Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Page 4 <strong>Medway</strong> & <strong>Millis</strong> Local Town Pages www.localtownpages.com <strong>May</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
RIGHT TO FARM<br />
continued from page 1<br />
localtownpages<br />
Published Monthly<br />
Mailed FREE to the<br />
Communities of<br />
<strong>Medway</strong> & <strong>Millis</strong><br />
Circulation: 10,000 households<br />
Publisher<br />
Chuck Tashjian<br />
Editor<br />
J.D. O’Gara<br />
Advertising Sales Manager<br />
Lori Koller<br />
Franklin & <strong>Medway</strong>/<strong>Millis</strong><br />
(508) 934-9608<br />
mals, and it’s work, and every now<br />
and then you’re going to know it’s<br />
there, but so what?” says Glenn<br />
Trindade, <strong>Medway</strong> Selectman<br />
and member of the Board of Directors<br />
for <strong>Medway</strong> Community<br />
Farm.<br />
“We want everybody to know<br />
there are people who support<br />
agricultural pursuits in town,”<br />
says Atwood. “If we don’t it’s<br />
just to be more grocery stores<br />
and Starbucks.”<br />
Atwood explains that as long<br />
as farmers abide by accepted<br />
farming practices, following rules<br />
and regulations of the town, the<br />
Right to Farm bylaw supports<br />
them. “The onus is on the farmers<br />
to follow accepted practices,”<br />
says Atwood. “They can’t be<br />
doing things that are abhorrent<br />
to those normal practices. There<br />
are guidelines by the state Department<br />
of Agriculture.<br />
“The Right to Farm Bylaw<br />
doesn’t supersede any of our regulations,<br />
but it makes clear that,<br />
look, if someone moves in, and all<br />
of a sudden (they realize) that pastoral<br />
little landscape has odors in<br />
it, or if the tractor coming down<br />
the street holds up traffic, we all<br />
know that this is part of farming,<br />
and we’re reaffirming that right to<br />
do so,” says Trindade.<br />
“We want to show support<br />
to local farmers, to continue to<br />
show how serious we are about<br />
reaffirming agriculture in our<br />
local community,” says Dempsey.<br />
“The longer and more successful<br />
we can keep those farms,<br />
the better,” says Trindade, who<br />
says keeping farms in business<br />
keeps more <strong>Medway</strong> land from<br />
being sold and developed. The<br />
<strong>Medway</strong> Agricultural Committee<br />
is also looking to support<br />
farmers by growing its farmers’<br />
market and bringing it back to<br />
Choate Park this June.<br />
If the Right to Farm bylaw<br />
passes at Town Meeting, <strong>Medway</strong><br />
will join surrounding towns<br />
<strong>Millis</strong> and Holliston, as well as<br />
138 other towns in the Commonwealth<br />
with Right to Farm<br />
bylaws, according to the Massachusetts<br />
Agricultural Commission<br />
(www.massagcom.org).<br />
Trindade says the proposed<br />
bylaw was carefully drafted.<br />
“What it does is it makes it<br />
clear to people who say, well, if<br />
there’s a right to farm, my nextdoor<br />
neighbor could decide he<br />
wants to be in the egg business.<br />
If he meets all the requirements<br />
set by law, then, yeah,” says Trindade.<br />
“I see a real value—in<br />
teaching kids this is where your<br />
food comes from, this is how it all<br />
works, and having that local food<br />
source option.”<br />
Local Poets Featured in<br />
Children’s Poetry Anthology<br />
by Amy Mevorach<br />
A reception, gallery display<br />
and book signing for the children’s<br />
poetry anthology An Assortment<br />
of Animal” will be held<br />
at the Hopkinton Center for the<br />
Arts from 1-3 p.m. on Saturday,<br />
<strong>May</strong> 18. The anthology includes<br />
poetry by members of the Writers’<br />
Loft, including popular children’s<br />
book author Jane Yolen as<br />
well as Brian Lies whose picture<br />
book The Rough Patch is a Caldecott<br />
Honor Book and ALA Notable<br />
Book for <strong>2019</strong>. Among<br />
the illustrated poems are pieces<br />
by two <strong>Millis</strong> writers, Dave<br />
Pasquantonio and Sally Hinkley.<br />
Hinkley, a children’s book<br />
author and art teacher at the<br />
Danforth Museum and School,<br />
wrote and illustrated two poems,<br />
“Pigeons” and “Tracing the<br />
Lines.” The latter is a poem<br />
about elephants, which she had<br />
experience illustrating while<br />
working on a middle grade<br />
book. “I started with picture<br />
books,” she said. “I love storytelling,<br />
exploring different ways<br />
of doing that, visually or with<br />
writing.”<br />
Pasquantonio writes primarily<br />
speculative fiction for adults,<br />
but responded to the call for<br />
submissions with two poems, “A<br />
Platypus Looks Like a Platypus<br />
Should” and “Each Is Great,”<br />
a conversation between large<br />
felines. “It’s hard work writing<br />
for children, and hard work writing<br />
poetry,” he said. “I hadn’t<br />
appreciated how difficult it is to<br />
make your 40 words sing.”<br />
Both writers joined the Writers’<br />
Loft soon after its founding<br />
in 2013. Located at 20 North<br />
Main Street in Sherborn, the<br />
Loft offers working space,<br />
workshops, critique groups<br />
and networking opportunities<br />
for writers. “Most of us came<br />
into the Loft very solitary writers,”<br />
Pasquantonio said. “Being<br />
around people who have worked<br />
hard and made it, you see how<br />
it’s done.” For Hinkley, the Loft<br />
helped her in the process of procuring<br />
an agent. “You learn so<br />
much being there. My writing<br />
improved so much.”<br />
Events, workshops and critique<br />
groups are listed on the<br />
Loft calendar at https://www.<br />
thewritersloft.org/calendar.<br />
Production & Layout<br />
Susan Dunne<br />
Michelle McSherry<br />
Social Media Manager<br />
Kyle Koller<br />
kylekoller@localtownpages.com<br />
Advertising Department<br />
(508) 934-9608<br />
lorikoller@localtownpages.com<br />
Ad Deadline is the<br />
15th of each month.<br />
Localtownpages assumes<br />
no financial liability for errors<br />
or omissions in printed<br />
advertising and reserves the<br />
right to reject/edit advertising<br />
or editorial submissions.<br />
Send Editorial to:<br />
editor@millismedwaynews.com<br />
© Copyright <strong>2019</strong> LocalTownPages<br />
Now Offering Occupational Therapy Services<br />
Serving the children, adolescents and adults<br />
of greater Boston for over 18 years<br />
• Speech-Language Evaluations and Therapies-All ages<br />
• Hearing Tests<br />
• Custom Fit Hearing Aids and Service<br />
• Tinnitus Treatment<br />
Many of Our Services are Covered by insurance<br />
5 North Meadow Rd, Medfield<br />
(508) 359-4532 Early Intervention Therapy<br />
30 Man-Mar Drive, Plainville<br />
(508) 695-6848<br />
Post-Stroke and Parkinson Therapies<br />
ABA-based Educational Therapy<br />
Visit our website:<br />
www.speechlanguageandhearingassociates.com<br />
Our Roofs will weather the storm!<br />
Blackstone<br />
Valley’s<br />
1st Choice!<br />
Deal directly with the<br />
owner Rob Chaille,<br />
No outside salesman!<br />
Roofing • Vinyl Siding • Windows<br />
Residental & CommeRCial<br />
Free Non-prorated Extended Warranties Covering<br />
Labor & Material from 30 to 50 Years with<br />
TAMKO or CERTAINTEED Shingles!<br />
Chimney Repair & Rebuilt • Seamless Gutters<br />
Over 26 years experience CS#69907 HIC#160483<br />
~ NO OUTSIDE SALESMAN ~<br />
508-NOR-EAST / 508-667-3278<br />
Fully Insured www.NoreasterRoofing.com Uxbridge, MA