Article: Cracked crystal ball predicts 2008 events.(INSIGHT)

Byline: Robert Z. Nemeth

COLUMN: ROBERT Z. NEMETH

This being my last column in 2007, it is time to dust off the old crystal ball and forecast some of the major news events of the New Year.

CANAL ADVOCATES REJOICE

WORCESTER - Following up on his prediction that he'll be riding a gondola down Harding Street in five years, Allen Fletcher, chief advocate of re-creating the Blackstone Canal, revealed that a vessel is being built for the occasion by Piccolo DelSinko, the renowned gondola maker of Venice. Dressed as a gondolier, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, who has secured federal pork barrel money for the project, will handle the oar, singing "O ...

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