February 24, 2019
~ Building Community One Positive Story at a Time
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Pictured from left to right are:
Dave Moses (Statera Financial), Alyssa Rizzo (Conscious Leadership), Karen Dayton (Mansfield Bank), Katie Dustin (JED Insurance), Meri Anderson (Coval Anderson Coval LLC)
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Volunteer Event with 6° Networking at Keeping Pace with Multiple Miracles
6° Networking is a professional services, membership networking organization with 2 groups in this region- Mansfield and Easton. In addition to our meetings, we come together monthly to volunteer at non-profits in the surrounding areas. We enjoy getting to know one another in a fun setting and giving back to our communities.
Meri Anderson passionately suggested Keeping Pace because she and her twins received incredible support from them. On February 4
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we had an amazing time reorganizing their diaper room and library!
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Historical Tidbit:
Greystone Towners
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Greystone Towers was on northeast corner of River Street and South Elm Street; burned 1915-1917
From the Greystone Towers Sanatorium Pamphlet circa 1904: "E.S. LeLacheur, M.D. is a graduate of Boston University School of Medicine, Class of 1893, was House Surgeon at the Boston Homoepathic Dispensary and has ever since been In the active practice of his profession.
The Method of Treatment is to provide for each patient the best medical, surgical and hygienic attention necessary for each case. Rest, change of scene, regular nutritious diet (all the garden products being home grown and the dairy supply of the choicest obtainable) and rational amusement contribute largely to the successful treatment...
No cases will be accepted of contagious diseases or insanity."
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Town Hall
65 N. Main Street
508-894-1200
Mon, Tues & Thurs 8a - 4p
Wed, 8a - 7p, Fri 8a - 1p
WB Public Library
80 Howard Street
508-894-1255
Mon, Thurs, Fri 10a - 5p
Tues - Wed 10a - 8p
Sat 10a - 2p
Council on Aging
97 West Center Street
508-894-1262
Mon - Fri 8:30a - 4p
Food Pantry
1st & 3rd Wednesday each month
3:15 - 5pm
Spring Street School
2 Spring St WB
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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)
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Brockton Symphony
All-Beethoven Concert
Sunday, March 3
3:00 p.m
Christ Congregational Church, 1350 Pleasant Street, Brockton.
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!
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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Check out the great art work done in Ms. Pistorino's French 5 class after their unit on Impressionism. Great stuff!
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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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Don’t pay to file your taxes.
If your household earned less than $66,000 in 2018, you can file both your federal and state returns for free using MyFreeTaxes.com.
This is the only free, national, online tax filing product offered by a nonprofit. United Way has made it available to over 100 million U.S. taxpayers as part of our fight for the financial stability of every person in every community.
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WB Board of Selectmen Meeting Feb 20, 2019
Video Courtesy of WBT
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Prophett Funeral Home
Preplanning is SMART Planning
508-697-4332
Bridgewater * East Bridgewater
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Car or Home Insurance
Call us before you renew
Let us help you comparison shop for
The right coverage for the right price!
We do business your way,
our offices, your home or business or online.
111 Torrey St, Suite 1, Brockton
508-456-6220
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Spring is around the corner... and our Annual Golf Classic is back!! Look for registration forms soon on our facebook page. Sponsorship and raffle opportunities will be available as well! We can't wait to see you on the links!
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2019 Spring Sports Registration
Tryouts begin Monday, March 18, 2019
Registration Deadline is Wed March 13, 2019
In order to participate in Spring Sports:
*You MUST sign up through the FamilyID registration portal
*You MUST have an updated physical on file in the nurse’s office. Pre-participation physicals are good for 13 months from the original date of physical. Please contact Nurse Idell with any questions.
didell@wbridgewater.com
Spring Head Coaches Contact Info:
Please email coaches directly with questions:
Girls Spring Track- Kyla Daley-
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West Bridgewater State of the Town of Address for the year 2018, presented by Town Administrator David Gagne
Including financial health, town successes and challenges.
Video Courtesy of WB TV
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WEEKLY TRIVIA GAME
Have fun with us and bee entered to win
lunch for 4 at Connemara Senior Living, Campello dining room (value $60)
sample menu
Historical Tidbit Question:
Who was the resident doctor at the Greystone Towers?
Email us your answer at:
By entering, you give us permission to announce your name in next week's
Buzz Around West Bridgewater.
On February 27, 2019, we will randomly pick a winner from the correct answers.
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Buzz Around is brought to you this week by: Theresa McNulty, Janice O'Brien, Jacquelyn Rose & Greg Venezia
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Bee Relational: My weekly commentary to commemorate Buzz Around.Info’s 10th year
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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
BuzzAround.Info.
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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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