welcome to talking news we are delighted to have you with us listen in to our presentation by members of the beach street center martha patty and jonathan we will be reading local news and happenings from the community newspapers the restoration project of limits soon by hope kelly the restoration project is unique a nonprofit which will be opening a location in belmont soon for twenty three years the program has taught that time honored crafts  furniture finishing and upholstering to adolescents and adults with emotional and neurological challenges for to supplants work side by side skilled craft people to learn and eventually master these hand made trades it is a slow and a van new model of vocational rehabilitation founding and direct eloise newell says the process builds confidence perseverance and the set of work skills that are transferable to new situations the fro graham has helped more than two hundred participants return to the world of work seventy percent of whom remain employed i think our greatest success is long term success the actor in residence said this is rehabilitation we're not teaching people to be hired tomorrow what you see here is long term change making a real difference in a person's life not the quick placement new recently moved the project from west concord to belmont in order to reach more participants and to provide employment in the field the thrift store already has stocked with items ranging from fine antique furniture and stemware to catching fashion and jewelry mark taylor whose owner is retired another three thousand square feet of basement storage is filled with furniture awaiting restoration and merchandise  iting resale new will search for a solid as suitable space stretched for three years until she found three three four pleasant street with multiple bus routes ample parking and the potential to raise much needed revenue through an onsite store it was a good fit for massachusetts rehabilitation commission surprise just twenty percent of the op operations budget the program relies on grants and donations for most of its support the retail store will help to sustain the program grants and donations come in sporadically and bills come in reliably and it's always been a struggle i think the thrift store made a difference she said i also think it will bring in more community participants people will want to work in the store donate to the store project was an attempt to help her son as a softer more in college he developed schizophrenia but he had had a really strong work ethic he had his own painting business in high school so he was determined if he could just work he could be fine she said quote she searched for recreational programs but almost all were linked to physical disabilities back then there really wasn't much for mental illness recovery wasn't recognized it happened but it wasn't recognize said her son's first ospital was ation at mclean nine months dual was teaching college at the time and was struck by the similarities she observed between her students and the patients she came to know through her son the people i met in the hospital were so much like my students they were smart they were nice they had a wry sense of humor people with mental illness are different they needed a program aimed at them she said so started one in her act and home twenty four years ago this month we were incorporated and therefore able to bring people aboard in april  three she explains her son learned upholstery through the program he died in two thousand and three as the program grew it moved from her home to an old m then to a larger space in west concord which served them well but offered no possibility of a store she credits the new location with a neighboring her to lure a season manager from one of goodwill's largest retail stores she will be the first staff member who is not a farm a participant in the program the ease of public transportation is also drawing new participants such as a newcomer from watertown who has been out of work and home bound for the past decade before she learned about the restoration urged anyone wishing to join the restoration project as a client volunteer or board member to contact heard directly at six one seven four eight four one thousand clients can also be referred through the state or other agencies by school systems or by private paper arrangements volunteers are welcome to serve as instructors or fellow learners and finishing and upholstery crafts volunteers and donations for the store are also welcomed especially home furnishings and reliable condition jonathan to me or not members to debate sanctuary town and reynolds the debate over whether belmont should become a sanctuary community won't be coming to a head at annual town meeting after police and the proponent of a citizen petition agreed and compromise language belmont town meeting men may first was ten committee but is pushing the article as a private citizen man's article puts belmont town meeting on record supporting several belmont police department policies relating to how the police deal immigration status of people they detained however of the article does not change belmont police department policy the police are remaining neutral article tense moment assistant police macmall in his in his final form article ten asks town meeting to state its support for seven belmont police department policies not detaining someone solely to investigate their immigration status not asking someone about their immigration status when they are seeking that month police departments help unless it is relevant cooperating with federal state and local law enforcement agencies detaining of suspected illegal immigrants if federal regulation and customs enforcement officers ask if they present investigate hate crimes without regard to victims immigration status proponent article specimens message to children i wrote it for the children explained  man kids should be in school to learn not to feel threatened my god my goal is to talk to their parents and all the kids and tell them you are all safe and you don't have to worry on march seventh superintendent john fail and sent a letter to parents stating that belmont public schools are operated it's always within our school policies and a massachusetts general law which continually state a commitment to provide a stay for a safe environment for learning free from demonstration ma'am said the national action was disrupting the school day and that th that the counselors teachers and parents are dealing with something very different so far few hate incidents when asked about the environment described by man assistant superintendent to be made a town meeting future of liquor licenses signage c p a projects and more to be voted on by joanna so villas town meeting members have several important decisions to make that will affect future at the town annual town meeting may first and special town meeting may third including the funding of community preservation projects such as a new book quasi playground reducing the speed limit to twenty five miles per hour and thickly settled areas in belmont putting a moratorium on marijuana establishment changing the board of selectmen from three to five members designating belmont as a welcoming town signage and transferability retail liquor license and says and restaurant liquor licenses community preservation projects the future of the grove street tennis courts sherman gardens historic preservation of sons of italy artifacts the p p q playground and the gross street park walking path lie in the hands of town meeting members who will be asked to approve allocating funds totaling one million one hundred eighty three thousand three hundred twenty five dollars from the town's community preservation account for these projects the highest ticket item on the list is six hundred fifteen thousand dollars for brand new p q playground including flood mitigation next is three hundred thirty six thousand dollars to resurface the gross street tennis courts the third highest request is for one hundred seventy three thousand two hundred dollars to fund the assessment and pride checked redevelopment of sherman gardens to lemonade the units with steps and make it more user friendly forces out of the residents the sons of italy is requesting twenty four thousand one hundred twenty five dollars to create a mini museum at the belmont headquarters to preserve and display historical artifacts including historic items such as photos and books proponents for gross street park are requesting thirty five thousand dollars for a construction site plan for a new intergenerational walking path signage according to plan boyd barbour fiasco the zoning by law for signs invalid has not been updated in thirty years the subcommittee looked at signed by laws in twenty four cut comparable communities such as lexington and wellesley and identified a number of areas where belmont's bylaws needed to be updated for instance the current bylaw for window signs allows them to take up about fifty percent of the store front window space the new by law proposes lamine sign coverage twenty percent for both permanent and temporary signs thiago said there also is currently no regulation on awnings m r keys in town so the bylaw dresses the signs of those awnings them are keys to minimize visual clutter and the extent of logos in lettering on the physical structures and buildings speed limits article three asked town meeting to vote on adopting chapter nine hundred seventeen c of the massachusetts general laws providing for a uniform speed limit of twenty five miles per hour on the streets determined to be thickly settled according to belmont police chief richard mclachlan lower speeds have been proven to lower injuries to pedestrians bicycle east and motorists martha gas rationing and the model t by roberto x cruz may be the best month in automotive history read about these historic events and decide for yourself may twenty first nineteen zero one the nation's first speed limit law for motor vehicles was an act that in connecticut speed limits were set at twelve miles per hour in cycles in but country roads drivers could really that loose with motorists allowed to travel up to fifteen miles per hour without  t during a pit stop the protests was denied and her room came out of retirement to race was declared the winner may twenty six nineteen twenty seventeen east coast states began rationing gasoline in an attempt to reduce non essential driving as a way to consider robert for the military during world war two f goodrich company announced the development of the tubeless automobile tire they were marketed as retaining in pressure better and being less prone to blowouts johnson to build a robot to compete in two recent competitions is proof the effort pays off the team won four awards at the day long events in reading massachusetts and smith meal rhode  in redding they won the inspiration award and rookie highest ranked award in smith smithfield they won first place and won the rookie all stars award and could get to playoff to be one of the three main tasks for the robot to complete compete for the accumulation of points receiving gears from a station across the arena and delivering them to  post collecting the balls and throwing them into who hoppers climbing a rope for the height of approximately five feet our robot was a base which consists of a frame and wheels essentially a large c car we built two custom modules to be mounted on our robot one for gear delivery and one for climbing the ropes suck of and unlike other teams that had many resources available belmont robotics team was in short supply so they made sure their robot could perform some of the tasks very well and reliable herat reliably reliable consistent and robust would be the three adjectives to describe our robot he says the reading competition march sixteenth through eighteenth belmont robotics  complete in twelve matches and won seven of them out of of twelve ranking sixteenth over out of forty teams we received the inspiration or because of the team's commitment and progress despite our limited financial and other resources students raise some money through snow shoveling working at restaurants and selling chocolates door to door  competition took place at bryant university march twenty fourth to tidy six in a mash during the finals belmont robotics and their alliance of two other teams set a record of five hundred points in a game which is a new high score at the event across new england the world at that across and the world according to time to consider pay as you throw when belmont negotiates a new solid waste contract this coming fall notwithstanding a nineteen ninety override we guarding solid waste arguments that the one nine hundred ninety vote  social contract under which belmont residents will never need pay for trash collection should be rejected the tail of the one nine hundred ninety override actually began years before when belmont yielded to pressure massachusetts officials leaned hard on many communities to join a consortium to incinerate the solid waste the state wielded heavy sticks notably the threat to close down existing landfills  this pressure but almost two dozen representing fifty five hundred thousand massachusetts residents felt they could not belmont was one of twenty three communities that joined the north east solid waste committee things went wrong almost immediately the biggest problem arose when the state stopped pressuring local governments to close a landfills landfills that were expected to close instead continue to operate since the northeast solid waste committee contracted contract called for a guaranteed annual tonnage to be provided to the incinerator when large communities such as lawrence and lowell decided not to participate the twenty three smaller communities including belmont were required either to provide equivalent substitute tonnage for the trash that had been expected from the large communities or to pay for that tonnage anyway the adverse impacts on belmont were extraordinary the nine hundred eighty the cost increases simply didn't slow down a subscription subscale in an investigation of no it ne solid waste committee by the massachusetts  reported in one nine hundred ninety seven northeast solid waste committee communities currently play pay approximately ninety five dollars per tonne for waste disposal northeast solid waste committee created a financial ninety seven the inspector general's report noted that wrap it in clean creases in the cost of waste disposal meant that other budgetary items necessarily had to get trimmed because of this these budgetary pressures belmont swallowed hard and passed in one nine hundred ninety override devoted to solid waste this was not based on any commitment that residents would never have to pay for trash collection disposal but rather because belmont was drowning in northeast solid waste committee debt that threaten the town schools as well its police fire and other community services the financial debacle associate it with the north east solved ways committee trash incinerator no longer burdens our community today moving to pay as you throw would not only be environmentally friendly but with say the town close to one million dollars over five years to allow the not east solid waste committee disaster to prevent bell much from even considering it in contemporary trash collection into spousal scheme would not would be to allow the north east south west committee not moving under our own power about thirty percent of us experience motion sickness any kind of conveyance makes people sick said  nasa's johnson space center in houston risqu has been studying the phenomenon for about forty years and with good reason around seventy percent of crew members on space missions get sick motion sickness are currents because of something called retinal slip which you can see for yourself hold your hand up and move your head back and forth and you'll see the lines on your palm clearly move your hand back and forth instead and the lines appear blurry that's what happens when we makes income make some of us sick astronaut solve a problem with a powerful injectable drug called this a c o p da x even at given bedtime because it causes such drowsiness and within seventy two hours the body adjusts i know you don't want to hear and look at the horizon and crackers but it helps for the rest of us our best bet is to try to limit the body's confusion what to do about it is stop moving said rush and if that isn't an option i know you don't want to hear look at the horizon any crackers but it helps he said another possibility might be on the horizon rush he has been experimenting for years with glasses that have a strobe light effect to help stabilize images on the retina on a car trip from texas to oklahoma his wife who normally can't read and car without experts haven't been able to determine why some of us experience motion sickness while others don't genetic testing he believes could one day enter and eventually maybe a clue thank you for joining us for this episode of talking news please join us next