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Dave McGillivray Completes 60-Mile Birthday Run Saturday 

Race director of the B.A.A. Boston Marathon and TD Beach to Beacon has run his age in miles each year since he was 12

BOSTON (Aug. 10, 2014) – Dave McGillivray, the race director of the B.A.A. Boston Marathon and the upcoming New Balance Falmouth Road Race, continued a longtime tradition he began on his 12th birthday and ran 60 miles on Saturday. 

McGillivray, who officially turns 60 on Aug. 22, made his run on a 3.5 mile route near his North Andover, Mass., home that included a loop around the Old Town Common and back 17 times. He was joined on various loops by Olympic Gold Medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson, inspirational athletes Team Hoyt and John Young, Dave Weatherbie and Mike Stone of the TD Beach to Beacon, members of the local Borderline Runners Club, and his children Max, Elle and Luke also ran. McGillivray and his wife, Katie, also celebrated their 11^th wedding anniversary on Aug. 10.

Immediately following his finish at 4:15 p.m. (he started at 2 a.m.) McGillivray received a text from Boston Marathon champ, Meb K. who wrote “Congratulations Dave…I need to do my age and start going backwards.  You are amazing.”  He also received an email from four-time Boston Marathon champ, Bill Rodgers, who wrote, “Dave, the best thing about your run is seeing how many people care about you.”

Approaching the task as he would the major sporting events that he directs, McGillivray has been preparing for the run since the spring, including producing an "ops manual" and throwing a party at his home with more than 200 guests.  He has also been training for the big run by completing the entire course of the Boston Marathon after the crowds dispersed to benefit the Martin W. Richard Charitable Foundation (known as MR8) and again running the course in July. Martin’s father, Bill Richard, and his brother Henry also attended Saturday festivities.

McGillivray, president of DMSE Sports, also plans to return to Kona, Hawaii in October to participate in the Ironman Triathlon World Championship for the ninth time – but for the first time in 25 years.  He will compete in the Ironman to once again benefit MR8.

McGillivray gained national prominence with his 1978 cross country run that took 80 days and raised almost $150,000 for the Jimmy Fund – the first money any runner ever raised for a cancer charity, according to Runner’s World. He has completed a number of similar feats of endurance since his groundbreaking cross country trek, including a second cross-country run in 2004 from San Francisco to Boston as part of TREK USA, a relay team event that raised more than $300,000 for five children’s charities. He has now logged more than 150,000 miles, eight Hawaii Ironman Triathlons and now has finished 131 marathons – including 42 consecutive Boston Marathons. 

McGillivray learned he had coronary heart disease last fall and has spoken out about getting healthy and going in for heart tests, even if you think you are healthy and in shape. He has lost 27 pounds, dropped his cholesterol level by over 70 points and has been following a very, very strict and healthy diet, which he credits as having given him his health back and now feels he is in his best shape in 15 years. 

On Saturday, McGillivray said he felt that this birthday run was the easiest in over 20 years and showed no signs of fatigue or soreness.

McGillivray is a pioneer in what is now one of the most important aspects of the endurance sports industry – combining athletics with philanthropy. Nearly every DMSE Sports event combines fitness and fundraising, giving back to the Jimmy Fund and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Children’s Hospital, Lazarus House and many others charities and non-profit organizations in New England and across the country. He along with all the events he has directed have helped raised more than $100 million for charity over the years since starting DMSE Sports in 1981.

DMSE Sports is a leader in sports event management, specializing in creating, marketing and producing mass participatory athletic events throughout the U.S. and abroad. In addition to the B.A.A. Boston Marathon, DMSE manages more than 25 major road races per year, including the TD Beach to Beacon in Maine, the New Balance Falmouth Road Race on Cape Cod, the Finish at the 50 at Patriot Place, Run for the Dream in Williamsburg, Va., the Bellin Run in Green Bay, Wis., the Feaster Five Thanksgiving Day Road Race and the Across the Bay 10K in Annapolis, Maryland, among others. For more info, visit www.dmsesports.com.

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The Massachusetts State Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who allegedly indecently assaulted a young woman on the Esplanade early Friday morning.

The accompanying images were pulled from State Police security cameras positioned on the Esplanade. They show the man believed to be the assailant.

Shortly before 12:30 a.m. Friday State Police uniformed troopers and detectives responded to the area of the Harvard Bridge spanning the Charles River at Massachusetts Avenue and spoke with a 22-year-old woman who reported that a man on a bicycle had assaulted her after a brief verbal encounter. The woman ran and sought help from another cyclist who called 911. The woman described the assailant as a Latino male in his mid-20s to early 30s, standing about 5’6” tall with a moustache and short, dark hair.

Anyone with information about the man in these images or the incident itself is asked to call the Suffolk County State Police Detective Unit at 617-727-8817.

Based on the description of Friday’s suspect, investigators do not currently believe he is responsible for a series of unsolved sexual assaults in the same area during the summers of 2007 and 2009.

Authorities recommended that joggers, cyclists, pedestrians, and others remain alert and aware of their surroundings when they visit any outdoor public space at night and travel in groups if possible. More specifically, they recommended avoiding one-on-one contact with strangers, seeking help if a stranger tries to isolate them, and never getting into a car with a person they don’t know. Anyone who feels threatened should immediately call 911 on a cell phone to be connected to police.

MBLC Awards $44.6 Million in Construction Grants

Hopkinton awarded $4.5 million

The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) is pleased to announce that it awarded provisional construction grant awards to the top five communities on the Massachusetts Public Library Construction Program (MPLCP) Wait List at its monthly meeting on August 7, 2014. Those communities are as follows:

Webster           Chester C. Corbin Public Library                  $5,366,489
Woburn           Woburn Public Library                                   $9,906,275
Hopkinton       Hopkinton Public Library                            $4,533,580 (Concept plan below)
Somerville       Somerville Public Library                                $18,100,101
Stoughton       Stoughton Public Library                               $6,702,689

Funding for these projects was made possible through the capital bond bill, signed by Governor Deval Patrick on August 5, 2014. The bond bill authorizes a total of $151,200,000 for the highly successful Massachusetts Public Library Construction Program. “By funding library construction, the Governor and the Legislature have demonstrated their continued commitment to providing lifelong learning for every Massachusetts resident no matter where they live, how old they are, or how much money they make,” said Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) Chair Greg Shesko.

Grant awards are roughly half the total eligible project costs. Libraries that were awarded provisional grants will have until February 28, 2015 to secure the local funding match necessary to receive their MPLCP grant. The remaining libraries on the MPLCP Wait List are Hatfield, Sherborn and Leicester.  Grant awards to these libraries will occur as funding becomes available through the state’s capital plan.

The MPLCP helps libraries across the Commonwealth meet the growing demand for library services with expanded and improved library facilities. Over the past decade, visits to libraries have increased close to 40% as libraries evolve into the only remaining free community space that welcomes all residents. Technology in libraries has also become increasingly important. Every six minutes a Massachusetts resident sits down at a library computer. “Many of our libraries were built over 100 years ago and struggle to accommodate the ways in which people are using the library today,” said MBLC Chair Greg Shesko.

MPLCP funding was last authorized by the Governor Patrick and the Legislature in 2008’s General Governmental Bond Bill which provided $95 million for library construction. It yielded successful projects in the following communities: Athol, Buckland, Dudley* East Boston, Eastham, Edgartown, Everett, Falmouth, Foxborough, Framingham, Granby, Holyoke, Mashpee*, Mattapan, Millis, Reading, Salisbury, Scituate, Shrewsbury, South Hadley, Walpole, Westhampton, West Springfield, and West Tisbury.

It also funded the 2013-2104 Planning and Design Grant round in which $1million was awarded to twenty-one of the twenty-eight libraries that submitted applications. Each community received up to $50,000 to help offset the cost of planning and designing a new or renovated/expanded public library facility and to prepare for the next construction grant round, made possible with the 2014 authorization.

The Massachusetts Public Library Construction Program was first funded in 1987. Since then the program has assisted hundreds of communities in building new libraries or in renovating and expanding existing libraries. In 2008, the MBLC established the Green Library Incentive to assist communities in building libraries that meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification requirements. For more information about the program, please visit the MBLC's website.

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August 7, 2014 — The Middlesex Sheriff’s Office is once again warning residents about ongoing telephone scams in which perpetrators are falsely posing as deputies and threatening arrest for failure to pay debts or fines.

“Recently, a Merrimack Valley resident notified our Civil Process Division he had received a call from an individual claiming to be a Middlesex Sheriff’s Office Deputy. The caller threatened to arrest the victim and demanded money for a loan the victim had allegedly defaulted on,” said Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian. “Utilizing this frightening scheme, the perpetrator was successful in scamming the victim out of money.”
 
Adding to the realism of the scam call, the perpetrator was able to spoof a legitimate Middlesex Sheriff’s Office telephone number, making it appear as though the call was actually coming from the Sheriff’s Office. The perpetrator provided the victim with a second, unrelated number to call to make the payment. This year, the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office has seen an increase in the number of calls reported in which scammers are alleging to be deputies. In all the cases, the callers threaten to arrest the victim unless an immediate payment is made for an outstanding loan, a fine for failure to pay taxes or failure to show up for jury duty. The perpetrators will then demand the victim make a wire transfer, purchase a MoneyPak (or GreenDot) Card to settle the debt, or pay by credit/debit card. In some versions of these arrest scams, suspects will also ask for the victim’s Social Security number, claiming it is as a way for them to verify they are speaking with the correct individual.

“We will never threaten arrest in such a manner,” said Sheriff Koutoujian. “Our job is not to collect money, so we’ll never call you to ask for a credit card number or demand you purchase a product to pay any outstanding fines or debts.”

With an increase of these so-called arrest scams nationwide, the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office is offering the following tips:
• Never give out your Social Security number to anyone who contacts you via phone or email;
• Never provide any financial information (bank account, credit card numbers);
• Never purchase a product (MoneyPak Cards, etc.) to pay a debt;
•If a caller phoning about financial issues identifies themselves as a member of law enforcement, get their name, hang up the phone, and call Information or look up the agency’s main telephone number online (do not call the number the caller provides). Then call the main number, ask for that officer by name and remain on the line to speak with them. Always remember, however, a member of law enforcement will never demand money over the phone.
• Report any such calls you receive to local law enforcement.Anyone who receives a call similar in nature to the one referenced above is encouraged to contact their local police department. We also ask that you contact the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office Investigations Unit at 978-932-3220 if the caller indicates they work for the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office.

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