hello and welcome to the belmont journal your source for hyper local news and community updates i'm mike crowley your host this week be sure to check out the belmont media centers show contemporary science issues and innovations in the latest program producer yvonne stapp speaks with dr phillipe raunchiness about about perfluorinated compounds and their prevalence in the environment as well as the risks that they posed to our health if you want to catch that on the belmont media centers channels or website and we have some highlights from the program for you that the molecule is  and we have examined blood samples from infants and we can see that the bunker they are breast fed the higher the blood concentration of these compounds can you tell us what happened and the impact on the scientific community which was your big point but he's of course did some animal studies to get an understanding of whether these compounds were realized you know with many years of delay that this information existed and supposedly the companies should have reported this to the e p a and didn't well come to this week in the belmont citizen herald and welcome back joanna jubilance senior multimedia journalist with the citizen herald and you can also find joanna's writing online at belmont dot wicked local dot com thank you michael so the we had a school committee meeting st one of the new academic year right and the superintendent had some interesting things to say there do you want to talk about sure ok so he presented what he's calling belmont's alternative capacity challenge plan it's a three phase plan and this would go into effect if the debt exclusion novembers six for the grade seven to twelve high school doesn't pass ok so this this is in essence his response to you know if if that if the if the voters don't approve the debt financing for the new seven through twelve school what does the district need to do yes and this is he did a lot of research before during this presentation he consulted with a lot of the towns you know consulting companies and a lot of people have been wondering so what would it cost the town because we're still facing continue growth right so that the new grades seven dollars to twelve dollars high school would cost the town two hundred and thirteen million dollars right that's with the eighty million dollars state grant if the debt exclusion doesn't pass then you're looking at a plan that would take about ten years to complete versus the five years for the great seven dollars to twelve dollars i snooped new building right ten years and two hundred and forty seven million dollars so more cost and no state  solution it would probably be completed in about two thousand and twenty one it would cost belmont taxpayers twenty one dollars to twenty four million dollars right it would be four more modular classrooms to be added on to the cherry middle school and belmont high school right and i believe the superintendent has also said he doesn't know where he would find the space for those modulars but obviously they'd have to right and the nd phase would be a renovation and addition to the chancery middle school and that's more of a long term solution it would cost twenty million dollars and that wouldn't be completed until around two thousand and twenty five again multiple votes would be required for approval on that and the rd phase would be to renovate and add on to the high school building and that would cost two hundred and three million no state reimbursement and would not be completed until two thousand and twenty eight so so what's important i mean one of the important messages in this i think is that you know the condition of that existing high school is is so serious that you know whether like doesn't it doesn't i mean he did a presentation on that as well talking how it's not eighty eight compliant right and it's not  the teaching and learning curriculum it's not there any of that and that's why this problem they went through that whole presentation about why but mainly what it all comes down to is enrollment and enrollment is not slowing down until at least twenty twenty four dollars we currently have about close to four thousand seven hundred dollars students in the belmont school buildings so these modulars that they just put at the burbank are helping but again it's just a temporary solution and growth is not going to slow down and that's why there's this alternative capacity challenge plan and that would only be if the debt exclusion didn't didn't pass well thank you joy and i'm sure we'll be talking about this again and we'll see you next time looking forward to it ok parents of musicians students is a parent community organization that raises money to support music education and the belmont public schools one dollar of the ways they raise money is by operating the snack shack at harris field joanna jubal us met with them there and we have some video palms as an organization the parents of music students who helped support the teachers in the grammar school middle school and high school to bring now kind of what they are looking for and support in any kind of way and try it so we also run the snack shack during the football season and we've got involved with parents of music students when our so mark is the organizer extraordinary he runs it as if it's a business he has his lists and his charts and his statistics and all of that so that we know from week to week from year to year what what's expected but started early on and getting organized getting the menus we do a lot of shopping we go to a couple of different restaurants stores and supply stores we order things some things we have to order online and we dragged a daughter the other day we had two huge racks to load up between sodas and waters and gator raids and hot dogs and pretzels and popcorn and what else they can learn and then we have mix pizza who is wonderfully supportive rita and her family they've just a wonderful job bring us delivering us pizza and staying on top of the with us and we have a lot of volunteer help we have about seven parent volunteers every time there's a home game this year we have thanksgiving so we need a lot more volunteers for thanksgiving we don't exactly know how palms became involved with supporting the snack shack but they were asked to do it and they've done it for a number of years  and it happens during halftime when the marching bands on the fields and it's just kind of it's turned into a group of people that really enjoy kind of hanging out and helping out palms and spending  inside oh my goodness it's the most fun volunteer ever i don't know anything about volunteering at snack shack there's a sea of people who are all buying candies and you're doing change really fast and it's so much fun it's not at all work stopped at the where the car wash was ok now they're extending that all the way down from the car wash down to repel road where star market is all the way to the getty station so you're putting a large swath of  land under that overlay district in itself will promote development and that the reason they did that is under the underpass plan you really didn't have that connection between south pleasant street and waverly square which they which the planning board and i think just for disclosure this is something i've written a little bit about in terms of some of its advantages what what's happening now very quietly belmont light and the new general manager chris a reuters has stated that he's interested  and what that would do is of course you know people who work at home or you know if you want to cut your cord this is perfect you know you can wrap it right and and i know from talking with with some neighbors that there are some service i don't know if we also have some streets where the opposite is true but then we also have fairly higher rates for service so we get it so it's one of the this one of the reasons why they they moved in concord the prices  for internet only will be a little bit higher than the going rate which he didn't conquer but he would miss or i said is that in congress they did not see any pushback they said it was it just became a very favored way of getting their internet all right well thank you franklin no thank you ok the belmont gallery of art has a new exhibit rhythm and hues with special guest woody gets men rebecca richards the gallery director spoke with about the exhibit i'd like to welcome everybody chart new fall shows with me here are inspired by music this show features over forty artists interpret how music affects their art we'd like to take people through the art is featured in the main gallery as well as the gallery here at the beach and a painter and a musician most of you may know me from you know from my work with as a musician with the band called the duff way goes really an enjoyable career playing music and touring with tom petty and the kinks in the z top and some of the you know performing with some of the subjects to my paintings including trombone shorty in and you know new orleans plays a theme throughout my my work as well so a lot of my work you'll find that i i did  d to to leave the painting up to you know and give the viewer credit and allow them to finish the painting but it was really for me it was about capturing the spirit of the of the the subject matter well i think that my art is really therapy but my art is about my love and my joy for not only music but for the painters and i want to celebrate creativity as a man and long term recovery you know i faced my own addiction two thousand and twenty years ago and after you know since i've been in recovery i want to celebrate my creativity i want to celebrate my music and i want to celebrate my art i have a lot to live for here but saw what he said it's work in person i was really struck by there was a certain as he said a spirit to the painting and i really thought there was a lot of movement that was one of the things i was really drawn to i think when you look at his paintings of the musicians from new orleans i can really hear them playing the music i mean there's something in there's an li to the paintings that i really enjoy and i think that visitors will also respond to that the stage ensemble theater unit its community theater company in belmont committed to bridging the gap between indian and lost it has retained it has a lot of it has everything so all the actors are volunteers no one gets paid because you get a community theater then our mission is really to breach the cultural gap between india and the western know two thousand years ago but the message is are still relevant and now it's time for our community counter with jane peters of everything interesting happening in b am jane this your community calendar for this week enjoy a sweet presentation by fall of the honey that includes a tasting of honey varietals from inside and outside the us what about the growing conditions and different in regions as well as the economic and environmental challenges for honeybees on tuesday at one hundred and fifteen at the beach trade center enjoy a free movie at the beach street center on friday at one pm darkest hour is the dramatic inspiring story of four weeks in and forty in which churchill's courage to lead changed the course of world history teens can kayak the charles with habitat on saturday from eight hundred and thirty to one hundred and thirty learn about the history and use of this well known river before conducting a round of water quality tests lunch will be provided teens can register at mass autobahn dot org and adults can take part in yoga and mindfulness in nature at habitat from nine hundred and thirty to eleven relax with a forty five minute slow and gentle yoga class before heading outside to explore the trails be sure to dress comfortably for indoors with layers and footwear for outdoors catching squares nd annual fall festivals almost here on saturday from eleven to four you can enjoy amusement rides a petting zoo dog costume show still walking classes and more be sure to stop by belmont journal stable to meet the crew and try your hand at hosting a segment the higginbottom pool open for the season on september th and the winner field house opens next week on monday adults interested in learning the basics of swimming can register for adult swim lessons through the recreation department the next session takes place on saturday at four hundred and forty five and you can register for a variety of sports in the winter field house this fall and winter through the rec department family open gents will take place on thursdays from seven hundred and thirty two thousand nine hundred and thirty one more and register on the rec department's website and that's all for this week if you like your event featured in belmont journals community to twenty eight we have video from the 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