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Halloween Window Decorating

There are still some spaces remaining for budding artists, or kids in grades 3 through 8 that just want to paint on a store window! The Halloween Window Decorating contest takes place on Halloween this year! Can’t get more festive than that.

Register at www.newtoncommunitypride.org to be eligible to paint a Halloween-themed painting on a store window in one of 6 Newton villages. Don’t be put off by not painting in your own village, if the spaces are filled. It is a really fun way to explore a different part of Newton!

Sign up soon, the deadline is Friday, October 16th. Any questions, please call 617-796-1540.

Oh My Gourd!

The United Parish of Auburndale’s Pumpkin Patch will be open for business starting Sunday, October 11th. Now in its ninth year, the United Parish’s Pumpkin Patch is a major fundraiser for the church and a popular destination for the community. There is plenty of selection and the pumpkins make a great backdrop for photos.

The church keeps a percentage of the sales and uses the money for their operating budget and community Outreach. The remaining proceeds go to the grower, Pumpkin Patch Fundraisers, who supplies pumpkins to non-profit and religious organizations across the lower 48 states. In cooperation with the Navajo Nation, they grow about 2 square miles of pumpkins and employee over 700 seasonal and full-time Native Americans in New Mexico, making a positive and lasting impact on a region with 42% unemployment.

The Patch will be open every day until Halloween between 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.

You’re Invited: 4th Annual UOD Family Book Event Oct. 20th

Great minds don’t always think alike! That’s the message of the children’s book, Fish In A Tree, to be featured at Understanding Our Differences’ 4th Annual Family Book Event with a disability theme. Author Lynda Mullaly Hunt will talk about and sign her New York Times bestselling novel, about a girl with learning disabilities who discovers that there’s a lot more to her—and to everyone—than a label.

Free for children and Newton Public Schools teachers and staff. Requested donation at the door is $10 for adults. Registration is required in advance: http://understandingourdifferences.org/fish-in-a-tree/ For additional information please email : info@UnderstandingOurDifferences.org

October 20th,  Program is 7:00 – 8:00 pm, book signing follows.
Newton South High School Auditorium, 140 Brandeis Road

Newton Inspires November 9th

Bestselling Authors, Seafood Entrepreneur, Worldwide Travel Executive, Business Startup Guru, and Fundraising Visionary top the Newton Inspires speaker list.

Newton Schools Foundation will present the fifth annual Newton Inspires: An Evening of Ideas and Community. Since 2011, Newton Inspires has been uniting Newton residents for an evening of discussion with some of Newton’s brightest, most accomplished and most interesting community members.

This year’s program features headliners, Anita Diamant, author; John Harthorne, founder and CEO, MassChallenge; Billy Starr, founder and executive director, Pan-Mass Challenge; Stephen Kaufer, president and CEO, TripAdvisor; Roger Berkowitz, president and CEO, Legal Sea Foods; and Neil Swidey, journalist and author.

The program will take place November 9th, 7:00 – 9:45 pm at Newton South High School. It is FREE for Newton residents, $15 for non-residents, and this year high school seniors are welcome to attend. Space is limited, so advance registration is highly recommended. For more information on the program and to register, go to www.NewtonSchoolsFoundation.org

In addition to the six headliners these speakers will participate in this year’s program:

Rev. Brandon Crowley – Senior Pastor, Myrtle Baptist Church
Barbara Erickson – President, The Trustees of Reservations
Dr. Giovanni G. Fazio – Senior physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
David Fleishman – Superintendent, Newton Public Schools
Lachlan Forrow – Physician and Medical Ethicist
Candy Kosow Gold – Producer
Christopher Landrigan – Pediatric Hospitalist & Patient Safety Expert
John Mahoney – Director of Undergraduate Admission, Boston College
Ronald Prinn – Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT
Genevra Stone – Physician & Olympic Rower
Denise Swidey – Chef & Culinary Producer
Hugh Wolff – International Orchestra Conductor

NSF thanks these businesses for supporting Newton Inspires by donating food and beverages: Anna’s Taqueria, Baker’s Best Catering, Better Life Food, Fleck Coffee House,, L’Aroma Café & Bakery, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Rancatore’s Ice Cream and Yogurt, Rosie’s Bakery, Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods Market.

Building Healthy Communities: Moving Beyond Domestic Violence

Building Healthy Communities: Moving Beyond Domestic Violence

Everyone in our community is affected by domestic violence, but it can be invisible and hard to fight. Join this free, informative event for adults, with speakers and panelists from Second Step, Journey to Safety, the Domestic Violence Program, and the Newton Police Department.

Attendees are asked to bring donations of toiletries, gas cards, food cards or linens for Second Step. Coffee and dessert will be served. For more information, contact Barbara.Fierman@gmail.com.

October 22nd, 7:30 – 9:00 pm
Temple Shalom of Newton, Room 101
175 Temple Street, West Newton

“Magnet The Event”

Event Photography service / open air photo booth.

A unique open air photo booth. whether you are planning Bar/Bat Mitzvah, school, corporate event or any other social event.  Magnet The Event will provide your party with a quality-made special design instant photo magnet for your guests to take home as a party favor.

Check these links:  www.magnethevent.com and  www.facebook.com/magnethevent and call today:  617-935-9834.

Free voice workshops

Get to Know Your Voice: an exploration for singers, non-singers, and instrumentalists, ages 16 – Adults.

Every time you speak, you are skillfully playing one of the most complex instruments in the world – the one that lives inside your body! So why do so many of us believe we “can’t sing”? Come explore what your voice is capable of in a free, low-pressure hour of music-making at the All Newton Music School.  Instructor: Rachel Rynick

Sign up here:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YqIjtkhVPalKOIXkENbt5FemdE36lKjyoBKW_jc6_e0/viewform

Workshop dates:
October 29th
November 18th
December 1st
7:00 – 8:00 pm

All Newton Music School

Upcoming Programs at the Newton Free Library

Chess Club, Mondays, October 5th and 26th, 7:15 – 8:00 pm, second floor Teen Area: Introducing a new chess club for teens! Have fun playing chess the first and fourth Monday of the month with general instruction and open play. All levels welcome. Chess sets, puzzles and strategy will all be provided. For ages 10-13. Space is limited.

Helping Your Child Navigate Life after High School, Tuesday, October 6th, 7:00 pm, Druker Auditorium: Help your child navigate the challenging landscape of life after high school. Nanci Ginty Butler, LICSW, Assistant Director, School and Community Services at Riverside Community Care and Heather Byrns, LMHC, Clinical Supervisor, MSPP INTERFACE Referral Service at Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP) will facilitate. Intended for parents. Sponsored by Newton Youth Services.

Linux for Teens, Wednesdays, October 14th, 21st, 28th and November 4th and 18th, 7:00 pm, second floor Computer Center: This series, for grades 6-12, is an introduction to GNU/Linux operating system. It will cover: the UNIX shell, creating a document, networking, email and encryption, operating system components (memory management, the file system, devices, the kernel), etc. In addition, the class will address the free software philosophy, privacy and data security concerns, and ways to protect personal data and other sensitive information. Assignments will include programming which takes advantages of the operating system features. Register online.

School Assignments: How Parents Can Help, Thursday, October 22nd, 7:00 pm, Druker Auditorium: Professional writers have editors who read their words before their work is shared. Student writers should have the same opportunity before submitting their work to teachers. Jane Hirschhorn will facilitate a program designed to help parents learn how to help their children with writing assignments in a way that is productive, respects the child’s ownership of his or her work and avoids some common pitfalls. Ms. Hirschhorn, of JBH Tutoring, a professional writing tutor with more than two decades of experience working with Boston-area students in both classroom and one-on-one settings, tutored writing at the Mount Ida College Writing Center where she was also a supervisor. She holds a Master of Arts in Teaching from Tufts University. This program is for parents.

PTOs and Political Involvement

Since PTOs are, at heart, groups of parents and teachers who are interested in supporting education, many situations arise in which the group, or members of the group, may wish to use the organization in support of a particular purpose. Because PTOs are also non-profit organizations and represent all the parents and staff of a particular school, however, it is very important to observe certain distinctions between allowable activities that generally “support education,” and activities that are just plain political, and therefore unallowable.

For more information about how to navigate this complicated subject, please go to PTOs and Political Involvement.