Nicole Genard was selected to the Boston Globe and Boston Herald All-Scholastic team for her performances in the Javelin this season. The Globe will announce their selections on Sunday, June 24.

Genard had the three longest throws in Massachusetts this year:139’10”, 138’0, and 136’4″.   She won the Weston Twilight meet, the State Coaches Meet, and the Division 1 state meet.  She holds the SHS and GBL records in the javelin, along with setting the record at the Weston meet.

Next Wave School, Somerville’s alternative junior high school, graduated seven students on Wednesday night, June 13: Brendon Davis, Gabrielle Etienne, Shawn Soares, Carls Alphonse, Bobby Crump, (not in picture: Mercedes Reyes and Ronald Fuentes). Next Wave is designed to meet the special academic, social, emotional, and behavioral needs of troubled adolescents who for many different reasons have been unable to experience success in traditional mainstream settings. By combining the clinical concept of a therapeutic community with the educational concepts of individualized and specialized integrated learning experiences.

I  wrote this speech for a recent Grolier Book Shop fundraiser at the Bloc 11 Cafe in Union Square. Hope you enjoy it…

It’s tough being a writer. In my case even when I was born I was so ugly the doctors slapped my mother instead of me. My own father, not a literary man mind you, said ” What a treasure, let’s bury it!” I remember the tender moments with him though. He once said to me with love in his expressive eyes: “You are in the flower of young manhood Doug–you are a blooming idiot.”

Dan Sklar.

I once saw a hilarious skit on Saturday Night Live. A deranged counselor talking to a student said: “So you want to be a writer, huh? Well- La-De-Freakin’-da.” Now my colleague at Endicott College Professor Dan Sklar is a serious writer but he doesn’t take himself too seriously. Here is a poem to explain his point of view to you.

Mystic River Yacht and Boat Club Commodores with Father Joe Forster, Rep Paul Donato, Former Mayor Gene Brune, and WHYC Commodore Bill Rogers. – Photo by William Tauro

By William Tauro

This past Saturday the Winter Hill Yacht Club of Somerville along with the Mystic Wellington Yacht Club and the Riverside Boat Club of Medford, invited former Somerville Mayor and current Middlesex Registrar of Deeds Gene Brune to represent The City of Somerville, and Medford State Representative Paul Donato representing The City of Medford, to be part of the over thirty year old tradition of the “Blessing of the Fleet” on The Mystic River for its 2012 boating season.

Arrests:
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Ellenmarie McCann, 25, of 167 Pearl St., June 11, 3:18 p.m., arrested at 249 Pearl St. on a warrant charge of assault and battery.

Gary Forestier, 47, of 27 Beacon St., Burlington, June 12, 8:27 a.m., arrested at Elm St. on a charge of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license.

The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region announced earlier this month that the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries was awarding $1,126,315 in grants for 2012.  The Dr. Albert F. Argenziano School at Lincoln Park was selected as one of 238 recipients from throughout the United States. The Argenziano School was awarded a $5,000 grant to expand and diversify its library book collections.  Argenziano is one of only four schools in Massachusetts to receive the award.  The School plans to expand its collection of reading materials with a collection of Graphic Novels and a selection of Nonfiction Titles to serve the varied interests and reading levels of students in grades K-8.

Trash & recycling on regular schedule
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Due to the Bunker Hill Holiday on Monday, June 18, all City offices except schools will be closed. Also, there will be no street sweeping, and parking meter enforcement will not be in effect. However, trash and recycling pickup will be on the regular schedule.

On The Silly Side by Jimmy Del Ponte

(The opinions and views expressed in the commentaries of The Somerville News belong solely to the authors of those commentaries and do not reflect the views or opinions of The Somerville News, its staff or publishers.)

My dad considered being a dad the most important thing in the world. One of his favorite sayings was “You just tell them your daddy said so.” And I did. I had a guitar on layaway at a sleazy music store formerly in Medford and it was all paid up. The owner kept saying it was coming in, it was coming in. Finally I brought my dad down there. Dad says firmly, “Do you have this kid’s guitar?” The crumb said “No.” So dad says,”Give him his money!” And he did. That was dad.

Somerville’s own Swinging Singing Moonlighters performed at the VNA at Capen Street on June 6, led by Jimmy Del Ponte. All are welcome to join the Moonlighters. They meet every Monday at Holland Street Center 167 Holland Street. Singing time is 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.  All singing levels are welcome.