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INDEX Summer’s Beauty By Bernadette Gentry.......................................................... 3 Destination Local - Open Farm Day............................................................... 4 New York Memories By Frank Houlihan...................................................... 6 Looking Back at 1958 By Clifton J. (Jerry) Noble Sr.......................... 10 Preserving Your Vegetable Garden Harvest By Jim Kennard......... 12 A Menagerie of People By T.J. Banks.............................................................. 14 Retirement Doctor By Enrique J. Alvarez................................................... 18 Country Cooking By Christy Cox....................................................................... 20 Town Crier................................................................................................................ 21 Classifieds ................................................................................................................ 27
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that showcase veggie farms, horse farms, orchards, a landscape nursery, and a vineyard, plus a cattle farm and a dairy. Catch exhibits, demonstrations, tastings, and tours of areas of the farms not usually open to the public. Special events are scheduled all day; there is truly something for everyone.
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• Clark Farm - the store will be open, apple picking • Fiddlehead Farm - Free pony rides, farm tours, feed the chickens, participate in the Perennial Swap • Hemlock Knoll, LLC - visit us at House of Hayes • Holcomb Farm - Holcomb Farm produce will be available in Farm Store from 9-4. Chef Chris Prosperi of Metro Bis will give a cooking demonstration at 10 AM, The Granby Horse Council will give a drill demonstration at 11, Farmer tour will run at 11:15, and a guided hike at 2PM. • Horse Central Stables - will have farm tours all day, with Western Riding Games at 11AM and 2PM • Lost Acres Orchard - come have lunch on our porch and visit the farm store • Lost Acres Vineyard - Come sample our newest wine, take a self-guided vineyard tour or hike. At 10AM, you can meet the wine maker and take a tour of the wine cellar.
• Maple View Farm - Farm tours with story time, meet Jellybean the Pony and learn how to groom him, watch our Open Ride demonstration, and be there at 3 for the Haybale Throwing Contest! Winners receive a gift certificate to the Maple View Farm Store. • O’Brien Nurserymen - Hosta dividing demonstrations at 10:30 and 1:30, plus a tour of the display gardens at 3. Test your plan knowledge in our ID Quiz (and yes, there will be prizes!) • Old Beech Farm - Walking tours of the pasture, view the cows and calves as well as our modern and antique tractors! Joan Palmer of Real Food Matters will also be with us. • Schoolhouse Farm - spinning demonstrations from 10-12 • Sepe Farm - We’ll be at Lost Acres Vineyard for Open Farm Day! Come watch a sheep shearing demonstration at 11, 1, and 3. All day, we’ll have a kids’ demo where you can make your own felt necklace. • Shinder Family Farm - Meet Mario the bull and watch our firewood processor make quick work of the winter’s heating fuel. Also a display from Briarwoods Farm • Sweet Pea Cheese at House of Hayes - Farm tours at 11, 12, 1, and 2 - come meet the goats and cows and sample our cheese, milk, and yogurt. Plus, the corn maze will be open - come get lost! • The Garlic Farm - Join us for a farm tour or demonstration each hour: 50 Ways to Stuff a Pepper, Make a Garlic Braid in 15 Minutes or Less, Tips on Growing Your Own Garlic • The Granby 4-H Clubs - will have displays of the year’s projects at Holcomb Farm all day. Come see quilting, knitting, sewing, baking, as well as watch our cooking demonstrations in the beehive oven. There will also be rabbits, chickens, goats to visit. • The Granby Horse Council - watch our drill demonstration at Holcomb Farm (11 AM)
Photos previous page: from left, The girls from Sweet Pea Cheese, The boys from Old Beech Farm, Bernie Merli’s antique tractor collection on display at the Grange. This page clockwise from left: tractor rides, tractor photo op,veggies at the Garlic Farm. Photos by Robin Sidwell.
• Plus the historic Granby Grange will host its Annual Agricultural Fair (all day). Come tour the cooperative garden project shared with the North Congregational Church. Supporting local farms helps preserve local farmland and benefits farmers, consumers and the community in many ways: • Preserves heritage and culture • Economic development • Quality of life • Tourism • Environmental responsibility • Food security To find out more about Granby Farms and Agricultural Businesses, visit their website: www.granvyag.org
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New York Memories Meeting a Hall of Famer
By Frank Houlihan
Many years ago, while playing baseball as a teen, I was asked if I would like to try out for a team on Long Island. this special team would represent New York in a game against a similar team of teens from another part of the country. The game, sponsored by the Journal-American, was played once a year at the Polo Grounds, home of the New York Giants. This was before the Giants moved to California. I thought it over and it didn’t take long to make a positive decision to participate in the tryout. I was told to be at a certain
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ball field on Long Island in two weeks time. A time slot and directions to the field would soon be given to me. On the day of the tryouts, dressed in my baseball uniform, with spikes and glove, I took a one hour train ride out to Long Island from the Bronx, NY. Arriving at the field I introduced myself to two of the coaches on Major League Shortstop and Hall of hand, then made ready Famer Rabbit Maranville, 1891-1954 and warmed up on the sidelines near first base. A short time later my name was called and I was told to “pick out a bat, step into the batter’s box and show us what you can do.” After batting for about twenty minutes I was called over to the sidelines and introduced to the manager of the team. His name: Rabbit Maranville. At the time I had never heard of him and had no idea who he was. We talked for about ten minutes with the text of the conversation being that I would not be making the team. But letting me down easy, he went on to say I was still quite young, had the ability, and should stay with the
game for better things might happen in the future, career wise. As I left the field I wasn’t too happy, but as time went on I started to feel better as I considered the tryout was a positive event, which I still remember to this day. About a week after the game was played, I received a letter (which I still have) from Rabbit Maranville inviting my Dad and me to a dinner at the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan. All those involved with team tryouts were invited, even those who did not make the team. By then I had found out that Rabbit Maranville was a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, in Cooperstown, NY. Later in life when I moved to Western Massachusetts, I found out Rabbit Maranville was born and raised in Springfield, MA not far from where I live in Westfield, MA. It certainly is a small world. Ed note: According to Wikipedia, The New York Journal-American was a newspaper published from 1937 to 1966, the product of a merger between two New York newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst: The New York American, a morning paper, and the New York Evening Journal, an afternoon paper.
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Looking Back at 1958 By Clifton (Jerry) Noble, Sr.
With no journal-keeping in the mid ‘50s, I have only survey job records for my position as chief of party in the Highway Division of Massachusetts Department of Public Works to jog memory plus my monthly pages of daily expenditure. I earned $111 a week. $15.30 went to federal withholding tax and $5.55 to retirement contribution leaving net pay of $90.15. At the end of the fiscal year June 30th we got a retroactive pay raise which brought an extra $800. My mother Minnie Emerson Noble (widowed in 1936) had been nicknamed Hester by me as fitting for a good money manager and housekeeper. April 30, 1949 we had moved from a riverside cottage in Tatham, (West Springfield) to an abandoned schoolhouse in Montgomery after making it livable. It lacked drainage, electricity or running water. We got water from a roadside spring and from Bear Den Brook until I dug a well on nearby property. In May I constructed a new outhouse as the old one attached to the school’s woodshed was in rotten condition. After five years electric poles came, and we got the house wired. Monthly electric bills were about $8 and telephone $4 to $11 depending on toll calls. Until the house and barn of the former Clark farm, across Carrington Road, was sold, and the Barnes family moved in,
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Clifton (Jerry) Noble, Sr. with guitar and “window box” Puppet Theater. (Undated newspaper photo).
our nearest neighbors were the Rusins, half a mile south and the Rivards half a mile north. Herrick Road ran steeply east, up the mountain with our schoolhouse on its north corner. On the opposite corner I had excavated by wheelbarrow for a garage with living room above it. Eastward, back of the living room, a kitchen, bath and two bedrooms rested on concrete walls over a half-to-quarter cellar deep enough to contain a water tank and suction pump on a cement floor. When painted this structure would become “Pink House.” Before “Pink House” our year’s property tax for schoolhouse, wellhouse and 35 acres was $149.28. When we moved from the schoolhouse we got a refrigerator from Valley Electric for $185. Tanks of cooking gas were $12. Fuel oil was just under 17 cents a gallon and, in November, we got the new furnace serviced for $12.50. Soil and rocks dug from well and cellar I used to terrace the hillside south of the new house. With grass cut short by a reel mower this level lawn made a place for a croquet set, $3.98, and badminton, $6.55. I bought a machete for $2.50 and a doormat for $2.49. Hester got shoes for $3.90 and cloth, pattern and buttons to make two dresses. A sewing stool, to go with her secondhand, treadle, Singer machine and sewing materials, cost $4.50. Corsets were $14.25 and a coat sent from Sears was $29.98. A handbag was $2.18. Sears provided me with a blue vestless suit for $28.13 and
each were issued, and I got 16 of them on all pajamas, $2.98. From Fred Mueller in Denver, subjects from American history to math and Colorado I was able to order jeans for $4.97, physics. cowboy denim shirts with snaps for $3.69, and A tooth cavity needed attention. I paid a fancy leather belt with steerhead buckle for dentist Gillis $5 to fill it. Haircuts cost $1.50. $1.59. They also furnished Gene Autry song You could get lunch for 45 cents, and books for $1.50. Locally at Christmastime I got Friendly Ice Cream stores advertised Awful sheet music for “Rudolf the Red Nosed Rein(big) Awful (good) milk shakes for 30 cents. deer” for 50 cents. My hands were too small to At the YMCA I invested in an $8 judo manage guitar bar chords so I bought a capo course. However the first lesson I worked out for 69 cents enabling me to play easy chords with a Montgomery lad who, unbeknownst to in any key. A pitch pipe for tuning the guitar both of us, was coming down with pleurisy. I was 79 cents. caught it and that was the end of my judo. The state paid me three cents a mile by One early summer day ministerial stuexpense account for using my blue and white, dent Bill Call asked if would play piano when 1957, 8-cylinder Ford to transport equipment, they reopened Montgomery Church. I said I transitman, and one or two rodmen. The price 1958 A&P ad. would play till they got someone else. They of gasoline was 26.9 cents a gallon. Lubricanever did. I was stuck till the 1980s when the church closed tion was $1.50. Auto insurance including transporting other again for a few years. However an organ was acquired and I employees was $81.05. became an organist. Marian, wife of selectman Milo Cushman, Outside of surveying and building time there were a few organized a choir which eventually shrank in number but lasthours to indulge in guitar-playing, singing, tap dance and ed in years. recital performances with the Hayles studio in Springfield. I I was 33 and becoming interested in girls. All classmates my charged $15 for doing puppet shows for children’s programs own age were long married with quite a few divorces. Friends with my “Window Box” Theater. I had made two frames of and family suggested dates which didn’t amount to much. 1”x2” lumber which, with an ornamental “roof,” could be foldNever sharp at recognizing telephone voices I got a call ed to fit in the back seat of my car. Harriet Hodges gave me from someone I took to be a boy interested in puppets from seegreen drapes from her Springfield apartment. These covered ing of my shows. Next Sunday I discovered the caller was a girl the walls of my theater. The name came from the green wooden from my choir. She may have been interested in puppets, but it “window box,” hung before the stage opening which contained was flattering to find that she was more interested in me. We the footlights. Overhead behind the green rayon draw curtains began dating regularly but circumspectly on my part because were the stage lights, all wired by my cousin, Lester Emerson. of our seventeen-year difference in age. A restaurant meal for The A&P had moved from the corner of Main and Free two plus tip could be had for $2.60, and movie admissions were Streets to a brand new building on Franklin Street opposite 90 cents. 1958 was the year of “Peyton Place” and “Raintree Washington. We could get a week’s groceries for $5. Most prices County.” A February 2013 Southwoods article tells about the were in the cents range. Pound of bacon 68, bread 21, cabbage 18, end of choir-girl dating and my marriage to someone else. cake 33, carrots 18, cereal 27, chocolate mints 45, cookies 39, cottage cheese 18, crackers 19 to 33, dried beef 35, 12 eggs 51, grape juice 29, ice cream pint 25, napkin pkg. 23, oleo 28, olives 15, peanut butter 35, pickles 25, pies 60, 5 pounds of potatoes 59, salt 12, 6 sausage 66, shrimp 55, soap 16, 5 pounds of sugar 53. pound of coffee was $1.09 and most meat purchases exceeded $1. A series of 8”x10 ½” paperback “Made Simple” books at $1 Serving Southwick, Westfield, Agawam, Suffield and the Hilltowns
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Country Life
Preserving Your Vegetable Garden Harvest By Jim Kennard
With cold weather soon upon us, everyone should be working to save your harvest, either by storing or preserving. Canning, drying, and freezing, are good ways of preserving your crops such as beans, corn, peas, peppers, summer squash, and tomatoes. They need to be done immediately after picking, while crops are fresh and tasty. Whether you cold-store or preserve your produce depends on the type of food you’ve grown, your facilities, and your family’s eating preferences. Cold storage of vegetables such as cabbage, beets, carrots, potatoes, squash, and turnips can give you the best tasting and healthiest food of the four methods, and may even be the least expensive in the long run. And you can eat every one of these garden-fresh even 4 to 6 months after they’ve been harvested! However it requires some careful preparation, so let’s discuss how best to prepare for and store your fall harvest. The details of harvesting and properly storing your crops are covered in several of the Mittleider gardening books, including Food For Everyone - all available at http://www.foodforeveryone.org.
Since tomatoes are many peoples’ favorite garden produce, let’s discuss them first. Before the first killing frost, pick all your tomatoes, including the green ones. Handle them gently, because cuts or bruises will cause them to spoil quickly. Fruit that’s close to ripe can be placed on a kitchen counter, out of direct sunlight, and it will ripen in a few days. Green fruit should be placed on a shelf in a cool, dry place, such as your basement or garage. As they begin to ripen you can bring them into the kitchen. Always remove any fruit that is beginning to spoil. We eat tomatoes into January this way. Most of your other vegetables need more help to keep them fresh. If your garden is very small and you don’t have much to store, you may be able to use an old refrigerator, or a barrel buried in the back yard. However, for those who are serious about providing fresh food for your families, I recommend a root cellar, either under the house or buried outside. A good size is 8’ wide and at least 10’ deep. This gives you 2’ for an aisle and 3’ on each side for storage. A shelf on each side is good for things like onions and garlic, which need to be kept dry. You can set it into the side of a hill or dig a hole 4’ to 5’ deep in a corner of the yard, build the cellar, and cover it with the ex-
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cess dirt. This will help insulate it and maintain the low, but not freezing temperatures you need. Provide yourself a small door and insulate it well. Harvest your crops at peak maturity and store only those which are free of disease or damage. Don’t harvest for storage until late fall, since more starches are converted to sugars by the cool weather. Root crops should be picked fresh and stored immediately. Potatoes and squash, on the other hand, first need to be cured at 60-75 degrees for 7 to 14 days. Most produce should be stored at just above freezing temperatures, except winter squash, which does better at or above 50 degrees. Your root crops will stay fresh and sweet for months if you harvest them with roots intact and pack them in wet sawdust. Cabbage and other brassicas also need their roots. Remove outer leaves, then pack the roots in wet sawdust, leaving the cabbage exposed. Provide separation between crops to avoid mixing flavors, and to keep squash dry. Potatoes should not be as wet as the root crops. They will do well in temperatures below 40 degrees, but pack them in slightly moist, rather than wet sawdust. Peat moss and sand, or combinations of all three, can be substituted for straight sawdust, but are not as ideal. I recommend you work with your neighbors to find a sawmill, and obtain a truckload. Onions and garlic also store well. They can handle cold temperatures but, like winter squash, they do better with humidity only 60 to 70 percent. Therefore these should be up off the damp floor, on shelves or hung from the ceiling. A cold basement can also work, but be sure to provide separation from living areas to avoid the strong smell. Remember, cold temperatures are essential for good longterm storage of vegetables, but do not let them freeze! Insulate your root cellar well. Good healthy eating to you! More details are at http://www.foodforeveryone.org in the FAQ section.
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A Menagerie of People Linda Schwarz and Forget-Me-Nots
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From Sketch People, Stories Along the Way by T.J. Banks
omeone phones the store asking for a piece of “blue jewelry” for a friend who’s getting married. A blue heart’s kinda what she has in mind, the caller says. Well, she doesn’t have any blue heart jewelry, owner Linda Schwarz replies, but she does have a forget-me-nots pin and a few other pieces that have touches of blue. The woman says she’ll be in later to look at them. Another woman comes in and talks about her impending divorce. And still a third woman shows up with extra canned food for the store cats, Jimmy and Alex, and stays to visit. It’s a typical afternoon at Forget-Me-Nots, the shop that Schwarz opened in Southwick, Massachusetts back in 2000. People – and cats – wander in and keep coming back. Or, in the case of the cats, end up staying until she either finds good homes for them or adopts them herself. (Schwarz is passionate about animals and about cats in particular: she collects money for the Southwick Animal Shelter and donates the proceeds
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from costume-jewelry sales to other homeless cat projects in the area.) She has a talent for friendship, and the little jewelry store has become a sort of gathering place for what she calls “a menagerie of people.” Not that it started out as a jewelry store, mind you. No, in the beginning, Forget-Me-Nots’ main focus was antiques. “Alex, my husband, and Jennifer, my friend, pushed me to open it because they knew I’d always wanted an antiques shop,” Schwarz explains. Back then, they had a lot of late 19th- and early 20th-century furniture – bureaus, bonnet cupboards, tables, and china cabinets – and just “a little tray of rings underneath the counter.” It was great, she adds, “because there was a real boom at that time in the antiques business.” Jennifer left the store after about a year. Then 9-11 happened, and rhinestone flag pins were practically the only thing the Schwarzes could sell. “The whole romantic idea of the older furniture and the Victorian atmosphere and all that just seemed to dissolve. That was the start of disillusionment.” But the jewelry kept the store going. There’d been a steadily growing interest in it ever since her husband had told her to put the rings out where everybody could see them. Schwarz had worked in several jewelry stores over the years. “If you like something and you enjoy it, you can pass on that enjoyment, that feeling for the piece to someone else,” she said. And there is a certain science to the jewelry business: “You measure diamonds, you weigh them; you measure gold, you weigh it. It’s very precise, how you buy it and how you sell it. But then the beauty of the piece takes over.” Her voice takes a reflective turn. “You have to know a lot. You have to learn by trial and error.” Over time, “that circular tray of rings” expanded to five good-sized showcases of jewelry – Victorian cameos, costume, gemstone pieces from India, rose-gold rings from the 1940s, Czech glass pendants, aurora borealis beads, crystals, Zhostovo brooches and enamel bracelets and rings from Russia, and gold and silver charms. But it was the antique jewelry that really drew customers. “People liked my jewelry because it was unique,” Schwarz says simply. “It was one-of-a-kind, had history, had feeling. Pre-owned, pre-loved. You couldn’t find the pieces you bought here anywhere else.” Very seldom does the jewelry date back further than the mid-1800s. Once, however, a woman brought her a gold band with a cluster of diamonds that her great-aunt had smuggled out of Hungary. “It was closed-back, which meant late 1700s,” the jeweler explains. “The diamonds were very jagged – a primitive cut. No bottom facets – flat on the sides. It was Geor-
gian[, which] is like 1780 to 1830.” in the business, she realized that she “couldn’t A lot of the other pieces that have come just shut it down. That would dishonor his her way have stories attached to them… memory, and he loved it [the store].” though they’re not as exotic as the HungarAnd then – it was the strangest thing – ian ring’s. Schwarz tells me the story of a widows began flocking into the store with bracelet that “had bad vibes. One man had their stories. It was comforting to Schwarz… it custom-made for his girlfriend. They had almost like having a support group come to been going out for years. It [the bracelet] her. “One after the other seemed to be telling had her initial or some significant charm me their stories. One woman was a widow on it. They ended up breaking up, and he three times.” She couldn’t help feeling “that returned it to the store. The next guy who God had sent these people to say, ‘You’re not bought it, the same thing happened. The the only one who has to go through this, and piece was finally melted down.” Another you’ll pull through – pull through with the customer brought in a small box filled with help of other people.’” Scottish jewelry that that she wanted to sell: So, you see, for Schwarz, making sales her abusive ex-husband had given her years isn’t what it’s all about. She genuinely enbefore, and this was her way of letting go of joys getting to know the people on the other him and the past. side of the counter. “As you make the sale, So, yeah, there’s always a story. Which there’s also someone there listening to what makes sense when you stop to consider the Photos: Some of the of Forget-Me-Nots you have to say,” she reflects. “It seems to motley cast of characters that has passed treasures. Photos by Lyssa Peters be a big part of my business, anyway. Some through her shop over the years. “I have so many customers, people do come in and just buy and leave but very few. They they might not think they’re strange--!” She breaks off with a all have a story and need a sympathetic ear.” laugh, then begins mulling it over aloud. “They’re not strange, it’s just that they come from different backgrounds. They’re • colorful. That’s the word, maybe. They’re full of color.” Chad, one of her male customers, was “just like a little spiritual counselor.” And Don, an older retired man, came to Forget-Me-Nots “as a customer and stayed as a friend. It was a place for him to hang out, and he was a help to me. He just sat quietly in the chair, and he listened, and he commented after people left.” He also fixed furniture and lamps for her and did various other odd jobs around the store. Don died over the summer. But the navy-blue “Security” sweatshirt that Schwarz gave him as a joke last Christmas still hangs over the back of his favorite Windsor chair. 779 Newgate Rd. West Suffield, CT So many presences seem to linger in the store, the chief one being her husband’s – and not just because there’s a huge golden Norwegian Forest cat by the same name posing amid the collectibles in the front window or rolling on the carpet. Alex Schwarz died in September 2004, and she speaks of him often and with a tried-and-true affection. “He loved this shop,” she says, “and he loved doing the behind-the-scenes stuff. He was like Inspector Clouseau. He wouldn’t say anything because he was very conscious of his Russian accent. He was very articulate in English, very well-spoken, but his accent was very heavy, and he was very self-conscious about it.” After Alex’s death, Schwarz seriously considered not reopening the store. She even had one of her sons call customers to pick up all their layaways. But Alex had put so much of himself
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Dante Molta May 29, 1931 ~ August 2, 2013
Dante Molta, of Southwick, MA, was a good friend of Southwoods. We were always happy to see him come through the door of our shop. He had a ready smile and a polite way about him that endeared him to all of us. For years, when he was president of MotoCross 338, he would come in for printing and design work on posters for the Nationals. More recently we saw him most often when he needed copies of newspaper stories about his grandchildren. It was easy to see what a proud grandpa he was. We were sad to hear that he was ill and have missed seeing him over the past few months. Dante passed away August 2, 2013. He leaves his wife of 55 years, Madeline A. (Cremonti) Molta, 5 children, 10 grandchildren and many dear friends and colleagues. Dante was born in South Windsor, CT on May 29, 1931 to Salvatore and Maria Molta, and lived in Southwick and Westfield for most of his life. He graduated from Springfield Trade High School where he played Football for the legendary Coach Ted Plumb, later becoming his Assistant Football Coach. Dante often fondly recalled his younger years with Al Meyer, Tommy Leonard, Danny Keenan and the entire crew from Southwick, Westfield and Trade. He is a 1955 graduate of University of Massachusetts/Stockbridge School of Agriculture where he was Captain of the Football team along with his best man, Jack Tierney, and President of Alpha Tau Gamma Fraternity (1954-1955) maintaining close bonds with his fraternity brothers. Dante proudly served his country during the Korean Conflict, joining the U.S. Army on the same day with his life-long friend, Sheriff Joseph Arpaio of Arizona. Dante played football for the 39th Infantry Division of the Army with the renowned football legend Carl DePasqua. He attained the rank of Ser-
geant and was the Personal Driver and Body Guard for General John K. Waters (the son-in-law of Gen. George Patton) in Korea. As a General’s driver, Dante had the honor of meeting and chauffeuring numerous dignitaries, celebrities, religious eminence and foreign leaders on their visits to the front. During President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower’s visit to the Korean front, Dante was selected to drive South Korean President Syngman Rhee in Jeep #2 directly behind Pres. Eisenhower’s Jeep. He was the recipient of many commendation medals for his service to our nation. Dante retired after a wonderful career as an Investigator with the Law Offices of Arvanitis, Phelan & Molta, P.C. He was also a well respected Real Estate Broker, former Insurance Claims Adjuster and Insurance Salesman. Over the years, Dante greatly enjoyed his grandchildren’s events, spending time with family and friends at home in WMass and on Nantucket Island, as well as cheering for UMASS, Westfield State Baseball, the Southwick Rams, Rec Center Basketball, the Nantucket Whalers, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and UCONN Women’s Basketball. Dante cherished the friendships he made throughout his lifetime. He had a natural ability to make people smile and was loved by many relatives, co-workers, family friends, neighbors and acquaintances too numerous to name. His friends at Southwoods will really miss him. It was Dante’s wish that any donations be made to the Alexander H. Prew Emerald Shield Scholarship Committee, P.O. Box 26, Southwick, MA 01077 to benefit a college band graduate, in honor of Southwick’s first Principal Alexander H. Prew whom Dante held in high regard.
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RIPPLES FROM CONGAMOND By Jerry Crane
On Saturday, July 13th about 13 volunteers from CRC and C&S Wholesale Grocers-Suffield gathered at Babb’s Park to apply the long needed siding to the old rink building. The building has been protected with new roofing and windows in the past and now the siding will not only enhance its protection it but will much improve its appearance. The volunteers were able to cover most of the raw wood in the time available, but there is still more to be done. We will be having another volunteer
day to finish the job soon and will keep everyone posted. CRC wishes to thank Melissa Corneliuson Barnes for organizing the crew from C&S Wholesale Grocers and their invaluable help. Our next lake event will be the “Pirates of the Congamond Poker Run” coming up on August 17th. It will take place on the lake so you can participate by car, motorcycle, foot or boat. Checking in at Babb’s Park between 1pm & 3pm you will receive your wristband, free raffle ticket and first envelope containing a card. You then stop at Saunder’s Boat Livery, Jimmy’s Pizza and Louie B’s to pick up additional envelopes, proceeding to Crabby Joe’s for the reading of your hand by 4:30. Winners will be announced at 5pm. While all this is going on you will enjoy a buffet and live music. There is a $500 first prize, $250 second prize, $100 third and $50 forth. There is also a $5,000 grand prize for five of a kind. You must be 18 or older to participate. There are only 300 entries and they must be received by August 10th so get yours soon. If you want to sign up or sponsor you can still do so at www.congamond.org or call Betty at 860-668-1169 or 860-490-0302. All proceeds will benefit the Lake Congamond Invasive Weed Treatment Maintenance Fund. Next will be a golf tournament on September 8th. More info later. We still hope to have at least two Sunday concerts this year with Changes in Latitude in August and the Rich Badowski Blues band in September… Will keep you posted.
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or more are available weekdays by appointment (call 413-3578814). Museum admission is free for NCCHP members; $5 for adults and $3 for children for non-members. New tour feature – a “Build Your Own Drum” option for $15 that includes a tour of the museum, a cord and ear drum kit and instructions on how to “string” your own drum. Fun and challenging for all ages. The Gift Shop is open weekdays year round from 9:00 – 4:00 as well as whenever the museum is open for tours and features hand crafted items made by local artists, potters, woodcrafters, quilters, authors and more!
ST. Joseph’s Annual Harvet Festival
The annual Harvest Festival will be held at St. Joseph’s Polish National Catholic Church located at 73 Main Street in Westfield, Sunday, September 8th from noon until 5pm. Dozynki is a celebration of the harvest. The harvest festival includes Polish dancing with a live band, both Polish and American food will be available for purchase as well as a large selection of homemade desserts and there will be games and raffles to participate in including over 20 different themed raffle baskets. This event will be held rain or shine. For more information, contackt Very Rev. Joseph Soltysiak at (413) 562-4403.
HOLY TRINITY FALL Festival
Holy Trinity Parish will be holding its Fall Festival on Sunday, Sept. 15, at Pilsudski Park, 200 Old County Rd, Holyoke, MA, from Noon to 6 p.m. It will be preceded by a Mass at 10:30 a.m. The Festival will feature a Polish American kitchen and home-made baked goods. Take out is available. There will be raffles, bingo, a tag sale and games of chance for adults. For the children there will be games, activities and a bounce house. Music by “The Rhythm Band” from 1 to 6 pm. Open to the public with free admission & parking, held rain or shine. For more information call the Parish Office at 413-568-1506.
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August 2013
July turned out to be a busy month in the legislature. The Democrats in the legislature were having a tax stand off with the Governor. The Governor wanted to raise taxes on the working class by $1.5 Billion and the Democratic controlled legislature only wanted to raise By State Representative taxes by $650 Million. The final result was the legislature increased the gas tax Nicholas Boldyga by ¢.03 a gallon, the cigarette tax by $1, reinstated the tolls for the Western part of the turnpike and enacted, a first of it’s kind in the nation, ‘Computer Services’ tax that will bring in hundreds of millions more in new tax dollars. The Democrats raised our taxes even though tax revenues are up over $600 Million from this time last year. After raising all of these taxes, the Democrats agreed with the Republicans that the working-class people should have a ‘tax-break’ for two days in August. I’m pleased to announce that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will once again hold a Sales Tax Holiday weekend! The measure will eliminate the 6.25 percent tax for purchases under $2,500 on Saturday August 10th and Sunday August 11th. The sales tax exemption applies to all items except for motor vehicles, motorboats, meals, telecommunications services, gas, steam, electricity, tobacco products, and any single item whose price is upwards of $2,500, according to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. The sales tax holiday is a great tool to help our local businesses and citizens. I hope people will take advantage of the tax break and get an early start on back-to-school shopping or making more expensive purchases that have been on hold. Whether you’re looking for a personal computer or a generator, the sales tax holiday weekend will be a great opportunity to save a few bucks and help out a local business. On a lighter note, I competed in the Hampden County 4-H Fair’s Goat Milking Contest! I was pitted against our Senator Mike Knapik and his brother Dan Knapik, the Mayor of Westfield. We each had 90 seconds to milk ‘Lilly’ the goat and whoever had the greatest amount of milk was deemed the champion! The Knapik Brothers were worthy challengers but in the end I brought home the gold… I mean goat milk. Yes, I am this year’s 1st Place Winner in the Hampden County 4-H Fair’s Goat Milking Contest! Thank you for allowing me to proudly serve as Your Representative. Please call me with any concerns. My home telephone number is (413) 569-5188. I’m always available! Sincerely,
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