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October 30, 2022 ~ Building Community One Positive Story at a Time
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State elections November 8, 2022, 7a - 8p at
Halifax Elementary School, 464 Plymouth Street
Check in with The Halifax Town Clerks Office at (781) 293-7970 or
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Makin’ Music for Music and Drama: SLAPP Fundraiser Success!
The Silver Lake Performing Arts Association held the cabaret style fundraiser Makin’ Music for Music and Drama on Sunday, October 16th. The event took place at Cancun Family Mexican Restaurant and included many great performances by Silver Lake students. SLAPP wants to thank everyone who donated and is looking forward to the next one! #makinmusicformusic
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Historical Tidbit: Halloween's Mix of Remembrance, Spiritual Connection, Community & Seasonal Celebration make it the second most popular American holiday.
Halloween is celebrated October 31 and for weeks before. A popular FB group question during covid: "Will Halloween be cancelled?" A worry since everything else was impacted. But it is impossible to cancel Halloween. It does not belong to any one organization or person, having grown from its roots to plant in our collective psyche. If we are to believe Americans rate approval with their dollars: "Americans spend an estimated $6 billion annually on Halloween, making it the country’s second largest commercial holiday after Christmas."
(History.com)
Halloween originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, (pronounced SAH-win) marking the harvest and the new year. Believed to be the point in the year when the threshold between the physical world and the spirit realm was at its thinnest. Observance of Samhain with bonfires and costumes would ward off creatures from the spirit world. As Catholicism spread in Ireland, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 to honor all saints. Incorporating some of the Samhain traditions, the All Saints’ Day celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints’ Day) and the night before it, the traditional night of Samhain in the Celtic religion, began to be called All-Hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.
Halloween in America
As the beliefs and customs of different European ethnic groups and the Native American slowly meshed, a distinctly American version of Halloween began to emerge. Celebrations were public events held to celebrate the harvest in costume. Neighbors would share stories of the dead, tell each other’s fortunes, dance and sing.
Borrowing from European traditions, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today’s “trick-or-treat” tradition. Young women believed that on Halloween they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings or mirrors. It was also understood that people could avoid the tricks of revelers by offering candy.
Submitted by J. Rose
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Town Hall
781-294-1316
Holmes Public Library
781-293-2271
Council on Aging
506 Plymouth Street
781-293-7313
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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We were all too busy to enter last week!
Bee sure to play our Historical Tidbit Trivia Game at the bottom of this newsletter.
Enter for this week's prize of a
$10 gift certificate toward a yummy & nutritional smoothie or meal at
603 Centre St, Brockton
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November Shamanic Journey Group Meet
Sunday, November 6th
3 - 5p
284 Monponsett St
The Healing Table holds free monthly Shamanic group meetings led by shaman Kristin Hanley. During the meeting, Kristin's goal is to help you unpack and understand your emotions. She will support you throughout the evening with divine downloading and healing. To participate, attendees must bring there own blanket, yoga mat, journal, pen, and water. Pre Registration is required, please sign up here if you would like to attend.
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HOPS Playground Mulch Donation
The large fenced-in playground for preschool and elementary aged children, known as the Halifax Open Play Space or HOPS, has received a generous donation of nearly 200 yards of playground mulch from the Haseotes Family. HOPS has been a part of the community since April 14, 2019 thanks to a 6-year fundraising effort by Friends of HOPS Playground. This donation could not have come at a better time because the Friends of HOPS noticed areas in the playground that were low on mulch. Please stay tuned as we spread and work the new mulch over the next coming days!
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Calling All Our Local. HomeGrown Chefs!
Submit your Recipe in our Garden Harvest Recipe Contest from October 18 – November 13, 2022 Rosa loves to hear about how you make your fresh veggies! All valid entries* will be published in your BuzzAround. Grand prize winner will be invited to Rosa’s Kitchen in South Easton to film our annual cooking show, preparing your dish and be featured in 2023’s Harvest Edition of edible Southeastern MA magazine. Enter HERE
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Veterans Day Luncheon Assembly
Wednesday, Nov 9th
11a - 1p
Great Hall
Halifax Town Hall
All veterans are invited to the Veterans Day Luncheon Assembly to be honored for your heroic service. If you would like to participate, rsvp by Monday, November 7th with either Isabella Rose by email: isabellarose343@aol.com or Jeanne Kling at (781) 258-6537.
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Voices of Diversity, Voices of America
10 Poets! 10 Languages!
Saturday November 5. 6:30pm
Brockton Public Library 304 Main St, Brockton
1 - Wompanoag. Opening Prayer. Melissa Ferretti and Toodie Jackson Coombs
2 - Youth. Brockton Youth Poet Laureate.
Hannah Baptiste
3 - Greek. Theodora Stratis
4 - Cantonese. Christina Liu
5 - Spanish. Leonardo Nim
Rose Music Conservatory. musical interlude
6 - Ukrainian. Dzvinia Orlowsky
7 - Haitian Creole. Jean-Dany Joachim
8 - Hebrew - Matthew Rosenthal
9 - Cape Verdean Creole. Charlene Cabral
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1000 Plymouth St (Rt 104) • Bridgewater • (508) 697-0357
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Straw, with its light color, reflects light to your plants and helps to keep soil temperature steady… while of course doing the main job of a mulch–conserving moisture.
Decorate for the season, then use to protect your plants!
Come pick some up today!
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Important Voter Information
for Mail In Ballots
If you have requested mail in ballots, you will be receiving two ballots from the Town Clerk’s Office. One will be for the State Election and a second for your local election. Please follow all the directions provided with your mail in ballots. You are required to return the ballots in the envelope provided to you. The envelope must be signed in order to be accepted. Town Clerk’s Office: (781) 293-7970
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Chicken Autumn is here and well worth the wait!
Grilled chicken with caramelized Granny Smith apples, dried cranberries, fresh sage, and walnuts in a sherry butter sauce served over butternut squash raviolis.
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Fight Climate Change & Live Better by Eating Locally Sourced Foods!
Local Foods Are Fresher and Taste Better:
Fresher is more flavorful and more nutritious than food from farther away & uses less fossil fuels to get to you. Enjoying foods in peak season when they are the most abundant, means they are more affordable.
Local Foods Help to Preserve Farmland and Green Space: Purchasing locally grown helps maintain and preserve the green space and farmland in our local communities, providing for cleaner air and water.
Local Foods Support the Local Economy & Community: Buying from local farmers and restaurants keeps your money close to home. This builds the economy in your community. Since food travels through fewer hands, more of your money spent actually gets to those who grew it. Knowing where your food is from unites you to those who grew and raised it. A strong local economy is better for the earth & our health.
Our Climate Can-Do Articles from Jacquie focus on life changes that we can make which will help mitigate the environmental changes of our climate emergency. Our goal is to keep the Earth's temperature from rising 1.5 degrees C to lessen the sea rise. There are things we can do.
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Halifax Finance Committee
10-17-22
Video Courtesy of Area 58_Halifax
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Halifax Board of Selectmen - October 25, 2022
Video Courtesy of Area 58_Halifax
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The PUMPKIN PATCH is
open 8a - 6p!
Come join us for pumpkins in all shapes and sizes, plus mums, cornstalks, and everything you need for fall! The Pumpkin Patch is FREE to wander through, you only pay for anything you choose to purchase.
318 Plymouth St. Halifax
(781) 294-1767
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Veterans Day Celebration
Friday, November 11th
11a
499 Plymouth Street
Join us on the 11th Day of the 11th Month at the 11th Hour to celebrate all of those who served in the United States Military. We will be formally recognizing the Town of Halifax as a Purple Heart Town and spotlighting a few of our local Veterans. Please join us on the Town Green for this community event.
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Holy Apostles Parish Craft Fair
Saturday, November 19th
9a - 3p
Holy Apostles Church
575 Monponsett Street
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Halifax Congregation Church Celebrates Steeple and Bell Dedication Ceremony
On Sunday, October 16th, the Halifax Congregation Church celebrated the completion of the steeple and bell repairs with a Ring The Bell Community Event! The event was hosted by Bob Kniffen, Moderator of the Church, to celebrate the $21,000 of funding that was generously donated from the Halifax community, church, and friends to make this historic preservation possible. During the event, there was a brief dedication ceremony where Caroline Vogt was the first to ring the bell and refreshments were served after. All attendees were invited to ring the bell. Congratulations to The Halifax Congregation Church!
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WEEKLY TRIVIA GAME
Have fun with us and bee entered to
win a
$10 gift certificate toward a yummy & nutritional smoothie or meal at
603 Centre St, Brockton
Historical Tidbit Question:
What is one way young women believed they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband on Halloween?
Email us your answer at:
By entering, you give us permission to print your name in next week's Buzz Around.
On November 2, 2022 before 2p, we will randomly pick a winner from the correct answers.
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Joy.
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” ~ Mark Twain
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” ~Tagore
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
~ Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."
~ Greg Anderson
“If we can just let go and trust that things will work out the way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.” ~ Goldie Hawn
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Joy is in the moment. It's not planned. The best we can do is prepare ourselves for the moment by letting it in. Ahh, to relax, to enjoy....
~ Jacquie
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The Buzz Around is brought to you this week by: Jen Bellody, Mohamed (Moe) Ibrahim, Janice O'Brien, Jamie Puhi, Jacquelyn Rose & Gregory Venezia. |
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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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Copyright 2022 Buzz Around Halifax. 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 Halifax 10/30/22")
Disclaimer: At the Buzz Around, we promote community and family. There are links to town committees and other non-profit groups in the newsletters. Individual groups are responsible for how they represent themselves on their websites and in their promotional materials. BuzzAround is not responsible for the media content of other organizations.
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