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(978) 297-0050 • www.winchendoncourier.com Newsstand: 75 cents Wednesday, September 16, 2009

State DOR requirestown meeting

BY RUTH DEAMICISCOURIER EDITOR

WINCHENDON — The town’sfinancial affairs are in magnificentorder, with the end of the yearreports completed and forwarded inan extremely timely fashion….withone great hitch. Town AccountantCharlotte Noponen contacted theDepartment of Revenue with a ques-tion…since the state rescinded anamount of funding from Chapter 70and replaced it with funding form thefederal stimulus package….how wasshe to report the town’s source of

income for the schools?The question sparked an unexpect-

ed response. It may all be governmentmoney, but since the reporting prac-tices differ greatly (particularly withthe stimulus money, which has strin-gent reporting practices in place) thetown must hold a special towm meet-ing and adjust for the record fromwhere the funding has been obtained.

Without the final approval of DORfor the town’s finances, includingproof of the special town meeting

Lord requests appointmentto School Committee

BY DONEEN DURLINGCOURIER STAFF WRITER

WINCHENDON — A citizen hasstepped forward to apply for a chairon the school committee. KennisonW. Lord Jr. has asked to be a mem-ber of the school committee. Lordwill go before the School Committeeand the Board of Selectmen to beappointed as soon as possible.

Chairman Michael Barbaro saidthe board would have four memberswhen Lord is appointed.

Lord has recently moved back totown, and once was a writer for theWinchendon Courier.

Barbaro said Lord would serve as

an appointed member, and run foroffice next May.

A replacement truck has beenfound, and not a moment too soon!Business Manager Brian O’Connellsaid the frame in the district’s truckhad cracked, adding to problemsalready there.

Barbaro added that the framesnapped in the front, which wouldnot allow the schools the ability toplow.

“We have been fearing that day. Asyou know it would have emptied ourbuilding and cleared the schools in a

Schools ramp up plansto address H1N1 flu


WINCHENDON — School offi-cials talked about the H1N1 flu virusat the School Committee. TheCenter for Disease Control is moni-toring the flu, and said there is anincrease in flu activity. The schooldistrict has been busy monitoringthe progress of the flu, and prepar-ing for a wider outbreak should itappear. High school nurse LoriReppucci, RN came before the com-mittee to assure the board steps arebeing taken to prevent the spread ofthe flu. She said she is workingclosely with the local board of

health, the Center for DiseaseControl, and the Department ofPublic Health. Notices have beensent home about signs and symp-toms, and the policy for keeping stu-dents out of school for 24 hours afterthe fever has resolved itself.Information has also been senthome about preventative practicessuch as increased hand washing,cleaning, cough and sneeze eti-quette.

There have been meetings withregional health officials for plan-ning of a larger scale should the

IHM 100 years young this weekend


WINCHENDON — The history ofCatholicism in Winchendon beginswith services held in a convertedbarn, and the town being considereda mission for many years. The reli-gion of many cultures: Irish, French,Polish, Italian and other Europeannations, came over with the immi-grants who made Winchendon theirhome while working in the textileand woodworking mills of t he area.

As a result, Immaculate Heart ofMary Church will celebrate its 100thbirthday this Sunday.

The workers saved and con-tributed to their church, taking partin fund raising activities and doingwhatever they could so that by early1900 enough funding was found tobegin construction of a permanenthome for the congregation.

A basement sanctuary was builtfirst, and the congregation gatheredthere for years, while constructing abeautiful home for their pastor next

door; completed in 1908. Raising achurch would take a little longer, butthe first services were held in theupper church in 1909, in September.

Commemorating the completion ofthe red brick edifice will entail avisit by the Bishop this Sunday toserve Mass at 9 a.m., followed by abreakfast at the parish hall. A timecapsule has been created and anextensive history researched.Parishioners will learn that history,remember with fondness the priestsand sisters who have served thetown, and will be able to see the workaccomplished by the committee.

Work began last January by a com-mittee comprised of Esther Grimes,Deacon Mark Carrier, Fr. FrancisRoberge, Robert Betourney, MarilynAbare, Beatrice Boice, JoannRobicheau, Monique Connor, AnnaCarpenter and Theresa Beauvais hasaccomplished its mission. Theparish is pleased to invite the com-munity to the commemorative MassSunday at 9:30 a.m.


WINCHENDON — In anatmosphere of businessdownturn, one local busi-ness is expanding intonew quarters and newdirections as the anchor ofthe north corner ofCentral Street, MathieuFord, has moved lock,stock and barrel to theintersection of routes 12and 140 at 664 Spring St.

Taking over newly reno-vated property once heldby arch rival PattersonChevrolet, Tighe Mathieuis very happy to have thelarger space and thepotential for more busi-ness. In fact, the tightquarters on Central Streethad convinced Mathieu tobuy property nearlyacross the street from theformer GM dealership

with plans to expandthere “some day.” Theopportunity to buy theexisting building was“too good to pass by.”

So now Mathieu ownsboth a thriving dealer-ship and prime propertyat the intersection, anddoesn’t plan to sell eitherone in the near future.The fate of the CentralStreet location, however,could be headed for a list-ing.

“The property onCentral Street was origi-nal in 1931. It was already20 years old when my dadbought it in 1951,” saidMathieu.

Expansion was impossi-ble. Some property waspurchased across thestreet on which to parkcars, but the site of thesales room itself, and the

accompanying servicebays, were limited by thespace available.

Now, Mathieu spreadshis arms expansively,“Space for nine new carsin the showroom, 14 serv-ice bays. It’s outstanding.”

The building has beenrenovated extensively,with a new patron waitingarea, new offices, new tilefloor and soon new furni-

Mathieu Ford takes up new residence

BY JOE MANNINGThis photograph

appeared several monthsago in the July 29 editionof the Courier, with mystory about LuminaDesmarais, the girl on theleft. This week’s story isabout her sister,Elizabeth. But let’s firsttake another look at partof my introduction for thefirst story, in case anyreaders missed it.

Several decades afterthe Civil War, JosephNelson White, owner oftwo denim mills inWinchendon, started trav-eling to Quebec to recruitFrench-speaking men andtheir families for hisworkforce. With theIndustrial Revolution infull swing in NewEngland, especially textile

manufacturing, therewas strong competitionfor cheap and relativelyunskilled labor. One ofthose men was ZoelDesmarais, who arrivedin Winchendon with hisnew bride, AlexinaLefevre, in 1897.

Three years later, theyalready had two daugh-ters, two-year-oldElizabeth, and her one-year-old sister Lumina.Before they reached theiradolescent years, the girlswere working in theWinchendon Springs mill,where their father workedas a weaver. In Septemberof 1911, child labor pho-tographer Lewis Hineencountered the girls atthe mill and took a total ofseven pictures of them,alone, together, and with

others. They were bothunder the Massachusettslegal age limit of 14 yearsfor such work. Their twoyounger brothers wouldfollow them into the milllater.

My research, both in the

Winchendon Town Halland on the Internet, quick-ly turned up a lot of infor-mation, including thenames, addresses andphone numbers of

Lumina and Elizabeth, Part Two

Zoel and Alexina Desmarais, parents of Elizabeth and Lumina,date unknown. Provided by the family.

Ruth DeAmicis photo

Sakes manager Todd Wheeler and Mathieu Ford owner TigheMathieu near a new Ford product, the Transconnect, a modernvariation on vans and delivery vehicles.

Turn To DOR, page 5

Turn To LORD, page 6

Turn To FLU, page 11

Turn To MATHIEU, page 11

Turn To HINES, page 6

DOLLS AND DAUGHTERS AT TEAMichael Grimes photos

From left, Grace Santoski, Maegan Castriotta and Kaitlyn Castriotta enjoyed tea with their dolls and other young women withdolls at the Murdock Whitney House Sunday. More photos page 5.


WINCHENDON — TheMurdock Blue Devils had a wetand wild opening game on theAlumni Field that led to a 13-7 lossto the Hudson Hawks.

Hudson scored on the firsttouch down on a 25-yard pass twominutes into the game asHudson’s Dana Barry passed toBrandon Droin. Murdock’sdefense line with Evan Breau andNick Chanthachack tried to keepthe Hudson drive down, but theHawks have a passing game thatwas hard to stop, and it only tookfive plays for them to make it tothe end zone.

The extra point never made it,and it was 6-0 with 9:04 left on theclock for the Blue Devil’s firstdrive, but there was a fumblerecovery on the 3-yard line byHudson’s Nick Schwall that sentthe devils into an automaticheartbreak defense.

The defense, including JimmyManca, Craig L’EtoileChanthachack, and Breau workedhard to hold back the Hawks withsome outstanding tackles.

Jake Hunt had an outstandingrun, but the ball was fumbled andthe game turned over to Hudsonwho turned it into a second 31yard pass touchdown betweenBarry to Droin. With and extrapoint the score was 13-0 Hudson.

It seemed though Hudson had agreat passing team, there is asparkle on the Blue Devil side forrunning the ball. Just before thelights dimmed in the first half,

Andy Ladeau came out ofnowhere for an incredible inter-ception, returning the ball to the45 yard line just seconds beforethe whistle blew for half time. His

play had a hand in firing up theteam for the second half.

Whatever head coach RobAllard said to the players in thelocker room helped the drive, andas the team took the field for thesecond half, Travis Arsenaultpushed the limits with a 57 yardrush while, L’Etoile, JamesHarrington (wearing his Dad’snumber 72) and Chanthachackheld back the defensive line.

Hunt brought the ball in sec-onds later to put Murdock up onthe scoreboard. Pat Culverhousekicked it for an extra point, and itwas 13-7.

Manca had a great second half,helping to hold back the Hawks.The soaked fans were load andloyal. Dominic Polcari helpedmove the ball up the field. DustinMaCaw executed noteworthytackles in the third quarter.

Jake Hunt made a 63 yard dashafter an awesome interceptionand brought it back to the 3-yardline. As the rain came down in

buckets, the Hawks defensestopped the Blue Devils cold intheir tracks and Hudson took theball on their own three-yard line.

Evan Breau was injured andtaken out on a stretcher. His fel-low teammates were also slightlybattered, with Chanthachack andL’Etoile suffering injuries beforethe game was over. The BlueDevils held the Hawks back forthe remainder of the game, andthough the team almost took asecond touchdown before thefinal whistle, they were short ontime, and the final score was 13-7.

Blue Devil coaches and cap-tains told the players they wereproud of the effort in the secondhalf, and they were looking for-ward to working the next weekwhen the Blue Devils take to theroad to face Lunenburg.

It was a 2009 eye opener, and alearning experience for the BlueDevils who gained ground afterHudson’s first half assault. Thisis Allard’s first year as coach. His

staff includes AndyDupuis as offensivecoordinator, RickCharter as defensivecoordinator, andJamie Collins is thespecial teams coordi-nator. CoreyArsenault, NateArsenault, and ChrisLaBlanc are alsoassisting with coach-ing.

Some Week 1 impressions (but not includ-ing Monday night):......................................Mark Sanchez turned in a pretty impres-

sive performance for the Jets in his NFLdebut. He was poised and polished and ran theNew York offense effectively. It’s true that heonly started 16 games at USC, but Pete Carrollget his Trojans ready for the next level. Nodoubt about that. I wonder, though, if the Jetspay as well. Okay, Okay. Couldn’t resist.

Drew Brees really might throw for 5,000yards if the opener, albeit against the Lions,was any indication. But the Saints have to dobetter on defense if New Orleans is going to bea serious contender. Giving up nearly 30 toDetroit isn’t a good omen at all.

Next week the Saints host the Eagles, andwhile Donovan McNabb is likely to play, hesays, if this injury lingers, signing Mike Vickmight turn out to be a smart move byPhiladelphia.

Typical Bengals. Getting beat on a tippedpass is somehow fitting for a franchise that’sseemingly been stuck in reverse since the dayCarson Palmer was injured a few years agowhen it looked like Cincinnati might beat theSteelers in a playoff game. And hats off to the

heady playfrom the guywho caughtthat tippedball, ex-RavenB r a n d o nStokley (recipi-ent of TD passin Super Bowl35). The now-

Denver receiver had the presence of mind tokill a few seconds off the clock by runningparallel to the end zone. Smart move.

The Giants, for this very, very earlymoment, look like the team to beat in the NFC.At least they sure look better than the defend-ing conference champions from Arizona, wholost their home opener to a 49ers team whomight be a dark horse.

Brett Favre looked weird enough in Jetsgreen last year, but he looked completelywrong in the purple and white of the Vikings.That was really a jolt. And you know what thegood folks of Green Bay are thinking.

The Ravens had a tougher time than I antic-ipated with the Chiefs. That doesn’t bode wellfor their visit to San Diego on Sunday. Then

again, in the struggle for the AFC North, theSteelers needed OT to subdue Tennessee. So....

I like the idea of the “Boston Patriots” thename the team will use in its “legacy” gamesagainst original AFL opponents as this 50thanniversary of that league’s founding is cele-brated. But do the Titans have to be theHouston Oilers? And do the Chiefs have to bethe Dallas Texans, which is who both teamswere in the beginning?

Speaking of celebrating, that was exactlythe opposite of what Serena Williams wasdoing Saturday night, when after being calledfor (an unusual in Grand Slam events), a footfault that she may or may not have committed(though replays suggested not), she went bal-listic and wound up getting tagged with apenalty point that was match point in thesemis of the US Open. Whether the call wasright or not, Serena was way overboard in herreaction. Disappointing, indeed. Serena was-n’t likely to beat Kim Clijsters anyway, butstill....

Not disappointing, though, was 17 year-oldMelanie Oudin, who took the Open by stormwith four straight big time upsets, includingone of the still rehabbing (shoulder) Maria

Sharapova. Oudin thrilled the FlushingMeadows crowds and moved the TV needle bylots. It was a feel-good story all the wayaround, until, of course, Sports Illustrated rana piece about her parents’ divorce thatappears to involve her mom and her coach.The kid’s family life should have been leftalone.

Alone now at the top of the Yankees hit listis the Captain, no. 2, Derek Jeter. Lou Gehrig’steam mark could not have been surpassed by aclassier guy. Jeter is a credit to his team, itshistory, and the game. Congrats to him.

And as well to Matt Barkley, the new USCquarterback. All of 18 years old, that’s right,and a true freshman, he led the Trojans on a 95yard march at Ohio State Saturday night tobeat the Buckeyes and further diminish thereputation of the Big Ten while earning well-deserved plaudits for himself. However, anoth-er 18 year-old, this one from the Big Ten,Michigan’s Tate Forcier, deserves hurrahs ofhis own for leading the Wolverines past NotreDame in the final frenetic moments. Good forthe kid, not so good for Charlie Weis. Youremember him, right?

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A special thank you goes out to the Stone-LadeauFuneral Home and Doug Stone for the help andcompassion he showed to the family; to all thedoctors and nurses in the Critical Care Unit at HealthAlliance, Leominster for all the care they gave ourloved one; to the Ambulance Staff for their speedyresponse when we called them; and, to all whobrought food to our home and hall at the AmericanLegion after services and for helping to serve. To allwe may have forgotten to mention we thank you all.Thank you all so very much

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Field action was a muddy mess as Lunenburg and Murdock matched up Friday.


WINCHENDON — Just howoften in a smaller town do youget a chance to dress up a little,enjoy an evening of light heart-ed gambling, visit an historichome and meet your friends foran evening of fun all the whilehelping raise funds for theupkeep of the town’s historicmuseum? That chance is hereas the Winchendon HistoricalSociety in cooperation withDon O’Neill and RobertO’Keefe, invite the communityto be part of Casino Royale thisSaturday night beginning at 7p.m.

O’Neill and O’Keefe own theOrange Whitney house, a turnof the 19th century mansionat 122 Pleasant St. The househas been extensively renovat-ed and period furnishingsmake the home a delight tovisit. Seated near one of themany fireplaces, visiting themahogany and leather diningroom, exploring the turn ofthe century parlor, is wonder-ful.

Games of chance: roulette, a

money wheel and black jack,will be available. Raffles ofitems donated by local busi-nesses and individuals, a cashbar, hors d’ouerves and whocan imagine what surprisesmay await.

The food is being provided bymembers of the HistoricalSociety and other individuals.The cash bar will feature mixeddrinks, beer and wine.Purchase of admission willallow the bearer one drink “onthe house.”

Donation for the evening is$25 per person or $49 per cou-ple. Only a limited number oftickets are available, based on

space in the mansion. Call theCourier office at (978) 297-0050 x100 to reserve a place.

“This is just going to be greatfun,” said Peggy Corbosiero, amember of the WHS ways andmeans committee. “What agreat chance to have an eveningout, meet your friend, and helpout the Historical Society at thesame time.”

She thanked O’Keefe andO’Neil for volunteering the useof the ir home for the event.

“This place is just so perfectfor a party. And we are going tohave a wonderful one!” shesaid.

BY JERRY CARTONSPECIAL TO THE COURIER

WINCHENDON — That sure didn’ttake long. In the very first race of the2009 cross country season, Murdock sen-ior star Molly Martorella served noticethat all the high expectations for herappear to be right on target. Opening herfinal cross country campaign with a dra-matic flourish, Martorella smashed thecourse record at Ayer by more than twominutes, taking the season-openingevent in 20:17 for an easy four-minutevictory.

Her outstanding performance pro-pelled the Lady Devils to a team tri-umph, one they reprised on a miserableafternoon last Friday when the homeseason began with a win over MontyTech as Martorella again led the waywith the third fastest girls’ race on theMurdock course, stopping the clock in19:53. It was just last October thatMartorella set the record at 19:10, so shenow holds the first and third fastesttimes ever run at home.

It was cold with a drenching rain onFriday, but as Coach Alan Hallquistwhimsically noted, “This is the kind ofday you’ll always remember. It was justpouring. The conditions were awful. Butif you ran all your races in sunshine,what would you have to talk about?”

On Tuesday, in sunny 80-degree weath-er, where the previous Ayer courserecord had been 22:25, Martorella oblit-erated that with her run. Her nearestcompetitor, Oakmont’s KrystaZbikowski, finished in 24:32. Katie Burnsand Haley Amenta also turned in top-tenraces in the dual meet against Ayer andOakmont.

Martorella is Murdock’s brightestfemale star, and eighth grader JordanComeau is rapidly becoming the sameon the boys’ team. At Ayer, he finishedfourth overall, while pacing the BlueDevils, and then won the overall race athome against the Bulldogs on Friday in19:13.

“He was just plugging away by him-self,” observed Hallquist. “I can see himsetting a course record someday, too.”

Seamus Fitzpatrick finished his rainyrun Friday in 20:59 and Dan Denettecame home in 21:50. Burns turned in a24:43, Amenta 25:19, and Katie Johnson27:11.

The opening week results left both theboys and girls teams with 2-1 records asthey await Lunenburg next Tuesday.

“I expect they’ll give the girls a realrun for their money, but we should doreal well on the boys’ side,” Hallquistsaid.

Martorella runs away with records

WINCHENDON COURIER 3Wednesday, September 16, 2009

COURIER CAPSULESIN THE SERVICE

WAYNESVILLE< MO — ArmyPvt. Joseph M. Metcalf has grad-uated from One Station UnitTraining (OSUT) at FortLeonard Wood, Waynesville, MO.The course of instructionincluded basic combat trainingand advanced individual train-ing (AIT).

The basic trainee receivedinstruction in drill and cere-monies, weapons, map reading,tactics, military courtesy, mili-tary justice, physical fitness,first aid, and Army history andtraditions.

During AIT, the soldier com-pleted the combat engineercourse to perform basic combatconstruction and rigging opera-tions; operate light and heavyengineer wheeled and armortracked vehicles while partici-pating in combat mobility, count-er mobility, and survivabilityoperations; assist in assemblyand maintenance of militarystandard float and fixed bridges;prepare, install, and prime firingsystems for demolition andexplosives; arm, disarm, andinstall anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, locate mines byvisual means or with mine detec-tor; and recognize and neutralizeland mines, firing devices andbooby traps.

He is the son of James Metcalfof Ashburnham and is a 2008graduate of the North CentralCharter Essential School,Fitchburg.

HOMEBUYER CLASSGARDNER — If you’re won-

dering whether buying a fore-closed property (at-auction, ashort sale or lender-owned) isright for you, be sure to learn thepros and cons at a panel work-shop being offered by theGreater Gardner CDC and theNorth central MassNeighborworks HomeownershipCenter—ask the experts whatyou want to know! When:Tuesday, Sept. 29 from 6–8 p.m.at the Greater Gardner CDC, 246Central St,, Gardner

PROGRAM ON NON-VIO-LENCE

RINDGE — Cathedral of thePines, 10 Hale Hill Road hosts acommunity wide event oneSunday, Sept. 20 at 4 p.m. A freepublic lecture: The NewNonviolence, will be presentedby UNH Speaker Michael FerberReception to follow.

VENDORS WANTEDFlea market vendors are invit-

ed to the Rindge Woman’s Club’s36th Annual Harvest Fair, whichwill be held on Saturday, Oct. 10at the Rindge Meeting Housefrom 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Along withthe flea market, this very popu-lar event will include a lunch-eon, bake shop, farm stand,crafts, basket raffle, and muchmore. Spaces are available at $15;please bring your own table. Formore information or to sign upcontact [email protected] orcall (603) 899-6506.

Auditions for Peter Panscheduled

GARDNER — Theatre at theMount announces auditions for

its November/December produc-tion of Peter Pan. DirectorRegina Stillings, music directorJeff Williams and choreogra-pher Chris Casello are lookingfor a large cast of up to 18 chil-dren and 40 adults and teens.

Auditions for children (ages 6through 13) will be held onSunday, Sept. 20 by appointmentonly at 2 p.m., 3 p.m. or 4 p.m.Children should come preparedwith a short song to sing and willbe taught a short dance audition.To schedule an appointment, callthe TAM box office at (978) 632-2403.

Auditions for adults and teenswill be held on Wednesday, Sept.16 at 7 p.m. sharp. No appoint-ment is needed for teens/adults— all should prepare a shortvocal selection that displaysrange and ability; cold readingsfrom the script will be requiredfor main speaking roles; a shortdance combination will also berequired for most roles.Auditions are held in room 182 atMount Wachusett CommunityCollege.

Performances of Peter Pan areNov. 27, 28, Dec. 4, 5 at 8 p.m. andNov. 29 and Dec. 6 at 2 p.m.Tentative rehearsal schedule isSundays from 2 to 5 p.m. andMonday and Wednesdayevenings from 7–10 p.m.

For more information contactProfessor Gail Steele at (978) 630-9162 or visit the Theatre at theMount web site at http://the-atre.mwcc.edu

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asts and your families:“RotoRide 2009” A family-orient-ed cycling event produced by theRotary Club of Gardner is sched-uled for Saturday, Sept. 26.Registration begins at 9:30 a.m.with short and long course startsbeginning 10 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.This third annual event kicks offthe all-day OktoberfestCelebration, in conjunction withthe Gardner Ale House whichfeatures great food, beer, enter-tainment, and more. This is agreat event in support of a wor-thy cause — proceeds to supportyouth activities in the GreaterGardner area such as the‘Summer Up’ Program of MountWachusett Community College— and the Greater GardnerRotary Club needs YOU to makeit happen. Featuring a short 5-mile course and a ‘thirst-builder’25-mile course, these well-marked courses have become afall favorite with area bicyclingenthusiasts.

Registration includes direc-tions for the ride, lunch at theGardner Ale House, a compli-mentary beverage, and a t-shirt.A raffle including outdoor activi-ty items, trips and more plusother local features.Registration: $20Individuals/Max Family $40 forShort Course or $40 per personfor long course. All registrationsinclude lunch, beverages, beer, T-shirt. Rain date is scheduled forSept. 27. Join us and have funwhile supporting a great cause.

You’ll find complete informa-tion at www.clubrunner.ca/gard-ner-ma. For questions and torequest registration forms call(978) 884-6596, or email [email protected].

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Wedding in JuneWINCHENDON — Mr. & Mrs. Eric

Gauthier were married June 27, 2009 ather parents home on Brown Street. Thebride, Dawn, is the daughter of Dennisand Kathy Girard.

She is a graduate of Murdock and tookon line college classes. She is employedwith the town of Winchendon as a sub-stitute teacher.

Eric is the son of Randall and DonnaGauthier of School Street. He is a gradu-ate of Murdock and is employed atGirard’s Used Parts.

The couple makes their home onBrown Street.

Dawn’s daughter Mackylia age nineand half served as her mother’s flowergirl. Dawn’s son Seth age six and a halfserved as the ring bearer. Dawn’s nephewDakota, age 10 and a half served as a sec-ond ring bearer.

ATHOL — Japanese knotweed gobbling upthe roadsides? Oriental bittersweet stranglingtrees? Water chestnut clogging ponds? Theseare all examples of exotic invasive plantspecies — plants deliberately or accidentallyintroduced into this country that explodedthrough the landscape and now threaten natu-ral ecosystems.

And they are the topic Thursday, Sept. 17, at7 p.m. when the North Quabbin Garden Cluband the Athol Bird & Nature Club presentnoted author Peter Alden of Concord to dis-cuss what these exotic invasives are, how theyspread, and why they are a threat. The meet-ing will be held at the Millers RiverEnvironmental Center, 100 Main St., Athol.

Alden is a world-renowned naturalist, lec-turer, ecotourism guide and author of 15books on North American and Africanwildlife, including the “National AudubonSociety’s Field Guide to New England.” He isconsidered an authority on birds, large mam-mals, and invasive species, and is often con-sulted by the media and the ecotourism indus-try for his expertise.

Free and open to the public, the program issupported in part by grants from the Athol,Orange, Petersham, Phillipston, New Salem,Royalston and Warwick Cultural Councils,local agencies supported by theMassachusetts Cultural Council, a stateagency.

The North Quabbin Garden Club wasfounded “to encourage interest in all phases ofhome gardening, to promote better horticul-tural practices, and to foster civic beauty, allwith an emphasis on native plants, organicgardening, and the conservation of naturalresources.”

The Athol Bird & Nature Club promotes alove of nature in all its forms. The club man-ages the Millers River Environmental Center,maintains a natural history collection there,and sponsors numerous local field trips.

More information about both organizationsis available at www.millersriver.net. Newmembers are welcome.

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PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER: FRANK CHILINSKIEDITOR: RUTH DEAMICIS

To the Editor:The more than 70 plus FRIENDS of the

Beals Memorial Library are to be congratulat-ed on another supportive year which beganlast September with the crowd-pleasing livewolf talk presentation and continued withchildren;s reading programs, fundraisers, andspecial events throughout the fall, winter,and spring of the Library’s 95th year.

Regular Monday evening book sales includ-ing the special Buck-A-Bag have been income-producing gems and we thank CarolineBlakley for her steady volunteering on thisproject along with Paula Waugh and herdaughter Holly. Our gratitude also goes to allthe members whose spectacular pre-Christmas baking efforts brought nearly $200to the treasury. Other fundraisers throughoutthe year such as Ruth Anderson’s delightfulRaffle Baskets and our successful first-everScrabble Tournament (kudos to organizerSuzanne Rader), all helped furnish funds thatsupply the extras and some essentials. whichhelp the Library to continue to provide its top-quality service for the community in spite of

these difficult economic times.This was my eighth and final year heading

up the Friends. My thanks to everyone for thebacking I have received. It has been a veryenjoyable experience and many goals havebeen accomplished. I wish the best of luck tothe newly-elected officers headed by presidentJennifer Whitaker and am sure members willcontinue their important support as newideas are presented.

Special thanks to Jean Olsen, former co-president; Tracy Gambill, former vice presi-dent; Renee’ Eldredge, former secretary;Ronald Gaspard, treasurer, and committeemembers: Janet Thomas, Esther Grimes,Helen Desmarais, Betty Hildreth, PhyllisThayer, new secretary Tricia McConnell and,of course, Julia White Cardinal, Librarianextraordinaire.

A reminder, FRIENDS always welcome newFRIENDS!

ELAINE GASPARDWINCHENDON

Thanks to the many friends of the library

To the Editor:The Beals Memorial Friends of the Library

would like to express a sincere thank you toMichele Comeau and Meghan Davis of ToEach His Own Design Flower Shops. The FallFlower Arranging Class held on Sept. 12, wasa great success and a lot of fun. The womenwho participated learned a wonderful newskill and had a beautiful arrangement to takehome.

To Each His Own Design donated all of thematerials, so that the donations collected wereall contributed to the Friends of the Libraryfund!

Sincere Thanks!

JENNIFER WHITAKERPRESIDENT, FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY

Beals appreciates program

And the state taketh away....................................................................................................................We knew last spring it was a shell game when the state pulled funding from Chapter 70across the Commonwealth, expecting the money awarded to school districts through the

federal stimulus package would be used to make up the shortfall.Except…The criteria for the stimulus funds is pretty cut and dried. It can be used for X, but not for Y.

And reporting procedures for the use of the funds are stringent. To use these (probably) one timefunds for salaries or on going expenses is either not allowed or at least not a wise use of themoney. Because next year’s budget will not include those funds, and how do we pay the staff then?

The schools had already begun planning how to best use the money from ARRA to get the bestbank for the buck. Buying more hardware and better software, buying much needed textbooksand supplemental education supplies. Enhancing the school system, improving on the basics,making it better.

Then the bomb dropped. No, there won’t be any money for new textbooks if the stimulus moneymust instead be used to shore up the basic budget.

Ouch.And now a new insult to injury. The state Department of Revenue in its infinite wisdom has

decided that the actions taken by the state government in making that little switcheroo is goingto require yet another little expense on the part of each town and city this happened to. Sorryfolks, but you can’t just do it on paper…you can’t show us how one fund supplemented or sup-planted the other. No indeed. The DOR is requiring those cities and towns already shafted by itsbudgetary arm to hold special town meetings and revote the school budget.

Now pay attention.We aren’t voting to change any numbers. They will stay exactly the same. All we are voting on

is WHERE the money came from. We have vote how much money actually comes from Chapter70, and how much comes from the ARRA stimulus funds to make up the same bottom line.

An STM isn’t cheap, there are expenses involved in advertising, legal advise, printing costs andso on. A few thousand dollars sorely needed elsewhere in the town’s coffers.

And we have to admit we are a little leery of this ploy for another reason.Next year, when the mysterious education formula kicks into play from the Powers That Be at

whatever acronym is now in charge of education in Massachusetts, just what figures will they bebasing the funding on? The “new” Chapter 70 funds as reported? Gee, look, Winchendon managedto get by on $XXX amount of money last year, guess they don’t need as much this year…

It could happen. By the time the bureaucrats get their sharpened pencils (or crafty keyboards)into play, the influx of stimulus money to shore up the budget may conveniently be “forgotten”and those new Chapter 70 funding amounts might be accepted as gospel.

Then where will we be?

KEEPING UP WITH NEW INFORMATION

As all the schoolswere opening thesepast few weeks, andI encountered stu-

dents walking, driving orbeing driven to their schools,I could not help but thinkabout how much they willlearn and grow in the nextnine months.

That got me to thinking about schools.Many of us went to high school 40 or 50

years ago. In order to dramatize my point, Iwant you to think back to your United Stateshistory classes.

You went to school for nine months. Duringthat time you had a survey course on U.S. his-tory somewhere along the line.

The current youngsters go to school for thatsame nine months. They encounter a surveycourse on U.S. history along the line.

But they are doing it 40 or 50 years aftersome of you. And they are doing it in the samenine months! But they have 40-50 years moreof history to cram into that nine months!

When I was in school we studied U.S. histo-ry up to the second World War. So I had nine

months from the landing onPlymouth Rock to HarryTruman to learn U.S. history.Now we have added to thatsame course: the Korean con-flict, the Vietnam War, planningand executing a landing on themoon, Desert Storm, the cur-rent Iraq and Afghanistan con-flicts and so much more.

The current group of students learns notonly about George Washington, AlexanderHamilton, John Adams and the founders, aswell as all the presidents and vice presidentsand political movements since 1776 until 1952,but they now study Eisenhower, J.F. Kennedy,L.B. Johnson, R.M. Nixon, G.R. Ford, J.E.Carter, R.W. Reagan, G.H.W. Bush, W.J.Clinton, G.W. Bush and B.H. Obama.

They undertake to study so much more thanwe faced, and to accomplish it in the sameperiod of time.

Obviously, something has to give! I don’t intend to even try to get into how

much more science, math, music and otherareas of study have increased in their amountof knowledge over this same time period and

subsequently how much more there is for ourchildren to learn.

I do remember reading once, and I wish Icould remember where so I could cite it foryou, that within ten years of graduating fromsome colleges and universities, in certain spe-cific fields of study, the material is outdated ina decade. In other words, without continuingeducation and constant updating of knowl-edge, your college education could be of littlehelp to you later in life.

Rapid advancements in technology as wellas new ways to deliver information has giventoday’s students an incredible amount ofinformation. It has also required that theybecome life long learners.

Every student needs to know how to learnbecause once he leaves the comfort of theclassroom, he must continue learningthrough his adult life if he is to succeed.

The way certain surgeries were done twen-ty years ago is no longer applicable. If the doc-tor who did surgery that way has not kept upwith advancements in his field, you certainlydon’t want him as your surgeon.

The medicines a pharmacist might recom-mend for a specific ailment today would be

very different from the recommendations hemight have made a decade ago (right after hegot out of the university!).

The fellow who could fix the Ford Fairlaneor the Buick LeSabre down at your localgarage had better have been going to school orreading up on the automotive manuals. Thelast time I took my car to the garage themechanic hooked up a laptop, laid it on myfender, and got all the readings he needed toknow what to do.

Life is very fast paced. It is no longer enoughto have attended school and earned a degreeor two. Unless you have a commitment to con-tinue to learn, the world will be leaving youbehind.

The best thing we can tell our children is tobe inquisitive, to be flexible, to learn to love toread, and to always look for new ways to dothings.

In fact, that is not such bad advice for therest of us, too.

C. Jackson Blair blair-notes.blogspot.com.

JACK BLAIR

NOTES OFCONCERN

Treatment a better option than incarcerationO

ne of the great benefitsin having had the won-derful privilege of writ-ing this column every

week for the last four and a halfyears has been the opportunity toengage in back-and-forth discus-sion and debate with so manyreaders. It’s fun, to say nothing ofintellectually stimulating, to doso. Sure, it gets frustrating — Ihear nonsense like, “Obama’s aSocialist” (ever hear of EugeneDebs or Norman Thomas, trueSocialists, both?), or “An Alaskancruise is better than Disney” (noway!), but that’s part of the deal.I’m deeply grateful that peopleare reading, and, some weeks,moved to respond.

Last week was one of those weeks.A perfectly valid argument can bemade, and was, that when peoplebreak the law because of an addic-tion, they should go to jail. After all,that argument goes, society hasrules, and people are, in the end,responsible for their behavior. Fairenough, if that’s what you choose tobelieve. I respect that, but disagreewith it.

Here are the counter-arguments.First, and let’s be upfront about this,sentencing isn’t equal in this societyanyway. Far more African-Americans are incarcerated for

drug related crimes than whites, sowe’re already in the position ofmaking individual judgments aboutwho goes “inside”, and who doesn’t.The percentage of recidivismamong young African-Americans issubstantially higher than that ofone-time white offenders. That’s areflection of the realities in our soci-ety. It just is, and we all know it.

Anyway, once you’ve been in jail,for whatever reason, it’s harder tofind a job when you get out, and,thus harder to, say, rent an apart-ment, and, in this sequential fallingof dominoes, harder to resume aplace as a productive member ofsociety and, besides that, whoknows what kind of addiction treat-ment might or might not have beenreceived in jail that would enablesaid offender to do better oncethey’re back “outside?”

If someone commits a one-time,non-violent crime, or crimes,

because of addictive issues, does itreally make sense to send someonelike that to prison, as opposed to amandated treatment program, onewhich you can’t just walk out fromafter a few weeks? Doesn’t it, really,make more sense, to get them, atleast the first time, (subsequentoffenses become a different story)into serious, intensive treatment inthe hope that they can get back towho they once were? After all, as asociety, we like to insist that webelieve in second chances, even forMike Vick. Let’s be clear.Committing non-violent crimes,unacceptable as they are, simplyaren’t the same as committing vio-lent ones. Commit a violent crimewhile you’re high? You’re goingaway, and you deserve to go away. Ithink we can all agree on that.

But commit non-violent ones?There needs to be some rationaljudgment here. What we need forthose offenders is, in fact, bettertreatment programs, better follow-up, better support systems. It’s true,of course, that all this would costmoney, which is why it was so dis-heartening to read Friday that aspart of the $100 million budget cutsproposed for the Massachusettsprison system, included on the chop-ping block is a treatment center inBridgewater. Are they kidding?

It’s simply a waste of society’sresources to just lock people upwhen there are better alternatives.Doing so goes against the grain ofcompassion and caring. Cuttingtreatment programs, in an erawhere we’ve seen a significant spikein the abuse of some drugs, and forthat matter, some medications, isridiculous, and I think we owe it toourselves to do better than that.

Speaking, briefly, of “doing bet-ter”, once more, President Obamademonstrated that he was the grownup in the room after last week’sintemperate outburst by SouthCarolina Cong. Joe Wilson (R), whoyelled out “liar” during thePresident’s address to Congress.Whatever you think about the mer-its of this proposal for health insur-ance reform or that one, Wilsoninadvertently played right intoObama’s argument that we don’tseem to be able to conduct civil dis-course anymore. That’s scary. We’llnever solve problems and never beable to bridge differences if we can’ttalk to one another civilly.

What concerns me just as much asWilson’s behavior has been thisvague sense I’m getting that there’sa whole lot of people out there whoare questioning Obama’s legitimacy,sometimes subtly, sometimes not.And I’m afraid there’s the underly-

ing issue of race here. That’s impos-sible to prove, of course, but, youjust have to have the sense that it’sthere. We’ve progressed as a society,but only to a point. And, once more,if you notice, it’s the Right whosebehavior is way out of line.Democrats in Congress never used aformal occasion to call out GeorgeW. Bush; afterwards yes, and that’sappropriate, but during? Not once.If they didn’t like the guy, theyrespected the office. And so all thisties into the whole race issue — Isuspect that Obama doesn’t repre-sent their view of what Americashould “look like.” It isn’t liberals orprogressives who disdain racial tol-erance. No, indeed, that’s comingfrom the other side. So when youhave a President who doesn’t meettheir standards, they’ll do anythingthey can to poison what should be alegitimate debate over policy. Notjust with health insurance, but witha whole slew of issues.

We live in an ugly time, it seems,one that appears to be growing ugli-er by the day. When one side insistson merely demonizing the other, is itany wonder we can’t even agree thatbetter treatment for addictionswould be a more humane approachthat jail and do something towardsthat end? What a mess.

JERRYCARTON

JOURNEY

OF THE

HEART


League of Women Voters to sponsor forums for Senate special electionBOSTON — The League of Women Voters of

Massachusetts will sponsor a series of candi-date forums across the state in the special elec-tion to fill the U.S. Senate seat previously heldby Sen. Edward Kennedy.

The League encourages all candidates in thespecial election to participate in the statewideforums.

The dates and locations will be announcedlater, but the Massachusetts League expects tosponsor at least three forums in different partsof the state and to work with a broadcast part-ner to televise the forums.

“The League of Women Voters has histori-

cally provided a neutral venue for all the can-didates in local, state and national elections tobe seen and heard by all voters,” said ZaxaroBennett, president.

“The upcoming special Senate election is ofcritical importance to the citizens ofMassachusetts, and the League hopes that allof the candidates for this office will participatein these statewide candidates’ nights,” shesaid.

In the special election to fill the FifthCongressional District seat vacated by Rep.Martin Meehan in 2007, the Leagues of WomenVoters in that district’s towns worked together

to sponsor both primary and general electioncandidates’ nights featuring all of the candi-dates.

On a national level, the League of WomenVoters sponsored debates between the presi-dential and vice-presidential candidates from1976 through the 1984 election. After 1984, thenational Democratic and Republican partiesjointly decided to move sponsorship of thosedebates to a Commission on PresidentialDebates. which the parties created.

The League of Women Voters declined toparticipate any longer in the presidentialdebates because of the rules and restrictions

the Commission placed on the debates andbecause of control by the major party candi-dates’ campaigns over the process.

Following the presidential debates last fall,many commentators expressed the desire thatthe non-partisan League again begin sponsor-ing debates.

The League of Women Voters is a nonparti-san political organization. The League encour-ages the informed and active participation ofcitizens in government and works to increaseunderstanding of major public policy issues.For more information on the state and localLeagues, see the website, www.lwvma.org.

DOLLS ANDDAUGHTERS AT TEA

Michael Grimes photos

In front, Emma Silvia in yellow was very happyit was her grandmother Carolyn Nurmsen ofWinchendon who won the American Girl doll atthe Winchendon Historical Society Sunday.Pictured with Emma are Jayda Sibley andAnna Salter. At back is Emma’s mother FeliciaNurmzen and lucky grandmother Carolyn.

A trio of well dressed girls with their dolls approach the Murdock Whitneyhouse for the special tea held Sunday.

Anne (Grimes) Castriotta and her daughters and friends listen as storytellerRuth DeAmicis gives a bit of history about tea and etiquette.

WHS member Donna Shaugnessy offers a tray of sweets to attendees at thespecial doll tea.

clarifying funding sources, the town cannot setit’s new fiscal year tax rate.

Town Manager James Kreidler toldSelectmen Monday that though adjustment ofsources of income had been allowed in previousyears, because of those stringent reportingpractices it would not be ignored this year.

“It’s a question of jumping through the cor-rect hoops,” said Kreidler.

The BOS agreed to put the scheduling of aspecial town meeting on its Sept. 28 agenda.

Vice Chairman Mark Shea, who was filling infor an absent Keith Barrows, said the cost ofspecial town meetings across the state wouldhave an impact.

“Because the state this to every school dis-trict, it’s going to be a nightmare,” said Shea.

OTHER BUSINESS

Monty Tech School Reprentative and

Selectman Burton Gould reported that schoolwill be repairing broken concrete walkwaysleading into Murdock High School later thisyear.

Ray Rader was assured by Kreidler that theuse of the town fire vehicles by on duty firemento run errands within town was a legitimateuse and had the approval of the fire chief andhimself. It makes sense for the safety of the pub-lic, said Kreidler, that if a call requiring thetruck came in, the person driving couldrespond directly from wherever they wererather than returning to the station in a privatevehicle to get a fire department vehicle.Response time and citizen safety, said Kreidler,were the criteria used. Rader objected, sayingthe cost of fuel and wear and tear on the vehi-cles was greater than any response time saved.

Jeanne Hue was appointed to both the CableAdvisory Committee and the Capital PlanningAdvisory Committee. Mark Nardini was namedto the Cable Advisory Committee. RuthDeAmicis was named to the Capital PlanningAdvisory Committee.

The Girouard family explained the return of$10,000 to create a gift fund for further use bythose trying to conserve open space inWinchendon. The funds were originally provid-ed by Robinson Broadhurst to pay for anappraisal of the Murdock Farm prior to its des-ignation as a permanent agricultural restrictedproperty. The funds were reimbursed and willnow be placed in a gift fund for use by otherlandowners working on conservation and openspace issues. Such as the Parks family, who haverequested funding for appraisal to have proper-ty they own on North Central Street and onBaldwinville Road placed in permanent conser-vation with the Mount Grace Land Trust andother groups. The BOS approved the funding,but felt the amount requested might be too low,and worded the motion to allow increasing thefunding later if necessary.

Kreidler was instructed by the BOS to coordi-nate a joint meeting with members of thePlanning Board, the ConservationCommission, the necessary town agents, abut-ters and contractor concerning a property

being developed on Lincoln Avenue. The ZoningBoard of Appeals is considering a permittingprocess with the contractor and cannot partici-pate until a decision is rendered. Gould said get-ting all the people in one room at one time wasthe best possible way to settle differences.

Ramsey Auto Sales will be asked to eitherattend a future BOS meeting and explain thebreaking of the agreement to pay back taxesmade with the town’s treasurer or to surrenderhis business license. The BOS had a letter fromthe bonding insurance company for RamseyAuto Sales stating the concern is “out of busi-ness” and is no longer covered by an insurancebond.

The BOS went into executive session to dis-cuss the need to take property by eminentdomain. The property in question is the site oftown water tanks, but ownership of the proper-ty must be resolved. No vote on whether to pur-sue this line of action was taken by theSelectmen when they reconvened in open ses-sion.

Trick or treat will be held Oct. 31 from 5-7 p.m.

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timely fashion,” said Barbaro.Barbaro said the School

Committee was pleased with arecent donation by an anonymousdonor, which has taken a weight offthe town barn’s maintenance crewwho, he said, have held the trucktogether for the last few years withband aids and bubble gum.

A black Ford Super duty F250 longbed XLT 2004 truck has been pur-chased. It was purchased fromColonial Chevrolet West. With all itsfeatures, the truck is valued at$20,000. The district has purchasedit for $13,395 including the $1,000they are getting for the barely func-tional truck. The district is lookingto purchase a blade for the plow. Thetruck has around 35,000 miles, andwas traded by its owner for a largertruck.

Superintendent Brooke Clenchysaid she wanted to give an enor-mous vote of thanks to the donor, sogenerous to come forward anddonate funds for the school system’snew truck.

Selectman and Monty Tech School

Committee member Burton Gouldwas recognized for bringing MontyTech in to work on the sidewalk atMMHS.

O’Connell said Gould noticed thedeterioration of the 15 year old side-walk leading from the parking lotpast the flagpole at the entrance ofMMHS. O’Connell said a portion ofthe sidewalk had been replaced overthe last 15 years, but even the mostrecent part is decaying.

“There is a severe water tableproblem that continues to erode theconcrete, and perhaps issues withregard to the concrete that wasinstalled at the beginning of theconstruction of the school or in thereplacement of part of that side-walk.”

O’Connell said Gould noticed andbrought in the masonry and admin-istrative staff at MT who looked atthe sidewalk and measured it with alasar device that determined thewater flow.

“It doesn’t seem to relate in somecases to where the drains are actual-ly located.”

O’Connell said DPWSuperintendent Mike Murphy metwith Jim Murphy and members ofthe MT team to help determine how

the sidewalk could be removed, andwhat could be repaired, includingthe wall.

The district would be responsiblefor the materials used.

“It’s an opportunity again grantedto us by the volunteer assistance atthe masonry department at MT,”said O’Connell.

Clenchy said it was nice to seesome of the Winchendon studentsworking on the project

The administration welcomed allstaff back to school with a presenta-tion in the auditorium. The custodi-al staff was given tee shirts to thankthem for the incredible job reorgan-izing the district.

“Everyone involved with theWinchendon public school wasinvited for that morning.”

Clenchy said a team is monitoringthe school improvement plans asthey “roll out,” adding that the planswould be ready by mid October.

Pantry shelves are being built inOld Murdock by a senior partner-ship team as a part of a project tounite seniors and the schools. ToyTown Elementary will be conduct-ing a food drive in October to fillthose pantry shelves.

“This senior partnership is ongo-

ing,” said Clenchy.The Title 1 special education

intervention teams from Memorialand Toy Town Elementary are work-ing effectively. There was reschedul-ing for courses in an uninterrupted90 minute block of literacy time, andthe teams have moved in like “swatTeams” daily. Clenchy assured theboard there would be a lot of posi-tive feedback from the process, call-ing it very effective.

Clenchy said that paraprofession-als are giving positive feedback tothe scheduling shift, saying they areenjoying the scheduling put in placeat the two elementary schools.

Clenchy said the introduction ofthe virtual high school at MMHS isongoing, and teacher Steven Hadadis working hard with those students.

Clenchy said that because grantwriting has become such a hugeundertaking now, the administra-tive team was forced to look at theproblem and decided they needed tocut back or “bump up” the power towrite the grants.

“We were fortunate enough to dosome internal shuffling in our staff,and we have been very fortunate tobe able to move somebody in to workwith Valorie Miller right now for the

next couple of months on a tem-porary basis to help supportthat,” said Clenchy.

Clenchy said the biggest grantapplication would be for the sta-bilization funding. Ninety per-cent of all the grants are due tobe written by the end ofSeptember.

The application for stabiliza-tion funds is due Nov. 1.

Clenchy said much of thework done during the summerby a NAWWG (Narragansett,Ashburnham, Westminster,Winchendon, Gardner) team forthe stabilization grant wasmade irrelevant after theDepartment of Elementary andSecondary Education changedthe rules criteria in the last cou-ple of weeks, which was frus-trating for those working sohard all summer.

In athletics, the numbers areup at the high school level.There are 40 additional athletesinvolved in fall sports that werenot involved last year.

Clenchy said there has been agreat response to paperworkthat has gone out for parents toapply for free and reducedlunches for the students. Shethanked all who have participat-ed, and said there would beapplications handed out duringthe open house.

Chairman Barbaro has beenappointed as a member of theMASC Legislative Committee.

O’Connell said theMassachusetts Association ofSchool Committees has a rangeof tasks where it tries to repre-sent the best interests of schoolcommittees and education. Onof its key areas of responsibilityis legislative advocacy, and des-ignated members review legisla-

tion from Boston and Washingtonand prepare recommendations as tothe stance the MASC should take insupport or opposition to such legis-lation, or appropriate changes to berecommended.

O’Connell said members werecarefully selected by the president ofthe MASC.

“The committee needs the type ofexpertise, dedication, and knowl-edge Mr. Barbaro brings to it. It’s awelcome addition.”

Barbaro said, “I look forward toexpanding my horizons on a statelevel. I hope they’re ready for me.”

Clenchy said there is an additionof a literacy coach in the districtworking with students from kinder-garten to grade two. The coach hasbeen hired for one-year part time towork with teachers to developstrategies for students. Curriculumcoordinator Jane Ripley said theteachers are thrilled so far.

Board member John McDonoughspoke of the many teams that haveformed in the district, and how theywill remain accountable. He askedwhat the school committee would doto support the work going on withinthe district.

Cynthia Landanno said the teamshave helped to increase the internalcommunication

Clenchy said she has seen defini-tive changes since the first day ofschool.

Barbaro said members of theteams are also peer coaches.

“We’re using our own people tohelp our own people, which increas-es moral.”

Barbaro said there are manychanges, and he expects quarterlyreports as to how the district isdoing.

Barbaro said the district alreadysubmits over 100 reports per year tothe state. He said the federal gov-ernment now wants 100 reports thatare separate and can’t be the same.

“Which is…pardon me…stupid,because we’re sending this informa-tion to the state which we can’t cutand paste and put on the federalform, we now have to start anothernew form. Streamlining regulationis one of the things that needs to bedone in education because we spendmore time compiling reports know-ing what they’re doing here, than isabsolutely necessary. It’s just redun-dant. I understand there are stringstied to money but our results that weare judged on in the end is MCAS.You succeed or fail based on thosescores which are to some point notfair, but it is what it is,” saidBarbaro.

McDonough asked why depart-ment heads could not evaluateteachers within their departments.Barbaro said there was a move toaddress the issue by creating a dif-ferent union for department heads.McDonough said he saw no reasonfor another union, and there wasnothing to prevent such evaluationswithin the current contracts. Itappears the discussion will be ongo-ing.


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Elizabeth Desmarais married Ludger Cotein 1923, and settled in Winchendon. Whendaughter Alexina was born in 1926, they wereliving on Maple Street above Brousseau’sBakery. She told me that a while later, theymoved to 142 Glenallen St.

“We had no water or electricity there, andwe had an outdoor toilet. We moved fromthere when I was in the fifth grade, becausemy parents bought a house on Spruce Street,the street the Catholic church is on. Later on,they bought a house on Belmont Avenue. Myfather worked for the railroad, and thenworked for Davenport, which was a coal andoil company. He delivered it. He used to carrysacks of coal on his back.”

When Alexina was young, her mother didnot work, but stayed home to care for her fourchildren.

“But when we lived on Belmont Avenue,”Alexina said, “she went to work nights at theSprings Mill from about 2:00 to 10:00. Shewould take the bus. She did that for maybe ayear. I was 13 years old. Then we moved toGardner. My father got a job at Siebert’s(Siebert Carriage Co.), which made carriagesand strollers. My brother and I both got jobsthere, too. I was sixteen when I started. I did-n’t graduate from high school, but I finishedthe tenth grade. After I got married, my par-ents bought a house on Pine Street inGardner.”

She married Alfred Couture, and they livedon Graham Street in Gardner, and thenbought a house in East Templeton. In 1969,they moved to Worcester. They had a total ofnine children. Alexina, who was named afterher maternal grandmother, has fond memo-ries of her Canadian-born grandparents.

“They were very nice people. They spokeFrench most of the time. When my grand-mother was older, she loved to deal inantiques. She bought and sold them. She wasa good businesswoman. She braided rugs andsold them. She raised and sold chickens, andalso sold eggs to the local store. My grandfa-ther worked at the Springs Mill, and he alsoworked in Waterville at the bucket factory(New England Wooden Ware).”

As I reported in Part One of this story, hersister Lumina spent most of her later life invarious nursing homes, but Alexina visited

her faithfully.“She was a very nice woman. She just had a

problem with an eating disorder. I used to takecare of little babies for Catholic Charities. Iwould sometimes bring them to the hospitalwhen I visited her, and she used to love to talkto them. And I would bring her Graham crack-ers and a bottle of milk, so she could havesomething nice to eat.”

I asked Alexina if her mother spoke French.“Both my parents did. In fact, when I start-

ed school, I didn’t speak much English. But Ilearned it very fast. My mother could alsospeak English, because she was born inWinchendon. But my father was born inCanada. He went to school to get his natural-ization papers.”

“My mother was always full of joy, alwayssinging. She was a great cook and a goodseamstress. She liked to play the harmonica,like her sister Lumina. She played the piano,by ear, and she played the accordion. She likedto play mostly French music. She also sang alot of war songs, like ‘Over There.’Unfortunately, she was a diabetic, and eventu-ally lost both legs. My father had died in 1958,but she remarried, to Leon Archambeault.She passed away in Gardner on May 23, 1972,at the age of 74.”

“I remember her telling methat she worked at the SpringsMill when she was young, but Ididn’t know Aunt Lumina did.My mother said she made $3.10 aweek, and her mother took it andgave her 10¢ of it, which shecould spend on herself. She toldme that there was a girl who wentto work with her, and they weresupposed to start at age 14. Thegirl said she was 14, though shewas actually 13. So my mother, who was also13, said she was 14. Until you sent me thosephotographs, I didn’t have any pictures of mymother when she was that young.”

The entire story of Lumina and Elizabeth,

including the full interviews and many pho-tos, can be seen at www.morningson-maplestreet.com/luminaelizabeth1.html.Another story will appear in the Courier inabout a month. Contact me at (413) 584-0679, [email protected].

HINES continued from page 1

Clockwise from top left: ElizabethDemaris [i.e., Demarais?], 13 yearsold. A spinner in the Spring VillageMill, Winchendon, Mass. Been work-ing since May. Lumina Demaris, sis-ter of Elizabeth, admitted 12 yearsold. Been a doffer in Spring VillageMill all summer, Father and sisterElizabeth works steady. They keeptwo boarders. Her doffing crew hasthree girls and 5 boys, September1911, Lewis Hine.Elizabeth (left) with husband Ludgerand sister Lumina. Date unknown.Provided by the family. Ludger Cote and ElizabethDesmarais Cote on their weddingday. Provided by the family.

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CORRYTON, TN – Funeral services were heldFriday, Sept. 11 from the Stone-Ladeau FuneralHome followed by a Mass of Christian burial inImmaculate Heart of Mary Church for RonaldA. Rouleau, age 67, who died Sept. 6 in St. Mary’sHospital in Knoxville . The Rev. Francis A.Roberge was the celebrant, assisted by TylerWoodward. J. Gerald Phillips was the organistand Marguerita A. Chandler was the soloist.

Allison and John Ledoux participated with

the readings and Ronald and Matt Sandersonbrought the gifts to the altar.

Burial, with military honors, was in theMassachusetts Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery,Winchendon, where committal prayers wereconducted by Rev. Roberge.

Acting as pall bearers were Peter LaPointe,Bruce LaPointe, Billy LaPointe, Tom Rouleau,Joe Puchalsky and Matt Sanderson.

GARDNER — StanislawaB. “Stacia” Stone, age 89, ofGardner, died Sept. 6 in theLegend Center ForRehabilitation and Nursingin Gardner after a short ill-ness.

The seventh of 16 children,Stacia was born at home on

Ford Street in Gardner on June 5, 1920, toStanislaus and Matilda (Kuprel) Hajkowski.She lived in Gardner all of her life, and attend-ed the Pleasant Street School and GardnerHigh School.

She met her husband, Stanley S. Stone ofBaldwinville, in 1938 and they were marriedon Sept. 2, 1939. They spent 49 years happilymarried until Stanley died suddenly in May of1987.

Stacia started her work career in 1938 at theGardner Shoe Company. After starting herfamily in the 1940s and early 1950s she workedpart-time at the Campus Restaurant andPalms Café as a cook. She then worked at theBarre Mill Company during the mid and late1950s. In the 1960s she worked at the Pine Milland was employed by the HartshornManufacturing Company in the 1970s.

She was a long time parishioner of theSacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church inGardner.

In addition to the devotion and love she gaveto her children and great grandchildren,Stacia enjoyed sewing, crocheting, embroider-ing and cooking. At Legends Center sheenjoyed playing bingo and attending all of the

activities they offered.Stacia leaves her sons: George F. Stone of

Groton, CT, and Michael P. Stone and his wifeBetty of Athol; her daughter, Linda M. Hietalaand her husband Kasper “Jack” of Gardner.She also leaves her grandchildren: DawnMartin and Wendy Fontaine of Quaker Hills,CT, Georgeanne “Go-Gi” Stone of Boston,Vincent Stone of Las Vegas, NV, MichaelStone Jr., Matthew Stone, Robert Stone,Shawn Stone, Angela Stone, all of Athol, andKristen Lima of Winchendon. She also leavesher great-grandchildren, Devin Stone,Natasha Stone, Lennon Stone, all of Athol,Zahra Stone of Las Vegas, NV, GabrielleFontaine of Quaker Hills, CT; her sisters,Jennie Comeau of Gardner, Theresa Pastoreof Leominster; and numerous nieces andnephews.

Stacia was predeceased by her six brothers,Walter, Stephan, Anthony, Joseph, Vitold andThaddeus Hajkowski, and by seven sisters,Matilda Rickey, Eleanora Hajkowski, JadwigaHajkowski, Clara Lupaczyk, ReginaJalutikewicz, Frances B. Raffa and MaryKarpowicz.

A Mass of Christian burial was held Sept. 9in the Sacred Heart Church, Gardner. Burialfollowed in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Gardner.

Poliks Funeral Home, 431 Pleasant St.,Gardner was entrusted with arrangements.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests thatmemorial contributions be made in her mem-ory to Sacred Heart Church, 166 Cross St.,Gardner, MA 01440.


GARDNER — Malfissa A.(DiPaoli) Noponen, age 95, of 195Saunders St. died peacefullyTuesday evening, Sept. 8 inWachusett Manor NursingHome, Gardner, surrounded byher loving family.

She was born in Leominsteron Aug. 6,1914, daughter of

Tietro and Savina (Valeri) DiPaoli and had livedin Gardner since 1945.

Malfissa worked for several years as a cafete-ria worker in Mt. Wachusett CommunityCollege. Many years ago, she had worked inplastic factories in Leominster. She was a mem-ber of Faith Lutheran Church, where she hadbeen active in its Women’s Guild and sang in thechurch choir for many years. She enjoyed cook-ing, following the Boston Red Sox and NewEngland Patriots, watching Wheel of Fortune

and Jeopardy. Her greatest enjoyment camefrom spending time with her grandson.

Her husband, Waino E. Noponen, died in 1986.She leaves two sons, Robert E. Noponen ofGardner and Wayne E. Noponen and his wifePeggy of Windsor, CT; a grandson, Robert W.Noponen of Gardner and her dear friend and exdaughter-in-law, Charlotte M. Noponen ofWinchendon. She was predeceased by of all ofher brothers and sisters.

Funeral services were held Sept. 13 in FaithLutheran Church, Gardner. Burial was inWildwood Cemetery.

Stone-Ladeau Funeral Home (stone-ladeau.com), 343 Central St., Winchendon wasentrusted with arrangements.

Memorial donations may be made toHeywood Hospital Building Fund, 242 Green St.,Gardner, MA 01440.

Ronald A. Rouleau, 67CORRYTON, TN – Ronald A.

Rouleau, age 67, of Corryton,TN passed away peacefullySunday afternoon, Sept. 6 in St.Mary’s Hospital in Knoxville.

He was born in Winchendonon July 12,1942 the son of thelate Achille J. and MarieJeanne (LaPointe) Rouleau and

graduated in 1960 from Murdock High School.Ron worked for Bituminous Insurance

Company as a manager and senior insuranceadjuster from 1969 to 2007 in Kansas, Michigan,Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas, Louisiana andNorth Carolina. He retired to Corryton, TN in2007.

Ron served in the United States Air Forcefrom 1960 to 1964, traveling to Germany andGreece. He was awarded the Air Force GoodConduct medal and Air Force Longevity Serviceaward.

Ron was an avid member of the Miata Club ofAmerica and the Mustang Club of America. Hewas also a proud member of the National Rifle

Association. His hobbies included model air-planes, computer and electronics, target shoot-ing and cars.

He leaves his wife of 40 years, Sandra(Kowalski) Rouleau; a daughter, Sherri L.Sanderson and her husband Matt Sanderson ofCorryton, TN; one brother, Thomas G. Rouleauof Ludlow; three sisters, Doris M. Doody ofWorcester, Jeannine A. Sullivan of Stuart, FLand Dolores P. Boule of Marlboro; three grand-children, Ronald Sanderson, Abigail Sandersonand Daniel Sanderson, as well as many nieces,nephews and cousins.

Funeral services were held Sept. 11 from theStone-Ladeau Funeral Home (stone-ladeau.com), 343 Central St., Winchendon fol-lowed by a Mass of Christian burial inImmaculate Heart of Mary Church.

Burial was in the Massachusetts Veterans’Memorial Cemetery, Winchendon.

Memorial donations may be made to theAmerican Cancer Society, 30 Speen St.,Framingham, MA 01701.

Marjorie C. L’Etoile, 71WINCHENDON – Marjorie C. L’Etoile, age 71,

of 51 Winter St. died peacefully Sunday morn-ing, Sept. 13 in Heywood Hospital, Gardner.

She was born in Winchendon on Feb. 10,1938,the daughter of Joseph O. and Jean Buchanon(Taylor) L’Etoile and lived in Winchendon formost of her life.

Marjorie was an elementary school teacherfor 31 years in Windsor, CT until her retirement.She was a 1956 graduate of Murdock HighSchool and a 1960 graduate of Fitchburg StateTeachers College. She received her Master’sdegree in education from the University ofHartford. Marjorie was a member ofImmaculate of Heart of Mary Church. Sheenjoyed traveling and was especially loved byher nice and two nephews.

She leaves a brother, Joseph A. L’Etoile and

his wife Mary of Winchendon; a sister, Lillian Y.L’Etoile of Winchendon; a niece, Jane Pineo ofGardner; two nephews, Michael L’Etoile ofWinchendon and Joseph L’Etoile of Gardnerand several grandnephews and grandnieces.

A Memorial Mass will be held Wednesday,Sept. 16 at 10 a.m. in Immaculate Heart of MaryChurch, 52 Spruce St., Winchendon.

There are no calling hours.Burial in Calvary Cemetery, Winchendon will

be private.Memorial donations may be made to the

American Cancer Society, 30 Speen St.,Framingham, MA 01701.

The Stone-Ladeau Funeral Home )stone-ladeau.com), 343 Central St., Winchendon isdirecting arrangements.

James Joseph RIchardWINCHENDON — James Joseph Richard,

infant son of John J. and Amy K. (Sellars) wasborn and joined all the angels in heaven onSept. 4.

Besides his parents, he leaves his brotherJeremy and his sister Alyshia.

He also leaves his maternal grandparentsLisa Sellars of Athol and Roy Sellars ofLeominster. His paternal grandparents Jamesand Claudette Simmons of Leominster.

Bosk Funeral Home 85 Blossom St.Fitchburg is assisting the family.

OBITUARIESSusan J. (DeMaura) LaVigne, 53

WINCHENDON — Susan J.(DeMaura) LaVigne, age 53, of239 Main St. died unexpectedlyat her residence on Monday,Sept. 7.

She was born in Gardner onJan. 17,1956, the daughter ofthe late Robert and Phyllis(Maliska) DeMaura and lived

in Winchendon for most of her life.Sue assisted her late husband in their former

flooring business, LaVigne’s Flooring Center inGardner. Years ago, she worked multiple jobs infood preparation in local restaurants and for thementally ill. Sue loved to collect arts and crafts.Sue was a nurturer for her family and was for-merly active with the Murdock High SchoolBoosters and Parent Teachers Association.Most recently she had become active with dailyactivities held at the Winchendon Senior Center.

Sue had earned her GED and had attendedMount Wachusett Community College.

Her husband of 33 years, Richard L. LaVigneJr., died last October. She leaves a son, Adam R.LaVigne and his wife Sadie J. of Winchendonand a brother, Bob DeMaura and his wife Donnaof Peterborough, NH. In addition to her hus-band, she was predeceased by a daughter,Melinda A. “Mindy” LaVigne, who died in 1996and a brother, Stephen DeMaura.

Calling hours will be held Tuesday,September 15th from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Stone-Ladeau Funeral Home (stone-ladeau.com), 343Central St., Winchendon.

Graveside services will be held in RiversideCemetery on Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 1 p.m.

Memorial donations may be made to CysticFibrosis Foundation, 220 North Main St. Suite104, Natick, MA 01760.

Violetta M. (Braulini) Posich, 89SILVER SPRING, MD – Violetta M.

(Braulini) Posich, 89, of Silver Spring, MD,formerly of Winchendon died peacefully Sept.2 in Suburban Hospital, Silver Spring.

She was born in Gorizia, Italy on Jan. 10,1920, the daughter of Antonio and Olga Maria(Perco) Braulini, and taught Italian and pianoat The Winchendon School during the 1970sand early 1980s. Violetta lived at Ingleside andlater on Maple Street until moving toMaryland. While living in Winchendon, shewas a member of Immaculate Heart of MaryChurch.

Violetta was preceded in death by her devot-ed husband Lewis Posich, the former head-master of The Winchendon School, her cher-ished grandson Vito Posich, and her belovedson Alan Posich. She leaves four of her chil-dren: Ingrid Braulini of Grantham, NH, KimPosich of Albuquerque, NM, Gwen Myers of

Charlotte, NC, and Enid Foster of SilverSpring, MD, nine grandchildren, and threegreat-grandchildren.

Violetta’s generosity of spirit, and her loveof music, animals and life itself touched peo-ple in a way that had even those who knew herfor a short while, stay in contact with herthroughout her life. She maintained her viva-ciousness and sense of humor until her finalday. She will be greatly missed by so many.

Private graveside services will be held inCalvary Cemetery, Winchendon.

There are no calling hours.Memorial donations may be made to The

Winchendon School, 172 Ash Street,Winchendon, MA 01475.

The Stone-Ladeau Funeral Home (stone-ladeau.com), 343 Central St. is directingarrangements.

Stanislawa B. ‘Stacia’ Stone, 89

Todd F. Woodcome, 33TEMPLETON —Todd F.

Woodcome, age 33, of 15 KyleDrive died unexpectedly Sept.1 during an accident at work.

Todd was born inFayetteville, NC on Sept. 17,1975. He was the son ofStephen P. and Susan(Cunningham) Woodcome of

Templeton.At the time of his death, Todd was an elec-

trician employed by E.C. ElectricalConstruction, Inc., of Needham.

Todd graduated from MontachusettRegional Vocational Technical School withthe class of 1993.

He was a member of St. Vincent de PaulChurch, Baldwinville. Todd was a memberand vice president of the Otter RiverSportsman’s Club.

Todd enjoyed golfing and four wheeling. Hewas an avid Boston Red Sox and New EnglandPatriots fan. Todd enjoyed watching televi-sion, especially The Dukes of Hazzard, TheSopranos and The Gong Show. His dog “Jack”was very special to him. Todd loved life. Hewas a happy go lucky guy and was always will-

ing to give a helping hand to others. He will begreatly missed by all who knew and lovedhim.

Besides his parents, he leaves his sister,Courtney R. Woodcome of Templeton; hisfiancée, Valerie A. LaRochelle of Athol; hismaternal grandmother, Dawn E. (Elver)Cunningham of Cumming, GA; a specialniece, Mackenzie Woodcome of Templeton,who referred to her Uncle Todd as “Re Re”;several aunts and uncles, Cheryl and MarkKasper of Templeton, Mary and Walter Kulisof Dracut, Patricia Woodcome of Gardner,Linette Hickman of Cumming, GA, andDianne and William Fortson of Byron, GA;three cousins, Dylan and Logan Casper ofTempleton, and Jeremy Kulis of Dracut.

Funeral services were held Sept. 8 from theBoucher Funeral Home, Inc. Gardner with aMass in St. Vincent de Paul Church,Baldwinville. Burial was in Green BowerCemetery, Gardner.

Memorial contributions in Todd’s memorymay be made to the Otter River Sportsman’sClub, 250 Lord Road, Otter River, MA 01436.

Rouleau service

William A. Young, 53WINCHENDON — William

A. Young, age 53, ofWinchendon, died unexpect-edly Friday Sept. 4.

William was born in GlaceBay, Nova Scotia, on Sept. 21,1955, son of the late FrancisYoung and Sybil (James)Young. He lived in Boston for

many years, until he met his beloved wifeMary A. (Davis) Young. They were marriedJan. 16, 1993 and shared more than 16 wonder-ful years together.

William worked as a die cutter withBoutwell and Owens in Fitchburg. He will beremembered as an avid outdoorsman wholoved to hunt and fish. William especiallyloved bow hunting season, and camping. Mostof all he loved spending time with his soulmate Mary.

Besides his wife and mother, William will besadly missed by his son; Jason Girard ofJaffrey; two daughters; Kelly Young and her

fiancée Kevin Shaw of Plymouth, and CrystalGirard and her boyfriend Ryan Tenney ofWinchendon[ one brother John Young and hiswife Winifred of Allston Brighton; one sister;Linda Michaud and her husband Jacques ofHalifax, Nova Scotia, two granddaughters,Brook and Sierra Tenney of Winchendon, hisfather and mother in-law; Ron and PhyllisDesmarais of Fitchburg, good friends; Flossyand Mike Lauzier of Ashby, and his very bestfriend John Paine and his wife Sharon ofAshburnham.

Funeral services are private and at the con-venience of the family. Should friends desiredonations in William’s memory may be madeto a charity of one’s choice. To sign theonline guestbook for William, please visit ourwebsite at www.fletcherfuneral.com.

The family has entrusted the care ofWilliam’s arrangements to the Fletcher-Hebert Funeral Home, 70 Pleasant St.,Winchendon, MA 01475.

Malfissa A. (DiPaoli) Noponen, 95

LEGION INSTALLS OFFICERSDoneen Durling photo

The Winchendon Post 193 American Legion celebrated the installation of officers last Sunday, Sept.13, with dinner and ceremony. State Commander Bill Barbour presided over the installation. Herehe hands new Post 193 Commander Arthur Gilbert, and Sons’ Commander John Bussier the wood-en gavel of office. The full installation story will be in next week’s Courier.


SPORTSSPORTS

Weeks one & two recappedTeams Involved: Winchendon Junior

Midget met. Wachusett at Wachusett HighSchool in Holden Sept. 6.

Score at end of each quarter: Winchendon 6Wachusett 7, end of 1st quarter. Winchendon18 Wachusett 7, half time. Winchendon 18Wachusett 7, end of 3rd quarter. Final score:Winchendon 18 Wachusett 7.

List of scoring plays: Kahlil Beauregard on27 yard run. Dominic Allard: 62 yard run.Justin Doyle: 34 yard touchdown.

List of Key Plays (game changers,turnovers, defensive stands, etc.): KevinSuchocki and Jordan Comeau both made nicepasses that helped two important first halfdrives. Allard interception at end of first half.Miguel Muniz-Fuentes interception at end ofgame. Zach Senecal forced fumble. JaredStephenson QB sack.

Offensive standouts: Josh Stevens had 47yards receiving; Kevin LeBlanc had 35 yardsreceiving; Beauregard had 29 yards receiving;Allard 112 yards rushing; Jake Shetrawski 86yards rushing; Beauregard 77 yards rushing;Doyle 68 yards rushing.

Offensive line blocking: Connor Haskell,Alex Cota, Zach Lee, Nick Swift, Taylor Solesand Scott Ploskonka

Defensive standouts: Drew Miller 8 tackles;Shetrawski 7 tackles; Evan Drake 5 tackles;Drew Pelkey 5 tackles.

Special teams standouts: Fumble recoveryon kickoff Stevens; Fumble recovery on kick-off Beauregard; Fumble recovery on kickoffAllard.

Next game information: xs. Bedford, NH.Coach’s quote(s), Head Coach Andy Dupuis:

I am proud of the way my team fought today.They beat a very good. Wachusett team intheir backyard. We started out a little flat andthen, once we got warmed up, we dominatedon both sides of the ball. We got solid contri-butions from a lot of different players today,which was nice to see. We need to get back towork to take on a pretty good Bedford, NHteam next week.

SECOND WEEK

Winchendon Jr. Midget vs. Bedford, NH atBedford on Sept. 13.

Score at end of each quarter: Winchendon 7Bedford, NH 6 end of 1st quarter;Winchendon 14 Bedford, NH 6 half time;Winchendon 41 Bedford, NH 6 end of 3rd quar-ter; final score Winchendon 41 Bedford, NH 6.

List of scoring plays: Dominic Allard 52yard TD run; Kahlil Beauregard conversionrun; Allard 61 yard TD reception; Beauregardconversion run; Jake Shetrawski 14 yard TDreception; Shetrawski 2 yard TD run;Beauregard conversion reception; Shetrawski

43 yard TD run; Justin Doyle conversion run;Doyle 54 yard touchdown; Shetrawski conver-sion run.

Offensive standouts: Kevin Suchocki 127yards passing; Beauregard had 19 yardsreceiving; Allard 128 yards rushing;Shetrawski 58 yards receiving & 89 yardsrushing; Beauregard 47 yards rushing; Doyle92 yards rushing.

Offensive Line blocking: Connor Haskell,Zach Senecal, Drew Miller, Evan Drake, NickSwift, Kevin Leblanc and CJ Bilodeau.

Defensive standouts: Senecal 8 tackles;Shetrawski 6 tackles; Drew Pelkey 6 tackles;Josh Stevens 5 tackles; Jared Stephenson 4tackles; Alex Cota 4 tackles; Miguel Muniz-Fuentes 4 tackles; Zach Lee 3 tackles; JordanComeau 2 tackles; Scott Ploskonka 2 tackles.

Next Game Information: vs. Fitchburg.Coach’s quote(s) Head Coach Andy Dupuis:

We started out flat and dug ourselves a holeearly, but I was very proud of the way westepped up our game in the 2nd half to pullaway from them. We made some dumb mis-takes early but then cleaned it up and playedthe way we are capable of playing after that.The offense played well all day and the defensecame alive after giving up a long TD run in thefirst quarter. Next week we travel to Fitchburgin what should be a good test for our team.

BY JERRY CARTONSPECIAL TO THE COURIER

LUNENBURG — Lunenburg’s artificial turfproved too unusual and too fast for Murdock’svarsity field hockey team on Monday, and theLady Devils dropped their season opener, 5-0in a game that coach Lois Girouard said was“a lot closer than the score.”

The home team only had a 1-0 advantage atthe half, and even that came on a shot thatGirouard said was unexpected.

“It just never looked like it was going in,”she said, but acknowledged that the tallymight have temporarily deflated her team tosome extent.

Whether it did or not, the Lady Devilsnonetheless played a strong defensive game.Lunenburg had 19 corners for the contest, butwas unable to convert on any of them.

“We got great play on those from AliRocheleau, and Amanda LeClair and GraceMaliska, and Zoey Monahan,” enthusedGirouard.

She had high praise as well for goaltenderKassandra Salcedo.

“She was phenomenal in goal. She playedgreat,” said Girouard.

“It’s really different playing on turf asopposed to several inches of grass,” Girouardremarked. “The ball bounces truer. The pass

sequence is much different. The game goes alot faster. It’s just different.”

She added that some of the younger LadyDevils got some good first-game experience,singling out Justine Michaud for particularpraise, but lamented the lack of offense.

“We’ve got to get more scoring chances,”said Girouard.

After visiting Maynard today, the LadyDevils host Monty Tech on Friday and thenmeet Littleton on Monday in a game that isscheduled to be played at the Clark MemorialYMCA field.

Soccer teams open seasonBY JERRY CARTON

SPECIAL TO THE COURIER

WINCHENDON — MurdockMiddle High School's boys varsitysoccer team reeled off five first-halfgoals at St. Mary's on Thursday, butthe home team's firepower wasstronger in winning a 9-5 shootoutthat opened the 2009 season for bothteams.

Zack Rocheleau, Murdock's lead-ing scorer as a freshman in 2008,picked up where he left off andscored a pair of goals for the BlueDevils as did Sam Burdsall. BrianPfeifle added the other tally. BothZack and Max Rochleau and BrockMacarelli contributed assists.

Meanwhile, the girls’ varsitybegan their campaign with a 4-1home loss to Assabet. Ashley Perry,back in the lineup after missing lastyear, scored the Lady Devils' goal.

"We played 50 minutes of solidsoccer," said boys’ Coach AnthonyFindley. "We sort of stumbled at the

start, then played real well, and inthe last quarter of the game, we gottired," adding that his team will con-tinue to work on match condition-ing.

Findley was pleased with the BlueDevils' attack.

"Our offense is there. We hadabout a quarter of the points in thisgame that we scored all last year.But we need to work on ourdefense,” he observed.

Goalie Jonah Parilla had 19 savesfor Murdock despite playing with afinger injury sustained early in thecontest.

Findley noted that a lot of under-classmen saw a lot of action.

"We only have one senior and sixjuniors, so the younger kids got tosee some minutes. They'll just keepgetting better," he predicted.

”You could see our lack of condi-tioning late in each half." Findleyacknowledged. "We couldn't quitekeep up the pace."

The Blue Devils had other oppor-tunities to score.

"It was paper-thin," said the coach."An inch or so one way or anotherwas the difference between hittingthe post and scoring" noting that heanticipates Murdock's offense willcontinue to be strong.

Findley was also delighted withthe strong support his team hadeven on the road.

"We had a good crowd come downfor an away game. The parents havebeen really good to me, and reallygood to the kids," he said.

Having hosted Trivium in theirhome opener Monday, the BlueDevils await Abby Kelley for a 4 p.m.kickoff tomorrow.

"Match conditioning" was also onthe mind of girls' Coach TimEmerson after his team's lid-lifter.

"The last ten minutes or so of eachhalf got a little sloppy because wegot tired. We need better match con-ditioning. Your heart gets racing

and you need to calm down. We'll beworking on that," he said.

But Emerson, overall, waspleased.

"We looked good for the first game.They played their hearts out. Wemade some adjustments at halftimeand the second half was reallyclose.”

Proving his point — the LadyDevils could manage just a singleshot in the opening stanza, but firedthree in the second, as Perry gotthem on the board.

"She's a very good offensive play-er," noted Emerson. Now a senior,Perry is one of the co-captains alongwith Kristy Stevenson. Perry's open-ing match goal equaled Murdock'sentire scoring output of a year agowhen the team scored just once on apenalty kick by the now graduatedAshlyn White.

Goalie Taylor Budka had 22 saveson the afternoon.

"Taylor did well. The first goal

they scored, she simply wasn't tallenough to stop it." laughedEmerson. But he added that whilehe'll have Budka work on aggres-siveness, he understood that she hadan inexperienced defense in front ofher.

"We're going to get better," heassured, noting that defensive play-ers Cayla Clinkscale, Jess Mahan,and Sarah Nazzaro were competingin their first-ever varsity game.

"They did a good job, overall,” heremarked. "And the more they play,the better they'll get" citing KelseyBrundidge with an excellent gameas well.

"This is a really good group,"Emerson said. "They seem to fit inwell together."

The Lady Devils hit the road thisafternoon when they make the shorttrek to arch-rival Narragansett for a3:30 kickoff before the longer trip toAbby Kelley for a 4 p.m. matchtomorrow.

Fall softball racking up runsBY JERRY CARTON

SPECIAL TO THE COURIER

WINCHENDON — Fall softball is a muchmore casual affair than the long regularschool/town seasons, and that relaxedapproach has been evident in the openingweeks of the campaign with 114 runs crossingthe plate in just five games.

For the record, the (primarily) olderWinchendon team routed the (primarily) new-comers to the junior/senior level by an 18-2score, but the youngsters turned the tableswith a 12-7 triumph of their own.

That leveled things between those twoteams, but Winchendon’s youngsters were nomatch for a strong Gardner squad, which wonthree times, sandwiching a wild, almost epic,15-14 victory (in which they led 14-0 in thesixth inning) between 15-6 and 16-2 wins.

Easily the most dramatic of the five con-tests was that one-run game. Gardner openedthe big lead with booming bats and an out-standing five inning pitching performancefrom ace Kortney Kachian, who allowed justfour hits.

She departed the mound with a 9-0 edge andwhen Gardner added five more runs in the topof the sixth to make it 14-0, the game seemedover.

But the game isn’t played with a clock. Youstill have to get all 21 outs. Having had just twoinnings earlier in the game when they weren’tretired in order, Winchendon sent 12 hitters tothe plate in the sixth and scored eight runs.The inning appeared tame at first whenMariah Tenney opened the home half of thesixth with a triple and Meghan Black followed

with a single, the sense was that at least theshutout was averted.

It turned out, though, that Winchendon wasjust getting started. Rachel Durgin, JillSchultze, Elise Lemieux, Courtney Carton,Brittany Elliason, Brittany Martin andKassandra Salcedo all followed by reaching aswell, and the game was more competitive.Gardner managed to push across a run in thetop of the seventh, and they would turn out toneed it to barely hold on as the Toy Townersplated six more runs to narrowly miss pullingoff one of the great comebacks ever seen inthese parts.

Martin, Tenney, Black, and Lemieux woundup with multi-hit games. Elliason, Tenney,Black, and Carton contributed multiple RBI’s.Schultze made an outstanding backhand playat short to thwart a Gardner rally in the fifth.Durgin delivered an outstanding double-playthrow from center to Black at first base towipe out a scoring threat in the seventh. (Thatwasn’t the only defensive gem she turned in,either, as she made another outstanding run-ning catch as a right fielder, and MyrandaBishop did the same in center in a W1-W2game.)

A terrific rally to be sure, but a loss, even inthe casual setting of fall ball, is still a loss, andthat was merely the closest of the threedefeats to the Chair City girls.

In the 15-6 defeat, Durgin and Black, in theirfirst exposure to junior/senior ball, each hadthree hits. Martin added a pair, and Blackscored three times.

Sunday’s 16-2 defeat at the American Legionwas every bit as lopsided as the score indicat-

ed. Winchendon was able to mange just fivesingles off three Gardner pitchers, includingleft-handed starter Amy Klayman. Whateversuspense there was evaporated when Kachiandrilled a bases loaded double to deep centerand Megan Clark and Monica Putko also sup-plied significant offense for Gardner.

But Winchendon manager Tracy Black hada pretty happy birthday weekend anyway, cel-ebrating a day early last Saturday when hersquad took the measure of the other localteam.

Shawna Spady was the offensive star on thatoccasionally drizzly afternoon, going 3-4 withfour RBI’s. She also collaborated on the defen-sive play of the game firing a rifle shot toMartin behind the plate to end a threat.Lemieux, Black, and Ashley Bridges, whothrew a seven-strikeout complete game, eachscored three runs. Schultze had three hitsand three RBI for the losers.

A few days earlier, W1 cruised, sparked by a10-run fourth inning. In that game, MariahTenney scored four runs, Emily Tenney andSalcedo three each. Mariah Tenney also hadthree RBI while Salcedo and Lexi Shelly eachadded a pair. Spady and Carton had a couplehits for W2.

“We’re learning the game at a whole newlevel,” said Tracy Black about her mostlyyounger team. “It’s their first time up here,and I’m really proud of them. They’re nothanging their heads. They’re having fun andthey’re getting better by playing better teams.That will make a big difference next year.”

Fall ball continues this weekend withgames against both Gardner and Athol.

Golf results from TheWinchendon School Golf Club

WINCHENDON — Golf pro Tom Bordenhas announced the following year end resultsat the Winchendon School Golf Club.

2009 Junior Club Champion: TylerO’Malley

2009 Woman’s Club Champion: MimiOverman

2009 Men’s Club Champion: Jake GreeneA flight: Ken Rocheleau B flight: Mike XarrasLabor Day Golf Classic held Sept. 5,6,7 This was a team event.A Flight winners: Paul Murphy & Jack

Smith.Runner up: Matt Lapointe & Mark

Gauthier.B Flight winners: Fred Charest & Buddy

Hunt.Runner up: John Callahan & Mike Xarras.

Murdock ScheduleWednesday, September 16Field Hockey @ Maynard: 3:30 p.m.Girls Soccer @ Narragansett: 3:30 p.m.Thursday, September 17Boys Soccer v. Abby Kelley: 4 p.m.Girls Soccer @ Abby Kelley: 4 p.m.Friday, September 18Football @ Lunenburg: 7 p.m.Field Hockey v. Monty Tech: 3:30 p.m.Monday, September 21Field Hockey v. Littleton: 3:30 p.m. (Clark

YMCA Field)Boys Soccer @ Littleton: 3:30 p.m.Girls Soccer @ W. Boylston: 3:30 p.m.JV Football v Lunenburg: 3:30 p.m.Tuesday, September 22Cross Country v Lunenburg: 3:30 p.m.

MONADNOCK SPEEDWAYWINCHESTER, NH — Mother Nature

washes out event. This past Saturday, MotherNature once again dampened the race eventat Monadnock Speedway. This week, thespeedway will host its final point event for theModifieds and Outlaw Pros on Friday, Sept.18. The Friday Night Championship race willalso include Super Stocks, Mini Stocks, FullSize Enduros and 4-cylinder Enduros. Racetime is at 7 p.m.

The final race of the season is scheduled forSaturday, Sept. 26 and will feature Pro 4Modifieds, Allison Legacy North Series, AllStar Race Trucks, Super Stocks, Mini Stocks,Enduro, Demolition Derby (postponed fromSeptember 12th), Spectator Races, Big WheelsRace and The Great School Bus Race. Theevent will start at an earlier time, 2 p.m.

For more information, log onto www.mon-adnockspeedway.com or call the speedway’soffice at (603) 239-4067.

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MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF SALE OFREAL ESTATE

By virtue and in execution of the Power ofSale contained in a certain Mortgage givenby Forrest W. Hyde, Jr. and Holly J.Seretto-Hyde to Mortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc., dated October 4,2005 and recorded with the WorcesterCounty (Worcester District) Registry ofDeeds at Book 37723, Page 37 of which theMortgage the undersigned is the presentholder for breach of the conditions of saidMortgage and for the purpose of foreclosingsame will be sold at Public Auction at 11:00AM on October 1, 2009 at 125 RoyalstonRoad North, Winchendon, MA, all and sin-gular the premises described in saidMortgage, to wit:Land situated in the County of Worcester,State of Massachusetts is described as fol-lows:A certain parcel of land situated on theNortherly side of Royalston Road North inWinchendon, Worcester County,Massachusetts, bounded and described asfollows:Beginning at the Southwesterly comer at adrill hole in a corner of stone walls in theNortherly line of Royalston Road North atland of David L. and Wendy L. Fournier;thence North 10 degrees 22 minutes 13 sec-onds East, 267.61 feet to an Iron pin in theend of a wall; thence North 06 degrees 35minutes 15 seconds East, 77.78 feet to a drillhole; thence North 03 degrees 41 minutes 59seconds West, 102.97 feet to a drill hole;thence North 33 degrees 20 minutes 22 sec-onds West, 60.26 feet to a drill hole in theend of a stone wall at land of Shady BrookTrust, and preceding courses being all or par-tially by stone walls and Fournier land;thence South 82 degrees 42 minutes 52 sec-onds East, 440.47 feet to a drill hole in acomer of stone walls; thence South 80degrees 54 minutes 29 seconds East, 198.63feet to a drill hole in a corner of stone walls;thence South 25 degrees 33 minutes 17 sec-onds West, 149.37 feet to a drill hole; thenceSouth 25 degrees 04 minutes 04 secondsWest, 280.70 feet to a drill hole in the end ofa stone wall, the preceding 3 courses beingby stone walls; thence South 59 degrees 18minutes 30 seconds East, 104.13 feet to aniron pin: thence South 26 degrees 27 min-utes 42 seconds West, 57.80 feet to a drillhole in the end of stone wall on the Northerlyline of Royalston Road North, the preceding6 courses being by Trust land; thence South74 degrees 32 minutes 53 seconds West,142.11 feet to an iron pin; thence North 72degrees 43 minutes 15 seconds West,221.84 feet to a drill hole in the end of astone wall; thence North 71 degrees 53 min-utes 27 seconds West, by a stone wall191.49 feet to a drill hole in a corner of stonewalls and the place of beginning, the preced-ing 3 courses being by the Northerly line ofRoyalston Road North. Being shown on aPlan entitled, “Plan of Land Prepared forForrest W. Hyde, Jr., Winchendon, MA. Scale1 inch equals 40.00 feet, October 8, 2001,Edmond J. Boucher, PLS, 4 Jolly Road,Royalston, MA as Recorded in Plan Book773, Plan 75.Commonly known as: 125 Royalston RoadNorth, Winchendon, MA 01475The premises are to be sold subject to andwith the benefit of all easements, restrictions,building and zoning laws, unpaid taxes, taxtitles, water bills, municipal liens and assess-ments, rights of tenants and parties in pos-session.TERMS OF SALE:A deposit of FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARSAND 00 CENTS ($5,000.00) in the form of acertified check or bank treasurer’s check willbe required to be delivered at or before thetime the bid is offered. The successful bidderwill be required to execute a ForeclosureSale Agreement immediately after the closeof the bidding. The balance of the purchaseprice shall be paid within thirty (30) days fromthe sale date in the form of a certified check,bank treasurer’s check or other check satis-factory to Mortgagee’s attorney. TheMortgagee reserves the right to bid at thesale, to reject any and all bids, to continuethe sale and to amend the terms of the saleby written or oral announcement madebefore or during the foreclosure sale. If thesale is set aside for any reason, thePurchaser at the sale shall be entitled only toa return of the deposit paid. The purchasershall have no further recourse against theMortgagor, the Mortgagee or theMortgagee’s attorney. The description of thepremises contained in said mortgage shallcontrol in the event of an error in this publi-cation. TIME WILL BE OF THE ESSENCE.Other terms if any, to be announced at thesale.Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems,Inc., Present Holder of said Mortgage, By ItsAttorneys, Orlans Moran PLLC, P.O. Box962169, Boston, MA 02196, (617) 502-4100 (285 .7192 /Se re t t o -Hyde ) (09 /09 /09 ,09/16/09, 09/23/09)(168803)September 9, 2009September 16, 2009September 23, 2009

Legal Notice Winchendon Conservation Commission

Baldwinville State Road (Route 202) – Map7, Parcel 275

Pursuant to the provisions of M.G.LChapter 131, Section 40, and the Town ofWinchendon Wetlands Protection By-Law,the Winchendon Conservation Commissionwill hold a public hearing on Thursday,

September 16th, 2009 at 7:10pm to considerthe Notice of Intent filed by Jose Fernandeson behalf of property owner Maria Fernandesfor proposed work at Baldwinville State Road(Route 202), Assessor’s Map 7, Parcel 275.The project entails the construction of adriveway through Bordering VegetatedWetlands to serve a single family house. Thehearing will be held in the 4th FloorConference Room of the Winchendon TownHall, 109 Front Street.

The Notice of Intent is available for publicreview at the Land Use Office, Room 10, firstfloor of the Winchendon Town Hall onMondays during the hours of 9am – 12noonand Thursdays 3pm – 6pm, or by calling theConservation Agent for an appointment at978-297-3537.September 16, 2009

THE COMMONWEALTH OFMASSACHUSETTS

LAND COURTDEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT

(SEAL) Case No. 399795 To:Jody James Paul, Denise Linda Dupuis Pauland to all persons entitled to the benefit ofthe Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.claiming to be the holder of a Mortgage cov-ering real property in Winchendon, num-bered 26 Walnut Street given by Jody JamesPaul and Denise Linda Dupuis Paul toMortgage Electronic Registration Systems,Inc., dated January 24, 2005, and recordedwith the Worcester County (WorcesterDistrict) Registry of Deeds at Book 35595,Page 367 and now held by the plaintiff byassignment has filed with said court a com-plaint for authority to foreclose said mortgagein the manner following: by entry and pos-session and exercise of power of sale.

If you are entitled to the benefits of theServicemembers Civil Relief Act as amend-ed and you object to such foreclosure you oryour attorney should file a written appear-ance and answer in said court at Boston onor before OCT 12 2009 or you may be forev-er barred from claiming that such foreclosureis invalid under said act.

Witness, KARYN F. SCHEIER, ChiefJustice of said Court on AUG 25 2009.Attest:

DEBORAH J. PATTERSONRECORDER

200904-2008-BLUSeptember 16, 2009

LEGAL NOTICEMORTGAGEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE

By virtue of and in execution of the Powerof Sale contained in a certain mortgagegiven by Daniel Paniss to New CenturyMortgage Corporation, dated July 28, 2005and recorded with the Worcester County(Worcester District) Registry of Deeds atBook 36941, Page 41, of which mortgageU.S. Bank, N.A., as Trustee for theRegistered Holders of MASTR Asset BackedSecurities Trust 2005-NC2, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-NC2 is thepresent holder by assignment, recorded inthe Worcester County (Worcester District)Registry of Deeds in Book 43998, Page 37,for breach of conditions of said mortgage andfor the purpose of foreclosing the same, themortgaged premises located at 580 NorthCentral Street, Winchendon, MA will be soldat a Public Auction at 4:00 PM on September28, 2009, at the mortgaged premises, moreparticularly described below, all and singularthe premises described in said mortgage, towit:

Property Address: 580 North CentralStreet, Winchendon, MA 01475 A certainparcel of land situated on the westerly side ofNorth Central Street, in the northerly part ofWinchendon, Worcester County,Massachusetts, and being shown as Lot "B"on a plan entitled, "Plan of Land surveyed forFrederick E, and Yvonne S. Wright inWinchendon, MA., Scale: 1 inch = 50 feet,October 6, 1983, Michael S. Szoc, R.L.Surveyor, Gardner, Mass." which plan isrecorded with Worcester District Registry ofDeeds, Plan Book 512, Plan 74, boundedand described as follows: BEGINNING at aNortheasterly corner thereof, at a drill hole inthe Westerly line of North Central Street, at acorner of other land now or formerly ofFrederick E. and Yvonne S. Wright, thegrantors herein and being shown as Lot "A"on a plan hereinabove referred to, said pointalso being located 250.00 feet along saidstreet line from a concrete bound at a cornerof land of one Kenney; THENCE South 1° 49'00" East, by said street line 46.35 feet to apoint on a stone wall at a corner of land ofOrley B. and Beatrice L. Bartlett; THENCESouth 54° 18' 02" West, by said Bartlett land377.13 feet to a drill hole at a corner of landof Ronald F. and Phyllis T. King; THENCESouth 54° 35' 10" West, 226.54 feet to a drillhole; THENCE South 52° 48' 17" West, 50.60feet to a field stone bound at a corner ofstone walls at a corner of land of Francis M.Kuchta, the preceding two courses being byKing land; THENCE South 51° 32' 39" West,52.33 feet; THENCE South 55° 03' 34" West,163.52 feet to an iron pipe in a stone;THENCE South 54° 35' 50" West, 68.77 feetto a drill hole at a corner of land now or for-merly of Emmett T. Jeffers, Trustee of E.T.Jeffers Real Estate Trust, the preceding threecourses being by said Kuchta land and thepreceding six courses being a stone wall;THENCE North 6° 33' 55" East, by saidJeffers land 582.03 feet to an iron pin at a

corner of other land aforementioned Wrightand the aforementioned Lot "A", THENCENorth 83° 38' 54" East, 561.30 feet to an ironpin; THENCE South 3° 00' 53" East, 127.79feet to an iron pin; THENCE North 57° 49' 21"East 153.21 feet to a drill hole in the Westerlyline of North Central Street and the point ofbeginning, the preceding three courses beingby said Wright land and Lot "A". Containing5.209 acres. ALSO granting an easement forthe purpose of installing, maintaining, andrepairing a water line from the Westerly lineof North Central Street to the barn shown onLot “B” on said plan, on the approximate loca-tion of the overhead wires leading to saidbarn and shown on said plan, providing thatafter any such location, maintenance andrepair, the land surface shall be restored toits original condition.

For mortgagor's title see deed recordedwith the Worcester County (WorcesterDistrict) Registry of Deeds in Book 36941,Page 38.

The premises will be sold subject to anyand all unpaid taxes and other municipalassessments and liens, and subject to priorliens or other enforceable encumbrances ofrecord entitled to precedence over this mort-gage, and subject to and with the benefit ofall easements, restrictions, reservations andconditions of record and subject to all tenan-cies and/or rights of parties in possession.

Terms of the Sale: Cash, cashier's or certi-fied check in the sum of $5,000.00 as adeposit must be shown at the time and placeof the sale in order to qualify as a bidder (themortgage holder and its designee(s) areexempt from this requirement); high bidder tosign written Memorandum of Sale uponacceptance of bid; balance of purchase pricepayable in cash or current funds in thirty (30)days from the date of the sale at the officesof mortgagee's attorney, Korde & Associates,P.C., 321 Billerica Road, Suite 210,Chelmsford, MA 01824-4100, or such othertime as may be designated by mortgagee.The description of the premises contained insaid mortgage shall control in the event of atypographical error in this publication.Other terms to be announced at the sale.U.S. Bank, N.A., as Trustee for theRegistered Holders of MASTR Asset BackedSecurities Trust 2005-NC2, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-NC2Korde & Associates, P.C.321 Billerica Road, Suite 210Chelmsford, MA 01824-4100(978) 256-1500(09-052614/Paniss/OCWEN)(9/2/20099/9/2009 9/16/2009)(116036)September 2, 2009September 9, 2009September 16, 2009


By virtue and in execution of the Power ofSale contained in a certain Mortgage givenby Brendan J. Ringer to Mortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc., dated March 20,2007 and recorded with the WorcesterCounty (Worcester District) Registry ofDeeds at Book 40846, Page 149 of which theMortgage the undersigned is the presentholder for breach of the conditions of saidMortgage and for the purpose of foreclosingsame will be sold at Public Auction at 09:00AM on September 24, 2009 at 82 ElmwoodRoad, Winchendon, MA, all and singular thepremises described in said Mortgage, to wit:A certain parcel of land with the buildingsthereon known and numbered as 82Elmwood Road in Winchendon, WorcesterCounty, Massachusetts and being shown asLot 3 on a plan entitled "Property Rights Planof Land located in Winchendon,Massachusetts", prepared for Patrick Larkin,Scale: 1 "=20', dated August 17, 2006, pre-pared by Sullivan Engineering Group, LLC,which plan is recorded with the WorcesterDistrict Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 848,Plan 103, to which plan should be refer-enced for a complete description.Containing 17,595 square feet of land, moreor less.For Mortgagors' title see deed recordedherewith. 40846-147.For consideration paid, the signors of themortgage to which this Exhibit is attached,(the Mortgage) hereby release any and allrights of homestead in and to the mortgagedpremises as against the holder of theMortgage. It is agreed that any suchHomestead shall not have any effect uponthe Mortgage and to the extent suchHomestead is legally enforceable, shall besubordinated and junior to said Mortgage inevery respect.The premises are to be sold subject to andwith the benefit of all easements, restrictions,building and zoning laws, unpaid taxes, taxtitles, water bills, municipal liens and assess-ments, rights of tenants and parties in pos-session.TERMS OF SALE:A deposit of FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARSAND 00 CENTS ($5,000.00) in the form of acertified check or bank treasurer’s check willbe required to be delivered at or before thetime the bid is offered. The successful bidderwill be required to execute a ForeclosureSale Agreement immediately after the closeof the bidding. The balance of the purchaseprice shall be paid within thirty (30) days fromthe sale date in the form of a certified check,bank treasurer’s check or other check satis-factory to Mortgagee’s attorney. TheMortgagee reserves the right to bid at thesale, to reject any and all bids, to continuethe sale and to amend the terms of the sale

by written or oral announcement madebefore or during the foreclosure sale. If thesale is set aside for any reason, thePurchaser at the sale shall be entitled only toa return of the deposit paid. The purchasershall have no further recourse against theMortgagor, the Mortgagee or theMortgagee’s attorney. The description of thepremises contained in said mortgage shallcontrol in the event of an error in this publi-cation. TIME WILL BE OF THE ESSENCE.Other terms if any, to be announced at thesale.

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems,Inc.

Present Holder of said Mortgage, By Its Attorneys,

Orlans Moran PLLCP.O. Box 962169

Boston, MA 02196Phone: (617) 502-4100

(578.0014/Ringer)(09/02/09, 09/09/09,09/16/09)(168094)

September 2, 2009September 9, 2009September 16, 2009


By virtue and in execution of the Power ofSale contained in a certain Mortgage givenby Joseph W. Spofford and Angela M.Spofford to Mortgage Electronic RegistrationSystems, Inc., dated August 18, 2005 andrecorded with the Worcester County(Worcester District) Registry of Deeds atBook 37099, Page 126 of which theMortgage the undersigned is the presentholder by assignment for breach of the con-ditions of said Mortgage and for the purposeof foreclosing same will be sold at PublicAuction at 10:00 AM on September 24, 2009at 292 Brown Street, Winchendon, MA, alland singular the premises described in saidMortgage, to wit:A certain parcel of land on the westerly sideof Brown Street in Winchendon, WorcesterCounty, Massachusetts and being shown asLot "2" on a plan entitled, "Plan of Lots sur-veyed for Edith Arietta Smith, Winchendon,MA., May 28, 1987, Scoz Surveyors, 32Pleasant Street, Gardner, MA.", which plan isrecorded with Worcester District Registry ofDeeds, Plan Book 579, Plan 43, Boundedand described as follows:Commencing at iron pin in the westerly lineof Brown Street at the southeasterly cornerof Lot "3" shown on said plan; thence South 05° 37' 09" West, by the westerly sideof Brown Street 265.00 feet to an iron pin atthe northeasterly corner of Lot "1" shown onsaid plan; thence North 84° 25' 20" West, by Lot "1" on saidPlan, 448.75 feet to a bound at a corner ofland now or formerly of the United States ofAmerica; thence North 29° 28' 37" East, 113.90 feet to abound; thence North 20° 06' 23" West, 134.00 feet to abound; thence North 74° 21' 23" West, 121.20 feet to abound; thence North 30° 12" 23" West 143.50 feet to abound at a corner of Lot "3" shown on saidPlan. The preceding four courses being bysaid land of the United States of America;thence South 76° 04' 16" East, by Lot "3" shown onsaid Plan, 671.24 feet to an iron pin set in thewesterly line of Brown Street and the place ofbeginning.Containing 3.387 acres more or less. for titlesee BK 37099, Pg 124.The premises are to be sold subject to andwith the benefit of all easements, restrictions,building and zoning laws, unpaid taxes, taxtitles, water bills, municipal liens and assess-ments, rights of tenants and parties in pos-session.TERMS OF SALE:A deposit of FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARSAND 00 CENTS ($5,000.00) in the form of acertified check or bank treasurer’s check willbe required to be delivered at or before thetime the bid is offered. The successful bidderwill be required to execute a ForeclosureSale Agreement immediately after the closeof the bidding. The balance of the purchaseprice shall be paid within thirty (30) days fromthe sale date in the form of a certified check,bank treasurer’s check or other check satis-factory to Mortgagee’s attorney. TheMortgagee reserves the right to bid at thesale, to reject any and all bids, to continuethe sale and to amend the terms of the saleby written or oral announcement madebefore or during the foreclosure sale. If thesale is set aside for any reason, thePurchaser at the sale shall be entitled only toa return of the deposit paid. The purchasershall have no further recourse against theMortgagor, the Mortgagee or theMortgagee’s attorney. The description of thepremises contained in said mortgage shallcontrol in the event of an error in this publi-cation. TIME WILL BE OF THE ESSENCE.Other terms if any, to be announced at thesale.Chase Home Finance LLCPresent Holder of said Mortgage, By Its Attorneys,Orlans Moran PLLCP.O. Box 962169Boston, MA 02196Phone: (617) 502-4100 (310.4143/Spafford)(09/02/09, 09/09/09,09/16/09)(168211)September 2, 2009September 9, 2009September 16, 2009

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ture.Still in the offing will be a huge renovation

of the front of the building to give the busi-ness a brighter, expansive signage. The artistrenderings of the proposed façade are impres-sive, and the name will be clearly visible.

“Tell people the little sign is just for now,they will be impressed when the new one goesup,” Mathieu said.

One antique and nostalgic sign will remain,or actually will be moved into place, asMathieu intends to have the pole sign atCentral Street moved to the Spring Street loca-tion.

Mathieu said being in the new location hasbeen “an adventure” and his customers havefound him with no problem. He said that whilethe economy may have had some impact, infact his own business is “up over last year.”

“I don’t know if the clunker program hadmuch to do with it, we certainly sold many

vehicles without taking a clunker in trade,”said Mathieu. “What it is, is quality product.”

He said the focus of his business is on thecustomer, not the bottom line, and that philos-ophy has done well.

“We take care of our customers, they areour friends and neighbors,” he said.

In fact, the record breaking months meanMathieu has hired four new employees, andmay be hiring more in the future.

“My staff is well trained,” he said. “Many ofthem have worked with Mathieu Ford foryears. It isn’t all new people, and we work welltogether.”

He said the good workers and the cama-raderie made for less stress, and even the cus-tomers could feel the friendly atmosphere.

The move was accomplished in just one day,with every employee pitching in, all the officeparaphernalia loaded into vehicles and everyvehicle moved from one lot to the other withinthe single day. Indeed, within a few hours.

“It went smoother than we expected,”Mathieu admitted. “Another piece of the work

ethic and the cooperation.”The new site has more parking, is conven-

ient, has more display area and an additionalsix service bays to serve Mathieu’s customers.The fact the lot is self contained is even a plus.

“People used to have to cross a busy street tolook at the vehicles across the way. Now theycan park their cars, pull up and look around.Much better,” said Mathieu.

Mathieu Ford did participate in the clunkerprogram, taking in 26 older vehicles that weredestroyed and taken tolocal auto salvage forpartsing out.

“Was it a success?I’d say it was. Therewere people who real-ly needed better vehi-cles and they wereable to get one withthis program. It was alot of work, but I thinkit was worth it,” saidMathieu.

And so a new era begins for a Winchendonbusiness. Mathieu said driving down CentralStreet feels “empty” now, but he has no regretsfor making the move.

“It has been nothing but good and will con-tinue to be a good thing for our business andfor Winchendon. Come on out and see what wehave now, you’ll appreciate it,” he said.

The phone number remains the same: (978)297-0001.

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NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE'S SALE OFREAL ESTATE

By virtue and in execution of the Powerof Sale contained in a certain mortgagegiven by Charles Derome to Bank ofAmerica, N.A., dated April 27, 2007 andrecorded with the Worcester County(Worcester District) Registry of Deeds atBook 41063, Page 99, of which mortgageBank of America, NA is the present holder,for breach of the conditions of said mortgageand for the purpose of foreclosing, the samewill be sold at Public Auction at 10:00 a.m. onSeptember 30, 2009, on the mortgagedpremises located at 63 Pearl Street,Winchendon, Worcester County,Massachusetts, all and singular the premisesdescribed in said mortgage,TO WIT:Property Address: 63 Pearl Street,

Winehendon, MA 01475 A certain parcel of land on the northerly lineof Pearl Street in Winchendon, WorcesterCounty, Massachusetts, described as Lot ''3''on a plan entitled 'Plan of Land prepared forMark Landanno (ovvner) in Winchendon,MA, scale 1 inch = 40 feet, December 18,2003, Edmond J. Boucher, PLS, 4 JollyRoad, Royalston, MA 01368'' which plan isrecorded with Worcester District Registry ofDeeds, Plan Book 807, Plan 68, to whichplan reference is made for a more particulardescription.Containing 4.6628 acres more or lessaccording to said plan.Being the same premises conveyed toCharles Derome by deed of U.S. BankNational Association dated March 26, 2007and recorded with the Worcester DistrictRegistry of Deeds concurrently herewith.Book 40163, Page 98.

For mortgagor's(s') title see deed record-ed with Worcester County (WorcesterDistrict) Registry of Deeds in Book 41063,

Page 98.These premises will be sold and con-

veyed subject to and with the benefit of allrights, rights of way, restrictions, easements,covenants, liens or claims in the nature ofliens, improvements, public assessments,any and all unpaid taxes, tax titles, tax liens,water and sewer liens and any other munici-pal assessments or liens or existing encum-brances of record which are in force and areapplicable, having priority over said mort-gage, whether or not reference to suchrestrictions, easements, improvements, liensor encumbrances is made in the deed.TERMS OF SALE:

A deposit of Five Thousand ($5,000.00)Dollars by certified or bank check will berequired to be paid by the purchaser at thetime and place of sale. The balance is to bepaid by certified or bank check at HarmonLaw Offices, P.C., 150 California Street,Newton, Massachusetts 02458, or by mail toP.O. Box 610389, Newton Highlands,Massachusetts 02461-0389, within thirty (30)

days from the date of sale. Deed will be pro-vided to purchaser for recording upon receiptin full of the purchase price. The descriptionof the premises contained in said mortgageshall control in the event of an error in thispublication.

Other terms, if any, to be announced atthe sale.

BANK OF AMERICA, NAPresent holder of said mortgage

By its Attorneys,HARMON LAW OFFICES, P.C.

150 California StreetNewton, MA 02458

(617) 558-0500200903-1110 - ORE

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virus spread through the communi-ty. The meeting included Board ofHealth agent James Abare, FireChief Allen J. Lafrennie, and othersconcerned with local health.

Superintendent Brooke Clenchysaid MMHS is designated as a sitefor triage, and there is a plannedmapped for the flow of peoplethrough the school for inoculationsor treatment.

Clenchy said hand-sanitizingagents have been stockpiled alongwith masks in the schools. She com-mended the nursing staff for stay-ing on top of the issue.

Reppucci said no one knows exact-ly what will happen.

School Committee member JohnMcDonough asked if there was anyindication from the state or federalgovernment that there would bereimbursement for the district iffunds were spent on the effort tocontrol the virus. The nurse said thevaccine was being administeredthrough the Department of PublicHealth, and all vaccines, gloves,syringes and other needs wouldcome through the Board of Health.

Clenchy said the effort was wellorganized.

Barbaro said that since the out-break occurred in NYC in mid-April, 10 percent of the populationgot sick.

“That’s a big number in that shortspan.”

Barbaro said that 90 percent ofparents work.

“Most of those kids are going to becoming to school because they don’tkeep them home.”

Barbaro said parents don’t alwaysknow how sick their children are,and said he felt the schools wouldsee more and more cases. He saidthe scale of sickness experienced inWinchendon could be different thanin other communities.

Reppucci said notices were sent toteachers telling them signs andsymptoms to watch out for. She saida strict protocol is in place.

The nurse would check the symp-toms and quarantine the studentuntil a parent or other responsibleadult can come and pick up the stu-dent. The nurse would advise theparent that the child is not to returnto school until 24 hours after thefever has abated.

Reppucci said there should be aprospective kept on the situation.She told the board the H1N1 virus isa new strain, but is no worse thanany other seasonal flu.

“The majority of cases are mild.We obviously have to be prepared ifit mutates and things change.Unfortunately there will be peoplewho are severely ill with it, but thereare also people severely ill with sea-sonal flu. It’s just about keepingthings in perspective, and dealingwith situations as they arise.”

This is from the MassachusettsDepartment of Public Health.

What is H1N1 flu?Flu is a disease of the body’s

breathing system, including thenose, throat and lungs. Flu is shortfor “influenza.” H1N1 flu is causedby a new virus that was first recog-nized in April of 2009, and wascalled “swine flu.” H1N1 flu quicklyspread to many parts of the worldand is now a “pandemic,” or globaloutbreak. H1N1 flu is not the sameas swine flu, which is a virus thatpigs can get. It is not the same as“seasonal” flu, which occurs everyyear, during the winter and earlyspring. But H1N1 flu causes symp-toms that are similar to seasonal flu,is spread like seasonal flu, and canbe prevented like seasonal flu.

What are the symptoms of H1N1flu?

H1N1 flu symptoms are very simi-lar to seasonal flu symptoms. Mostcommon are fever, cough, and sorethroat. Symptoms can also includebody aches, headache, chills, runnynose and feeling very tired. Somepeople also have diarrhea and vom-iting. Symptoms last from a fewdays to up to a week or more.

Is H1N1 flu serious?Yes, H1N1 flu can be very serious.

In the U.S., several thousand people

were hospitalized and several hun-dred died between April and August2009. Like with seasonal flu, somepeople are at higher risk of serioushealth problems when they get theH1N1 flu. This includes pregnantwomen, infants, and people withmedical conditions like asthma, dia-betes, heart disease, kidney disease,muscle or nerve conditions thataffects breathing and weakenedimmune systems.

How does H1N1 flu spread?The flu virus is in the wet spray

(droplets of saliva and mucous) thatcomes out of the nose and mouth ofsomeone who coughs or sneezes. Ifyou are close enough to a personwith the flu (3-6 feet) when theycough or sneeze, you can breathe inthe virus and get sick. Flu symp-toms start 1-4 days (usually twodays) after a person breathes in thevirus.

Flu is spread easily from person toperson. The virus can also live for ashort time on things you touch likedoorknobs, phones and toys. Afteryou touch these objects, you cancatch the virus when you touch yourmouth, nose, or eyes. However, whenthe wet droplets on these types ofobjects dry out, the virus can’t causeinfection. Adults with the H1N1 flucan spread it from about one daybefore symptoms appear to aboutone week after. Children can spreadthe flu even longer after they getsick.

How is H1N1 flu treated?There are drugs available that

your doctor may prescribe to treatH1N1 flu. The drugs work best ifstarted soon after the start of symp-toms. Your doctor can determine ifyou need treatment. People sickwith any type of flu should makesure to drink plenty of fluids, getplenty of rest, eat healthy foods,wash their hands frequently andstay home to avoid spreading the fluto other people. Over the counterpain relievers may help people withthe flu feel more comfortable.Children and teens with the flushould never take aspirin, because arare but serious disease called Reye

syndrome can occur.Is there a vaccine for H1N1 flu?Yes. A vaccine helps your body to

protect itself against a disease. Avaccine has been developed and willbe available during the fall of 2009and winter of 2010. Most people willneed two shots of H1N1 vaccine, sep-arated by three weeks or so. Gettingflu vaccine will not give you the fluor any other type of illness.

Who should get H1N1 flu vaccine?Five groups have been identified

by CDC to get this vaccine when itbecomes available: pregnantwomen; people who live with or pro-vide care for infants under 6 monthsof age (e.g., parents, siblings, anddaycare providers); healthcare andemergency medical services person-nel; people age 6 months to 24 years;and people age 25 to 64 years whohave medical conditions that putthem at higher risk for influenza-related complications. Note:Current studies indicate the risk forinfection among persons over 65years of age is less than the risk forpersons in younger age groups.

How do I know if I have H1N1 flu?If you have symptoms of flu, it

could be seasonal or H1N1 flu. If youthink you have the flu, stay homefrom work and school and avoid con-tact with others so you do not spreadthe virus. If you think you mighthave flu and you need to see yourdoctor, call ahead and let them knowyou might have the flu. That way,your doctor’s office can take steps toavoid the spread of flu to others. Thedoctor may recommend that you betested for influenza.

How do I protect myself from get-ting sick with H1N1 flu?

• Get vaccinated when the vaccinebecomes available, especially if youhave a medical condition, whichmakes health complications fromthe flu more likely.

• Wash your hands often with soapand water or use alcohol based handgel.

• Cough or sneeze into a tissue orthe inside of your elbow if you don’thave a tissue. Throw the tissue inthe trash and wash your hands.

Always wash your hands before youtouch your eyes, nose or mouth.

• Use a regular household cleanerto clean surfaces that might get fluvirus on them like doorknobs,phones, faucets and toys.

• Avoid close physical contact withpeople who are sick. People withyoung children, a weak immune sys-tem or a chronic medical conditionshould avoid large crowds, if possi-ble.

• Stay home from work and schoolif you get sick with a flu-like illnessand avoid contact with others so thevirus does not spread. Stay at homeuntil you have been free from feverfor at least 24 hours after your lastdose of fever-reducing medication(like Tylenol, Advil or Motrin). Formost people this will mean stayingat home for about four days.

How do I take care of someonewho is sick with H1N1 flu?

Flu: What You Can Do - Caring forPeople At Home is a booklet avail-able in nine languages that givesyou lots of information to help youcare for someone who has the flu intheir home. A video is also availablein English and Spanish. Flu: WhatYou Can Do information can befound at: www.mass.gov/flu .

Where can I get more informa-tion?

• Call your doctor, nurse or clinic,or your local board of health

• Call the MassachusettsDepartment of Public Health,Immunization Program at:

(617) 983-6800 or toll-free at (888)658-2850

• Massachusetts Department ofPublic Health website atwww.mass.gov/flu

• Center for Disease Control andPrevention (CDC) at:www.cdc.gov/flu

• Mass 2-1-1 provides flu informa-tion for the general public: call 211or 1-877-211-MASS (6277)

For flu clinic information, visitthe MassPRO Public Flu ClinicFinder website at:http://flu.masspro.org/

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Enjoy a night of laughter Sept. 25WINCHENDON — Where can one go to hear the latest top Boston

comics and have a great time with friends without leaving Toy Town?On Sept. 25, the Winchendon Police Association will be presentingComedy Night at the American Legion Post 193. The event is the firstof many put on by the Winchendon Police Association to give back tothe community.

Police Officer Martin Rose is walking the beat to talk about the PoliceAssociation and their drive to connect with the community, especiallyyoung people.

The association has begun a scholarship drive for students going tocollege for criminal justice. The association has also decided theywould like to help the school district cut user fees for sports so moreathletes will have an opportunity to play.

“Everything that we are doing is giving back to the community,” saidRose.

Rose said there have been talks with the fire department to bringback a joint Fireman’ and Policeman’s Ball. Rose said the associationalso sponsors a team in Little League, another great effort to connectwith the community it serves.

The Comedy Night starts at 7:30 p.m. with doors opening at 6:30 p.m..It will be theater style seating, and is for those 21 and older. Tickets are$15, and there will be door prizes.

Rose said area businesses have been extremely supportive, and theevening will be fun and filled with laughter.


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