Man About Canton: Things you may not know

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Social Security recipients and federal retirees will only receive a 0.3 percent increase in monthly benefits next year. The adjustment equals an increase of less than $4 a month for an average recipient. The average monthly payment is $1,238.

A potrepreneur is a businessperson who sells marijuana.

For the past 16 months, the Earth recorded consecutive high temperatures. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said September’s average temperature of 60.6 degrees was the second hottest September on record for the globe. That’s ever so slightly cooler — a few hundredths of a degree — than the record set in 2015.

Boston Properties owns the two tallest buildings in Boston: 200 Clarendon (formerly known as the John Hancock Tower) and the Prudential Center. It also owns eight Manhattan high-rises and will construct the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, which will be the tallest structure west of Chicago at a height of 1,070 feet.

Bob Dylan was recently named the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures hotter than 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is five times hotter than the sun.

The house where Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, will be torn down and replaced with a new building.

The town of Stoughton has been without a permanent police chief since the former chief, Paul Shastany, retired on April 30, 2016.

The Blue Hills Regional Technical School golf team went 14-0 during the regular season and won the Massachusetts Small School State Vocational Tournament crown. The captain of the team is senior Sean McDonagh of Canton.

The Canton High School football team snapped a five-game winless streak against Hockomock League opponents with a 42-16 victory over Oliver Ames last Friday night.

The country of India has an estimated 30 million stray dogs roaming its streets and byways.

Iraqi officials estimate that there are between 1.2 million and 1.8 million civilians still living in Mosul, the most populous city that the Islamic State controls. At least 3.3 million people have been forced out of their homes by ISIS in a country of about 34 million people. Iraqi security forces, with the aid of the United States, are trying to clear the militants from Mosul.

The town of Canton rededicated the Firefighters’ Memorial and Ponkapoag Station No. 2 in honor of retired Fire Chief James Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick served the department for more than 40 years.

There are 10 cities in the United States that have direct flights to Havana, Cuba. They are Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Newark, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, and Miami. Boston didn’t make the cut.

Almost all Walt Disney movies contain a hidden Mickey Mouse; he appears briefly during the movie somewhere.

In 2004, Barry Bonds hit 45 homeruns and struck out only 41 times.

According to the Canton Board of Selectmen, state officials are considering three sites to replace the closed Metropolis Skating Rink: the current site, a site up the road at the old Indian Line Farm, and a site next to Norwood Junior High School. A feasibility study will look at all three options but will take around four months to complete.

According to 2014 census data, the town of Randolph’s approximately 33,000 residents are 41 percent black, 38 percent white, 11 percent Asian, and 7 percent Hispanic. The town’s median household income in 2014 was $63,259, and the average value of a single-family home was just over $260,000, which is attracting immigrants and those looking for proximity to Boston at a lower cost.

The Trustees of Reservations, Massachusetts’ largest conservation and preservation nonprofit and the largest private owner of farmland in the state, is offering a Meat Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) share program at Moose Hill Farm in Sharon. The CSA offers three share sizes of pork, beef, and chicken sourced from animals raised on local Trustee farms with pickups every other week from December through April. Shareholders are not only accessing healthy food through this program, but they are also supporting local farms, farmers, and conservation. The Trustees’ mission is to connect more people to the land. For further information about this great program, contact Katie Marshall at kmarshall@thetrustees.org.

Lily Tomlin once said, “Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy 2 percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”

In life, it is not the speed at which you are moving but the direction in which you are going that is most important.

That is all for now folks. See you next week.

Joe DeFelice can be reached at manaboutcanton@aol.com.

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