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4 The <strong>Blackstone</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> Xpress • www.blackstonevalleyxpress.com • <strong>December</strong> 2, <strong>2022</strong><br />

Corridor pays tribute to Margaret Carroll in Millville<br />

The late Margaret M. Carroll<br />

was remembered in and the John H. Chaffee Conservation & Recreation ment for the Corridor:<br />

unteers-in-Parks program sachusetts Department of teer & Community Engage-<br />

appropriate fashion on <strong>Blackstone</strong> River <strong>Valley</strong> is working on installing a “I continue to be blown<br />

October 27th with a ribboncutting<br />

National Heritage Corridor, sign and a memorial bench away by our Volunteers-in-<br />

ceremony at the Ms. Carroll was well known at the site.<br />

Parks volunteers and their<br />

<strong>Blackstone</strong> River Greenway and highly regarded for her<br />

incredible commitment<br />

in Millville.<br />

contributions to community VOLUNTEER PROGRAM to the work they do in the<br />

A town historian, educator,<br />

preservationist and ated the Margaret M. Carroll A message from Molly National Heritage Corridor<br />

life. Recent legislation cre-<br />

FLOURISHING<br />

<strong>Blackstone</strong> River <strong>Valley</strong><br />

charter member of the Memorial Greenway Access Cardoza, director of Volun-<br />

and <strong>Blackstone</strong> River <strong>Valley</strong><br />

<strong>Blackstone</strong> River <strong>Valley</strong> Vol-<br />

Area in Millville. The Mas-<br />

National Historical Park.<br />

Fall in Love with Sound Again!<br />

Pictured from left to right at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new<br />

Margaret M. Carroll Greenway Access Area in Millville are Carroll McGahan,<br />

Maureen McGahan, former State Sen. Richard T. Moore, Jody Madden,<br />

Jeannie Hebert, Helen Kennedy, State Rep. Mike Soter and Jack Carroll.<br />

In the back row are Kylie Gibbons, Donna Williams, Devon Kurtz, and Val<br />

Stegemoen. Not pictured: State Sen. Ryan Fattman.<br />

Have you been putting off taking<br />

care of your hearing, tinnitus or<br />

hearing aids? Make this Autumn<br />

a fresh start.<br />

WE ARE HERE TO HELP!<br />

www.hearjoyaudiology.com for online booking<br />

HEAR JOY IS AN<br />

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE<br />

Dr. Mary Ellen Rancourt<br />

43 Main Street<br />

S. Grafton, MA<br />

774-293-1515<br />

Dr. Rancourt has over<br />

30 years of experience<br />

as an audiologist, serving<br />

newborns to elders.<br />

Thank you to everyone who<br />

has led programs, conserved<br />

historic cemeteries, cleaned<br />

up our watershed, maintained<br />

our natural resources<br />

and so much more this year!<br />

“A personal thank you for<br />

the warm welcome you have<br />

given me in my first year at<br />

BRVNHC. This first year has<br />

exceeded my expectations<br />

and goals for the volunteer<br />

program.”<br />

The numbers are in for<br />

the Volunteers-in-Parks program<br />

for FY <strong>2022</strong>. Volunteers<br />

logged 30,607 hours at<br />

a total value of $916,679.<br />

MILLBURY SCOUTS RECOG-<br />

NIZED FOR WORK<br />

Five Millbury scouts from<br />

Troop 109 recently earned<br />

their Resource Stewardship<br />

Scout Ranger Badge and two<br />

earned their Scout Ranger<br />

Certificate. These Scouts, led<br />

by Eagle Scout Candidate<br />

Adam Moroney, worked<br />

to create a path and make<br />

the spillway of the former<br />

Asa Waters Armory—a<br />

gun manufacturer in the<br />

1800s—accessible as a recreational<br />

space. This spillway<br />

historically flowed into the<br />

<strong>Blackstone</strong> River, which is<br />

visible from this location<br />

behind the present-day<br />

Millbury VFW.<br />

Lydia Taft House<br />

Short-Term Rehab<br />

Exceptional<br />

Getting back to your active life is your goal and ours too.<br />

The Lydia Taft House is professionally staffed and equipped to<br />

provide you with Exceptional Medical & Rehabilitation Therapy<br />

between Hospital & Home.<br />

60 Quaker Hwy (Rt 146 A) Uxbridge, MA<br />

www.rehabassociates.com/lydiataft<br />

Long Term Care<br />

(508)278-9500<br />

Medicare/Medicaid<br />

Certified

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