hello and welcome to the belmont journal your source for hyper local news and community updates i my crowley your host this week now in auburn hospital in the belmont health department are co sponsoring a c marchand training on tuesday march sixth from one to three thirty pm you might want to attend there's a substance abuse recovery night also planned in lexington on thursday march eighth the lexington community center could be worth checking out at belmont last school committee meeting on feb twenty seventh superintendent freya when summarized what he and his team are doing about school safety let's hear about what he had to say as our parents know we have sent out several e mails regarding what we do with the school with our ongoing training with our police and fire departments and we we very much value the training that they provide us in the training that they do as first responders in the support that they give our public schools and the safety that it brings to our schools and our school community you know we do a lot of good work around social motional ar and the proactive work we do to build relationships with students and families into strangers and teachers together working to make sure that all students are known to us that their support provided to them this is ongoing wor creating a culture where every student is known in every student is provided support where they need it goes a long way in creating relationships that hopefully create safe and resilient students welcome to this week and the belmont citizen herald certain almost funny in a way but it's really not funny this is a really serious thing so let's get serious ok ok so people with the warmer weather it was a it's attracting people to go to the parks again especially joey's park  park but even though the bit trashed barrels have been removed by the public works department people were still finding a place to put the trash you know where they were putting it i do there was an old abandoned water fountain covered in plastic and they decided oh i have a dirty diaper i think i'll poke a hole in this plastic and stick it in there we have really have a picture showing what people did to this old abandoned water fountain well guess what the water fountains not there anymore because the d p w removed it this week so that they're hoping that will stop people from putting trash trash is what attracting the rats and dogs are doing their business in the field and people are picking up the rats are finding it and taking it to their borrows and guess where their borrows are right underneath the playground right underneath the staging area of joey's park the really adorable stage area where kids perform well guess what underneath that stage area we have a rat infestation all the branch of the one true so there is this treatment that they're doing again that the park is again closed while they're doing this treatment which is read out gel it's a more humane way of of deterring the rats but you know and then some people like no no this is a very humane way of doing it and the people say that if they kill them this wouldn't be a problem but i don't know if that's necessarily true rejoined i what about what about plastic bags plastic bags what do you mean  an article on the warrant for spring town meeting the selectmen agreed to put it on there was originally a citizen's petition but the selectmen actually said no we'll we'll put it on because we can control it better so they'll be if this passes a town meeting there will be a ban of these types of bags from all retail establishments in belmont and they'll have about depending on the size of the store that could have six months or nine months because to actually go library and he invited lieutenant kristen daly to join us and we had a little conversation the other day and he said he believes belmont's library is the safest ever it's ever been he believes that his staff is well trained not necessarily to deal with an intruder but they know what to do they'll call the police they're not afraid to call the police at our library and he has a very good relationship with our police but he did say it's like a train station anybody can come in his in his library they don't check i d s sex offenders could be in there so people need to be aware of their surroundings and if you see something say something and that's basically what lieutenant daly said we're going to cut to a video of what her advice would be of what what should we tell our children ok well thanks drew the phrase has been said many times you see something say something i mean we want to instill that in the children and there are i mean even though have been happening it seemed to be a very frightening time there are many trust adults that they can go to if they see something that doesn't make them feel comfortable that frightens them you know to go just the library go to the library and if they're out you said don't much center where they are many times on wednesdays that they can go into the store and towel with the person behind the counter or something to not be afraid to speak up and they can do it quietly you know walk over to the reference desk of the lab or walk into a store make it look like you're buying something they think kids are fr tattletale and many times you're not getting the person trouble sometimes it's someone who needs help and by letting a trusted adult know we can possibly get them the help they need so if something doesn't feel right if you see something that makes you uncomfortable or feel unsafe you know  out leave the situation and go tell a trusted adult and that's when the best things you can do because then they can contact us and the police can come down and either help the person or make the situation safer by getting the person or what happened at winchester public library is as as a plane crash lieutenant daily reminded me that people are still flying on planes so they should not be afraid to go to their local libraries so that's important to know and also it's important to too including this weekend's books and bloom celebrations it's about transformation that's what i really like about flower inching you know looking at an individual flower or a bouquet of flowers at the store and then try to figure out how to make it look like something that it doesn't appear to be when you look at it the first time my name's ellen o'brien cushman i'm a former president of the garden club actually from about a decade ago i'm been a member since one thousand nine hundred four the garden club is really really thrilled to partner with the belmont historical society the belmont friends of the public library and the new library foundation to celebrate for a whole weekend one hundred fifty years of belmont's public library the theme is books in bloom we have twenty three separate designs that will be set up around the library and they will be floral inspirations that the designer has chosen based on a book that they've read and we're excited to be working with  really great interpretations of for all displays to go with books and you know it's really a nice opportunity in the middle of winter to look forward to the spring as well and in this case the library hundred fiftieth anniversary i'm still working out some of my flowers but once you pick your book and you feel that it's speaking to you a lot of us are on the hunt and you read hearing from people i have my container in the container sometimes is the thing that will absolutely be the foundation of ground the book after you get your container and it talks to you then you wander around and figure out what kind of flowers might express or just what might be beautiful you know it's taught all about you agreeing with me and it's not about judging it's not about is it perfect and does it fit all of the rules of flower show design this is an expression in some artistic expression of these folks that they're just putting themselves out there and it takes a little bit of courage to do it so i have to applaud  on saturday the boma historical society is going to be doing a an ongoing presentation a multimedia presentation i'm told on the history of belmont and the history of the library which i'm looking forward to there also be some demonstrations of flower arranging sunday for the kids and for families we have a birthday party and that is where we're going to blow the candles out at one hundred fiftieth birthday of the library so it'll be a lot of fun and really encourage people to come down if you can't make it to all of it obviously just make it to whatever you can but come on down welcome to this week in the belmont tony m and we have franklin tucker back franklin hi how are you all right so so from your perspective what contract we have so we finally have on hauler and and that company is waste management which is one of the biggest companies in the country it's in another company after that what's what name hauls half the garbage in the country just thin it is a reasonable thing so so they were the low bidder and it is customary to go with a low bid but is there any concern that that waste management is the kind of company because it's so big and getting bigger over time that that we may we may become hostage at some point to to a virtual garbage monopoly well that might be the case but i think the for the town it was we're saving two million dollars already over the next  bed and i think there's also a benefit for having a company that big i mean if you go on to their web site they do have a lot of outreach programs that dale they will take over maybe you know one thing that the top boards like and i've been telling the department of public works is to make sure there's an educational process so we know how to put our foot these new big totes on to the onto the sidewalk maybe they can maybe they they can they can take that over because they have done that in the past you know so what if you compare the and company like waste management has been doing this for a long time getting the quipped to to do this kind of trash pickup isn't as big an issue that's right for them it's you know they they they can go to car a but he that makes us you know we benefited from their bigness basically you know so and the craft and even though they're the big company and they're ready to go it's still going to take a while before it will be all be fall before we start doing all our automated garbage collection because they town government this was a change of government government from three to five selectman this is because it's changing town government it has to go to the legislature right mission right i think that was the missing piece that's right for the initial submission and  we're going to state legislature also from your perspective do you think that makes it any more or less likely that if ten if town meeting votes for changing the number of selectmen that that will authority from the from the legislature to do they usually go for that but they will always want something they always want to put their two cents in so you know you're always going to get some kind of change and then that will come back to town meeting but you also have to realize is that it's not just changing the numbers selectman you know if you're going to do that there there's a there's a there's a second part of this and that is you have to give more authority to the town manager i mean they are you know you're you're big or board is going to be a policy board and that means a town administrator will actually become a top manager i know some think that i'm a little bit agnostic about that i think a three person executive is already  for my education otherwise known as the f b i and she's here to talk about their silver anniversary fund raiser yes i can tell a little bit about what's going to be going on sure so the foundation the a fee we're super excited to be celebrating our twenty fifth year as an to purchase them they're available now and it would be a fantastic evening with lots of members of the community school administration and teachers past outstanding teacher award recipients and investors and sponsors from the local businesses in belmont so a great representation from our community all celebrating and fund raising for this event there's going to be food from a local restaurant and we'll have entertainment in prizes and exciting live auction of great packages will also have a silent auction and other fun activities all through the evening great but the big focus is going to be that push to raise the money for the f e c absolutely a little bit about what that money's going to go toward yes so since our inception in one thousand nine hundred three the foundation has been raising money for all six of our public schools and our goal is really to impact every student in every classroom k through twelve we've raised over three and a half million dollars to date so it's exciting and so yes this is our big fundraiser of the year we're looking to raise one hundred twenty thousand dollars and upwards of that to really help enrich and bring more innovative initiatives and programs into the classroom and support our school administration and teachers local business and then teachers and staff in our public schools that all support our efforts without the community donating and participating in all our different events to the spelling b annual dan scharf and ron and things like that while we wouldn't be able to really work on our endeavors and bring these wonderful programs into the schools and so you guys are a volunteer run organization yes the community to help you out are you looking for people to help absolutely you are always looking for volunteers again you can go to our website desh belmont dot org and find out information about our organization as well as ways that you can volunteer we are looking for community members and parents who have a little bit of time or those who want to give us a lot of their time we welcome it all and i would appreciate it and you can find more information on that and about the event on your website yes facebook a being here and we hope to see lots of people come out for your event yes but we will get on to our other events this week you can join the belmont public library in a pajama storytime on monday from six thirty to seven pm where  jammies and bring a favorite stuffed animal to a special evening story time for children ages three and and while you're there please consider bringing a pair of new pajamas to donate to the library's p j drive for cradles to crayons this evening or anytime through march fifteenth the end you'll p j drive in partnership with cradles to crayons the boston bruins massachusetts board of library commissioners and wonder fund provides new unused for jamas to children in need across massachusetts directly supplying new pajamas to the children who need them the most the cambridge consumer council works in cooperation with the massachusetts office of the attorney general to offer free and impartial mediation of consumer complaints against businesses this talk will cover consumer rights scams targeting seniors and how to protect yourself against scam artists and tricksters bring your questions and experience to share on tuesday march sixth at one fifteen at the beach street center traveling with chop chop test kitchen on tuesday from four to six and get inspired by the delicious and often symbolic recipes of chinese cuisine and this drop off workshop kids will explore the different ingredients flavors and cooking techniques commonly used in chinese cooking class sizes limited to sign up on event right now to reserve your spot on average renewable energy can supply more than one hundred percent of the total and current future us and or g consumption but at each moment we need the actual supply to meet the actual demand the second lecture in  citizen literacy series will be coming to the library on tuesday march sixth from seven to nine pm dr mark prentice will discuss how we can shift entirely to renewable energy defeat the midweek slump with homework and hot chocolate for middle schoolers at the library on wednesday from one thirty to four thirty pm a little treat may be just the thing you need to get you through prelude in at the bay by katherine mansfield are both drawn from her childhood in new zealand and are considered two of her best short stories joining the straight members in a discussion of mansfield stories on friday march ninth at one fifteen cantankerous but going has been arthur does not share his wife mary and passion for performing but when heartbreak strikes arthur is forced to rethink his outlook on life enjoy unfinished song requested by a beach street member with popcorn on friday at one fifteen and if you saw last week's belmont journal you know that the global cinema film festival is taking place all weekend from march eighth through eleventh come discover extraordinary films that make us care at the third annual global event including over thirty award winning independent films from over thirty countries purchase v i p all access passes for individual screening tickets on event rate and that's all for this week if you'd like your event featured in belmont journal community count or can e mail your info to jane at belmont media dot org see you next time this month belmont high schools a performing arts company will be showcasing nine to five the musical it's based on the nine hundred eighty hit movie with music by dolly parton upbeat full of laughs and filled with great songs and dance disgusting character and he's a villain but in a very like in a way that will resonate very very much with the audience in like a modern perspective because he's very sexist and  this is good music this is a fun show but this message what's happening in the show what the story is so relevant and important now and i was struck by that and i kept reading and i got i don't even think i read to the end of the script before i called jenny the choreographer and i said we have to by the show that definitely has some moments and some material that are possibly not for young audiences and for children but what i like about michelle what i think is a board about it is those are moments that for people who find them challenging they're probably in some ways challenging because there are moments that are really pushing on the boundaries of how do we as a society respect and treat women and do we have fair workplaces and what is the culture and i think for people to really be challenging uncomfortable by that is not welcome to another edition of belmont high school sports highlights after finishing the regular season at fifteen and seven delmon high basketball marauders began their quest for sectional title hosting charlestown in the first round of the division two north playoffs held tuesday february twenty seventh at the winner field house the story of the game was belmont junior guard gagne year dammy and who was an offensive force against charlestown scoring thirty five points and dishing out numerous assists as belmont cruised to a seventy two forty seven victory using the speed in control to position himself for shots your damien score both on drives and from distance with charlestown attempting you resolutely guard him the junior guard was able to spring his teammates for open shots including senior for thomas dinoire who hit for eighteen in the game while close game early belmont stretch the lead to forty to thirty one with your damien scoring half of belmont's points belmont's defense held charlestown to seven points in the third to allow the marauders to run away to a fifty six to thirty eight lead after three belmont will now play him melrose in the quarter finals that will be played bel air in belmont on friday march second and other playoff action boys hockey came back from four times from behind to score the winning goal with sixty three seconds to play to beat melrose five four and on wednesday february twenty eighth in charlestown they will play arlington on saturday in w burn belmont girls hockey unfortunately lost its playoff game to do nothing in franklin we now and our show with programming updates for your belmont media center channels are you sure to watch well that's all for now we hope to see you next time