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Friday, April 18, 2014
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BOSTON MARATHON

Their dad would be proud

Butz sisters running in his memory

ARTISTS
OF THE WEEK
PHOTOS, A7

Vol. 90, No. 15

By Alana Santos
Special to Randolph Herald

isters Pamela and

Jeanine Butz, are
running the Boston
Marathon this year for
something other than
being the best. They are

running in memory of
their father.
Pamela of Randolph
and Jeanine of Boston are
nding their inspiration
in the American Liver
Foundation and in other
marathoners who honor
those in less fortunate

situations.
As I ran the 21 miles
the other day alongside thousands of other
charity team runners, I
chatted with some along
the course, Pamela said.
This year we are running
not just for our individual

charities, we are running

for the good of humanity
and solidarity, without the
presence of fear, in honor
of those impacted by last
years tragic events.
In 2011, the sisters
father, Allan, was diagnosed with a very rare
and untreatable bile duct
SEE MARATHON, A2

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Mission: Homes for vets

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our Marathon coverage
at wickedlocal.com/
news/boston-marathon.

By Dafney Tales
and Fred Hanson
fhanson@ledger.com

Members of Operation Adopt A Soldier Denise Woolf, Dr. Ann Skopek and Bill Farrell along with soldiers from the 181 ENGR Unit out of Camp Edwards, distributing Christmas gifts to military families.
COURTESY PHOTO

Holbrook man, Randolph woman establish Adopt A Soldier

By Jeanne M. Rideout
Correspondent

COMING IN PRINT
Marathon coverage

INDEX
Beacon Hill Roll Call .................A13
Your News ...................................B1
Briey ......................................... B3
Obituaries ................................. B10
Calendar ...................................B13

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Teen
killed
while
walking
Second Randolph
fatality in a month

For kids only!

Were starting a Kids
Page for, well, kids. Got
a great drawing, puzzle,
poem or story? Send it
in and well share it in
the paper and online.
Send to sgreen@wickedlocal.com.

COURTESY PHOTO

ACCIDENT

MILITARY

SEUSSICAL
SHINES

Jeanine and Pamela Butz

before last years marathon.

e may have been a hero

on Iwo Jima, in Asian
jungles, or on blistering
desert sands. But, on this raw
April night, he sleeps huddled in
a doorway, without a home and
without hope.

Approximately 1,200 Bay State

veterans are homeless, according
to state data, and the new organization Adopt A Soldier is on
a mission to change this tragic
statistic.
The dynamic duo of Holbrooks Bill Farrell, a Marine
veteran, and Randolphs
Denise Woolf, a military wife

and mother, founded Adopt A

Soldier last year with Cape Cod
doctor Ann Skopek, also a military mom.
Adopt A Soldier helps homeless veterans nd housing and
provides furniture and other
household items, as well as

Tonnecia Long of Randolph

was the kind of person you
remembered.
She wore big earrings,
bright colors and a big smile,
said Brockton School Superintendent Kathleen Smith. She
touched my life.
The 17-year-old died after she
was struck by a tractor-trailer in
Crawford Square in Randolph
on Thursday morning, April 10.
She was the second Randolph
teen killed in less than three
weeks. Randolph High student
Tommy Hoang, 16, died in a
snowboarding accident at a Vermont ski resort March 22.
Smith saw Long on Wednesday
when the superintendent went to
the Russell School, an alternative
high school in Brockton, to judge
a bulletin board contest.

SEE MISSION, A3
SEE ACCIDENT, A3

EDUCATION

Randolph school district making steady progress

That was the assessment
of school officials in their
second quarterly update
The school district is on of the districts Accelerthe right track as far as ated Improvement Plan,
underperforming students which is designed to make
making steady progress in rapid progress in areas of
reading and math.
student underachievement
By Allan Stein
Correspondent

and elevate the district from

Level 4 status.
I am happy to report
there is a great deal of progress that is being made. We
are moving in the right
direction, said AIP plan
monitor Nadine Bonda of

the state Department of

Elementary and Secondary Educations Center
for District and School
Accountability.
Bonda and Randolph
Assistant Superintendent
Darcy Fernandes presented

second quarterly results at

the April 10 meeting of the
school committee.
Both officials noted
marked and verifiable
progress in performance
SEE SCHOOLS, A2