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By Dave Howland, Associated Press writer
CAMBRIDGE -- A teen-age British au pair was sentenced to life in prison yesterday for murdering a baby in her care, a conviction that stunned and angered many who followed the trial on both sides of the Atlantic.
Louise Woodward was handed the mandatory sentence, with parole eligibility in 15 years, after insisting she never shook or slammed 8-month-old Matthew Eappen to death in a fit of frustration.
"I never hurt Matty and I don't know what happened to him," Woodward said in a trembling voice. "I'm not responsible for his death."
The round-faced 19-year-old from a small town near Liverpool kept her composure during the brief sentencing, in contrast to the night before when she erupted in loud sobs upon hearing the second-degree murder verdict, turning to jurors and howling: "I didn't do anything. ... Why did they do that to me?"
A Cambridge jury's conviction of second-degree murder for English au pair Louise Woodward drew strong opinions yesterday from legal experts and other SouthCoast residents.
Francis J. Larkin, a retired judge, now dean of Southern New England School of Law in Dartmouth, said he was "absolutely shocked" at the verdict.
Mr. Larkin said he had followed the case closely and felt the jury decision was "absolutely unsupported by the evidence." Nor, he added, did the evidence presented by the prosecution support even the lesser charge of manslaughter -- which was not available for jury consideration due to defense strategy.
WAREHAM -- The chairman of selectmen is threatening to sue the town for time owed for work as a police officer, claiming that an on-the-job accident in 1989 caused him to take vacation days and sick days that should have been credited as injury time.
"As far as I'm concerned, the town never aggressively dealt with this situation, and they have to," said Chairman Wayne M. Sylvester.
"When I say litigation against the town, that's procedure. If it's not resolved, that's what my union would do."
Mr. Sylvester, in the peculiar position of being Town Administrator Joseph F. Murphy's boss as a selectman and employee as a police officer, made a public disclosure of his intentions earlier this week.
By Manuela Da Costa-Fernandes, Standard-Times staff writer
DARTMOUTH -- While President Jiang Zemin of China addresses Harvard students in a historic address today, two newly arrived Chinese students would rather take an armchair seat to the brewing controversy trailing the president's visit.
"It's a show to the outside world," said Quan Su, a 24-year-old UMass Dartmouth master's of business administration student from Guangzhou in South China.
Another newly arrived MBA student from the capital city Beijing, 24-year-old Shan Gao, nodded in agreement.
After accepting the superficiality of the visit, Ms. Su admitted, certain hot topics will not be touched, such as China's controversial most- favored-nation status with the United States.
NEW BEDFORD -- North End residents can expect the third-quarter water/sewer bills next week, about two weeks later than normal.
Assistant Superintendent of Water Wayne Richmond said many of the remote meters installed at homes north of Deane Street have malfunctioned. Rather than sending users estimated bills, the department wants to send bills based on actual readings.
Also, one of the seven meter readers was out of work for about a month because of a car accident, Mr. Richmond said.
"That really slowed us down," he said.
NEW BEDFORD -- With the crumbling facade and boarded windows of the vacant Star Store as the backdrop, area elected leaders yesterday formally announced that bids for its renovation are being solicited.
News that project would go out to bid was announced two weeks ago when the state's Inspector General approved a special 20-year lease allowing the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to occupy a building of at least 78,000 square feet in the downtown area.
Yesterday, State Sen. Mark C.W. Montigny, Rep. Antonio F.D. Cabral, Mayor Rosemary S. Tierney and city councilors basked in the hope of a rejuvenated downtown, anchored by the college art program that could be housed in the Star Store building.
By Patricia O'Connor, Standard-Times staff writer
FALL RIVER -- When Mary Chace decided to move into a long term care facility, she was heartbroken.
It wasn't that she was reluctant to leave her home in Swansea for the Olympus Healthcare Center in Fall River. She realized that after a recent stroke, she was unable to care for herself and accepted the fact that a long-term care facility was the best place she could be at this point in her life.
But she was devastated at the thought she'd have to leave her long-time companion, Amanda, a friendly black Labrador mix, by her side ever since she brought the stray into her home several years ago.
Thanks to the understanding of Ms. Chace's health care providers and the compassion of the nursing home administration, there was no wrenching parting. Instead, there was a joyful reunion.
For the third time in a year, powerful mudslides have ravaged the Azores, but unlike recent storms Thursday's ended in tragedy with 10 reported dead and more than 30 still missing.
An additional seven bodies reportedly have been found but so far the official death count stands at 10.
All of the victims, including two people who are in critical condition at the Ponta Delgada Hospital, are from the Sao Miguel village of Ribeira Quente. An additional five people are being treated at the hospital.
According to Portuguese news reports, a severe rain storm descended on the island late Thursday night. By 5 a.m. Friday, a small hill had washed through a side street in Ribeira Quente, crushing homes and filling streets with mud.
NEW YORK -- Dr. William Joseph Sweeney III, a Manhattan gynecologist who took part in the early research on in-vitro fertilization, died Oct. 23. He was 75 and lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
He died of a heart attack in his Manhattan office, where he was attending patients, his family said.
At his death, Sweeney was clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Cornell University Medical Center and an obstetrician and gynecologist at New York Hospital. He also maintained a private practice on the East Side for the last 42 years, currently on East 65th Street.
He was prominent as an expert on gynecological cancer. He also did original work in reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilization, which is now a common procedure for infertile couples.
NEW YORK -- They hustled to and fro in the belly of the beast, capitalism's foot soldiers trolling the stock market floor, distracted by dollars, shares and the fluctuations of a most unusual week.
Above, watching intently from a New York Stock Exchange balcony, stood China's president -- the man at the pinnacle of a communist system that, in principle, is entirely opposite.
Yet when Jiang Zemin waded into frantic free-market chaos yesterday, he illustrated dramatically what economics has been proving for years -- that China and capitalism are moving inexorably closer.
WASHINGTON -- Watergate isn't all that Richard Nixon tried to hide. For 22 years, he and his heirs fought to keep secret what White House tapes show: that he thanked a Greek businessman for providing hush money, set a $250,000 price on ambassadorships and had Sen. Edward M. Kennedy tailed in search of scandal.
Newly published transcripts of Nixon's tapes show an administration wilting under the Watergate scandal that began with the White House-directed 1972 break-in at Democratic headquarters. They also lay bare activities far beyond anything mentioned in Congress' investigations of more recent allegations.
They show that as Watergate began to unfold, Nixon insisted he could hold on to office. He considered himself indispensable. He was sure a forced resignation would undermine the American political system.
"If I walk out of this office, you know, on this (expletive deleted) stuff, why it would leave a mark on the American political system," he told chief of staff H.R. Haldeman in May 1973. "But the other thing is ... if they ever want to get up to the impeachment thing, fine, fine. ... My view is then, fight like hell."
NEW DELHI, India -- Unlike his supporters in the United States, the Dalai Lama thinks President Clinton's summit with Chinese President Jiang Zemin was a good idea, an aide said yesterday.
The Tibetan spiritual leader believes China should be drawn deeper into involvement with other countries, said Tempa Tsering, chief spokesman for the Dalai Lama's administration-in-exile in the Indian city of Dharmsala.
"Once you bring them back to the community of nations, you expect them to act according to international standards," Tsering said. "Isolating China is no help."
The Dalai Lama has not personally commented about the summit since Jiang arrived Wednesday in Washington for the first Chinese state visit to the United States in 12 years.
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee has called a halt to its $4.5 million investigation into campaign finance irregularities in last year's elections, Senate sources said yesterday.
Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., was to hold a press conference yesterday announcing his decision to end his investigation, rather than seeking an extension to continue the Senate's probe into next year, aides close to Thompson said. The special Senate investigation ends Dec. 31, unless extended by a vote on the Senate floor.
A separate House investigation, as well as probes by the Justice Department, continue looking at campaign finance abuses.
Both Senate Republican leaders and Senate Democrats were opposed to continuing the probe into an election year. Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, ranking Democrat on the panel, said he would also oppose extending the hearings.
BOSTON -- A two-year time limit on welfare benefits will run out on thousands of people who rely on such benefits in a little more than a year and many don't seem to realize it, state officials say.
"It's become obvious that many of them just don't think this time limit is going to happen, but it's going to happen," said Dick Powers, a spokesman for the Department of Transitional Assistance.
Powers said the DTA has been calling the recipients who stand to lose their benefits into DTA offices every three months and encouraging them to get a job or take advantage of training programs.
"It's basically just to stay in their face," he said.
BOSTON -- Warning: the television show "Seinfeld" could be hazardous to your health.
A Massachusetts man laughed so hard while watching the popular sit-com that he fainted at least three times, and once went blind temporarily, according to three doctors at the Lahey-Hitchcok Clinic in Burlington.
"During one event, he fell face first into his evening meal and was rescued by his wife," the doctors wrote in a letter to the medical journal Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis.
They treated the unidentified 62-year-old man, apparently successfully. One of the physicians said the average healthy person does not have to worry about fainting from laughing, a Boston newspaper reported yesterday.
WASHINGTON -- Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo today awarded $11.5 million to state and local government agencies in 32 states as part of a crackdown on housing discrimination ordered by President Clinton. The agencies work in partnership with the Department of Housing and Urban Development to investigate discrimination complaints.
The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination will receive an award of $422,282 and the Cambridge Human Rights Commission will receive an award of $32,000.
President Clinton directed Cuomo on Sept. 30 to launch the crackdown on housing discrimination.
"Many victims of housing discrimination don't realize they've been discriminated against, and many people are unfamiliar with the Fair Housing Act," Cuomo said. "We want to alert people that HUD, fair housing groups and state and local agencies will work to make sure their legal right to be free from discrimination is enforced."
CAMBRIDGE -- It was a gamble of the highest stakes and Louise Woodward lost.
The 19-year-old British au pair was sure she would be acquitted of the death of the baby boy in her care. So was her defense team, her lawyers said following her conviction Thursday on second-degree murder.
They couldn't have been more wrong.
So certain were they that Woodward and her attorneys chose an all-or-nothing strategy. They turned down several plea bargains and they asked the judge to make the jury choose: guilty of murder or innocent.
There would be no "compromise" verdict of manslaughter.
WASHINGTON -- Designing a "Class of 2000" T-shirt for your local school? You might want to call a trademark lawyer first.
Someone already owns the rights.
In hopes of catching the millennium profit wave early, thousands of budding entrepreneurs are seeking registered trademarks for "Millennium" and "Year 2000" -- and every conceivable derivative -- for a wide range of products.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. economic growth accelerated over the summer and early fall, keeping alive the possibility of a late-year interest-rate increase from the Federal Reserve -- even in the face of stock market turmoil.
The strongest consumer spending in 5½ years propelled the latest gain for the long-running economic expansion.
The gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services produced within U.S. borders, rose at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.5 percent in the July-September quarter, the Commerce Department said yesterday.
WASHINGTON -- The International Monetary Fund announced a $23 billion economic rescue package for Indonesia yesterday, the second-largest such bailout in history, as authorities scrambled to contain a currency crisis that has rattled financial markets from Tokyo to New York.
The United States said it would provide backup assistance, a reversal for the Clinton administration, which had refused to participate directly in a $17.5 billion rescue effort for Thailand two months ago because of controversy generated by the 1995 U.S. bailout of Mexico.
Both the administration and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan had become increasingly worried in recent days that the continuing economic turmoil in Southeast Asia was threatening to destabilize financial markets worldwide.
One morning recently I woke up in a very noir frame of mind -- and enough would happen that day and night to leave me feeling that tout le monde had gone noir, had not only rediscovered a taste for but had begun to reflect in mood those melodramas about rotten characters lost in bleak worlds of hurt.
At Baker Books and Barnes & Noble these days, you should have no problem finding noir thrillers. A couple migrated onto my own shelves a few years ago, and it was to them that I turned this morning. When I tired of reading, I switched on the TV. Some festival of noir movies was on. Then came a performance by Carly Simon of a song from her new album, which is devoted in its entirety to film noir.
That evening, and under noir clouds figurative and literal, I drove up to Boston. As I reached the Back Bay, the rain began, a cinematically dense, silvery, purposeful-seeming rain through which I walked to the Newbury Street restaurant where I had an assignation and where, after dinner, I decided to hang out at the bar -- which was tres noir: dim lighting, aproned bartenders, just about all the patrons wearing black or shades thereof, at least every other woman blond (or shades thereof.) Outside, visible through a range of open French doors, it continued to pour.
Far beneath the gleaming new building that houses The Standard-Times offices in New Bedford, voices speak volumes for those who know how to listen.
Set in the heart of the historic district, it's not surprising the plot of land was home to other buildings, buildings that were homes to other lives, with stories of their own in this much storied city.
"The land keeps trying to tell us something," said amateur archeologist Kathy Pepin. Ms. Pepin listens to the land on a regular basis, as she uncovers the hidden past in unlikely spots -- in newly excavated house foundations, freshly dug graves or in the middle of the woods.
Ms. Pepin's hobby is hunting, for evidence of the daily lives of ordinary people from long ago. With no formal training, but a passion for the past to make up for it, Ms. Pepin is making sure the land is listened to, before development silences it for ever.
Even with recent medical advances, AIDS is still a disease without a cure. Getting HIV, the virus that leads to full-blown AIDS, is a virtual death sentence.
Not only that, but since the virus is often associated with drug use and homosexuality, HIV-positive men and women face extra hardships such as rejection by society and family, and loss of jobs. They also see their fellow patients die one by one as their own health deteriorates.
How do they cope with this overwhelmingly difficult situation?
The local road racing season comes to a close today with the 19th running of the Greater New Bedford Track Club 10k Spooner Road Race at Buttonwood Park.
The race will start at 10 a.m. on Brownell Avenue near the entrance to Buttonwood Park and will finish at the Senior Citizens Center in the park.
While this race usually consists of local runners, one never knows who will show up on race day.
I think it's time to take a little step back from the puzzling Patriots and talk about something else.
Like the Celtics.
If you've been spending all your time worrying about the Pats, like just about every one else, chances are you won't recognize a lot of the men in green this year.
The team had been completely overhauled before training camp even started, and there are four new faces just in the last two weeks.
NEW BEDFORD -- It was Wayne Hamlet's biggest fear going into Fright Night. Eleven nightmarish minutes that denied his New Bedford High football team its biggest win of the season.
Twenty-two first-quarter points, 15 of them in the first six minutes, and a late touchdown that consumed nearly five minutes of the final quarter proved to be the difference last night as St. John's of Danvers retained its No. 1 seeding with a 28-14 victory over the Whalers before a big Halloween Night crowd at Paul Walsh Field.
Brian Lentz capped a 42-yard, 11-play scoring drive with a 9-yard touchdown run in the final 96 seconds of play to grab momentum away from New Bedford and hand the Whalers their second loss in seven games.
The win was the seventh straight for the unbeaten Eagles, who went into the game as the top-seeded team in Division 1.
By Warren Nascimento, Standard-Times correspondent
DARTMOUTH -- David vs. Goliath is the best way to describe the Division 1 state tournament match played between the Dartmouth and Durfee High girls' soccer teams.
But this time, there was no upset to be found.
Dartmouth, coming into the game as the fifth seed, proved to be too much for the inexperienced twelfth-seed from Durfee as they rolled on to a 3-0 win over the Hilltoppers.
The Indians had an abundance of opportunities to score on the 'Toppers, and faced little in the way of shots in their own end.
"We have a lot of skill players," said Durfee coach Flo Lima. "What we don't have is size. Once you have good size and technical skill, that's a good combination to have. Dartmouth has it. They were the better team."
BOSTON -- The Rick Pitino era began with a stunning win over the best team and best player in the NBA.
Pitino's reconstructed Boston Celtics overcame a 20-point deficit after one quarter, kept Michael Jordan under control until the fourth and stunned the Chicago Bulls 92-85 last night.
The exuberant performance by the league's youngest team had a capacity crowd at the FleetCenter on its feet often, cheering with a volume rarely heard last season when the Celtics had a 15-67 record, the worst in their history.
Boston, which broke an 11-game losing streak against the defending champions, was led by Antoine Walker with 31 points and rookies Chauncey Billups with 15 and Ron Mercer with 11.
ATTLEBORO -- Durfee turned a 13-0 deficit into a 23-point lead, then had to hang on for a wild 36-27 non-conference victory over Attleboro last night at Tozier-Cassidy Field.
Quarterback Billy Coward, still hobbled by an ankle injury, sparked the Hilltoppers with three touchdown passes, two of them to Eric Ferraz. Durfee (5-3) also picked up 247 yards rushing, with Mike Fanning and Sammy Soto rushing for 127 yards apiece.
"We haven't lost two games in a row and that's a point we made to them this week," said Hilltoppers coach Steve Winarski. "We told them we would have to bounce back and that shows good character."
A week after falling behind by two touchdowns to Brockton, the Hilltoppers found themselves trailing early in the second quarter after a pair of Attleboro (3-4-1) scores.
WAREHAM -- They were down 13-0 before they even ran a play, and it didn't get much better for the Wareham Vikings from there.
Five turnovers -- three interceptions and two fumbles -- were too much to overcome as the Vikings fell to the Warriors of Coyle-Cassidy 28-8 last night in a non-league game at Spillane Field.
The biggest turnover probably came on the second-half kickoff after Wareham had closed the deficit to 13-8 with a second-quarter touchdown by Hart Andrade.
Coyle-Cassidy's Brian West kicked a squibber, which bounced off a Wareham lineman and was covered by the Warriors' Al Vieira at the Wareham 48.
LAKEVILLE -- After losing a tough South Coast Conference game to Case last weekend, the Apponequet Lakers' mission was to re-focus and get back to winning.
And after giving coach Dave Morgado and themselves a scare early in the game, the Lakers stormed back behind Steve Canessa and Dustin Gorman to defeat Somerset 22-7 in a non-league contest.
Canessa completed 10-of-14 passes for 104 yards and two touchdown completions. The senior quarterback now has 14 touchdown passes this season, tying him with Don Fronzaglia, who set the mark in 1983.
While Canessa was burning the Blue Raiders' secondary, Gorman was running wild, picking up 79 yards on 14 carries. He also was one of Canessa's prime targets, catching four passes for 41 yards.
Dr. Israel Alkalay was a rare human being who also happened to be a gifted doctor. It was no accident that he was greatly loved. For all his patrician reserve, he was an engaged and giving man. His death last weekend brought a wrenching sense of loss to the local medical community. Besides being extraordinarily skilled as a physician, Dr. Alkalay was also the embodiment of Old World professionalism. He brought an elegance of manner and intelligence that is all too rare these days in any profession. And he deeply cared.
The kind of man he was is illustrated by an episode that occurred last Saturday, his last day on Earth. Dr. Alkalay, age 70, did that day what he had done routinely throughout his career. He dispensed care without hesitation and without charge to a man who dropped by his home on New Bedford's Hawthorne Street because he didn't know where else to go. The man, in severe pain from a jaw infection, had no insurance.
By Lynn Elber, Associated Press television writer
Turns out that Cinderella can fit into something even more chic than glass footwear.
A spunky '90s attitude and ethnicity also suit the fairy tale heroine in a charming new version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Cinderella," airing 7 p.m. Sunday on ABC's "Wonderful World of Disney."
The original 1957 TV program starred Julie Andrews and aired live in black and white. The '90s edition is in gloriously rich color -- and that means the cast as well as the cartoon-bright sets and costumes.
Tossing together a confetti of black, white and Asian actors, "Cinderella" features Brandy in the title role, Bernadette Peters as her stepmother and Whitney Houston as the fairy godmother. Cinderella has one white and one black stepsister, equally silly.
By Bob Thomas, Associated Press writer
You'd think that Hollywood's monsters might change their nasty ways now that they are enshrined on U.S. postage stamps.
Not those guys. Now vampires and werewolves are marauding through the Los Angeles nights, leaving blood-deprived humans and body parts in their wakes.
At least that's the basis for "House of Frankenstein," the four-hour movie that appears Sunday and Monday on NBC.
It happens that a real estate operator (England's Greg Wise) plans to open a nightclub called "House of Frankenstein." For a special added attraction, he seeks Dr. Frankenstein's creature. Located at its North Pole resting place and thawed in Los Angeles, the creature escapes, and that's when the murders start.
FALL RIVER -- The Little Theatre of Fall River's production of "Singin' in the Rain" is bold and sassy fun, tinged with nostalgia and propelled by strong performances.
The merry musical, based on the MGM movie, takes a look at Hollywood as talking pictures are ready to replace silent films. At the crux of the story is the famed silent film team of Lockwood and Lamont. There is only one problem with Ms. Lamont's transition to "talkies" -- her squeaky voice. It's also a tale of romance between blazing star Lockwood and a young hopeful from the Midwest, Kathy Selden.
"Singin' in the Rain" is a cheerful romp brought vividly to life by a dashing cast. Michael Coury leads the way as Don Lockwood, the larger-than-life star.
First it was Jane Austen movies. Then there were dueling volcano films. All of a sudden, there are no less than five new movies about Chinese oppression.
Hollywood's herd mentality is usually driven by shameless greed, insular thinking or an utter lack of imagination. The fresh batch of China-related films is motivated by a different mix: genuine concern about international human rights and the film business' unique position to advocate for change. In total, the films aim to do to China what "Jaws" did to great white sharks.
Friday's release of the latest China story, the criminal justice drama "Red Corner," coincides with the eight-day U.S. visit of Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Jiang is scheduled to speak at a Sunday lunch in Beverly Hills attended by local leaders, including Hollywood executives.
As a real estate writer, I interview many home builders, developers and architects. I've recently noticed a strong trend in the type of residential developments being planned.
When beefing up the desirability of an upcoming housing project, I'm often told something like this: "Our new project will be more than just a group of homes. It will be a special kind of community where residents will visit with one another in common facilities, and jointly participate in planned activities. Everyone will enjoy a strong sense of community."
The reason this aspect of the new development is being planned and promoted is simple -- people need and want this kind of social-friendly environment in their community. Thus, it's the key to successful marketing of the residential units.
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List Price: $139,615
2,100 square feet of living space
This three bedroom ranch features a fireplaced den, a brick-mantled wood stove in the dining room and a cozy breakfast bar.
The ranch has lots of oversized windows that offer fantastic views of Sawdy Pond, which shimmers at the westernmost edge of the property.
If you'd like a little seclusion but don't want utter isolation, this Westport ranch may be the home for you.
Located at 169 Robert Street, the house sits comfortably back from the road on roughly a half-acre lot. Approaching the ranch from the long blacktop road the house looks small. But au contraire. It's not only deceptively spacious, you'll also find plenty of surprises in this three bedroom home including a brick-mantled wood stove in the kitchen, a spacious fireplace in the den, a cozy eat-in kitchen and some staggering water views.
The water views come as a complete surprise. One isn't immediately aware that Sawdy Pond shimmers on the horizon behind the house which is where you may want to start your tour.
A small rock island and various outcroppings give the pond character. Across the water stands the Fall River shoreline. A concrete patio makes an excellent place to enjoy the view in summer, perhaps with a cup of coffee at breakfast or the newspaper in the evening.
HOW TO BUY A CONDOMINIUM OR TOWNHOME, By Irwin E. Leiter (Sourcebooks, Inc., Naperville, IL; Order Phone 1-800-43-BRIGHT), 1997, $16.95, 130 pages. Available in stock or by special order at your favorite bookstore and public library.
Buying a condominium or townhouse is much more complicated than buying a single-family detached house. This excellent new book explains why. Author Irwin E. Leiter, a real estate attorney and title insurance agency owner, explains the pros and cons of buying into the unique condo or townhouse lifestyle.
Unlike most books, this one has its glossary of real estate terms at the front of the book rather than the back, where nobody reads it. Although parts of the book seem a bit simplistic, that makes it easy to read and understand. The author is careful, although he is a lawyer, not to get bogged down in legalese. He gives practical advice throughout, such as checking the condo soundproofing especially carefully.
NEW BEDFORD -- The Rev. Paul J. West, who served as pastor of Middleboro's Central Baptist Church for 36 years until his retirement 11 years ago, began his new duties as interim pastor of South Baptist Church, 745 Brock Ave., effective today.
The New Bedford congregation voted at its fall business meeting on Oct. 19 to call Rev. West as the new interim pastor. He replaces the Rev. Charles D. Lake of Marion who served as interim pastor of the New Bedford church for five years until his retirement in June. Rev. Lake was named interim pastor when the last full-time pastor, the Rev. Christopher Lawrence Drew, left in the summer of 1992 to become pastor of the First Baptist Church of North Adams.
Rev. West, 77, a Mashpee resident, was pastor from September 1950 until August 1986 of the historic Central Baptist Church. The dean of Middleboro clergy, Rev. West developed a radio ministry through the broadcast of his regular services over stations WPEP, WRLM and WDCX--FM.
Richard A. Robert
FAIRHAVEN -- A special service for the licensing of Richard Arthur Robert of East Freetown in the gospel ministry will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday
at Victory Baptist Church, 97 Farmfield St.
A lifelong resident of Freetown, Mr. Robert is a graduate of Apponequet Regional High School in Lakeville. He is employed by Aerovox Industries as a machinist.
Juli L. Parker
FAIRHAVEN -- Alliance Sunday will be observed during the 10:30 a.m. service Nov. 2 at the Unitarian Memorial Church, Green and Center Streets, with members of the church's Women's Group conducting the program of worship.
The speaker for the service, Juli L. Parker, director of the Women's Resource Center at UMass Dartmouth, will describe the services which her center offers the community as well as to the university. Program goals for the center, which Ms. Parker will discuss, include encouragement of the empowerment and self-esteem in women, increasing awareness of women's issues and opportunities, and deterring violence against women.
By Robert J. Barcellos, Standard-Times staff writer
FREETOWN -- Rev. Jose Rafael Rodriguez, head deacon and trustee of Calvary Pentecostal Church in East Freetown, recently attained a milestone in his 30 years of service to the Lord.
Rev. Rodriguez, 52, who is fluent in Spanish, was licensed as a minister of the gospel by the Barnabas Ministerial Fellowship in Sunbury, Pa., on Sept. 5.
His pastor, Rev. Curtis D. Dias, who had previously been licensed as a minister by the Barnabas Ministerial Fellowship, also attended the ceremony in Sunbury and was formally ordained into the ministry on the same occasion.
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