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DECLARED: When it snowsA declared ban will be in effect on all remaining city streets. The declared ban means that park-ing is allowed on both sides of the street until the winter parking ban is put into effect. You can expect the winter parking ban to go into effect whenever inclement weather is forecasted.

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It is with great joy the Worcester Magazine staff announces this year’s Hometown Heroes. Each year, we encounter many individuals who work tirelessly to make

our community a better place for all. The men and women featured in this issue have proven themselves to be true champions of change in the lives of others, whether it be by volunteering their time to bring joy to young people or investing in Worcester’s quality of life. We hope you, our readers, join us in celebrating this year’s true Hometown Heroes.

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WOO-TOWN INDEXA weekly quality of life check-in of Worcester

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Five WPI female students awarded NSF grant to work on projects associated with a $5.25 billion Panama Canal Expansion Project. +3-2

Road construction in Tatnuck causes long traffic delays mid-week and sections of road, including Chandler Street, to be closed over the weekend. -2+1

Forum held by the Research Bureau at the DCU Center aims to debunk myths surrounding Ebola. +1 +2-1

Locally-owned bread and coffee shop opens in the Crompton Place Building in the Canal District – something the area has wanted for years. +2-1

A winter storm hits New England just as travelers hit the roads for the Thanksgiving holiday. -1

+2Beechwood Hotel announces a multi-million dollar upgrade to begin next year. +2

Bill Cosby scheduled to appear at The Hanover Theatre causes local uproar. -1-2

Worcester Telegram & Gazette sold a second time in less than a year to New Media Investment Group. -2

Small Business Saturday a chance for Worcester businesses to strut their stuffWalter Bird Jr.

It is, of course, a marketing ploy not unlike its much bigger counterpart that is held one day earlier, but that does not mean Small

Business Saturday on Nov. 29 is just another commercialization of the holidays. Now in its fourth year, the brainchild of American Express, the one-day affair aims to convince shoppers to eschew the lure of bigger box stores and their promise of hundred-dollar savings in favor of smaller, local businesses. In Worcester, it is taken quite seriously by small business owners and boosters.

“It is a marketing thing, but it sort of just gives small businesses a platform which we wouldn’t have,” said Kristen Sciascia, owner of CC Lowell, an art supply and custom picture framing store at 258 Park Ave. “Black Friday, we don’t really fit into that. Smaller businesses really can’t compete on price and all that.”

They can, however, compete when it comes to personalized service and helping their local communities. Consider that, according to the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and Friends of Midcoast Maine, for every $100 spent at a locally-owned business, $45 stays in the local economy. Spend the same amount on, say, Black Friday at a big box store and only $14 remains local.

Julie Theriault of Worcester Local First, a network of independent business formed in 2007, said shopping local is a win all the way around.

“You win because the service you’re going to get is much better,” she said. “You deal with the owner most of the time. We try to

plant the seed [with consumers] that you know you’re making a difference [when you shop locally].”

In a city the size of Worcester, the impact small businesses can have on the local economy is significant. There are

approximately 4,000 businesses in the city, according to Paul Morano, director of business assistance for Worcester. In payroll alone, he said they account for $4.8 billion. Not all of that, of course, stays in Worcester, but it is safe to say a hefty chunk of it does.

“It’s amazing,” Morano said. “There’s a lot of money being generated in this city.”

Small business, he added, are “key to the Worcester economy.”

“The one thing everyone says about Worcester is how strong the neighborhoods are,” Morano said. “Well it is small businesses that are driving them. Look at Main South, Chandler Street, Shrewsbury Street. There are some great small businesses there.”

Theriault could not agree more. “There are some great places in Worcester,”

she said. “There are amazing stores and restaurants that are locally owned. There are too many great places for me to go. I’d rather choose [the stores] that are locally owned.”

Something like Small Business Saturday, then, can help stimulate those small businesses, while building awareness among potential customers of the shopping opportunities in their own back yard. In that regard, American Express, which started the annual event in 2010, Theriault believes has created something special.

“Some folks are like, ‘It’s American Express, we don’t even take the card.’ That doesn’t matter,” she said. “It’s just that this is a bid day for small businesses.”

To that end, American Express encourages people to “shop small” on Small Business Saturday, and offers free marketing and promotional materials to businesses, such as tote bags stores can use to promote their business.

CC Lowell will be taking advantage of that opportunity on Saturday, and is doing so while simultaneously promoting the local arts

Worcester Local First Executive Director Julie Theriault (left) and C.C. Low-ell owner Kristen Sciascia hold limited edition bags with artwork by Jessica Richland that will be given to the first 50 C.C. Lowell customers during Small Business Saturday.

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BUSTEDDEAL BREAKER: Following numerous complaints from citizens involving open air street-level drug dealing, the Worcester Police Department Vice Squad conducted drug surveillance in the Quinsigamond Village area, and in the Burlington Coat Factory plaza. At approximately 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 21 drug investigators saw a gray Honda Accord parked in the nearby McDonalds parking lot, and recognized the driver as Peter Heredia, 23, 2 Lamar Ave., Worcester, who, according to police, is known to deal heroin out of the Honda and other vehicles he has access to. Officers reported they saw Heredia remain in the car and on a cellphone. A short time after arriving to the parking lot, a gold Ford Taurus also arrived, during which time the Honda pulled out of the lot and the Taurus followed. Officers reported seeing the vehicles stop,

Heredia exit his car and approach the Taurus, make a quick exchange, then get back into the Honda. Both vehicles then drove back onto Route 20. Believing they just witnessed a drug deal, officers pulled over the Taurus to find Kevin Vacca, 29, and Cherisa Gazaille, 29, both of 172 Hunt Rd., Oakham. Investigators found nine small baggies of heroin inside the car. At the same time, another group of investigators followed Heredia back to his residence. Once parked in his driveway, investigators approached him and told him he was under arrest. A search of Heredia produced $674 in cash and two cellphones. Later that day, at 5 p.m., with a search warrant in hand, investigators searched Heredia’s home and found 91 small baggies of heroin weighing approximately 30 grams, two larger baggies of heroin weighing 20 grams, a digital scale, $776 in cash and another small baggie containing heroin weighing approximately one-third of a gram. Heredia was charged with trafficking in heroin 36-99 grams, distribution of a Class A substance and conspiracy to violate the Control Substance Act. Vacca and Gazaille were both charged with possession of a Class A substance and conspiracy to violate the Control Substance Act.

- The numbers of wins and losses for the Worcester Bravehearts in 2013

Absolutely, we feel that pressure and we take our job very seriously. We operate with purpose every day that this is an important

project to thousands of people and to the community in general.”

— Worcester Bravehearts owner John Creedon Jr. on making the baseball team successful in the long-term

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community. The first 50 customers at the store Saturday will receive a free customized tote bad featuring art work done by store manager Jessica Richland. Local photographer Jessica Walsh did the screening.

Bellisimo European Day Spa at 372 Chandler St. has been promoting its open house on Facebook, touting specials such as 20 percent off all gift cards. Crompton Collective at 138 Green St. will also take part.

“For them,” said Theriault, “it’s a great way to spread their messages.”

Outside of that one day a year, Sciascia said the city has stepped up over the years in supporting its small businesses.

“I think that the idea is growing,” she said. “Is it there yet? Probably not. I get a lot of support from local colleges. Every year more and more colleges get on board. Sometimes we aren’t competitive in price completely, but service is key.”

As for specific efforts by city government to help grow and retain small businesses, Morano points to its small business retention program. You might also hear business retention manager Phil Niddrie’s name often. Since August 2011, he has visited some 2,000 businesses in the city to listen to their needs and make them aware of how the city might be able to assist them. Among those efforts is a micro-loan program, which is available for

new small businesses and the expansion or retention of small businesses. Between $5,000 to $10,000 loans spanning one to 10 years are available. The program is funded through the city’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds, which it receives through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Other opportunities include the city’s Facade & Awning Incentive Grant Program.

Small Business Saturday is but one part of stimulating small business growth, but it is becoming a vital component, according to Theriault.

“It’s extremely important,” she said. “American Express had the tools to start something that big right out of the box. I never grew up with the mentality of Black Friday. I’m so against it, but American Express saw an opportunity to do work with small businesses, so they started something big. Who cares if it’s [a marketing ploy]? The idea is, instead of waiting in line for hours, that Saturday should be all about small businesses.”

Reach Walter Bird Jr. at 508-749-3166, ext. 322 or by email at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @walterbirdjr and find him on Facebook. Don’t miss Walter on “Rosen’s Roundtable” on WCCATV. And be sure to visit worcestermagazine.com every day for what’s new in Worcester.

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WHO OWNS WHO? Staying on point, there is something else for Worcesteria to clear up. The name of the man in charge of Gatehouse Media, CEO Kirk Davis may sound a bit familiar. That’s because Davis, wholly separate of Gatehouse, owns The Holden Landmark Corp, which among several other publications, owns Worcester Magazine. It has led to some jokes and cracks about the Shrewsbury Street newspaper and website now owning the T&G. Not true. As Davis put it, the two publications are “completely distinct” from one another.

A GO FOR GOMEZ? In a controversial story titled “White Out” published in fall 2013, Worcester Magazine examined the role minorities play - or more accurately do not play - in Worcester politics. For that story, Moses Dixon, an African-American who served as legislative aide to state Rep. Mary Keefe and would go on to run for state rep in his own right this year, said it was time white people had to realize their road to elected office must run through minority communities. Dixon has been rumored a possible City Council contender when local elections return next year. So, too, has another former state rep hopeful, Khrystian King. Another minority is also being floated as a candidate. Juan Gomez, executive director of Centro Las Americas, said he is “still considering” a run for office.

If he ran, and won, it would mark a return to the board he served on for about five-and-a-half years. He was also vice chair for a term. Gomez admits the political bug is hard to shake. “Once you get bit it’s hard to get rid of the venom,” he joked. The other scuttlebutt is that Gomez, who said he would definitely run at-large if he does seek election, might run for mayor. That could pit Republican Gomez against incumbent Democratic Mayor Joe Petty, who has said he definitely plans to seek a third term. Twelve months to go, folks!

(NOT SO) TOP BILL(ING)? The calendar says comedian Bill Cosby is still expected to perform at The Hanover Theatre Feb. 6, but here’s a piece of advice: Don’t bet the farm on it. “It’s not cancelled yet,” said Troy Siebels, president and CEO of Hanover. “I’m waiting by the phone. It’s not unlikely that it’s going to get cancelled.” Try more than likely. Cosby, as we all know by now, has been accused by what by now may top 10 women of raping them at various points of his career. The allegations came just as he was launching a tour, which has already seen several cancellations. However, at one stop in Florida he received standing ovations. Who would make the call to, with all apologies to Quentin Tarantino, “Kill Bill”? That would come from either the show promoter, Bill Blumenreich with historic Wilbur Theatre in Boston,

T&G(ATEHOUSE): OK, let’s clear some things up about the recent acquisition of the Telegram & Gazette, whose staff must be feeling like kids in an orphanage being passed around, by New Media. Ready? New Media is the parent company of Gatehouse Media, which publishes more than 400 weekly and daily newspapers and so-called “shoppers.” When the T&G was being shopped around by Red Sox owner John Henry, who acquired the Central Mass daily when he bought the Boston Globe from the New York Times Co., there was speculation that Gatehouse was interested. Henry, after now famously promising T&G employees if he couldn’t find a local buyer they’d be “stuck with me,” ended up selling the T&G to Halifax Media Group of Florida. No one could understand why that company would want the T&G, since all of its other publications are located predominantly in the southeast. Maybe now we have the answer. While Halifax may not have had any business buying the T&G, New Media certainly did. Having already acquired other Northeast newspaper titans such as the Providence Journal and Cape Cod Times, the company, which emerged after Gatehouse filed for bankruptcy last year, was becoming a giant. Adding the largest newspaper in Central Mass to its fold would give it a rock-solid grip on just about every major paper outside of Boston. But why not buy when Henry was selling? Because apparently New Media had its eyes on a much, much bigger fish: the company that ended up buying the T&G. So it probably should not have come as any surprise when New Media gobbled up Halifax Media this month — but it did.


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ON THE WATERFRONT: Ah, if only Marlon Brando were alive. Mike Birkbeck figures to do quite well, without him, though. He is getting set to open Birkbeck’s Waterfront Grill at 242 Mill St. the first week of December. Head there if you’re in the mood for an “upscale pub with tremendous value,” according to Birkbeck. The eatery will feature six widescreen, Hi-Def TVs for sports viewing, and an elevated, 1,000-square-foot sun deck is expected to be ready by next spring. Welcome to the neighborhood, Mike!

SO GOES COES: Winter is closing in, but the cold temps won’t freeze out the Friends of Coes Pond. They remain committed to returning Coes Pond to its former glory. There is a city master plan for the area, much like there are for other city-owned parks, that calls for rehabilitation and upgrades to Coes Pond. The Friends and other activists want to restore water quality to the pond, and one of them, Sue Swanson, is passionate about building a universally-accessible playground. The group met recently for a presentation by Department of Public Works & Parks Assistant Commissioner Rob Antonelli Jr. about what has been improved for Coes Pond. Funding, of course, is an issue as Antonelli pointed out, but supporters remain hopeful that work can and will be done sooner than later. The priority right now is to rehab the beach building. The good news is, according to Antonelli, it is able to be renovated and will not have to be rebuilt. The efforts at Coes Pond have been led and championed by many, including District 5 Councilor Gary Rosen and others. They will get a boost in April from the nonprofit Working for Worcester, co-founded by a Holy Cross student. Each year the group takes on several projects around the city. Next year, it will make a $5,000 investment and contribute 100 volunteers to spruce up the beach at Coes Pond.

A BOON FOR BOONE? Public evaluations can’t be much fun, but School Superintendent Melinda Boone didn’t fare so badly in her latest review by the School Committee. She received an overall “proficient” rating from the seven-member panel recently. Two members, Dianna Biancheria and Brian O’Connell, said she “needs improvement,” but the other five - the chairman, Mayor Joe Petty; Tracy O’Connell Novick; Jack Foley, Hilda Ramirez; and John Monfredo, ranked her “proficient.” Boone was ranked on three sets of goals - professional practice, student learning and district improvement - and four standards: instructional leadership, management and operations, family and community engagement and professional culture. There was a general consensus that the superintendent could and should do a better job communicating with the public and media, particularly when it comes to promoting positive achievements in the school district.

RESCHEDULED: A planned policy meeting with the Worcester Partnership for Racial and Ethnic Health Equity was cancelled this week because of poor response, but the group’s next quarterly meeting will be held Tuesday, Dec. 16, from 3-4:30 p.m. at 25 Meade St.

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’Twas gridlock before Christmas, as through the mall, consumers were doing what’s expected of all. Though the world is a mess, with war, waste and starvation, more distraction’s the answer — a retailers heaven. From Abercrombie to Zoots — who I’ll charge for this mention, there came both angry white men and those who enrange them, buying for toddlers and for their honeys, running on caffeine — thank god teenagers only want money. Scurrying hither and thither — as there’s no slow shopping movement, at least ’till we all get maids — and jobs unlike Cratchit’s.

But I, heavily burdened, paused thoughtful in darkness, in anxious search for my Soul, I scanned for its likeness, in Kia burnt orange, with manual transmission. Was I parked front lot or back? I’d forgot the direction.

When suddenly what should appear in the sky, but holiday decorations that could actually fly, an inflated sleigh pulled by bleached wicker reindeer, all outlined with bulbs and afloat in the air.

Not another shopper did witness: so intent in the stores where first person shooter games pulled in the hoards, prowled for close parking spaces with eyes glued to rear bumpers, or idled in fire lanes and so blocked the doors.

Just then a man spoke, in a voice edged with fatigue and shown down a light indicating my steed. “I’m drawn by the stress” he confided. “Though I’m not your story book Claus. I’m his flesh and blood brother, with a variant cause. I’m the bit of Grinch in everyman — and a complainer. I’m you gritting your teeth and wishing the holidays were over.”

“Yes I’m a cranky old elf, but then I am real, I’m your actual Christmas, not some Disney Land spiel. I’m the troubles you battle with all that good cheer with stuffed Santa ho ho’ing, with forced smiles — and real. I’m every sweater too big, every bad bottle of wine, your vegetarian cousin who the roast beef declines.

I’m kids nourished on Hollywood, like spiritual trans fats, growing cerebral arteries hardened with plaque.

I’m at family gatherings that scatter ’round screens, if they aren’t on smart phones they watch pro athletes preen. I’m physical inertia, and mental laziness too, kids who won’t read, think or stir from their room. I’m the holiday wrapping you must not try to recycle, for it contaminates the feedstock — you see even green gets me riled.

Maybe you think it’s easy being the guy who’s the heavy? You try competing with ol’ good times and his beer belly. Though I warn you he hasn’t got many years left, his LDLs have long given his doctor the fits.

But allow me to introduce my propulsion, my herd, before we drive off, about them allow me a word. I call them my horses of the financial apocalypse, for if to spend is to live, then I must name them thus: Now Door Buster, now Debit, now Purchase with Visa, On cheap China Made Trash — and how they Fleece Us. On January Bills and Fleeting Economic Might, turn up the Glad Music and to all a good night!”

Thus he departed and waving I blessed him, not just with arms lighter, but because of his message, realistic yet kindly to those adjusting a national vision, he reminds how our savior embraced the downtrodden, raising the weak and unsure simply by caring.

So turning back to the hubbub in search of my treasure, I thanked the old buzzard, for even hard truth can also bring pleasure. Namely, count yourself lucky to have folks that you love, especially the wee ones we’re programmed not to begrudge. I tracked down my sweetheart where she was well into round two, who brings me fine grandkids and spoils us through.

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Favorite part about playing in Worcester?The guys on the team obviously, but you’d find that anywhere you go.

How do you prepare for a game?A lot of guys are pretty robotic when it comes to pre-game rituals. I stay pretty loose, I eat pre-game pasta and chicken, that’s the only thing I really stick to. I’m not too superstitious. If I’m playing well I’ll stick with a few things, but I try to switch it up.

What is the most difficult part of making it through a season?It’s tough on the body. You try to take care of it as much as possible.

What are you most proud of through your hockey career?When I was younger I was asked to go with an under-18 USA team and that was a lot of fun.

Is there something our readers would never guess about you?I’m the oldest of five and I play a little bit of piano and guitar.

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There was a game during the Worcester Bravehearts’ inaugural season this year during which a young boy in the stands with his father was struck on the arm by a foul ball. The boy was obviously in some pain as his father quickly tried to comfort him. In a matter of minutes, another man came bounding down the steps, kneeling next to the boy when he got to his seat at the end of one of the rows. Pretty soon, the boy was being tended to with an ice pack and more than likely a few soothing words. The man who had raced to check on him wore a look of distress - an almost fatherly look, you might say.

“It’s important,” said John Creedon Jr. He was that man, but he was not just some concerned fan. Creedon owns the team the boy was there to watch that night. A father in his own right, and vice president of the family catering business that made owning the Bravehearts possible, he said he makes little distinction between his own family and the thousands of fans who turned out to support Creedon’s team, the latest entry in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League (FCBL).

“We approach the Bravehearts as a family business,” Creedon said. “We look at our staff as an extension of our family. We look at the guests who come into the ballpark the same as guests who come into our home. On the Creedon and Company side, we look at every event as it were [happening in] our own home.

“We care deeply and genuinely about everything we do and we put our heart and soul in the Bravehearts project. Whether it’s taking out the trash from the concourse or making sure a kid who got hit from a foul ball is OK.”

The boy being struck by a foul ball was just about the only thing that went wrong in what truly was a storybook season for a team that came into existence playing in the same stadium as its predecessor, a semi-pro outfit called the Tornadoes. Like that team, which won a championship its first season playing in a different league, the Bravehearts would go on to capture their own championship trophy. The image of Creedon, his father, John, his sister, Julie, and General Manager Dave Peterson celebrating on Fitton Field with a team of college-aged players after winning it all will not soon be erased from the memory of fans who watched it.

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Creedon, a graduate of St. John’s High School in Shrewsbury who grew up watching his father start the family business from scratch. He was 5 when his father started Creedon & Co., which will celebrate its 30th anniversary next year.

“I’ve always been a part of [the business] in one form or another,” Creedon said. “I had a high school job with the company. A bunch of my friends would help out setting up tents, washing dishes, whatever needed to be done.”

His path to being second in command under his father, and to owning a baseball team, was a circuitous one. After graduating high school, Creedon attended George Washington University. Having seen his father start something on his own, Creedon went about restarting a fraternity at the school that had gone defunct. He studied French language and literature and political science at GW, where he spent his junior year abroad studying in France. Ironically, he flew there on Sept. 11, 2000 - one year to the day before the tragic events of 9/11.

Graduating in 2002, Creedon said he “had it in the back of my mind I wanted to go to law school, but my head was not where it needed to be” to prepare for the entrance exam. At the same time, he had a girlfriend in D.C. who was pursuing her master’s. She would later become his wife. So Creedon

moved back home and went back into the family business.

By fall 2004 Creedon decided to go to law school, taking the exam and ultimately enrolling in the University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford, Connecticut. He graduated in 2006 and joined the Worcester law firm of Fletcher Tilton & Whipple, where he worked almost five years as a trial attorney.

Having seen his father struggle on his way to building what is now a successful business, Creedon wanted to make sure he built something solid for his family.

“It’s not all a bowl of cherries,” he said of owning your own business. “Along the way I saw [my father] get kicked in the teeth. We certainly struggled in many ways. We were not wealthy, not comfortable. My sister and I would spend more time at the office than we would care to admit before we were able to contribute in any meaningful way. You just live it. You discover your core, and it’s gritty. So I wanted to become as sophisticated as I could be in my mind. I figured I’d get as fluent and proficient in that as I could out of a protective sense for my family, myself, for things that are important to me.”

But he went back to where it had all began. “It’s part of my identity,” he said. “Kind of

looking back, I think the meandering path I

took, it makes sense how I ended up being back here.”

He returned to the family business in 2011. Not long after, the Tornadoes franchise in Worcester collapsed. Creedon & Co. had rented the giant tent the team used for functions and after-game activities. When the team first started, the company had inquired about handling concessions, but it did not work out. Having always loved sports — Creedon took part in crew while at GW - he started thinking about what it would be like to own his own team. It did not happen right away, and it did not manifest itself in the same way the Tornadoes did, this one being a showcase for college talent. The city and other partners had to be convinced it was a doable model. Creedon also wanted to convince someone else.

“I didn’t want to get blinded by hubris or anything else, or get too invested into an idea that would have been foolish,” he said. “I respect my dad’s experience, so I bounced it off him. We sat down, thought about it, chewed on it and said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’ An opportunity like this is one of the reasons I came back to the company.”

Bringing baseball back to Worcester in a way that would draw families and kids would not prove easy, but the Creedons pulled it off, for at least one year. With a professional

hockey team in the city that is expected to bolt for the West Coast where its parent team plays in the NHL, the Bravehearts could prove one of the only sports outlets for families in and around Worcester. That significance is not lost on Creedon.

“I could tell it was an important project even before we actually got the nod to pursue a Futures League franchise,” he said. “Baseball’s a very powerful tool, and I’ve come to learn the baseball world is actually small and very tightly knit. Once the season began I could tell it was really important, because I think our demographic is young kids and families. I was encouraged by the fact that we were attracting young families.”

Along the way, the team formed strong ties with a couple hundred nonprofit groups, helping them raise money by sponsoring events at the ballpark. Things will not get easier just because the Bravehearts won a championship right out of the gate. In fact, the dreaded sophomore slump is something to be avoided. With a father who never stopped working hard even as his business grew and grew, Creedon said he and his family are not about to slack on this job.

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DARLENE DECAIREBrittany Durgin

For more than two decades, Darlene DeCaire has put the safety and well-being of others before her own. During the day, she works for the Massachusetts State Police, part of a team of officers who go after the state’s most violent criminals with the goal of finding and arresting them.

“I have been blessed with a 27-year career,” DeCaire said. “Every morning I wake up and I’m still excited to go to work.”

For the last 14 years, DeCaire has been assigned to the Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section, a statewide unit separated by teams geographically. Along with a team of other troopers, made up of men and women, DeCaire’s primary responsibility is to go after the most violent fugitives that Massachusetts has. “They’re murders, they’re rapists,” DeCaire said. “We do bank robberies, armed robberies, home invasion, people wanted on firearm charges.”

Every day brings new challenges for DeCaire and her team. “We can start a day with 25, 30 people,” she said, pointing out that those being sought are not the easiest people to find, but, “if we’re lucky,” the group can track down and arrest five or six in one day.

“We knock on a lot of doors, sometimes before we even find one individual. Sometimes we get lucky and they answer the door.”

When a fugitive who has beat up his pregnant girlfriend, or robbed a bank putting 20 or so people in fear, or a sex offender who is on the loose opens the door, “It’s an instant, ‘oh, he’s here’ or ‘oh, we’ve got her,’ that’s what you’re thinking instantly,” DeCaire said. “We try to keep the situation as calm as possible, which sometimes is impossible to do because the fugitive that answers the door is very rare, a lot of them hide, a lot of them try to jump out the windows or go out the back door.” The perimeter of a building or the home of a suspected fugitive is always lined with troopers and local police officers, parol officers, and sometimes a marshal.

DeCaire said the answer to why she does the job is simple: “To catch the bad guy.

“When you’re a police officer, your main focus is protection of life and property,” DeCaire said. “Getting the bad guy off the streets is very self-rewarding at the end of the task or day.”

The work DeCaire does to better the lives of others does not end when she leaves her job in Framingham and arrives home to Worcester. For a few hours once a week she volunteers as a Playspace Activity Leader, or PAL for short, with Horizons for Homeless Children at a shelter where she plays with children whose lives have been turned upside down for one reason or another.

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As a volunteer, DeCaire supports the mission of Horizons, which provides services including early education, opportunities for play, and family engagement to thousands of homeless children throughout Massachusetts.

“I’ve always had a soft spot for children, I just think they are the most beautiful creatures, they’re so innocent and can be so funny and loving, and wanting nothing back,” DeCaire said.

For years, DeCaire has given monetarily to children charities, including Smile Train and St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. For the last 15 years, she has sponsored children of third world countries through Children International. After more of a decade of giving back to various organizations, an opportunity to become more directly involved in young people’s lives reared its head.

“About five or six years ago I saw an ad in the paper and they were looking for volunteers for Horizons for Homeless Children,” DeCaire recalled. After a one-day, eight-hour training session, she had found a hands-on way to support children who need a little extra care in their lives.

DeCaire, like other volunteers with Horizons, was assigned to a facility and paired with another PAL.

“You go and you play with these kids for a couple hours once a week.” The facility,

DeCaire said, is where the kids are living with their mothers, temporarily. Most of them are toddlers.

“The most rewarding part of this, when you know you’re having a positive influence on the kids,” DeCaire said with a smile in her voice, “is when you pull up the driveway, and you’ve got little faces, looking out the window, smooshed to the window, just waiting for you to come in.”

In a room no larger than an average one-person office filled with a table, toys and storage, DeCaire and another PAL play and laugh with two to upwards of five or six children, depending on the week.

“You’re always thinking about their situation,” DeCaire said. “You are constantly thinking about what’s going on in this person’s mind.” Knowing that each child and his or her mother are living in a transitional shelter, there is wonder and hope for their future, she added.

The time DeCaire spends with the children is more than a couple hours of play for the youngsters, it is also a break for the mothers who, in the shelters, must provide supervision of their child at all times.

“To give the mothers a break is a part of it too … you’re helping them just have a couple hours of free time,” DeCaire said.

While she admits she does not know a lot

about the mothers, she knows the couple hours each week offers them an opportunity to look for a job, maybe have a quiet meal alone or focus on schoolwork. “Every once in a while a mother will express her appreciation to have two hours to study,” DeCaire said.

At the end of the two- or three-hour playtime period, when the moms come into the playroom to get their children, DeCaire said the times “they don’t want to go, that’s when you know you’ve done what you’ve been there to do, is to just take their little minds off whatever is going on in their lives, just playing with them.”

Being that the shelter is only a temporary home for children and their mothers, DeCaire admits, “One of the things I think about when I’m driving there is, ‘Who is going to be there tonight,’ because [the children] change almost monthly, so there are always new little faces.”

The uncertainty of where a child may rest his or her head in the coming months, the learning disabilities or separation anxiety they may suffer from on a day to day basis, and what they have experienced in the past is all put aside during playtime, DeCaire said.

“When you go and play with these kids, you’re only doing one thing: You’re helping them forget about the fact that they are not where they are use to being,” DeCaire said.

“They’ve had some really bad days in their lives and they’re too little to have to go through that but they have gone through it, so when you can give them an opportunity, two hours, to just forget all that bad stuff, there are no words to describe it.”

For DeCaire, the playtime “is kind of a little bit of a stress release, to leave your day job and go do something fun,” she said, adding that “it helps me forget some of things going on in my job … and makes you smile and laugh and think about the kids for two hours.”

Some would say hunting down fugitives during the day, protecting the community at large, makes DeCaire a hero – and in many ways it does. For the young people and their mothers at one particular homeless shelter in Worcester, however, DeCaire’s giving of her own time and energy to bring happiness to those who are living in a time of hardship, is what makes her a hero to her hometown.

“I feel good that I can give back,” DeCaire said. “You can tell by the children’s reaction of you being there that it’s so welcomed and appreciated that it just gives you a really warm feeling inside that you’re doing something that’s putting smiles on these little children’s faces. It doesn’t get any better than that.”

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MAURO DEPASQUALEWalter Bird Jr.

The way he sees it, it all makes perfect sense that Mauro DePasquale ended up running Worcester’s local cable access channel. After all, as an Italian growing up in the Bell Hill area, he pretty much knew everybody - and if he didn’t he knew somebody that knew everybody. It was one, giant community of a bunch of different people from all walks of life. And that is precisely what WCCA TV13 is at its core: a place for all kinds of folks from every part of the city to express themselves through media with no restrictions, no judgment, no fear. For someone who never planned to become executive director of a TV station, it really was not much of a stretch given his roots.

“It was a great place to grow up,” DePasquale said of life on Bell Hill. “In retrospect, it was totally related to what I do now .. Looking at the environment I grew up as a kid, it perfectly makes sense why I became so passionate about WCCA.”

The Bell Hill neighborhood where he grew up was dotted by three-deckers. Behind his house was Green Hill Park. On the other side there was Bell Pond, which DePasquale proudly notes was among the cleanest bodies of water in the city, as well as East Park on Shrewsbury Street. Down the hill in Lincoln Square there was the old Boys Club.

“Because of this area, we were able to go to the park, and this was pre-290, we would go across Green Hill and end up on Lincoln Street,” DePasquale said. “I had friends from Lincoln Street, Burncoat Hill, Shrewsbury Street. I spent my summers at Bell Pond. It was a great place to grow up. You couldn’t ask for anything better as a kid. The only time I came home was for supper. It was fantastic, but the location was like, I got to meet people everywhere.”

It was, he said, not at all unlike the WCCA community. “Today when I look back on this, WCCA is kind of like an electronic park,

because it’s a way of connecting with people and Bell Hill was like a network of connecting with people,” DePasquale said. “It’s strongly related to what I do. I think somehow in my childhood I learned to appreciate the value of community because of where I grew up. So now, when I’m here at the station, it’s like a virtual park, a common area. Anybody can do anything.”

The 59-year-old DePasquale, who in addition to running the station on Main Street is also an accomplished musician, got his first taste of music at North High, where most of his friends were upper classmen. He used to ditch many of his other classes to join them in the music department.

“I was playing professionally by the time I was 12,” he said. “We were the first class to petition for credit for rock band as a class. It wasn’t my class, but I was so close to those guys, so that was a big deal. I spent most of my days in music class.”

DePasquale married his first wife when he was 19, and had his first child when he was 20. He had not started college, yet. He was working downtown, spending some time working at the post office and with Norton Company. When he was younger and downtown, the lot where the WCCA building now stands was vacant. It would later be home to Federal Bank, he said. Throughout his teen years, he was playing music and making decent money.

“When I knew the firstborn was coming I knew I had to get out. I just had to go to college,” he said. “I found this little piece of paper in a magazine when I working at the post office. I found this magazine cover and on it, it said ‘No future without risk,’ so I cut that out. Finally, I said, ‘You know what? I’m going to take a risk, do what I have to do.’”

DePasquale enrolled at Quinsigamond Community College (QCC), where he studied accounting. Still, when he was studying he always found

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himself tapping his pencil and thinking about music. He started taking music classes and ultimately transferred to Anna Maria College, where he “dabbled with art with a focus on music education.” He ended up earning his bachelor’s degree in music education and went on to receive his master’s in music at Boston Conservatory. He started teaching, but before he was even done with the master’s program DePasqale said he knew he was not going to become a teacher.

Instead, he started teaching people how to use a music studio, because he and a friend had built one in his father’s basement.

“Somebody said to me, ‘You ought to check out this TV station starting out on Grove Street,” DePasquale recalled. “I went down, the door was closed and nobody was around. It took me around four months, but somebody let me in one night. Turns out it was WCCA.”

It was around 1986-87 when DePasquale first entered the station, where he met the station manager. He started producing a show, and before he knew it he was producing four or five different shows. He started producing a sketch comedy show called “Off the Hook” patterned after “Saturday Night Live.”

“It was,” he said, “the most fun I ever had in my life doing TV. By then I was considering myself a Bohemian artist. I wasn’t making any money.”

By that time, DePasquale said, he was closing in on his fifth child. He now has seven children and five grandkids. Someone suggested to him that he join the Board of Directors. Not long after, around 1990, someone asked if he would consider running the station. At the time, WCCA was still operating out of its space on Grove Street, cramped though it had become. Around 1994 or 1995, Our Lady of Mount Carmel’s Fr. Mike Bafaro - “He became like a second father to me,” DePasquale said, “like my consigliere.” - ended up lending a helping hand.

“We would ride through the downtown area,” DePasquale said. “He knew the struggles we had. We were going by the old Federal building and it was empty, and I said, ‘Look at this place. It would be perfect for TV space.’ I said to Father Mike, ‘Why don’t you say a Novena?’ The next day he calls me and says, ‘Remember that building? Guess what? We can buy it.’”

WCCA opened up at its current location in 1998.

All the while he was pursuing his career in TV production and management, DePasquale was still playing music and performing in bands. It was something he grew up with.

“Music was always a passion of mine,” he said. “In my childhood days ... a neighbor gave my mother an upright piano. My mother was musical. My father could play the coronet.

Once in a while he’d play it at home, play some Harry James. He’d make my mother swoon. Then somebody gave them the piano.”

Then the 1960s rolled around and DePasquale saw The Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” The rest, as they say, was history.

“I started playing right away,” he said. “I formed bands with kids in my elementary school.”

Throughout the years, DePasquale has played in several bands, including a Top 40 outfit called Fame. At one point he opened up a music store called Fame Conservatory, and offered music lessons. He later formed The Johnny Dollar Experiment, a jazz band. He is now with Jazzed Up, which started with members of The Johnny Dollar Experiment. It is now a three-piece outfit and the house band at Coral Seafood.

WCCA remains a passion for DePasquale. That was very much on display during recent public meetings concerning the takeover by Comcast Corp of Charter Communications. For reasons no one seems to understand, Charter went ahead and moved its public education and government programming from lower channels up to the 190s. DePasquale was, and remains, outraged and perplexed by the move. He has made passionate pleas to keep Channel 13 where it has been for so long. In the meantime, he is

also planning on marketing Channel 194 if the station remains there.

“We were holding on because there was still some hope it may change,” Depasquale said. “We’re waiting to see if there’s any change with that. If we need to rebrand, we want to do it right.”

At the same time, the station is going through its own changes. They are in the middle of implementing so-called i-Smart technology. The station is looking at redoing the building facade as well as expanding the studio to allow for live audience capacity, as opposed to the taped show format currently used. Classroom space will be expanded and another studio will be added, DePasquale said, noting the changes will allow the station to generate new revenues.

What will not change is WCCA’s commitment to community. DePasquale believes the station is an important part of Worcester and he only wants to grow that.

“I think we’re systemically connected to the city in a number of ways,” he said. “Not just the amount of people that utilize the station. There’s a big amount of people that watch us on TV and online.

“This is about empowering. It’s not even TV in the traditional sense. It’s about empowering people. The business of WCCA is to empower people, to let them have a place to say what they want.”

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MARY KNITTLEWalter Bird Jr.

Mary Knittle’s life is very much about the before and after. When her parents moved to the Burncoat Street neighborhood where Knittle still resides with her own family, it was around 1970. The tornado of 1953 should have been a distant memory, but it was not.

“There was always a reference to the tornado,” Knittle said of the disaster that had forever changed the city so many years before. “Someone was always pointing to a house that was rebuilt or talking about something related to the tornado. There was always a reference to the tornado. So my observation in childhood was strongly connected to the before and after. You knew all the trees in that neighborhood were planted after the tornado.”

More than three decades later Knittle once again saw the before and after - and once again it involved trees. As co-chair of the Steering Committee for the Worcester Tree Initiative (state Rep. Jim O’Day is the other), Knittle has spent the last five or so years trying to make the after as good, if not better, than the before in the wake of the Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) infestation that ravaged her neighborhood and other parts of the city. It is an effort that started with a phone call during which she was asked to help replant the thousands of trees that ended up being removed from the cityscape because of the invasive beetle.

That she would become involved in something aimed at helping others is merely an extension of the example set by her parents when she was growing up. As a city councilor, her father, Dan Herlihy, was committed to helping people, something he had done on an even larger scale after emigrating from Ireland and being drafted into the military. He served in Korea and, back in Worcester, taught his five children - Knittle is the oldest — what community service was all about.

“We always participated in political things,” she said. “We did a lot things with the Irish community growing up. Our father always talked about looking out for people that needed help. I grew up with that. We were always volunteering.”

Not having any other family in the city, the family served others on holidays, such as volunteering for the Bishop’s Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.

“There were always people in and out of our lives that didn’t have a lot of extended family, so it was a thing,” Knittle said of helping others.

Even her full-time job involves making others’ lives easier. Knittle, who earned a degree in economics at the College of the Holy Cross and once worked in the banking industry, is the director of energy programs at Worcester Community Action Council (WCAS). There, she oversees fuel assistance and energy-efficiency programs for low- to moderate-income people. Her husband also works with low-income individuals, as a teacher at Claremont Academy, whose students largely hail from struggling families. Before joining WCAC, Knittle took part in the workforce development program at Quinsigamond Community College (QCC).

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whom just started college, Knittle also is a member of the Rotary Club and recently joined the Board of Directors at Abby’s House, a shelter for women and children.

With service to others simply a way of life for Knittle, saying no to Jim Leary when he called her in 2008 after the ALB had been discovered in Worcester was not an option, especially since she had grown up with him. Now the vice chancellor for community and government relations at UMass Medical School, Leary then was chief of staff for former Lt. Gov. Tim Murray. He and U.S. Congressman Jim McGovern helped spearhead the effort to replant trees.

Knittle had already realized the beetles were nested in her neighborhood.

“I got a call telling me they were going to start the Tree Initiative,” Knittle said. “He called and he said we’re not even sure what this is going to look like right now, but we know the federal government is going to replace trees. We want to get some people on the ground, get a movement going immediately because we need somebody to be there as soon as these trees come down.”

At the time, she recalled, it was projected that some 30,000 trees would be hit by the beetle. If there was any doubt how insidious the infestation had become, it was erased that winter when an ice storm hit and knocked down several trees.

“You saw all these trees just crumbling after the damage from the beetle. It was heart-wrenching,” Knittle said. “I went away for a couple days and turned onto Burncoat Street after the trees had been removed, and I felt like I had been punched.”

The Burncoat area was the epicenter of the beetle invasion, but other neighborhoods were not spared. When the Tree Initiative launched its efforts in April 2009 with a tree giveaway at Kendrick Field, it was “like the running of the brides at Filene’s Basement,” Knittle said. “People were hording trees. Those first events, we needed security practically.”

In the beginning, the group relied on private fund-raising to buy trees and pay a small staff. A donation from the Wal-Mart Foundation also helped.

“We had a lot of banks and public and private security groups donate to us,” Knittle said, noting the effort happened during the Recovery Act aimed at stimulating the economy after the recession. The group was able to secure funding from them. “They paid for trees. We fund-raised for the program and bought trees.”

Born out of a desperate need to replace nature’s gifts, the Tree Initiative was about more than replacing trees and moving on.

“One of the things core to our program from the very start was stewardship,” said Knittle, noting the hiring of Peggy Middaugh

as executive director of the Worcester Tree Initiative. “Everybody who got a tree was going to take a class to learn how to take care of that tree. We’re building a community of tree stewards. There’s always something else.”

While the Asian Longhorned Beetle is a concern, the Emerald Ash Borer is also eyed as a threat to trees.

“We track the trees so we know where [they] are,” Knittle said. “We know what’s been planted. Part of the issue that left us so vulnerable to the ALB in the first place was, after the tornado they planted Norway Maples everywhere. They were determined to be an invasive species, and they were no longer planting them on a large scale.”

As part of the replanting effort, which started with a goal of planting 30,000 new trees, the group is careful about which species of trees are used.

“We have oaks, tulip trees ... we’re not planting anything susceptible to ALB,” Knittle said of what are called host trees. “There are no maples or birch trees.”

While the ALB infestation devastated so many areas, it did provide an opportunity for researchers to study the benefit of trees in a neighborhood, Knittle said. She noted a program at Clark University that she said last year produced a paper showing in areas where trees were removed homeowners spent 98 percent more on their electric bills.

In addition, she said, a study in Baltimore, Maryland revealed there is less crime in neighborhoods where there are more trees.

As the group has continued its efforts, it has involved others around the city. An urban orchard planted behind Chandler Elementary School in collaboration with Worcester Common Ground and Lutheran Social Services is providing refugees a place to work.

Earlier this year, the group made good on its goal and planted its 30,000th tree. It has since set a goal of planting another 20,000 trees in the next five years. Knittle can be expected to continue, and you can count on her keeping it “a thing” for her family, who has helped along the way.

“I didn’t do it for any reason other than to ensure that it gets done,” she said. “I’ve met some fantastic people. These people in the tree world, they’re not accolade people. I think, too, there has been a moment in time that I really hope continues with state, federal and local government and towns around us all working extremely collaboratively. It really has been a great opportunity. It’s a great example for kids when we go to the schools.

“I’m really glad to be a part of it. I’m glad to do it. I’m glad to take the appreciation [of being named a Hometown Hero] on behalf of the whole operation, because it really is a group effort. On my own, it never would have happened.”

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Christmas with the PopsAl Vuona

Christmas arrives early this year with a traditional holiday concert featuring the Boston Pops at The Hanover Theatre on Friday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. The magic of the Christmas season springs to life as the Pops along with conductor Keith Lockhart perform their signature “Sleigh Ride” as well as other holiday classics. Affectionately known as “America’s Orchestra,” this festive music performed by the Pops is a great way to kick off the yuletide season. As an added bonus, Santa Claus, himself, will make a guest appearance during the concert.

Since its founding in 1885 the Pops have captivated audiences the world over with a diverse range of musical styles. Much of the credit for this has gone to the late Arthur Fiedler, whose efforts helped to move the Pops from light classical music to include jazz, pop, big band and film scores. Through Fielder’s vision, the Boston Pops have successfully transitioned into the world of pop culture thus being recognized as a national icon. A great example of this is the annual Fourth of July concert at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade in Boston, a tradition that continues today under the musical leadership of maestro Lockhart.

With thousands of concerts to his credit, conductor Lockhart continues to guide the

Boston Pops orchestra in new directions. In response to changing moods in music, Lockhart has created programs that reach out to a broader audience by presenting artists from virtually every corner of the entertainment world including Kelly Clarkson and Elvis Costello. With television shows, national and international tours and recorded albums, Lockhart’s tenure has been marked by a dramatic increase in exposure for the Pops orchestra. He has also led the Boston Pops at several high-profile sporting events, including the pre-game show of the NFL’s Super Bowl XXXVI with the New England Patriots.

During a recent conversation with Lockhart about the upcoming holiday concert season, his level of enthusiasm and energy ran high. He is a man who is clearly passionate about his work and quite willing to share his feelings.

“The holiday season is absolutely my favorite time of the year,” he said. “As for the Pops, it’s an opportunity for us to extend our warmest wishes to the audience and that’s a real thrill.”

Lockhart believes innovation and a think-outside-the-box mentality are necessary for any performer. As he put it, “For me, it’s all about keeping it fresh and I think the audience can relate to that. We are constantly striving to bring something new to each performance.” In fact, he continued, “all of our musicians are very flexible and willing to move things forward in that regard.”

A Pops concert is famous for being very inclusive and nothing gives Lockhart more pleasure than having the entire audience join in with a sing-along segment.

“That part of the show really solidifies the bond we have with our many loyal fans,” he said. “During each of our concerts I make it a point to speak directly to the audience and include them in our presentation. It means so much to people.”

The Pops are certainly no strangers to our fair city. Lockhart recalls many enjoyable moments spent here.

“We have performed in Worcester on many occasions and find the audiences to be

very warm and engaging,” Lockhart said. “I personally enjoy a venue such as The Hanover Theatre, it offers a cozy, intimate experience for both the performers and those attending

the show.” While the Pops have several holiday concerts scheduled in various cities throughout Massachusetts this year, Lockhart said, “spending part of it in Worcester and performing at the Hanover is something we certainly are looking forward to”.

According to Lisa Condit, director of marketing and public relations for The Hanover, this year’s Pops concert promises to be extra special.

“Our staff will be transforming the entire theatre into a dazzling winter wonderland,” Condit said. “People attending the concert will truly feel the holiday spirit as soon as they walk through

the door. We are anticipating a sellout crowd who will be wooed by the terrific Boston Pops and our new state-of-the-art sound system. Sounds and sights of the holiday season will be everywhere and we hope that encourages people to come out and see the show.”

See the Boston Pops perform their annual Holiday Concert at The Hanover Theatre, 2 Southbridge St., Worcester on Friday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at thehanovertheatre.com.

Jazzin About TownJim Perry

Two musical styles dominate the life of Jean Mancini Gough. Classical music was her calling as a vocation and career. Jazz, however, infected her soul. And though she still makes a living in classical, she has made room in her life to express her jazz passion. With her band, Jazzin About Town, Gough has been lighting up the burgeoning local jazz scene. On Wednesday, Dec. 3, they will perform at Club Symply Fargone in Viva Bene Ristorante in Worcester. Music starts at 8 p.m. The venue is perfect for her supper club sound, and arriving early for dinner would make for a perfect night out.

Growing up in a house filled with music,

Gough followed a natural path. Her dad enjoyed playing guitars. “There was lots of music in the house … all of the early big band stuff, I grew up with that,” she said. Both of her brothers had a deep interest in music. “They still play guitar today, though they didn’t go way into it like I did.” When Jean was just 16, her uncle, George Allen,

had a jazz combo that she would gig with, performing at Christmas parties and country clubs. “That’s how I was first really immersed into jazz. I loved the sound and feel of it.”

After graduating high school, she

headed straight to college, still not yet sure of her direction. The feelings of the music she experienced as a teen were still stirring inside

her. After the first year of college, she took the first steps, taking classical voice lessons, as well as piano. Only then did she decide to commit to a life in music.

“After a couple years, I decided that I was going to go back to school full time for music.”

Jean attended Anna Maria College in Paxton, gaining a degree in Classical Vocal Performance and later a master’s of Music Education from UMass Amherst.

With her education completed, she began to gain experience in various musical endeavors, including teaching private lessons, singing with the renowned Salisbury Singers, and staying active musically.

“This was all classical,” she explained. “Then about 15 years ago, I started learning a little more about jazz, going back to my roots, I guess you could say.”

It was while she was working as a vocal soloist at the First Unitarian Church in

Worcester (she is still there to this day) that the jazz bug bit her. She was led to local jazz musician Jay Tyer.

She recalls her first experiences away from the absoluteness of classical music. “It was downright scary. Jay used to say to me, you gotta take a solo, I was like woooah, you mean I have to sing something that’s not written in front of me?” She refered to it as a bit of an identity crisis. “I went through this stage where I was thinking, who am I? How do I relate to this new way of expressing my music?”

She looks back and laughs at her naivete. “I thought to myself, I’m a pretty good singer, pretty good musician, so I should be able to do this without any problem. Once I got into it, I’m like, holy smoke, there’s more to this than I thought!”

She started taking theory lessons with Tyer, going to his jazz jams, and meeting

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Keith McEachern wanders into new musical territoryColin Burdett

Mixing delightful melodies, catchy chords, poppy-smooth vocals and an undying love for music, the WANDAS frontman, Keith McEachern, is releasing his first solo musical concoction, “Double Down.” Featured in USA Today and Guitar World Magazine, the WANDAS have released three studio albums and have toured all over North America. The WANDAS have certainly made a name for themselves in the hallowed halls of indie rock stardom. After many years of collaborating with band mates, the WANDAS lead vocalist and guitarist, Keith McEachern, has decided to single up and double down for his first solo do-it-yourself rock album.

Akin to the resonant and upbeat WANDAS garage rock sound, “Double Down” includes vibrant guitar riffs, ambient guitar solos, serene piano melodies, prolific bass lines, subtle but groovy drum beats, and catchy vocals all solely written, produced, mixed and recorded by McEachern. The album is set for release Tuesday, Dec. 2 and includes 10 original songs. According to McEachern, the album took nearly a year to complete with most songs written in six- to eight-hour sessions.

“First, I created each song’s guitar and piano section all at once to completion. I then layered these. Then I started writing the drum groove start and then bass. I start with the vocals part last, so it was a completely reverse process than what I’m used to,” said McEachern of working on the album. “For me, mixing the album took the most amount of time. It was really exciting to learn mixing, especially since I had no real formal training. Now I want to find an outlet that allows me to mix more.”

Fans of the WANDAS can expect a different sound from “Double Down,” McEachern said. “This album is DIY, and that’s the main reason why the sounds are slower and the music is more mellow. This is the first time that I recorded without having the energy of my WANDAS band mates. The music I was listening to at the time of writing inspired me to arrange and create new sounds. I was more involved with sound structure and I learned the process of mixing and recording. Typically, I’ve always come up with an idea for a song, then [the WANDAS] jammed it out together to create a written

song. So, this album was more of a learning experience and I was challenging myself, creatively. I wasn’t limiting myself and with everything I was going through, I just let it all out.”

Sitting in his living room listening to his parents’ Elvis Presley records, playing music was only a pipe dream for 9-year-old McEachern. However, a few short years later, he began to practice on any instrument he could find. Fast forward to modern day, and his passion for creating music has become a career.

“The WANDAS toured a lot, we were on the road for four years. We were finding it tough to balance our personal lives and we were grinding ourselves away on the road. Making ends meet was tough,” said McEachern. “After years and years of being gone from

home and living in an RV with five guys … I needed a break from this lifestyle.”

The passion for music that motivated McEachern to start playing instruments as a kid was the same passion that allowed McEachern to take a step back and re-evaluate his relationship with music. The members of the WANDAS are still close friends, said McEachern, each deciding to work on different music projects.

McEachern sees the completion of “Double Down” as his own life coming back to him, full circle. “I asked myself what I needed to do to make myself happy. There was no real expectations for this album, I happened to have a batch full of songs I was excited about, and there was enough to make an album out of that. I did this for myself. I’m in a better place now. ‘Double Down’ allowed me to come to the conclusion of re-finding my love for music,” said McEachern.

The last song on “Double Down,” entitled “Leaky Roof,” is a testament to McEachern’s musical journey. The song describes a literal and metaphorical leaky roof that McEachern dealt with during his tour with the WANDAS. The band’s RV had a leaky roof, a manifestation to the hardships dealt with while on a massive tour. However, even during his recent solo recording, the studio he was in had also been furnished with a leaky roof. With the chorus of the song: “No matter where I go, no matter where I lay, the water always finds its way,” McEachern said, “This song has great meaning to me and to the album itself. No matter where I went, there was always a roof leaking above me. It’s a metaphor. It was tough. ‘Double Down’ is about finding peace, serenity and silence when you’re surrounded by noise and

distraction. This is me doubling down on my music and life. Finishing ‘Double Down’ was gratifying and satisfying. I did it for me, as therapy. I just wrote about music in my life, music has always been an outlet for me. So this album is definitely honest.”

In addition to making listeners tap their feet, dance and sing, McEachern wants the bigger picture attached to “Double Down” to be known.

McEachern said, “Try to apply everything you’ve learned into your work, just do it. Everything with the WANDAS and my solo DIY work, I had to take initiative. Nowadays, you also have to be a promoter, a sound recorder, a business manager and you have to treat music like a business. With that said, remember to always be creative, let that be the guide to your music. Remember to network and challenge yourself,” McEachern said. “Just do it because you love it. I really enjoyed the process of this album, it was therapeutic, healing and challenging.”

“Double Down” by Keith McEachern will be released this Tuesday, Dec. 2. McEachern has also scheduled a music video and plans to perform the songs live while on tour. Let’s just hope none of the venue ceilings leak.

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lots of people. Her passion to learn more about jazz led her to the Vermont Jazz Center. “I studied up there. They had these ‘camps,’ so to speak. There were people from all over the world,” she said, calling it a great experience.

Gough is very personable on stage, inviting everyone to relax and listen, as she puts her personal stamp on the classics of the genre. She also mixes in songs that you wouldn’t normally expect a jazz singer to do. The Beatles’

“Lady Madonna” is an example.The sound of her voice can be described as soothing. Her

classical training shows through, as the characteristic vibrato surfaces on the longer notes. Her jazz phrasing, though, shows that she has travelled a long way musically from her classical roots.

Gough describes jazz as being a “freeing” type of music. She studied with veteran jazz singers, such as Sheila Jordan

and Jay Clayton and Bob Stoloff at Berklee. Although she is an accomplished professional, she always considers herself a student of the genre. She still loves her classical, and performs and teaches it regularly, but jazz is a way for her to express herself in ways she otherwise could not.

See Jean Mancini Gough with her band Jazzin About Town live on Wednesday, Dec. 3 at Club Symply Fargone in Viva Bene Ristorante in Worcester with music at 8 p.m.

Thrash legends to annihilate WorcesterJoshua Lyford

Nov. 28 is expected to go down in history for Central Massa-chusetts thrash fans when three legends of the genre perform together at The Palladium: Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies and Exodus.

The lineup alone should be enough for any interested parties to contact The Pal-ladium box office to purchase tickets immediately, however, the show promises to be extra-special for other reasons for long time thrash fans.

Slayer needs little introduction, but for those who are just reading this article because they saw “annihilate” in the title and were intrigued, the band was formed in California in 1981. They play fast and their riffs are unquestionably mind-melting; if you somehow haven’t heard any of their songs, try out their 1986 “Reign in Blood” release. You will know two minutes in to “Angel of Death,” the album’s lead-off track, if you are a fan or not. Like many bands in the genre, they have fielded lawsuits and have been accused of promoting devil-worship – basically a prerequisite for heavy bands that began in their era.

Suicidal Tendencies are a little more dif-ficult to nail down, genre-wise, but getting their start in 1981, they have always had one foot firmly in thrash and another foot (and maybe a hand or two) in punk and metal. Legendary vocalist Mike Muir is the only remaining original member, however, this should come as no surprise to fans of the band, as the lineup has shifted an infinite number of times since the ’80s.

Exodus. While perhaps not as well-known in the public sector as Slayer or some of their thrash compatriots, Metallica, Megadeth and the like, for true fans of the genre the band is second to none. The band is currently touring on their latest album, “Blood In, Blood Out,” their 10th studio album. This also marks the return of vocalist Steve “Zetro” Souza, who was a member of the band from 1986-1993 and again from 2002-2004, which makes

sense, as Souza says metal isn’t a lifestyle you can leave behind.

“This is what we do,” said Souza. “This is what we are. You can’t turn it on or off, this is my life. You can tell when someone is fake about this. This is my religion.”

From the back of the band’s tour bus, parked in Grand Prairie, Texas preparing for the fifth show of the tour with Slayer and Suicidal Tendencies, Souza said that

the reception for the new album has been incredible. This is a particularly amazing feat considering the band has been touring and producing music for over 30 years.

“To be relevant on your 10th record says something,” said Souza of the band’s longev-ity.

With the winter looming and the tempera-ture taking a dive, Souza said he is excited to get back to Massachusetts, but not particu-larly excited for the weather.

“Massachusetts fans have always been good to Exodus,” he said. “It’s cold every fucking time we go there, but we love to warm the room up. Thanks for keeping us real and keeping us relevant.”

To pick up tickets for the Nov. 28 show with Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies and Exodus, head to The Palladium’s website at thepal-ladium.net or ticketfly.com. If you are a true metal fan, you’ve probably already done that.

“No one says, ‘yeah I listened to Slayer last summer,’” said a very serious Souza. “Metal fans don’t do that; you live it.”

The Cup Show returns to Worcester Center for CraftsNicole DeFeudis

The Worcester Center for Crafts (WCC) will be filled to the brim with mugs and cups on Thursday, Dec. 4, as crowds pour in for its fifth annual Cup Show.

The Cup Show is a sale of handmade cups, constructed by a handful of artists ranging across the country. Gallery Store Director Candace Casey brewed the idea of the Cup Show a few years ago, while searching for ways to get the community more involved with art.

Casey’s idea has since blossomed into an annual tradition. “It’s just something that we use every day of our lives,” she said of the mugs that can be purchased at the show. She hopes that buyers will “take a minute to appreciate the fact that somebody made it by hand.”

The Cup Show brings variety to Worcester with these handcrafted cups. A cluster of pieces from across the country are collected from “different galleries, different people, different artists,” creating a mass of diverse drinking vessels. “It’s pretty amazing, the work that they do,” Casey said. “You can really see how the environment affects the aesthetics.”

According to Casey, the cups that amass at the WCC mostly consist of practical ceramics with a flair. “We’ve got really an incredible ceramics inventory,” she stated with pride, describing the unique qualities of the mugs on display.

Casey invites guests to “begin a collection” of cups at the WCC this December. “I think it’s important because there are price points for everybody,” she professed. The Cup Show makes quality art “available and affordable for everybody.”

Stopping by the Cup Show is sure to stir up emotion in visitors, who will be

encouraged to strike connections with a piece by “feeling it, putting your hand in (and) grasping it.” Casey argued that the mugs at the WCC are “very personal item(s),” and make the perfect gifts. “If somebody were to give you a cup,” she said, “you remember that person, you remember that occasion… It’s special.” Casey advocated that the cups do not only contain beverages — they hold memories as well. “I give cups as gifts,” she said, “it’s a part of me.”

For Casey, the joy of the Cup Show comes every morning, as she prepares her coffee. “I choose which cup depending on what mood I’m in,” she said. “I carve out that little bit of time to enjoy it.”

In addition, the Cup Show “celebrate(s) the work of a lot of artisans.” In regards to the artists’ feat of putting food on the table by selling items for customers’ tables, Casey stated, “we’ve got a lot of artisans out there that depend on us.”

Also dependent on the Cup Show, is the essence of artwork in Worcester. “The cups are just a little way of supporting our mission,” Casey reflected, “which is to keep crafts alive in the community.”

The Cup Show will run from Dec. 4-24 in the Krikorian Gallery at the Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Rd., Worcester.

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“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay-Part I” perpetuates the questionable tactic of carving a popular fantasy novel into multiple movies when only one is needed. “Harry Potter’s” final installment was given two films to wrap things up, and “The Hobbit” is being retold in a ridiculously prolonged trilogy that mercifully concludes next month.

But the world can’t seem to get enough of beautiful young men and women scrambling for survival in dystopian hellscapes, so Katniss Everdeen, the bow-wielding rebel played by Jennifer Lawrence, will continue to be part of the cultural conversation for a while. “Mockingjay” the book was a compact depiction of the uprising Katniss inspired against the totalitarian regime overseen by the malevolent President Snow (Donald Sutherland). “Mockingjay” the movie is revolutionis interruptus, cutting off the saga at just about the moment when it’s getting revved up, meaning we’ll have to wait until next year to see if Caesar Flickerman’s (Stanley Tucci) mastodon dentures finally slice through his lips.

So how did we get here? Recall that in two prior movies Katniss and her heartthrob Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) beat the odds by triumphing over a host of combatants in the winner-kill-all Hunger Games, and then Katniss short-circuited the entire enterprise in a champions’ round by firing a well-placed arrow into a force field. Peeta was captured by government troops and taken prisoner inside the Capitol, but Katniss was rescued and recruited into the resistance movement, led by District 13 president Alma Coin (Julianne Moore, wearing a Lily Munster fright wig) and Plutarch Heavensbee

(Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his last performances).

Much of “Mockingjay” involves Katniss’ evolution from reluctant warrior to the figurehead of the revolution. She also must sort through her confusing feelings for her sexy hunting mate Gale (Liam Hemsworth), who despite a lifetime spent mining coal and foraging for food looks like he just stepped out of a J. Crew catalogue (Gale is apparently the only rebel fighter to be issued hair product and cableknit sweaters).

Ah, but this is not a “Twilight” Team Edward vs. Team Jacob thing. Katniss

only has eyes for Peeta, even when he appears on state TV to denounce the rebellion. She insists Peeta is being brainwashed or coerced, and she extracts a promise from Alma that if he’s rescued he won’t be tried as a war criminal. In exchange, Katniss agrees to become a propaganda tool for the resistance, allowing herself to be tailed by a camera crew at battle scenes to create a sort of apocalyptic reality show.

As far as those battle sequences — there aren’t many to speak of, and that’s where “Mockingjay” suffers as storytelling. The film is all set setup and no payoff; like sitting through

a movie about Pearl Harbor where the credits roll before the Japanese planes reach Hawaii. Katniss pays two visits to her devastated home district and acts as a goodwill ambassador at a front-line hospital but never gets the chance to do much more than weep and seethe and rue. All of this is punctuated by windy speeches about President Snow’s barbarism and speculation about what’s transpiring in other districts — delivered from an underground bunker that miraculously never runs out of electricity, food or gray jumpsuits.

This is the benefit of having a built-in audience willing to be held hostage for a Part 1 so long as they have some assurance that Part 2 will set their imaginations free — you can actually give them a “Hunger Games” movie without any Hunger Games. “Mockingjay” never gets off the ground, but obviously its job is only to clear the flight path for what’s to follow.

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Downtown, almost directly across from Old Sturbridge Village on Route 20, Sturbridge Seafood does not boast specials offered or light up its exterior with neon signs to draw in customers, most likely because it doesn’t need to. Sturbridge Seafood serves up high-quality meals in a clean and comfortable atmosphere — no secret to many locals.

Arriving around 6 p.m. on a Friday night, Max and I found parking in the adjacent lot serving several businesses. As soon as we stepped inside the modestly-sized restaurant, we realized making reservations would have been a good idea. Most all of the tables and seats at the bar were filled, but the hostess said she would try to squeeze us in. No more

than 10 minutes passed before Max and I were seated at a table for two.

The menu at Strubridge Seafood is always changing, but customers can count on a variety of raw bar options, shared plates, soups and salads, and seafood entrees that are creatively designed with unexpected accompaniments. From the shared plates portion of the menu, Max and I began our meal with an order of the Steamed Lil Necks ($10). Served in a large white ceramic bowl, more than a dozen steamed little necks in their shells and four sliced pieces of white herb bread in a salty, sweet onion broth were a rich start to our meal. The bread, which tasted homemade, was perfect for sopping up the broth.

The time between finishing the little necks and when our entrees arrived was longer than Max and I would have liked, but the restaurant was still busy, so we gave a pass to the wait time. Once Max’s Swordfish Casino ($22)

and my Blackened Monkfish Putanesca ($21) were placed in front of us and we had dug in, all memories of waiting for our meals were erased. Both Max and my eyes lit up with delight as we realized this was not a traditional New England seafood restaurant, but rather the work of imaginative and talented chefs who seemingly do not settle for anything other than the best ingredients.

The Swordfish Casino came in a large bowl with a bed of roasted potatoes at the bottom. A generous slab of swordfish boasted a delicious breadcrumb crust topped with asparagus and crispy bacon strips. This magical combination was enough to make my mouth water before I’d even seen

it in front of me, but the swordfish, alone, outdid itself. The fish was cooked perfectly, and the thick portion struck just the right balance between flaky and moist. It was a surprisingly unpretentious meal that provided

simple, big flavors and immense satisfaction. The Monkfish Putanesca was as much

pasta as it was seafood focused, both being equal stars of the dish. A heaping portion of spaghetti served as the base of the plate, was anything but the traditional pasta and tomato sauce; the spaghetti was mixed in an anchovy-infused olive oil and light tomato sauce, making the entire dish taste of flavors of the sea. Halved kalamata olives and capers mixed into the pasta added bold flavors to the already inciting dish. Atop this combination was the blackened monkfish. Like the swordfish, each bite was flaky and juicy.

From what I could tell, the attraction to Sturbridge Seafood and what keeps the restaurant hopping on the weekend is what comes from the kitchen and served to customers; the thought and work put into each meal is obvious with each bite. The service, however, Max and I agreed could be better. Even though we gave the restaurant the benefit of doubt when waiting for our entrees to arrive, we became a little exasperated as we waited what felt like far too long for our bill after finishing our meals. Overall, the restaurant offered a great night outside of Worcester. Max and I will return, just maybe not on a Friday night.


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style, offered every Sunday, from 3-9 p.m. Sunday will also feature brunch, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. with a special menu offering five breakfast entrees, including the Breakfast Potato Nachos, cranberry cream-stuffed French toast and Salmon Cake Benedict. Creative drinks will also be available, like a Surf & Turf Bloody Mary with homemade beef jerky and a jumbo grilled shrimp. Flying Rhino, 278 Shrewsbury St., Worcester. Flyingrhinocafe.com.

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Many of us strive to achieve a certain balance in our daily lives. The same holds true for wine and winemaking. In fact, without proper balance, the popularity of wine would almost cease to exist.

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Acidity in wine is what gives the fruit its refreshing, flavorsome sensation. Without it, the wine would seem overly ripe and cloying, a little like the sensation derived from drinking the sugary fruit syrup in canned preserves.

Sugar naturally found in grapes is converted into alcohol. The sugar that is not converted during fermentation remains in the resulting wine and is called residual sugar. Therefore, more sugar yields a sweeter wine. Even wines that taste very dry have some degree of residual sugar.

Fruit is that combination of nuances we taste and smell in wine. Much of a wine’s flavor comes from the fruit itself. However, too little fruit and the wine can be harsh and bitter tasting.

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soon!! Spread the word Mass Elite is BACK for a ONE TIME REUNION SHOW! $10 Donation. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or facebook.com/events/708913462491380. Auntie Trainwreck. It’s our last appearance anywhere in 2014! We’ll be playing Classic Rock, Blues, Alt Rock and Party favorites all night long so you can dance off your Thanksgiving dinner, and maybe some brand new songs you have not heard from us before. 21+, No cover! 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Simple Man Saloon, 119 High St., Clinton. 978-365-1949.Celebrate Thanksgiving Weekend at Ralphs with “Big Ten Inch” - A Tribute to Aerosmith! 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. Drunken Uncles. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Rivalry’s Sports Bar, 274 Shrewsbury St. 774-243-1100. Hothouse. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. How Bizarre. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Jillian’s - Worcester, 315 Grove St. 508-793-0900. Tyra Penn & Her Army of Snakes. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035. Whiskey Church. Rock classics and new hits all night! 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420. The Auld Locals. 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Grey Hound Pub, 139 Water St. 508-754-6100. Andy Cummings. 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Padavano’s Place, 358 Shrewsbury St. 774-823-3022. DJ One-3. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Perfect Game Sports Grill and Lounge, 64 Water St. 508-792-4263.

Friday Night Dance Party with DJ Blackout. DJ Blackout bringin’ the energy to get the party poppin’ all night long, different DJ every other Friday! No cover charge. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. The District Bar and Grill, 102 Green St. 508-593-4351. John Powhida International Airport. 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439. Plush Worcester Presents: Dj Savuth, Big Spoon, & B-Milk. Back for another amazing week with Worcester’s only direct support for the Underground house music community. Resident dj’s Big Spoon & Mike Kim, bring you the finest tech house, Jackin house, deep house, Disco house, & House. This week’s Guest’s DJ SAVUTH [RELEASE Your Dance / Sweat & Tears / VOLUME Boston] Free. 10 p.m.-1:45 a.m. Sahara Cafe & Restaurant, 143 Highland St. 508-798-2181 or facebook.com/events/291043537761719.

>Saturday 29 Joe Brennion: The Magic of Native American Flutes. Joe Brennion has been playing and introducing others to the Native American flute for more than 20 years. Included with admission. 3-3:45 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111. Open Mic. Open to musicians, poets, comedians or anyone with a talent! Hosted by Stephen Wright. 6-9 p.m. Nu Cafe, 335 Chandler St. 508-926-8800 or nucafe.com/events. Sabrina Jones and Johnny Romance Acoustic Duo. Come enjoy the smooth sounds of Sabrina Jones and Johnny Romance. Great for a date night! 6-9 p.m. The Grille at Westborough Country Club, 121 W. Main St., Westborough. 508-366-0207 or Loveshackmusic.com. Rick Porter unpluged. 7-10 p.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353. SEAN FULLERTON: Acoustic Blues, Rock ‘n’ Roll and Fingerstyle Guitar. Dinner, Drinks and Music. 7-10 p.m. Tavern on the Common, 249 Main St., Rutland. 508-886-4600 or

tavernonthecommon.com. “Buble, Bennet, Bacharach” with Dale Lepage, James Dower, and Geoffrey Oehling! $15 Cover. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. Andy Cummings. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Mill 185, 185 West Boylston St., West Boylston. 774-261-8585. Bobby Hogan & Sugar Creek. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Jillian’s - Worcester, 315 Grove St. 508-793-0900. The #1 PANTERA tribute TRENDKILL plays their annual Dimebag Memorial show. Guests: Along Came The Flood and Whisky Fyre. (facebook.com/panteratribute) (panteratribute.com) (facebook.com/AlongCameTheFlood) Some of Rhode Islands familiar musicians coming together from all over the ocean state to create and combine unique, catchy and brutal original sounds Heavy rockin’ blues is what Whisky Fyre is all about. (facebook.com/whiskyfyre )(whiskyfyre.bandcamp.com) $10. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or facebook.com/panteratribute. The Stompers: Family & Friends. A very special Thanksgiving Celebration! The legendary Stompers played their very first show in November 1977. The band has long been recognized for their raucous live shows; kept alive for more than three decades by a spirited legion of dedicated fans. $26 advance; $30 day of show. 8-11 p.m. Bull Run Restaurant, Sawtelle Room, 215 Great Road, Shirley. 978-425-4311. Benny Sharoni Quartet. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. Hip Swayers Deluxe. Hip Swayers - tough, proven, experienced - yet not running for office! Come rock out with us at Vincent’s Bar! Free! 9 p.m.-midnight. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439. Marty DC Rogue Blues. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Square, Leominster. 978-534-5900. No Alibi. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-

853-1350. Probable Cause Thanksgiving Weekend Bash. Continue your holiday celebration with Probable Cause, the area’s best party band! 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420. Rude Boy George, New Limits & Copacetics. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877. Russo Bros Jazz Quintet. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035. Thanksgiving Weekend continues with Wilbur and The Dukes! 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. Throwback to the 60s Post Thanksgiving Bash! Come down to the Kas Bar and dance all that turkey away to great 60s hits by Paul Revere and the Raiders, Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Dave Clark Five, etc. Groovy psychedelic show and cool stage setup. Free! 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Club KasBar, 234 Southwest Cutoff. 508-798-8385. Ton of Blues. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Rivalry’s Sports Bar, 274 Shrewsbury St. 774-243-1100. DJ Reckless. 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Perfect Game Sports Grill and Lounge, 64 Water St. 508-792-4263. Ken Macy. 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Padavano’s Place, 358 Shrewsbury St. 774-823-3022. The Hip Swayers. 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439.

>Sunday 30 “The Academy Singers” from Worcester Academy. The Academy Singers are selected from members of the choral classes at Worcester Academy. This group generally performs an eclectic mix of vocal music suitable to a small ensemble, from Renaissance to modern. 3-3:45 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-




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869-6111. Big Jon Short - solo acoustic country blues. Free. 5-8 p.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439. Hangover Hour at 5pm; then Andy Cummings 8:30pm! 5 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. Jim’s Blues Jam at Greendales. Each week has a first rate feature performer, followed by an open mike segment. Host Jim Perry keeps things rolling. No cover. 6-10 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. OPEN MIC SUNDAYS AT SNOW’S RESTAURANT WITH BILL McCARTHY. To check the schedules and open slots visit Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook. Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it! Email him at: [email protected]. Free! 7-10:30 p.m. Snow’s Restaurant & Pub, 321 West Boylston St. Worcester Jazz Collective. 21 Plus. More info at facebook.com/electrichaze Free. 8 p.m.-midnight Electric Haze, 26 Millbury St. 508-799-0629. Blue Light Bandits. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035.

>Monday 1 Open Mic/Open Decks. Sign up is at 7 p.m. for half hour or less slots. Use our PA system, Mics, controller and sound tech. Anything is welcome! 21plus. Free. 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Electric Haze, 26 Millbury St. 508-799-0629. Road Rash and Hot Trash presents our Every Monday night KARAOKE with our own Mad Max of magicians, the incomparable Paul Harter. How many songs do we have here at Monday Karaoke? ALL OF THEM. You think of a song you want to sing and we’ll have it for you. Come on down for our $2 draft special and chill with our 2 new bartenders. Free! 8:30 p.m.-1:45 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888.

>Tuesday 2 Two Left - Blues Jam. Brian Degon (Vocals, Guitar) and Fr. Gregory Christakos (Bass) Jam original and favorite blues tunes. Free. 7-10 p.m. Park Grill and Spirits, 257 Park Ave. 508-756-7995. TUESDAY OPEN MIC NIGHT @ GREENDALE’S PUB with Bill McCarthy LOCAL MUSICIANS SHOWCASE! To check the schedules and open slots visit Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook. Email him at: [email protected]. Free. 7:30-11:30 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350 or m.facebook.com/groups/209610855806788?ref=bookmark&__user=578549000.C.U.Next Tuesday! Tunes in the Diner with DJ Poke Smot and Special Guests every Tuesday Night! No cover. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. Every Tuesday: Jon Bonner and Boogie Chillin’. 9 p.m.-midnight Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439. Hip Hop Tuesdays. Every Tuesday is different! Check our facebook page, under events for more details! $5-$15. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Electric Haze, 26 Millbury St. 508-799-0629. Karaoke and DJ. no cover charge. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Club KasBar, 234 Southwest Cutoff. 508-798-8385. Karaoke. Karaoke by First Choice Entertainment, hosted by Curtis. Must be 21+ years of age. Free. 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Loft 266 Bar & Lounge, 266 Park Ave. 774-696-4845.

>Wednesday 3 Brown Bag Concert Series: New England Conservatory Symphonic Winds & Concert Choir. Conducted by William Drury, the big sound of NEC Symphonic Winds and the Concert Choir will surely put us all in the holiday spirit! The Brown Bag Concert Series continues its 30-year+ tradition of great concerts produced

by Mechanics Hall and WICN Public Radio. The concerts offer jazz; blues & funk; world music; big bands & concert bands. Each concert begins at noon. Enjoy your own brown bag lunch or buy one at the Hall (while supply lasts!). Whenever possible (always unless natural disaster strikes!), concerts are broadcast on 90.5 FM and stream live on wicn.org. Programs are subject to change without notice. Free Admission. Noon-1 p.m. Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St. 508-752-5608 or mechanicshall.org/tickets/brownbag.html. Jon Weinberg Trio: Hammered Dulcimer Holiday Concert. The trio will be performing a variety of holiday, early music, and seasonal favorites featuring Jon on the hammered dulcimer with Dick Hyland on guitar and Robin Kynoch on whistles and button accordion. Included with admission. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111.

The Fresh Beat Band Greatest Hits Live. The Fresh Beat Band, Nickelodeon’s preschool music group and stars of the hit Emmy Award-winning TV series of the same name, are bringing an all new concert to cities across the U.S. THE FRESH BEAT BAND GREATEST HITS LIVE features Kiki (Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer), Shout (Thomas Hobson), Marina (Tara Perry), and Twist (Jon Beavers) performing in this brand new production featuring new hit songs such as “Walk Like an Egyptian” along with fan favorites from their live-action TV show and recent albums. Limited VIP seats available for $149.50. 6:30-8 p.m. Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St. 877-571-7469 or thehanovertheatre.org/showinfo.php?id=155.

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Men’s BasketballAnna Maria CollegeDecember 2 @ Albertus Magnus College 7 p.m.Assumption CollegeDecember 3 Home vs. Stone College 7:30 p.m.Becker CollegeDecember 2 Home vs. Brandeis University 7 p.m.Clark UniversityDecember 1 Home vs. Western New England University 7 p.m.December 2 @ Connecticut College 7 p.m.College of the Holy CrossNovember 28 @ State University of New York, University at Albany 7 p.m.Fitchburg State UniversityNovember 29 @ MIT 1 p.m.December 2 Home vs. New England College 7 p.m.Nichols CollegeDecember 3 @ Roger Williams University 7:30 p.m.Tufts UniversityDecember 3 Home vs. Worcester Polytechnic Institute 7 p.m.Worcester Polytechnic InstituteDecember 3 @ Tufts University 7 p.m.Worcester State UniversityDecember 2 @ University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 7:30 p.m.

Women’s BasketballAnna Maria CollegeDecember 2 @ Brandeis University 7 p.m.Assumption CollegeNovember 30 Home vs. Long Island University Post 1:30 p.m.December 3 Home vs. Stonehill College 5:30 p.m.Becker CollegeDecember 2 @ Wheelock College TBAClark UniversityDecember 3 @ Wheaton College 7 p.m.College of the Holy CrossNovember 30 vs. Georgetown University @ Uncasville, Connecticut 3 p.m.December 3 @ Bryant University 5 p.m.Fitchburg State UniversityDecember 2 @ Lasell College 7 p.m.Nichols CollegeDecember 3 @ Roger Williams University 5:30 p.m.Tufts UniversityDecember 1 @ Wheaton College 7 p.m.Worcester Polytechnic InstituteDecember 3 @ United States Coast Guard Academy 7 p.m.

Men’s Ice HockeyAssumption CollegeNovember 28 @ Nichols College 3:30 p.m.

November 30 @ TBD @ TBDDecember 3 Home vs. Saint Anselm University 7:35 p.m.Becker CollegeNovember 28 Home vs. Worcester State University 7 p.m.College of the Holy CrossNovember 30 Home vs. Brown University 1:05 p.m.Fitchburg State UniversityNovember 29 @ Southern New Hampshire University, PAL Stovepipe Tournament 4:30 p.m.November 30 vs. TBD @ Southern New Hampshire University , PAL Stovepipe Tournament TIME TBDNichols CollegeNovember 28 vs. Assumption College @ Marlborough, MA 4 p.m.November 30 vs. TBD @ Marlborough, MA TIME TBDTufts UniversityNovember 28 vs. Brockport @ Rutland Herald Invitational 3:45 p.m.November 29 vs. TBD @ Rutland Herald Invitational TIME TBDWorcester State UniversityNovember 28 @ Becker College 7 p.m.November 30 vs. TBA @ Marlborough, MA TIME TBA

Women’s Ice HockeyCollege of the Holy CrossNovember 29 @ Bowdoin College 7 p.m.November 30 Home vs. Wesleyan University 6:05 p.m.December 2 Home vs. Connecticut College 7:05 p.m.Nichols CollegeNovember 28 @ Stevenson University 5:30 p.m.November 29 @ Stevenson University 11:45 a.m.December 3 @ Bowdoin College 5 p.m.

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Clark University Jazz Workshop and Combos. Eric Hofbauer, director 7:30-9:30 p.m. Clark University, The Grind, Higgins University Center, 950 Main St. WEDNESDAY NIGHT OPEN MIC/LOCAL MUSICIANS’ SHOWCASE w/ BILL McCARTHY @ GUISEPPE’S. To check the schedules and open slots visit Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook. Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it! Email him at: [email protected]. Free. 7:30-10:30 p.m. Guiseppe’s Grille, 35 Solomon Pond Road, Northborough. 508-393-4405 or m.facebook.com/groups/209610855806788?ref=bookmark&__user=578549000. All Request College Night w/DJ Strader. Join us every Wednesday night and party to your favorite tunes. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877. Jean Mancini Gough and Jazzin’ About Town Band. Jazzin’ About Town Jean and her group, Jazzin’ About Town, include some of the best jazz musicians from Central MA to Boston, all well trained, seasoned musicians who have been playing professionally for many years. Jean shares the stage with such players as pianists John Arcaro and Ted Knowlton, drummers Ed Conley and Bill MacGilvray, guitarists Joe D’Angelo and Al Vaudreuil, and saxman, Tom Herbert. From jazz favorites and American Songbook to funk and blues, this group will delight your senses with something for everyone! $15. 8-11 p.m. Viva Bene Italian Ristorante, Club Symply Fargone at Viva Bene, 144 Commercial St. 978-833-9698 or symplyfargone.com. Wacky Wednesday Open mic Jam with Mark. Come down and sign up to jam with Mark 8-11 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. Ralph’s Diner’s (Should Be) Hidden Talent Show! Do you like money? Do you have a hidden talent that should stay hidden? Do you like money? Do you like getting up onstage after a couple beverages and show us that talent for a cash prize? Seriously, the crazier the better. Who cares if you really can sing. Those contests are usually won by losers. We want contestants who are willing to go to the extremes of their wildest imagination and show us what you got! Show up, sign up, perform, be judged, and possibly win (probably lose)! Suggested performances include drunken burlesque, cross-dressing jugglers, midget vaudeville, one-armed puppet shows, naked celebrity impersonators, folk music performance on helium balloons, Shakespeare soliloquies on a bad acid trip, reading poetry while upside down, mimes performing Handel’s Messiah, obese strippers, etc. $3. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square

Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. Sean Ryan on Acoustic. 9 p.m.-midnight. Padavano’s Place, 358 Shrewsbury St. 774-823-3022.

artsArtsWorcester, News from Nowhere: Photographs by Cade Overton, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Dec. 19. Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 1-4 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday - Friday, 1-4 p.m. Saturday. Admission: . 660 Main St. 508-755-5142 or artsworcester.org.Booklovers’ Gourmet, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday - Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 55 East Main St., Webster. 508-949-6232 or er3.com/book.Clark’s Cafe and Art On Rotation Gallery, Hours: 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday - Saturday. Admission: for gallery. 310 High St., Clinton. 978-549-5822 or 978-365-7772 or aorgallery.com.College of the Holy Cross: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, The Italian Nativity IL PRESEPE: Cultural Landscapes of the Soul, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Dec. 17. Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday, 2-5 p.m. Saturday. 1 College St. 508-793-3356 or holycross.edu/departments/cantor/website.EcoTarium, KEVA: Build it Up!, Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through April 26. Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: $14 adults; $8 for children ages 2-18, $10 college students with IDs & senior citizens. Children under 2 & EcoTarium members Free. Additional charges apply for Tree Canopy Walkway, Explorer Express Train, planetarium programs & other special progra. 222 Harrington Way. 508-929-2700 or ecotarium.org.Fitchburg Art Museum, Hours: noon-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, noon-4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 25 Merriam Parkway, Fitchburg. 978-345-4207 or fitchburgartmuseum.org.Fitchburg Historical Society, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4

p.m. Monday - Tuesday, 10 a.m.-midnight, Wednesday, closed Thursday - Saturday. 50 Grove St., Fitchburg. 978-345-1157 or fitchburghistory.fsc.edu.Gallery of African Art, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday - Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Admission: Donations accepted. 62 High St., Clinton. 978-265-4345 or 978-598-5000x12 or galleryofafricanart.org.Mass Audubon: Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, Hours: 12:30-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 414 Massasoit Ave. 508-753-6087 or massaudubon.org.Museum of Russian Icons, Russian Photography: Siberia Imagined and Reimagined, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Jan. 10; Ukrainian Snowflake Eggs Decorations, Fridays, Saturdays, through Nov. 22. Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 11-3 a.m. Tuesday - Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, 11-3 a.m. Friday, 9-3 a.m. Saturday. Admission: Adults $7, Seniors (59 and over) $5, Students (with ID) & children (3-17) $2, Children under 3 Free, Groups (any age) $. 203 Union St., Clinton. 978-598-5000 or 978-598-5000x17 or museumofrussianicons.org.Old Sturbridge Village, Admission: $7 - $20 charged by age. Children under 3 Free. 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge. 800-733-1830 or 508-347-3362 or osv.org.Prints and Potter Gallery: American Contemporary Arts & Craft Gallery, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday - Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 142 Highland St. 508-752-2170 or printsandpotter.com.Taproot Bookstore, Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 1200 West Boylston St. 508-853-5083 or TaprootBookstore.com.Top Fun Aviation Toy Museum, Hours: 1:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday,

closed Monday - Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday. 21 Prichard St., Fitchburg. 978-342-2809 or 978-297-4337 or topfunaviation.com.Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: $12 Adults, $9 Seniors & $7 Youth, to Members & Children under . 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111 or towerhillbg.org.Worcester Art Museum, Art Cart!, Wednesdays, Nov. 26 - Dec. 17; Art Since the Mid-20th Century, Through Dec. 31, 2015; Guns without Borders in Mexico and Central America, Through Nov. 9; Majicolor Prints by Majima Ryoichi, Through Nov. 10; Stencil-dyed Japanese Folk Art Calendars, Through Aug. 10; Worcester Art Museum - Blue Star Museums Military Discount, Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Aug. 31; You are here, Through Aug. 31; Families @ WAM: Make Art! Drawing Landscapes and Cities, Saturday; Zip tour: Thomas Smith: Self Portrait, Saturday; Arms + Armor Presentation: Boudica, Sunday; Arms + Armor Presentation: Celtic Warrior vs. Roman Soldier, Sunday; Public Tour, Sundays, through Dec. 28; U-student Wednesdays admission to WAM educational institutional members, Wednesdays, Oct. 2 - Dec. 31. Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Admission: for members, $14 adults, $12 seniors, for youth 17 and under. for all first Saturdays of each month, 10am-noon. 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406 or worcesterart.org.Worcester Center for Crafts, Holiday Festival of Crafts, Fridays, Saturdays, Nov. 28 - Nov. 29; Holiday Festival of Crafts, Sunday. Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Saturday. 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183 or worcestercraftcenter.org.Worcester Historical Museum, Alden Family Gallery, Through Dec. 31, 2015; Class Picture Day, Through Aug. 16; In Their Shirtsleeves, Through Dec. 31, 2015; Stories They Tell, Through Dec. 31, 2015; Worcester Treasures, Through Oct. 31. Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 30 Elm St. 508-753-8278 or worcesterhistory.org.

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Beautiful location. 1-4 nicely

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9105

New Bed Frame Adjustable.

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978-534-0711

Walnut Secretary-Lighted glass

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drawers. $100.00 or BO 508-762

-9488

Delta 12" Portable Planer

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$200.00 Cash & Carry

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Leather Couch Set 3 pc beige

leather loveseat, recliner & club

chair w/ ottoman. Excellent.

$600 - will sell separately. 508-

829-0590

FURNITURE

a NEW QUEEN pillow top

mattress set - $149

New in plastic. Can deliver.

Call Luke 774-823-6692

YARD SALES & FLEA MARKETS

Wayside Antiques

Store Wide Sale

on Thanksgiving Weekend.

30 Dealers offering great Sav-

ings on Holiday Gifts and

Decor. Join us for our Holiday

Open House on Sat. Dec. 6th

and Sun Dec 7th from 11-5.

Join us to Celebrate the Sea-

son. Wayside is located on rte

12 at the RR Underpass or

1 Prospect St. in W. Boylston.

Phone is 508-835-4690.

PETS & ANIMALS

HORSES

Riding Lessons & Boarding

BUY 2 LESSONS GET 1 FREE!

www.olympusstables.com

774-287-0282

OTHER

COMMUNITY

Looking for Host Families

We are a local agency that

places international students

with loving host families

throughout Worcester County.

We are currently looking for

host families residing in the

area who would be willing to

share their home, time and cul-

ture with our students. A gen-

erous stipend would be provid-

ed on a monthly basis.

Please call 774-258-0862

INTERVIEW COACHING

Millbury Public Schools

Substitute Cafeteria Workers.

3 Hours a day.

Call Mary Leslie,

Food Service Director

@ 508-865-2929

HELP WANTED LOCAL

DRIVERS- Home Weekly

Ashley Distribution Services in

Holland, MA seeks:

-TRUCKLOAD DRIVERS

(No Touch),

Earning potential

avg. $67,000 year

-LTL DRIVERS (Multiple stop

loads to retail stores!),

Earning potential avg. $82,000

year - Ability to Enter Canada

-Home Weekly -Paid Vacation

-401k -Med/Life/Dental

Class A CDL & at least

1 year current OTR exp.

Clean MVR/PSP Reports.

Call 1-800-837-2241

8AM to 4PM

CST for info & app or email:

jobs@ashleydistributionservice

s.com or www.ashleydistributi

onservices.com

to apply under jobs.

HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED LOCAL



NOVENAS

THANKSGIVING NOVENA TO SAINT

JUDE O Holy Saint Jude, Apostle and

Martyr great in virtue and rich in mira-

cles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ,

faithful intercessor of all who invoke

Your special patronage in time of need,

to You I have recourse from the depth

of my heart & humbly beg to whom God

has given such great power to come to

my assistance. Help me in my present

& urgent petition. In return, I promise to

make Your name known & cause You to

be invoked Say three "Our Fathers",

three "Hail Mary’s" and "Glories Be’s".

Publication must be promised. This

Novena has never been known to fail.

Saint Jude, pray for us & all who invoke

Your aid. MAP

REAL ESTATE

APARTMENT FOR RENT

Grafton, North.

1 & 2 bedroom

apartments that include HEAT

& HOT WATER, off street park-

ing, central vacuum and on

site laundry. Starting at $895!

508-839-5775 1st and security

APARTMENT FOR RENT

Millbury, 2 bedroom $975,

newly renovated includes hot

water. Off street parking, on

site laundry. 1st and second,

508-839-5775 call for bonus!

APARTMENT FOR RENT

RUTLAND CENTER

2BD Good condition. $795/m

+ utils. Refs req’d No pets/

No smoking. 978-257-0202

Worcester Greenhalge Street

Spacious 2 BR Townhouse

$1175

508-852-6001

HOUSE FOR SALE

For Sale By Owner Millbury:

Beautiful French country brick

front ranch. 2 car garge .3br

2ba (1 in master) hw flrs, car-

pet in br. C/A, SS Appl 3yrs

old. low maint fenced in back

yard with synthetic grass.

Great room over garage.

Asking $330,000. (negotiable)

call 508 865 6916

to make an appt.

OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT

HOLDEN 1000 SQ. FT. RT. 31

Near Big Y. Busy plaza. Park-

ing. Beautiful, 2 RMS.

508-733-2850

AUTOMOTIVE

AUTO/MOTORCYCLE

1999 Road King Under 8,000

miles. Too many extras to list.

Always stored in room temper-

ature. $14,000.00 978-464-

5525 or 781-879-8275 cell

AUTO/MOTORCYCLE

2008 Honda

Metropolitan Scooter

Black and gray. Mint cond. 469

miles. Asking $1650.00.

Includes helmet. 207-289-9362

OR 207-450-1492.

AUTO/MOTORCYCLE

1992 GMC Pickup

Custom new tires, 366 motor,

gas automatic, no rust.

Harley black & orange.

Asking $15,000 or B/O

Call 508-304-1558 Jon

AUTO/TRUCK

1994 Dodge Ram 1500 4X4

5.2 V8 Auto, 142K Miles. Reg-

ular cab. Black. Cap, hitch.

Good shape. $3975.00

978-422-8084

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Or you may run your ad from the beginning Or you may run your ad from the beginning until it sells for $20 until it sells for $20 (no refund if the item sells within the two weeks)(no refund if the item sells within the two weeks)

SUBMIT ITEMS UNDER $2014 FOR FREE! SUBMIT ITEMS UNDER $2014 FOR FREE! Here’s all you need to do! 3 ways to submit...

1. Mail completed form to Central Mass Classifi eds, P.O. Box 546, Holden, MA 01520 2. OR FAX the completed form to 508-829-0670 3. OR Email the info with name/address/phone number to [email protected]

NO PHONE ORDERS ACCEPTED FOR FREE ADSPLEASE PRINT CLEARLY... We are not liable for misinformation due to ad being illegible:

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PLEASE READ SUBMISSION RULES:PLEASE READ SUBMISSION RULES:Maximum 4 lines (approx. 28 characters per line). We reserve the right to edit if ads come in that are too long. NO phone orders accepted. See ways to submit above. Merchandise Ads Only - NO autos, snowmobiles, RV’s, trailers, boats, ATV’s, etc. We have a special rate for these ads ($20 till it sells). NO

business Ads accepted for this section. If we suspect the ads are being sent in by a business, we reserve the right to refuse. Limit 1 ad per name/address/phone number every 2 weeks. Free Ads will run for 2 weeks. If you choose to run your ad until it sells for $20, no refund will be given if it sells within

the fi rst two weeks. Limit 1 item per ad (group of items OK if one price for all and under $2,014). Price must be listed in ad. NO Cemetery Plots

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three major credit bureaus once every 12 months from AnnualCreditReport.com, get one from each; Transunion, Equifax and Experian. Keep in mind that these reports show all of your credit history, but do not include a FICO score. You will have to pay a fee to obtain your score.

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record. Utility bills typically only show on your credit record if you leave an account open and never pay off the balance.

3. Review each of your credit reports looking for errors that should be removed on each; you have the right to dispute any errors or information. Your credit reports also tell how long negative records will continue to show up and when a negative mark will disappear from your record. This helps plan for the proper timing if you want to apply for a loan.

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3 br 1.5 bath ranch. Bright open concept family room and kitchen with updated appliances perfect for cooking and entertaining. Opens to deck overlooking fenced in yard and patio. Three bedrooms with gleaming hardword flooring, ceiling fans and so much more! Great location for young families looking for the perfect neighborhood.

Convenient to major routes, Wachusett Mountain, shops and restaurants. Aberman Assoc. Inc Robin Dunbar Bain 978-537-4971

Gorgeous waterfront townhouse in Quinsigamond Shores features private deeded dock, patio, swimming pool, clubhouse and beautiful landscaping. Interior features

upgraded eat-in kitchen with hardwood floors, newly painted cabinets, granite counters and stainless steel appliances. Sunken living room with hardwood floors

opens to large dining room. 1/2 bath and laundry room on first floor. Master bedroom with wall to wall carpeting, solar ski light, master bath, and large walk-in closet. The

large loft family room could be used as a third bedroom.Aberman Assoc IncAnna Mary Kraemer 987-537-4971 x25

3 br 2 bath Cape. 3 acres, barn 2 car garage. country cape with updated heating, electrical, septic . Needs new kitchen.Aberman Assoc. Inc Paula Savard 978-537-4971 14

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Wymans Pond waterfront cottage. Full septic system and artisan well. Year round cottage with 50’ waterfront across the street.

Large level lot with off street parking. Property is set up for2 bedrooms with separate laundry room. Large deck.

Aberman Assoc. Inc 978-537-4971 x15 www.gaillent.com

Well known builder offers mix and match floor plan and lot. This is proposed on the corner of Tuttle and Heywood Rd.

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Water front log home with open concept. Walkout basement level offers second bedroom or fam room and full bath. Woodstove. Main level livingroom with gas floor to ceilng fireplace, cathedral ceilings

window wall onto deck overlooking the water, applianced kitchen with dining area and half bath. Master suite loft accessed by spiral stairway features master bath and stackable laundry. 100 acre Partrdge Pond

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Great Opportunity to own a newer 2 Family built in 1986 in need of some TLC. Separate Utilities, Newer Roof. Excellent rental income

property. This will make a nice investment for the right buyer!Priced to Sell! Aberman Assoc Inc. 978-537-4971x18

Re-hab. possibility. Small two bedroom cottage needs renovation. Well located close to shopping and Rt. 2

Sold “AS IS” Will need to be connected to town sewer.Aberman Assoc Inc. Gail Lent 978-537-4971 x 15

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Charming home in a great location with nearly half an acre. This property has a level backyard, large bright living room with marble floor and 3-4 bedrooms to accommodate a large family. Spacious

half bath with laundry room on first floor and a slider to private deck. MOTIVATED SELLERS!!! Aberman Assoc. Inc.

Moises R. Cosme 978-537-4971 x18

1 br, 1 bath garden condo. Nice wooded view, perfect for elderly, person with physical disability or a couple. Aberman Assoc Inc.

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TOWN OF SUTTON ZONING BOARD OF APPEALSTO ALL INTERESTED

INHABITANTS OFTHE TOWN OF SUTTON

In accordance with the provisions of M.G.L. Ch. 40A, §11, the Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing at the Sutton Town Hall on December 4, 2014 at 7:30pm on the petition of Karen M. Mercure. The petitioner is requesting a Home Business Special Permit to operate a Real Estate Office. The property that is the subject of this petition is located at 330 Boston Road, Sutton MA on Assessors Map #16, Parcel #63. The property is located in the R-1 Zoning District. A copy of the petition may be inspected during normal office hours in the Town Clerk’s Office located in the Town Hall. Any person interested or wishing to be heard on this variance petition should appear at the time and place designated.Jeffrey FenuccioBoard of Appeals Clerk 11/20, 11/26/2014 MS

LEGAL NOTICEOF PUBLIC AUCTION

Notice is hereby given by Mcfee & Newton Towing and Recovery Inc. of 14 King Street, Northborough, MA, pursuant to the provisions of G.L.c 255, Section 39A, that they will sell the following vehicles on December 5, 2014 @ 9am by public auction to satisfy the garage keepers lien for towing expenses, storage charges, care and expenses of the notice and sale of said vehicles2010 Chrysler Sebring , Vin # 1C3BC5EDXAN157665, Robin D. Williams, 74 Hanover St. Lebanon, NH 037662001 Mazda B-series truck, Vin # 4F4YR13U11TM22265, Alfred A. Dumont, 2 Sargent St. Cherry Valley, MA 016112006 Cam Superline Trailer, Vin # 5JPBU25216P013865, Seaver Bothers Construction, 121 Main St. South Grafton, MA 0156011/13, 11/20, 11/26/2014 MS

Town of SuttonPlanning Board & Department

Sutton Planning BoardPublic Hearing Notice

In accordance with the provisions of Section VI.H of the Sutton Zoning Bylaw, the Planning Board will hold a public hearing on the application of Shawn Towle of Manchaug, MA. The applicant seeks to create a retreat lot at 7 Morse Road with 1.71acres and 61.61’of road frontage. The hearing on this application will be held in the third floor meeting room at the Town Hall on Monday, December 15, 2014 at 7:40 P.M. A copy of the plan and application can be inspected in the office of the Town Clerk during normal office hours.Jon Anderson,Chairman11/26, 12/04/14 MS

TOWN OF SUTTONZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

TO ALL INTERESTED INHABITANTS OF

THE TOWN OF SUTTONIn accordance with the provisions of M.G.L. Ch. 40A, §11, the Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing at the Sutton Town Hall on December 4, 2014 at 7:35pm on the petition of Galaxy Sutton, LLC. The petitioner requests variances from the sign regulations contained in Article IV §4(a)(b)(c)and( e) of the bylaws to permit:• A (336) sq.ft internally illuminated freestanding sign at the Route 146N entrance. • A second (149.3) sq.ft internally illuminated freestanding sign at the Boston Road entrance. • A (176) sq.ft. internally illuminated grocery store front wall sign.• A second (68.3) sq.ft internally illuminated wall sign to be mounted on the north side of the grocery store. The property that is the subject of this petition is located at 171 Worcester-Providence Turnpike, Sutton MA on Assessors Map #11, Parcel #’s 9,10,37,305,307. The property is located in the B-2 Zoning District. A copy of the petition may be inspected during normal office hours in the Town Clerk’s Office located in the Town Hall.Any person interested or wishing to be heard on this variance petition should appear at the time and place designated.Jeffrey FenuccioBoard of Appeals Clerk 11/20, 11/26/2014 MS

TOWN OF SUTTONPlanning BoardMeeting Notice

Monday, December 15, 20147:25 pm

Meeting Room 1 CIn accordance with the provisions Section 5.7 (a) of the Sutton Earth Removal Bylaw before issuing a new permit, the Board shall hold a Planning Board meeting, notice posted in town hall and by certified mail, to all abutters as they appear upon the most recent tax list and to the Conservation Commissions of the Town of Sutton.Aggregate Industries, Sutton Map 5 Parcels 32, 90, 91, 92, 93, 142; Map 3 Parcels 1, 2, 3; Map 5 Parcels 46, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 138; Map 6 Parcels 23, 216; Map 10 Parcels 94, 96, 98, 112, 154, 183; Map 11 Parcels 37, 38, 42, 162; Map 5 Parcels 95, 96, 101, 102, 103, 105; Map 6 Parcels 3, 14, 15, 16, 17; Map 6 Parcels 30, 203, 291; Map 6 Parcels 20, 26, 27, 28, 29; Map 10 Parcels 98, 99, 100, 101; Map 11, Parcels 40/41 has applied for an earth removal permit renewal for the above-stated parcels of land. The meeting will be held in the third floor meeting room 1-C at Sutton Town Hall, 4 Uxbridge Road, Sutton, MA on Monday, December 15, 2014 at 7:25 pm. A copy of the plan and application can be inspected in the office of the Town Clerk during normal office hours.Planning Board11/26, 12/04/2014 MS

Commonwealth of MassachusettsThe Trial Court

Probate and Family CourtWorcester Probate and Family Court

225 Main St.Worcester, MA 01608

508-831-2200CITATION ON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDICATION Docket No. WO14P3671EA Estate of: Gertrude E NoelDate of Death: 08/21/2014To all interested persons: A Petition has been filed by: Steven M Taylor Worcester MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that: Steven M Taylor Worcester MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond. You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before: 10:00 a.m. on 12/09/2014. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you. The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. WITNESS, Hon. Denise L. Meagher, First Justice of this Court. Date: November 12, 2014Stephen G. Abraham, Register of Probate11/26/2014 MS

TOWN OF SUTTONCONSERVATION COMMISSION

The Sutton Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, December 3, 2014, at 7:00PM, at the Sutton Town Hall, 4 Uxbridge Road, Sutton, MA. The purpose of this hearing is to review a Request for Determination of Applicability submitted to the Conservation Commission by Paul Dileo, Dileo Gas, Worcester, MA. The project consists of adding a second above ground tank with fencing, and reconfigure driveway, on Map 3, Parcel 8, for 124 Providence Road, Sutton. This notice is publicized in accordance with the provisions of General Law Chapter 131, Section 40 commonly known as the Wetlands Protection Act, and the Sutton Wetlands and Riverfront District Administration Bylaw.11/26/2014 MS

TOWN OF MILLBURYCONSERVATION COMMISSIONThe Millbury Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday,December 3, 2014 at 7:45 P.M. at the Municipal Office Building, 127 Elm Street to act on the Notice of Intent from Richard Rudman to repair stone wall and ramp located at 49 Singletary Road. Said work falls under the jurisdiction of the Wetlands Protection Act M.G.L.Chapter 131, Section 40. Anyone wishing to be heard on this application should appear at the time and place designated above.Donald FlynnChairman 11/26/2014 MS

TOWN OF MILLBURY PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

BOARD OF APPEALSIn accordance with Chapter 40A of the Massachusetts General Law and the Zoning Ordinances of the Town of Millbury, a public hearing will be held in Conference Room of the Municipal Building, 127 Elm Street, Millbury, MA on: Thursday, December 4, 2014 at: 7:10 p.m., on the application from Elite Home Builders, LLC P.O. Box 1205 Westborough, MA. for a Special Permit for the height of the building of Cobblestone Village at Howe Avenue, Millbury, MA. All interested parties are invited to attend.Paul Nigosian, ChairmanMillbury Board of Appeals11/20, 11/26/2014 MS

Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) Project-based Rental Assistance Available

This notice is to advise all currently active applicants on the Worcester Housing Authority’s Housing Choice Voucher Program waiting list of the availability of project-based rental assistance at Lincoln Village.Updates to currently active applications for project-based rental assistance for 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedroom apartments are being accepted for a 30 day period beginning December 1, 2014 at the Worcester Housing Authority Admissions Office, 40 Belmont Street, Worcester, MA 01605. The Worcester Housing Authority does not discriminate against any applicant of any protected class as defined by federal and/or state law. The WHA provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities.

LEGALS/PUBLIC NOTICES

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTSLAND COURT

DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT487789 ORDER OF NOTICE

TO: Adriana Desousa and to all persons entitled to the benefit of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act:, 50 U.S.C. App. §501 et seq.:Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., claiming to have an interest in a Mortgage covering real property in Millbury, numbered 198 Wheelock Avenue, given by Adriana Desousa to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for American Mortgage Network, Inc., dba American Mortgage Network of MA a DE Corp, its successors and assigns, dated October 14, 2008,and recorded with the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 43438, Page 302, and now held by plaintiff by assignment, has/have filed with this court a complaint for determination of Defendant’s/Defendants’ Servicemembers status.If you now are, or recently have been, in the active military service of the United States of America, then you may be entitled to the benefits of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. If you object to a foreclosure of the above-mentioned property on that basis, then you or your attorney must file a written appearance and answer in this court at Three Pemberton Square, Boston, MA 02108 on or before December 22, 2014 or you will be forever barred from claiming that you are entitled to the benefits of said Act. Witness, JUDITH C. CUTLER Chief Justice of this Court on November 4, 2014 Attest: Deborah J. Patterson Recorder 11/26/2014 MS



AUTO/TRUCK

2000 Ford F150

Flareside Pickup

Showroom condition

inside and out. 100K miles.

All power, needs nothing.

$8000.00

Call 978-466-6043

2006 Ford F150 Lariet 2WD

Super Crew, auto, leather, 93K,

Green, fiberglass cover, good

cond. $10,500 413-348-5533

Fitchburg

AUTO/VAN

2003 Dodge Ram Van w/chair

lift. 78K orig miles. Excellent

condition. $5900.00 or B/O

Leominster 978-840-2662

2008 Ford E250 Extended

Van 3dr, A-T/AC, Power pack-

age. Roof racks. Int. shelving,

tow package, 6 rims, 8 tires in

good cond. Exc. overall cond.

57K miles. $14,999.00

508-829-2907

AUTOS

1930 Ford Model A Huckster

22 Woodland Rd. Holden, MA

508-829-2282

AUTOS

1988 Mercedes-

Benz 300 SEL

6 cylinder gas. Very good

cond. Runs exc. $3500.00

195k miles. Located in

Sutton, MA 774-287-0777

1990 Chevrolet Corvette

ZR-1 Performance Coupe. 25K

miles. 2 tops. LT5, 375HP.

6SPD, ZF Manual trans. Fully

optioned. Fair weather only, al-

ways stored. $25,000.00

978-422-6624

2001 Honda Accord

Sedan 180000 miles. Dark

Green ext/Tan Leather int

$2,495. Runs great.

[email protected]

508-869-6326

2006 Honda S2000

Silver exterior Black interior.

Florida car new top. Less than

60k miles. $12,900

508-816-0141

2007 Hyundai Azera Dark

green. 4dr. Loaded. Under 40K

miles. Always been garaged,

mint cond. Asking $12,200.00

508-754-4670 Paxton

2008 Cadillac DTS 4DR.

White pearl/tan. Good condi-

tion. 118K miles. Extras.

$10,000.00 Firm 508-835-3751

Classic Car 1957 Chevy Bel

Air 4dr hardtop. Total frame off

resto. New 350 crate motor.

Appraised at $47,500, only

5,000 miles since resto.

$30,000 OBO. Call Len cell

508-789-3436 Millbury, MA

BOATS

12’ Sundolphin KLN Jon Boat

w/galvanized trailer. 55lb thrust

Minnkota motor. 2 life jackets,

anchor. 2 swivel seats. Battery

& charger. Exc. cond.

$1,200.00 or B/O Dave 978-

537-2536

1986 Stingray Super Sport

17 foot bowrider w/170hp Mer-

cruiser. This is a classic. Full

boat cover and bimini top. Very

clean. $2950.00 B/O Call Cliff

603-494-8219/508-829-9882

CAMPERS/TRAILERS

2000 Wilderness 37’ Trailer

w/attached screenroom. East

Douglas,MA on site at Lake

Manchaug Camping. Center

slide out, Sleeps 6-8. Call for

details. $7000.00 Russ 508-

769-0811

2011 28’ Lightweight

Camping Trailer w/slide.

Electric awning and many

extras. Excellent condition.

Asking $15,450.00 or B/O

978-602-0099

24 ft Light Weight 2004 Terry

Dakota Travel Trailer Sleeps

7, bunk beds & full bed, 16ft

awning, A/C, Central heat, mi-

crowave & 3 burner stove. Dual

powered fridge/freezer. Loads of

storage, outdoor shower. 2 bat-

teries, travel septic. Like new.

$6900.00 OR B/O 508-579-6622

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Truck Camper 1985

Bought new in 1991. Real Life

brand. Bathroom, shower, self

contained. 8ft truck bed.

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You’re the new executive chef at Tower Hill Botanic Garden’s Twigs Café, how’s it going?So far so good. It’s been almost two months, it’s going well. It’s been a month of just figuring this place out, getting acclimated with the kitchen, with the staff. Up until a few weeks ago when there was really local stuff around we were using that as much as we could. That’s going to be a big focus for next year. That’s really my main focus, utilizing local farmers, utilizing local agriculture.

As a chef, what’s your philosophy when it comes to food and cooking? Very simple: Use fresh ingredients, fresh produce and let the food speak for itself. My main focus has always kind of been French cuisine, French rustic, country cuisine, which really relates well to New England cuisine. Cassoulet, is no different than franks and beans, (laughing) it’s all relatable. The French have really categorized and organized everything so that there are solid techniques behind everything that maybe your home cook doesn’t do.

The locally-sourced-food movement has been gaining momentum over the last several years; have you seen a change in the local farming economy? I think so. The reality is that what’s grown in New England is grown here for a very specific reason because it’s what grows here. There are companies and farms out there that are trying to provide chefs with things that they want. There’s a dialog now, where before it was we have tomatoes, and that’s what we have. Farms of their size are putting a side space to try new things.

What are some of the different and maybe even exotic locally-sourced foods that were not being produced in this area five years ago? That’s a tough one because a lot of what’s being grown around here is being farmed because it grows so well. I think more than the exotic foods, the heirloom varieties are showing up more so than things that aren’t going to work in this environment. I think what’s happened over the course of however many years is that flavor has just been bred out of food for shipping reasons, for storage reasons, for appearances. I think there is a return to let’s have a tomato taste like a tomato, let’s have an apple taste like an apple, not just be all perfectly round with no blemishes. It should taste like something as well, and I think that’s really what you get with the local food movement.

Tower Hill has vegetable gardens, will you have a hand in what’s planted next season? We’ve had brief discussions about that. Haven’t really gotten into the nitty-gritty about what I would like to see planted. They have a children’s garden, which I’ve been able to get some produce out of before they broke it down for the year. We were getting kale, cabbage, beautiful carrots, three or four different varieties, onions and herbs. We were just talking in the kitchen about how fantastic it will be when stuff starts coming up next season. To be able to walk over to the gardens each morning and pick what we’ll be using that day.

Kale has certainly had its day, what are some of the other trendy foods right now?I think trendy foods are seasonal, this year

kale; Brussels sprouts over the past couple years have come back huge. Everything, it seems, in the culinary world right now is all about and still about comfort. There was a big comfort movement a couple years ago and a lot of that stuff has really gained a footing and become a part of the way we do business. It’s things like Brussels sprouts, like beets, cabbage all of those nice hearty things that go well with the weather. For a while they were out of favor for cute little baby vegetables.

What inspires you when creating a new dish? I do it directly from the food available. If there is butternut squash available, that’s where the inspiration comes from. Butternut squash. What can I do with this? Where can I go with this? What will pair well with this? I don’t design a menu based on, we need a chicken, a duck, a fish on our menu. I see what’s available and let that be my inspiration.

How long will you typically work on a dish before adding it to your menu? I’ve been doing this for so long that I know what goes with what. So it’s usually a couple of different runs with something, maybe run it as a special a couple of times, tweak it.

As I’m trying to figure out a dish, I think I know in my head what I want, it’s just transferring that to the plate and making sure it matches up with what I had in mind.

Tell me about the new menu items you’ve introduced at Twigs Café. Very rustic type dishes, we ran a lamb shepherds pie last [week]. I do a meatloaf that’s wrapped with bacon and puffed pastry. I like those rustic, very New England, hearty foods.

How do you handle Thanksgiving? Are you a traditionalist or do you go totally outside the box? Absolutely, I’m a traditionalist. It’s my favorite meal of the year and I look forward to it every year. Roast turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, Brussels sprouts, roasted root vegetables, cranberry sauce and gravy. Then turkey soup the next day, that’s one thing I like to do is utilize everything. We will often have a chicken on a Sunday and it’s great because that’s a three-day meal. Roast chicken on Sunday, chicken potpie on Monday and then soup after that. Thanksgiving is the same way, I enjoy that week of turkey, I really do.

-Steven King, Writer and Photographer

Matt Landry has been cooking since he was 16, except for that year and a half he went to college for no particular reason, he admits. And then there was the year he made circuit boards but as fate would have it, the factory closed and forced him at the age of 20 to evaluate his life and decide what he wanted to do. He chose to cook, went to Johnson & Wales and graduated from the Culinary Arts program. He got a job at the Ritz-Carlton then went to Henrietta’s Kitchen in Cambridge before opening Chloé, an American bistro in Hudson, which he ran for more than a decade as chef and owner. Today, he is the executive chef at Tower Hill Botanic Garden.

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