Yesterday was a mixed result.
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Elevator was delivered but installation is not complete...
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Couldn't get the occupancy permit because Verizon missed the schedule and didn't install the fire alarm line.
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Lunch in NH at a Mexican Restaurant was really painful.
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On the other hand, my blood pressure is fine again, a new Madison Ave. book publisher has shown interest, and our latest Nanepashemet telecom venture shows real legs.
A day of ups and downs.
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So the Peep of the Week Selection is a day late. What's the problem??? Deal with it.
ANNOUNCING
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week 13 for 2007
Vin Burnham
Sarah Crawford
Dr. Louis Casale
Tom McMahon
Mark Vona
Paul Lynch
Let's try to end the week on an up note. Change your attitude.
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Jesus is my person of the week. You might consider accepting this gentle carpenter as your lord and savior. Maybe get some work done.
The Marblehead state representative who sparked outrage when he suggested Lynn students would one day labor for future “captains of industry” in neighboring Swampscott finally apologized for the gaffe yesterday.
“There’s not a bone in my body that doesn’t think the world of Lynn public schools,” Rep. Doug Petersen (D-Marblehead) told the Herald. “There’s not a bone in my body that doesn’t think that Lynn kids won’t be captains of industry.”
The Herald reported yesterday that Petersen’s put-down touched off a class war on the North Shore this week, setting his blue-collar Lynn constituents and their suburban neighbors against one another.
Petersen, who claimed he was misunderstood, yesterday issued an apology for the op-ed page of The Daily Item in Lynn, which first reported his blunder.
Petersen, a member of the Legislature’s powerful Joint Committee on Education, also offered to make the rounds and apologize in person. “I’d be more than happy if the teachers and the school administrators would want me to come speak to their students,” he told the Herald.
Some in Lynn thought a visit to schools might be a good idea.
“That’s the kind of encouragement that we’d expect from our state respresentative,” said Kevin Donahue, executive director of Lynn’s Chamber of Commerce.
“I think it’s a marvelous idea,” said Paul Stafford, president of Lynn Classical High School alums. “It might smooth some feathers.”
But Warren White, the school’s principal, didn’t think a personal mea culpa was necessary. “I’m sure that he has a great deal of remorse,” said White, who boasted that 80 percent of last year’s grads are currently enrolled in a college or university.
Some residents, however, were in no mood to forgive. Jane Kelley, mother of two Lynn students, wasn’t won over by Petersen’s apology.
“He’s an elitist,” she said.
Petersen insisted he had originally intended to defend Lynn students when he addressed a Swampscott School Committee meeting Tuesday. Some parents, frustrated by the possible closure of an elementary school, were angry that Lynn schools receive much more state funding.
Petersen tried to defuse their anger, saying that Lynn kids need to be educated so that they would be good employees for the future “captains of industry” coming out of Swampscott schools.
“Certainly,” he said, “I didn’t mean in any way that Lynn kids couldn’t be captains of industry, too.”
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