 I will introduce the Tiny Mike team, coached by Jackie Pulizzi, my daughter from my Kelly mother, and Sydney Holman, and your Tiny Mike cheerleaders are Tegan Mulcahy, Shay Coronado, Annabelle Hersey, Isabel Kelly, and Andy Waters. Let's hear it for the Tiny Mike! Coaches Heather Harris and Amy Leiden, and our student demos are Colleen Donnelly, Amanda Johnson, and Courtney Dugan. Let's hear it for your Mighty Mites! Who are? Sophia Holt, Lily Nado, Gracie Crosby, Ioni Constantine, Becker Primer, Sarah James, Bailey McLaughlin, Emma Jones, and Emma Mascio. Let's hear it for the Mighty! Gary Scribner, Kaylin Scribner, Vanessa Fezzoli, Lauren Hamilton, and here are your Piwi Chia leaders. Alina Holt, Emma Donnelly, Nanami Adda, Katelyn Ochebald, Hannah Mondesier, Brooke Marr, Isabel Kautushan, Sydney Daniels. So let's hear it for your Piwi by Sarah Domenico, Nicole Jutris, Crystal Brown, student demos are Alyssa Louise and Jessica Brown, and your Vosity cheerleaders are Casey Johnson, Kelly Smith, Maya Thess, Michaela Edwards, Lily Valdez Greenwood, Victoria Remick, Rhianne Lyons, Alex Clifford, Alex Io Camitas, Ruby Swist, Alice Beth Frasier, and Ashley Kerbal. These are your Vosity squad that's here to bring up the Allington High School cheerleaders. I want to give a special shout out to Becky Johnson. If you have a name, it's because she does everything phonetically, and if you have a name that's often mispronounced and I didn't nail it, it's totally on me. So thank you Becky, she does that for me every year. These are your Allington High School cheerleaders. Coach by Amanda Bonilla and Allie Seymour. Your Allington High School cheerleaders are Captain Molly Hankinson, Antonia De La Rousseau, Kylie Prunty, Leah Lombardi, Sophie Michello, Ava Morales, Amanda Johnson, Courtney Durgan, Jasmine Burnett, Sadie McLean, and Reagan McNally. Let's hear it for the Allington High School cheerleaders. Thanks to the moms and dads and grandparents and all the extra time you have to put in at those games and competitions. It's really appreciated. Please enjoy Town Day. It's on the app, but it's also at the senior center, events in the garden. Just about any, I think the beer garden is over there. Just don't say a mess app. Wander a little and have fun and be safe. Thank you so much. Good morning and welcome to Arlington's 2019 Town Day. To recap, we just saw the flag being raised. Listen to opening ceremonies and watch those fun, funky cheerleaders. They had so much energy. I'm here today with Erica Smiley. Can you please tell us what you do? Sure. My business is called Smiley Baby Hats. I make handmade crocheted machine washable hats for all ages. They go from newborn sizes all the way up to adult sizes. Get your adult-sized box hats here and you can enjoy them all winter. It's New England, so you might even need one tomorrow. You never know. Still to come. We have the Dave Samarko Band. We're here with Antonia, the Arlington High School cheerleaders. Antonia, you want to tell us a little bit about Town Day and the cheerleaders and what you're doing here? Sure. So today we're fundraising for our uniforms and for our banquet and stuff like that. So we're selling scrunchies. We're selling chocolate bars. We're selling waters. And we're selling bows. And we're also doing stunt for a buck and tumble stock for a buck as well. Are the scrunchies and bows things you all made? Yes. Some of them we did make and some of them we have these as well so we can match the kids who want to do it. So if anybody wants to come down here and see a stumble or a trick they can come and give a dollar and you guys will do a cool stunt for us. Alright, can we see something now? Yeah. Ready? Let's take a look. Anything else we can know about how to support the cheerleaders in upcoming football season? Come support us at our competitions and at the cheer football games cheer us on and cheer the football team on as well. And where's your first competition? October 27th. Awesome. That's great. And Leagues is November 6th. October 27th for their first competition and the Leagues is November 6th. Come on down to support the cheerleaders. Thank you. Thank you. Why are you here? I'm actually a singer for magical singers at high school. We'll be performing today around 11. What will you be performing? A number of songs. A lot of them I don't know what I'm like allowed to tell you so like a lot of them are about like peace and saving the earth but they're very good songs and we'll be on the stage in front of town hall over there. It's going to be great. What did you think of the cheerleaders? Did you see the performance? I didn't see the performance. I was really busy last night but they're talking about yesterday? Just now. Oh, I wasn't here. I just got here. This is Eleni Kaminas with ACMI News. We're here at Arlington Town Day 2019 with Cambridge Savings Bank, the sponsor for all of this that happened today, Kathleen Darcy of Cambridge Savings Banks. Can you tell us a little bit about Arlington Town Day and what you're doing here? Sure. Good morning Eleni. It's a great day. We're so happy it's not raining. Cambridge Savings is happy to be the primary sponsor once again. We have been since 2000. We've got so much going on. The bands are getting ready to start. The cheerleaders just went off. We have a lot going on in our garden. We have Steve Katzo's back, because our emcee who's an original Arlington resident. And so I just hope everyone can come down. We've got a lot of food. There's a lot of the airbrush tattoos will be back. We have pony rides. Lots of stuff for the kids to do. What's your favorite thing about Town Day? Wow. I guess when it starts and seeing how happy everyone is to be here, it's a great community event. And as a community bank, we're just so happy to be able to be the sponsor here today. Are you going to get an airbrush tattoo? I might. I've done it before. So I just might do it again. Something different this year. Alright, let's look for Kathleen at the tattoo booth. Thanks so much. Bye Kathleen. Bye bye. It's always nice to bump into a fellow friend at Town Day. Guess who I bumped into? My name is Shen Shen. We're here to sell bubble tea. It's freshly brewed. Freshly brewed bubble tea. She is a Arlington business employee located right in Arlington Center. The tea is so yummy. If you haven't been there, don't know what it's about. Can you explain to us what bubble tea is? Sure. So bubble tea contains combines of two main things. One is the freshly brewed tea and then is the tapioca bubble. So all the tea drinks are freshly brewed here. And we made bubbles for about an hour. So it's like a pretty, we try to make the bubble tea more healthy. The bubble tea is very yummy. I mean, explaining it, you just have to go try it. Thanks so much. I'm here with Representative Sean Garberley to talk about what his Arlington Town Day means to him. Hey Sean, how are you doing? Hey, how are you? What's going on? Good thanks. How is it to Town Day 2019? It's outstanding so far. We've just only hit the food vendor. So we're trying to make our way up Mass Ave. And what does Town Day mean to you? It means a lot. You know, it means Arlingtonians coming together, celebrating another year, being from Arlington Center all the way up the Ave. You know, this is an annual event. And a lot of people work really, really hard to put this together. A lot of volunteers, a lot of sweat and tears, a lot of people out here at 5.30, 6.00 a.m. Setting up chairs, setting up boots, chalking off the street for where the boots go, making sure everyone has their own area, and a time for individuals and families to really enjoy what Arlington's all about. That is family and community and people coming together. And you see that. You know, if you see someone eating pie at the Pie Palace over the UU Church, or I just saw a friend having a chili dog, people are just having fun. And that's what today is really about. You can really feel a sense of community. Absolutely. Thank you so much, Sean. Right, thanks so much. Enjoy the rest of Town Day. Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm out on the streets today, and look who I found. Please tell us your name. My name is Ashley. And what is it that you do today at Town Day? So I represent the Thompson Elementary School. We sell the community card, which many people may know about. It costs $10 and gives you ongoing year round discounts at all of these businesses. You know, you get like a free popcorn at the Capitol, 10% off at Abilene's Frozen Bakery. We've been doing it for 10 years. This is our primary fundraiser for the PTO, and this is how we pay for all the enrichment. We have generous sponsorship to produce the card, so every dollar goes back to the school. That's so awesome. Go out there and get your $10 card, okay? Sounds amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you. We're here with Steve Katzos, emcee of today's ceremonies at Arlington Town Day and host of the Steve Katzos show at ACMI. Steve, what are you looking forward to today? I'm looking forward to some great weather and some great music. The Dave Somarco band's coming up right now, and it's always great to be here on Town Day, especially with fellow Greeks. That's the best for sure. What are you most excited about? You know what? I'm excited about the fact that I'm here and you're here, and there's going to be entertainment in front of the town hall. That's the most exciting. And Carpac's here. If you don't know Carpac, he's the sound guy. He's good. It's always good to have a good sound guy. And what can we look forward to coming up on the Steve Katzos show? Well, it's off the air now. We stop doing the show. People keep asking me, is it coming back? Is it coming back? And the whole idea of the show is you can begin again and never give up and all that stuff. I'm tired, so we'll see. Maybe next year. I don't know. If you want to throw some money my way, I'll come back. We look forward to having you around. Thank you, Steve. Thank you, Eleni. You got to come back, Steve. You got to come back. We miss you. All right, folks. Welcome to Arlington Town Day 2019. We've got a lot of great talent down here today, so stick around. I'd like to thank the powers that be for having us back. It's always a pleasure to play here. I'd like to thank my band for waking up early. They had late night commitments last night, so hats off to them. And God bless everybody. Okay, here's what we do. A little song called One Kind Face. Folks, title track off our most recent CD. It's called One Kind Face. I have a little song now for you. It's called Love Sick Blues. A little country thing for you. Okay, this isn't a key of A. Thanks, folks. Thank you very much. On the right-hand side, on my right, and your left, Toby Leith on fiddle. On my left, Jim, give it up for Jimmy. Jimmy on bass. And thumping away on the drums back there, Mr. Bobby Sweeney. Thanks for coming out to Town Day, folks. You got a little something for you called Honky Tonk Queen. Wrote this about a friend in Nashville, Tennessee. I was down there when I was six. This goes out to Lori. All right, here we go. Honky Tonk Queen. Honky Tonk Queen. A little sped up there, but we were excited, I guess. A little exuberance there. We're going to do something that you probably recognize. This one goes out to my sister, Sandra, who couldn't make it here today for anyone else who likes the song. This was written actually by Bob Dylan, but made popular by Mr. Hootie, AKA Darius Rucker. We do it a little different than both of them. Check the tune again. A little humid. It's close enough for what we do. This is supposed to be a little whacked anyway. They don't always stay. It's something called I Need You Loving Me. Folks, thank you very much. Something you might recognize here. Written by a great songwriter. Won by Mr. Johnny Cashfield. A couple more for you here before a little song called Hate the Mountain. Hate the Mountain's Red for you now. Folks, I'll tell you, if you had one song that you wanted to sing, one song that meant a lot to you, this would be my age. Many of my songs do mean a lot to me and other people, but this one's very dear to me. It was inspired by my wife, Nicole. I was in our younger years going up, camping up in North Conway, going through the mountains up there with the trailer and camping and riding. Legendary times, folks. Legendary. It's called Paint the Mountain's Red. It's on our second CD. On our second CD. We'll do two more here and get the jazz band up and the jazz rocker here. We're here with Mary Ann Hanley of the Arlington Library Foundation. She's a board member and here to tell us a little bit about what they're doing down here at Town Dead. Hi, I'm from the Arlington Libraries Foundation and we are the fundraising arm for the Robins and Fox Libraries. We are gearing up for a capital campaign in a couple of years and we are going to help them raise funds to do that. We also, right now, are raising funds to cover any shortfall between what the town allots and what their budget requires and what we think that our first-class libraries deserve. And what's the most important thing for the libraries coming up for the capital campaign that you want to raise money for? Well, right now we are going to be putting in some self-serve stations so more people can check out on their own and we've been doing some furniture upgrades and adding to their collections. There you have it. Thanks so much. Thank you. Did you enjoy the Dave Samarco Band? Still to come, our host, Paul, is going to be showing you the Smoke House. I'm Jamie with ACMI News. We're here with Ruth Hirsch at the Friends of the Robins Library Book Fair today here at Arlington Town Day. Ruth, can you tell us a little bit about what's going on? What the books you have here? We have a big annual book sale and it's a wonderful thing. It supports the Friends of the Robins Library and we actually support programming throughout the year at the library for free. We support the B's on the third floor. We support the Library of Things. We support printing at the library which is for free from anywhere from your computer off-site. The Friends of the Robins Library book sale is fantastic. It's fun. There are a lot of people here. There's books downstairs, books upstairs. There's hardcover books. There's trade paperbacks. There's children's books galore. They range from picture books. They range from hardcover books to picture books to series books. As you can see, there are a lot of people here. This is a fun event. Actually, people come and volunteer who have volunteered for years. They come year after year to help. They get here at 7.15 in the morning. They set up tables. They put out books. It's a whole town event. They're in the whole week and a half up to this event. People volunteer. They come in and they sort books. It's really fun, actually. You end up having these fantastic conversations about books and about life and it's wonderful. I love Town Day. It's really, really a wonderful event. I love this book sale. You can just see hundreds of people here looking for books. Books have not gone away. People still love books. That's it. Are these books donated? Yes, they're all donated. They're donated about a month and a half before the book sale. People donate. I personally donated about 100 books this year. It's a great way to give back. Some of these books, if you look around, there are some real treasures here. It's a wonderful event. That's great news. How are the bees doing? The bees are so... Right now, they're probably a little dormant but they're doing really well. We have a honey raffle that we have for free. You can put your name and phone number in for a raffle. We draw from the raffle every hour and you can get free honey which is from the bees on the third floor. It's really good to have local honey because it's good for allergies. If you have any allergies I think I'm talking too much. You're doing great. This is super helpful. Come on down and get your free Arlington Library honey. If you join today as a new member you can get a free tote bag and it has a beautiful logo on it and also once a year this is the free tote bag if you join as a new member but also once a year we sell free tote bags which we only sell once a year and these are the Friends of the Robbins Library tote bags on one side is the Robbins on the other side is the Fox and this is actually made these were the drawings are made by the daughter of a librarian and they're really a wonderful thing. I have five of them. I get them for gifts once a year for people. This is how we raise money and we do as you probably see throughout the year. These are some of our programs and we are a team of volunteers we all just volunteer we have a small board and we have tons of volunteers to help out because this Robbins Library is a very special library as you know other than it being beautiful it's just really it's really a unique library and we're a wonderful community so Thanks so much Ruth. Totally agree. Thank you so much. Thank you for the interview. Have a great day. This CMI would like to thank Whole Foods Trader Joe's Stop and Shop Food Link and Dreamers Pizza and a special thanks to Michael Armonius.