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TOWNS New use for track?
Some residents warm
■ AVON to idea of train station
The Panthers let Di- at Raynham Park
man Voke rally for a
By Sharon Holliday
7-5 Mayflower ENTERPRISE CORRESPONDENT
League hockey win.
MORE ON 33 fore the statewide ban on greyhound rac-
ing doomed Raynham Park’s future as a
■ BROCKTON
For development
company Advanced
Power, bringing a
power plant to the
city is taking a lot
more energy than ex-
pected. MORE ON 1
■ BROCKTON
Former Boxer football
player Dennis Morey
has a rooting interest
in today’s Super
Bowl: His son, Sean,
plays for the Arizona
Cardinals.
MORE ON 33
■ EASTON
The Village Toy Shop
is profiled in this
week’s installment of
the Business Buzz.
MORE ON 12
■ HOLBROOK
The Panthers let Di-
man Voke rally for a
7-5 Mayflower
League hockey win.
MORE ON 33
■ KINGSTON
When Pine duBois
stepped up to protect
Silver Lake in the
1970s, few people
were talking about
carbon footprints or
hybrid cars.
MORE ON 24
■ RAYNHAM
A simple blood test
for beta ketothiolase
deficiency that saved
the life of Olivia Quin-
lan is now among the
battery of mandatory
tests. MORE ON 25
■ STOUGHTON
The town will lose
$400,000 in state aid
this year, and offi-
cials are trying to fig-
ure out what that
budget cut means for
the schools.
MORE ON 13
■ TAUNTON
Tyler Malaguti scored
a hat trick and assist-
ed on another goal to
help the Tigers get
back to the .500 mark
with a 7-1 victory
over Durfee.
MORE ON 38
■ WHITMAN
W-H Student Council
members are chal-
lenging their adviser
to “chill out” in the
icy waters of the At-
lantic on Feb. 14 if
they raise $2,000.
MORE ON 12
■ YOUR TOWN
Every Sunday, The
Enterprise lists
events of interest in
area towns.
MORE ON 14
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dog track, most of the voters in that area residents last week told the Enterprise
said no to a proposed train route through they are now in favor of a train station.
Village Stencils owner and north
Raynham resident Donna Bernardo said
town in a non-binding ballot question. The change in leadership at the state that she would welcome either slots or the
But now, the idea of House of Representatives
putting a train station at
INSIDE has also brought the possibil-
recent proposal by Carney to turn the site
into a train station and a village with
■ Slots and trains
Raynham Park may be pick- could mix /13 ity of slot machines at the small, commercial shops.
ing up steam among resi- track a whole lot closer to re- With business down and taxes
RAYNHAM — Two years ago, be- dents of north Raynham. Cit- ality, and a state official says quadruple what they were 30 years ago,
ing the downturn in the economy and the there is room at the track to accommodate
possible closure of the track, several area both. TRACK/PAGE 13
Public
INSEPARABLE safety
CONNECTION officers
compete
Area departments
train to see who
is fittest
By Maureen McCarthy
ENTERPRISE CORRESPONDENT
HANSON — Area police
and fire departments are taking
their professional training to a
new level in a head-to-head
competition to determine which
of the regions finest are also the
f ittest.
“On the job, we can go from
a complete standstill to complete
physical exertion in a matter of
minutes,” East Bridgewater po-
lice officer Dennis Andre said.
“You need to be able to endure
that timeframe of total exertion
and have the cardiovascular en-
durance to outlast it.”
Equally vital to first-respon-
ders is the need to maintain
heart-health, said Hanson fire
Chief Jerome Thompson.
COMPETE/PAGE 12
EAST BRIDGEWATER
Novel
way to
DOROTHY AND JOSEPH NOREK were a couple for more than 61 years.
COURTESY PHOTO
pay fines
After 61 years of marriage, a Brockton husband and wife By Marcy Murphy
ENTERPRISE CORRESPONDENT
die within 18 hours of each other of the same illness EAST BRIDGEWATER —
During February, residents have
the opportunity to donate a food
In what will be an occasional series, today we begin “From and two brothers. item at the library, instead of
the Heart,” where local residents share emotional experi- Pop served as a ships cook in the U.S. Navy from Dec. 7, paying the fee for an overdue
ences — in their own words. 1941, through March 2, 1946. After his honorable discharge, item.
By Brian J. Wardyga Pop took his kitchen skills to the Items that will be accepted
SPECIAL TO THE ENTERPRISE SS Kresge Co. (now known as
Perhaps what are canned goods and other non-
D
o you believe in miracles? I do. Kmart). He was soon transferred perishables. Soap, deodorant
to the Kresge’s store on Main
kept my
I witnessed a miracle this week thanks and toothpaste were also accept-
to my grandparents, and that’s where this Street in Brockton, where he met grandparents ed last year.
story begins. my grandmother. going for so Library Director Manuel
My grandparents He was the long was their Leite said the food drive relates
Dorothy and Joseph restaurant man- love for one only to overdue items, not for
FROM THE ager and she was items that have been lost or dam-
Norek were each born nearly 100 years ago another.
in 1910. For reasons only a child could un- H E A RT
READERS SHARE
a waitress. He aged.
derstand, I never wanted to call them Nana THEIR STORIES was a firm Each item carrying an over-
Catholic, while due fine, equals one nonperish-
or Papa. Instead I always referred to them as
she was an Episcopalian. All of their lives able item being donated.
Nene and Pop.
they attended separate churches. They even Leite said that last year, there
Nene was born the daughter of the late
ended up in separate hospitals. But their connection to one was “certainly a lot of patrons”
Leon Whiting and Edith (Ridgeway) Whiting right here in
another has proven to be inseparable. who participated.
Brockton on July 26. She had two sisters and a brother. Pop
Nene and Pop were each other’s first and only spouses All donated items benefit the
was born the son of the late Frank Norek and Anna (Komors-
food pantry at Union Congrega-
ki) Norek in Scranton, Pa., on March 28. He had two sisters H E A RT /PAGE 13
tional Church.
VOX THE VOICES
OF OUR
“
I hope the Mayor, City
Council and other commission
members stick to their guns and
“ They may not give in the
same frequency, but they are
donating their time and
“Thanks to the generosity of
people like you we are able to help
many struggling families not only
BOX COMMUNITY
TODAY
defeat this plant.
Winston
”
Mayor: City might not need lawsuit to stop
efforts. ”
Rabbi Joshua Cohen
Spirit willing, wallets empty
at Christmas but year round.
Craig Martin
”
Generous donations aid Abington Food Pantry
Brockton power plant
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