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  • Respecting Neighborhoods

    Recently there have been some storm clouds over neighborhoods that fear the impact of businesses trying to get permission to do business among them. 

    Locating a kennel in a residential area  and a cement plant adjacent to conservation land and dense neighborhoods certainly sound like cause for speaking up in defense of keeping the neighborhood free of unsettling noise, smells, and dust.

    Some time ago, other neighborhoods put out signs with the message: “Respect the Integrity of the Neighborhood.”  Not a bad concept.

  • Pandemic Flu Public Feedback Session

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC), want input regarding who should receive flu vaccinations first in the event of a pandemic.

    Experts say chances of a deadly worldwide influenza pandemic are increasing. An influenza pandemic could cause widespread disruption of work and millions of deaths.

    An estimated 40 million people died in the 1918 Pandemic, 118 in Framingham where there were about 2000 cases.

    Early in the outbreak, the U.S. will have a shortage of vaccine and will face tough choices about who to vaccinate first. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are conducting pandemic planning, which includes prioritizing the distribution of flu vaccine.

    As part of this planning process, the MDPH is recruiting one hundred diverse members of the general public from across the state to give feedback on which population groups should be vaccinated first at a meeting on September 17, 2005 from 9:00 AM-1:00 PM.

    The meeting will be held at the Marlborough Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel, conveniently located directly off Route 495 and the Mass Pike. Food and a certificate of appreciation from MPDH will be provided.

    Please register to attend today by contacting Jennifer Coyle, the Project Coordinator, at: flu@catalyst-consulting.net or at: (617) 620-9615.

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  • Keeping Up Appearances or Not

    Sometime ago a car ran into the front of a local pizza place, breaking the window and damaging the brickwork of the front wall.  The window was replaced as well as the bricks, but the bricks weren’t painted to blend in with the rest of the bricks of the front of the restaurant.

    Everytime we drove by, the unpainted bricks caught our eyes, like missing teeth, and we wondered if they would ever be painted.   It could be months, maybe a year or so since the accident and it seemed as though the restaurant owners just didn’t think about painting the bricks.  We had stopped going there, because we decided we liked another place’s pizza crust better.

    Finally, as we turned the corner by the place recently, we noticed that the bricks were at last painted. 

    Then there is the pizza place in the strip mall that has recently been attractively remodelled whose employees were just throwing their soda cases on the mulch to the side of their new front door.  Someone may have said something to them because on a recent visit, the cases are neatly stacked and tucked away around the corner.

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