hello everyone welcome to the belmont journal dominance program for hyper local news and community programming we're going to be taking a couple weeks off this summer and as we do we put together some highlights from the past ten months to show you what is happening this is roger home to your house talking on one thing that we are trying to do here at the belmont media center with the belmont journal is to provide an opportunity for community involvement one example of that involvement is a report that has been produced by belmont media center volunteer erin mcneil aaron has produced a report on  if pain killers if narcotics schedule two drugs are in the home because dad had back surgery or mom blew out her knee and had surgery for whatever reason if those kinds of pain killers are in the home and teenagers have access to them teenage athletes are getting prescribed these kinds of drugs packaged up and they were taken to another secure location before we dispose of  if you or someone you love has been prescribed an opioid or if you know someone who struggles with opioid addiction and a medication exists today they can literally be a life saver nor can was developed for use by caregivers by family by friends let's listen into two about months firefighters who explain how to administer narcan her own work like a key almost it will affect your nerve endings in your brain and it makes sarah torn really sick if you're happy feeling what the nih kid is going to do is bump of that heroin key off of that receptor and take it over itself to block the heroin from actually working on that receptor so the individual will lose their high and hopefully be revived when the civilian set in the it's a much convenient more convenient package and it comes in four milligrams  is just simply peel back instruction burn it if you need the instructions but it's very very simple take the drug out and it looks just like this the same basic principle the medications are already inside you put this to one nostril and cover the other nostril like so then be imminent so it's a great drug but they do need to go to the hospital and so any family member that has anyone in their family that they might suspect is using or anything go see your physician or a local emergency room explain the situation of them and they'd be happy to hand out a thing and dark and for you just in case you're sol a lot of it's a good point to when to actually administer the drug but you want to wait until the individual goes into that agonal period of breathing when they're dropped down there on the ground the problem started turning blue you'll try to find a pulse or might not have a paul scholes their heart rate is just dropping significantly so if you just see them down and you give them a good sternal rob you grab your about what events going to be like sure we'll ports fest is it's an event that started in ithaca new york in two thousand and seven and what it is is a celebration of community through arts and music on people's front porches or in their yards in their backyards on their driveways and it's all orchestrated through a website where people can go to sign up to either perform or to host a band or both or they can sign up to volunteer to be part of it on that level so the event started in new york how is belmont's porch fest going to be different or the same from the way they were from there so well so our st will be very similar to how it's done in somerville example it'll be indifferent regions of the town for different periods of time ok so we're going to engage all the precincts but it'll only be for two hours in each precinct so  five precinct sixteen and seven will host host performances and then we're going to end it all in grocery park from five to seven with the big you know community wide celebration great so is going to an all day event it is yeah and so people who are interested in seeing these performances are going to be a line up sort of before the event so people know where in town they can view live performances exactly on time so it'll all be on the website and it's free it i s free if someone has support and they don't perform they can offer the report the former and vice a versa if someone performs but they don't feel like they have a great support for performing and they can sign up and more put them all together our volunteer run vent so i'm sure you're looking for people maybe to help out we are in every aspect right now we need people we're going to need people day of we want people to be bike ambassadors who will ride around but we also need people now who will start working with with vetting an idea and we'll need people once we've connected the porches and the performers to coordinate with those peoples we need people on every level and we need money right not a lot that we do itself right exactly exactly great so whether you're someone with a porch looking to host whether you're an artist yourself or if you're even just interested in attending the event you can see more information on your website that you can sign up to be a porch post you can sign up to be a performer you can sign up to volunteer all through there so definitely have there to see more information and you can also donate there if you're interested in supporting that way but thank you so much for being here and we hope that there's a really great again with us this week and joanna thank you glad to have you back to be here so i understand that we have a new policy governing joey's park right it's joey's park in town feel ok it's a pilot carrying carry out policy and this is about trash yes basically what it means is anything you carry into those parks you have to take away there will be no trash barrels at these parts so you're going to carry and whatever you're slobs they will even their trash they were leaving their dirty diapers they were using an abandoned water fountain as a trash barrel which wasn't what its purpose was so the d p w removed the water fountain and as a result the selection voted in favor of this three month pilot carrying carry out policy they'll be signage up and it's effective immediately so kind of unfortunate that it comes to those but maybe this helps us deal with our rap problem i hope so welcome to this week in the belmont county and now my its own online source of hyper local news we have with us today franklin tucker who is the editor and publisher of the belmont tourney and thanks for stopping over thank you very much the board of selectmen i here has just approved a new housing production plan for the tannenbaum that's right there approved a plan that was developed by the housing trust and that was approved by the planning board a week before and it's where and what they're going to do is they're looking they're going to have now goals and strategies that focuses our needs in the town and specifically two groups one is the elderly or seniors where seniors are going from bigger homes to smaller maybe with one child thinking about growing to a nd child and that would really lead towards more to family homes in one of the focuses to the housing production plan is to develop more housing around transportation centers that's correct and where you can really build up it's more it's more of a natural progression in housing supply in making a supply of housing to have it somewhere development and no there isn't really it is a housing plan they're really looking just to to increase the housing stock in this the affordable housing stock there's just not that much it in belmont right now belmont has about seven percent housing stock that's called affordable and really when you look at it about a quarter one in four belmont tony and qualify for affordable housing so there's a real need for increase in supply is it unusual for a community to adopt  that we would know something about up next belmont so again peters brings us this week's installment of the belmont community calendar but st she talks with julie will belmont composts the newly formed group that wants to reduce belmont's trash by developing a low cost curbside composting option i promise the segment will not be a waste of your time see what i did there hi everybody we're here and new location on this week's community calendar we're here with julie julie is the founder of the belmont composts group in town your goal is to increase compost saying within belmont and also if you have some other initiatives going on so thank you so much for being here today on the shelf thanks for coming and letting me talk about this so so yes so we recently founded bill not co posts which is a group that's mission is to increase curbside composting and decrease the months trash by  schools can you give us just a quick rundown of the difference between curbside composting versus home composting and yeah so actually we started out with composting we love to garden and so we've always had our own they come and they take away the food waste and they take it to a composting facility and so tried that this winter and i was really impressed by how much more you can compost in a professional facility over three hundred dollars and then i found out that actually they are trying to start a composting pilot there and it turns out that black earth gives a referral discount if you sign up as a resident and it will get a ten dollars credit off of their composting so i started this campaign you know hoping to get three hundred people in belmont signed up if we got three hundred people to sign up and if they all need to tender us their refer yeah that's a huge then that's contact me well i think it's a really great mission and it's great to you know be educating people about it in the st place and to be signing up for these programs to kind of incentivize people to hopefully sign up for some of these programs so we wish you tons of  again all new rd of the way there if you're interested in signing up you can learn more on their facebook page or on and they can sign up on black earth website if they're interested in joining in on the program and don't forget to refer  has been a cook at stonehearth for thirteen years he's now one of the new co owners of stone i have pizza at the lotto silva recruited other members of the belmont center business association good evening everyone and reynolds and as you can remember i do a little bit called shaking my head but not today today i want to talk about the people i've met in the last ten days here in belmont i've covered for businesses that are family own that  local i've covered two charities and i am overwhelmed by how great this town is these four companies working hard every day having their families they're giving back to the town all four of them had done something for some kind of charity it was amazing this weekend i was really lucky to be on the telephone for the belmont food pantry i was surrounded by kids i was surrounded by business owners i was surrounded by people that really care that really give back i'm not the biggest charity person i got to admit i have a heart of stone but i was really moved and then on sunday i was lucky enough to be asked to cover the fact that matt damon was at the lions club you think that's news that's nothing the guys that run the li club are amazing they work hard they play hard they get along great they do so much for this town they turn all the money they get into local charities like who does that it's just so heartwarming i just want tell everybody merry christmas it's a great town you're all great and please support all of our local businesses thank you speakout belmont encourages differing opinions if you would like to appear three tries and she is our our hero again the boys unfortunately lost the ball b c high in a really kind of gritty kind of rough and kind of at times dirty game i mean there were red cards put out a lot of three of our players got injured during the game so they lost fourteen to seven which was a bitter defeat say the least bad b c high as is your time champion that's right in their st time was against boston against belmont four years ago when it was a club event ok thank you you can watch highlight both the girls and the boys the championship rugby matches here in a few minutes and if you want to watch the entire matches you can find them online at belmont media dot org thanks for stopping over again thank you very much really did oh beautiful