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Southbridge, Ma 01550 PRSRT STD POSTAL U.S. POSTAGE PAID CUSTOMER PERMIT #231 ECR WSS SOUTHBRIDGE, MA 01550 Mailed weekly to every home in Sturbridge, Brimfield, Holland and Wales Vol. 2, No. 22 COMPLIMENTARY HOME DELIVERY ONLINE: WWW.STURBRIDGEVILLAGER.NET ‘A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.’ Friday, May 30, 2008 ‘The‘The lastlast fullfull measurmeasuree ofof devotion’devotion’ BY GUS STEEVES Besides the usual folks in mili- NEWS STAFF WRITER tary, police, fire, scout and other STURBRIDGE — With what units, the parade featured contin- was reportedly the biggest gents from McCoy’s Karate turnout in years, the town showed School, Hayloft Steppers, a girl’s its colors to honor veterans baton twirling team and the Monday. Marine Hogs, a motorcycle quar- According to Master of tet in full-dress uniform, among Ceremonies Thomas others. Chamberland, there were several Among the key participants new youth groups taking part this were George and Chad year, and two observers noted the Hammond, grandfather and parade had much more civilian grandson following a family tradi- participation that they expected, tion of service in the Air Force. based on experience with previ- ous years and other nearby towns. Turn To HONOR, page A8 Photos by Gus Steeves Above left to right: Flags decorate the graves of former soldiers at one of Sturbridge’s cemeteries. Military vehicles are led by the Marine Hogs in their dress blues on their motorcycles. USAF Lt. Col. George Hammond, right, and his grandson, Airman Chad Hammond during ceremonies at Sturbridge Town Hall Monday. Working to improve a river QUINEBAUG MONITORING PROJECT BEGINS BY GUS STEEVES Shetucket Heritage That’s largely because nobody NEWS STAFF WRITER ‘My job is Corridor, the river has been monitoring the river as it SOUTHBRIDGE — If a person is to improve “is already flows through Holland, Brimfield, sick, doctors do various tests to impaired by the Sturbridge, Southbridge and diagnose the problem. the river’ time it gets to Dudley or its various tributaries Starting last week, a group of vol- Connecticut” at the except at four state Department of unteers began coalescing to do the Volunteer Ed Dudley-Thompson Environmental Protection sites, she same thing for the Massachusetts Goodwin conserva- tion commissioner in town line. Shortly noted. section of the Quinebaug River. Sturbridge. after that point, To change that, the group plans to They hope to identify what the West Thompson examine at least 16 sites to deter- river’s baseline water quality is and Lake turns green mine whether they’re safe enough where it might need some help. in summer due to dissolved nutri- to monitor regularly, then create According to Jean Pillo, program ents, but the exact source remains coordinator for the Quinebaug unknown. Turn To RIVER, page A11 Gus Steeves photo ‘Every sample is extremely important’ A Mylar duck balloon was tied to the front grille of a Tantasqua school bus to protest the initial school-imposed penalty against senior pranksters. School officials later amended BY GUS STEEVES the punishment, but denied the student-faculty protest was a factor in that decision. NEWS STAFF WRITER STURBRIDGE — Although he wasn’t there, Nicholas Mercier was the star of the show at the Host Hotel Thursday, May 22, as more than 300 people turned out to offer Tantasqua duck prank their bone marrow to save his life. The 6-year-old son of Kevin and Traci Mercier is battling leukemia, creates a big splash which relapsed early last month, three months after a long course of chemotherapy. BY GUS STEEVES happen. “We pretty much knew what had NEWS STAFF WRITER According to a statement written happened because of his symp- STURBRIDGE — A “tradition” at by Sgt. Michael Cloutier, the toms,” Kevin, a Sturbridge Police Tantasqua High School sparked overnight shift first saw “several sergeant, said. “He was covered in media heat, police involvement and [five] students in a vehicle on school bruises, which are an indication of quiet student protest after 10 sen- grounds” about midnight and no platelets,” and complained of leg iors were caught trying to imple- warned them to leave because they pain. ment the annual senior prank very were trespassing during off-hours. Nicholas went to UMass Medical early the morning of Monday, May About three hours later, the same Center, where he has been the last 19. officer saw people near the baseball month, both parents by his side All sources agreed the students field, but they fled into the woods most of the time. intended to fill the school’s fountain upon his approach. When he pur- “We slept in shifts so that when- ever he opened his eyes, he’d see one with hundreds or thousands of yel- sued, he found the group included Gus Steeves photo low plastic ducks, but Sturbridge two or three of the midnight group of us,” Kevin said. “We’d keep Police patrolling the campus saw and “located items the students had telling him ‘You’re going to play ball Sturbridge Police Sgt. Kevin Mercier and his daughter, Ashlyn, talk things over dur- them and intervened before it could ing yesterday’s bone marrow drive to benefit 6-year-old Nicholas Mercier, who has Turn To DUCKS, page A11 Turn To DRIVE, page A11 leukemia. ALMANAC ..............2 SPORTS VILLAGER TRIVIA POLICE LOGS ..........5 LEARNING The nation’s population OBITUARIES ............7 WARRIORS SHINE numbers more than 280 mil- ALL-ARTS DAY lion and no clear winner is OPINION ..............10 AT SWCL declared in the presidential SPORTS...............12 PAGE 4 election. What year was it? PAGE 12 Answer inside. INSIDE 2 STURBRIDGE VILLAGER • Friday, May 30, 2008 Seniors get crash course in probate law VILLAGER ALMANAC Editor’s Note: The following story accounts can be put in two names, where ing homes are being paid by MassHealth, reports on a specific presentation on senior both have access, or written as a “payable at a cost at least $6,000 per person, and the QUOTATION OF THE WEEK legal issues and should not be interpreted on death” account, where only the senior treasury “was going bankrupt,” Bishop as legal advice. has access until death, Bishop said. said. To compensate, the Legislature Even more protective are several kinds changed the law in Feb. 2006 to allow nurs- “If it were our child, we hope people would do BY GUS STEEVES of trusts that can be made revocable or ing homes to seize clients’ homes or the same thing. … I hope I match somebody. I NEWS STAFF WRITER irrevocable. In the former, the senior puts money made from them as payment, even think it’s good they do this.” HOLLAND — Even to lawyers, dealing everything in a trust of which they are the if they had sold it up to five years earlier. with probate and nursing home issues trustee, but can take things out as desired. The same time frame applies to some Melissa Beauchemin, on her reasons for donating a DNA sample tends to be “an expensive and wasteful Anything in the trust is protected from kinds of cash gifts given to others by the for a potential match at a bone marrow drive this week to help process” if things aren’t well planned. probate, but not from nursing homes. client, he noted, adding that to document Nicholas Mercier, son of Kevin and Traci Mercier of Sturbridge. That, at least, was a key concept attor- Irrevocable trusts do protect from confis- it, the state now requires banks to provide ney Richard Bishop tried to impress upon cation by nursing homes, but the senior bank statements back five years on has no access to whatever’s in the trust request. a group of senior citizens at Holland PEN TO LOSE Senior Center Monday, May 19. The event and the trust must be drafted very care- “You have to arrange your house so that O C was part of the Massachusetts Bar fully to be legally enforceable, he said. A somebody else’s signature is required to third type, termed “in trust for …” sell it,” he said, noting that could mean HOLLAND: (413) 245-7108 Association’s Elder Law Education Week. Mon – Thurs 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. “We want to avoid probate, and avoiding accounts, can protect against probate putting the children’s names on the deed probate is easy to do if you do your home- (because they have a designee) but are or transferring it to the children outright FISKDALE: 508-347-6486 work,” Bishop said. “history” if you go into a nursing home while retaining the right to live there for Weekdays 9:00-4:30 and Sat. 9:00 -12:00 Some of that homework is relatively (because you can sign for it alone), he said. life. Another option is a homestead declara- “The downside of both these tech- STURBRIDGE 508-347-6463 easy — for example, drafting wills can be Weekdays 8:30 – 5:00 and Sat. 9:00 -12:00 done with forms available online and at tion — that protects the home itself from niques is that you have to trust your chil- places like Staples, and making sure the everything but nursing homes. dren,” Bishop said. “If they get divorced, BRIMFIELD: 413-245-3451 Weekdays: 9:00 – 4:30 and Sat. 9:00 -12:00 people you think are beneficiaries for life “A great majority of my clients feel they go bankrupt or whatever, your house is in insurance, inheritance and so forth are should pay something to their nursing their problems.” WALES: 413-245-9808 actually on those documents, he said.
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