Man About Canton: All town water wells should be activated
By Joe DeFeliceDID YOU KNOW…
Now that we’re through boiling our precious MWRA drinking water, state authorities tell us they’re still trying to determine (if they can) what or who caused that unanticipated major water line break in Weston. It is believed that the break was caused when a giant steel ring — reportedly installed several years ago on a section of ten-inch pipe by the Barletta Heavy Division of 40 Shawmut Road — burst.
Ed Sullivan, longtime member of the town’s Water/Sewer Rate Policy Committee, has pointed out to MAC that it is very important for the town to maintain and upgrade our town well system so we can turn off the MWRA water in an emergency and rely entirely on the town’s well water, like Stoughton was able to do to avoid the water-boiling requirement.
The town of Canton and the Canton Little League are seeking a special permit to install outdoor lighting at Ruane Field behind the Kennedy Elementary School at 100 Dedham Street.
Canton-based Dunkin’ Donuts is returning to Russia after an 11-year absence and will open 20 stores in Moscow. Dunkin’ Donuts has more than 9,000 locations worldwide, and about a third of them are overseas. The chain is in 31 countries, including China, Columbia, New Zealand, Japan and Turkey.
If you know a girl who is interested in becoming a veterinarian, read this to her: In 2009, the number of female veterinarians (44,802) surpassed the number of male veterinarians (43,196), and female veterinarian students now outnumber their male classmates.
Since 32 A.D., there have been 265 Roman Catholic popes, and the only Englishman to become pope was Nicolas Breakspear, who was the 170th and took the name Pope Adrian IV from 1154 to 1159.
Are our kids too fat to fight? A report recently released by the Retired Officers of Mission Readiness says that more than nine million young adults, or 27 percent of all Americans age 17 to 24, are too overweight to join the military.
The average person has 100,000 strands of hair on the scalp and many lose between 40 and 100 strands of it per day.
According to a settlement with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, the Arizona-based trash disposal company Allied Waste Services, which does business in Canton, has agreed to pay $1.3 million to their workers to make up for not paying them the correct overtime and prevailing wages.
Canton resident Charles McIntyre, 42, has been selected to be the new executive director of the New Hampshire State Lottery. An attorney and former Quincy city councilor, McIntyre is the son of former Quincy Mayor James McIntyre and has worked for the Massachusetts Lottery for the past several years. Prior to that he was a prosecutor with the Norfolk County district attorney’s office, specializing in drug enforcement, organized crime, and gambling cases.
The Canton Garden Club has been working to beautify the unsightly front lawn area of the Canton Post Office.
In case you missed it, Victor Del Vecchio is the new chairman of the Board of Selectmen for the coming year. Avril Elkort is the vice chairman, and Bob Burr is the clerk.
MAC sends his best wishes to Larraine Request, who will retire as the office administrator of the DPW Water and Sewer Division on October 19.
The Board of Selectmen recently honored Ed Sullivan and Dave McClelland for their many years of voluntary service on several town boards. It was also announced that the new water treatment plant on Neponset Street will be dedicated as the Edward Sullivan Water Treatment Plant.
The selectmen also recently recognized and honored three Canton Eagle Scouts from Troop 77 for their outstanding Eagle Scout community projects: Ross Gilander, Jeff Waldman and Patrick Mangan.
The town’s Memorial Day celebration was another outstanding affair. MAC was both impressed and delighted to see that Canton High finally had a traditional marching band in the parade after an absence of several years. The new band did a very nice job, and we hope to see more of it in the future. MAC was also happy to see such a large contingent of Canton firefighters in this year’s parade. The only improvement MAC can suggest for next year is better use of the P.A. sound system. For the most part, the volume was too low, making it impossible for those in the rear to hear, and someone should be on hand to adjust the height of the microphone for each speaker and to make sure they talk into it.
Incidentally, MAC has noticed that seven new streetlights are out in the Downtown Business District, and some of the new crosswalks have cracks.
If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.
This is all for now folks; see you next week.
Joe DeFelice can be reached at
manaboutcanton@aol.com
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Posted by Joe DeFelice
on Jun 10 2010. Filed under Man About Canton, Opinion.
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