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Mailed free to requesting homes in Charlton, Charlton City and Charlton Depot Vol. VI, No. 41 PROUD MEDIA SPONSOR OF RELAY FOR LIFE OF THE GREATER SOUTHBRIDGE AREA! COMPLIMENTARY HOME DELIVERY ONLINE: WWW.CHARLTONVILLAGER.COM Friday, October 12, 2012 THIS WEEK’S QUOTE Bay Path district gives thumbs up to renovation project “Be kind, for TEN-TOWN BALLOT VOTE SAYS YES: 5,303-3,836 everyone you BY GUS STEEVES optimistic in the last three The vote count itself was VILLAGER STAFF WRITER weeks, when we were speak- 5,303 in favor to 3,836 against. meet is fighting a The second time was the ing to public officials and Those figures showed the charm for Bay Path there was a sense they knew most lopsided support for the hard battle.” Thursday, as district-wide the building really does need project coming from Charlton Plato special election voters gave the work,” LaFleche said and Southbridge (winning by its renovation/expansion after the results came in. “But 704 in Charlton and 569 in project a thumbs up by more I’m kind of a pessimist, so I Southbridge) and the largest than 1400 votes. didn’t let myself get too opposition from North According to happy” until the actual num- Brookfield, which rejected it INSIDE Superintendent John bers rolled in. by 345 votes. But the way the LaFleche, that means the When they did, though, the law is written, this election School Committee can restart committee members who had was decided by the majority Almanac ....................2 a process it had put on hold, gathered in the back confer- across the 10-town district, namely putting out bids to get ence room at Bay Path were not by the votes of each town, Obituaries ................13 a construction manager. elated — and relieved. After as happened back in the Police Logs ................9 Although the process has the last town, Spencer, came spring. Thus the three towns Gus Steeves photos delayed things somewhat, he in, Southbridge representa- that said no — North Opinion ....................10 said he still hopes to start tive Michael Langevin was Brookfield, Oxford (by 4 Bay Path Superintendent John LaFleche and Michael Langevin, construction sometime next only half joking when he votes) and Paxton (by 1 vote) Southbridge’s newest representative to the Bay Path School Calendar ....................9 summer. said, “I posted it to Facebook. Committee, campaign outside the Southbridge Community Center Thursday afternoon, Oct. 4. Real Estate ......B Sect. “I started to feel somewhat Now it’s official.” Please Read BAY PATH, page A12 Sports ................14-15 STUDENTS GO PINK FOR CANCER AWARENESS LOCAL Panel aims to address ‘global’ lake issues BY GUS STEEVES South Charlton Reservoir VILLAGER STAFF WRITER and has been monitoring CHARLTON — The water quality there for roughly 30 people who years. turned out to address lakes Even those who didn’t join Family night and ponds issues Thursday, the committee agreed on features magic, Oct. 4, agreed there should that point. They specifically be a new committee to rejected doing anything gym and swim address “global” concerns about the issue that sparked activities like weeds, stormwater laws their creation — a feud over Page A8 and water quality town a dock installed on public wide. property at Glen Echo Lake. Seven of them volun- Repeatedly, people in the teered to comprise it. room said they want the LEARNING “We want to deal with the Glen Echo Lake Association global issues that affect all to deal with it internally, the lakes in town,” said one without prompting the town of them, Ziggy Waraszkiewicz. He lives on Please Read PANEL, page A11 The afternoon crew of Bay Path cosmetology students posed for a photo between adding pink exten- sions to clients’ hair last Wednesday. Mark Ashton photos Charlton faces 9-item CHARLTON — Cosmetology students at Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School got together last week to “think pink” and raise funds for breast cancer Town Meeting warrant awareness. For the third year in a row (and for the second year of opening the event to BY GUS STEEVES said the selectmen had her Educating brains the public), the students added pink hair VILLAGER STAFF WRITER break it out into separate about brains extensions to clients who donated $5 to the CHARLTON — Town vot- motions rather than list cause of cancer awareness. All 35 of the ers will face a nine-article them in the article itself. Page A3 school’s cosmetology students participated warrant for the Tuesday, The list includes replacing in the fund-raiser, adding the pink exten- Oct. 16 Special Town the fire department’s “Jaws sions to fellow students’ hair during lunch Meeting. of Life” and dive team gear SPORTS breaks and then opening up the program to Most of it is pretty rou- (total: $58,493); buying a walk-ins from the community from 3-6 p.m. tine, particularly transfers brush cutter, plow and last Wednesday, Oct. 3. and paying late bills from sander unit for the highway last year, but a couple of department (total: $115,570); At right: Jami Collard of Oxford, left, provid- items might spark some buying a cruiser, fingerprint ed a flash of pink to Lauryn Mulcahey’s hair debate. scanner and fuming cham- at last Wednesday’s fund-raiser. Chief of those is Article 3, ber for the police (total: $66,086); buying a tractor which seeks to spend an and trailer for the Cemetery unstated amount of money For more photos, turn to page A4! Department ($26,500); desig- for an unstated list of capital nating $25,000 for computer items and projects as it’s network replacement; set- written. Town Administrator Robin Craver Please Read MEETING, page A11 Barnes beasts Bay Path past Monty Tech Page A14 Local playwright, play premier at Gateway onstage role in Gateway’s ‘MONKEYBAR MAFIA’ production of “One Flew OPINION TO DEBUT CT Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” O . 26 David Corkum directed BY MARK ASHTON “The Monkeybar Mafia,” that production, which GET YOUR VILLAGER STAFF WRITER written by Ed Humphries of Humphries now admits POINT ACROSS SOUTHBRIDGE — It’s not Dudley and directed by “scratched an itch” in his PAGE A10 every day a community the- David Corkum of Charlton. theatrical psyche. The pair ater group gets to stage a Humphries, who moved to worked well together and, “world premier perform- Dudley about eight years perhaps, made mental notes ance” of anything. ago, has been part of about waiting for the right POLICE LOGS Then again, it’s not every Gateway since his wife, project in order to work day a local playwright cre- Andrea, starred in the together again. PAGE A10 ates something worth stag- group’s production of “The Fast forward a bit, and we ing here, there, or anywhere. Sound of Music” back in find Humphries laid off and Gateway Players Theatre, 2008. Because community “going a little stir crazy” at now in its 37th season in theater groups are typically Mark Ashton photo home, both in terms of look- Southbridge, is boasting of “desperate for men” in stag- Ed Humphries, left, is author of “The Monkeybar Mafia,” debuting at ing for work and looking for both these landmarks later ing their local productions, Gateway Players Theatre on Oct. 26. The show is being directed by something useful to do. this month, when it presents he later agreed to take an Charlton resident Dave Corkum, right, who previously directed Humphries in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Please Read GATEWAY, page A11 2 •THE CHARLTON VILLAGER• Friday, October 12, 2012 www.charltonvillager.com Parish hosts ballot question forum QUESTION 2 ‘A SLIPPERY SLOPE’ TO MANY BY GUS STEEVES To all of those who spoke at ciled to his family,” he said. “Over and over we choose death,” Health website summarizes the data VILLAGER STAFF WRITER Monday’s forum, though, the bill Karen Garlie said she has seen Joyce said of American culture, cit- for each years since its law took SOUTHBRIDGE — About 50 peo- doesn’t go far enough toward pro- that kind of thing happen often in ing a list of ways that included this effect in 2009. The most recent sum- ple filled a conference room at the tecting patients and goes too far her 19 years working as a hospice bill, violent movies and failure to mary (for 2011) states that 103 people Blessed John Paul II Ministry down what several dubbed a “slip- nurse. She noted many of the med- pass good gun laws. After quoting a received the medication (Howland Center Monday, Oct. 1, for a forum pery slope.” More than one in the ical requirements this bill has are Bible passage telling people to said it’s typically a 100-pill prescrip- addressing Question 2 on this audience claimed they could see it already part of hospice care (except choose between life and death, he tion of secobarbital), but the depart- November’s election ballot, a peti- expanding in various ways, includ- the suicide aspect), but she believes added, “... I’m so afraid our state’s ment received only 101 written tion titled “Prescribing Medication ing having insurance companies many families and patients benefit going to pick death, and if it passes, request forms. Only 70 were con- to End Life.” pressure people to do it and people from the “multiple supports” a hos- it will only be the beginning.” firmed to have died “after ingesting “This has nothing to do with a using it to commit murder. pice provides. Among those are fam- The proponents, obviously, see it the medication.” Nineteen died question of whether or not someone There were no panelists speaking ily psychological and pastoral coun- quite differently.