hi we're here today of belmont town day filming with the belmont media center i'm susie spidy a local producer for the belmont media center and we want to check out what's going on at belmont town day we've got over seventy arts and exactly so tell us about the business it's follow the honey it's located in tully massachusetts and we sell raw organic honey this honey is actually not from our a p area terminate the area near by  and they make its alicia's heinies which have a beautiful color and there looks gorgeous yeah they really are they're delicious and we this is one of our st markets of the season and will be at the belmont farmer's markets every week this going to do a little taste test of the honey in the actually have a less of a chance of having some allergies from this whole pollen so i've heard about that yeah it's actually it's you phenomenon so it's actually a way to get over your allergies whereas it is to have a little bit of honey stay that has some local pollen in it and it but lots of companies use our cookies as a thank you to vendors or clients makes a great gift birthday gifts welcome a new baby a new homeowner get thinking of you how long have you been in business two years seriously this is my th year it started as a hobby it's just something to do with my daughter went off to college to send her care packages and mostly what we i started it was store bought things just to send to  her when she was little we always bake when our brother snapped it was our time together and we could called our cookies goodies it's just what the kids called stuff at home and she said she called from school one day and said thanks so much that i guess but could you just please send me goodies i thought that's what i'm going to do and give her what she wanted and here i am she's a lot graduated from college and i have a nice little business and it's great that's wonderful so what's your specialty i would have to say chocolate chip it's everybody's favorite but we have a couple cookies at a very special rachael ray featured cookie this past november she selected our chocolate peanut butter  ornamental grasses ground covers we supply independent garden centers throughout new england and then we do a couple of farmers markets as well wonderfalls so why are you here in belmont town day i've been involved with the belmont farmer's market since day one along and people are back in the veggie gardening mode which is great absolutely and so is this a good time to get your plants in the ground excellent time still slight chance of frost on vegetables so you just keep an eye on the weather forecast but because the time restrictions but people can contact me through the website i believe if not then i'll make sure that that can happen and people are welcome to email me with requests or come on down and visit as well and buy some things and what your contact information  horizon dot net is my email otherwise through the link on the belmont farmer's market website they can find my phone number and mailing address as well their fault thank you so much you have a great people to come over to the belmont savings bank tent and get some information in the same time get a balloon or shoot a basket maybe you'd like to take a shot absolutely i wanted to go back there to help you if you miss good job lobby and i'm also a maintenance man that's a very important job and how are you doing drumming up business today we have on precedented well we did have  where people today are signing up yes we have a fifty dollars sign up checking account and also an additional fifty if someone you refer to signs up and also if you give one hundred and fifty one thousand have a lot of success today and how you sound like you are danielle is about so danielle and isabel what are you guys doing here today we are just walking around having fun and going on a bunch of different rides and playing games i mean you doing the same so what's been the most fun thing of the day i like to walk around with my friends and play games that was fun what's been the most fun game probably shooting hoops over there at the ok game is about what about you well i'm not sure but i mean the whole thing's really fun so do you guys live in belmont yet and isn't it a beautiful day today oh yes  you guys are you guys almost out of school a man another month yeah they're mine are you looking forward to the summer yes all right well how buying today here and thanks for talking with us you're doing here today well the planning board is running a comprehensive planning project and we're reaching out for as much public opinion as we can and i have a flyer talking about an online survey it's on the website of the town and it's right on the home page link it's right there it only takes a few minutes and we want to get as much opinion as we can so i urge everyone to fill it out and what's this survey about it's about everything that we have in belmont it's about parking traffic transportation housing economic development all the trade offs that come and go with those things and what our priorities ought to be as a community for the next ten to twenty years how we ought to put our resources together and where we're going as a community consensus about that so there's a will so this is a way for everyone to express their opinion yes there is right that's fantastic well right on the website so tell us what you're planning how you're going to evaluate the feedback and when that will happen and ok well we're in phase one right now we have a consulting team working with the planning board and we've had one large meeting at the high school we have four small meetings going on right now in the survey next fall we hope to be able to continue the process and get more public meetings going to do visuals preference surveys things like that to really come to consensus about what we'd like the community to look like eventually the plan will be written and it will be adopted by the planning board but it will also be taken to town meeting for adoption so everything is on the website there are a lot of slides a lot of maps we urge people to go there take a look see what we're you know looking at and really would love to have to public opinion fantastic can you tell us the website address yes it's w w w dot town dot belmont dot us and testing so people should just go there fill up the survey only takes a couple of minutes and have their opinion cal and go to the home page for their planning board and you'll get a a lot of information maps and so on that will give some a lot of what we've looked at so far what the opportunities are what the tradeoffs are and some of the questions we're raising so we look forward to hearing from people we urge everyone who's watching this to go online and make your opinion heard thanks so much thank you have a great day for you too we're here with paul sol of sustainable belmont the vision committee has been around for almost ten years now and it promotes the town's vision which was passed about eight years ago by town meeting and where we're trying to get people to know about and come to something called meet belmont which is an august th and i school cafeteria in the evening you're good for families to learn all about the town whether or not they're new to town or they've been here for forty seven years as i have you learn about police chief the  the boards in town all the activities in town it's a great way to get to know your neighbors even the ones you live next you haven't talked to in a while right exactly so where can people find out more information about to the august meeting and sustainable about go for the vision they can certainly go on the town website and let me see i did not affect oh i'm glad i look neat belmont at yahoo dot com excellent excellent and if it's a wonderful place to to meet people passed there's nothing to vote on the moment with this there could be some measures in the future that may require a vote but now for the most part this is all voluntary and informative so it's an easy win so tell us a couple of things that people can do to reduce their footprint a lot of it is your homes businesses really just to insulate them a list so many that are poorly insulated insulated at all there's a lot of a lot of incentive right now to know rebates and so forth i think up to seventy five percent to get your home insulation just taking some simple measures when it comes time to replace your car or an appliance but for something that's much more energy efficient there's plenty available out unitarian church is donating their proceeds to belmont against racism we use the funds for different activities around the city ever in the town we sponsor the we co sponsor with many towers ations the belmont the annual martin luther king breakfast at the high school which is a great community event and we try to keep people aware of issues that all proceeds from that breakfast go to help fund mecca late buses so that all the belmont students can participate in all the belmont activities wonderfalls happy about that we've been able to do that for quite a few years now so health day going for you so far we've we've gotten a lot of sign ups a lot of interest in our mailing list and it's a nice day beautiful is right and it's great to be here with all these other fabulous citizens organizations too it's wonderful so if people are interested in finding out more where can they go to get more information find them through our website too there's a link there to that organization because it's a sister organization which grew out of a bar and we are buying one c three or corporation so if anyone is interested in donating to the her life to make this foundation i'm she's trying to build schools for girls in her home village and a lack in sudan and she's asked us as the belmonte in club and the working to help the homeless club to try to raise money to help with these efforts and it's been really great she's a really inspiring and she she is trying to come today she's come to all our other fundraisers and we'll talk to people about everything we're doing and it's really great that's wonderful and she was she a student at belmont  and tell us what you guys are doing and what you're selling here yeah we all spent quite a lot of time we've made tons of different things goods and we designed the shirts and worse we tied some of them for selling those and just regular white  thousand dollars that's fantastic so it's really great and we presented to it with two thousand dollars earlier this week and so it's really that's very exciting well tell us about other ways that people malek girls dot com dot org is the web site and we have shirts for sale for anyone wants to buy them and will hopefully be doing a couple more fundraisers throughout the year and then i'm a senior signed graduating with hopefully the fundraisers will continue into next year fantastic so tell me what inspired you to get involved and give up your time to to do this and i came to speak at the belmonte and club which is a club that i'm involved in it's the community service club and she came in just kind of spoke to us about her experience what it was like to leave her homeland to come here perseverance and then just why she's really doing this and just to ask for help and it was so inspiring and the whole club like of course will do anything so it's been really great and she came and spoke to the entire sophomore class and they were all really inspired so it's been really great it's wonderful well thank you for your service and what you're doing to help thanks for talking with that's so much else going on that is hard when we don't get good audiences so you know why go into boston when you can come to belmont are absolutely so where can people find out about the production on the website w w w belmont dramatic club producers mean the directors the anyone that gets paid or music director if we have a musical they get paid as well musicians but it's wonderful working with people because this particular group was absolutely fantastic it's such fun to to bring that just take a playbook and bring it to life on stage you know take the characters and yes and bring the writers works to life it really is very your dedication and service it's nice to see you nice to see you and we'll look to the next reduction in november hi we're here with anne helbing co chair together for wellington stopping by well we'd love to hear about your program and what you guys are doing ok great well we are the group that was put together to advocate for the debt exclusion for new wellington school and the vote will be monday june  yes it is a single issue ballot so we hope everyone will turn out to vote in support of the new wellington it's really important because we have twelve million four hundred thousand dollars of state dollars that will go towards the building of this new wellington and if we don't pass this they will withdraw that money so it wowing to do that now absolutely so tell us about some of the activities you know you guys have going on today well today we're handing out balloons and signing up supporters and going out into the crowd to educate people about what the best about it's all about and about the new wellington because there's still a lot of misinformation or just thousand which is about thirty percent of the total costs and that will go to rebuild a wellington which needs to be rebuilt so if we don't use state money we'll have to pay one hundred percent of that ourselves and it will cost the taxpayers more it's also great construction and  environment to go out and raise it to to build new new schools so we feel that this is really the best time in the right time of the time is really now to rebuild it at wellington school and what are some of the things that will be will be done is it going to be a total rebuild this will be a totally rebuilt new school they'll take down the old school rid of the asbestos remediate the site there is a old high school that burned down many years ago that is buried under the playground at wellington's about the big bad up and they will rebuild a new school that will hold five hundred and seventy five dollars children it will be smaller than the existing school in terms of square footage but it will have a thirty percent more capacity so will be able to send more kids to school and relieve overcrowding in all the schools and belmont that's fantastic thank you for talking with us ok thanks a lot  belmont public library hi nancy i thank you for talking with us no problem my pleasure so tell us what you guys are doing here today well the friends of the film a public library is the fund raising arm of the belmont  we are selling books that people donate to the library and all the money that we raise today goes back to different programs at wonderfalls it's a really great program we get free books people get rid of them from their homes we recycle them we bring them down here we bring them to our our weekly book sale at the library and we haven't and other annual sale in the fall at the library in october that's wonderful so are people able to get a tax deduction from the books they donate they can we actually do provide receipts for them at the at but you'd have to go to the memorial public library to go get it there at the main desk but if you wanted to do that yes you could get a tax deduction that's fantastic cause i know i have lots of books in the a use we find different the music on sundays we find the author series and then we fund some different things at the library uses different machines if they need it if they're going to be updating  their website this year so we're giving money for them to do that really whatever they need we try and help them out the best that we can wonderful so there are there any interesting programs coming up soon this summer there are there actually  our information today we're giving out for the children's room we hope that's not it the children's room program this year the summer is going to be starship adventure so that will be starting in when school gets out and then even more exciting is what's coming up in the fall which is our new one book one belmont program and this year we're going to be everybody is going to be invited to read animal vegetable miracle year of food life and so there's a quite a also do fundraisers and i help to go into people's homes so they can earn free books for their families that's wonderful all where where you based i'm in medford i'm in medford ok and where do you get your books i get them from the home office seven from a foreign box which is based in tulsa oklahoma most of the books i get actually for free to have available to sell to other people that's wonderful and how can people find out more about what you kalak and there's more information if you're interested in doing what i'm doing and how do people become eligible to to get the books i mean to do what i'm doing or just a perch you can purchase the books and any time that you want if you want to do what i'm doing i'm stay at home mom and you can do this with a one time only sign up kit under one hundred dollars as little as twenty five dollars and it's a lot of fun wonder fall so what are you doing at the belmont yet here outside on a gorgeous day meeting all the people i know it's a beautiful day isn't it really and yeah well thank you for talking with us thank you have a great day hi we're here with michael oher and the belmont police department of the programs the belmont police department is involved in while on the dare officer here in town and i honestly believe i have the best job in the entire department the dare program is such a great program we've got a fantastic s r o a high school we've got a great community relations department attacked a bureau here really involved with the community it's just a great great town to work and i'm proud to work in this town that's wonderful so tell us about some of the work you do with bear or the dare program a space of the cherry middle school in the th grade and it's really about making good decisions i mean with all the th grade classes individually and i just try to give them an overview and i work with the teachers and the parents the teachers primarily to give them some knowledge of the challenges they face in the coming future is wonderful let them know that the police departments committed to their safety and that we want to do anything we can to help them out that's fantastic so how can people get involved or find out more information about the program a great ways to you can call myself you can call the community relations lieutenant we're always available at the police department you can go on to our website w w w dot org there's plenty of information there and or if you see an officer  guys are doing here today this is the metro fire safety house and it comes to many communities with in the metropolitan boston district and what we do is we teach fire safety in the home for children of all ages we go into the schools with the safe programs to know when it's a fire education program and what we do is we utilize this safe house as a tool so that we know that they are understanding the education that we teach them in school and then we use this to go over all the different rooms that they would need to know different aspects of fire safety so we start with the kitchen in the kitchen we learn kitchen safety and then we go into the living room and then we go to the bedroom and we teach them and it all culminates to a point in the bedroom where they have a smoke with the smoke and this is what the kids love is they go in and they they see the smoke and they get to feel it in a and they get to breathe it in a little bit and it's not smoke that makes cough it's it's what we call see smoke is friendly smoke and then they learn how to escape from inside of the bedroom feeling the door if it's too hot then they know not to go out that door to find an exit  window to open it up and then to shout out if they need help or in our case we teach them how to actually exit and we assist them and it's actually all very fine and i get to learn yeah that's wonderful what ages do you our focus on we focus on from preschool all the way to the th grade so we have different programs that are made specifically for our tailored to the age group that we're teaching y weird this so this is your traveling house you're traveling it's not just us it's the department of fire services has made many of these high this is from a grant that was received in what we do is we actually rented by  we don't pay any money but we ask for it we borrow it and then what we do is we have staffing and all those people over there firefighters and they actually go to a different role men teach about fire safety which is great  at the belmont health department donna i thank you for talking with us so tell us what you're doing here today about my town day ok the health department always takes advantage of town day to really for some of this great educational material on people today we've brought things about the current flu outbreak and how to care for flu patients at home that's so needed right now oh it really is you know right now deaths it's really calm and we haven't had any cases in belmont and so you know it's it's good but it's a good time for people to think about ok so what would happen if i actually had flu at home and if i had to quarantine i mean usually when people think of emergency preparedness they're thinking of a hurricane or a tornado or something like that which is fine it's good but there are other kinds of emergencies and one rose most recently is what if you had to be quarantined at your home because you were really really sick and so that's this whole emergency preparedness begins at home the display behind me talks about the kinds of foods to have at home in an emergency now if it's a flu emergency of course you would still be able to use your stove and you would still have water to cook with but these kinds of foods are the kinds of foods that you don't need a stove and you wouldn't need water so they're kind of good for any emergency and that's we're trying to get every household prepared for all the different kinds of emergencies because we know that people don't think about it and as they watch people go by the booth and not even walk him for i know people are not thinking about it so i try to walk up to him if they have a bag i take information say here take this with you and the other things that we have here at the booth all right well the other thing that i bring is the animal control the animal control officer the van is here and of course lilly are coyote are stuffed coyote so the people know what they look like because there are priorities as well as lots of other wildlife in doha in belmont and people have come up and said oh i've seen them they look bigger than this one are smaller than this one or is this a fox or something like that so it really gives us a good opportunity to explain and it draws people to the booth so and so what should we do if we see a coyote in our backyard coyote should make a lot of noise you want to scare them away because we want them to remain fearful of humans once they get used to humans then it's much more difficult and it much easier for a child to approach them and then maybe get bitten so we don't want that to happen so we want people to make lots of noise we tell people with any wild animal spray them with a hose it won't hurt them they won't like it and they'll run  if you do see a coyote or a wild animal should you call the belmont animal control you don't need to call especially just make noise and make them go away now if they're acting very peculiar you literally you know like a record and circling a tree or trying to go up a tree and falling down then you should definitely call animal control if there's a coyote that's just sort of hanging around even though you've made lots of noise call animal control because we need to really make sure that they're still healthy if it's a healthy wild animal we won't do anything because they're part of the whole one million here and we really can't legally you cannot do things to animals that are perfectly healthy but if they're sick then we really want to do something either to help the animal and to help the people great well thank you so much for telling us about the wonderful service that you're providing hi we're here with not bad the director of the bell my counsel on aging nava hello my thank you for having me on the show yeah thank you for talking with us  tell us about what's what's going on at the belmont council on aging well everyone is looking forward to the new senior center opening up it's going to be called beach street center we'll have a fabulous dedication ceremony in the fall because we want to make sure that people are back from summer vacation right before we have something like that so we're stressed starting to plan and programming so tell us about some of the things that will go on and then you center well one fabulous addition that we've never been able to do before is have a meal site so those seniors will be able to come for mid day meal and we can have all kinds of programming around that so that's going to be a huge difference in what we were able to do before that's wonderfalls and among the other things is we'll have a dedicated room for arts and crafts so we'll really be able to expand those programs and have a lot more art offerings as well and who is eligible to participate think that we're going to have people in their fifty's and actually at this point i do want to say that we're going to have a fitness room as well so that's going to be a very attractive option for us in addition to all the exercise programs that we have but we will have a dedicated room for that kind of activity that's fantastic so how can people get involved i'm sure you probably need volunteers and that day of what people's interests are people coming over to our table saying like to volunteer well write down what you'd be interested in doing because there's all kinds of opportunities so really whether it's volunteer  ing at the meal site or or running a class that type of thing they're welcome to do that we'll be looking for computer instructors that type of thing so they'll be plenty to do fantastic and the website ah well we're on the town website now so we have the council on aging page on the town website and there are links to a number of things one of them is a difference of the council on aging which is our support organization and  opportunities there volunteer opportunities there as well as links to our newsletter and programs and our floor plan for the new center so that's how people can see us on line fantastic will look forward to hearing more about the opening of the new center and seeing it once it's open i will look forward to letting you know and having you come and having having it really be a fun time for you to tell us about the media center and some of the things that are going on with the media center well lots of things are going on the media center been on the board for last i think thirty three and a half years i was a one of the founding board members  a little later this month and but the the staff has done an excellent job in promoting programming and volunteers and different training events so tell us the purpose  belmont media center and how it's funded and well the belmont media center is funded by the cable franchising agreements that we have with comcast and horizon and the purpose of the media center is to promote programming and new in town responsible and under contract with the town to record and broadcast the government meetings  educational board meetings and also the public events and a lot of programs that citizens and residents of the town can produce the media center has the equipment has the s help volunteers from the town to produce programming that is of interest to the town wonderful and how did you get involved i was involved with cable when i was on the cable advisory committee before the franchise agreement was ending and when that happened the comcast base said well we want the town to take over the media center and then the town decided to form a board of conveners which i was a member and we helped write the by laws and created the nonprofit belmont media center  and where the rest has been history that's wonderful and it serves such a great purpose in town and and i think so many people are unaware of how they can be involved and the educational programs that the media center offers well jeff hansell our executive director sends off e mails on the belmont town yahoo groups and looking for volunteers and advertises our training and anybody who's a resident come down to the center right now it's in the high school and they can just walk in find out what's happening and sign up for some of the classes or take an interest and crewing or no experience needed it's a wonderful way to get experience and exposure to the world of t v and entertainment and it's a great place to get some training in running a camera and just how a t v set is operated absolutely you know the fact there is a whole network in the state in the us community access is the parent organization but there is a media center in every town or regional area and they same model they're interested in promoting public access government and education yeah it's such a wonderful service i like to see other residents come stuff forward absolutely it's not that hard in the lots of help so exactly i had no idea you know anything about producing a t v show and and i got great support and great training in you learn a lot absolutely yeah yeah and we're always looking for volunteers so if anyone is interested in volunteer ing for the moments in media center please check out belmont