hello everyone welcome to the belmont journal belmont's own program for hyper local news community affairs programming i'm your host roger colton belmont high school was just ranked one of the top high schools in the commonwealth of massachusetts in its annual ranking of high schools the magazine u s news and world report rank high as number nine in the commonwealth of massachusetts congratulations to belmont high faculty staff and students belmont's curbside compost program is gaining steam the campaign called compost is seeking to reach a goal of one dollars belmont residents in rolled in the program their program is about halfway there if the goal is reached the price for curbside composting will be reduced for everyone more information can be obtained at black earth compost dot com welcome to this week in the belmont tony i have with me today franklin tucker who is the editor and publisher of the  for hyper local news franklin this week with can meeting and the real story that comes out of town meeting this week is not the articles but really the process we're going through let's talk about the roll call  it has always been around we know that it's not something new but it was something that was pretty rare it was done you know when before we had electronic voting it was literally people going you would have recorders human recorders who would go to each person and check off whether they voted yes or no and like i said we've had this process ever since we had town meeting it's just that now under the in this ver version of a town meeting we're seeing all almost all the important or non housekeeping articles being asked for a roll call because it's easy to do through the electronic voting system that's right and that's that's th busy that's it's and it's just because it's easier to do it doesn't mean this is when there's a question of why it's being done and there were interesting results because the results of the role of the roll call votes were bring continuity in there's a lot of reasons why you'd want to do that it actually switched the result i mean when the very beginning of the st vote it the article was defeated by two votes then the roll call was voted there was ask well it turned out that four people showed up for there was a difference of four votes and so the the positive or the yes for the three year term won this means a rd time we're going to be voting on this in before we go to the reconsideration there really are two different attitudes if you will toward a roll call vote yes i think i think in many ways it's it's it's you know you cannot dispute that the people pushback on that is a vote shaming them and one person called vote shaming and basically it's taking down names you know we're going to know what you did for every vote and if if you have an unpopular stance we're going to hold you we're going to roll call vote for that and what we saw is that people whether they were afraid or they didn't want to be known this was their vote so the margin of victory or the margin of acceptance grew while the be old fashioned enough to vote against this name change and does that change democracy i mean is that does that hurt democracy i mean if you feel that i don't want to be part of the unpopular group that you're always going to vote you know with in the majority and it presents an interesting question are can meetings there to represent their constituency or they once they've been elected should they vote their own conscience well if that's par voting for civil rights you know doing the right thing you know maybe your conscience says you know why are we getting rid of this tradition and makes and you know i i can understand why everybody else is doing this but maybe there should be a voice that says the multimedia journalist for the citizen herald and wicked local belmont belmont's online and print source for local news joanna the weather has been sad in belmont in the last week r died suddenly on april nd about six days after being diagnosed with ewing sarcoma and it just really took everybody by surprise she she touched so many lives in her short time there's really been an outpouring of grief and of support for the family there were mass there was a purchase from chocolate dreams yes from an anonymous someone who wants to remain anonymous purchased five hundred yellow balloons yellow was clear as favorite color and also happens to be and this i'm sure had nothing to do with why they chose this color but it does happen to be the awareness color of that cancer ewing's sarcoma ironically but what they did is they purchased these balloons anonymously and then they distributed them throughout town so you'll see bouquets of yellow balloons along belmont center in front of stores you'll see them in front of belmont high school there's a really nice sign that the field hockey team which she was a member of created on the fence in front of harris field with her name spelled out in cups clear oh surrounded by yellow balloons and flowers in the courtyard at belmont high school they have these beautiful yellow bouquet of balloons so when i spoke to her mother her mother amanda mccarthy actually communicated via e mail she want to make sure the obituary was posted and put in the paper but i said to her i said i would really like to write a tribute in honor of your daughter and she said she would much rather have me write a tribute thanking the belmont community and recognizing them for all their support that they've shown and also because she believes they shaped who her daughter was and now there's a go fund me page the field hockey team started to go fund me page just about four days ago and in that short time three hundred dollars people have donated seventeen thousand dollars it's exceeded the fourteen thousand dollars goal and the funds raised will go to the dana farber boston children's cancer and blood disorders center which hopefully will someday find a in belmont there is a television production occurring in belmont that night that's right it really is exciting i we rolled which is a very quiet belmont hill neighborhood with just nine homes on it has been transformed into a television series set you know producers have now telling yes so when you drive if you drive up up there you can actually watch what's going on you can just go to lawrence lane and at the corner of lawrence lane and i road there's a road barrier they'll allow you to when i went by and the other day i saw actor chris evans and they were doing a scene with him actually there was several fake news vans all over the neighborhood for one of the scenes because he's a father who fourteen year old son was accused of murder it's for it's defending jacob is the series it's based on a best selling new york times best seller by william landy and i'm telling you it's really something that i had the opportunity to meet one of the residents in that neighborhood twenty six lawrence lane immaculata to go she invited me into her home we sat in her dining room and we could we had front row seats from her dining room window to see what was going on and she's very excited about it she said they've been very accommodating and it's only unending inconvenience for about ten days and when it's over she knows that things will get back to normal over there but it was exciting as there were fans i got to interview the fans and i took some video of them and we're going to watch that video right now why are you here what are you doing are you a fan of captain america have you seen the movie did you see the new movie yet can i see your cape can you turn around so i can see your face oh i love it i love a resident with parkinson's disease with the studio urbanity dance director betsy grave they are offering a dance with parkinson's class at the beach street center here in belmont school year was the pilot year for belmont high's capstone program for belmont high senior students the year long projects were on topics that the students chose themselves the projects in did with hand objects ranging from pod cast to artwork and more top some projects i did a presentation in class on food i did a fashion trends in media and how fashion has changed over time i created a documentary on law enforcement in society today so the and they spent a lot of time thinking about what kind of project where they interested in creating to show their learning throughout the year so i created these five pieces and i focused on specific trends from certain areas so far like feel like when you analyze what's in common between mythologies it reveals a lot about human nature and there's a sort of in the characteristics that we all share and i think religion is so often used as like a dividing made the whole process more meaningful i overheard one of our students say that the capstone was so easy and of course i initially cringed and then she said because i loved learning about it so it was easy because i loved what i was doing i was really excited to be in this program because i love this topic this is the work that i'm going to be proud of in the future and means a lot to me and i can build off of it was the best alternative to a senior project i could have ever asked for is jane peters to tell us about all there is to do in belmont in the coming week hi everyone i'm jane and this is your community calendar for next week you have a couple victory rally under your belt prove your fortnight skills  belmont public libraries fortnight frenzy solo's tournament on monday at three this battle royale is limited to grades six through twelve and you do not need to be a library member to attend sign up is required on the library's website does your child know how to chop parsley dice an onion or roll a carrot knowing how to use a knife correctly and efficiently is one of the most useful skills to learn while cooking children in grades three to five and six to eight can learn knife skills along with lots of hands on practice while making salsa register for either tuesday or wednesday as workshop at chop chop family dot org in one thousand nine hundred and two a tragic fire in the coconut grove club killed nearly five hundred people and burned through the heart of boston you can recount the events that led to the fire and its and during mysteries with author and journalist stephanie charlotte at the street center discuss the fire and share your own stories of the grove on tuesday at five hundred and thirty dollars so a break the benefits of walking and bicycling and  school day on wednesday walking or bicycling helps kids incorporate physical activity into their daily routine encouraging habits i can last a lifetime we encourage you to participate by walking or biking to school wednesday morning join craft beer cellar in a cheese paring show down on thursday at six sign up to taste through four cheeses expertly paired with both wine and beer you be the judge of which pairing is best register on  firefighter ross bona visits the beach street center on friday at one hundred and fifteen dollars to present fire safety tips and techniques for people with visual and hearing impairments learn about the latest smoke detectors alarms and steps you can take to keep people with disabilities safe in the event of a fire bedtime stories dice and forgetfulness abound in the annual student directed one act play festival at the h s on friday and saturday the ten minute short plays directed by p c members are a mix of comedy universalist church held its th rummage sale this past week called this year the greatest sale on earth this tail attracts between forty thousand five hundred shoppers i had the opportunity to sit down with kathy crowley one of the organizers of the sale to talk about the origins of the sale in what it hopes to accomplish hi i'm candy crowley and i'm a member of the st church in belmont ninety s which was established to help needy families last year we had over one hundred and forty people helping out with the rummage sale the sense of community that develops between people who know each other people who don't know each other people who work together on a team to figure out i wonder how much we can charge for this and t t said i know a lot of people in my age group are saying i'm really trying to not take anything else into my house well you can always find something i love nancy drew books and there are three nancy drew books that i have my own i found some slippers some antique napkins that can be used at the end  rummage sale there despite all that we sell there is a mountain of merchandise is left over so we have a program called adopt a charity and right at the end of the rummage sale designated charities come and get to shop for free we have cradle to crayons represented the grow clinic at boston medical center is always looking for board books restoration project here in belmont that is a wonderful job they shop our sale at the end and are able to resell those items so we still have a lot of goods left over after those charity shoppers have come so we hire a moving van to come take everything else out of the church and truck it to the goodwill store in davis square and there is nothing that carr well that's it for this week's edition of the belmont journal as we sign off let's watch what else is available on the belmont community programs stations produced here at the belmont media center thanks for watching i'm your host roger colton and i will talk to you again next time