FRIENDLY FITNESS FUNDRAISER Timeless CrossFit and Fitness - June 26

FRIENDLY FITNESS FUNDRAISER Timeless CrossFit and Fitness

This Saturday June 26 - 9 AM-12 noon

TAKE A SNEAK-PEEK AT SOME OF OUR AWESOME RAFFLE ITEMS BELOW!

Partner workouts, there's something for everyone or just come hang out!

Raffle #1: $100 Downtown Sports Gift Card

Raffle #2: Free private gymnastics lesson, water bottle and kids T shirt @ Flipside Gymnastics

Raffle #3: Mac Makeup Gift Bag ($100 value), Traveling Beauty

Raffle #4: Free Spray Tan with Margaret Lampanosa **

Raffle #5: $100 Gift Card to California Nails

Raffle #6: Vitamin and Energy boost IV treatment from RevIVe Advanced Therapy.($150 value)

Raffle #7: Franklin Nutrition gift basket

Raffle #8: Franklin Nutrition gift basket

Raffle #9: The Rome Restaurant gift card

Raffle #10: Jack Daniels Cornhole Set

Raffle #11: Jack Daniels YETI Cooler

Raffle #12: Jack Daniels Tote with Tees/Tanks and BBQ essentials

Raffle #13: 4 Premium rocks glass with high end Bluetooth speaker

More raffle items on the way!

https://www.facebook.com/100001125155245/posts/4114034321977366/

For more on the purpose of this fund raiser:

https://www.franklinmatters.org/2021/06/help-send-caroline-and-her-coach-to.html

send Caroline and her coach to the CrossFit Games

MA News Briefs: Governors race adding candidates ; Baker proposes to expand tax break holiday

Governors race adding candidates 

"Another day, another candidate in the race for Massachusetts governor not named Baker. Or Healey, for that matter. 

With today’s campaign launch by Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz, three Democrats have now formally announced bids for the state’s top job. The Jamaica Plain lawmaker joins former Senate colleague Ben Downing and Harvard professor Danielle Allen in the race for the Democratic nomination."

Continue reading the article online 

https://commonwealthmagazine.org/the-download/baker-healey-watch-as-field-for-governor-forms-2/ 

Gov Baker proposes to expand tax break holiday

"WITH MASSACHUSETTS on track to end the year with a multi-billion dollar surplus, Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday proposed a two-month sales tax holiday that would give consumers a break from the state’s 6.25 percent sales tax in August and September in an effort to drive shoppers to local businesses. 

The major tax relief proposal would cost the state an estimated $900 million in forgone revenue, but the Republican governor said it would also be a way for the state to show appreciation to business owners and consumers who have contributed to the surplus by finding ways to support each other during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Continue reading the article online 

https://commonwealthmagazine.org/state-government/baker-proposes-2-month-not-2-day-sales-tax-holiday/

 

Town of Franklin: Job Opportunities in Marketing/Communications, Health nurse, Executive Asst, Custodians, etc.

Job Opportunities

To apply for a vacant position, please submit a resume and cover letter to apply@franklinma.gov.  Please put the job title in the subject line of your email.  

• Marketing and Communications Specialist - Offices of the Town Administrator and Superintendent of Schools

  https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif6896/f/uploads/marketing-and-communications-specialist-jobposting-deadline-july92021.pdf

• Public Health Nurse - Health Department 

https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif6896/f/uploads/public-health-nurse-posting-june2021.docx_0.pdf

• Regional Health Agent - Sanitary Inspections and Enforcement - Metacomet Public Health Alliance (apply through the Town of Wrentham) 

https://www.wrentham.ma.us/files/Wrentham%20Website%20Files/Human%20Resources/Employment%20Opportunities/Metacomet%20PHA_Regional%20Health%20Agent_Job%20Posting.pdf

• Executive Assistant - Town Administrator's Office 

https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif6896/f/uploads/executive-assistant-posting-deadline-extended_1.pdf

• Part-time and Substitute Custodians - Facilities Department 

https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif6896/f/uploads/part-time.and-substitute-custodians-june2021.pdf

• Summer Jobs - Facilities Department - DPW summer positions are full - FACILITIES IS STILL ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS

If you do not have a resume, you may send a completed Application for Employment instead.

Read more  -> https://www.franklinma.gov/human-resources/pages/job-opportunities

Town of Franklin: Job Opportunities

Be the Match for Gigi - June 26 (video)

Gigi is a beautiful 2 year old in need of a stem cell bone marrow transplant matched donor. There will be a drive through event on Saturday, June 26 at the Horace Mann Middle School from 9 AM to 1 PM to conduct the 5 minute cheek swab while in your car.

PLEASE NOTE:  To join the registry you must be 18-44 years old, in good health and willing to donate to any patient in need.

Questions? Contact Ann Evans at Be The Match New England aevans@ribc.org or 401-714-6240

Can't make the event - join the registry at my.bethematch.org/swabforgigi

30 second video promo link -> https://vimeo.com/561894124

Download the poster as a reminder: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kUp324DD4vpCPCxJvKT-ehdpqvpAjRZE/view?usp=sharing

Be the Match for Gigi - June 26 (video)

FYI Be the Match PSA-Cablecast.mov from TCAM TV on Vimeo.

Keeping wits and hope alive

For the runners among us:

"For the first third of his preliminary race at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials, Sean McGorty ran comfortably, keeping pace near the front of a heap of 14 runners. He had started running the 3,000-meter steeplechase — a middle-distance event that requires competitors to hurdle high, hard barriers, sometimes over 2½-feet-deep pits of water — in May, but already he had achieved the qualifying standard.

McGorty, a Fairfax native and Chantilly High graduate, entered Oregon’s Hayward Field hopeful to reach the Tokyo Olympics. To secure his place in the final, he would need to finish in the top five. Everything was going to plan one kilometer in, until it wasn’t. A runner stepped on the back of McGorty’s right foot, ripping down the heel of his shoe.

“I got a flat tire,” McGorty said."

Continue reading the article online (subscription maybe required)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2021/06/22/sean-mcgorty-olympic-trials/

Sean McGorty finished ninth in his preliminary heat of the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Ore. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

350 MASS: Who's Delaying Climate Action in MA? (video)

Via 350 MASS: 

"Earlier this year, Brown University released a bombshell report that identified the forces working against climate action in Massachusetts. 

Hear from researchers Trevor Culhane, Galen Hall, and J Timmons Roberts, as well as Rep. Mike Connolly to answer the question everyone is asking: Who's Delaying Climate Action in MA? "

video link -> https://youtu.be/wgn6pBbiqlY

 

MA News Briefs: traffic is back, legislature rebuffs Gov Baker, remote access should stay for meetings

“Traffic, for all intents and purposes, is back to about 2019 levels on most roadways in Massachusetts at this point,” Gulliver said in a presentation to the Department of Transportation’s board.

Continue reading the article online (subscription maybe required)

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/21/metro/massachusetts-traffic-is-back-2019-levels-massdot-says/

"House lawmakers on Tuesday rejected Governor Charlie Baker’s proposal to spend $2.8 billion of federal funds provided to the state through the American Rescue Plan, opting instead to stow the majority of the $5.3 billion in aid into a separate account under the Legislature’s control.

House Speaker Ronald J. Mariano and Senate President Karen E. Spilka said in a statement Tuesday that by placing the money in a separate fund, it will allow lawmakers to decide how best to use the money with input from the public."

Continue reading the article online (subscription maybe required)

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/22/metro/legislature-rejects-bakers-spending-plan-federal-covid-funds-governor-concerned-with-delay-disbursements/

"As we look back on the hellish year gone by, it’s also time to sort through those changes worth keeping, those things that actually made improvements in our lives.

And those changes don’t begin and end with to-go cocktails — as much fun as they were. One of the best things to come out of the pandemic lockdown was the way most government bodies from Beacon Hill committees to municipal boards and commissions adapted, allowing their own members and members of the public to attend meetings remotely — from the comfort and safety of their homes.

Computer screens became that critical window on the political world that allowed the public to tune in to legislative committee hearings on crucial issues, city council hearings, town meetings. And not merely to tune in, in many of those cases, but also to offer remote testimony. Distance or disability was no longer a factor. Nor was the inability to get a babysitter or reluctance to make the hours-long trek from Pittsfield to Boston."

Continue reading the article online (subscription maybe required)

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/22/opinion/remote-access-public-meetings-post-pandemic-must/