The South Coast Insider - March 2009

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Neighbors helping neighbors

by Stan Epstein

From the publisher READER REFLECTIONS

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On my mind: Darwin Awards

by Paul Kandarian

24 Book picks by Baker:

14 Spring to-do list wine NOTES

Love books about love compiled by Magoo Gelehrter

THINGS TO DO

18 Enjoy local theater

by Paul Kandarian

19 Raisin reviewed

by Paul Kandarian

36 Happenings:

Spring into fun

26 Petite Sirah big in taste

by Alton Long

COVER STORY

10 Bridget’s miracle

by Brian J. Lowney

FooD NOTES

28 Is your kitchen safe?

by Elizabeth Morse Read

YOUR HEALTH

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BUSINESS

Moms, shape up

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by Ilene Isherwood Scalzi

30 Use tech solutions

by Michael P. Griffin

Don’t stress

by Sheryl Worthington Turgeon

22 Adopt an Ayruveda lifestyle

by Stacie Charbonneau Hess

32 Sustainable communities

by Theresa M. Sprague

34 Burns Power Tools

by Cara Connelly Pimental

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Bridget shares a happy moment with two of her children. Thanks to Dr. Thomas Carr and the Southcoast Hospital team, every day is a gift for the Kaegael family. Be inspired by Bridget’s tale on page 10, but also heed her advice about taking care of yourself.

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In this issue, we offer ways to get healthy and things to do to celebrate the season.

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ON mY MIND

Darwin was right

by Paul E. Kandarian

I’m a sick man. Anyone who knows me has pretty much figured that out. Not sick in a sexually perverse way, though I have my moments, but overall in a way that gets a twisted kick out of really bizarre deaths.

Which, if you like that sort of thing as well, brings me to The Darwin Awards, something many of you may not know about but really should, if indeed you got a kick out of people shuffling off this mortal coil in ways most bizarre and incredibly stupid.

The Darwin Awards proudly proclaim that they “salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it.” Remember stories you may have heard about things like a guy getting so ticked off at a balky soda machine, he tried wrestling it, tipping it back and forth to get his soda and/or money and the thing rolled over atop him, ending any and all hope of not only getting his soda and/or money but of living to tell the tale of just how stupid he was for trying by wrestling a soda machine.

Anyway, the Darwin Awards rule, they really do, check it out at www.darwinawards.com, and pray you never see yourself or anyone you know on it.

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balloons, fastened a lawn chair to the bottom, dressed in a survival suit and equipped himself with a satellite phone, a parachute and a GPS unit. The one teeny-tiny problem: He had no clue how to use the GPS unit.

The winds shifted on his journey skyward and he drifted out to sea. For some reason known only to him and no doubt the maker he would soon meet, he didn’t use the parachute. And couldn’t use the GPS, because he, duh, forgot to learn how before he tied himself to the bottom of hundreds of stratosphere seeking balloons.

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over there! Oh…never mind, it’s just more water…?” Without the GPS, rescuers could only scan the skies for a towering bouquet of colorful balloons. And that didn’t do the trick. They eventually found his remains in the ocean. And bits of colorful balloon. But

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In Indonesia (it only seems the truly stupid are not American, but trust me, we have our share, up to an including a recent former president), a young college-graduated man with what all said was a very bright future saw it get brighter—by about 240 volts— when at his family home, with one foot in the swimming pool, he reached into a cement box with electrical wires connected to the Jacuzzi and began fiddling around with them. Guess what? He was not an electrical engineering major.

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Neighbors helping neighbors

by Stan Epstein

An old Narragansett beer commercial always stuck with me. The animated spot opens with a woman standing on top of her roof, with rising floodwaters lapping at its eaves.

In the distance you see a small boat, and a booming voice shouts “Red Cross.” The woman cups her hands over her mouth and yells back “I already gave at the office.”

When we think of the Red Cross, we usually conjure images of people assisting victims of large natural disasters, like floods, tornadoes and hurricanes. But there’s a lot of good work that the agency does on the local level that doesn’t grab headlines or sound bites. Since March is American Red Cross Month, by Presidential Proclamation, it seems like a good time to explore its programs and activities that impact each of our communities.

The American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay chapter, based in Cambridge, serves 145 cities and towns in eastern Massachusetts, including the entire South Coast. There are regional offices in New Bedford and Fall River. The ARCMB responds to almost 500 incidents each year, mainly house fires affecting over 3100 people. Relief teams coordinate on-site and follow-up disaster assistance.

“We provide for the immediate needs of families (victimized by a disaster). Our main priorities are food, shelter and clothing,” says Mike Chaplain, the chapter’s Associate Director for Response and Client Services, and a Mattapoisett 8

resident. “We oversee the response and follow-up case work.”

All Red Cross disaster services are free, mainly courtesy of time and money donated by the American people. They include locating temporary housing, coordinating insurance coverage and counseling affected families and individuals during the recovery period.

“We coordinate our efforts with the fire departments and emergency management centers in each community,” says Chaplain. “We also try to have volunteer community liaisons in each city and town. They’re the eyes and ears of the community, informing us of local emergencies. It’s neighbor helping neighbor, and the more neighbors in the loop the better. We’re always looking for more volunteer community liaisons and immediate responders.”

Outreach programs and activities include presentations, participating in safety fairs, and building community partnerships. They teach individuals, families, businesses and community organizations how to prevent, prepare for, alleviate and respond to disasters.

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are also available at each chapter office.

Health and safety courses Besides disaster preparedness, the American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay also offers a variety of courses that teach and certify nearly 110,000 people a year in Eastern Massachusetts. They cover a broad range of skills including first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), automated external defibrillator (AED), and water safety. Classes are conducted in workplaces and community settings throughout the region, including the New Bedford and Fall River offices.

Workplace education has always been a paramount concern of the Red Cross. “We help businesses support their most valuable assets—their employees,” says Mary Taddie, regional Director of Health and Safety.

In addition to providing certified instructors, and training supplies and materials, the ARCMB offers an Authorized Provider Program, teaching and certifying selected employees to provide their co-workers with inhouse health and safety programs.

The chapter also offers a Babysitter’s Training Program in several of its offices, including New Bedford. The course teaches 11-15 year olds to care for children and infants. It also helps them become good leaders and role models, make good decisions, solve problems, and handle emergencies including injuries, illness and household accidents.

For people thinking about new careers—by choice or necessity— in today’s turbulent economy, the ARCMB offers comprehensive training in becoming a Certified Nurse Assistant or Home Health Aide. In spite of massive layoffs in other

sectors of the job market, the health care industry still has its vital signs intact.

“The need for home health care assistants is growing—it’s a recession-proof career,” says Marianne Mastrangelo, the chapter’s Director of Health Care Training. CNAs and Home Health Aides provide quality health care to residents of nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, hospitals and clients in their homes.

Classes are offered in several communities regularly throughout the year. Deb Adams, Site Manager of the Fall River facility, has been teaching the course for 15 years. For more information about all ARCMB Red Cross training programs and courses, call 617-274-5200 or visit www.bostonredcross.org.

Volunteers wanted The American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay is in the forefront of providing food to families and individuals in need throughout the region.

The agency operates three food pantries in the eastern half of the state, including one at the New Bedford site at 995 Rockdale Avenue (hours: Tuesday, 2-6pm; Thursday 9am-1pm).

It provides each client with a 3-day food supply once a month including dairy products and protein (meat and fish). In the summer, produce from local organic farms is included.

In its leadership role for Food Drive for the Hungry, ARCMB delivers over 5,000,000 meals annually to

emergency food programs throughout the state, in collaboration with Project Bread. The agency also screens applicants for eligibility for SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program, and provides nutritional information.

“We’re grateful to provide service in dire times and help people who are struggling,”says Maureen Schnellmann, Director of Food and Nutrition Programs. “Our motto is no one goes to bed hungry.” Ms. Schnellmann also mentions that volunteers are always needed, especially people with computer skills for client intake. From my own experience, volunteering at a Red Cross food pantry is very rewarding and gratifying.

There are two other services that the regional chapter offers on an international level.

It provides worldwide tracing to find and reunite over 1,000 people a year who have been separated from loved ones in other countries due to armed conflict or natural disasters.

The agency is also part of an international network that provides military families with 24-hour emergency communication and financial assistance. In the past year, it’s assisted over one thousand members of the armed services and their families.

For more information on volunteering and/or making financial contributions, call 617-274-5200 or visit www. bostonredcross.org. As Mike Chaplain says, “We live and die on donated money.”

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COVER STORY

The miracle of Bridget

By Brian J. Lowney

If you don’t believe in miracles, you haven’t met Bridget Kaegael.

In November 2006, the busy Westport wife and mother of three was relaxing after supper with her two husband and two youngest children when all of a sudden, she started to perspire and her fingers turned gray and began tingling.

“Out of the blue, I had a massive heart attack,” Kaegael reveals. “I had no symptoms and no risk factors. I was in good health.”

While she admits to being a little bit overweight at the time, the active woman didn’t smoke or drink alcohol and lead an active life immersed in family and community activities.

“Thank God the EMTs got here as quickly as they did,” she continues, noting that Charlton was the closest hospital that specialized in cardiac care. “I would have never made the ride to Providence.”

Kaegael recalls that she “just wanted to rest” that night as she became weaker, but her husband knew better. The former fall River firefighter immediately dialed 911 and 10

within minutes, his wife was lying in the back of the Westport ambulance speeding toward Charlton Memorial Hospital, where a well-trained and quick thinking emergency room staff saved the young woman’s life.

Kaegel, who lost consciousness in the ambulance during the 12 minute ride to Fall River, suffered what doctors diagnosed as a “coronary artery dissection,” a rare but sudden cause of myocardial infarction and sudden death. Medical researchers report that the condition mostly affects younger women who have exhibited no previous signs of cardiac disease.

“My arteries just fell apart,” Kaegael discloses, adding that she underwent emergency double bypass surgery performed by a team of renowned Southcoast Healthcare Systems cardiac specialists, led by Dr. Thomas Carr.

The grateful woman also praises Fall River cardiologist Dr. Peter Mandelson for his support and excellent care that keeps her on track.

“They’re both just fantastic,” Kaegael

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emphasizes. “I hear that there’s less than a two percent survival rate. I was very, very lucky.”

Happy birthday The grateful woman reveals that she was placed in a medicinally induced coma for several days, and left the hospital a week and a half after the surgery—just in time to celebrate her 40th birthday.

“The care at Charlton was fantastic,” she reports. “I just can’t say enough.”

Kaegael says her recovery wasn’t easy but the results were terrific. She underwent six months of intensive cardiac rehabilitation at the hospital’s Mitchell Rehabilitation Center and subsequently made a comprehensive lifestyle change that includes exercise and better eating habits.

“I’m tired,” she admits. “My heart was badly damaged.” However, while Kaegael might suffer bouts of periodic fatigue, she’s energized by the smiles she receives from loving family members and friends. The woman’s three children, Alex, Ben and

Elizabeth have serve as a source of inspiration and encouragement.

“I have to take it easy,” she continues. “I had to make myself slow down.”

Life changes Kaegael, who’s lost 40 pounds, reveals that her daily regimen includes walking outdoors in good weather, spending time on a treadmill and eating healthy meals. She’s cut back on sugar, eliminated salt, and eats lots of fruits and vegetables. Her family has also joined in the crusade.

“I treat myself to a chourico sandwich once a month,” she says, laughing.

Kaegael adds that while she no longer can work as a bartender at a local restaurant, she’s found a new job—volunteering in the Mended Hearts Program at Charlton, where she offers encouragement and support a few times a week to recovering cardiac patients.

“It’s really nice,” she notes, describing the support program. “I tell them ‘the hard part is over. This is going to be the start of a better life.’”

As a volunteer, Kaegael shares the story of her miraculous recovery in a caring and compassionate manner and answers questions about what patients might expect during the recovery process.

The dedicated woman also lends her support to many of the activities sponsored by the local chapter of the American Heart Association. She and her young daughter recently modeled red-colored fashions at an AHA-sponsored benefit fashion show held at the Venus de Milo, and the entire Kaegael clan participates in annual walks and other events that raise funds for the important cause.

The proud survivor encourages everyone to carefully examine their lifestyle and dietary habits and make changes if necessary. Heart disease, she warns, is often a silent killer and leading cause of death in women.

“My biggest message, especially to women, is that we are so used to taking care of everything and everyone, that we don’t take care of ourselves,” she tells.

Kaegael takes 8 different medications daily, but says it’s a small price to pay for a second chance at life.

“I feel very lucky,” Kaegael admits. “My kids have their mom. That’s the important thing.”

You’ll LOVE to know Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford, and Tobey Hospital in Wareham—the three South Coast hospitals that comprise Southcoast Hospitals Group—rank in the top 10% in the United States for heart care.

The 11th annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study gives Southcoast Hospitals the clinical excellence awards for cardiac care and coronary intervention. HealthGrades is the nation’s leading independent health care ratings company.

This is important to you Heart disease is the No. 1 health problem locally, and strikes South Coast residents more frequently than anywhere else in Massachusetts. Thirty-nine percent more people have heart attacks in the South Coast — and about two in five residents die from heart disease.

“Southcoast Hospitals has made improved cardiac care and access to the most advanced technology a top priority by investing millions to bring lifesaving cardiac services to our region,” said Marcia Liggin, RN, Chief Nursing Officer for Southcoast Hospitals Group.

Since 2002, Southcoast has become a leader in cardiac surgery and elective coronary angioplasty, and launched a cardiac electrophysiology program that further broadens local access to advanced interventional and diagnostic heart services. In 2007, more than 14 percent of Southcoast’s inpatient volume was attributed to heart-related diagnoses, and nearly 21,500 outpatients received care.

On its website, www.healthgrades.com, HealthGrades offers, free to consumers, quality ratings of 27 procedures and treatments for virtually every hospital in the country. You can easily compare

patient outcomes for procedures ranging from aortic aneurysm repair to bypass surgery.

Each hospital receives a star rating based on its patient outcomes in terms of mortality or complication rates for each procedure or treatment. Hospitals with outcomes that are above average to a statistically significant degree receive a five-star rating. Hospitals with average outcomes receive a three-star rating.

Hospitals with outcomes that are below average receive a one-star rating.

And how did Southcoast do?

The three hospitals ranked in the top 10 % in the U.S. for cardiology services, in the top 5 in Massachusetts for overall cardiac services, in the top 10 in the state for cardiac surgery. They are five-star rated for cardiology, coronary intervention, treatment of heart attack and heart failure.

Wow! “We are very proud of our team of highly skilled physicians, nurses and technologists who continue to offer innovative and advanced cardiac services at all of the Southcoast hospital sites,” said Eugene J. McMahon, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer for Southcoast Hospitals Group.

“Southcoast currently performs more cardiac catheterizations than any community hospital system in Massachusetts, with approximately 60 percent of patients being referred for advanced treatment such as coronary artery bypass or angioplasty,” Dr. McMahon said. “This guarantees that patients receive the highest quality care through the area’s most experienced and knowledgeable physicians and team of health care professionals.”

More information is available online at www.southcoast.org.

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YOUR HEALTH

Get in shape, moms

by Ilene Isherwood Scalzi

I love to watch my son and daughter play sports, particularly soccer. They get fresh air, run, jump and just generally become stronger and fitter. Lately though, I have to be honest, I get a little fitness envy watching them.

They’re in great shape and I’m…well, I’m not. I start to feel my age creep up on me (let’s just say I’ve celebrated my 40th a few times now) and also, gee, these jeans feel awfully tight around the waist. Not to mention the waistband overflow…the muffin top.

Take a quick look around the soccer and baseball fields and you’ll see a lot of moms and dads, even the younger ones, milling around the sidelines eating out of a bag and stressing over where they need to be in 11 minutes. They are not exactly pictures of health and wellness.

We parents need to get and stay fit too.

Sitting at a desk all day at work, or driving to and from appointments guzzling coffee and, even worse, rushing on-the-go food doesn’t exactly scream “hard body.” But really, I’m not looking to get into the hard body category…nor was I ever there to begin with!

Wouldn’t it be great if fitness came to us?

Like the bookmobile. Remember? Couldn’t get to the library? It came to you. Group fitness classes on wheels. Now, there’s a business opportunity. Until the fitmobile pulls up to the soccer field though, I’ll have to make do with old fashioned self-motivation and creativity.

I’ve had a little success walking a preplanned route around the park and trying to forego the giant doughnut as an in-between meal snack. But I need something more.

To learn what other parents, who were working full time and carting the kids around, did to get in shape, I went in search of insights from some moms who seem to be doing a better job than I.

Advice from moms Lorraine, 45, mother of two from Lakeville, who coaches her daughter’s soccer team, explains her routine: “If you can, get to the field a half hour

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early and run around with them passing the ball and shooting. It certainly gets your body moving. And it’s fun.”

“Really, the food is key,” says Tracey, 38, mother of four from Rehoboth. “The SUV is the new dining room, so you have to pack for the kids and pack for yourself. You have to plan ahead because we’re all running around living on a giant coffee.

“And the other thing is that we all know our kids are number one, but then you find that you aren’t even in the top 10 of family priorities; you’re not going to be any help to them, breathing heavy and overweight.

Hey, when the kids are grown and living in Wisconsin, you’re going to be sucking wind

50 pounds overweight and drained. So take care of yourself now!”

True.

“I joined a health club about a quarter mile from my kid’s gymnastics studio,” says Sue, 32, mother of three in New Bedford.

“It works out great because it’s so close I can scoot over, get a class in, and be back to see some of their practice.”

Bridget, 47, mother of two from Swansea, suggested: “Find a track to walk or run on that’s nearby. I used to work out in the hockey rink’s fitness room. Most of them will allow you to do that. Or, if that doesn’t work, go home, sit down, have a glass of wine and be happy it’s over! All the dropping off and running from place to place is a workout itself.”

I guess the old adage holds true…eat better and eat less, and, however you make it happen, move a lot more.

The wine part sounds really good though.

Make it red; it’s good for your heart.

Tips to get you started Here are some tips to get you going…some are serious, some are no-brainers, others are just weird or for fun: First get a check-up from your doctor, especially if you haven’t had one lately. Be aware of any injuries, old or new, that might impede your start.

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Volunteer to help with your kids’ practice sessions (start slow to avoid undue embarrassment, like lung upheaval or anything where you’re carried off the field on a stretcher. You and your kids will never live it down and you may have to move to another state).

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Volunteer to coach, or maybe assistant coach to start off.

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Eat better! Plan ahead with fresh foods and fruit instead of junk food snacks (and, no, strawberry Pop Tarts don’t count).

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It’s stating the obvious, but join a health club that’s close to your kids’ activities so it’s quick and easy to get there.

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Find something you actually like to do that fits into your schedule…go biking, take a class, walk a measured route, or chase the kid with the PopTart—there’s always one in the crowd.

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Instead of saying yes to everything your child wants to participate in, say no once in a while. Or limit the number of activities they’re committed to, and say yes to an activity for yourself.

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Schedule it! Make an official appointment for yourself to exercise, and do it with a friend so there’s someone waiting for you— guilt is a wonderful motivator.

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Ask your child’s coach or instructor if you can arrange for a parent’s workout session during your child’s activity. This might work in a setting such as a school gymnasium or a karate studio.

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YOUR HEALTH

STRESS: Don’t take it to

By Sheryl Worthington Turgeon

It isn’t news that unemployment, work overload, financial concerns, daily hassles, personal relationships, job dissatisfaction, illness, death of a loved one…even joyful events, like weddings, all cause stress. But learning how to relieve it and actually working helpful techniques into an otherwise hectic schedule beforechronic illness sets in is newsworthy.

Heart Disease remains the number one killer for women. Medical researchers don’t know exactly how, but stress has been shown to increase the risk of heart disease.

It could be that stress itself is a risk factor or that it makes other risk factors like high blood pressure worse.

“Science is beginning to support the theory that chronic emotional stress can promote coronary artery disease,” according to Richard N. Fogoros, MD, in his article, “Does Stress Really Cause Heart Disease?”

Cardiologist Zia Kidwai, MD, of Prima Care in Fall River, notes that even though there is a connection between stress and heart disease, it is hard to measure because feelings can’t be quantified.

“Emotional stress management may reduce the risk of heart disease,” he said.

Physically, if someone’s cholesterol shoots above 200 and their blood pressure is above 120/80, they could be at significant risk for heart disease.”

However, positive emotions, like optimism and happiness improve the quality of life and lessen the chances of heart attacks, according to a recent study at India’s Panjab University. So how do we get there?

One step at a time We transform one step at a time. If you follow Prochaska’s “Model of Change,” we move from denial to ready, set, go and maintenance, when making changes in our lives. Big changes usually take much thought and soul searching, more education and planning, as well as a tough emotional journey.

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But each step is built upon another until the day for change is imminent. Not everyone needs to make a drastic change, but we can all take small steps that lead to larger lifestyle changes.

If we find we are having sleepless nights, headaches, anxiety, mood swings, compulsive behaviors, drinking more alcohol or caffeine, poor memory or withdrawing from relationships, we are experiencing the danger signs of stress.

“When stress becomes an every day event, the brain loses its ability to evaluate whether a stress response is warranted and it becomes less able to regulate the response,” according to Bruce McEwen, PhD, of the Rockefeller Institute.

The Fall River Cardiology Practice at Prima Care has been receiving more and more patients complaining of chest pain, according to Cardiologist Basem Nasser.

“We started to see an increase in patients with heart disease before the economic crisis,” he noted. “Since then the problem has increased. The more people feel they are losing control of a situation, the higher the stress,” he said. “People need to feel they are in control of their destiny.”

Take control People can take control of their body’s ability to weather the hard times though.

They can start eating whole fresh foods to get the nutrients they need to cope better.

A healthy breakfast of oatmeal and fresh or frozen organic fruit or a poached egg on whole grain or sprouted bread is a great start.

Most of us don’t get the nutrients from foods that our ancestors did due to overfarming the land, so a high-quality antioxidant and mineral supplement helps to fortify and regenerate the cells.

Adding in some exercise can be as easy as running up and down stairs a couple of times a day in the winter months, although Dr. Kidwai warns against shoveling snow.

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“That can bring on an acute heart situation,” he cautioned.

Restoring ourselves in a joyful way, whether through yoga, deep breathing, meditation, or a walk through natural surroundings gives us the “ahhh” feeling we need to reconnect with our spirit. Frank Lipman, in his new book, Spent, referred to nature walks as one of the most harmonizing things people can do to reset the nervous and immune systems.

Sleep, a primary form of nourishment, is also important. Adults really do need seven or eight hours of sleep per night. When we don’t get our sleep, we struggle through our day. As Vince Lombardi said, “Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”

We also need to pace ourselves with any activity. For instance, we should stop working every two hours and take a quick break. It clears the mind and we are better able to focus. To avoid stress in life, advised Panjab University Professor Jitendra Mohan, “One should plan in advance, prioritize and delegate work.”

These methods of taking better care of ourselves should be accompanied by a shift in attitude, if we are really going to benefit. We need to go from the hassled, strained characters we see every day in the grocery stores and on the job to people who love our lives. We can set the outlook for our day with a gratitude journal (studies indicate that once per week is most effective).

Dreaming about or “visioning” the future we want is also a key factor in a happy life.

When we see ourselves coming into the life we want we tend to draw it to us. Old habits may be hard to change, but gently, step by step, remembering to care for ourselves and then sharing a smile, giving a foot rub or passing on a kind word can work wonders for us all!

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THINGS TO DO

Local theater: More than a dress rehearsal

by Paul E. Kandarian

I don’t pull on a dress for many people. But you people, well, you’re different. You appreciate the arts and all that we men in dresses go through for it.

OK, here’s the deal: I’m in a play at the Marion Art Center (www.marionartcenter.org) in Marion, a terrific tiny little venue, cozy beyond cozy, seats about 70 people up close and personal to the stage.

I started doing stuff there a couple years ago, got hooked big time to the point that we’re doing “Sylvia” the first two weekends of March and I’m playing three characters—one of whom is a woman.

Hence the dress, the first I have ever worn, in public or private (I cannot stress that enough).

Hence my imploring you all to make it worth my while compromising my manhood by coming out to see me doing it.

But it’s not just me, though I must say I do have the legs for women’s wear. It’s about all theater and the arts. Look, times are tough, you’re looking for the best way to spend your entertainment dollar and escaping to the theater or art gallery or museum— and there’s no shortage of all of that in the South Coast—is a very good way to do it.

Your theatres

You want theater, you got your theater. I mean that literally: Your Theatre (www.yourtheatre.org), where they’re doing cutting-edge shows like Doubt, scheduled for March 18-28, Melted Lipstick in April (Hey, I wear a dress, I could do that!), Curious Savage in May and Doctor Banner’s Garden in June.

Over in New Bedford, the granddaddy of all gorgeous theaters, the Zeiterion, is home to New Bedford Festival Theatre (www.nbfestivaltheatre. com) which last year did Les Mis (an amazing production that made me weep openly, and this was long before the dress thing), and this July is doing The Producers. Get your tickets ahead of time, this group is so good, and the venue so spectacular, they sell out in a hurry.

Also at The Z is the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra (www.nbsymphony.org), a splendid professional gathering of musicians that on March 28 is doing a spring concert and then on May 2 closes its season with “Effervescent Artistry,” which will feature two-time Grammy-winning clarinetist Richard Stoltzman.

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Marion Arts Center cast members Norris Brown, Nancy Sparklin, Paul Kandarian and Kim Teves.

The Mansfield Arts and Music Society (www.mmas. org) is a treasure trove of theater, a group founded in 1993 by a group of 10 local artists with a goal of fostering the arts in Southeastern Massachusetts.

Coming up for the rest of this season are Stepping Out March 20-April 5, and the Tennessee Williams classic A Glass Menagerie May 8-24. On June 20 and 21, in the Back Stage Concert Series, tenor Michael Duarte will take the stage.

From humble beginnings in 1978 in Newport sprang 2nd Story Theatre, now found in Warren, R.I., (www.2ndstorytheater.com), founded by Pat Hegnauer and Ed Shea; Shea is now artistic director, and the theater has been in its permanent home since 2001 Situated on the second floor of the former Cercle Jacques Center building, circa 1914, the performance space is a 150-seat black box, which allows for flexible staging.

2nd Story is a professional, non-equity company populated by local actors led by a professional artist; Shea was a Trinity actor for several years, and has directed more than 15 full-length productions, and countless one-act plays. This year’s lineup continues into spring with The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and A Streetcar Named Desire.

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Your art

Like art? Check out AHA! offerings (www. ahanewbedford.org), the absolute mecca for all things arts in New Bedford, with its free Downtown Cultural Night series held the second Thursday of each month from 5-9 p.m. that involves more than 40 downtown museums, galleries, arts organizations, merchants and restaurants, including heavy cultural hitters like The New Bedford Whaling Museum (www.whalingmuseum.org), The New Bedford Art Museum (www.newbedfordartmuseum. org), Artworks: Partners for the Arts and Community (www.artworksforyou.org), and so many others.

Outside the Whaling City, you’ve got the Attleboro Arts Museum (www.attleboroartsmuseum.org) which is now showing a terrific historic American poster exhibit with works from World War II; The Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River (www.ncfta.org), a phenomenal space on the waterfront for performing and visual arts (Celtic giants Pendragon will be here March 13, Los Lobos the next night); and The Arts Collaborative of Taunton (www.acttaunton. org), a group whose members include The Industrial Theatre, Star Players of Bristol County, the Burt Wood School of Performing Arts and the NoteAble Blend Women’s Barbershop Chorus.

So please, do get out and participate in all the rich, cultural offerings our area has to offer. If you do, I promise: No more dresses. Well, until maybe Some Like it Hot comes along.

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A Raisin in the Sun

What happens to a dream deferred, AfricanAmerican writer Langston Hughes once wrote in the poem Harlem, asking “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”

That rhetorical question rises to a brilliant level in Trinity Repertory Company’s version of A Raisin in the Sun, playing through March 8, an American classic by the late Lorraine Hansberry that was as cutting-edge edgy and relevant now as it was when it first was staged on Broadway in 1959, a slice of gritty Afro-American life all the more appropriate these days with the country’s first black president in office.

The play is about the Younger family on Chicago’s South Side in the 1950s about to come into $10,000 from the late patriarch’s life insurance check, and the schism it creates in the family over what to do with the money. How they react to the windfall—and each other’s wish for the money—is the guts of a play about a family aching to better their own situation for each other.

The mother, played with extraordinary grace by Trinity vet Barbara Meek, wants to buy a house in a white suburb of Chicago, while her son, Walter Lee Younger, played by scenery chewer extraordinaire, Joe Wilson Jr., wants to invest in a liquor store, as a way of pulling his wife, Ruth, and son, Travis, out of poverty, all of them living in a two-bedroom apartment along with Walter Lee’s sister, Beneatha.

The rise and fall and explosion of emotion in the play, directed by Brian McEleney, is nothing short of mesmerizing to watch, the entire story told from the Younger’s apartment, in a set by designer Michael McGarty that is a work 0, x223 of arttonight unto itself. The cramped two-bedroom apartment is all there on the pm performance rmance on Sept.

Trinity30stage, with seedy Chicago tenement brick walls seen beyond, all visbefore show; limit person from the bedrooms in which some characters rest to the ible to1 per the audience, bathroom where they wash and get ready for the day, to the toilet they flush as ow others converse in the kitchen/living area. This is their home and the audience seems to be right there with them.

One of McEleney’s directional ploys is having the actors address the audi. ence directly during a few particularly powerful scenes, especially Wilson’s, a powerhouse actor in anything he’s been in at Trinity, a ploy which works masterfully. And matching Wilson nearly bite for bite in at least one bit of scenery chewing is Lynette Freeman as his wife, who is desperate to stand by her man, but seemingly unsure if the cost of rending the family is worth it.

Wilson’s gut-churning dialogue is fascinating and at times difficult to bear, all emotion laid bare, raw and discomforting no matter the ethnicity, but cutting ethnically deepest when he roars at his wife that all that the women in his race are good for is to “moan, pray and have babies,” eliciting a collective wince from the audience, which this night was mostly white.

Start to finish, “Raisin” is as gut-wrenching a production as any Trinity has staged, as powerful now as it must have been then in those racially charged times not so long gone. The play is timely, though it was chosen long before Barack Obama secured his place in history. The corollary is there: Is the dream now realized? Is it still deferred, at least for some? Will that change, a buzzword upon which the new president hung his entire campaign? “Raisin” is a story of despair as many Americans despair, but more importantly is also one of hope as many Americans hope.

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Often, she opened a can of this, whipped up a package of that, and the three of us girls would sit to dine at our tiny table and talk about our day.

When I became a teenager, I decided to try to become a vegetarian. My mom, already stretched in trying to provide wholesome meals, now had to figure out a way to get me to eat something other than spaghetti with tomato sauce—my idea of being a vegetarian. I remember I lived on salty Lean Cuisines for about a year.

When I moved to California from Massachusetts to attend college, I was stunned. Stunned by the plentiful, affordable avocados for sale on the side of the road. Stunned by the myriad green vegetables available in the grocery stores and farmer’s stands wherever I went. I would never be happy with my Lean Cuisine again.

Back in New England, raising my own family, I cook whenever I can. My son and I have recently started baking bread from scratch—I have found something he loves to do in the kitchen, finally. I make a mean risotto; really, it gets better and better all the time. But there is so much I don’t know how to do, so many cuisines I have yet to attempt.

For example, I love Thai food, but have only tried cooking with the little Thai packets that you buy from the grocery store, not with my own mishmash of spices, curry.

I love Indian food as well, and think there is something inherently spiritual about it.

Dinner in an Indian restaurant seems to nourish more than your body, but your mind and spirit as well.

Wanting to know more about Indian food, and always interested in how the food you eat relates to health, I began learning about Ayurveda. Ayurveda is an Indian word that derives from two words in Sanskrit: ayus, which means “life,” and ved, which means “knowledge,” or “science.” Therefore, Ayurveda is translated as “the science of life.”

The goal of an Ayurvedic lifestyle is to achieve perfect health. As my Ayurvedic cookbook, Heaven’s Banquet by Miriam Kasin Hospodar describes, “…perfect health is a natural, normal state of life, and anything less than perfect health is abnormal.”

Well! Imagine this. Imagine perfect health.

I sometimes feel perfectly healthy when I am swimming in the ocean in the summer, surrounded by family and friends and familiar surroundings. Sometimes after a good workout I feel perfectly healthy. But always, normally, perfectly healthy? I wish.

The most appealing part of Ayurveda is perhaps the most confusing as well. In Weight Watchers, as I understand it, food can be consumed based on a point system. Bran muffin: 300 points. Fillet of fish: 400 points. Chocolate cake: 1,000 points —or whatever. The goal is to consume only the allotted number of points per day and when you are done, you are done eating for the day.

Oh no. But what if you are still hungry?

What if you haven’t had your vitamin C yet?

An Ayurvedic cook would never tell you, “Don’t eat that! It has too many points!”

Eating is not a game, but a ritual of nourishment. There is no distinction between the body, mind and spirit in Ayurveda—if one is out of balance, then the other two are at risk.

According to Ayurveda, there are three doshas, or “governing agents, to every aspect of the universe,” and therefore ourselves. The three doshas are: Vata, Pitta and Kapha. It’s easy to see what each one looks like its pure form.

Vata (in nature akin a cool, dry wind) people are light and thin, quick, are prone to dry skin, but with a tendency to worry or be anxious. Vata people hate cold weather.

Pitta (fire element) people are moderately built, move with moderate speed, are often good public speakers, and have moles and freckles. They hate hot weather. Kapha (earth element) are the solid, heavier types, with a lot of strength and endurance, a calm demeanor, and thick, shiny hair.

Each of us has some combination of the three doshas, yet our individual natures usually show dominance of one or two of them. We are born with our own balanced form of the three doshas, but as we grow and make choices, imbalance occurs.

That’s where Ayurveda comes in. An Ayurvedic doctor would not prescribe you a pill to ease your symptoms but rather try to restore your natural balance, and thus you would naturally achieve perfect health once again. A great part of achieving perfect health is to allow food to be your medicine.

As Alain Senderens, Parisian restauranteur and award winning chef said: “I am obsessed with the relationship between cooking and health. When one goes to the opera, one does not expect to return having gone deaf; one does not expect to go blind as a result of going to the theatre.

Why then, must one do oneself a damage by going to eat: “For people who think this way there is, on one hand, the cuisine for pleasure—but full of menace—and on the other, the dietfor redemption of the body. This separation

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is odious, and we must find the means of reconciling pleasure and health. I dream of a cuisine that no longer does anyone harm.”

Food as medicine For food to act as medicine, there are some guidelines that Ayurveda suggests we follow. The most important guidelines seem to be the simplest: don’t eat food you can’t digest, and don’t eat another meal until you’ve digested the previous one.

There is no “no Twinkie” rule. There is no “no red meat” rule. Ayurveda concedes that the food we grow up with, that is, familiar food, often makes us happy. The ideal diet would not include Twinkies, however, because it is made of things other than food (i.e. chemicals and preservatives).

Although the vegetarian diet is the way of my Ayurveda cookbook, meat that is clean and healthfully prepared is not off limits.

When our food is not fully digested each time we eat, we create ama in our bodies.

Ama simply means, “undigested food.”

Ama is thought to be the source of imbalances in the body, creating at its worst “calcium deposits in the joints, plaque in the arteries, and growths such as cysts and tumors.” The telltale signs of ama are: a coated tongue, really bad breath, loss of appetite, depression and unclear thinking.

It may be easy to confuse the above symptoms with a case of the winter “blahs,” but, according to Ayurveda, if we are eating in a way that honors the season we are in, and honors our particular dosha, then we would probably escape those winter blahs in the first place.

Dosha tests In my personal quest for perfect health, I took a few different quizzes to discover which dosha I am. According to two of them (I took two to be thorough and see if they agreed) I am a Vata mind and a Pitta body, or a Vata-Pitta type. It was easier to find out which dosha I was by looking at what happens when a dosha is off balance.

For example when Vata is out of balance, a person might experience anxiety, constipation, insomnia, dry skin and difficulty completing tasks. When Pitta is out of balance, a person is compulsive, irritable, and may suffer from indigestion or

an inflammatory condition. Out of balance Kapha results in weight gain, sluggishness and sinus congestion.

One of the questions on an online quiz dealt with handling stress: When stressed do you tend to get anxious, nervous? (that’s vata) Do you lash out, get angry and frustrated? (that is pitta) Or do you withdraw? (that is typical of kaphas) After taking the test, you have a better idea of which dosha rules your body and mind, and you can begin making choices in foods and exercise accordingly, all with the goal of perfect health. In addition to the health benefits, being aware of your own personal nature increases compassion; you can sense the reason for acting the way you do.

The Ayurvedic principals have to do with how you feel, so always let your body be your guide.

Your mind and spirit will naturally follow Maybe something is just out of balance.

It is wonderful to think that you can bring balance back to your life by making some small adjustments, rather than sticking to a restrictive diet or grueling exercise regimen.

The goal of perfect health, and therefore Ayurveda, is happiness. The Ayurveda diet prescribes certain foods to pacify a particular dosha or decrease its presence, depending upon your type.

Vata types are pacified by all dairy, certain heavier fruits such as bananas and avocados, and sweet, sour and salty foods.

Pitta types should forego most cheeses, eat sweet, ripe fruits such as melons, apples,

and prunes, and eat sweet, bitter and astringent foods. Kaphas should only drink warm, not cold, milk, and eat dried fruits, pears and cranberries and other light fruits.

The Kapha tastes are pungent, bitter and astringent.

The more you begin to learn about Ayurveda, however, the more complicated it can become, and it can begin to feel like you are adding up muffin points all over again. Yet, the main point of Ayurveda is that disease, or even malaise is not created overnight, and turning things around physically and mentally and spiritually should be a slow, steady endeavor.

Make small changes Small changes in lifestyle add up to major rewards in health.

Every time we eat, the choice is there whether to contribute to our health or harm it, to keep our bodies in balance or to throw our digestive system out of whack. One of the most important things we can do is eat at the same time every day.

If we want to go a step further, we can attempt to eat our biggest meal at midday, including any hard to digest dairy products.

The Ayurvedic principals have to do with how you feel, so always let your body be your guide. Your mind and spirit will naturally follow.

Writer’s note: Most of the information in this article comes from the cookbook I mentioned, Heaven’s Banquet, Vegetarian Cooking for Lifelong Health the Ayurveda Way by Miriam Kiram Hospodar (Penguin Group, 1999).

If you are interested in learning more about Ayurveda, you could begin online.

Deepak Chopra’s famous Chopra Center has wonderful information and a quiz to discover your dosha. His site is www.chopra.com/ayurveda.

You can learn firsthand about Ayurveda by visiting the Kripalu Center in Lenox, Mass, as well. According to the article “Building Ayurvedic Bridges: An Eastern Medical System Goes West”, The Kripalu School of Ayurveda has, “since its inception in 2005…become one of the top three schools in the country and counts 82 certified Ayurvedic Consultants among its graduates.”

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BOOK PICKS BY BAKER Compiled by Magoo Gelehrter Courtesy of Baker Books – www.bakerbooks.net

March is Women’s History Month so to celebrate the varied contributions women give to the world, here is a diverse handful of books by women.

The lives of Azar Nafisi, Susan Sontag and Judith Nies are explored through their writing, while Dee Dee Myers tells us why women should rule the world, and Greg Mortenson’s daughter helps out her dad in the new kid friendly version of his best-seller Three Cups of Tea in order to help build more schools in Pakistan.

Things I’ve Been Silent About

by Azar Nafisi Random House $27 Hardcover Azar Nafisi, author of bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, a life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets; the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by political upheaval—these and other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir, as a gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the world.

Nafisi’s intelligent and complicated mother, disappointed in her dreams, created mesmerizing fictions about herself, and her past. But her daughter soon learned that these narratives of triumph hid as much as they revealed. Nafisi’s father escaped into narratives of another kind, enchanting his children with the classic tales like the Shahnamah, the Persian Book of Kings.

When her father started seeing other women, young Azar began to keep his secrets from her mother. Nafisi’s complicity in these childhood dramas ultimately led her to resist remaining silent about other personal, as well as political, cultural, and social, injustices.

Things I’ve Been Silent About is also a powerful historical portrait of a family that spans many periods of change leading up to the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79, which turned Azar Nafisi’s beloved Iran into a religious dictatorship. Writing of her mother’s 24

historic term in Parliament, even while her father, once mayor of Tehran, was in jail, Nafisi explores the remarkable “coffee hours” her mother presided over, where at first women came together to gossip, to tell fortunes, which then evolved into gatherings where men and women would meet to openly discuss the unfolding revolution.

Things I’ve Been Silent About is a deeply personal reflection on women’s choices, and how Nafisi found the inspiration for a different kind of life. This unforgettable portrait of a woman, a family, and a troubled homeland is a new triumph from an author who is a modern master of the memoir.

Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration

by Marcia Ann Gillespie & Richard A. Long Doubleday $30 Hardcover Beautifully designed and featuring over 150 sepia portraits, family photographs, and letters from the life of one of the world’s most beloved and admired artists, this moving biography will appeal to all fans of the poet laureate, phenomenal bestselling author, and scribe for the people, Dr. Maya Angelou.

Maya Angelou’s memoirs, essay and poetry collections, and cookbooks have sold millions of copies. Now, A Glorious Celebration offers an unusual and irresistible look at her life and her myriad interests and accomplishments. Created by her longtime friends Marcia Ann Gillespie and Richard Long, and her niece Rosa Johnson Butler—it is part tribute, part scrapbook, capturing Angelou at home, at work, and in the public eye. Readers who love Maya

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Angelou will be surprised and delighted by this personal, illustrated portrait of the renowned poet, author, playwright, and humanitarian.

Three Cups of Tea

by Greg and Amira Mortenson Penguin $8.99 Paperback This young readers’ edition of the worldwide bestseller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted for younger readers and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable story of humanitarianism up to date for the present.

Includes new photos and illustrations, as well as a special interview by Greg’s twelveyear-old daughter, Amira, who has traveled with her father as an advocate for the Pennies for Peace program for children.

Susan Sontag Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963

by Susan Sontag FSG $25 Hardcover “I intend to do everything...to have one way of evaluating experience—does it cause me pleasure or pain, and I shall be very cautious about rejecting the painful—I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly…everything matters!” So wrote Susan Sontag in May 1949 at the age of sixteen. This, the first of three volumes of her journals and notebooks, presents a constantly and utterly surprising record of a great mind in incubation. It begins with journal entries and early attempts at fiction from her years as a university and graduate student, and ends in 1964, when she was becoming a participant in and observer of the artistic and intellectual life of New York City. Reborn is a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of one of America’s greatest writers and intellectuals.

We watch the young Sontag’s complex selfawareness, share in her encounters with the writers who informed her thinking, and engage with the profound challenge of writing itself.

The Girl I Left Behind

by Judith Nies Harper Collins $24.95 Hardcover At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life, building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department economist.

But when her husband brought home a list of questions from an FBI file with Judith’s name on the front, Nies soon realized that her life was about to take a radical turn.

Shocked to find herself the focus of an FBI investigation into her political activities, Nies began to reevaluate her role as grateful employee and dutiful wife. In The Girl I Left Behind, she chronicles the experiences of those women who, like herself, reinvented their lives in the midst of a wildly shifting social and political landscape. In a fresh, candid look at the 1960s, Nies pairs illuminating descriptions of feminist leaders, women’s liberation protests, and other pivotal social developments with the story of her own transformation into a staunch activist and writer. From exposing institutionalized sexism on Capitol Hill in her first published article to orchestrating the removal of a separate “Ladies Gallery” on the House floor to taking leadership of the Women in Fellowships Committee, Nies discusses her own efforts to enlarge women’s choices—and how the repercussions of those efforts in the sixties can still be felt today. A heartfelt memoir and piercing social commentary, The Girl I Left Behind recounts one woman’s courageous journey toward independence and equality. It also evaluates the consequences of the feminist movement on the same women who made it happen—and on the daughters born in their wake.

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WINE NOTES

Nothing little about

Petite Sirah

by Alton Long

Once a mystery grape, grown and made into interesting wines by only a few California wineries, Petite Sirah is now recognized as an excellent grape variety, capable of producing outstanding wines. It has been used for over a century as a blending grape, adding deeper color, fuller body, and complexity to lesser wines. Though it is still often used as a component in blended wines, today there are dozens of producers making Petite Sirah as a single varietal.

The Petite Sirah grape was often confused with Syrah because of some similarities in the resulting wines. But it was obviously different because of its small berries and very dense clusters. This of course resulted in rather tannic and very dark wines.

Some wine experts claimed the Petite Sirah had no relation to the great Syrah grape, but now it is known that it is a hybrid of the Syrah and a little known French grape called Peloursin. Dr. Francois Durif first developed it in 1880. In that part of the world it was quickly dubbed the “Durif,” and that name also followed some of the samples that traveled to California.

American introduction In just a few years after it was introduced in California in the 1880s, a number of wineries were trying it out. By 1900 it became quite popular. Prohibition took its toll on that production as it did with all grapes and wines.

Fortunately, the Petite Sirah grape bunches traveled well and home wine makers all over the U.S. were able to make decent wines with this grape. The high tannin and tight bunches seemed to protect the grape quality, preventing oxidation and spoilage.

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Petite Sirah wines have been uncommon for years. In a wine catalog 10 years ago, you would perhaps find only two or three Petite Sirah listed. Today, a good catalog will have a dozen or more. (The catalog I use lists over 20!)

Growing popularity It is estimated that there are 75 California wineries now producing Petite Sirah. It is now being grown and produced as a varietal wine in the Pacific Northwest, especially in eastern Washington. There is even an “advocacy” organization called “P.S. I LOVE YOU.” What has happened is that winemakers have learned to tame this aggressive wine and at the same time there are many consumers looking for more full flavored and intense wines and who are also more forgiving of tannin. (What’s a little tannin when you are eating a good steak!) This tannin is typical of many Petite Sirahs and explains the reasoning that Petite Sirah has a good cellar life.

One of the earliest major producers releasing a wine with that label was Concannon in Livermore Valley in the early 1900s. They continue to offer excellent Petite Sirah to this day. Livermore is about halfway between San Francisco and the Sierra Madres and is a mineral rich region with favorable climatic. At one time Livermore had more wineries than Napa Valley!

The Concannon Petite Sirah is a modest and quite drinkable rendition and runs about $12 in east coast discount wine shops.

Today there are still over 40 wineries and they are producing many classic varietals but noticeably a lot of super Syrah, Zinfandel as well as Petite Sirah wine.

Improving with time It is interesting to see a recent tasting comparing a 1980 Concannon Petite Sirah made from grapes grown in Livermore with a 2005 made from Petite Sirah harvested in the California central coast. While the older wine began with a funky aroma it cleared up and became quite smooth, complex and pleasant, however it did not show the pleasant fruit of the 2005.

A 2002 Martin Petite Sirah from Dry Creek Valley in Sonoma, already six years old, was still loaded with tannin. It should be excellent for at least another six years. It was almost black in color and had an intense aroma of ripe blackberries, and almost a bit jammy.

It is 15.3 percent alcohol but still fairly smooth. This big wine is priced at over $30.

Another long-term producer is David Bruce located in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It runs about $16 to $17 in the discount houses but up to $23 locally. David Bruce still calls it “Petite Syrah� (note the spelling). They use Central Coast grapes and it has a super aroma and flavor of black berries, blue berries with a little pepper.

Also in the Santa Cruz Mountains is Ridge who made history with their York Creek Petite Sirah from the York Creek Vineyard on Spring Mountain in Napa Valley (Yes, the sloops of this mountain are part of the Napa Valley appellation.)

It will truly spice up your up coming outdoor grilling season making it better than ever

Exciting variety

There are several other regions making great progress with this exciting grape. Greg Norman in Paso Robles produces a rich full-bodied Petite Sirah winner running about $15 and up.

Montoya Vineyards also in Paso Robles, has a good one for $13.

There are at least a dozen more excellent Petite Sirahs being made in the central Coast area.

In the Lodi region sort of north east of Livermore has many wineries producing Petite Sirah.

One of the hot ones is Peltier Station where award winning winemaker J.C. van Staden makes a bold intense fruit forward wine but with a long lasting smooth finish that makes you cry for more. Yum! Yum! It runs $18 to $20 a bottle, if you can find it.

One could not really know Petite Sirah unless you tried Foppiano Vineyards Petite Sirah from the cool Russian River Valley. This wine runs $17 to $19; Foppiano along with Concannon is one of the earliest producers of Petite Sirah and has been promoting it for many years.

In addition to producing this fine wine, Foppiano initiated and sponsored the First, Annual Noble Petite Sirah Symposium in 2002. The purpose of the annual event is to encourage the production of outstanding Petite Sirah as well as to promote this wine to consumers everywhere.

It would be easy to continue listing many more terrific producers of Petite Sirah, but I leave it to you to search for and try as many as you can. You will reap the pleasure of learning more about the wonderful character of the Petite Sirah family and hopefully find one or two you can make your house red. It will truly spice up your up coming outdoor grilling season making it better than ever.

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FOOD NOTES

A food safety primer Kitchen no-no’s

by Elizabeth Morse Read

Back in the day, my off-the-boat grandmother insisted on boiling pork or chicken before roasting it—she was terrified of “the ptomaine” and trichinosis. She also taught us never to eat black pudding (morcela, blood pudding) in any month that did not have an “R” in its name.

It might sound extreme, but these oldworld ways were based in hard-learned fact, and probably saved a lot of us Baby Boomers from major gastric distress, if not worse.

So, read on, and learn how you can minimize your family’s exposure to food-borne illnesses.

warned of the link between a deadly salmonella outbreak and institutional/packaged food products containing peanuts from a specific factory in Georgia. In the past, everything from improperly pasteurized apple juice, ice cream, salad mixes—even frozen hamburger patties or pot pies—have been culprits in widespread infections.

Caveat emptor. Buying local and in season can eliminate some of the potential sources of food contamination, but there’s a lot we can do at home to ensure that our families avoid many sources of potential infection (see sidebars).

Eat your veggies—carefully!

Food safety starts at the grocery store

Remember last year’s e-coli. outbreak from contaminated spinach and salsa peppers? Consumers are at risk of debilitating —or deadly—food poisoning every time we “open wide.” Whenever an outbreak occurs, public health officials aggressively try to track down the source and eradicate it—but sometimes, we are the guilty parties who spread contamination by sloppy shopping, food prep/storage or cooking methods.

Simply put, food poisoning is caused by eating foods contaminated with bacteria/ viruses/parasites or toxins. These contaminants can occur naturally (as in neurotoxins in infected seafood), by unsanitary farming/ processing methods (as in fecal contamination of produce or incomplete sterilization of dairy products), or by poor hygiene during meal preparation, storage and cooking.

Most cases of food poisoning are short-lived bouts of nausea and diarrhea, but others cause lingering systemic side-effects, paralysis or even death.

While food poisoning in the US is relatively rare, it affects up to 800 million people worldwide each year, resulting in 7 million deaths. Right now, our country has been 28

So, let’s start with everyday shopping and storage habits that can minimize potential food contamination. Unlike many women, I never suffered from “morning sickness” when I was pregnant. But, for some reason, the mere sight or smell of raw chicken would send me bolting for the bathroom. Maybe Mother Nature was telling me something—raw meat juices are

one of the major sources of home-based food poisoning. When you go to the grocery store, wrap all meats in the plastics bags the shop provides, and keep them separate in your shopping cart and bags from other foods, especially fresh produce and dairy products.

When you unload your groceries at home, transfer those wrapped raw meat/fish packages directly to the freezer or refrigerator— and never place them above ready-to eat foods they could drip on. If the bloody juices leak onto the ‘fridge shelf, wipe them up immediately—they are breeding grounds for bacteria and food contamination. When you defrost frozen meats/fish, place them in deep-sided containers that can catch those juices. And wash your hands frequently with antibacterial soap whenever you handle raw foods.

When in doubt, toss it out!

It goes without saying that you should toss out commercial or home-canned goods that are bulging, dented, rusted or

Food safety tips n Wood cutting boards should be used only for breads. Tempered glass, marble or dense plastic cutting boards should be used separately for meats, dairy products and produce and they should be sterilized in hot soapy water or in the dishwasher.

And never cut foods directly on a Formica countertop or butcherblock, even sandwiches or pizza—those scratches can never be properly sanitized.

If you use an electric can opener, throw it out. Those uncleanable cutting edges are breeding grounds for food poisoning. Use hand can-openers that can be sterilized in the dishwasher. n

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n Marinate meats in the refrigerator, not on the countertop. And never return cooked meats to the raw, uncooked marinade! n Don’t use a sponge to wipe up raw meat liquids—use a paper towel, then a disinfecting wipe. Whenever you handle raw meat, clean everything you’ve touched —faucets, ‘fridge handle, stove knobs. n Use different knives and cooking utensils for preparing meats, dairy products and produce. Mixing bowls, cheese graters and those nasty sink strainers should be cleaned in hot soapy water or on the top shelf of your dishwasher.

Food safety no-no’s Almost 2/3 of US food poisoning incidents can be traced to tainted foods from commercial facilities (restaurants, cafeterias, public/group events), so be wary of picnics, roadside “roach coaches,” and carnival/festival foods. But here are more tips for protecting your family from inadvertent food poisoning. n Never give honey to children under 12 months old

n Never eat or serve “potluck/picnic” foods containing eggs or mayonnaise

Never eat wild mushrooms, rhubarb leaves or re-use teabags

Never eat imported soft cheeses, smoked fish or processed cold cuts if you are pregnant or immuno-suppressed

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Never eat shellfish that might have been exposed to “red tide,” raw sewage or chemical/industrial contamination n

Never eat raw or undercooked meat, especially poultry n

leaking. But you need to be vigilant, too, about expiration/“use by” dates on all food products, proper cooking temperatures for meats (especially stuffed), and recommended time-lines for refrigerating, storing or freezing of foods, both raw or cooked.

Luncheon meat/cold cuts and cooked leftovers shouldn’t stay in your refrigerator for more than 3 days. Eggs should be kept in their cardboard box for a few weeks, and never frozen. Defrosted meats that are freezer-burned, greenish or greasy should hit the garbage can before the grill. Even grain products like cereal, pasta, rice, bread crumbs, flour or oatmeal should get the heave-ho after a few months once they’ve been opened and not refrigerated or sealed in airtight containers.

Man’s best friend could be your family’s worst enemy Would you eat in a restaurant or public cafeteria where animals wandered the foodprep counters, litter boxes were close to the kitchen area or where workers handled birds/lizards/cats or changed baby diapers without washing their hands before cooking? Of course not—but many families think nothing of doing exactly that. Pat the dog, shoo the cat, change the baby’s diaper— then start dinner. Yeccch!

Psittacosis (parrot fever), toxoplasmosis (transmitted from cat feces to human fetuses), salmonella (from reptiles to humans) and an ungodly number of preventable food infections are passed from pets to humans, especially to pregnant women/ fetuses, infants, the elderly or those who

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n Never eat imported produce that has not been washed and peeled

Never leave cooked foods outside in summer for more than one hour. n

are chronically ill or immuno-suppressed.

Keep animals away from kitchens and wash your hands thoroughly after handling them (or their by-products) before you start food prep—and wipe all surfaces with antibacterial wipes before you cut meat and veggies (would you want bits of kitty litter in your chicken salad?).

I once drove my youngest child to the local emergency room after she’d gouged herself on a rusty nail, only to find that the hospital parking load was blocked by three school buses. Dozens of uniformed, vomiting scouts from a local camp limped or were carried in before us. Fortunately, after waiting for several hours, my daughter was fine, but those scouts who’d eaten something spoiled/contaminated at the camp’s cafeteria were not.

Be alert and learn how to prevent food poisoning every day in every situation.

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BUSINESS

Using technoloGY to gain an edge

By Michael P. Griffin

It has been said that the Chinese word for crisis is made up of two components signifying danger and opportunity. Tough economic times provide the opportunity for you to get closer to your existing customer base and to leverage those relationships in order to weather the downtown and stay competitive in the future. Now might be the time to take the opportunity to look carefully at some of the low-cost yet effective information technology solutions that can help you market your business during this economic downturn.

To begin with, think about the fundamentals that drive your business. Look for ways to know your existing customers better, find low cost ways to acquire new customers and connect with customers in meaningful ways. Keep in mind that the Massachusetts Small Business Development located in Fall River can provide free advice. Melinda Ailes of the MSBDC says: “With these difficult economic times the MSBDC is seeing more and more companies that are interested in improving their performance: sales, productivity, profitability and cash flow. Our business advisors help them assess their strategies, opportunities and threats. We also help with practical business tactics that can be implemented immediately for powerful results.

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Beyond seeking advice from the MSBDC on basic business issues, you can use information technology to connect with your customers in effective—including cost effective—ways.

Be more effective All businesses are looking for ways to become more effective during these tough economic times. One area many people look to for increased efficiencies is technology. And even if you are operating on a 30

shoe string, you can afford to harness technology to help you make valuable connections with your customers and prospects.

The cost of computing has fallen for many years and continues to fall even during this recession. Moore’s law is alive and well. Derived from an observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore a co-founder of Intel, Moore’s law states that the cost of computing power falls by half roughly every 18 months. So the obvious question is how to use low cost but powerful technology, including software and web resources, to improve sales and give better customer service?

Two areas that I see as having great potential are blogging and email. With the cost of laptop computing so low (small but powerful “net books” are being sold by HP and Acer for less than $300 through stores like Staples and Wal-Mart) blogging and email marketing are two low cost methods that small businesses can use to stay in touch with current customers and market to prospective customers.

But to use these technologies effective you should have a dynamic communications plan. Here are some tips to get you there; including specific technologies you can afford to harness.

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Share your knowledge Your expertise is why your customers come to you. In your blogs and emails, provide information that is both beneficial to them and that they can only hear from you. As internship director of the Charlton College of Business, I have two distinct customer groups—students and employers.

In trying to keep both groups well informed through an internship blog that I author and through a constant flow of emails. I share links to articles that have been written by experts in the field, share information and tips provided by students who have completed successful internships, and offer information about current open internship positions.

I don’t use fancy or expensive technology tools to do this. I simply use emails to provide some initial “teaser content” and invite readers to explore links to my blog. The emails drive traffic to the blog and our web site where more information is available.

The blog is a free service offered by Google called Blogger (Blogger.com) and I monitor the traffic to my blog and the effectiveness of my emails using another free service offered by Google called Google Analytics (www.google.com/analytics/). All of this is costing me nothing but time and effort; both precious commodities but certainly something we have more of than cash during this recession.

Provide information The knowledge you impart should be both relevant and engaging to read. Challenge yourself by asking “So what?” If the information is fascinating to you but isn’t important to your customers’ needs, leave it out.

To make your communication more readable and relevant, try to:

n Be fun: try to be entertaining and informational at the same time

Be brief: provide small nuggets of useful information n

Be engaging: find ways to get your customers and prospects to interact with you by offering blogs and online surveys.

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Two low cost email solutions that can help you deliver interesting content to your customers and prospective customers, is Constant Contact and High Impact eMail. I have seen both of these low solutions and action and each offers solid benefits without breaking the bank.

Constant Contact, whose motto is: connect, inform, grow; is a web based software solution that can help you create an email newsletters, a high-impact email promotions, slick email event invitations, online surveys, or while building a database of email addresses. For as low as $15 per month, you can have a slick customer relationship building, IT solution that harnesses the power of the internet. Visit Constant Contact’s web site (constantcontact.com) for more information and to try the product for free for 60 days.

Another option is a product called High Impact eMail, a software solution developed by a Cambridge Massachusetts company called KMT Software and available on their TemplateZone web site (Templatezone. com). Unlike Constant Contact, High Impact eMail (HIE) is a standalone solution that resides on your hard drive and sells for about $100. It gives you the power to change the way you communicate with your customers.

With HIE, your emails will stand out from the crowd as the package contains over 1,000 professionally designed templates to choose from. And it has features that ensure your mailing lists are fully up to date while offering a Hosting service to upload and store hundreds of images, logos, PDFS, and documents that can provide additional content.

With solutions like Constant Contact and High Impact eMail you can encourage dialogue with your customers and prospective clients. You can get your readers to get involved in the dialogue. They can submit questions, which you then answer directly in your next communication and also include in future emails and newsletters. For example, your e-newsletter might include:

Responses to frequently asked questions

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Customer success stories or problems you have solved n

Results of surveys you’ve done with your customers n

Enlist and create trust As you run your blog and send your emails, ask other experts who complement your business to contribute to your communications. This strategy adds interest for your readers, emphasizes the breadth and depth of your experience and connections, and may even generate referrals from those experts and their colleagues.

Keep in mind that consumers don’t engage in as much impulse buying or social shopping during a recession, and they are more likely to hesitate before a purchase decision because they tend to more cautiously examine the risks and rewards. That’s not good news if you’re trying to acquire new customers but this realization can help you build trust. People view the purchase of products and services from unfamiliar businesses as a larger risk than purchasing products from businesses they trust.

Make sure your messages help to overcome purchase hesitation by demonstrating that you have a relationship of trust, and explaining why the benefits of an immediate purchase outweigh the benefits of holding on to the money. It’s a good idea to ask for a referral somewhere in your offers while you’re Professional-looking emails also set you apart from your competition and make you look healthy and prosperous to your customers.

If you don’t have a sizable in-house email list yet, focus a large portion of your marketing strategy on building your email list. That way, you’ll gain a low-cost way to educate your audience so your business is familiar enough to overcome purchase hesitation no matter what’s going on in the economy.

Finally, spending hundreds of dollars on a blogs and email marketing design is not possible for small businesses on a small budget, especially during this recession.

But small businesses do not need to miss out on the huge email market. Blogger, Constant Contact and High Impact eMail are smart, low cost investments, for anyone wanting to tap into eMarketing solutions.

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Smart Growth in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico encourages people to walk to their destinations and interact with one another.

Healthy people, healthy communities, healthy planet

by Theresa M. Sprague

In a recent online discussion group, a member posted a question that many people these days have been asking themselves and others— “What is sustainability?”

“Sustainable” is a word that has been thrown about a lot these days—we hear it often paired with the words energy, agriculture, transportation, design…the list goes on. Since we are hearing so much about sustainability, it is no surprise that people want to know exactly what “sustainable” is.

One of the discussion group members responded to this blog with the unequivocal statement, “Sustainability can only be found in ecosystems untouched by humans.”

A worthy answer, certainly, since it does seem that the planet got on more or less well enough before human beings showed up on the scene, but since our species first arrived and started moving around we’ve left few ecosystems untouched. Therefore, it hardly makes sense to define the term so narrowly. Perhaps a broader, and slightly less misanthropic, perspective is required.

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary,

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the word sustainable is defined as “of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged.”

Again, a fine definition, though it may be hard to imagine what we here on the South Coast can do to move towards achieving this almost overwhelming definition of sustainability. Where do we begin? How do we pursue sustainability in our communities and in our region?

Just like any project that requires us to build something new, we need some basic tools, materials, and plans—a tool kit so to speak, to help us move towards the goal of working, building, playing and living in a way that does not permanently deplete or damage ourselves or our abundant resources.

From a planning point of view, sustainability’s most valuable tool is Smart Growth.

Smart Growth, in a nutshell, is a turn-

ing away from our traditional development patterns of unlimited outward expansion and low density development, and moving towards more compact growth that provides for mixed land uses and pedestrian friendly communities that encourage residents to interact as they move about their daily business.

Smart Growth is about developing in areas where infrastructure such as water and sewer already exists, rather than expanding that infrastructure into undeveloped open space, such as valuable agricultural land.

It is about exploring alternative modes of transportation, including bicycles and our own two feet, and developing in a way that allows people to efficiently use this transportation to get us to the places we need to go—work, school, shopping, etc.

Smart Growth is also about the appropriate balance between economic development and land conservation, and about understanding that the two are not mutually exclusive.

Sustainability and Smart Growth are about developing and using tools such as planning and zoning and economic development profiles and transportation infrastructure, but they also speak to something greater. They speak to the health of our bodies, our communities and our planet.

We have become a species that is suffering from physical disease brought on by our insistence on leading a sedentary lifestyle. We are living in a detached society where we often do not know our neighbors and have little time for our communities because, to quote William Wordsworth, “Late and soon/getting and spending/we lay waste our powers.” We are painfully discovering that our economy and our planet can no longer support the lifestyles and habits that we have developed.

Smart Growth can help us work towards reassembling our physical health by moving us away from our automobile culture and getting us walking again; our emotional health by creating and maintaining open spaces and scenic views that bring us pleasure and pride; our social health by bringing people closer together and

creating a climate that encourages people to interact; our fiscal health by encouraging innovative businesses and supporting development that will not tax a community’s ability to provide services; and our environmental health by preserving and protecting our water resources, wildlife habitat and the valuable agricultural land that supplies our region with fresh local food.

It is important, however, to remember that Smart Growth is a tool. Our resources, including our cities and towns, our businesses, our land, our water, our farms, and our parks and open space are the materials.

These, together with good planning, can build sustainability.

But, as anyone who has tried to construct so much as a birdhouse knows, even the best plans, tools and materials cannot themselves create a sound structure.

Dedicated craftsmen are required. That is where we all come in.

We can hardly imagine that the answer to sustainability is, as the blogger mentioned above reasoned, to treat humankind as an invasive species to be eradicated. Nor can we consider halting growth and development, for, as visionary architect and builder Christopher Alexander observed in his groundbreaking work The Timeless Way of Building, “Each one of us has, in his heart, the dream of making a living world, a universe.”

Perhaps the most important point about sustainability is that it is as much about the way we think as it is about the way we do things.

In order for sustainability to become a reality, we need to change the fundamental ways in which we think about the world and the way the world works—as an economy, a society, an environment, etc. Without a major shift in our way of thinking, we cannot work together, using the tools available to us, to shape the policies, and design and building philosophies that got us where we are today. A substantial shift, first in our thinking, then in our actions, is required to guide us towards becoming the craftsmen who will build in a sustainable manner and reestablish our overall health.

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BUSINESS

Still cutting edge

By Cara Connelly Pimental The Burns Boys: Marshall, Zachary and John

In 1934, John J. Burns, his wife, and then teenaged son started a saw shop on Rodman Street in Fall River. Burns traveled on a bit of a journey before taking a leap of faith to start his own company.

He learned the art of the saw sharpening business in Nova Scotia and gained much of his experience in watermills.

The elder, first generation Burns worked in a number of sawmills from Northern Maine to Portsmouth, R.I. It was at the Weyerhauser Timber Company in Portsmouth where Burns perfected his craft, “absorbing the technicalities of the saw business,” according to Burns’ son, Marshall. It’s also where the second generation Burns found his passion for the craft. The family business was then known as Burns Saw and Machinery Company.

Business in the 1930s and 40s brought a different type of customer though the doors of Burns Saw and Machinery Company. Large mill companies, hand saws, big blades, home shops, local businesses and factories were the typical customer.

Business thrived and for fifty years remained at the Rodman Street location.

The growing company saw expansion not only in bigger sales and more customers, but another generation of Burns at the helm. Marshall Burns’ two sons, John “Spike’ Burns and Jeff Burns became and integral part of the company and moved to a 34

bigger location.

The elder Burns always listened to his sons and gradually gave them more decision making authority.

“I gave my sons responsibility and held back on giving them authority until they proved themselves.

They have proven themselves and I am very proud of my family,” he said.

Marshall Burns listened to his sons when they suggested altering the direction of the company.

They thought getting into power tool sales and service was a good idea. Today, most of the company sales come from power tool and machinery sales and service. The rest from manufacturing carbidetipped circular saws and from Burns’ sharpening service.

“As long as both my sons agreed on it, it was OK with me,” says Marshall Burns. He knew it was time for some changes and over 25 years ago the company became known as Burns Power Tools.

“I don’t always appreciate the value of what they

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want to do but, I respect their decisions,” he says.

Changes like installing computers to track inventory and shipping was a change that was necessary and better suited for his sons to accomplish. The elder Burns would prefer to use a piece of scrap paper or a piece of lumber.

Currently, Burns Power Tools now employs the second, third and fourth generation of Burns’ men.

Marshall Burns is very proud of his sons and grandsons—and makes an okay, thumbs-up gesture.

Zachary Burns, great grandson to the Burns founder, credits much of the growth to the company’s diversity—showroom sales, outside sales, sharpening services & repair services.

“We have a successful inside sales team and outside sales force,” says the fourth generation Burns. The inside sales consist of hobbyists, woodworkers and contractors. Outside sales include large millwork companies, job/construction sites, woodworking/cabinet shops and web sales.

Despite the current economy, business is still good, reports Zach Burns. Burns recently expanded their showroom and manages to keep 19 employees on staff.

The 1,000 square feet of former office space now houses the Rockler partner store and products.

Rockler is an industry leader and considered to be the largest woodworking catalog. “Now customers

can come and get everything but the lumber here,” according to Zach Burns.

Over the last 75 years, Burns Power Tools has become much more than a saw shop. Burns is regarded as a major supplier to the construction and woodworking industries. Burns specializes in industrial power tools and heavy duty machinery. They provide tool sharpening and repairs.

Burns caters to contractors and woodworkers and values their customers. Burns is proud of their “total package” approach to power tool marketing.

According to Zach Burns, “the tools and supplies we choose to stock are considered the most efficient on the market.” Their marketing system is simple— provide quality tools and accessories, and the repair and sharpening services to go along with them.

Burns is a factory authorized service center for DeWalt, Porter Cable, Milwaukee, Hitachi, Makita, Bosch, Metabo, SawStop, Delta, Powermatic and Jet Power tools. “Our sales staff boasts 15-25 years experience. We have highly qualified people able to make quality recommendations based on their knowledge and experience,” said Zach Burns.

Specialized blades require specialized care, and this is where Marshall’s expertise has been passed down to his other grandson, Russell Bodington, who runs the company’s sharpening department. It takes expertise to maintain the quality, finish, and long-lasting nature of specialized saw blades. For this Burns offers the “SuperSharp Finish,” a premium blade sharpening process that last longs, cuts better and saves wear and tear which extends the life of any tool. Zach Burns reports web sales and service has increased over the years.

“Finding quality companies to maintain blades is difficult in some rural areas. We have a customer form Montana that send in 25 blades at a time for servicing.” Additionally, sales orders come from as far away as California, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Canada.

In 1995, Marshall Burns was inducted into the Tools of the Trade magazine hall of fame. He still comes to work every morning.

Recently, Marshall, who will be 90 this year, was notified about a distinguished award. He will be honored at this year’s JLC LIVE residential construction show, the recipient of the first ever lifetime achievement award by Tools of the Trade. Hanley Wood, publishing company for the Journal of Light Construction and Tools of the Trade, is bestowing the honor on the elder Mr. Burns. The JLC LIVE show will be held at the Rhode Island Convention Center March 18-21.

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HAPPENINGS Through MARCH – Winter/Spring Acting and Musical Theater offerings at The Broadway Conservatory of the Performing Arts. Classes beginning March 1 for infants, toddlers, teens and adults in Theater Arts, Voice, Piano and Performance Art. Levels include beginner, intermediate, advanced, recreational and professional intensive courses of study. 62 Main St. in Taunton, For more information and registration call 508-828-9189 or visit www.RoselandProductions.com Through March – The Durfee High School Class of 1969 is trying to get in touch with classmates. If you graduated that year and would like information about your Fortieth Reunion, call 508-674-0220 or 508-677-4066 or email barrets2000@yahoo.com or bwell146@comcast.net Through MARCH 8 – Perishable Theatre kicks off the new year with the world premiere of Bad Money, A play about soft currency. Written by Meg Miroshnik and directed by Vanessa Gilbert.

Thursday, March 5 at 8pm, Friday, March 6 at 8pm, Saturday, March 7 at 3pm and 8pm and Sunday March 8th at 3pm. 95 Empire Street, Providence. $10 for previews, $20 general admission, $15 students, seniors, military, $10 for Perishable members. For ticket purchase contact ArtTix at 401-621-6123 or online at www.arttixri. com. For general information call 401-331-2695 or visit www.perishable.org Through MARCH 10 – The Tiverton Arts Council presents “Watercolors”, an exhibition of watercolor paintings by Tiverton artist, Helen Sturges Nadler. At the Tiverton Town Hall, 343 Highland Road, Tiverton. As an artist and teacher, her work has been exhibited in New Mexico and throughout New England and are in the permanent collections of the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, the University of New Mexico Art Museum and private collections across the US and Canada. Opening reception January 16, 5-7pm at the town hall. Regular hours are Mon.Fri. 8:30 am-4pm. Call 401-288-0999 or visit www.tiverton.ri.gov Through MARCH 12 – Newport Gallery Night.

The second Thursday of every month (excluding January). 5-8pm. 25 Participating galleries throughout Newport, 4 Equality Park Place. For more information 401-848-8200 or visit www. newportgalleries.org Through March 19 – 20th Anniversary Winter Art Film Series. Sponsored by the Friends of the Dartmouth Libraries, 732 Dartmouth Street, Dartmouth. Films every Thursday from 11am-12 noon. Free. No registration required. March 5th: 20th C. Art at the Metropolitan Museum March 19: Snow cancellation date. For more information contact sally.sapienza@gmail.com Through MARCH 28 – Audubon Society of Rhode Island. Let’em Get a Little Muddy at the Audubon Environmental Education Center in Bristol. Preschool Adventures, March 4, 11 & 18, 10-11am. Preschool Story Time, March 5- 6, 10am and 1pm. Audubon Community Mural, March 7, 18, 21, 28, times vary. Saturday Morning Crafts, March 7, 14, 21 & 28, 10am-12 noon.

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Through March 29 – Trinity Rep presents The Secret Rapture. When a father dies, two sisters must come together and face their differences, and their intrusive stepmother. The turmoil that lies ahead is more than anyone can expect. 201 Washington Street, Providence. Tuesdays through Sundays 7:30pm. Call 401-351-4242 or visit www.trinityrep.com MARCH 1 – Annual A.I.D.S. Bowl-a-Thon. Make a difference and come have some fun bowling, while helping a great cause. Beverages and snacks will be served. Wonder Bowl Lanes, 66 Hathaway Road, New Bedford. 10am-2pm. For more information call 774-202-7031.

MARCH 1-10 – Umass Dartmouth College Of Visual & Performing Arts hosts the George & Helen Spelvin Folk Art Collection, at the New Bedford Star Store Campus, 715 Purchase St. 9am-6pm.

Free. Call 508-999-8555 or visit www.umassd. edu/cvpa MARCH 1, 5-7 – A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare. Set in the Summer of Love, this romantic comedy explores the adventures of four young lovers and a troupe of amateur actors as they play with royalty and the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. Roger Williams University, Performing Arts Center, One Ferry Road, Bristol.

March 1, 2pm, March 5-7, 8pm. $10 general admission, $5 students/seniors. For more information call 401-254-3666 or visit http://departments.rwu.edu/theatre MARCH 2 – Movie Night at the Millicent Library, Stanley Donen’s Bedazzled (1967). Written by and starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, retelling the Faust legend in the swinging London of the 1960s. 45 Center Street, Fairhaven. Library auditorium, Walnut Street entrance. 7pm. Free.

For more information call 508-992-5342.

MARCH 6 – Ollabelle. Gorgeous harmonies and ensemble playing make this group very special.

Ollabelle artfully mixes gospel, soul folk, and rock into their own unique sound Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River. 8pm. Tickets $18 in advance, $20 day of the show. Call 508-324-1926 for more information or visit www. ncfta.org MARCH 6-8, 13-14 – Sylvia, by A.R. Gurney. At the Marion Art Center. This play is sophisticated, howlingly funny, and full of adult humor. 80 Pleasant Street, Marion. Opens March 6th at 8pm and continues March 7th, 13th, and 14th at 8 with a matinee on Sunday, March 8th at 3 p.m. MAC members $15, general admission $20. Space is limited in the intimate theater. Tables are available for parties of four or more. Call (508) 748-1266 for more information.

MARCH 6 – Drumline Live is at the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, 684 Purchase St. at 8pm. $45, $40, $35. Call Box Office 508-994-2900 or visit www.zeiterion.org MARCH 7 – Zeiterion Performing Arts Center: hosts the Edgar Winter Band With Special Guest Rick Derringer. 684 Purchase St. 8pm. $35, $25.

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MARCH 7 – Writer’s Workshop with Jan Brogan. A “Novel Idea” Booksellers. The author will be conducting a free mini-workshop on how to transform your novel idea into a workable story structure.

Register soon as seating is limited. 2pm. 450 Hope Street, Bristol. For more information and to register call 401-396-9360.

MARCH 7 – Spring Ahead for Frog Awareness.

Spring is almost here. Our amphibian friends will soon be waking from their winter sleep. Find out what you can do to help our local frogs. Crafts and activities for all ages. Buttonwood Park Zoo, 425 Hawthorn Street, New Bedford. 1-4pm. Free with zoo admission. For more information please call 508-991-4556 or visit www.bpzoo.org MARCH 7 – James Cotton Band. Blues harp player extraordinaire. Opening act, Keri Noble.

Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River. 8pm. Tickets $25 in advance, $28 day of the show. Call 508-324-1926 for more information or visit www.ncfta.org MARCH 7-8 – Greater New Bedford Home Show.

Come and experience New Bedford’s most informative home and garden show featuring practical results and products for use in and around the home. Free workshops and seminars focused on today’s hottest home and garden hot topics.

New Bedford Vocational Technical High School, Ashley Boulevard, New Bedford. Sat. 10am5pm, Sun. 10am-4pm. $3 adult/student, free for children 12 and under. For more information call 508-999-5231 or visit www.newbedfordchamber. com MARCH 8 – St. Anthony Of Padua Church presents Music At St. Anthony’s, featuring James Jordan. 1359 Acushnet Ave. 3pm. Freewill Donation. Call 508-993-1691or visit www.saintanthonynewbedford.com MARCH 8 – Rehoboth Community Dance hosted by the Sunday Night Jammers. Dance will feature contra dance steps and a variety of international and couple dances, such as polkas and waltzes.

All dance steps taught. At Goff Memorial Hall, 124 Bay Street, Rehoboth. 7-9 pm. Free and open to the public. Potluck precedes the dance at 6pm. Call 508-669-5656 or 401-751-4554 for more information or visit www.contradancelinks. com/jammers.html MARCH 8 – Macaroni Dinner. Our Lady of Fatima High School. Proceeds benefit Fatima High School athletics. $10, age 6 and younger are free.

360 Market Street, Warren. For more information call 401-245-4449 or visit www. fatimahs.org MARCH 8 – Community Concert Series: Fumito Nunoya, marimba artist, at First Congregational Church, 34 Center Street, Fairhaven, 2pm.

Concert tickets are $10 for adults, school age children free with a paid adult. Concert tickets are available at the door. For more information or reservations, call 508-993-3368 or email fccs@ comcast.net

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Continued from page 36 MARCH 11 – The Stringdusters. Superb instrumental interplay, dead on harmonies and great songs. Quite simply one of the finest bluegrass acts on the scene. Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River. 8pm. Tickets $15 in advance, $17 day of the show. Call 508-324-1926 for more information or visit www.ncfta.org MARCH 12 – AHA! New Bedford It’s Elemental AHA Night. A night exploring how the elements of earth, fire, air, water, wood and metal are used to create art. Downtown & National Park 5 -9pm.

Free. Call 508-996-8253 for more information or visit www.ahanewbedford.org MARCH 13 – Community Film Series: Taking Root.

How does the simple act of planting trees lead to winning the Nobel Peace Prize? In 1977, Wangari Maathai of Kenya suggested rural women plant trees to address problems stemming from a degraded environment, leading to a nationwide movement. Co-sponsored with the New Bedford Historical Society and Independent Lens Film.

7pm. Museum Theater, New Bedford Whaling Museum, 18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford. Call 508-997-0046 for more information or visit www. whalingmuseum.org MARCH 13 – Pendragon. Having celebrated their 25th anniversary in 2008, the Rhode Islandbased ensemble has embraced that tradition and created a timeless sound of its own, performing roots music with an unmistakable contemporary edge. Join the band for a pre-St. Patrick’s Day night of high-energy tunes and step dancing and beautiful songs. Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River. 8pm. Tickets $15 in advance, $17 day of the show. Call 508-324-1926 for more information or visit www.ncfta.org MARCH 13, 14 – Zeiterion Performing Arts Center hosts MARIZA!, Mariza has taken the world (and New Bedford!) by storm. Establishing herself as the new face of Portuguese Fado.

684 Purchase St. 8pm. $55, $50, $47, $44. Call 508-994-2900 or visit www.zeiterion.org MARCH 14 – Newport Baroque presents Music for Recorder and Basso Continuo. Redwood Library and Athenaeum, 50 Bellevue Avenue, Newport. 3pm. Free, donations accepted. For more information call 401- 855-3096 or visit www.newportbaroque.org MARCH 14 – Slide. Dublin based band Slide came to the fore after being voted best newcomers in Irish Music magazine in 2001. Common Fence Point, 933 Anthony Road, Portsmouth. 8pm. $25. Call for more information 401-683-5085 or visit www.commonfencemusic.org MARCH 14 – Los Lobos. For over 35 years, Los Lobos has been making some of the most important and vital music on the planet. They meld various musical styles with grace and power. Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River.

8pm. Tickets $75 in advance, $75 day of the show. Call 508-324-1926 for more information or visit www.ncfta.org MARCH 14-15 – South Coast Chamber Music Society Concert. The final program of this concert year rounds out the season with captivating clarinet trios by Brahms and Beethoven, and with songs by Gustav Mahler and Alma Mahler, sung 38

by SCCMS’s mezzo-soprano Rachel Lewis and played by flutist Claude Cobert. Sat. 5pm, St. Gabriel’s Church, Marion and Sun. 3pm, Grace Episcopal Church, New Bedford. Pre-concert talk

by Anthony J. Lewis Ph.D, 30 minutes before performance, $18 per person. Call 508-295-2968 for more information or visit www.southcoastchambermusic.org

MARCH 15 – Miles for SMILES. Walk/run/bike/ skate-a-thon event to raise funds to support SMILES Mentoring and its mission to help children in our community realize their personal and educational potential through a large-scale one-to-one mentoring program. Registration is free. UMass Dartmouth campus, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth. 8am-12pm. For more information call 508-999-9300 or visit www. smilesmentoring.org MARCH 18-22, 25-28 – Your Theatre, Inc. presents John Patrick Shanley’s Tony Award winning play Doubt, the fourth major production of Your Theatre, Inc.’s 62nd season. Directed by Cynthia J. Messier of Fairhaven, the play runs Wednesdays through Saturdays March 18-21 and 25-28, with a matinee Sunday, March 22. Curtain time is 8:00 p.m. for all shows except the 3:00 p.m.

Sunday matinee. $12, $14, $15. St. Martin’s Church Hall, 136 Rivet Street, New Bedford. For more information call 508 993-0772 or visit www. yourtheatre.org MARCH 19 – Glenn Tillbrook (of Squeeze) and the Fluffers. Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River. 8pm. Tickets $22 in advance, $25 day of the show. Call 508-324-1926 for more information or visit www.ncfta.org MARCH 20 – The Nobodies of Comedy are at the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, 684 Purchase St. 8pm. $20. Call 508-994-2900 or visit www. zeiterion.org MARCH 20-22 – Laurel Tree Players present Why Do Fools Fall in Love by Roger Bean. Under the direction of Maurice Ouellette, the 60’s return to the stage in this lighthearted and nostalgic musical review. Fri. and Sat. 8pm, Sun. 2pm. $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and students. Holy Family Holy Name School, 91 Summer Street, New Bedford. Call 508-993-3547 or visit www.hfhn.org MARCH 20-29, APRIL 3-5 – The Community Players present the musical revue, A Grand Night for Singing, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays at 2 pm. Jenks Auditorium, Division St., Pawtucket (across from McCoy Stadium). Tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for students (through high school). Reservation line opens 4 weeks prior to opening: (401) 726-6860. For more information visit www.thecommunityplayers.org MARCH 21 – Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart in concert. Common Fence Point, 933 Anthony Road, Portsmouth. 8pm. $20. Call for more information 401-683-5085 or visit www.commonfencemusic.org MARCH 21 – Mary Fahl. Drawing on classical and world music sources, American art song, as well as thinking man’s folk-pop, Mary Fahl, the former lead singer of the acclaimed alt-pop band “October Project”, sings in an earthy, viscerally powerful contralto. Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River. 8pm. Tickets $22 in advance, $25 day of the show. Call 508-324-1926 for more information or visit www.ncfta.org

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MARCH 22 – Zeiterion Performing Arts Center presents Out Of Thin Air. 684 Purchase St. 3pm. $15, $10. Contact: 508-994-2900 or visit www. zeiterion.org MARCH 22 – The National Acrobats of China. A unique family-friendly performance using martial arts, acrobatics, music and illusion, this event will cross boundaries of age, language, and culture to totally entertain and amuse. At The Auditorium at Roberts Hall, 600 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Rhode Island College, Providence. 7:30 pm. Call 401-456-8144 for ticket information or visit www. ric.edu/pfa/pas.php MARCH 26 – Newport Historical Society presents Culinary historians Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald, authors of America’s Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking. They will discuss the history of New England cooking during Newport’s Restaurant Week. 5:30PM at the historic Colony House on Washington Square, Newport. For more information call 401-846-0813 or visit www.newporthistorical.org MARCH 27 – Light up the Night for Hospice. 2nd annual fundraiser for Community Nurse and Hospice Care. This event will feature gourmet cuisine, entertainment and an auction. At the New Bedford Whaling Museum, 18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford. 6-9pm. $100 per person.

Call 508-992-6278 for more information or visit www.communitynurse.com MARCH 27 – Richard Shindell. An expatriate New Yorker now living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Richard Shindell is a meticulous craftsman of song whose six studio albums and one live recording have been revered by critics and fans alike. Innovative, original and occasionally spiritual, Shindell’s songs weave tales that interchangeably champion the downtrodden, exalt the disaffected or wax empathetic to those lost to society’s fringes. Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River. 8pm. Tickets $20 in advance, $23 day of the show. Call 508-324-1926 for more information or visit www.ncfta.org MARCH 28 – The New Bedford Symphony’s Showcase Spring Concert is at the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center. Pre-Concert Prelude 6:45-7:15; Concert 8pm. Adult $20, $30, $40, $50; Student $10. Call Box Office 508-994-2900 or visit www.nbsymphony.org MARCH 29 – St. Anthony of Padua Church presents Music At St. Anthony’s, featuring Robin Dinda. 1359 Acushnet Ave. 3pm. Freewill Donation. Call 508-993-1691or visit www.saintanthonynewbedford.com MARCH 29 – Blithewold Gardens Greenhouse Open House. Take a look… and get a few of those pressing garden questions answered too! Have you always wondered how our gardeners prepare for spring? Are you not sure how to propagate a specific plant? Blithewold’s Horticulture team will be available for questions, and the greenhouse doors are open, so feel free to step inside! Take a self-guided tour around Blithewold’s greenhouse and see where all the magic happens!1-3pm.

Free for members, $5 non-members. Registration is recommended. 101 Ferry Road, Bristol. Call 401-253-2707 or visit www.blithewold.org

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