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By Becca Maning, express staff [email protected]

With the center shopping plaza poised to undergo reno-vation soon, another part of Pembroke Center is drawing attention for its state of disre-pair: the community center.

The building — construct-ed in 1934 as a high school and now used for town recre-ation programs, a preschool and more — was the subject of conversation Monday night during a joint meeting of the Board of Selectmen and the Advisory Committee.

Center focusOfficials discuss repair costs, future of community building

By Becca Manning, express staff [email protected]

Local cable viewers soon will be seeing a different side of select-men’s meetings.

Planned upgrades in equipment at Town Hall will give cameraman John Mattinson the ability to shoot the meetings from differ-ent angles using three cameras robotically mounted into the ceiling and will improve the audio — giving viewers at home a better pic-ture of what’s going on at Town Hall.

“One Monday night, you’ll be flipping around or you’ll be watching the replay dur-ing the week and go, ‘That looks different,’” Mattinson said. “That’s pretty exciting.”

On Feb. 1, Pembroke Media Broadcasting celebrated its one-year anniversary: One year ago, the nonprofit corporation officially took over the local cable studio after years of it be-ing run by Comcast and other companies.

The faces around the studio haven’t changed much — Mattinson stayed on, now as PMB’s executive director, and self-pro-claimed “studio goddess” Ann Ryerson is now

the studio manager — but the year brought many other changes both on and off the air.

Along with adding new equipment, the

Local studio turns onePembroke Media Broadcasting introduced new TV shows, equipment in first year as nonprofit

READY FOR THEIR CLOSE-UP: “Pembroke ED-TV” host Mike Tropeano prepares to interview the men behind Neldini Films — Timmy Cahill, Dan Nelson and Matt Rindini — during a taping on Feb. 17 at the Pembroke Media Broadcasting studio in the community center. The local nonprofit cable group celebrated its first year on Feb. 1. The studio split from Comcast last year.

TIPS OF THE TRADE: PMB Executive Director and longtime cable cameraman John Mattinson works with Ryan Tropeano to produce the show “Pembroke ED-TV.”

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About a month after the Zoning Board of Appeals re-jected T-Mobile’s plan to build a wireless tower on West Elm Street, attorney Francis Parisi was back before the board — this time with three different members listening in and a different location in mind.

The wireless company is requesting a variance to allow them to construct a 150-foot monopole wireless tower on town-owned land near Birch Street Park. Unlike the previ-ous application, which pro-

posed a tower on privately owned land, T-Mobile’s latest project would bring in rev-enues for the town through a $2,100-per-month lease, ac-cording to Parisi.

Rental fees would go into the town’s general fund, ac-cording to Town Administra-tor Ed Thorne. Also as part of the agreement, the Conserva-tion Commission would re-ceive $3,000 annually to go toward the purchase of open space in the town. The Birch Street Park property is town-

T-Mobile back before ZBATower on Birch Street would provide lease money for town

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The community center is locat-ed in Pembroke Center, behind the Town Green.

Photos by Becca Manning

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The cliché goes: “Kids in sports stay out of courts.” You

may be able to take that one step further when it applies to basketball and change it to “Kids on the court stay out of courts.” Pembroke Youth Bas-ketball has grown into one of the most successful and largest programs in the area. While it does have a more competitive “travel” offering, most of its players participate in the “in town” recreational program. Youth Basketball president Rob Raleigh has continued to extend the reach of the group, which had grown significantly under the leadership of former president Bob Kroon.

Pembroke Youth Basket-ball appears to be growing. How big is the program? Overall, Pembroke Youth Bas-ketball has 500 children who participate in the summer and winter in-town and travel pro-grams. We have players who start at grade 2 and go through high school. Our travel pro-gram is for players in grades 4-8. The second grade program was added two years ago. This fall, we added a skills program, which was very successful. We plan on having another session this March.

How did you initially get involved? Andrea Schafer got me to coach with her for her older son’s team a few years ago. I had coached in Brain-tree where I lived before Pem-broke and had coached camps when I was playing in college. I actually started coaching well before my kids were old enough to play.

How has the transition to the younger ages gone? Is there anything special done? We ended up with about 60 players this year and have av-eraged about 60 to 80 for the last few years. We make it an instructional and fun experi-

ence. The nets are lowered to about eight feet. You can see the difference in the kids who started in this two years ago, their skills and how they play because of the earlier coaching they received.

What was the driver in starting “travel”-level bas-ketball earlier? Our travel teams had started in the fifth or sixth grade. When we were playing other towns, we found out they were starting earlier, some as early as the third grade. We did it to get acclimated to the speed of the game. It is for the player more focused on basketball who wants to start playing more competitive bas-ketball earlier.

Do you think that any of this has been too much for the players? It can be intense. You need to balance the intensity with fun. The younger play-ers play in in-house leagues. The fourth grade is in Kings-ton on Friday nights, and the fifth grade plays in Marshfield on Saturday. The kids handle it very well. Both of our teams at the fourth grade level are do-ing very well. You just need to

be careful, because the play-ers are in fourth grade and you want to make sure they enjoy the experience.

What is up next for Pem-broke Youth Basketball? I think I want to make sure we continue to develop the skills program. This will increase the ability to play the game better. We really want to make sure that this is a good experi-ence for all of the players and, most important, they have fun doing it. Bob Kroon, who was president of Pembroke Youth Basketball, told me before I took the job that if a kid is 20, plays pick-up basketball or just has a ball in his car so he can just go down to the courts to shoot around, then we have done our job. It is important that we teach the kids skills and how to play the game and help them develop a love for the sport. What is more im-portant is that we help teach life lessons along the way, the things such as conflict resolu-tion, learning to compete and understanding how to handle winning and losing. That is what it is all about.

A visit with Rob RaleighYouth Basketball president happy to see program grow

Pembroke Youth Basketball president Rob Raleigh started as a coach and now helps run the local program, which has grown to serve about 500 children over the summer and winter seasons.

Photo by Mike Tropeano

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A group calling Pembroke residents asking for donations to send packages to troops overseas has raised some questions and concerns, par-ticularly among members of the Pembroke Military Sup-port Group — a nonprofit or-ganization that regularly sends packages to local servicemen and women.

The group, Angels of Massachusetts Ltd., is offi-cially registered as a corpora-tion with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office and as such is legally allowed to solicit in town, according to Pembroke Police Lt. Mike Jenness.

Police have, however, re-ceived several calls from resi-dents concerned about the so-licitations.

“They are a legitimate group, but they are a for-profit company,” Jenness said. “We encourage residents to give to the Pembroke Military Support Group, because 100 percent of those funds goes to the military members in Pembroke. This is a collection agency that takes a fee for the donations that they get.”

Angels of Massachusetts Ltd. treasurer Nicholas Os-lander Jr., a Quincy resident, said the group is designed to be a nonprofit and is current-ly working toward obtaining 501c3 status with the IRS.

“We’re just getting going. We just started up in August, and we’re trying to get off the ground,” he said.

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Ltd. officially filed with the Massachusetts Attorney Gen-eral’s Office as a charitable or-ganization on Aug. 15, 2009.

According to their applica-tion on file with the state, An-gels of Massachusetts Ltd. is listed as a corporation whose purpose is “to engage in the representation and promotion of the arts, beautification and urban renewal, helping con-quer childhood illness (such as diabetes), assisting the dis-abled, promoting diversity, education, libraries, nutrition, scholarship, helping troops overseas in need of a reminder of home, promoting sports and other such betterment of people and communities that this corporation shall serve.”

The group’s current proj-ect is aimed at helping out troops serving in Iraq and Af-ghanistan, Oslander said.

He said group president Kim Wozniak was spearhead-ing that campaign and would have details about what the money pays for and where the packages are going. Calls and e-mails sent to Wozniak were not returned by press time.

Pembroke Military Sup-port Group secretary Joan Mc-Donough said several people who had received calls from Angels of Massachusetts Ltd. had called her asking if they were connected to the Mili-tary Support Group, which has been operating in Pembroke for nearly nine years.

“I told them we don’t do that — we never solicit on the phone,” McDonough said.

She said she called the number listed on the group’s

articles of organization. “I found it interesting that

they were telling people that they were collecting funds to send to Pembroke soldiers, but when we asked them where they got the soldiers’ names, they wouldn’t say. I said, ‘You don’t have any names — how are you going to send packages to them?’ and nobody seemed to be able to answer my ques-tion,” McDonough said.

The man McDonough spoke to, who she said would not give his last name, told her that Angels of Massachusetts Ltd. would send the Military Support Group a check after the fundraising drive.

But McDonough said she still questioned the group’s purpose and how they were going to get donations to the troops.

“They’re asking people for donations of $75 to $100. It’s exorbitant,” she said.

On their Web site, the Pembroke Military Support group has published a warn-ing about the group, saying it is not associated with their ef-forts.

But Oslander emphasized that the group “is not a scam,” saying they have already run a similar funding drive in Nor-well. Though the current proj-ect is aimed at helping mem-bers of the military, Oslander said he joined the group to work on other projects as well, such as supporting music and the arts and helping to main-tain healthy waterways.

“We’re trying to accom-plish as much as we can as quickly as we can,” he said.

‘Angels’ raise questionsPolice: Group permitted to solicit donations in town

To mark their 100th day of school, Pembroke Com-

munity Middle School Prin-cipal Peg Szostak gave her students and staff a goal of bringing in 200 T-shirts to donate to Haitians in need of basics like food and clothing following the Jan. 12 earth-quake. They brought in a to-tal of 1,166 new and gently used shirts, giving them to Pembroke Schools technol-ogy assistant James Ulysse, who is originally from Haiti, to distribute through the relief efforts of his church, Temple Salem in Dorchester.

For their efforts, students were allowed to wear hats on the last day of school before February vacation, while staff members were allowed to wear jeans.

Hundreds for Haiti

TEE EFFORT: Pembroke Community Middle School eighth grad-ers Quinn McCormack and Chris Conant, above, and seventh graders Jenna Capuzzo and Samantha Benvie, below, show off some of the T-shirts the school collected to help the people of Haiti. Photos courtesy of Maggie Glynn


Case of mistaken identity leads to heroin charges

A Pembroke woman pulled over last week because she matched the description of a wom-an who assaulted a security officer at the Ha-nover Mall is facing drug charges after police reportedly found heroin in her vehicle.

Nicole E. Coscia, 20, of Lorna Avenue, Pembroke and Troy Rea Coyne, 23, of Norwell, a passenger, both were charged with posses-sion of a Class A drug. They pled not guilty on Wednesday in Plymouth District Court.

Around 8:50 p.m. on Feb. 16, Pembroke po-lice were assisting other local police in a search for a woman they say tried to steal electronics at the Hanover Mall. The woman reportedly struggled with Hanover Police officer Deborah Burns when the officer attempted to stop her from leaving with the items. Burns was dragged by the suspect’s vehicle for several hundred feet and suffered serious injuries.

Coscia’s vehicle appeared to match the de-scription of the vehicle used in the Hanover incident, and the driver was wearing the same type of sweatshirt as the suspect, Pembroke Po-lice Lt. Mike Jenness said.

While questioning Coscia and Coyne, Pem-broke officers reportedly observed a small plas-tic envelope containing heroin in the driver’s side door pocket. Hypodermic needles, swabs and a bag containing a small amount of heroin also were found on Coyne’s person, according to reports.

A Hanover officer later confirmed that the two were not involved in the mall incident. Both were arrested for heroin possession.

Police: Man beat up ex-girlfriend, refused to let her leave

A local man is facing assault and kidnap-ping charges after he allegedly beat up his ex-girlfriend during a drunken argument and re-fused to let her leave the apartment they share.

Aparecido Ribeiro Dejesus, 26, of Old Oak Street, Pembroke is facing charges of assault and battery, assault and battery with a danger-ous weapon, intimidating a witness, felony ag-gravated assault and battery, kidnapping and threat to commit a crime.

Pembroke Police responded to a 9-1-1 call around 8:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 16 from a woman who reported she was the victim of a violent assault. When officers arrived, they not-ed the woman had a black eye and was heavily bruised. The man was asleep. The woman said he had attacked her the night before and threat-ened to kill her if she tried to leave. When she attempted to call police, Dejesus allegedly threw away her phone.

The woman was transported to South Shore Hospital with serious, non life-threatening in-juries, according to reports. Dejesus was ar-rested.

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A Pembroke native who works in business develop-ment for a local bank took out papers this week to run for a one-year term on the Planning Board.

Dan Taylor of Felicia Ter-race attended the Planning Board meet-ing Monday night and the following day pulled nomi-nation papers to run for the board.

The seat currently is held by Patrick Moran, who was appointed to fill a vacancy. Moran told the Planning Board Monday night that he did not plan to run this spring, accord-ing to board assistant Marilyn Zechello.

Taylor grew up in Pem-broke and is a product of the school system. He moved to Marshfield in the 1980s and returning to make Pembroke his home in 2000.

As vice president for busi-ness development at South Coastal Bank, Taylor said he has worked a lot with business-es and developers arranging fi-nancing for projects and feels he understands that aspect of planning. He also has held a real estate license since 1985.

“I’ve served a lot on com-munity organizations — I’m active with different chambers of commerce on the South Shore, I’m treasurer of the Duxbury Art Association and I’m on a board at South Shore Hospital that does fundrais-ing,” Taylor said. “I was really looking for a position where I could do something in Pem-broke, where I live.”

Taylor said he would like to encourage “quality” growth and development.

“I’d like to protect the as-pects of the community that I think every resident values:

preserving our open space … protecting the schools, historic resources and the small-town character,” he said.

The town election will be held on Saturday, May 1.

Nomination papers are available in the town clerk’s office and can be picked up through Thursday, March 11. The last day to submit nomi-nation papers to the registrars for certification is Monday, March 15. The last day to file papers with the town clerk is Monday, March 29. The last day to withdraw candidacy is Wednesday, March 31.

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ported on Indian Trail.8:42 a.m. Animal complaint

at John’s Barber Shop. Referred to animal control officer.

2:25 p.m. Party on Pem-broke Woods Drive reported be-ing threatened.

2:34 p.m. Suspicious activity with a motor vehicle reported on Rebecca Raod.

4:10 p.m. Larceny reported on Hazelwood Drive.

6:07 p.m. Suspicious activity reported on School Street.

sATuRDAY, feBRuARY 1312:54 a.m. Caller com-

plained of noise on MacDonald Way. Peace restored.

1:18 a.m. Utility problem reported on Redwood Circle. Re-ferred to DPW.

7:48 a.m. Caller reported breaking and entering of a vehicle on Pelham Street.

12:30 p.m. Vandalism re-ported on Lake Street.

1:15 p.m. Caller on Highland Drive reported fraud.

1:45 p.m. Caller reported suspicious activity on Old Pel-ham Street.

3:43 p.m. Party on West Elm Street filed a dog complaint.

3:54 p.m. Utility problem with gas, electrical, telephone and signal on Chapel Street.

5:39 p.m. Disabled motor vehicle on Church Street causing traffic situation. Vehicle towed and impounded.

5:45 p.m. Breaking and en-tering of a motor vehicle reported on Redwood Circle.

6:23 p.m. Breaking and en-tering of a motor vehicle reported on Redwood Circle.

6:44 p.m. Motor vehicle crash with under $1,000 damage on Hobomock Street.

11:41 p.m. Caller reported disturbance on Church Street. Officer transported party home.

suNDAY, feBRuARY 141:40 a.m. Robert M. Distasio,

39, of Deerfield Lane, Pembroke, arrested and charged with assault and battery and kidnapping.

3:11 a.m. Motor vehicle crash with fatality on School Street.

11:11 a.m. Caller reported breaking and entering of a motor vehicle on Misty Meadow Road.

1:29 p.m. Crash on Oak Street with over $1,000 damage.

3:55 p.m. Caller on Schoos-ett Street filed civil complaint.

5:39 p.m. Caller reported breaking and entering of a motor vehicle on Old Oak Street.

6:13 p.m. Hazardous waste spill of gas or oil on Furnace Colony Drive. Referred to Fire Department.

7:50 p.m. Hit and run crash reported on Oak Street.

8:41 p.m. Motor vehicle crash with under $1,000 damage reported on Washington Street.

9:15 p.m. Ryan LaValley, 25, of Pembroke arrested on ac-tive warrant.

MoNDAY, feBRuARY 1510:11 a.m. Breaking and en-

tering of a motor vehicle reported on Misty Meadow Road.

11:05 a.m. Breaking and en-tering of a motor vehicle reported on Edgewater Drive.

3:50 p.m. Caller on West Elm Street filed animal complaint.

5:29 p.m. Hit and run crash reported on Church Street.

8:44 p.m. Traffic situation on Church Street as a result of a dis-abled motor vehicle. Referred to state police.

9:27 p.m. Caller on School Street reported suspicious activ-ity.

TuesDAY, feBRuARY 16 2:36 a.m. Suspicious activ-

ity reported on Lake Street.8:10 a.m. Traffic situation

on Center Street and Furnace Colony Drive as a result of a dis-abled motor vehicle.

8:16 a.m. Domestic situa-tion on Old Oak Street. Apare-cido Ribeiro Dejesus, 26, of Old Oak Street charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, intimidating a witness, aggravated assault and battery, kidnapping, and threat to commit a crime.

1:55 p.m. Wires down on Beechwood Avenue. Referred to utility company.

2:30 p.m. Caller reported suspicious activity on Redwood Circle.

2:33 p.m. Caller reported suspicious activity on Hobomock Street.

3:06 p.m. Caller reported breaking and entering of a motor vehicle on Church Street.

5:07 p.m. Traffic situation on Church Street as a result of a disabled motor vehicle.

5:50 p.m. Highway, water, and tree department call on Oak Street. Referred to DPW.

7:14 p.m. Caller reported larceny on Church Street.

8:24 p.m. Caller on Schoos-ett street filed animal complaint.

8:49 p.m. Assisted other police department with arrest. Troy R. Coyne, 23, of Norwell, and Nicole E. Coscia, 20, of Lorna Avenue, Pembroke, were charged with possession of a Class A drug.

WeDNesDAY, feBRuARY 173:03 p.m. Caller on Old Pel-

ham Street reported breaking and entering of a motor vehicle.

4:25 p.m. Caller on Church Street reported larceny/shoplift-ing.

4:50 p.m. Caller on West Elm Street reported receiving an-noying phone calls.

4:57 p.m. Complaint of mo-tor vehicle traffic situation on School Street.

5:05 p.m. Caller on Oak Street reported being threatened.

5:16 p.m. Parking complaint on Pembroke Woods Drive.

6:18 p.m. Caller on Water Street filed civil complaint.

7:16 p.m. Caller on John-son Street reported animal com-plaint.

9:06 p.m. Traffic situation on Church Street as a result of a disabled motor vehicle.

10:12 p.m. Fire incident re-ported on Lantern Lane.

THuRsDAY, feBRuARY 187:46 a.m. Traffic situation

on Church Street as a result of a disabled motor vehicle.

11:19 a.m. Caller on Schoos-ett Street reported animal com-plaint.

2:48 p.m. Larceny reported on Washington Street.

8:22 p.m. Larceny reported on Claremont Road.

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Selectmen agreed Monday night to give a Dwelley Street pet owner another chance to rein in his dogs and get them licensed and vaccinated before taking further action.

The board had planned to hold a hearing on the issue, sending the resident a letter via certified mail asking him to appear, but they had not confirmed that he had received the letter. The resident did not show up Monday.

Animal Control Officer Bill Hart explained that the owner’s two dogs — a black Lab and a St. Bernard — regu-larly left his yard, marked with a hidden fence, in the early morning and went over to a neighbor’s house where they “terrorized” his chickens, try-ing to bite through the cage.

“We can’t wait for them to kill the chickens to do some-thing,” Hart said of the dogs. “We have to do something now.”

The dogs have been a nui-sance on and off for several years, Hart said. In 2009, the St. Bernard was picked up when he got loose and the owner had to license the dog before he could take it home.

Hart said neither dog has an up-to-date license or rabies shots.

The resident was sent a letter in December saying if the dogs continued to be a problem, the town would hold a hearing on the matter. A let-ter about the hearing was sent Feb. 8.

The board agreed to have local police hand-deliver a let-ter identifying the town’s con-cerns and warning the resident that if the dogs were found loose again, they would be held at the town kennel until they were both licensed and vaccinated.

The hearing was continued until the board’s next meeting.

Selectman Don Anderson said the issue was not just a public health concern — be-cause the dogs are not up-to-date on their shots — but also concerned the dogs’ safety. Under certain circumstances, a resident could legally shoot an animal that is threatening his livestock, Anderson point-ed out.

In other news Mon-day, Town Administrator Ed Thorne talked about changes in the Plymouth County Re-tirement System that could cost the town an additional $219,000 next year. Pembroke pays about $1,861,000 per year into the system, which covers retirement benefits of all town employees.

With investments down, the county is looking to in-crease member communities’ annual contributions to ensure they can cover the cost of the

program, Thorne said. That would mean “sticker shock” for Pembroke, with a project-ed 12 percent increase in costs for fiscal year 2011.

A bill currently at the State-house would allow the county to extend its funding schedule another 10 years, giving towns more time to pay into the sys-tem and limiting the annual increase required to keep the program afloat, Thorne said. Even with the bill’s approval, the town’s payout will in-crease by about 5 or 6 percent next year, he said.

On Tuesday, Thorne and representatives from other lo-cal towns sat in on a meeting of the Plymouth County Re-tirement Committee to express their support of the bill.

“This is a very serious thing, and it’s important that the selectmen and all the mem-ber units are supporting [the bill],” Thorne said. “The im-pact for next year is enormous. When you’re talking about $219,000, this is very impor-tant to the town for FY2011.”

The town’s health insur-ance costs also are expected to increase significantly next year, Thorne said.

“If we end up with a 10 per-cent increase, we’ll be lucky,” he said. “Taking into consider-ation that the health insurance budget [for Pembroke] is just around $6 million, one or two percent is big bucks.”

Thorne said he would be attending a meeting of the Plymouth County Health Group Steering Committee

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In other business Monday, the Board of Selectmen:

• Opened the special Town Meeting warrant, which address-es emergency items and moving money within the current fis-cal year. The warrant will close at noon on Friday, March 5. Articles must be submitted to the selectmen’s office by then.

• Accepted the resignation of Recreation Commission mem-

ber Linda Foye Federico and appointed Marc Gerhart to a seat on the commission.

• Appointed John Mattinson to the Cable Advisory Committee.

• Approved a request from First Church in Pembroke to hold its annual Olde Home Day Fair on June 2-5 in the parking lot and grounds surrounding the church. Curve Street will be closed throughout the event.

SCIENCE PROJECT: Bryantville Elementary School students Nicholas Morrison and Anthony Steinemer stopped by to ask the selectmen a few questions about the town’s recycling pro-gram on Monday night. They are working on a project for the Pembroke Science Fair in which they research local recycling and evaluate the recycling at their own homes.

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Women’s softball seeking playersThe Pembroke Women’s Softball League is looking for

women ages 18 and up to play in the upcoming season. For de-tails and to register, go online to pembrokewomenssoftball.com. Registration fee is $40 and due March 5. The Pembroke Wom-en’s Softball League is devoted to the enjoyment and recreation of the game of softball for its players, umpires and spectators. Games are played on fields at Mattakeesett Street, Birch Street, behind the community center and at the high school.

Get ready for Legion BaseballPembroke Post 143 American Legion Baseball will hold

a meeting for all interested players and parents on Tuesday, March 2 at 6 p.m. at the Pembroke Public Library commu-nity room. All interested players between ages 14 and 19 years of age are eligible to play for either the junior program (ages 14-17) or senior program (ages 16-19). All players who are interested in trying out for this season should attend this event to register for tryouts to be held in May. For informa-tion, call 781-858-0648 or e-mail [email protected].

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Friday, Jan. 19 was movie ➢night for the Mattakeesett Gar-den Club of Pembroke. Mem-bers were fascinated as they watched “Tales from the Hive.” After the movie, beekeeper Mary Lou Chase provided the members and guests with answers to all the beekeeping questions they had. At the meet-ing, a new member, Lisa Cul-lity, was introduced. Lisa is cur-rently attending Bee School and will be taking classes sponsored by the Plymouth County Bee-keeping Association from Janu-ary through April. For many, beekeeping is a hobby, social activity, family tradition or a source of income.

Realtor ➢ Renée Hogan re-cently was recognized as the top sales associate in the Duxbury office for unit sales in 2009 by William Raveis, CEO

and chairman of William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insur-ance.

The following Pembroke ➢youths have earned Boston Col-lege High School Honors for the second quarter. High Hon-ors: Nicholas A. Barrett ’10, Thomas Chandler Dodge ’10, Brian T. Reilly ’11, Jackson D.Andersen ’12, Christopher McGraw Hodge ’13 and Eric N. Jansen ’13. Honors: Collin J. Norton ’10, Kevin T. Con-roy ’13, Daniel J. Dougherty ’13, Charles M. Frodigh ’13 and Sean M. Regan ’13.

Bridgewater State College ➢Theater and Dance will pres-ent “The Dinosaur Musical” this weekend. It is a madcap, jazzy prehistoric musical com-edy. Played by a cast of students with varying backgrounds in-volving dance, comedy and ec-centric performing and directed by an advanced student, “The Dinosaur Musical” brings forth characters for everyone to en-joy. Included in the cast of char-

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On Feb. 26 and 27, City- ➢scapes Inc. will play an integral role in training and certifying students from Silver Lake High

School and Discovery High School, Bronx, N.Y. as green wall and green roof installers. The students will be the first in the country to be certified in this area. Cityscapes’ President and CEO Janice Goodman, a resi-dent of Pembroke for 11 years, decided to fund this training and certification via scholarships to several outstanding horticulture students who have the drive and passion to be successful in this industry. For more information about Cityscapes, visit boston-cityscapes.com.

The Friends of the Pem- ➢broke Library sponsor several fundraising events each year to help with financial support for the library. This is the time of year when everyone around town can help out. Carol Watches would like to remind you that to become a member of the Friends, annual dues are still only $10 per year. A corpo-rate or business membership is $50. You may go online, call or go by the library for an applica-tion. Whether you are renewing your membership or taking out a new membership, if you do so by March 15, your name will be entered into a drawing for a $50 gift card. So please don’t delay. For more information, visit pembrokepubliclibrary.org or call 781-293-6771.

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The South Shore Snow Shoe Classic to benefit the Mul-tiple Sclerosis Society will be held Sunday, Feb. 28 at the Pembroke Country Club on West Elm Street. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m., and the race will start at 10 a.m. This is a 5K run/walk on the Pembroke Country Club golf course. Same-day registration is $30. Fee for high school students is $15. If there is no snow, bring trail sneakers for a trail run. A limited number of loaner snowshoes will be provided on a first-reserved, first-served basis. Complimentary hot chocolate will be provided after the race. For information or to register, call 781-829-2292 or e-mail [email protected].



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ples are not only feeling closer to their partners — they also are a little closer to their indi-vidual fitness goals.

And they have a better un-derstanding of one another’s goals.

For the past four weeks, Jan. 18 through Feb. 12, Body to Soul Fitness in Pembroke, an all-female gym, opened its doors to the first Friday night couples challenge.

“The soul challenges were to get couples to create time together involving health and fitness,” said Trish Simpson, a former Norwell schoolteacher.

Simpson, who holds an American College of Sports Medicine Certificate, has nearly a decade of personal-

ized training experience. A co-owner of Body to Soul Fitness, S i m p s o n helped start the gym in

2003 with Deb Forbes.For the latest challenge,

ground rules included keep-ing a food journal with struc-tured meals and healthy food choices, drinking water and regular physical fitness. Part-ners earned points for each challenge they met. The ac-cumulated points earned were based on the couples working together and achievements over the week, Simpson said.

Each partner also was ex-pected to work out indepen-dently using strength training and cardiovascular exercise.

Ben and Victoria Lloyd of Duxbury attended the chal-lenge together. Ben found the nutritional information a posi-tive and said he had lost six pounds during the four weeks.

Along with the fitness benefit, the challenges helped couples focus on doing some-thing to build self-esteem and bring one another closer.

“Health and fitness are usually individually driven. This allows spouses to work with one another on common goals,” Simpson said.

Simpson’s husband Jeff, a Norwell Fire Department captain, also participated in the challenges, and each had goals as a couple and as indi-viduals. One personal goal for Jeff was to feel better about his marriage and perform better physically and mentally at his work place.

Jeff is the health and well-ness educator for the fire de-partment. He also goes into the schools to work with stu-dents as an educator of safety and wellness on behalf of the

department.“My fitness goals have

always been transparent; this allows us to focus as a couple on eating the right things and pushing my body to a higher fitness level,” he said. “Men shouldn’t be intimidated by the ‘high intensity’ claim of the program, because it is aimed at all fitness levels, not just the triathlete.”

With the busy schedules of many families, partners might feel they don’t have enough time in the day, Simpson said. She felt the couples challenge would allow her to spend more time with her husband — part of her motivation in creating the challenge.

Sarah Drury of Hanover is training to become a per-sonal trainer and is shadowing Simpson for a few weeks until she gets her ACSM license.

“During the couples chal-lenge, my husband was moti-vated to do more cardio and build up slowly. He always did strength training but he need-ed more cardio,” said Drury, whose husband lost about 10 pounds during the challenge.

As a busy mom who is studying for her license, Drury said she has learned to make fitness a priority and has had a wonderful experience at the gym.

Other challenges included planning an activity that each partner would enjoy and cook-ing a favorite recipe together after adapting the recipe to a healthy version. Another chal-lenge was to write three posi-tive things about the partner and drop it into a locked box.

Simpson handed out mo-

tivational tips each week, such as adding in healthy oils, which are an important part of a healthy lifestyle, and making fitness fun.

Simpson gave each couple points based on meeting their weekly challenges, completed food journals and exercise points. Though a full tuition reimbursement of $120 was a motivator to the winner, Simp-son hoped that the true reward would be a feeling of accom-plishment and an improved relationship.

The winners of the Feb-ruary challenge were Peter and Diane Hamilton of East Bridgewater. The couple won by only a few hundred points and ran neck-and-neck with two other couples. The major factor that brought the Ham-iltons to first place was their food journals, Simpson said.

Simpson said she heard great feedback regarding the helpful tools that each indi-vidual learned through the challenge. The changes that couples adapted to were the healthy everyday changes that they could apply and still eas-ily attain.

March will bring another four-week couples challenge. Simpson said she hoped that the February couples would work to maintain the physical- and soul-building moments they have created in their new healthier lifestyles.

She has received great feedback from the couples in February, two of which have already signed up for the March challenge.

“It was a nice opportunity for husbands and wives to do something special together other than going to a movie or out to eat,” she said. “It was really nice.”

Sign-ups for the March class end March 2, and the four-week challenge will be held March 8 through April 2. The fee is $120 per couple or $160 per non-member couple, and the prize of tuition re-imbursement will remain in play for the winning couple in March.

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studio added an educational channel (Channel 14) to ac-company public access and government programming on channels 13 and 15. New pro-grams also have been added to both of the existing channels, and Pembroke Media Broad-cast has a new logo (designed by Greg Wood) and signs (made by Dave Litchfield of Litchfield’s Art and Signs).

“I think it’s doing fantas-tic,” said Selectman Don An-derson, former chairman of the studio’s board of directors. Anderson stepped down last month. “It’s on far more solid ground than we had anticipated when we started it.”

Anderson said he is par-ticularly pleased with the de-velopment of the educational channel.

“That made us a third bet-ter than what it had been under Comcast,” he said.

Having a studio in town gives local residents a chance to shine at whatever they do best, PMB board member Art Eger-ton said. An independent vid-eographer, Egerton operates the camera for the studio’s “Books and Children” program.

“They’ve really made amazing strides since they took over as Pembroke Media Broadcasting,” Egerton said. “It’s really taken on more of a local feel, and they can do more and different kinds of things this way.”

These days, viewers will see many of the same shows — “Books and Children” with Connie Michaels, “Elder Sav-vy” with Mary Willis, Mike Tropeano’s “Pembroke ED-TV” and Pastor Joe Quaresi-mo’s “Home Chapel,” which last month celebrated its 300th episode.

There also are several new features, both locally produced and “bicycled in” — produced elsewhere but aired in Pem-broke. As a member of PegMe-dia, the local studio is able to air a variety of shows, such as “NASA 360” and “New Eng-land Expedition” on the educa-tional channel.

The educational channel has provided more opportuni-ties for local youth to get their work on the air, with current and former Pembroke High School students producing shows like “The Lame Show” — a Saturday Night Live-type sketch show — and a series of shorts, such as the videos done by Neldini Films (PHS juniors Matt Rindini, Dan Nelson and Timmy Cahill).

On Thursdays, a group of students from the high school and middle school meet at the studio to learn the basics of camera work and editing and plan programs.

Mattinson also is work-ing with WATD radio host Liz Raven to get a mini radio sta-tion set up at the studio, allow-ing kids who don’t want to be on screen to record something

to air over TV bulletin boards that scroll through community events.

Mattinson said he felt it was important to provide as much programming as possible and not just run bulletin boards to fill most of the air time. But with 168 hours in a week, clos-ing the gap can be a bit of a challenge.

That’s where volunteers come in.

“Everyone has a kid in sports. They should be grabbing a camera,” he said. “There’s so many wasted opportunities. If you’re going there anyway, why not film it? It’s not difficult. The cameras are high quality, they’re extremely user-friendly and we can teach you to use them in about 45 minutes.”

Equipment is available to lend out, and volunteers who run the cameras can receive a free copy of the event they cov-er. Copies of all shows aired on public access are available at the studio — $12 per DVD for Pembroke residents and $20 for non-residents.

Funding for the studio comes from a 10-year contract with Comcast, which provides Pembroke Media Broadcasting with 4.75 percent of local rev-enues in the first year, 4 percent in the second and 3.25 percent in the last eight years.

The funding package also included a bridge loan of $150,000 for the first two years to help get the studio up and running independently. As of March, Pembroke Me-dia Broadcasting will have paid back the first year’s loan,

Mattinson said.He estimated they had put

about $50,000 into equipment over the first year and expected to spend close to $65,000 in year two. Among the needed improvements are updating studio editing equipment from the old analog system and in-stalling a mobile camera con-trol system at the high school similar to the one that will be added to Town Hall.

“We’ve been very frugal. We don’t just go out and spend the money. We go shopping and we look for the best deals,” Mattinson said. “We’re a non-profit, and we try to run it re-sponsibly.”

Mattinson also is looking forward to Verizon moving into Pembroke — a project on hold until the company wires the whole town. Under cur-rent law, Verizon would have to honor Pembroke’s contract with Comcast, and with poten-tial new customers, the compe-tition could bring in new mon-ey for the local studio.

“I’d like to continue the progress that we’ve made the first year,” Mattinson said. “I’ve been getting more positive feedback in the last year than the previous six years that I was involved in the studio. The part of the town that knows about the studio has really taken hold of it. But I’m still astounded at how many people don’t know about us.”

For information or sched-ules or to volunteer, call the studio at 781-294-1820, e-mail [email protected] or visit their Web site, pmbtv.net.

Regular viewers of Pembroke Media Broadcasting’s educational channel likely have seen a Neldini film — whether it’s their Christmas special featuring the

faces of group founders Matt Rindini and Dan Nelson on stock-ings, their based-on-a-true-story exploration of appendicitis or any number of short films they’ve produced since launching in 2008. The team includes Rindini as director, Nelson as pro-ducer and Timmy Cahill as actor, all Pembroke High School juniors

“We started making films when we were younger, stupid stuff, and then once we got into high school we got more seri-ous about it and we started writing scripts,” said Rindini, who hopes to go into filmmaking. “Once we heard the studio was looking for shows, we gave them a call. Whenever we work on something, we just give it to them.”

The guys recently installed a “green screen” in Nelson’s basement, which enables them to set their scenes in a variety of locations. Up next, they are developing a semi-autobiographi-cal film about how Neldini Films got its start. The film is set to be released on March 5.

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owned land under the care and custody of the Conservation Commission.

Thorne said T-Mobile had been looking at sites in that part of town and, after getting ap-proval from the Conservation Commission, the town issued a request for proposals. T-Mobile was the sole bidder.

“The tower was located, after consulting with the Con-servation Commission and the long-range plans for the prop-erty by the Recreation Com-mission, in an area that would not impact future development on the 34-acre parcel,” Thorne said.

At the Nov. 3 special Town Meeting, voters authorized the town to enter into a lease agree-ment for a tower on the Birch Street property.

On Monday, the Zoning Board opened a public hearing on T-Mobile’s application for a variance to install the tower. Board members sitting in in-cluded chairman Bill Cullity, Linda MacDonald and Frank Baldassini.

The tower would be con-structed on a 40-by-40-foot compound and would be lo-cated about 750 feet back from Birch Street in what Parisi de-scribed as a “densely vegetated area.” The company would use an existing access road to get to the tower site. The tower would not be lighted.

Space on the tower could be leased out to other telecom-munications companies, Parisi said.

The location would help T-Mobile improve its service in that coverage area, allowing for more reliable use even inside buildings, Parisi said.

“The goal is to get as close to residential as possible with-out being on land that you use as residential,” he said.

A handful of residents ex-pressed concerns about the tower, including its proximity to a playground and housing development and the likelihood of vandalism with it being back in the woods.

“I’ve lived there 25 years. Every summer, there’s a group of kids that go up there and have bonfires and hang out and drink. The cops can’t get back there; who’s going to protect that?” said Joan Long, a Birch Street resident. “I know you’re putting a big fence around there, but am I going to be looking out my bedroom window and call-ing the cops every other night to say they’re back there again?”

Parisi said the area would be adequately fenced in and that vandalism typically was not a problem at these sites.

Long also questioned how the tower would impact future development of the park, ques-tioning whether parents would want their children playing on fields located near a wireless tower.

Michael Johnson, a site acquisition specialist with

Tower Resource Management Inc., said project planners had worked closely with the town administrator and other local officials to find the best loca-tion on the site for the tower.

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the future development of this whole parcel, and after four or five meetings, they hand-chose that location in the back corner so it wouldn’t interfere with any of their plans,” he said.

Birch Street resident John

Buckler had a range of con-cerns, including potential health effects of radio waves emitted from the tower, property values and construction traffic close to a playground.

Joanne Buckler also had concerns.

“The town of Pembroke’s got a lot of land they could use to put it somewhere different than where it’s being put,” she said. “I just feel it’s a very bad place to put it by a children’s playground.”

ZBA chairman Bill Cullity said the tower would be similar to one constructed off Mattakee-sett Street in 2000. Residents of the Wintergreen Farm develop-ment had expressed concerns about the tower’s proximity back then, but Cullity said now the tower was hardly noticeable “unless you are looking for it.”

That tower is 20 feet taller than the one being proposed on Birch Street and is located about

300 feet away from homes on Wintergreen Farm Road, Cul-lity said.

John Buckler said he felt the board members’ minds had already been made up.

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Cullity said the board want-ed to get all the facts before making a decision.

“I want everybody to un-derstand that nobody’s seen the one tower [on Mattakeesett] yet. That’s a good example of what you should really be looking at,” Cullity said. “Your mind is made up: you don’t want it. That’s fine, but our minds are not made up.”

The hearing will continue on Monday, March 15 at 7 p.m. Zoning Board members plan to walk the site before then, and T-Mobile representatives agreed to stake out the area where the tower would be located.

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T-Mobile attorney Francis Parisi points out how the wireless tower on Birch Street would help the company fill in gaps in coverage in that area. The white areas show where service is unreliable.


Seventh and eighth graders in David Lemée’s Super Structures class put their creativity to the test on Monday, building structures out of paper straws, paper and tape and then seeing how they stood up to a force of nature. The students placed their structures on a vibrating board that could be adjusted to simulate an earthquake from magnitude 1.0 to 10.0. Then they tested how the structures would fare in a hurricane, Category 1 through 3, by using a desk fan. The Super Structures course is part of the second session of after-school enrichment programs.

Put to the testSuper Structures class teaches PCMS students the basics of bridge building

PCMS Seventh grader Alec Scroggins prepares to test his tower — the second tallest, at 32.5 inches. The structure was able to withstand the highest level of natural disasters during the simulation.

PCMS eighth grader David Morrissey carefully places the LEGO man on his structure before subjecting it to a series of tests. His tower, the tallest at 39.5 inches, was able to withstand the full force.

PCMS seventh grader James Hartigan places a LEGO man on his struc-ture before the tests. His creation was able to withstand a simulated earthquake of up to 10.0 magnitude and a Category 3 hurricane.

PCMS seventh grader Jacob Fennick watches closely to see how his bridge holds up. It was able to withstand the full force. Fennick said he signed up for Super Structures because it looked like fun. “I was really interested when I saw the course,” he said. “I thought it would be cool to learn how bridges stay up.”

PCMS seventh grader Nick Guernini and classmates Patrick Heeran and Zachary Burnham watch to see how Nick’s tower fares. The tower was able to withstand the full force — a 10.0-magni-tude earthquake and a Category 3 hurricane — and measured 16 inches.

PCMS seventh grader Zachary Burnham sands down the edges of a piece of balsa wood for his Warren-style truss bridge. “I like the idea that we can build these cool structures and test to see how stable they would be if they were actually built in the outside world,” said Burnham, who plans to become an architect.

PCMS seventh grader Patrick Heeran watches to see whether his bridge will hold up. It was able to withstand an earthquake with a magnitude of 1.0 to 6.0 and a Category 1 hurricane. photos By Becca Manning



Friday, Feb. 26Council on Aging Activities. Every Friday: Soft-shoe line dancing class, 9:15-10:15 a.m.; games, 12:30-3 p.m. For information, call the senior center at 781-293-8220.

Saturday, Feb. 27Parents Night Out Fundraiser. 8 p.m.-midnight, at the Knights of Columbus Hall, Schoosett Street. Musician Jim Plunkett will perform. Tickets $25. Call Kim Kane, 781-826-0383; Pam Roy, 781-829-0557; Andrea Schaffer, 781-826-9430; or Christine Sullivan, 781-826-8932.

Sunday, Feb. 28Snow Shoe Classic 5K Run/Walk. 8:30 a.m., at Pembroke Country Club, West Elm Street. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m.; race begins at 10 a.m. If there’s no snow, bring trail sneaks for a trail run. Limited number of loaner snowshoes will be available. All proceeds benefit The MS Society. For info and registration forms, e-mail Kim McCarthy at [email protected].

North River Community Church. 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sunday services. Located at 334 Old Oak St., Pembroke.

Monday, March 1Board of Selectmen Meeting. 6:30 p.m., at Town Hall, Veterans Hall.

tueSday, March 2Sit and Be Fit Exercise Class. 10 a.m., at Council on Aging. $5 per class. For information, call the senior center at 781-294-8220.

Seniors Living with Chronic Illness. 1-2 p.m., at Council on Aging building. Ruth Coleman, MSW, a clinical social worker, leads this support group every Tuesday for seniors living with conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, cancer, MS, lupus, heart disease, COPD and others.

Exercise Class. 3-4 p.m., at Council on Aging. $3 per class. For information, call the senior center at 781-294-8220.

Dr. Seuss Birthday Celebration. 4 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Celebrate the author’s birthday with stories and create a green eggs and ham placemat. Open to ages 8 and up. Register at the youth services desk or by calling 781-293-6771.

Friends Book Club. 7 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Drop in and join the group discussion on “The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver. All are welcome. For information, call 781-293-6771.

School Committee Meeting. 7:30 p.m., at North Pembroke Elementary School library.

WedneSday, March 3Dull Men Meeting. 10 a.m., at Council on Aging. Always open to new members. Stop by the senior center, 144 Center St.

Beginners Knitting with Mary Leydon. 1 p.m., at senior center, 144 Center St. Every Wednesday. Call 781-294-8220 for information.

Author Discussion. 7 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Author Tom Juravitch will discuss his book “At the Altar of the Bottom Line: The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century,” which looks at four Mass. workplaces and the effect of the recession on work practices and

employers. For info, call the library at 781-293-6771.

Friday, March 5Council on Aging Activities. Every Friday: Soft-shoe line dancing class, 9:15-10:15 a.m.; games, 12:30-3 p.m. For information, call the senior center at 781-293-8220.

upcoMingGirls Scouts Sweetheart Dance. Sat., March 6. 6-8 p.m., at PCMS. Music by PJ the DJ, dancing, refreshments, photo ops ($9) and corsages ($7). For registered Girl Scouts and an adult male relative/family friend. Tickets cost $7 per person. Contact your Girl Scout leader for tickets.

Story Time. Mon., March 8. 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Open to ages 2 and up. Register at the youth services desk or by calling 781-293-6771.

Story Time. Tues., March 9. 10:30 a.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Open to ages 2 and up. Register at the youth services desk or by calling 781-293-6771.

Baby Lap Sit. Wed., March 10. 10:30 a.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Drop in for literacy games aimed at ages ages six to 24 months. For information, call 781-293-6771.

Learn to Skate. Wed., March 10. 5:30-6:30 p.m., at Hobomock Arenas in Pembroke. Seven-week class runs Wednesdays, March 10-April 21. $120 per skater, plus $12 registration fee for USFSA membership. For information or to register, visit

pilgrimskatingclub.com or call 781-294-7575.

Teen Advisory Group Meeting. Tues., March 11. 5 p.m. at Pembroke Public Library. For information, call 781-293-6771.

Shaker Tape Class. Thurs., March 11. 7-9 p.m., at Black-Eyed Susans Basket Classroom, 42 Mattakeesett St. Learn how to make a Shaker tape stool. Class is $65; $36 if you bring your own chair. Stools must be prepped before the class. For info, call 781-294-1688 or e-mail Susan DeMarzo at [email protected].

Paint Tea Cups. Fri., March 12. 4 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Paint tea cups with Expressions Studio. For ages 6 and up. Registration required. Stop by the youth services desk or call 781-293-6771.

Learn to Skate. Sat., March 13. 12:30-1:30 p.m., at Hobomock Arenas in Pembroke. Six-week class runs Saturdays, March 13-April 17. $105 per skater, plus $12 registration fee for USFSA membership. For information or to register, visit pilgrimskatingclub.com or call 781-294-7575.

Benefit Dinner for Matthew McClune. Sat., March 13. 5 p.m., at Phoenix Masonic Lodge in Hanover (near Four Corners). This is a corned beef and cabbage dinner to assist Matthew McClune and his family with medical expenses following a serious vehicle crash last fall. Tickets cost $15 per person or $25 per couple and can be purchased by contacting Joanne Earner at Pembroke Community Middle School at [email protected] or 781-293-8627 ext. 5111.

Pembroke Historical Society Pancake Breakfast. Sun., March 14. 9 a.m.-noon., at Historical Society Museum on Center Street (across from First Church). Society volunteers will be serving a breakfast of pancakes (plain or blueberry), sausage, scrambled eggs, juice and coffee. Tickets cost $6 for adults and $4 for children under 12. Mimosas and Bloody Marys will be available (cash bar) to those 21 and older. For info, call Susan at 781-294-8941.

Story Time. Mon., March 15. 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., at Pembroke

Public Library. Open to ages 2 and up. Register at the youth services desk or by calling 781-293-6771.

Teen Book Club Meeting. Mon., March 15. 4:30 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Group will discuss “Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes.” For information, call 781-293-6771.

Baby Lap Sit. Wed., March 17. 10:30 a.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Drop in for literacy games aimed at ages ages six to 24 months. For information, call 781-293-6771.

Pajama Story Time. Thurs., March 18. 6 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. For ages 2 and up.

‘New Moon’ DVD Release Party. Sat., March 20. 1:30 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Come watch “New Moon” and enter raffles to win Twilight prizes such as a life-sized cutout of Taylor Lautner. For information, call 781-293-6771.

Pembroke Science Fair. Sun., March 21. 12-4 p.m., at PCMS. Take a look at all the science projects submitted by local children in kindergarten through sixth grade. Register by Feb. 26. For info and to register online, visit pembroke.oursciencefair.com.

Earth Day Spring Concert. Sun., March 21. 3 p.m., at First Parish Church, Duxbury. All proceeds help the Duxbury Interfaith Council’s annual Campership Program and the TLC Backpack Project.

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HAD AN ICE TIME: The South Shore Dynamos hockey team and their fans recently visited Niagara Falls during a trip to play their championship game against a team from Canada. Players from left to right include: Nathan Horner, Steven Hatch, Jake Doran, Erin Doran, Shane Murphy and Paul and Kelly Cunningham (kneeling).


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These Pembroke High School students were named to the honor

roll and high honor roll for the second term of the 2009-10 school year:

Grade 12High Honor Roll:

Monica Bettle, Teresa Budd, Mia CaraDonna, Teresa Fatemi, Kristin Gerhart, Courtney Gunn, Jessica Langella, Brittany Mazzola, Laura McConarty, Jonathan Mercurio, Ashley Mulvaney, Taylor Murphy, Rubinder Randhawa, Lisa Squatrito, Sarah Winn

Honor Roll: Ian Atchison, Jennifer Aufiero, Russell Barnard, Rebecca Blathras, Katelyn Brown, Megan Burrows, Melissa Cahill, Stephen Carafone, Alexandra Case, Sarah Cavalear, Andrew Chapman, Renee Cincotta, Tracy Conefrey, Maggie Corcoran, William Coughlin, Leanndra Crosby, Kelsey Crowell, Nicholas DiPrizio, Katie Ebert, Graham Edwards, Marissa Fall, Richard Freitas, Edward Furlong, Caitlin Gallagher, Matthew Gentile, Nicole Gharghour, Robert J. Gratzer Jr., Amy Griffin, Richard Haen, Vanessa Haen, Berkeley Hall, Jennifer Halloran, Alyssa Hennigan, Kaitlin Hogan, Christopher Holland, Chelsea Hooker, Diane Ibrahim, Jason Kelliher, Lauren Kelly, Colby Kupsc, Timothy Leung, Sarmad Marzuq, April McKinley, Samantha Miglietta, Rachael Mohan, Christopher Orlando, John Owen, Kaitlyn Petrie, Kimberly Pham, Kareena A. Pinto, Chloe Potter, Amy Quill, Evan Salvatore, Shannon Savage, Christopher Savoia, Erin Scroggins, Katelyn Silva, Laini Soszynski, Katherine Spaulding, Brandon Sturtevant, Melissa Suckow, Lauren Taylor, Drew Tucker, Alyson Vito, Brian Waldron, Patrick Walsh, Kevin Winters,

Gabrielle Wood

Grade 11High Honor Roll: Gregory

Johnson, Angelica Marino, Tyla McDonough, Christopher Meighan, Brianna Mitchell

Honor Roll: Christi Bonneau, Jenna Bostwick, Shane Budd, Wesley Carroll, Jessica R. Cesario, Caroline Claflin, Bianca Clark, James Coner, Heather Connick, Noelle Cormier, Michael Cummings, Colleen D’Alessandro, Alexandra Davis, Christina DeRito, Michael DiTocco, Monica Donnelly, Megan Ford, Timothy Fox, Noelle Godfrey, Erin Graceffa, Caitlin Gunn, Meagan Hall, James Harty, Alexandra Holt, Emily Ip, Kelly Jochems, Evan Jones, Stephanie Jones, Eric Karstunen, Kevin Kell, Ryan Kelley, Robert LaMarre, Timothy F. Landy, Luke Leavitt, Stephen Lemish, Victoria Lo, Brenda McAlear, Krista Mizzoni, Ryan Moran, Daniel Nelson, Victoria Pace, Mark Petrie, Amy Postler, John Reardon, Kelli Richards, Emma Ripatrazone, Michael Romero, Jessica Rose, Jordyn Rourke, Jennifer Salas, Skye Sanchez, Kylie Sisson, Jacob Skolnick, Ashley Stephens, Rebecca Stoyle, Jake Sullivan, Marissa Taylor, Abigail Thompson, Renee Trudeau, Brittney Tworig, Patrick Walsh, Christopher Waterfield, Victoria Yanovich

Grade 10High Honor Roll: Laura

Coughlin, Jason Covert, Anna Crosby, Jesse Fine, Shannon Gallagher, Ashley Kane, Kristen Kelly, Alyssa Morritt, Vanessa Pham, Nikteha Salazar, Xochiquetzal Salazar, Ryan Tressel

Honor Roll: Brittany Baillie, Caroline Bettle, Derek Brinkmann, Lauren Bulger, Peter Camerlengo,

Lauren Cannone, Karly Cina, Catherine Colantuone, Erin Connelly, Steven Cullity, Karley D’Angelo, Brianna Decina, Daniel DellaValle, Anthony Delmonaco, Jose DePina, Stephanie DiPietro, Thomas Drummond, Megan Fallon, Zachary Farrar, Devin Foley, Aaron Fowle, Ashley Frazier, Matthew Furlong, Wesley Gallagher, Wendy Griffin, Nicole Harris, Kristopher Horn, Jameson Kidder, Thomas Kroon, Joseph Lebedew, Amanda Mazzola, Karen McConarty, Heather McLaughlin, Rachel Muriph, Daniel Murphy, Jennifer Neacy, Michaela Ng, Taylor Nicholaw, Shayna Nolan, Conor Noonan, Alexandra Nulty, John Price, Justin Ryan, Steven Sayce, Erik Schoumaker, Alexandra Sessine, Alyson Sheehan, Michael Stockdale, Matthew Suckow, Stephen Taylor, Eric Thibodeau, Kristina Tom, Lauren Tressel, Elizabeth Turcotte, Emily Turnbull, Joseph Vercollone, Thomas Warren

Grade 9High Honor Roll: Colleen

Burns, Scott Davison, Tessa Kell, Charles Meyer, Brooke Musial, Christopher Warren

Honor Roll: Scott Allen, Alana Atchison, Ryan Chapman, Erin Connell, Andrew Crossman, Peter Crossman, Brittney Dubois, Stephanie Everson, Steven Gerhart, Erin Haley, Sara Harland, Victoria Hughes, Brendan Johnson, Aaron Kaplowitz, Soumya Karra, Corey Kilgarriff, Kimberly Leonard, Lauren Mariano, Allison Marx, Robert McElligott, Michael McMahon, Stephen Meyer, Justin Ogilvie, Zachary A. Palmer, Gina Petrie, Nicholas Pizzella, Stephanie Raffa, Kyle Richard, Alicia Rosen, James Walsh, Brittany Yanovich

PHs students earn honors

Pembroke Science Fair nearsCalling all young scientists! It’s time for the 18th annual

Pembroke Science Fair for children in kindergarten through sixth grade. The fair will be held on Sunday, March 21 from noon to 4 p.m. at Pembroke Community Middle School. All students are encouraged to participate by working on a science project at home, then displaying it proudly at the fair for all to see and learn. The deadline for registration is Feb. 26. Register online at pembroke.oursciencefair.com or e-mail Carolyn Cleary at [email protected] or Anne Herrmann at [email protected].

Two Pembroke Community Middle School students have been named winners of the Boston Globe Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, a state-wide competition. Thirteen PCMS students submitted their work to the contest, which is open to students in grades 7 through 12 in all public, private and parochial schools in Massachusetts.

Eighth graders Megan Collins and Rebecca Jordan both received honorable mentions for their “3-D Hero Dream Rooms” in the Architecture Art category.

In addition to these two artists, the following PCMS stu-dents submitted their artwork to the contest: Marissa Dakin, Matthew O’Leary, Connor Sheehan, Hunter Campbell, Jo-seph Colangeli, Tristan Birnstiel, Melissa Campbell, Monica Hampe, Tyler Levesque, Danielle Tom and Kenneth Blasser.

AWARD-WINNING ARTISTS: Eighth graders Megan Collins and Rebecca Jordan both received honorable mentions for their “3-D Hero Dream Rooms” in the Architecture Art category.

PCMs students participate in scholastic Art competition

Friday, Feb. 26International Week Play. 7 p.m.

@ Hobomock.Pembroke Helps Haiti. 7-9 p.m, at PHS

auditorium. Lip sync competition with students and faculty will raise funds for Partners in

Health’s efforts in Haiti. Tickets cost $5 at the door. $10 to participate.

Saturday, Feb. 27Parents Night Out. Sat., Feb. 27.

@ Knights of Columbus Hall. North Pembroke PTO sponsors evening with Jim Plunkett.

Tuesday, March 2School Committee Meeting. 7:30 p.m.

@ North Pembroke library.

Wednesday, March 3Parent/Teacher Day Conferences.

5-9 p.m. For preschool through sixth grade. Thursday, March 4

Early Release Day. School release times: Middle School, 10:30 a.m.; High School, 10:45

a.m.; Hobomock, 12:15 p.m.; Bryantville, 12:35 p.m.; North Pembroke, 1:05 p.m.

No p.m. kindergarten.Parent/Teacher Day Conferences.

1-6 p.m. For preschool through sixth grade.Friday, March 5

In-Service Day — No SchoolJunior District Music Festival

BRYANTVILLE & HOBOMOCK

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSMonday: Chickwich on

a bun, carrot coins, tater tots, ketchup, chocolate pudding

Tuesday: Macaroni and cheese, green beans, breadstick, tropical gelatin with topping

Wednesday: Soft taco, lettuce, tomato, tortilla chips, salsa, corn, cornbread

Thursday: Early release day — Assorted cereals, string cheese, yogurt, juice cup, muffin, fresh apple

Friday: No school

NORTH PEMBROKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Monday: Teriyaki dippers, rice, mixed vegetables, dinner roll, pineapple

Tuesday: Chicken nuggets, BBQ sauce, honey mustard sauce, carrot coins, wheat roll, mixed fruit cup

Wednesday: Soft taco, lettuce, tomato, tortilla chips, salsa, corn, cornbread

Thursday: Early release day — Assorted cereals, string cheese, yogurt, juice cup,

muffin, fresh appleFriday: No school

MIDDLE SCHOOLMonday: Chicken teriyaki

dippers, mixed vegetables, rice, muffin, peaches

Tuesday: Macaroni and cheese, green beans, breadstick, diced apricots

Wednesday: French bread pizza, carrots, dinner roll, cookie

Thursday: Early release day — no lunch

Friday: No school

HIGH SCHOOLMonday: Homemade

empanadas, Mexican rice, mixed vegetables, wheat rolls, orange wedges

Tuesday: Deli-style turkey and cheese on a croissant, fries, ketchup, carrot/celery sticks, french dressing, diced apricots, chocolate mousse

Wednesday: Personal cheese pizza, Italian green beans, breadstick, cookie

Thursday: Early release day — No lunch

Friday: No school

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By Michelle conway, express coluMnist [email protected]

Fettucini carbonara is the ideal dish for the times. It can be assembled in under 30 minutes and costs less than $20 to feed four to six people. It is rich, satisfy-

ing and perfect for a cold winter’s night. The key to a spec-tacular carbonara is choosing perfect, high quality ingredients. Purchase whole blocks of Romano and Parmigiano cheese and use a microplaner or cheese grater to grate the cheese just before preparing the dish.

While pancetta or bacon can be used, guanciale gives the dish the restaurant quality edge that makes it memorable. Guanciale is an un-smoked, cured, Italian bacon made from the cheek or jowl of the pig. It has a stronger flavor than bacon

or pancetta and a more delicate texture and fatty consistency that lends itself nicely to the luscious richness of a carbonara. Town Butcher Shop (formerly Bradford’s Meats) on Wash-ington Street in Hanover can special order guanciale with three days minimum advance notice. Cured meats such as guanciale can last up to three weeks in the refrigerator if the meat is tightly wrapped; alternatively, it can be frozen and defrosted before making your authentic Roman-style carbonara.

Fettucini carbonara is made with cream in the United States and without cream in its native Rome. The recipe below fol-lows the classic form, using the highest quality ingredients, and omits the cream.

Fettucini Carbonara2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil1 clove of garlic, peeled and whole4 ounces of guanciale, pancetta or bacon, diced to

one-quarter inch 2 whole large eggs, plus 2 whole egg yolks at room

temperature1 pound best quality fettucini1/2 cup freshly grated Pecorino Romano cheese1/2 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheeseSalt and pepperGrate the cheeses and blend together. Crack the whole eggs

and egg yolks into a bowl; beat the eggs and season with black pepper and pinch of salt. Allow the beaten eggs to come to room temperature. Bring a large pot of water to boil and hold at a boil until ready to cook the pasta. Heat the olive oil in a pot that is large enough to hold all of the pasta once it is cooked. Add the whole garlic clove and the guanciale (or pancetta or bacon). Sauté until crispy brown and the fat is rendered. Re-move the clove of garlic. Cook the pasta according to package directions; drain and reserve a cup of the pasta cooking liquid. Add half of the cooked pasta to the pan with the cooked guan-ciale and add half of the beaten egg and a quarter of the cheese. Toss quickly to combine. Add the remaining egg and cheese. Some of the reserved cooking water from the pasta may be added to loosen up the sauce if needed. Season with salt and lots of freshly ground pepper. Serve immediately with extra grated cheese on the side.

Tidbit: Guanciale can be ordered at Town Butcher Shop, 644 Washington St., Hanover (opposite Starland), 781-826-3100. Same owners, new name, accurate Web site: bradford-meatshop.com.

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Author to speak at libraryThe Pembroke Public Library will host author Tom Ju-

ravich discussing his book “At the Altar of the Bottom Line: The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century” on Wednes-day, March 3 at 7 p.m. For more information about this event, call the library at 781-293-6771.

Gifts for First Communion & Confirmation

Douglas JewelersFree Engraving on all medals

Concussion talkDr. Janet Kent from South

Shore Hospital’s Concussion Clinic will speak about the Concussion ImPACT Test at the School Committee meet-ing on Tuesday, March 2. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. at North Pembroke El-ementary School library.

sign up for April boys LAX camp

Registration for the Pembroke Titans Lacrosse Camp is now open. The camp is available for boys ages 8-14 and will run April 20 through April 23 at Pembroke High School. Camp fee is $100, and all proceeds benefit the Pem-broke High School varsity lacrosse program. For in-formation or to obtain a registration form, e-mail [email protected]. Deadline to sign up is April 14.


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dEadliNE for all letters & commentaries is tuesday at noon.

q u e S T i O n O F T H e W e e k By vanessa phaM

How did you spend your February vacation week?

Wesley Gallagher Keens Way

“I just ran the whole vacation, literally. Every day, I had

track, which is a very demanding sport.”

Mark Nicholaw Wildwood Road

“During vacation, I worked during the day. I also took my daughter

driving at night.”

Chris Savoia Washington Street

“I went snowboarding at Brenton Woods and stayed overnight.

I had a lot of fun.”

Andrea Logan Catherine Road

“I took my son skiing with a group of his friends during

vacation.”

Brenna Coughlin Plymouth Street

“I spent February vacation relaxing with family and friends. I enjoyed being able to sleep in!”

In the late 1950s, I was a bartender at the Harvard Club of Boston. I served Ted Kennedy. I was in my early 20s. He was in his late 20s. The first time he placed an order,

it was for a scotch and water with just enough scotch “to color the water.” He always greeted me courteously with that familiar Kennedy smile.

Because of that personal connection, over the next few years, I developed a fondness for him, and throughout my life his life’s

vicissitudes, tribulations and personal fail-ings often attracted my curiosity.

At these events, Ted Kennedy was unremarkable amongst his peers; one would never suspect he would be our next senator from Massachusetts filling the seat once held by his brother John F. Kennedy. Through his long tenure and influence, he became known as the “Lion of the Senate,” a major figure and spokesman for Ameri-can progressivism while writing more than 300 pieces of legislation. Up to his death on Aug. 25, 2009, he had been re-elected

nine times and had served 46 years. Although a unique, respected legislator with a mastery of the

legislative process, Ted Kennedy’s personal life took a beating: he has been repeatedly vilified for Chappaquiddick, woman-izing, alcoholism and his wealth, which in view of his advocacy for the poor and downtrodden, left him vulnerable to charges of hypocrisy. He suffered the loss of his brother Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. in World War II and his sister Kathleen Agnes Kennedy in an airplane crash, as well as his brothers President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the hands of assassins. And he nearly lost his life in a plane crash in 1964 that left him with a life-altering back injury.

Yet, through it all, Ted Kennedy persevered. Through much adversity, he continued to be an effective legislator. His virtues as a hardwork-ing senator, a master at bipartisan negotiation, one who loved his family, a compassionate voice for social justice and champion of working people were often overlooked.

In a column he wrote for Newsweek, “The Cause of My Life,” reflecting his enduring goal of universal health care, he said that the cost of health care reform inaction will be greater over the next decade than the cost of reform itself, and millions more will become uninsured or under-insured; that in other advanced nations, everyone has insurance and health outcomes are equal or better than ours; that inaction would threaten the health of Americans as well as undermine our ability to compete and succeed in the global economy; that universal health care legislation would end our disgrace as the only major industrial-ized nation not guaranteeing health care for all of its people; that in his illness he has relied on his congressional insurance, saying, “I have never had to worry whether I could afford my care and treatment.”

During his illness, he recognized as never before what univer-sal health care would mean to others, and that there is a need to “create a system to ensure someday, when there is a cure for the disease I now have, no American who needs it will be denied.”

Conversely, with the election of Scott Brown, voters in Mas-sachusetts denounced Ted Kennedy’s dream of universal health care. Ted Kennedy’s cause apparently has for now passed away with him. But, just perhaps, his dream and the dream of so many Americans who need universal health care will subliminally per-sist and surface again sometime in the future.

The Lion of the senate

By Horatio Green

Perspectives

Commentary

Perhaps Town Gov-ernment Study Com-mittee chairman Lew

Stone, along with Ed Thorne, have been looking into a town manager form of government for Pembroke for “nearly a year.” If memory serves me right, the actual committee has not been at it that long — it’s been more like a few months.

I don’t doubt the sincer-

ity of the gentlemen who vol-unteered their time, but with a town budget of $53 million reported in the Feb. 21 Boston Globe by Chairman Stone, I would hope a search committee would look beyond any current town officials and seek some-one with outstanding financial managment credentials.

Slow down, clean up the house, pay attention to ethics,

follow the laws and get rid of those who don’t comply before handing a disorderly house over to someone else. All this said, the buzz around town is people don’t want any one per-son having that much power, and also that a town manager isn’t always the answer to run-ning good government.

Dottie MacInnesN. Pembroke

Too much power for one person? ——

In response to a re-cent Supreme Judicial Court ruling regarding

the dissemination of lewd and sexually explicit material via electronic communications, I am sponsoring legislation to provide further protection for minors under the state’s ob-scenity law, An Act to Prohibit the Electronic Transmission of Harmful Material to Mi-nors. In the matter of Com-monwealth v. Zubiel, the SJC ruled in favor of a child preda-tor who had been sending sex-ually explicit content through online communications. Cur-rent law states that whoever knowingly possesses with the intent to distribute or actually disseminates obscene material to a minor can be punished.

Subsequent to a review of the statute and its legislative

history, the Supreme Judicial Court stated that the Legisla-ture must intervene in order to update the law to ensure that children are provided the highest protection from poten-tial offenders. However, the state’s obscenity laws as cur-rently written, are limited to “handwritten or printed mate-rial”.

Under my proposal, the legislation would expand the Commonwealth’s obscenity statute by prohibiting the dis-semination of harmful ma-terial to a minor via instant messaging or other online communications. According to the ruling of the court, instant messages and other forms of

electronic communications are not considered to be “printed materials” and therefore not prohibited by the Common-wealth’s obscenity laws. I am particularly concerned that the current version of the state’s obscenity statute has not been updated to reflect the changing patterns of electronic messag-ing in today’s society.

These are complex and challenging times we live in. Passage of this legisla-tion would further protect our children from predators seek-ing to electronically dissemi-nate obscene material. This is a common sense approach to address a very serious issue at a time when instant mes-saging, the internet and social media networks are increas-ingly utilized across a variety of demographics.

Furthermore, I am happy to report that this proposal has already garnered bipar-tisan support in the House of Representatives with both my Republican and Democrat col-leagues signing on as support-ers.

Rep. Daniel K. WebsterState Representative

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Over the past few weeks, the eyes of America have turned over and over again to Haiti as we hear frightening accounts and see the terrible aftermath

of the devastating earthquake that occurred last month. As the residents of Haiti struggle with their day-to-day existence and search for the unfortunate victims, many of us think, “Thank

heaven that didn’t happen here.” In fact, many of us have always relegated the idea of earthquakes to the West Coast of the United States. Few of us

remember the very mild earthquake that occurred on the East Coast several years ago, which centered in a remote area of Canada and was felt as far south as greater Boston. And none of us today remember the Great Earthquake of 1755.

Historic accounts state that the quake extended from Canada to the West Indies, terrifying the people and doing con-siderable damage. It is believed to have been the most severe earthquake that New England has experienced. Walt Ford, a Pembroke resident, wrote this eyewitness account:

“Novem 18, 1755 aboute 4 a Clockin ye morning was a grate Earthquake which shook Down part of agrate many Chimnies & broke yeground in Sundry places gushingout watr & sand throwing downstone walls.”The effects were felt throughout our area. In the city of

Boston, chimneys were toppled and roofs col-lapsed. Country towns all over eastern and central Massachusetts saw springs dry up and others appear and stone walls fall apart. In Pembroke, Scituate and Lancaster, open-ings were made in the earth. In Pembroke, four of five openings appeared from which water and very fine whitish sand spewed. Many of the springs in Pembroke ceased to flow, and there is a tra-dition that No Bottom Pond (located between Mattakeesett and Wampatuck Streets) appeared at this time.

Samuel Deane, in his “History of Sci-tuate,” wrote that the shock lasted about 15 minutes, but this fact was based on interviews made in 1831 from eyewitnesses, and their recollections may have been slightly exaggerated due to the terrifying nature of the event. Also, some of the numerous aftershocks may have been part of their memory of the quake’s length.

It is hard to imagine the terror this natural phenomenon must have created among the widely dispersed, highly supersti-tious country folk. So unusual were the events of that day, that it is reported that ministers all over the area preached sermons the following Sunday based on the “Divine Power and Anger” displayed by this earthquake, and that it was “sin that provoked God to appear against us in so awful a manner.” Local historic records of the event do not mention loss of life, so we can only assume that it was virtually non-existent.

Does this mean we are overdue? The Boston Globe recently reported that Massachusetts officials are taking the risk of pos-sible future earthquakes seriously and are exploring ways to help make the region safer in the event we experience one of these natural earth movers.

Karen Proctor is research director for the Historical Society. For details about these images, call 781-293-9083.

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Advisory chairman Mat-thew McNeilly said his board was concerned about the ris-ing maintenance costs for the building, which had totaled close to $30,000 this year — $22,000 over budget. Emer-gency repairs have included fixing a leaky cupola, exterior wall repairs and other items.

“I just want to bring to the forefront here that we seem to be spending an awful lot of money to maintain the build-ing,” McNeilly said. “I’d like to know if in fact there’s any long-range or short-term plans to help defray some of these costs.”

Advisory members said they were concerned that maintenance costs were rising “exponentially.”

“The first year, it was only a couple thousand dollars. Last year, it was $6,000. This year, it was $22,000,” Advi-sory member Ben Bastianelli said. “Our fear is that as time goes on, if that continues to become exponential, we’ll quickly get into hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we aren’t sure that we can sal-vage what’s there. I know it has a lot of [historic value] to the town and it’s utilized by a lot of programs, but it’s out-pacing us with our ability to keep up with it.”

Advisory members said they did not have a plan for the building but wanted to make selectmen aware of the growing financial burden.

The community center building, which stopped oper-ating as a high school in 1955, now houses Center Preschool and Child Care, the Recre-ation Commission and Com-mission on Disabilities, the Pembroke Food Pantry and the Pembroke Media Broad-casting cable studio as well as activities for Pembroke Youth Hockey and other groups.

The building was the sub-

ject of a plan developed a few years ago by the Community Center Task Force that called for renovation of the build-ing so that Town Hall offices could move in. The police sta-tion would move into the cur-rent Town Hall building, and a new community center/senior center would be constructed behind the existing center, where a baseball field exists now. The project totaled about $32 million and was placed on the back burner because of that price tag and a lagging economy.

The community center project is one of nine shovel-ready projects the town sub-mitted last year for federal stimulus funding, Town Ad-ministrator Ed Thorne said, but no funding decisions have been announced yet.

Thorne said it would cost the town between $5 million and $7 million just to renovate the community center and keep it for its current use.

“We have a very active recreation program, so there needs to be a home for that,” he said. “Something has to be done with that building.”

McNeilly said a temporary solution could be to develop a maintenance plan for the building, committing money each year to upgrade the cen-ter. He said he might support an override for that project if it established a plan for the future.

Selectman Dan Trubucco agreed that a capital plan was key.

“Whatever we do, bar-ring an all out assault to get an override this year, we should definitely have a clear capital plan specific to that building, and that’s pretty much what you’re calling for today,” he said.

Tearing down the build-ing could be a less expensive option, McNeilly said, though he admitted the issue is a sen-sitive one because of the cen-ter’s historic value.

“You have a lot of people that feel the building should remain the way it is, that it’s a historic building, that they don’t want to change the fa-çade,” he said. “John Walsh graduated [high school] from that building. There are sen-timental values all over the place. But the building needs to have something done to it. We can’t run the way we’re running. … We can, but it’s going to cost us a lot more money before we finally have to make a decision.”

Selectman Don Anderson suggested the town look at increasing rent for the various groups that use the building.

Currently, Youth Hockey pays the building’s heating costs, the cable studio pays rent of about $6,000 a year and the preschool pays about $14,000 a year in rent, accord-ing to Thorne.

Anderson said the building also could be eligible for grant funding through the Green Communities Act, which pro-vides money for projects that make eco-friendly, energy-efficient improvements.

Members of the Energy Committee met with Planning Board officials Monday night to examine ways to make Pembroke eligible for these types of grants.

No decisions about the community center were made Monday night, though offi-cials agreed to look at devel-oping a maintenance plan for the building.

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The Effects of WaitingSince a portion of the premiums paid accumulates cash value each year, over the long term, cash value accumulation can be considerable, especially since taxes on the growth are deferred. Generally speaking, the sooner you start paying policy premiums, the faster your cash value may accumulate.

A whole life policy is also eligible to receive dividends, if and when declared by the insurance issuer. Unlike cash values, dividends are not guaranteed and are subject to change by the insurer. In addition, past dividends are not indicative of future dividends. As a policyholder, you have several options for dividends usage. You can take dividend distributions in cash or apply dividends to add insurance coverage through the purchase of paid-up additional life insurance. Paid-up insurance is also eligible for dividends, has cash value and requires no additional premiums. So, waiting in this case can cost you the oppor-tunity to increase the benefit paid to your beneficiaries.

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Angelo J. Umbrianna, 78, of Pembroke, died Friday, Feb. 19.

He was husband of 52 years to Avis Umbrianna; father of Winnie Loan of Middleboro and Gloria Um-brianna, Barbara Umbrianna and Beverly Umbrianna, all of Pembroke; grandfather of Kimberly Ferguson-Caizzi, Richard Ferguson, Amanda Malaguti, Richard Schlager, Robert Burke and Amy Quill,

all of Pembroke, and Shawn Loan of Jay’s Peak, Vt.; great-grandfather of Michael Caizzi of Pembroke, Emaleigh Fer-guson of Plymouth and Dan-iel Ferguson of Plymouth; brother of Elizabeth Ruble of Rockland, Peter Umbrianna of Halifax, Vincent Umbri-anna of Lancaster, Pa., and Pipie Patten of Bridgewater. Angelo also leaves his sons-in-law, nieces, nephews and his grandpuppies, Jake, Lucas,

Max and Haleigh Rose.He was preceded in death

by two sons. Visiting hours were held on

Tuesday, Feb. 23 at Shepherd Funeral Home in Pembroke. A funeral mass was held at St. Thecla’s Church in Pembroke on Wednesday, Feb. 24. Burial was at the Center Cemetery in Pembroke. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Jos-lin Diabetes Center, One Jos-lin Place, Boston, MA 02215.

Angelo J. umbrianna, 78

A fundraising dinner to benefit Matthew McClune will be held on Saturday, March 13 at 5 p.m. at Phoenix Masonic Lodge at Hanover Four Corners. Proceeds from the corned beef and cabbage dinner will help Matt and his family with medical expenses following his serious vehicle accident last fall. Tickets cost $15 a person or $25 a couple and can be pur-chased by contacting Pembroke Community Middle School Nurse Joanne Earner at [email protected] or 781-293-8627 ext. 5111.

Joanne McClune, who works as a guidance counselor at Pembroke High School, offered this update on her son: “Matt has been home since Jan. 25. We are working with the Nor-well VNA for his home care needs at this time. He is doing both occupational and physical therapy at home but will be transitioning to Braintree Rehab as an outpatient within the next two weeks. We are also waiting to hear from Shepard’s Center in Atlanta for Matt to go into their day program for six to eight weeks for more vigorous therapy. It has been great and it has been tough because having Matt home has brought the reality of his situation to the forefront for us all. How-ever, he has tremendous support within both the Pembroke and BCH communities, which is priceless and really keeps him motivated.

“The Shepard’s Center is not covered by insurance, and any money raised from this point on will help us offset the costs of his stay there. From what we hear, it is a world re-nowned program, and Matt is highly motivated to work hard and continue maximizing his function. He is also looking for-ward to resuming his work as a coach and personal trainer.”

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The 2009-10 school year has been a weird one for me covering Pembroke sports. It has dumped my present self headlong into my past

because so many Rockland people have found their way to Pembroke. It’s not a bad thing; it’s just weird because I haven’t seen most of these people since high school.

Nothing in my three years of work has been more surreal than interviewing girls basketball head coach Melissa Murphy at Rockland High School, where we were in most of the same honors classes for years. Her assistant coach, Laura Goggin, rode the bus with me to Esten School kindergarten, and football assistant coach and Rockland High history department head Randy Grimmett still is the best teacher I’ve ever had.

But it is the person I knew the least, boys basketball assistant Matt

Schnider, who is the topic of this week’s Tale of the Tape, because he is the Mookie Wilson to my Bill Buckner — which was the first thing I thought of when I saw him on the Pembroke bench — and this is a much funnier story than anything else I’ve got this week.

Back in the summer of ’96, I was in my second year with the Rockland Firefighters in the majors of Rockland Little League. We had lost to Matt’s team, the Rockland Eagles, in the championship the year before, and I was the team’s veteran left fielder.

Considering my arms were slightly skinnier than the handle of the bat and the batting helmet folded over my big ears, I was having a good season. I knocked in the winning run in the first game of the season and was one of the best fielders in the town. However, we were short on players one day because the Rogers brothers had soccer and this kid Darrell let himself get hit with a pop fly during practice so I was in right field — where I hadn’t played. Ronnie Stewart hit a line drive right at me in the second inning that I had all sized up, but I took my eye off it at the last second to find my cutoff man and THUNK! It ticked off the thumb of my glove and caught me flush in the left eye so hard it bounced back into the air and rolled all the way to the fence. I had to miss a few weeks with a shiner that would make Rocky Balboa cringe.

I got back in time for the playoffs, by which time Darrell had quit the team and eight-year-old Anthony Garafalo had come on strong, so I had to go back to right field for our big rematch with the Eagles. We had the lead by one with two innings to go when up to the plate stepped one Matt Schnider. Matty sent a well-hit but easily catchable liner to me in right that was sinking fast. I broke forward to make the catch, when a horrible feeling of déjà vu froze me in my tracks. I could hear my coaches yelling at me to keeping running in, but memories of taking a similar liner in the face kept me rooted to the spot.

I played the ball on one hop. Matt came around to score the tying run as the Eagles rallied. We lost the game, and my Little League career was over. I played Babe Ruth for two seasons, but couldn’t shake the demons from that game against the Eagles and couldn’t catch a line drive again — which is not a good trait in a left-handed player too skinny to play first base.

And that is how Pembroke assistant basketball coach Matt Schnider ruined the life of a 12-year-old boy.

Just kidding. Matt’s a good guy and I was always crap at baseball anyways.

Back in time

By Dave Palana

The Tale of The TaPe

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The boys track team hung in until the very end of the Di-vision III championship at the Reggie Lewis Center on Sun-day, but the depth of Bishop Feehan won out in one of the closest meets of the weekend.

The Titans scored 30 points to finish in fourth place, two points behind Hingham and three behind Randolph, while the Shamrocks pulled away in the relays to score 42.

“We knew coming in that we were going to have to have a perfect day and some other team would have to have a little bit of an off day,” head coach Jim Rooney said. “We started off great, but a few things here and there didn’t go as planned. We put our best on the track and we can’t be up-set with anything that we did today. To get fourth place in a very deep Division III is some-thing we’re happy with.”

A surprise fifth place by sophomore Chris Horn in the long jump gave the Titans a chance to tie the Shamrocks in the 4x800 relay and keep the pressure on Feehan, but the team came up just short, tak-ing third place while Feehan placed second. Feehan then held on with third place in the 4x400 and fifth in the 4x200, while Randolph charged past the Titans by winning both.

Junior Ryan Kelley and sophomore Wesley Gallagher got Pembroke on the board by dominating the mile run. Gallagher set the pace right from the start as he and Kel-ley pulled away from the pack, and Kelley overtook his team-mate midway through the race as the two Titans finished first and second.

“It was a lot of fun,” Kel-ley said. “Wesley did an awe-some job taking us out in front and we went through perfect.”

“I felt great in the begin-ning and then Ryan passed me and helped me work through,” Gallagher added. “I just tried

to stick with him, and that re-ally helped a lot.”

The Titans then closed the gap on Feehan and Hing-ham with a fourth-place finish by junior Brendan Adams in the two-mile and Horn’s long jump. The Pembroke sopho-more jumped a personal best of 20’4.25” in his first league championship meet to pick up two key points.

“For him to step up and get two points was huge,” Rooney said of Horn. “He’s a guy we’ve been relying on as kind of a utility guy all year and to see him really shine in the long jump — I mean he really took the next step up. Being only a sophomore, he’s just going to get better and better. It was re-ally exciting for him today.”

Kelley and Gallagher then teamed with Paul Cina and Joe Vercollone, who both ran the 1,000 meters earlier, to take third in the 4x8 and finish off the scoring for the Titans.

“I know they are probably not happy with their perfor-mance, but it was pretty gutsy of them coming back after all running individual events and still doing as well as they did,” Rooney said of the relay team.

Horn, Mike Romero, Alec Nee and Andrew Chapman nearly picked up points for Pembroke in the 4x400. De-spite running in an unseeded heat, the Titans took seventh and were two seconds shy of sixth place. The relay team Horn and Chapman, along with Tim Cullity and Pat Sep-

eck also ran the 4x200 and finished 13th.

Sepeck also fin-ished 10th in the long jump on the day while senior captain Bob-by Gratzer finished eighth in the shot put.

Kelley, Gallagh-er, Adams, Horn and the 4x800 team all punched ticket s to the All State meet on Friday at the Reggie Lewis Center, where Rooney hopes the Titans will keep their season going.

“We’ll have a good showing at all states and hopefully we can continue that to New Englands and Nationals,” he said.

Boys track impressive at D-III championships

Sophomore Chris Horn soars into fifth place with a personal best in the long jump at the Division III championship on Sunday.

Titans take fourth

Ryan Kelley (left) wins the Division III state championship in the mile with teammate Wesley Gallagher coming in second. Photos by Dave Palana




The Pembroke boys hockey team’s season came to a sudden halt Tuesday night on the Cape, but the team was less concerned with the loss than with the health of one of their own.

After a blindside hit by Ashland’s Anders Carlson set Paul Tower crashing head first into the Plexiglas and then straight down to the ice, both teams headed to their locker rooms as the Titan for-ward lay on the ice. Tower had movement in his arms and legs and was taken out of the game on a stretcher and sent to Jordan Hospital with what trainers think is at least a concussion.

“They wanted to take him to the hospital for precaution-ary,” head coach Mark Duffy said. “He took an awful shove to the head from behind, but I’m not really sure what his status is.”

The Titans couldn’t re-group after play resumed and suffered a heartbreaking defeat in overtime 2-1 to the Ashland Clockers at the Gallo Ice Arena in Buzzard’s Bay.

Though the Titans fin-ished the third period with a flurry of shots, Ashland domi-nated the overtime period. The Clockers won the faceoff and had the Titans skating back-wards for most of the sudden death frame before captain Chris Weinlandt scored his second goal of the game 5:22 into the period to put an end to Pembroke’s season.

“I wonder more about our emotional state [than if we were tired],” Duffy said of the overtime period. “I think that was probably more of it than being gassed. We just weren’t ready.”

Ryan Kulik gave Pem-broke a 1-0 lead in the first half when he took a drop pass from Chris Waterfield, side-stepped two defenders and wristed a shot into the back of

the net. The Titans kept mo-mentum on their side in the second period despite having to kill 45 seconds of five-on-three hockey with Kulik and Cullen Fitzgerald in the pen-alty box, but could not get shots on point.

“We had our chances,” Duffy said. “We just couldn’t get that puck luck and get that bounce to go our way and find the back of the net.”

The pendulum swung toward the Clockers in the third, but Kyle Jacobs shut down two early breakaways before Weinlandt scored on a third rebound in front of the Titan net 5:07 into the period.

Carlson’s hit from behind on Tower stopped play with 1:30 left in the third period. To the chagrin of the coaches and the Pembroke faithful, Carlson was only given a mi-nor for boarding instead of a game misconduct major or ejection.

“[The official] tried to of-fer an explanation to me, but at that point I was too worried about Paul’s health and safety to hear what he had to say,” Duffy said. “As far as I was concerned, it was a serious hit from behind, but he disagreed

and called it his way.” After Tower was taken off

the ice, Pembroke responded with a barrage of offense, but again they could not get pucks through to the net. Ashland then had Pembroke on their heels until winning the game in the overtime period.

The loss brought an end to the high school careers of Paul Bevis, Jesse Johnson, Cam Miglietta and Ryan Ku-lik, a four-year starter and two-year captain that Duffy credited with establishing the fledging hockey program as a force on the South Shore.

“Ryan put this hockey program on the map four years ago when he came to us as a freshman,” he said. “I’ll never forget watching him in his first scrimmage against Marshfield. The three of us (coaches) behind the bench just looked at each other and smiled because we knew we had a diamond in the rough. I wish things would have ended differently for him because he put his heart and soul into this game and into this team, but I know he’s got a great future for himself both on the ice and off.”

Even with the departure of the four seniors, the Titans have a lot of offense coming back in Waterfield, Tom Cahi-ll and co-captain Matt Shee-han as well as a strong defen-sive core. Though the seniors’ careers at Pembroke are over, they left the returning team with a message that they need to do better next winter.

“The closing remarks from the seniors in the locker room were that, ‘You’ve got to go out next year and get further in the tournament,’” Duffy said. “The message has been sent already for next year by the outgoing seniors that this isn’t going to cut it.”

and Malger hit three-pointers of their own in the next three Quincy possessions to erase the Titan lead.

“I thought we really came at them hard tonight and out-played them in the first half,” Wholey said. “We out-re-bounded them, we beat them to loose balls, we just rushed our shots and didn’t finish a lot of easy shots.”

Graham Edwards drove the lane for a layup with sec-onds left to keep Pembroke within a basket, 33-30, at half-time. The Titans continued to stay within striking distance until the start of the fourth quarter, when Kevin McDon-agh scored twice and then hit a three with 3:35 to play to put Quincy up nine.

Edwards put the team on his back in the second half, scoring 11 of his 13 points in the final 16 minutes to keep the Titans close, but Pembroke could not get their shots to fall in the final minutes and saw their season come to an end.

“Graham played as hard as anyone,” Wholey said. “A lot

of the kids left it on the floor.”The Titans qualified for the

tournament in their final game of the season with a one-point win over Plymouth South on Feb. 15, which Wholey said was a great achievement for a team with little varsity experi-ence going into season.

“I don’t believe too many teams thought we were going to the tournament this year,” Wholey said. “They made it and had a heck of a game to-night.”

The Titans have a strong nucleus returning next sea-son led by Ryan, Coner and captain James Gaine. If the team puts in the work in the offseason, Wholey expects a more veteran Pembroke team to make a run deeper into the tournament next season.

“The kids got a little taste of the tournament,” he said. “I think we need to get stronger, they need to get in the weight room and play a little more. We’re a young team, and they did a great job getting to the tournament. I don’t think they have anything to be ashamed of. They worked their butts off all night.”

Pembroke knocked from tournament

Graham Edwards drives to the basket in the fourth quarter. Edwards tried to carry the team with 11 points in the second half.

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Kelley won Pembroke’s only individual state championship

at the Division III meet on Sunday. Kelley dominated the mile race to come in first and qualify for the All State meet.

Ryan Kulik celebrates after putting Pembroke in front 1-0 in the first period.

Cullen Fitzgerald lies in the net after Ashland’s game-winning goal in overtime on Tuesday that eliminated Pembroke from the MIAA tournament.

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The Titans faltered early and battled back but fell just short of their first indoor state championship on Sunday.

The Titans scored 46 points to finish five points behind Bishop Feehan at the Division III state championship.

“I’ve never been this happy after not winning one,” head coach Greg Zopatti said. “All around, once we had a little ad-

versity, I thought we really as a team reacted well and made one final charge at it.”

Zopatti said the Titans would have to have been mis-take-free to counter Feehan’s depth, but Pembroke suffered two early blows in the long and high jump. Berkeley Hall took second in the long, but Becky Stoyle, who was the third seed in the event, missed her mark and fouled out of the event, Te-resa Fatemi also did not score

by placing 10th and Michelle Coate just missed picking up a point by finishing seventh in the high jump.

The three Titans regrouped to dominate later in the meet. Stoyle bounced back from her disqualification to finish sec-ond in the 300 meters and then anchored the 4x100 team with Hall, Coate and Fatemi that won the race and was one hun-dredth of a second shy of tying the 13-year-old meet record.

“In adversity, Becky Stoyle had an excellent day,” Zopatti said. “When she didn’t make it to the finals of the long jump, she had kind of a mental falter. But then she got her act togeth-er, placed well by herself and anchored the 4x2.”

Both Fatemi and Coate then came back to help run Pembroke into fourth place in the 4x400 relay with Cara Cahill and Mary Scanlan to close out the girls portion of the meet.

“Michelle Coate and Te-resa Fatemi might have had the best days of their career running-wise,” Zopatti said.

Scanlan also had a good day in her individual race by qualifying for the All State meet with a third-place fin-ish in the 600 meters. Scanlan ran a 1:39.49 race and said she was feeling happy with her performance and back to full strength.

“I’ve had so many knee problems, but right now I feel a lot better,” Scanlan said. “The last time I ran, it kind of felt like I was on autopilot and didn’t have the opportunity to get a good spot. But this time I did a lot better and definitely had to fight for it because there were a lot of elbows flying around.”

Hall also qualified for All States in hurdles as well as the long jump by running a 41.75-second 55-meter hur-dles to take home her second second-place medal.

“I thought it was a good race, and I’m excited I ran in my finals,” Hall said. “I’m not that happy [about my long jump], but All States is Fri-day.”

The 4x800 team of Vanessa Pham, Sarah Cavalear, Chelsea Savage and Sarah James also surpassed Zopatti’s expecta-tions. He had hoped the team would be able to pick up one

point at the meet, but Pham and James each ran personal best times to grab fifth.

“Going into it, I didn’t think we could squeeze out a point,” Stoyle said. “But they went out and ran great.”

With Hall, Stoyle, Scanlan and three relay teams all ad-vancing to the All State meet, Zopatti said he expects the Titans to be a contender again next week.

“We have a shot to win All States,” he said. “Not having Stoyle in the long jump hurts us, but that meet suits us bet-ter.”

Lady Titans take second place at state meet

bEST FooT FoRWARD: becky Stoyle crosses the finish line in first place in the 4x200 relay at the Division III championships on Sunday. Stoyle, Teresa Fatemi, Michelle Coate and berkeley Hall came within one hundredth of a second of breaking the 13-year-old meet record with their time.

SoLID FINISH: Sophomore Sarah James anchors the 4x800 relay team to a fifth place finish.


The boys basketball team hung tough, but too many missed baskets kept them from going on the run they needed to beat Quincy at the high school on Monday.

The Presidents led virtu-ally the entire way to sweep the season series between the two Patriot League rivals and eliminate the Titans from the MIAA tournament by beating

Pembroke 50-42. “You’ve got to make

shots,” head coach Paul Whol-ey said. “It’s like getting a lot of shots in hockey, and if you can’t get it in the net, it doesn’t help, but I think the kids played their hearts out.”

Justin Ryan hit a three-pointer to tie the game at 27 with less than four minutes to play in the third quarter, but Kenny Nguyen hit three free throws on the other end of the court and Brian Malger hit a 3-pointer seconds later to put the Presidents back up six. The Titans never recovered from the six-point swing and

couldn’t come closer than two points for the rest of the game.

“We came all the way back to tie it up and then, next thing I know, within 10 seconds we are down six,” Wholey said. “In the second half, I thought Quincy played a little better and started beating us to loose balls, and we had trouble get-ting into our offense.”

Neither team shot well to start the game, with Quincy taking an 11-9 lead into the second. James Coner gave Pembroke the lead with the three in the second quarter, but Cedric Dybaud, Nguyen

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