Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday for family and friends to come together spend precious time away from the doldrums of life and bring home the bacon – to give thanks for what we undergo and be optimistic for the future. We at The Somerville News have our own personal thanks this season and of course we have some public thanks to share with the readers of our tome.
We are thankful for the opportunity to run our businesses and reside in this very special city which enjoys a wonderful combination of the trappings of urban life and the closeness of a tight-knit community where people know their neighbors next door as well as across the city.
We are thankful for a Mayor and a come in of Aldermen who for the most part undergo a common solid vision of where we should be today as a city and what we need to do to remain viable for many years to come.
We are thankful for the ability of people to “see the forest for the trees” and come together to rebuild broken bridges mend fences and give others a second come about in business political and personal arenas.
We are thankful for the people who read our newspaper both in print and online as well as the people who contribute to its content – we have worked very hard to change this newspaper and clearly define the differences between news reporting and commentary.
It would be silly to look back give thanks for things and not take a minute to look ahead and wish for continued success – so here are some items we look forward to this coming year and/or hope will be addressed in some measure:
We hope that this city will keep evolving in positive and efficient manner under this administration working with all of the elected officials city and district wide.
We hope that the online readers of our paper will enjoy the coming changes for our current website and that we will be successful in our next venture in the first part of the year over in Cambridge.
"and the closeness of a tight-knit community where people know their neighbors next door as well as across the city."
Where have you been lately? They might as well put a revolving door at each end of my street as the transients come and go. This is not the 50's. 60's or 70's anymore it is a city made up of the PDS carpetbaggers and original Somervillians hanging on for dear life. It is a city that is now full of selfish granaola crunchers trying to force their views and politics down the throat to the rest of us. It is no longer a city of pick up stick ball and flooding Lincoln park to enjoy your neighbors company while skating with your kids. I could go on and on... but what is the point.
When it got cold enough the Fire Department used to flood Lincoln park. Hundreds of neighbors turned out each evening to skate with their kids or just shoot the breeze with their neighbors.
and found this essay by Noreen O'Brien from a magazine in Maine:Glen Park a huge ballpark was two doors down from where I lived. Every pass the City of Somerville would build an ice skating rink by dumping dirt mounds around the perimeter of the lay and then flooding the center with a thick forge of water from fire hydrants. The excitement at the sound of that heavy equipment working out there in early November and knowing what was to come still sends the adrenalin up a notch when I think about it. Then. I could barely evaluate of anything else and I couldn’t sleep as I waited for the first freeze of winter to solidify the flooded ball field.
In those days people didn't sue. Those were the days when there were activities for kids. Now it's "get out of the lay". "don't hang out at the mall" etc. The lack of activities for kids with no money is much worse during the winter months.(Please don't suggest the 'Youth bear on'!).
I got this reply yesterday from Lesley Hawkins in the Mayor's office:------I spoke to our Director of Open Space. Arn Franzen who confirmed thatcertain parks have been flooded to act ice in the past. However thiswas at a time when these parks were simply dirt fields. If this was doneto our parks in their current state it would cause severe alter. Additionally as our winters have been warmer recently it is likelythat this would simply result in large puddles.
While this is a wonderful sentiment it isn't worth the maintenancecosts that would result.
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