Tuesday, November 22, 2011
In the News - toy collection, home invasion, service award
Franklin police collecting toys, coats for those in need
Franklin cops still looking for home invasion suspects
St. John’s Episcopal Church Christmas Fair – December 3rd
St. John’s Annual Christmas Fair will take place on Saturday, December 3rd from 9am to 3pm at 237 Pleasant Street in Franklin, MA. Shop for Christmas gifts at our craft tables offering beautiful items, many handmade by the parishioners. A wide variety of themed gift baskets will be available, wrapped and ready to go!
Save yourself some baking time by taking advantage of our cookie walk. Select a box size and fill it with a wide variety of homemade Christmas cookies. Or choose bakery items from our “freeze to go” area.
Sit and relax while you enjoy hot soups and stews available at our snack bar and try a sweet from our fancy pastry table. Early Shoppers can enjoy breakfast items, such as quiche and cinnamon rolls. We’ll have many raffle items as well as an amazing silent auction, featuring a quilt by the Yankee Quilters!
The Children’s area will feature games, make and take ornaments, face painting, special snacks and more! Santa will be available for pictures from 11-1.
Don’t miss this great church fair!
Annual Christmas Fair Flyer-2011
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Adult Education Update
Sent to you by Steve Sherlock via Google Reader:
via Lifelong Learning by Pandora Carlucci on 11/21/11
It is Thanksgiving week and many of the Session 1 courses are making way for the Session 2 courses. Take a moment to visit Adult Ed at:www.franklin.k12.ma.us select Lifelong select adult ed.
Health & Wellness, Volleyball, Basketball, Art, Dance and more will begin to offer Session 2 classes. Some of these classes begin after Thanksgiving and others come on line in January.
The Child Care Provider courses with Tracy Cheney were very well-received. All three courses were filled. Joan Borgatti, Director of Adult Ed., is working with Tracy on the new Child Care Provider courses for the spring.
Ed2go courses are another great way to update and strengthen your business skill base. They're on line courses, usually 4 to 6 weeks in length, and you can access them at a time that is convenient for you.
Include some Adult Ed. classes in your New Years' resolution.
Things you can do from here:
- Subscribe to Lifelong Learning using Google Reader
- Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
Monday, November 21, 2011
High School Project - Part 3 (audio)
This is the
MP3 File
Time: 13 minutes, 54 seconds
Show Notes:
This internet radio show or podcast is number 95 in the series for Franklin Matters.
This is the third in a series of 8 audio segments recorded during the informational session on the new high school. The forum was conducted by the School Building Committee and held at the Horace Mann Auditorium on Thursday, Nov 17, 2011.
This third segment picks up with the start of the Question and Answer period. Sean Fennell, the Project Manager joins the dialogue to provide some answers
Questions covered during this segment include
- Can you define educational space?
- How can students adapt to the newer hallways?
- When looking at the four model schools, was construction cost part of the criteria?
Without further ado, here is the recording from Thursday evening Nov 17th
(audio)
Be sure to listen to the other parts of the series:
Part 1 – introduction and evolution of model school invitation
Part 2 – Jim Jordan, principal and owner of Ai3 provides an overview of the proposed model
Part 4 - Q and A
Part 5 - Q and A
Part 6 - Q and A
Part 7 - Q and A
Part 8 – Q and A and closing
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While this podcast is my public service effort for Franklin. I can use your help. How can you help, you ask?
If you like this, please tell your friends and neighbors
If you don't like this, please let me know.
This feedback loop is important. Thank you for listening.
For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.org/
If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com
The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana" c. Michael Clark &Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission
I hope you enjoy!
High School Project - Part 4 (audio)
This is part 4 of 8 from the School Building Committee Information Forum on the new high school project held Nov 17,2011
MP3 File
Time: 16 minutes, 16 seconds
Show Notes:
This internet radio show or podcast is number 96 in the series for Franklin Matters.
This is the fourth of a series of 8 audio segments recorded during the informational session on the new high school. The forum was conducted by the School Building Committee and held at the Horace Mann Auditorium on Thursday, Nov 17, 2011.
This fourth segment continues the Question and Answer period with Tom Mercer (School Building Committee Chair), Jim Jordan (partner and owner of Ai3 Architects) and Sean Fennell (Project Manager) providing answers.
The questions covered during this segment
- Once the drawing is done there will be a bid process?
- What is the purpose of the courtyard in the center?
- How do you compare in dollars per square foot?
- What would be the project cost for Franklin?
- What number will be presented when the voters get to the polls?
- How are the utilities involved at this point?
- Has the Franklin Facilities Dept been involved?
- At what point is the commissioning agent brought into the project and how is it done?
Without further ado, here is the recording from Thursday evening Nov 17th
(audio)
Be sure to listen to the other parts of the series:
Part 1 – introduction and evolution of model school invitation
Part 2 - Jim Jordan, partner and owner of Ai3 Architects provides an overview of the building
Part 3 – Q and A – first set of questions
Part 5 - Q and A
Part 6 - Q and A
Part 7 - Q and A
Part 8 – Q and A and closing
---- ---- ----
While this podcast is my public service effort for Franklin. I can use your help. How can you help, you ask?
If you like this, please tell your friends and neighbors
If you don't like this, please let me know.
This feedback loop is important. Thank you for listening.
For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.org/
If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com
The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana" c. Michael Clark &Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission
I hope you enjoy!
Sunday, November 20, 2011
High School Project - Part 1 (audio)
The first of 8 segments recorded during the School Building Committee Informational Forum held on Nov 17, 2011
Time: 22 minutes, 45 seconds
Show Notes
This internet radio show or podcast is number 93 in the series for Franklin Matters.
This is the first of a series of 8 audio segments recorded during the informational session on the new high school. The forum was conducted by the School Building Committee and held at the Horace Mann Auditorium on Thursday, Nov 17, 2011.
This first segment covers the opening remarks by School Building Committee Chair Tom Mercer.
Tom review the origins of the planning for the school, the drafting of four plans including a couple of renovation options, and eventually the invitation by the MSBA to join the Model School program. This option provides the best reimbursement rate to the tax payers of Franklin. While some may still say that renovation is the way to go, there is no money for reimbursement of renovation costs for the field house from the state.
If Franklin insists on renovation, then the entire bill would be paid for the the taxpayers of Franklin. If the model school option is approved, then up to 58% of the costs would be paid for by the Commonwealth.
Fact:
New facility is 306,543 sq. feet.
Existing facility is 312,571 sq. feet
While the new high school would be about 6,000 sq foot smaller, it would increase the educational space by 30,000 sq feet. One factor for this increase is that the number of classrooms increases from 52 today to 58 in the proposed facility.
Without further ado, here is the recording from Thursday evening Nov 17th
(audio)
Be sure to listen to the other parts of the series:
Part 2 – Jim Jordan, partner and owner of Ai3 Architects – overview of the project
Part 3 - Q and A
Part 4 - Q and A
Part 5 - Q and A
Part 6 - Q and A
Part 7 - Q and A
Part 8 – Q and A and closing
---- ---- ----
While this podcast is my public service effort for Franklin. I can use your help. How can you help, you ask?
If you like this, please tell your friends and neighbors
If you don't like this, please tell me.
This feedback loop is important. Thank you for listening.
For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.org/
If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com
The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana" c. Michael Clark &Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission
I hope you enjoy!
Time: 22 minutes, 45 seconds
Show Notes
This internet radio show or podcast is number 93 in the series for Franklin Matters.
This is the first of a series of 8 audio segments recorded during the informational session on the new high school. The forum was conducted by the School Building Committee and held at the Horace Mann Auditorium on Thursday, Nov 17, 2011.
This first segment covers the opening remarks by School Building Committee Chair Tom Mercer.
Tom review the origins of the planning for the school, the drafting of four plans including a couple of renovation options, and eventually the invitation by the MSBA to join the Model School program. This option provides the best reimbursement rate to the tax payers of Franklin. While some may still say that renovation is the way to go, there is no money for reimbursement of renovation costs for the field house from the state.
If Franklin insists on renovation, then the entire bill would be paid for the the taxpayers of Franklin. If the model school option is approved, then up to 58% of the costs would be paid for by the Commonwealth.
Fact:
New facility is 306,543 sq. feet.
Existing facility is 312,571 sq. feet
While the new high school would be about 6,000 sq foot smaller, it would increase the educational space by 30,000 sq feet. One factor for this increase is that the number of classrooms increases from 52 today to 58 in the proposed facility.
Without further ado, here is the recording from Thursday evening Nov 17th
(audio)
Be sure to listen to the other parts of the series:
Part 2 – Jim Jordan, partner and owner of Ai3 Architects – overview of the project
Part 3 - Q and A
Part 4 - Q and A
Part 5 - Q and A
Part 6 - Q and A
Part 7 - Q and A
Part 8 – Q and A and closing
---- ---- ----
While this podcast is my public service effort for Franklin. I can use your help. How can you help, you ask?
If you like this, please tell your friends and neighbors
If you don't like this, please tell me.
This feedback loop is important. Thank you for listening.
For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.org/
If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com
The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana" c. Michael Clark &Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission
I hope you enjoy!
High School Project - Part 2 (audio)
This is the second segment from the School Building Committee Informational Forum held Nov 17, 2011.
Time: 19 minutes, 54 seconds
Show Notes
This internet radio show or podcast is number 94 in the series for Franklin Matters.
This is the second of a series of 8 audio segments recorded during the informational session on the new high school. The forum was conducted by the School Building Committee and held at the Horace Mann Auditorium on Thursday, Nov 17, 2011.
This second segment picks up with School Building Committee Chair Tom Mercer introducing Jim Jordan, partner and owner of Ai3 Architects.
Jim introduces members of his team and then gets into some background information on his firm. How they have worked designing schools and how the MSBA developed the 'model school' program. There is an additional 5% reimbursement available from participation in the 'model school' program.
Whitman-Hanson was the facility they designed that serves as one of the four model schools and the one Franklin has chosen.
Facts:
- The model proposed will include an 850 seat auditorium
- Dec 9th due date for the project scope and budget package that will be submitted to MSBA (first real dollars associated with the total project)
- 60% construction documents due approximately in April 2012
- 6 cost estimates done and validated at three different times along the way
- Construction could begin in the Fall of 2012
Without further ado, here is the recording from Thursday evening Nov 17th
(audio)
Be sure to listen to the other parts of the series:
Part 1 – introduction and evolution of model school invitation
Part 3 - Q and A
Part 4 - Q and A
Part 5 - Q and A
Part 6 - Q and A
Part 7 - Q and A
Part 8 – Q and A and closing
---- ---- ----
While this podcast is my public service effort for Franklin. I can use your help.
How can you help, you ask?
If you like this, please tell your friends and neighbors
If you don't like this, please let me know.
This feedback loop is important. Thank you for listening.
For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.org/
If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com
The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana" c. Michael Clark &Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission
I hope you enjoy!
"Tri-County is the only high school in the Northeast to be chosen"
Last summer, Tri-County's engineering program was selected by MIT to participate in the NASA HUNCH program, in which students come up with real-world products to be used on space shuttles. With the help of an MIT faculty member, they hope to put their inventions to the test on a zero gravity aircraft, or space simulator, in April.
The school had worked with MIT on projects before and had a student co-op at the university, said Bakr.
"Every year, students indicate an interest in aerospace engineering," said Bakr, who has taught at Tri-County for eight years.
"Typical schools in the program propose one idea, instead we proposed four. NASA liked three of the ideas," he said.
Read more: http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/education/x2075767420/Can-astronauts-cook-scrambled-eggs-in-outer-space#ixzz1eFFg5xDf
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Remington Middle School - Turkey Trot - photo essay
Remington Middle School held their annual Turkey Trot to raise awareness on hunger and collect food for the Franklin Food Pantry.
Food Pantry Executive Director, Anne Marie Bellevance, spoke with the students before showing a video on food hunger.
Principal Paul Peri guided the students through some warm up activities in the gym before going outside to run two laps around the building.
Students and faculty members are lined up for the start of the Turkey Trot
And they're off! Did someone jump the gun? Hard to tell, catch that turkey anyway!
The reminder of the student body joins the trot!
and yes, there are more
Principal Peri helps some friends along
Through the generous efforts of groups like this, the Franklin Food Pantry has prepared and delivered over 250 turkey dinners to Franklin families in the past two weeks.
Donations of food and money are welcome. You can drop off food and non-food items at the Food Pantry. We are located in the Rockland Trust parking lot opposite the new fire station downtown Franklin. You can either donate online or mail a check to the Food Pantry. Information on these options are available on the Food Pantry website http://franklinfoodpantry.org/
Note: I am on the Board of Directors of the Franklin Food Pantry.
Food Pantry Executive Director, Anne Marie Bellevance, spoke with the students before showing a video on food hunger.
Principal Paul Peri guided the students through some warm up activities in the gym before going outside to run two laps around the building.
Students and faculty members are lined up for the start of the Turkey Trot
And they're off! Did someone jump the gun? Hard to tell, catch that turkey anyway!
The reminder of the student body joins the trot!
and yes, there are more
Principal Peri helps some friends along
Through the generous efforts of groups like this, the Franklin Food Pantry has prepared and delivered over 250 turkey dinners to Franklin families in the past two weeks.
Donations of food and money are welcome. You can drop off food and non-food items at the Food Pantry. We are located in the Rockland Trust parking lot opposite the new fire station downtown Franklin. You can either donate online or mail a check to the Food Pantry. Information on these options are available on the Food Pantry website http://franklinfoodpantry.org/
Note: I am on the Board of Directors of the Franklin Food Pantry.
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