May 10, 2020
~ Building Community One Positive Story at a Time
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Dress-A-Girl Around the World Bridgewater/West Bridgewater, stopped sewing dresses, and started sewing masks.
Here is a partial list of recipients aside from friends and neighbors:
Morton Hospital
Bridgewater Nursing Home and Hospice workers at BNH
BSU International students
MIC Treatment Center
St. Elizabeth’s
Brockton Hospital
Local doctors’ offices
Care One Nursing Home
Bridgewater VNA
MA General
Beth Israel-Plymouth
New Bedford Pediatrics
Three orders to Life Care – West Bridgewater
Swabbing nurses – Brockton Hospital
Postal Service
Bridgewater and West Bridgewater Senior Centers
NICU – Boston Medical
Taunton Nursing Home
Congregational Church – Bridgewater
Police Departments: Bridgewater, West Bridgewater and the BSU police department
Robbins Manufacturing - Fall River
Maintainers – BSU
New England Siani
Connemara Assisted Living
R.I. Hospice
ICU Brigham’s and Womens
Olsen’s Greenhouse
Brockton Homeless
Restaurant workers
Residential Homes in state
Chamberlain School
And most recently, they received a thank you from Masks for Navajo Nation First Responders, for the batch they shipped out there. If any of our sewers are interested in supporting folks who have less machines:
Meet Carlesia who is sewing masks for her people in Rock Point Arizona.
Gloria, Evie, Sue, Gail and Claire and our drivers, Denise and Becky
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May 11 - 17...you decide who wins $100
in these good news stories from Bridgewater, Brockton, East Bridgewater, Halifax, Raynham, West Bridgewater and Whitman.
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Historical Tidbit:
Education in 1647
Education for all was an early American ideal. As early as 1647 Massachusetts Bay Colony passed a law mandating that all towns with more than 50 families set up a school. If a town didn't comply with the law, they were fined five pounds.
"That in whatsoever township in this government consist of 50 families or upwards. Where there were families of 100 or more, Latin must be offered in Grammar School to prepare for the University. The town was responsible for making a reasonable appropriation. The profits from the Cape Fisheries, hereto ordered to maintain a Grammar School, shall be distributed to such towns as to have such Grammar Schools, not exceeding five Pounds per annum to any one town."
Before that time, small classes were held in private homes.
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Respectfully submitted by Sue Basille
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We are Hiring:
A Message From Jacquie
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Town Hall
508-894-1200
Check town website for needed updates.
WB Public Library
508-894-1255
Council on Aging
508-894-1262
1st & 3rd Wednesday each month
3:15 - 5p
Spring Street School
2 Spring St, WB
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Congratulations!
Vivian Meserve
won
$50 gift certificate to Beauty Counter products through Independent Consultant Christine Harkins.
You should play our
Historical Tidbit Trivia Game
at the bottom of this newsletter.
You could win a
$15 gift certificate to Pinches & Pounds Candy Store Rt 18, Whitman!
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WB Board of Selectmen Mtg
05-06-20
Video Courtesy of WBTV
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Harry Potter Trivia
Thursday, May 14th
6:30p
Thank you for playing! We are so excited about next week's theme of Harry Potter! Even if you are a Harry Potter novice, please join in. You will still have fun and will learn a lot.
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Stay home and dress up your gardens!
Order your mulch online today!
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We have wood pellets, feed & grain and
we're open for essential items!
Please call with your order and drive up.
1000 Plymouth St (Rt 104) Bridgewater
(508) 697-0357
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Administrators of the West Bridgewater Public Schools gave special thanks to its teachers on Tuesday May 5th, while also maintaining social distancing.
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West Bridgewater Police are
available to check your child car seats for proper installation.
Arrange a FaceTime appointment.
They want to provide as much service in this area as possible and will be seeking to do so through virtual safety checks. One of their certified child seat technicians can assist you virtually (i.e. FaceTime) with your child safety seat. Please EMAIL Sergeant Russell Regan to inquire about an appointment (
RREGAN@WBPD.COM).
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What you Need to Know About COVID-19 Testing and Contact Tracing.
- The more people that get tested the better. Then we have a better count and can effectively track the spread of the virus.
- Massachusetts plenty of tests available. At this time, testing is readily available for free to all essential workers and people showing symptoms. A drive-up testing site in the parking lot of Brockton High School, located at 470 Forest Ave is open weekdays from 9a to 4p. Patients must call in advance to a hotline at 1-844-483-7819 to book an appointment. (A collaborative effort between The City of Brockton, Signature Healthcare and the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center.)
- If you test positive for COVID-19, the MA COVID Team will reach out by phone to connect the confirmed case with support and resources necessary for quarantine, and to identify any close contacts that may have been exposed. As MA continues its contact tracing work to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, it is critical that Massachusetts residents answer the phone when a contact tracer calls or texts. Contact tracers will only reach out from phone numbers with 833 or 857 area codes, and the phone’s caller ID will say MA COVID Team.
Tens of thousands of Massachusetts residents have participated in contact tracing. Staffed with more than 1,600 tracers, the Tracing Collaborative has reached nearly 14,000 confirmed cases and established more than 7,500 of their contacts since calls began on April 12.
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Now offering Disinfectant Fogging & HEPA Vacuuming Services!
As small businesses start to return to work, HEPA vacuuming is an effective way to take the cleaning and sanitation precautions necessary for a safe environment.
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Senior Shoutout!
Jefferson Roberts is a member of the West Bridgewater High School Class of 2020. He played trombone in the high school band, ran for the Fall Cross Country Team, Winter Track Team as well as Spring Track.
In his time in Scouting with the West Bridgewater Troop 25, Jefferson is a member of the Brotherhood, Order of the Arrow, received the Catholic Scouting St. George Medal achieving the rank of Eagle Scout, Troop 25.
Jefferson will be attending The Benjamin Franklin Institute Of Technology in Boston to study Electrical Technology. His future goal is to become a master electrician.
We pray that Jefferson will continue to thrive in all his future endeavors.
Fr Paul Ring from Together In Christ Collaborative (St Ann's) is posting individual shout outs for seniors (high school & college).
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Nanette Ryan from the West Bridgewater Public Library is requesting families with children to submit drawings their kids made about what they have been doing during social distancing.
All of the library staff are looking forward to returning to work in order to provide you with great services!
Message from Nanette Ryan
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Thanks to Donations to United Way COVID-19 Response Fund they have been able to Provide immediate response for the following urgent needs:
Associates for Human Services
has been able to assist 151 families in the Brockton & Middleboro Early Intervention and Head Start programs. These families received diapers, wipes, formula, disinfectant and groceries.
BAMSI
has been able to respond to urgent help calls from residents who needed short term shelter, food assistance, diapers, cleaning products, rental assistance and personal hygiene products.
Brockton Area Arc
has been provided with additional funding to help families who are out of work and are taking care of children and family members who are developmentally or physical disabled. These families received help for groceries and personal care items.
The Brockton Salvation Army
received additional funding for 125 families to receive nutritious food boxes (5 to 7 day supply in each box) to meet their growing needs.
Family & Community Resources
received grocery store gift cards that were distributed to 20 families in need to access items such as food, baby formula, and cleaning supplies.
Father Bill’s & MainSpring’s Emergency Shelter
serving our homeless neighbors in Brockton were supplied with personal protective equipment, cleaning products, personal care and hygiene products.
Road to Responsibility
purchased sanitation and medical supplies for 18 residential homes serving 77 individuals with development and cognitive disabilities.
... and many more, to make a donation to the COVID-19 Response Fund, see
this form.
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Grant's sends out support & care to all of our communities.
We're all in this together.
10 Bedford Park, Bridgewater
(508) 279-0950
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BEAUTY COUNTER
CHRISTINE HARKINS
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What you wear on your skin matters!
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Early Voting
By Mail is Available for the
June 27, 2020 Town Election.
You can get an application on the town website
here.
Contact the town clerk's office:
Phone: 508-894-1167
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Kayla Leighton (pictured below, photo courtesy of Brenda Leighton) designed and ordered these signs for her senior project. When school shut down she had to figure out what her new plan would be for them. Little did she know the West Bridgewater Superintendent, HS Principal and HS Vice Principal had a surprise for Kayla and her fellow classmates.
On April 29th, Dr. Patty Oakley, Mr. Mark Bodwell & Mrs. Christine Page delivered the signs to every graduating student! They spent over 8 hours, including 109 stops in 9 towns putting the signs in lawns! #wbwildcatstrong
West Bridgewater Public Schools Facebook Page
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We Love The Class of 2020!!
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WEEKLY TRIVIA GAME
Have fun with us and bee entered to win a
$15 gift certificate to Pinches & Pounds Candy Store Rt 18, Whitman, MA!
Historical Tidbit Question:
Who passed a law mandating that towns had to set up schools?
Please submit your answer through our website
here
. It's easier for us to run more contests & distribute prizes this way.
We are looking forward to giving you more opportunities to win!
By entering, you give us permission to announce your name in next week's Buzz Around Bridgewater.
On May 13, 2020 we will randomly pick a winner from the correct answers.
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The
Buzz Around is brought to you this week by:
Jen Bellody,
Janice O'Brien,
Jacquelyn Rose & Greg Venezia
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For Our Planet:
20 years ago, when my kids were little, I looked at my life, analyzing everything I spent money and time on, making sure that all decisions pointed toward caring for the earth and myself. My emotions could not be trusted when making decisions, nope, I needed to think it through.
Where I worked, what I ate, what I spent my time doing. How is our house heated? Where did our electricity come from? Where were our clothes made? All decisions were for the purpose of caring for our planet, caring for our health, and nurturing our community relationships. These were the seeds that lead to the creation of your BuzzAround...
“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” ~Unknown
“It is our collective and individual responsibility … to preserve and tend to the world in which we all live.” ~ Dalai Lama
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. Do what you can.” ~ Sydney Smith
“Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the list of things to worry about, next to health care and taxes. It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet. Telling us that we need to evolve.”~ Naomi Klein
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“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
~ Henry David Thoreau
Publishing the BuzzAround is the most miraculous career I could ever imagine. I hope that we all can take some time and look at how we impact our earth, how we care for ourselves and community relationships, because miraculous things do happen. ~ Jacquie
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Disclaimer: At the Buzz Around, we promote community and family. Occasionally, there will be links to town committees and other non-profit groups, as a way of sharing local information. Individual groups are responsible for how they represent themselves on their websites and in their promotional materials.
The Buzz Around does not claim to support any particular view.
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