February 28, 2021
~ Building Community One Positive Story at a Time
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Your BuzzAround supports the dignity of all human beings, is actively anti-racist, and supportive of good law enforcement policies. |
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Image credits:
Halifax Locals Facebook Posting by Frederick Corrigan
Story by Mohamed (Moe) Ibrahim
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In the past few months, we had an abundance of snow piling up in our driveway or our backyard. Some of us leave it until it melts in the Spring others get creative with it, by making snow figurines. Meet Frederick Corrigan, Halifax resident with his latest piece of art titled "Clifford's House." Posing is one of America's childhood characters, giving us a blast from the past with eerie alien eyes that glow in the dark. Frederick Corrigan has been creating beautiful sculptures over the years. Giving us a reason to smile in our daily events.
Thank You, Frederick Corrigan, for sharing your art with us!!!
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STANDISH MANOR SCHOOL
HALIFAX, MASSACHUSETTS
(from a small handbook at the
Museum of Halifax)
A Special School for Girls
HALIFAX - near PLYMOUTH - MASSACHUSETTS
Miss Alice M. Myers, Principal
Hazel G. Cullingford, Assistant Principal
PART 1
The Special School for Girls
Standish Manor, the special school for girls who need and desire personal care and individual instruction, was opened in 1911. So rapidly did this school outgrow its environment that there was need for even larger accommodations and better advantages for its students, and within a few years it was moved to the Standish Manor at Halifax, Massachusetts, which name it now bears. The search of more than a year for a large cheery home surrounded by spacious lawns, yet easily accessible to the larger cities, ended with the discovery of Standish Manor.
Halifax, twelve miles from historic Plymouth, is but twenty-eight miles from Boston on the direct line of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
An Attractive, Homelike School
Standish Manor, a most attractive, rambling house with large, airy rooms, all of which are flooded with sunlight at some part of the day, is an ideal school home for girls. Wide green lawns encircle the School which stands on the top of a rolling knoll high above the adjacent land. Health-giving pines stand beside the tall shade trees.
An air of quiet, peaceful happiness pervades the Manor and the cozy, sunny study-rooms where girls find everything to make work interesting. The building is amply supplied with bathrooms and all other modern conveniences. Good times center about the gymnasium and play room. Here a large open fireplace, a piano and Victrola in leisure hours inspire the girls to dancing, singing, games, story telling and reading. In the same building are the Domestic Science Department and the Studio for Manual Arts. The cheery rooms where the girls live have been described by one of the students as "happy rooms."
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This is a photo of the J. L. Jones Estate that was at one time known as Standish Manor School. |
~ Respectfully submitted,
Sue Basile
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Town Hall
781-294-1316
For needed updates, check the town website.
Holmes Public Library
781-293-2271
Council on Aging
506 Plymouth Street
781-293-7313
Office personnel available through phone
and email only. All in person activities and
events are suspended.
Food Pantries
Halifax Congregational Church
503 Plymouth St. (Rt 106)
781-293-6393
Tuesdays 2:30 - 4p
St Vincent De Paul
Our Lady of the Lake Church
580 Monponsett St, Halifax
(781) 293- 7971
2nd & 4th Saturday 9a
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Congratulations!
Gail Woodbury
won a a $10 gift certificate to
Mama Deb's Kitchen & Food Truck.
Play our Historical Tidbit Trivia Game
at the bottom of this newsletter.
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You could win a
1 hour (value $80) session with
Glee Works Holistic Personal Coaching.
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Remote 12 Week Internships Available In:
Journalism
Marketing
Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship
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Kindergarten 2021-2022 Registration
The Halifax Elementary School is reaching out to families to gather information for incoming kindergarten registration for 2021-2022. We are starting this process early on as schedules are still in the planning phase and given our circumstances, we want to be prepared for what the Fall may look like. At this time, we ask families to complete the Pre-Registration Form below so that we may begin to generate our contact list. Please share this information with any families that may have a child who is eligible for entering kindergarten this Fall. The other tentative dates are listed below.
○ This is a pre-registration form for parents and/or guardians to indicate if they plan to send their child to Kindergarten at Halifax Elementary School in the 2021-2022 school year. (Child must be five years old by August 31, 2021.) The form will be used for planning purposes and you will be notified when registration will take place.
● Kindergarten Registration - Kindergarten Registration Window opens on Monday, February 8, 2021 closes on March 5, 2021.
TENTATIVE IMPORTANT DATES:
● Kindergarten Screening: Wednesday, September 1st and Thursday, September 2nd
● Kindergarten Open House: Tuesday, Sept 7th
● Kindergarten Start Date : Wed Sept 8th
Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or concerns. We look forward to working with you and your family!
Halifax Elementary School
464 Plymouth Street
Halifax MA 02338
Telephone: (781) 293-2581 Fax: (781) 293-6589
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The Silver Lake Integrated Preschool (SLIP)
is accepting applications for 3 and 4-year old peer model students for the 2021-2022 school year.
If you have any questions about the integrated preschool, please contact Kingston Elementary School Principal Kerri Whipple at 781-585-3821 or kerriwhipple@slrsd.org.
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FY23-27 Library Long Range Plan Survey
The Library Board of Trustees, Library Director, and Staff of the Holmes Public Library are looking for your feedback as we develop the FY23-27 Long Range Plan to be submitted to the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
This survey is the initial step in gathering community feedback and is designed primarily to focus on library services. There will be more opportunities for community input in the coming months.
Follow us on Facebook or visit our website for details.
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Freshmen in Ms. Ferrara’s class attended a “book tasting” event in the library today, hosted by Mrs. Mathias!
This activity is part of a nonfiction unit designed by Ms. Ferrara and Mrs. Afanasiw that culminates in students writing their own memoir. Today, students moved around the “restaurant” and “tested” different memoirs...each book serving as the main course or beverage and bookmarks as the fork and knife! facebook.com/SilverLakeRegionalHighSchool 2/25/21
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1000 Plymouth St (Rt 104) • Bridgewater • (508) 697-0357
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The birds are hungry this time of year!
Why not give them a treat!
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Information on the Upcoming Elections
The upcoming Town Officers election day in Halifax will be on Saturday, May the 15th of this year. There are a few office positions that are available for any eligible candidates either new or current candidates. These available positions are:
- Board of Assessors position for a Three (3) Year Term
- Board of Health position for a Three (3) Year Term
- Three Board of Library Trustees positions for Three (3) Year and two (3) Term
- Planning Board position for a Five (5) Year Term
- Three Halifax Elementary School Committee positions for Three (3) Year and Two (3) Term
- Town Moderator position for a Three (3) Year Term
- Two Park Commissioner position for Three (3) Year and Two (3) Term
- Two Silver Lake Regional School Committee positions for Three (3) Year and Two (3) Term
- Board of Selectmen position for a Three (3) Year Term
- Board of Water Commissioners position for a Three (3) Year Term
- Town Clerk position for a Three (3) Year Term
- Treasurer/Collector position for a Three (3) Year Term.
Each of these positions has current candidates that can be re-elected except for both Park Commissioner positions (for the 2 or 3 years term) and one position at the Silver Lake Regional School Committee ( for 2 years term) are currently vacant for any eligible candidate position to grab at the election date. Also if you are an eligible candidate for one of the positions above and would like to run for one of these positions; The Deadline to take out nomination papers is Thursday, March 25th and the Deadline to return nomination papers is Monday, March 29th. At the Town's Clerk in Halifax’s Town Hall.
Check out the open positions and the deadlines for nomination are here.
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BEAUTY COUNTER
CHRISTINE HARKINS
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In Honor of Black History Month, We are Pleased to Share:" I, Too, Sing "America." Black Perspectives on American Patriotism
Courtesy of Brockton Public Library and the Brockton Area Branch NAACP
Panel Discussion topics include the history and meaning of patriotism, the confederate flag, and the roles of Black Americans as patriots for social justice and freedom.
Moderator: Phyllis Ellis: Brockton NAACP President; recipient: Black Excellence on the Hill Award 2019; Sojourner Truth Award 2020; both from the Historic Boston Equal Rights League. Phyllis serves as Chair on the Mayors Community Justice Task Force; she is a Commissioner, Plymouth County Commission on the Status of Women, and on the Brockton Public Library Board of Trustees.
The esteemed panelists, with a condensed listing of their involvements in civic and professional activities:
Bishop Tony Branch, Chair of the Commission on Diversity, City of Brockton; serves on the Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending; and on the SE Regional Technical Vocational School Committee, where he serves as Vice-Chair.
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Michele R. Henson, Retiree of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, where she provided administrative assistance and conference organization for several space and science missions. Michele is a Member of Brockton Area NAACP.
Willie Wilson Jr, has been a teacher, historian, deacon, and community leader for 30 years on the South Shore. Currently he serves as an adjunct faculty member at Stonehill College, and serves as a Scholar and a Board Member on the Board of Directors for Fredrick Douglass Neighborhood Association.
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Bald Eagle on Twin Lakes
February 2021
Photo Credit:
Michael Carey
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Showing Love to Our Fire Department!
Thank you to Miss Anderson’s class at Halifax Elementary for dropping off this book of valentines for our members."
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WEEKLY TRIVIA GAME
Have fun with us and bee entered to win a
1 hour (value $80) session with
Glee Works Holistic Personal Coaching.
Historical Tidbit Question:
What is the name of the estate in the photo?
Email us your answer at:
Please include your name, phone number with your answer.
By entering, you give us permission to print your name in next week's Buzz Around.
On March 3, 2021 we will randomly pick a winner from the correct answers.
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Dare to Be You.
“All serious daring starts from within.”
~ Eudora Welty, On Writing
“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”
~ William James, The Principles of Psychology
“Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action....no matter what. So you're afraid? Be afraid. Be scared silly to the point you're trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!”
~ Richelle E. Goodrich
“It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.”
~ Luci Swindoll, I Married Adventure
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Accept fear and failure as a part of life, and dare to live passionately and creatively anyway. What will you dare this week? ~ Jacquie |
The Buzz Around is brought to you this week by: Jen Bellody, Mohamed (Moe) Ibrahim, Janice O'Brien & Jacquelyn Rose |
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