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4 North THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE DECEMBER 27, 1992 Salem leaders push plan to honor Cynthia Pollack thing. She was the one going to the regional office and pushing Salem. Down in Washington, she worked harder than anyone to bring funding for the site. It seems fitting that the building should bear her name. She is sorely missed," Leonard said.

Leonard has submitted a formal request to Marie Rust, director of the North Atlantic Region of the National Park Service, to have the building named for Pollack. Congressional approval of the name is required, as the visitor's center is a federal property. Salem Mayor Neil J. Harrington said he also would like to see the center named for Pollack. "She was the impetus behind all of this.

She recognized the value of maritime site to the city long before others did. Her contributions were great, and we'd like to see her remembered," Harrington said. KATHY McCABE I he National Park Service's regional visitor's center I I under construction at the I I former Salem Armory is a LJ year away from completion, but community leaders in Salem say they would like the building named for the late Cynthia Pollack, 12-year superintendent at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site. Pollack, who lived in Saugus, died from cancer last month. The well-known advocate for Salem was recognized as the driving force behind the Salem Project, a $5.6 million plan to revitilize the maritime site and create a visitor's center to serve Essex County.

Pollack also served as secretary of the Salem Partnership, a coalition of the city's top businesses that put the Salem Project at the top of the city's economic agenda. Thomas Leonard, chairman of the partnership, said Pollack was missed at a ceremony last month marking the signing of a $3.1 purchase and sale agreement "Cynthia was the lady who pushed all the right buttons throughout the whole I II II 0 fj'ti -J lsr At 5 a.mM trains at the Bradford "layover" facility have already been idling for 15 minutes in preparation Train engines rouse neighbors Nows the time for Christmas tree recycling power and interest, and indicates a willingness to set a good example in terms of recycling," McGovern said. In 1990, the DEP began offering communities technical support to establish Christmas tree recycling programs. The agency provides recycling committees, community groups, and individuals with a recycling kit that explains the importance of chipping Christmas trees as well as where and how the process should be done. McGovern said more communities may be enticed to recycle Christmas trees through a state grants to purchase equipment for large wood waste processing projects, such as trees.

At the local level, most Christmas tree recycling programs are run by public works department, who shred the trees into chips for beautification projects and mulch, among other uses. everal communities North of Boston will be recycling Christmas trees through January as a way of reducing solid waste disposal costs, helping the environment and beautifying the community. Communities with programs in place this year include Winthrop, Wenham, Salem, Gloucester, Man-chester-by-the-Sea and RockporL The state Department of Environmental Protection endorses Christmas tree recycling programs as a method of solid waste management that benefits the community. Ann McGovern, compost program coordinator at DEP, said many communities throughout the state have started Christmas tree recycling programs. "It is often a community-driven thing.

A Christmas tree recycling program shows they have the man WEYMOUTH RTE.1B.S17-340-1430 SAUGUS RTE.1.617-23M3S5 -i 'JilBJ 1 mm ninmMitil- "ttEiPr.nf?i Htfll-x! 7 works to resolve them. Before the MBTA built the Bradford facility, the trains laid over on a site off Hale Street, not far from the Haverhill train station in an area not too heavily populated with residences. The site was owned by Guilford Transportation and was used when Boston and Maine ran the MBTA. But in 1986, the MBTA contracted with Amtrak to run the commuter trains and it no could no longer use the Guilford site, said Ball, spokesman for the MBTA. During what Pelosi calls the "ongoing saga" of the Bradford facility there have been some victories for the city and the neighborhood.

Ball points to many concessions the MBTA has made to the city in response to complaints by residents. The first and last trains to Haverhill at 5:35 a.m. and 1 a.m. and weekend trains no longer lay over in Bradford and are sent back to Boston. Ball concedes, however that the trains need to a while in the morning" so they get warm enough to run properly.

And as much as the community wants to see the facility moved, Ball said "we have no plans to move it The question is what can Notebook riculum on the history of the Iron Works, as well as other staff programs. "Saugus Iron Works is a living laboratory in industrial history that more teachers and school children need to know about," said Superintendent Reed Johnson. More than 3,000 students are expected to benefit from the workshops. The National Park Foundation is a private, nonprofit organization that awards grants to enhance educational, interpretive and preservation programs in the National Parks. It relies solely on private donations and fundraising and awards more than $1 million annually.

The grant to the Saugus Iron Works, which features a furnace, forge, a rolling and slitting mill, as well as working blacksmiths on site and hosts 100,000 visitors each year, received one of 17 such National Park Foundation grants. Salem State fills two positions Salem State College President Nancy Harrington announced earlier this month that two top level posts which had both been vacant for two years have been filled by out-of-state candidates after a nationwide search. Mary Alice Price, formerly a fund-raising consultant for the New York Artists Equity Association, was named director of development. Price had developed, implemented and managed fund-raising policies and programs for nonprofit organizations such as The Fresh Air Fund, as well as the New York Blood Center and Catholic Relief Services prior to her new position at SC Price said of her appointment, "I ii GLOBE STAFF PHOTO JIM WlfcgON for their morning runs to Boston. we do to mitigate it?" Their initial ENF shows that noise levels are higher than allowed and they have proposed varidus sound barriers or a three-sided sHed to mitigate the sound.

Neighbors, however, have noted in writtenl-marks that they would prefer to see any money spent on just moving the facility. Rep. Brian Dempsey (D-Haver-hill) said the bottom line would be to find between $4 and $8 million taget the facility moved to another Ideation. Other than that, the next stgj is "what do you do with the existinglo-cation." "It's absolutely unfair what happened to the neighborhood and tjiat there was no public process," said Dempsey. "It's absolutely unfair that now they're conceding to the MEPA process." Meanwhile, neighbors say they fear for their property values and the future of their neighborhood; Pallaria said he has six children and would encourage them not to live in the neighborhood.

"This neighborhood is devastated in terms of property values," said Pallaria. "Onfy a moron would buy in this area." look forward to the challenges ahead and the opportunity to work with the college community, alumni, business leaders and friends in raising funds to support Salem State College, which serves as a unique and valuable resource in Massachusetts." It was also announced that Terry Conrad was named director of alum-ni affairs, having left his last position as director of alumni affairs at New Hampshire College. A peer program for area seniors Elders can now enroll in the Institute for Learning in Retirement offered as one of the newest programs on campus at Northern Community College in The program is a cooperative venture in which seniors develop and teach courses and their peers. The goal is for learning to be an active experience anchtfie courses are designed to engage Mth the teacher and students. Northern Essex's Institute-lor Learning in Retirement is an with Elderhostel, a nationwide social and educational organization for seniors.

"This is a very exciting concept," said Claudia Lach, coordinator of Northern Essex's Life Long Le3n-ing Program. Our seniors are leSn-ing that they can be teachers as Sell as students." Among the spring offerings 2 a Tai Chi course to be taught by Sflry Wilkie of Groveland, who will uOo-duce other elders to this form oQx-ercise in the Tao tradition which Un-phasizes fluid, slow movement, QQd-bOity and serenity. For more information on the Jn-stitute for Learning in Retirement, call Northern ssex Communjty College at (508) 374-3688. CLEARANCE the neighbors and the city's legislators. "My position is that the facility be ought to be moved," said Pelosi who has identified some potential sites for the MBTA off Hilldale Street and behind the facility in North Andover.

Noise from idling trains is not unique to Bradford. Residents of Reading and Rockport have periodically raised concerns to the MBTA about noise from idling trains. In Reading trains often idle for 15 to 45 minutes between stops at the depot, about 100 feet from residences. Peter Hechenbleikner, Reading town manager, said there have been some complaints from neighbors over the last few months because of larger, louder commuter trains, but the MBTA has been "fairJy responsive," said Hechenbleikner. i Iiu Rockport, where trains are plugged into a electric facility similar the one in Bradford, the MBTA "and Amtrak have also worked with areresidents.

Gene Wallace, ad-" ministrafor of the Cape Ann Trans-portationAuthority, is the liaison between the community and the X'MBTA or Amtrak. Residents can fill out complaint forms and Wallace Education preschoolers, parenting skills classes, as well as an early childhood fair in April featuring representatives from human service agencies providing programs for preschoolers. "Part of the rationale for offering English-speaking classes for families is to both help parents cope better in the community," said Papenfus, "as well as to get them connected to the school, have more understanding of what is happening there and feel comfortable in the school." Parental involvement is greatly stressed and each preschool program schedules a monthly activity on Parent Participation Day ranging from cooking applesauce to jointly creating a quilt, Papenfus said. Iron Works offers teacher workshop Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site in Saugus was recently named the recipient of a $2,000 grant from the National Park Foundation to offer a two-day teacher workshop for about 50 area elementary school teachers. As part of a burgeoning national trend, increasingly teachers are moving away from teaching history through the rote memorization of facts and instead are seeking methods that are both engaging and ex-perientiaL The goal of the grant is to introduce teachers to Saugus Iron Works, a reconstruction of the first integrated iron works in North America founded in 1646, as a teaching resource.

During the workshops on Jan. 23 and 30, teachers will receive a comprehensive educational package for students in through 3, cur DMBTA Continued from Page 1 is supposed to be followed before its built," said Wylie. "The neighborhood's been violated and it will never be the same." Bradford is the section of Haverhill bounded in the north and the west by the Merrimack River. The Wood School neighborhood sits just above the tracks that are in a valley. Freight trains bound for Maine and New York pass over these same tracks.

The houses are mostly Victorian-style, set close to each other. With no foliage, about 100 homes have a clear view of the Bradford layover facility. Pallaria of South Spring Street said that many people don't understand the problem. They say that if you live near the train tracks, you can expect to hear but Pallaria and other neighbors" disagree. They don't mind the trains pulling in and out passengers, but they object to loud idling from 5 to 7 a' "The bottom lineis yotrjust don't sleep between those hours," said Pallaria.

Mayor Theodore Pelosi has worked closely with the city council, Maiden has a plan for homeless kids In Maiden, preschool-aged children belonging to homeless families will have a chance to join classmates in circle time, play at the sand table and fingerpaint, thanks to a new program set to open after the first of the year. The city, which has the third-highest concentration of homeless families due to the number sheltered temporarily in Maiden motels, is expecting to enroll about 15 homeless children in the program, which will be held at the Lincoln School. "It is critical to get kids in an environment where they are learning and enjoying themselves and outside the environment of the motels," said Veronica Papenfus, early childhood coordinator for the seven existing preschool programs provided by the Maiden Public Schools, which have a total enrollment of 225 children and represent more than 20 percent of the city's 3- and 4-year-old population. The program, which will be offered free to homeless families, includes an arrangement with the Maiden YMCA that will allow children to be picked up and transported three mornings a week to the eat a nutritious breakfast there, participate in a gym, swim or field trip activity, eat lunch, and then be transported to the Lincoln School for a traditional nursery program in the afternoon. Papenfus received a $81,535 grant from the state Department of Education to fund the preschool program for homeless children until June.

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