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April 27, 2008 - May 3, 2008

Five Generations Southborough

May 3, 2008 -  Great Great Grandmother is 88 year old Martha Templeman, Great Grandmother is Ginny & Stephen Whynot
Grandmother Julie & Alan Daoust, New mom is Meghan Daoust and Baby is Marley Angel Daoust.  She is also Welcomed at home By her Aunt Melissa,Mallory & Makenna & her Uncles Jordan, Jarrett & Uncle Jona. (contributed photos).

Fly fishing on the Sudbury River

May 3, 2008 - Spending a relaxing time on the Sudbury River fly fishing. Caught and released a few trout.

SVT Kayak trip to Cedar Swamp

May 3, 2008 - Several participants from the Sudbury Valley Trustees participated in a kayak, canoe trip to the source of  the Sudbury River early this morning.

Spring time in Southborough

May 2, 2008 - Springtime blossoms guard the gazebo.

Cleanup Time in Southborough

PEACEFUL MINDS MASSAGE THERAPY AND BODYWORK

OFFERS THE BENEFITS

OF MASSAGE THERAPY TO COMMUNITY

(Westborough, MA) – Shannon McGrew, a member of the American Massage Therapy Association TM (AMTA), began Peaceful Minds Massage Therapy in August of 2006 in Southborough, MA and is now bringing her practice to the community of Westborough to offer the therapeutic benefits of massage therapy.

Shannon McGrew has been practicing massage since May of 2006. She specialized in Deep Tissue Massage at Spa Tech Institute in Westborough, MA and took Continuing Education in Pregnancy Massage, Reiki, CranioSacral Therapy, Hot Stone Massage, and Lomi Lomi Massage. What inspired Shannon to become a massage therapist was the desire to help people and be able to interact with people on a one-to-one basis.

“I look forward to building my massage therapy practice in Westborough, MA. The opportunities for continuing education, research, and advocacy programs that AMTA offers its members benefit me and the community,” says McGrew.

AMTA, a professional association serving 30,000 members, advances the art, science, and practice of massage therapy in a caring, professional and ethical manner. It also supports a Foundation for research, community outreach, and maintains a national locator service.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, please contact:

Shannon McGrew, Peaceful Minds Massage, 69 Milk Street Suite 101A, Westborough, MA, (508) 735-0396.

Or visit McGrew’s website at:

www.peacefulmindsmassage.com

Southborough open land foundation's annual meeting

Alzheimer's Update

May 2, 2008 - by Linda Hubley -For those new to the Southborough News, I have been writing about my mom and her fight with Alzheimer's.  For my readers that have sent emails or stopped me on the street to ask how my mom is, she has not been doing very well these last few weeks. In January of this year Mom moved in with my sister and we had at home day care available several hours a day while my sister worked. Recently mom took a turn for the worst and ended up in the hospital and then transferred to a nursing home. She is back at the hospital now. The disease has rapidly taken her from us. Mom rarely knows who we are, rambles incoherently, and shows all the classic symptoms of the last stages of Alzheimer’s. She doesn’t smile any longer, words are scrambled, she has aggressive outbursts, she can barely walk without assistance and if she does my sister calls it like her feet are glued to the floor. Mom can no longer read or write. They are trying to get some balance on drugs to make her comfortable. We have been told it is only a matter of time before we lose mom forever. Mom would never want to live like she is now. She would never have wanted her children to go through watching her live like this but we do as we love mom and would never leave her until she leaves us. (Mom always proud of her Scot heritage showing off the kilts with a granddaughter).

Mom is only 76; we started noticing some abnormal behaviors about five years ago. They were small but as the years passed became much more noticeable until the last year where she really began her decline. Mom began making several calls a day to us and told the same stories over and over. We would find her crying over her checkbook because she couldn’t do the numbers anymore. Soon the radio, television and computer she would unplug and lose the time of day or the events of the day. Little by little life started to escape her and the wanderings began. Many Alzheimer’s patients wander and this behavior really rattled us to start looking for an alternative housing arrangement for mom.

Mom’s older brother and sister both passed away last year. Mom and her sister were very close and when her sister passed away in September it seemed to affect mom very hard. We mark the summer of 2007 as the year Alzheimer’s struck my mother like lightening. Even the doctors have been surprised as how rapidly the disease has taken mom. In a way the speed can be good but the disease is still slow for us as we sit and watch mom waste away to a shell of a person we once knew. I began to cry at the nursing home during one of mom’s outbursts. One of the counselors came over to my sister and I and talked about mom and the disease and told us she tells families that they have two mom’s, the one they knew and the one they have now. It makes sense when you think about it.

As we battle the disease as a family, my siblings and I take different approaches on how to handle it’s affects on us. We pray that we won’t inherit this disease. My therapy from this disease is to help get the word out that Alzheimer’s not only affects the patient but everyone involved from the caregiver, family members, medical staff and more. It steadily burns out so many bright candles at different stages and ages. Through the Southborough News I am able to express my inner feelings of the disease and to bring attention to Alzheimer’s patients and their plight. It is a way to let people know about fundraisers and news on the battlefront of Alzheimer’s.

I know that at times I may have missed an event, meeting or a photo opportunity that could have been on the Southborough News but I am sure you will understand family is number one. If you have an event or activity I’ve missed and have a photo or press release you would love to share, you are welcome to send it along to the Southborough News. Thank you to everyone that has asked or sent emails to me about mom. Love you mom!

Join with Sudbury Valley Trustees River Lorians, Simon Vos and Dave Dimmock on a paddle to Cedar Swamp Pond, where the Sudbury River begins. Twist and turn through the narrow stretches of the river, leading you to the breathtaking headwaters. For experienced paddlers only. Canoe rentals are not available for this trip. Registration Required. Members- $15: Non- members- $25. Call 978-443-5588 for information and registration.

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Sudbury Valley Trustees is a non-profit association of individuals, families, and businesses committed to protecting wildlife habitat and the ecological integrity of the Sudbury, Assabet and Concord River valleys. SVT currently owns, through gifts and purchase, more than eighty properties in fifteen towns, totaling over 2,100 acres. In addition, SVT holds conservation restrictions on nearly 900 acres, and has been instrumental in preserving more than 6,000 acres now protected by public agencies.

ARHS Sports Schedule 5/2/08

AVRTHS Sports Schedule 5/2/08

Boys

Freshman

Baseball

VS

Clinton High School

3:30PM

CSX Railroad

May 1, 2008 - A tank car loaded with Carbon Dioxide Refrigerated Liquid sits on track one westbound on the CSX dual tracks.  The freight train was stopped along the track from Westborough all the way back toward the Southborough MBTA Station due to malfunctioning brakes.  Tank cars and box cars oftentimes carry volatile liquids and materials.  This is one reason Southborough citizens should always have an emergency kit for both humans and pets available at the ready.  If for some reason there is an accident on the rails in town, residents most likely will be asked to evacuate in a hurry.  Southborough is also forming a CERT team for residents to help assist with various operations in town during emergencies.  For more information on the CERT program click www.southboroughfire.org

May 1, 2008 - Choice Car Wash will donate to the Southborough Baseball/Softball program $1.00 for every car wash that participates in the program. The fundraiser will run through May 31, 2008. To have your $1.00 earmarked for the Southborough Baseball/Softball program enter the code 12348 at the kiosk upon entering the car wash. 

The Senior High Youth Group of Pilgrim Congregational Church, Southborough
is holding a Yard Sale on Saturday, May 3, 2008 from 8am-12noon at the
church on Common Street, rain or shine!  We are selling spaces for $15.00,
where you can set up your table and sell all those unwanted treasures you
have hiding in your attic, garage or basement.  Please call 508-329-1381 to
reserve you space today.  Don't wait, they are going fast!
 

ARHS Sports Schedule 5/1/08

AVRTHS Sports Schedule 5/1/08

Hit Me with Your Best Shot

April 30, 2008 - Another truck hits the Willow Street bridge.  Ted's Towing of Fayville had to release air from the tires and then drag the truck out the way it went in.  There was no damage to the railroad bridge or injuries to the driver.

On May 12, 2008 Southborough voters will go to the polls to vote for candidates to fill the following positions within town government.

Town Clerk (3 years) Vote for 1 - Paul J. Berry, candidate for Re-election

Board of Selectmen (3 years) Vote for 1  - Bonnie J. Phaneuf, candidate for Re-election

Board of Trustees Library (2 Years) Vote for 1  - Laura J. McCarthy

Planning Board (5 years) Vote for 1  -  Mary E. Hynes candidate for Re-election

Northborough Southborough Regional School District Committee (3 Years) Vote not for more than 2 candidates: Northborough Candidates:

Shirley Lundberg - candidate for Re-election John R. Reynolds - Candidate for Re-election

Southborough Housing Authority (5 years) vote for 1  - Charles H. Brewer, candidate for Re-election

Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds (3 years) Vote for 1  - Bonnie J. Phaneuf candidate for Re-election

There are races in the following elections:

Board of Health (3 years) Vote for 1

Nancy Saco - candidate for Re-election

Desheng Wang

The Southborough Library is looking for someone to step up and possibly run a sticker campaign for an open slot on the 3 year Board of Trustees Library. There are two openings for this position but only one candidate took out papers.

Judith K. Budz - candidate for Re-election

Polls will be open from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM on Monday, May 12, 2008 at the following locations:

Precinct 1 A.S. Woodward Memorial School, 28 Cordaville Rd

Precinct 2 P. Brent Trottier Middle School, 49 Parkerville Rd

Precinct 3 Mary E. Finn School, 60 Richards Rd

If you are unsure where to vote or what precinct you are in go to www.wheredoivotema.com to check your voting location.

Help Clean Southborough

New Sign letters

April 30, 2008 - The wood letters that hung on the front of the fire station were feeling the effects of 30 years of weather and were in dire need ore replacement.

Lt. James Peltier contacted Assabet Valley High School to see if they could make new letters for the station. The students, working with a new cutter and aluminum cut out letters from a pattern provided by myself. They then welded the letters to a piece of aluminum angle iron for mounting.

By using the talent from Assabet, the Department only had to purchase the aluminum stock, thus saving the Town hundreds of $$$s.

Attached are a couple of pictures of the members of Group 1 installing the letters (FF Jason Neal and David Cobb).

River Plants

April 30, 2008 - The Sudbury River banks have started to sprout numerous shoreline plants.

ARHS Sports Schedule 4/30/08

AVRTHS Sports Schedule 4/30/08

Flowers Brighten the Day

April 29, 2008 - Well at least they did before all this rain.  Even with the gloomy rainy skies the colors of the flowering shrubs and trees have signaled spring is here.

Skid School

Students from Algonquin Regional High School participated in a half day driving course through In Control Advanced Driver Training.  The course was held at the Worcester Airport.  Students learned defensive driving techniques, tailgating avoidance and safety, steering control, speed control, spatial awareness/backing up, hazardous road conditions, emergency braking, emergency lane changes, dangers of distractions and more.  Thanks to the Murphy Sisters Foundation and Murphy Insurance Company for subsidizing the students tuitions for the program.

Saturday Crash

April 29, 2008 - Firefighters and police responded to a two car motor vehicle accident at the intersection of Southville Road and River Street. Firefighters were out at another call at the same time for a brush fire on Deerfoot Road.  A Hopkinton Ambulance was called to the scene for mutual aid.

SOUTHBOROUGH FIRE DEPARTMENT
DAILY LOG

Monday 4/28/08

06:32 UNINTENTIONAL ALARM SYS TRIP TURNPIKE RD
C20 CHIEF MAURO
E22 LT PELTIER FF PIERCE
E23 FF FRANKS FF KANE

08:37 FIRE ALARM BOX MAINTENANCE TURNPIKE RD
C27 CAPT MAURO
E22 CAPT HUBLEY FF PIERCE
E23 LT SADOWSKI FF KANE

08:45 FOLLOW-UP INSPECTION TURNPIKE RD
C27 CAPT MAURO

10:03 UNINTENTIONAL ALARM SYS TRIP TURNPIKE RD
E22 CAPT HUBLEY FF PIERCE
E23 LT SADOWSKI FF KANE

11:30 PLAN REVIEW - COMMERCIAL SOUTHVILLE RD
C3 CAPT MAURO

13:29 PUBLIC SERVICE ASSISTANCE, OTH WARD RD
A28 LT SADOWSKI FF KANE

13:30 SMOKE DETECTOR, RESALE SOUTHVILLE RD
C27 CAPT MAURO

14:00 SMOKE DETECTOR, RESALE SOUTHVILLE RD
C27 CAPT MAURO

14:30 SMOKE DETECTOR, RESALE ANDREWS WY
C27 CAPT MAURO

15:15 FOLLOW-UP INSPECTION MARLBORO RD
C27 CAPT MAURO

18:00 EMT TRAINING - MAIN ST

21:11 CANCELLED ENROUTE MASS PIKE EAST
A28 LT SADOWSKI FF RICE  For More Fire Log click here
 

Annemarie Fairhurst and Annemarie’s Dance Centre recently celebrated her thirtieth year teaching her students the art of dancing. There is so much to learn at Annemarie’s Dance Center. The offerings at the studio include Combination classes, Get Funky, Creative Movement, Ballet classes, Little Ballerinas, Classical Ballet, Pointe, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Modern and adult classes. Courses are offered from preschool and up.

Annemarie’s Dance Centre also offers a Performance Company The Movement Project plus an Art Program. Instructors come from a wide array of experience and instruction that include Early Childhood Education, graduates Emerson College, Rutgers, Smith College, Imperial Academy of Dance in CT, The School of Performing Arts, Rogert Williams University in Rhode Island and many more prestigious dance and performance colleges. Many of the instructors have also trained, prepared or performed with such prestigious productions such as the Boston Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Hartford Ballet, Ipswich Moving Company School of Dance, FlipSide Dance Theater, Zen Monkey Dance Project, Prometheus Dance, Ted Hershey Dance and many more.

Annemarie’s thirtieth year will be winding down with her 30^th recital on May 16 and 17^th but it’s not too late to sign up for the 2008 -2009 season or for Annemaries Dance Center Summer programs. Click the following link to learn more about the summer programs and the 2008/2009 season or Annemarie’s Dance Centre.

                    Click here for Annemarie’s Dance Centre website

Rain for the flowers

April 28, 2008 - Blossoms on the tree are drenched with rain droplets.  Heavy rains fell today to help with the spring growth of flowers, flowering shrubs, lawns and to quell the brushfires.

Getting Spruced up

April 28, 2008 - The All Wars Memorial gets a spring cleaning, grouting on the bricks and newly planted flowers this past weekend.

Which Way to the Pool?

April 28, 2008 - This female Mallard duck has made herself very comfortable in around this pool.

Southborough Extended Day Trips

April 28, 2008 - Students from the Southborough Extended Day program supported the Boston Red Sox, the Pawtucket Red Sox and visited the Southwick Zoo.

Beaver

Southborough meetings

April 27 - May 3, 2008

Community Garden Plots Available

Southboro.garden@yahoo.com 

Double Rainbow

April 27, 2008 - A Southborough News reader photographed this double rainbow over Southborough yesterday.  Look closely at the photo and you can see the faint second rainbow above the first.

This three-session mini-course will help beginners learn how to identify the groups of birds commonly seen in Eastern Massachusetts- west of Boston. In two evening sessions, participants will practice identifying birds from slides. On Saturday morning, we will take our new skills into the field and try them on real birds. Class will be lead by SVT Executive Director Ron McAdow, a novice birder for 30 years. Registration Required. Members $20.00. Non- members $35.00. Price includes a hard-bound copy of the Sibley Guide to Birds. Call 978-443-5588 for information and registration.

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Sudbury Valley Trustees is a non-profit association of individuals, families, and businesses committed to protecting wildlife habitat and the ecological integrity of the Sudbury, Assabet and Concord River valleys. SVT currently owns, through gifts and purchase, more than eighty properties in fifteen towns, totaling over 2,100 acres. In addition, SVT holds conservation restrictions on nearly 900 acres, and has been instrumental in preserving more than 6,000 acres now protected by public agencies.

CERT Informational Meeting

April 27, 2008 - The first of two informational meetings on the formation of a CERT team in Southborough was held yesterday.  About two dozen dedicated volunteers showed up to learn about the Community Emergency Response Team.  CERT is an official emergency preparedness program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (MEMA).  CERT members are trained in emergency response procedures, CPR/First aid, natural and man-made disasters, search and rescue basics and disaster planning. The Southborough CERT team will fall under the Town's Emergency Management Agency and will report to the CERT/MRC Coordinator and Assistant CERT/MRC Coordinator under the Town's Emergency Management during times of disasters and may be used for large events such as Heritage Day or Summer nights.  For more information contact Neal P. Aspesi, Chair (508) 485-3235 x437 or click  www.Southboroughfire.org  on the left click Emergency Management or check https://www.citizencorps.gov/cert  There will be one more CERT informational meeting held Tuesday May 6, 2008 at the Southborough Fire Station at 7:00 PM.

Hydrant Flushing

April 27, 2008 -  From the Southborough DPW Hydrant Flushing will happen on the following dates:

Southborough DPW-Water Division will be flushing hydrants the week of April 28^th. (April 28^th, 29^th, 30^th & May 1^st & 2^nd)  We flush the hydrants for water quality purposes.

Lorraine Estella REALTY EXECUTIVES Boston West 205 Turnpike Rd • Southborough, MA  01772 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Direct: 508-449-4119 • Phone: 508-480-8800 Cell: 508-726-3809 • Fax: 508-449-4119 Website: www.LorraineEstella.com Email: LMESTELLA@charter.net

April 27, 2008 - If you are looking to buy or rent in Southborough, Lorraine Estella of Realty Executives has several options available.  Click here for her website of listings.  Currently she has listed the following condo in Southborough.  It is an 8 room, 3 1/2 bath with master bedroom/bath, one other bedroom, 9'ceilings with crown moldings, California Closets, wired for surround sound, cherry kitchen cabinets with granite countertops and stainless steel appliances.  Beautiful views from your deck.

Southborough Real Estate Transfers brought to you by Lorraine Estella of Realty Executives

Brush Fire

April 27, 2008 - Firefighters pack hose after extinguishing a brush fire in the back yard of a Deerfoot Road home yesterday.

Brush Burning Permits

April 27, 2008 - Brush burning season comes to a close May 1, 2008.  For much of last week the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation prohibited open burning due to the dry conditions.  This weekend those rules were relaxed to let residents burn remaining brush piles.  A permit needs to be obtained annually from the Southborough Fire Department and called in for each day of burning between the hours of 9:00 AM and 12 Noon.  Fires are allowed only between the hours of 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM.  Permits are $10.00 (no fee for residents 65 years of age and older). Several brush pile permits were revoked this weekend for out of control, too large of piles or too close to buildings and the burning of construction materials which is not allowed.  No leaves or grass shall be burned.  The Southborough DPW has a trailer available for leaves and grass.

Dayna Hilton

at a special 

BOOK SIGNING EVENT

on

Sunday, June 22

at the annual

Southborough Summer Nights

Neary School

Firefighter and author Dayna Hilton of Clarksville Arkansas's Johnson County RFD #1 has been a member of the fire service since 2000. FF Dayna currently serves as Johnson County RFD #1's Public Fire and Life Safety Educator.

FF Dayna has written numerous articles for various national fire-based publications, and has made several television news show appearances.

FF Dayna's fire prevention book: Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog was released in April 2008. 

We are extremely pleased and honored to have FF Dayna and her fire safety dog Sparkles choose Southborough for their North East book signing event during Southborough's Summer Nights starting at 5:30 PM on June 22nd.

For more information on FF Dayna and Sparkles, please click:

http://childrensbookauthordaynahilton.blogspot.com/

http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?sectionId=9&id=58779

http://www.sparklesthefiresafetydog.com/

We hope to see you on June 22nd!

The Senior High Youth Group of Pilgrim Congregational Church, Southborough
is holding a Yard Sale on Saturday, May 3, 2008 from 8am-12noon at the
church on Common Street, rain or shine!  We are selling spaces for $15.00,
where you can set up your table and sell all those unwanted treasures you
have hiding in your attic, garage or basement.  Please call 508-329-1381 to
reserve you space today.  Don't wait, they are going fast!
 

Sprucing Up

April 27, 2008 - Workers from J & J & Sons clean up around the Southborough Town House yesterday.