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RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS? If you have RA and your current treat- ment is not giving you the relief you need, you should know that Clinical Pharmacology Study Group is doing clinical trials with novel medications with the goal of giving more com- plete relief of pain and stiffness and markedly decreasing the likelihood of joint deformities. The treatments are sponsored by major phar- maceutical companies and there is no charge for medication and care. Call Clinical Pharmacology, 25 Oak Avenue, Worcester, MA 01605 at 508-755-0201 Charles A Birbara, MD Principal Investigator, Assoc Professor of Medicine, U Mass Memorial Campus Mary Coughlin, RN, BSN Free by request to residents of Webster, Dudley and the Oxfords Clinical Study Manager SEND YOUR NEWS AND PICS TO [email protected] Friday, October 25, 2019 Community cuts the ribbon Vehicle purchases, on new Fire Department water projects top town meeting warrant BY JASON BLEAU the agenda. CORRESPONDENT The Water and Sewer Departments have numerous DUDLEY – Thirty-three arti- articles on the warrant, the first cles are set to be discussed at of which will address the status the town of Dudley’s annual fall of property on Packard Drive town meeting on Monday, Oct. as it relates to the town and the 28, ranging from budgetary recoded deeds. Another article items to vehicle and equipment will seek money to purchase purchases, town hall upgrades, radio readers and bases and a a solar project PILOT agree- third article will seek money for ment, bylaws amendments and Phase III of the Massachusetts other matters. Department of Environmental Among the financial items Protection mandated Inflow and proposed purchases are and Infiltration Study and a new police cruised, a street related work. Finally, a fourth Jason Bleau Photo sweeper, a waste oil heater Water Department article will for the highway department, seek funds for the design, con- Chief Dean Kochanowski and his fellow firefighters cut the ceremonial ribbon to welcome guests to the replacement of guardrails on rebuilt Dudley Fire Department. struction and related services Charlton Road, and firefight- of numerous water projects BY JASON BLEAU the 60-year-old facility. Ground was broken er gear. Voters will also be CORRESPONDENT including the replacement of for the project in July of 2018 leading the asked to decide on funding for the well at Pump Station No. 3 West Main Street facility to expand from a upgrades to network equip- DUDLEY – After years of hard work, pub- as well as testing, permitting two-level 5,995-square-foot aging building ment in the town hall as well and drilling of a new wellfield lic campaigns, several ballot votes and more to a state of the art 18,500 square-foot facil- as transferring money to help than a year of construction the town of at the Main Pumping Station ity including eight new vehicle bays, a new pay off the roof replacement among other initiatives. Dudley finally has a newly upgraded and kitchen, larger meeting space and new quar- and HVAC project conducted fully operations fire station. The Board of Selectmen is ters for fire personnel. at the town hall over the last sponsoring several articles to The Dudley Fire Department held a special Chief Dean Kochanowski kicked off the year. A similar request will ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday, Oct. be addressed later on the war- ribbon cutting ceremony thanking the be made concerning the LED rant made up of mostly house- 19 to commemorate the officially reopening many boards and individuals involved in streetlight conversion project of the building bringing to a close the $6.75 keeping financial items and the project which was first conceptualized as well. Several other house- unpaid bills. However, one of million rebuild and expansion project to keeping financial items cap off Please Read RIBBON, page A19 the first seventeen articles on Please Read MEETING, page A7 “When you’re working with plants, less is more” BACHAND TALKS HEALING HERBS AT LIBRARY BY GUS STEEVES being a herbalist and student of using something from where where in our region, and are CORRESPONDENT Native American healing meth- you live because it works better quite likely to be in your back- WEBSTER — Healing liter- ods. Underlying all that work with your body.” yard if you let it go natural. ally grows wild all around us. is a commitment to keeping it Over the course of two hours, Some have numerous uses, But it takes many forms, and local whenever possible. Bachand showcased near- while others are pretty specific. requires some caution to use “The properties change when- ly three dozen plants, most of Some are generally safe, some safely. ever you take a plant [from them native but a few brought have toxic look-alikes, and oth- That’s a very brief summa- elsewhere] and plant it here in from Europe many years ago. ers come with some serious ry of what Del Bachand has because the soil is different,” The vast majority of them grow warnings regarding use, either Gus Steeves Photo learned over several decades of she said.” “… You’re better off wild or semi-wild almost every- Del Bachand holds up several Please Read BACHAND, page A7 leaves of dried comfrey. St. Joseph students join National Junior Honor Society WEBSTER — St. Joseph School is organization that promotes recognition proud to announce that the following for its students who reflect outstanding students have been inducted into the accomplishments in the areas of schol- Eagles Chapter of the National Junior arship, leadership, character, service, Honor Society (NJHS): and citizenship. Grade 7 – Dale Boudreau and St. Joseph School students are eli- Maya Podskarbi; Grade 8 – Katrina gible for an invitation to the National Piekielniak, Jacob Sirard and Adrian Junior Honor Society at the end of their Courtesy Photo Sobczak. sixth or seventh grade academic year. Current members include eighth Cumulative Grade Point Averages The St. Joseph School National Junior Honor Society - Front Row (L to R) Wiktoria potem, grade students Tessa McCabe and (GPA) are calculated based on every Jacob Sirard, Dale Boudreau, Tessa McCabe: Back Row (L to R) NJHS Adviser, Karen Wiktoria Potem. completed quarter of middle school, Lefebvre, Maya Podskarbi, Adrian Sobczak, Rev. Grzegorz Chodkowski, Katrina Piekielniak, The NJHS at St. Joseph School is an and Principal Michael Hackenson. Please Read HONOR SOCIETY, page A10 Are you ready for a JOB CHANGE? Looking for NEW JOB? Check out your local source of job and career opportunities. See Section B of your newspaper and find out who’s hiring in your area. 2 • THE WEBSTER TIMES • Friday, October 25, 2019 www.StonebridgePress.com ThinkJoin these Pink local businesses in supporting breast cancer awareness this October! Breast cancer signs and symptoms Breast cancer is a for- out a professional cancer could indicate the pres- of a physician. midable foe. According screening, women can ence of breast cancer. • Discharge from the to the World Health Or- keep an eye out for cer- Some women may notice nipple: The NBCF notes ganization, an estimat- tain signs of breast can- changes in the skin tex- that any discharge from ed 627,000 women lost cer they might be able ture or an enlargement the nipple, but particular- their lives to breast can- to detect on their own. of the pores in the skin of ly a clear or bloody dis- cer in 2018. But women Monthly self-exams can their breast. In many in- charge, could be a sign of are not helpless in the help women more easily stances, skin texture has breast cancer. The NBCF fight against breast can- identify changes in their been described as being also advises women that cer, as the WHO notes breasts. During such similar to the texture of a milky discharge when early detection is critical self-exams, women can an orange peel. Lumps they are not breastfeed- and could potentially look for the following in the breast also may ing is not linked to breast save thousands of lives signs and symptoms and indicate breast cancer, cancer but should be dis- each year. are advised to report any though not all lumps are cussed with a physician. A proactive approach abnormalities they dis- cancerous. Learning to recognize is a key component of pro- cover to their physicians • Change in appear- the signs and symptoms particularly when the cancer that can affect the tecting oneself against immediately. ance of the breast or nip- of breast cancer can in- shrinking or swelling appearance of the breast breast cancer. While the • Changes in how the ple: Unexplained chang- crease the likelihood of is exclusive to one side or nipple. It is common National Breast Cancer breast or nipple feels: es in the size or shape early diagnosis, which only; and a nipple that is for women’s breasts to Foundation, Inc.® notes The NBCF says nipple of the breast; dimpling greatly improves wom- turned slightly inward or be asymmetrical, but sud- that many breast cancer tenderness or a lump anywhere on the breast; en’s chances of surviving inverted are some signs den asymmetry should be symptoms are invisible or thickening in or near unexplained swelling or this disease. and symptoms of breast brought to the attention and not noticeable with- the breast or underarm shrinking of the breast, The Honda – Acura Educating young women Specialists about breast cancer FAMILY OWNED AND OPERATED FOR OVER At the age of 12 to 15, many young women Some organizations have increased breast 723 Main Street, N. Oxford, MA 50 YEARS are experiencing the body and life changes cancer messages for young girls, and it is not that accompany adolescence.

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