"people with disabilities can actually use it"

The Milford Daily News writes about the ribbon cutting on Friday for the new playground at the JFK Elementary School. This was a great example of a community effort and every community effort begins with a core group of people.

The mothers — Renatta Gilarova, Sandy Brown, Ariel Doggett, Tisha Arffa and Nikki Wisniewski — were honored on Friday afternoon during a ribbon cutting ceremony for the school’s new playground. 

They spearheaded an extraordinarily successful fundraising push to replace the 12-year-old wooden one.

The drive was "extraordinarily successful" because they were determined and persistent. What they did can be used as a text book case study for another group to try. They combined all the tools they had available. They found the Pepsi grant online and leveraged Facebook to drive that. They used email, they used Twitter. They also relied on the 'old fashioned' feet on the street visiting the ball fields on the weekend and the commuter train platforms during the week.

Regular readers here saw some of their efforts. They found this webpage and our Facebook page and we helped frequently. It was a worthy cause, a great effort with excellent results. My thanks to the core group for showing how it can be done!



Read more: http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/x264118100/Five-determined-Franklin-moms-bring-new-playground-to-JFK#ixzz27C5hJD7K

Related posts
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2011/09/kennedy-community-playground-can-use.html

http://www.franklinmatters.org/2011/09/2-kennedy-playground-fund-raisers.html

http://www.franklinmatters.org/2011/11/action-j-f-kennedy-playground-and-pepsi.html

news and subscription options

Franklin uses its webpage to post important news from each of its departments. There are two good examples of this type of announcement to share today:

• The Dept of Health has learned that the number of cases of West Nile and EEE viruses has increased and re-issues their caution about contact with mosquitoes.

http://town.franklin.ma.us/Pages/FranklinMA_News/019410D9-000F8513

• The Cultural Council awards grants to deserving organizations and programs each year. This years application deadline is approaching October 15th.

http://town.franklin.ma.us/Pages/FranklinMA_News/01979013-000F8513

For information on how to make an application visit http://www.mass-culture.org/


Note: Franklin could elect to turn on or enable an RSS service so that finding out about these announcements would be easier. Franklin could also use these kinds of announcements in their own email notifications. They have explored email notifications and seem to have stopped. As noted elsewhere on this page today, to be successful requires persistence.


In the meantime, you need to visit the Franklin page regularly to find new items on the front page. Trying to find new items buried within each department or committee page takes far too much time.

Of course, regular readers of Franklin Matters have multiple options to find out what is happening. You can

• subscribe to the daily newsletter
• subscribe to the RSS feed
• our get a selection each day on Facebook

You can subscribe to your choice of notification here http://www.franklinmatters.org/p/welcome.html

Franklin Elks hope Family Day will spark more giving

Sent to you by Steve Sherlock via Google Reader:

Franklin Elks hope Family Day will spark more giving

via The Milford Daily News News RSS by Matt Tota/Daily News staff on 9/21/12

The Elks Lodge has had a busy year. So far it has raised $50,000 for a Bellingham native who lost both legs and part of an arm fighting overseas, given 100 gallons of oil to heat veterans' homes and collected items to ship out to troops serving in Afghanistan.

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• Subscribe to The Milford Daily News News RSS using Google Reader
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In the News: Preschool fair, Yankee Quilters

Preschool fair planned in Franklin, Oct. 25

by GateHouse Media, Inc.

Yankee Quilters meet in Franklin

by GateHouse Media, Inc.

WANTED: ANTIQUE VEHICLES

WANTED

ANTIQUE VEHICLES
FRANKLIN HISTORICAL MUSEUM
SUNDAY, SEPT. 30TH FROM 11AM-4PM
(OR AS LONG AS YOU CAN!)

Please call:
Deborah L. Pellegri 508-520-4900
Town Clerk/Historical Com. Chairman

You can be part of the Harvest Festival being held that day!

For the Harvest Festival poster:
http://www.franklindowntownpartnership.org/2012/09/please-join-us.html

For additional information on the Harvest Festival, you can visit the Downtown Partnership webpage
http://www.franklindowntownpartnership.org/

Franklin SEPAC: Fund raising events

What is Franklin SEPAC?

"Special Education Parents Advisory Council" an active group of parents with interest in serving and supporting special education children.

Who can participate in SEPAC/ attend workshops?

All parents and guardians of Franklin students receiving special education services are encouraged to become involved in SEPAC. Participation is also open to other interested parties such as teachers, service providers, students studying special education, and families from other towns. All workshops are open to the public.

They have two fund raising events coming up.


Sep 27

We have an amazing Fundraiser Zumbathon® Event coming up at Sublime Fitness in Medway on September 27th 7-8:30pm. Mark your calendars ! All proceeds will benefit Franklin SEPAC! Looking forward to an amazing year!

To sign up please go to:
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/home.asp?studioid=21261
you may have to go to 'sublime events/workshops/events' 

$10 online and $15 at the door per-person to join this wonderful event.
Bring a friend or family member ( or two!) Can't wait to see everyone there!

Oct 1

Print up a flyer ( can be found on our FB page, web-site and is also the Profile pic for this event) bring the voucher to the Franklin 99 on October 2nd from 11am-10pm and the 99 will donate 15% of your total bill to the Franklin SEPAC! 

This is valid on Dine-In and Take-Out. We recommend Call Ahead Seating 508-520-9909.
Thank you!

The flyer can also be found here:

For additional information on this group,please visit their webpage http://franklinsepac.org/home

a national embarrassment or high performing?

The Milford Daily News got to meet with the candidates for the 10th Norfolk District on Thursday. They report on the different picture that the two candidates have of the MA economy:

Despite the state boasting some of the best schools and hospitals in the country, Eustis said, it has still failed to attract new companies. 

"None of these businesses want to be here anymore," he said. "So you have to ask yourself, ‘Why is that?’ And the answer inevitably leads to Beacon Hill." 

Eustis blamed higher tax rates, saying they drive businesses out and keep them from wanting to set up shop. 

Roy, on the other hand, had a more sanguine outlook on the state’s economy. 

"Massachusetts is one of the higher-performing states," he said, listing its AA+ bond rating and 6.3 percent unemployment rate, lower than the national rate of 8.1 percent.

Read more: http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/x1610022359/Candidates-Roy-Eustis-speak-of-two-different-economies#ixzz275w7iGrQ