Town Talk: Dish matches July 4 donations dollar for dollar

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June 25, 2009

Matching, marching for July 4: Dish matches dollar for dollar

The effort spearheaded by Jerry Silverman to raise the $3,000 needed to continue the town's popular July 4 pancake breakfast and Horribles Parade has not fallen on deaf ears. DISH! on Andover Street has blasted an e-mail to customers asking for donations. Owner Amy Aycock said her business will match donations dollar-for-dollar.

Private donations may be made to the Fireworks Fund, c/o BankNorth, 61 Main St., Andover, MA 01810.

— Judy Wakefield

Sweet reward

Donors at a Red Cross blood drive at Free Christian Church on Tuesday will receive a coupon for half a dozen chocolate covered strawberries from Edible Arrangements. The drive will be held from 2 to 7 p.m. on June 30 at Free Christian, 31 Elm St. Blood donors can also enter a raffle to win Red Sox tickets.

For more information, or to make an appointment, visit www.givelife.org or call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE.

Steamroller art

North Andover hosted the 6th annual Printing Arts Fair at the Museum of Printing on Massachusetts Avenue. Over 500 people attended on Father's Day to visit the 24 exhibitors, demonstrations of papermaking and printing, and a very special demonstration of printing by steamroller.

Andover residents carved creative letters in one-foot square linoleum tiles. Alex Abugov, Emily Trespas, Fran McCormick, Joan Ellis, Sarah Bardo, Jennie Cline, Katie Graber, Joanna Ho, and Sally Abugov of Andover, among others, then inked the tiles, placed paper over them, and a steamroller provided by J.W.Watson Jr. Paving Co. of Andover ran over them. The result was a 9-foot by 3-foot print, one of the largest ever. Crowds cheered as the paper was lifted from the tiles.

For over 550 years, printing was done with raised images, ink, and pressure in printing presses. Today, the letterpress craft is continued by hobbyists and artists, and the Museum of Printing is one of the last three museums that preserve this ancient art.

Pulitizer, perhaps?

Who better than a professional conservationist to write about conservation issues for his town's newspaper. Andover's Director of Conservation Bob Douglas said he is now a scribe for his hometown newspaper.

"Just covering the (town of) Harvard ConCom meetings in the little town newspaper," he wrote in e-mail when asked about his writing.