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By MAX MARCUSRecorder Staff

MONTAGUE — Untreated sewage leaked intothe Connecticut River after a lightning strike Thurs-day night rendered the Montague Water PollutionControl Facility temporarily inoperable, said Mon-tague Town Administrator Steve Ellis on Friday.

According to a Facebook post by the ConnecticutRiver Conservancy, 280,000 gallons of partiallytreated sewage was leaked into the river near theconfluence with the Deerfield River.

The wastewater was treated with chlorine, butdid not go through the full treatment process beforedischarge. As of 4 p.m. on Friday, Ellis said the issue,which began around 5 p.m. on July 5, was “resolved.”The water treatment plant was functional by thattime, too.

“Any time there’s an unintended discharge intothe river, it’s a great concern to us,”Ellis said, addingthat the town had advised both the EnvironmentalProtection Agency and the Massachusetts Depart-ment of Environmental Protection of the issue.

Greenfield Mayor William Martin said his com-munity was notified by the Montague Water Pollu-tion Control Facility Superintendent Bob McDonaldthat there was a “dry weather event,” causing thedischarge of untreated sewage into the river.

In talking about the possible impact on Green-field, Mark Holley, water/wastewater superinten-dent for Greenfield, said in a press release that thereshould be none since there is “no pathway to make itto our recreation or drinking water facilities.”

The Department of Environmental Protectionadvises the public should wait 48 hours, or until Sun-day afternoon at the earliest, before going into ther i v e r.

Officials: No threat to safetyof local water drinking supply

Minister ’sjourney tou n d e rs ta n d

racism in US

By RICHIE DAVISRecorder Staff

GREENFIELD — When she retired lastspring as pastor of Ashfield’s First Congrega-tional Church, Kate Stevens knew her work washardly done.

After helping her husband, John Hoffman,with the farm work atCharlemont’s Wilder BrookFarm, she prepared forworking the deeper soilshe’d been contemplatingfor months, and years, be-fore: finding the roots ofracial tensions that havebeen growing in this coun-try for centuries.

With Bryan Stevenson’s“Just Mercy: A Story of Jus-tice and Redemption” as animpetus, Stevens, a Pittsburgh native who hadnever traveled in the South, set out for a three-month pilgrimage to learn all she could about

Retired pastor traveled 6Kmiles in 90 days, will report

on her findings today

STE VENS

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Judge rejects blanket delay toreunite children at border

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and JULIE WATSONAssociated Press

SAN DIEGO — A judge on Fri-day refused to grant the Trump ad-ministration a blanket extension ofthe deadline to reunite childrenseparated from their parents at theborder, instead acknowledging thatmore time may be justified only inspecific cases.

The administration said itneeded more time to reunite 101children under 5 years old to en-sure the children’s safety and toconfirm their parental relation-ships.

“There’s always going to be ten-sion between a fast release and asafe release,” said Sarah Fabian, aJustice Department attorney.

U.S. District Judge DanaSabraw ordered the administrationto share a list of the 101 children

AP PHOTODiego Magalhaes, left, 10, kisses his mother, Sirley Silveira Paixao,an immigrant from Brazil seeking asylum with her son, after Diegowas released from immigration detention on July 5 in Chicago.SEE C HILDREN A7

Greenfield celebratesthe Fourth on a Friday

By MAX MARCUSRecorder Staff

GREENFIELD — People set up lawn chairs andpicnic blankets spanning from Beacon Field to Fed-eral Street on Friday night to watch Greenfield’s fire-works, launched from Poet’s Seat Tower.

Greenfield’s Fourth of July fireworks were on July6 this year. Many attendees appreciated that the fire-works were on a Friday night instead of in the middleof the week.

“I think it’s actually better because we don’t have

City celebrates Independence Day with fireworks at Beacon Field

ABOVE: Hundredsgather at Beacon Fieldto watch fireworkslaunch from Poet'sSeat Tower on Fridayevening in Greenfield.

LEFT: Holly May singsthe National Anthemon stage after theGreenfield MilitaryBand played at BeaconField prior to the startof the fireworks showon Friday evening inGreenfield .

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James C. BernierJ r.

GREENFIELD —James “Craig” C. BernierJr., 49, died Thursday (7-5-18) at home.

A memorial service willbe held at Kostanski Fu-neral Home, 220 FederalSt., Greenfield on Thurs-day, July 12, at 3 p.m., withcalling hours before from 1to 3. A celebration of lifewill be held at SchuetzenVerein, 55 Barton CoveRoad, in Gill immediatelyafter the service.

Donations may be madeto the Mass General Can-cer Center at Cooley Dick-inson, P.O. Box 329,Northampton, MA 01061; orto the James C. Bernier Jr.Family trust, (for the bene-fit of Judith) GreenfieldSavings Bank, 400 Main St.,P.O. Box 1537, Greenfield,MA 01302-1537, 413-774-3191.

For condolences, visit:w w w. k o s t a n s k i f u n e r a l-home.com.

Joseph J. DuguayGREENFIELD —

Joseph John Duguay, 82,died Friday (7-6-18) atPo e t ’s Seat Health CareC e n t e r.

A graveside service willbe held Tuesday at 9 a.m. atGreen River Cemetery.

Arrangements are un-der the direction of Kostan-ski Funeral Home.

Sympathy messagesavailable at: w w w. k o s t a n-skifuneralhome.com

Patricia G. GrayBERNARDSTON — Pa -

tricia G. Gray, 82, ofBernardston, died Wednes-day (7-4-18) at home.

Funeral services will beTuesday at 11 a.m. at theKidder Funeral Home, 1Parker Ave., Northfield.Rev. David Neil, Pastor ofthe United Church ofBernardston, will officiate.Burial will follow in WestDeerfield Cemetery, Deer-field.

There are no callinghours.

Donations in her mem-ory may be made to Hos-pice of Franklin County, 329Conway St., Suite 2, Green-field, MA 01301.

To send condolences orfor directions, visit:www.kidder funeral-home.com.

Dorothy M.Holme s

BELCHERTOWN —Dorothy M. (LaShier)Holmes, 80, formerly ofTurners Falls, died onTuesday (7-2-18) in SouthH a d l e y.

Calling hours will be onWednesday from 4 to 6 p.m.at the Beers & StoryBelchertown FuneralHome, 10 Maple St., Rte202, with a celebration oflife service at the conclu-sion of the calling hours.For those wishing, dona-tions may be made in hermemory to the JimmyFund/Dana Farber Insti-tute at: w w w. d a n a - f a r-b e r. o r g .

For more information orto sign the online guestbook, visit: w w w. b e e r s a n d-stor y.com.

Marsh serviceDEERFIELD — A

memorial gathering forHerbert Verner Marsh Jr.,who died Feb. 21, 2018, willbe held Saturday, July 14(which would have been his86th birthday) from 3 to 6p.m. at his home at 146 MillVillage Road, Deerfield.Any pictures or memoriesto share would be wel-come.

A sister, Margaret Riss-land Usher, predeceasedhim in 2005, her name wasaccidentally omitted fromhis obituary.

Beatrice PowersAMARILLO, TX —

Beatrice Leone HillockPowers, 83, formerly ofLeverett, died Tuesday (7-3-18).

Services will be onWednesday at 11 a.m. at theMoore’s Corner Church,followed by burial in Plain-view Cemetery, both inLeverett. Calling hours willbe held on Tuesday from 6to 8 p.m. at Walker FuneralHome, 14 High St., Green-field.

Reynolds servicesWHITINGHAM, Vt. —

Graveside funeral servicesfor Adam J. Reynolds, 32,who died January 25, 2018,will be held at the family lotin Sadawga Cemetery onSaturday, July 14, at 11a.m., with Reverend JohnBrigham officiating.

To send personal condo-lences, visit: w w w. s h e a f u-neralhomes.com.

Arrangements havebeen entrusted to theCovey Allen & Shea Fu-neral Home.

John J. ShielsMONTAGUE — John J.

Shiels, 76, of Randall Roaddied Friday (7-6-18) atBaystate Franklin MedicalCenter in Greenfield.

Arrangements underthe direction of KostanskiFuneral Home are incom-plete at this time.

Sympathy messagesavailable at: www.kostan-skifuneralhome.com

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“Each recruit undergoes anindividualized suitability reviewand the length of time for the re-view is dependent upon each indi-vidual’s unique background,”Smith said.

Zhao, 31, said his “ship out”date to basic training was delayedfor two years as he underwentbackground checks, counterin-telligence interviews and rigor-ous reviews added as require-ments for immigrant enlistees.

He continued to pursue hisPhD in geography at Texas A&Mbut also hit the gym, prepping forboot camp. And he trained — inuniform — with his unit. He hadmilitary identification and healthcare, he said.

In April, Zhao visited Wash-ington, D.C., for the first time,touring the White House and vis-iting the Republican NationalCommittee.

That same month, he got wordfrom his unit commander: Hewas being discharged. He wastold simply that his dischargewas “uncharacterized,” he said.

“I’m not a national threat,”Zhao said. “On the contrast, I’m anational merit because peoplelike me with higher educationand critical skills, we want toserve this great U.S. Army. I’m agood scientist no matter what.”

To become citizens, immi-grant recruits are required tohave served honorably for 180

days. But the recently dischargedmembers have had their basictraining delayed, so they can’t benaturalized.

Immigration attorneys toldthe AP that many immigrants letgo in recent weeks received an“uncharacterized discharge,”which is neither dishonorablenor honorable.

A Brazilian reservist, LucasCalixto, filed a lawsuit in Wash-ington, D.C., last week contend-ing that he was booted withoutthe Defense Department givinghim a chance to defend himselfor appeal.

President George W. Bushordered “expedited naturaliza-t i o n” for immigrant soldiers in2002 in an effort to swell militaryranks. Seven years later, theMilitary Accessions Vital to theNational Interest program,known as MAVNI, became an of-ficial recruiting program.

The program came underfire from conservatives whenPresident Barack Obama addedDACA recipients — young immi-grants brought to the U.S. ille-gally — to the list of eligible en-listees. In response, the militarylayered on additional securityclearances for recruits to passbefore heading to boot camp.

Donald Trump’s administra-tion added even more hurdles,creating a backlog within theDefense Department. Last fall,hundreds of recruits still in theenlistment process had theircontracts canceled. A fewmonths later, the military sus-pended MAVNI.

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with the American Civil Liber-ties Union, which successfullysued to force the reunions, bySaturday afternoon. The twosides will try to determine overthe weekend which casesmerit a delay in an effort to pre-sent a unified front in court onMonday morning.

“The government must re-unite them,” the judge said. “Itmust comply with the timeframe unless there is an artic-ulable reason.”

The administration hasmatched 86 parents to 83 chil-dren and 16 are not yetmatched, Fabian said.

The deadline is July 10 forparents with children under 5and July 26 for everyone else.

More than 2,000 childrenwere separated from their par-ents after Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions announced inMay that the zero tolerancepolicy was in full effect, even if

it meant splitting families.While parents were criminallyprosecuted, children wereplaced in custody of the Healthand Human Services Depart-ment.

Trump reversed course onJune 20 amid an internationaloutcry from opponents whosaid families should remain to-g e t h e r.

On Thursday, Health andHuman Services SecretaryAlex Azar said fewer than 3,000children are believed to havebeen separated, but that in-cludes kids who may have lostparents along the journey, notjust parents who were de-tained at the border.

If DNA testing is inconclu-sive, officials said in a court fil-ing, they won’t be able to con-firm a child’s parentage by thedeadline. They will need moretime to collect DNA samples orother evidence from parentswho have been released fromgovernment custody.

About half of the parents ofthe 101 children are in the cus-tody of Immigration and Cus-

toms Enforcement. Othershave left the country or werereleased, Fabian said. She saidit has been more difficult to re-unite children when parentsare outside government cus-t o d y.

The judge, who was ap-pointed by President GeorgeW. Bush, set the deadline lastweek, writing that the “situa-tion has reached a crisis level”and that the “chaotic circum-stances” were of the govern-ment’s own making.

Jonathan White, a Healthand Human Services official,filed a declaration with thecourt that gives perhaps themost detailed account yet ofwhat the government is doingand the hurdles it faces. Itsdatabase has some informa-tion about the children’s par-ents but was not designed toreunify families by the court’sdeadline.

The department has manu-ally reviewed the cases of all11,800 children in its custodyby working nights and week-ends, White said. The results of

that review are being vali-dated.

DNA cheek swab tests onparent and child take nearly aweek to complete, said White,who called the risk of placingchildren with adults who aren’ttheir parents “a real and signif-icant child welfare concern.”

“The Government does notwish to unnecessarily delay re-unifications or burden classmembers,” the Justice De-partment filing reads. “At thesame time, however, the Gov-ernment has a strong interestin ensuring that any release ofa child from Government cus-tody occurs in a manner thatensures the safety of thatchild.”

The ACLU sued in Marchon behalf of a Congolesewoman who was separatedfrom her daughter for fivemonths after seeking asylumat a San Diego border crossingand a Brazilian asylum-seekerwho has been separated fromher son since an arrest for ille-gal entry in August near theTexas-New Mexico border.

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to get up and go to work to-mor row,” said Aaron Las-towski, who lives in SouthDeerfield. “I probably wouldn’thave come on Wednesday.”

“People do all kinds ofthings on the Fourth, so it’skind of easier to go (on July6),” said Marissa Marquesfrom Phillipston.

“There’s always anothertown that has them on theFo u r t h , ” said Dan Burke fromRowe.

Some, like David Pinkhamfrom Greenfield, had strongerfeelings.

“Personally, I think theyshould keep it on the date itwas originally, out of respectfor how it was founded,” he

said.But most of the controversy

on Friday had to do withwhere the best place to viewthe fireworks would be.

“We used to go to BeaconField,” said Barbara Hoynoskiof Greenfield, who was watch-ing the fireworks with her fam-ily on the lawn in front ofKostanski Funeral Home. “Butwhen we sat on the lawn, theashes came down on top ofus.”

Chevy Pickup of TurnersFalls was sitting in the field be-hind Greenfield MiddleSchool, which was not asdensely filled as Beacon Field.Pickup said that since the hos-pital was built, fewer peoplenow sit in that area.

“This area used to be full,”Pickup said. “Right here is aperfect view of the fireworksbut people don’t realize it.”

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