhill, James J. Fiorentini reportando sobre elEstado de la Ciudad. PÁGINA 5
HAVERHILL MAYOR’S REPORT Haverhill Mayor James J.Fiorentini during his State of the City Address. PAGE 5
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Por Beatriz Pérez
El pasado martes 21, la sala capitular de estaciudad se convirtió en un clamor al unísono cuandodecenas de dominicanos se apersonaron al ConcejoMunicipal para apoyar la petición de que una porciónde la Broadway se llamara de forma simbólica“Boulevard Juan Pablo Duarte”, petición que fueaprobada luego de un debate intenso y una votaciónde 5-3 que arrancó aplausos y ovaciones queparecían incontrolables.
Fueron muchos los que asistieron a esta reunión,entre ellos líderes políticos, comerciantes,estudiantes, entre otros, y pidieron a los Concejalesdecir “Sí” y con letreros en manos que expresabanno solo el sentimiento patriótico de las dominicanasy dominicanos que desde el principio creyeron queera importante reconocer la figura del padre de laPatria dominicana Juan Pablo Duarte, sino quedejaban muy claro que vivimos en una ciudad queamamos y que nos importa su desarrollo y su avance,asumieron la defensa de una lucha que comenzó enel mes de febrero.
Luego de una reunión previa donde no se llegóa ningún acuerdo y donde algunos de los Concejaleshicieron una enmienda a la solicitud inicial, dondeconsideraban que con poner el nombre a unaesquina, la petición quedaba complacida.
Sin embargo, esto no fue aceptado por el CónsulDominicano, Dominico Cabral, quien a través delConsulado General de la República Dominicana hizola solicitud.
La defensa asumida por la Concejala At-largeNilka Álvarez-Rodríguez, quien puso fin a la acaloradadiscusión objetando con un “Charter Objection”permitió que el tema fuese tratado nuevamente elpasado martes, 21 de marzo.
Esta vez al voto positivo de Álvarez-Rodríguez,el presidente del Concejo Patrick Blanchette y elconcejal por el Distrito C, Jorge González se sumaronal de Grisel Silva del Distrito B y el Concejal At-largeNunzio DiMarca.
En contra votaron Marie Gosselin, JosephParolisi y Nick Kolofoles.
Aunque el tema del Boulevard Juan Pablo Duarte
fue iniciativa del Consulado Dominicano en la personadel Cónsul General Dominico Cabral, este en unaactitud digna de reconocimiento dejó en manos deun comité integrado por: José Ayala, José AlfonsoGarcía, el Pastor Víctor Jarvis, Manuel Carrasco,Santiago Matías, David Berroa, Randolph Domínguez,Francisco Ditren, Ana Medina, y Ernesto Bautista, lalucha y el manejo de todos los pormenores que dieroncomo resultado la aprobación del Boulevard JuanPablo Duarte.
De acuerdo al cónsul dominicano, esta victoriade la comunidad dominicana no es del ConsuladoDominicano sino del grupo de hombres y mujeresque entendieron cuánto significaba honrar la obra, ellegado y los principios ideológicos de Juan PabloDuarte.
Cabral reconoció los esfuerzos, la dedicación yel trabajo incansable desarrollado por los miembrosdel comité. Al igual que por la ex concejal Julia Silverioy el Representante Estatal William Lantigua.
De acuerdo al Cónsul General Dominico Cabralla decisión de dejar en manos de los miembros delcomité la lucha, por el Boulevard estuvo basada enque en ningún momento pretendió llevarse loscréditos al respecto, y que solo actuó movido por elsentimiento patriótico y porque entendía que si enotras ciudades se han reconocido las contribucionesde los dominicanos en la figura y el nombre de Duarte,¿por qué la ciudad de Lawrence no podía hacerlotomando en cuenta el alto índice de dominicanos queresiden aquí?
Finalmente, Cabral dijo que se sentía satisfechode haber pavimentado el camino para que los líderesy los representantes de organizaciones comunitariastomaran el mando y trabajaran juntos en pro de lapetición.
Por su parte los miembros del Comité Pro-Boulevard Juan Pablo Duarte expresaron que solo alos integrantes de dicho comité les correspondeofrecer cualquier detalle relacionado con lospreparativos de lo que sería la inauguración de dichoBoulevard y que en los próximos días harán públicotodo lo relacionado con este evento.
Boulevard Juan PabloDuarte ya es una realidad
El público reacciona luego de que el ConcejoMunicipal de Lawrence aprobara 5 a 3 la peticiónde que una porción de la calle Broadway se llame
de forma simbólica “Boulevard Juan PabloDuarte”.
¡Solamente enlos Estados
Unidos!Las manifestaciones de la semana pasada por grupos de
inmigrantes demandando la legalización de su estado migratorionos recuerdan cuán dichosos somos de estar viviendo aquí. Encualquier otro país actos similares serían recibidos con violencia opeor – muerte. Lo único que tenemos que mirar es la forma en queestán siendo controladas en Francia. Aquí, la policía les proveeprotección y organizaciones establecidas que simpatizan con sucausa han venido en su defensa.
Los manifestantes utilizan el mismo sistema empleado en otrosprocesos históricos en busca de justicia. El Movimiento de Sufragiopara las mujeres ganar el derecho al voto en 1920, el Movimiento delos Derechos Civiles de los años 50 y 60, las demostraciones contrala Guerra de Vietnam, el Movimiento Feminista pidiendo la Enmiendade Igualdad de Derechos en la Constitución, todos ellos teníanuna línea en común: manifestaciones en las calles para hacer quesu mensaje fuera escuchado.
Estos grupos de inmigrantes siguieron la pauta trazada por elRev. Martin Luther King, Jr. quien abogaba por medidas pacíficas yel orden que observamos en todo el país durante estos días fueadmirable.
Es obvio que todos queremos permanecer en este país por lasmismas razones que todos los inmigrantes antes de nosotros. Aveces el mensaje es malentendido o no es expresado con claridadpero el diálogo ha progresado y debe conducir a una solución.
Only in theUnited States!
The demonstrations during the past week by immigrant groupsdemanding the legalization of their status reminds us how lucky weare to be living here. In any other country similar acts would bereceived with violence or worse – death. Just take a look at the waydemonstrations are being handle in France these days. Here, policeprovided protection and even established organizations whichsympathize with their cause came to their defense.
The demonstrators used the same system employed in otherhistorical proceedings in search of justice. The Suffrage Movementearning the right of women to vote in 1920, the Civil RightsMovement of the 50s and 60s, the demonstrations against theVietnam War, the Feminist Movement asking for the Equal RightsAmendment to the Constitution, they all had a common thread:demonstrating in the streets in order to get their message heard.
These immigrant groups followed in the manner establishedby Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. who advocated for peaceful meansand the order witnessed all over the country during the past fewdays was remarkable.
It is obvious that we want to remain in this country for thesame reasons as all immigrants before us. Sometimes the messagegets misunderstood or not clearly expressed but the dialogue hasprogressed and it must only lead to a resolution.
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Efectivo el 3 de abril, 2006Amplía su itinerario los días entre semana
Entre semana – Efectivo el 3 de abril, 2006 los autobuses basadosen Lawrence saldrán cada 25 minutos del Centro de TransportaciónBuckley, desde: 5:00 AM – 9:00 AM y 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Entre 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM y 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM los autobusespartirán desde el Centro de Transportación Buckley cada 45minutos.
De momento, sus días entre semana están más calmados con MVRTA. Compre en su tiendafavorita por más tiempo. Trabaje esa hora extra o salga del trabajo temprano. Es sudecisión. El MVRTA se está esforzando por proveerle la conveniencia y constancia queusted merece.
¡Los Autobuses están en servicio de: 5:00 AM – 8:00 PM!
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Por Alberto Surís
Últimamente, el nombre de Lawrenceha estado volando muy alto, en las alas deuna gran variedad de aviones, que usan laúltima tecnología de kSARIA, los principalesmanufactureros de cables de fibra óptica.
kSARIA, una Corporación deDelaware, fundada en el año 2000, se radicóoriginalmente en Wilmington, MA.Recientemente, mudaron su plantamanufacturera a Lawrence, animados por elCongresista Marty Meehan, para quepudieran beneficiarse de nuestro HUBZoneEmpowerment Contracting Program.
El HUBZone Empowerment ContractingProgram, el cual fue promulgado ley en 1977,como parte del Acta de Reautorización dePequeños Negocios, provee preferencias alos contratistas federales menoreslocalizados en comunidades que están endesventaja. Como mucho de los productosde kSARIA son de uso militar, tales comoaviones de combate y naves marinas, lacategoría de HUBZone le permite a lacompañía ser más competitiva.
Durante una recepción llevada a caboel viernes, 17 de marzo, 2006, en la plantalocalizada en el Heritage Place del 439 de laCalle South Union, en Lawrence, SebastiánSicari, presidente/CEO de kSARIA, explicóla historia de la compañía a sus invitados yla razón por la que se mudó a Lawrence, através de una proyección de PowerPoint.
“Estamos muy contentos de estaraquí”, dijo Sicari, el cual anunció que sucompañía tiene 7 posiciones vacantes y quele gustaría contratar a alguien residente dela ciudad. Actualmente, hay dos residentesde Lawrence trabajando en kSARIA, FranciaCoplin, una recepcionista con 8 años en lacompañía y Janet Figueroa, una técnica.Ambas están muy contentas de no tenerque viajar cada día a Wilmington y regresar.
“Esta es una magnífica historia”, dijoel Alcalde Sullivan. “Como alcalde, quieroasegurarme de que conecto a sus empleados
Lawrence está volando alto
en la zona comercial del centro dela ciudad- quiero que se sientanseguros y de que la ciudad lesresulte atractiva”.
By Alberto Surís
Lately, Lawrence’s name has beenflying high in the wings of a variety ofaircrafts, who use the latest technologyfrom kSARIA, leading manufacturers offiber optic assemblies and interconnectcable products.
kSARIA, a Delaware Corporation,founded in 2000, was originally located inWilmington, MA. Recently, they movedtheir manufacturing facility to Lawrence,encouraged by U.S. Congressman MartyMeehan, so they could benefit from ourHUBZone Empowerment ContractingProgram.
The HUBZone EmpowermentContracting Program, which was enactedinto law as part of the Small BusinessReauthorization Act of 1997, providescontracting preferences for small federalcontractors located in disadvantagedcommunities. Since many of kSARIA’sproducts are used on military platformssuch as fighter planes and naval vessels,the HUBZone status of Lawrence will allowthe company to be more competitive.
During an open house held Friday,March 17, 2006, at the company plantlocated at Heritage Place, 439 S. UnionStreet, Lawrence, Sebastian Sicari, kSARIAPresident/CEO, explained the companyhistory to his guests, and the reason for hismoving, through a PowerPoint presentation.
“We are glad to be here”, said Sicari,who announced that his company has sevennew jobs openings which he would like tofill with Lawrence residents. Actually,kSARIA employs two Lawrence residents,Francia Coplin, a receptionist for eight yearswith the company and Janet Figueroa, atechnician. They are both very happy fornot having to travel back and forth toWilmington every day.“This is a wonderful story”, said MayorSullivan. “As Mayor, I want to make surewe connect your employees with ourdowntown- I want them to feel safe andthat the city is appealing to them”.
LAWRENCE ISFLYING HIGH
Joe Ingold, de Vermont, vigila suestación de trabajo, mientras AnthonyChristopher, vicepresidente de ingenieríarecorre la planta con el CongresistaMarty Meehan y el Alcalde de LawrenceMichael J. Sullivan.
Joe Ingold, from Vermont, watches hisworkstation while Anthony Christopher,Vice-President of Engineering is touringwith Congressman Marty Meehan andLawrence Mayor Michael J. Sullivanthrough the plant.
Vinni Meas de Lowell y Janet Figueroa deLawrence, dos de los técnicos trabajando paraKsaria.
Vinni Meas from Lowell and Janet Figueroa, fromLawrence, two technicians working for kSARIA.
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Trabajando mano a mano con la Comunidad Latina
Por Beatriz Pérez
El pasado martes, la Biblioteca Públicade Lawrence puso en marcha un programade Internet que ayuda a los estudiantes, arealizar sus asignaciones, desde el cuartogrado hasta el nivel de preparación paraingresar a la universidad, y se convierte enla única biblioteca del área que ofrece esteprograma.
Los estudiantes menores se le brindaasistencia en cuatro materias: matemáticas,lenguaje, ciencia y ciencias sociales.
De acuerdo a Maureen Nimmo, directorade la biblioteca Tutor.com es un servicioque ofrece tutoría cara a cara a los alumnos,el cual es ofrecido por maestros, profesoresy estudiantes graduados en las materias deMatemáticas, Ciencias, Lenguaje y CienciasSociales.
A medida que los estudiantespresentan progresos en la escuela, los temasson más especializados. Es decir que enlugar de ofrecer ayuda solo en Matemáticasse brinda ayuda en Geometría, Álgebra yTrigonometría, etcétera.
Este servicio está disponible todos losdías de 3pm-10pm. Las áreas de Matemáticasy Ciencias están disponibles en español,de domingo a jueves a las mismas horas.
Exceptuando el Lenguaje toda la ayudaestá disponible en español e inglés.
Indica la directora de la biblioteca queeste programa se desarrolla en un formatode “Chat Room”, donde el profesor ayudaal estudiante a buscar y entender la solucióndel problema por medio de una pizarraelectrónica.
“Asimismo sirve de guía para que losestudiantes conozcan sitios en el Internetde corte educativo, mientras el ‘chat’continúa”, dijo.
Asegura Nimmo que Tutor.com no hasido creado para dar las respuestas a losestudiantes pero si para trabajar con ellos,a fin de que encuentren las respuestas porsi mismos. Los alumnos pueden accedereste programa desde sus casas, la bibliotecao en los programas después de clases.
Destaca Maureen Nimmo que elobjetivo principal de este programa esproporcionar una ayuda de alta calidaddespués de clases a cada estudiante en estaciudad.
“También ayudará a los padres quequieren involucrarse en la educación de sus
hijos, y puede ser una herramienta paramaestros y mentores”, expresó Nimmo.
La ventaja de este programa es quebrinda la oportunidad a los estudiantes dehacer sus preguntas sin sentir el miedo quemuchas veces sienten en las aulas, ya queel sistema es anónimo y privado.
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“ E n t o n c e sescriben el grado al queasisten y la materia enla que buscanasistencia y deinmediato estaránconectados a un tutor.Las sesionesusualmente tienen unaduración de 20 minutosy el estudiante puedeentrar cuantas vecesdesee”, dijo.Si el estudiante notiene acceso al Interneten su casa puede
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De acuerdo a la directora de la bibliotecahasta ahora no es necesario tener una tarjetade la entidad para beneficiarse del programa,y en los primeros meses no hay que teneruna clave para acceder a Tutor.com.
Sin embargo en el verano este seconvertirá en un programa sensitivo, dondeserá indispensable tener una clave(Password) el cual será el número del códigode la tarjeta de la Biblioteca pública deLawrence. Nimmo dijo que esto les da a lasfamilias y a los maestros tiempo paraasegurarse de que todos nuestrosestudiantes consigan una tarjeta de labiblioteca.“Este programa estará disponible solamentepara los residentes de Lawrence conexcepción de los mentores en bona fide,que son programas asociados con el sistemaescolar de Lawrence y los estudiantes de laEscuela Vocacional, quienes no sonresidentes de Lawrence.
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Por Alberto Surís
“La esperanza ha regresado”, dijoel Alcalde de Haverhill James J.Fiorentini ante la Cámara de Conciliode la ciudad, llena de público, el pasado21 de marzo, 2006.
Fiorentini concentró su discursoen la revitalización del centro comercialy los altos costos del cuidado de salud,en su discurso sobre el Estado de laCiudad, el cual fue televisado en vivopor el canal local de televisión delgobierno.
El Alcalde dijo al público quecontrolar el costo del cuidado de saludes crítico para la estabilidad fiscal de laciudad. El Alcalde dijo que el costo delseguro de salud de los empleados esteaño será tanto como el presupuesto dela policía, los bomberos y la deuda delHale, combinados.
Lea el discurso completo delAlcalde James J. Fiorentini
El Alcalde deHaverhill,James J.Fiorentini diosu discursosobre el estadode la ciudad
Discurso del Alcalde JamesFiorentini sobre el estado dela ciudad, ofrecido el 21 demarzo, 2006.
Buenas noches y gracias por escuchar(leer). Quiero comenzar agradeciendo a losconcejales por su duro trabajo, yparticularmente, quiero agradecer al públicopor el gran honor y privilegio de permitirmeservirles como alcalde.
Hace un poco más de dos años, cuandome dirigí a ustedes por primera vez, la ciudadestaba atravesando una crisis fiscal sinprecedentes. Estuvimos a punto de perderla acreditación de nuestra escuela superior.
Nuestras estaciones de bomberosestaban cerradas, nuestra biblioteca estuvoamenazada de ser cerrada y los periódicosestaban llenos de historias diciendo quenuestra ciudad podría convertirse en laprimera en veinticinco años, de serintervenida por el estado.
Dos años atrás, éramos una ciudaddonde algunas personas habían perdidotoda esperanza en el mañana. Nuestrosciudadanos solo hablaban acerca de lo quehabíamos perdido - nuestro hospital,nuestra área comercial, nuestra estación deradio y nuestro colegio en Bradford.
Hoy, vemos a un Haverhill diferente delque veíamos hace apenas dos años y nosenfrentamos a nuevos y diferentes retos.Hoy, ya no hablamos de lo que perdimosayer. Hoy, Haverhill está vivo y las personasse atreven a soñar con un mañana.
El renacimiento de Haverhill está en
“La esperanza ha regresado”
camino y Haverhill se está moviendo haciadelante.
Este renacimiento en Haverhill nosucedió solo. Tomó a un gran grupo deempleados de la ciudad, los cualestrabajaron más duro y más tiempo paraproveer al público con servicio, a pesar deque había 55 empleados menos de los quehabía tres años atrás.
Les tomó a un gran grupo devoluntarios que forman nuestras juntasdirectivas y agencias. A voluntarios a travésde la ciudad los cuales dieron un paso
adelante y puso incontables horasayudando a nuestra ciudad en muchasformas diferentes. Gracias a todos ustedes.
Fue gracias al Concilio de la ciudad quevotó a favor de enmendar la zona del distritocomercial y hacer menos estrictos losrequerimientos del estacionamiento. Y sobretodo, el público, que estuvo dispuesto ahacer sacrificios a fin de que nuestra ciudadsiguiera funcionando. Gracias a todosustedes por su sacrificio.
Dos años atrás, señalamos un nuevoplan de expandir nuestra base de impuestos.Nuestra estrategia era simple-si usted hacea Haverhill más atractivo, atraeremos a máspersonas y a la vez, atraeremos másnegocios.
Más limpio, seguro, mejorCompramos nuevas barredoras de calle
para la zona comercial del centro de la ciudady trabajamos con un maravilloso grupo devoluntarios de Haverhill’s Brightside paramantener nuestra ciudad más limpia.Plantamos los primeros árboles en muchasdécadas y trajimos el primer olmo resistentea enfermedades en medio siglo.
Trabajamos con nuestro Departamentode Policía para establecer nuestra primerafuerza Anti Ganga y utilizamos “block grantmoney” para añadir más patrulleros en losvecindarios de más alta criminalidad. Hoy,el crimen está bajo por segundo añoconsecutivo.
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The Merrimack Valley EnvironmentalCoalition and Family Service, Inc. hanestado presentando talleres dirigidos a losresidentes del Valle con la finalidad de dar aconocer las vías para reducir el contactocon los toxinas comunes usadas en casa.
A esto se añade miembros del personalde muchos centros de cuidados de niñosdel área y a otras personas que trabajancon niños hayan tomado parte enentrenamientos intensivos de 8 horas, sobreel tema de protección a los niños y lasfamilias y la forma de las toxinas adentro yafuera.
El currículo fue desarrollado encooperación del Family Service, la CoaliciónAmbiental, y el Toxics Use ReductionInstitute ofUMass Lowellbajo un proyectofinanciado por elU.S. Enviro-n m e n t a lP r o t e c t i o nAgency.
Los líderesde los talleresi n f o r m a t i v o sreportaron quenosotros estamose x p u e s t o sdiariamente aquímicos tóxicos,por medio del usocomún deproductos delhogar tales comoproductos de cuidado personal, productosde limpieza, cosméticos, pesticidas, pinturasy solventes.
Se estima que aproximadamente 80,000químicos industriales son actualmente deuso comercial en los Estados Unidos, y uncrecimiento del volumen evidencia que estasurgiendo referente a los impactosnegativos de la salud.
Por ejemplo muchas clases de químicosy metales (tales como plomo y mercurio),pesticidas, solventes y la producción dederivados, así como también las emisionesde incineradores y factorías, han sidovinculadas a una extensa gama de efectosde salud, incluyendo cáncer y lasincapacidades de reproducción o dedesarrollo.
Algunas sustancias son tambiénnocivas para el desarrollo cerebral del niño,tanto antes del nacimiento o en su infancia.
Incluso los químicos que son de corta
vida en el cuerpopueden contribuir a riesgos significativosde la salud si nosotros estamos expuestosa ellos regularmente a través de losproductos que usamos cada día. Porejemplo, los químicos tóxicos de limpiezason relacionados a ataques de asma ycáncer y pueden dañar nuestro sistemahormonal y nervioso.
Los solventes peligrosos sonencontrados en algunos productos delimpieza y cosméticos.
Los grupos más vulnerables al daño delas toxinas son los niños y los fetos de laconcepción, aunque las personas de edadavanzada son también afectadas.
De igual modo las mujeres en edad fértilnecesitan tomar precauciones extras paraevitar exponerse innecesariamente.
La única vía para reducir efectivamentela carga de nuestro cuerpo es reduciendo laproducción y el uso de químicos dañinos yreemplazarlos con alternativas seguras.
Los estudiantes de laclase de 3er grado de laSrta. McNulty en unaescuela elemental deAmesbury, probandorecetas de limpieza.Los estudiantes estaránusando este proyectoen la feria de cienciaque tendrá lugar enabril.
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The event highlighted the demolition of building 4, the last Gen-Corpproperty standing. Once finished, The Gateway, generally regarded as anintegral step in the renaissance of Lawrence, will offer 1.2 million sq. feet ofcost-effective, quality office space in the mills along the Merrimack River andthe Canal District, as well as dramatically improve access to Routes 495, 93and 95.
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El Senador Edward M. Kennedy y el Congresista Marty Meehan saludaron a un grupo dealumnos de la Escuela Leonard que vino a darles la bienvenida durante su última visita aLawrence. El edificio #4 de Gen-Corp puede verse al fondo.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Congressman Marty Meehan spoke to Leonard Schoolchildren who came to greet them during their past visit to Lawrence. Gen-Corp building #4can be seen in the background.
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El Senador Edward M. Kennedy y elcongresista Marty Meehan se unieron alAlcalde de Lawrence, Michael J. Sullivany otros líderes locales en el anuncio delcomienzo de la última fase del proyectoGateway.
El evento destacó la demolición deledificio #4, última propiedad de Gen-Corp.Una vez finalizado, el Gateway,
generalmente relacionado como un pasointegral en el renacimiento de Lawrence,ofrecerá 1.2 millones de pies cuadradosde espacio de oficina de primera calidaden las antiguas fábricas a lo largo del RíoMerrimack y el Distrito del Canal así comomejorará drásticamente el acceso a lasRutas 495, 93 y 95.
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Se anuncia que la tan esperada loteríade 13 unidades de precio módico enFoundry Square, en Newburyport, va acomenzar. La lotería será llevada a cabopor JTE Realty Associates y tendrá lugarel 25 de mayo, 2006 en el auditorio delAyuntamiento de Newburyport.
Habrá sesiones de información el 11y el 24 de abril a las 7:00PM en elAyuntamiento de Newburyport donde laspartes interesadas pueden aprender másacerca de la urbanización, losprocedimientos de la lotería y losrequisitos para ser elegidos.
Las aplicaciones están ahoradisponibles en el Ayuntamiento y/o laBiblioteca Pública de Newburyport oescribiendo a JTE Realty Associates, P.O.Box 955, North Andover, MA 01845.
La urbanización, que fue designadapor la firma de arquitectos deNewburyport, Woodman Associates yconstruida por Metric ConstructionCorporation, necesitó de la completademolición del antiguo edificio AlbertRussell & Sons Foundry y laconstrucción de cuatro nuevos edificios.
La urbanización constará de 20unidades para la venta, de las cuales 13serán para primeros compradores cuyosingresos estén por debajo del 80% deAMI. El precio básico de una unidad deun dormitorio será $167,500; $192,500 pordos dormitorios y $210,000 por una unidadde 3 habitaciones. Los precios de las siete
unidades restantes, de las cuales 5 estánbajo contrato de compra y venta, seránmarcados al precio del mercado.
“Foundry Square es una excitanteurbanización para Newburyport”, dijoAbby Goldenfarb, la directora delproyecto de Trinity Financial, la compañíaconstructora. “Las unidades están biendiseñadas, los terrenos adyacentes seránbellos y estando tan cerca del históricocentro comercial hacen a estaurbanización particularmente deseable”.
La Urbanización de Foundry Squarese hizo posible cuando la Ciudad deNewburyport emitió un RFP por ese sitioen 2002. Trinity Financial fue designadala compañía constructora por la Ciudadde Newburyport por su impresionanteequipo y su pasada experiencia en crearunidades para personas de bajosingresos.
El proyecto total costóaproximadamente $7.2 millones y losfondos vinieron del Departamento deViviendas y Desarrollo Comunitario delCommonwealth of Massachusetts,MassHousing, el North Shore HomeConsortium, la Ciudad de Newburyport,el Comité de Preservación Comunitaria deNewburyport, el Banco de América y delos ingresos provenientes de la venta delas unidades. Las unidades que se ofrecena precio del mercado están siendoofrecidas por Jerry Lischke y Lela LischkeWright de Stone Ridge Properties.
Comienza la lotería de13 unidades de preciomódico enNewburyportFoundry’s Square
Todos los alumnos del programa deEstudios de Sordomudos de Northern EssexCommunity College están invitados a unareunión el sábado, 29 de abril, de 10am-2pm,en el Centro de Tecnología, salón TC 103,en el campus de Haverhill.
Los boletos de entrada tienen un costode $25 por persona, lo que incluye desayunocontinental y almuerzo. Esta será la primerareunión de los graduados del Deaf StudiesProgram.Se presentarán exhibiciones y el50% de la rifa será a beneficio de becasestudiantiles.
Brenda Schertz de University ofSouthern Maine hará una presentación deArtistas Sordomudos a la 1pm. Ella nacióen Brooklyn, Nueva York y fue educada enescuelas públicas y para personas sordo-mudas. Después asistió al National Tech-nical Institute for the Deaf, y recibió su gra-do de Bachillerato de Bellas Artes en DiseñoGrafico del Instituto de Arte de Boston.
La información reunida en ese estudioindependiente se convirtió en una exposi-ción llamada: A Perspective of Deaf Culturethrough Art realizada en Northern EssexCommunity College en septiembre de 1993.
El Programa deEstudios deSordomudos de NECCplanea primerareunión
Schertz además realizó una exhibición en lasexta conferencia celebrada en Oakland,California en abril de 1999, sobre artistassordomudos.
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Northern Essex ofrece un gradoasociado en artes en Deaf Studies con unaopción de American Sign Language o SignLanguage Interpreter. Ambos son dise-ñados para proveer a los estudiantes conuna vasta experiencia educacional basadaen el balance y la diversidad de la educacióngeneral, American Sign Language (ASL) ylos cursos de intérpretes dependen sobretodo de su campo de estudio.
El programa también proporcionaexploración de carrera dentro de lacomunidad sordomuda y la preparaciónacadémica básica para un posible trasladoal programa de un grado de Bachillerato.
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EscuelasLa clave principal para mejorar nuestra
calidad de vida es mejorar la educaciónpública. El año pasado, trabajamos con elcomité escolar para convertirnos en lasegunda ciudad en el Estado deMassachusetts en instituir clases de veranomandatarias a nuestros estudiantes. Lesmandamos un claro mensaje a nuestrosestudiantes: Si ustedes no pasan, nosotrosno les daremos un pase libre para el próximogrado.
Gastamos millones de dólares en laEscuela Superior y corrigiendo décadas deabandono en nuestras escuelas primarias ysecundarias. Este año, por primera vez encuatro décadas, nuestros niños tendránlaboratorios de ciencias totalmenteequipados con los equipos más modernos.Trajimos de nuevo el programa de bandaescolar de la escuela intermedia, añadimosmaestros a la escuela superior y tratamosde hacer un mejor trabajo enfatizando losmejores puntos de nuestro sistema.Entonces trabajamos con nuestro comitéescolar para contratar a un gransuperintendente escolar y quierointroducirlos a ustedes, el Dr. RaleighBuchanan.
El año que viene, trabajaremos con elDr. Buchanan para introducir algunosnuevos, excitantes conceptos en educaciónpública - conceptos que pondrán aHaverhill al borde de la tecnología y al bordede los mejores conceptos en educación.Trabajaremos para convertir nuestra escuelasuperior en una escuela on-line (Internet)una de solo treinta escuelas en todoMassachusetts. Nuestros niños tendrán laoportunidad de tomar cursos on-line, através del mundo. Más tarde les diremosmás sobre esto.
Entonces, durante los próximos años,trabajaremos para convertir nuestra escuelasuperior en una academia avanzada dematemáticas y ciencias. Ya les contaremosmás sobre esto luego este año. Cuandonuestros niños se gradúen de la escuelasuperior, no solo van a competir con niñosdel Valle de Merrimack. Ellos van a competircon niños del mundo. Nuestro objetivo esofrecer un plan de estudios que envuelvauna educación mundial para que nuestrosniños puedan competir con cualquier niño,en cualquier parte del mundo.
Cambios de zona para atraernuevos negocios
Para atraer nuevos negocios eincrementar nuestra base de impuestos,
tenemos que ser innovadores. Cuando yoles hablé hace un año, yo les pedí a losconcejales que cambiaran las zonas dealgunas áreas cerca de la carretera, pararemover algunas barreras que impedíanalgunas importantes tiendas venir a nuestraciudad y unirse a mí en una estrategia detiendas por departamentos propia del siglo21.
Esta noche, podemos reportar que esteplan del siglo 21 está trabajando. Por másde 30 años, grandes tiendas pordepartamentos habían dejado la ciudad ypoco a poco, las habíamos perdido. Estanoche, Lowe’s y BJ’s- las dos tiendas pordepartamentos más grandes que se hayanlocalizado en Haverhill, han anunciado quese establecerán aquí. Las seguirá Starbucksy hay más en camino.
Nuestra política de zona también estátrabajando para el centro comercial y nuestroinquilino, el Proyecto Beacon, acaba decomenzar la construcción de los primerosestudios para artistas, a la venta en el centrocomercial (downtown).
Debemos regocijarnos en el hecho deque muchas personas han comenzado areconocer lo que siempre hemos sabido-Haverhill es un gran sitio para vivir y ungran sitio para trabajar. Ahora nuestro retoes saber manejar este crecimiento- manejarel tráfico que seguramente incrementará,conservar nuestros espacios abiertos ymantener nuestros vecindarios en buenascondiciones para vivir, según avanzamos.El primer paso para controlar el crecimientoes empujarlo hacia el centro de la ciudaddonde podamos controlarlo y a la vezpreservar el espacio de las afueras de laciudad.
Los retos del futuroNuestro progreso ha sido grande, pero
los retos que tenemos por delante sontambién grandes. La deuda de Hale(Hospital) de $7 millones anuales, todavíaestá con nosotros. E s t eaño, tenemos un déficit de casi $4 millones.Esta cifra es engañadora, ya que no incluyeel déficit real de Haverhill.
Nuestro déficit real es que no tenemosel suficiente dinero para rellenar todosnuestros hoyos, reparar todas nuestrasescuelas, calles o tumbar todos los árbolesque necesitan ser tumbados.
Nuestros problemas financierosamenazan nuestro renacimiento- amenazannuestra habilidad de proveer a las personascon todos los servicios y escuelas que ellosnecesitan para hacer de esta una ciudadatractiva de consumidores.
Nuestro reto esta noche es claro, ¿cómomantenemos los servicios vitales que sontan necesarios para mantener elrenacimiento de Haverhill en movimiento?
El mismo espíritu que nos ha llevadotan lejos nos puede llevar hacia delante yayudarnos a superar los retos que tenemospor delante.
Las raíces de nuestros problemasfinancieros es simple- los altos costosrequieren de nosotros gastar más de lo querecibimos.
Este año, las primas del cuidado desalud incrementarán en $2 millones, por untotal de $21 millones. Este año, pagaremosmás por las primas de seguro de salud de loque pagamos por el departamento de policíacompleto, el departamento de bomberoscompleto y la deuda del Hale, combinada.El costo del incremento en cuidado de salud- $2 millones- es más que todos los ingresosque estamos teniendo por todos losproyectos de condominios combinados.
Si no fuera por este incremento,podríamos añadir diez policías adicionales,10 maestros de escuela adicionales ytodavía nos sobrarían $800,000.
Hemos dado pasos gigantescoscontrolando el costo de la salud. Hemostrabajado con nuestras uniones paracombinar cinco (5) contratos de cuidado desalud, y hemos utilizado nuestra influenciapara negociar tarifas más bajas paranuestros empleados. La mayoría denuestras uniones accedieron a pagar máspor su cuidado de salud a cambio de unincremento de salario por el costo de la vida.Con estas reformas, hemos ahorrado milesde dólares el año pasado.
Pero tenemos que hacer másLa semana que viene, me reuniré con
nuestra junta de seguros y les pediré quetrabajen conmigo a fin de obtener elsiguiente nivel de reforma de cuidado desalud.
Les pediré que designen un programaque permita importar medicinas prescritasde Canadá a nuestros empleados y retiradosy ahorrar más de $200,000 anuales. Lespediré que se unan a mí para obtener unplan reformado de cuidado de salud que seajusto para nuestros trabajadores y quepodamos costear.
Nuestro plan- el cual tenemos mi familiay yo- nos permite ir al doctor pagando $5por la visita (co-pay). Nosotros pagamosentre un 75% y un 90% del costo del segurode salud para nuestros empleados yretirados y seguramente, si pudiéramoscostearlo, continuaríamos en esa ruta. Peroesta ruta es una que sólo conduce en unadirección- cesantías.
Yo voy a pedir a nuestra junta deconsejo y a nuestras uniones que trabajencon nosotros una vez más- esta vez paraincrementar el pago por consulta (co-pay)y otros deducibles, proveer bonos paraaquellos empleados que saquen a susesposos/as fuera de la ciudad. También lespediré que diseñen programas para nuevosempleados para que trabajen condeducibles más altos y pagos por visita (co-pay) y trabajen con cuentas de ahorro decuidado de salud, para proveer cuidado desalud que podamos pagar.
Reorganización del Gobierno de la CiudadEl control de los costos debe comenzar
con el control del cuidado de salud, pero nodebe parar ahí. Hace dos años, instituimosun plan de reorganización de gobierno que
salvara servicios vitales y racionalizara elgobierno. Este año, de nuevo pediremosreorganizar nuestro gobierno para hacerloeconómico pero no tacaño. Nuestro modeloa seguir debe ser el de la industria privada-que por décadas ha usado automatizacióny mecanización para constantementeaumentar la eficiencia y cumplir los retosque han tenido. Nuestro reto es mantenernuestra ciudad asequible y mantener losimpuestos en un nivel razonable. La mejormanera de hacer esto es hacer el gobiernomás eficiente.
Aumentar los ingresos –Vender agua y agua dedesperdicio
La estabilización de nuestras finanzasdebe comenzar con el control de los costos,pero debemos ir más lejos. Tambiéndebemos mirar debajo de cada piedra pornuevos ingresos.La primera parada debe ser nuestrodepartamento de aguas de desperdicio.Nuestro departamento de aguas dedesperdicio fue construido para acomodarmás de 100,000 personas y se puedeexpandir a más. Actualmente, estamosprocesando las aguas de desperdicio delpueblo de Groveland y de State Line Plazaen Plaistow. Nosotros tenemos el potencialde hacer millones de dólares por conceptode conexiones, y cientos de miles de dólaressi vendemos nuestros servicios a gruposfuera de la ciudad. Tenemos un granpotencial en eso y es hora que exploremosesa opción.
La idea de la Villa UrbanaA la larga, mantener el renacimiento de
la ciudad significa ser una ciudad con unaalta calidad de vida y que atraerá a muchaspersonas a vivir aquí- una ciudad con calleslimpias y seguras y excelentes escuelas.
Nuestro futuro depende en un Haverhilldonde las personas miren hacia el río enlugar de darle la espalda y una ciudad dondelas personas vivían en el centro de la ciudad.
Nuestro futuro descansa en lo que losplanificadores llaman una villa urbana-donde las personas viven, trabajan y cenan,todo en la misma área.
Para que esto suceda, tenemos quedarle un nuevo vistazo a nuestras leyes dezonificación.
El antiguo modelo de zonificación erausado para mantener ciertas cosas fuera deciertos vecindarios. Esas zonas tambiénpueden ser usadas como herramientas paraproducir una chispa de renacimiento y atraernegocios. Nosotros sabemos que cambiaresas zonas funciona atrayendo negocios,porque ha funcionado aquí en Haverhill.
Dentro de los próximos meses, vamosa presentar nuestro plan de renacimientourbano ante el concilio. Nuestra nueva zonade renacimiento tomará una porción denuestro centro comercial con un cambio enla zona para vivienda como un asunto dederecho.
Vamos a tratar de ser la primera ciudaden tomar ventaja de la nueva ley deincentivo para la vivienda, Capítulo 40R.Nuestra zona de renacimiento nos traerá$400,000 de inmediato en nueva ayudaestatal, y nos dará la oportunidad de traernueva vida a viejos edificios en el centro dela ciudad.
Cambiar las zonas nos ha ayudado a
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La 14a Edición del Festivalpresentará películas de 13Países
La 14a edición del Providence LatinAmerican Film Festival (PLAFF) tendrá lugardel 22-29 de abril, 2006 en el auditorio deRhode Island School of Design, 17 CanalStreet con proyecciones especiales en elCable Car Cinema, 204 South Main Street.
Este año el festival dedica su muestraespecial a los filmes sobre música y baile —desde las nuevas tendencias en el tango, alos populares narcocorridos mexicanos ysus famosos intérpretes. Los Tigres delNorte, y las conmovedoras historias sobrelos músicos inmigrantes del metromadrileño.
“Estamos entusiasmados con nuestrodecimocuarto festival”, dijo Olga Juzyn,Directora del Festival. Añadió que “elprograma de este año incluye filmes quecelebran la música y danza más hermosas ydinámicas de América latina. Como siemprehay una gran diversidad representada enlos filmes del Festival y el público podráconocer a algunos de los realizadores y verpelículas nunca antes vistas en esta zonadel país”.
PLAFF es un uno de los pocos eventoslatinoamericanos que son panamericanos ybusca responder a los intereses locales, dela comunidad y hemisféricos. A través desus catorce años, el Festival ha traídopelículas de cada país de América latina, asícomo co-producciones con Estados Unidos,Canadá y España. En el contexto de lasconsabidas dificultades de distribución,tanto aquí como en América latina, el Festivalse ha convertido en un refugio creativo paracineastas de largometrajes arguméntales,documentales y cortometrajes. El Festivales además uno de los pocos festivales decine latinoamericano de los Estados Unidosque otorgan premios. Para ello cuenta conun jurado internacional integrado porconocidos realizadores, directores defestivales y otras figuras prominentes delmundo del cine latinoamericano.
Entre los galardones que entrega elFestival se encuentran el Premio FernandoBirri a la Opera Prima, establecida en honoral realizador argentino que recibió del
Festival a la trayectoria en 2003; el premio ala Mejor Película y premios a las categoríasde actuación, guión, fotografía, montaje,banda sonora, música. Este año el juradoestá compuesto por: Josué Méndez (Perú,director del filme ganador del PremioFernando Birri 2005), Rolando Pardo(Argentina, realizador), Florence Jaguey(Nicaragua, documentalista), KatherineKlassen (Canada, realizadora y productora),José Barriga (Director del Boston Latino FilmFestival).
Cada año PLAFF presentalargometrajes recientes, documentales,cortos, operas prima y charlas a cargo denuestros invitados, directores, productoresy académicos de la zona. El Festival ofrecela rara oportunidad de ver algunos filmesantes de que sean lanzados comercialmente.El público también puede disfrutar deexhibiciones artísticas, recitales de músicay danza latinoamericanas y talleres paraniños y adolescentes. Todas las películastiene subtítulos en inglés. Las entradascuestan $5.00, o $25.00 por pases que sirvenpara todas las películas.
El Festival abrirá con Tango: un giroextraño, una película que cambiará laspercepciones sobre el tango de la Argentinaactual, donde los jóvenes mezclan los jeansy una actitud rockera con esta músicatradicional, y Suite Habana, un filmeembriagador que viaja por la Habana Vieja ynos revela cómo un grupo de sus habitantessobrevive las penurias cotidianas graciasal arte.
Otros filmes que emocionarán son Elsa& Fred una encantadora comedia románticasobre una pareja de octogenarios cuyoshijos ven con disgusto la relaciónapasionada de sus padres. Di buen día aPapá, sobre el pueblo donde se enterraronclandestinamente los restos de CheGuevara, es una rara oportunidad para elpúblico de Rhode Island de ver unaproducción boliviana. El Festival tiene elagrado de presentar una comedia (géneropoco común en el circuito de festivales decine) de Argentina, La suerte está echada,sobre dos medio hermanos reunidosdespués de mucho tiempo por su padre queles pide un extraño favor.
La sección de documentales ofreceinvestigaciones profundas sobre la realidad
latinoamericana. Estos filmes provienen deNicaragua, Argentina, México, Israel yVenezuela.
Las películas para niños y animacionespara adolescentes incluyen Viaje a Marte,una animación argentina sobre un niño quequiere viajar al planeta rojo. Lo llevarán suimaginación y su abuelo con su camioneta-grúa. La originalidad de las animacionesdeleitará tanto a niños como a adultos. Comoparte del programa de animación el Festivalofrecerá un taller para niños (de 8 a 12 años)dirigido por Manga Latina Productions, unacompañía de animación fundada porHenrique Vera Villanueva. Dos de susanimaciones Piñatas y Killers on the Loosehan sido adquiridas por MTV Latino yforman parte de la programación del Festival.
Por tercer año consecutivo el Festivalofrece un taller para adolescentes. Este añoel festival se ha asociado con The MetSchool, donde Josué Méndez, el ganadordel Premio Fernando Birri 2005 trabajara conalumnos de la escuela.
Como todos los años el Festivalprograma películas que tipifican ladiversidad cultural de América latina. El añoque viene…en Argentina, una co-producción argentino-israelí, trata lasexperiencias de judíos argentinos queluchan con la difícil decisión de emigrar oquedarse.
Providence Latin American Film FestivalAnuncia el Programa de 2006
Rhode Island tiene una población demás de 100,000 hispanos que provienen dediversas culturas. En el área de Providencehay comunidades bolivianas, dominicanas,puertorriqueñas, guatemaltecas, mexicanas,colombianas y brasileñas, entre otras. ElFestival es una vía a reconectarse con losorígenes, tanto culturales como lingüísticos.
Este año el Festival recibió importantesfondos del National Endowment for the Artsy el Rhode Island State Council on the Arts(entre otros patrocinios) que aseguran quese cumpla la misión del Festival.
Par mayor información sobre elFestival, visite www.latin-americanfilmfestival.org.Para mayor información sobre Providencevisite www.providenceri.com.
The Providence Latin American FilmFestival fue fundado en Providence, RI en1993 como una organización sin fines delucro. Su misión es: promover laapreciación y la diseminación de lo mejordel mundo audiovisual latinoamericano através de proyecciones y de programaseducativos y culturales, y de ese modocelebrar la vitalidad y las contribucionesde las culturas latinoamericanas.
Cada abril el Festival organiza unfestival de una semana de lo mejor de lareciente producción de Iberoamérica.
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Ahora en época de béisbol es el tiempopreciso para descubrir con exactitud “HowBaseball Got a Commissioner” cuando elautor Donald Gropman presente un originalestudio que realizó, el cual expondrá durantela White Fund Enlightenment Series quepresenta Northern Essex CommunityCollege, el domingo, 9 de abril a las dos dela tarde.
Este evento es gratis y abierto alpúblico y se estará realizando en el WhiteFund Room localizado en la extensión delNorthern Essex, ubicada en el 78-82Amesbury Street.
Gropman basa su presentación en unainvestigación en torno a los aconte-cimientos que rodearon la nominación deljuez Kenesaw Mountain Landis como elprimer Comisionado de Béisbol en el 1921.
El autor del estudio va a deshacer elmito de la versión oficial, -que destaca quela acción fue en respuesta al escándalo delos Black Sox en 1919-refiriéndose a laverdadera historia que hay detrás de esto.
Aquellos que asistan a la presentacióndescubrirán un drama de la vida realrepresentado por los propietarios de losclubes y los ejecutivos quienes fundamen-talmente actuaron motivados por laarrogancia, la venganza, la codicia y eldesagravio.
Gropman es autor de varios libros,incluyendo Say It Ain’t So, Joe consideradaampliamente como la indiscutible biografíade Shoeless Joe Jackson.
La Fascinante historiadel Béisbol
El trabajo de Gropman aparece en nume-rosos periódicos, y premiadas antologíascomo The Best of Yankee Magazine y TheBest American Short Stories.
Actualmente trabaja en una biografiadel juez Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
El propósito de The White Fund esrealizar series gratuitas de presentacionesinteractivas para adultos, jóvenes y niñosdel área de Lawrence.
Esta organización funciona gracias aun generoso regalo monetario delHonorable Daniel Appleton White. WhiteFund Lecture Series proporcionaconversación cultural, presentadas porconferencista reconocidos en las áreas dehistoria, literatura, viaje, artes y políticas.
Para información adicional o recibir uncalendario de próximos eventos del WhiteFund Enlightenment Series, los interesadospueden llamar al 978-556-3700.
Para informaciónadicional o recibir uncalendario de próximoseventos del White FundEnlightenment Series,los interesados puedenllamar al 978-556-3700.
8th Annual Women & Policy Symposium
Save the Date:Save the Date: Saturday, May 6, 2006 Saturday, May 6, 2006
8:30 AM – 3:30 PM 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Location: Lawrence Senior Center
155 Haverhill Street in Lawrence
To Set Up an Informational Table Contact: Maribel Serate, Garden of Options
978-683-3030 or 978-223-0797
For Information & Registration Patricia Sanchez-Reyes,
Lawrence School Committee Member 978-889-5829
Symposium Organizer, Nilka I. Álvarez-Rodríguez, DA, MA
Lawrence City Councilor-At-large 978-681-0662
Women of the Merrimack Valley it is time for us to raise our voices to stop violence against women; and, to especially speak against the culture of violence in which young women are getting trapped. Joinus in a celebration of our strengths and dare to make a difference.
PLANNING COMMITTEE 2006
June Black, Congressman Meehan’s Office, Maribel Serate & Noris Gonzalez, Garden of Options; Janice Burkholder, Senator Sue Tucker’s Office; Vilma Lora, YWCA in Lawrence;
Martina Cruz, Lawrence School Committee Member; Susan Santos, Women of Excellence Ministry; Grisel Silva, Lawrence City Councilor-District B; Haydee Cuadrado, Community Activist
Patricia Sanchez-Reyes, Lawrence School Committee Member
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¡Donde Cada Generación Cuenta!LA MERRIMACK VALLEY YMCA se ha establecido como un lugar donde los miembros de lacomunidad, joven y vieja, pueden participar en programas de calidad que son divertidos,innovadores y educativos. Más de 30,000 individuos participan en programas en los variossitios de la YMCA situados en Lawrence, Methuen, Andover, Bear Island en el LagoWinnipesaukee y Captain’s Pond en Salem, New Hampshire. Estas experiencias ayudan a crear elcarácter, consolidar conexiones de la familia y estructura comunidades fuertes.
Merrimack Valley YMCA continúa siendo un lugar:Donde todos pertenecen sin importar su etnia, creencia religiosa y situación socioeconómica;
Donde 1,600 niños e individuos visitan cada día para participar en programas de calidad y/oen una actividad sana;
Donde casi 1,000 niños todos los días son cuidados en un ambiente sano y seguro en uno delos ocho centros de cuidado infantil de la YMCA;
Donde niños aprenden valores de cuidado, honradez, respeto y responsabilidad, para quecrezcan como adultos productivos y autosuficientes;
Donde 1,500 muchachos y muchachas reciben la experiencia que dura una vida enteraasistiendo al Camp Lawrence, un campamento residencial de verano para muchachos, CampNokomis, un campamento residencial de verano para muchachas, o Camp Otter, el campamentodiurno para varones y hembras de la YMCA;
Donde centenares de familias se reúnen cada semana para pasar un buen rato juntas;
Donde los adolescentes desarrollan las destrezas que los prepara para el futuro;
Donde la juventud puede experimentar con la música y las artes en el recién establecido Clubde Música y a través de varios programas de danza y arte que tienen durante todo el año;
Donde 73 personas sin hogar o a punto de perderlo hacen su hogar y donde ellos y otrosreciben consejería, servicios básicos educacionales, destrezas para la vida y entrenamientode trabajo;
Donde diversas comunidades se unen para ser entrenadas y competir en natación, baloncestoy otras actividades que enfatizan el trabajo en equipo; y
Donde 700 voluntarios ayudan a satisfacer la misión de la YMCA para poder tener niñosfuertes, familias fuertes y comunidades fuertes.
¡Venga a ver todo lo que hay nuevo en la YMCA!El nuevo Centro Familiar Acuático está abierto en la YMCA de Lawrence. Ustedestá invitado a nadar en nuestra nueva piscina de 25 yardas de largo con 6 líneas.
Estamos aquí para resolver sus necesidades de aptitud física. Un equipocardiovascular y de entrenamiento de pesas e instructores de muy buena calidad.Estamos confiados en dar a cada niño la oportunidad de aprender a nadar. Laslecciones de natación se ofrecen durante todo el año.
¿Tiene tiempo para servir como mentor? Nuestros jóvenes en Teen Achievers,Youth & Government, líderes adolescentes y programas del Club de Músicadependen de profesionales como usted para compartir su experiencia.
Cuidamos a más de 1,000 niños diariamente en nuestros programas del díacompleto y después de la escuela.
Nosotros atraemos a las familias. Nuestras sucursales ofrecen muchasoportunidades para que las familias pasen tiempo juntas y conozcan a otrasfamilias de la comunidad. Venga a disfrutar de la alegría de las Noches Familiares.
Ofrecemos a sus empleados unos pases de sociedad por una semana entera gratis.
Póngase en contacto con su sucursal local de YMCA y hable con el director desociedad.
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hacer grandes progresos en la Calle Locust.Ahora es hora de traer el renacimiento a laCalle Merrimack.
No se equivoquen, extender elrenacimiento de Haverhill a la CalleMerrimack está cargado de retos.
La Calle Merrimack podrá vivir denuevo, pero no será fácil. Algunos edificiosde la Calle Merrimack han estado vacantespor décadas, y por una muy buena razón:estacionamiento y barreras con regulacioneshan hecho difícil poner residencias allí. Noqueremos elevar las expectativas más alláde lo que merece, o nos pondríamos en unaposición de fracaso, pero el mayor fracasode todos es el no tratar.
Este año vamos a pedir al concilio quepermita viviendas en la Calle Merrimack,como un derecho propio.
Entonces tendremos que atacar elmayor problema, el problema delestacionamiento.
Ahora, la Calle Merrimack tiene másestacionamiento que la Calle Wingate, perola Calle Wingate muestra un tremendodesarrollo y no la Merrimack.
Tenemos un garaje de estacionamiento
en el centro comercial de Merrimack que estávacío de noche en un 100%, que no tenemosdinero para limpiarlo, iluminar de noche orepararlo.
Lo correcto en la Calle Merrimack no esconstruir más estacionamiento. Lo correctoes usar los que tenemos para estimular eluso mixto de los edificios. Si la CalleMerrimack va a ser desarrollada, si vamos aextender el renacimiento a la Calle Merrimackvamos a tener que permitir que losinversionistas arrienden espacios en elparqueo.
Tenemos que examinar cada opción,incluyendo arrendamiento de los espaciosde estacionamiento, vender el espacio aéreosobre el garaje de estacionamiento y hastavender el garaje de estacionamiento, sipodemos asegurar que el interés del públicoestá protegido y de que hay suficienteestacionamiento público. El garaje deestacionamiento de la Calle Merrimack serála fórmula para que los residentes retornena la Calle Merrimack. Tenemos que exploraresa opción.
También tenemos que volver nuestraatención a nuestros centros de compra.
Algunos están gastados y cansados-necesitados del mismo renacimiento que seestá llevando a cabo en el centro.
Nuestras leyes zonales debían permitiry estimular a estos centros de compra paraque se conviertan en villas urbanas, dondelas personas puedan vivir, caminar y trabajaren la misma área. Debemos comenzar porsolicitar propuestas de dueños de centrosde compra y nosotros cambiar las zonas yconvertirlas en uso mixto, para permitirles alas personas a vivir encima de sus centros,para que vivan, trabajen y cenen en la mismaárea. Nuevo urbanismo ha funcionado enotras áreas del país. Puede funcionar aquí.
Por los dos últimos años, hemos hechograndes progresos en nuestra ciudad.Nuestra ciudad experimenta unarevitalización sin precedentes.
Donde las tiendas por departamentoshan abandonado a la ciudad por décadas,hoy Lowe’s, Starbucks and BJ’s estánviniendo a Haverhill.
Donde nuestras fábricas de zapatoshan estado vacantes por décadas, hoyestán viviendo de nuevo con apartamentospara artistas y nuevas viviendas. Beacon
Company ha comenzado una construccióny Forest City, la más grande compañía deviviendas urbanas en el país estáexplorando la posibilidad de convertir variasfábricas de calzado en viviendas.
Donde las personas dieron la espaldaal Merrimack por décadas, ahora estántornándola hacia el río, trayendo botes,muelles y marinas. Esta primavera, con laayuda de una dádiva asegurada por nuestradelegación del congreso, comenzaremos ahacer pruebas para ver si podemos dragarel río.
Donde nos hemos estado quejando pordécadas acerca del paqueo, hoy tenemos ladadiva más grande nunca dada a la ciudad,$7.6 millones, para construir un garaje deestacionamiento en la ciudad.
Como toda comunidad, tenemosnuestras dificultades. Pero trabajandojuntos este año así como trabajamos juntosen el pasado año, continuaremos elrenacimiento que el Boston Globe llamó‘foto del progreso’.
No se equivoquen, el renacimiento deHaverhill está avanzando y en Haverhill, hayesperanza de nuevo.
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El programa Ladder to Language deCambridge College fue reconocido junto aotros cinco programas como uno de losprogramas que han demostrado “unacolaboración creativa” por United Way deMerrimack Valley en la tarde del martes, 21de marzo de 2006, en las facilidades deDiBurro’s Function Facilities de Bradford.
El programa de Ladder to Language esun curso innovador en forma acelerada deinglés que consiste de tres cuatrimestres(ESOL, inglés como segundo idioma). Elprograma provee seis horas de instruccióny dos horas de conversación estructuradacon voluntarios que hablan solo inglés. Losparticipantes terminan con un total de 250horas de inglés en menos de un año.
Comenzó como programa piloto enoctubre del 2004. Es una colaboración entreCambridge College, LawrenceCommunityWorks, Andover Bread Loaf ylos voluntarios que vienen a través deiglesias locales, y la ayuda de LawrenceLiteracyWorks, una red de apoyo y recursospara proveedores de educación paraadultos e inglés como segundo idioma.
El programa ayuda a que losparticipantes se capaciten mejor en el ingléscon el fin de regresar a estudiar enuniversidades, mejorar sus trabajos, cambiaropciones de carrera profesional o área deestudio, y ayudarlos en la adaptación de lacultura norteamericana y a alcanzarconfianza en hablar y escribir el inglés comosegundo idioma.
En el primer cuatrimestre de estudio sehace el repaso de la gramática, el uso deldiccionario, desarrollar destrezas deescritura en inglés y el uso de recursos
Programa Ladder to Languagerecibe reconocimiento de UnitedWay of Merrimack Valley
The Ladder to Language Programat Cambridge College has been chosenas one of the few programs that will becelebrated and recognized as “creativepartnerships” at the United Way ofMerrimack Valley’s Annual Meeting onTuesday, March 21, 2006 at theDiBurro’s Function Facilities ofBradford.
The Ladder to Language Programis an intensive and innovative three-semester ESOL course that provides sixhours of classroom instruction and twohours of structured, community-oriented, conversational activity eachweek during 15-week semester.
The program began as a pilotproject in October 2004. The programis a partnership between CambridgeCollege, Lawrence CommunityWorks,Andover Bread Loaf and the UnitedWay volunteers, with the assistance ofthe Lawrence LiteracyWorks, aconsortium of adult literacy and Englishas second language network providers.
Ladder to Language is a programthat helps English language learners togo back to college; get better jobs;change a career or area of study; adaptto the American culture; and feelconfident in speaking and writingEnglish.
The first level of the program focuson grammar, use of dictionary,beginning writing skills and the use ofresources such as the News for Youand Focus.
The second level is about settingup goals, more grammar, more writing,study groups and reading their firstnovel.
The third and last level is aboutclassroom skills, more grammar, morevocabulary and reaching the goalswhile ending with a portfolio of theirlearning and accomplishments.
Cambridge College thanks thesponsorships that makes this programpossible including United Way ofMerrimack Valley, City of Lawrence andits C.B.D.G. block grants and privatedonors of the College.
Sandra Blanes is the ProgramCoordinator and curriculum developer,master teacher and Maritza Gonzalez isthe administrative assistant and aformer graduate of the program.
For more information, pleasecontact Dolores Calaf at 978-314-3125.
Ladder toLanguageProgram,Recognizedby UnitedWay ofMerrimackValley asone of thehonoringPartnerships
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educativos tales como News For You (unboletín para estudiantes de inglés) y Focus.
El segundo cuatrimestre les enseña a
redactar sus metas, más gramática, másescritura, grupos para estudiar y la lecturade la primera novela en inglés.
El tercer y último cuatrimestre es eldesarrollo de destrezas de estudios, másgramática, más vocabulario y alcanzar lasmetas establecidas para los primeros mesesmientras completan su portafolio deaprendizaje y logros.
Cambridge College agradece elpatrocinio en parte que hace posible queeste programa se implemente en Lawrence:United Way of Merrimack Valley y la Ciudadde Lawrence a través de los fondos deC.B.D.G. (block grants) y donacionesrecibidas por Cambridge College.
Sandra Blanes es la coordinadora delprograma, quien desarrolló el currículoeducativo del mismo y es la instructoraprincipal y modelo del programa. MaritzaGonzález es la asistente administrativa yalumna egresada del programa.
Para más información, favor de llamar aDolores Calaf al 978-314-3125.
El programa de Ladderto Language es un cursoinnovador en formaacelerada de inglés queconsiste de trescuatrimestres (ESOL,inglés como segundoidioma).
Pictured from the left are Dolores Calaf, Lawrence Campus director; Diane Franz, from the UnitedWay; Maritza Gonzalez, the program assistant; Sandra Blanes, the coordinator of the program;Timothy Schiavoni, President and CEO of United Way and next to him is Nichole Reimer, a UnitedWay volunteer who helped to organize the event.
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Por Alberto Surís
El sábado, 25 de marzo, 2006, más de 200 voluntarios, respondiendoal llamado de la Coalición Comunitaria de Lawrence/Methuen, sedispersaron por siete vecindarios de Lawrence en una operación masivade limpieza.
Los sitios envueltos en este operativo de limpieza fueron Alma/Bromfield/Myrtle, Saunders/Park, Garden/Orchard/Newbury, Whitman/Arlington, Tremont/Cross/West, Elizabeth/Lowell/Oxford y Walnut/Alder/Hampshire.
De acuerdo con Harold Magoon, el director de L/MCC. Este ha sidoel grupo más grande que se ha unido para llevar a cabo esta operación delimpieza desde la creación de L/MCC diez años atrás. “Nuestra próximacruzada se llevará a cabo el 22 de abril en la parte baja del barrio de TowerHill”, dijo Magoon.
By Alberto Surís
On Saturday, March 25, 2006, more than200 volunteers, responding the call madeby Lawrence/Methuen CommunityCoalition spread out through sevenLawrence neighborhoods in a massivecleanup operation.
The sites involved in the cleanupoperation were Alma/Bromfield/Myrtle,Saunders/Park, Garden/Orchard/Newbury,Whitman/Arlington, Tremont/Cross/West,Elizabeth/Lowell/Oxford and Walnut/Alder/Hampshire.
According to Harold Magoon, L/MCCdirector, this is the largest group evergathered for a cleanup effort since thecreation of L/MCC 10 years ago. “Our nextcrusade will take effect on April 22nd in thelower Tower Hill area”, said Magoon.
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Este grupo descansó por unmomento antes de continuar
barriendo la Calle Park.This group was taking a break
before continuing sweepingdown Park Street.
El no muy joven perotodavía lleno deenergía y buenespíritu comunitarioRev. Victor Jarvis,Presidente deAMEDAL, uniófuerzas con el grupode Jóvenes deSemana Hispana, ycepillo en mano, lesayudó a barrer laBroadway.
The CrusadeCommand Post was
located at TheArlington School.Pictured are Mr.America, L/MCCDirector Harold
Magoon,Community
Organizer DomingoMelendez, Hispanic
Week PresidentBrian DePeña and
South CommonCentral
NeighborhoodAssociation
President, EdAnderson with a
group of children,who participated in
the cleanupcrusade.
Junto a BrianDePeña, Presidentede Semana Hispana,miembros del Comité
Juvenil de SemanaHispana, que se
encargaron de barrerla Broadway desde la
Calle Park hasta laEssex.
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A través de varios años hemos seguido latrayectoria del joven Manny Acosta, residente deLowell y estudiante de la escuela superior.
Ha sido un gran placer ver a Manny crecer,desenvolviéndose en la escuela y en la sociedadcomo un verdadero ejemplo de nuestra juventud.
El 4 de abril Manny cumple sus 18 años deedad y el 2 de junio se gradúa de Lowell HighSchool. Sus padres son Rogelio y Vicky Acosta yellos son responsables de que su hijo haya sido tanbien encaminado.
“Yo doy gracias a Dios y a mis padres que medieron todo el amor que necesito para seguiradelante. Gracias a ellos he llegado a la cumbre,con sus buenos consejos. A ellos les debo todo loque soy. Son unos padres ejemplares,” nos dijoManny.
Le deseamos muchas felicidades junto a sufamilia.
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16 - RUMBO | www.rumbonews.com Lawrence, MA | Abril 1, 2006
By Alberto Surís
“Hope is back”, said City ofHaverhill Mayor James J. Fiorentini ina packed City Councilors Chambers onTuesday, March 21, 2006.
Fiorentini concentrated his speechin the revitalization of downtown andin the rising health care costs in hisState of the City address, which wasbroadcast live on the governmenttelevision channel.
The Mayor told the public thatcontrolling health care costs is criticalto de city’s long term fiscal stability.The Mayor said that health care coststhis year would be as much as the entirecost of the police, fire department andHale debt, combined.
Read Mayor James J.Fiorentini’s speech in its
entirety.
HaverhillMayorJames J.Fiorentinigave hisstate of thecity address
Good evening and thank you forlistening. I want to start by thanking thecity council for their hard work, and Iparticularly want to thank the public for thegreat honor and privilege of serving you asyour Mayor.
When I first addressed you a little overtwo years ago, Haverhill faced anunprecedented fiscal crisis. We stood onthe verge of losing the accreditation for ourhigh school.
Our fire stations were closed, our librarythreatened with closure and the newspaperswere filled with stories that our city mightbecome the first city in twenty-five years togo into receivership.
Two years ago, we were a city wheresome people had lost all hope for tomorrow.Our citizens spoke only about was what wehad lost — our hospital, our downtown, ourradio station, and our college in Bradford.Today, we see a new and different Haverhillthan we faced only two years ago, and weface new and different challenges. Today,we no longer speak of what we lostyesterday. Today, Haverhill is alive, andpeople are daring to dream of tomorrow.
The Haverhill renaissance is on its way,and Haverhill is moving forward.
This renaissance in Haverhill did notjust happen. It took a great group of cityemployees, who worked harder and longer
The State of the city of Haverhill, 2006“HOPE IS BACK”
Mayor James J. FiorentiniTuesday, March 21, 2006
to provide the public with service, eventhough there are 55 fewer employees thanthere were three years ago.
It took a great group of volunteers whomake up our boards and agencies. It tookvolunteers throughout the city who steppedup to the plate and put in countless hourshelping our city in so many different ways.Thank you, all of you.
It took the city council to vote to rezonedowntown and to loosen parkingrequirements. And, most of all, it took apublic that was willing to make sacrifices tokeep our city going. Thank you, all of you,for your sacrifices.
Two years ago, we outlined a new planto expand our tax base. Our strategy wassimple—if you make Haverhill livable, youattract more people, and those people, inturn, will attract more business.
We bought new street sweepers fordowntown and we worked with a wonderfulgroup of volunteers from Haverhill’sBrightside to keep our city cleaner. Weplanted the first trees in decades, and webrought in the first disease-resistant elmtrees in over half a century.
We worked with our police departmentto set up a local Gang Task force, and usedblock grant money to add more patrols tohigh crime neighborhoods. Today, crime isdown for the second year in a row.
SchoolsA key part of improving our quality of
life is to improve public education. Last year,we worked with the school committee tobecome only the second city in the entireState to institute mandatory summer schoolfor our students. We sent a clear messageto our children—if you don’t pass, we won’tgive you a free pass to the next grade.
We spent millions of dollars on the highschool and reversing decades of neglect toour middle and lower schools. This year, forthe first time in four decades, our childrenwill have fully equipped state of the artscience labs. We brought back the middleschool band program, added more teachersat the high school and tried to do a betterjob of stressing the good points in oursystem. Then we worked with our school
SEE STATE OF THE CITY:CONT. ON PAGE 22
Our strategy wassimple—if you makeHaverhill livable, youattract more people,and those people, inturn, will attract morebusiness.
Some of the friends celebratingSgt. Ryan Shafer’s recentpromotion held a surpriseddinner at Beijing Restaurant:Standing from the left, VinnieDoyle, James Ross, Sgt. RyanShafer, Sgt. John Cronin, HaroldMagoon, and Robert Kneeland,Jr. Seated were: James Hoole,Ely Nieves and Gloria Schwarz.He received proclamations fromthe Senate, the House ofRepresentatives and even onefrom Governor Mitt Romney forhis efforts with the CommunityPolicing.
CONGRATULATIONSSGT. SHAFER!
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That was the cry heard all around theState of Massachusetts by benevolentpoliticos and developers. It chokes me up!
With 40B being shown for the dirtyrotten deal it really is, it is time to revisitthese projects and expose them for whatamounted to profit-mongering individualsmaking a killing and not giving a crap aboutthe LESS FORTUNATE AND THECHILDREN.
Coming soon, my friend at the Globe,Christine McConville is going to lay out allthe dirty details.
Dirty details she discovered whiledoing research right here in the lovelyconfines of Methuen, in my dining room!
Let’s start with the Mar-Lin AKA MillsFalls Apartments. First, let me recap whathas already transpired. In order for thisdeveloper to slam in 97 units, an inordinateamount of variances and special permitshad to be granted.
NO PROBLEM JUST SAY THE MAGICWORDS 40B. It’s like abracadabra!
Now when the Mills Falls ApartmentProject was constructed it was toencompass 40% middle to low income, withapproximately 10 kids living in the building.Just the other day I happened to be behind
a school bus, and witnessed 25 childrendebark.
According to the Draft 2004Department of Housing and CommunityDevelopment CH40B Subsidized HousingInventory, all 97 units are subsidized.
I have no problem with helping thosethat are less fortune. What these residentshave to put up with because they are lessfortune is behavior and conditions that noneof us would endure. In fact, the conditionsare downright dangerous.
The interior layout of the Mills FallsHousing Project is maze-like. To get to someof the apartments, you have to ride up inthe elevator then walk down some stairs togain access.
Who gets approval for projects as illthought out as this? The whole idea is toget as many units in as possible, or for thatmatter as impossible.
Remember, I wrote about it years ago,(“The Toxic Towering Inferno”) thedeveloper was going belly up when the cityof Methuen had to arrange for a firefighterto sleep over because the fire overrideswitch used in case of emergency, was inthe basement and not on the ground flooras defined and ordered in code regulations.
Sharon M.oney Pollard’s regime waschock full of all these back-room deals; thisone so illegal occupancy permits could beissued. Mayor Manzi was a member of thatteam; remember he sat on old shar’s knee.
The magic Occupancy Permits weredone under the tutelage of William (BabyBuck) Buckley.
Just because they were issuing illegaloccupancy permits to residents does notmean that they were not genuinelyconcerned for the less fortunate and thechildren!
After all they did arrange for a firefighterto sleep over every night in a big ass recliner,with a big ass TV screen to protect the lessfortunate and the children!
Behind the scenes the politicos are wellaware that if a fire were to occur when theparking lot is full, Methuen’s ladder truckcannot get in the parking lot and deploy thestabilizers, in order to extend the ladder. Onthe other side of the building exists awaterfall. NOW ADD SNOW!
If you take a cruise by the Mills FallsApartment, you will notice that there is stilla gaping hole in the fence on the upper pondpart of the falls, and no fence on the lowerplummeting part of the falls. The missing
fence has been there for years, in fact sincethe project was completed. I wrote about ita long time ago; yet nothing has been done.
How come others are plummeted intothe ground for having code violations ontheir property, yet this is a totally subsidized,by our tax dollars building, and yet nothingis done to protect THE LESS FORTUNATEAND THE CHILDREN!
By the way, this gaping hole can beseen daily by Mayor William M. Manzi III,as he gazes out his back window at his liquor
For the less fortunateand the children
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SEE ELLEN BAHAN:CONT. ON PAGE 18
I have been watchingsince the first shovelfull of dirt was removedfrom this project. It isin my neighborhood.Not once have I seenanyone patrolling thegrounds. Whoever it is,must be keeping a reallow profile. Hassomeone checked thatbig ass recliner lately?
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SEE SPIN THE WHEEL:CONT. ON PAGE 24
By Ellen Bahan
That’s, the fully-funded by thetaxpayers 1.5 million dollar footbridge,connecting two private properties, BillyManzi, our mayor’s liquor store and 97units of a low-income subsidized housingproject.
Billy has won the lottery! Hit thejackpot. Grabbed the brass ring. Perhapshe can now gussy up his building a bit,maybe buy some letters from Vanna forthe front façade.
Ahhhhh! Vanna, I’d like to buy an E.Spin again Billy!
So, when you see Billy, the mediamogul of the daily record ofadvertisement, death, Dear Abby andhoroscope appearing with a studded starcast of state politicos who’s who, you’llknow what being on the in gets you!Vanna, I’d like to buy a B. Spin againBilly!
A fully-funded taxpayer giftconnecting two private properties,benefiting a miniscule portion of thepopulation of Methuen, not to mentionthe even more miniscule population of thestate and country who will get to traversethe BILLYBRIDGE.
It was your local, state and federalofficials who stupidly allocated thesefunds, this ludicrous waste of taxpayerfunds, which believe me has been pointedout to them many times. Vanna I’d like tobuy an R. Spin again Billy!
So when you see our politicos,Broadhurst, Baddour, Meehan, Riley, allposing for pictures with our mayor Billy(Bridgeboy) Manzi, it is plain to see thatthey have no business, managing ourmoney, they cannot be trusted to act inthe people’s best interest.
Hell, they can’t even be trusted tofollow the rules and not use publicresources to promote their sorryendeavors for public office!
Can I have a D, Vanna? Billy, this isyour lucky day. Spin again, I’d like to buya vowel. Can I buy an I?
I’d like to solve the puzzle, after allthe people of Methuen have been waitinga long time to hear me say this. Vannadoes it spell BRIDGE!
Billy Manzi you have won thejackpot! Tell us how you did it? Or isthat a secret? I love secrets!
Loyal readers, I will keep you postedas to the progress of the BILLYBRIDGE.I’ll bet there will be cost overruns!
Now Billy, you might have enoughmoney to spin the wheel, grab some of
those missing letters for the front of yourliquor store, how bout an S for Rostron’s, aU for liquors and an O for cold.
Wait, don’t spend your own money (likeyou ever would!) When the 1.5 million dollarbridge is complete, there will probably besome façade money available to do over yourbuilding. It would be a shame for ustaxpayers to spend all that money on theBILLYBRIDGE, and you not having arevolving door right off the bridge into yourstore!
Here are some letters Vanna wants youto buy for the front of your store. M A N ZI W O R L D G A T E W A Y T O TH E B R I D G E!
PS. Billy, Katherine Robinson, AKA HistoricDistrict Commission has an old articledetailing just what your store needs!PSS. Is there a part time job for Matty K. inManzi World? Perhaps oiling the revolvingdoor.
Watch for a very special MCTV, channel22 “It’s All About Right(s)” television showcoming soon.
Back Seat MayorKinda like a back seat driver. Don’t
they just drive you crazy?I realize that the people have spoken;
Billy won, and it did cost him $81,000! Itbrings a tear to my eye, and I’ll bet it madeBilly sob!
Billy likes to pride himself in the factthat he raised the most money, gleaned over70 percent of the vote, Billy considers thatvalidation. But that still does not preventme from telling over 2300 voters who votedfor me, how it would have been different IFI WERE MAYOR!
I tried to give Billy a chance, but he’slooking more and more like old shareveryday. Let me list some of things I wouldnot be doing.
I would not be supporting that bumReilly! He has made a secret pact with thebig dig rape and pillagers, which infuriatedme! He gives his buddies and campaigncontributors a get-out-of-jail free card.
It has become apparent that Reilly willnot be perusing old shar when it comes tobreaking every law and rule of the 401(c)3regulations; first the doughboy DA dropsthe ball and now the AG. Ask me if I amsurprised. Reilly must be busy, pouring overchoosing a new running mate.
I would suspect that there are manylocal, state and federal officials whobreathed a sigh of relief when I lost my bid
for mayor. It is a known fact that I do notplay with others. When I see their utterlack of regard for those of whom they aresupposed to serve. I am talking aboutyou MARTY!
Billy, I would not be lookingperplexed, standing next to Steve Baddourat the rotary wondering how in heavenwe were going to get the funds to fix therotary.
I know where I could have found 1.5million dollars that was allocatederroneously, to benefit two privateowners, to build a footbridge connecting97 units of low income housing to a liquorstore.
I would have asked Gaylord, guru ofthe Merrimack Valley PlanningCommission just what the hell hisorganization was doing. Just how it isyou earn your money? I believe that theMVPC’s estimate on how much it wouldcost to fix the rotary was between 1 millionand over 20 million. Really nailed thatdown Gaylord, and obviously earnedevery cent of which you are paid!
I would never have hired Matty Kfor a whopping 77k when the boy showedme nothing all the while he sat asrepresentative of the east end. Folks,remember years ago when I had Matty Kdressed in an orange hunting suit so atleast we knew he was sitting there at thecouncil meetings.
It sets a real poor precedent when anew hire is catapulted to the top of thesalary cap without proving himself. Sorry,he did prove himself to be a loser lawyer,ever striving for the public spout. I amstill wondering how he made out over atand I Tewksbury State Hospital.
There would be no red light cameraswould have admonished the chief forresearching only the pro side AKA moneyside and not taken into consideration thatinstalling these cameras increases theaccidents where our citizens could be putin danger.
The dawwg’s position (Deputy ChiefAlaimo) would be eliminated; Solomonwould have to get another chauffer.Molori would not be relegated to thecellar, he would be relegated out the door!
I would be seriously wondering if allthe development on the west side, PelhamStreet would indeed be my BROOKS
SPIN THE WHEEL!The Billybridge has been started!
ELLEN BAHAN:CONT. FROM PAGE 17
store and looks toward Mills FallsApartment Project.
I suspect that he does not even seethis major violation; he can’t get pastenvisioning the 1.5 million dollar footbridgeconnecting his liquor store to the housingproject.
While Billy is gazing out the window,he needs to move his glance toward the left,down toward Representative ArthurBroadhurst’s building also connected to the1.5 million dollar footbridge.
It is plain as day, the fence iscompletely missing from the edge of theparking lot. It would be very easy for oneof the LESS FORTUNATE AND THECHILDREN, to step over the knee-highbarrier in place to prevent cars from fallingover the edge.
The plummet after stepping over theknee-high barrier is straight about 25 feetinto the falls.
We protect the cars, but to hell withthe children.
For God sakes, how much more can thepublic expect?
The politicos and developers arealready being damn benevolent, they areslamming in these gargantuan projects, (PieHill), exclusively for the LESS FORTUNATEAND THE CHILDREN.
40 B is such a sweet deal, until youread the small print, the print where we thetaxpayer/citizens hold them accountablemaking them pay back above and beyondthe 20% profit, which according to theguidelines is the maximum profit allowable.Now that would be some mitigation money!
It would only begin to remedy thehavoc these bad projects that have beenfoisted on us with the miracle of 40B.
Let me list for my loyal readers whatthese benevolent politicos and developersconceded to the citizens in the final plansfor the residents’ safety.
Supposedly decreed in the ZBA finalapproval of this project included a guardon duty patrolling the parking lot 24 hours.
I have been watching since the firstshovel full of dirt was removed from thisproject. It is in my neighborhood. Not oncehave I seen anyone patrolling the grounds.Whoever it is, must be keeping a real lowprofile. Has someone checked that big assrecliner lately?
I spoke with a resident, who by the waygot the hell out of dodge. She informed methat almost every morning when leaving forwork, someone’s car had been vandalizedand could be seen sitting up on blocks.
This person was one of the luxuryrenters of the building, which had meconfused since, according to statisticssupplied by the City; the entire building isnow section 8.
You don’t think that the managementcompany in charge of the building is dupingthe State do you? I can tell you they arenot plowing when there is snow.
I guess the under-privileged do notcomplain when their vehicles are vandalized,or if the fire alarm was blaring last New Year’sEve for two hours.
That would attribute to why thiscontinuous vandalism and other sundriesare not listed in the daily police logs.
Maybe, the daily record ofadvertisement, death, Dear Abby andhoroscope has not noticed a pattern ofvandalism. Is Jim Patten still on the policebeat? Again I ask, has anyone checked thebig ass recliner lately?
Did anybody catch several weeks ago,the oxycontin scam that was broken up inNo. Andover? The girls resided at the MillsFalls Apartment Project.
Now that we have ascertained howconcerned our politicos are and how theirpartnering developer friends have gone outon a limb and displayed their concern forthe LESS FORTUNATE AND THECHILDREN, let me add the clincher. While
the City of Methuen was in the throes of anelection, the ZBA approved a microwave-radiating antenna to be installed in thecupola of the Mills Falls Housing Project.
Many of you know that microwaveradiating antennas is how I was catapultedinto the middle of the stall at Methuen’stown politicos back room deals. That iswhere it all started about ten years ago.
The ZBA recently outdid themselves
and overrode Methuen’s zoning by-law togrant yet another variance and specialpermit, in addition to the plethora ofvariances and special permits that hadalready been granted for the Mills FallsHousing Project, exclusively built for theLESS FORTUNATE AND THE CHILDREN.
SEE ELLEN BAHAN:CONT. ON PAGE 26
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Merrimack Valley Chamber ofCommerce president/CEO Joseph J.Bevilacqua has been elected Chairmanof the Board of the North of BostonConvention and VisitorsBureau (NOBCVB) for the year 2006-07.
Under Bevilacqua’s leadership, theNOBCVB will work in conjunction withthe Mass Office of Travel andTourism, seeking to strengthen theeconomic impact of tourism and thehospitality industry throughout the 34cities and towns it represents from theGreater Lawrence and Haverhill area toGreater Newburyport and Salisbury toGreater Salem and Marblehead and toGreater Gloucester andRockport, promoting theregion’s natural, historic, andrecreational opportunities andresources to both domestic andinternational visitors .
Bevilacqua was elected atNOBCVB’s annual conference andmeeting in March. His election followshis leadership as twice electedChairman of the New England WideChambers of Commerce Association;Chairman of the StatewideMassachusetts Association ofChamber of Commerce Executives,Chairman of the StatewideMassachusetts EconomicDevelopment Council, etc. Bevilacquapreviously was appointed to theMassachusetts Office of Travel andTourism steering committee to developa new statewide strategic plan forMassachusetts tourism.
Bevilacqua, president/CEO of theMerrimack Valley Chamber ofCommerce, has led the chamber as itsmembership has grown from about 400members in 1992 to well over 1,000members today, making the MerrimackValley Chamber the largest, mosteffective chamber in the MerrimackValley. Bevilacqua stated that his election asChairman of the North of Boston CVBis a direct reflection of the work of theboard of directors and membership ofthe Merrimack Valley Chamber ofCommerce.
Bevilacqua stated, “I am honoredto have been nominated and elected tolead the NOBCVB, and look forward tocontinuing and developingcollaboration, partnership andachievement within these 34 cities andtowns from around the north of Bostonregion.
Bevilacqua is married to Toni Annand is the father of two boys, JosephLouis and Michael Anthony, and is aHaverhill School Committeeman andformer Economic Development Directorfor the City of Haverhill.
Joseph J.BevilacquaelectedChairman ofthe NOBCVBBoard ofDirectors
The MerrimackValley EnvironmentalCoalition and FamilyService, Inc. havebeen presentingworkshops for Valleyresidents on ways toreduce exposure tocommon toxins used inthe home. In addition,many area day carestaff members andothers who work withchildren have takenpart in more intensiveeight-hour trainings onthe topic of protectingchildren and familiesform indoor andoutdoor air toxins. Thecurriculum wasdeveloped cooperatively by Family Service,the environmental coalition, and Toxics UseReduction Institute of UMass Lowell undera project funded by the U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency.
Workshop leaders report that we areexposed daily to toxic chemicals throughour use of common household productssuch as personal care products, cleaningsupplies, cosmetics, pesticides, paints, andsolvents..
Approximately 80,000 industrialchemicals are currently in commercial usein the United States, and a growing body ofevidence is emerging about the negativehealth impacts of exposure to some of thesechemicals. For example, many classes ofchemicals, and metals (such as lead andmercury), pesticides, solvents, andproduction byproducts, as well as emissionsfrom incinerators and factories, have beenlinked to a range of health effects, includingcancer and reproductive or developmentaldisabilities. Some substances are alsoharmful to a child’s developing brain bothbefore birth and throughout childhood.
Workshops Teach How toReduce Toxins Inside andOutside the Home
Even chemicals that are short-lived inthe body can contribute to significanthealth risks if we are exposed to themregularly through products that we useeveryday. For example, toxic cleaningchemicals are linked to asthma attacks andcancer, and can damage our hormone andnervous systems. Dangerous solvents arefound in some cleaning products andcosmetics.
At the AmesburyElementary School, Ms.McNulty’s 3rd grade classhas been trying outrecipes for safercleaning products. Thestudents are using thisproject in the town-widescience fair to be held inearly April.
The age groups most vulnerable todamage from such toxins are children andfetuses from conception on, though theelderly are also much affected. Women ofchildbearing age need to take extraprecautions to avoid unnecessary exposure.The only way to effectively reduce our bodyburden is to reduce the production and useof harmful chemicals, and replace them withsafer alternatives.
Learn theFascinating
and TrueStory of How
Baseball got itsFirst Commissioner
as part of the NECC White Fund LectureSeries
Just in time for baseball season -come find out just exactly How BaseballGot a Commissioner when author DonaldGropman presents his original researchduring the White Fund EnlightenmentSeries presented by Northern EssexCommunity College on Sunday, April 9,at 2 p.m. Free and open to the public, theprogram will be held in the White FundRoom located at Northern Essex’sLawrence Extension Site, 78-82 AmesburyStreet.
His presentation is based onresearch into the events leading up to thenaming of Judge Kenesaw MountainLandis as the first baseball commissioner
History of Baseballin 1921. Gropman will strip away the mythicversion-the official story is that the actionwas in response to the 1919 Black Soxscandal - and tell the true story behind it.Those attending the presentation willdiscover a real life drama played out by clubowners and executives who were primarilydriven by arrogance, vindictiveness, greed,and revenge.
Gropman is the author of several books,including Say It Ain’t So, Joe, widelyregarded as the definitive biography ofShoeless Joe Jackson. Originally publishedby Little, Brown & Co. in 1979, it remains inprint to this day. Gropman’s work hasappeared in numerous periodicals and suchprize anthologies as The Best of YankeeMagazine and The Best American ShortStories. He is currently at work on abiography of Judge Kenesaw MountainLandis.
The White Fund’s purpose is to have afree series of interactive presentations forLawrence area adults, youth, and children.The audience is encouraged to seek
wisdom, cultural enrichment andintellectual enhancement by attendingand participating. Funded by a generousfinancial gift from the Honorable DanielAppleton White, the White Fund LectureSeries has provided cultural conversationfeaturing well-known lecturers in fieldssuch as history, literature, travel, the arts,and politics. The White Fund iscollaborating with Northern Essex on thisseries.
For additional information or toreceive a calendar of upcoming events inthe White Fund Enlightenment Series,call 978-556-3700.
For directions to NECC’s LawrenceExtension Campus, located at 78-82Amesbury Street, visit the college’swebsite www.necc.mass.edu and click-onmaps and directions at the top of the homepage. Parking is available behind thebuilding. Additional parking is availableat the Buckley Garage which is across thestreet from the campus. Parking is free tothose attending NECC events.
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14th Annual FestivalWill Show Films from13 Countries
The fourteenth annual ProvidenceLatin American Film Festival (PLAFF) willtake place from April 22 to 29, 2006 inProvidence, Rhode Island. All films will beshown at the Rhode Island School of DesignAuditorium, 17 Canal Street with selectedscreenings at the Cable Car Cinema, 204South Main Street.
This year the festival focuses on LatinAmerican films that celebrate music anddance – from fresh trends in ArgentineTango, to the very Mexican narcocorrido,made popular by the group Los Tigres delNorte, to the touching stories and soundsof immigrant musicians performingunderground in the subways of Madrid.
“We are thrilled to be celebrating our14th year,” said Olga Juzyn, Festival Director.She continued, “This year’s roster includesfilms that focus on some of the mostbeautiful, powerful music and dance fromLatin America. There is rich diversity in thecultures that will be represented during theentire week, and audiences are going havea rare opportunity to meet the artists andsee the New England premieres of somewonderful, exciting films.”
PLAFF is one of the few local LatinAmerican events that is pan-national, andstrives to balance local, community andhemispheric interests. Throughout itsfourteen years, the Festival has broughtfilms from every Latin American country, aswell as co-productions with the UnitedStates, Canada and Spain. A lack ofdistribution, both here and in Latin America,has made the Providence festival a creativerefuge for Latin American directors offeature-length and short films, anddocumentaries. It is also one of only ahandful of juried Latin American filmfestivals in the country, offering prizes invarious categories. Juried by aninternational group of established Latin-American directors, festival directors andother prominent figures in the world ofLatin-American Cinema, the awards help toattract filmmakers from around the world.
Among the awards are the FernandoBirri First Works Competition, established
in honor of the Argentine filmmaker whoreceived the festival’s Lifetime AchievementAward in 2003, as well as category awardssuch as Best Picture, Best Actor andActress, Best Screenplay, BestCinematography, Best Soundtrack, BestEditing, and Best Music. The jury for thecompetitions will include: Josué Méndez(Perú, director of 2005 PLAFF prize-winningFirst Work), Rolando Pardo (Argentina,filmmaker), Florence Jaguey (Nicaragua,documentary filmmaker), Katherine Klassen(Canada, filmmaker), José Barriga (Boston,Director of the Boston Latino Film Festival).
Each year, the PLAFF presents recentlyproduced feature films, short subjects,documentaries, first works in competition,and discussions by prominent LatinAmerican producers, directors, and writers.Moviegoers of all ages can have the rareopportunity to preview films that have notentered commercial movie circuits. TheFestival also hosts art exhibits, musicalentertainment, and activities for children.All films are sub-titled. Ticket prices are$5.00 per show or $25.00 all-week Cine-Pass.Special group rates can also be arranged.
The festival will kick off withTango: AStrange Turn, a film that promises to changeperceptions about tango genre in today’sArgentina, where young people add jeansand “rockera” attitude to this traditionalstyle and; and Suite Habana, a mesmerizingfilm about residents of Old Havana tryingto cope with life’s difficulties through art.
Other exciting films are Elsa & Fred anenchanting romantic comedy about a coupleof octogenarians whose children frownupon their impetuous love affair. Say GoodMorning to Dad, about the town where CheGuevara’s remains were secretly buried,
Providence Latin American FilmFestival Announces 2006Schedule
offers Rhode Island audiences the rareopportunity to see a Bolivian production.Also the Festival is thrilled to present acomedy (a rare genre in the film festivalcircuit) from Argentina about two estrangedhalf brothers reunited by their father whoasks them for an unusual favor.
The exhibition of documentaries takean honest look at life in today’s LatinAmerica. Film in this category hail fromNicaragua, Argentina, Mexico, Israel,Venezuela.
Films for children include Viaje a Marte(Travel to Mars), an animation fromArgentina about a child who wants to visitMars. His imagination and his grandfather’sred tow truck take him on a wild journey.The original and colorful visuals will delightboth parents and children alike. As part ofthe animation program, PLAFF will offer ananimation workshop for children (ages 8 to12) led by Manga Latina Productions basedin Montreal, Canada, founded by HenriqueVera Villanueva. Two of their featureanimations, “Piñatas” and “Killer on theLoose” , soon to be broadcast by MTVLatino, will be screened at the festival.
For the third consecutive year theFestival is offering a filmmaking workshopfor youth. This year the Festival ispartnering with the Met School, wherePeruvian filmmaker Josué Méndez, winnerof the 2006 Fernando Birri Prize for Best FirstWork will work with students at the school.
As always the Festival brings films thatshowcase the cultural diversity of LatinAmerica. Next Year… in Argentina, anIsraeli-Argentine production focuses on theexperiences of Argentine Jews who mustgrapple with the painful issues ofemigration. Co-director Jorge Gurvich willtravel to Providence from Israel to lead apost-screening discussion with theaudience.
Rhode Island has a population of morethan 100,000 Hispanics, and with itsdiversity of cultures. Living in and aroundProvidence are Bolivians, Dominicans,Puerto Ricans, Guatemalans, Mexicans,Colombians, and Brazilians. To festivaloffers Latino communities a valuableopportunity to reconnect with their origins.
This year, PLAFF was awardedsubstantial grants from the NationalEndowment for the Arts and the RhodeIsland State Council on the Arts (amongother sponsors), to help ensure that thefestival will continue to gain recognition anddraw audiences from all over New England.
For more information about theFestival, visit www.latin-americanfilmfestival.org.
For more information about activitiesin Providence visit www.providenceri.com.
The Providence Latin American FilmFestival was founded in Providence, RI in1993 as a non-profit organization. Its missionis to promote greater awareness andappreciation of excellence andachievement in Latin American motionpicture arts through public screenings aswell as educational and other culturalprograms, and thereby to celebrate thevitality and creative contributions of LatinAmerican culture.
Each April, the Festival organizes anannual week-long film festival presentingthe best productions of Latin America.
The outreach for the affordableunit lottery has begun for the long-anticipated Foundry Squaredevelopment in Newburyport, MA.The lottery is being conducted by JTERealty Associates and will take placeon May 25, 2006 at the NewburyportCity Hall Auditorium. There will beinformation sessions, on April 11 andon April 24 at 7:00PM at theNewburyport City Hall Auditoriumwhere interested parties can learn moreabout the development, the lotteryprocess and eligibility requirements.Applications are now available atNewburyport City Hall or theNewburyport Public Library or bywriting to JTE Realty Associates, P. O.Box 955, North Andover, Ma. 01845.
Designed by Newburyportarchitecture firm, WoodmanAssociates, and constructed by MetricConstruction Corporation, thedevelopment calls for the completedemolition of the former Albert Russell& Sons Foundry building and theconstruction of four new buildings.The development will consist of 20units of for sale housing, 13 of whichwill be affordable to first timehomebuyers earning below 80% ofAMI. The base price for a one-bedroomunit will be $167,500, $192,500 for a two-bedroom unit, and $210,000 for a three-bedroom unit. The remaining sevenunits will be market rate units, five ofwhich are already under Purchase andSale agreements.
“Foundry Square is an excitingdevelopment for Newburyport,” saidAbby Goldenfarb, Project Manager forTrinity Financial, the developer. “Theunits are well designed, thelandscaping will be beautiful and theproximity to historical downtownNewburyport makes this developmentextremely appealing.”
The Foundry Square developmentwas made possible when the City ofNewburyport issued an RFP for the sitein 2002. Trinity Financial wasdesignated developer by the City ofNewburyport because of its impressiveteam and its past experience in creatingaffordable housing units. The totalproject cost is approximately $7.2million and funding sources include:the Commonwealth of MassachusettsDepartment of Housing and CommunityDevelopment, MassHousing, theNorth Shore Home Consortium, the Cityof Newburyport, the NewburyportCommunity Preservation Committee,Bank of America, and revenue from thesale of the housing units. The market-rate units are being offered by JerryLischke and Lela Lischke Wright ofStone Ridge Properties.
Lotteryoutreachbegins for 13affordableunits atNewburyport’sFoundrySquare
Living in and aroundProvidence areBolivians, Dominicans,Puerto Ricans,Guatemalans,Mexicans, Colombians,and Brazilians.
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Mr. B's Sports MemoriesMr. B's Sports MemoriesMr. B's Sports MemoriesMr. B's Sports MemoriesMr. B's Sports Memories
By Frank Benjamin
With FredSimm toeing therubber Methuen gotready to meet theNorth Lawrence BabeRuth entry in gameone of this best of fiveseries. Fred’s son Eric
is now the starting Quarterback for theSalem NH Blue Devils for his secondstraight year.
Fred senior played that position atMethuen High while performing hi threesports at that school. He later playedcollege baseball at Westfield and hit wellover 300 in his collegiate career. TheCharlie Beaudette coached Methuenitesbatting order was as follows Simm pitcher,Mike Solomon ss, Mike Ness cf, GaryRuffen 2b, Hajjar c, Haynes rf, Healy 3b,Jeff Weinhold Ib and Eaton in If.
Lawrence answered with now aCentral Catholic Hall of Famer and workerfor the local post office Mike Donohuess, Dave Robinson a 3 sporter later at LHSwas the pitcher. Chuck Ead C, BobbyBerndston cf, Sammatero in If, Castillo 2b,Mannion 3b, Rappazzo Ib, and Cavarettarf. Simm leads of the first inning with asharp single and goes to second on anerror and third on a passed ball. MikeSolomon looks at ball four and stealssecond. Gary Ruffen lays down a nicebunt and Simm and Solomon both scoreas the pitcher throws the ball into rf.
In the second Jim Healy reaches onan error and Jeff Weinhold on a fielder’schoice, Freddie Eaton lashes a hard singleto cf and and Healey crosses the plateand so does Eaton as Lawrence isthrowing the ball around and makingcostly errors.
Mike Donohue singles to start thethird for Lawrence and Chuckie Ead is hitby a Simm pitch, Berndston drives inDonohue and Ead scores on a wild pitch.Donohue opens the fourth with a walkand stole second, Ead hit’s a rope to rfand Mike comes across the plate and it’s4-3 Methuen. In the Methuen sixth it’s
back to back singles by Healy andWeinhold, Eaton sacrifices moving bothrunners up and Mike Solomon hitsRobinson curve ball to right scoring bothHealy and Weinhold.
The Lawrence team loaded the basesin the seventh and Simm showed histoughness as he got the hitter to fly outto cf with Mike Ness making a fine catchto end the ballgame with Methuen takinggame one of this best of five series.
Game two will be played at the MarkDevlin Field in Lawrence the followingnight Fred Simms rang up 10 strikeoutson the night and gave up six base on ballsin his complete game seven inningperformance while allowing 6 hits.
Robinson surrendered only 5 hits butshoddy fielding by his mates proved tobe his down fall. Mike Donohue was theonly batter on either team to get two hitsin the game. The final score was 6-3Methuen.
Simm now a registered football officialhad one hit and so did Solomon, Healy,Weinhold and Eaton for Methuen.Lawrence was led by Donohue with 2 hits,Robinson, Berndston, Mannion andRapazzo each had one.
The Beaudettemen won a hardfought game over Lawrence to open whatlooks to be a tough series. Charlie ofSouth Lawrence is now retired from TyerRubber and a long coaching job with hispal Billy Blood in Methuen baseball. Forhis loyalty to Methuen sports he wasinducted into the high school Hall ofFame. A better than average bowler formany years he can be seen at many athleticevents wearing his blue baseball hat withthe white “M” for his adopted City.
Windsor Green at AndoverAndover, Massachusetts
is currently accepting applications for placement on its waiting lists for 48 units ofaffordable housing currently under construction. Anticipated occupancy is scheduled for
late April through July, 2006 for the following unit sizes: 43 units will be rented tohouseholds at 80% or below current area median income limits (AMI) for: 3-1BR units and40-2BR units; 5 units will be rented to households at 50% or below current area medianincome limits for: 1-1BR unit, 2-2BR units, 2-3BR units. In order to qualify, gross annual
household income cannot exceed the following income limits per household size:
1-BR rents $703-$1,087; 2-BR rents $840-$1,301; 3-BR rents $966Heat and HW is included in rent. Housing applications may be obtained at:
Windsor Green at Andover Management Office, 311 Lowell Street, Andover, MA01810 = or by telephone at (866) 818 - 5700. Applications will be accepted bymail or can be hand delivered to the above address beginning March 3, 2006
ANDOVER GREEN IS AN EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY PROVIDER
INCOME LIMITS
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LOW INCOME(80% OF AMI)
ONEPERSON
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TWOPERSON
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THREEPERSON
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FOURPERSON
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FIVEPERSON
42,250
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SIXPERSON
45,350
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SEVENPERSON
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EIGHTPERSON
51,600
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Babe Ruth Leagueaction in August 1971
Haverhill MayorFiorentini welcomesBluecanoe to Ward HillGrand Openingcelebration
Mike Donohue wasthe only batter oneither team to get twohits in the game. Thefinal score was 6-3Methuen.
A Grand Opening Celebration for thenewest Bluecanoe store is scheduled forMarch 15 at 10:30 a.m.
Haverhill Mayor James J. Fiorentini willbe attending, along with Wil Carpenter, VicePresident of Sales and Services from theMerrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce.The Bluecanoe is located at 44 Knipe Roadin Haverhill.
The Bluecanoe location featuresdelicious Subway sandwiches that areavailable from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. There is anon-site bakery so that the muffins, bananabread and baked goods are the freshest youcan buy.
‘We have 12 fueling stations toaccommodate our customers, and an ATMstation,” said Harry Hadiaris, Irving’sDirector of Convenience Retail Operations.The Ward Hill Subway offers fresh made-to-order sandwiches, fresh pasta salads,personal pizzas, green salads and soups.
“We’ve made our bakery and Subwayofferings the focal point of our Ward Hilllocation,” said Alvin Bugbee, Manager ofConvenience Retail Operations. ‘We inviteWard Hill residents and travelers to stop in,meet our friendly staff, including our
From the left: Ben Bolen, Area Sales Manager, Irving Oil; Mike Thompson, Senior OperationsManager, Irving Oil; Shane Hall, Ward Hill Bluecanoe Manager; Mayor of Haverhill James J.Fiorentini; Joseph Bevilacqua, President & CEO, Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce; HaverhillState Representative Brian S. Dempsey; and Mike Crosby, COO, Irving Oil.
manager Shane Hall, and check out the storefor yourselves.”
The new Bluecanoe is open 24 hoursevery day. Knipe Road - or Route 125 - isjust off Route 495, exit 48, whether you aretraveling north or south.
About IrvingFounded in 1924, Irving Oil is the
regional refining and marketing companyfocused on customer service and supplychain management. Irving has been servingcustomers in New England since openingits first site in Bangor, Maine in 1972. Thecompany now serves customers at its IrvingMainway convenience stores and withhome heat and wholesale operationsthroughout Maine, New Hampshire,Vermont, and Massachusetts. Irving’smarketing office is located in Portsmouth,New Hampshire. Irving also operates a 25-acre marine terminal in Revere, Mass. In2003, Irving Oil became the first oil companyto ever receivp a US EnvironmentalProtection Agency’s Clean Air Excellenceaward, for introducing low sulfur gasolinethree years ahead of regulations.
During April Vacation Week at theCurrier Museum of Art, all events will befree, including the unique puppetperformance by Puppeteer John PatrickPicciano. Visitors will learn about Mexicanlife in this program produced in conjunctionwith the Currier’s exhibition, Voces yVisiones: Highlights from El Museo delBarrio’s Permanent Collection, which is acelebration of Latin American, Caribbeanand Latino art and culture.On Wednesday, April 26 at 2:00 p.m. Mr.Picciano will perform a Mexican tale called“El Trato.” The program features the tale ofa poor woodcutter and how his life ischanged after meeting with a stranger. The
authentic costumes, tools and folk art usedin “El Trato” provide a unique look at rurallife in Mexico that even includes a fiesta.This program is recommended for childrenages seven and up.While the museum is always free to visitorsunder 18, and is free to all every Saturdayfrom 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., opening theCurrier’s doors during school vacationweek will allow entire families to attend freeof charge during all open hours while theyenjoy the permanent collection, gallerytours and fun events. Come early to themuseum and enjoy a family-friendly menuat the Café, which is open Wednesdaythrough Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Mexican PuppetPerformance at theCurrier Museum of Art
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committee to hire a great newsuperintendent of schools, and I want torecognize him this evening—Dr. RaleighBuchanan.
This coming year, we’ll work with Dr.Buchanan to introduce some exciting newconcepts in public education—conceptsthat will put Haverhill at the cutting edge oftechnology and the cutting edge of the bestconcepts in education. We’ll work to makeour high school a virtual high school, oneof only thirty such virtual high schools inall of Massachusetts. Our children will havethe opportunity to take on line courses fromthroughout the world. We’ll tell you moreabout this later.
Then we’ll work to make our high schoolan advanced academy for math and sciencesometime with the next few years. We’ll tellyou more about this later this year. Whenour children graduate from school, theyaren’t going to be competing just withchildren from the Merrimack Valley. Theyare going to be competing with children fromthroughout the world. Our goal is to offer aworld-class curriculum and a world-classeducation so that our children can competewith any child, anywhere in the world.
Rezoning to attract newbusiness
To attract new business and grow ourtax base, we needed to be innovative. WhenI spoke before you a year ago, I asked thecity council to rezone some areas nearhighways, to remove some regulatorybarriers that prevented large retail storesfrom coming to our city, and to join with mein a 21st century retail strategy.
Tonight, we can report that this 21st
century plan is working. For over thirtyyears, retail stores have fled our city, andlittle by little, we’ve lost our retail base.Tonight, Lowe’s and BJ’s—the two largestretail stores ever to locate within our city,have announced they are coming toHaverhill. Starbucks is going to follow andthere are more on the way.
Our rezoning policy also workeddowntown. Our anchor tenant, the Beaconproject, has broken ground, and the firstever artist’s lofts are available for saledowntown.
We should rejoice in the fact that somany people are starting to recognize whatwe have always known— Haverhill is agreat place to live and a great place to work.Now our challenge is to manage thisgrowth—to mange the traffic that will surelyincrease, to preserve our open space, andto keep our neighborhoods livable as wemove forward. The first step to controllinggrowth is to push growth downtown, wherewe can control it, and preserve space in theouter areas of our city.
The Challenges AheadOur progress has been great, but the
challenges we face us are also great. TheHale debt that preceded us, $7 million a year,is still with us.
This year, we face an immediate budgetdeficit of nearly $4 million. This figure ismisleading because it does not include thereal deficit in Haverhill.
Our real deficit is that we do not havethe money to fix all of your potholes, repairall of your schools, streets, or take down allof the trees that need to come down.
Our financial problems threaten ourrenaissance—they threaten our ability to
provide people with the services andschools they need to make this an attractiveconsumer city.
Our challenge tonight is clear, how dowe keep the vital services that are sonecessary to keeping the Haverhillrenaissance going?
The same spirit that has brought us thisfar can carry us forward and help us tosurmount the challenges ahead.
The root of our financial problems issimple—the rising costs require us to spendmore than we take in.
This year, healthcare premiums willincrease by $2 million to a total of $21 million.This year, we will pay more for healthinsurance premiums than we will pay for theentire police department, the entire firedepartment, and the Hale debt, combined.The increase in health care costs— $2million —is more than all the revenues weare getting for all of the new condominiumprojects combined.
If it weren’t for this increase, we couldadd ten additional policemen, 10 additionalschoolteachers, and still have $800,000 leftover.
We’ve made enormous strides incontrolling health care costs. We workedwith our unions to combine five (5) healthcare packages, and used our increasedbargaining leverage to negotiate a lower ratefor our employees. Most of our unionsagreed to pay more for their health care inexchange for a cost of living increase. Withthese reforms, we were able to savehundreds of thousands of dollars last year.
But more needs to be done.Next week, I will meet with our insurance
advisory board and ask them to work withme to achieve the next level of health carereform.
I’ll ask them to fashion a program toallow our employees and retirees to importprescription drugs from Canada and saveup to $200,000 per year. I’ll ask them to joinwith me in coming up with a reformed healthcare plan that is fair to our employees andthat we can afford.
Our current plan—which my family andI have—allows us to go to a doctor with a$5 co-pay. We pay between 75% and 90%of the cost of health insurance for ouremployees and retirees, and surely, if wecould afford to do so, we could continue onthis path. But, this path is a path that leadsin only one direction—to layoffs.
I’ll ask our advisory board and ourunions to work with us once again—thistime to increase co-pays and deductibles,provide bonuses to those employees whotake their spouse’s plan outside the city. I’llalso ask them to devise programs for newemployees that will work with higherdeductibles and co-pays, and work withhealth care savings accounts, to providehealth care needs at a cost we can afford.
Reorganization of citygovernment
Controlling costs must start with healthcare costs, but it cannot stop there. Twoyears ago, we instituted a governmentreorganization plan that saved vital servicesand streamlined government. This year, wewill once again recommend a reorganizationof government to make our governmentleaner, but not meaner. Our model shouldbe private industry—which for decades hasused automation and mechanization toconstantly improve efficiency and meet the
challenges that face them. Our challenge isto keep our city affordable and keep taxesto a reasonable level. The best way to dothat is to make government more efficient.
Increasing revenues—Selling Water and WasteWater
Stabilizing our finances has to start withcontrolling costs, but it must go further. Wealso need to look under every rock for newrevenues.
The first stop should be our wastewaterdepartment. Our wastewater treatment plantwas built to accommodate over 100,000people, and is expandable from there. Weprocess today the wastewater from the entiretown of Groveland and for State line plazain Plaistow. We have the potential to makemillions of dollars in hook-up fees, andhundreds of thousands of dollars inrecurring revenues if we sell our services togroups outside our city. We have enormouspotential there—and it is time we exploredthis option.
Urban Village ApproachIn the long term, keeping the
renaissance going means being a city witha high quality of life that will attract peopleto live here—a city with clean, safe streetsand excellent schools.
Our future lies in a Haverhill wherepeople face the waterfront rather than turnaway from it and a city where people onceagain live downtown.Our future lies in being what planners callan urban village—where people live, workand dine all in the same area.
To make this happen, we need to take afresh look at our zoning laws.
The old model of zoning was used ameans of keeping certain things out ofcertain neighborhoods. But zoning can alsobe used as a tool to spark a revival andbring business in. We know that rezoningworks to attract business because it’sworked here in Haverhill.
Within the next few months, we’llpresent our urban renaissance-zoningpackage to the city council to remake ourdowntown. Our new renaissance zoning willtake a portion of our downtown, and rezoneit for housing as a matter of right.
We’ll seek to become the first city inthe state to take advantage of the newhousing incentive laws, general lawschapter 40R. Our renaissance zoning willbring in up to $400,000 in new State aidimmediately, and give us a chance to bringbuildings in our downtown area back to life.
Rezoning has helped us make greatprogress on Locust Street and Locke Street.Now it’s time to extend the Haverhillrenaissance to Merrimack Street.
Make no mistake about it—extendingthe Haverhill renaissance to MerrimackStreet is fraught with challenges.
Merrimack Street could live again butit will not be easy. Some buildings onMerrimack Street have been vacant fordecades, and for good reason: parking andregulatory barriers have made it difficult toput residences there. We do not want toraise expectations beyond what we canproduce or we set ourselves up for failure,but the greatest failure of them all is to failto try.
This year, we’ll ask the city council toallow for housing as a matter or right onMerrimack Street.
Then we need to tackle the biggestproblem, the problem of parking.
Now, Merrimack Street has far moreparking than Wingate Street, but WingateStreet is booming and Merrimack Street isnot.
We have a parking garage on MerrimackStreet, that is almost 100% vacant at night,which we cannot afford to clean, we cannotafford to adequately light, and we cannotafford to repair.
The key to Merrimack Street isn’t tobuild more parking. The key is to use theparking we already have to encouragemixed-use buildings. If Merrimack Street isgoing to be redeveloped, if we are going toextend the renaissance to Merrimack Street,we need to allow investors to lease spacesin the parking facility.
We need to examine every option,including leasing parking spaces, selling theair space over the parking garage, and evenselling the parking garage, if we can makecertain the public interest is protected andthere are adequate public places left to park.The parking facility on Merrimack Streetcould be the key to allowing residences toreturn to Merrimack Street. We need toexplore that option.
We also need to turn our attention toour shopping centers. Some of ourshopping centers are worn and tired—inneed of the same renaissance that is takingplace downtown.
Our zoning laws should allow andencourage these shopping centers to alsobecome urban villages, where people canlive, walk and work in the same area. Weshould begin by soliciting proposals fromexisting shopping center owners, and weshould rezone those areas for mixed usedevelopment—to allow people to live overthe centers, and live, dine and work all inthe same area. New urbanism has workedthroughout the country. It can work here.
Over the past two years, we’ve madegreat progress in our city. Our city isexperiencing an unprecedentedrevitalization.
Where retail stores have left our cityfor decades, today Lowe’s, Starbucks andBJ’s are coming to Haverhill.
Where our shoe factories have beenvacant for decades, today they are livingagain as artist’s lofts and new housing. Ouranchor tenant, Beacon Company hasbroken ground, and Forest City, the largesturban housing developer in the country, isexploring turning several old shoe shops inhousing.
Where people turned their backs to theMerrimack for decades, now they areturning towards the river and bringing inboats, docks and marinas. This spring, withthe help of a grant secured by ourcongressional delegation, we will begintesting to see if we can dredge the river.
Where we have complained for decadesabout parking, today we have the largestever grant ever given to our city, $7.6 million,to build a new parking facility downtown.
Like any community, we have ourdifficulties. But working together this yearas we worked together in the past year, wewill continue the renaissance that theBoston Globe called the ‘picture ofprogress’.
Make no mistake about it. The Haverhillrenaissance is moving forward, and inHaverhill, hope is back.
Thank you.
STATE OF THE CITY:CONT. FROM PAGE 16
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ARTIZAN,LA CONEXIÓNCANADIENSE
By Alberto Surís
On Tuesday, March 21st, dignitariesfrom the Province of New Brunswick, theCommonwealth of Massachusetts and theCity of Lawrence were welcomed by localAttorney Arthur McCabe, owner anddeveloper of 29 South Canal LLC, home ofArtizan, the new International BusinessCentre.
With a ribbon cutting ceremony, theWood Products Group of Canada, anchortenant in the Lawrence’s newly renovatedbuilding had the grand opening of its newArtizan Design Centre, at 29 South CanalStreet. The 3,400 square foot Design Centreshowcases innovative, premium qualityarchitectural, design, and building productsmanufactured by 14 different companies ofthe Wood Products Group of Canada,housed at the Centre.
Lawrence Mayor Michael J. Sullivanrecalled when in 2002, McCabe came to hisoffice to show him the project he wasworking on. According to Sullivan,McCabe’s vision to build an InternationalBusiness Center in one of the mostdilapidated buildings left standing in thecity made him take a serious look at him. “I
Por Alberto Surís
El 21 de marzo, dignatarios de lasProvincias de New Brunswick, elCommonwealth de Massachusetts y laCiudad de Lawrence fueronbienvenidos por el Abogado localArthur McCabe, propietario de 29South Canal LLC, hogar de Artizan, elnuevo Centro de NegociosInternacionales.
Con el ceremonial corte de cinta, elWood Products Group de Canada,principal inquilino del recién renovadoedificio hizo su gran apertura de sunuevo Artizan Centro de Diseño, en el29 de la Calle South Canal. Los 3,400pies cuadrados del Centro de diseñoexhiben arquitectura novedosa y deprimera calidad, diseño y productos deconstrucción manufacturados por 14diferentes compañías que componen elWood Products Group de Canada,radicados en el Centro.
El Alcalde de Lawrence, Michael J.Sullivan, recuerda cuando en 2002,MacCabe vino a su oficina paraenseñarle el proyecto en que estabatrabajando. De acuerdo con Sullivan,la visión de McCabe de construir unCentro Internacional de Negocios enuno de los edificios más dilapidadosque existían en la ciudad, lo hizo dudarde su sensatez. “Llamé a su esposa yle dije, ‘yo creo que tu marido estáloco’”, dijo Sullivan motivandocarcajadas entre el público. “Entoncesle dije, ‘Art, cualquier cosa quenecesites de mí, déjame saberlo, deseguro que voy a ayudarte’”, finalizóSullivan.
Con la ayuda de $1.2 millones deNew Markets Loan deMassDevelopment, McCabe pudorefinanciar deudas y pagar por larenovaron de la dilapidada fábrica.“Los atractivos impuestos del nuevoMarket Loan Fund nos ayudaron ennuestro proyecto de desarrollo”, dijoMcCabe, presidente de 29 South CanalLLC. “Estoy muy excitado de formarparte en la revitalización de antiguaspropiedades como esta, ya queestamos preservando un pedazo dehistoria mientras añadimos trabajos yatraemos nuevos negocios a la región”,dijo McCabe.
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called his wife and said to her: ‘Honey, Ithink your husband is crazy’”, said Sullivanprovoking laughter. “Then I said, ‘Art,whatever you need from me, I certainly willhelp you do it’”, finished Sullivan.
With the help of $1.2 millions fromMassDevelopment New Markets LoanFund, McCabe was able to refinance debtsand fund a number of renovations at the
former mill. “The New Markets Loan Fund’sattractive rates helped make the numberswork for our mill redevelopment project”,said McCabe, president of 29 South CanalLLC. “I’m excited to have a role in revitalizingproperties like this one, since we arepreserving a piece of history while addingjobs and attracting new business to theregion,” he said.
ArArArArArtttttizizizizizanananananCutting the ribbon, front row: Michael J.
Sullivan, Kirk MacDonald, MartyMeehan, and Stan Keyes, Back row:
Robert L. Culver, Fred Nott, Art McCabeand William Lantigua.
Joseph Bevilacqua, president/CEO Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce posing with the Hon.Stanley Keyes, Consulate General of Canada, Raymond Cormier and father Yvon Cormier,president, The Inn, at Andover Country Club and Leo Roy, vice-president Yvon CormierConstruction Corp.
Congressman Marty Meehanis having fun while the Hon.
Stan Keyes, trims StateRepresentative William
Lantigua’s beard.
Lawrence Mayor Michael J.Sullivan, the Hon. KirkMacDonald, Minister ofEnterprises, Nouveau-Brunswick and CongressmanMarty Meehan at the exhibit.
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By Graham Entwistle &Barbara Parente
Three Greater Lawrence TechnicalSchool Electrical students will soon get ataste of real-world work, thanks to apartnership between the school and theInternational Brotherhood of ElectricalWorkers (IBEW), Local 103.
Juniors Michael Kennedy, GerssonRamos, and Keith Dube will be placed withunion electrical contractors in jobs that willserve as electrical pre-apprenticeships. Asparticipants in Greater Lawrence’sCooperative Education Program, the threewill alternate weeks getting on-the-jobtraining with weeks spent in academicclassrooms learning subjects like English,math, history and science.
A cooperative venture among GLTS, theunion and the City of Methuen, thepartnership was announced on Wednesday,March 1 by Methuen mayor William M.Manzi III in the elegant, wood-paneled GreatHall of the Searles Building, with remarksby Frank S. Vacirca, GLTS Superintendent-Director,
Greater Lawrence staff and students,IBEW officials, Methuen City Councilmembers, and the Methuen representativesto the GLTS District School Committeeattended the press conference.
“In today’s economy, the work thevocational school does has never been moreimportant, and more critical,” Mayor Manzisaid. “It provides (students with) the
Electrical ApprenticeshipProgram Announced
GRAHAM ENTWISTLE PHOTOSchool, union, and city officials hold a banner announcing a new electricalapprenticeship program sponsored by Greater Lawrence Technical School; theInternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Local 103; and the City ofMethuen. They are (from left) At Large Methuen Councilor Kathleen Rahme,electrical student Gersson Ramos, Co-op and Placement Advisor Linda Cote,Electrical Instructor Tom Ciulla, Methuen mayor William M. Manzi III, union BusinessAgent Louis Antonellis, GLTS District Committee Representative from MethuenKenneth Henrick, electrical student Michael Kennedy, Superintendent-Director FrankS. Vacirca, and GLTS District Committee Representative from Methuen MichaelCondon. In back are students from Greater Lawrence’s electrical program.Construction Academy Leader Richard Krafton is directly behind Linda Cote (partiallyhidden).
opportunity to succeed.”Mayor Manzi, whose master electrician
father is an ardent member of IBEW, Local103, described a meeting with unionBusiness Agent Louis Antonellis as havingled to the partnership. According to the
mayor, Mr. Antonellis told him, “We wantto do more in the Merrimack Valley, and morewith the City of Methuen.”
Initiative BecomesAchievement
Greater Lawrence Superintendent-Director Frank S. Vacirca thanked the mayorfor “wonderful support from this great city,”and described the new partnership as “aninitiative that will become an achievement.”
“We are proud to partner with IBEW,”he said. “The more friends we make for ouryoungsters, the more opportunities we cancreate (for them).
“Lou – our kudos to you for thinkingof us.” he said, addressing Mr. Antonellis.“Thank you for having the vision for puttingthis program together,” GLTS ElectricalInstructor Tom Ciulla said. “I’m thrilled, andcommitted to making it a success.”
Mr. Ciulla later noted the program is“like a five-year scholarship” for students.IBEW, Local 103 celebrates its 106th
anniversary this spring. The union has morethan 6,000 electricians and technicians inover 100 Commonwealth cities. IBEWmembers work for colleges and universities,banks, the Boston harbor project, hospitals,and healthcare facilities.
The organization maintains a $10million training facility in southeasternMassachusetts, Every IBEW electriciancompletes five years of schooling, and10,000 hours of on the job training. Theyalso return to the classroom for technologyupdates every 36 months.
“Local 103 is always looking for thearea’s best and brightest,” Mr. Antonellissaid. He praised Greater Lawrence for itsvocational training, and said the unionintends to accept two GLTS students intothe pre-apprenticeship program each year,chosen for their skills, grades, attendance,and attitude.
Mr. Antonellis noted that the unionpositions “are not part-time low wage jobsfor summer vacation.“This is the real deal,” he said.
SPIN THEWHEEL:CONT. FROM PAGE 18
MOMENT! I think this is going to beyours, Billy.
Question: How many yellow sticksare going to be needed to do trafficmitigation on Pelham Street after all thatdevelopment has been completed?
How much are those developmentsgoing to cost the developers inmitigation money? Old shar liked thatnice round figure of $650,000; see hownicely it rolls off your lips. Now you seeit, now you don’t!
I would be having all those legalbrains taking up space at town hall, lookinto the fact that the applications for the40Bs may have been falsified. I knowone of them has. I would be seeking forthe people of Methuen reparations fromthese dishonest developers.
Billy is selling off parcels ofproperty to offset a shortfall in thebudget. I would make sure that theseparcels were sold at the same fire saleprice as the property to complete the golfcourse, Emerald Pines, was conveyed.After all, it is a mayor’s duty to attend tothe people’s needs not the needs of adeveloper.
I would be asking Phil Littlefield howthe hell could everything be hunky doryunder the regime of the queen, with Billyhaving sat on her knee for the longesttime. Now, three months into Billy’stenure, you have another job in anotherstate and we are going to need 70+teachers! How can this be? Whoscrewed up, we need to hold someoneaccountable for this incredible faux pas.
TO BE CONTINUED… ANDCONTINUED… AND CONTINUED…
Watch for a very special MCTV,channel 22 “It’s All About Right(s)”television show coming soon.
Don’t Let the Sun CatchYou Crying
As we come off of what themainstream media refers to as “SunshineWeek”, and having read a familiar diatribeof just how unaccountable our politicosare. Trusted public officials treating theirpositions like their own little fiefdom, ISAY WELCOME TO MY WORLD!
Why is it only on sunshine weekthe mainstream media thinks there arebeing duped? I hate to tell you this, butyou are being duped everyday.
Perhaps, my assumption about thedaily record of advertisement, death,Dear Abby and horoscope has beencorrect all along. You are so interestedin the money, to hell with investigativereporting, when your reporters can gointo the mayor’s office and get the dailynews fit to print!
During sunshine week don’t tell meyou suddenly want access to the stall!Join me anytime; I could always useanother shoulder to keep the door open.
Spend some of your advertisingmoney, use the political windfall moneyand buy some public information. Thatwill spread a whole lot of sunshine onwhat these politicos have been up to! Ipredict a whole lot of crying!PS: Have you got the Maurice Larivieretape yet?
Watch for a very special MCTV,channel 22 “It’s All About Right(s)”television show coming soon.
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PETS LOOKING FORADOPTION
If you have any questionsregarding this section or
anything else, please get intouch with the shelter duringregular work hours:Tuesday
through Saturday from 11 amto 4pm, Thursdays from 12noon to 7pm, and Sundays
from 12-3 pm by calling (978)687-7453.
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en Methuen.
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The ANA Synchers had anotherbanner weekend as they continue toestablish themselves among the ranks ofthe most competitive teams in the EasternZone. At the East Zone SeniorChampionships held at Wheaton Collegeon March 10th-12th, the highest level ofcompetition in this quadrant of the country,the ANA Synchers swam their way to finalberths in the solo, duet, trio and teamcategories. ANA brought 27 swimmers tothis meet—more than any other team in theEastern Zone. ANA placed 3 teams in thetop 15 at this meet and 2 teams in finals; atestament to the excellence of its topswimmers as well as the depth of the teamoverall.
Highlights of this meet include thesecond and fifth place finishes in technicalfigures, respectively, for Stephanie GarciaRestrepo, 16, of Billerica and Rita Gillan, 17,of Andover. This was out of a field of 103swimmers. These results qualify them forthe East Zone All Star team, an elite groupthat consists of the top 16 swimmers in theentire zone.
In the solo category, Garcia Restrepofinished in second place and Gillan in fourthplace out of a field of 22 swimmers. Theirduet performance earned them a secondplace finish out of 29 pairs. Trio swimmersGarcia Restrepo, Maggie Conlon, 15, ofMethuen and Ashley Cohen, 16, ofAndover, earned a third place finish in afield of 28 trios. Gillan, Conlon, and Cohenwere joined by teammates Faryn Shiro, 16,Kelly Mahoney, 16, and Beth O’Connor, 15,all of Andover, and Charlotte Gorski, 16, ofManchester, NH, in taking home a fifth placein the team event, in which they performedto dramatic music from the soundtrack toPrince of Egypt.
Garcia Restrepo, Gillan, and Cohen willbe advancing to the 2006 Junior NationalChampionships in Minneapolis next month,where they will enter the trio event as wellas duet (Garcia Restrepo/Gillan) and solo(Garcia Restrepo and Gillan) categories.These three swimmers and their teammateswill also compete in the prestigiousinternational US Open championship inOrlando in July. In all the Synchers will besending three solos, two duets, two triosand two teams to US Opens, for a total ofeighteen competitors in all.
Other highlights of the weekend’scompetition include 11th and 15th placefinishes in the team event, and 5 other top-20 performances in solo, duet, and trio.
The eleventh place team membersinclude Claire Rudder, 14, of Sudbury,
Jessica Mancini, 14, Erica Potts, 15, MollyTrerotola, 14, Rachel Veznaian, 17, SheilaCremin, 14, and Emily Stone, 15, all ofAndover, and Rebecca Ely, 15, and AmberBlum, 14, of North Andover. Emily Ingram,14, of North Andover was the alternate.
The 15th place team is composed ofAlice Wu, 15, Laura Hanson, 13, ColleenMaher, 13, Elizabeth Maldari, 13, all ofAndover, Edith Kwok, 16, Shefali (Minnie)Lohia, 13, Hannah Straus, 13, of NorthAndover, and Taylor Clarke, 14, of Lowell.
All of the swimmers who competed thisweekend are also training for the NewEngland Age Group Championships in May,where they will work towards qualifying toattend the US National Age GroupChampionships in June.
In addition to the success of ourswimmers, kudos goes to Head CoachEugenia Gillan for being named “2006 EastZone Coach of the Year”. Genia wasbestowed this honor for her outstandingabilities as a coach and her contribution tothe sport of synchronized swimming. Underher leadership the ANA Synchers grew froma young team of only 15 swimmers less thanten years ago to the 60 member powerhouse that it is today.
If you would like to see the ANA YMCASynchers in action, they will be hosting anexhibition performance at the Andover-North Andover YMCA on April 29-30, 2006.For ticket information, please call CharlieO’Connor at 978-790-2193.
Harley, Miniature Pinscher Mix, Age: 12 years old, Sex: NeuteredMaleBeing a small dog you would never believe the amount ofenergy I have... especially at 12 years old! I am somewhatshy, but once I get to know you I love to cuddle and get allyour attention. I am looking for a nice home to settle into.Kids can sometimes be too much for me, so I would prefera house without them. I like to swim, but mostly I want tospend all my time with you! My previous owner moved andcould not take me along. I am hoping that you will come inand visit me real soon!!!
Heather, Schipperke, Age: Senior, Sex: Spayed FemaleHeather is a special dog with special needs looking for a newhome. She is here because her owner passed away and her spousecould no longer care for her. This has been a hard adjustment forHeather as she is battling her own illness. We have received all ofher vet reports and feel that with medication, she will have a goodquality of life and deserves a chance to live that life with a newowner. Heather has adapted well to the rigors of shelter life. Sheis very sweet and affectionate. In her previous home, she livedwith another dog and a cat and enjoyed their company. She isplayful with toys and gentle with treats. If you have a quiet homewith time to give Heather the special attention she deserves,come and adopt her!
Jan, Marcia, Cindy, Bird, Finches, Age:Adults, Sex: FemalesThe shelter currently has 2 finches available foradoption. Both are females and are 7 years old. Theyare great pets for any bird enthusiast!
Iguana, Tabby - Orange, Domestic Short Hair-whiteMix, Age: 1 year old, Sex: MaleMy name is Iguana. I know it is a funny name for a cat, but I am avery funny cat. My previous owners brought me to the MSCPAbecause they were moving and could not take me with them. Asyou can see from my pictures, I love to lounge around and I loveto get tons of attention! I am looking for a nice home, possiblywith cats, dogs or kids. Come visit and play with me!
Mitzy, Cat, Domestic Short Hair-black, Age: 10 years old, Sex: FemaleCome in and visit our favorite cat Mitzy, a beautiful blackDomestic Long Hair cat. She is a very social cat who lovesbeing around people and other cats. Mitzy came to us becauseher previous owner has become too ill to care for her. We loveplaying with her at the shelter, but really want to see her gohome with a great family who will love her as much as we do.She has been spayed and is up to date with all her shots soshe is ready to be adopted today! Once you start petting thiswonderful cat you will not want to stop!
Talula, Rabbit, Chinchilla, Mini Rex Mix, Age: 2 years old, Sex: SpayedFemaleMeet the most beautiful rabbit here at the shelter! Her name isTalula...pretty name for a pretty girl. Talula is two years old andhas the most gorgeously long eye lashes...we say she is the MarilynMonroe of bunnies! She does great with people, especially kids.She loves to sit on your lap, be held and patted. Oh and she adoresher carrots, apples and parsley...she’s very healthy. She is lookingfor a family that will spend time and play with her...letting her runaround and hang out with them and allow her to explore. She trulyis one special rabbit and is need of one special family.
ANA SynchersShine in Elite EastZone SeniorChampionships
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PLEASE NOTE: This program is with participating Massachusetts veterinarypractices only. If you live elsewhere, please contact SpayUSA for a low costprogram in your area: www.spayusa.org. For more information, please visit
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SALVE VIDAS:ASEGURESE DE CASTRAR A SUS ANIMALES
...kudos goes to HeadCoach Eugenia Gillanfor being named “2006East Zone Coach of theYear”. Genia wasbestowed this honor forher outstandingabilities as a coach andher contribution to thesport of synchronizedswimming. Under herleadership the ANASynchers grew from ayoung team of only 15swimmers less than tenyears ago to the 60member power housethat it is today.
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This project has literally destroyedwhatever semblance the downtown everhad of being a downtown.
Talk about care and concern! Theresidents of the Mills Falls HousingProject can be assured of Cell PhoneTelephone Service anytime, anyplace! I’deven bet under water! As can thefirefighters, and the children and theirteachers at the daycare across the streetfrom the fire department.
So what if they are going to getirradiated to have this marvelous service.They need to shut up and accept the factthat our politicos know exactly what isbest for them. It goes to show you whenour politicos and their developer partnersteam up, they will stop at nothing toensure a better life for the LESSFORTUNATE AND THE CHILDREN!
Let me reiterate, I AM ALL CHOKEDUP!
Where’s Randy?Many of us read in the daily record
of advertisement, death, Dear Abby andhoroscope the crash of Methuentelephone system. Immediately whatcame to my mind was, WHERE’S RANDY?That’s capitan Randy.
Last time I saw a picture of Randy, hewas seated behind the computer, and Ibelieve, I voiced my skepticism at the time.I hate to tell you this loyal readers, but ITOLD YOU SO!
Randy needs a nice cushy job, likeguarding the inside of the padded cell.He should be able to stay out of troublein there, and we could all breathe a sighof relief, knowing his safety ensures ours.
The telephone system that crashedwas one of the very last bamboozling actsperformed by our nefarious ex-queen.
Word on the street has it that oldshar spent a great deal of the PEG accesscontract money to install the new supperduper telephone system. I would love toknow how much it cost. It appears tohave been researched by a nincompoop.
I’ll bet it was an old friend of shar’swho sold and installed this niftyequipment, (tin cans and string?). Iwonder if it was a deal similar to the track.
It’s called incompetence at all levels.Spending the hard earned tax dollars wesupply to run this enterprise on foolish,poorly researched, patronage purchases.An audit would let some light in on thissubject. On all these subjects!
Watch for a very special MCTV,channel 22 “It’s All About Right(s)”television show coming soon.
1-2-3 red light.The continuing saga
The council meeting of 3/20/06 wasmuch more subdued than the razzle dazzlered light camera extravaganza of twoweeks prior.
The bad boyz were absent, only thebadly acting chief and Lt. Havey werefront and center, fingers and toes crossedthat the council was going to give thehigh sign, thumbs up to the revenueenhancement scheme cooked up by boyzin their spare time.
Nice try waiting till the last minute,throwing this revised piece of crapLegislation on the councilors desks at thevery last second, thinking you could pushthem to vote in your scheme for revenue
enhancement. Think again! Or pleasejust think!
It stinks, and everybody could smellit.
What irks me to no end, is thisongoing waste of time when a publicofficial deems it their job to researchsomething allegedly good for the citizens.
If that is the case, I expect to bebriefed on the pro as well as the con. Notjust what you want, the pro and thedough!
This was not investigated. Or maybe,then again, it was. After Mayor BillyManzi III, the chief and his trusty dawwgsaw the overwhelming evidence thatcameras do not promote safety, butproduce a gigantic windfall of revenue,they felt it was better left unsaid the downside of the debate.
Apparently the following statisticswere of no importance to the mayor, chiefand the dawwg, in preparing theirproposal for the council. Don’t confuseme with facts; my mind is already madeup.
Virginia DOT Study Shows CamerasIncrease Injury Accidents The VirginiaTransportation Research Council studiedall of the state red light camera programsand found an overall increase in injuryaccidents.
In Minnesota, Ohio Courts RuleAgainst Red Light Cameras, Judges inMinneapolis, Minnesota andSteubenville, Ohio both strike downphoto enforcement programs as invalidor unconstitutional http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/01/117.asp
“The analysis shows that the numberof crashes at locations with cameras morethan doubled, from 365 collisions in 1998to 755 last year. Injury and fatal crashesclimbed 81 percent, from 144 such wrecksto 262. Broadside crashes, also knownas right-angle or T-bone collisions, rose30 percent, from 81 to 106 during that timeframe” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/03/AR2005100301844.html
If the citizens are going to fund ouremployees to seek revenue enhancement,our employees better not be wastingprecious resources by bogus research.
It appears that the only thing red lightcameras are good for is to boost thebottom line of the police department atthe expense and safety of the citizens ofMethuen.
The council needs to take a real closelook at the sly way in which this ordinancewas brought forward and how itcontinues to be surrounded insubterfuge. I expect the councilors to dotheir own research and vote to upholdthe safety of the citizens of Methuen,AFTER ALL, YOU WORK FOR US!
If you need any help with thisresearch, you can contact me at any time,and I will be more than glad to help you.
A special thanks to Peter McQuillan,our solicitor, who raised concern aboutwho will control the monies from thisrevenue enhancement scheme.
Seems the chief wanted sole controlof this money, thank you Peter for tellinghim NO.
Watch for a very special MCTV,channel 22 “It’s All About Right(s)”television show coming soon.
ELLEN BAHAN:CONT. FROM PAGE 18
Community Teamwork,Inc.’s 4th AnnualCarnival Fundraiser toPrevent Homelessness
On Thursday, April 6, 2006, from6:00pm-10:00pm, at the Lowell MemorialAuditorium, Community Teamwork, Inc. willhost its 4th Annual “Caribbean” CarnivalCelebration Fundraiser to PreventHomelessness. All proceeds benefitindividuals and families living in Lowell andsurrounding towns who are homeless orfacing potential homelessness.
Only 400 tickets are being sold at $100each, with each ticket holder being enteredinto a jackpot drawing for a chance to win$10,000 and other cash prizes. People canshare the cost of a ticket with friends orfamily.
The event features the traditions ofCaribbean Carnival including a liveCaribbean band - Hot Like Fire - with steeldrums, Carnival dancers, a buffet of
If you already filed your federal taxreturn and are due a refund, you have severaloptions for checking on the status of yourrefund.
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