Mayoral Debate at the Newton Free Library

Join League of Women Voters members for an interesting and informative evening with the two candidates for Mayor of Newton, Mayor Setti Warren and Alderman Ted Hess-Mahan.

Send your questions in advance to info@lwvnewton.org or bring them with you and write them on index cards for the question sorters who will try to get to as many questions and topics as possible.

October 22nd, 7:00 pm
Druker Auditorium, Newton Free Library
330 Homer Street, Newton

Sponsored by the Newton Free Library, moderated by Jo-Ann Berry of the League of Women Voters of Action.

Free Chamber Choir and Orchestra Concert

On Tuesday October 22nd at 7:30, the Channing School (UK) Chamber Choir and Orchestra will present a free concert. The Channing School from North London is well-known for its music program, and their advanced ensembles of girls ages 14-18 will be performing music of Benjamin Britten (in honor of the centenary of his birth), Bach, and others.

October 22nd, 7:30-8:30 pm
First Unitarian Society in Newton
1326 Washington St. West Newton

4 – 5 MORE HOSTS NEEDED TODAY!!

We need 4-5 more hosts for the Soup and Supper Stroll on Saturday, November 16.  We need your help to make this evening a success.

We also are looking for someone to host the appetizer portion of the evening.

Please consider hosting today!!  You do not need to be a gourmet cook.  Thank you to all of you who have already volunteered to host.

Interested in hosting?

– want to host but don’t want to cook?

– want to cook but not at your house?

All this is possible – please contact us and we will help you make it happen!  Dinner hosts just need to provide soup and a supper dish – no need to make appetizers and desserts.  Thank you!!!!

Contact: Jacquie Arbuckle at 805 558 3265, jacquieca1052@gmail.com or Carolyn Judge at 617 794 6436, carolyncjudge@yahoo.com

NewTV’s House of Haunts, Oct. 25

This fall, for one night only, NewTV will be transforming its media center into its first-ever haunted house! Join Newton’s nonprofit media center on Friday, October 25, for an evening filled with family-friendly frights, including some ghoulish games, trick or treats, and haunted tours through our facility.

Where: NewTV Studio at 23 Needham Street (next to National Lumber)
When: 4-9pm on Friday, October 25, 2013

While You’re Here You Can:
– Take a Haunted Tour
– Play Ghoulish Games
– Decorate Pumpkins
– Create your own Trick-or-Treat Bag

Photography Classes

Bigelow parent and photographer Myrosha Dziuk is offering photography classes for kids and teens starting in the next few weeks.  Wednesday and Thursday after school and Saturdays for teens at Artheads Studio in Brighton Center.  For additional info please call Myrosha at (617)320-1005.  Fine art portrait sessions of families and children also available www.myrosha.com

School wide screening of “Flipped” – November 6th

Please join us for a school wide, free screening of the movie, “Flipped”.  “Flipped” is the novel read for the One Book / One School project this past summer.

Wednesday, November 6 at 7:00pm in the Newton North Auditorium.  This event is open all members of the Bigelow Community;  parents / guardians, students and siblings.

More information to follow.

6th Grade Pot Luck Dinner – THIS FRIDAY

Friday, October 25th ─ 6th Grade Potluck Dinner at 7pm, at the home of Laura Davis and Tyler Jacks, 20 Ruthven Road, Newton.

This is a great way to meet other 6th grade parents.

RSVP to Laura at laurajacks@comcast.net

Please bring your own beverage (BYOB) and then if your child’s last name begins with:

  • A – E     Please bring a dessert
  • F – L     Please bring a main dish
  • M – R    Please bring a side dish or salad
  • S – Z      Please bring an appetizer

We hope to see you there!!

Please note:  This is an adult only evening.

Honor Thy Teacher recipients to be announced

Thank you to all of the families and individuals who supported the Newton Public Schools by honoring Newton’s amazing educators.  The Newton Schools Foundation’s 2013  Honor Thy Teacher campaign raised $37,000 to help support innovation throughout Newton’s schools.  Check out the October 23rd Newton Tab for a listing of the NPS teachers, staff and administrators who were recognized through this year’s Honor Thy Teacher campaign.

To donate to the Newton Schools Foundation or for more information, visit the NSF website at www.Newtonschoolsfoundation.org or call 617-559-6120.

Sign ups for students interested in snow shoveling

Each year the City of Newton assembles a list of pay-to-shovel and volunteer shovellers for Newton residents.

PAY TO SHOVEL: the student provides contact info and area they are available to shovel, the list provided to the resident includes first names only, phone numbers and people available in their area. NO e-mails are given out. The list is a referral list. The resident and student decide on the price.

VOLUNTEER LIST: the student provides contact info and area they are available to shovel, the student’s info is given to a Senior Center Staff person who matches up residents in need of a volunteer with available students.

Students can sign up on-line:

To be paid to shovel (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/987HSMK)

To Volunteer (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/98QDJF3)

WCT presents “Macbeth”

Watertown Children’s Theatre’s Black Box series presents Macbeth  in the Black Box Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown. Performers will bring to life all of the “Double, double toil and trouble” set forth in this unique adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. Witches, a ghost, secrets, murder and lies push Macbeth towards the throne of Scotland. Will he succeed or will greed and guilt overcome him?

A cast of 6th-9th graders, including Newton’s own Liam Walsh explore the themes and words of Shakespeare in this adapted production.  Come and experience the results of Macbeth’s gradual, insatiable descent into blind ambition.  This production contains recorded gunfire, stage combat, and spooky imagery, and is not recommended for audience members under age 10.

General admission tickets are $10 and are now available on WCT’s website at www.watertownchildrenstheatre.org or by calling 1-800-838-3006.  For more information, visit WCT’s website or call 617-926-ARTS.

October 25th at 7:00 pm, October 26th at 1:00 pm and 7:00 pm, and October 27th at 1:00 pm