so that's going to be a great day here and we're going to have another front and we're going to talk to a lot of people and meet a lot of people i am selling raffle tickets to win an audi or forty thousand dollars well we are selling two thousand tickets and you can order the dry ends july twenty seventh and i'll be on city hall plaza so the odds are pretty good and someone's got to win so come on down and purchase the ticket so i'll be here all day very good thank you very much magic tricks music tricks and later on i'll be face painting and i was brought here by the generous creativity of the lovely folks at champions sporting excellen ok i'm just mantle from the bell my media center welcome back to town day two thousand and seventeen i have here with me a gentleman from the belmont veterans the world committee and the v f w and you are you sir are  and we're trying to get to let people know that we're around and we're trying to recruit some new members thank you want to talk to joe and see what's going on come on over here hey joe what's going on here today how you do and so that is called the belmont veterans memorial committee look at it online by my vets dot com that's going to be a great memorial for for all veterans belmont town day and boy you couldn't ask for better weather better turnout more cars were had before i think we're going to more people than we ever had before because it's so perfect the street is filled with shopkeepers and food and all kinds of entertainment so it's going to a great day and we are  live bob so all over the world right now and what are you going to be doing here later bob that's special well every year we try to add another element and experiment and this year i decided that it's time for us to go to morocco we couldn't get everybody there so we brought morocco to belmont and we have a wonderful camel ride complete with costumes for the kids they can go as indiana jones they can go as a magic i would ever their preferences are so  you loving a clock the camels going to write his a sleeping in because he's got a big day ahead of him and the camels going to give the kids a thrill they never had before very exciting so we will be back to watch you i hear you may be on the camel is that it's not a rumor to be honest of it i'm told that camels have as bad tendency of spitting so you don't go near the front of the camel and as you just suggested you know could hear the back of a camel so i guess just the end of the side of the game i think i think when i grew up my dad always said don't stand behind the camera  anybody wants it and we can handle it over this is not a shopping network but but come out and look for it here a camel is not for sale the camel is a red bull we can't we can't sell like you know but looking at camel takes some work we had to really go far and wide to find this camel is a camel paid off for you still paying on that we're just it's a least ok for the ride because next year you might want to different one right well next year we meet it's the camel who knows every year is an experiment the only things i ever regret of things i didn't try that's a great that is a great model and you know what we sort of do that at the bell my media center we try things sometimes they work so far this is working ok back back to you jeremy that's coming up i think that's coming up at eleven yeah all right great we'll be we'll be taking a look at that as well from a light department lots of goodies down there you can come by and pick up and we'll be checking in with the belmont like department later and it's back to you jeremy  i'm standing here with alexandra bartsch and what are you doing here alex i'm a master beekeeper and i'm at the belmont board of health booth and we're promoting beekeeping in belmont great in is there somebody you know here also is into be beekeeping in briefly briefly well there's lots of benefits for beekeeping they keep the flowers pollinated and pollinate all our fruits and vegetables as well and the local honey has the pollen in it so if you have any allergies if you eat local honey it'll help you with the allergies that's the health benefit yeah all right well folks come on down to belmont sunday if you're watching us live we'll be here until three pm today if you're not watching live  check out the health department you can come down to the media center and astro talk he's the mastery he's about beekeepers well ok all right back to you germy in the  services at the belmont public library and today we're helping the library debut their new logo and you can see on the tape that oh and we're giving away some bags with the new logos on it if you look at the website we should be soon having that show up there as well and just kind of a new energy at the library these days and we're hoping that we can entice more people to come by get new library cards see what things are going on because there really is something for everybody down there are going to tell us how we came up with a new logo and there was a committee that was selected through the friends and with the help of the trustees and the a library director and it's been about a year of work that we've figured out what we wanted and how what we wanted it to represent and and now we're going to be rolling it out for the do the colors mean anything all the colors  of what we think of the belmont colors which represent the high school as well so it's the maroon and the dark blue and then we added in a little bit of the light blue because we are really a part we are a very major part of the community here in belmont we do personal taxes business taxes small businesses we do tax planning we're open year round we help people file their taxes and also to help them with letters that they might get from the i r s i guess they were in season now with the and in the summer what happens is a lot of people get letters from the department revenue on the i r s and they don't know what to do and they come in and we help them and relax them and solve their problems thank you very much fifty seven fifty seven yes so they're all belmont residents all they are they have to do is they have to show proof that they live in belmont so i get a bill or an invoice or something like that from them and you know they can use the food pantry twice a month and we just you know they can what they can receive is non perishable items we don't have the capabilities to have fresh to have meats and stuff we don't have refrigeration but they get all you know not perishable stuff and toiletries are a great what the area farms are growing so you get the carrots you get the potatoes you get we get to man who's heirloom tomatoes you know so this been a lot of really you know good stuff i now know a blue hubbard squash is so that's that's that's that's fantastic and so what's your problem if i wanted to get food i mean if i wanted to give to you and good box in real things like that well there are several different places that you can actually drop off there is a barrel located a and that's been since our market has been in operation since they opened in the same time that they were opened in one hundred one and we opened in ninety two so then the other option we are located the physical food pantry is located at fifty one lexington street which is that mt hope church and right outside there is a bin and you know it's ours because it's got our logo on it and you can drop off food in that been any time now to remember we don't want their membership is also welcome as as a supplemental of social membership what is left they have a wee wee right now we do not have an exhilarating we're trying to establish one we haven't we did have one for many years and have not yet established reestablished the exhilarate and that's something we hope to be able to do over the next year if we get enough interest in it then we will be will move forward with that well many people know about the building you have down on entrepreneur ro and so forth and so the guys that are members of the v f w are down there partaking of the big you said that facility and that's it that's a very nice thing to have in town as well and belmont veterans memorial and they have membership forms who will be happy to talk to you about the v f w and the activities here in belmont well bruce thank you very much we appreciate your being with us thank you very much and we'll we'll talk to you soon take thank you have a great attentional frizzy again and we here at the belmont town day we have john from the from the robotics team and i know nothing about the robotics team so i'm looking forward to hearing about it what can you tell me about it so we're a rookie robotics  team we basically started up last year were affiliated with the first robotics competition first is a very big organization that has many different branches where in currently in the highest ranks the high school branch fairly big nothing out there is that that's one of the robots that is one of us and that's the one we bought for last year yes you built for last year so she you build a new one every year is that is that is this part that we can reuse from time to time but the core it with a high school and i know that people who were around town they may be engineers or they may be people with general bot expect ground it's a very it's a very community based thing so we asked some people from someplace over here some people from someplace over here robot and understand it and do the engineering of it and we also need to tell people hey you can sponsor of we need to build this and we think you would benefit from it should now if if i'm in the high school and i'm interested in this i can easily give you a high i got a couple of guests here i've got nate in arbonne both down here enjoying belmont town day on that street in belmont welcome if you want to be interviewed so let's see what can we talk to you about what and the teachers as well were very lucky about what because we've got super teachers at the middle school and if you get up to the high school you're going to find terrific teachers there was well so what what how you enjoying town day what are you what are you doing how are you spending your time down here department fantastic and what do you do over there i'm a program coordinator at car need to from programs that we offer and can you give an example of some of those are all we do we're having pickle ball which we are now playing a town fields and i go by there on sunday morning and i see them out there and they are having a blast it is one of the fastest growing sports in america supposedly well i you know i used to play a lot of tennis and i'm able to run around the court as much as i used to so that size court looks like it's ideal for me it's the perfect so kind of down time sunday and we're going to be starting on may thirtieth and we're going to be running every tuesday morning we'll be doing something and then on the weekends and this year we're going to be having our very first pickle ball tournament going to be in june now the rockets are there they're paddles and they kind of remind me of they're made out of plastic and you play with like a wiffle ball a little bit harder than with a ball and the tennis court is half of a size of a tennis court and the nets are lower than a tennis court and we're actually going to be installing memberships to the underwood pool the pool be opening up on june twenty fourth will open until labor day people can sign up for their memberships were here today selling memberships and where  sold out of those so it's a twenty dollars per person to go into the pool if you are nonresident for residents it's ten dollars or five for adults and five dollars for children and the family membership makes it fairly economic if you're going to be yes very good at anything i should like to tell us about what you're doing now we're just we're doing lots of stuff going on we did a nice really nice up program this year for children at the media  center during april school vacation and february school vacation which jane helped us run so really great the kids got to learn how to use the studio and did their own t v production and it was a lot of fun great ok well heidi thank you very much for joining matthew miller and you guys are i'm going to guess at the middle school are you at the middle school no where in the an elementary school elementary school and what school do you go to ok very good well welcome to belmont welcome to our town day what do you think of it a is pretty good it's pretty good out there's a lot of things to do a lot of things to see and yeah have you been over to the right jet yet we've been over to the numbers so there's two dens in the cub pack and there is a couple troops in the boy scouts ok so we keep them separate because there's different age groups and they're learning different skills at different different time and i enjoyed learning about cut back ninety six and troop forty nine you know thank you very much you're welcome katie now we've got a couple of ladies from the belmont aquatics team this is going to be very meters so what you see in the olympics and short courses twenty five yards ok where do you swim at the high school yeah for practice we swim at the high school ok and how often we practice ok and how many how many kids are on the team school is not is not at this is not under the auspices of the school right it's a it's separate from the school department great well thank you very much for joining us and good to hear about it now i know a little bit about the belmont aquatic awesome that's great and what grade are you in third grade third grade i'm sorry my birthday is on tuesday well happy birthday thank you very good how old you going to be and then me now nine years old fantastic so a third grade one more year at it when brook yeah and then you're up at the middle school you looking forward to that kind of little scary as it would be to you again you don't want to be the youngest again yeah i can understand that so do you play sports what do you play  the people who are involved with it that run it and their love and care of belmont and i was so honored a few years ago when they asked me to join the committee partly based upon the work i had done historically sources when i was with the department conservation recreation and when you join people that are so passion anything is possible so the store has a society is a open inclusive organization and their whole idea is to make belmont happen serve a special world fifteen dollars the base rate where by just joining us and opens doors to programs we have the year we have guest speakers we have local events and then we're open to people joining our committees and we're always looking for future board members very good well i happen to go to the annual meeting this past week i guess and at that meeting that was a fellow named roger webb who was a longtime belmonte and talked about his his involvement in historic week reconstruction and i was fascinated to hear that he was involved in the moving of the house from root to up to across the street from wellington  so it was i mean those are three or four famous things that that have happened in this one individual is involved in in all of them so i can add angelo to remarkable what this man has done and he's still a low key and preservation when you see these homes and buildings he's moved or be stored you say how can it be done he just has the passion and i'm very pleased to report we have a very good partnership with the belmont media center subway and many of the other famous belmont scenes from the turn of the century there's a pascal lecture the photographs down there there's i think there's a copy of every year book from belmont high school in there  they have all of the town polling books when i go in there occasionally i just sort of sit down and just almost you pick up anything and it's fascinating they've got two beautiful paintings on the wall if you've never had a chance to to go into the claflin room to a beautiful paintings on the wall of belmont again around the turn of the century the underwood of state and then one coming this way a house is fifty years or older and belmont we consider is distinct and to be valued and if you've kept it in its original state we can help you research its history and you can be eligible have a nice plaque in your home and we'll have the name of either the original builder or the family that was there for many years and my little house on harriet avenue thirty six here in atlanta making drive by we first started the program i said i should apply and i made it and they found out the house bill nine hundred twenty two my first nine hundred thirty five was built by a school teacher very good had well that's that's fantastic and i know we just a fact that that meeting i meant i mentioned earlier we were there was a plaque given out to a family up on snake hill road one of the  i'm delighted to be involved with them and i'm delighted to have you with us you know one other thing to add is that an organization only runs by its membership and we have some of our members who really do too much so please we're open to more people joining us will find an activity the interest th so tell me you you were you can with the time for a while now right fifteen over fifteen years and have you been on the animal control for fifteen years yeah totally ok and now you also to work and want to town is that correct no not anymore it's full time a lot more people coming out now you know walking their dogs and stuff so it's definitely a busy time of year you know belmont has a leash law are obviously so and people out walking they're walking their dogs it's that they're generally on leashes but you know occasionally they get into a field or they're up at the cemetery and and they'll let somebody loose and it can be dangerous or they ought to be aware that because we still have coyotes in town and i don't and you know if you've got a small dog or a small cat or something that's out there with you there be a prey for these coyotes and you know it's important to people think about that you think that you're you know we're in a so her close to the city that we wouldn't have to worry about that but there's a lot of that activity in town that it will be right actually the massachusetts representative for project coyote which is a national organization and i go around doing a public educational presentations doing one next week and in west end at seven o'clock on wednesday night but we do have coyotes and if people are just leave their cats indoors they would won't have an issue and small dogs should always be on a leash adult dogs in january february is their breeding season so coyotes can be territorially aggressive and other than that right now spring time if your dogs off leash and it happens  belmont well you know they don't they don't they're not taxpayers they don't stay just in belmont so you could have a den that you know in belmont but their territory overlaps belmont in an lexington but i i ok and i've only seen six together at one time you know what about you know it's interesting really because we do we still have i mean how much fairly densely populated but we still have a lot of open space so i mean we've got you know deer we've got if my duty title is in a control officer then my duty is to help all the animals not just dogs and cats so i've expanded that matter fact i just i just got hired from the by the state to become the an animal control officer trainer because they changed the law a couple years ago so now we're all required to get a certain amount of continuing education so now i'll be able to provide that for  officer in the state for example occasionally i'll find a bat in my house i chase it out do whatever i can to get it out of the house but what would typically how people respond to that when they had to call you or call the police department if i had apartment yeah they do call us and it can be a see a serious situation because bats have a very high incidence of rabies and their teeth are so small that if you're sleeping and you get bit it may not even know it and so and you may not even ever find the little bite marks because i think their sole small so if you have a bat in your  fun jumping up and down doing american sign language and having great fun with the kids that's great well again welcome to problem on a glad to have you here and if you're so inclined a patient park church on the corner of pasted road and belmont street five six seven eight ok and then nine advice i guess i'm too old to remember now when i went there it was belmont junior high school it was grades six seven eight nine yeah that was the whole building a long time ago in fact the high school that i went to is it even around anymore it's where the wellington used to be right so that was a log your grandfather went there to ok and so your family's been in beaumont for a long fantastic yeah there and you know and when you get to the high school it just is great so you know you're very lucky to be going to school and don't want to be a great community yes great place to grow up and we're delighted to have you here ok thank you very much and we'll talk again soon ok thank you bye bye bye bye go on right now ok we are looking at the dog show and we were filming this live here i think i'm going to move my m five months old she loves the play and give kisses and obviously dance a little bit i'm going to give you the old one that and when they go on vacation the tuttles with her shoes so he feels close t the elderly as a therapy dog so thank you for your service wally always smart to play with the audience because they're going to have the final say in who wins these names only get harder if there are no german shepherds today this is well as the last a full seven years old is coming up because a cavalier lives up to his name i'm not sure what that means thank you very much beautiful dog went on like that maybe not that one though one of the other dogs will get it anyway there what do you think you have a favorite dog do you have a favorite dog do you guys have a favorite dog hyper has a lot of different costumes i remember last year i next up is ravens ravens a cavalier king charles six years old beautiful dog and these are rosie's three security guards that don't get too close to rosie o have to deal with them thank you very much thank you girls she but you know and she speaks japanese would anybody like to hear her speak japanese because i know i would gus was born on a farm in iowa gus is two years old he got knows how to play to the crowd that's how you get the votes got  loves loves rolling and hot dogs do you have a favorite dog yet which one is your favorite dog always good for a h our last couple of dogs and the judges are each going to pick their favorite and then the audience will pick the winner for the day little bit of roughhousing going on in the holding area right now colby told me as a short piece which is a chihuahua and a yorkie seven months old think has a little fight over there we might be detained for a second this is told the first dog show the we had one more laden tree the dog just got out of the beauty salon so this is harley harley is a belgian shepherd are they like to eat things and harley is eight years old thank you harley so we're going to take about ten seconds just to get the names of the dogs and then we're going to bring the three finalists out if you win or you just pick your own going to have a belmont savings bank we want you to present you with our two thousand and seventeen facebook dog winner and on the back of this is a is one hundred dollars gift card belmont tet i think we know who the winner is i think rosie is the winner entering this won't thank you for participating ok girls come on over here come on over here i may have a belmont savings bank i want to present two girls went with your award for your dog and on the back of this be very careful it's one hundred dollars gift card about my pet shop let's get the dog and you would like it for you to feel congratulations girls nice oh she's shy isn't she here you guys look at the camera here come over towards me so was it was a difficult competition yes i wanted you practice  you remember last year she's so cute you hear that and you guys here to hold are you oh she's shy she's not so ok i think that's it thank you ok we are on i'm told from the from the van julie want your follow me down the street and we'll see who else we find on here we'll give you folks a look at belmont town day or live for the first time maybe the last time know we'll be back here next year live it's been an experiment in live television we're going to go buy them on media center booth for a second pretty crowded this year probably the more people that i've seen how's it going laurie everything's great wonderful day beautiful weather happy people good line up here excellent lineup we've had a lot of people stopped by a lot of people really interested in the programs that we're offering so we very excited what's your favorite word today for town day your awesome awesome ok as usual we got the fresh cut french fries right here pardon me sir and we're going to stop over here gaumont bucks because it's a new hey folks can we talk to you live on camera all right so we're here with the wonderful people associated with government books right anybody want to know who are you and i'm tell the i'm the star manager nice to meet you i'm jeff with the belmont media center by the way  keeping track of you guys on social media and i'm kathy i'm one of the owners and i'm cally i am her daughter i'll be working on the story we were going to pay you will see i don't know just kidding so everybody wants to know the big question right you know what the big question is any any idea any idea when the when the store will be open so we're going to open in early june we're aiming for the week of june fifth we just don't want to promise a date that we can't deliver so well i've been inside and seen the work that's going on there looks beautiful yeah i think it's going to be great we're very excited and it's been wonderful to have the town be so supportive and enthusiastic yeah you had a lot of folks  t a lot of feedback from people yes so much so much support from people all over the long period is taken us to get it going all along we've heard from people in the town it's been great so it will be nice we had a bookstore here for a while and we are having managers not here today but she is wonderful and we'll have coffee and tea and pastries and books and books lots of books are you looking forward to the store being a perfect complement to your college education right she'll be working here in the afternoons even summer i'll probably mostly be like filling in for things kind of last minute stuff but yeah probably to help out any way i can or you can be doing a special programs here as you get going you know what we're definitely did you story hours and overtime and we're going to have readers authors come back we have a couple of events planned june twenty second and june twenty and we'll have more readings as we kind of get settled and get get our get our legs under us so that's belmont books it's part of the new stores on this and  including foodies including the diedrich what else do we have local route and a new restaurant which i don't think has a name yet there's a secret room and then i think a clothing store cambridge they're all right so folks we're going to be back here during the opening of oman books and maybe you'll invite us and we'll we'll do the ribbon cutting live how would that be all over the world ok all right back to you guys in the van now bob we're on and where are we were we julie where are we oh we're at belmont town day that's thousand and seventeen it's a great event and my name is jeff hansel if you didn't know that already from the dummy to center we're going to walk over here and talk to our friends at the belmont cafe who've been great last few years opening up the cafe in town let's just stroll over there if julie will follow me i will walk too fast hello there belmont cafe how are you can we talk to you for a moment valley and and you are the owner of the cafe how long has it been going on here it's been three years now and then it's getting stronger and better it's a lovely place here at this end of the of absolutely and i have a cup and i sample it on the air ok let's see that we're going to see what it tastes like yes sorry i'm a hot coffee guy ok we're going to see if this works now this is there's no trick photography or this is real coffee i'm going to actually drink this and i'll be paying for it later so don't worry are you have any cream here all right fascinating need to be closer to home we're going to remember you for a long time i will never forget you i even took i went to disney went land with my family and they had this flower show and there was this whole the pollination area and i thought of and it's getting more and more involved so i like it i like the people there i like the year the work is there and i enjoy every minute of it well i what about this latest job that you've done your taking and that's editing your own the editing wow seven you remember me mr ford i was very popular with all the students and the parents and the teachers there you remember me all i don't remember  what did you hear about me good or bad what can you remember going to be more specific you have to be that if you don't remember it's ok well i may come back some day i don't know but i know i'm teaching in the in the lexical school system i teach from the third grade all way to senior high school and i love every minute of it i do like to intellectual students i do actually teach as a substitute probably met you know sure very good you would you are you have many friends there yes excellent thank you very much well what's your name and where you live belmont where i'm places you're about  where some people still do because at least if they don't they hear about me having taught at the business school and they're still calling me to come back someday maybe i will use it i know i was very popular with the students i was very popular with the ok we are here with a very famous guy and a fellow alumnus from miami university of ohio in oxford the estimable my name is jim williams i don't know about famous  estimable go read hawke's go read talk used to be the indians in my day yeah yeah yeah yeah jim what's happening here today well today is town day i've been here since  thirty we dead dedicated the electric charging vehicles in the claflin parking lot we had a nice crowd there and ironically within about a half an hour somebody spotted the fact that they were available in the parking lot on their g p s and they rolled up and we had our first customer that's great very interesting then i had my dog with me sue me  she's a shiba inu and so we were in the dog show we did not win i think they should have a category for over ten you know because she's getting up there but but we had a good time and and then i'm just making the tour to see all the boosts and see who's here and that's how i ran into you well it's been a good year this year i mean thanks to the weather i think in large part there is never really predict that it's really spectacular the one jim i i was a judge at the dog show but my non disclosure agreement prevents me from telling you who i picked so i'm sorry ok well sue me and i were in last year we didn't we didn't place either but at least we you know it's good to participate were happy to be there to participate have you taken the camel is that not really the camels are down by the bank aren't they i think that's on my way there i heard that did did mark or adam ride the camels i don't know  they try to add a new element every time so it's sort of keeps it and see what works you have people like you know people don't like but they're not that friendly i mean they have a reputation don't they because you see people having camels on newsreels and then the camel lets them have it right you know what i mean so i'm i can't wait to see all these animals are we won't you know we won't make any judgments at the camera like sure not i don't think they like anybody did you hear that it was that they had they had some kind of breakdown on the way here in their camel carrier car i did not hear that yeah so they were about an hour late so can you imagine being broken down on  experiments were alive today you'll be seeing this in tape we've got a wireless video camera we've got a drone earlier on and so it's a different way to cover town day we'd like to hear from you all what you think of the coverage and maybe some ideas for next year but it's it's really grown into a pretty nice event it's really great in the rides down there i wish i was about eight years old or maybe even six so i could get on some of those rides they look fantastic thanks for your time jim thank you and like what are you doing that's fun when did you lose your to now you want any message you want to send out that's just a bigger question right how old are you fifty you would be in kindergarten maybe yeah i was echoing you got a job yet we are on here with the famous e j johnson his middle name is danger and yeah i like iron runny dangerfield except you get respect i got a little respect you got to work for inspect i like the outfit here you got you got like i what i was telling you was no one's going to get this the ben johnson look from last very last picture show or maybe  know and people wouldn't know anything to do with the red sox where you were in one nine hundred seventy five one thousand nine hundred seventy five i was a game six in the center field bleachers and i was there again for game seven so i took my girlfriend to game six i only had i got tickets with a friend so i had to go to game seven with my friend in game six at midnight with the score tied my girlfriend wanted to go home she said do we have to stay til the end and i said yes we do so she moved into the aisle so when  the winning home run i was the only person in the stadium that didn't get a hug i'm sorry about you didn't get a hug you know you saw the home run i saw the home run and i saw burning car bombs on the run of course and then the next night i saw tony presence all run so we're have you gotten over that not getting a yeah yeah i'm glad to hear that right i got some bugs later on i was in cincinnati at the time and we sin of course people don't believe nobody really cares about that well i mean what we think in cincinnati but at that time of that game all the cincinnati fans became boston red sox fans because of that game right george foster like yeah phenomenal but i mean they had the reds were just up and down the line up all stars and basically we played him pretty much dead even one eavis pitch killed us so you never know when the stories you're going to hear a town day seventy five world series it just all comes back into sharp focus and out again because the red sox ascents won what three four world series three  you know mike how many world series red sox have won and glad to see here today well it's good to be here one of the great things about my observation about belmont is it's the closest small town to boston so you know if you go up the hill you can see the boston skyline and here we are in small town usa which is you know much better than being in a small city all right that c j johnson filmmaker teacher  the warriors and you two three go all right who's you look like a pretty tough character though yeah you say that's true  across player that's good that's good ok and he any parting words for the town of belmont about town day or anything day gorgeous day out here stop by if you haven't been down there's a lot of stuff going on lots of stuff but see right now i'm joined by adam dash the months new a selectman thank you welcome and congratulations on the victory at oh thank you so much so what do you think of town day town days fantastic been coming here with the kids for years and of the day couldn't be better as far as the weather i think this is the largest turnout i've ever seen at a town day i don't crowd great crowds were absolutely great the booths were all filled and  vehicle charging stations and they're also doing free test drives of electric vehicles and i can tell you we unveiled them and within ten minutes somebody pulled up with their app and plugged into the charging stations after all of ten minutes for one to get used by somebody just happened to find it online so we're off to the race it is it was it for a car or was it for a it was a car a car a basic amazing yeah and so just do this no charge right i mean you just no charger you have to pay your usual like you pay for a i'd you're only allowed to park there for two hours i guess depends on the model and the type of the battery some of the cars with massive batteries can take up to eight hours to charge if you're going to top it off but like with your car you know always drive around on full the whole time so to so you can park there for two hours which should be enough to get you going you know fantastic so those are the back corner of the up there in the back corner of the lot sort of where the farmer's market near where that is going to be on the claflin street side of the i'm in this parking lot back there there's also a belmont light electric vehicle one of our new fleet of town on a lead electric vehicles that we've got it's all nice and brand shiny new looks great in testing and i know i also understand you can drive an electric car you can as private electric car down there yes they have a  dealers have brought them over as well as people in town who own electric vehicles a problem over and you can take test drives i myself took a chevy volt out on to route two and they are really nice quick quick you have all the power all it wants is like a super charger instead of combustion engine where you sort of ramps up the speed when you hit the gas you have all the power instantly and no oil to change no belts no spark plugs no and maintenance really whatsoever very very interesting fantastic i think you know is as we get further and further along with technology and so forth that's definitely the way to go although yeah you know if you go back to the turn of a century we had electric cars back then to this we did well it's a small step for now but it's a large for a large movement in the future i mean i think that's what you're going to see for cars going forward so well what the what in what other things are going on with the select ones life now that you are you're feeling you know your time with that and i know quite a bit of time actually is yeah you would know yeah i'll be all six weeks of itself is bigger in the middle of town meetings you know so we're going to be taking up the budget articles in a couple of weeks and finalizing all of that and you know i've been going around to various boards and talking to them i met with their retirement board recently i'm going to be the agent twenty one implementation committee this week friends of the public library is coming up i met with you know different committees and boards who wanted to sort of talk with me and get up to speed and i think that's i like talking to the people and hearing what they have to say and all the volunteers in town the budget she's pretty straightforward this year do you think this year because of the override we knew we would have several years of relatively easy budgeting and this is probably getting to the end of that cycle  where they're going to have to start making some choices going forward but right now no the f eighteen budget should be good i should also note that committee appointments are coming up now if people are interested in voluntary for committees get involved now's the time because those committees get filled over the summer so there are committees with openings there committees of vacancies there's somewhere people maybe a not renewing their their their opposition on the committee so if you're interested in committees to go online download the form and fill it out and tell us what committees you've been in interested in joining because this town without the volunteers and all the committees we couldn't do anything you know let me echo that because i remember when i was a select when finding you know good people to sit on those committees was not a simple thing and now and  you know a lot of people have been serving a long time and you know it's time to cycle them through so i would also encourage you to to you know go online you know fill out one of the forms is pretty simple some of the committees are pretty straightforward they meet you know once a month or once every couple of months and others meet a little bit more frequently so depending upon how much time you want you've got to dedicate this a committee you could serve on so there's no reason no reason not to fill out a form and i know we need your help and we'd like to get some new blood applying for some of these committees because there are a lot of them there in every possible field and i know there are a lot of people in town with a lot of skills who would be happy to volunteer their time in various different areas and we can use all skills because there are committees  rozelle what do you think about the way it's gone today been a great turnout everything's been safe we haven't any incidents so it's been a great day for them what do you guys do any kind of crowd count tell me what would you estimate about the number of people here today we don't actually do any crowd count but it been a good steady flow of people all day long and how is the who did you check out the car show it down there the car parade yes the some really nice vehicles down there i wish i had the money for one thing when we could get on a nice big new fire engine down there in the next the next parade well most of them a pretty old so the cars and stuff down the aisle so we have to wait for one of ours to get to get in that parade i mean we can put that in the budget next year town meeting that would be interesting thanks a lot to think you have a good day ok we are here in town today and we'd love to hear about what ink i started this business in two thousand and nine but i have been drawing my whole life but my actual career in belmont was a piano teacher and i taught for thirty years and then i switched careers and i decided to try try to know what makes my or a little different i'm actually visually impaired so my my art looks different because the way i see things is translated differently and i spend a lot of time looking at color and texture and the design and pattern and i just want people to feel really good when they when they see this big since i don't see detail i see things color pattern just come at me like a dance and so i just want people to feel uplifted and good when they when they look at the to do coasters last year and they've been very successful this i've seen a lot of your work at both the bici center the craft fair and also hanging in the us and i also notice that a lot of your work is with nature mean the colors of nature a tree and gapes right i love it i love the shapes in the patterns and i just love color and obviously although i do have some things in black and white  and this year i did tributes for the first time and they have been selling really well but nature is the strong but i also like doing food and why you tell us your name i don't think we got that my name is joe my name going to do is put the names last name for stress last the section number in the plot in a great number in order to be a historical record of what the what the headstones look like so in later years if they deteriorate which they will eventually sometime people  what it is there's also a website called find a grave dot com where people have put one hundred sixty million of these pictures and memorials of all people on hundred sixty million sixty million now it's one by ancestry dot com now and  i'm going to put those up will be a memorial with the great information about the people and anybody who wants to visit a virtual cemetery you can put in the name bill mcavoy if i was up you can visit take a look at the grave you can leave a note you can the virtual ok and these are veterans as defined by the u s government i mean you know i know we and we've had discussions about this in the veterans memorial committee i was a reservist is six years in the reserves but according to the government  regulations i am not a veteran but i still feel it myself as one so i was looking up last night on the internet and if i start correctly that recently that anyone who did twenty years in the reserves and distinction but if somebody has to serve active duty beyond one hundred seventy nine days to be qualified to be a benefits but but anybody anybody who put their hand up took an oath and matter what come what may be theirs is considered a veteran if they and that's how we sort of got together i don't know veterans memorial so so that's great if you get anything you want to say about the veterans of oil project no i think when i do have something to say i think it's fantastic i mean the memorial d kind of out of the way and i lived here all my life till till till i went in the service and i never knew that there was a memorial down of clay put on because back then there wasn't a new high school in fact the high school burnt down in the spring of my senior year and  and so i never knew it was down there and it's great to see and it's it's been a wonderful wonderful thing coming back to belmont helping and getting reconnect and i think it's all inclusive of anybody who basically put an effort into  still time if you've got it's a beautiful day if you're at home you know step on out and come on down and walk through town day it's a beautiful event and stopped by the veterans memorial table at the v f w they're right next to   you know all of those names will be on the veterans web site and if there's anybody in there you're curious about you can go in and click on it and find out what there is to find out about that particular individual and his involvement in the service and if they want to go on find a great dot com in a later time and just leave a message or a flower or something a post up a flag it's a start it's fine to go dark cons go to elderly people can no longer get the cemeteries and memorial day oh no one to take and you can still go walking take a look do a virtual visit and just put down a folks ok thank you bye bye i'm here with two young men you guys live in belmont yes and you've been helping us out with the camera you've been doing a great job over there thank you very much and what your name means my name's programs down the edit that you can get involved in ok and learn how to use camera and learn how to do the editing and so forth so as you as you think about that and come on down we could usually we can use your ok well thank you very much and i will talk to you again soon thank you i it's angela frenzy again and we're still here at town day we have a young lady that just happened to be walking by and i grabbed hold of and i said would you like to be  rock ok you look a lot older than than than you think that i guess you are you must be in the fifth grade the fourth grade your fourth grade so you'll be going to you'll be going to chandra next year yeah what do you like about when books school right i betcha the teachers are really going to i think you had a very nice it's a beautiful school and it's you know very lucky because when you get down with winthrop you'll be at the middle school and that's a fantastic school and then from there to the high school you play sports yeah what sports do you play street what's your name again ethan ethan very good and you live in belmont and you go to school in belmont what school do you go to when brock all right and what grade are you in you're in kindergarden right so you've got four more years that when book before you get up with the older kids i guess right you play sports what sports do you play soccer  great is that is that the belmont seka soccer program i don't know if that's second soccer very good so you play at the wynn brookfield's yeah yeah very good and so how long have you lived the belmont you live and how much your whole you take care and as you get a little older every town day come on by and remind me will interview you again ok very good thank you high here we are still a town day another beautiful day and we have with us laurie graham larry how here i know you've been out interviewing people as well catching people in the street and it's it's good to have you to sit down to be able to chat with you what do you think of the day today it's a beautiful day in the weather could not be better the crowds seem to be really great really continuous number of people coming through but he seems to be having a great time that's what it's all about you know it's a beautiful day and lots of things to do lots of things to see and it's so if you're still at home and you haven't been down here yet come get out of the house and come on down because there's a lot to see and there's a lot to do in a lot of people to me so so what are you doing now you were there you were on the school committee for a good many years and that you're chairman for a long range year yes and so what are you doing now you're doing i know you're still doing stuff since you you must i am i am i actually stepped down from the school committee because i got a full time job that's downtown and just didn't have the time to to devote to the school committee but i am on the board of the belmont media center town meeting member also on the board of the food pantry so i'm i'm doing things i still feel passionate about and not quite as much time but but keep water that's great i don't know that you know it's amazing when i when i retired from the board i just you know i said i'm going to step away from it but you get sucked back in and you know there's lots of things i sit on the board with you with the media center and we've and joy having the opportunity to meet with with with people of various political spectrum and it's a gray community it's a great town so you know we're very very lucky to have people like you that that  samples of things their vendors who are selling their wares or skids taking rides it's it's a great thing and it's wonderful to see to see so many people coming out and and visiting our town businesses