WCT is stil accepting registrations for their Jr. Players program for Pirates of Penzance, and now accepting Kindergarten students! Students in K-2 can perform with the Pirates of Penzance cast and participate in this popular performance based class which meets on Mondays at 3:30 or 4:45 pm.
For more information, visit www.watertownchildrenstheatre.org or call 617-926-ARTS (2787).
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Elizabeth Saunders, Director of Clean Water Action/MA and Coordinator of the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow will join the Q&A. A book signing will follow the program.
January 6th, 7:00 pm
Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St.
Make sure to Save the Date for Bigelow’s biggest fundraising event of the year. This year it is the BIG EASY NIGHT, a Mardi Gras themed event, at the New Art Center in Newtonville on Sat. March 22. It is an evening of fun, food, music, friends and lots of great auction items. Best of all, it all benefits our children.
A planning committee meeting will be held on Mon January 6th 7:30pm at 35 Hunnewell Ave. RSVP to Liz at haas.joffe@gmail.com if you are going to attend.
Committee members are needed to make the night a success. Committee positions available include:
We will also need general volunteers to help out with the event. Please consider volunteering to help with this fun night today!! Bring a friend!
Contact Liz Hass at haas.joffe@gmail.com if you are interested or have any questions.
Thank you, your event co chairs – Liz Haas and Laurie Halloran
Tuesday December 6 is the final turn in / order day for the Magazine Drive. Paper order forms can be turned in during lunch and you can order on line until midnight.Your child will have a chance to earn a prize at the prize table. Help Bigelow and a family in need by turning in 2 orders. With 2 orders you send a baby chick to a family in need in Bangladesh giving them food or a means to earn money (selling the eggs, selling the chicken).Bigelow receives 40% from each order. The money raised will support school field trips and other student / school needs.Online orders earn double credit for prizes. Click here for more information.
Bigelow Middle School will not get any funds, when you use renewal mailers. Only when renewing as follows will Bigelow get the 40 % of your subscription price paid:
- Either online via www.gaschoolstore.com (new website of Great American Opportunities, which QSP is now part of), school/organization online ID 2637080, check the box “renewal”, (payment by credit card),
- or through your student from the catalog with the paper order forms that came home on November 22, 2013, check the box “renewal” (cash, or checks made out to Bigelow PTO).
If you would like to convert a regular magazine subscription to a digital magazine subscription (there are 53 magazines available in a digital format), you will be ordering them as a new subscription in one of the two ways outlined above.
Thank you for your support!!
Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Lauri Perry (magazine chair) at laurisperry@hotmail.com.
Newton North’s award-winning theatre troupe, Theatre Ink, presents: BAD SEED by Maxwell Anderson, from William March’s 1954 novel.
In a small Southern town Little Rhoda Penmark rules the roost. On the surface she is sweet, charming, loved by her parents, and admired by all her elders. But Rhoda’s mother has an uneasy feeling when one of Rhoda’s schoolmates is mysteriously drowned. Ezra Dulit-Greenberg and Simon Wolfe direct this psychological thriller.
December 11th -14th at 7:30 pm
Little Theatre, Newton North High School 457 Walnut Street, Nortonville
Tickets $7.00 are available on the Theatre Ink website. For questions, please email Adam_Brown <at> Newton <dot> k12 <dot> ma <dot>us
Seven new proposals were submitted in November and requested a total of $4.7 million in CPA funding. The proposals can be reviewed on the CPA website under “Proposals & Projects – Pending.”
Allen House (West Newton) $2 million;
City Archives Strategic Plan $20,000;
City Hall Veterans Wing Historic Artifacts $19,000;
City Hall Accessibility & Acoustics $701,900;
Farlow Park (Newton Corner) $476,780;
Historic Burying Grounds (Newton Centre) $290,207;
Newton Highlands Playground $240,000 design request ($2 million construction request anticipated).
Public Hearings Set for January-February 2014
The public hearing schedule is available on the CPA website, via the “Calendar” link.
For help, contact Program Manager Alice Ingerson at 617.796.1144 or aingerson <at> newtonma <dot> gov.
Space is still available in the Boys & Girls Club’s intramural basketball program for most leagues — ages 6 through grade 8. Click HERE to register.
Monday, December 16
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Biltmore Bar & Grille
1205 Chestnut Street, Newton Upper Falls
Join us as we ring in the holidays at the Biltmore Bar & Grille’s 2nd Annual Holiday Party to benefit the John M. Barry Boys & Girls Club!
Tickets are $20 and include food, open bar, raffles and more!
We have a few tickets left, and welcome you to stop by the Club to purchase yours. Please see Diane or Piper in the administrative offices or call 617.630.2066.
Run by volunteers, OurNewton.org is “one-stop shopping” for Newton community news. OurNewton.org lists not-for-profit events around Newton: concerts, plays, festivals, sports clinics, lectures, workshops, classes, volunteer opportunities, walks, bike rides, and more.
Check out some of this week’s events in Newton:
12/9 Mother-Daughter book group at Newton Free Library
12/10 Irish Christmas concert at Boston College
12/10 Reading and discussion with Ari Shavit, author of My Promised Land
12/12 Handbell ringers concert at Newton Free Library
The Watertown Children’s Theatre is still accepting registrations for its winter musical, Pirates of Penzance, now open to grades 4-9. Join WCT to sing, dance and act through this classic, comic operetta!
Orientation is Sunday, December 8, so register now by visiting the WCT website at www.watertownchildrenstheatre.org or calling 617-926-ARTS (2787).