HOLLY NADLER
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I’m sitting down to write my weekly column with a cup of hot chocolate piled high with small marshmallows. I’ve got the remaining bag of marshmallows in my lap and I’m laying into them as if not to finish the lot would lead to children starving in China. Remember when parents used to tell us that? About kids going hungry in China if we didn’t eat our peas? Nowadays Chinese parents probably tell their kids, “Eat up or children in America will have fewer trips to McDonald’s.”
Ooops. Just ate the last marshmallow. So who else is staying in more and eating sweets as if Reliable Market is about to close down the display cases that house the ice cream and the frozen cakes and pies?
Speaking of sweets, one of the few businesses still open in town is Marguerite Cook’s determinedly cheerful Good Ship Lollipop at the top of Circuit. The glass displays hold trays of homemade fudge and chocolates, while the rest of the shop is filled with every manner of bagged and boxed candy, toys, bells and whistles, colorful mugs, games and sparkling snowflake decoration in the windows.
The only problem with the candy store is that there’s no emergency number. Let’s be honest; it’s at 2:15 in the morning when you desperately crave that hunk of rocky road fudge. I’m not saying Marguerite and her husband should have a beeper strapped to them at all times, even when they’re tucked into their warm bed at night. But couldn’t they equip one of the EMT trucks with a chocolate emergency iPhone? I mean, triage would still be applied: If there’s someone having a heart attack on Canonicus and simultaneously a woman on Upper Circuit Avenue needs some apricots dipped in dark chocolate, well, if the EMTs are coming up from the hospital, their route could take them right past Good Ship Lollipop for that chocolate Code Blue, a few seconds more and the drop off would be completed, and the guys can turn on the siren and zip over to Canonicus.
Before I put on 12 layers of winter clothing to go out and buy another bag of marshmallows, let me just fill you in on the Adult and Community Education classes coming in the coming days: Saturday, Jan. 29 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. begins the three-credit course in English Composition with Peg Regan through Cape Cod Community College, taught at our high school.
Another Saturday course, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. is Basic EKG with CPR, a certificate course with Nancy Phillips, through Health Training Center at our regional high school.
Also Saturday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. the certificate course ServSafe Sanitation Training and Recertification with Alice Robinson is at the high school.
Information on all and registration are online at acemv.org or by phone, 508-627-8373.
Next Saturday, Feb. 5, ACE is offering a free seminar, Haiti: Current Situation: Local/Global Connection, from 1 to 3 p.m. It’s with Sharilyn Geistfeld and PeaceQuilts and includes reading of Louise Bennett poetry by Marie Reid, also at the regional high school
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