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304 or whether they should be allowed animals and when he came into Board Meeting he would say something differently. Mr. Smith talked to the Town Manager about having a part-time sanitarian that could also do the animal inspections, and pay them a little more than the last sanitarian was paid to do the added inspections. Mr. Smith told the Board that they wanted to make him the dog hearing officer at the dog hearings but he said the law requires it has to be one of the selectmen. COCKROACH The Board asked how the cockroach problem is being solved in the restaurants, PROBLEM IN Peking Garden, Bora Bora, etc. RESTUARANTS Mr. Smith said that they have had exterminators come in to take care of the problem. They are keeping the problem under control. Dr. Erdos said he is all for putting restaurant inspection results in the newspapers. When they know that, perhaps the owners will shape up. It only takes one restaurant to be closed to have the others stay on their toes. ODOR Mr. Smith reported that he had received several complaints from Ingalls, COMPLAINTS Andersons Jewelers and the Liquor store about the food odor in their stores GUENTHERS coming from Guenther's Restaurant. Guenther put his filters on the foof and the intake from the other stores is bring the odors into their stores. Guenther's cooks with a lot of garlic and the odors are strong in the other stores. Peter DiMatteo, Building Commissioner, is handling the problem presently, but if something isn't done soon, he said he will write Guenther a letter and remove his food service establishment permit. Mr. Smith said that the help at Guenther's has also been washing the floors with a "squeegy" mop and pushing the water right out the back door and into the drain. Mr. Smith said that he put a stop to that. Dr. Roemer said that "down town" at Depot Square and behind the Peking Garden reeks of chinese cooking. Mr. Smith said that is because of the filters that are used at the Peking Garden and Yangtze River Restaurants. The restaurant owners wanted to install higher filters but the Historical Society would not allow either of them to do this. Had this been allowed, there would not be this problem. Mr. Smith said that at the two chinese restaurants, the odor is outside of the restaurants but with Guenther's it is being filtered/ventilated into the interior of the other sotres. Dr. Roemer asked if the outages in Town during the storm had created any problems for the Board of Health. Mr. Smith answered, "No problems at all". Mr. Smith told the Board that Mr. Ralph Cataldo of Bow Street had applied for his yearly letter for his agricultural program for filling in his land.