Couple in Search of Their Ceramic Guardian Angel Blandford Ski Area
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JOHN STEINBECK Low of 55. www.thewestfieldnews.com VOL.Blandford 86 NO. 151 TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 2017 Couple in search 75 cents Ski Area of their ceramic guardian angel applies for By GREG FITZPATRICK Correspondent SOUTHWICK – A couple from Southwick is in search of liquor license their white ceramic guardian By AMY PORTER angel that has gone missing Correspondent from the Southwick New BLANDFORD – Ron Crozier, general Cemetery. Gary and Frances manager of the Blandford Ski Area on Nye Allen had the 2 ft. ceramic at Brook Road, and representing attorney Jesse the cemetery for almost 40 Cook-Dubin appeared before the Board of years and believed it has been Selectman on Monday for an alcohol license missing for nearly a week. for the ski area. Cook-Dubin said the license Ten years after the Allen’s would be for on premises, all alcohol, seven Joseph Deedy, who will be running food services at Blandford ski area, infant daughter, Angel, passed days a week to be served in the two base Dick McCann, general manager of Ski Butternut and Ron Crozier, GM away in 1969, they had a of Ski Blandford at Blandford Board of Selectmen Monday. (Photo by lodges and on the patios, which he said are ceramic guardian angel Gary and Frances Allen Amy Porter) mountain side and roped off. installed on their daughter’s are looking for their In introducing himself, Crozier said he is Selectman Cara Letendre said impressed by Butternut’s manage- burial plot in 1979. Frances ceramic guardian angel responsible for the overall day to day opera- Allen’s parents made the item, that has been missing from tions and for financial management of the ski she believed the situation will be ment,” the resident said. “I’m also easier to manage when they are concerned about access to the ski who owned Cecile’s Ceramics the Southwick New area. He said he has worked in the ski indus- in town. Cemetery. (Photo from Frances try for 34 years, and had previously worked selling the alcohol, as opposed to area, with one way in and one way when people brought their own. out. If there is an accident, then According to Frances, she Allen) for Butternut Basin owner Jeff Murdock and Gary visited Angel’s grave before moving out of state. When Butternut “Moving in this direction is an what,” he said, referring to ambu- attempt to manage it,” she said. lances and fire trucks getting last Tuesday and it was still there. When speaking to the bought Blandford, Murdock contacted him workers at the new cemetery, they said it wasn’t raked or about coming back. A Nye Brook Road resident com- through. “If the town could some- mented that the sales would how think about fixing the other mowed. The angel is held in place by a metal pole and is too Crozier said currently Ski Blandford is heavy to blow over by the wind. This leads Allen to believe open six days a week until ski season, when increase traffic, and said the road road,” he added. should be posted with a speed limit. Letendre said that Highway that it’s been stolen. it will open seven days a week. He said he “She’s been guarding there for a lot of years and I find it lives nearby in East Otis, and will be respon- Crozier responded that the res- Superintendent Brad Curry is look- taurant will be operating the same ing at a grant to repair the Nye heartbreaking that somebody would steal it,” said Allen. sible for the alcohol sales as manager on Further describing the ceramic, Allen says it’s all white, record, adding that he has been TIPS certi- hours as before, from 8 a.m. to 9 Brook Bridge, but acknowledged p.m. “We don’t see the liquor that the Second Division road, glazed, with wings, and shows the angel having its hands fied. He said the alcohol will be served in the together praying. On the bottom of the ceramic are the restaurant, and no outside alcohol will be license bringing in more traffic,” he which leads out of the ski area in said. the opposite direction, is not pass- etched initials C.B. or B.A.B.. allowed. “We’ve been back every day looking and hoping that Selectman Eric McVey mentioned this will McVey asked what the speed able and would have to be rebuilt. limit is when there are no signs, She also said that there are no resi- somebody would see the post,” said Allen. “It just means a be a first year transition from the practice of lot.” the Springfield Ski Club, which previously and was told it is 35 mph. He said dents on that road, and with limited the Highway Department could put funds, they have to prioritize road In the meantime, the Allen’s have put a mum over the post owned the ski area, to allow skiers to bring to help the display not look as empty. If anyone knows their own alcohol. Crozier said the transition up the signs. Letendre said Police work in the town. Chief Dan Ilnicky could also estab- Returning to the license, Letendre where the ceramic guardian angel is or has found it, contact will be from a club to a private ski area. the Cemetery Commission at 413-569-3137, ext. 142. McVey asked if food service is going to be lish a police presence on the road. said the town has received the $200 open the same hours as alcohol service, and “We would love to have a police fee from the ski area. In response to Crozier said it would be. He also said the presence,” Crozier said. another question as to whether the alcohol, which they are thinking of limiting The same resident said the road license would be available to rent to beer and wine the first year, will be served has been paved, but not widened, for off-season functions, Cook- with food, and there will be no bar area. and is narrow for buses. He asked if Dubin said the license is year- Free Healing Hearts Resident T. J. Cousineau asked what kind there would be buses for ski schools round. He also said outside func- of liability insurance they would have to coming in and out. Crozier said tions with a caterer would have monitor people who drink and then go up the they hope to have school groups their own insurance and a caterer’s Program for slopes, or drive away. coming in this year. He said when liquor license, which allows them Crozier said they will be covered on the they didn’t open last year, Otis to serve anywhere. ski area’s liability insurance. He also said lift Ridge, which is also owned by “If we did a summer event, I ‘grand families’ operators and ski patrollers would have the Butternut Basin, was able to accom- would be there. At this point in ability to contact the general manager if they modate them. By LORI SZEPELAK had concerns about someone. “I’m not anti-ski area. I’m See Blandford Ski Area, Page 3 Correspondent WESTFIELD-As opioid addictions continue to escalate regionally, a new program at the Genesis Spiritual Life and Conference Center will provide support to those known as “grand families.” “The statistics that relate to addiction currently are alarm- ing,” said Liz Walz, ASP, executive director at Genesis. No refund in drug deal “Opioid addictions, deemed epidemic by the Centers for By CARL However, he said, he gave Disease Control, has ushered in a new era of ‘grand families,’ E. HARTDEGEN the man, Brandon I. Heard, families parented primarily by grandparents.” Correspondent 32, of 9 Hanover St., Apt. B, Walz noted that state statistics indicate there were 6,731 WESTFIELD – A city man Westfield, $50 to pay for the opioid incidents in the last quarter of 2017. who told city police he weed but Heard went into a “Of these incidents, the overdose rate in Hampden County wouldn’t buy marijuana for a residential building and did has doubled in the past year,” said Walz. “In Massachusetts, 16-year-old boy – but took not return. there are 10,000 grandparent-led families, of these, 80% of his money anyway – has When the boy realized that the grandparents lost their children due to substance abuse. been arrested and arraigned he was not getting his mari- This represents an increase of 17% of grandparents raising for larceny. juana, he held the man who grandchildren over the past year in Massachusetts.” had arranged the deal respon- Walz and a team of program leaders will offer a free series sible and the disturbance Granville Fire has received a new multi-purpose vehicle. titled “Healing Hearts Program: Solace for Grandparents and ensued. (Photo from Granville Fire Department) Kin Who Are Raising Grandchildren.” Two-hour sessions Police found that the mid- will be conducted on Oct.