April 26, 2020
~ Building Community One Positive Story at a Time
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East Monponsett Lake Sunset
Photographer Steve Gilbert shared with us his East Monponsett Lake Sunset pictures.
Thank you, Steve, they are gorgeous!
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Do you like to write? Do you have a good story to share?
Could you use $100?
Enter our short story contest.
Write an original non-fiction short story related to one of the BuzzAround Hives: Bridgewater, Brockton, East Bridgewater, Halifax, Raynham, West Bridgewater or Whitman. Due 5/8/20.
4 prizes of $100 each will be awarded on May 21, 2020 to the best non-fiction short stories in these categories:
Popular vote:
Vote on stories from
May 11 -17, 2020
The popular vote will include all short stories submitted that meet the above criteria.
Brockton:
3 Brockton librarians, Malice Veiga, Jennifer Belcher and Kevin Nascimento will judge stories submitted related to Brockton.
East Bridgewater, Halifax & Whitman:
Michelle “Shel” Stephen (EB), Jean Gallant (Halifax) and Barbara Bryant (Whitman) from our public libraries will award a winner from stories submitted for Whitman, East Bridgewater and Halifax.
Bridgewater, Raynham, and West Bridgewater:
Ann Gerald (Bridgewater),
Ellen Snoeyenbos (WB) , Jessie McKinney (Raynham) from our public libraries will award a winner from stories submitted for Bridgewater, Raynham and West Bridgewater.
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Jean Gallant, Director of the Holmes Public Library, Halifax.
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Entries must be 1,000 words or less.
We are accepting one story per person until May 8, 2020.
4 prizes of $100 each will be announced on May 21, 2020.
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What's Your Good News Halifax?
Let us know your good news! We are accepting original non-fiction short stories related to one of the BuzzAround Hives: Bridgewater, Brockton, East Bridgewater, Halifax, Raynham, West Bridgewater or Whitman.
Read more
buzzaround.info
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What we as a nation are facing right now might seem insurmountable but our ancestors faced a very similar situation just over 100 years ago. We will get through this together and come out stronger on the other side.
THIS TOO SHALL PASS
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Washington, D.C., circa 1919. Walter Reed Hospital flu ward. One of the very few images in Washington area photo archives documenting the influenza contagion of 1918-1919, which killed over 500,000 Americans and tens of millions around the globe. Most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection.
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Respectfully submitted by Sue Basille
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We Are Hiring Account Representatives
Our local economies have been severely impacted. Our small local businesses need help recovering. You can help. Small companies create 1.5 million jobs annually and account for 64 percent of new jobs created in the United States. Over 90 percent...
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buzzaround.info
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Town Hall
781-294-1316
Office personnel available through phone
and email only.
For needed updates, check the town website.
Holmes Public Library
781-293-2271
Office personnel available through phone
and email only.
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!
Karen Walsh
won a
45 min
Reiki Treatment from Jacquelyn Rose to be used when restrictions are lifted.
You should play our
Historical Tidbit Trivia Game
at the bottom of this newsletter.
You could win
a $10 gift certificate to Mama Deb's food truck. Enjoy delicious fresh Italian food or purchase some sauce to take home. Go to
mamadeb.biz
for upcoming food truck events!
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Shout out to Caeli McCullough from Halifax!
She was in a the CTE Culinary program at Silver Lake High School. Last year she got the opportunity to attend Johnson and Whales University as part of Early Enrollment. This means she is finishing her Senior AND her first year of college at same time! Like many of our students they are missing out on the recognition they deserve and worked for. She was to be part of a banquet for the state for this award and be acknowledged at Senior awards. That has all changed. So I want to recognize her here. We have amazing students that go to our amazing school! Silver Lake has done a great job shaping our students! Great job Caeli! ❤️ Check out her
bakery page Caeli’s Confections!
Submitted by Michelle Sheehan
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Caeli's first baking video! Follow her on
Youtube.
Have a sweet day!
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Teaching with i-Tree - Project Learning Tree
Free. "This is something we can actually use with real-world application." - Patti Farris, science teacher, Ramsey Jr. High, Ft. Smith, AR "Very cool program." - Jane Houseal, Arkansas Master Naturalists Project .
Read more
www.plt.org
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"Thank you Town of Halifax..
The Fire & Police Dept. and Jonathan Selig.. this was my first 'Birthday Brigade' it was the highlight of my last few weeks at home, it was priceless seeing all the kids faces!
We live in an amazing community that I am proud to be part of! I personally was laugh crying the entire time while driving because it was truly rewarding !!! Our neighbors on our street loved it!" ~ Wendy Levesque Ortenzi
Huge thanks to Jonathan Selig and all the volunteers making birthdays happen all over Halifax each week with the Birthday Brigade!
It you have a birthday to celebrate in your house,
PM Jonathan.
Image credit Wendy Levesque Ortenzi
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Girl Scout Cookies
Huge shout out to an anonymous donor.
We were able to deliver 18 boxes of Girl Scout Thanks a lot cookies to Halifax Fire Department Halifax Police Department and our local Cumberland Farms. Stay safe everyone!
Anyone looking for Girl Scout cookies? Porch pick up. Venmo/cash in a baggie.
S’mores
Caramel delights
Thanks a lots
1 box lemonades
Jill Weaver Jones FB
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Taunton River Watershed Association (TRWA) is looking for a volunteer to help with their Calendar Photo Contest
Needed: A volunteer to take over the coordination of entries for our yearly photography contest. This is a job that can be done remotely on your own schedule, but would require some dedication as the workload is variable. Most of the work occurs in the month before and the week after the entry deadline. All told, it amounts to about forty hours of work from the beginning of July to the first week of August.
Responsibilities would include:
• Checking email correspondence for entries and inquiries
• Download all entry photographs
• Send confirmation emails
• Correspond after the judging with the entrants and send appropriate win/lose notifications
Cool benefits include corresponding with an amazing group of nature photographers and getting to view over 400 amazing photographs of the Taunton River Watershed.
If interested please fill out the
Volunteer Form. They look forward to hearing from you.
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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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BEAUTY COUNTER
CHRISTINE HARKINS
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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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Online Uke Jam - BSU Music Dept
Wednesday, April 29th
5:00 - 6:00p
Zoom
The uke jams on Wednesdays have moved online! If you want to join us on Zoom email Paula Bishop at
p1bishop@bridgew.edu.
Any instrument at any level is welcome!
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Family Engagement Needs Assessment
Massachusetts is the recipient of a Statewide Family Engagement Center grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
As a recipient of that grant and in order to learn more about the relationships that schools and families have with one another, DESE must annually conduct an assessment of families’ and educators’ needs related to family engagement. I encourage you to participate in this survey by visiting this website.
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JOHNNY MACARONI'S
Eat well, Laugh often, Love much
Take out ONLY at all of our award-winning restaurants, offering curbside pick up!
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NEW SPECIALS (effective 3/17/20)
**All GIFT CARDS ordered online only
are discounted 25% (until further notice)!
**Receive a $10 gift card for each
TAKE-OUT order $50 or more!
Click on location below for
full take out menus.
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We're Open!
Some FYIs to our loyal customers: we’ll be following social distancing guidelines and taking all possible safety precautions to protect you and our staff, so be patient shopping! See you soon!
318 Plymouth St. Halifax
(781) 294-1767
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Thank you!!
Huge Kudos to our friends at Nessralla Farm for going above and beyond in customer service!!! Thanks for taking care of us & getting everyone the fresh veggies they need to stay healthy!
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WEEKLY TRIVIA GAME
Have fun with us and bee entered to win
a $10 gift certificate to Mama Deb's food truck. Enjoy delicious fresh Italian food or purchase some sauce to take home.
Historical Tidbit Question:
How many years ago was the influenza outbreak?
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 April 29, 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, Theresa McNulty, Janice O'Brien, Stacy Rancourt, Jacquelyn Rose & Gregory Venezia
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A Warning from the Vermicious Knids
SCRAM!
“But if they’re so fierce and dangerous,” Charlie said, “why didn’t they eat us up right away in the Space Hotel? Why did they waste time twisting their bodies into letters and writing SCRAM?”
“Because they’re show–offs,” Mr. Wonka replied. “They’re tremendously proud of being able to write like that.”
“But why say scram when they wanted to catch us and eat us?”
“It’s the only word they know,” Mr. Wonka said.
Since April is poetry month, here is my first and favorite poet, the very weird Roald Dahl, and the first poem I ever memorized: The Vermicious Knid. It is still recited at family gatherings, a poem to be conquered, really. From
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
: 'Hello, you great Knid! Tell us, how do you do? You're a rather strange colour today. Your bottom is purple and lavender blue. Should it really be looking that way? Are you not feeling well? Are you going to faint? Is it something we cannot discuss? It must be a very unpleasant complaint, For your backside's as big as a bus! Let me get you a doctor. I know just the man For a Knid with a nasty disease. He's a butcher by trade which is not a bad plan, And he charges quite reasonable fees. Ah, here he is now! "Doc, you really are kind To travel so far into space. There's your patient, the Knid with the purple behind! Do you think it's a desperate case?" "Great heavens above! It's no wonder he's pale!" Said the doc with a horrible grin. "There's a sort of balloon on the end of his tail! I must prick it at once with a pin!" So he got out a thing like an Indian spear, With feathers all over the top, And he lunged and he caught the Knid smack in the rear, But alas, the balloon didn't pop! Cried the Knid, "What on earth am I going to do With this painful preposterous lump? I can't remain standing the whole summer through! And I cannot sit down on my rump!"
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"It's a bad case of rear-ache," the medico said, "And it's something I cannot repair. If you want to sit down, you must sit on your head, With your bottom high up in the air!"'
Have a Scrumdiddlyumptious week, folks. ~ Jacquie
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