Reporting by Walking Around - Saturday, Sep 19, 2015

The walk was good Saturday. Follow along and see what is happening around town.

No school on Wednesday Sep 23

The photo was taken earlier in the week and not previously posted. With the Jewish holidays last week and this week, and Labor Day, the schools won't see a full five day week until the week of Sep 28. Not a bad way to ease into the school year!

construction continues to make progress albeit slowly downtown

The intersection of Emmons and West Central continues to be worked on. The updated project schedule was shared earlier this week. If you missed it, you can find it here:
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2015/09/downtown-project-update-10.html

Monthly library book and bag sale weekend

Capstone project to raise money for wells and water worldwide

Framcisco Coakley is working on his capstone project for the Charter School. He organized a 'walk-a-thon' for Saturday morning to help raise money for Walk4Wells.org/   For every $249 raised, one well is installed in a community in need.

An information stat for the walk-a-thon Saturday

Walk4Wells is based in Rhode Island and seeks to build wells around the world to help improve accessibility to drinking water. As Franklin depends upon the underground aquifers for its own water supply, it makes sense to help raise awareness.

clean fill being added to the space where the parking lot will be expanded at the Senior Center

The building committee for the Senior Center 2nd Floor project will need the expanded parking lot for when the project is complete. A property on Beaver St became available, was purchased, the building razed, and now work is continuing to fill in the space.

The Senior Center building committee has a funding request before the Town Council on the agenda for this Wednesday's meeting.
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2015/09/franklin-ma-town-council-agenda-sep-23.html

the blue is padding to cover the cement wall

The new practice field is already being used. 

the blue is padding set to provide a cushion

The blue is set away from the cement wall to help provide a cushion.

new FHS tennis courts painted and ready

The tennis courts are painted and ready.

The Tower truck was used to hang a large US flag

Later in the afternoon, I came by West Central to find the Fire Dept's tower truck hanging a large US flag. Apparently hung out to honor the 10th Anniversary motorcycle ride in memory of Lance Corporal Shayne Cabino. Additional information on Shayne's Run can be found here
http://www.shaynesrun.com/