traveling in the vicinity of concord avenue and bright road over the next couple of months you'll want to pay attention because there will be some work taking place also i want to let you know that the belmont media center has created a public service announcement focused on recycling that's worth watching we have a short preview for you  summer is a time when we can expect to see more mosquitoes out and about and some of those mosquitoes carry the west nile virus is that something to be concerned about we taped an interview with brian for lewis who's the superintendent of the east middlesex mosquito control project and west chan the director of the belmont health department and we have some highlights for you i mar is primarily a bird biter so they don't like to bite mammals when they do and they have west nile virus and they can transmit the disease so it doesn't happen a lot there are in a lot of human cases  every there are no darn a lot of human cases but it's the rare chance that one that carry west nile virus bite humans and disease can be transmitted you should always try to avoid bites so even though it is rare boyden bites is the best and then how serious an illness is because west nile eighty percent of people don't know they have it they they don't they never develop symptoms no you never build up enough of the west nile instance eats a dead bird it's going to be fine because it's not going to affect the dog it has to get bitten by a west nile virus in fact in this case pets tend to not get sick from west nile people over fifty tend to into developed severe illness so and then people with auto immune deficiencies for sure like i said before that eighty percent of the people don't usually know they have it and then so twenty percent of the people do develop during high peak mosquito hours and that generally is between dusk and dawn so if you have to be as there you want to do is you want to cover up so w long pants off long sleeve shirts if you're able to weather permitting and then you want to use a e p a approved insect repellent those are some things you can you can do on a personal level on a neighborhood level what you want to do is you want to go out into your yard and make you don't have any containers of stagnant water sitting around that could be you know planters  the belmont tony and welcome back franklin tucker senior editor of the belmont tonia nice to see it's great to see you again so belmont has a new bike share program well it was introduced back in the drop your buy your bike off you actually could go into boston or cambridge they would like you to bring them back because cambridge in boston are not part of the consortium that's why they belong to one where they have docked systems where you have highly  bites have to be put into a dock that's also very expensive towns fifty thousand dollars per docking system and you have to spend money for the maintenance so belmont is actually making this one dollar how does one go about renting one of these parts a very simple oing to be in areas such as commuter areas like waverly and belmont center but a lot some of them will be placed at the high school will just be placed on streets where people can just pick them up and write them so there was one parked in front of my neighbor's house yesterday oh no i don't know i don't know what we're going to do about that residential whites oh good lord so for those who might be interested in commuting taking these bikes into within the area they do tell you that this is these are bikes for a specific town or or within the area that they'd like you to be so just keep them keep them close and that's what most people are doing most of these bikes are being done in  generates so much money because it really has a stranglehold on loans whether it's real estate commercial auto they do all of it they really have a good customer service people like them they're small they're very competitive and they're in their rates so if you look at just the net income if you look at the nd quarter of this year last year they had a fifty percent growth and that was just something where you never expected and you have to really get a lot of credit to  he was a long time banker when he came here i think it was back in two thousand and eleven he was somebody who said i want to be the most respected bank in this area and he's really proven that so so one of the things that that makes them a  real important local institution and when they do well it benefits the town in other ways as well so they tend to be one of the biggest contributors i understand to you know many of the things of a lot of stock for just the foundation and the stock price is just as triple that time right well it's good to see that they're doing well and thank you for being on the show and we'll see you later in august  frankly belmont's craft beer seller has a stablished a society of master beer so years what's that it's an educational program designed to improve knowledge of and appreciation from the previous week and we randomized those through sort of a tasting kind of tournaments now taking only six beers such a small tournament and come up with which one of the others we actually think is the history adding an hour or two what i already existing educational problems that exist but speaks a lot to how to serve beer how to treat here how to store beer what beer here as the fred astaire dance studio on common street has a new owner elizabeth was a twenty year resident of belmont in a long time student of dance we have more for you on this story i'm elizabeth lou and i'm the new owner fred astaire dance studio i've been a student here for about ten years i have been in corporate america in biotech for over twenty years and the opportunity came to buy a business in my community really excited about doing more in the community my dad was a dancer and so he taught us as kids how to do a little bit and i was always something i wanted to do and get back into and i remember being at a hotel when i was probably in college and seeing an older couple dancing together and i just thought what a romantic way to just be intimate for  our primary classes are around ballroom things like waltz tango foxtrot and we also do some zumba as well one of our daughters was getting married and she happens to be a very good dancer so we did this sort of short package and we thought that would be it and then we found that we like the people who came a lot of people we knew from belmar made a lot of new friends kind of a date night oh so we're sort of fun and we'd we'd often go to dinner st and then come and do this so we just kept doing it and found we really enjoyed it there are so many benefits to dance because you're thinking on your feet it really increases your kind of it maintenance and then there's just the social aspect you get to meet all these people who are of such wonderful differing backgrounds that just enjoy dancing for people who are basically dancers before we really learned a lot quickly they go at your level if you don't get something you work on it until you do and so you learn so quickly you know you don't need a partner at all and everybody dances with everybody so i'm dancing with young people people you know my spouse other people you know so it's good the grand opening for fred astaire belmont is reopening is friday september st in the evening and it's going to be a disco themed and it's just the day before the fall festival in christian square so it'll be a very fun filled weekend of activity welcome to this week in the citizen herald also online as work of local belmont and also welcome back jo senior multimedia journalist with the citizen herald i joined hi i'm mike great to be here well it's good to see you again so dog waste continues to be a problem in belmont parks toques yeah well see what happened as a result of the rat infestation at joey's park and the town adopted carrying carry out policy which basically means they took away all the trash barrels at all the public parks and so that's been a successful overall it's been a pretty successful policy however what was what began happening and was happening a lot is that people were putting their dog waste in the port a pott because they had no barrels to throw it in so they just decided i'll throw it in the porta potty toilet so if i was a dog owner to be honest with you i would say you know that makes perfect sense to toss it in there that's right but it human waste goes why is it a problem would you put a bag with dog waste in your own toilet at home so the reason is it cloggs it actually the machine that the porter come party company uses to drain out those toilets it actually clogs the machine and then also pollutes like the landfills and i bet you know this is partly a problem of ignorance people just don't know that right so they discussed this at a select meaning and at a board of health meeting recently and they said should we just put signs on the porta potties and they don't think that will help solve the problem either so what they're going to do is well what they've actually started doing is they lock all the porta potty and so when sports season starts again in the fall the porta potties will be locked and the coaches will have the keys so that is a temporary solution until they have more time to do some more public education and revamp the off leash program off leash program allows people to bring their dogs to the to reveals and run free but they need to be educated about how to dispose of their waste you should be taking your waste with you when you leave and dispose of it just as you would with any trash or past week ribbon cutting to celebrate their brand new van it was fifty two thousand dollars and it was paid for with a grant from the state and twenty percent of it was paid for from capital budget funds so  approved at town meeting and pretty good bargain for the other for the town yeah and this will be used to help bring senior citizens to to like appointments like doctor appointments and and different things like that so so does a senior citizen need be a member of the beach street center to be eligible for that service or i believe so ok i do believe so but you can definitely call and find out call a council on aging in and find out because it's a great it's a great of to well anyone who's been around belmont this summer although there's not a lot of people who are around belmont in the summer but whoever is has probably seen a lot of trees getting cut down around town and this is part of this sixty thousand dollars of supplemental funds that were requested and approved and are is being funded by the state to remove trees that may pose a danger is actually eighty trees scheduled to be removed and this is in response to the number of trees that fell this past winter we lost about fifty trees around town so so how do they decide that i mean have are these all trees that have been identified by the tree war but as well michel resident may have brought it to the town's attention but the tree warden does have to approve every single one of them ok so his name's tom walsh so the town the tree warden has taken a look at each one of these trees and made some assessment of right yeah and how can residents find out if a tree on their street or in front of their house is one of those trees that are scheduled to be they should call the tree warden and you can reach him through the public works department his name is tom walsh design group and julie crockett the founder of the friends of p q park tell us what we can expect to see that's new it is a backyard for many houses and it's kind of functions as like a big backyard for the whole e structure is very small and not appropriate for various ages we needed a new swings new slide play structures and one part of the  old playground that people really enjoyed was a small little what they called tries to go past so when we did the redesign we decided to keep up past and i actually made three parts one for little kids one for older kids and one for any walkers and so all those pads are connected mally into a th of a mile kind of figure eight pads we really got a lot of public involvement you can really tell that people really cared about this playgrounds it was just a really valuable asset that we it was everyone was really heartened that it could be improved proved on and for the next two thousand and thirty years because of that the party has some history of flooding and having some drainage issues and a design firm in the town where together to come up with a plan that moves the plate women further away from where that underground coal where it is and we'll address that drainage issue and make it so that the park can be allies for all seasons of the year and not have periods during the winter and spring where it is unusual because of the water it's six hundred and fifty thousand dollars and we got six hundred and fifty thousand dollars through the community preservation act and we've raised thirty five thousand dollars they said from business and local community members people who just cared about the park and some of those people had fun memories of living near the park in their kids playing on the park when they were younger really felt it was important to keep this this asset in this area as as nice as it could be coming up next you're going to want to see our community calendar with dream peters jeans going to have all the interesting things in belmont this week so please be sure to watch hi everyone i'm jane in this is your community calendar for this week is it hard for you to set limits around screen use curious as to why kids just can't seem to put them down the love child in belmont will host a workshop on monday from seven to nine to help parents set limits around screens without a fight and will teach six things you can do now as a parent to model living well in the media age you can sign up for this workshop on the loved child's website high school and college students in need of i exams bennett family i care is contributing twenty five dollars to the foundation for belmont education for each pair of glasses purchased from their belmont office on july  all students seen on tuesday will receive a full eye exam glasses specials and giveaways will also be offered on this special day you can make an appointment by phone or on bennett family i cures website smoothies and summer salads an unexpected and delicious way to enjoy a nutritious meal without your oven dr suzanne johannah of the belmont farmer's market will be at the beech tree center on tuesday at one to share recipes for making summer smoothies and salads using fruit nuts dairy and even veggies after the presentation select seniors can collect a limited number of senior f and p farmers market coupons enjoy a sweet treat before heading out on a bug treasure hunt in ha tuesday at six hundred and fifteen listen for cicadas and crickets look for grasshoppers and spiders and see how many different beetles you can find register online for this and other habitat programs on the mass autobahn website celebrate harry's birthday and twenty years of harry potter at belmont books on thursday from six to eight with harry potter trivia show off your knowledge of the series win some prizes and try some treats from the trolley all ages are welcome before the death eaters come to call forty five minute harry potter escape room sessions will run for various age groups kids through adults on several days and times throughout the week at the library register ahead of time on the library's website for these escape rooms and that's it for this week if you like your event featured in belmont journals community count or you can e mail your event info to jane at belmont media dot org we're ending our show with a programming update for your belmont media center channels please be sure to watch but we're taking a summer break at the belmont journal we're not coming back until august th but in the mean time we will have some best of program segments that we'll be showing you