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Mailed free to requesting homes in Douglas, Northbridge and Uxbridge Vol. III, No. 32 Complimentary to homes by request ONLINE: www.blackstonevalleytribune.com “Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.” Friday, May 7, 2010 Shining Rock opens to rave reviews GOLF CLUB DRAWS CROWDS OVER WEEKEND BY THOMAS MATTSON Friday, April 23. And already the ficult, it is also a kind of fantasy hole. TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER place is swarming with golfers try- The kind you imagine when you NORTHBRIDGE — You don’t have ing to unlock the secrets of this cross the Badlands of South Dakota to look from Shining Rock Golf Club intriguing layout. and you idly wonder whether you to beyond for a startling view. Veteran pro Lee Danielian, now could get a shot across a ravine to the Although that happens. affiliated with the new club, put it top of a butte. No, the views that most golfers straight from the shoulder. The first However, even with the quiet of find at the new, 18-hole champi- five holes, he said, are — well, how to the electric golf carts, no screams onship links that opened recently are put it? “Challenging” would be the were heard last Saturday, for exam- pretty absorbing right between tee gentlemanly way of describing ple, except from a reaction to the and green. Or two-tiered green. Or them. “Awe-inspiring.” Yes, as in a hole-in-one recorded by Karyn three-tiered green. view from the tee. But when they call Danielian, the pro’s wife. And if France had owned the wall the place ‘Shining Rock,’ they are not “I hit a 9-wood on No. 15,” she said. of ledge fronting the fourth green, kidding. It might just as well have The par-3 hole measures 138 yards that country would not have needed been named ‘mesmerizing rock.’ Or from the women’s tees. Asked reinforcements for the stormed put on your sunglasses because you whether it was her first hole-in-one, Bastille. Nobody would have dared don’t really want to think about all of she said it was the third she has attack such a curtain of ledge. that molten lava between you and the recorded during her golf career. Nobody, that is, but golfers at the green. Attesting the feat were Lynn Pawley new Shining Rock golf course. In truth, however, such ledge of Southboro, Elizabeth Levins of Thomas Mattson photo Last weekend was only the second deposits are mostly notable on just Golf pro Lee Danielian tees off on the first hole, as Shining Rock owner/manager Tim since the course opened for play one hole — the fourth. And if it is dif- Turn To GOLF page A14 Gordon looks on. Douglas Uxbridge voters schools to decide budget BY ANDY LEVIN capital purchases — a new police TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER cruiser and replacement gear for the reduce fire department — account for UXBRIDGE —Town Meeting vot- ers will be asked to take action on 15 almost half the increase. An addi- warrant articles, foremost among tional $33,000 would bolster the vet- them the town’s fiscal year 2011 eran’s agent budget, which Szlosek FY 2011 budget and a bylaw amendment that noted has been “chronically under- would allow the establishment of funded.” “life science” companies in certain Szlosek said there are two salary zoning districts. adjustments in the spending plan: proposal The Annual Town Meeting will be one for the firefighters union, which held at 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 11, at is in the final year of its contract, Uxbridge High School. and another for a Town Hall staff BY THOMAS MATTSON TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER The town manager’s recommend- member due a pay raise after com- ed fiscal 2011 budget of $33,675357 pleting a probationary period. DOUGLAS — The School represents an increase of $85,570, or “There are no contract settle- Committee, looking ahead to this .24 percent, over current levels of ments and therefore no budgeted past Tuesday’s Town Meeting, last spending. Municipal department increases for the clerical, DPW and week voted to adopt the fiscal 2011 spending would increase by $113,489, police unions,” he said. departmental budget of $12,001,011. or 2.28 percent, according to Town “Management staff is entering its School Business Manager Dean Manager Michael Szlosek. third year without salary increases. Iacobucci told the committee at a In his budget memorandum to meeting April 28 that the $12 million selectmen, Szlosek explained that Turn To BUDGET page A15 budget consists of an operating budget of $11,265,931 and a trans- portation budget of $735,080. “We are at the point in time when the School Committee should adopt an FY2011 operating budget,” Iacobucci said. “Unfortunately, a considerable amount of uncertainty remains regarding state funding to Thomas Mattson photo cities/towns as well as uncertainty John O’Toole on trombone for the Blackstone Valley Community Concert Band. regarding school spending require- ments at the local level.” At present, he noted, the schools’ proposed operating budget has been reduced to the amount the town SPPACEACE ODYSSEYDYSSEY previously requested — S O $11,265,931. “A total of $360,030 in reduc- tions/changes is being recommend- COMMUNITY CONCERT BAND GIVES ed to reach this level,” he explained. He said the reduction has been ‘OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD’ PERFORMANCE achieved by several actions, but largely by moving the cost of some Andy Levin photo positions from the operating budget BY THOMAS MATTSON John Philip Sousa, written in Alternatives’ clients and staff members protested discrimination, in all its forms, last Friday. to grants Iacobucci said he now TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 1882 to celebrate the transit of believes the schools will receive in NORTHBRIDGE — Some 400 Venus. For more than a century, fiscal 2011. people showed up for a galaxy of the score was thought to be lost, Iacobucci also said the schools offerings by the Blackstone but a Library of Congress work- will purchase this year the text- Valley Community Concert Band er found it in 2003. Alternatives takes a books/materials initially included Friday night, April 30, at the Then came “The Planets,” a in the schools’ proposed 2011 budg- Northbridge High School audito- seven-movement orchestral suite et, using stimulus funds that allow rium. by composer Gustav Holst, the schools to remove these expens- Director Kathleen Penza, of known as British but also a Dane ‘Stand Against Racism’ es ($91,022) from next year’s funding Uxbridge, directed some 58 musi- who was born in Norway. Holst request. cians from 30 communities in wrote the piece in 1914. The band BY ANDY LEVIN of the Whitinsville-based human TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER “It is also extremely important to Massachusetts and Rhode Island. played the “Jupiter” movement, services agency signed a pledge remember that our budget will “Tonight,” said host Michael a rather hectic projection repre- NORTHBRIDGE — Unjust against discrimination, listened to require additional action by the Seibold, “we will treat you to a senting jollity. hatred and bigotry of any type inspirational music and discussed School Committee,” he said. “The sampling of music that portrays Seibold introduced the next were targeted for elimination here how to combat a problem they said original budget amount supported the mystery and excitement of piece, “When You Wish Upon a last week. is still quite present in America. by the town was based on funding outer space.” Star,” by Leigh Harline and New Alternatives joined thousands of Approximately 1,900 such events provided by the governor’s budget.” First came Richard Strauss’ Washington, as introduced in the other organizations across the took place nationwide last Friday, Since that time, he added, state “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” com- 1940 Walt Disney classic country Friday, April 30 to “Stand with an anticipated 250,000 people officials have indicated there may posed in 1896. Next came the Against Racism,” a YWCA-spon- signing the pledge, according to “Transit of Venus March,” by Turn To CONCERT page A8 sored campaign now in its third Kelly Seddiki, Alternatives’ direc- Turn To SCHOOLS page A15 year. Staff, volunteers and clientele Turn To RACISM page A16 A2-3 ...................................... LOCAL A9 ....................... SENIOR SCENE OUGLAS VOTERS REJECT STORM WATER BYLAW A4-5 ..................................... OPINION A11-12 ......................... SPORTS D - A7 ................................... OBITUARIES A13............................ CALENDAR SEE PAGE B2 INSIDE 2 • Friday, May 7, 2010 BLACKSTONE VALLEY TRIBUNE VALLEY NOTEBOOK TRIBUNE Cordts leads cleanup of camp ALMANAC QUOTATION OF THE WEEK BY ANDY LEVIN TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER “People are saying they REGION — The president of Douglas High School’s freshman waited forever for the class recently proved that leaders often get their hands dirty. course to open and that Nicholas Cordts organized and participated in a cleanup of the they’re excited to have it Children’s Haven camp in done.” Douglas to complete a community service project connected to his — Shining Rock owner/manager Tim role as a member of the Blackstone Valley Youth Gordon Leadership Academy. The BVYLA is a program of the Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Education THE STATS Foundation comprised of 22 high school students selected from the Major Ancestry Groups (%) Reported by area’s 11 towns. Residents ———————————Italian Following a series of telephone Auburn ——————————————12 calls and planning meetings, the Brimfield —————————————12 cleanup was held Saturday, April Brookfield —————————————6 10. Courtesy photo Charlton ——————————————8 “The purpose of this project Volunteers took a break from their cleanup of Children’s Haven camp to pose for the camera. Douglas ——————————————9 was to help open up camp for the Dudley ———————————————8 kids attending this summer so turned out to help prepare the old paint off of walls,” Cordts budget last week, lawmakers Holland ——————————————8 they could have a well-kept and camp for the upcoming season.