hello and welcome to the belmont journal your hyper local belmont news program and source for community updates i might crowley your host this week we have a decision on the last day of school it will be monday june th and school will start again in the following september on september th both days will be early release days for on the new high school yes it was a high school traffic working group meeting with the neighbors who are going to be most affected by the construction of the project that is the hit injure trowbridge baker street neighborhood i've heard as well and anyone anyone off of concord avenue is the traffic is definitely going to increase once the project is done they actually gave gave numbers showing how the traffic is going to increase  include not high school efik right so that's going to impact that's going to impact residents it's going to impact anybody who's driving unconquered down and so the goal is to make it a more pedestrian and bicycle friendly area that's that's their goal and there is definitely going to be a twenty two years actually four years is how long the project is going to take from start to finish so this four year period neighbors are going to have to suffer a little bit and it's really going to affect trowbridge because during phase two from two thousand and twenty one to two thousand and twenty three their street is going to be the access road for all the construction vehicles ok for the project and phase two of the project is when they knock down existing high school and rebuild it for the middle middle schoolers what so what and what's going to happen during phase one which starts june th the day after school is closed for the summer you know th that starts and it ends summer of tw one and what's going to happen during that period is called the driveway that's currently one way leading to concord avenue that is going to be off limits to vehicles it is going to be for construction vehicles only authorized personnel only so that means that people who go to the high school will only be able to access it from hit injure trowbridge and underwood so they're going to put things in place to make it so that these neighborhoods are impacted as little as even accessible bikers they may have to eliminate parking on one side of trowbridge they said and head injury as well that they're going to have details police details in place to direct traffic that's going to be very important so ther so we're also going to going to be having some filming and bellmore really exciting and i reported on this previously but now we know what they're filming ok it's based on the new york times bestseller defending shake up by william landy and the television  nd cruise will start to arrive pretty much you might be seeing some activity next as early as the week of april th or even next week you might start seeing the crews arriving and setting up if you're driving down s the traffic restaurants and stores in the belmont center area will probably benefit from extra business which will be great the town is benefiting because paramount tell vision presented the selectmen with a donation the amount cannot be disclosed until the entire project is done filmy but the selectmen said it will go toward the police and public works renovation project well that's good to know and so there's a sealed envelope in the treasurer's office we will know what the amount is welcome to this week in the belmont tony and and we have franklin tucker editor of the beaumont turn in how are you just fine thank you so town meeting is coming up april th and is there anything interesting from your perspective that the town will be dealing with apart from the ordinary things that we do a town meeting well there are a number of articles that will basically asked the town to stay say what direction a town should go for the most important renovate your house to do new appliances electrical appliances and also by going by having them on light or our local utility to to to try to get as all the energy that it brings into town is coming from non carbon producing sources so acquirement changes it's real it's a fact it's here and and is there anything controversial about this non binding resolution or worse is something that people should just welcome it's i believe it's going to be one of those articles that you know the one has for the last eleven years has been very per proactive in terms of climate change we've had a  basically a guideline for the last eleven years to base to to reduce our carbon footprint very aggressively and many many people would say and  brought up and that is a real almost philosophical question rather than a question of whether you want to pose climate change and and roy even said that you know he supports the act but what the town is doing but he has a  philosophical question and that is why is town meeting very local which was very local governing how is it moving forward towards why should it be even talking about this i mean are we going to talk about world peace next are we going to do you know are we going to do it for every legislation out there are we going to be battling white nationalism are we going to vote on this is is it taking time away from our response our responsibilities such as passing a budget and then talk about something that we really can't you know because it's not mining what is why why are we doing this so i think some people already feel that the town meeting is too long but on the other hand there are other people that feel that these kinds of of of articles or or in effect a resolution you know have some value because they help promote greater awareness that money passes as passed where a welcoming community resolutions and articles it's not something that we were  strangers about it's just that we have like you said we have limited time and how how impactful is this you know and really also said there's a lot of specific things in this resolution even though says why even you know deal with that well we'll see how town meeting response and you know i'm sure there will be an interesting discussion there a long discussion perhaps all right well thank you so much franklin and we'll talk next time thank you very much april is armenian genocide anniversary commemoration month belmont's board of selectmen issued a proclamation in honor of the th anniversary on april  st and that was followed by a statehouse commemoration on april th also in honor of the armenian genocide the belmont public library is hosting a display during the month of april with books c d s d v d s all highlighting armenian history and culture as well as providing information about the armenian genocide next jane peters interviews david  and some other members in town have put together a exhibit at the belmont public library on the armenian genocide for those that don't know the armenian genocide took place from during and after world war one and  the ottoman empire which was in place at the time want to get rid of all the armenians that were there and so you and some other residents and i might have put this exhibit together at the library could you talk a little bit and heather they helped put this together great the exhibit is the number of not just books but d v d s and c d s and it doesn't cover just the genocide we wanted to expand it so it covers arm an history culture the our film and so forth so what we're pretty happy about that the way this got started was on a frequent visitor to the library and i noticed they had special display s especially i believe they had a display for black history month and so i thought that it might be nice to have one during armenian genocide remember and small which is just april yes so i got together with some friends we came up with a list of what we would like to see in the exhibit and we passed it by p d s crucero director of the library and there you have it you can you talk a little bit about what your personal connection to this is and maybe some of the other people that are also involved i was born here my parents were born here my four of my four grandparents came from armenia starting in one thousand nine hundred and seven and going to ninety six so they got out of armenia turkish held armenia before the genocide but they did experience the eight hundred and ninety s massacres you see there were massacres that took place even before the genocide in to other people and so that's part of it remembering the armenian genocide is important to armenians it's important to remember all genocides and it's of particular interest the genocide it's  to arming ins and it's not just about one hundred years ago it's about today because i mean you're is under siege by turkey which committed genocide turkey has place for people maybe to start to kind of learn a little bit more and on educate themselves are there other places that you can point people to learn about a little bit more about the genocide yes the not just the genocide but i mean in culture in to armenian papers the army weekly and the army and they are a spectator in watertown and they can always go on the web or of course stop by the the exhibit it's not a huge exhibit but it is the library was able to fit it in books c d s and so forth i think people would learn something and enjoy chile stopping by and where the library is that it's in the periodical room on the right as you walk in great thank you so much on program for children ages six to twelve for april vacation program rock and rockets rock and rockets is offered in full day or half day programs one more at mad science dot org john jay daddy president of strategic tax and insurance incorporated will teach many common mistakes people make when signing up for social security benefits on tuesday from five hundred and forty five to eight hundred and thirty at the library uncover little known strategies that could maximize your lifetime benefits and key factors you need to know before applying for social security sign up for a marvelous night filled with challenging trivia and super cool superhero facts teams of two to six people are invited to test their knowledge against fellow marvel lovers on questions related to the marvel cinematic universe as well as the comics costumes are encouraged for this trivia night open to kids and adults alike on thursday from six to eight at belmont books the kind this rock project was started by meghan murphy who was inspired after her parents passed away to paint kind of messages on rocks for people to pelligrino is a rock project embassador and you can join her at the beach street center on friday at one hundred and fifteen to paint a rock of your own messages of kindness joy and inspiration will be used and spread around belmont and other local communities one day school is a collection site from april nd to may th for a town wide clothing drive to support cradles to crayons as you do your spring cleaning set aside gently used toys books and clothing to contribute and drop them off in the collection container in the s parking lot students and adults can also participate in a sorting event on may th from ten to noon in the b d s barn gym students who need community service hours can receive credit for helping at the sorting event monday premiere for belmont world film is handy and hormones a film from iran and the czech republic the film centers around thirteen year old handy and sixteen year old or most who are married despite barely know each other the young couple eventually begins to enjoy their married life together and are moses forced to take on a dangerous and risky job to support his wife an upcoming child purchased tickets and watch the film trailer at the mont world film dot org you can get reading now from a's belmont book discussion at the library the stars are fire tells a story of the largest fire in maine's history in one thousand nine hundred and forty seven bar harbor grace holland and her children must face an uncertain future when her home is burned to the ground and her husband rushes off as a volunteer belmont media dot org last week belmont's women's club held and entertaining fundraising event dancing with the belmont stars to raise money for the restoration of the home or house joanna jubilance was there and produced a really fun segment with belmont's own dancing stars and now it's time for sports rugby season has begun for belmont high school athletes the girls rugby's team st game was held just last week and they won their home opener against lincoln sudbury by fifty seven twenty five belmont media centers jeremy missouri filmed the game and has some highlights for us