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West 17 THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE MARCH 24, 1996 Home Garden Sports Calendar Check stores for movable thresholds Handyman on Call Q. Do you recall a weatherstrip device that is attached to the bottom up the new shingles. That way the shingles will hold better. Another way to redo the roof is Continued from preceding page ROLLER HOCKEY Newton: Leagues being formed Indoors for men, women at Newton Indoor Sports. Call (617) 964-0400.

RUNNING Framingham: A 10-mile race will begin at 10 a.m. March 31 at the Barbieri School. Call (508) 881-9657. Needham: The New England Sports Lodge 1934 B'nai "B'rith will sponsor a 10-kilometer road race beginning at face of a door? It was spring-mount ed and activated by a pin that pro jects out at the sides. The threshold drops down when the door is closed for a good seal, and rises when the door is opened.

Where can I find such a threshold? I sure wmdd like to find one. LA Newton A. I do recall such a movable threshold. I have two that have given yeoman service for the past 20 years. It is sold in almost any lumber store or hardware store.

If a local lumber store doesn't have them (there are several 1 p.m. today at Memorial Park. Cost is $9, $7 in advance. Call (617) 237-9539. Newton: Heartbreak Hill International Road Race A 1-mile run April 14 at Heartbreak Hill for youths ages 9-18 (including wheelchair division) and adults 40 and over.

To obtain an application, call (617) 527-8283. Newton: The West Suburban YMCA Benefit 10-kilometer Road Race will be held at noon today. Cost is $14, $12 in advance, $2 for children. Call (617) 244-6050. Wellesley.

The Wellesley Community Children's Center will present a "Fun Run" and "Fun Fair" on April 13 at the Wellesley High School track. The race events are open to children ages 3 to 12. Cost is $6, $5 in advance. Call (617) 235-7667. types, but all operate on the same principle you described), try Home Depot or HQ.

It may take a little looking around, but they are out there. I not only have some but also see them in stores that I visit when the spirit moves me. Q. have a hot-air furnace in my attic, and I can't relo to lay l-by-3-inch strapping on the old roof, going up the roof, not sideways, spaced 16 inches on center, then put down the rigid insulation, plywood and shingles. This will allow an air flow between the insulation and the old shingles, enhancing the coldness of the roof.

Make sure this space is ventilated by the soffit vents and the ridge vent. In other words, the soffit vents and ridge vent will be ventilating both the attic and space between insulation and roof. And while you're at it increase those soffit vents so' that there is one between every pair of rafters. All this may not be standard or state-of-the art con-' struction, but with your furnace-in-the-attic could be a cure. Of course, moving the furnace out of the attic would, in all likelihood, solve all your problems.

7o) Q. want to paint my walls after stripping the wallpqn, per. The paper is coming off but leaving many little shards of paper, and also making the paper face ofthe plasterboard wall sort of fuzzy. How can I remove shards and tone down thatfuzziness? ti, M.G., Newbury A. Wash the walls with warm water and detergent to re-j move the shards and also any paste residue.

If some of, the shards resist the wash water, scrape them with a wide putty knife before they dry out. If the fuzziness fairly obvious, sand with fine sandpaper. Two thin coats of latex wall paint should make the rest of the fuzziness lie down. H' Call in your questions on (617) 929-2930. Globe Handyimn on Call Peter Hotton is available from 1 to it p.m Tuesdays to answer telephone questions on house re-vair and renovations.

cate it, so I have to shovel off the roof whenever it snows to prevent ice dams and residting kaks. A contractor suggested putting 2-inch-thick rigid insulation on top of the old shingles, on the entire roof, and reshingle over that Would that work to prevent ice dams, or would it SOCCER trap more moisture? I plan to put in a ridge vent to sup Milford: Free coaches and parents clinic From 7 to 9 plement the soffit vents, which are 5- by lk-inch louvers placed between every other set of rafters. R.M., Chelmsford A. Any port in a storm. The roof insulation is expensive, but it might be the solution to your ice dam problem, and I don't think it will trap moisture, because there is no space for water vapor to get into and condense.

And the new roof will be cold, which is what you need to prevent ice dams. The only thing I would suggest is to nail or screw half-inch plywood over the rigid insulation before putting sion will sponsor adult tennis lessons April 25. Call (617) 455-7521. Weston: Mixed-up doubles At 8 p.m. every Saturday at the Weston Racquet Club.

Call (617) 890-0383. TRACK Waltham: Waltham Track Club Accepting females 18 and older. Call (617) 893-3828. TRIATHLONS Framingham: The Minuteman Road Club will offer a cycling-skills clinic from 9 a.m. to noon April 27 at the Suburban Athletic Club.

Cost is free for children 18 and under. Call (508) 881-3603. VOLLEYBALL Newton: Gold Medal Coaches Clinic April 27 and 28 at Boston College. Call (508) 371-0503. Waltham: The Waltham Family YMCA is taking registration for a spring co-ed volleyball league.

Cost is $250 per team. Call (617) 894-5294. WALKING Wellesley: March for Parks April 6 at Elm Bank Reservation in Wellesley. Call (508) YOGA Framingham: The Framingham Park and Recreation Department will offer an introductory class in Hatha Yoga from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. Mondays at the Danforth Gym.

Cost is $30 for a six-week session. Call (508) 620-4834. Natick: Temple Isreal will host "Yoga Unplugged" from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursdays for eight weeks. Cost is $98.

Call (508) 653-9039. Westborough: The Unitarian Universalist Church will host yoga classes from 7 to 8 p.m. April 2 to May 21. Cost is $98. Call (508) 653-9039.

OTHER THINGS Framingham: The First Parish Unitarian Universalist will host tai chi classes for beginners 6 to 7 p.m., advanced 7 to 8 p.m. and advanced review 8 to 9 p.m. Mondays April 8 to June 17. Cost is $40. Call (508) 429-3827.

Framingham: The Park and Recreation Department will offer horseback riding lessons from noon to 1 p.m. beginning April 21 for five Sundays at the Glenn Maura Farm in Ashland. Cost is $100. Call (508) 620-4834. -Hopkinton: The Massachusetts Environmental Police Hunter Education Bureau will offer a muzzle-loading education course from 9 a.m.

to noon or 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. March 26, 28 and April 2 at the Southborough Rod Gun Club at 254 Fruit St in Hudson Call (508) 792-7434. Natick: The MetroWest Medical Center offers a beginner tai chi class from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays, an intermediate class from 6:30 to 7 p.m. Thursdays and an advanced class from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Thursdays. Cost is $40 for 10 weeks. Call (508) 383-1500. Needham: The Deaconess-Glover Hospital will sponsor the Charles River Walking Club. Call (508) 653-8856.

Needham: The Needham Park and Recreation Commission will offer coeducational badminton from 8 to 10 p.m. Mondays. Adult volleyball will be offered from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursdays. Cost is $20 for season or $5 per night Men's basketball will be held Wednesdays.

Cost is $60 for a season or $5 per night Activities are at the Needham High School gym. Call (617) 455-7521. Newton: Hyde Community Center offers Family Gym Night from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays for first, second and third graders and from 7:30 to 9 p.m. for fourth and fifth graders at 90 Lincoln St Call (617) 527-HYDE.

Newton: The West Suburban YMCA offers a seven-week women's self-defense program from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays. Cost is $65, $50 for members. Call (617) 244-6050. Westborough: The Unitarian Universalist Congregational Society of Westborough offers tai chi classes 7 to 8 p.m.

Mondays. Cost is $98 for an eight-week session. Call (508)653-9039. Pruning away winter's damage jxm. Tuesdays and Wednesdays at the John Smith In- door Soccer Center.

Call 1-800-998-7622. Newton: Tri-Star Camp April 15-19 at the Newton Jew- ish Community Center and Beaver Country Day School. Call (617) 558-6455 or (617) 734-6950. Newton and Waltham: Players and teams needed For coed indoor leagues in Newton and Waltham through 'April. Call (617) 789-4070.

Sudbury: Players are needed for an under-19 women's "SCcer team starting a competitive Division 1 BAYS for the spring. Cost is $65. Call (508) 443-6039. It SOFTBALL Framingham: The Framingham Park and Recreation Department will offer senior citizens softball. Cost is $50.

Call (508) 620-4834. Hopkinton: League forming Needs teams, players; men, i-women and coed. Call (508) 435-6191. i Medway: The women's softball team playing out of Med- way seeks experienced players. Call (508) 520-1845 or -(508)533-2518.

Newton: Newton Girls Softball Inc. is accepting applications from girls in grades 2 through 8. Applications are available at the front office of Newton elementary and middle schools or by calling (617) 964-6488. Regional: Players and teams are needed for recreational and competitive coed softball league for games played in Brookline, Cambridge, Milton, Newton and Waltham. Call (617) 789-4070.

Watertown: The Watertown Men's Slow-Pitch League By Ruth S. Foster GLOBE CORRESPONDENT hat to do about the damage and mess from this winter's record snow and ice is the problem facing us ble beds last November with raised furrows are the winners for this spring. They'll be able to plant mucji sooner because the soil on top of furrows dries out much faster. Also cold, wet soil rots many seeds. Because seeds need warmPi to sprout, it might be a good year to start them indoors in individual little containers, ready to go out as soon as the soil is dry enough.

The peas were not planted on St. Patrick's Day this year, I'm afraid. Entry to the Glass Flowers at the Harvard Botanical Museum in Harvard Square is free on Saturday mornings from 9 a.m.-noon, not on Sunday afternoons. Someone gave us the wrong information. Apologies! Ruth S.

Foster has been a landscape considtant in Vie Boston area jpr years and has written many articles on gardening in New England. Tips for first round of spring cleanup The old way was to throw grass seed on top of the last melting snow, before we knew the germination preferences of grass: very warm soil. So the seed will not sprout until May, but if your green thumb is itching in your winter glove, spread some seeds. It will not hurt. For the vegetable garden.

Spring will be a little later this year. Don't try to dig or turn the soil when it's too wet, for it destroys the texture and dries hard, making it difficult for seeds to spread their little roots. The classic soil test is to take a handful of earth and squeeze it. If it stays in a ball when you open your hand, it's too wet. If it crumbles, it's dry enough to begin working.

Folks who prepared their vegeta seeks teams. Call (617) 972-6494. The Women's Modified League seeks players and teams. Call (617) 924-3418. SPORTS MEMORABILIA Newton: Card shows and memorabilia 9 a.m.

to 3 p.m. today at Holiday Inn in Newton. Waltham: Card shows and memorabilia -10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 6 and May 4 at the Best Western TLC Hotel.

SWIMMING "7 Framingham: The Ashland Recreation Department will present preschool and youth swimming lessons through March 27 at the Framingham Club. Call (508) 881-0105. Sudbury: New England Masters 3 p.m. today at Atkinson pool for 19 and older. Wellesley: Stroke clinics -10 a.m.-noon April 6, 13, 20 and 27 at Wellesley College.

Masters and triathletes. Call (617)283-2021. TENNIS Franklin: The Forge Hill Family YMCA will offer tennis lessons April 14 to 20. Call (508) 528-6270. Needham: The Needham Park and Recreation Commis Professional Craftsmanship Guaranteed At Signature Uie offer a variety of custom deck designs in REDWOOD.

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057168 tested ft WJ now. Fortunately, it is time to prune, so the damage can be repaired as part of normal spring pruning and cleanup. Some basics of normal spring pruning are: Prune for health by removing dead, damaged, broken, crossing and rubbing branches. Prune to control size, as with hedges, overgrown trees and plants that block paths or vistas. Wait on the evergreens, though, until new growth begins, because it is still a little cold for pruning them.

Prune to rejuvenate, particularly deciduous shrubs and trees, by thinning out overgrown shoots so there will be room for each leaf and flower. If there are too many interior branches, remove some of them. With spring-bloomimg plants, either wait until after they flower or bring the cut branches indoors and force them so as to not lose this year's beauty. However, where plants are just a tangle that cannot be renovated, try the old English gardener's trick: Cut them completely back, almost to the ground. Spread a ring of fertilizer around the base and wait for a new mound of fresh leaves to regrow.

Special for dogwoods. Most are infected with antracnose fungus, and it can be carried from branch to branch on pruning tools. Dip tools in alcohol between each cut to prevent spreading the disease. Special for hemlocks. Look for tiny cotton specs (actually eggs) on the undersides of twigs.

They are tiny bugs, adelgids, from Japan that spread a year or so ago to Massachusetts from Virginia. The insects suck out the plant juices. Then the plants get sickly and scrawny and eventually die. At the moment, a horticultural oil spray is recommended, along with not feeding infected trees heavily with nitrogen, which only makes the bugs healthier. As they feed, adelgids turn the trees rather gray, not bright brown.

Many hemlocks are partly brown this spring, probably from last summer's drought which surely caused much root damage. You cannot tell which drought-stressed branches are dead or alive yet not until the buds begin to grow. These brown hemlocks should be fertilized now in hopes that they make new root growth and recover. About the lawn. Try not to walk on it when it is mushy or squishy, because this compacts the soiL When the soil dries out enough to walk on, you can pick up broken branches and debris.

At that time a good raking to remove the accumulated dead thatch and matted grass is very beneficial, though not absolutely necessary. NCAA berth is milestone for Harvard coach, team I Custom DesiVned Decks -it' Screened Porches Gazebos For Your Free Design Consultation lost sight of why young people play sports. "But he doesn't like it when Mom's team is losing." America Deck Builder" Call 1'800-6'UtlJK Newton MA Reg. 1 1 1975 Delaney-Smith's election to the state coaches Hall of Fame in 1986 came as a pleasant surprise, although not without a little discomfort "I was 8lA months pregnant at my induction," said Delaney-Smith. Incidentally, Harvard's roster this season included senior starting forward Katy Davis, the former Need ham High Globe All-Scholastic Unlike Davis and her teammates, Delaney-Smith got into the sport when young women played six on a side, the court was divided in half and players were allowed just two dribbles.

Furniture Refinishing "Two players were rovers and they were the only ones who could play on both halves of the court, and I Continued from preceding page very excited, but clueless," she said. "I really didn't know much about recruiting. I thought we had the talent for a winning team, but I found out quickly that if you don't have team chemistry, you're not going to win." In her first three seasons, Harvard was 7-17, 3-22 and 8-18. fThat 8-18 season," in 1984-85, "was my first recruiting class, and the next year I brought in five terrific freshmen and everything turned around. We won the Ivy title in my fourth season.

"I certainly have coaching more in perspective now. I understand the emotional and mental part of the game better and I think I've learned not to over-coach. I inherited my mother's enthusiasm for the game, but it's a hard profession if you can't take a loss or can't take criticism. I could always take criticism, but the losses used to take me weeks to get over." 'Delaney-Smith married college classmate Francis Smith in 1975, and they have a son, Jared, 9. Her husband was a varsity basketball player at Massasoit Community College in Brockton and at Bridgewater State, while Jared is a budding star in the Newton YMCA league.

"Jared is a fanatic," his mother said. "We have a hoop on a door upstairs and he plays an hour every night He Copies my players' moves. "We took him to Vanderbilt, and when we lost the lead in the second hajf, he cried. I told Jared that ode has learn how tolose because, unfortunately, socieVy has was a rover," she recalled. "My first year coaching at Westwood was the first year of five-player girls basket ball with unlimited dribbling and the same rules as the boys game, so it was tough adapting to it at first JAMES ROBERTSON'S Panitvt iffiiian a ten Miscellaneous I ADVERTISE PLEASE CALL ANN WRIGHT 1 617-929-2300 1 "But todav, women's basketball is one of the most exciting sports in the country in terms of its rate of growth, the skill of the athletes and overall interest in the sport," said Delaney-Smith, whose team has been a part of that growth and resurgence.

Hoars lUtSilH! 81 Maple Street Marlboro 508-485-2644 Now that her season is over, another one is beginning. "Ill be recruiting a doing clinics," she said. "IU take some time off in abo three weeks when I visit my mother in Florida." And you can be sure there Ti be some coaching strate gy discussed at that family gal-together..