The Franklin Interfaith Council invites the community to a Service of Comfort, Consolation, and Solidarity with our Jewish neighbors, following the shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Please join us this Tuesday, October 30 at 7 PM at St. John's Episcopal Church, 237 Pleasant Street, Franklin.
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The Rev. Kathy McAdams, Rector
St. John's Episcopal Church, Franklin, MA
(cell) 857-237-9428
www.StJohnsFranklinMA.org
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Monday, October 29, 2018
FHS Panthers Hockey “Concert at THE BLACK BOX” - Nov 17
FHS Panthers Hockey - “Concert at THE BLACK BOX” - November 17, 2018
Doors open at 7:00 PM, Bands start at 8:15 PM
Music and Raffles
$30 advance/$35 door
3 Bands, Cash Bar
For tickets, email: fhspanthershockey@gmail.com
Doors open at 7:00 PM, Bands start at 8:15 PM
Music and Raffles
$30 advance/$35 door
3 Bands, Cash Bar
For tickets, email: fhspanthershockey@gmail.com
- 8:15 PM - Slew Foot
- 9:25 PM - South Street Six
- 10:30 PM - Karate Show
FHS Panthers Hockey “Concert at THE BLACK BOX” - Nov 17 |
Franklin Garden Club: “H” is for Daylilies
Adele Keohan, a certified master gardener, will present a program on “H” is for Daylilies at the Tuesday, November 6, 2018, meeting of the Franklin Garden Club. The meeting will be held at the Franklin Senior Center, 10 Daniel McCahill Street, Franklin, from 7 – 9 PM, beginning with an informal social at 6:30 pm. It is open to the public at no charge.
The presentation will provide information on different types of daylilies, such as “spider,” “double,” and “eyed” plants; how to select a daylily for form, bloom time and habit; how to care for and propagate these hardy perennial plants; and how to keep them blooming in the garden from late spring to Halloween.
Keohan, a daylily enthusiast who had a garden of 200 daylilies, is a regional officer in the American Hemerocallis Society (AHS), the national daylily society. A member of AHS since 2006, she was appointed an AHS garden judge in 2008 and became a garden judge instructor in 2013. She has presented garden judge workshops at national and regional AHS conventions, as well as in Québec. The votes of AHS garden judges determine which daylily hybrids earn the top AHS awards each year.
A past president of the New England Daylily Society, she is a member of several other daylily organizations and the editor of the award-winning regional daylily society publication, “Daylilies in the Great Northeast.”
The presentation will provide information on different types of daylilies, such as “spider,” “double,” and “eyed” plants; how to select a daylily for form, bloom time and habit; how to care for and propagate these hardy perennial plants; and how to keep them blooming in the garden from late spring to Halloween.
Keohan, a daylily enthusiast who had a garden of 200 daylilies, is a regional officer in the American Hemerocallis Society (AHS), the national daylily society. A member of AHS since 2006, she was appointed an AHS garden judge in 2008 and became a garden judge instructor in 2013. She has presented garden judge workshops at national and regional AHS conventions, as well as in Québec. The votes of AHS garden judges determine which daylily hybrids earn the top AHS awards each year.
A past president of the New England Daylily Society, she is a member of several other daylily organizations and the editor of the award-winning regional daylily society publication, “Daylilies in the Great Northeast.”
Franklin Garden Club: “H” is for Daylilies |
FHS boys take Hockomock Cross Country Championship; girls 3rd
The Hockomock League held its annual cross country championships on Sunday morning, October 28 at the Wrentham Development Center.
The FHS boys varsity won for the first time since 1974. The girls finished 3rd.
The FHS individual results for both boys and girls, varsity and junior varsity are shared in the listing below:
The FHS boys varsity won for the first time since 1974. The girls finished 3rd.
The FHS individual results for both boys and girls, varsity and junior varsity are shared in the listing below:
Place | Class | Name | Time | School | Race |
2 | 11 | Tyler Brogan | 16:12.9 | Franklin | B-V |
3 | 10 | Nicholas Calitri | 16:15.6 | Franklin | B-V |
6 | 12 | Michael Hagen | 16:36.0 | Franklin | B-V |
11 | 12 | Dylan Kehoe | 16:49.2 | Franklin | B-V |
16 | 9 | Jake McCann-Tiede | 17:10.0 | Franklin | B-V |
21 | 12 | Mitchell Regan | 17:16.0 | Franklin | B-V |
28 | 12 | Daniel Barrow | 17:30.2 | Franklin | B-V |
37 | 12 | Ryan Goldman | 17:47.0 | Franklin | B-V |
53 | 12 | Matthew Shumway | 18:14.0 | Franklin | B-V |
76 | 12 | Cooper Ross | 18:47.8 | Franklin | B-V |
1 | 10 | Declan Walmsley | 02:32.7 | Franklin | B-JV |
2 | 10 | Luke Cashin | 17:54.6 | Franklin | B-JV |
6 | 10 | Alex Towle | 19:05.0 | Franklin | B-JV |
8 | 10 | Luke Bryan | 19:19.0 | Franklin | B-JV |
10 | 10 | Joshua Anderson | 19:35.0 | Franklin | B-JV |
24 | 12 | Nicholas Zaffino | 20:10.0 | Franklin | B-JV |
34 | 10 | Johnathan Attinello | 20:48.0 | Franklin | B-JV |
35 | 10 | Joseph Zercie | 20:49.0 | Franklin | B-JV |
36 | 10 | Ethan Park | 20:50.0 | Franklin | B-JV |
43 | 10 | Travis Delvecchio | 20:59.0 | Franklin | B-JV |
50 | 10 | Shane Bissanti | 21:15.0 | Franklin | B-JV |
74 | 12 | Devin Ming | 22:11.0 | Franklin | B-JV |
90 | 12 | John Corcoran | 23:08.8 | Franklin | B-JV |
91 | 10 | Ryan O'Rourke | 23:11.5 | Franklin | B-JV |
95 | 11 | CJ Dexter | 23:19.0 | Franklin | B-JV |
97 | 10 | Adam Dombroski | 23:20.5 | Franklin | B-JV |
105 | 12 | Jared White | 23:40.0 | Franklin | B-JV |
106 | 10 | Aidan Weaver | 23:47.0 | Franklin | B-JV |
112 | 10 | Harry Coyne | 24:12.5 | Franklin | B-JV |
116 | 12 | Zanthius Collins | 24:22.0 | Franklin | B-JV |
118 | 10 | Saahil Bhakta | 24:28.0 | Franklin | B-JV |
122 | 10 | Christopher Campbell | 24:55.0 | Franklin | B-JV |
9 | 12 | Katrina Walbert | 20:09 | Franklin | G-V |
15 | 12 | Julia Fenerty | 20:48 | Franklin | G-V |
17 | 10 | Sydney Hawkins | 20:56 | Franklin | G-V |
22 | 11 | Sarah Giuliano | 21:21 | Franklin | G-V |
40 | 9 | Tarah Agati | 21:49 | Franklin | G-V |
42 | 12 | Mary Viera | 21:57 | Franklin | G-V |
61 | 12 | Brandi Osborne | 22:21 | Franklin | G-V |
62 | 12 | Stephanie Malachowski | 22:22 | Franklin | G-V |
68 | 12 | Erin Barry | 22:29 | Franklin | G-V |
78 | 12 | Julia DiGiacomo | 22:40 | Franklin | G-V |
80 | 12 | Maura Bruns | 22:43 | Franklin | G-V |
2 | 12 | Kate Stavely | 22:54.2 | Franklin | G-JV |
6 | 12 | Kimiya Kim | 23:37.0 | Franklin | G-JV |
7 | 10 | Erin McCaffrey | 23:49.1 | Franklin | G-JV |
8 | 12 | Christina Fuentes | 24:03.0 | Franklin | G-JV |
10 | 12 | Alexandra Nesbit | 24:17.0 | Franklin | G-JV |
18 | 10 | Fernanda Rios | 25:16.0 | Franklin | G-JV |
20 | 10 | Jenna Siders | 25:18.6 | Franklin | G-JV |
29 | 10 | Pratusha Nouduri | 25:47.0 | Franklin | G-JV |
30 | 12 | Sabrina Doherty | 25:48.0 | Franklin | G-JV |
39 | 12 | Caroline Johnson | 26:44.0 | Franklin | G-JV |
40 | 12 | Elizabeth Davis | 26:48.0 | Franklin | G-JV |
43 | 12 | Julia Longobardi | 26:59.0 | Franklin | G-JV |
44 | 10 | Lilly Land | 27:01.0 | Franklin | G-JV |
56 | 12 | Elizabeth Hamilton | 29:07.0 | Franklin | G-JV |
57 | 10 | Isabella Piso | 29:34.0 | Franklin | G-JV |
61 | 10 | Mackenzie Peters | 30:14.0 | Franklin | G-JV |
62 | 12 | Jennifer Kroon | 30:14.0 | Franklin | G-JV |
HockomockSports results
Complete meet results can be found on Athletic.net
Boys race photo gallery
Girls race photo gallery
FHS boys take Hockomock Cross Country Championship; girls 3rd |
For the first time in 44 years, your Undefeated 2018 Hockomock Champions #74nomore pic.twitter.com/QOcHN0RYVV— FHS Boys Track (@FHSPanthersTF) October 28, 2018
Attention 8th Graders: FHS Panther Pride Night - Nov 1
"Attention 8th Grade Franklin families: Mark your calendar for FHS Panther Pride Night on November 1 from 5:30-7:30!
Please come to learn about all of the activities and sports that @FranklinHS has to offer!"
Attention 8th Graders: FHS Panther Pride Night - Nov 1 |
Voices of Franklin: Raymond Milici - Yes on Question 1
In 2010 I retired after 50 years of service at Yale New Haven Hospital, a large nonprofit community hospital in Connecticut. All though I was not directly involved with patient care, I had many friends and acquaintances that were nurses and nurses aids. As hospital employees we all had similar problems on the job. We often heard about costs and budget concerns from hospital administrators. That usually meant austerity measures, that lead to more work with less people.
In the meantime, I witnessed large salary increases for hospital administrators and executive staff. By the time I retired, the hospital administrator was earning close to $1 million a year. According to the Boston Business Journal, Massachusetts hospital executives received double digit raises last year. In 2016 some hospital administrators salaries were well over $1 million to well over $3 million a year. And according to NBC Business News, some of the largest nonprofit hospitals have earned a collective 21 billion in investments on wall street last year.
So who is telling you to vote no on question one, those same hospital executives and business interests here in the state of Massachusetts. Hospital employees have been complaining about short staffing and overloaded work assignments for years, nobody was listening. Now they are facing required staffing levels and they don't like it. If you listen to hospital executives, it's the most diabolical thing that could happen to healthcare.
Suddenly patient care is a priority and they are claiming more nurses well mean less care for patients, figure that one out. Let's cut through the falsehoods, for the business interests in Massachusetts, it's not about patient care, it's about control and the bottom line. Hospitals just don't want to spend that nonprofit money to employ more nurses. They need to stop telling us they can't afford it. This is a classic fight between corporate interests and what's best for the public and hospital employees. So which side are you on. I'm sticking with the nurses and voting yes on question one.
Raymond D Milici
75 Grey Wolf Dr
Franklin MA 02038
Guidelines for Voices of Franklin:
https://www.franklinmatters.org/2011/03/introducing-voices-of-franklin.html
In the meantime, I witnessed large salary increases for hospital administrators and executive staff. By the time I retired, the hospital administrator was earning close to $1 million a year. According to the Boston Business Journal, Massachusetts hospital executives received double digit raises last year. In 2016 some hospital administrators salaries were well over $1 million to well over $3 million a year. And according to NBC Business News, some of the largest nonprofit hospitals have earned a collective 21 billion in investments on wall street last year.
So who is telling you to vote no on question one, those same hospital executives and business interests here in the state of Massachusetts. Hospital employees have been complaining about short staffing and overloaded work assignments for years, nobody was listening. Now they are facing required staffing levels and they don't like it. If you listen to hospital executives, it's the most diabolical thing that could happen to healthcare.
Suddenly patient care is a priority and they are claiming more nurses well mean less care for patients, figure that one out. Let's cut through the falsehoods, for the business interests in Massachusetts, it's not about patient care, it's about control and the bottom line. Hospitals just don't want to spend that nonprofit money to employ more nurses. They need to stop telling us they can't afford it. This is a classic fight between corporate interests and what's best for the public and hospital employees. So which side are you on. I'm sticking with the nurses and voting yes on question one.
Raymond D Milici
75 Grey Wolf Dr
Franklin MA 02038
Guidelines for Voices of Franklin:
https://www.franklinmatters.org/2011/03/introducing-voices-of-franklin.html
Election Information for Nov 2018 |
"to apply for citizenship and getting a green card can take years"
From the Milford Daily News, articles of interest for Franklin:
Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
https://www.milforddailynews.com/zz/news/20181028/heres-how-long-it-takes-to-become-us-citizen
"More than 700,000 immigrants are waiting on applications to become U.S. citizens, a process that once typically took about six months but has stretched to more than two years in some places under the administration of President Donald Trump.
The long wait times have prompted some immigrant advocates to ask whether the delays are aimed at keeping anti-Trump voters from casting ballots in elections.
“People are motivated to participate, and they’re being frustrated from being able to participate in the elections they’re excited about,” said Manuel Pastor, director of the University of Southern California’s Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration.
The number of immigrants aspiring to become U.S. citizens surged during 2016, jumping 27 percent from a year earlier as Trump made cracking down on immigration a central theme of his presidential campaign. At first, the federal government kept up with the applications, but then the wait grew."
Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
https://www.milforddailynews.com/zz/news/20181028/heres-how-long-it-takes-to-become-us-citizen
"to apply for citizenship and getting a green card can take years" |
Library of Congress: WATCH LIVE on HALLOWEEN - Frankenreads
LIVE Reading of Shelley's "Frankenreads" on Halloween 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," and to acknowledge this milestone, the Library of Congress hosts "Frankenreads," a live, day-long reading of the novel in its entirety by Library staff, friends and some very special guests. The program will be streamed LIVE on Halloween, Wednesday, Oct. 31 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET: Watch LIVE on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY7dn_7dj9o |
Sunday, October 28, 2018
LiveARTS: Concert on November 4 - Music of Leonard Bernstein
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Inside Question One: 2 key pieces of info that factored for my decision
I won't say how I voted but I think it makes sense to share the info that helped me to make an informed decision. You can use this to help make your own informed decision.
Whatever position you decide to take is your choice. The only recommendation I'll make is please vote! Your vote is a critical part of our political process.
Whatever position you decide to take is your choice. The only recommendation I'll make is please vote! Your vote is a critical part of our political process.
Piece #1
Jerold Duquette wrote a series of essays on Question 1 that were published on MassPoliticsProfs http://www.masspoliticsprofs.org/. Deep in one essay he writes:
"Both the advocates and opponents of Question One decided that average voters would choose whatever side they thought nurses were on. Unfortunately for the proponents, “nurses” is too large a category to evoke the intended group sympathy among voters.
Had they understood the issue as a conventional dispute between labor and management, they would have realized that the principles and interests advanced by nurse staffing ratios are of hospital bedside nurses (i.e. labor), but not necessarily the principles and interests of nurse managers or nurses who work in settings or facilities where bedside nurses (especially non-unionized bedside nurses) are not severely hampered by patient assignment overloads.
The opponents of Question One are hospital executives and nurse managers (i.e. management) and they have been able to exploit the public’s ignorance about the nursing profession to disguise the clear cleavage on Question One. Opponents understand it’s a labor- management dispute and that average voters would assume that “nurses” are on the side of labor.
Since nurse-managers and other types of nurses are not labor, but are, in fact, management, the “No on One” side has had the luxury of making it look like the laborers in this labor-management dispute are not united in support of Question One, signaling that the law being proposed may not be aligned with the interests and principles of labor."Continue to read the essay online
http://www.masspoliticsprofs.org/2018/10/18/question-1-voters-shouldnt-be-confused/
Within the same essay he references a WBUR poll that helps to show the point that while nurses are on both sides of the issue, nurses is too broad a term to use and when you break down the pill results, some types of nurses are on one side or the other.
The link to the WBUR poll article
http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2018/10/15/wbur-poll-nurse-staffing-question-one
Inside Question One: 2 key piece of info that factored for my decision |
Piece #2
"The POLITICAL bottom line is this: If Question One passes, negotiations on this very important issue to bedside nurses will be energized and the ballot measure itself will have served one of the primary purposes of ballot measures in the first place, which is not to allow average voters to make complex policy decisions, but rather to allow the general public to exert POLITICAL influence on behalf of interests that would otherwise be at a severe disadvantage in getting their issues addressed by politicians who depend on the financial support of wealthy special interest groups.
When proponents and opponents of ballot measures treat average voters like policy experts they are really manipulating them, which is why both sides on every ballot question supplement their “expert” arguments and endorsements with appeals to voters’ in-group loyalties, or as in the case of the opponents of Question One this year, to average voters’ irrational fears.
Voters can and will happily choose sides in a political dispute and ballot questions, like any statute, are NOT set in stone. They can be amended or even repealed by elected policy makers, which means that despite the hype, voters will not have the final say on Nurse Staffing Ratios when they vote next month. Pretending that they will and that a “mistake” by voters will bring on the apocalypse is at best naive.
A YES vote will force hospital lobbyists, nurse’s union representatives, and the state’s elected policy makers back to the bargaining table. A yes vote will force all three groups to accept meaningful responsibility for dealing effectively with this issue.
A NO vote will further empower and embolden the wealthy special interests whose outsized political influence has prevented the legislature from taking up the nurses’ cause, further weakening the ability of healthcare workers to resist exploitation by hospital administrators."Continue reading the full article by Jerold
http://www.masspoliticsprofs.org/2018/10/24/the-experts-and-question-one/
WBUR also has a good summary of the issue here
http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2018/10/26/question-one-karen-donelan?fbclid=IwAR2HH--CqenTzfG-EhejlXk4DG28X_zwoqcV9f-P_7Qp7f32xqg24huhuGU
The Franklin Town Clerk page with additional information
http://www.franklinma.gov/town-clerk
Additional info can be found in the 2018 Election Collection
https://www.franklinmatters.org/2018/10/election-collection-2018.html
Election Information for Nov 2018 |
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