February 24, 2019
~ Building Community One Positive Story at a Time
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Special Town Meeting
Monday, February 25, 2019 beginning at 7:30pm
Multi-Purpose Room of the Halifax Elementary School, 464 Plymouth Street.
All Halifax registered voters are eligible to attend, vote and participate at the special town meeting. Residents must register to vote at least ten days before the date of the special town meeting in order to participate at the meeting. Persons who are not registered voters in Halifax are permitted to attend the meeting, but must sit in a special, designated section on the right-side of the room, near the stage. Here is a
copy of the warrant
. Photo credit: S. Basile
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Historical Tidbit:
Shoe Shop
In 1856 Charles P. Lyon was manufacturing boots and shoes from a "Shoe Shop" located next door to his home on Plymouth Street on a section of the roadway now know as Old Plymouth Street. [Both the home and Shoe Shop, now a single family home, are still standing today.] Mr. Lyon employed 20 males and 12 females in his shop where "upper" and "sole" leather was cut and stitched. Hundreds of boxes of his boots were shipped to Boston to be sent South for the Union Soldiers during the Civil War.
It was quite common to find families in the wintertime stitching "shoes" to supplement their income or even different "shoemakers," who completed the work in small shops. These smaller shops were called "footers," such as the "Ten Footer" Levi Leach had here in Halifax where he taught his three sons the shoe trade. The term "Ten Footer" meant that they had a ten-foot long building used as their shoe shop.
The town residents that became "shoemakers" in the winter would take enough stock to make from one to ten dozen pairs of shoes at a time, returning them to the manufacturer when finished.
A more distinguished title for a shoemaker is a cordwainer. The guy who cuts leather for the upper part of the shoe is called a clicker.
Respectfully submitted, Sue Basile
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Town Hall
499 Plymouth Street
781-294-1316
Mon-Thurs 8a - 4p
Holmes Public Library
470 Plymouth Street
781-293-2271
Fall / Winter Hours
Mon. & Wed. 12-8
Tues., Thurs., Fri. 10-5
Saturday 10-2
Council on Aging
506 Plymouth Street
781-293-7313
Mon - Thurs 9a - 3p
Friday 9a - 1p
Food Pantries
Halifax Congregational Church
503 Plymouth St. (Route 106)
Halifax, MA 781-293-6393
Tuesdays -2:30-4p
St
Vincent DePaul
Our Lady of the Lake Church
580 Monponsetts St
Halifax, MA (781)293- 7971
2nd & 4th Saturday 9 am
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Congratulations!
Diane Ribeiro
won
Free Consultation and kitchen gift bag ($250 value) from
Wood Palace Kitchens, Middleboro
You should play our
Historical Tidbit Trivia Game
at the bottom of this newsletter.
You could win a
lunch for 4 at Connemara Senior Living, Campello dining room (value $60) sample menu
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Halifax Board of Selectmen 02/12/19
Courtesy of Area 58 Access TV
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Drop-In Knitting and the Holmes Public Library
Tuesday February 26, 2019
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Fibers Arts Group is an informal group interested in all types of Textile Handiwork- knitting, crochet, quilting, etc.
Drop-In Knitting meets every Tuesday from 10am to noon. Knitting, chatting, laughing….this group gathering is a highlight of the Library week.
Whether you choose to join the Knitters in person or the Fiber Arts Group via social media, we hope you find these groups a fun and enriching resource and local inspiration for your textile handiwork.
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Bridgewater State University Forum: Issues Related to Wars, Trade Wars, Migration, and Refugees in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Thursday, February 28, 2019
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM (ET)
Maxwell Library Heritage Room
Minnock Institute for Global Engagement, Global Programs, Center for Middle East Studies, Asian Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies invite you and your classes to attend:
Speakers:
Prof. Ellen Gallagher, Stonehill College and Senior Advisor with the Department of Homeland
Ms. Maria Martin Goula, Civic and Social Organizer
Dr. Rachel Navarre, Political Science Department, BSU
Dr. Chien Yu, Asian Studies, Management Department, BSU
Students: Global Perspective
Dr. Madhu Rao, Director, Center for Middle East Studies, Geography Department, BSU
Dr. Jabbar Al-Obaidi, Academic Director of Global Programs, BSU
Refreshments will be served.
Open to the public
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Coming soon! Halifax Congregational Church Lenten Chowder Luncheons beginning
Friday, March 8 and continuing through Good Friday (April 19). Lunch served from 11:30-1:00 and includes your choice of chowder, bread, a drink, and dessert. More details to follow.
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Bridgewater Farm Supply is Your Complete Garden, Farm & Pet Store
Keep your floors clean, avoid slips and protect your porch floor this winter! Our stall mats can do it all!
1000 Plymouth St (Rt 104)
Bridgewater • (508) 697-0357
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Wednesday February 27, 2019
Friends of Library Meeting
6:30 PM
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Halifax Fireworks Committee is looking for a Halifax resident to volunteer chair the committee for the Fireworks Celebration this July 2019.
Chairperson Role Includes:
-Setting up meetings
-Planning/Writing Meeting Agendas
-Coordinating with committee members to complete tasks
Resources Available to you:
-Inside IT assistance/Back end event assistance
-Binders/Documents on last 2 year's events
-Personal assistance from former committee members
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Kindergarten Registration for 2019-2020
School Year
Children who will reach their 5th birthday by August 31, 2019 are eligible for entry into the kindergarten program.
It is necessary to have completed registration and health forms prior to entry into kindergarten. Parents are also required to provide the child’s birth certificate and proof of residency.
Please call the school office at 781-293-2581 should you have any questions relative to kindergarten registration.
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We'll help you stay nice & warm all winter long!
Keep the home fires burning - get your seasoned firewood from Nessralla Farm!
318 Plymouth St. Halifax
(781) 294-1767
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Are your New Years' resolutions on track?
We can help!
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6 Week Training Package for
$279
180 Winter St., Bridgewater
(across from Chatta Box)
Contact Stephanie at 508-697-2900
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Brockton Symphony
All-Beethoven Concert
Sunday, March 3
Fire up your winter with our all-Beethoven concert! Starring the gifted international piano competition winner, Aleksandr Poliykov, the Symphony brings you the complete spectrum of Beethoven's musical power and majesty, concluding with his mighty 5th Symphony!
The performance begins at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 3rd at Christ Congregational Church, 1350 Pleasant Street, Brockton.
Under the direction of Maestro James M. Orent, the Brockton Symphony features the most talented musicians in the Brockton/South Shore area, performing professional-level symphonic music for our communities. Tickets in advance: $20; $15 seniors/students with ID. Additional $5 at the door. Always FREE for 18 and under!
Admission to this concert venue is limited to 325, so please purchase your tickets in advance. Visit
www.BrocktonSymphony.org
, check us out on Facebook, or call 508.588.3841.
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WEEKLY TRIVIA GAME
Have fun with us and bee entered to win a
lunch for 4 at Connemara Senior Living, Campello dining room (value $60) sample menu
Historical Tidbit Question:
What street was Charles P. Lyon manufacturing shoes on?
Please include your name, phone number and mailing address with your answer.
Prize Box Rules
By entering, you give us permission to announce your name in next week's Buzz Around Halifax.
On February 27, 2019, we will randomly pick a winner from the correct answers
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The Buzz Around is brought to you this week by:Theresa McNulty, Janice O'Brien, Stacy Rancourt, Jacquelyn Rose & Gregory Venezia
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Early hive building: it was a process of re-thinking my life choices. My next step in climbing out of poverty was to develop more compassion, empathy and gratitude.
In a New York Times article this week, “A Nation of Weavers” Social strategist, bestselling author and commentator David Brooks noted these statistics: 47,000 Americans kill themselves every year and 72,000 more die from drug addiction, he then pointed to isolation and individualism as the cause. We are often in the same room and not communicating. We often strive to achieve for ourselves. We look for wealth and notoriety.
I took a different approach. When living day to day not knowing how I was going to pay the bills, I reached out to care for others instead of internalizing. Here’s the breakdown: Humans have two primal reactions that can be in contrast. Fear; the fight or flight reaction and the need for community; to be relational.
When challenged, we most often revert to fear. It comes out in our words, our actions and we close ourselves off. In the case of financial difficulties, the common route to take is work harder, or figure out how to make more money. It seems logical, and sometimes it is. But often that solution does not reach the root of the problem and we then we keep making the same mistakes.
Instead of looking internally for the solution and addressing my fears, I chose to react with our other primal need: community and relationships, and opened myself up to others and new solutions.
Consciously expressing more compassion, empathy and gratitude, I made sure my children knew they were loved and supported; taking time to listen to them, play with them, and eat together. And then looked into my community to see where I could help, where can I volunteer? On the request of my teens, we shared our home with couple of their friends who needed emotional support, which taxed me; but the experience encouraged appreciation of our home, and we all felt gratitude for what we had.
Together, we delivered meals to the elderly and worked on community meals. In addition, I volunteered for the Recreation Commission and was a Cub Scout den mother.
Volunteering in my community was the most important thing I did. I worked toward meeting local needs, gained confidence in my abilities and made friends out of my neighbors. This is how Sharon Graves, Theresa McNulty and I came to brainstorm around addressing community issues, out of this came
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In using this process, there was less isolation. I felt supported as I tried new things and raised my children. I was still facing poverty, and the emotional and situational issues that put me there, but I wasn’t facing them alone. You don’t have to be alone, either. Thanks for reading. ~ Jacquie
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