hello everyone i'm with paige the lower vice squad is cracking down on prostitution in the city last night seven women and one man were arrested on prostitution charges police say now that the warm weather has set in patrols will be increased in the affected areas and these pictures were taken during a recent day patrol along middlesex street last night's arrest occurred on upper market street another area known for its drug deals and prostitution lieutenant edward davis of lulz vice squad says the summer like weather of the past few days is causing an increase in prostitution activity really gets good more and more of them come into the city and it's just a matter of cracking down on them early on the first trading day when your department one of you yeah it's the same faces the same names you know the same in the raid records of drug sales and personal papers all five were held overnight at police headquarters they were arraigned in the whole district court today too low residents have been sentenced in the july one thousand nine hundred five stabbing of a local police officer a superior court judge ordered minimum one year sentences for twenty five year old samuel baez and eighteen year old elliot cru at the julian steel housing project on gorm street officer william busby the third was stabbed in the leg and chest further in injury was prevented by a bullet proof vest he was wearing cruz pleaded guilty to armed assault with intent to murder by as pleaded guilty to assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and b on a police officer actual charges of stabbing buzby were brought against fifteen year old francesco ortez a minor one more lol city councillor is joining the forces opposing a proposed trash to energy plant for low record last night opposing the plant he joins fellow council richard how in a post in opposition how could you rather cite health concerns for as the basis for his opposition today cable news asked city manager jim campbell his feelings about the plant campbell says he has left the door open for other proposals and in no way is the city committed to building a plant in lol i certainly haven't committed myself to it's just a question of how much it will cost the city this is a major issue for the city of it because we're talking about over the next twenty years that couldn't have prevented the hundred million dollars expense for the city the fact of the matter is that the city right now approved ballot question the department of environmental quality engineering today released a quarterly report of potential hazardous waste sites locally for new potential sites are listed one is at in lowell at one industrial avenue the corporate environment  at gas stations drum hill x on gasoline service station on tyngsboro road and save more fuel on chelmsford road the officials meanwhile say they are spending too much time meeting the mandated quarterly deadlines and not enough time months i've already determined to be problems the lists are the compilation of citizen complaints made to the huey and the e p a well there's much more to come on this wednesday edition of local cable news up next lol officials express concern for the future of the community development block grant program and a little later on a look at the mad scramble to meet the midnight deadline for filing eighty six tax returns the state to thank you for your patronage federal budget cuts are threatening the community development block grant program that danger is prompting low officials to bring the problem to the streets today a tour of some of the programs benefiting from the grant was given to members of the media ran a florio reports nearly two million dollars comes to law in the form of walk grants each year the money funds two types of projects physical and food for buildings  providing human services it's a program that the city council divides up basically into projects that we've already gotten proposals side from the probably from public areas and had a number of citizen import meetings so it's  we've given them one of the information on our program as well as the right man programs around the state and we have worked with them closely in the past and hopefully will continue to do so so that the senators from massachusetts will support the continuation of the frogman program in and not see any cutbacks in the future presently block grant money is at work on the corner of andover and concord streets seventy five thousand dollars in grants are helping rehab this structure into low income housing it's it's the only federal money that really were able to use its priorities in the city we can determine what the priorities for the money should be and has been especially effective in the use of those funds in terms of not only housing rehab which by the way was six hundred thousand dollars in terms of restoring the neighborhoods in the city when i hear people say there's much been done the neighborhoods i get a real  chill because the soul false i mean i don't think there's ever been a ministration in the history of any city in america that's done more in terms of restoring the neighborhoods in the city of law and everybody can see it today driving up west for street driving this money is provided the incentive for people to be able to do that the senior citizens activities at the smith baker center are also funded through block grants and may well disappear if the federal program does i'm not sure they understand completely how the program is funded i know they all enjoy totally the space baker center and they are to visit the one here and i'm sure a good deal of them know that the funding comes from the city i'm not sure what the word bright grit means to a lot of people in the city not just the people that use this facility but people that have had to st nazaire wash repaired their houses rehabbed and they had various things done in their neighborhoods bush has done to the broadband program nearly two hundred thousand dollars comes to the smith baker center on a yearly basis funding also goes to the coalition for a better acre salvation army big brothers big sisters and health clinics the u s house of representatives has voted to keep the program intact the senate however is considering cuts as deep it's twenty five percent today's tour is intended to raise awareness in support for the block grant program run a florio local cable news lo april fifteenth a pretty not eventful day for some but for others a day they'd like to forget today is the last day to file your nine hundred eighty six tax returns a steady stream of people made their way into the state tax office on palmer street in lowell some handing in tax returns others filing for extensions no matter what they were doing tax preparers are glad to see this day finally arrive helpers worked very had to try to help ali people  answer all the questions that they might have and we're very pleased that it's over especially the last few weeks very trying times for the help they have to work very hard for last day the hardest even more a lot of people coming in well you would think that but this time it seems that the monday before was the toughest today is wednesday and we're busy but we're nowhere near as busy as we were monday so you just never know how people are going to react they're always hearing things on the radio when they're to get in and file a tax return a little early and some of them don't wait till the very last day but then again the day isn't over believe that most of the post offices are accommodating in fact they are definitely accommodating they can file right up to midnight probably the second busiest place in town today the post office many were in just picking up forms others to drop off their completed returns and special collection boxes the post office is set up like tax preparers and officials at the state revenue office postmaster jim too gears up for this last big rush to file by the deadline we do have to change our operation a little bit from what we normally do we are going to have the window open tonight until seven o'clock which is five and ten thousand late returns this time of year so people wait until the last minute they come rushing down and yes they they do fortunately we're able to handle it for them so again the post office will be open until seven o'clock for stamps assistance and so forth the front lobby will remain open until midnight so that would turns dropped off will be postmarked april fifteenth still to come a milestone for the university of law's college of management science please sta the university of lowell college of management science is seeing the culmination of five years of work with its accreditation by the american assembly of collegiate schools of business or the a c s be local and state officials gathered at the university this morning to announce and celebrate this accreditation by the world trade people are going to say is something wrong with america to be in it and it was one of the things you're going to do with the leaders of american men and women the question is can you change some of those things because what the world is doing things that americans have done for a long time and managers are going to have to change among the things needing change civilian research and development spending they're all points out that the u s is systematically outspent in this area by other nations america is the something only a high school education can provide on channel twenty nine and channel the market prices without the please that's what you'll find at the mill city and he can trade market alone mill city prides itself on having the widest variety of items around and that's why people come from the four corners of the we're going to find these change their treasures and maybe even strike a bargain or to open saturday and sunday from nine to five the mill city and you can trade market is conveniently located at three hundred jackson street in downtown lowell admission is fifty cents and there's always plenty of free parking available the nursing shortage it's being felt at every level of health care nursing has traditionally been a female dominated profession but with women facing greater career career options these days less and less are opting to enter nursing in fact boston university recently announced it's closing its school of nursing due to declining enrollment sue butterfield is staffing coordinator at st john's hospital and will today st johns held a job fair in hopes of recruiting upcoming graduates but a field says it's crucial the hospital be competitive to attract its share of what is becoming a dwindling job force so you know with the decreased number of graduates there are fewer for us to pick from so we're trying to capture as many as we can for our positions what are some of the ways that this hospital but to kill it can make itself competitive i think some of things we're offering particularly new graduates is a six week precept at orientation which is something very important for them to make that transition between being a student and being a graduate nurse  also working on implementing primary nursing at st john's and that's something that the nurse are very interested in doing because a great deal of satisfaction that comes from it is the nursing shortages we've heard about it created stress for you here at st john's as far as trying to st shifts certainly particularly on the night shift most of all and sometimes on the three levin shift it's more difficult to get people to work the shifts that disrupts their lifestyle great deal more students just getting out of school are they going to be willing to work this type of shi not as willing perhaps as students have been in the past i think we look more towards rotating shifts or people work part time on days prior time on evenings or nights as a way of trying to cover those shifts cable news is planning a series on the nursing shortage to air during the week of national nursing day in early may kindergarten students at the moore street in car no o'connell schools and lol celebrated new year today that is the cambodian new year this saturday cambodians will gather to celebrate the year of the rabbit today students were treated to a traditional cambodian lunch and other activities last year the more strict school was one hundred percent southeast asian this year combined with the cardinal connell school and more street school facilitator bob kagan says today's celebration had one other and playing with each other i would definitely do this early there's no problem that working at home with each other they don't know there's a difference between them at this age this is can this building is can they got in first grade there's no prejudice here because last year the  second third or fifth grade we're having this celebration without schools today just to show that how well something like this can happen can do or if you're just going to chance they had great weather for their celebration today unfortunately tomorrow the weather will begin to take a turn for the worse here's a look at the for