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By Stewart Lytle, Reporter By Stewart Lytle, Reporter ––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––––– income from its highways, while it generates electricity and reduces pollution. The MassDOT Office of Energy, Technology & Management and its Highway Division are building highly visible solar farms along the Mass Pike, Route 3 and now Interstate 95 just north of the Photo by Stewart Lytle The MassDOT maintenance Whittier Bridge over yard on Rabbit Road. the Merrimack River. SALISBURY – Besides collecting As cars and trucks race by on the tolls and selling advertising, the highway, pumping thousands of tons Photo provided by Kerrie Bates MassDOT has a new way to produce of carbon dioxide into the air, rows of Ipswich Illumination will be held this weekend. Continued on page 3 IPSWICH – Next weekend this Bates, who helped found the town will again play with fire as it event five years ago, said she believes lights the bridges, historic homes and Illumination is becoming “self aware even the Ipswich River itself for the and interactive.” fifth annual Ipswich Illumination. Capitalizing on the fascination The event, sponsored by the people have with themselves through Ipswich Cultural Council, brings communication technologies and thousands of residents and visitors to social media, the event will feature enjoy festivities that range from art two Selfie booths with backdrops shows and waterside concerts to fire under lighted umbrellas. Bates hopes jugglers and floating bonfires. the photos of individuals, couples or This year, Illumination will take the groups will be uploaded to Instagram event to another level, which Kerrie for the world to see what they are Bates, the director of the town’s Re- missing by not being in Ipswich this Creation and Parks Department, is weekend. calling going Meta. On the historic Hall Haskell The word Meta, once only a Greek House lawn in the center of town will prefix, is becoming a noun that be a shadow box where adults and loosely translates to mean abstraction children can dance in front of lights or simply taking it to another level. that cast stark shadows. In what she said is a “risky There will also be a 36-footThe Town Common Courtesy Photo endeavor,” Bates believes those who wide screen on the Hall Haskell The Triton Strikers soccer team won the U12 Championship at the North Andover come to enjoy Illumination this House lawn where the event will weekend and particularly Saturday project images of past Illumination Columbus Day tournament. They won all 4 games on Saturday and Sunday to night will be “Reflecting on ourselves events. Bates asks anyone who has make it into the playoffs. On Monday they won the semifinals and then won the while it happens.” photos of previous events to send finals in overtime! Coaches are Erik Morland and Christine Frary.

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The Bartlett Museum held its first yard sale in many years on September 26 in the front yard of the museum. We were able to sell off the remainder of donations from our 4th of July Auction as well as other donations. Next year at this time the plans are to have our first annual Flea Market where we will sell spaces to dealers. Thank you to the public for stopping by to look and purchase at the yard sale and thank you to those few who donated items to be sold, especially the James Reid family. Thank you to the Bartlett Board of Directors for giving their time to work at this event. The Bartlett Museum is located on 270 Main Street, Amesbury and is open to the public from Memorial Day – Labor Day and also for private tours. It is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and illustrating the history and culture of the Town of Amesbury, its neighboring communities and this country and making those resources available to all interested. It depends on funds raised through membership and fundraising events to continue.

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Bring your friends and neighbors to TOWN MEETING ....OCT 27 at the HIGH SCHOOL This is the “SPECIAL TOWN MEETING” and should not include any major spending. Article #11 is for a million dollar bond. For a Artificial Turf field. This BOND will have to paid with “REAL” tax dollars, not artificial money. This article should go to the SPRING ANNUAL BUDGET The Town Common deadline is 5pm Wednesday (except when a MEETING. Why! It does not belong on the warrant at a fall meeting that federal holiday necessitates an historically does not bring out enough citizens and barely gets a earlier deadline). quorum (200 folks) That’s right, could be 200 citizens making decisions for 13.000 people. Ask yourself and your neighbors do you The Town Common serves the communities of the know what this going to cost the Town? We have been told that this Upper North Shore of Mass. & expenditure will not add to the tax burden. You have been told this Coastal New Hampshire and by the folks who have been pushing to get this article before the welcomes your participation. Send your Organization or Group smaller audience to better the chances to pass. It needs two thirds Notices, Birth or Engagement vote to get a bond. Announcements, Photos, Articles and They are saying, no TAX BURDEN, the money is coming right off Letters to the Editor, by mail, phone, the top, meaning right out f the budget,HUH? fax, or e-mail to: 77 Wethersfield St., Rowley, MA 01969 If the Town and the School have a million $$ sitting in the treasure Phone: 978-948-8696 not committed it should be given back to the tax payers. Fax: 978-948-2564 Some how this bond is not going to a secret ballot, which brings up E-mail: news@thetowncommon.com a IMO a VERY SERIOUS QUESTION, can’t the voters be trusted? Are you voter and if you were informed could you make intelligent The Town Common decision. Article #11 should be pulled from the warrant and if goes to Town Marc Maravalli, Publisher / Editor editor@thetowncommon.com Meeting and give a resounding “NO” vote. Graphic Design Services Bring it to the Spring Budget Meeting, “AFTER” you see your new graphics@thetowncommon.com tax bill, that will include prop 21/2 increase, new assessments, the Advertising Opportunities advertise@thetowncommon.com override (average $535) plus other misc. cost. Event and Announcement Submissions Have you compared your water and electric bills yet. Wait until events@thetowncommon.com you see you sewer (pu) bill. 77 Wethersfield Street In advertising one of big motivators is “KEEPING UP WITH Rowley, MA 01969-171 Phone: (978) 948-8696 JONESES”. So when tell you, about selected Towns spending money Fax: (978) 948-2564 they don’t have,on ARTIFICIAL TURF are they paying for with www.thetowncommon.com The Town Common is not responsible for typographical errors or artificial bond that won’t effect the taxes omissions, but reprint opportunities do exist for prompt notification of such errors. Advertisers should notify The Town Common of any Don’t be part of the crowd and leave to someone else to a costly errors in ads on the first day of issuance. No credits &/or refunds are offered or implied. decision. All material and content cannot be duplicated without written consent of the publisher. The right is reserved to reject, omit, or Plan on going to Town Meeting.. . OCT 27....IPSWICH HIGH edit any copy offered for publication. SCHOOL Copyright 2004-2015 The Town Common© - All Rights Reserved The Editor c/o The Town Common 77 Wethersfield St. Rowley, MA 01969 or preferably via e-mail to: editor@thetowncommon.com.

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them through Instagram tagged “#IpswichIllumination.” They will be streamed on the screen. On Saturday night the event is inviting artists and performers to sign up to perform music, readings or dance that will be captured on a phone and transmitted through Facetime and projected on the screen. The performances can be at the event, or Bates has created a venue for those who cannot attend Illumination this year because they have moved away for college or other reasons to participate remotely. People can register to perform via Facetime at Meta 2015 #IpswichIllumination. “This is a totally risky endeavor. A lot of things can go wrong. We’re playing with fire,” Bates said aware of her own pun. For those watching the floating bonfires, luminaries and bridge lightings, there will also be new vantage point along the river, called “To Be.” At the end of a parking lot near the EBSCO building, Bates and friends are setting up “an outdoor living room” with borrowed lawn chairs and a picnic table. She hopes

someday soon the area will be transformed into a permanent park that allows for a new viewing space of the river and the Choate Bridge. Here is a list of Illumination events: Friday October 23: Artists Opening Reception, Ipswich Town Hall 5 to 8 p.m. Music: Jazz with Tom Palance Mark Earley & Friends Saturday October 24 Art Show and Sale, Ipswich Town Hall noon to 9 p.m. Fly Fishing Instruction Ipswich Watershed on the Town Hall Field noon to 2 p.m. Poetry Reading: Town Hall 2 to 4 p.m. Face painting: Town Hall 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Bonfires, Luminaries and Bridge highlightings along the Ipswich River, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Music: Saw Mill Point Ben Staples & Friends 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Jessie’s Floating Wish Candles 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Art Show Hall Haskell House, 6 to 9:30 p.m. Illumination entertainment on Memorial Green, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

MET interactive, multi-media event, 7 to 9:30 p.m. Shadow Dance Laser Hall at 16 Elm St Selfie Station #1 Hall Haskell House Selfie Station #2 QLF Footbridge Park Laser Light Bike Brigade performance, Town Hall Field 7 to 8 p.m. Music & Dance on Water Street, Tiento Battu, dance and jazz collaboration, Tom Palance & Jenny Carlson 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Music: Riverwalk Mural Patio, Ipswich Community Band Pops 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Music: Riverwalk Mural Patio, Orville Giddings & Friends 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Fire Jugglers – by the footbridge 7 to 9 p.m. Entertainment and food all along the Illumination path 6 to 9:30 p.m. Sunday October 25 Art Show & Sale, Ipswich Town Hall, noon to 4 p.m. Coffee & Pastry Brunch noon to 2 p.m. Music: Folk and Blues, Bagwell Island Band, noon to 3 p.m.

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2 for refreshments and socializing! And then, let’s get tuned up!! First Parish Church of Newbury 2-4 p.m., Saturday, October 24th! (Our Secret Garden nursery school), 20 High Rd, Newbury HALLOWEEN HAPPENINGS Mass Audubon’s Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary in Topsfield will hold its annual Halloween Happenings for families on Friday, October 23 and Saturday, October 24. Join us for a safe, fun-filled, guided family night walk through the forest to learn about the creatures of the night. Children and adults are encouraged to come in costume, but dress warmly as you will be outdoors for about an hour. Allow about 1-1/2 hours total. Recommended for children ages 410 accompanied by an adult. The program begins in the barn with games and activities that will keep you entertained until your group goes out. Arrival times from 6:007:30 p.m. on Friday and 5:30-7:00 p.m. on Saturday. Refreshments will greet participants at the end of the program. RAIN OR SHINE. Advance registration with payment is required. No walk-ins. FEE: $10 per person (adult or child) ($9/Mass Audubon members). Register online at massaudubon. org/ipswichriver or call 978-8879264.

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Join us on Tuesday, October 27 at 6:30 for “New England Mill Girls of the 19th Century” presented by Smithsonian Institute historian Doug Stewart. He will present an illustrated talk about America’s first industrial labor force: the “mill girls” of New England. In the 1830s and 1840s, thousands of young women flocked to immense new cotton mills in a string of planned cities along the Merrimack River. This bonnet-wearing work force, mostly single farm girls, was until then the largest gathering in history of women without men. At a time when wage-earning women were a rarity, these often feisty mill Continued on page 12

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she has a diet soda by her side all day long. At a recent event I saw Mary sitting and listening intently to the presentation. At her side was her diet soda. Every few minutes Mary would unscrew the diet soda cap and take a swig. The three main dental issues Mary has - decay, erosion, and recession, have many different etiologies. One common denominator is pH, which is a scale used to describe the acidity or alkalinity of solutions or environments. The lower the pH the more acidic the solution or environment is. In order for any of the three disease processes described above to occur, the pH of the oral environment has to be acidic. While there are many reasons the pH of the oral environment can be acidic, such as medications or disease, dietary factors play a significant role. A pH lower than 5.5 in the oral cavity puts you at risk for dental disease. Most tap water, for example, has a pH of 7. The average diet soda has a pH of 3.28. Stomach acid has a pH between 1-2. Diet soda is very acidic. Having a diet soda with a meal on occasion is most likely not a problem. Typically, after consumption of an acidic beverage, your saliva will neutralize (make your mouth more alkaline and less acidic) within about a half hour. That is why you may have heard that you should wait at least half

an hour before brushing your teeth after meals. The problem with Mary sipping the diet coke all day long is that the pH of her mouth is always acidic. This creates a very dangerous environment. Quieter drills, new materials and technologies will not solve these problems. While etiologies such as medications that can cause dry mouth and a very acidic environment are difficult enough to manage, behavioral issues are often not discussed in enough detail, or at all because they can be more difficult to manage. Avoidable dental problems are the last thing a patient wants to hear about and a dentist wants to see. Changing habits can be difficult for patients. It is also frustrating for dentists to watch deterioration in an otherwise preventable environment. In addition, we as providers need to adopt a more preventive approach to the conditions I discussed in this column, as well as a better way to convert and transform patients. I will introduce one way next week. Dr. St. Clair maintains a private dental practice in Rowley and Newburyport dedicated to healthcentered family dentistry. If there are certain topics you would like to see written about or questions you have please email them to him at jpstclair@stclairdmd.com. You can view all previously written columns at www.jpeterstclairdentistry.com/ blog.

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