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Search for The Westfield News Westfield350.comTheThe Westfield WestfieldNews News Serving Westfield, Southwick, and surrounding Hilltowns “TIME IS THE ONLY WEATHER CRITIC WITHOUT TONIGHT AMBITION.” Partly Cloudy. JOHN STEINBECK Low of 55. www.thewestfieldnews.com VOL. 86 NO. 151 TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 2017 75 cents $1.00 TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2020 VOL. 89 NO. 186 New COVID-19 reporting page for city has more data By PETER CURRIER Staff Writer WESTFIELD — The Westfield Health Department unveiled a new WHS principal Charles Jendrysik speaks from the heart to the Seniors parade past Westfield High on their way to their 2020 commence- look to its COVID-19 reporting seniors. (MARC ST. ONGE/THE WESTFIELD NEWS) ment ceremony. (MARC ST. ONGE/THE WESTFIELD NEWS) page which will now provide more data to the general public on the local infection numbers. The new reporting system will provide information on the number WHS principal ‘inspired’ by Class of 2020 of daily new cases, deaths, and active cases for the current report- ing period and the previous report- By AMY PORTER graduates. ing period. Previously, the Health Staff Writer Mayor Donald F. Humason Jr. Department only updated the total WESTFIELD – Westfield High brought greetings and congratula- number of new cases and the num- School Principal Charles Jendrysik tions from the City of Westfield, ber of deaths for a single reporting reflected on thejourney of the Class saying it’s been 34 years since he period. of 2020 during the Westfield hIgh graduated. “School goes by quick- As the new web page was School graduation ceremony July ly. The time you spent over these unveiled, Westfield reported 10 31. last years goes by like that; and the new cases over the previous week, He addressed students, who sat time afterwards goes by even more bringing the total number to 492 as 6-feet apart, and family who quickly. No matter what happens, of Friday, July 31. The infection watched from their vehicles in the you’ll always look back on your rate remains low, but numbers in parking lot. time here. Don’t ever forget you’re the state have been slightly elevat- “When I began as principal, our a part of Westfield’s history. You’ve ed in the past week, with several now graduating seniors were begin- made us proud,” he said. days in which the positive test rate ning their high school journey as School Committee member was over 2 percent for the first time in months. freshmen. Together we have expe- Ramon Diaz, Jr., who served on the On Friday there were eight rienced so much over the last four graduation committee that planned active cases in Westfield. years. We began with the same jit- the ceremonies, gave a metaphor In Southwick there were just ters, fears, and uncertainty. But as from his years in the service. time passed, we began to learn, “As a parent of the class of 2020, three new COVID-19 cases last School committeeman Ramon Diaz, Jr. speaks to the seniors during the week, bringing the total to 66. Just grow, and overcome all obstacles. I share in the joy and sometimes two of the cases in the town were Our school became more than a Westfield High School graduation July 31, 2020. (MARC ST. ONGE/THE sadness in your graduation,” Diaz active as of Friday according to building made of brick and mortar. WESTFIELD NEWS) said. He said he recently he spoke Health Director Tammy Spencer. It became a second home. It became You have had a profound impact on never done, and that the world to the students who were going to a very special place where we me throughout the years and espe- needs leaders like you to continue the military with an illustration experienced community, support, cially the last few months. I have to step up, face challenges and per- from his time in the service. “When friendships and hope,” Jendrysik been beyond inspired by you,” he severe. you put on your gas mask, you A. Duie Pyle told the seniors. told them. “Thank you for being who you have to first breathe in, and the say- “Now as we meet together one “If the last few months have are, Thank you for standing for ing is `embrace the suck.’ last time, I want to say how proud I shown us anything, it’s that life can what you believe, and thank you Sometimes you have to say that expands am of all of you and how grateful I be unpredictable. As you graduate for allowing me to be a part of your Westfield personally am to the Class of 2020. today realize that your work is truly life’s journey,” Jendrysik told the See Class of 2020, Page 5 Service Center By AMY PORTER Staff Writer WESTFIELD – A. Duie Pyle Marine’s epic tale spans decades has announced the expansion of its By LORI SZEPELAK drafts, he sought input from his Westfield Integrated Distribution Correspondent father. Center, adding a new Accessory WESTFIELD-The training that “He didn’t critique it too much, Transfer and Distribution Center Tom Hebert received in the United but he did question anything he did to its current location. States Marine Corps served him not understand,” said Hebert. “His Located at 66 Ampad Road, the well on his latest mission – to take feedback gave me insight into how expansion includes a readers on a journey through time other readers might react, so I 35,500-square-foot service center with a cast of characters who found revised as appropriate.” and an 8,800-square-foot fleet themselves in extraordinary situa- Hebert, who serves as chief maintenance facility, to help short- tions during wartime. financial officer at Cambridge en transit times for essential and Hebert, an officer in the Marines Credit Counseling Corporation in nonessential goods. who served from 1968 to 1971 in Agawam, has devoted 10 years of The Integrated Distribution Vietnam, recently completed and his life to bringing this epic tale to Center, which officially reopened self-published his novel titled “The print, with five additional volumes on July 27, now features 53 LTL Remains of the Corps: Volume 1, to be revealed in the coming years. cross-dock doors and the fleet Ivy & the Crossing: The Illustrated “I am a part-time novelist,” said Tom Hebert is seen holding a copy maintenance facility has a three Novel.” Hebert, adding, “which makes the of his new novel in front of his bay shop and truck wash. The “While virtually all of the 105,000 words in Volume 1 all that Marine Wall in East Windsor, additions were built on Pyle’s passed in 2014. They resided in Conn. (SUBMITTED PHOTO) Marines depicted in ‘The Remains Westfield for more than 25 years, much more of an accomplishment.” existing 67-acre campus, which is of the Corps: Volume I’ are fic- Hebert expects to release each already home to three warehouses and were communicants of Our The timeline for the Volume 1 tional, they exemplify a generation Lady of the Blessed Sacrament successive volume in two-year novel spans 1913-1917 with detailed comprising over 820,000 square of Americans that practiced volun- spans. feet. Church. descriptions of each character as teerism the likes of which we are “My dad was a World War II vet “Research takes a great deal of well as illustrations by artist Tara A. Duie Pyle, a family-owned unlikely to see again,” said Hebert. time and I also had to train myself and operated business for more who landed on Iwo Jima,” said Kazmaier of Windsor Locks, Conn. “They shouldn’t be forgotten, and Hebert. “In 1968, I followed my to write fiction,” said Hebert, not- She graduated from the than 96 years, provides a range of in ‘The Remains of the Corps,’ they ing he was up to the challenge and integrated transportation and dis- Dad into the Marines.” Massachusetts College of Art and are not.” Hebert added his dad read most has found the experience “very Design in Boston with a bachelor of tribution services supported by 24 Hebert noted he has dedicated satisfying.” LTL service centers and 11 ware- of his drafts for the novel. fine arts degree in painting. She is the novel to his father, the late “I promised him on his deathbed “My novel starts in the early using the pseudonym Tara Kaz for houses strategically located William G. Hebert, who was also a 1900’s so I spent a lot of time read- throughout the Northeast region. in 2016 that I would finish it,” said the novel. USMC veteran. William passed in Hebert. ing military history, Marine history, 2016 and his wife, Bertha Hebert, and American history,” he said. See A. Duie Pyle, Page 3 Hebert noted that during his early See New Novel, Page 2 WESTFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB SPORTS FIELD SATURDAY • AUGUST 29, 2020 • 7:00 PM The National Touring Production ~ KASHMIR, is the most Athentic To Benefit: representation of Led Zepplin. Band members capture the look, feel and sound of the true Led Zepplin Experience. DRIVE-IN EVENT! • Opening Act: Dan Watson from Mystic, CT Sponsored By: The Westfield News Tickets at Purplepass.com & Rocky’s Ace Hardware PAGE 2 - TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2020 WWW.THEWESTFIELDNEWS.COM THE WESTFIELD NEWS New Novel Continued from Page 1 Hebert explained that he wrote the novel under the pseudonym Will Remain, a fictional third-generation Marine and Vietnam veteran. “The United States Marine Corps has been a household name for generations,” said Hebert. “For many, serving in Corps has been and continues to be a ‘family business.’” The fictional Remains (an anagram for Marines) are one such family, noted Hebert.