Patrick visits Franklin school, says he supports local aid
Franklin honors 90-year-old vets
and hold the date for the FEF Casino Night, Nov 20th
Saturday, November 7, 2009
In the News - Gov Patrick visits Franklin, casino night
Gov Patrick visited Jefferson Elementary School yesterday
and hold the date for the FEF Casino Night, Nov 20th
and hold the date for the FEF Casino Night, Nov 20th
In the News - event canceled
This was posted to the Milford Daily News website on Friday and refers to the event Saturday.
Franklin resident Steve Sherlock announced the Laid Off Camp he helped organize for tomorrow is canceled.
Designed to help unemployed people from Massachusetts and Rhode Island brush up on interview techniques, making contacts and using the Internet to find jobs, the camp was canceled due to slow registration.
"We only achieved one third of the required registrations for this non-profit, all-volunteer event to break even," Sherlock wrote in an email late last night. Anyone who already registered will have their money refunded, he added.
He and the four other co-organizers will likely establish a similar camp next year. The event was scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at the Living Waters Church in North Attleborough.
For more information, visit http://laidoffcampprovidence.blogspot.com/.
Tomorrow's Laid Off Camp canceled
H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Update
At the time of this writing it is probable that many reading this update will have had a family member with influenza-like illness or knows someone who has. As predicted at the end of last summer, the H1N1 has returned with a vengeance. Although this illness for the most part has remained relatively mild, a larger segment of the population has become ill, with a recent spike in school absenteeism noted throughout the Commonwealth.
It was hoped that by now we would have been well on our way toward achieving our goal of vaccinating a large percentage of our community with the H1N1 vaccine. Due to the unprecedented demand for the seasonal flu vaccine, coupled with the simultaneous production of the H1N1 vaccine, the vaccine manufacturers have simply not been able to distribute the H1N1 vaccine as quickly as expected.
The Franklin Health Department and the Board of Health remain committed to providing the H1N1 influenza vaccine to all Franklin residents who wish to receive it. As previously stated, the Health Department in conjunction with our medical volunteers will hold public H1N1 clinics as soon as enough vaccine is made available to do so. At the present time the Health Department has received only a small fraction of our requested doses.
In accordance with the guidelines mandated by the Centers for Disease Control and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, our initial allocation of vaccine will be provided to healthcare workers with direct patient contact such as nurses and paramedics, pregnant women and children 6 months to 9 years of age. As more vaccine is made available, we will begin vaccinating children aged 10 to 25. Our focus on young children is important because two doses of vaccine spaced approximately three weeks apart is required for children 9 and under.
All public flu clinics will be advertised in the Milford Daily News and will be posted on the Town of Franklin Website. Clinic information will also be broadcast on Franklin’s local cable television station and will be posted on the MassPro Flu website as well.
These are certainly difficult and frightening times for parents of young children, for those who may have a compromised immune system for one reason or another and for couples starting a family. Your concern and frustration is understandable and fully acknowledged. We ask for your patience and your understanding as we prepare to institute our vaccination plan in the coming weeks.
We encourage anyone with questions to contact the Health Department or members of the Board of Health at 508-520-4905, or via our dedicated influenza email at H1N1flu@franklin.ma.us
Respectfully,
David E. McKearney, R.S.
Public Health Director
Franklin Health Department
Franklin Board of Health
This can be found on the Franklin website
2009 Fall Curbside Yard Waste Collection
2009 Fall Curbside Yard Waste Collection will occur the following Saturdays:
How to Prepare:
This was posted on the Town website here
- November 7
- November 21
- December 5
How to Prepare:
- Yard waste: Place in paper bags, trash barrels or other container.
- Brush shall not be more than 4 feet in length and 6-inches in diameter and bundled.
- DO NOT USE PLASTIC BAGS.
- Place at curbside before 7:00 AM in the morning.
This was posted on the Town website here
Friday, November 6, 2009
In the News - event canceled, rings come home
The article is a good one but came too late to help us drive attendance for the event. The event has been canceled. The team will re-group and likely try something early in 2010.
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Local resident helps sponsor Laid Off Camp tomorrow
from The Milford Daily News Homepage RSS by Ashley Studley/Daily News staff
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Rings come full circle
Thursday, November 5, 2009
LaidOff Camp Attleboro/Providence - EVENT CANCELED
Date: Saturday, November 07, 2009 from 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
Location:
Living Waters Church
15 John L Dietsch Blvd
North Attleboro, MA 02763
For more information click here: http://laidoffcampprovidence.blogspot.com/
Regretfully, the event has been canceled. We only achieved one third of the required registrations for this non-profit, all-volunteer event to break even.
The Team will gather information on what we learned during this process and likely attempt to create an event sometime early in 2010.
Your registration fee will be refunded in full to the credit card you used to register.
Thank you for your interest.
Foster systems thinking
Modern education systems deserve much of the blame, both for fostering the belief that education ends when a person leaves school and for its emphasis on being right rather than on how to learn from mistakes. This has encouraged caution rather than risk-taking, with individuals preferring to avoid mistakes when possible and hide them if necessary. The world’s four greatest statisticians never took a course in statistics, Mr Ackoff would point out, and three of America’s greatest architects (Henry Hobson Richardson, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright) never took a formal course in architecture.Read the full article in The Economist here
Society urgently needs to find better ways of inculcating systems thinking in its decision-makers and public-policy experts in particular, he argued. It also needs to change how it accounts for mistakes. Currently, almost any accounting system you can think of records mistakes of commission, when a deliberate act goes wrong, but keeps no record of mistakes of omission: things not done that should have been. The result is a conservative, risk-averse culture that holds back the innovation that society needs.
Read more about the ideas of Russ Ackoff here and here
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