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NorthWejoB THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE APRIL 4, 1993 Don't Move out- MOVEUPf rauVtflln!) inn i NorthWest Notebook A anu ur'W'UVtLa py WTMrnumm 1 I 1 100 FINANCING AVAILABLE ,11 STOOOWCT SECOMPIEVBJ MIT BOXE3 CUSTOM STYLED WATHER TIGHT IN ONE DAY 8 YEAR GUARANTEE i I Tit ii ALL WORK BY OUR EXPERIENCED CREWS NO SUBCONTRACTORS -Ww bum In your town. Canutlorlocauora. ST-- ANDOVER nw lexington 8747 Mass Contractor Reg 1 00991 L0WELL (1 II CONIFEPEMC 1 hi 11 NOW MORE EVER TALK T6' NEW ENGLAND'S 4, if LARGEST AND OLDEST POOL COMPANY' 'sjktfr Stability Innovation Experience Passive Solar Heat Chlorine Free GLOBE STAFF PHOTO FRANK O'BRIEN Self-Cleaning Australian Pebble Finish Michael Sayer (left) and Ted Leach get in shape for their cross-country skate. And More Financing Of Course i 3 GUNITE INC.f of Cruelty to Animals at its Methuen shelter. Open to children in grades 3 to 7, the program explores animal protection issues, pet care, wildlife, the environment and other topics and includes guest speakers and field trips.

Children also will help take care of the shelter's companion and farm animals. The program has three sessions, July 5-16 for children entering grades 3 and 4, July 19-30 for children going into grades 5 and 6 and August 9-20 for children entering 6th and 7th grades. Call Marc Hamel or Audrey Pe-trie at the shelter for information at (508) 687-7453 Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 1-800-272-SWIM NEW ENGLAND FLORIDA CALIFORNIA 1 Winchester student to skate across US to help fight cancer While other college students spend the summer cutting lawns or waiting on tables, Mike Sayre and Ted Leach will be making a difference. Sayre is a junior at Middlebury College majoring in geology and geography, and Leach, a recent Middlebury graduate with a degree in physics.

Together with a group of their friends, they will be skating cross the US this summer to fight cancer. i They'll be on the road for an exhausting 60 days, covering roughly miles, averaging 63 miles a day on roller skates. Their trip will begin JJiine 5 at the Los Angeles Forum, and they hope to finish in early August at the Boston Garden. Sayre, who is 20 and from Winchester, and Leach, 24, from Greenfield, are making the grueling trip because the shadow of cancer has touched each of their lives. Sayre has tost two grandparents to cancer, and ijm aunt is recovering from a recurrence of the disease.

Leach's grandmother died of cancer. "Sometimes it takes a tragic experience to make you realize that you go through life often with your lead down," Leach said. "You end up getting caught up in your daily experiences and you don't get a to see what's really important" "We're scared by cancer and ive're upset that it goes on and is jverlooked," Sayre added. Together with Middlebury grad-jate Hieu Nguyen, who is from Con-lecticut, they recently organized Stop Cancer Across the Earth SCATE) and began planning their Toss-country expedition. The three friends want to raise 5500,000 for the Dana Farber Research Institute in Boston, oost public awareness about cancer ind spread the word among people jf all ages and backgrounds that we all put our talents to work to Ight this dreaded disease.

They gamed up with Dana Farber not nly because of the work being done here to find a cure for cancer, but ilso because of the way the center reats people with cancer and helps hem die with dignity. "I thought that this was some-hing that I could make a difference a project in which I could use my wn gifts things that I'm good at," Sayre, a Winchester High khool graduate. "We want people to tear that there is an option for col-ege-age kids. It would be great to nake a lot of money for Dana Farber, but we also want to show kids that they can make a difference if they put their mind to something." Sayre and Leach and their friends are planning seven major stops in cities where there are National Hockey League teams, hoping Make no mistake, Sayre, Leach and their friends do plan to have fun along the way, but this trip is much more than a summertime adventure for them. "We have a calling to make this trip and to further develop SCATE," Sayre contended.

"We don't want to be 30, 40 or 50 years old and looking back with regrets, wondering why we didn't try to do something to help someone who couldn't help himself," Leach said. Sayre and Leach are still looking for corporate sponsors and also donations of equipment and funds. They can be reached at SCATE, 61 Silver Greenfield, MA 01301. Lexington bikeway nearing completion -i Mi arch's heavy snow may have delayed the daffodils, but plans to dedicate the newest 1 11 Custom Cellular Shades ailuble in hundreds of custom sizes with our low Price Guarantee! DoubleCeira IXample: 24" 42" 37:11 OwlthioiMirrirr 500 KrMr FREE Door Prizes! $50 gift certificates given away all day long! Extra Discounts on all Levolor, Bali, Del Mar, Hunter Douglas, Graber, Joanna Louverdrape blinds and shades! Custom brand name drapery accessories fabric 25 OFF our discount prices! Whole House Buy any 12 blinds or shades get the 13th FREE! Take An Additional 50 OFF Our Already Discount Prices On All In-Stock Wallpaper! Joanna Wood Shutters 25 OFF Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price! $3233Your Price 7I Hk rrbdlp 1 4U" 32" 54" 42" 60" FREE decorating services! FREE balloons and refreshments! to get the players to come out for autograph sessions to raise money. In the other towns, places like Mexican Water, Clyde, Ohio, and Allentown, they will be stopping "IV, talk with whoever wants to listen.

"We'd like to inspire kids our O(aoec, own age people ol ail ages to go section of the Minuteman Bikeway next month are right on schedule. The dedication of the Lexington section of the trail is set to coincide with Discovery Day May 29, according to Jerrold Van Hook, chairman of the Friends of the Minuteman Bikeway (Lexington Section). He expects that both the 5.5-mile stretch of bikeway in Lexington and the two to three miles in Bedford will be finished at the same time. Rumble strips and barriers at road intersections, fencing along the old railroad bridge over Route 128 and the final layer of pavement should all be in place before long, Van Hook said. The Lexington section starts at the Arlington line and runs through about two miles of open land to the center of town.

There it passes behind buildings about 100 yards from Massachusetts Avenue, skirts the green and heads out through the western part of town. Rumble strips and barriers will be used to alert trail users to intersections. Signs will also be posted to warn motorists and the bikeway's cyclists, joggers and walkers. Van Hook said he hopes that benches and bike racks can be placed along the trail so people can park their bicycles and walk into the Great Meadows or stop downtown for an ice cream or an errand. One end of the 11-mile bikeway is south of Bedford center, the other is in Arlington, near the Alewife MBTA station just over the line in Cambridge.

The Arlington section of the bikeway was dedicated hist fall. Although the Lexington section's dedication is at hand, Van Hook's group is already thinking about creating an expanded trail network radiating out from Minuteman. One plan is to convert two abandoned rail lines into a bikeway that would lead from the Minuteman Bikeway to North Bridge In Concord. Also under discussion is a plan to build a meandering bikeway through Minuteman Nationul Historical Park. If both new bikeway.

are created, it would allow wople to travel In a loop from Bedford to Concord and back through Minuteman Tark through Lexington, according to Van Hook. MSPCA offers kids a summer program If your children would like to learn about animals and have some fun this summer, think about enrolling them in the annual summft program run by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention Custom Vertical Blinds I sl.incl.ird alaiu 1 1 jv 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 j. I mil! 1 allattlc In hundreds of rush 4t or! with our I C5fobec Crystal Pleat 72" 72" () i0 rrir 2 4" 1 4 2" 5 .3110 KrMr $943lYour Price Price out and do something to help," Leach said. "We're physically capable of going across the country, but that doesn't mean my parents couldn't hold a road race in Greenfield, or Mike's sister couldn't do something at school." When they began SCATE, Sayre i nd Leach stud, experts warned that it would be tough for two college students to organize such a big project. But they Jumped right in, first winning the backing of Dana Farber, then organizing their schedule, writing prt'HS releases and looking for corjxiratc Btwnsors.

When they're not conditioning themselves for the trip, Leach is working full time on SCATE while Sayre Juggles SCATE work with his studies. They know the trip will be a physical ordeal. Each has skated 60 miles in a day before, but neither knows the toll that skating 60 miles day after day will take on their bodies, They are certain it will be demanding on their equipment each of them exited to go through 10 pairs of skates, 20 sets of wheels, and scores of bearings and brakes. I There will be a feeling of triumph when they skate up to Hoston Garden in early August, but the end of the trip will not be the end of SCATE. They'll be taking pictures all along the way and after their trip will be speaking at schools and meetings to show stmSenU how they can make a difference.

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