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The Panthers let Diman Voke rally for a 7-5 Mayflower League hockey win. MORE ON 33 ■ BROCKTON

For development company Advanced Power, bringing a power plant to the city is taking a lot more energy than expected. MORE ON 1 ■ BROCKTON

Former Boxer football player Dennis Morey has a rooting interest in today’s Super Bowl: His son, Sean, plays for the Arizona Cardinals. MORE ON 33

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New use for track? Some residents warm to idea of train station at Raynham Park By Sharon Holliday ENTERPRISE CORRESPONDENT

RAYNHAM — Two years ago, before the statewide ban on greyhound racing doomed Raynham Park’s future as a

dog track, most of the voters in that area residents last week told the Enterprise said no to a proposed train route through they are now in favor of a train station. town in a non-binding ballot question. The change in leadership at the state But now, the idea of House of Representatives INSIDE putting a train station at has also brought the possibil■ Slots and trains Raynham Park may be pickity of slot machines at the could mix /13 ing up steam among resitrack a whole lot closer to redents of north Raynham. Citality, and a state official says ing the downturn in the economy and the there is room at the track to accommodate possible closure of the track, several area both.

Village Stencils owner and north Raynham resident Donna Bernardo said that she would welcome either slots or the recent proposal by Carney to turn the site into a train station and a village with small, commercial shops. With business down and taxes quadruple what they were 30 years ago, TRACK/PAGE 13

Public safety officers compete

INSEPARABLE CONNECTION

Area departments train to see who is fittest By Maureen McCarthy

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The Village Toy Shop is profiled in this week’s installment of the Business Buzz. MORE ON 12

HANSON — Area police and fire departments are taking their professional training to a new level in a head-to-head competition to determine which of the regions finest are also the f ittest. “On the job, we can go from a complete standstill to complete physical exertion in a matter of minutes,” East Bridgewater police officer Dennis Andre said. “You need to be able to endure that timeframe of total exertion and have the cardiovascular endurance to outlast it.” Equally vital to first-responders is the need to maintain heart-health, said Hanson fire Chief Jerome Thompson.

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The Panthers let Diman Voke rally for a 7-5 Mayflower League hockey win. MORE ON 33 ■ KINGSTON

When Pine duBois stepped up to protect Silver Lake in the 1970s, few people were talking about carbon footprints or hybrid cars. MORE ON 24

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EAST BRIDGEWATER

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A simple blood test for beta ketothiolase deficiency that saved the life of Olivia Quinlan is now among the battery of mandatory tests. MORE ON 25 ■ STOUGHTON

The town will lose $400,000 in state aid this year, and officials are trying to figure out what that budget cut means for the schools. MORE ON 13 ■ TAUNTON

Tyler Malaguti scored a hat trick and assisted on another goal to help the Tigers get back to the .500 mark with a 7-1 victory over Durfee. MORE ON 38 ■ WHITMAN

W-H Student Council members are challenging their adviser to “chill out” in the icy waters of the Atlantic on Feb. 14 if they raise $2,000. MORE ON 12 ■ YOUR TOWN

Every Sunday, The Enterprise lists events of interest in area towns. MORE ON 14

Novel way to pay fines

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DOROTHY AND JOSEPH NOREK were a couple for more than 61 years.

After 61 years of marriage, a Brockton husband and wife die within 18 hours of each other of the same illness

By Marcy Murphy ENTERPRISE CORRESPONDENT

EAST BRIDGEWATER — During February, residents have the opportunity to donate a food item at the library, instead of paying the fee for an overdue item. Items that will be accepted are canned goods and other nonperishables. Soap, deodorant and toothpaste were also accepted last year. Library Director Manuel Leite said the food drive relates only to overdue items, not for items that have been lost or damaged. Each item carrying an overdue fine, equals one nonperishable item being donated. Leite said that last year, there was “certainly a lot of patrons” who participated. All donated items benefit the food pantry at Union Congregational Church.

In what will be an occasional series, today we begin “From the Heart,” where local residents share emotional experiences — in their own words.

and two brothers. Pop served as a ships cook in the U.S. Navy from Dec. 7, 1941, through March 2, 1946. After his honorable discharge, Pop took his kitchen skills to the By Brian J. Wardyga SPECIAL TO THE ENTERPRISE SS Kresge Co. (now known as Perhaps what Kmart). He was soon transferred o you believe in miracles? I do. kept my to the Kresge’s store on Main I witnessed a miracle this week thanks grandparents Street in Brockton, where he met to my grandparents, and that’s where this going for so my grandmother. story begins. He was the long was their My grandparents restaurant manDorothy and Joseph love for one FROM THE ager and she was Norek were each born nearly 100 years ago another. a waitress. He in 1910. For reasons only a child could unREADERS SHARE was a firm derstand, I never wanted to call them Nana THEIR STORIES Catholic, while or Papa. Instead I always referred to them as she was an Episcopalian. All of their lives Nene and Pop. they attended separate churches. They even Nene was born the daughter of the late ended up in separate hospitals. But their connection to one Leon Whiting and Edith (Ridgeway) Whiting right here in another has proven to be inseparable. Brockton on July 26. She had two sisters and a brother. Pop Nene and Pop were each other’s first and only spouses was born the son of the late Frank Norek and Anna (Komors-

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THE VOICES OF OUR COMMUNITY TODAY

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I hope the Mayor, City Council and other commission members stick to their guns and defeat this plant.

They may not give in the same frequency, but they are donating their time and efforts.

Thanks to the generosity of people like you we are able to help many struggling families not only at Christmas but year round.

Winston Mayor: City might not need lawsuit to stop Brockton power plant

Rabbi Joshua Cohen Spirit willing, wallets empty

Craig Martin Generous donations aid Abington Food Pantry

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