KP tops FHS on Thanksgiving

Hockomock Sports published the Thanksgiving football results. from around the Hockomock League allowing us to share the FHS results.


King Philip, 43 @ Franklin, 7 – Final

1st Quarter: (KP) Shane Frommer 51 yard rush, XP good. 

2nd Quarter: (KP) Brendan Lydon 26 yard pass to S. Frommer, XP good; (KP) B. Lydon 13 yard pass to Alex Olsen, XP no good; (KP) A. Olsen 1 yard rush, XP good; (F) Jake Noviello 12 yard pass to Connor Peterson, XP good. 

3rd Quarter: (KP) Giovanni Fernandez 5 yard rush, 2pt good. 

4th Quarter: (KP) Aidan Bender 60 yard interception return, 2pt good.

FHS Panthers

For all the results on Thanksgivng
https://hockomocksports.com/thursdays-schedule-scoreboard-112416/

Rotaract Club established at Dean College

Franklin Rotary Club has chartered a Rotaract Club at Dean College. The 19 charter members, all Dean students, attended last Thursday's Rotary Club meeting where they were formally inducted into Rotaract by Rotary District Governor Steve Sager from the Westboro Rotary Club, Franklin Rotary President Theodore Katsaros, and Carlos Aguilera, Franklin Rotarian and the Rotaract Club Advisor. 

It is very difficult to establish a Rotaract Club, due to the need for several factors to come together at the same time. The students already have a list of projects they intend to do to help out in the Franklin community. 

Rotaract Club established at Dean College

Photo was taken during the induction of individual members by Mr Sager.

In the News: The Nutcracker, New England Ringers

From the Milford Daily News, articles of interest for Franklin:

"The Franklin Performing Arts Company will present “The Nutcracker” at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3 and 2 p.m. Dec. 4 in the Franklin High School auditorium, 218 Oak St. 

The show will include a 27-piece orchestra and more than 100 area dancers. 

The production will feature a professional orchestra under the direction of Peter Cokkinias, who celebrates his 13th year as music director/conductor of FPAC’s Nutcracker orchestra. Guest artists Vilia Putrius and Mindaugas Bauzys, company dancers with Festival Ballet Providence, will perform the roles of the sugar plum fairy and her cavalier. Rosario Guillen, a student of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, will dance the part of the nutcracker/prince, with Aaron Andrade, of Lincoln, Rhode Island, playing the role of Dr. Drosselmeyer. A choir will sing the ethereal choral parts that accompany the enchanting Snow Scene that closes the ballet’s first act."

Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20161124/franklin-performing-arts-company-to-present-the-nutcracker

"1. Franklin Federated Church will host its annual Christmas concert Saturday.
2. After a two-year hiatus, this year's concert will feature the New England Ringers performing an arrangement of winter and Christmas melodies.
3. New England Ringers is a 15-member community handbell ensemble of musicians playing the most-advanced level of handbell literature.
4. New England Ringers performances are a blend of musical moods and styles. Their repertoire includes classical transcriptions, familiar favorites and original compositions."

Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20161123/franklin-church-to-host-new-england-ringers

Library open for normal business Fri, Sat, and Sun

After closing for Thanksgiving, the Franklin Public Library will be open for normal hours Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Fri - Sat: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Sun: 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Franklin Public Library

library book shelving in the temporary location at 25 Kenwood Circle

This was shared from the Franklin Library webpage
http://franklinpl.blogspot.com/2016/11/thanksgiving-week-hours.html

Franklin Interfaith Council - Thanksgiving Service - Message

My wife and I were joined by about 200 hundred folks who gathered at the First Universalist Society where the Temple Etz Chaim hosted the Interfaith Council Thanksgiving Service on Sunday, November 20. The Interfaith Council Choir led the gathering in song.

The Rev. Deborah M. Woodward, Interim Priest at St John's Episcopal Church was honored to deliver the Thanksgiving message. I approached her afterward to see if she would share her talk with us and she gladly did so.

I do not normally do something like this but these are not normal times. You can read, share, and discuss Rev Woodward's message.

To you and your family, may your Thanksgiving be a good one!

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The Title of this Message is “Modim Anachnu Lach” - (which from the Hebrew means, “We Thank You.”)

Modim Anachnu Lach”  from Hebrew means, “We Thank You.”

"As I begin, First, I wish you to know that I was deeply touched when I was invited, “thank you”, to offer this message.

I mean “touched” as in TOUCHED in bold capital letters, by the honor of being considered, as I am “the new kid on the block.”
And I also wondered a bit, because, this is not something I have ever done before, spoken at an interfaith gathering. Amazing, after 30 years in the job!

So, I am thankful and grateful for this opportunity, and I pray that I might do a worthy job.

As I prayed and named for myself this deep sense that “this is no ordinary opportunity,” I began to ponder,

• Why does it seem so very important?
• Why does this night seem different from other nights?

• I pause.
• I pray.
• I wait.

And then the blessed penny dropped… Ah the Spirit…

I thought...

Given the divisiveness and incivility of our recent public discourse -

Is it not a remarkable grace that we are gathered here?
Especially now!
This is a gathering that might not always be possible, allowed, safe, or surrendered unto,
in a world so often broken and divided?

Our shared communion here;
That that we choose to gather here;
That we congregate, way beyond mere civility;

That we gather in shared thankfulness,

• In song and psalm
• In wisdom and prayer
• That we gather across separateness and in communion
• That we are free to do so

This is actually a reality of Grace beyond thanksgiving. It is a wonder.

Look about this worship space. See each other.

I recall a dated aphorism…
“The medium is the message.”
This is important.

Modim, anachu lach.

For this moment in time we should indeed be awesomely grateful, and this truth calls me to consider that, tonight, perhaps, we should be seeking a deeper gratitude.

Touched as I was…

I needed to consider how, for me, for us, tonight's thankfulness might have its own unique particularity...

Perhaps a more pointed, additional thankfulness?
Is there something here, to be said, that is unique to the times?
I mean, in 2016 in Franklin, perhaps, something else that needs to be considered?

I recall our responsive reading...

Indeed we are thankful for...

Galaxies, humanity, freedom, ….

Here, I have a confession to make. I had considered that we might offer thanksgiving for Brussels sprouts on Thursday's thanksgiving table, but it occurred to me that Brussels sprouts might not be something for which we are all universally thankful.

We are thankful for...
Galaxies, humanity, freedom, ….

Food, nourishment...

Family, children, grandchildren...

For the tenacity of the human soul to strive to the limit for what is right,

For those who have sacrificed and those who have saved us into liberty.

Yet I find in our responsive reading, as I wondered, some words that do make this night different from others. I was touched by this particular thanksgiving.

“The Right to Choose.”

And this line guides me on.

• We have said that we are grateful for the right to choose.
• We have chosen to be here.
• We have self-selected.
• And therefore, we are called to take that right to choose with transcendent seriousness.
• We are thankful for the right and the freedom to choose how to behave.
• How to be godly and righteous.
• Modim Anachnu lach.

Here is my particular closing thought, for us in the here and now…

We are called to be grateful for the right
Indeed the obligation...
To choose, when we leave here, to offer ourselves back to this world in thanksgiving.

You see, I believe that all of us here are “touched people.”
I don't think we are accidentally present here across our differences.
We are blessed, touched, called to be here, to claim thanksgiving for our common blessedness, and to leave as agents of that thanksgiving across all that divides.

• Perhaps tonight we might to attend to that particular gratitude.
• The right to choose, to choose to be people of civility.
• And far more, to be people whose lives are grounded, beyond civility,
• grounded in thanksgiving,
• sustained in faithfulness,
• and united in a common intention, not only to be thankful, but to do thankful.

I believe that being here calls us to action.
I believe we are all here because, in the mysterious ways that wonder works we are all “touched” people.

I remember the demeaning use of that word from my youth. Someone who was “touched” was a little bit crazy. Well that's okay. Maybe we, the gratefully blessed, need to be willing to look foolish for that which is right!

I believe we evidence, by our very presence here, a particular calling, a responsibility to be thankful for our commissioning as those who demand that the world be a place of thanksgiving for all.

Let us be touched by this sacred responsibility to leave here to do thankfulness.

Let us leave here consciously, intentionally thankful, not just for material well being, not just for the spiritual grace, and the wisdom blessing our lives, but for the tasks of our lives, and I believe that task is to redeem the world to a place of thankfulness for all.

Thus we concluded our responsive reading with these words…"

“We pray that we may live not by our fears but by our hopes, not by our words but by our deeds.”

• Rev. Deborah M. Woodward, Interim Priest at St John's Episcopal Church

The cover of the program for the service

The full program for the service can be found here in individual files

• Page 1

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0wjbnXDBhczbEo1bFhnN2Q2ZDQ/view?usp=sharing

• Page 2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0wjbnXDBhczY2ZNdmZlLTVONnM/view?usp=sharing

• Page 3

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0wjbnXDBhczN053Ylp2THZJT3c/view?usp=sharing

• Page 4

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0wjbnXDBhczUDNfdjZ0MllmQ2M/view?usp=sharing

Heath Nisbett at 2016 Franklin Cultural Festival (video)

Turning back time (or #TBT) to that Saturday in July when THE BLACK BOX had two stages going for a full day of musical performances.

Here is a sample of the performance by Heath Nisbett on the indoor stage at THE BLACK BOX





For more about Heath, visit his profile online
http://network.online.berklee.edu/public_profile/heathn

Heath Nisbett (photo by Jake Jacobson)

The 3rd Annual Cultural Festival will be held in Franklin July 26 through July 29, 2017. Subscribe for email updates

MBTA: Thanksgiving through Friday: Commuter Rail notice

On Thanksgiving Day, 11/24, the Commuter Rail will operate on a Sunday schedule. 

On Friday, 11/25, the Commuter Rail will operate on a regular weekday schedule.



Last updated: Nov 23 2016 11:01 AM

MBTA commuter rail enroute to Boston