El Delisioso on the move!

Aren't they doing a great job cleaning up Main South??

El Delisioso has only been in the Village of Piedmont but mere weeks and already there has been a shooting investigation!

The only good thing about this is that it is now creeping closah to the west side of WooTown.....perhaps someone important from the other side of the tracks will get shot instead of one of the good folks on this side of the tracks who day in and day out are challenged by this hossshite that a select few in WooTown feel can correct but have yet to! When do the report cards come out??? Maybe when one of the beautiful WooTown people get hurt by this constant nonsense associated with this business that things will be responsibly resolved!

Village of Piedmont discussion tomorrow on WCRN 830AM with Gary Rosen

Tomorrow at 11AM.....a few business owners representing the Village of Piedmont will be on the WCRN True Talk 830AM Hank Stoltz Show which is being hosted by Gary Rosen.

This show on the Village of Piedmont will be informative,entertaining and motivating. The discussion will be one that will be enjoyed by WCRN listeners both in and out of Worcester. All cities and many towns have areas like the Village of Piedmont that have a proud past, a challenging present, but a bright future.

To be a part of the show call 866-876-4123 or 508-438-0965

Architect needed for Village of Piedmont historical rehab!

Creative architect needed to draft interior plans for a three deckah as well as create plans for decks and porches that will conform to the 1892 era.....fee to be negotiated.

Inquire @ qphome@aol.com

The Chris Fitz Band playing live this Sunday in Cambridge at the Battle of the Biggies Duathlon & 2.6 Miler

The Battle of the Biggies Duathlon & 2.6 Miler is this Sunday down at the American Legion Marsh Post #442....11AM start!

The Duathlon has sold out at 40 individuals and 10 two person teams...we still have some space in the 2.6 miler available.....also could use a few more volunteersAfter the duathlon and 2.6 mile run there is a BBQ and live performance by The Chris Fitz Band.....voted Best of Boston Blues Band in 2008..........I take that back the BBQ and the live performance by The Chris Fitz Band will begin before I finish the duathlon.

The Battle of the Biggies Duathlon & 2.6 Miler is benefiting the Somerville Math Fund.

See http://www.baevents.com/battleofthebiggies/ if you want to register for the 2.6 miler.....all welcome to the post music show- invite your friends..cash bar!

New England Patriots 27 - Miami Dolphins 17

I took a friend to the Pats game yesterday and it was a great day.......great parking, easy access in and out of the stadium, amenities galore inside the stadium and a great product on the field - the Kraft family has created a real jewel down in Foxboro and they deserve every thing they have earned including the accolades.....but the news article below that states that the Kraft family has applied for Stimulus Funds to build a walk way over Rt. 1 and that their application may be approved just seems to be wrong considering the reduction in local aid, the crumbling schools and transportation infrastructure not to mention the crappy sidewalks on Winfield Street in WooTown!

Where is former Speakah of the House Thomas Finneran when we need him?? Say what you want about ole Tom...he didn't mind standing up to this kind of nonsense when it needed someone standing up to it!

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For the Kraft’s Patriot Place, a golden gateway
$9m in stimulus funds urged for footbridge over Route 1
By Noah Bierman
Globe Staff / November 7, 2009

The Patrick administration is pushing through a plan to spend $9 million in federal stimulus money to build a walking bridge connecting parking lots on either side of Route 1 near Gillette Stadium. The lots belong to Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, who is tied for number 468 on Forbes Magazine’s list of the world’s billionaires.

State officials decided to bypass a host of projects across the state - including road rebuilding projects in Canton, Danvers, Braintree, and Bellingham - to build the footbridge.
The bridge was included on a slate of projects, prepared by the administration, that was approved late last month by a regional planning board that determines how to spend federal transportation money in the Boston area. Most transportation projects reviewed for federal funding are evaluated by two sets of professional planners before such votes, but the bridge and some other stimulus projects on the recently approved slate received no such review. Remainder of article

Who say's it can't happen in the Village of Piedmont?

The greatest real estate turnaround ever
Charlotte Street in New York City's South Bronx was once the epicenter of urban blight. No longer. Now single-family homes line the strip and boats sit in driveways.

By Les Christie, CNNMoney.com staff writer
Last Updated: November 9, 2009

NEW YORK -- Charlotte Street was an apocalyptic nightmare version of urban life.
Weed-choked, junk-filled lots flanked the three-block stretch. Burned out tenement buildings punctuated the sky, and abandoned cars littered the landscape.
The street, like much of the rest of New York City's South Bronx, had fallen to epic lows by the late 1970s. The area had disgorged nearly two-thirds of its population as living conditions declined and arson fires raged. Some landlords, unable to find tenants, torched their properties for insurance money. Other blazes were set by junkies, while still more were set by residents of public housing trying to get moved into nicer apartments.......remainder of article

Newport Cliff Walk.......a good walk not a hike!

The Newport, Rhode Island Cliff Walk is a great take....more of a walk along the shore of Newport than a hike but a great walk that can include walking on the beach, over rocks and tours of some of the mansions that dot the walk.....the best plan is to park at Easton Beach on Memorial Boulevard where the parking is free from November 1 to the end of April and then you can walk the path 3.5 miles to the Bellevue Avenue exit.

Once you reach Arthur's mansion with the sheets for curtains...you walk over an unmarked rock path towards and past a few "regular Joe" homes - one with a George Forman grille in the yard to Bellevue Avenue...from Bellevue Avenue you can decide to walk back to Easton Beach or you can walk a nice tree lined Bellevue Avenue to downtown Newport in about 15-20 minutes-take a left at the first traffic light and walk down the hill:>)

Downtown Newport is nice if you like to take in art galleries, shop, eat and drink.....I am starting to get into the art stuff and and I have been a huge fan of eating and drinking since I popped out of mi madre's womb! A seafood dinner with Red Parrot Pale Ale at the Red Parrot Bar & Restaurant and then a few pints of Guinness at the ole Aidan's Irish Pub now called Fastnet Irish Pub......Fastnet is as authentic as they come folks - the pints of Guiness leading the way!

From downtown Newport it is a sawbuck taxi ride back to Easton Beach for the car.....great way to spend a day.

Paulie's Strength & Motion Dungeon - November 4th workout

Great warm-up run for me tonight before the "dungeon workout" with Jimmy Whittemore.....and then a light lifting work-out due to a wee bit of tendonitis in the left elbow that I have been nursing for a week......all of the weight work-outs for me the past week have been with the dumbbells using just my right arm.

It is starting to sink in that getting back into shape is going to take awhile and that I am very lucky that Whitt has four new little kiddies and that he loves to get out of the house:>) The Battle of the Biggies Duathlon is a week from Sunday and as much as I am looking forward to the event..it is going to be hell for me:>)


Anyone have success doing a lot of these and getting rid of a beer belly and still able to drink all the Smitick's they wanted to??? I am up to 60 a session now and hope to be up to a 100 soon....but I am questioning whether anything is happening?

Newport Cliff Walks

Am heading down to Newport on Friday to hike the Cliff Walks with a wee lass and then we are heading ovah to the Newport Art Museum to buy a million dollar painting for my bedroom....it will be 28 years since I have been back to Newport.....hitch-hiked from Phoenix, Arizona to Newport back in 1981 and then got picked up by an ole buddy for the final ride back to Wakefield, MA.....anything else to check out this time of year?

WooTown Mayor's Race

Joe O'Brien 10180

Konnie Lukes 5637

Kate Toomey 3715

E. Tsitsilianos 594

I really thought this would be a closer hoss race than it turned out to be.....the issue of Kate Toomey being a spoilah never materialized...had Kate not run for Mayor then it would have been an even biggah landslide victory for Joe O'Brien as I assume Kate's votes would have went to Joe O'Brien instead of the other candidates.

Everything being said...a good night politically for District 4 - a steady hand in Barbara Haller was returned to office as the District 4 City Councilor and the new Mayor lives in District 4!

I am very leery of so much power being consolidated into one WooTown cornah....we have it at the federal & state level right now and I am not so sure that a whole lot has gotten done - will the limited amount of debate already taking place locally be even more stifled now?... the question Ronald Reagan asked of the American people at the last Reagan/Carter in 1980 debate still rings fresh for me today "Are you better off than you were four years ago?

Good Luck to Joe...he has promised the votahs a lot and he blamed his main opponent for a lot of woes effecting WooTown and this opponents inability to cure these woes...I hope he can deliver! This Votah is willing to give him a chance.

WooTown District Four had it's chance!

Worcester Councilor-at-Large Race

Kola A. Akindele
5,930
7.4%

Michael J. Germain
6,900
8.6%

WooTown's District Four continues to disappoint!

D4 as it is affectionately known had a real chance to put a bright young kid in Kola A. Akindele on the WooTown City Council yesterday...a cat who would be an advocate for it but it could not mustah the will to get down to the polls and vote!

Great weatha, signs in different languages, good intentioned folks with bullhorns and cans tied to car bumpah's out trying to rally a dead community just couldn't do it.

970 Votes separated an advocate for the District versus a cat who couldn't find the District with a GPS and a yellow brick road leading to it!!

VOTE Aqui'

just doesn't seem to be working here in WooTown!

candidates, college kid's....community at large reaching out and once again no return on investment!