Category Archives: Community Notes

Etiquette Boot Camp for youth

The Etiquette Boot Camp for ages 7-17 will prepare a child for the next family dinner, social gathering, or formal event. Participants will learn how to start and maintain conversations with adults and peers, how to introduce themselves, when to interrupt, and much more.

Do you know a child that is struggling with table manners? Participants will learn how to set the table, use their napkin, pass food, and use utensils the European and American way. The 4-hour program is interactive, thought-provoking and fun, and is specifically developed for two different age groups, 7-12 and 13-17, targeting the social challenges affecting today’s youth. For more information visit TheEtiquetteAcademy.org.

Sunday, September 17th
Crowne Plaza, Boston/Newton Hotel

Back to School nutrition seminar

Join Megan Boitano, MS, RD, LDN, for an engaging and educational event featuring actionable strategies aimed at helping your family build healthy habits around food choices and physical activity.

Topics will include: planning meals for your kids (pre-k to teens), strategies to engage kids in planning/shopping and ensuring your approach is family-centered and sustainable. See the flyer here: Nutrition. Visit the website www.meganboitano.com.

September 20th, 6:00 – 7:00 pm
West Suburban YMCA
276 Church Street, Newton

RSVP to mboitanord@gmail.com

Save the date for: “Raising a Resilient Teen”

Save the date: Hear Dr. Susan Swick speak on “Raising a Resilient Teen” on October 11th.

Parents/guardians are invited to an informative and practical session on managing vulnerability and fostering resilience (the capacity to adapt in a setting of adversity) in teens. For details, see the flyer: Resilient Teen.

October 11th, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Newton North auditorium

Registration at The Conservatory at Highlands is now Open!

Fall 2017 Registration at The Conservatory at Highlands (located right next to Create A Cook) is now Open! Sign up for the best music lessons with the best teachers at highlandsconservatory.com or call 617-903-0944 to meet the teachers.

Finally, get on track with that instrument you’ve always wanted to learn…with the kindest, most patient teachers around. The Conservatory offers private music lessons in many instruments, including piano, voice, violin, viola, cello, guitar, drums, bass, saxophone, flute, clarinet, ukulele, and many more. Sign up for rock bands, which meet weekly; or try out our state-of-the-art recording studio with audio production lessons and more!

The Conservatory at Highlands is locally owned and operated and offers a 21st-century music education that is equally inclusive and challenging taught by the best musicians in Boston. The Conservatory is your community music school, where we can all learn and develop the craft of music together. Stop in and check out their cool space at 51 Winchester Street, Newton Highlands.

Feel free to e-mail info@highlandsconservatory.com with any questions.

Do you have a child that loves to sing?

Join VOICES Boston children’s chorus for the 2017-2018 season! With singing at its core and training in dance and drama, VOICES Boston changes the lives of children, building confidence, discipline, leadership and a love of music that will last a lifetime.

They have ensembles for singers grades K-8 and rehearse at the William H Lincoln School in Brookline. VOICES singers perform a wide range of repertoire, from classical to world music, gospel to new music and present an opera every year.

To sign up or just learn more about the program, visit www.voicesboston.org or contact Kathryn DiMaria at 857-366-0034 or kdimaria@voicesboston.org.

Trombone and Low Brass Music Lessons

Looking for a private instructor for you or your child in Trombone, Euphonium/Baritone Horn, or Tuba lessons? Mitchel Wong is available to teach these instruments. An alumnus of Angier, Brown, and South, he graduated from Ithaca College with a Bachelors in Music.

Mitchel is certified in MA and has experience teaching and working with students of all ages, whether just starting in 4th grade or seniors in high school working on auditions. If you’re interested, please contact him at mitchelwong93@gmail.com

In-home Academic Coaching

Since 2009 Next Level Up has been helping Newton families and their students improve and succeed. At Next Level Up, academic coaches are ready and looking forward to another great school year, eager to assist in subjects ranging from Reading & Writing, to all levels of Math, to Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.

Their big picture, processed based approach will also help all students establish solid organizational, time management, and study skills. Get a head start on the year. Contact Next Level Up for a free initial meeting at info@nextleveluptutoring.com or 781-540-1123. Visit the website www.nextleveluptutoring.com.

Wellesley Theatre Project

Wellesley Theatre Project is a nonprofit children’s theatre company for students 4 years old to 12th grade. Join this fall for fun events, classes, and productions!

Fall classes:
Acting
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre Dance
Design and Production
Improv
Stage Combat
Productions

Production Classes:
Students will explore their creativity and expand their acting, singing, and dancing skills. From audition preparation to Opening Night, all students will learn what it takes to produce a stage show.

You can find more information by clicking here.

Grand Opening! Galit’s Treats Café & Bakery

Recently opened in Newton Center. Specializes in authentic Israeli pastries and desserts. Great coffee and welcoming, warm atmosphere. Grand Opening on September 4th, Noon – 4:00 pm featuring Music and balloon twisting!

Galit’s Treats
749 Beacon Street, Newton

Place your Challah Bread and dessert orders for Rosh Hashana now, call 617-244-2411.

“Soul of a Legend – paying tribute to those gone too soon…”

On September 11, 2001, the Hackel family of Newton lost Paige Farley-Hackel along with Paige’s best friend Ruth McCourt Clifford and four year old daughter Juliana on two separate flights out of Logan airport.

To honor Paige following the attacks, Peter Hackel formed what is now the Super-Group “Soul of a Legend” with this year marking the band’s 16th Anniversary remembering the hero’s and victims of 9/11, and honoring musical legends “Gone Too Soon”. Their annual performance at Newton’s First Baptist Church is designed to “Never Forget” while raising awareness and support for the Paige Farley-Hackel Memorial Playground in Dorchester. Sixteen years turning tragedy into triumph!

The concert will host an extraordinary collection of musicians: James Montgomery, Jon Butcher, Fly Amero (Orleans), Jerry Velez (Jimi Hendrix), Jeff Levine (Hall & Oates), David Hull (Joe Cocker), Pete Hackel , Chris Martin, John Sullivan, Hirsh Gardner, Kevin Graham, Mike Lamm, Joe Maffei, Leah Hinton and Christine Moser, paying tribute to past musical legends : Lennon, Harrison, Hendrix, Morrison, Bowie, Cocker, Prince, Bonham, Mercury, Joplin & Allman and the victims of 9/11.

Tickets are available at the door for a suggested $20.00 donation or can be purchased at www.GimmeLive.com. Thanks to the sponsorship of First Commons Bank, all are welcome regardless of ability to pay. Beer and Wine will be available for purchase, plus don’t miss the special meet and greet gathering with the evening’s performers immediately following the show!

September 9th, 6:00 pm: cocktails, 7:00 pm: show
First Baptist Church, 848 Beacon Street, Newton