welcome to the b mc's coverage of town day two thousand and fifteen i'm todd lonnie arse along with angelo frenzy and the two of us will be conducting interviews with belmont businesspeople in just other residents around town to get there their feelings and flavors of what town day is all about angeles has been a just a wonderful long running events and talk about what it means to you as someone who's been a a businessman you bitched about everything here in the belmont you know about that but it's it really is addressing i mean it's fun to come down here but the thing that's most amazing to me is to come to a day like today and see the people walking around and realize how many people i don't recognize i mean there is you know belmont is a fairly large community to a population of twenty five thousand twenty four thousand five hundred ad you know we see the usual thousands all the time but that's the other twenty four thousand to twenty three thousand five hundred that usually come out of the time like this my wife and i were sitting in the mexican restaurant the other night the friday night it was six thirty a i looked around the restaurant i didn't recognize a single person that is so you know you you see a lot of young families a lot of kids here this a lot of businesses local businesses that are coming to promote their businesses and belmont will be interviewing a number of them today and it's really great to see the activity to see this the kids i know we talk we talk with bob mahoney at the belmont savings bank they've got a beautiful car so there's a lot of stuff going on and it's it's a great day people concerned about the weather but there's been no reason to be concerned about it at all so it's it's a great day that's got a chance come on down and enjoy the day with us that's right the bubbles are flying the families are here residents of belmont are here and we're going to be talking to some of them coming up next it it's father of course is who the belmont skating rink is named after him so i didn't actually realize that connection so we were talking just now right my dad was born and raised in belmont and the whole family still around here so now days important to  we participate i was going to say that this is really a long running tradition for you to be a part of my town to you i mean you know you probably you've been you probably become your since you were you work it right i mean i'm not quite since i was a kid i think it started a little bit after that but yeah every town day at least one member of the right yeah there's a lot of great merchants who want to tout savings as one of the pacts and intel mots you want to tell us up briefly just part of the bank being in the belmont community sure savings is very community oriented bank and we participate in a lot of activities especially in watertown and belmont as these are really home towns and employees that so enthusiastic to be part of everything and see our customers come by and visit us at any time yet so yeah i mean it's been a tradition with the ted set up but there what would you say out of all you know all the year she's coming or what's your favorite part and her favorite aspect of tab day i just love watching the kids have a ball i think that's what it's all about is watching the kids especially the dunk tank and then once the music stats belmont center it's town day may sixteenth going to be open from nine a m to four p m today i have with us the president c e o of the belmont savings bank one of the primary sponsors here bob welcome bob mahoney great to be here thank you very much out front of the bank i just happened to walk by i saw we had a ton of spectacular special cars yeah absolutely and there's something of a contest going along with those are well we have we have a sort a viewer's choice so we have people walking around asking people to judge the car that they like the best and it's not a technical vote it's just what i like to look at kind of but these guys from these car clubs are so wonderful you know  four years ago we had like four cars came and we had the idea that we could make it bigger and we invited the people in the jaguar association knowing that in the energy association and they just came in droves and got about forty cars here this morning and it's a real treat to add monday tuesday wednesday every single day rain all morning and sharon that went away you know the the the banking gods were with us great now we've got what that's got to be one hundred exhibit is going to be a contest which we started last year which was a huge hit will have over one hundred dogs competing for that the coveted award of best dog in belmont oh what time is that i think that kicks off at about eleven thirty oh well but you know i've got to give a shout out to jerry dick out from champions you know he is the head of the boss the mine business association he works on this event the day it ends he starts working on next year's event and whether it's the turn of the town at the holiday season or this gerri is always there working our hours for the town and making this kind of event happen you know it's really it's really great but what does it have its own film on chamber of commerce we're talking about that i know w were tied in with the watertown belmont chamber of commerce and but you know with the three separate squares we have it's a little it's a little unique in the sense that  as the open door into the front door and it was you that really got me thinking about this about a year and a half ago two years ago and you know you were giving us a parking spot so we can arrange it we've got indoor parking for our customers and all but to have a have you here charles and this is actually your your sixth or seventh town day here you've been coming here for a while yes we demonstrate each year at the beginning of the town day and then gives the students an opportunity to work on their form and movement and to promote the school and their development in front of others and so it helps them with the confidence in their focus and their concentration it's a wonderful way for everybody to develop and what's the span of the the age groups that you cover from the young kids you know the older adults today we didn't include the peewees which are ages five and six and the demonstrations say but we did have the children the beginning children in the advanced children ages six to nine and then the juniors ages nine to thirteen in the adults ages fourteen and above today we had eight adults and ten juniors and fifteen children so nice turnout for a saturday morning sure sure it's a little bit about the different types of martial arts you teach well we teach kung fu in these were demonstrated today also taekwondo the flexible way you know what's falling and rolling there are a number of weapons forms that we teach however today year note in the video there's probably i think there were three students that live in the belmont area that demonstrated today so that was exciting for them and for us that's great what's one of your favorite aspects of how they use it you could come here for so many years well it's a great opportunity for the school to demonstrate what we want to help show people the benefit of martial arts training it helps increase the focus and the awareness as i mentioned in the confidence and the healthy aspects of it it's just a wonderful way to go about improving yourself both mentally and physically connecting mind and body and again where is the martial arts center located were located at three zero one broadway in arlington center terrific sheltie virgilio odor of of the dead rush one thank you very much for joining us thank you have a great day hi it's angelo frenzy again and today i'm with retired general kevin ryan kevin is president of the belmont veterans memorial committee you may have heard that name in the last few months i know well we just got a c p a grant to do the veterans memorial just outside here in belmont center and that's part of a whole series of projects at the veterans committee is veterans with boyle committee will cleaned up so we want to do that we want to improve it together with the community preservation committee and the town hall and the town at the town meeting of the town just voted to dedicate some money for that we're going to oversee that fantastic fantastic and i know it's enough money to do the whole project what it is absolutely absolutely which is if any money is left over that of course goes back to the top and then if it if we discover some problems that we didn't expect and it's going to take a lot more money of the committee itself is raising it's on money for other projects and will pay the difference yet another a whole bunch of other projects that the committee working on that we we have a bunch of areas around town where we have little bits  but but the belmont veterans themselves that have served that are still serving the community of belmont is done actually a great job with all these memorials and you can really tell that the town supports the veterans and people who serve but some of them are old some of them have disappeared like world war two monument and interestingly the very beautiful monuments they have inside the library for the korean vietnam or in the war on terrorism those are close to one hundred thirty days so we need to get those  outside and make them more accessible i think we're going to be able to do that ok well kevin thank you very much i think you get together with the with some of the other members here would just sort of chat with them but we can collect money immediately yeah we're  and we are we have applied for that ok on the way but it will be retroactive to anybody you donate send the donations go to the belmont savings bank to the belmont veterans committee the belmont veterans memorial to the yeah i'll get there veterans committee project is very exciting to me i was not a veteran during the vietnam vietnam war i was what they called a for after you had surgery on my shoulders so i couldn't participate but a number of my friends did a number of belmont folks and i'm very very close to ted he leaves for one kevin donovan for another and teddy went back for his third tour of duty i think i was a sophomore in college and i talked to him before we went back and he didn't make it back and i get very close to what he went through and so forth so i've also done some work at the largest army hospital in the world in landstuhl and sorrow a lot of what our soldiers go through and it really gets me we we use them all the time to help protect us and defend us yet we put them to an awful lot and on average tough to say the twenty two military folks commit suicide every day and we want to build a much bigger memorial here let people understand what they do for us and support them when they're helping us and when they need help from us and even though i'm not living in belmont for the last seven eight years it's my hometown i'm very proud to be involved with this project and anchorage all of you to look at it seriously and hopefully support us in what we're doing a memorial so people can understand what the veterans are all a it's a it's a it's a wonderful thing and we all really appreciate it will be a lot more information you'll be hearing on the memorial project as you will the first one obviously as i mentioned in our interview with with gen y n is the world war i forget the exact total that we we lost it yeah three or four i think people tell me it's like five or six but i knew three of them reasonably well and you know these guys deserve to be recognize convertible the black one right over here on the corner and welcome anybody to come by and take a look at it and how this is my fifty year doing the cash show for the bank while you're one of the first yeah yeah we had bob mahoney on earlier you mentioned that the first one was about four years  submarine service and it was a good time your life and always had a chance to chat about it from time to time i enjoyed it and i'm very proud to say that i've done that you know a lot of people can say that they've been in the submarine service but it was a thrill for and i'd do it again in a second that's a little bit different now with the nuclear navy i was on one of the last of the well what to type diesel boats and when i was in they were transitioning phasing the old ones out as they brought the new one gen well i think you represent i think one of the things that the veterans memorial committee has is is concerned with that is you know lifetime belmont residents have dedicated four years six years a life type of some cases twenty years  in the military and there's really no recognition anywhere in town for these for these people that have that is going to pay this price and if with their lives on the line for raw protection and in this is one of the things that the the memorial committee  is thinking about ways of recognizing and i know one of the one of the first the signs if you will of the moment the thinking about is to have a walkway coming from from concord avenue down to at the wall with a served time belmont veterans that have served time so it's something that that i'm very interested in and it's something that i'm very interested in supporting and i thank you for your thank you for your service bill well thank you and know that as you mentioned that's something that i hope goes through very soon yes other than the memorial on the other side of the bridge there at the delta and then this one up in front of the town hall annex that is just about all we have you know in belmont outside we have today we have the inside of them the but as the veterans show either joe white has been very active as well as billy french of the bunch of other people have been active on this committee one day veterans day when we when i go would pay attention to the memorial buildings close you know i mean we've got it we've got to be able to to what you know do a little bit better job of recognize that i've got friends and i think that we're on the path to doing so and i think that would make a great addition to that area of caucus avenue down there i mean you know you have the school you have the pond and that nice area around it and i think this would make a great know when it comes on it just goes and we're seeing we had two years ago the spring market started go a little crazy it actually started with the house i had with twenty three offers on it and everybody was like wow and we thought it would never keep up and now big ones always no matter what town you're in don't move as fast as you know the middle range that's where you have the most buyers buy a pool shrinks a little at the upper end but stefanos building a few houses is well up the street and he's sold he's got one under agreement the white spelling another one he was moving those and you know that was on over three so we just haven't had that supply of high end homes like that and now we're getting them so we're going to be in that game so and it is a lot of it some of it has to do with cambridge has no inventory so people from cambridge will come over to belmont because you can't get what they want there they have like nothing so it's in the family homes you know they probably have twelve on it fast  pieces of property that he's thinking of developing down the way we square with a couple of other places in town those will be rentals so i mean it really is you know the rental back is just so somebody was telling me there's something like four thousand to five thousand rental units just a recycling barrels next to our trash barrels in front of the two food stations and off to the side if they're blue and they have a round hole in the cover you can put soda cans and plastic bottles in plastic a soda drinks just take the straw out put the straw in the trash and for these types of events water bottles great recycling but it's even better to bring a reusable water bottle and use it over and over around town for people if they're just wandering around town and looking for a place to dispose of their plastic bottles or what not actually public areas the one place we do it is at the pool and at the rink we haven't it beyond that and those actually look a little different because they're outside all the time and there are blue mesh type of barrel and it's placed next to the trash barrel and around town you'll see people with the town eighteen gallon bin and depending on if you're a red not a red blue or green week you'll see those because it's every other week recycling and we are dual stream so people put their containers in the bin and then they have another been for the paper they put the paper in paper bags and people who are big recyclers use thirty two gallon barrel we give them stickers and they put their contain is a glass plastic  and they put the paper in the bin how biggest problem is a recycling town especially since the introduction of the green bins i can tell you that belmont is an outlier compared to of the towns around we don't have a limit on trash but we do very well in terms of what we the amount of trash we throw out in the amount that we do recycle so there are trash limits imposed on different towns to force the residents to recycle but we do a good job without that so there are a lot of people doing a good job recycling and we offer just last week we had our recycle day for things that are not recycled that the offense the people it's just talking to the different people and you know they have great suggestions are i can tell a really good recycle or something they said oh i didn't know that so that's what i like ok well we'll make sure to recycle the si do what you folks do so weird on like uni job or we're trying to connect neighbors who need odd jobs done for them with teenagers and high schoolers and college students who are trying to find work so if there's anything odd you need done around the house whether it's dog walking babysitting mowing the lawn or moving spock's around the house you're going to upset it's totally free sign up and you post a job you need done to news around the community are going to come up and volunteer to help you whether it's for money or fall into your hours and pretty much we put you into coming in cation we don't take a cut of your money and we try to help the community get things done well there are there are a lot of build out residents who've been taken advantage of yet it was definitely we have over three thousand user that's point and most of them are centered in lexington and belmont wow well that's terrific so yeah like you mentioned all these different types of jobs so it's a lot of it's just odd jobs around the house like yeah maybe even running out to you know get groceries like you know maybe some of the what york for sr for yeah definitely mother's helper is babysitting care that's all one of the most popular jobs on the web site ok and well you know what is the web site so the website pretty much has the job boards where you can see a list of all the jobs that people had posting in the recent times there's also a second part which allows local businesses to advertise their local businesses and people can see the more professional kind of offerings there whether it's professional painting or clothes stores or things like that if you're looking for that kind of help you we've been here for a while to reflect what you what your favorite part about how do that you've experienced my hair parted us asking have you heard about us and people saying yes and then talking about their experiences premature letting us know what they found on the website whether it's been helpful or not your your first couple of weeks been so far kind of getting acclimated it's been great i've been swamped busy i feel instantly like i'm six months behind and i'm just trying to catch up but it's been great i've been getting acclimated to my office and meeting my staff talking with people in talking with our patrons and just trying to get up to speed and getting as involved as i can in town meeting to and getting involved with our preparations for f y sixteen and our summer reading program ok right i mean you're off the ground running here i mean you came from what wint forward you know three to five years what's going to come in the future for belmont public library as well as the larger plans ten to fifteen years so we're going to be looking in the coming weeks and months to form not committee to get some input from our staff from our patrons key key stakeholders in the librarian and see what things we can do to make the library the best that it can be well you know with your background working in libraries you must have seen over the you know the last few years just how the experience of the library has changed for the average  i mean you know you know talk a little bit about that and the successful library these days is has adapted and changed it used to be the quiet reading room and now it's really more of your your life your town's cultural living room you know where people come together for all different sorts of things were still that center for and for me but we're also a hub for technology a hub for kids to come and have great programming in the children's room as well as our team department and just a place for different groups in town to come forward and look for a space to haue their events to have their meetings to get together with the people that they know and love in the community and you know we're looking to be involved and really be an outward facing organization you know to have our our fingers and hands out in the community in different pots and be involved and support all the different things happening in town that's great  you know the townspeople love to hear that that the town the library also has a website i believe correct so if you can't get down to the library you can also find out more about the library through and through the website records are and that would be that would be a now you put me on the spot i'm sorry  different ages different backgrounds and everybody coming together to serve the people of dhamma i love that you mentioned it being kind of a public meeting place too i mean there's all those you know guest speakers that come in yeah i guess in a lot of programming at the library like i said these days is really a place we have something for everyone you know and if that's just a space to have something you know something to offer everyone in the community it's not just a place to come find books and movies and video games and audio books and e books and the readers and things that we have all that stuff it's imagine what do you enjoy the experience it's wonderful i was here nice and early and now i saw everybody helping each other setting up their tents and getting their their materials together and everybody working together and then the crowds came and everybody smiling and balloons and food and it seems like a really great place to be working i'm really happy to be here great at he is happy to be here you stop by the belmont public library say hi to peter give you a big welcome and tell me how glad you yard happily are so part of the town will be back thank you organization which is supporting these kids in the athletic department that otherwise would be able to play on the team sports we've got body trio at the end he's keeping me physically fit along with a lot of other friends and again off to even a great job and we've got that community bike path we're feels like summer and we're doing all the nice things food pantry needs food year round so i think we have coming up post office day where you can leave food outside and they'll pick it up keep that in mind the cash donations are wonderful right i mean we're still about six months from our next big  like halfway between the two telephones and you know to mention it is kind of a year round you know we have two hundred families currently on the the list that could use a little extra help and you know if you have extra clothes and things like that get in touch with us because there's we like to keep our head on everybody make sure that what other town or town you want to throw out there i want to talk about a couple things as far as the time to go is one congratulations on passing the override it was a wonderful thing it helps the whole community increases all of our property values our return here i want and those two pools i know are open in a little bit late this summer but boy is that going to be fun and i want everybody to get a membership and join and support the pool because that's another thing that helps all of us  somehow i get i get stuck with four beehives this year well actually about a month ago i stopped by to see you and you were explaining to me how this whole process works which i found fascinating to explain that you have the only wish to go into belmont town day and we have with us today a special guest joanna jo ballots say we are definitely still very strong in print a very well read newspaper and we do have a good amount of people in town who subscribe to the paper and really appreciate that and we we encourage more people to subscribe but we do also have our on line you know presence as well which is very important it's a daily web site you know it's local belmont dot com we have a facebook page and we also have a twitter account so we're doing a lot online a lot more online but there's still we have not stopped focusing on print print is equally as important as the web presence for us and for our advertiser and that was my goal is to be fair i always try to present balanced news sometimes i do have my own opinion on things and i will express them in an editorial because i do live in the town so i do have an opinion on things but it that i always want to make sure my coverage as balanced and if it ever is and i would want someone to tell me i appreciate that feedback there have been candidates in the past running for election that have asked me to endorse them but i have just made it a policy not to endorse candidates just because i do live in the town and i'm friends with all the candidates that's how i feel if i adore one or another i feel like i'm i might be hurting a friend going so i don't i don't do that but i do when it's a vote like the override i i will say whether or not i support it and i did support this most recent one know it's and believe me it was a hard you know hard decision on all the information coming my way and you know interviewing everybody about it and i just my fear was what would happen to the quality of the education for the students and i see the education as a so important and belmont so that was my concern when i was here in the yes side of things you know one of the things that's interesting is back when i was r and right if something doesn't get in i make an effort to get it in the following week and then the week before the election when we have that know that policy of not running letters so two weeks before the election i'll do whatever i have to do i have a forty eight page paper if i need to to get every letter in and i'll lose sleep if i if i think i forgot a letter like i was going to be looking at is i know how important it is and every letter counts it really over that that's just something that the website has but it's going to be changing we are going to be getting a whole new website this year yeah that's going to mean i think much more improved a lot or a lot less as you know it's just a lot on the web site now so i think they're trying to streamline it they did a search they took a survey they actually took a survey and got feedback and they're listening to that feedback  as far as the news in the paper i always try to keep it as local as possible if you have an example of something that was in the paper that that might not have been i am appalled as i don't know because i i mean we could use fill as editors we we have phil that we can use and phil is basically ok i've got this whole page to fill i'm on it i'm on a tight deadline i don't have time to to put my own you know copy on them just be useful but i never do i really never use phil i mean unless there was  something a crisis in my family and i had to leave to go to the hospital on deadline day that's the only time you'll ever see phil so luckily that hasn't happened often or ever and two women thank you very much for joining us a pleasure to have time is tight but we could talk forever right we could go point for all ages ages three through high school points point is special ballet shoes where the the box of it is wooden so they can stand actually on their toes it's what they  our classes run from september until may and then we have our big show at the watertown high school in may and then beyond that i have a team of thirty girls who also practice all for the season and those thirty girls are dance team members they auditioned to be a part of the team and then they are dancing goes beyond that a little bit where we visit events like town day and relay for life and some of one two three four eight seven zero five seven zero five so it's seven eight one two three four eight seven zero five yep  ok and that has all round from asia and our timing and our ages and a little brief description of all of our classes and you can even register online super that website very good thank you very much for joining us thank you girls hi it's angela frenzy again right now we have with us jim williams do is select one in town congratulations jim thank you as a i'm sure you're going to enjoy the work there that's what you said earlier are you sure it's ok that we talk get a better feel for how the government works i've been on town meeting for a year and i was on the financial task force i worked on floyd carmen's committee the revenue opportunities committee and we compared the fees for all the services that the town provides with fifteen other communities i think it's the first time that's been done all of the same issues that we were dealing with in two thousand and eight you know it was and in of the whole list there were maybe eight or ten different items on there i think only one of them ever actually got accomplished so it's frustrating i think you know when i  he must be over eighty now but he gave us an assignment to write up what the purpose of bureaucracy was and so we all went away and wrote up very carefully and then he let three or four guys read their report and then he told us can bring some of the recurring issues to resolution i'm encouraging a way to manage called enterprise risk management i have an article on the warrant this time i'm and it's for the selectmen to direct the administrator's office to work in in a way in which you identify risk the greatest risks that are in each department and so for example you can say that for the municipal light company their greatest risk is the substation that they're building and then you want to focus your attention on that and make sure that and you can go through each department and  greatest risk and then manage that way so it's not revolutionary it's been around a long time but it's an interesting way to think about your responsibilities ok well again congratulations and welcome welcome to belmont it's ok thank you very much very good thank you right bye bye and we're here with caleb had a man from the belmont boosters caleb just finishing up his freshman year at belmont high school and when he's not and also the trying to put more nets in so we can play lacrosse and also track and run and do multi sports in the same turf and what are some of the fundraising ideas or vents that might be coming up with that if you're going to be involved town and you can find the boosters you can look at all the things they also had am patriots night on wednesday where a bunch patriots players came to the high school and played basketball oh yeah against what was it like the belmont police the ball of fire yeah it was really cool a bunch of kids went and you can go get out get autographs and they were going to use that too yeah that's a great i mean i've heard of those events and that is a great fundraising thing to do kill of me also ask you this i'd imagine you grew up here in belmont still growing up i better than they've ever done before you know we did make states we missed it by a couple games but we came close and they never come that close before so yes i did yeah i mean it's amazing having watched over the last like fifteen twenty years just watching  cross grow as a sport at the high school level i mean when you first start playing i started playing in third grade out i was the one of the first players in belmont in my grade and i played in a little way up to freshman year about how you're valmont with the boosters and with the ball but with the golf thing too well the boosters do a lot to help the golf team they supply us with like hats and bags and things and i think they really do a lot of good job of making us look like a team are going to be really good when did you win how long have you been playing golf like when i was playing golf for a while about probably almost my whole life since i was like really little so you can like remember your first club when you were like two or three years old a little short one  talk about some of the fund raising things that the boosters have done to to help the golf team out well we do certain like we do i think we do we do cards and stuff like gold cards for we do like to certain things we do like well like the tournaments for instance will be a good hope because we'll hope set up and people donate money to the boosters which i hope go back into the off to the low point yeah actually what you're talking about is in two thousand and fifteen constellation event coming on the air that the seniors p g a are are the belmont you have a lot of famous coffers that people of followed for years and yet so there's going to be a posters tent set up at the tournament itself yeah there will be a new hope get money for our program and it will really put a program out there and it will be really good for us i are you also going to be volunteering during the event itself like maybe out on the course like maybe assisting with the golfers or the field marshals things like you know we will be hope and set up set up like chairs and we help in the marshals and things of the know supporting the posters club get out there you know get out to the events coming up the public country club support the belmont boosters they're here at town day and everything they do whenever whenever you're out at belmont high sporting event stop on by the boosters or somewhere around working  happy to announce that we are going to start up ranking belmont to accommodate all our three hundred families and plus more families who have expressed interest to come to rational school just at this point they cannot because we are not located in belmont yet so right now we are working on starting the schooling september three thousand and fifteen so hopefully they will be here next show ok what how old are the kids that come  russian teaching math different from the way they would learn in other methods in high school for example so the key difference is that we really emphasize conceptual understanding school students get report cards twice a year we also have large scale assessment that we do twice a year to assess the quality of the program and to assess to make sure that students are placed appropriate because we have three different levels on each grade this forum they've been very very active in town wanted to tell us a little bit about what's going on there so we does that this is a group that's about fifteen years old focused on issues like storm water management traffic control historic preservation and we're interested in a community path and in addition to that we run events educational events for the public around those and other issues we organize cleanups last weekend we had a clean up of lone tree hill at about the twenty five people issues that we think are important with a long term perspective try to not write articles like you read in the newspaper but instead take a more in depth look at the issues that we're interested in  and we and we do think clean ups and other things of that sort we also have had in turns in this summer sometimes college students sometimes belmont high school students who have researched  issues and written articles for the new site are great well i know they get involved in many many different things in fact the belmont bridge cleaning group yeah ended up associating with fellow citizens for and we needed the five zero one three c member some of the founding members have most of them i think of have left but but some of them still remain active so sue bass for example resigned from the board several years ago but she's still a member of our newsletter  committee she she has a she was a reporter so she's a background in as a journalist and that's helpful in trying to generate a professional well edited product we have it we have our budget hires we have a an editor medic mag mockenhaupt who writes a fair amount of the content in the newsletter and so that that's also an important appreciation of the fact that the storm water management regulations under which belmont and the rest of the commonwealth operate are a set of statutes written based on rainwater data that was current as of the one nine hundred fifty s but that in fact the pattern of rainfall in the northeast and in the boston area in particular since that time over the last five decades is significantly higher than it than it was back in the fifty's and that we should when reviewing new construction projects particularly big ones like like the the forty b happen to be down here or stop by say a lot of into this group please do and i want to thank you very much for joining us thank you thank you enjoy pleasure hi it's essentially a frenzy again and today we do a little bit of a reversal of roles i have with us franklin franklin is the editor publisher of the belmont tony in electronic news media i guess i would i would i would call it if you call it a hyper local media site all about news sports and events in town and if you're in town at any events i mean any event you'll see franklin with his camera and i happen to see him going by and i said you know frank when he says you bit of you to me it doesn't but i've never had a chance to interview you want to estate and i was expecting to see a little bit more on the real estate activities of belmont but but apparently they're so hot there's very little to write about i guess i don't know if well if you have a you have a weekly i have weekly  on thursdays i do talk about what property sold in belmont i usually have an update on what's out there on the market i have my eye on it's own unique of view of property being built or sold here it twenty five years ago you could buy something for they're there for under three hundred thousand dollars easily and it was affordable for a lot of us so it's a great community and we appreciate your contribution to it to the belmont tony it will thank you very much if if i'm interested how do i get my name on  and we're here with julie word key from the belmont chapter of mothers out fronts a statewide nation national organizations really want to tell us a little bit about the belmont chapter and mothers out front the organization as a whole great  mothers out front is a group of mothers and grandmothers and others who are interested in preserving a livable climate for our children so we're quite concerned about climate change and we want to join together and raise our voices to help effect change and reduce our reliance on fossil fuel and so has a chapter of mothers out front so mothers out front is an organization that began in boston and has spread throughout the state and its short two year history and it's now spread into new york and is spreading to other states as well so what are some of the ways that belmonte and or anybody watching this can reduce their carbon footprint what is one of the mothers and the grandmothers and what are we doing here what are you know what are we doing so we're really hoping for individuals to switch their individual power needs their electric needs to renewable sources so you can go through the mothers out front website which links to mass energy it's an organization a nonprofit organization that helps those of us who are interested purchase renewable energy credits so these renewable energy credits are basically allowing us to say hey the portion of electricity we use in our household we want that to come from renewable sources so our hope is that we'll create more demand for renewable energy and that demand will then lead to changes in terms of infrastructure for power in massachusetts and  certainly see a lot more like solar grids going you know the wind turbine yeah all those things are this is important i know some people might think of them as eyesores but i think they are great alternate forms of energy that certainly aren't sending a lot of you know noxious gases out into the air yeah it certainly helps in that way yeah we're supportive of that so we're looking to kind of one of the goals that we have for massachusetts is that massachusetts would implement the global solutions warming act which is passed several years ago could implement what they need to implement in order to meet the the numbers that were set in that in that act and also that we would be encouraging our leaders in massachusetts to commit to actions that mass energy program that we have because they're very similar and really are pushing for the same thing which is to move towards our electric coming from a noble sources of course the other simple way we can do things to reduce our footprints or conserve anyway yes you know turning off lights when you leave a room and yes absolutely it's like that you know don't let the water run when you don't need it right and another program we're going to we're going to we're hoping to implement maybe in the fall here is there's a nice program for college students and high school students to be trained to go into local businesses and to do an energy audit in a local business to kind of help them figure out ways that that business itself can conserve energy that's wonderful all right will you this is your first town day that you town day so i got to get what are your what are your thoughts about it like this yeah it's been it's been great to meet so many of my fellow residents and i've had a nice day we happened to be stationed near the band so we really appreciated the music and the dog and we're here with angela braun from the belmont health department and i'm feeling healthier just sitting next to zero gray but want to chat a little good like those of us of the cigs that the health department is doing right now well today we're here at this lovely town day promoting some of the we have a ton of brochures anything from not from flu vaccine promotion to education materials and to not to not to contract lyme disease know we are very fortunate we've just received two to an aa grants community health network alliance grants and we're going to be promoting an adult mental health  it's going to be called stress less we had a bunch of choices for the for the title and i was trying to remember what the final vote was i think it was restaurant me seamless yeah it was nice and then the other one is to build for a family flu been a topic the conversation lately because so much of the society is going towards disposable wipes and they're putting them down the toilet and just because it says it's possible doesn't mean it is that i will be successfully flushable let's say it's clogging the systems guys so be careful what you flushed down the toilet there you go but we do a lot of mandates a lot of education so call the health department on the second floor of the home we're building and where there are to answer questions and link you to all kinds of services that's great you got besides their website so they can go to yes there is just go to the belmont just google belmont health department and it'll come up massachusetts belmont mass not belmont california that's right or or any of the other belmont's around the country now there aspects of town well this is the busiest day i've seen a lot of times the weather it's too hot and people seem to leave at one o'clock but this is the most successful and i've seen so it's really been fun people are very they like the freebies they like to come by and chat about what's going on ask about the restaurants what's going on with camps and we do it all and you do it all absolutely edgell abroad she does it all they want to help the bar to check them out and we'll be back after th going on there right now belmont acres farm is a very small farm located within belmont it's thirty four glen road my husband michael chase and i took over the farm about four years ago it used to be a farm that was primarily focused on growing corn today we're growing a wide variety of vegetables and fruit some fruit and we are very much dedicated to the community so we have a lot of interactions with the school and bringing children from kindergarten from burbank elementary school another school to the farm for failed trip our produce is grown using primarily natural methods and we grow anything that can be grown around here and some things that are very exotic and very few farm told grow in massachusetts such as artichokes oprah and some other varieties of vegetables nice if that is what's in season right now  farm we just started to farm to farm stand will open in june and we have a plant sale in may at the end of may so next weekend right now we have started putting in everything that we need to put in the ground including  local you know everyone wants to eat locally want to know where their feast coming from and so much like there's that micro version of local where you know you get you see a lot of belmont residents coming in you know getting there you want to get their farm you know fruits and vegetables fresh in from the school and we know a lot of people in our community and that has kind of put our work out where there and and i think the quality of the produce that we sell has kind of made a word name for us one of the things that we have discovered is that a lot of people are coming to us because of our potatoes for instance last year we grew over ten varieties of potatoes and we had people were blown away by the taste than the flavor of the  and now we're going to see a performance from some of the belmont high school cheerleaders being presented to you here on belmont town day two thousand and fifteen by the belmont boosters chance to talk to a lot of businesses get a lot of input terms of what's going on a belmont what's new and different and it's really been a very very enjoyable day and i'm glad i was able to be a part of it and if you didn't get down here weller's always