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JOHN STEINBECK Low of 55. www.thewestfieldnews.com City Council VOL.St. 86 NO.Mary’s 151 TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 2017 75 cents addresses Parish Schools Public Ways, Steps Up grants and sidewalk cafés Educational By AMY PORTER Correspondent WESTFIELD – During public partici- pation at Thursday’s City Council meet- Technology ing, At-large Councilor Dan Allie read a WESTFIELD – Nowhere has education changed letter from former Ward 4 Councilor more than at America’s primary and secondary schools. Mary O’Connell. The letter spoke of With the advent of interactive technology and large O’Connell’s gratitude for all the work screen displays, notebooks, and high-speed communi- behind the Act signed by Governor cation links, every classroom can outdo the computer Charles Baker on August 8, authorizing lab of the previous generation. Westfield to accept certain ways as In education today, high performing classrooms are Public Ways. at a transition point. The school built around overhead “I’m so grateful to all the councilors projectors, chalk, and white boards is being replaced who supported the Home Rule petition,” by interactive displays and devices for students and O’Connell wrote. “It was a very long teachers. journey to get here and we would not Research shows that when teachers and students use have arrived had we not worked togeth- interactive display technology, it helps to enhance er. This certainly allows some short cuts education by bringing in resources that could only for the acceptance of Private ways in our have been dreamed of by teachers a generation ago. great City, something that is desperately When technology works, the result is a dynamic class- needed.” room experience with teachers able to switch easily, The Act, which City Clerk Karen and on the fly, from showing an online resource—like Fanion submitted and the City Council the University of Colorado’s PHET science and math accepted and filed, authorizes the city to animated simulations—to local software showing a accept as public ways any one of 61 data analysis or a student’s screen with the answer to Bombers kick off with rout listed private ways, provided the layout the problem. of the way has been approved by the Over the past decade, the biggest change in sourcing Westfield High School’s Baley Collier (15) fields a punt prior to scoring City Council after a public hearing; and teaching materials has been the Web, which today is the games first touchdown. See story and photos Page 9. (Photo by Randy after a determination that the city owns like an educational cornucopia, overflowing with pri- Burlingame) the land or easement for the purpose of mary and secondary materials. It has everything from the public way, or has acquired the ease- Martin Luther King speeches to tutorials on ment. The Act and list of private ways is Shakespeare’s plays. The most popular classroom use on file at City Hall. of the Web is putting online resources for research During the meeting, the City unani- directly into the hands of students. The second biggest mously approved two grants for imme- diate consideration, including one for See Educational Technology, Page 7 Granville Fire and Red Cross $2.7 million from the Federal Aviation Administration’s airport improvement program to increase airfield drainage at hosting free smoke alarm program Westfield-Barnes Airport. Ward 6 By GREG FITZpaTRICK Councilor William Onyski, Airport liai- Correspondent son, said the city portion of the grant GRANVILLE – The Granville Fire will be $150,000, which will be part of Department is gearing up to host their the airport budget for 2020. annual free smoke alarm program on Also approved for immediate consid- October 27 in partnership with the eration was a grant in the amount of American Red Cross. The program includes the installation of both smoke See City Council, Page 7 alarms and carbon monoxide alarms. Launching their Home Fire Campaign The Granville Fire Department and in 2014, the American Red Cross has the American Red Cross will install started an initiative called Sound the smoke alarms throughout the day on Alarm, which allows Red Cross volun- October 27. (WNG File Photo) teers and local community members to alarms were installed in six homes in canvass at-risk neighborhoods, install Granville last year. The Granville Fire free smoke alarms, replace batteries in Department is very eager to have even existing alarms, and provide fire preven- more success this year. tion and safety education. “It’s our hope to install even more this In 2018, Sound the Alarm had 31,300 year, so that all Granville residents can volunteers register to be a part of the be safe and secure knowing they will be installation and home visit event, while notified in the event of a fire or carbon installing 122,259 smoke alarms across monoxide event,” said Tim Rickis, a the country and raising over $15.4 mil- member of the Granville Fire Third Annual Drug lion. According to the Red Cross, seven Department. people die in home fires every day, with Any interested residents of Granville most of those incidents involving smoke must have a home that was built prior to Awareness Vigil alarms that lacked an ability to function. 1975 and their current smoke alarm The elderly and children are the majori- must be 10-years-old or older. Mayor Sullivan introduces speakers at the drug ty of people that are affected by this Individuals have until October 14 to Jeffrey Gamelli, Deputy Superintendent awareness vigil Friday night on the green. See tragedy. sign up for the free program and can do of Water Pollution Control Division, photos Page 8. (Photo by Marc St.Onge) Pointing out that with the help of the so by visiting granvillefire.net or calling Water Resources Department. (Photo by American Red Cross last year, 20 smoke the fire department at 413-357-8585. Amy Porter) Remembrance services for victims of September 11th attacks WESTFIELD – There will be several remembrance cere- nation. All ceremonies will be held on Tuesday, September monies in the greater Westfield area to commemorate the 17th 11th. Anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attack on our In Westfield, Mayor Brian P. Sullivan announced the City of Westfield will host two events. At 9:45 am the Westfield Fire Department will hold its annual ceremony of reflection and remembrance in honor of fallen first responders at Fire Headquarters on Broad Street. Then, at 11:00 am: Mayor Sullivan will be joined by fami- lies of Westfield natives Tara Shea Creamer, Brian J. Murphy and Daniel P. Trant, who fell victim to the attacks with a wreath laying at the 9/11 Monument, located at the memorial obelisk on North Elm Street, at the intersection of Union St. across from the Westwood Building at 94 North Elm Street. Also in Westfield will be the annual Son’s of Erin service taking place at 6:00 pm. These services will take place at the social club located at 22 William St. In Southwick, starting at 9:55 am, members of the town’s fire department will gather in front of the department head- quarters on Depot St. for a series of ceremonial events honor- Residents join members of the Westfield Fire Department in Many area dignitaries are joined by residents at the Westfield ing those lives lost 17 years earlier. The public is welcome to observe all the events listed above. the 2017 9/11 remembrance ceremonies at Fire headquar- Son’s of Erin during the 2017 9/11 memorial ceremonies. ters on Broad Street in Westfield. (WNG file photo) (WNG file photo) PAGE 2 - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2018 WWW.THEWESTFIELDNEWS.COM THE WESTFIELD NEWS TONIGHT SUNDAY MONDAY Mostly Cloudy. Periods of Rain. 66-69 64-67 WEATHER DISCUSSION Today, considerable cloudiness. High near 75F. Winds N at 10 Mainly Cloudy. Cooler. to 15 mph. Tonight, mainly cloudy. Low around 50F. Sunday, mostly cloudy skies. High 69F. Winds NE at 5 to 10 mph. Sun- day night, cloudy skies with periods of rain after midnight. Low 51F. Winds ENE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90%. Monday, periods of rain. High 67F. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall near a half an inch. Monday Night, variable clouds with showers and 50-51 scattered thunderstorms. Low around 65F. TODAY 6:26 a.m. 7:15 p.m. 12 hours 50 Minutes SUNRISE SUNSET LENGTH OF DAY ODDS & ENDS A traffic stop, and a proposal: She said yes in Miami Beach MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Armbrook Village resident Helen Scagliarini was among a group of community members (AP) — A woman was in who learned how to make nutritious (and delicious!) zucchini brownies! Our Brain for a huge surprise when Healthy Cooking program, which is based on the Mediterranean Diet, encourages us to Miami Beach police pulled find healthier alternatives to many traditional treats. her over. 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