Plymouth Lions Club

MarchVegas Night

 

The Plymouth Lions will be holding their annual MarchVegas Night on Saturday, March 25, 2017 at Plymouth Memorial Hall from 7:00-11:00 PM.

 

Try your hand at Blackjack or Roulette. There will also be opportunities to "play the ponies," bid on a wide array of silent auction items and enter the Cornhole Challenge.

 

All proceeds from this event will go towards funding scholarships for graduating Plymouth high school seniors.

 

Tickets are $10.00 and can be purchased at theplymouthlions.org. For more information contact [email protected] or 508-746-2052.

 

 

SOUTH SHORE WOMENS BUSINESS NETWORK will hold it March Quarterly Breakfast on March 30, 7:30 to 9:30 AM, at Linden Ponds, 300 linden Ponds Way, Hingham, MA.   SSWBN has raised funds this quarter and will present them to a very special non-profit.

 

Guest speaker will be Pauline Allegrini, Founder and Executive Director of Friends of Mel Foundation.  Join us and be uplifted by the work being done by Fiends of Mel.

Please register on line  at www.sswbn.org

UPPER CAPE TECH HOSTS ANNUAL COLLEGE FAIR

 

Bourne, MA - Upper Cape Tech welcomes area high school students and their parents/guardians to attend the annual UCT College Fair on Thursday, March 23, 2017 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM.

 

Over 70 colleges, technical schools, and military representatives will be available to meet with interested students about post-secondary opportunities and admissions requirements. Counselors will be present to assist students with identifying appropriate institutions and navigating the fair. The event is most appropriate for 10^th and 11^th grade students, as well as seniors who may still be exploring their options for next year.

 

Additionally, several institutions will offer "on the spot" admissions interviews for current seniors between 4:00 PM and 6:00 PM. This opportunity is open to all area high school seniors who have not yet decided on a college for next fall. Students may make appointments or walk-in.

 

Detailed information, including a list of participating institutions for both the fair and the "on the spot" program, is available on the Upper Cape Tech website. Please visit www.uppercapetech.com/Page/319 .

 

There is no cost to attend the fair. Questions may be directed to Jennifer McGuire at [email protected] or 508-759-7711 x247.

 

 

CARRYOUT PLASTIC BAG BAN NOW IN EFFECT IN PLYMOUTH

At Fall Town Meeting in 2016, town meeting members voted overwhelmingly to adopt the bylaw banning plastic carryout shopping bags. Subsequently, the State's Attorney General's Municipal Law Unit approved the bylaw with the effective date of February 16, 2017.   However, the bylaw allows for a six-month transition period. Businesses in Plymouth now have until August 16, 2017 to come into full compliance. Below is a summary of some of the more relevant aspects of ordinance. Please be sure to refer to the full bylaw for a complete description of the regulations .

• The bylaw applies to businesses, including restaurants, with a gross interior space of 3000 square feet or more. The bylaw also applies to establishments, regardless of size, with two or more locations under the same ownership or brand name within the Town of Plymouth

• Thin (less than 3 mils) carryout plastic bags with handles currently provided by establishments for customers to transport merchandise from the business are banned.

• Carryout bags without handles will continue to be used for dry cleaning, newspaper, and small bags used for food or other products by the consumer to transport the items to the point of sale.

• Reusable carryout bags with handles made from natural or synthetic fibers are allowable substitutes for the banned thin plastic bags. Reusable carryout plastic bags must be no less than 3 mils thick and must have the word "Reusable" or "Reuse" printed on the outside of the bag in a visible manner.

• Businesses may continue to provide paper bags, with or without handles, as long as they are 100% recyclable and contain 40% or more post-consumer recycled paper.

• If a business cannot comply by August 16, 2017, it may petition the Board of Health for a six-month extension.   Businesses in violation of this Bylaw shall be subject to the following penalties:              

            First Offense:                           Written Warning

            Second Offense:                     $50 fine

            Third Offense:                        $100 fine

            Subsequent offenses:              $200 fine

 

"Any questions please contact the Plymouth Health Department at:

508-747-1620 x118.

 

The Carryout Plastic Bag Ban (Article 28) is available at:

www.plymouth-ma.gov/sites/plymouthma/files/uploads/fall_atm_15_oct_2016.pdf

 

 
 

 
 

 
 

What's cooking? 3 key voluntary insurance policies for women

Four in 10 women are the sole or primary breadwinners for their families, yet married mothers do more than three times as much cooking, cleaning and laundry as married fathers.

Because women's contributions to their families are financial, physical and emotional, they should consider what would happen to their loved ones if they were suddenly without an income or worse.

(1) They say it's wise to expect the best but prepare for the worst, and life insurance is the perfect example of that adage. Women make major contributions to their families' quality of life. That's especially true today, when so many women are caring for aging parents as well as children. When a woman dies, the effect can reverberate both emotionally and financially through several generations of her family. This is true whether she is a working mother or a stay-at-home mom. After all, mothers who do not work outside the home perform tasks with significant financial value, such as cleaning, cooking, driving and caregiving. Life insurance coverage is important to women because without it, their loved ones' standard of living might change dramatically. Benefits can be used to pay leftover medical costs or for bills such as the monthly mortgage or rent, household expenses, caregiving costs.

(2) Disability insurance protects a working woman's most valuable asset: her ability to earn a living. Many women prefer to believe that a disabling accident or illness is something that happens to others and not to them. But consider that a female 25-year-old office worker with a healthy lifestyle has a 24 percent chance of becoming disabled for three months or longer during her career, and there's a 38 percent chance her disability will continue for at least five years.            

Women often place their families before themselves, and that means they may postpone doctor visits or treatment while they care for their husbands, partners or children. Unfortunately, this puts them at greater medical risk because they sometimes let an injury or illness progress before seeking attention.

(3) Research shows that men are more likely to get and die of cancer, with leukemia and cancers of the colon, pancreas and liver killing 1.5 to two times as many men as women in the United States. Still, the American Cancer Society estimated that 852,630 women would be diagnosed with cancer in 2017 - and that's no small number. Cancer insurance can go a long way toward helping women focus on recovery, rather than on financial concerns. A supplemental policy helps protect a patient's income and savings from expenses that aren't covered by major medical insurance, including deductibles; out-of-network specialists; experimental cancer treatment; travel and lodging when treatment is far from home; child care and household help; and normal living expenses, such as the monthly mortgage or rent, car payments, credit card payments, food and utility bills.

 

 
 

 

 
 

Donations to Savers April 1 benefit 

Relay For Life of Greater Plymouth

The Relay For Life of Greater Plymouth and Savers are teaming up to fight cancer. On Saturday, April 1, from 1 to 3 p.m., a portion of the proceeds from household and soft goods donated at the Plymouth thrift store will go to Friends That Care, one of the teams walking in the community fundraiser benefitting the American Cancer Society.

Savers will give 20 cents per pound when people donate soft goods, including clothes, shoes, purses, accessories, bedding materials and similar items. The store will also contribute 10 cents per pound for donations of electronic goods, toys and games, kitchen items, knick-knacks and sporting goods.

Lisa Jensen, Team Captain of Friends That Care, will be at Savers from 1 to 3 p.m. to accept donations for the Relay For Life of Greater Plymouth. Savers is located at 10 Pilgrim Hill Road in Plymouth, near the Shaw's Supermarket. For more information about making donations, contact Lisa at [email protected] or 781-831-4937.

The Relay For Life of Greater Plymouth will be held Friday and Saturday, June 16 and 17, at Carver Middle High School. Last year, more than 500 walkers on 30 teams and nearly 100 cancer survivors raised more than $150,000 for research, treatment and programs to aid individuals and families dealing with cancer. The event covers the towns of Plymouth, Carver, Kingston and Plympton.

The Relay For Life of Greater Plymouth includes Survivors and Caregivers Laps, Survivors Reception, Luminaria Ceremony with 5,000-plus candles, music by a DJ, games, decorated campsites, contests, drawings, auctions, live performances and demonstrations, food, ice cream, and much more. 

For details about the 2017 Relay For Life, contact Rebecca Ybarra at 508-897-4343 or [email protected]., or go to the local website at www.relayforlife.org/gtrplymouthma.