hello everyone welcome to the belmont journal helmet's own program for hyper local news in community affairs programming i'm your host roger c construction on belmont high school will begin this june and with their construction mobi cut will come traffic disruption traffic congestion the high school construction will affect the neighborhoods and street surrounding the new school because of that there's going to be a public hearing at the beach street center on april th and seven o'clock to allow people to hear about him express opinions about the impacts of and the responses to the traffic associated with the construction welcome to this week in the belmont said it's narrow i have with me today joanna jubilance who is the multi media journalist for the citizen herald and we could local belmont belmont's online and print source of local news thanks for stopping over you're welcome roger let's get right to traffic there has been one accident after another in the past week yes i talked to the belmont police as i do every week in between march th and april st there were three accidents involving pedestrians and a bicyclist on three different occasions one of the accidents involved a teen from the cherry middle school who was walking to the center after school like they like they always do on a nice day and she was struck unfortunately and she had a had to go to children's hospital she's ok but then the driver wasn't cited though because it wasn't it didn't happen in a crosswalk and she didn't she didn't see or in time which is and i said another another car waved her onto that's important to note so i think we should warn our kids that even if the car waves you on you should really really be careful and the other accident was entre pellow road involving a pedestrian a woman who was helping an elderly woman across the street got struck and actually fell on top of the elderly woman she was helping that was on question at that was someone backing out wasn't paying attention and then there was another another accident a bicyclist was struck on concord ave you know this isn't a cause and effect but it just so happens that the town also completed its traffic study this week yes well it's been completed they presented it to the salon it was in one of stockmen and so i think it's important to note that you know they are aware that they need to do is what's the problem we all know there's a problem what are the next steps now that we've got some new numbers also worth noting there's a lot of this is cut through traffic from neighboring towns it's not just belmont cars though that's worth worth noting and yes the name is jeff time sensitive in our morning afternoon so the next step is the transportation advisory committee will be tasked with reviewing this study and coming up with solutions that are going to look at ways that maybe they can separate commuter traffic from belmont traffic jam i think was an important thing how they can slow cars down maybe there's a way they can add roundabout somewhere or add barriers in other locations so my take away was that we now know what needs to be done we need to decide has a question of when and how also much money also what came up at the selected meeting on april st was that the belmont hill school is applying for a gran actually they want the town to apply for this grant they're going to pay for it for all the design actually have a design ready to go to improve traffic and calm traffic on park avenue off of route two yes so i think that's great because they're going to they're going to pay for it and it's a grant so it won't cost the town of thing and they talked about how they're going to make the roundabout smaller tighter to get cars to the ground well thanks for bringing belmont you can read about these stories and more in the sense in her zero or on line at the local bama welcome to this week in the belmont county i have with me today franklin tucker who is the editor and publisher of the belmont county in belmont online source for hyper local news thanks for stopping over thank you very much the votes have been cast the votes have been counted in there are winners and losers can person who's been involved with boards and committees for the last fifteen years beat out a challenge from jesse bennett and tim flood it was a very very competitive d maybe the just enough people's minds is that there roy had a great deal of experience with finance and and how how this town is structured so i think experience really want out there it's not that that jesse would have been a very good leader it's just that people felt a little bit more secure with roy and jesse bennett let's even though she didn't prevail she won six of the precincts that's right is she  just better if you were the st two and then with the housing authority were you surprised with one thousand or thirty is that a fair question i think it was a i think it was a great race to show that it was a race where you had an been speaking with franklin tucker the editor and publisher of the belmont county springtime in belmont brings warm weather and the leaves on archery is one additional way we know it's spring time in belmont however is the presence of d p w crews fixing our streets the belmont journal sat down with assistant d p w director mike santoro to talk about the repair of streets or we get calls from the police department usually we're pretty good at getting them the bigger the break the major roads st and then we try to go to the side streets after that but when we go out to catch a part of it we go to selected street we just don't do the one part whole we would take the whole street and shippable street and then you know we might even if we're going to bring a neighborhood we might just take the whole neighborhood like a four  here's the belmont media center is jane peters to tell us about what there is to do in belmont in the coming week before going to that conversation let's listen in to jane as she speaks with lynn finley who talks about one of belmont interviews school year traditions the belmont high school all night party ivy when i'm jane and this is your community calendar for next week before we get into next week's events we have a special guest with us today we have linfen lang with us she is the mother of the junior class president of the high school and is in charge of the all night party this year for the graduating seniors so thank you so much for being here thanks for having me the all night party is a safe and fun way for seniors to celebrate graduation and you've got tons of events lined up for them to take part in can you talk a little bit about some of the stuff that's going to be going on well most of it is a secret so we can't really share too much about it but it is a belmont tradition for about forty five years where the graduating class all gathers one more time at the high school for an all night secret party from nine pm to five am it's all volunteer run all donations lots of hard work by many many parents in and businesses and community leaders so it's just a fantastic event and we're looking forward to june nd great so that like this goes on all night long you do have a lot of volunteers but it does take a lot of money to pull this kind of event off and so you've got some fund raising opportunities for people to take part in case talk about sure we sure do our business sponsors have been incredibly generous water some savings bank has been a lead sponsor this year which is fantastic we've also got some new fund raising opportunities not your average joe's in arlington is sponsoring an event a promotion that for the entire month of april if you mention the belmont high school only party they'll donate fifteen percent of your bill back to the party which is great and then we also have we are mother's day sort of flower arranging shopping night at the lions club that's being sponsored by paradise flowers which is a local cushing square business so those are the two main fundraisers that we have coming up that are and happening now and then just businesses have been incredibly generous in years past and this year with helping fund the event and parent donations and ticket sales and people can make donations directly to the party on your website they sure can be h s all night party dot com there's a link there that you can click on and it's very easy to donate and so not only does it take a lot of money and it takes a lot of help so you've got tons of volunteers helping put together a party and then you also need chaperones and know again v h s all night party if you can come for a couple hours or stay for all night we would love to have as many people as we can it does take a tremendous amount of time and energy to create this event and we are looking for as many volunteers as we possibly can get you don't have to be a junior class parent to volunteer and it's fun because people love to be involved in this big secret party that's been going on in town for many years ok and so there's lots of involvement from the community outside of just joining and you've got quite a few volunteers we've got a really great thing going on this year are decorating committee has partnered with the beech tree center and some of the seniors over there and every week they work in secret on some of the props and things for the all night party which i think i such a great way to continue to involve the community many of these people may have had children or grandchildren that have gone to the all night party and so it's kind of a special thing for them and as part of that we're going to invite them to come early to preview all the work that done they don't know the theme but they know the the some of the components that are going into it so it's just a lot of fun to partner with them and you know make everybody feel part of this whole big tradition great well i can't wait to see see what the theme is this year i know it's  secret right now but i will know come june rd i'm great so we hope you have a very successful event that everyone gets to have a lot of fun and celebrate the of the graduating seniors thank you very much thanks for having us thank you and again you can head her life hiding with her family in the south of france sylvia saw her parents deported to auschwitz was taken in a seven by relatives in new york city and spent five decades struggling to understand the past she was too young to remember here from gutman about her book  life rebuilt on monday at eleven am at the belmont public library aspiring poets an expert word crafters looking to share their work are invited to belmont books open mike poetry night on tuesday at seven each poet ma about five minutes of poetry and can sign up in store or by e mailing events at belmont books dot com debbie irving author of waking up white presents the nd in basics two thousand and nineteen parent lecture series  designed to support people in making the paradigm shift from fixing and helping those believed to be inferior to focusing on internalized what superiority and its role in perpetuating racism during the discussion on wednesday at six  is are bombarded with advice on the actions they should take to address the impacts of global warming the belmont energy committee presents a forum on wednesday at seven to help you and the town make a real difference in preventing climate change visit belmont climate action dot org to learn more all ages are invited to participate in the beat street center's th annual peep stier am a contest submit your dire am on thursday at two hundred and forty five or head down to go on your favorite beginning at three pm come celebrate the colors and joy of spring with this fun family contest meet eighteen local authors at the spring into summer reading author festival and book fair at charing middle school on thursday from three to five thirty the festival will be followed by a signing at six hundred and thirty at belmont books the belmont gallery of arts newest exhibit spring awakening opens on friday with a wine reception from six to eight hundred and thirty on saturday lauren meyer will be giving a gallery talk on the legacy of frederick law olmstead known widely as the founder of american landscape architecture you can view the spring awakening exhibit on display through may th project breads sales to be just team you can also visit project bread dot org to donate to the team directly and that's all for next week if you like your event featured in belmont journal community  ensemble recently received a gold medal for its performance in the state high school jazz ensemble competition by winning a gold medal the jazz ensemble has been asked to compete in the statewide gold medal showcase on sunday may th at the hatch memorial cell in boston let's enjoy a few minutes of the recent belmont high school performance well that's it for this week's edition of the belmont journal as we sign off let's watch what's available on the belmont media centers other community programming station thank you for watching i'm your host roger called and i will see you again next time