oh everyone welcome to the bell my journal belmont's own program for hyper local news and community affairs program me i'm your host roger we have reported previously about the federal communications commission which is considering rules that would deal a devastating financial blow to local media centers such as the one right here at b m c i have with me today jeff hansel who is the executive director of the media center to bring us up to date on what's currently going on jeff bring us up to date plates thanks for having me sir well there has been a lot of pushback from congress on this proposed rule by the f c c and a lot of pushback from people across the country but i'm really here just to remind people that we still need to hear your voices congress can still needs to hear from people out there across the country because if the f c c does propose this rule it not only means that our funny will be cut but we're talking about the funding for hundreds of community t v stations across the entire country so i'm here just to remind people to go to the web link that we develop where they can send a letter to congress which sends a letter to the f c c and you just go to  forward slash save b m c it's our own link there it's takes maybe less than a minute send it and it goes to your to congressional your congressional representatives and your senators and people say that they rely on the media center for local news for one thing what should people say well there's an automatic message that's developed so if they don't have time they can just send it however you want to add your own personal message that's great to say that this rule would actually do irreparable harm to our community if you want to say something personal that's fine but we do know is the more people who step up and speak up to congress with this particular website it does make a difference and it is making a difference i went to washington d c a couple of weeks ago with colleagues from across the country we visited our senators our congressional representatives we got a few more people to sign on to talk to the f c c so it did maybe make a difference we did actually meet with the f c c and they are considering going forward or doing some sort of view of what the impact will be and what's being proposed well they these community media stations like all my media are here were brought into existence by congress by federal law and by funding framework this proposed rule doesn't actually change the law it just changes the definition of words within the law so they can say now we're going to interpret the law this way even though we've interpreted forty years you know thirty five years the other way so it really is it could be actually against the law if they pass it so there will be a legal challenge but essentially all over funding comes through the cable companies who the basic idea is we've allowed cable companies across the country to wire the nation and in exchange they provide five percent of their gross revenues to fund facilities staff and equipment in one hundred securities across the nation thanks for stopping welcome to this week in the belmont citizen harold i have with me today joanna jubilance who is the multimedia journalist for this innocent herald in for wicked local belmont belmont's print and online source of hyper local news a kid that's being bullied but it's an adult can you tell us about a shot i sure can and that adult is actually selectman candidate tim flood as you know he's running for selectman in a race with two other candidates why abstain jesse bennett and that candidate's night in his opening statement the league of women voters candidate's night on march st in his opening statement he addressed this issue he said that he's been getting anonymous letters and e mails sent to his business and his home and he said to everybody there i have it right here as voters you have to decide what to do what to believe i know what's true because i have lived it can you give us the back story to it to match their yes civilian police officer he was a civilian police officer at the u s army garrison in natick massachusetts and what these anonymous letters had in them and i know this because i actually received one in my office address to the belmont citizen herald it was anonymous and it said to look into this incident and it had a copy of what appear to be a united states court of appeals petition dated august th two thousand and ten where timothy flood was seeking review of a final decision of the merit systems protection board terminating his position as a civilian police officer at the u s army garrison in natick massachusetts to find out more about this you can actually go to his website which is tim flood belmont dot com slash full dash transparency where he discloses what happened eleven years ago which led to his dismissal and even more then what did or did not happen and why it did or did not happen people have not reacted well to this don't bowling well the other thing that happened at candidates night was actually ellen ellen o'brien cushman our town clerk also said in her statement she also gave an opening statement where she said belmont is a small town of a friendly town and lately there's been a bit of rancor whether it's about elections or points of view that people don't necessarily share and that makes me kind of unhappy and she basically suggested to everybody if you see someone on the street why not just smile and say hello and realize that that person is your neighbor today and after whatever election they'll still be your your neighbor so she when she addressed it and then jim williams former selectman asks ask the question straight out he's like i've heard a rumor that is running to basically possibly take votes away from another candidate basically something to that effect and he wanted to know from each of the candidates why are you running and is there a concern that the adult bullying will affect whether people will run for public office you know that is that is that as town clerk ellen's concern she's like this we've had a healthy you know pool of candidates here but what's going to happen in the future will people be afraid to run because they're going to be afraid that people are going to dig up things about their past you know so to close the door on this topic adult bowling really is no more appropriate at the adult level than it is  the kid level yes ok let's talk about something a little more fun fun fun that's a good word we have a new chocolate to read yeah i don't know if you know this roger but i love chocolate ok so  chocolate stores actually opening in cushing square hopefully you know by the middle of april it's going to be called tic talked chocolates and is there a back story to that there is a back story yes the b couple that owns it d n jim chaplin are from man which is known for its clocks and you are wearing inappropriate ties as we talk about to talk chocolates today and they they are really chocolate makers i mean they were both engineers right  like i'm pretty sure i know she was i am not i can't remember exactly what he used to do but they both quit their full time jobs today to put their their money into this business so let's let's support them when they do open at want to levitra pellow role and i'm sure everybody loves chocolate let's let's support this this new local business that's great the tick tock chocolate shop in cushing square and trip over yes and and they will be at the farmer's market as well when the farmer's market opens in june we've been speaking with you in the jubilance who is the multimedia journalist for the belmont citizen held in wicked local delma you can read about these stories and more both online and in the print edition of the sit we you can find on thursdays to this week in the belmont tony and now months online source for hyper local news i have with me today franklin tucker who is the editor and publisher of the belmont tony and franklin thanks for stopping over today thank you very much there are citizen's petitions have been presented to town meeting and has been doing them and they have been accepted for in the article for town meeting change the board of selectmen to a gender neutral name change basically they would like to do it as the select board now that's something that's been going around a lot of places arlington is one place where they where they change the name and many other places have done it i believe revealing for what the society where they really are that's right now i know that there has been a question about whether this would cost money now will it cost money i mean you do have to make changes i mean you know you have  keep tradition you know there are there are there have been examples of towns which have stated no we're not going to change it we're just going to keep it because we just like the name there's even places down south which they said we will never and some other article on the war well the other articles on the war are basically done through the borders lukman or other departments you know whether it is the budget or things like that this one is by managers one for the schools and one for the and one for the town brought them together saving money and making a much more cohesive department for the facilities we've done and also for smoking cigarettes over in parks ok so let's talk about this nd citizens petition for this spring it is a resolution to endorse rape to repair that's right and that is basically saying that citizens should be able to get the equipment usually software software code or special equipment that companies have and you know they basically companies are saying look you have to come to us come to the dealership is you know we're come to the company to have your repairs done there now this is something that's going across the country this is not like it's just in belmont paul roberts's decided to the to make this is a non binding resolution as it would be but it would it would show that belmont wants the citizens about want to have repairs don that name it because right now it's basically at the m s b a which is massachusetts school building authority which is partner gave us you know a rd of the money so they said you know because we have to have branding and signing  and some residents about what the name can be let me give you some of the names right now it's you have belmont high school middle slash high school belmont high school or division upper division belmont secondary school upper school lower school anybody who's at the high school right now who always thought they were going to graduate from high school to graduate from high school right but you also as a superintendent fail and said no we want to give the middle schoolers something to say this is ours so it's you can see where they're going to have to have some kind of haifa name or something like that you know there are there are other you know other places around the state you know have gone through this over and lee in western massachusetts they you know probably just turned out to be belmont high school thanks for as stuff you know over thanks for bringing us up today thank you we've been speaking with franklin tucker editor and publisher of the bellman tony in a few years since the town clock has worked located in the unitarian church across the street from the post office i conquered in have the clock filleted just repair given the lack of maintenance funds and uncertainty over who own the clock now with help through the community preservation act repairs are on the way joanna juv last gives us a tour of this historic belmont landmark we want to restore what we consider to be the secular resource in the town  its historic resource without question and that's the town clock it's in our tower of the st church and down here across the street from the post office and the time frame so this is how to access the carpenters up into the clock space and access is by means of an old ladder right now and the ladder needs to be replaced or the safe access clock level of the tower in the st you're about twenty five feet or so above the town green and this is the movement that turns the clock and it was built by the these walls to the crank that winds the weights up but it wouldn't do any good to wind them up now because they will not descend because the clock movement is to dirty photographs four  thousand and two one hundred and fifty dollars and you know breaks out to about about two thirds of that is for the the latter that lets us get access with technicians and equipment ok ready so the clock has the capability of striking the bell and it does it by pulling on this cable and that sounds like  resident kimberly bakker does feminists art at her upcoming exhibit curated by the cambridge our dissociation at the university place in april kimberley will be exhibiting her rowhouse dresses and her resistance dolls belmont journal news director frederick regal visited camberley to talk about her upcoming exhibit becker's upcoming exhibit opens on april th at six o'clock my name is kimberl and i am an artist in the boston area and have recently been doing a lot of work more political are then i've ever done before and the work i'm doing right now are my resists installs so i am making a dollar every day i started on the day that cavanagh was seated on the supreme court and i will be making a dollar every day until he is impeached and removed from the supreme court of united states he lied under oath to congress and was really fast and i believe completely unqualified to be on the court and there is ample evidence that he's there with a mission to change the way that women are able to control their bodies so the day the cavanaugh was seated on the supreme court i was had just arrived a few days earlier to an artist residency in wyoming and my intention at that residency was to get a lot of work done for the show that's about to happen but not dolls i had never made a doll i'd never even thought about making a doll and i felt pretty confident that the senators that were in question about seating this this particular nominee would find their way to say no and that i knew we'd have to vet another supreme court justice nominee so it was shocking to me when he got seated and i just i couldn't make the work that i was planning on me going and the only thing i could think of was on are women in some way and so i knew it all and then the next day i made another dog and the next day i made another doll and started to turn it into something and it felt very therapeutic it was my personal decompression and each one is unique i wasn't looking to manufacture of mass produce toys are not toys there they are they're a piece of art that that has a purpose and i believe that women everywhere are going to be affected by the changes that are going to come with a conservative judge on the on the supreme court and i feel like it's really important that we keep focused on the issues that are going to change women's lives for in a big way for a long time and so every day i make a doll and i post it on instagram and facebook and i remind everyone every single day this is still a problem in our country that we're still fighting for women's rights that our autonomy is definitely a threat and it's important to me that they get out there and that they help tell the story they're out in the public and they're out in people's homes the conversation can continue on a more personal and there's the belmont media centers jane peters to tell us about what there is to do in belmont in the coming week hi everyone i'm jamie this is your community calendar for next week in celebration of april fool's day children can visit habitat on tuesday at ten am to learn about the tricks animals play what would you do if you were a small animal trying to escape larger ones some hide some play dead and some are able to disguise themselves learn about some of the tricks animal is used to fool their predators learn the most important steps you in the town can take to prevent global warming and climate change at the belmont energy committee's forum on wednesday april rd from seven to eight hundred and thirty at generally middle school learn how transportation contributes to global climate change how clean energy practices are being integrated into the metropolitan area planning commission's work and ongoing action steps in the belmont climate action road map toward achieving belmont's goal of reducing carbon emissions by eight percent by and fifty visit belmont climate action dot org to learn more about this energy event and the belmont energy committee local celebrities will dance up a storm in belmont st ever dancing with the belmont stars on friday at six this competition serves as a fundraiser for the belmont women's club featuring the most famous belmont tony and like back a p z sen will brownsburg or town administrator patrice garvin and more competition begins at seven pm at the beach street center being just students will perform for judges and you at belmont idol on friday at seven the beach just auditorium enjoy this musical talent competition for all ages all proceeds benefit diversity program at the  powers music school celebrates the th year of its mildred freiburg piano festival this weekend festival that began as the catalyst for the founding of the school in one thousand nine hundred and sixty four it now features concerts by all age levels the opening night concert on performances reserved for advanced students visit powers music dot org slash piano festival to learn more and to purchase tickets the hood rubber plant was founded in east watertown in the th ninety's in the area behind the watertown mall  employ hundreds of immigrants especially armenians from the neighborhood roger who go p n local historian and filmmaker will screen his film on the plant on sunday at two in the library a q and a will follow the screening belmont world film presents the east coast premier for jirga on monday april th at seven hundred and thirty dollars the film is a modern morality tale about a former australian soldier who returns to afghanistan to seek forgiveness from the family of a civilian man he accidentally killed during the war he put his life in the hands of the village justice system the jirga or traditional assembly part of the non written age old afghan ethical code of honor watch the film's trailer and purchase tickets at belmont world film dot org the teams did well with the regular team placing th in the state in the alternate one team placing nd in the alternate competition the belmont journal was there alone where the six states sign to be a competition value is there a lot of learning and trying to think that it's not about winning it's about kind of enjoying science and working together and we really well that's it for this week's edition of the journal as we sign off let's watch what else is available on the b m c television stations thanks for watching i'm your host roger colton i will see you again next time