Franklin Matters

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Activities in Franklin today

1 - Stamp Out Hunger
leave non-perishable food and non-food items in a plastic bag at your mailbox for the postal carriers to pick up as they make the rounds to deliver mail today. This will help the Franklin Food Pantry serve your neighbors!
http://www.franklinfoodpantry.org/2013/05/stamp-out-hunger-may-11.html

stamp out hunger

2 - 5K road race - walk
You have a choice of running to help the Franklin Food Pantry and the Wounded Warriors Project by participating the the inaugural Franklin Elks 5K today at 10:00 AM
http://www.franklinelks5k.com/

or

Help the Franklin Bellingham Citizens Rail Trail Committee with this fund raising 5K also at 10:00AM
http://www.franklinbellinghamrailtrail.org/

3 - Sunrise Montessori - spring fair noon to 2:00 PM
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2013/05/spring-fair-sunrise-montessori.html

4 - FHS All-Night Party bottle/can drive
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM - High school parking lot

5 - Circle of Friends Coffeehouse - Runa
For tickets and additional details visit the webpage here http://circlefolk.org/

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Take the Hero of Hope Pledge!

Since 1949, May has been officially recognized as Mental Health Month. The first Thursday in May is celebrated as Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day, to raise awareness about the importance of children's mental health and that positive mental health is essential to a child's healthy development from birth.

Mental Health Awareness

Over the next week, the Partnership for Early Childhood Mental Health, (which includes the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, the Department of Public Health and the Boston Public Health Commission) invites all state employees to take a pledge to nurture a child’s social and emotional development. Enter your pledge and state email address at www.ecmhmatters.org, in the “for families and friends” section, and you will be included in a raffle to win an Early Childhood Mental Health Matters t-shirt.

Why take the Hero of Hope Pledge?

Early childhood mental health means that young children are growing in their ability to understand and share feelings, have close and positive relationships, and explore and learn. Studies show that good social and behavioral skills in young children lead to good academic performance in the 1st grade and beyond.

Read the full post on the Commonwealth Conversations, Health and Human Services website here
http://hhs.blog.state.ma.us/blog/2013/05/may-is-mental-health-month-take-the-hero-of-hope-pledge.html?utm_source=feedly

Women's Success Network's Annual June Scholarship Awards dinner

The Women's Success Network's 2013 Scholarship Awards Dinner and Annual Meeting will be held on, June 5th at Highland Country Club, in Attleboro where several women will be awarded the WSN Founders' Scholarships. These scholarships provide deserving women with the opportunity to start, return or continue their education.
In conjunction with the general WSN Founders Scholarship, Dean College School of Professional and Continuing Studies, Fisher College and Middlesex Savings Bank will also sponsor specific awards each for non-traditional student applicants.
Bill Napolitano of the Institute for Business Excellence, will speak briefly about how we can carry the momentum we've gained into the summer months while the official WSN programming gets ready for the September 2013 meeting. The June meeting is the last WSN meeting until we resume in September. To register for the June meeting or to obtain more information about WSN go to www.wsninc.org.

Friday, May 10, 2013

This is water

This is water. "The capital T Truth!"

A good video for any day but maybe the best video to spend ten minutes with as this work week ends!

Past, Present, and Future of Farming in Franklin

The Franklin Historical Museum will be looking at the past, present, and future of farming in Franklin, Sunday, May 19

Until little more than a generation ago, Franklin was still a community with many large and active farms. Today, in the wake of suburbanization, a few “pioneers” are working to keep a place for agriculture in 21st Century Franklin.. Join Seth Rousseau of Akin Bak Farm and Nick Hoffman, who is opening a new community-supported agriculture (CSA) farm on Daniels Street, for a look back and a look ahead.

They will provide a brief review of how and why early settlers chose to come to Franklin to farm, with a coverage of the notable activities of earlier times – from the Garelick family, to cranberry bogs, and the famous Parmenter Red chicken. They will also describe how they hope to serve the community in the coming years with their new approach to an ancient tradition.

In addition, The Garden Girls from the Franklin Garden Club will Divide & Conquer. They'll be splitting Irises and other tabular rooted plants. They'll discuss the correct timing and the proper method of successful root splitting to create beautiful healthy plants.

The event will be hosted during regular Museum hours from 1:00-4:00pm on Sunday May 19th.