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BY DAVE HALPERIN

Wellesley High School is nor-mally ranked as one of the top ac-ademically achieving high schoolsin the country, and therefore un-doubtedly provides a home for thestudent gearing up for college. Butwhat about the student who alsowants to prepare for work afterhigh school?

Enter A Path in the Woods Foun-dation, an organization working toimprove the strength of the highschool's work-study programwhich, according to the organiza-tion's founder - himself a graduateof Wellesley High School - oncelinked more than twenty students ayear to jobs outside of school thatearned them not only dollars, but

A New"Path" for HighSchoolStudentsA Path in the WoodsFoundation fundswork-study program

A NEW “PATH”continued on page 2

BY DAVE HALPERIN

The Massachusetts Horticul-tural Society's annual Massachu-setts Marketplace Festivalattracted crowds from acrossNew England to Elm Bank onSaturday, August 6 to sample,view, and purchase local agricul-ture, floriculture, and specialtyfoods and crafts that were pro-duced across New England, in-cluding in Wellesley and as faraway as New York.

"This is the right crowd forcomposting and gardening," saidone nearby resident, Weston HighSchool grad and current SyracuseUniversity environmental engi-neering major Max Huckstepb,who had a booth at the festival forhis company Kitchens 2 Com-post.

It was Huckstepb's second yearat the festival, and just two hoursinto the day and he'd already soldseveral composting balls and in-door crock pots for storage ofkitchen waste.

The festival was also an oppor-tunity for visitors to stroll throughthe Society's many floral andagricultural gardens, as well ashear music, and a bounce house,

hay rides, and other activitieswere provided for kids and fami-lies.

Barbara Hayes and MarshaGrokulsky of Westwood were

seen walking through the Soci-ety's trial gardens, where Grokul-sky said new plants are given anopportunity to grow and thrive inMassachusetts weather.

"It's great because it tells us howthey're going to do in our cli-mate," she explained, pointing to

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"It's a high school and a systemthat's geared towards academicachievement," says A Path in theWoods Foundation's Gary Mc-Cabe. "We've made it that way andwe've been very good at that, buthistorically there were alternatives,like the work-study program."

Now, with new emphasis placedon the work-study option, whenthe high school's guidance depart-ment recognizes the potential of aparticular student, he or she is re-ferred to the Youth Commissionand hopefully linked with a job op-portunity. In addition to working atleast ten hours, students completea writing assignment and make acommitment to graduate from highschool.

"The kids that we've had in mindwere kids that who for one reasonor another simply find high schoolto be difficult and .... would reallyenjoy to be out in the work force,"explains WHS Principal AndrewKeough, "and for a kid who wantsto be in the work force, two yearsof waiting can be an eternity, andit also motivates them academi-cally."

The Foundation began partneringwith the high school last Springand currently funds five students,four of whom are working for var-ious town departments, with a fifthemployed by WCAC-TV. Thegroup is seeking job opportunitiesat private and nonprofit businessesand, in order to increase the num-ber of students working for towndepartments, needs additionalfunds.

McCabe's passion for the foun-

dation's work is personal, as is thename of the nonprofit. His son,Dan, would have graduated fromWHS in 2009, were it not for hisdeath by suicide in 2007. And thatthe Foundation places an emphasison linking adults and youth to-gether on the job is no mistake ei-ther.

"Our hope is to provide youngadults with a sense that adults aresupportive," he explains. "Dan feltlike he was an outcast... He proba-bly would have gone to collegeone day, but he wasn't ready."

During his years at WHS, DanMcCabe and his friends wouldgather before and after school at aspot in the woods behind theschool, but they lost their spotwhen neighbors complained ofnoise. While most of the studentswere content with complainingabout the loss of space, Dan Mc-

Cabe took action.

"The kids got upset about thatand they felt like the establishmenthad been harassing them. Dan de-cided to do something about it andmet with the high school adminis-tration," Gary McCabe remem-bered. "He proposed the idea ofmoving the path, and they agreed

but told him he needed to get oth-ers involved."

Bringing together members ofthe high school administration, thepolice department, and the TrailsCommittee, Dan McCabe gainedapproval for his project - and be-fore long he and his friends werein the woods next to the highschool, clearing a path and bring-ing in logs that would form a seat-ing area.

"It was a new spirit of coopera-tion," Gary McCabe says.

The passion that Dan McCabebrought to "the path", as it's nowcalled, could also be found duringhis part-time jobs at Bertucci's andGreen's Hardware; extracurricularactivities and volunteering with hischurch group and the Eagle

Scouts; and a summerjob as a custodian atWellesley MiddleSchool.

"He just loved towork," his father re-called, also remem-bering the time DanMcCabe came homefrom school announc-ing that auto mechan-ics would no longer beoffered at the highschool. "Donna [Mc-Cabe, Gary's wife andDan's mother] said tohim, 'Maybe they'll re-place it with some-thing else,' and hesaid, 'But what'swrong with auto me-chanics?'"

McCabe hopes thatbringing opportunitieslike that back to theWHS communitythrough a work-studyprogram will giveconfidence to youngpeople who may oth-erwise "still feel likethey're being guideddown a course that

they may not see as their course."

Additionally, spending as muchtime as he does with A Path in theWoods gives McCabe the chanceto remember and honor his son.

"Dan is the motivation for this,and it helps us through our loss ofnot having him with us," he said."It gives us a sense of what hewent through when we work withthese high school kids. We seewhat he saw, and that helps us."

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BY PETER ZIEGELMAN

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Fall is almost upon us and withthat comes the reality that we willbe spending more time in ourhomes. Our common spaceswithin the home become our sanc-tuaries during the fall and wintermonths. Now is a great time toreevaluate the look of these rooms.One key feature that is sometimesforgotten is the lighting of theroom beyond the indirect light pro-vided by table lamps and overheadfixtures. For today, we will delveinto lighting specifically used toprovide the best look for your wallart.

For this particular article we willdeal with specific lighting used toenhance 2-D artwork that includescanvas art and art on paper withglass. Lighting used on artworkshould be three times the bright-ness of ambient room lighting toaccent each piece. This can beachieved using track lighting withadjustable heads, surface mountsingle spots or a mixture of thetwo. The best type of lighting ishalogen, which allows for a greaterrange of color and really shows offthe art at its best. Some fixturesalso have UV blocking lenses thatcan protect your art from lightdamage. If you have to install yourlighting very close to the artwork,

halogen may burn too hot for usein this situation. This is the onlyplace where incandescent lightmay be your only option.

Installing lighting in the ceilingmay be something that needs to bedone by a licensed electrician. Thethings to remember are that the fix-ture needs to be placed at a 30-de-gree angle from the artwork forbest exposure. You can add 5 de-grees for a larger frame and sub-tract 5 degrees if you want toaccent the texture of the piece.

Also, you can get fixtures withdoors on them that you can set toactually frame a piece with light onthe wall. Make sure to have all

your accent lighting on dimmers toallow for different lighting needsthroughout the day and night.

If you are looking for a singlelight for a painting over the fire-place or in another location anddon’t want to add wiring to yourhome, you can purchase paintinglights which actually attach to thetop of the frame of your artwork.This is not the best solution butwill definitely accent the piece and

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a flower called Coloropsis Salsathat she said seemed to be takingquite well to the Wellesley air andsoil.

According to Mass HorticulturalSociety director Neil Sanders, thecurrent state of the nonprofit or-ganization and of the festival itselfis a reflection of the hard work ofjust six employees caring for 36acres of land at Elm Bank and acore group of volunteers who tendto gardens and administrativework.

"Five years ago there was a ques-tion of whether Mass HorticultureSociety would remain at ElmBank, or even exist at all," Sanderssaid, "but a group of volunteersdug in, especially the Master Gar-deners. They took the place andbegan building it anew."

One portion of Mass Hort's set-

up at Elm Bank that seems to beflourishing are the vegetable gar-dens, and Master Gardener GretelAnspach explained the purpose ofits two sections: an area of beds for"home chefs" and an area of bedsproducing fresh, organic vegeta-bles for several food pantries, in-cluding the Wellesley Food Pantry.

"The first garden is just pretty,"she said, noting it serves as a wayto demonstrate to home gardenersthe potential for raising a wide va-riety of vegetables in a small space- while also being as good-lookingas any flower garden. "If someonelives in a ritzy neighborhood andfeels like if they put in vegetablesthen their neighbors will kill them,everything here is both pretty andtasty."

Many of the beds in this area ofgardens were separated by style ofcuisine, with a French vegetablegarden and an Indian and MiddleEastern garden, for example. The

Middle Eastern garden includedTurkish orange eggplants, sesame,Amaranth, and two unusual vari-eties of cucumbers, all of whichhave been tested and grown inNew England.

Volunteer Betty Sanders saidpeople can learn by pitching in atElm Bank, either as a volunteer orby taking classes, such as a classthat runs each April and preparespeople for starting a home garden.Beginning or experienced garden-ers can contact Mass Horticulturalsociety for more information.

Meanwhile, Anspach pointed outthe impressive output of the area ofvegetables raised for food pantries.

"We have all of this land and weknow there are people that are ona fixed income," she said. "Weknow they can get cans of food atthe food pantries, which is won-derful, but they ought to be able toeat fresh tomatoes, lettuce, and cu-cumbers."

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The annual Council on AgingBarbecue drew more than 75 resi-dents to the Community Center atthe end of July. Featuring pianomusic and food and beveragesprovided by Springwell, a Water-town-based organization, the eventis one of the cornerstone socialgatherings for the Council onAging, bringing together friends,occasional visitors to the Councilon Aging, and newcomers lookingto meet new people.

Larisa McCue and her husband,Bill, are two residents who visitthe Council on Aging every day.

"We come every day for lunch,"Larisa McCue said. "We like tohave company and eat well."

Laura Veligor, the Council's Out-reach Coordinator, said the barbe-cue brings in a lot of people whodon't often make it to events.

"It's just getting everybody to-gether to enjoy the day," she said."You see a lot of faces you don'tsee every day - they come out forthe bigger events."

Rose Petriello, seated near thepiano and next to Ruth Von Kelsh,spoke of the importance of gettingout of the house: "You might seeyour friends. We have to see eachother."

Helping to serve all these hungryvisitors an array of traditional bar-becue favorites like hamburgers,potato salad, and watermelon,were Council on Aging staff, in-cluding Veligor, Director of SeniorServices Gail Thieme, Ilene Sharp,Phil Toledo of Springwell, and agroup of several volunteers, in-cluding long-time volunteer Joe

Hoffman.

Hoffman said he notices the ef-fect that events like the annual bar-becue - which he's been attendingas a volunteer for three years -have on seniors.

"The seniors really appreciate it,and you can really see that," hesaid. "It's nice that we can do thisfor them. They deserve it."

Murray Blume said he appreci-ates the simple facts of good foodand good company, saying that be-fore his wife passed away herarely visited Council events.

"Now I make sure I get that onebalanced meal," he noted.

Annual Barbecue Packs the Community Center

BY DAVE HALPERIN

With an eye on making the Sen-ior Center, housed within theWellesley Community Center,more of a "home away fromhome" in the words of Senior Serv-ices Director Gayle Thieme, the

Council on Aging recently shiftedfrom monthly coffee hours to dailycoffee hours.

The daily coffee hours run Mon-

day through Friday, from 9:30 to10:30 a.m.

At one recent Coffee Hours, vis-itors were treated to a special pianoperformance by recent WellesleyHigh School graduate KaterinaLin, who said she also visits theSenior Center once a week to playScrabble.

"It's nice to spend time with peo-ple, chat with them and keep themcompany," Lin said. "It's good forthem to have someone to talk to

from another generation... They tellme about their grandkids."

Lin has been playing the pianosince she was five years old, andhas been self-taught since the ageof seventh grade. During her visitto the Community Center, she en-

tertained the audience with anarray of styles and songs, includingclassical music and ragtime. Selec-tions included Beethoven's Moon-light Sonata, Chopin's Waltz and"Ragtime" by Scott Joplin.

Visitors, sipping coffee and eat-ing cookies, were grateful for theefforts of the incoming HarvardUniversity freshman.

"We play Scrabble together, andI just like to see her play the piano,"said Mary Kinnevy. "I wanted tobe here while she was playing."

Thieme credited the Council onAging Board of Directors with re-sponding to the needs of Welles-ley's senior population andchanging the coffee hours to adaily affair.

"It started as a monthly event thatwas well-attended," she said. "Sowe took it to the Board of Directorsand asked if we could do it moreregularly, and they responded.We're trying to take steps for [theirspace at the Wellesley CommunityCenter] to have a home away fromhome feel."

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It was another beautiful Augustday last month for the annual ‘BrittB's Family Day’ summer festival

put on by the Wellesley RecreationDepartment.

‘Britt B's Family Day’ is namedafter the first elected recreation su-

perintendent back in 1946, whenBritt Boughner was appointed inorder to bring together the Welles-ley community with activities for

all ages.

Today he is honored with “a dayfor the kids,” on the Warren Build-ing green that included a Mister

Frosty ice cream truck, a dunkingbooth and multiple inflatable slidesand moon walks to keep your kidbouncing for hours.

For more than 25 years the eventwas held on the Town Hall greenas part of the Summer Concert Se-ries, but the crowds were too largeand so in order to keep the eventbalanced and manageable, Britt BDay was moved to the Warren

Building about five years ago.

Several area camps, includingJoey, Quest, Odyssey and ProjectExtreme, came together for an af-ternoon of fun and folly, as seen bythe CIT’s who were relegated to siton the dunking booth’s chair ascampers tried to submerge them inicy cold water.

“I love working here,” said coun-selor Marie Abrahams,” a goodgroup of counselors and good ac-tivities.”

While parents were invited tobring their kids down to enjoy theactivities, many who just happened

to be enjoying the park were in-vited to enjoy the festivities.

“It’s great,” said parent KatieHunt, who was waiting in line toenjoy the inflatable obstaclecourse. “My kids will bounce allday if you let them,”

The event had over twenty localsponsors who helped out, withRoche Brothers and the WellesleyHills Junior Women’s Club as thebiggest sponsors.

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The Wellesley Free Library hasannounced that its first “WellesleyReads Together” program will takeplace from October 1 to November13.

The town-wide program, whichis part of the Wellesley CelebratesEducation initiative to celebratenext year’s opening of the new

Wellesley High School, consists ofresidents of all ages coming to-gether to read the same books andattend events relating to the books.

Elise MacLennan, assistant di-rector of library services at theWellesley Free Library, says theidea sparked from other librariesacross the country participating insimilar “one-book” communityprojects.

“It’s something that has a recenthistory in many libraries,” she said.“One book, one town.”

The first round of Wellesley’sprogram will actually feature twobooks that were chosen by the“Wellesley Reads Together” Com-mittee. The first of the books isThe Good Garden: How OneFamily Went from Hunger to Hav-ing Enough, written by Wellesley

resident Katie Smith Milway. Theadult selection for the program isAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle: AYear of Food Life by BarbaraKingsolver, Steven Hopp andCamille Kingsolver.

Milway’s book, which is a suit-able selection for children as wellas adults, is based on a true storyabout a Honduran girl who learnsabout and practices techniques torevive her and her family’s farm.

The second book focuses on thehealth and economic benefits of alocally sourced family diet, and isalso based on a true story, whichchronicles a year of Barbara King-solver's life during a time that herfamily acquired as much food aspossible from their own backyardand neighboring farms.

The program will feature a vari-ety of events between October andNovember, such as author visitswith Katie Smith Milway, bookdiscussion groups and a Harvest

Dinner, to name a few.

The “one book” concept began in1998 when Nancy Pearl, executivedirector of the Washington Centerfor the Book in the Seattle PublicLibrary, initiated "If All SeattleRead the Same Book”, accordingto the American Library Associa-tion. MacLennan, who has been anadvocate for the project, says themain goal of the project is to bringpeople in the community togetherwhile also focusing on literature.

“It’s about connecting people toliterature, and connecting people toeach other,” she said.

MacLennan encourages all resi-dents to visit www.wellesleyread-stogether.org for more informationon the project, as well as a calendarof events. Anyone who has ideasfor additional events is encouragedto leave a message at the library bycalling 781-235-1610 x 1206, oremailing wrt@minlib.net.

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Where spotted:The Massachusetts Horticulture Society's Mass Mar-ketplace Festival at Elm Bank

What are they up to?Checking out the trail gardens.

Why the trial gardens?Marsha: They tell us how [the plant or flower]is going to do in our climates.

barbara:They've never been grown in this part of the world before.

craig baum

Who:Craig Baum

Where spotted:Outside the police station during the Police Department's Youth Police Academy

Why this for summer camp? I did the Fire Rescuers program last year, so I thought it would be fun to doboth.

What was the best part of the Police Academy? I really liked going in the armored vehicle.

Jai

Who: Jai, of Jai's Corn Starch Flowers in Newton

Where spotted: At her booth during the Mass Marketplace at ElmBank.

how do you make those [corn starch flowers]? It's a secret.

Jeff rosen

Who: Jeff Rosen

Where spotted:Driving a golf cart at the Mass Marketplace festival.

how'd you land the cart? I'm a volunteer

mary Kinnevy

Who:Mary Kinnevy

Where spotted: The Council onAging's Coffee Hours at the Com-munity Center

What's the draw: I came to seeKaterina [Lin] play the piano. Weplayed Scrabble together and Iwant to be here to see her perform.

Phil Toledo

Who: Phil Toledo

Where spotted:At the Councilon Aging's Annual Barbecue at theCommunity Center.

What brings you here today? Iwork for Springwell.

how did springwell support

the barbecue?We brought all thefood, paper products, including themain meal, beverages, and dessert.

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The other day a teenager zoomedpast me with his car stereo up waytoo loud. After realizing how oldI felt for even thinking that it re-minded me of when I was that ageand had my first car. A $400.00car with a great stereo and a whop-ping 50 or 60 cassette tapes at mydisposal. My how times havechanged.

Fast forward to a few years ago.On my way to Maine for longweek end with the guys I whippedout my new Ipod with 15,000songs on it. Needless to say theguys with me who had never seenone before were blown away.What, you can put ALL yourmusic and then some in that littlebox? Impossible!!

So today as we complain abouthow to make ends meet some-times it helps to just stop and smellthe roses and realize just howlucky we are today! There are so

many nice little things around thateven 10 years ago didn’t seempossible. Sure, we’ve quicklygrown accustomed to them andmost of us take them for grantednow, but if you learn to appreciatethe amazing “stuff” we have nowyou’ll realize life is not so bad.

A friend of mine who is a ninthgrade school teacher recentlyasked all the kids in his class to putall their electronic devices on theirdesk. No, he wasn’t going to con-fiscate them, just a fun little exper-iment. As the phones, portablevideo games, gps units, ipods, andmore tumble out it quickly becameapparent that the average ninthgrader walks around with at least$500.00 worth of tech toys at anygiven moment. Adults are evenworse!

As I drive around I have myhandy “tools” ready. This arsenalincludes my gps unit so I never getlost and it even talks to me to scold

me when I make a wrong turn.Next we have the obligatoryBlackberry with live internet 24/7.I don’t even dial 411 anymore, justgoogle anything or anyone andyou’re likely to have your infor-mation in a couple of seconds.That doesn’t even take into ac-count that fact that with cellphones we’re NEVER out oftouch anymore. My long distancerelationships with Mom and Dadand other old pals has never beenbetter. A nice conversation duringthe ride home is a great us of thetime. (Of course, everything ishands free for safety!) Of course,while I’m traveling I do have theold Ipod with more songs can pos-sibly listen to, and to supplementthat you have your satellite radio.Oh, and don’t forget my laser tapemeasure and my lap top. In all Ihave more computing power withme at any given time than the en-gineers at NASA could ever havedreamed about when they shot forthe moon.

So life isn’t so bad after all. Inaddition to all these amazing “gad-gets” that make our life just a littlebit better, there are new tools forscientist and doctors to make ourworld a better place, and almostevery industry in the world has en-joyed unprecedented productivitydue to the amazing new technol-ogy at our fingertips.

Every day I’m amazed at thethings I have that I had to live without not too long ago. I am verythankful for all the little things inlife that make it a bit easier and abit more enjoyable. Be sure tostop and smell the roses. Take alook around, life is good!

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The Wellesley Choral Society isstarting its 65th season and islooking for new voices. OpenRehearsals, where interestedsingers can get acquainted withthe chorus, will take place on thefollowing Mondays, September12, 19 and 26, from 7:30-9:30p.m. in the Wakelin Room at theWellesley Free Library, 530Washington Street, Wellesley(please use parking lot entrance).There are openings for all voiceparts and singers of high schoolage and older are welcome. Au-ditions are not required.

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Judie Johnson, “Judie” as she iscalled by children and parentsalike because she prefers it, is asintegral a part of Wellesley as itsindigenous red maple trees. ACrossing Guard on Grove Street atthe Brook Path, Judie has been afriend, a mentor, and a mother ofsorts to the Hunnewell School chil-dren for the past 36 years.

Originally, Judie’s location wasfurther down Grove Street, moretoward the Town center. “I stood infront of the barber shop that wasthere at the time. Then, they movedme up the street,” Judie said.“There were no sidewalks at thetime. The children walked througha path and also went home forlunch. Next, I was moved furtherup Grove and Wellesley Green wasbuilt. Then, up the street to theBrook Path and I’ve been at thatlocation for 36 years,” she said.Judie has been a Crossing Guardfor the Town of Wellesley for 47years.

Judie, who grew up in Wellesley,attending the Hardy School, theMiddle School and playing soft-ball at Wellesley High School, ishumble, yet frank. She has always

had a predisposition for helpingothers. “And, I like to be calledJudie. Everyone calls me that,” shesaid. “It makes me more approach-able. If the children have a prob-lem, I think it makes them morelikely to just come to me.”

Over the years children and par-ents alike have turned to Judie infriendship and for advice. Duringa recent school term, a parent re-quested that Judie speak about au-thority to the Hunnewell DaisyGirl Scout Troop. “I was nervousabout what to say, but I spoke. Thegirls listened, asked questions. Thefollowing day they came to my lo-cation with three huge, beautiful‘thank you’ posters,” Judie said.

In fact, ‘thank you’ has come inmany ways to Judie Johnson.“They feed me well,” she said, asmile breaking across her face.“Someone is always bringing mesomething. Cookies. Cakes. Thechildren make jam from strawber-ries they’ve picked and bring me ajar,” she said.

“Judie provides a lot of comfortfor the children,” said OfficerBrian Spencer, Safety Officer withthe Wellesley Police. The CrossingGuard personnel are a part of theWellesley Police Department andfalls under Officer Spencer’s

purview. “She is kind of like a bea-con for the kids and she is reassur-ing for the parents as well,” hesaid.

“We are hired by the police de-partment and sworn in on a yearlybasis,” Judie echoed. “John Tracywas my first safety officer,” shepaused, as if reflecting fond mem-ories. “The Crossing Guards are a

tight group,” Judie continued. “Weall know each other.”

Judie reminisced that one mem-ber of the Crossing Guard commu-nity had a home in Yarmouth. “Wewent there as a group for 31years,” Judie said. “And, believe itor not, there is a Crossing Guardwho has been on the job longerthan me. We do this because welove it.”

Judie recalled the days when theCrossing Guards marched everyyear in the Wellesley Veteran’sDay Parade. She mused that oneyear their group followed thehorses in the parade. “I don’t haveto explain that,” Judie said with alaugh and a wave of her hand.“The next year we were in front ofthe horses.”

The feel and look of Wellesley is

“very different” now then it waswhen Judie first became a Cross-ing Guard. She has witnessedmany changes in the town. “Thereused to be many more stores – C.Crawford Hollidge, Coleman’s,Ann Star – not so many banks andreal estate offices,” she said. “Mr.Anderson, from Anderson Jewel-ers, used to give all of the female

high school graduates a silverspoon in her pattern.

“Children are different, too,”Judie said. “When I first started,Snoopy was on TV. Today, kids areso far above Snoopy. They’re moreadvanced,” she said.

Nonetheless, Judie has alwayshad a close relationship with thechildren and them with her. She ispleased and proud to be a part ofthe evolving lives of the childrenand is especially gratified whenchildren who graduate return to herexact location on Grove and theBrook Path to see her. “The chil-dren return well educated, as doc-tors, lawyers. They come back.”Judie said. “Several of the parentswho walked their children toschool and crossed at the Path,now live in Wellesley Green.”

Wellesley Green completes thecircle for Judie. The complex iswhere she spends the other part ofher days. She is an in-house em-ployee in the security departmentfor Wellesley Green.

“I am a very happy person wholoves people,” Judie said. “I get towork with children in the morn-ings and with the adults in theevening.”

Judie said that besides the oppor-tunity to form lifelong friendshipswith the children she has “crossed”and their parents, the job as Cross-ing Guard has other memorableperks.

“One morning, four deer cameright up out of the woods, jumpedover the fence and disappeared,”Judie, a lover of nature said. “Ablue heron hangs out every yearnear my spot and an unusual groupof fish travel along the stream eachyear and try to jump over the waterfall. The kids all stand and watch.Yes, I guess you can say I love myjob,” she said.

Judie, who lives in Natick withher husband, had two children (onesuccumbed to bilateral pneumo-nia) and they have six grandchil-dren. She attended CatherineGibbs, “back when they had man-ual typewriters,” Judie laughed.She is full of laughter and light.

“The Hunnewell School commu-nity is a very close-knit commu-nity. Both moms and fathers walktheir children to school. The par-ents are very appreciative of whatI do …I guess I’m a little piece ofthe rock,” Judie said.

Judie Johnson, Crossing Guardextraordinaire, is more than “apiece of the rock.” When passingon Grove Street at the Brook Path,speak to Judie who always has akind word for everyone. She is aWellesley gem.

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The facts are indisputable and thestatistics are unavoidable, but thequestion is, where is the help forcollege students suffering fromclinical eating disorders or bodyimage problems?

Finding no satisfactory answer tothat question, local resident and so-cial worker Dawn Sharkany andformer Wayland resident, psychol-ogist Whitney Post, have taken thebold step of forming a nationwidenonprofit organization called Eat-ing for Life Alliance (ELA),whose web site launches Septem-ber 1 at www.eatingforlife.org.

The web site includes informa-tion on resources for college stu-dents across the country as well aspersonal stories of survivors; train-ing materials for medical profes-sionals based at those colleges; andinformation for concerned friendsand parents.

"The focus is on awareness andresources, equipping colleges so

they can prevent eating disordersand providing information to stu-dents and parents as well,"Sharkany says. "There isn't anotherentity out there with help solely forcollege students."

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mally don't have specialists dedi-cated to helping the growing num-bers of students with eatingdisorders - including, Sharkanynotes, the growing numbers ofyoung men and athletes and the

crossover population of male ath-letes.

Of course, the largest populationcontinues to be young women, aseating disorders tend to start in theage range of between middleschool and a woman's early 20s,

and Sharkany emphasizes that theweb site and, the resources foundthere, are available to people of allages, while she and Post are alsoavailable as a local resource forpeople in the Wellesley commu-nity who may be concerned abouteating disorders.

As for university-aged adults, ac-cording to the Journal of AmericanCollege Health, clinical eating dis-orders affect between 10 and 20percent of female college studentsand four to ten percent of male uni-versity students.

According to Post, whose workin the field has often centered onhelping athletes with eating disor-ders, the material and language onthe site is meant to make studentsfeel comfortable.

"Students get user-friendly lan-guage instead of academic lan-guage," she says. "If people aresaying they may be struggling,they can find out what is treatmentlike ... and get links to treatmentorganizations across the country."

Wellesley psychologist and Har-vard University instructor DebbieDelinsky, a member of ELA'sBoard of Directors, says a place tofind this information is a long timecoming.

"The need that's there is reallyquite large, and the resources areneeded," Delinsky explains. "AndI think what's hard is that whensomeone realizes they're strug-gling with an eating disorder, theydon't know what to do, and that'swhat's terrific about this resource.It's providing people with helpright when they need it."

Getting that help early is crucial,experts say. Body image problemscan lead to clinical eating disor-ders, which at the least negativelyimpact health; at worst, they're lifethreatening.

"The thing about eating disordersis that they have such a physicalcomponent to them. If someone isnot eating enough or engaging inbehaviors that can really be harm-ful to their health, it really takesquite a toll," Delinsky says, listingcardiac, dental, reproductive, psy-chological, hormonal, organ andbone health as systems being indanger.

If students fail to find treatmentearly, the issue can become like "asnowball going down a hill,"Delinksy says.

"It picks up velocity, and a personbecomes more and more fanaticalabout it, and can become more andmore frigid about what they're eat-ing, and more and more narrowabout what feels safe to them," shesays.

Now, a visit to the ELA website,where students will find a commu-nity of experienced caregivers andlinks to experts in the field, canhelp stop that snowball from pick-ing up speed and strength.

"People can and do recover fromtheir eating disorder," Sharkanysays. "There's a lot of hope, andthat's the main message."

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While you might think that cre-ating emotions on the face issomething that most people donaturally, more often than notthere's a big difference betweenwhat you think you're expressingand what you're actually revealing.Communicating one clear expres-sion and emotion at a time throughfacial signals gives you a great ad-vantage in creating precise, clearand effective connections. Appro-priate facial expressions withoutdistortions can help you create in-stant rapport and relationship withyour audience. So let’s do an aboutface and learn some of the secretsto understanding and controllingintricate, detailed facial expres-sions (micro and macro expres-sions) that give off “signals” or“cues” that will ultimately attractor repel your audience.

We should remember that otherthan words the face is the primarysource for reading what a person

feels and thinks. Much of what welearn about facial expression wasobserved by us as young childrenmirroring our parents and caretak-ers. We are walking carbon copy(facially) of those that surroundedus in our formative years. So at theend of the day what feels naturalfor your face may not be commu-nicating your message with accu-racy or even at all! Here are a fewtips to help you figure out yourface and consider your facial po-tential that can absolutely belearned, practiced, and mastered ina relatively short time and then ap-plied to your life:

1)Look into a mirror and conjureup strong, visceral visualizationsthat cause strong emotions in youand watch what your face does.Try hard not to make your face ex-press, just let whatever happenshappen. Now try more subtle im-agery and see what happens.

2)Stretch your face muscles (you

have over 100 muscles in your facealone) by yawning, chewing, andopening up your eyes wide. Thiswill remove excess stress and ten-sion held in your face that you did-n’t know affects your expression.Try isolating as many musclegroups in your face without mov-ing any others. See how much con-trol you have over your facialexpressions.

3) Have a friend videotape youduring a normal conversation andalso in some mock situations; abusiness presentation, a phoneconversation, or having coffee atthe kitchen table with a friend. Ob-serve the changes that occur onyour face as your “audience” and“environment” change.

4)Take a still photo as you thinkof different ideas that can triggeremotions as well as when you’rein conversation. See what the cam-era lens catches. This is what theworld sees. Are you creating lay-

ered/multi-expressions (that can beunclear and muddy your emotion)or one expression at a time?

It would be a challenge indeed to“unlearn” facial responses thathave become habitual through theyears and in many cases, have re-warded you with positive feed-back. We don’t want to lose ournatural facial charisma that wehave grown over a lifetime, butrather, manage facial responses toconvey your true intension, yourtrue emotion. So I’ll ask thesesimple questions for you to pon-der: Do you really mean to smileor laugh when you are surroundedby sadness or feel fear? Do youwant to forecast facial tension oreven anger during a happy, cele-bratory event? Do you want topurse your lips or knit your browduring an interview when asked,“So, tell me about yourself?” Let’stake the guesswork out of “facetime” and avoid a “face off!”

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september 10

Wild West round-up 10:00AM to 2:00 PM, Fiske Elemen-tary School. The Wild WestRound-Up is a Family Fair with aWestern Flair. (781) 416-5007

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BY RENEE REYNOLDS

In August, the Newton CountryPlayers presented their productionof Into the Woods, a classic musi-cal by Stephen Sondheim andJames Lapine.

The play, directed and choreo-graphed by Laura Espy, took placeat MassBay Community Collegethe weekends of August 5-6 and12-14.

Into the Woods intertwines sev-eral classic fairy tales and takesthem a step further in order toshow the audience what happensafter “ever after”. Each of the char-acters has a wish they hope willlead them out of their lonely lives

and into the woods to find whatthey are longing for. Over thecourse of the play, the audiencesees who the characters had startedout as, and what they become aftergetting their wish. This productionsuccessfully conveyed what hap-pens after one’s fantasy becomesa reality.

Even if one were not familiarwith the production itself, it was

easy for the audience to relate tothe classic characters: Cinderella,Rapunzel and Little Red RidingHood – to name a few.

The story begins with a Bakerand his wife being cursed by a

witch, who sends them off into thewoods to collect items from eachof the abovementioned charactersto obtain their wish of having achild.

While the characters encounteredin the woods are all well-known, itwould be easy to warm up to thecharacters regardless, as they wereall delightfully cast. Among thestandouts were Christine Kaspar-ian, who gave a hilarious perform-ance as Little Red Riding Hood,and Heather Darrow. Darrowplayed the Baker’s wife and enter-tained the audience with nearlyevery sentence spoken. Hercomedic skills and impeccabletiming truly made her a pleasure towatch onstage.

The costumes were what every-

one grew up reading about in eachrespective fairytale: Cinderella’slost slipper, Rapunzel’s flowinghair and Little Red Riding Hood’scape all served significant roles inthe story, as the witch requiredeach of these items be returned toher in order for the Baker and hiswife to be granted their wish of achild.

The directing was overall veryimpressive. The cast seemed totruly understand what needed to beconveyed in the roles they played,and the scenes were consistent andeasy to follow, with each characterexpressly stating what they wishedfor at the beginning of each scene.The lighting was adequate and theset design worked given the lackof space offered in the auditorium.

In the end, the audience comes torealize that maybe happily everafter isn’t truly “ever after”. Eachof the characters in the play under-goes a transformation to coincidewith their original wish. Still, at theend of the play, the audiencewatches as each of these characterswalks away without being ful-filled.

Into the Woods successfully tookits audience on a journey to showthem that sometimes the pathaway from loneliness, which wastaken by each character in the play,sometimes just leads to more lone-liness of a different nature and thatone truly should be careful whatthey wish for – because it mightjust come true.

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Wellesley's own Cathy Merlo wasfantastic as Cinderella's Step-mother.

Christine Kasparian gave a hilari-ous performance as Little Red Rid-ing Hood.

Heather Darrow (left) and BenSharton (right) show what happensafter a wish is granted.

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BY DAVE HALPERIN

The Veterinary EmergencySpecialty Center of New Eng-land (VESCONE) in Waltham isa cut above the usual veterinaryhospital and medical center.

At VESCONE’s state-of-the-art, 18,000-square foot facility at180 Bear Hill Road in Waltham,the staff is consistently focusedon delivering the best possiblecare, not only for the pets receiv-ing treatment, but for the petlovers who accompany them.

"We are very focused on pro-viding quality care," notedVESCONE Owner and FounderDr. Amy Shroff. "There aren'tmany practices in the area thatare owned by one individual, andhaving that here allows us tostick to our mission, quality ofcare at all levels. We have manyspecialties, but one facility, andthat's our focus all the time."

VESCONE provides 24-hour,7-day a week emergency and re-ferral service that utilizes a com-prehensive team approachamong its well qualified special-ists, all under one roof. The facil-ity is home to a dedicatedemergency and critical care staffas well as well as specialists insurgery - who are well-versed inarthroscopy and all kinds of soft

tissue repair - critical care, inter-nal medicine, ophthalmology, ra-diology, and cardiology.

And through their affiliationwith the New England VeterinaryOncology Group - located in thesame building – the 2 practicesare able to offer complete onco-logical diagnosis, treatment andsupportive care. If that wasn'tenough, VESCONE has the con-venience of a blood bank for catsand dogs, and in-house lab, digi-tal radiography, ultrasound, CT,and an ICU/isolation unitequipped with cage side oxygen,and state of the art monitoringequipment.

In addition VESCONE enjoysthe services of a professionallyeducated staff of veterinarynurses who are specially certifiedin areas such as anesthesia andcritical care.

"They're some of the bestnurses in the area," Dr. Shroffsays, noting that she hires nurseswho are looking for more thanjust a job. "Along with the doc-tors, that's the person who's oftencommunicating with the petowner - the nurse that's givingthat moment to moment care -and they're really able to developa special relationship. We cantrain anyone to learn certain

skills, but it's having a passion forthe field and the specialty they'rein that's important."

Dr. Shroff herself has had thatpassion since a young age. Infact, her life is "the classic storyof a little kid, who wanted to bea veterinarian since I was eightyears old," she admits. And as anadult, she realized her passionwas to provide medical care forpets in critical need. "I want to bethere for the pet and the ownerwhen they're at their most vul-nerable, with caring, educationand guidance during their time ofneed.

"I enjoy treating those patientswho are very ill and watchingthem heal and do well," she adds."It's a real reward - we do get at-tached to our patients veryquickly."

Dr. Shroff acknowledges that inthe current economic climate,being attentive to the needs of petowners becomes even more cru-cial.

"Taking care of a sick animaland paying for their care is stress-ful for an owner, so it's really im-portant to be there for them -communication is really key forus, and all our doctors are avail-able by telephone, voicemail andemail all the time to speak with

people," Dr. Shroff explains. "Wealso have a live person answeringthe phone 24 hours a day."

While emergency and special-ized care forms the primary day-to-day operations at VESCONE,staff there are also dedicated to aphilosophy of education - andnot only while on the job, butalso through separate, continuingeducation classes for the generalpublic and staff, as well as theircolleagues and referring veteri-narians in the area.

"It's always been my dream toopen a practice that's a wonderfulfacility for the public and veteri-narians themselves... and to be asource of information in theevent that people need it," Dr.Shroff says. "This practice is anextension of my passion to be aveterinarian and to be the bestpractice we can possibly be."

The Veterinary EmergencySpecialty Center of New Eng-land (VESCONE) is located at180 Bear Hill Road in Waltham.For more information visitw w w . v e s c o n e . c o m ,facebook.com/vescone, or call781-684-8387.

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Sunday, October 9 opens theWellesley Symphony's 63rd sea-son at MassBay Community Col-lege, 50 Oakland, Street, Wellesley.Founded in 1949, the orchestra’smission is to provide high qualityorchestral performances, generateopportunities for young and pro-fessional soloists, commission andpremiere works by regional com-posers, and collaborate withschools and community organiza-tions.

Under the talented direction ofconductor Max Hobart, the orches-tra plays six concerts a year: a four-concert subscription series plus theextremely popular December Hol-iday Pops and March Children’sConcert. One of Boston’s mostversatile musicians, Max Hobartenjoys a highly respected positionas a performer, conductor andteacher. Retired after 27 years withthe Boston Symphony Orchestra,

Hobart worked under Erich Leins-dorf, William Steinberg, SeiiOzawa, Arthur Fiedler, and JohnWilliams. Max particularly enjoyssharing his vast knowledge, inspir-ing musicians drawn by his expert-ise and incredible experiencesperforming at Carnegie Hall, Tan-glewood and touring internation-ally.

Offering a unique approach toreaching young audiences, the or-chestra offers free admission tochildren under twelve at every con-cert so young people and theirfamilies can experience classicalmusic together. The delightful pre-concert talks and hands-on learn-ing during the famous “InstrumentPetting Zoo” inspire and educate,and draw large audiences everyyear.

The season will open with thepremiere of On to the Pacific from

the American Sketchbook byDover composer Greg Rice. Theperformance also includes a rare,complete performance of FerdeGrofé’s famous Grand CanyonSuite, and Antonin Dvorak’sbeloved Symphony No. 9 in Eminor, From the New World. OnNovember 20 Beethoven will visitWellesley, with the overture to Fi-delio, the great 2nd Symphony,and the 3rd Piano Concerto, featur-

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A new professional theater com-pany launched this summer inWest Roxbury and a trio of Welles-ley residents figured heavily in thecompany's first pair of produc-tions, Twelfth Night and Rosen-crantz and Guildenstern are Dead.In fact, the trio includes threemembers of the same family:Brian Buckley and his daughters,Olivia and Madeline.

While he serves as Chairman ofthe Arts Department at RoxburyLatin during the school year, BrianBuckley acted as an Associate Pro-ducer for the Summer Theater atRoxbury Latin's two summerplays, Shakespeare's Twelfth Nightand Rosencrantz and Guildensternare Dead, which enjoyed six-nightruns at the school's Smith Theater.

Meanwhile, Olivia Buckleyplayed Horatio in Rosencrantz and

Guildenstern are Dead and thenewly created double role of Fesand Te in Twelfth Night, whileMadeline Buckley joined her sisterand another performer in singingfor audiences prior to each show.

"I had heard how great they wereas singers, so we're very lucky tohave them," Summer Theater andRoxbury Latin Artistic DirectorRoss MacDonald said during theshow's run.

Both shows, MacDonald added,are comprised mostly of profes-sional actors, including Jack Cut-more Scott (Nicholas Nickleby atThe Lyric Theater Boston), Eliza-beth Rimar (Kate Nickleby at TheLyric Theater Boston), DakotaShepard, Melissa Walker, andMacDonald himself. Additionally,New Rep Artistic Associate Brid-get Kathleen O’Leary directedRosencrantz and Guildenstern areDead for the new theater company.

The production of Twelfth Nighttook the innovative step of settingthe play in the roaring '20s in ad-dition to splitting the character ofFeste into two roles. Creating thedouble role is a move that Mac-Donald said he'd been thinkingabout for a long time.

"In the '20s, ideas of sexualitywere changing... There was a kindof freeing up of identities androles, and I thought it would be in-teresting to have [the play set inthat time], as well as having this

'double character', to make every-thing kinked," MacDonald said."Between Fes and Te, it gives yousomething to play around with."

Olivia Buckley said playing bothFes and Te was an artistic chal-lenge.

"It's different than anything I'veever played before. There's a lot ofdifferent levels I have to play," shesaid.

Both Buckley sisters said theyhave been performing for years,including during elementaryschool when they started their ownafter school theater company, andboth sisters are also musicians,with Olivia playing the piano andMadeline a student of the viola.

"We got a chance to sing and dolittle things to get our feet wet,"Olivia Buckley said of their afterschool theater company experi-ence.

MacDonald said the company isstruggling to get off the ground inits first year (a trial production wasrun last summer), but said the re-sponse by those who have seen theshow has been positive.

"We're still getting known and Ithink half the people coming to theshow think it's going to be a sum-mer school production," he said,"but they get quite a shock whenthey see it's a professional produc-tion, and quite good."

A Family ProductionSummer Festival Theater at Roxbury Latin includes a family of Wellesleyites

ing the supremely talented Vir-ginia Eskin.

December 11 brings the HolidayPops to town, with sleigh ridesfrom England, Russia, Brazil &America plus a New EnglandSleighride by Robert Way andSymphonic Sleighride by GregRice (World Première). Popularsoprano Emily Browder Melvillewill join the orchestra in manyholiday favorites. There will be thetraditional and popular audiencesing-along, the WSO “Two FrontTeeth” contest winner, a visit fromSanta, and all the kids get to con-duct the orchestra.

February 12 features a Valentinelove fest, with renowned husbandand wife, tenor Brian Landry andcontralto Ana Maria Ugarte,singing beloved arias and duetsfrom Tosca, Rigoletto, Carmen,and more, plus a complete per-formance of Mendelssohn’s Mid-summer Night’s Dream Suite andthe Wagner Siegfried Idyll.

On March 11 the Orchestra willcelebrate Music in our SchoolsMonth with The Little Engine thatCould, narrated by Leslie Holmes,and performances with the Welles-ley Middle School Orchestra andthe winner of the annual YoungSoloist Competition. The concertis preceded by the famous instru-

ment petting zoo and instrumentshow ‘n’ tell.

The season finale on Mother’sDay, May 12, will be a tribute toJascha Heifetz with Lisa Park,young Korean violin virtuosoplaying violin favorites motherslove the world over, includingMassenet ‘s Meditation fromThaïs, the Saint-Saëns Introduc-tion and Rondo Capriccioso andHavanaise plus two orchestralblockbusters, Liszt’s Les Préludesand Ravel’s Bolero.

All concerts are at MassBayCommunity College, 50 OaklandStreet, Wellesley, Sundays at 3

p.m. The orchestra president, so-prano Leslie Holmes, gives an ab-sorbing and informativepre-concert talk before the sub-scription concerts in October, No-vember, February and May at2:15. Tickets for the concerts are$25 for adults, $20 for seniors andstudents, and free for childrenunder 12; they may be purchasedat Wellesley Books, online, at thedoor, and at PO Box 81860,Wellesley Hills, MA 02481. Four-concert season subscribers save 25percent off individual tickets:adults $75, seniors and students$60. There is plenty of free park-ing at the college. Call 781-235-0515 or visitwww.wellesleysymphony.org.

The Wellesley Symphony Orchestra opens its season on October 9

As local residents were squeez-ing in final vacations and back-to-school shopping, the WellesleyPublic School System (WPS) wasgearing up for several new pro-grams – all made possible by$50,000 in donations from TheWellesley Hills Junior Women’sClub (WHJWC).

WPS is introducing or expandingnew programs across all seven el-ementary schools, Wellesley Mid-dle School and Wellesley HighSchool thanks to these donations.The most significant program is anAnti-Bullying Program for allseven elementary schools inWellesley. WHJWC committed$17,500 over two years to bringStan Davis, author and celebratedanti-bullying expert, to threeWellesley elementary schools in2011-12 and four elementaryschools in 2012-13. Mr. Davis willprovide individualized seminars,workshops and services to each el-ementary school. The teachers,staff, students and parents will,over the course of one year, learnhow to “Stop Bullying Now”through Mr. Davis’ program,which is based on his bookSchools Where Everyone Belongs.

The opportunity to fund an anti-

bullying program came to theWHJWC Donations Committeevia a grant application written bytwo of the seven elementaryschool principals on behalf of theirschools. The Donations committeemembers, chaired by IngridHoughton, were so enthused bythe idea that Houghton met withDr. Becky McFall, Director ofCurriculum for WPS, to see if theprogram would be beneficial to allseven schools. Dr. McFall was ex-tremely pleased with the prospect,and the system-wide program wasborn.

WHJWC is thrilled to partnerwith the school system to makethis program possible. “We are in-credibly excited to see this grantbenefit every single elementaryaged child in the town of Wellesleyover the next two years. Our mem-bership works tirelessly through-out the year to raise funds, andgiving that money back to Welles-ley’s children is very rewarding,“said Houghton.

WHJWC also made the follow-ing donations for the 2011-2012school year: $15,300 to all Welles-ley school PTOs, including$12,600 to fund transportation forelementary school field trips;$5,180 to expand the One HenAcademy: Microfinance for Kids

financial literacy program acrossall sixth grade classes; $4,000 forWINGS scholarships; a $2,600grant to the Principal at Schofieldfor an online literacy programs,$2,500 to the Wellesley METCOprogram, and $1,500 to the Princi-pal at Hardy for an author-in-resi-dence program. Additional fundswill support programs at the Mid-dle School, High School, PAWSand the Wellesley Parent AdvisoryCouncil.

About WhJWc

WHJWC is a nonprofit volunteerorganization dedicated to commu-nity service. Since its inception,WHJWC has generated $4.5 mil-lion in funding to support essentialsocial services, making it one ofthe largest grant-making organiza-tions in the area. This year,WHJWC donated $216,000 to thelocal community through non-profit donations and college schol-arships.

WHJWC's Donation Grant Ap-plication form will be available on-line at www.whjwc.org onNovember 1st. Completed appli-cations are due no later than Feb-ruary 1, 2012. Please email TrishLucas, Donations Chair 2011-12,at juniorsdonations@yahoo.comor visit www.whjwc.org if youhave any questions.

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The two phases of the Welles-ley Middle School internal reno-vation are still on track,according to project managerLee Keller.

The renovation, which is beingdone to accommodate a highernumber of students, is takingplace in two phases. The firstphase was scheduled to be fin-ished by August 18 and involvedtaking spaces within the buildingand turning them into class-rooms.

Kathy Mullaney, project ad-ministrator for the Town ofWellesley, says four spaces in theexisting building were being

transformed into additionalclassrooms.

All work for the project isbeing done within the building’sexisting structure; no additionswill be made to the building atthis time. The school was origi-nally built for approximately1,100 students; however, that fig-ure is expected to rise to closer to1,200 in the upcoming schoolyears.

The second phase of the proj-ect, which involves the demoli-tion of lecture halls, is taking abit more time.

“The demolition process is a bitmore involved than we had orig-inally thought,” Mullaney said.

Still, Mullaney explained, itwas the first phase of the projectthat needed to be completed in amore timely fashion and the sec-ond phase is still not consideredto be behind in accordance withthe original schedule.

The project began in June and,according to Mullaney, all pro-jected costs for the renovationsare in line with the original fig-ures.

“The construction costs are at$1.127 million, with the overallcosts equaling about $1.5 millionright now,” Mullaney said.

The entire project is scheduledto be completed by the end ofOctober.

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With a focus on network infra-structure and the implementationof modern presentation systems inevery classroom, the technologyproposal for the new WellesleyHigh School has ambitions tomatch the construction of the new

high school itself, which is ex-pected to open its doors in Febru-ary 2012.

With his recent presentation ofthe $2,189,257 technology pro-posal to the School Committee,Director of Technology Rob Fordand his department took one stepcloser to approval of the plan; re-ceiving the unanimous support ofthe Committee, Ford now awaitsthe go-ahead from the PermanentBuilding Committee, with whomhe will meet in a public forum thathad not been scheduled whenLocal Town Pages went to press.

"The biggest focus is on the net-work infrastructure and making

sure it's a robust, secure network,"Ford said, explaining that such achange will bring increased capac-ity for data along with improvedsecurity compared to the system atthe current school.

The current school employs amix between a 100mb and a 1GB

"backbone", while Ford's proposalfor the new school calls for a 10-GB backbone connecting five net-work closets serving differentareas of the building.

In addition to the infrastructureupgrade, Ford is touting an up-grade in audio/visual equipment.In the current school, an estimatedone-third of instructional spacesenjoy the benefits of SMARTBoards with projectors, whileFord's plan for the new schoolplaces such systems in each teach-ing area at a cost of $5,200 per sys-tem. SMART Boards allow forinteractive, touch screen usage byteachers and students, and videoprojection via DVD and computer.

Each classroom would also enjoya new audio system.

Additional audio/visual pur-chases included in the proposal arelarge-scale projection systems forthe gym and cafeteria, eight wall-mounted televisions for a varietyof spaces, including the newschool's art gallery, and a touch-screen television for the "1938Room," a museum-style space thatwill honor the current highschool's history. All told, the costof audio/visual equipment in theproposal comes in at $705,697.

Other aspects of the proposal in-clude full wireless coveragethroughout the building. The plancalls for one wireless network toserve staff and another to serve stu-dents, while members of theSchool Committee and Ford dis-cussed a probable third network toserve members of the visiting pub-lic.

Ford said that separating usersinto three networks improves se-curity and access.

As for the computers themselves,

the majority of the new school'scollection will come from the cur-rent school, but 120 new comput-ers would be purchased, many tobe used for six mobile computerlabs.

With educational trends movingtowards computer-based learning- meaning students will be encour-aged to bring laptops to school, anidea stated by members of theSchool Committee - during themeeting student Congress Repre-sentative :LKJ:LKLKJ asked Fordhow many outlets would be avail-able for students in need of a lap-top recharge. School CommitteeChair Suzy Littlefield replied thata certain number of outlets aremandated by federal law, whilenoting that they want to controlboth costs and energy usage; herhope, she said, is that students willcharge their laptops at home.

She later said there would likelybe enough outlets for everyone.

"I'm pretty sure they'll have theoption to charge at school if theyrun out of [of battery]," she said. "Ithink it will work... and they willalso have carts of computers avail-able."

Ford also later addressed theissue, saying through e-mail thatwhile he is "not directly involvedwith the electrical systems...thenew building is designed withmany outlets in each classroom aswell as in common areas through-out the building and the total num-ber of electrical outlets will exceedwhat is available in the currentbuilding."

The far-reaching technology pro-posal also extends to a shift to-wards what Ford called a "modernprinting model," which would re-duce the number of printers at theschool, as well as ink and tonercosts, by adding energy efficientworkgroup laser printers. Addi-tionally, the new school would seeenergy efficiency via "virtualiza-tion and blade infrastructure" thatemploys fewer servers and reducesenergy by 30-40 percent.

Other pieces of the proposal area language lab system with spe-cialized furniture for private usageand a broadcast studio and controlroom.

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It's not every day that a child hasthe opportunity to spend time in apolice officer's shoes, but a groupof Wellesley youth recently spent

a week learning about the day today operations of the WellesleyPolice Department, while alsotouring several regional law en-forcement facilities.

And while there were severalhighlights of the week that in-volved seeing and using equip-ment firsthand, the consensus wasthat the real value of the experience

was in campers and officers gettingto know one another.

"They get to meet these guys andthen 3-4 years down the road, theystill remember them," said YouthOfficer Brian Spencer, co-orga-nizer of the event along with YouthCommission Director Maura Ren-zella. "It breaks the wall down...instead of them being afraid of us."

Arielle Roos, 11, said she en-rolled in the camp, "'Cause it's re-ally fun. It's an opportunity to seewhat it's like here, instead of beingstopped by police."

Natalie Boyle, also 11, learned ofthe camp and a little bit about herown potential from both her sib-lings and the officers.

"I heard from my brothers that it'sa lot of fun, and that it's not just forboys," she said. "So I just wantedto see if anyone can be a police of-ficer. Once you get trained and gettools, you're pretty much equal toanyone."

Activities during the five-daycamp included learning about andtaking part in radio procedures,visiting the State Police MarineUnit in downtown Boton, and avisit to Patriot Place highlighted bythe youth detectives trying to solve... espionage. The kids were alsowitnesses to demonstrations by theTransit Bomb Squad and theMetro Regional S.W.A.T. Team.

11-year-old McGregor Spencer,who made the trip from Lexingtoneach day to take part in the campwith his father, Officer Spencer,said that although he had visitedthe station multiple times before,he was exposed to a lot more dur-ing the Youth Police Academy.

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"We have talked about Babsonbefore, about 2-3 years ago,"Tarmey said. "It's unfortunate thatwe've come to this, but we've justlost so much volume. We've al-ready reduced our work force byover 200,000 employees [in recentyears, by attrition].

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Tarmey noted that if after gather-ing initial facts and figures USPSdecides to keep Babson Park in thestudy, then Babson Park post officebox holders would be sent a ques-tionnaire asking for additional in-formation, including how oftenthey use the office and what their

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On Saturday of the Massachu-setts Little League Tournament Fi-nals in Taunton, officials and fanswere still talking about what hadhappened the day before.

Facing competition from the fourother teams good enough to reachthe state finals, three WellesleySouth batters placed in the top fourin the Home Run Derby, withslugger Taylor Beckett winning thewhole enchilada, Billy Seidl plac-ing second, and Robby Cerullecoming in fourth among the fieldof sixteen.

The competition lasted threerounds, with competitors swingingfor the fences at as many pitches asthey wanted to before reaching alimit of ten "outs" in the first tworounds and six in the final round.Outs in this context meant any hitor swing that did not yield a homerun.

Beckett dominated the field,smacking 16 home runs in the firstround, 15 in the second round, andfour in the third.

"He hit four home runs withoutany outs in the third round," ex-claimed one Little League official,who said he'd never seen anythinglike it. "And Seidl is just elevenyears old - he's gonna be a player."

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With September ready to appearright around the corner, with itcomes a fresh season of Raiderathletics and both athletic directorJohn Brown and Raider athletesare ready to show their pride.

“Each year is new and exciting,”Brown said. “We have many newcoaches and as is the case everyyear, we have all new rosters ofplayers.”

Specifically, the Raider familywelcomes John Griffith as crosscountry coach, who is also the newhead indoor and outdoor trackcoach; Erin Howe for field hockey;Crystal Ainge for girls’ volleyball;and Tim Mason for boys’ soccer.

Even with new faces, Brown saidhe is not worried about how theteams or programs will be affected.

“Having a new coach certainlybrings change to a program and

can also bring a renewed excite-ment,” he explained. “We have hadto hire new coaches to replacesome of our great coaches whohave retired or left.”

With construction taking place inFebruary for a new Wellesley HighSchool, Brown said there will beno effect whatsoever on winter orspring sports.

Last year, Wellesley had a com-bined total of 14 championships

over three seasons of Raider ath-letics. While Brown knows a win-ning season can’t be predicted, hishopes are high.

“Each year is new, so to say thatwe will repeat 14 championshipsis impossible to say,” he said.“What I can tell you is that ourteams, players, coaches and entireathletic department will work hardand put a great effort every game.That being said we certainly hope

to repeat our successes with theteams that won and improve therecords of the teams that didn't.”

Overall, Brown said he wants toensure that all participants have agreat experience.

“We hope to continue to increaseour record participation we set lastyear and to help work with theyouth teams in town and keep theenthusiasm for athletics high,” hesaid.

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Home Run Hitters Trio of Wellesley Little Leaguers Dominate Derby Event

Taylor Beckett and Billly Seidlplaced first and second, respec-tively, in the State Little LeagueHome Run Derby.

Home Run Derby participants and coaches were Matt Stein, RobbyCerulle, Billy Seidl, Taylor Beckett, Ethan Murphy, David Rosenblatt, andRob Cerulle.

Wellesley South Little League'sRemarkable RunBY DAVE HALPERIN

If only baseball games startedafter six innings, or after 9 p.m.

That was, as Wellesley South As-sistant Coach Matt Stein said afterthe team's season-ending loss toBraintree in the State Little LeagueChampionship, the running joke.

Trailing 6-0 going into the finalinning of their Massachusetts' Lit-tle League State Championshipgame against Braintree, Wellesleydid what they had done in the firsttwo games of their round-robinwith Andover and the "JoeSchwartz" squad from Worcester,when they piled up final-inningruns in each game.

The game itself represented anopportunity to advance to the StateFinals against Andover after re-markably, and against anyone's ex-pectations, becoming one of just

four teams in Massachusetts to getthe opportunity to advance to theRegional Tournament in Connecti-cut and international play inWilliamsport.

But moving on to the StateChampionship game with Andoverthe next day would require morethan mere victory. South wouldneed to defeat Braintree by at least

eight runs while holding them toless than five. Meanwhile, theywere down 6-0 and had shown lit-tle offensive firepower headinginto the final frame.

"I think they knew the situation...But in every single game theyplayed to the final out, and this wasno different," Stein said, notingeven if they didn't reach the re-

Centerfielder Jack Roberts' diving catch against Braintree was one ofmany defensive gems by South.

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quired final score, South still hadthe opportunity to knock off Brain-tree with a simple win. "That's whyno team wants to play us."

Leading off the inning JackWaisel pointed a liner over Brain-tree third baseman Chris Joyce,and Geoffrey Fox followed with adouble to left center. Clearly South

was getting to Braintree's reliefpitcher, and Jack Roberts contin-ued the trend with the third linedrive in a row, though Joyce wasable to reach this one for the firstout of the inning.

Waisel then scorecd on a wildpitch with Isaac Weycker at theplate to make it 6-1 Braintree, and

on the same play Fox went all theway to third from first on some in-telligent baserunning - a mark ofthis Wellesley squad all season.Weycker then calmly drew a walk.

Now with runners on first andthird, eleven-year-old slugger BillySeidl's bomb to left center reachedthe fence, scoring Fox, sendingWeycker to third and setting thetable for Robby Cerulle.

Cerulle promptly singled to left,plating Weycker and moving pinchrunner Kaiden Bentley to third.Wellesley was now within three oftying Braintree, who aided South'scause with a wild pitch that soaredpast clean-up hitter Taylor Beckett.Bentley dashed home on the errantthrow and Cerulle somehow madeit all the way to third on the play -showing that maybe, just maybe,if games did start in the sixth in-ning, Wellesley South would havefound a way to aggressively pileon some runs and reach the Finals.

Cerulle's effort was no surprise toStein: "We're here because ofRobby Cerulle. If there's no RobbyCerulle, we don't win [the DistrictChampionship] ... He's one of the

best Little League pitchers and hit-ters I've ever seen."

Now down only two, 6-4, Southhad a shot at victory if not ad-vancement. But Braintree hadother ideas, and brought in a south-

paw reliever who proved a difficultmatch. His three-quarter deliverytook the final two Wellesley hittersby surprise, and each went downswinging to end the game.

Their season was now over, butWellesley South's historic run to

the State Finals is something play-ers, coaches, and fans will not soonforget. A community of fans andfamily had joined together to rooton a group of inspired ballplayerswell-schooled in the fundamentalsand team play.

"They've experienced somethingtogether that most 11 and 12-yeardolds don't get to experience,"Coach Rob Cerulle said. "They'relike brothers, but to call thembrothers almost does them a dis-service. They're closer than that."

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Wellesley Trophy: Wellesley South accepts their District ChampionshipTrophy.

Robby Cerulle's pitching was a major force in South's run to the State Fi-nals.

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"New residents struggling at ageneralized facility were some-what ostracized," Gallin said. "AtAvita, they are blossoming. Theyare not struggling to keep up withanyone. They are now at a levelwhere they can succeed all thetime."

Avita of Needham, however, ismore than just a community formemory-challenged residents. Itsuccessfully fills its objective ofproviding an independent, full-ser-vice environment that people canproudly call home. It serves threefamily-style meals per day and of-fers a beauty/barber shop, Internetcafe, social programs, group fieldtrips, daily housekeeping, as wellas personal care, laundering andassistance with medications.

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"Unlike most assisted livingcommunities where there are someportions of a building that have anarea geared toward memory care,no one on the staff has to crossover to memory care from tradi-tional care," Ryan said. "

Avita of Needham is owned byNorthbridge Companies, a com-pany launched seven years ago byWendy Nowokunski and JamesCoughlin, who both have exten-sive backgrounds in the seniorhousing industry. Northbridge alsoowns three other senior communi-ties: Stafford Hill in Plymouth, Au-tumn Glen in Dartmouth,Bayberry at Emerald Court inTewksbury and has just brokenground on Stonegate in Burling-ton.

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