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LOCALSee Lunch menuS for area schools A3

The evergreen cenTer presents Mil-ford Town Hall with two wreaths. A5

geneSiS heALTh-cAre Skilled Nurs-ing and Rehabilitation, of Milford, holds a food drive for the Daily Food Pantry. A5

NATiON & WORLDvioLence in cen-TrAL AfricAn re-pubLic: More than 100 dead and the capi-tal, Bangui on the edge of anarchy, the people on Central African Re-public hope the French military helps their situ-ation. A2

OPiNiONnATionAL view: Col-umnist Eugene Robin-son writes: Raise the minimum wage. A7

CALLOuTDeck The hALLS: ‘Tis the season to be jolly and to deck your halls with boughs of hol-ly, lights and other holi-day decorations. Show us how your home spar-kles this season by sending in photos of your holiday decor - in-side and out!

Capture your festive light displays, trimmed trees, Nativity scenes, Menorahs and more on your camera or smart phone and email them to milforddailynews@wickedlocal.com. Please include a caption telling us where the display is and identifying any peo-ple in the photos.

We’ll publish some photos in the newspa-per and all online.

n See more photos of Mendon’s tree lighting ceremony.

n in his High School Notebook on Sunday, Dan Cagen writes about the impact of Hoped-ale’s new skating rink on the local high school hockey scene.

BY JESSICA TRUFANTDAILY NEWS STAFF

MEDWAY — The mountain in manycultures symbolizes the obstacles we en-counter on the journey of life.

So in honor of those who face a toughclimb in the fight against cancer, Medwaynative Pamela Bennett on June 20 took ona mountain of her own.

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WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? By Derek McLean | Daily News staff

Fresh look for traditional causeBoxes Lions use to collecteyeglasses get coat of paint,and some new graphics

MILFORD — Milford residentspassing by the Main Street police sta-tion and the Purchase Street Marketmay notice big yellow collection boxeson the sidewalk in front of the build-ings.

The boxes are part of a long-standingdrive by the Milford Lions Club whichcollects donated eyeglasses.

“Its amazing how many eyeglasseswe collect,” said the local Lions Club

president Brian Bodio.He said the club receives around 100

eyeglasses among the two collections,when the boxes are emptied every twomonths.

He said after collecting them, hesends the glasses to the state LionsClub District 33-A headquarters to berestored, refurbished and “provided tothose in need.”

The drop boxes have been in placefor more than 30 years, but during thespring they received new graphics andwere repainted.

Bodio said the Lions are the largestinternational service organization in

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End ofsparklerban urged

BY MIKE GLEASONDAILY NEWS STAFF

HOLLISTON — A localcandidate for state repre-sentative has come outagainst the state ban onsparklers, the small burningmetal torches that emitsparks, often used by chil-dren.

Marty Lamb, a Republi-can candidate for the 8thMiddlesex seat, said he gotinterested in the matter afterthe state Legislature lastmonth overwhelmingly re-jected a measure to legalizesparklers. He called themove a symbol of overregu-lation in the state.

“To me, it seems absurd,”said Lamb, who is running

against incumbent Demo-crat Carolyn Dykema.“Forty-six states allow fire-works, with sparklers beingon the low end of that.”

The timing of the vote, hesaid, only brings the prob-lem into sharper focus.

“As we get into the Fourthof July holiday, it’s a goodexample of how the govern-ment controls every aspectof our lives,” he said.

Lamb said the state hasbeen inconsistent in ban-ning unsafe materials.

“This is the same Legisla-ture that voted to decrimi-nalize marijuana,” he said.“That strikes me as themtalking out of both sides of

FIREWORKS

Lamb calls law ‘absurd,’ but firemarshal says they are dangerous

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Woman scales Mt. Shasta toraise money to fight disease

The American Legion color guard marches downMain Street during the Fourth of July parade inFranklin yesterday. At left, Eric Lewis, 7, of CubScout Troop 126, rides the American flag float. PHOTOS

BY DAN HOLMES

Freedom march

the world.He said the Milford Club has so far

raised $12,000 for the MassachusettsLions Eye Research Fund, and over$180,000 over the past two decades.

Lions Clubs in the state raise morethan $1 million each year to the fundfor eye research.

Boxes Lions use to collecteyeglasses have received anew coat of paint andgraphics. DAILY NEWS PHOTO BYDEREK MCLEAN

MENDON

Horriblescomingto townBY MIKE GLEASONDAILY NEWS STAFF

MENDON — The annualHorribles Parade — featur-ing local children in costumemarching down MapleStreet – is set to take placetomorrow evening.

The parade, which startsoff at 6:30 p.m., is open to

Rising above cancer

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Bennett

MedwaynativePamelaBennettclimbed Mt.Shasta toraise moneyto fightcancer.

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INDEPENDENCE DAY

Towns to holdholiday bashes

BY MATT TOTAMILFORD DAILY NEWS STAFF

Using fireworks, food,music, and parades, areatowns this week will cele-brate Independence Daywith a slew of Star-Span-gled extravaganzas.

Milford — tomorrowFireworks shot from

Clark’s Island on MilfordPond will paint the skystarting at 10 p.m. The is-land has served as a launch-ing pad for the town’s fire-works display for more than10 years.

Parks Department Direc-tor Michael Bresciani sug-gests watching the displayfrom Plains Park, FortuneBoulevard, Fino Field oranywhere around Rte. 85.

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by Lindsay corcoranDaily News Staff

MILFORD – For the third year in a row, state Sen. Richard Moore laid a wreath in Milford’s Cal-zone Park on Friday as a way to honor the sacrifice servicemen and women

and their families make, especially around the holidays.

Moore first began par-ticipating in the tradi-tion as part of Wreaths Across America, a nation-al program aimed at dec-orating veterans graves and memorials for the

holidays.“I went to a ceremo-

ny they had at the State House three years ago and thought that while I couldn’t afford to buy a wreath for every grave, that I could spread the message by laying wreaths at memorials in my

district,” Moore said.The Wreaths Across

American program be-gan in 1997 with the dec-oration of the graves at Arlington National Cemetery and has since spread to 800 locations

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enduring traditionLawmaker lays wreaths to recognizes veterans, active military around the holidays

by mike gleasonDaily News Staff

UPTON - Owners of a South Street gravel pit say they are looking to sell the property as a stop-work order contin-ues to be in effect.

The Board of Select-men this week voted to continue the suspension of the operation’s per-mit that had been sus-pended at its previous meeting.

Town officials said they received

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Gravel operation remains suspendedProperty owners may sell land

TOP: State Sen. Richard Moore, D-uxbridge, pre-

pares to lay a wreath at the World War i me-morial in Calzone Park in Milford on Friday as (from left) William Porter, Larry Hughes, Steve Petak and Paul Lavallee of the Milford Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1544 look on. The wreath-laying was part of the Wreaths Across America pro-gram. RiGHT: Porter, Hughes, Petak and La-vallee salute.

DAiLy NEWS STAFF PHOTOS/KEN MCGAGH

by matt TotaDaily News Staff

BELLINGHAM — One Saturday or Sun-day this month, Santa Claus might be coming to your neighborhood.

For the 10th year, the Bellingham Lions Club has taken up its ambi-tious “Santa Project,” with the goal of bring-ing Mr. Claus, sitting atop a trailer fashioned to look like his sleigh, to virtually every street in town.

A different Lions Club member will don the red robes and white beard each Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 8 p.m. until Dec. 15. Towed by a Belling-ham Fire Department brush truck, Santa rides through all of the town’s precincts accompanied by a police escort. You can’t miss him, Lions

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Lions Club brings Santa to town

by nick SchofieldDaily News Correspondent

MILFORD – With more than 260 families in need of help and new clients coming in all the time, the food pantry at the Milford Salvation Army stays busy around the holidays.

“That’s an average num-ber for us,” said its director David Irwin, “but we have new clients rotating in all the time.”

The agency offers a food box program each holi-day season. On two dis-tribution days, one before Thanksgiving and the oth-er before Christmas, the Salvation Army will pro-vide food boxes to anyone who is in need.

“We try not to turn

anyone down,” said Irwin.These boxes come with

traditional holiday foods and a turkey for each el-igible family. This past Thanksgiving, the Salva-tion Army’s food pantry found itself about 90 tur-keys short.

Irwin attributed this to shifts in donations over the

past year. “Some groups withdrew their support or reduced their donations,” he said.

Thankfully, he added, the community respond-ed in force and Irwin now hopes there will be enough Christmas turkeys for ev-ery family who comes in.

As part of the Milford Daily News Holiday Char-ity Drive, the Salvation Army accepts monetary donations.

Irwin and Salvation Ar-my volunteers will pur-chase the turkeys, and the cost, he said, adds up quickly. Donations raised through the charity drive help cut down on this cost.

Irwin, however, hopes

MiLFORD

Salvation Army hopes to feed 260

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bianca pearson, 3, with her dad Shawn, tells San-ta what she wants for christmas during the men-don tree lighting on friday. DAiLy NEWS STAFF PHOTO/ JOHN THORNTON

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