hi i'm victoria haase and we're here for the belmont media center hoping to capture a little bit of the excitement of town day so this year we're starting off with the belmont savings bank and so why don't we introduce is it john yes my name is john queen i'm the manager here at belmont savings this is our 125th year in existence and we love participating in town day this is how many years in a row ladies we've been doing it since its inception yeah the belmont center business association does a wonderful job in organizing and we've got lots of giveaways belmont savings has wonderful accounts so come on down and open an account great and it looks like you have a whole a whole crew here eager and ready to wait on us so what kind of products do you have for a for giveaway or it looks like a red sox baseballs or not quite not quite belmont savings bank squish balls for the kids for the babies we've got some belmont savings bank cookies you know pens currently we're running a promotion as a giveaway for a new checking account at belmont savings we're giving away a fifty gift certificate to nick's place and we also have a program in place for referring a friend if you have a current checking account with belmont savings and you refer a friend you both can earn up to fifty for it ron rossi retired after forty years of service with us he did a wonderful job and belmont savings is one of the few banks that are actually making money last year we had a banner year this year we have a new president bob mahoney formerly of citizens bank now he's going to help belmont savings become a force in new england here at town day we have some belmont themed products that means we're standing in front of the belmont historical society table so let me introduce dalton avery immediate past president and pam price so dalton tell us a little bit about the event town day and what kind of people come and stop by and say hi oh we haven't i've been here for about an hour now and we started bright and early and i got pretty good traffic everybody's wondering around looking at usually people who are familiar with the association try to catch up when few things that they haven't bought before and what we do like is guess new people don't know much about us mainly to pick up the registration form to join and to get some of the basics publications about the history of the town and postcards and so we're competing with obviously with a lot of jazzy attractions around here but we're not serving any food or drink so we're just selling history selling history but yeah you do have some competition but i know that you're up for do you have a lot of products for any price range thirty five cent postcards up to twenty items so i know there's a lot of range here and interests so if you lived here i always say if you live here a day or a decade we're all part of the belmont history pam usually keeps the money straight so tell me if we had any sales not since i got here i think we just sold one book and that was it so we have a little notepad with some sales we sold that a couple of the one hundred and fifty facts so the couple of the here and now books and some of the pins lapel pins since you've been here and i know this morning we had some other volunteers come down they served the society is staffed by volunteers good organization you want to join to stay connected they have put out a quarterly newsletter and that's done by your town historian richard betts come on down to the table they'll give you the latest copy on the great depression that was put together by dan leclaire just gave a program there's some plates books note cards a variety of product but just just stop by and say hi to dalton and pam and they love to talk to you about belmont history and tell you a little bit about maybe where you live hi i'm here with donna moultrup from the belmont board of health and she's going to talk about i don't know something new something old something new that's right it's definitely this is a kickoff of our new sharps disposal program for years we've told people to put the sharps the needles and syringes and little lancets mainly for diabetics but other people that would have used those we've told them to put them in coffee cans or in heavy detergent bottles and tape them up with duct tape and then they can put them in their trash now that's okay because belmont's trash is burned so that's an alright way to dispose of them unfortunately the trucks smash the containers and sometimes they fall out on the ground or the trash workers can get hurt with them so starting july 1st the state is no longer allowing people to put them in the trash so they're going to need to purchase an approved container like this one the red plastic and they can the health department is starting this new program where they can obtain these you can purchase these from us and then we'll dispose of them so we'll mark them paid on the bottom it's ten which pays for the container and pays for the disposal so they can bring them back to us in a year or they can bring them back to us in six months it'll be mark paid in the bottom we'll take the old one and dispose of it they can purchase a new one from us and so it'll just be this revolving program that's great so it's a new service so that it really is a safer way to dispose of all your needles and sharp objects and keep them out of the trash i don't think people will not be upset about this program because especially people from other states come here and say are you guys crazy putting these in the trash you know we had a special program in our state and so we've known this has been coming for a long time and so we're sure that we just need to get the word out that people will be more than cooperative about it so even people today who don't have a need for purchasing these i'm telling em but at least spread the word to your neighbors and relatives well we're here at town day and we're with jen santoro and she's representing the belmont municipal light department here's the place to be everything happening here lots of free giveaways jen's going to walk us through the booth here yeah of course all right so first you can see that we're giving away our for our kids we have some pencils some pens we have a lot of energy conservation materials we also have our popular led nightlights which are great they are sensored so when the lights go off they turn on and they're great people love them we're giving away we're now on twitter so you can follow us you can sign up to our bmld updates and you can see what's going on we update that frequently it's great so if we have outages or we're giving away stuff you can sign up for that we also are giving away our big thing we're giving away is called an echo kit and it has three cfl light bulbs in it as well as some other little things a limelight this is our new this is called the kilowatt and these are available for you can take one out of the library and they're great because you can take any kind of appliance you have at home plug it in and it tells you how much it costs to run it weekly monthly or yearly and we actually put in our rate it's great and they've been sold out at the library they're very popular we just bought a few more to you know to have at the library so as long as you have membership to the library a card you're able to take out the kilowatt and we're always they help they're great so you bring it home you plug your appliance into it and it will accurately calculate the cost of that particular appliance sure yep weekly monthly and yearly correct and we put our specific rates so you can act yeah so you would know how much it will cost to run it know how much you can save when you're not running it so that's something shut it off but some that doesn't need to be plugged in you can see how much you're saving by shutting it off fantastic okay we have other fluorescent things energy meters yeah we have it's like some fun giveaways we have the rulers for the kids and adults as well we also have these are our wheels which are nice kind of just like it'll run whatever you want or whatever appliance it may be you go around and it tells you how you can save and what you can do to save energy that's fantastic as well so people should visit definitely come stop down the belmont it's the light department help savings help go green and meet jen and her crew here you can always come and give us a call if they have any questions on how they can help and conserve we're always there to help as well as they can check out our website we do put a lot of information on the website and yeah they can always come down if they come pay their bill or just stop in and say hello we do offer we do have free cfl light bulbs if we have them we usually always do and we also give away our led nightlights as well wow well have fun at town day and thank you thank you very much i'm with john kolterman he's the vice chair of sustainable belmont he's going to tell us a little bit about their initiatives and the display they have set up so john take it away oh thank you so sustainable belmont is an organization in town and it's part of vision21 and five years old we're really looking to cut the carbon footprint of the community by eighty by the year two thousand and fifty ambitious agenda it's very ambitious but i think also quite doable it's going to take some work so that we have a climate action plan which kind of outlines some ideas on how we can get there and that's a very big part of what we're trying to do at the same time we're getting ready to roll out an initiative called cool belmont and that's what you're the new initiative that you're talking about here with some information they can pick up on the table so cool belmont you can tell us a little bit about that sure so we're actually looking for volunteers to get involved with this we need a lot of people with very a variety of talents anywhere from web designers to community organizers and so forth so we're basically going to be looking to kind of do outreach to the community and get residents involved and seeing what they can do to lower their own energy usage and carbon footprint in their own homes and that's going to be a big part of that so it's starting somewhere and you're just launched the program and how can people get in touch with sustainable belmont do you have a website or you're in town i mean how would they if they want to volunteer yes how would they do that so sustainable belmont what's our email address sustainablebelmontgmailcom yes sustainable belmont one word or string gmailcom okay they just email us we'll definitely get it get them in touch and then we have a website it's the same old belmontnet and that's another avenue where they can find out more about us and also i had we have a monthly meetings open to the public let's see the first wednesday of every month at the library at seven o'clock so that's great so that's a lot of ways people can sort of get involved and you're trying to get the word out so you're here at town day you've been here other years or is this the first time yeah this is at least our second or third year here fifth year fifth year fifth year that we've been around okay okay well jen since you're standing by here tell us a little bit about the table you have some displays is this just a explanation just introducing the sustainable belmont in general or what do we have here for handouts we have a variety of handouts here one is general information about sustainable belmont when we meet how to get in touch with us and it has just a few tips on what you can do to save money and cut your energy costs great okay we have a flyer about the cool belmont program and what it is and how people can get involved and then we also are helping to promote the belmont municipal light department's clean energy program that people can sign up for and for paying a little bit extra per month they can actually purchase energy for their electricity from a clean energy sources such as wind as solar and that's in combination or that's coordinated with electric light department you just sign up for it they put a little surcharge on your bill each month and you're buying clean energy and then you're green that's right okay so great so and some handouts so good to see you down here and hope you have a nice day and it's all about getting the word out i think that's right thanks for stopping by hi i'm tim hawkins this is steve conley hi how are you belmont boosters organization that supports high school and athletics for the whole town all the different teams do a lot of equipment and uniforms and jackets we don't do the carnival anymore so this year we're doing a barnyard bingo effectively a raffle first prize of two thousand five hundred yeah i saw it in the paper on and i wasn't well it sounds really interesting it's something new you're doing it out in the field so tell us what that will be like we'll block off the field lay out the lines make a grid and we're going to have a cow just gonna wander around the field and everybody buys a deed in fact someone's here to buy a deed right now and they're only ten so we encourage anybody to buy a deed win money but that doesn't even matter you're helping belmont athletics absolutely no that's the don't want us to lose any sales don't wanna lose any sales okay and i hope everybody will be encouraged to come down and pay ten get involved in the belmont boosters support the barnyard bingo and up till the time that the cow mingles on the field so if it's a nice day like today it's going to be tons of fun bring the kids down and it's a nolose situation so there's food think a big family affair something for everyone yes tell us what it is june 12th and tell us besides coming down to town day how can we buy a plot how can we you have them email how do we contact you you can come down to conley's pub and grille which is at one hundred and sixty four belmont street in watertown but basically serving the greater belmont community for all the hunger and thirst needs i'm down there so you can just ask for me stephen and i have a bunch of them and we'll be selling them again right up to june 12th we're stopping by the booth the belmont farmer's market i think you're in about your like your sixth year that is that right think it is six yeah and so what do you have going on when's the grand opening thursday june 10th every thursday through october 28th and it looks like it has some expanded hours one hundred and thirty to seven hundred now so that's good and it's in the parking lot still behind the block of business behind leonard street you come every week we have some who come every month every other week so we have an enewsletter people can sign up for and that will tell them who's going to be here and who's not we have a newsletter that goes out to we send it home with the school children four newsletters a year two in the spring two in the fall that go home to the kids and what else do we have well tell me you know what tell me a little bit about the vendors because i know that you were awarded actually for two thousand and nine the best of boston for farmer's markets and that was pretty prestigious award to be receiving and you have a list here of the vendors but what kind of products what kind of variety can we expect if we come down to the belmont farmer's market we have four five different produce people some are organic most of them use very few pesticides even if they don't clean even if they're not fully organic we have a grass fed meat vendor we have some people sell flowers we have some sauces and next door cheeses we have the lady next door makes cookies everything is made locally that's the requirement and it passes the belmont health department tests what else do we oh well we have some vietnamese cambodian farmers who do wonderful wonderful greens all kinds of asian greens for people who like eastern asian cooking and then we also have some events during the market where we have some musicians coming we have the dancers coming this year and we are doing some events for kids so that there's activities going on and everyone's having a good time at the market and i've talked to a lot of people when they just come they just come to socialize they come they wander around they sample this they buy a few things but it's really just to get the community to come out meet gather so it's been fun have you found that the same true our vendors are awesome they're really interested in teaching people about the stuff that they're growing what they can make with it and we do have some prepared foods but again pretty locally prepared and so people will give you recipes and tell you what to do the community aspect is wonderful and people can come here and see all their friends even if they don't buy anything they're gonna bound to have a good time good to see you here at town day we just watched your bull ride is that the first time you've been on the bull yeah it was kinda like i thought i was going to stay on for a long time like the first round i stayed on for the longest but the second i fell off like kind of right away looks you had a little bit of trouble but you got back on and you gave it another try yeah it was kind of like all of the sudden like you're spinning around and then all of a sudden stop and then spin around and then stop and then like you're going back and forth back and forth back and forth so it's hard to keep your balance or what's the key to a good ride be your balance or hanging on tight or what's the secret well like you're turning to one side and want to turn to the other side and hold on really tight to the rope so like if you going like that then you can go like that back i actually work in the arlington school system and i do this as therapy ah we all need therapy i guess so but most of these pieces i have designed all this the artwork myself and i do all the painting myself i work on with two different mediums i do glass and crystal as well as pottery and the pottery is new it's about two years old it's dishwasher safe and microwaveable and it's becoming a major portion of my business i have a lot of people that like the fact that it's you can throw it in the microwave and whereas the glasses are a little bit more delicate and you have to wash by hand i pride myself on the color choices i mix the pigment myself so i'm able to get the rich rich color which you normally don't see especially in the glass and crystal and then i bake them so yeah it's a process it's a process and how long have you been doing this i started painting about thirteen years ago it's a combination lily and when i make this lily this is my hardest you have four layers and each layer has to dry before i apply the next so just to get this started it's a two day process just to paint this just to paint it and then of course you have to let it dry and do all the other things that go along with glassware but actually i these are i have a whole a whole slough of pieces ready to come out but i just not through with them i'm not finished like i said it does take a long time so i've done this the blue hydrangea i'm ready the grape i'm ready my beautiful purple irises but this will be out next week this is a very popular piece i have to admit it's i just call it the swoop dish and this serves everything as you can see you can put desserts sandwiches i love my tomato and what's it like what's it like a salad and i also make my own sushi so i lay this out but what's nice about my pottery is i try to paint in the bottom so that if you were to display them or are want to hang them on the wall you can see it from all different sides i sign all my pieces so that you know that it is you know an individual piece and i only do one or two of each piece at a time so it's so it's a labor of love it is okay well we're here with the belmont rotary club and i understand we were lucky to get the president here at the booth so introduce yourself hi i'm dr phil scally i'm the president of the belmont rotary club and we're here at town day just for the having a fundraiser or rotary a red sox ticket raffle actually to raise money for a scholarship fund we meet every tuesday morning at the belmont public library in the assembly room from seven hundred and fifteen to eight hundred and thirty it's a breakfast meeting we invite you down to come down as our guest to have breakfast and see what we're all about see all the good works of what rotary does some of the projects we do involve to try to eradicate polio worldwide we also raise money for many different things around town and globally rotary is an international organization made up of trying to think how many millions of members but sandy will know how many millions of members are in rotary sandy probably about five hundred million we're just guessing okay i'm here with a couple of the participants in belmont youth hockey introduce yourself i'm timmy bailey i'm michael brodigan and how long have you been playing hockey or been with the program since i was five wow and so you're on a team a winning team yeah we won two years in a row two years in a row and you well my team didn't make the class this year but we did pretty good at the end of the season and it's got quite a good program a lot of good competition with the belmont and today here you can come down to town day and support the effort donate some money keep the program going so yeah tell us when does it start is it not now in the summer no it starts well for my team it usually starts in like september my practices start the games usually start in october okay and what position are you i play defense and who are you voting for in this year's stanley cup i want the black hawks to win black hawks okay go black hawks what about you black hawks okay two black hawks fans all right well maybe we can get kim on camera here she's the answer girl so let me see if i could talk to kim quickly about youth hockey in belmont tell us how long you've been involved with youth hockey program i have been on the board for the last two years but my children have been involved for the past six years okay and the board is really the driving force behind the funding of the program or the organizer what does the board do the board organizes the program we had developed teams they are placed into certain programs the greater boston youth hockey league and the myc the middlesex youth hockey league for the girls and we just get the schedules going get the kids the ice and let them play and have fun that's great how many kids would you say participate in the belmont youth hockey we have a little bit over at about two hundred and forty kids in total last year and what age group does it cover we start all the way down for learn to skate which is three four fiveyearolds all the way up to our major program which is high school so it's something for everybody so we encourage you to come down today and support the youth hockey in belmont looks like you're having some signups some raffles some frisbees all right thank you belmont town day two thousand and ten what do you think well it's really fun and all the rides are cheap so we have enough money to get on hey great and what's your favorite thing you've done so far well that thing over there right where you run and then you go flying back with a bungee cord a bungee cord yeah ouch okay will have to check that out and how about you i like the bounce house what's the bounce house this here just like a trampoline like a giant playground how about the dunk tank have you been down that end yeah we went there a couple times and the basketball you tried that yeah one of my friends almost won a prize but it went right out went off the rim okay maybe next time but the good thing is you're having fun how's the food this year had any sampling anything of the food it's pretty good we went down and got some pizza yeah the ice cream was really good all right well good i'm glad you're having a fun time and thanks for talking to us you're welcome all right well i'm here on the flatbed truck in belmont center on letter street with reminisants so yeah yay so tell us a little bit about your group if you wanna introduce yourself well anyway we are the reminisants and we've been doing this since one thousand nine hundred and seventy three mike joyal and i put the band together back in seventy three and we thought we'd do it for a couple of years and thirty seven years later couple a decades maybe yeah we're still doing it victoria and this is my best friend michael joyal how are you you peter benito hi nice to see ya hello everybody good to see ya our keyboard player and he just went through back surgery so we had to sit down and really quick you've been together you play here i've seen you here several years in a row how many we've been here a long time back and we love it here all right it's one of the real and we do a lot of these things so we're pretty good judge of when an event is done well it's done really well here in belmont and you have to tip your hat to the people that organize it because it's a lot of work to organize it and they do a great job every year now the reason that we are here all these years our music is not really that good we guarantee good weather whenever people hire us so and that's why they keep they told us many times you know i wish your music was better but your weather it's outstanding and today is no exception we have a beautiful day not too hot and i know what you're sharing the stage afterwards will be some other bands who will come up maybe the belmont how does that work does the belmont high school come up the high school and they set up down in front of the band and it's wonderful kids that play some great great music and it's a lot of fun it's a lot of fun and i know i've been here in the past when you have people out here dancing so you're taking a short break now but you'll be back with us a little bit for another set or you know the problem victoria is in our contract we're supposed to sample all the food here in belmont now obviously looking at us you know we do a lot of these concerts so we test all the food to make sure it's good and we do we take it very seriously well i don't want to hold you here any longer this is your break could we say one more thing you could say anything you want the people that are watching this i want to remind you that the tv puts two hundred pounds on we're actually victoria tell em we're really thin right we're really thin you're all looking good and i thank you for sharing the time with us the reminisants come and check them out in belmont i'm sure you'll play other groups we'll look forward to hearing you this afternoon thank you thank you so much representatives from the powers music school let me know your name nina grimaldi yas ishibashi okay great and we'd love to hear about what's going on at powers one of the reasons we're here today is that we have a really longstanding program seventeen years running called the powers powwow and it's a summer camp for children aged five to around ten with a cit program tacked on for kids who don't want to leave the camp we have kids who've been coming to us back probably for maybe nine or ten years and i assume it's you give me the dates the weeks that it's available yeah there are four sessions starting well actually june 21st june 21st and it's the first session and then it would do it in july and two sessions in july and then one session in the beginning of august so you can take one or all of the sessions depending on your interest and the age group you're talking about around five to eleven and in kindergarten have a cit program from eleven i mean twelve to fourteen and i know it's a music school so what kind of activities will they will the kids be involved with when they get to the camp they do violin lessons piano lessons eurhythmics class we do singing and staging to get ready for the production they have an acting class we have a big arts and crafts component so that we're making the sets and the costumes for the production so it's a total musical theater experience it's a total musical experience theater it's right away it's right here in belmont and you're taking enrollments now applications now for this summer season yeah all four sessions have openings and how can you besides coming down to town day and signing up how can we access the information you can google powers music school in belmont powersmusicschoolorg and you can get into our website and then information is on the website so information is available well we wish you good luck with the camp and i hope you have a nice day today thank you thank you very much it's really helpful for us thank you i'm nancy dignan and this is the friends of the belmont public library and this is josephine fang and dianne coulopoulos they're also friends of the belmont public library group great and great to have you here at town day have you been here before i think we've been here for as long as they've had town days many years and what kind of things did the friends do tell us a little bit about what you what you do with the friends group well we raised money to support the library and we do so by having book sales throughout the year at an annual book sale and fundraisers we also do and support the music series on saturdays and the author series that the library puts on as well as a lot of programs a museum passes for families that they can use for supporting also the revamping of the website this year it's a lot going on