WILMINGTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY gMimmoA, MASS. m ■, CM '.°Vo^c U ova ^ tA^ turn tTffoksbury - Wilmington 25TH YEAR - NO. 37 •COPYRIGHT 1960 WILMINGTON NEWS CO.. INC WILMINGTON, MASS., SEPTEMBER 10. 1980 i AIL RIGHTS RESERVED 658-2346 PUB. NO. 635-340 48 PAGES SUPPLEMENT What a day for a parade It was a parade to talk about and 35 minutes to pass any given point. If addition to this there was also a lot of There were several good reasons. Strange as it may seem, there were But for those who missed it, and for remember. The Wilmington the rate of advance is computed at space at the North Intermediate Kiwanis President Roger Beaupre many people who were not able to those who want to see it again, the Anniversary Parade was perhaps two miles an hour the parade would School. All units could march down to was driving the Wilmington Regional view the Wilmington 250th An- parade will be on television on Friday three miles long. It was, of course, to have been a little over three miles in the head of Middlesex Avenue, and Health Center truck. He was, too, niversary Parade on Sunday. One night. It will be broadcast on Cable celebrate the 250th birthday of length. then join in the parade at the wearing a K of C uniform. Other complaint of those who marched is Channel 6 at 8 p.m. Also to be Wilmington, which will occur on The parade was formed in North designated time. Kiwanis members were to be found on that it is impossible to march in and broadcast are the highlights of the September 25. Wilmington for a very good reason, The job of coordinating all the units Wilmington common, welling pop- view the parade simultaneously. July 4 celebration. The parade was held on Sept. 7 bthe official place was the North In- fell on a few members of the com- corn. because Boston will be celebrating its termediate School. Unofficially, the mittee, primarily Dave Hill, Jack But both the Lions and the Rotary 350th birthday on the weekend of the streets leading off Arlene Avenue, Clark and Bob Cain. Hill was had floats. 21st The Wilmington committee felt four in number, plus the extension of probably the best prepared for the The parade also had more than a that it was prudent not to have a Arlene Avenue gave the parade work, spending the afternoon on his few persons roaming the streets, conflict of dates. marshalls a wonderful place in which motorcycle, riding to various points in dressed in the costume of a Lion. It is The parade took about one hour and to assemble the various units. In the parade. During the course of the to be presumed they were members of parade he logged 19 miles. the Lions Club. To say that any particular unit was One Lion wandered from one side of What a day for a parade the best is difficult. It is not difficult the parade to the other. When he saw though, to say that the United States a familiar face among the young Army Band was the best in the people watching the parade this Lion What a day for a parade, the sky was so blue parade. would go up, and with both paws The sun smiling brightly, the citizens were too Of the visiting bands three must, in chuck the child under the jawbones. particular, be mentioned. The No one seemed to know who the The whole town had turned out in anticipation Nutmeg Volunteers, from Con- Lion was. For the biggest parade they'd ever been facin' necticut, were probably the best of the Wilmington High School vice bands composed of the younger principal Jack Lynch, however, was generation. The Aleppo Temple Band able to ask each of the children, next There was no disappointment, 'twas deemed a success was good, and in a different vein from day, how they liked the experience. all others was the Aleppo Temple The Diplomats Drum and Bugle It was quite plain to see they had broken their necks Oriental Band, with all members Corps, in the parade Sunday, had a To put on a show we would never forget garbed as people might have been part of their marching members garbed in the days of Haroun Al among the missing. As they marched thru the miles Raschid. The music sounded weird Two youngsters, who were sup- bet their achin' still yet and oriental. posed to carry a banner saying that Aleppo Temple Shrine must be the Diplomats were sponsored by the I hope you were there; if you weren't it's a shame mentioned too, as having the greatest Charles River Breeding Laboratories I never had so many folks call me by name number of units. It had its own motor were, unfortunately among the club, its own police guards, a stalwart missing by the time the parade Let's do it again was the cry of the day group of Minutemen, a mounted reached the reviewing stand. But our next^super birthday is fifty away patrol, and a super duper scooper- Probably 10,000 spectators lined the patrol on little automobiles, to sweep sidewalks, to see the parade. There up after the mounted patrol. There was one point on which a few com- The floats and marchers, the great playing bands were toy locomotives and clowns, ?:. ' ments have been made. other units. Adults from age 30 and up were The children, the elders, they were all clapping hands Aleppo Temple was the largest seen to straighten to attention, when I'll bet they won't wait for it would bring tears organization in the parade, making up the U.S. flag passed. The younger the entire second division. generation, more than one person has Will we do it again - you just wait 'til next year The Ki warns Club of Wilmington did remarked, did not get up from their — WGN not occupy a place in the parade. seats on the curbstone. WHA votes the 774 route A color guard from the United States Marine Corps cut a There were 27 very unhappy not stop him trom making a tape be heard. people of the town?' sharp figure in the parade. spectators, at the meeting of the recording. He put his recorder on the Barbara Larson ignored the A man named DePasquale asked Wilmington Housing Authority table, in front of the Alhority mem- spectators, as much as she could, and about a letter that had been read in Monday evening. bers. called for a vote. It was two to two, the earlier part of the evening. The The Housing Authority voted, three It was then that Barbara Larson Keough and Hooper opposed, Brozyna letter was to Congressman Shannon, Selectmen oppose project to two, to invoke Chapter 774. in the asked the members as to their and McMillan in favor. It was at that requesting aid in getting elderly effort to get public housing built in feelings on the proposed Housing for time that Larsen broke the tie, and housing through HUD. Wilmington, near the Wilmington the Elderly, on Main Street, ana the voted in favor. DePasquale said that they (HUD, The Wilmington Board of Select- whether they were for or against the Plaza. The motion was by Lorraine proposed 25 units of family housing, to The meeting of the WHA was not presumably, Ed) are going to attach men Monday night expressed its project. She tape recorded their Brozyna. Mel Keough and George Be in back facing Glen Road. completed, at this time. Barbara conditions, and the condition is that intention to fight the Wilmington Continued on page 2 0 Hooper voted against and Kevin Mel Keough was the first to speak Larson allowed a little imput from the there will be low income housing. Housing Authority's attempt to use McMillan and Brozyna voted in favor. He told the board of the possibilities of audience. She explained, not once, "They will win. - That's the law/' Chapter 774 for a proposed housing Town of Wilmington Barbara Larson, chairman, then having a special town meeting. but several times, that it was "Allow Federal funding and you have project. broke the tie and voted in favor. It Lorraine Brozyna joined to discuss necessary to be on the agenda in order to take all the strings that go with it!" The selectmen were meeting at the Conservation Commission was, the board said, the first time she the cancellation of the previous town to participate. The Executive Director of WHA, same time as the Housing Authority. had voted since being in the chair. meeting by the selectmen. Mrs. Theodos spoke again. She had Henry Borazzo, said it was a point recently entered the meeting room well taken. Even before the Housing Authority The vote was conducted amidst Mrs. Larson agreed. The onus for had voted to use Chapter 774, the efforts of the spectators to put their the cancelled meeting, she said, is on from the selectmen's meeting, being He had read, this evening, he said, own thoughts into the minds of the the selectmen. "We went in good held in the Town Hall. She tried to tell the letter to Congressman Shannon, selectmen had gone on record as Housing Authority. Barbara Larson faith.',"It is the first time it ever of what had happened at the select- with a copy to Senator Tsongas. being opposed to that course of action. had to be firm, to keep order. happened in Wilmington - one board men's meeting, but she did not seem requesting a meeting with HUD for Under Chapter 774, a developer, in It was 9:40 p.m.