001[Music] you know I was just really excited just for the town and and you know especially for the kids and uh the staff here and it's been a lot of work at Paul Kendall and Jim Adams and a host of people that have put in hours and hours to make this uh a reality and to see it uh come out and be so beautiful it's been just uh you know very rewarding for everybody I think really nice like it's so much nicer and who are we thanking for all this [Music] Mr Adams who else how about everybody in the farm yeah your mom and dad and the whole Community it's uh it's really uh the beautiful place to learn and grow as I say foreign [Music] step into the Rolex leaders like you said we
002had a great start so far you know the first three days went amazing the Scavenger Hunt went amazing everyone's being respectful everyone's stepping up to the challenge I'm excited for the Year this is a great cake what are you looking forward to I'm looking forward to all of the senior events and just you know enjoying with my class one last time looking forward to wait I'm gonna do this with my friends this year I'm looking forward to graduating and getting out I'm looking forward to spending all the matter having all the memories of my friends that I can move back on it's high school it is high school so we finally get the freedom to do what we finally wanted to do yeah thank you so much I'm excited for the soccer team to win
003the tvl championship okay guys we're at the fire truck today with the senior class just ran around today's a good day yo what's up guys classic 2024 check-in what I'm looking for the best class they're gonna miss us the most what I'm looking forward to seeing you here kicking everyone's winning football kicking everyone's putting soccer living my dream being at the school Ashton's the best that's right go clockers go clockers good luck out tonight [Music] hello and welcome to Around the Clock as we kick off our 10th season of Around the Clock we are bringing back one of our very first interviews we have Patricia O'Neal with us 10 years ago she had just won the hero with Dwayne The Rock Johnson and I looked at that interview from 10 years ago and first of
004all thank you for coming back to around the clock please thank you and I know that you took what you did there and have parlayed it into a lot of different things so first of all 10 years can you believe it's been that long since you did the show just like that cannot believe it do you remember how you felt after winning oh the Elation was unbelievable The Joy the Gratitude uh it was we were on a high the whole family for at least a year after that I mean there were so many changes that happened to me as a woman you know and as an older woman that it just every day was joyous it was so much fun it still is it really is yeah so you took that and when I went
005back and looked at the interview there was a couple things you were getting ready and you were hoping to get a number to run Boston in 2014. and I did you run in 2014. and how did that go so I was one of the last people to cross the finish line with an official time so I was super slow okay but I did earn my medal I did do the run it was as thrilling as winning the hero it was so wonderful well it was 2014 a year after um the horrible bombings yes 2013. right so why really going for that run I was running for a Cause I was angry still I was motivated I was doing it for the city of Boston it felt good I felt like I was doing my part
006wow yeah well that's great I I I've run a 5k and I was never congratulations well that was a number of years ago I've never been a runner but I I do I I think people who run it are amazing especially when you run it for charity so yeah yeah um any interest in running again I can't run I have I have thrown my back out it actually happened during the marathon so I see a medical chiropractor chiropractor every you know okay so no more running no we're running but I am a Avid Walker okay every day three miles good for you yeah good for you the other thing you had talked about was you would have loved to have done Dancing with the Stars yeah did that happen no it didn't no it didn't
007okay but it still could okay so I'd like to think maybe I'll do something that attracts their attention and they may want to bring me because the other thing is you've taken that win on the hero and you are now acting you've done movies you've done TV shows how did that happen I mean that's just amazing it was unbelievable so robusting casting which is a large Casting Company here in Boston was originally the casting company that sent out the hero notification that they were looking to hire a Boston woman okay so because of them and because of the winning on the show they had my name they had my picture with Dwayne so they would send me casting notifications they were doing a worldwide search for Aunt Jen for the movie stronger okay starring Jake
008Gyllenhaal they were bringing in actresses from New York from La yeah the director David Gordon green just wasn't getting what he was looking for they were looking for a heavy Boston accent right a tough uh yeah unfortunately stereotypical right woman from Boston so they remembered me from the show they sent me the audition the script yep I actually auditioned on a Monday and on a Tuesday I had a call back with Jake Gyllenhall and David Gordon green and I will say it was unbelievable to be in an audition room without knowing that either one of them were going to be there yeah to watch the performance I had actually I was off book so I had memorized the script yeah yeah and it was so exciting to have Jake interacting and saying that was really
009great and then to have David asking me what I thought about the character or what I wanted to bring into it it changed that definitely changed my life that was a life-changing moment getting and when was that how soon after the move after the show that's three years after the hero so between the hero and that point I think I had done background a couple of German films oh okay but nothing nothing even close to that I was trying to get into how to audition for films in Boston yeah but I was not successful until that moment wow and now I'm happy to say I have mastered that and happy to help anyone who wants to audition and have you done anything since then oh yes okay what else have you done I've done so
010many films uh honest Thief with Liam Neeson I play Robert Patrick he's the silver Terminator from Terminator two everyone knows him okay um I play his wife in the film equalizer 2 with Denzel Washington yeah so I'm in the Blu-ray Blu-ray version I play Faith the waitress I'm one of the Uber passengers uh crying it depends on which one funny you say that because we have just watched we've just rewatched The Equalizer movies because we then went to see it in the movies yep yep so we went to see three in the movies so the theater I don't think I'm in that one I'm in a blu-ray cut okay um and that happens all the time yeah film and you just hope to that ending edit that you make the picture but even if you
011don't it's still wonderful to have yeah yeah what was he like to work with so this is the best story and I'm so embarrassed to tell it Denzel all day long he was filming just the people in The Uber scenes and because my seeing consisted of rain I was one of the last people to film that day okay because they have to set up a green screen that makes it look like raining yeah and this is all done in the New England Studios out in um Devon Fort Collins Massachusetts I get on set and in the Scully cap I'm all excited I'm about to film just Denzel and I and I look at the guy and he goes you look disappointed right I'm like he goes I'm not Denzel I'm like I know you're not
012Deadpool he goes Denzel doesn't work after 8 pm and I think this was around 11 30. so I had to film my scene with this double oh so I never got to meet Denzel but I met Antoine Fuqua he was the director okay and I will say I had mad actress crush on Antoine Fuqua he was so wonderful and he had the whole crew give me this lovely Round of Applause at the end of my performance which is nice nice now I would say is there anything in the works but there there's no work being done talk to us how are you being impacted and other people you know by this whole strike the strike is very disappointing first of all I give a lot of support to my fellow Strikers The Writer's guilt because
013without them there are no actors right so both both guilds have to find an amenable solution together right or or it's never going to be a fluid acting Community again right um the productions here in Boston have stopped right there are none other than some indie films are getting permission by the union to go ahead and film okay for me personally I haven't had an audition since June wow which is very disappointing because to be honest the auditions would probably be about four to five weekly oh my goodness is everything self-taped since code right so you can actually audition for here for New York right for La I mean it's really opened up the pool of how how to audition but unfortunately too it's also opened up all the competition for auditions right right how
014did covet hit you covet was horrible uh for actors because for a long time you would have to before you go on set you'd have to take a covered test 48 hours before set when you get on set another covid test then you are isolated then you were masked um if it we lost the camaraderie did you do some filming during I filmed for George Clooney this is a great story yeah so the tender bar I think that's on Amazon Prime right now I had auditioned I got a background role uh towards the end of that film and it was unbelievable to work with George Clooney because he was cooler than I had ever expected unfortunately we were all masked we were isolated so he he was a lovely man he joked with us but
015we couldn't really hang out with him like we would normally on a set yeah during the down time during uh the set rework and all that so so strike is going on what do you hope will happen for you after the strike what do you what what would be I guess the question is what are you looking for what would be your ideal role ideal role was it was coming to Boston this fall I now and I apologize the working title I can't remember the name of this okay however they are looking specifically for female Boston mother types with the accent so of course I would be heavy with the mother types yeah and um the wicked in Boston and all that right right that role I was I was written for it and I
016am hoping that I get to either play Joey's mom I can remember the character and um I think I had auditioned for that I want to say April and then back again in June but now we were told that the production is delayed and now I don't even think it's coming oh wow yeah so that would be ideal is to get a principal speaking role in a film filming here in Boston so that I can keep my day job uh and also and what's your day job I work for TJX oh fantastic company very nice okay different things when we did you 10 years ago for Richard working for Richard Francis and then I know you I think you did somewhere along the line some real estate yes I was a realtor for 30 years
017okay yeah and then I remember you were in some local community theater a couple years ago with Joe White at Ashley Community one director I think he just got nominated for a couple of awards sort of his some of his short films have been for a couple things horrific terrific person to work for nice um I've since gone on to do some film I'm sorry some play some acting on stage oh cool at the Wilbur in Boston so that's been my last two big Productions what did you do with the Wilbur so Casey Sherman and Dave wedge they are authors Casey's known for writing Disney's The Finest Hours sorry Chris Pine and Casey Affleck yep he wrote hunting Whitey which is a book about hunting Whitey Bulger so he brought his podcast to the theater
018new experience uh the guests sit and listen to the podcast but it's also acted on stage the different scenes that they're reading about so Neil McDonough who is famous for Tombstone Band of Brothers he played Whitey Bulger and I play Noreen Gleason the FBI agent who is responsible for bringing Whitey to Justin wow yeah so I did his Sinners and Saints same role and then hunting Whitey and Casey's hoping to bring this production over to London New York as a party and will you be going with him if he does it in person would they replace me with a an actress from that might be more of a headliner but let's hope that this gets my name up yeah your family was your support yeah how's your family doing they're so nice to ask thank
019you I'm still madly in love with my husband Bob nice how long have you been married uh 34 years nice thank you nice our oldest son is getting married he got engaged recently oh congratulations thank you Alex is moving out at the end of this month which will break my heart but it's time for him to and how old are your kids uh Connor's 30 Alex is 28 and Madeline is a nurse at Beth Israel Hospital yeah so they're all doing really well thank you for us oh you're welcome you're welcome yeah it's it's amazing I look I look at what my kids were doing and what you know I think about 10 years later you know where where my kids were and where we are now and I'm like oh my gosh now you
020know I'm a Facebook stalker so that's how I knew you're always show in New York your girls are those are those which I know and then before we started filming today yeah you did let me know that one of your daughters wants to be an actress yeah yeah so my older daughter actually did stuff here in Ashland in high school and then went to Emerson and um you know living living the life in New York actually both my girls live in New York and and they love it and I'm I'm I'll I'll admit I'm a proud mom they're both they're both doing very well so it's one of those things I'm sure you know this is a mom if your kids are out there doing what they love then you know you've done your job
021absolutely and that's the important thing absolutely I love that you get to enjoy that with them oh yeah it's so much fun and so when we go down to New York we always try to see a show and of course my husband and I do local theater and stuff so we love to support it not we're backstage versus this this is my only on camera sir for you know on stage thing but yeah it's it's fun so this this is my creative thing I love that anyway thank you so much for coming back Patricia so one last thing so when you were on 10 years ago I guess I didn't realize I had started this with that first interview with you is I asked the question was there something about you that not many people
022knew that you were willing to share and at that point you told us that your mom was half asian yes and you were very blonde at the time yes is there something else about you that not many people would know that you'd like to share with our viewing audience for this interview I love that The Best Is Yet To Come Oh that's a good thing that's a good thing to think of thank you great well thank you so much Patricia for coming back I appreciate it good luck and you know if you ever if you ever make it big don't forget about us back here because we'd love to share your story always going to be my home so thank you good thank you and that racks up wraps up this segment with Patricia O'Neill
023who has come back after our first one of our first interviews 10 years ago here on around the clock hello it is time for the select board update for the meeting that happened on Wednesday September 6th I'm Yolanda Greaves current Vice chair of the Ashland select board and your host of Around the Clock the meeting started at about quarter of seven we had a short executive session to review and approve some minutes from another executive session we started at seven o'clock we had two hearings in front of us and a few other events we had some citizens participation we then started with uh Paul Gustafson he is the owner or was the owner of 433 Chestnut Street and he purchased it from the house that is known as the Henry Warren house he has since
024refurbished it and is now on the market it is a beautiful job that he's done if you've watched previous select board meetings we've talked to him about using some of the old materials and that is now on the market so we had to talk to him about some finalizing paperwork and agreements with the sale of that house we then had a public hearing for Ashland Fish and Game they were back in front of us for a complete liquor license they were in front of us back in April for just a beer and wine license for their Pavilion and now they realize that they really need a full liquor license because of the variety of Liquors and alcohols and all the things that are out there so we approved that for them they have the ability
025to serve that in the Pavilion as they're doing events or parties from 12 P.M to 10 P.M every day so if you're looking for a place to rent check out the Ashland fishing game from there we went to a public hearing for Mike's Auto Sales they are currently on magunco road and they were moving from 50 magunco road to 185 mangunko Road I'm sorry other way around from 185 magungo to 50. so next time you take a ride around town go down magunco Road they've done apparently a very nice job in updating the facility and where they're going to be there now at 50 they do car repairs and they also have some sales that's what the class 2 license is for from there we went into and to discussed a proposal that Michael Herbert
026brought to us regarding the Valentine property we've owned the property about five or six years now we did some work before covid we had a committee if you driven by you've been seeing all kinds of work getting done sideboard painting the interior is getting done the next step that I keep asking for and many people have is what are we going to do with the property so Michael Herbert the town manager brought forward a proposal where part of the house would be used for a new newly created Park and Rec Department the downstairs would be available for rental or for town or for private events and the barn would be available for rental for private events or even town events the next step after our proposed after us the select board seeing the proposal is
027we're going to be having a public forum so look for that date it'll be sometime early November the date wasn't selected yet probably the first or second week where we're going to bring this proposal to the public and look for your feedback so be on the lookout for that we had a discussion about our baa Grant process so we have the baa grant numbers we have the numbers for the runners because of the fact that we're a Boston Marathon Town Boston the town the marathon runs through town the baa gives us numbers and we have this process where we then give out funding we give out grants to different organizations certain money can go toward 501 3C or non true nonprofit groups and other monies can go to other groups so we've split out now
028what that process is so when you go to the website if you're a non-profit you'd fill out one form if you're not a non-profit you'd fill out another Form we've increased the maximums so you can now apply up to four thousand dollars if you're a non-profit and over two Grant Cycles so a fall and a spring or a spring and a fall depending what order you can get up to six thousand dollars and there will also be some requirements for showing us how you've used the funds and all that will now be available on the website so go ahead and check that out we then went through our hold on checking my notes Here There we go we then discussed the closure of the MBTA station if you are a commuter into Boston from the
029Ashland station you have known for the last week that the station itself is closed due to Major Renovations almost three million dollars in repairs are going to be happening there so you need to either go to Framingham or Southborough depending on which direction you're heading or where you want to park we're trying to get them to open the station or at least the parking with the shuttle that hasn't happened yet so just add extra time and be on the lookout if we can get them to open the station at least for some parking we will let you know and there are shuttles available if you're dropped off or walked to the station we then talked about an all-premise liquor license so right now as a group wants or a restaurant wants to get a liquor
030license it's for a specific area when we allowed restaurants to do outdoor we had to extend it to their outdoor area an all-premise license would be for someone like the Warren Conference Center they currently have a liquor license for their Lodge and their hotel if they want to get a liquor license for another area they'd have to get a separate license unless we discussed or allowed them to do what's called an all-premise so you could you could get your wine at the lodge you could walk over to the white building and you could walk over to a tent we haven't made a final decision we said we would look at it on a case-by-case basis my feeling is and if this is going to help our businesses let's see what we can do but no
031final decision has been made and then the last part the last thing before a consent agenda we have opened up our acceptance for runners if you would like to run the Boston Marathon on behalf of the town of Ashland you can go to the website and there is a form where you fill it out to say that you'd like to run the commitment is to raise three thousand dollars in funds and then you can have a number if we have more than the 12 numbers that we have available the names would get picked out of a hat and preference is given to either Ashland residents or Ashland employees if you're neither of those but you see this and you'd like a number you can certainly apply and if we have any available you may be
032able to get one we then approved our consent agenda and we went into the town manager's report he updated us on the map Downtown project if you're driving through downtown you're seeing that things are continually changing the paving is now completely done they're in the process of laying down the crosswalks and it's not just a matter of painting them they're actually textured crosswalks with a very interesting tool that they use to make the grid and to make it look like Cobblestone then we are in the process of doing the connections to the underground for all the buildings and of course the last thing we'll be removing the poles and that'll probably be next spring before we finish everything in downtown but every day there's something a little bit different that you notice as you drive
033through downtown from there we talked about the Mendes the Mendez school is open it was available for the first day of school on September 5th and their open house is happening on September 9th in the afternoon you get the ability to tour the school uh we talked about an upcoming bond issue now that the Mendez is just about done we're looking at doing some short-term borrowing for some large amounts and then eventually going into long-term borrowing and we'll talk about that as it continues moving forward grand reopening of the community center if you remember back in February there was some sprinkler issues some damage done to our community center it's hard to believe it's taken this long but the community center is now completely redone or at least the areas that were damaged and also
034as they were doing the work they found that some of the original construction might not have been done as well as it should have so some of those improvements were made as well so that the building will now be nice and sturdy and strong and in a good position for many years but that is September 12th from 10 to noon another thing we want to talk about is the town manager talked to us about this is there was a firefighter Grant it's a regional Grant it was for 921 thousand dollars it came to the town of Ashland Southborough and Hopkinton Ashland was the lead on this and it is for new air tanks and air apparatus so what means is the three towns will now have the same uh the same equipment so that if
035someone from Ashland if we have to go help out Hopkinton and we're using their equipment we have the same equipment so they can work together and that was a real big win like I said almost almost a million dollar grant for this new equipment and that equipment is not cheap so thank you to Chief Roby and our assistant chief Morgan for getting that as well as Lieutenant Bolin for getting that grant for us and the other communities from there we went into board reports and we wrapped up just before we had to do an extension after 10 o'clock and that was the meeting that happened on Wednesday October I'm sorry Wednesday September 6th and the next meeting will be in two weeks thank you [Music] it's your senior year what are you most excited about
036uh I'm really excited to see our class step into the role as Leaders like you said we had a great start so far you know the first three days went amazing the Scavenger Hunt went amazing everyone's being respectful everyone's stepping up to the challenge I'm excited for the Year this is a great what are you looking forward to I'm looking forward to all of the senior events and just you know enjoying with my class one last time looking forward to wait I'm gonna do this with my friends um this New Year I'm looking forward to graduating and getting out I'm looking forward to spending all the better having all the memories of my friends that I can move back on it's high school and in high school so we finally get the freedom to do
037what we finally wanted to do yeah thank you so much I'm excited for the soccero team to win the tvl championship hey guys we're at the fire truck today with the senior class just ran around today is a good day yo what's up guys classic 2024 check-in what I'm looking for the best class they're gonna miss us the most what I'm looking forward to seeing you here kicking everyone's point of football kicking everyone's born in soccer living my dream being at the school Ashton's the best that's right go clockers go clockers [Music] thank you [Music]