Events
Start: 9:00 am sharp!
Entry Fee: $20.00
Registration & Check In: On race day 7:30 - 8:30 am Holland Street, in front of MBTA Red Line T-Stop, Davis Square, Somerville. Wheelchairs must pre-register by September 26 to ensure safety precaution with local police.
Raise over $100.00 and enter the race for free! Special prize awarded for the highest pledge amount. Pledge money must be presented in full at registration to qualify for free entry and/or prize. All proceeds from the race benefit the Somerville Homeless Coalition, an innovative non-profit organization that provides a wide range of social services to the Somerville area's homeless, near-homeless and working poor. The Coalition is committed to providing those in need with a range of services including emergency shelters, permanent housing for formerly homeless, educational services, food pantry and meal services, and comprehensive case management.
For more info log onto www.honkfest.org, or call 617-497-9889. The first-ever HONK! Festival is a fall gathering of 13 activist brass bands from across North America. Across the country and around the world, a new type of street band is emerging. Acoustic and mobile, borrowing repertoire and inspiration from a diverse set of folk music traditions, these “Honkers” all share a commitment to music as social action. The HONK! Festival features such bands as the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, March Fourth Marching Band, Brass Liberation Orchestra, The Leftis
This weekend is the DNC 50 State Canvassing weekend. We will be canvassing in Ward 1 on Saturday from noon-3:00pm and Ward 4 on Sunday 4:00-6:00pm. Please contact Carlene, Lauren or Maeghan to let them know your availability.
Carlene
(617) 460-1959
campbell_carlene@hotmail.com
Lauren
(857) 498-0902
lauren.leeman@gmail.com
Maeghan
maeghan@gmail.com
(978) 697-2925
For more info log onto www.honkfest.org, or call 617-497-9889. The first-ever HONK! Festival is a fall gathering of 13 activist brass bands from across North America. Across the country and around the world, a new type of street band is emerging. Acoustic and mobile, borrowing repertoire and inspiration from a diverse set of folk music traditions, these “Honkers” all share a commitment to music as social action. The HONK! Festival features such bands as the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, March Fourth Marching Band, Brass Liberation Orchestra, The Leftis
This weekend is the DNC 50 State Canvassing weekend. We will be canvassing in Ward 1 on Saturday from noon-3:00pm and Ward 4 on Sunday 4:00-6:00pm. Please contact Carlene, Lauren or Maeghan to let them know your availability.
Carlene
(617) 460-1959
campbell_carlene@hotmail.com
Lauren
(857) 498-0902
lauren.leeman@gmail.com
Maeghan
maeghan@gmail.com
(978) 697-2925
Announcing the 14th Annual Tour de Somerville: "Streets, Rails, and Trails"
When: Saturday, October 14, 10 am
Where: Starts at Seven Hills Park, behind the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square
Who: Sponsored by the Somerville Bicycle Committee, Friends of the Community Path, and the Mass. Central Rail Trail Coalition.
What: A family-friendly, 8-mile bicycle ride. Our theme this year is "Streets, Rails, and Trails". We'll start by exploring the back streets of Somerville's mostly-flat Ward Two. Then we'll ride alongside future extensions of both the Somerville Community Path and the MBTA Green Line, looking at railroad rights-of-way from a variety of viewpoints. Finally, we'll return to Davis Square on the existing paved Community Path.
This walk, cosponsored by Historic Somerville, is entitled At the Threshold of West Somerville: From Davis to Powder House Square. The walk will be led by Ed Gordon, president of the New England Chapter of the Victorian Society with highlights including late nineteenth and early twentieth century churches and homes of the Davis and Powder House Square neighborhoods.
Tour meets at: Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, at 2:00pm and there will be refreshment stops along the route.
Admission is $5 for Historic Somerville or Victorian Society of New England members, and $8 for non-m
The Executive Office of Transportation (EOT) is filing an Expanded Environmental Notification Form (EENF) for the Green Line Extension project with the Massachusetts Environmental Protection Act (MEPA) unit of the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA). Notice of the EENF will be published in the Environmental Monitor on Tuesday, October 10, 2006. This filing initiates the mandatory environmental planning process for the project, to which EOT has committed $2.2 million in funding.
There will be a public hearing on the environmental review and planning process on Monday, October 16, from 6-8pm, in the Somerville High Auditorium.
Last day to register to vote for the November General Election!
Resident of Medford, Somerville, Winchester, Woburn
You are Cordially Invited to Attend
"Health Care in Massachusetts"
A Town Meeting briefing on the "Hows and Whys" of the New Health Care Laws
Is Everyone Covered by Insurance?
Who? How? Why? Why Not?
Learn how the decisions that may be made impact you and your relatives and friends—and others.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Grace Church Parish Hall
160 High Street, Medford
(Parking in the rear of the Church)
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