Category Archives: Community Notes

Runners/walkers wanted

The Get Real Campaign is heading up a team for the 16th Annual Samaritans 5K Run/Walk for Someone Else’s Life and Family Fun Festival to be held on September 27th in Brighton, MA.

The Campaign hopes to get a strong showing from Newton. There is a $25 per person registration fee but there is no fundraising minimum. It’s more of an awareness event. They have t-shirts available for the first 30 or so participants and could make more if needed. The link for the Get Real Campaign team is

http://give.samaritanshope.org/site/TR/Events/General?pg=team&fr_id=1040&team_id=2230

New Theatre Company

A brand new theater company has just been started in Newton. The Newton Nomadic Theater’s mission is to bring high quality, simply staged, reasonably priced, theater productions to unusual performance spaces in all the villages of Newton. The first production, Faith Healer by Brian Friel, will open on September 26th and 27th in Carriage House Violins in Upper Falls. The following weekend (October 43rd and 4th) the production will move to Lower Falls for two nights at Gregorian Rugs. The final weekend (October 10th and 11th) it will move to the chapel of the First Baptist Church in Newton Centre. All tickets are $20.00

For more information or to purchase tickets go to http://NewtonNomadicTheater.org. Please join them for a night of wonderful live theater … and please tell your friends.

Parenting your teen through a Jewish lens

Parenting Your Teen Through a Jewish Lens at Congregation Mishkan Tefila this Fall!
This eight-week program brings together caring parents and expert facilitators. Conversations around Jewish texts lead to explorations of your vital role as a parent. Parents from all backgrounds welcome.

Starting November 5th, meets Wednesdays, 7:30 – 9 pm. For more information visit www.hebrewcollege.edu/parenting or email pa*******@***********ge.edu.

Too Busy to Cook?

The best answer to the age old question..What’s for dinner?? Too Busy to Cook LLC is a personal chef service that provides delicious, fresh, healthy, home-made meals that are prepared in your own kitchen. This service is for families and individuals that place a high value on their time and want healthy, high-quality choices for dinner.

Your family’s tastes direct what is on your customized menu. Too Busy to Cook cooks, packages, and labels the meals in your home. Visit the website http://2busytocook.com or email ei**********@***il.com or call 617-309-0454.

YogaBox FREE Open House

YogaBox combines strengthening, conditioning, stretching, core work and cardio for a fun and time efficient workout. They will be using the heavy bag, boxing gloves and wraps, and a yoga mat. You do NOT need to know how to box OR do yoga. Please bring a yoga mat and boxing gloves and wraps if you have them. You can also borrow boxing gloves from Nonantum Boxing Club.

FREE open house on Tuesday, October 7th, 9:00 am – 10:15 am
Nonantum Boxing Club at 75 Adams St

Ongoing classes will be held Tuesdays, 9:00 am to 10:15 (30 minutes of boxing followed by 45 minutes of yoga). Special promotional pricing: $75 for 5 classes (never expires and can be applied to any other class at Nonantum Boxing Club including Heavy Bag and Boxygen). Classes are otherwise $20/drop in.

Questions: Contact Marc Gargaro at 617.340.3700 or in**@****************ub.com. More here: http://ilovenewton.com/yogabox-open-house/

Hands-on math and science courses for high school students

Magizo is offering small-group math and science classes for students in sixth grade and up. Classes offered include math circles for students in grades six through nine and physics courses for grades eight and up.

Students learn the application (or “the point”) of the material and open class discussions are encouraged. In addition, courses are hands-on and often involve a student elected, group project towards the end of the semester. The fall semester starts on October 4th and registration closes on the 1st. Please visit http://magizo.com for more information or call 617-851-0321.

Bridge Club

Would you like your son or daughter to learn a game that is enjoyed by just about everyone who has learned the game? And which, studies have shown, will improve their academic performance?

If you answered “yes”, then talk to your son or daughter (grades 5 to 9) about registering for the Bridge Club beginning on October 7th at Newton South High School. Newton parent Jeff Lehman will be teaching participating students how to play the card game of bridge. For more information and Registration visit Newton Community Education’s website here: Bridge Club.

Bridge is a game full of strategy and tactics. It is part science, part math, part reason. Bridge embodies teamwork, logic and problem-solving. Bridge can be played in social or tournament settings, and also online. Continue reading →

Piano Lessons

Bachelor of Music in Composition from Berklee College of Music, Master of Music in Jazz Studies from New England Conservatory, 30+ years teaching experience.

Learn Jazz/Blues/Classical, theory, sightreading. Build a high quality musical foundation with a patient, upbeat, and caring instructor. Beginners especially welcome. Have a positive and successful learning experience. For information, please call Gloria Jasinski at 617-566-9704 or email pi******@*****st.net.

Writing tutor available

Recently retired professor of English from the University of Connecticut is interested in tutoring high school students in grades ten, eleven and twelve who want to become better writers and in helping students in grade twelve with their college application essays.

For more information, please visit: http://english.uconn.edu. First click on the Faculty Directory and then click on Donna Hollenberg. To make an appointment or for any questions, please call 617-469-9760 or email ho*****@*****on.net.

Destination Imagination

Come to a “DI Info Night” to find out more about enrolling your child in a life changing experience.

Tuesday, September 9th, from 7:00-8:00 pm
Zervas Elementary Library at 30 Beethoven Avenue

Wednesday, September 10th, from 7:00-8:00 pm
Burr Elementary Cafeteria at 171 Pine Street

Monday, September 15th, from 7:00-8:00 pm
Cabot Elementary Cafeteria at 229 Cabot Street

Wednesday, September 17th, from 7:00-8:00 pm
Memorial Spaulding Auditorium at 250 Brookline Street

Monday, September 22nd, from 7:00-8:00 pm
Horace Mann Elementary at 687 Watertown Street

The Destination Imagination program encourages teams of learners to have fun, take risks, focus and frame challenges while incorporating STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), the arts and service learning. DI students learn patience, flexibility, persistence, ethics, respect for others and their ideas, and the collaborative problem solving process.

More than 1.5 million youth have taken part in Destination Imagination problem-solving challenges in the past 30 years. Participating in DI has helped them develop critical thinking skills they can apply to their future schooling and careers to give them a competitive advantage for the rest of their lives. Last year, 80 students from nine different Newton Public Schools participated in Regional and State competitions.