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Riding and Raising Fire Wipes out Historic Uxbridge Building Mailed free to requesting homes in Douglas, Northbridge and Uxbridge Vol. VI, No. 41 Complimentary to homes by request ONLINE: WWW.BLACKSTONEVALLEYTRIBUNE.COM Friday, July 26, 2013 THIS WEEK’S QUOTE Fire wipes out historic Riding “One must not lose desires. They are and raising mighty stimulants to Uxbridge building creativeness, to love, and to long life.” LAVERDIERE, COSTA READY Alexander A. TO TACKLE FIRST Bogomoletz PAN-MASS CHALLENGE BY AMANDA COLLINS INSIDE TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER UXBRIDGE — For the last A2-3— LOCAL seven years, Uxbridge resi- A4-5— OPINION dent Eli Laverdiere has staked out a spot at CVS to A6 — CALENDAR cheer on the more than 5,500 A6 — OBITUARIES cyclists who make their way through town in the Pan A8— SENIOR SCENE Mass Challenge, and each A12 — SPORTS time he’s said he’ll one day ECT EAL STATE be among them. B S . - R E This year, he will be. B SECT. - LEGALS Laverdiere is a member of Amanda Collins photos the two-man team, “One For Firefighters were still battling the blaze hours after it started. the Road,” that has already LOCAL raised more than $10,000 for cancer research. He and his APARTMENTS, BUSINESSES teammate, Rich Costa, also Amanda Collins photo from Uxbridge, will make Rich Costa and Eli Laverdiere DESTROYED IN SIX-ALARM BLAZE their way from Sturbridge to are gearing up for their first Pan- Provincetown next month in Mass Challenge BY AMANDA COLLINS Uxbridge. Business own- the 34th annual Pan-Mass TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER ers and residents of the Challenge. here and there, the team- UXBRIDGE — A six- building escaped without Expected to garner at least mates said the ride’s physi- alarm fire that ripped injuries, but at least one $38 million for cancer cality was never a deterrent. through a historic down- pet perished in the blaze. research just this year, no Instead, it was the $4,300 town building Thursday, The fire was first other single athletic event fundraising minimum that July 18, damaged the reported just before 2 p.m. raises or contributes more made them the most hesi- structure so badly it was while fire crews were money to charity than the tant. “When Eli first came to ordered to be demolished already out on another PMC. The nation’s first char- me and said, ‘We’re doing the following day. call, Fire Chief Bill ity bike-a-thon, the PMC is a this,’ I told him he was crazy, Firefighters from about Kessler said. He and 190-mile bike ride that and that was mostly because two-dozen towns, includ- police were among the stretches over two days and of the fundraising,” said ing Webster, Charlton and first responders who benefits Dana-Farber and Costa. “Literally, your credit Southbridge, worked for made their way through the Jimmy Fund. card is on the line.” three hours through the the first and second floors While neither Laverdiere But the men said that fam- Zentangle blazing heat to put out a to evacuate tenants, but or Costa have ever done ily, friends and local busi- fire that tore through 32 A firefighter is helped away from much more bike riding than Page A2 putting around the block South Main St., in Please Read FIRE, page A13 the scene. Please Read PAN-MASS, page A11 LEARNING Wallum Lake issues BEAT getting ‘worse THE and worse’ HEAT FFICIALS CONTINUE TO DOUGLAS — People O from all over flocked to SEEK ANSWERS TO the cool waters and slip- pery slides at the Breezy OVERCROWDING PROBLEM Picnic Grounds and Waterslides to beat the scorching heat, Friday BY AMANDA COLLINS As part of the Douglas July 19. As temperatures TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER State Forest, Wallum Lake soared into the 90s, kids and Park are operated by DOUGLAS — Midway and families cooled off by DCR, but overcrowding Digging into dinos through the summer sea- hopping in the lake or there has put a strain on son, town officials are urg- taking a turn down the Page A10 the town and its depart- ing the state Department of water slides. Conservation and ments over the years. With Recreation to review and its close proximity to revise policies at Wallum Connecticut and Rhode SPORTS Island and its relatively low Lake that they say are A little boy holds his nose as parking fees, the beach straining the town and its Amanda Collins photos he goes into the water with a often draws more out-of- resources. splash. Board of Selectmen state visitors than can be Chairman Tim Bonin last accommodated. When peo- week called for a meeting ple are turned away with a Brothers Jake, 5, and Matt with elected state officials promise that the park may Frechette, enjoy a dip while and DCR representatives to reopen later on in the day, visiting the area from their discuss park closure and visitors end up loitering home in upstate New York re-opening policies, which around town, officials say. he calls “the crux of the Bonin called the beach at problems at Wallum Lake.” Wallum Lake a “treasure at Their next scheduled a rock bottom, can’t-be-beat meeting would have taken price.” For more photos, turn to place at the end of the sum- “This treasure, however, page A7! Northbridge mer, but neighborhood and impacts the town and its public safety concerns war- townspeople the most victory ranted a mid-season meet- Page A12 ing, he said. Please Read LAKE, page A11 OPINION New K9 helps in tracking GET YOUR POINT ACROSS down B&E suspects PAGE A4 BY AMANDA COLLINS the Douglas Police breaking and entering and TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Department’s newest mem- wantonly injuring real/per- DOUGLAS — Two teens ber. sonal property. Contact the who allegedly fled from a Joshua Correia, 19, of 215- According to police, a 911 Tribune editor home they broke into when 4 South St., Douglas, and call came in just before 3 at aminor@ the owner returned were Tyler Chamberlain, 17, of 18 p.m. on Saturday, July 13, arrested earlier this month Prunier St., Northbridge, stonebridgepress.com after being tracked down by were both charged with Please Read CRIME page A13 Joshua Correia Tyler Chamberlain 2 • Friday, July 26, 2013 BLACKSTONE VALLEY TRIBUNE The ‘wonderfully crazy’ art of Zentangle TRIBUNE BY AMANDA COLLINS reuniting with Thomas, and TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER eventually creating Zentangle. ALMANAC NORTHBRIDGE — He is the The Zentangle method is an Zen and she is the tangle. art form accessible by anyone, UOTATION OF THE EEK Area artists and couple Maria the couple said. If you can write, Q W Thomas and Rick Roberts’ you already know the strokes worlds came together with their needed to create a “tangle,” or a concept of “zentangle” – a medi- drawing of a pre-set series of “It was crazy — girls were tative pattern-based art form patterns. carrying dresses out while that has garnered worldwide “I think so many people say, ‘I flames were shooting out of attention and was created right wish I could paint this or I wish in their local studio. I draw that, but…’ And there is the second-floor window.” It began on a sunny Saturday always that standard list of morning nine years ago when buts,” said Roberts. “Zentangle - Travis Baker, owner of Re-Find addresses all of them. Everyone Thomas, a veteran lettering Consignment Boutique, describing the artist, was at work on an illumi- has something special inside of scene down the road at Bridals by nated letter in her Whitinsville them, but self-doubt shuts it out. Rochelle and owner SueAnn Burke studio. She had been working on But when you don’t have any a beautiful design pattern expectations, you don’t have Thursday, July 18, as the building at behind the letter when her hus- limitations, and it just becomes 32 South Main St. burned during a a primal, beautiful experience. six-alarm blaze. band interrupted her. Amanda Collins photos “It was like she had just been It’s wonderfully crazy.” woken up from a nap,” said No plans, no mistakes, and no Rick Roberts smiles as his wife Maria Thomas looks at one of their “Zentangle” drawings, which is on display at Alternatives until the end of the Roberts. “She said she had been erasers are key to the Zentangle REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS totally relaxed, completely method. The art form is just a month. focused working on this pattern, series of non-representational big, but it went in areas we did- DOUGLAS and I realized – she’s describing patterns that the artist draws n’t think of. We expected the meditation.” with black ink on a small piece overlay with craft areas like $149,000, 31 Reid Rd., Brian Prunier and Roberts would know – the of paper to create a “tangle.” quilting and jewelry, but we did- Shawn Towle to John and Colleen Northbridge native left his Artists find the process both n’t realize its therapeutic McArthur. hometown at the tender age of relaxing and uplifting, which power,” said Thomas. $273,500, 103 West St., Karen Peloquin to 17 in search of the “meaning of has taken the art form in a Indeed, the Zentangle process Patricia Lituri and Adam Montani. life.” His quest brought him to direction its creators never is taught in clinical settings like $106,000, 44 Woodland Rd., Deer Crossing India where he lived as a monk expected. schools, hospitals and rehab Development LLC to Crescent Lane LLC. before returning to town, “We knew it was going to be centers around the world.
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