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W2 (a Ashland, Dover, Holliston, Hopkinton, Framingham, Lincoln, Natick, Sherborn, Sudbury, Wayland Community Briefing 2 Calendar 7 Dining Out 7 Sports 10 Boston Sunday Globe August 11, 2002 WAYLAND 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 It) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Town agrees to pay 1 1 1 I 7 thought about how to honor these teachers. Tou know, the ones who really make you want to learn. Rebecca Lynch, Wayland parent who launched calendar WAYLAND Who's cool in school? A calendar spells it out unfair cleanup bi Sharing costs for work at N.H. Superfund site ByEunLeeKoh GLOBE STAFF CORRESPONDENT perintendent of schools. "It's Just a really unfair aspect of the law, but we decided to go ahead with it WeVe done everything properly, but it's just what the law says." Wayland's decision comes amid a tightening school and municipal budget, and just months after the town voted to pass a $1.3 million override for the local school system.

A portion of the $8,000 fee will come from the Fire Department, which through the years generated some of the 1,228 gallons of waste, but the majority will come from the School Department. Burton said the money would not come from programs that directly serve students, but from building maintenance budgets. "We are hoping that this will not affect services to our children," he Wayland school officials will spend nearly $8,000 to help foot the bill for an extensive environmental cleanup at a New Hampshire waste site, joining more than 2,000 communities and businesses throughout New England that are covering the costs. The US Environmental Protection Agency sent bills of varying sizes to the businesses and communities in June 2001 for the cleanup of the Beede Waste Oil 11 JUS! a solvents found their way to the of the law, but We Vi said. "In fact, well make sure that it doesnt.

But it is something we had not really accounted for, and we'll have to see how it affects us in other ways." Because owners of Superfund sites often go out of business or cannot afford the cleanup themselves, the federal government passes the burden to those who generated the waste. Alice Kaufman, a spokeswoman at sprawling cnemicai disposal site irom the 1920s to the mid-1990s. The operation was shut down in 1994 and was declared a Superfund site in 1996, after federal environmental officials found the waste had contaminated nearby soil and the drinking water. decid ed to go ahead with it' Gary Burton Wayland superintendent of schools 1 "Nte 'I ByEunLeeKoh GLOBE STAFF CORRESPONDENT Rebecca Lynch grew up listening to her father tell stories of Pyramus and Thisbe, the ill-fated lovers from Greek mythology, and recite by heart "Casey at the Bat," the poem by Ernest Thayer. By day, he was teaching youngsters at a California elementary school.

By night, he was teaching her to fox-trot to Glenn Miller. In her mind, her father, David Lynch, who had taught for more than 33 years, was a cool teacher. Just months after his death two years ago, Lynch met another teacher, Jim Lee, whose energy and creativity reminded her of her father. Lee taught her son, Sam Bacon, then a fourth-grader at the Claypit Hill Elementary School in Wayland. "I thought, "Well, isn't this said Lynch, a freelance writer and mother of two children who attend the Wayland elementary school.

"It was wonderful to come across another great teacher not long after we lost my father. I thought about how to honor these teachers. You know, the ones who really grab you and make a difference, the ones who really make you want to learn. I could write an article, but then it would appear in the paper and disappear the next. I wanted to do something that would be more permanent." Instead, she came up with the idea for a "Cool Teachers" calendar.

When it comes out this month, she hopes the educators featured inside will help inspire young college graduates and midcareer professionals to consider teaching as a vocation. The 16-month calendar features 17 teachers from all over New the New England division of the EPA, said the agency recognizes that this aspect of the 21-year-old Super-fund law is unfair, but there are no other ways to pay for the cleanups, other than taxing the general population. Many communities opt out of challenging the order because the cost of the cleanup Is usually less than the cost of the legal battle. This is definitely something we had not anticipated," said Selectman Brian O'Herlihy. "This could have a rolling effect on an already tight budget" Although the small businesses and communities had been disposing of the toxic chemicals legally, they have to share the burden of the cleanup costs under the federal Superfund law.

The EPA spent $2.4 million over three years tracing the origin of waste oil found at the New Hampshire site. Among those on the list are small businesses and schools in Framingham, Wayland, Wellesley, and Natick. Some of towns have already paid. Framingham paid $5,840 for 460 gallons of waste that wound up at the site, and Wellesley's Town Meeting voted this spring to spend $36,000 for 7,450 gallons of waste at the site. "We decided we just dont have the money to fight a lengthy legal battle," said Gary Burton, Wayland su- I 1 Eun Lee Koh can be reached at ekoh globe.com.

i GLOBE PHOTOSARAH BREZINSKY ASHLAND New stations popular with commuters Rebecca Lynch, a Wayland parent, launched a calendar to honor "cool teachers," including several from the area. Town's rail stop will open Aug. 24 in classrooms, but also moonlight as rock 'n' roll musicians, poets, artists, and novelists. Each page tries to provide a slice of their lives that few students or parents would know about Many students, teachers, and parents have seen Robin Welch, principal of Framing-CALENDAR, Pag 4 England, including Lee and others from Framingham, Med-field, Newton, and Wayland. With teacher shortages nationwide, Lynch hopes the calendar, which features black-and-white photographs of the teachers with a short description of their lives, will show people that teachers not only work to the station a mile from her house.

The St. Louis native gets exercise, saves money, and no longer has to fight traffic on the way to Framingham. "It's been fabulous," she said, after getting off the silver and purple train in Southborough at 5:43 the other evening. Seven weeks after the new sta- TRAINS.PagaS borough and works for a nonprofit consulting firm in Boston, used to drive 20 minutes to Framingham to pick up the commuter rail in the morning. And because the parking lot was usually full, she had to pony up $80 a month to park in a municipal lot But since the authority opened long-awaited stations in South-borough and Westborough on June 22, she has been able to walk By Jonathan Saltzman GLOBE STAFF It would be hard to find a bigger fan of the new MBTA station in Southborough than Libby Chan-ley.

Chanley, who lives in South- 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 till 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ri 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Inside Today We didn't want to take the chance we might lose it. Then where would we Pamela Jaworek, new owner of diner Change isrft on the menu ''is I if V2- I rff 4 Duty turns into pleasure for students doing service By Emily Sweeney GLOBE STAFF CORRESPONDENT For many youths, summer is a carefree time when days of the week melt away like ice cream in the sun. But some students at the Cambridge School of Weston are taking advantage of the long, free days, unencumbered by homework and class schedules, to fulfill a school requirement to perform community service. And some even keep working once they have completed the school's mandatory minimum of 15 hours. The work takes students far from the bucolic setting of their small private high school, tucked away on Georgian Road in Weston, and brings them to shelters for the homeless, soup kitchens, and th streets of Boston.

Jason Falender of Lincoln and Erica Hankins of Sudbury, were introduced to the inner city while harvesting vegetables in Roxbury; Johannah Murphy of Framingham spent time with homeless people on Boston Common; and Newton resident Samantha Rosen will leave for Martha's Vineyard this week to work at a camp for children with cerebral palsy. 'You're really right in the middle of housing development, so there's houses on all sides." said Falender, 15, who often picked up pocketfuls of glass while he was gardening there. Falender finished his 15 hours of community service with the Lincoln Food Project on July 31, but is. continuing to work two weeks more, farming land for the organization in Lincoln and Roxbury STUDENTS, Page 5 Loyal patrons buy a landmark diner and keep its charm By Peter Schworm GLOBE STAFF CORRESPONDENT MARLBOROUGH It's the kind of place, The Diner in Marlborough, where people grumble if their favorite stool's taken, and move down when it opens up. Where regulars take their dishes to the kitchen themselves, once their plate is clean, and a few favored ones get to eat back there to begin with.

Where brown gravy to drown your fries costs 25 cents, plenty of people have steak for salads are shunned like hogweed. "Someone asked for one once," said Carol Krager, whose family ran the restaurant since 1975 before selling it last month to a pair of customers. "I just stared at them. I said I could bring them some lettuce and tomato with some vinegar. It's mostly a meat-and-potatoes crowd." Long before her customers plunk down on the vinyl seats and spread their paper across the Formica counter, Krager has poured them their cup of coffee, often in their personal mug, and doctored just the way they like it.

Diner regulars, a loyal bunch of truck drivers and police officers, retirees and third-shifters, have become her extended family over the years, she said, even if they've gotten pampered, used to having everything just so. The restaurant, where GLOBE PHOTOSHEAIAH CRAIGHEAD Feeling the heat After the deaths of three athletes last year, school coaches are being careful not to overwork their football players in the stifling heat of summer. As preseason approaches, practices are being adjusted accordingly. Page 10 Coming to America As nursing shortages are being felt everywhere, nursing homes are acutely feeling the pinch. As a result, many are hiring nurses from foreign countries, who arrive with plans to get licenses, good jobs, and possibly citizenships.

Page 11 Two longtime customers, Michael and Pamela Jaworek (right), bought The Diner in Marlborough from the Digou family, which has operated it since 1975. At left are Digou family members Charles his mother, Lucile; and sister, Carol (Digou) Krager. standby off, that a city scarcely recognizable from that of their childhood needed a few constants. "This was the only place we took the kids growing up," said Pamela Jaworek, who took over as waitress at The Diner last week, while Michael, retired from NStar, is "coming in cold" to work the grill. "We wanted to keep it the same for them, so they could go to the place that they remembered.

We didnt want to take the chance we might lose it. Then where DINER, Paga 12 Krager, and her husband, Carl, courted in high school and where her 73-year-old mother, Lucile Digou, will still waitress Wednesdays, has been their second home. So when she and her family decided they had logged enough inventory, seen enough dawns, and done their share of prep work, they hoped somehow to save their restaurant from being revamped or bulldozed. Fortunately, longtime customers and family friends Pamela and Michael Jaworek were thinking the same thing that it was way too soon to see the old.