June 28,2020
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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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Amazing Clothing Drive Outcome
Christopher Blackman was selected in 8th grade as the Whitman Ambassador for Project 351. Every year since, he has participated as an alumni ambassador in their spring clothing drive, their fall food pantry drive, and other opportunities to serve the community. This year, as every year, he reached out to the Whitman schools about being drop sites for the clothing drive which was supposed to go from March 23-April 2 and they had all agreed. Then the quarantine started. With little else planned, the Blackman family started finding ways to occupy their time, including cleaning closets and drawers. Christopher decided other people were likely doing the same. They would post in Whitman FB groups and his mother, Stephanie, posted on her own personal page.
The community support was overwhelmingly wonderful.
They received 57 bags of clothes and 4 bags of shoes to donate to Cradles to Crayons and an additional 96 bags plus 2 suits to give to St. Vincent de Paul.
Story and photo credit: Stephanie Blackman
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Whitman High School Class of 1957
Photographs show the Whitman High School Class of 1957, Little League Champions, Whitman Orchestral Club, & Varsity Football team.
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Although many of the Whitman Orchestral Club members are middle-aged or older, the organization which is pre-seating its 1957 pops concert Nov. 14 at Whitman Town Hall under the sponsorship of Masque and Triangle boasts a suitable group of young teenagers, most of whom are shown above (top picture).
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The varsity Football team is looking forward to the traditional Turkey Day morning encounter with old time Abington High rivals, seeking revenge for the 19-6 defeat suffered in Whitman last year.
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All town buildings are closed to the public, please call or email for assistance.
Town Hall
781-618-9700
Check the town website for
needed updates
Public Library
781-447-7613
Council on Aging
781-447-7619
St. Vincent de Paul/Whitman Food Pantry
By appointment only: 781-447-8560
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Congratulations!
Diane Ribeiro who won a
$20 gift certificate to
Color Street nail polish strips
from independent consultant Katie Ray
You should play our
Historical Tidbit Trivia Game
at the bottom of this newsletter.
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Get your Garden on TV!
They will be visiting local gardens all summer long!
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Flags for Vets - Battle of the Bands Fundraiser Looking for Bands and Food Trucks
Saturday, August 15th
5p – 11p
*Contact for Food Trucks: Michelle Hamilton @ 774-766-9214 or
[email protected]
*Contact for Bands: Josh Hallett @ 774-219-0669
We are asking you to donate your time & talents for a good cause. And bragging rights as the best band.
Entry donation $10.00. Kids 11 & under FREE.
This has been in the works for a few months now but got slowed down due to COVID-19; but we wanted to get out the main info.
The Veterans/Military Summit is hosting a joint fundraiser event to support the SFC Jared Monti Charitable Foundation in their quest to purchase 80,000 new grave flags to be used at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne.
This will be a Battle of the Bands event with food trucks on site for those looking to purchase food.
More to follow on the bands that will be present and food truck names.
For those not familiar with what the Veteran/Military Summit is, they are made up of different groups/motorcycle clubs/organizations who have the same goal. Military/Veteran issues in order to better collaborate and maximize everyone's charity or cause. From Boston down through southeastern Massachusetts, we are a non territorial group. We all work together to support our Military & Veterans.
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COMMONWEALTH PLACES GRANTS
AVAILABLE
On Friday, MassDevelopment
announced
$225,000 in funding for a new round of Commonwealth Places grants. This Commonwealth Places COVID-19 Response Round: Resurgent Places funding is being made available specifically to help community partners prepare public space and commercial districts to best serve their population during communities’ economic recovery efforts.
Eligible projects may include outdoor seating spaces, sidewalk retail venues, partitions to support social distancing, and more.
Non-profits and community groups are eligible to apply for grant awards of up to $25,000. Up to $10,000 per project may be awarded as an unmatched grant; awards greater than $10,000 must be matched with crowdfunding donations. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until July 31, 2020.
Read more in the Request for Proposals here.
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BEAUTY COUNTER
CHRISTINE HARKINS
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Download these E-books and Audiobooks via Overdrive or Libby - No Wait!
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
"Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable teachers we have right now on the subject of white supremacy and racial injustice."~New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert. Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey of how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society— and in ourselves." The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind." —The New York Times. Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism— and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At it's core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. This book is currently not available via the Whitman Public Library, but can be purchased
here via the official website
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White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and "allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to 'bad people' (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence.
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MAMA DEB'S
SWEET ITALIAN SAUCE
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Mama Deb's Italian Food Truck is now on the road!
Your Italian Favorite Meals plus Mama Deb's Frozen Pizza and retail sauce.
Contact us to come to your neighborhood, graduation, wedding, private or corporate event.
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PINCHES AND POUNDS
An old-fashioned candy store
with a TWIST
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Large selection of nostalgia candy!
All those goodies from your childhood!
Mon - Sat: Open til 8pm • Sunday 'til 6pm Come check us out!
Online orders!
(781) 447-2639
785 Bedford St, Rt 18, Whitman
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Remembering Fallen Heroes Memorial
Celebrated our annual Firefighters’ Memorial on Sunday June 14th.
This link
will bring you to our video for this years memorial.
The first 15 minutes can be played on Dropbox, to see the whole 28 minutes, download.
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Update from the Council on Aging
If you are in need of assistance with picking up groceries, prescriptions, take-out food, would like a check-in phone call, or any other need, please call me and we will do the best we can to see that your needs are met.
Although the Senior Center building is closed to the general public and all activities have been cancelled, we are in the building to answer calls and are continuing to deliver Meals on Wheels and to provide our usual transportation on Mondays to Whitman pharmacies, banks and Family Dollar store.
We are also providing our regularly scheduled transportation for grocery shopping on Tuesdays. Call the office at 781-447-7619 x 2 to schedule transportation.
Stay well – we will all get through this together!
Barbara J. Garvey, Director Whitman Council on Aging 781-447-7619 x5
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American Legion Post 22 Celebrating Flag Day
Veterans and those who served in military duties gathered on Sunday, June 14th to celebrate Flag Dag, and respectfully burn flags that are no longer serviceable. A large crowd paid their respects to the flag during the service.
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WEEKLY TRIVIA GAME
Historical Tidbit Question:
What team lost in Whitman for Football?
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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 July 1, 2020 we will randomly pick a winner from the correct answers.
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Summer & Books
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
~ Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib
“Come with me,' Mom says.
To the library.
Books and summertime
go together.”
~ Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me
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Summer & Books go together. Just like summer and magic.
Let's spread the magic.
We are collecting books and funds for the Brockton Public Library.
And we are getting ready for the book drive. So make a pile for your gently used / not written on books. : )
~ Jacquie
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The Buzz Around is brought to you this week by: Jen Bellody, Janice O'Brien, Sasha Rockwell, Jacquelyn Rose, Kayla Rose
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