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Westfield Enrollment Is Following State Trends The Westfield NewsSearch for The Westfield News Westfield350.com The WestfieldNews Serving Westfield, Southwick, and surrounding Hilltowns “TIME IS THE ONLY WEATHER CRITIC WITHOUT TONIGHT AMBITION.” Partly Cloudy. JOHN STEINBECK Low of 55. www.thewestfieldnews.com VOL. 86 NO. 151 $1.00 MONDAY,TUESDAY, NOVEMBER JUNE 27, 2017 30, 2020 VOL. 75 cents 89 NO. 287 Westfield Emergency enrollment Management is following Agency state trends seeking CERT By AMY PORTER Staff Writer volunteers WESTFIELD – With reports that public By PETER CURRIER school enrollment in Massachusetts is down by Staff Writer 4 percent from October 2019 to October 2020, WESTFIELD — The Westfield Emergency according to figures presented to the Board of Management Agency (WEMA) is seeking volunteers Elementary and Secondary Education Tuesday, for its Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Westfield Superintendent Stefan Czaporowski Lesley Lambert, who is leading a project titled “Blessing Bags for the Homeless,” is hopeful that area residents will drop off toiletries at Park WEMA Director Steve Malochleb said that he wants said the district is seeing some of the same to revamp the city’s CERT with new volunteers trends. Square Realty to contribute to the contents of gift bags that will be assembled for the Samaritan Inn. (LESLEY LAMBERT PHOTO) because he thinks the team has been underutilized. Russell Johnston of CERTs are often used in parts of the country in which the Department of natural disasters like tornadoes or hurricanes are more Elementary and frequent. Teams consist of volunteers who supplement Secondary Education City woman leads effort emergency services during emergencies, disasters, or reported that as of large events. Oct. 1, there were “The idea here is to have a team in place not just for 911,432 students to fill gift bags with disasters, but community events. They can do traffic enrolled across the control, crowd control, and take some of the strain off state’s 400 school dis- the police departments,” said Malochleb. tricts, a decline of Malochleb said that the previous WEMA Director STEFAN more than 37,000 toiletries for homeless Jim Wiggs tried having a CERT but never fully pur- CZAPOROWSKI from the previous sued it. Malochleb is one of about a dozen active Westfield Public year. In each of the By LORI SZEPELAK this was what they called the good- Correspondent ie bags,” said Lambert, adding, members who have been on the CERT in Westfield Schools previous two years, since 2012. He said there have been recent events like Superintendent enrollment decreased WESTFIELD — Lesley “the bags are a blessing to the Lambert wants to ensure that every recipient.” Westfield’s “First Night” on New Years Eve where by fewer than 3,000 having additional CERT volunteers would have bene- students. Almost half of this year’s decline can person waking up on Christmas Lambert, a realtor with Park morning at the Samaritan Inn on Square Realty, is also thankful that fitted law enforcement. be attributed to pre-K and kindergarten students, In 2011 the Westfield CERT team was frequently Johnston said. Free Street will have a gift bag to owner Ted Cassell allows her to open. use the office space for the collec- active from June to November due to incidents like the “We are down about 200 students in total, out Springfield tornado and the infamous October snow of 5,300 last year. That’s about 3.7 percent,” Lambert’s project is titled tion. “Blessing Bags for the Homeless” “I started the collection six years storm. Czaporowski said adding that kindergarten and When one joins the CERT they receive training and preschool students made up almost half of that and she is accepting donations of ago because I wanted to do some- toiletries at Park Square Realty on thing tangible for the homeless in get certified as part of the team. The team is entirely number. volunteer-based, meaning that if one joins the team, “Kindergarten isn’t mandatory in Elm Street until Dec. 12. Donations our community,” she said. can be dropped off weekdays from Lambert and her small team of they are not obligated to participate in any given event Massachusetts. Neither is preschool,” or situation. One can pick and choose when to volun- Czaporowski said. He said this year enrollment 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. “I saw this done elsewhere and See Lambert, Page 2 teer their time. in kindergarten is down approximately 90 stu- Malochleb said that WEMA recently was approved dents, from 380 to 290, and enrollment in Fort for a grant to purchase supplies to get the CERT going. Meadow Early Childhood Center is also down. Part of the $11,000 grant will go towards purchasing “It’s hard to tell because they have rolling emergency bags that will be given to each CERT mem- admission. It might pick up,” he said about the ber. Each bag will contain supplies such as flashlights, preschool. Westfield recycling grant gloves, and masks, among other things that may be “The biggest part is kindergarten, but we’re useful in an emergency situation. seeing it at every grade,” Czaporowski said, Part of the grant will also be used to purchase addi- adding that home school applications have also small part of total cost tional equipment for the police and fire departments in increased by 25 percent. Westfield. In September, Education Commissioner Jeff By AMY PORTER bucket with us paying $97 per ton There is also a Junior CERT for middle and high Riley said officials were hearing that some par- Staff Writer – that comes out to around $600 or schoolers. The Junior CERT helps kids learn skills like ents of kindergarteners were opting to keep their WESTFIELD – Westfield was $700 per truck every single day to first aid, CPR, the heimlich maneuver, and even what kids home for a year amid the disruptions to recently awarded a MassDEP get rid of the stuff and with truck to do in an active shooter situation. schooling, and some families were choosing to Sustainable Materials Recovery loan payments of around $8,000 “They may not use it every day. They may only use send children to private or Catholic schools that Program (SMRP) Municipal Grant per month,” Cain said. it once in a lifetime. But if they only use it once, it was offered in-person learning every day. of $18,000 to help maximize its The $97 per ton is actually far worth it,” said Malochleb. Czaporowski said he has had students enroll at recycling, composting and waste better than what was initially pro- One must be at least 18-years-old to join the full St. Mary’s for that reason, where there is now a reduction programs. According to posed last December by the CERT, and background checks are run on all volun- waiting list. Westfield is operating on a week on, Board of Health Director Joseph Materials Recycling Facility in teers before they are certified. Each member must take week off in-person learning schedule for most Rouse, this grant will be used Springfield for Westfield’s new a six-week training class, but Malochleb said that this students. towards improvements/new pro- contract. Westfield was coming to part is up in the air due to the ongoing pandemic. He Czaporowski said that with a vaccine on the grams for recycling at the Transfer the end of a 10-year contract in said that the course cannot be done via Zoom. He said horizon, the district anticipates that a lot of the Station. which they had not been charged he thinks they may do two sessions per week with 10 students will come back. The problem he said However, both Rouse and DPW for recyclables transported to the people in each session to train 20 people per week. will be the way DESE determines future fund- Interim Director Francis Cain processing facility at Bondi’s One event that will likely require CERT volunteers ing. acknowledged that the transfer sta- Island in Agawam, owned by the in 2021 is the Westfield Barnes International Airshow Enrollment numbers help determine how tion’s portion of Westfield’s single Department of Environmental in August. Malochleb said that CERT members will be much funding a school district receives from the stream is just the drop-off compo- Protection, and leased to Waste necessary to take the load off the other groups and state the following year. “The funding formula nent and doesn’t account for much Management. However, in late volunteers who are needed to run the show. for the state is that they fund based on October of the overall City tonnage. fall, they were informed that prices “It takes a tremendous amount of manpower to put “The amount of $18,000 on the See Enrollment, Page 3 DPW side would be a drop in the See Recycling, Page 2 See CERT, Page 3 Santa to visit Moolicious Dec. 12 ‘Secret Santa and the Angry said Deedy. Families must register in advance at signup- Elves’ toy drive underway genius.com. Deedy said this was something Fund members wanted to do to brighten the By HOPE E. TREMBLAY holidays at a time when so many traditions are Editor being canceled or altered. SOUTHWICK – With the coronavirus pan- “This will take the place of seeing Santa at demic cloud overhead for the foreseeable Town Hall,” he said. “It’s something that’s future, many people are thinking about the almost like normal for kids.” winter holidays earlier this year, especially The Southwick Civic Fund is also continuing Christmas. its holiday drive known as “Santa and the Many merry-makers have already decorated Angry Elves.” This is a program that collects their trees and yards and are looking forward to toy donations for children and teens.
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