August 23, 2020
~ 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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Employee Shout Out
Raynham Athletic Club (RAC) wants to make a special shout out to some special RAC team members:
"Thank you for your dedicated time and service here at the RAC!!!!! We wish you guys much joy & happiness as you begin a new chapter in your life. All your hard work has paid off! Congratulations on your new jobs!!!! We will miss you Danielle and Kira!!"
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The Raynham Athletic Club, a family-friendly workout facility, was excited to reopen on July 6th. Members have enjoyed accessing the 40 Group Exercise Classes, Weight Room, Cardio Room, Pool, Personal Training, and Childcare. In order to be safe and healthy for both employees and members of the Raynham Athletic Club a Reopening Plan was put in place. The plan contains critical information, policies, and procedures that minimize risk and maximize safety. This helps ensure that all staff and members can exercise and improve their mental health and well-being safely. Some precautions that the RAC put in place were: extensive cleaning of every room daily, online class enrollment sign-ups for classes and reduced class sizes, plastic barriers between cardio equipment to effectively block respiration from someone using the cardio equipment, and indoor and outdoor classes. The pool is open for individual lap swim, aqua classes, and family swim. All members must wear a mask throughout the facility and may only take off the mask while exercising.
The precautions have been welcomed because members and staff recognize that for Raynahm Athletic Club to remain open everyone must be safe. For more information: 508-823-5440 raynhamathleticclub.com
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The First South School
"On March 21, 1931, the town meeting voted to have a committee bring in plans and specifications for a four-room school for south Raynham to replace the large wood-framed school. On April 25, 1931, it was voted to construct the building at a cost of $29,000. There are now six classrooms. One unique factor in the
construction of South School was that one section of the main floor was movable and could be raised or lowered, similar to the stage at Radio City Music Hall in New York. However, the floor has been stationed and secured at one level for many years. Miss J. B. Goodick, long-time South School principal, was an example of the finest teachers of her time."
From:
The History of Raynham, Patrice White
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The Search For An Internship During COVID
By Sasha Rockwell When my Junior year at Bridgewater State University started in the Fall of 2019, I knew it was the perfect time to take advantage of learning opportunities on and off-campus. But I didn't expect it to go the way it did.
Read more
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Writing Internships available at the BuzzAround
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TOWN HALL IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC BY
APPOINTMENT ONLY
Town Clerk 508-824-2700
Treasurer/Collector 508-824-2702
Assessors 508-824-2704
Selectmen 508-824-2707
Building Dept. 508-824-2708
Board of Health 508-824-2766
Planning 508-824-2745
Veterans Service Officer 508-828-4527
Public Library
limited capacity, call to schedule appt
508-823-1344
Council on Aging
Building remains closed.
Director will be in the office Monday, Wednesday and Thursday to process bills, stay in touch with state agencies and attend to phone messages.
508-824-2740
Food Pantry
2nd and 4th Thursday of the month
9:00a - 11:00a
494 Church St, Raynham
774-406-5612
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Congratulations!
Joanne Keith
won a Jump Start Training Package including nutrition consultation & 6 free sessions from Get In Shape For Women at 180 Winter St, Bridgewater, value $279.
Play our
Historical Tidbit Trivia Game
at the bottom of this newsletter.
You could win a $20 gift certificate to Color Street nail polish strips from independent consultant Katie Ray.
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State Primary Early Voting
Early in-person voting will begin August 22, 2020 and end August 28, 2020.
The in-person voting will take place at the Raynham Senior Center, 2215 King Philip St.
Saturday, August 22 - 12:00p - 4:00p
Sunday, August 23 - 9:00a - 1:00p
Monday, August 24 - 8:30a - 4:30p
Tuesday, August 25 - 8:30a - 4:30p
Wednesday, August 26 - 8:30a - 4:30p
Thursday, August 27 - 8:30a - 4:30p
Friday, August 28 - 8:30a - 12:00p
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Crosswalk improvements
Raynham is conducting a public crosswalk survey in order to make improvements.
Completed surveys can be sent to
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Selectmen's Meeting Agenda
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
7:00 PM
558 S. Main Street
7:00 p.m. Regular Meeting – with remote Public Access
Please join our live broadcast on the Raynham Channel (Comcast Channel 98 or Verizon Channel 34) or use the “gotomeeting” online and/or call in using your phone for the Citizen & Community Input portion of the Agenda.
You can also dial in using your phone.
(For supported devices, tap a one-touch number below to join instantly.)
United States (Toll Free): 1 866 899 4679
- One-touch: tel:+18668994679,,220595605#
United States: +1 (669) 224-3318
- One-touch: tel:+16692243318,,220595605#
Access Code: 220-595-605
6:15 – Executive Session
• Exec Session for reason (M.G.L.C. 30A, Section 21(a)(3)) - To discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining or litigating position of the public body and the chair so declares; Riverwalk, LLC; Union Contract Renewals
• Exec Session for reason (M.G.L.C. 30A, Section 21(a)(6)) To consider the purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property if the chair declares that an open meeting may have a detrimental effect of negotiating position of the public body; Old high school property
1)Call to order – Chairman 2)Pledge of Allegiance 3)Acceptance of the Minutes a)August, 6th, 12th, and 13th 2020
4)Department Heads/Committees a)Liz Moura, Council on Aging Director– Monthly Report b)Ed Buckley, Highway Superintendent– Monthly Report c)Robert Iafrate, Building Commissioner – Quarterly Report d)Linda Brackett, ACO -Monthly Report 5)Appointments 6)Public Hearings 7)Completion Old/Continuing Business a)Discussion: Special Town Meeting Warrant i)Vote to Close STM Warrant b)Planning Board Associate Member c)Discussion and/or action Open Space for Raynham Preserve and Raynham Preserve East d)Discussion and/or action Animal Control and Assistant Animal Control Officer
Discussion and/or action Conservation position & Board of Health Senior Clerk
f)Jean Charles – Class II Dealer’s License, 1690 New State Hwy, with included conditions
8)New Business a)MassDOT Project (608267) - Route 138 Broadway b)Junk Dealer’s License Renewal – Rose’s Used Auto Parts, 1 E. Britannia c)Junk Dealer’s License – Hanoush Jewelers, 500 S. Street W. d)Lions Club – One Day Liquor License – September 18, 2020 e)Robert E. Brown II – Agreement for Audit f)Petition for Acceptance of Christina’s Path as Town Way g)Raycam Reimbursement Request 9)Town Administrator’s Report 10)Selectmen’s Report 11)Correspondencea)DEP Notice – Waterways Application – Replace/Maintain Bridge over Swamp Brook b)GO GOLD – Childhood Cancer Awareness Ribbons – Paul La Porte, Bridgewater, MA c)Peaceful Demonstration Request – Dominic Monteiro d)James Burns – Resident Complaint 12)Press Time 13)Emergency Business 14)Citizen & Community Input
15)Performance of Administrative duties
Approval of Town of Raynham Invoice and Payroll Warrants & Approval of Raynham Police Invoice and Payroll Warrants
Adjournment
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Raynham's Lions Club 9th Annual Robert McCabe Memorial Golf Tournament
Friday, September 18th
Registration 7-8a, Tee Time 8:00a sharp
Olde Scotland Links
695 Pine St., Bridgewater
*Proceeds for M.L.E.R.R (Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Foundation, Inc.).
*18 HOLE BEST BALL FORMAT
*SINGLE ENTRIES ACCEPTED
*$400 PER TEAM / $100 PER PERSON (includes golf cart, dinner & prizes)
*DINNER & AWARDS to follow at Raynham Lions Hall 2234 King Philip St., Raynham.
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August 26, 1920 is the day Congress signed the Women’s Right to Vote, 19th Amendment into law.
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and women’s constitutional right to vote, buildings and landmarks across the country, including the Library of Congress and National Archives and many, many more, will light up in purple and gold on August 26, 2020 as part of the Commission’s nationwide Forward Into Light Campaign, named in honor of the historic suffrage slogan, “Forward through the Darkness, Forward into Light.”
In celebration, Brockton City Hall will be lit up that night in the suffrage colors of purple and gold. Enjoy the City Hall lighting at 8:00p along with tributes from many Brockton area community leaders on line at: facebook.com/BPLsuffragecelebration
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Appreciation Post
Karen Lee wanted to say thank you to the Bridgewater - Raynham School District, school committee, teachers, staff, Superintendent Derek Swenson and the reopening committee! She's sure this wasn’t an easy task and she's sure not everyone is happy but ultimately you are trying your best in unprecedented times, allowing parents/guardians options that are better suited for them as we know nothing in COVID times is “best.” Thank you for your time & commitment and please know you are appreciated.
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Raynham Goes Purple
Purple Heart Day!
On the evening of August 7, Raynham joined locations across Massachusetts in lighting purple to recognize our Commonwealth’s Purple Heart recipients.
Raynham lit up the Town Hall, Fire Fighters Memorial, SFC Jared Monti and Cpl. Brian Oliveira Memorials
We honor those who have made a physical sacrifice for our freedom.
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Metrocraft: Create & Learn
In A Virtual World
Mondays 9/28/2020 - 11/09/2020
4:30p - 6:00p
Virtual Learning
Program by Raynham Park and Recreation
Grades 3-6
In this problem-solving class, students design their own house and business within a virtual city as they learn about budgeting, profit and loss, supply and demand and consumer markets. As they serve on a city council they must problem-solve, study how laws are made and work together to create their own constitution; Additionally they will also need to respond to natural disasters and address other challenging city issues.
Students will learn economics and civics as they work together to create a city within a virtual Minecraft type world. While certainly a fun game, Minecraft is also a limitless platform for students to learn academic skills in a highly engaging virtual environment. STEM learning has never been so fun!
IMPORTANT PROGRAM INFORMATION
- This class will take place online and will use two programs, Zoom and Minetest.
- Zoom is an online classroom that is very easy to use.
- Right Brain Curriculum will be hosting and teaching the class and they will send a Zoom ID number with a code to join the meetings.
- They will use a public domain version of Minecraft called Minetest.
- Right Brain Curriculum will also send out detailed instructions and links to a tutorial on how to download and install the program.
- A PC or Mac laptop is needed for Minetest, Chromebooks and tablets are generally not compatible.
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We have what you NEED this summer!
Come see what we have to make your home or farm the best it can be! Shop us today!
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1000 Plymouth St (Rt 104) Bridgewater (508) 697-0357
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Enter the Annual Tide Calendar
Digital Photography Contest
The deadline for inclusion in the 2021 Tide Calendar is Monday, August 31st at midnight.
Open to all, amateur and professional, young and old. Photographs must be of wild life, scenery, or recreational activities TAKEN WITHIN the Taunton River Watershed related to water use and conservation. Photographs must be taken within the last five years and must be the sole property of the submitting party.
Twelve winning images will be selected to illustrate our 2021 Annual Taunton River Tide Calendar, with one grand prize image being selected for the cover. All winners will receive a free copy of the Tide Calendar.
All files must be electronic. At this time, our volunteers do not have the time to scan photographs sent on film. Also, please send files taken from your device's camera. Images that are shot through apps like Instagram or snap chat or downloaded from Facebook, tend to be too compressed or are digitally unsuitable for print.
If you have any questions or If you are emailing files, email them one at a time to [email protected].
If you are dropping a disk in the mail, please send us an email so we can keep an eye out for it. Please use the following mailing address:
TRWA Calendar Contest , P.O. Box 1116 Taunton, MA 02780
Images with landscape orientation work the best. We are looking for seasonal images, so don't forget to submit that lovely snowscape you took in February or the fall foliage river-scape you shot last October. (We tend to get most of summer shots. So if you want to increase your odds of having an image selected, send shots of all four seasons!)
Image Credit: "Immature Cooper's Hawks," Raynham, MA by Bernard Creswick
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Pick Up Your Summer Reading Prize!
If you haven't finished it is not too late...read 10 hours by the end of August...you can still pick up your prize!
Call 508-823-1344 or e-mail [email protected] to pick up your prize curbside, or make an appointment to come in the building. Congrats to all the readers!!!!
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Good Day My Phenomenal People!
• Spiritual Healer • Certified Reiki Master Teacher • Past Life Regression & Future Life Progression Therapist • Officiant
Abington MA
(781) 428-4479
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Dance Theater of New England
Celebrating 16 Years of Excellence
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Visit
for more information
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Town Shout Out!
Kristen Waterman Weaver wants to give a big shout out to Raynham Center Water District. Her house had an issue with a leaking main into the basement. They were so quick to respond, assess the issue and fixed it within 2 hours! Great bunch of guys that did an awesome job (even impressed her dad which is not an easy feat). Thank you!!! raynhamcenterwater.com/
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Bridgewater-Raynham's Socially Distanced Graduation!
On August 7th, Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School finally got the opportunity to have an in-person graduation, socially distanced, of course! Congratulations Class of 2020!!!!
Story credit: Kayla Rose
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WEEKLY TRIVIA GAME
Have fun with us and bee entered to win a $20 gift certificate to Color Street nail polish strips from independent consultant Katie Ray.
Historical Tidbit Question:
What was the floor of the South School compared to?
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 August 26, 2020 we will randomly pick a winner from the correct answers.
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"How do I live my Best Life?
“There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.”
~ Oprah Winfrey
“We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.”
~ Greta Thunberg
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ~ Robert F. Kennedy
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~ Joe Lewis
“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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Sometimes I think giving myself time to journal pondering: "Why did I spend this glorious day in bed? " wastes way too much time.
But then I remember the days I wasted unhappy, without money or options, feeling unloved, and I know, this is much better, to let myself feel those emotions, journal them, understand them and be able to re-frame the narrative if necessary. Ignoring and burying does not make my best life, it makes no-one happy, or productive, especially me.
I wish you all a fabulous week. Loving yourself, giving yourself the time you need, and living your best life. ~ Jacquie
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The Buzz Around is brought to you this week by: Jen Bellody, Janice O'Brien, Jacquelyn Rose, Kayla Rose, & Sebastian Ladoulis
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Copyright 2020 Buzz Around Raynham. You have our permission to share and copy this issue in its entirety as much as you like. If you take it in part, please give credit: ("Buzz Around Raynham 8/23/20")
Disclaimer: At the Buzz Around, we promote community and family. 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 is not responsible for their website content.
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