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After months of planning, the Kindness Week team is excited to share all the details for the upcoming 5th annual Kindness Week in Westborough. It begins with our annual Kickoff to Kindness Week on November 12th! We hope you will find this preview email helpful as you look ahead and that you refer back to it during the week. We will keep you updated through some additional emails and via our website and Facebook page.
What is Kindness Week? Click HERE for some background.
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Begin Kindness Week with Community Service
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This is where we will start.
We are excited to introduce a "Morning of Community Service" as a new component of Kindness Week. Kindness through Service is impactful and we hope to see this piece grow and flourish each and every year as part of Kindness Week. If you are interested in learning more or signing up for a service opportunity on the morning of November 12th (or weekend), please click on the link below.
Please sign up before November 10th.
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Kickoff to Kindness Week
Saturday, November 12th
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Please join Westborough Connects and many of our Partners in Kindness for kindness-related and community-oriented activities, music, and refreshments! The Kickoff will also feature an interactive Drum Up Kindness performance by three drummers with different instruments, who are coming together for the first time to perform! Come see Drumhead Dave (frame drum, doumbek and djembe drums), Yash (Dholki drum) and Yogesh (Tabla drum).
This free event is open to the community and is intended for all ages.
**Remember to bring your leftover Halloween candy for our collection for 3 different organization!
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It's World Kindness Day and we'd love to hear from you! Share with us an answer or photo response to one of these 3 questions:
- What does kindness mean to you?
- What examples of kindness have you witnessed or experienced in Westborough?
- What is a tradition you celebrate that is related to show kindness to yourself or others?
Email to westboroughconnects@gmail.com or post your response to our Kindness Week Facebook page HERE.
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Join Art Buddies in the backyard of co-host and sponsor Right at Home from 3:30-5:30 pm. Paint a Kindness Canvas to give to someone you are thankful for. This event is for ages 8-108. Registration required. (Registration link will be available soon).
The Westborough Public Library will have a Kindness Button making activity out all day. Drop in anytime. This event is for all ages.
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Westborough Public Library invites patrons of all ages to drop in during regular hours and spend some time helping to make several no-sew blankets which will be donated.
Yummy Mummy Bakery encourages you to treat yourself and someone else to a treat (9 am- 4 pm). Buy 1 cookie and get 1 cookie free, to give away in kindness.
Westborough Youth & Family Services will help you take care of yourself by releasing some stress. Grab a stress ball from the bin outside of the Forbes building all day. The bin will remain the rest of the week, while supplies last.
Release Well-Being Center is hosting a free, in-person “Kindness to Self” Meditation with Carole from 5:15-5:45 pm. Click HERE to register or call 508-986-2330 (pre-registration is required).
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During Chalk the Walks Wednesday, Westborough Public Library will have chalk set out in front of the library. Use the chalk to leave kind messages for all to see.
Westborough Public Library Adult Services Department will host a free screening of the documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, a film about the life of Fred Rogers, the host and creator of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - from 6-8pm. The film is rated PG-13.
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Stop by Elsie Kaye Glassworks studio/gift shop (anytime between 11 am-5 pm) to pick up a free set of glass friendship beads–one to keep and one to give to someone you are grateful for. The staff will help you turn one of the beads into a keychain.
Come paint a Kindness Rock (or two) at the BORO Sugar Shack anytime between 1-4 pm. Take one home to hide around town and bring the other to plant in the new Kindness Rocks Garden at the library on Friday, or a date convenient for you.
Westborough Connects is so grateful for its volunteers! We invite you to Connect Over Coffee from 4-5 pm so we can express our gratitude. Join us in the Westborough Public Library’s meeting room (lower level, outside of the children’s department). Stop in for a quick visit or stay the whole time. Free coffee and light snacks.
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Enjoy Kindness Cookies and Cocoa at the Westborough Public Library. Drop in, while supplies last, to celebrate Kindness Week and Westborough’s birthday!
Mugford’s Flower Shoppe is encouraging everyone to “pay it forward” by providing a Buy One Get One flower deal today at their shop to help you show someone else some kindness.
Come paint a Kindness Rock (or two) at the BORO Sugar Shack anytime between 1-4 pm. Take one to hide around town and bring the other to plant at the new Kindness Rocks Garden at the library at 4 pm (same day).
The Westborough Senior Center is hosting a “celebrate kindness” lunch at noon. Join them for surprises, a special dessert, and door prizes. The cost is $3 and reservations are required. Please call 508-366-3000 by Wednesday at 10am to reserve your spot.
Help Westborough Connects plant our Kindness Rocks Garden! All are welcome to join us in front of the Westborough Public Library from 4-4:30 pm to create a rock garden using the Kindness Rocks that the community has been painting since the summertime.
Families with children of all ages are invited to the Unitarian Universalist Congregational Society of Westborough from 4:30-5:15 pm for a “Spreading Kindness” workshop, which will use fun and engaging activities and exercises to help us focus on bringing kindness to ourselves and our community.
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Nominate someone who has shown kindness to give them a chance to win one of three kindness themed @Home Kits donated by Board & Brush. They are also offering these fun kits for a reduced price. Choose Kindness option HERE, Believe There is Good option HERE or Compassion option HERE.
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Visit Nourse Farm and enjoy Westborough Connects’ latest installed self-guided StoryWalk®, featuring the book If the World Were 100 People by Jackie McCann.
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Wrightpix Photo Gifts will be “Clicking with Kindness” by hiding kindness themed pieces of art. Look around and see if you can find one.
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Give and Take Kindness Walls will be located in Central One Federal Credit Union, Skyrise Theater, Rebound Physical Therapy, and Arts and Frame Emporium. Visit any to take part!
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Check out the various activities happening all week at the Westborough Public Library: Kindness Bingo cards, Share Something Kind board, Write a Kind Note activity, Make and Take Rainbow Craft for kids, and sidewalk chalk out all week to write kind messages.
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First United Methodist Church is hosting a gently used coat drive for Westborough Youth & Family Services (WYFS) and Project Just Because. The need is great–especially for children’s coats. Drop off in the Outreach bin, which can be found in the atrium of the church.
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Stop in to Learning Express Toys, where they will be holding a toy drive to benefit the Westborough Holiday Store (hosted by WYFS and the Rotary Club of Westborough). Learning Express is offering a 25% discount on items purchased for the toy drive (gift cards can be donated but are excluded from the discount).
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Help Mill Pond School, Westborough High School and the Westborough Veterans’ Advisory Board collect new or gently used clothing and new toiletries for homeless veterans.
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Westborough Education Foundation, in partnership with the Westborough High School Student Council and Gibbons Middle School Student Council, is hosting a personal care items drive for the Westborough Food Pantry. Donations can be dropped off at either of the two schools.
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Drop off non-perishable donations for the Westborough Food Pantry at Central One Federal Credit Union, The Willows/Salmon Health and Retirement, or Westborough Tennis and Swim Club. They are each holding collection drives all week.
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Visit those hosting a Kindness Champion in Our Community raffle: Lindsay Taylor SPAtique, Westborough Tennis & Swim Club, and Central One Federal Credit Union). Nominate someone you believe is a true champion of kindness.
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Look out for special surprise ways our partners from Red Barn, Cornerstone Dental, Westborough Boosters and Westborough Girl Scouts will be spreading kindness across the community.
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We are grateful to our Kindness Week financial supporters |
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Thank you to all of our Partners in Kindness |
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Stay in touch and up-to-date |
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Email: westboroughconnects@gmail.com
HASHTAGS:
#KindnessWeekWestborough #WCKindnessWeek #KindnessConnectsUs #WestboroughConnectsKindnessWeek
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About Westborough Connects
Westborough Connects, a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization (EIN # 84-1751472), is a community connector with a mission to help build a thriving, kind, and connected community where everybody belongs. By listening and responding to the needs of the community, we connect people to resources and to each other. We foster meaningful relationships through events, collaborative partnerships and communications. Visit us at http://www.westboroughconnects.org
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