MCS Class of 1952 Celebrates 60th Anniversary

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In mid-July, members of the graduating class of 1952, Mattapoisett Center School, will gather in friendship at Shipyard Park to celebrate the 60th anniversary of this event.

On Wednesday, June 18, 1952, graduating exercises were held for 29 ninth graders. The program for the ceremony was held in the auditorium of the original school building built by Henry Huttleston Rogers.

Most of these graduates would move on to Fairhaven High School.  The births of 12 of the graduates are recorded in the Town Report of 1937. Six of the classmates, John A. Dexter, Louise Fuller, Richard A. Keyes, Allen Silveira, Joan Tinkham and Bruce York are known to be deceased. We remember them.

We remember Shirley Dexter who was with us from first grade until ninth grade. The graduates listed on the program are: Laura Andrews, Edna May Bowman, Audrey Brito, Donald Correia, Raymond Dextraze, Nancy Dunn, Joan ellis, Eleanor Faria, Charles Hiller, James Hubbard, Arnett Jenkins, Jocelyn Kinney, Betty Linhares, Sandra Linhares, Jo Ann Longmore, Margaret Montgomery, Harvey Pendleton, Nancy Rebello, William Rowland, Patricia Silveira, Sylvia Souza, Judith Taylor and Norman Waite.

Seven of these students live in Mattapoisett today. Four live in Massachusetts. Others live in Arizona, California, Florida, Maine, Maryland, New York, Rhode Island and Wyoming.  The committee is looking for information about classmates Laura Andrews and Nancy Dunn.

We invite everyone to join us at our celebration. For more information, contact Donald Correia at drtire@aol.com or call 508-758-4738.

Mattapoisett Library News

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•Summer Reading Program: Plans are underway for an exciting summer reading program for children and teens! Watch for news and registration information about DREAM BIG! READ! For now, Chess Club and the Lego Club are on a break until the summer program begins.

•Family Story Time: Families with children of all ages are welcome to the next Family Story Time from 11:00 to 11:30 am on Saturday, June 2. No registration is required for this fun and relaxed time together in the Children’s Department.

•Fiction Author to Visit the Library: Mark your calendars for Wednesday, June 20 from novelist Meg Mitchell Moore reads from her new novel “So Far Away” at the Mattapoisett Library at 7:00 pm. It has received great reviews, and copies will be available for purchase and signing, thanks to Baker Books.

•Cooks and Books with Chef Kurt!: The last meeting of Cooks and Books for the season will be held on Tuesday, June 5 at 7:00 pm with Chef Kurt van Kahle.  Private chef and industry consultant Kurt will be demonstrating some elusive cooking techniques that can make or break a recipe.  Just what is meant by “blend well” in all instances?  What do recipe instructions really mean you should do in order to produce what you see in the photograph?  This is your chance to find out!  Taste testing, of course! Everyone is welcome.

•Friends’ Used Book Sale: Come in for some great book bargains on Saturday, June 9 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. Bake sale too!  The Junior Friends will be collecting redeemable cans and bottles outside the library from 9:00 to 10:00 am.

•Museum Passes: Be sure to check the library web site www.mattapoisettlibrary.org to learn about all the museum passes the library offers so you can enjoy a discount or free admission with your SAILS library card. Over twenty passes are available from the Cape to Boston and Rhode Island, courtesy of the Friends of the Library.

Rochester Women’s Club Soup for Scholarships

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The Rochester Women’s Club will be offering delicious homemade soups for sale as a fundraiser for the club’s Scholarship Fund at the clubhouse, Marion Road, Rochester on Sunday, June 3 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm. This month’s selections include lentil, turkey vegetable and vegetable soup. Order your soups by calling Marsha at 508-322-0998. Quarts are priced at $6.75, pints at $4.75. Support a great cause and enjoy some home cooking!

Tri-Town Relay for Life

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The American Cancer Society Relay For Life® of Tri-Town will hold its annual event at the Old Rochester Regional High School, 135 Marion St., Mattapoisett on June 8 and 9. The relay will honor cancer survivors and all those we have lost. The Relay will feature games, raffles, music and lots more! Everyone is welcome and all who come are sure to have Lots of Fun! The event begins at 4:00 pm on Friday June 8 and will end at 10:00 am on Saturday morning. The Relay is an overnight relay-style event where teams of people camp out around the High School track and members of each team take turns walking around the track for the duration of the event. The event is a celebration to mark the end of a lot of hard work and many fundraising efforts held through out the past year by many volunteers and participants from the Tri-Town area.

The world’s largest grassroots fundraising movement, Relay For Life, mobilizes communities throughout the country to celebrate people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and provide participants with an opportunity to fight back against the disease. Relay brings together friends, families, businesses, hospitals, schools, faith-based groups . . . people from all walks of life – all aimed at furthering the American Cancer Society’s vision of creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays.

The Relay for Life gives the Tri-Town community a unique opportunity to contribute to the American Cancer Society’s mission of saving lives, by helping people stay well, by helping them get well, by finding cures, and by Fighting back!  The impact that all of us in the Tri-town can make together is much greater than what any of us could do alone! Lets work together to  help make sure that cancer never steals another year of anyone’s life. Together we can make a difference to help the American Cancer Society create a world with less cancer and more birthdays.

This is a GREAT family-friendly event for the entire community and ALL are welcome!  Come join in the fun and spend a few hours celebrating life and spend time with friends and neighbors throughout the Tri-town area!

For more information please contact Heather at 774-634-9301 or tritownrelay@comcast.net.  Please visit our Facebook page for more details

Marion Art Center Programs

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• ArtStart Program – Applications are now being accepted for ARTSTART, the Marion Art Center’s summer program for children ages 4 ½ to 9 years. Founded in 1985, ARTSTART meets Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 9:00 am until 12:00 pm. The activities include Arts & Crafts, Theater, Music, Stories & Dance.  Children are grouped by age and participate in all three activities every day. MAC provides snack. There are three two-week sessions beginning Tuesday, June 26. Each session has a unique theme, and there is an informal production at the end of each two weeks where the children act, create costumes, sets and help write the plays.

The staff is made up of certified teachers as activity heads supported by caring and talented counselors. Nancy Sparklin is the program director.  For more information please call 508-748-1266 or visit our website for a printable Application Form at: www.marionartcenter.org.

• Musical Theater Class – The Marion Art Center is now accepting applications for enrollment in its 2012 Summer Musical Theater Program.  The Young People’s Musical Theater Class is for boys and girls who will be entering Grades 4 – 8 and will take place each Tuesday and Thursday afternoon from 4:00 to 5:30 pm for four weeks. The first class is Thursday, July 5 and will run through August 2.

Classes will focus on developing stage presence, creativity and talent through acting, singing, dance, theater games and improvisation. The final performance will be a Musical Revue featuring the students in solos, duets and group numbers.

Leading the program will be Kimberly Teves, a veteran performer with over 30 years experience in musical theatre. Local audiences may remember her from performances in MAC’s productions of:  Sylvia, Rumors, Imagine: An American Girl Revue, Gold in the Hills, Love Changes Everything: and last summer’s musical, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change!

The fee for the four-week session is $160 for MAC members and $175 for non-members.

For more information or to enroll in this program, please stop by the Marion Art Center at 80 Pleasant Street in Marion during Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 1:00 to 5:00 pm or on Saturdays from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.  Or visit MAC’s website at: www.marionartcenter.org for a printable Registration Form.

New Trail Maps from the MLT

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The Mattapoisett Land Trust has worked with the Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program to create two new trail maps to encourage the public to visit the properties: one for the Old Aucoot District in the eastern part of town and the other for the Walega-Livingstone Preserve on Brandt Island Cove. The maps can be downloaded by visiting the Land Trust’s website www.mattlandtrust.org and looking under the “Properties” menu.

On Saturday, June 9, Stewardship Chairman, Paul “Ozzie” Osenkowski, will lead a walk along the Land Trust’s newest trail connecting Holly Woods Road with the Grace Preserve in the Old Aucoot District. Maps will be available for the walk, which will proceed from Holly Woods Road, past the Grace Pond, to Angelica Avenue. Hikers will have a chance to experience an appreciate the preserve’s late spring flora and fauna.

All interested walkers should meet at the Land Trust sign on the west side of Holly Woods Road at 9:00 am. Please dress appropriately for a walk in wooded wetland- long sleeves and long pants with waterproof shoes are recommended, especially after the recent rains. For more information call 401-787-6047, or email info@mattlandtrust.org.

Marion Republican Town Committee Meeting

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The Marion Republican Town Committee will conduct its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 5 at 7:00 pm at the Marion Music Hall, 164 Front Street, Marion. New members welcome.

Rochester Boat Race Repeat Winners to Retire

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It’s the end of an era for two Rochester Boat Race winners who have dominated the event in recent years. Sean Shaw and C.J. Hedges announced their retirement after clinching their third consecutive title during Monday’s race.

“We started when we were seven years old, and we both went down the river with our fathers,” said Hedges. “We’ve probably done 30+ races, minus a couple of years we took off for the military.”

Hedges and Shaw, both 41, have been riding together for 25 years. In their tenure together, they have won 12 titles and currently hold the record with a time of 1:47:02, which they set back in 2005. This is the fourth time they have won three consecutive titles.

“It’s tradition,” said Hedges. “There was no little league, this is just what you did. We are both very competitive so we thought this would be a good way to see what we had and be competitive.”

It’s a tradition that’s been around since 1934. The race originally started as a 4-H project, but has since grown into something much larger. This year, 75 boats participated in the race, which is broken up into six different divisions: Open, Co-ed, Parent/Child, Junior Boys, Junior Girls and Women’s.

The course begins in Grandma Hartley’s Reservoir on Snipatuit Road in Rochester. It twists and winds nearly 12 miles before ending at the Herring Weird on Route 6 in Mattapoisett.

Boats are launched at one-minute intervals to prevent congestion. Start times are based on the previous year’s performance. All boats must be homemade. Shaw and Hedges found the perfect material that suits them.

“We started making Styrofoam boats a few years ago,” said Shaw. “It’s so much easier to deal with. Styrofoam and fiberglass. It’s pretty easy now that we’ve switched.”

In addition to crafting the perfect vessel, the duo gets on the river approximately 12 times prior to the actual race. They will put the boat in the river five times, on the pond five times, and then take rides with their children. This year’s boat and training scored Shaw and Hedges a time off 1:47:47. They were hoping to beat their record in their final race.

“I thought personally we were a little sloppy,” Shaw said. “We were chasing a boat for a little bit, then we picked it up and had some nice lines. But we were a little bit off from where we wanted to be.”

“We weren’t ready for the higher water,” said Hedges. “Plus, we’re 41 now. We’re old.”

Now the time has come for Hedges and Shaw to end one tradition and start a new one. The two will split it up and start competing in the race with their children. Shaw encourages all children to participate.

“Art Benner [Race Chairman] does a great job at coordinating all of this,” Shaw said. “It would be nice to have more younger kids in the surrounding area to come and try this.”

And while they are retiring their boat now, they haven’t completely ruled out the possibility of a reunion later on down the road.

“We could possibly take a few more old man runs later on,” Hedges laughed.

Click here for a complete list of boat results.

By Katy Fitzpatrick

ORR Boys Lax Achieves Winning Record

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•Old Rochester Boys and Girls Track – The undefeated boys and girls Track teams traveled to North Reading to compete in the Division 4 State Meet where the boys placed third and the girls placed fourth. For the Boys, sophomore Mike Wyman won the mile in 4:23, and the 4×800 team of David Friedman, Fred Murolo, Nick Pacheco and Mike Wyman also placed well. For the girls, the 4×400 team of Paige Santos, Gabby Kondracki, Morgan DaSilva, and Hannah Walsh also placed well and move on to All States next week.

•Old Rochester Boys Tennis – The ORR boys remained on a victorious path as they beat Bishop Stang 5-0 last week. Matt Teefy and Jake Jaskolka excelled in their singles matches, Teefy with scores of 6-2 and 6-1 and Jaskolka with 6-4 and 7-5.

Unfortunately, in the last match of the regular season, ORR lost to Dartmouth 3-2. Despite this, Teefy still came out on top along with Noah Filloramo/Ollie Sughrue who won both their matches 6-3 and 6-2. ORR finishes their regular season with a record of 12-6 overall and 10-4 in the SCC.

•Old Rochester Softball – The ORR girls traveled to Stang and unfortunately suffered a loss with Stang coming out on top 12-3. Abbey Smith had two doubles, a walk and one run scored, and Sam Allaire had a solid game behind home plate.

Things turned around for the Bulldogs who next went against Bourne and won 10-5. Kaleigh Goulart pitched a very strong game giving up 3 earned runs on 5 hits, 0 walks, and 10 strikeouts. Ultimately, ORR ended with 10 runs, 13 hits, and 3 errors, and Bourne had 5 runs, 5 hits and 2 errors.

In the final game of the season for the Bulldogs, the 6 seniors graduating were honored. Unfortunately, the hard fought game that followed did not add up for ORR and they lost 8-2. Kristen Fuller was the hitting star of the day with 2 hits and 2 RBI’s, and Jen Galavotti also had a good game. ORR finishes the season with a record of 5-13 overall and 5-11 in the SCC.

•Old Rochester Lacrosse – The Bulldogs faced Upper Cape last week and came out on top 8-3. Gared Glavin, Erik Sprague, and Cam Severino led the way for ORR, each scoring two goals.

In a close but ultimately successful game against Stang, ORR won 9-8 in overtime. Ethan Lizotte had a great game, leading the way for ORR as a freshman with 3 goals and 2 assists including the winning goal. Severino and Marc Gammell also had good games; each with two goals, and Chris Marchisio and Peter Krause each had one. ORR finishes its regular season on this winning note with a 12-4 record.

By India Krawczyk


Calling All SLT Artists!

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The Sippican Lands Trust (SLT) and the Marion Art Center are partnering to sponsor an exhibition by local artists to highlight the many scenic sites that comprise the Lands Trust’s forests and marshes. This is one of several initiatives undertaken by the SLT to encourage visitation and enjoyment of the properties protected by the Trust.

Local artists are invited to submit up to three works, in any media, for a non-juried exhibition to be held at the Marion Art Center, October 5-November 10.  All submitted works must depict scenes of or from SLT properties.  The Marion Art Center will receive a 30% commission on the sale of each piece.

Trail maps of the Lands Trust properties are available at the SLT offices, 350 Front Street, Marion (next to Uncle Jon’s) or on-line at www.sippicanlandstrust.org.  Walking tours of SLT properties will be conducted for interested artists in June, July and August (dates to be determined).  Complete Registration Packets are also available at the Marion Art Center at 80 Pleasant Street in Marion.

Registration by September 1 is required.  Artists wishing to exhibit should submit original pieces (no more than 3), matted and framed with title, medium and price. Sculpture should be presented exhibition ready.  All pieces must be for sale and must be originals and have been executed within the last 3 years.  All submitted works must depict scenes of or from SLT properties and the location must identified. All paintings and photographs must be framed, preferably matted (in white or neutrals) and ready to hang (i.e., secured with heavy picture wire and wrapped in tape, affixed to hooks that have been secured to the frame).

Dates for dropping pieces at the Marion Art Center are Tuesday, October 2 and Wednesday October 3 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm.

 For more information about this Exhibition and for a printable registration form please visit the MAC website at www.marionartcenter.org or call (508-748-1266) or visit the Marion Art Center located at 80 Pleasant Street in Marion.