Newstalk for October 28

Election Day is next Tuesday, polls open from 7am to 8pm - the only contested races in the city outside of Alderman at Large are in Ward 4, Ward 5 and Ward 6. The negative farm team and their PDSer associates will be out blasting and saying all sorts of lies just to get their candidatures elected. The farm team has a new staff / new editor - only there three months - and rely heavily on their PDSer friends. Progressive Democrat endorsements on candidates are self-serving - this year alone this group has held secretive meetings under their present leadership and they haven't gathered more then 17 people at any one meeting. It's an extremely small and negative group that wants to raise your taxes and ban everything they think is good for you. This year it will be a small election turnout - and they're counting on low turnout, so their candidates have a shot at winning...don't let them fool you. *************** Congratulations to Rose Nolan of Sillari Realty again for her award from the Somerville Homeless Coalition this coming Friday 11:30 at the Highland Kitchen. Rose, a lifelong resident, certainly deserves this, their first, "Tina Delellis Award." *************** The Annual Meeting of CAAS will be this Thursday night at the Somerville City Club at 6:30. The agency does a lot of good work for the low income here in Somerville and has been doing a great job now for about 20 odd years or so. *************** Somerville Rotary Club's 2009 Charity Event will be at Giggles Comedy Club in Saugus on Route 1 - this Thursday, the 29th - President Tony Pierantozzi is planning this along with Eugene Brune and Gilda Nogueira - for information and tickets, call 617-679-6310. *************** We congratulate the Little Sister's of the Poor for all their hard work they have done here in Somerville for many years. Recently the Pope canonized Mother Foundress Saint Jeanne Juggan in Rome. *************** Public Hearing coming up in November on the 18th at Somerville High School on the Green Line Extension Project - to discuss the Draft Environmental Impact Report/ Environmental Assessment. *************** Get well to Paul Carroll of Carroll Roofers who is recovering from hip surgery in the hospital, Paul is a great guy and we wish him well. *************** Also get well to Fran Owens our own Miss Senior Massachusetts who was down in New Jersey and in competition when she fell and had to be taken to the hospital and had emergency operation on some fractures. Good news is she's back in Mass and recuperating and doing much better, our best wishes for a speedy recovery. *************** Popular Ward 2 Alderwoman Maryann Heuston is having a fundraiser this Thursday the 29th at the LaHacienda - at 56 Medford Street - as usual, we are sure she will be packing the house again this year - our best to a great Alderwoman. ***************

Comments

[Dennis Fischman]

Thanks for plugging the annual meeting of CAAS. Somerville's anti-poverty agency has been around for 28 years, and Donald Norton was there at the beginning. We hope all parts of the Somerville community can come and rally around the effort to end poverty where we live.

[Sammy]

Is it true that the Tauro family/ Pat's Auto Body crowd is buying the Union Squre Post Office and putting a highrise hotel there?