Newton Highlands VILLAGE DAY will be held on June 14th on Lincoln Street between Walnut and Chester. Featuring:
Volunteers needed! Contact Steven Feinstein, sf********@******ma.gov
Sunday, June 14th
Newton Highlands
Come to the world premiere of Reigning Cats and Dogs presented by Watertown Children’s Theatre. Book by Steven Bergman and Amy White Graves, Music and Lyrics by Steven Bergman. Reigning Cats and Dogs is part of WCT’s initiative to support the growth of new works in children’s theatre.
Reigning Cats & Dogs is a new musical about acceptance, personal identity, friendship and loyalty. Chou-Chou has a problem: she’s a royal dog, but she’s always felt like a cat on the inside. Whether it’s a mouse infestation at the castle, or trying to get a performance slot at the Club Kit Kat, she wants everything to be “Purr-fect!” How can she and her feline friends make the kingdom an accepting society? A cast of K-6th graders including Newton residents Brandon Baskin, Maggie Brousal-Glaser, Alexandra Danis, Samuel Danis, Alexandra Giunta, Katherine Grabowski, Nisha Jha, Amir LaGasse, Alison McPherson, Caleb McPherson, Henry McPherson, Sadie Mulligan, Cliodhna O’Dwyer, Jacob Resnick, and Maya Ullman will sing, dance and perform and bring these cats, dogs, and mice to life!
Tickets are $14.00 and are now on sale on the website: watertownchildrenstheatre.org or by calling Brown Paper Tickets 1-800-838-3006. For more information, visit WCT’s website or call 617-926-ARTS.
March 20th at 7:00 pm, March 21st at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm, March 22nd at 2:00 pm.
Charles Mosesian Theater, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown
The Newton School Committee will receive the proposed budget on March 13th and begin its review and discussion on March 16th. We will be holding office hours on March 16th following our School Committee meeting which begins at 4:30 pm. Office hours will start at approximately 6:15 or 6:30 and end at approximately 7:15.
The School Committee is eager to try this new format in order to provide you with another opportunity to provide feedback in addition to the other times for public comments. We welcome questions and input and stress that this will mainly be a listening format. We are not trying to solve problems or make promises but are there to listen to concerns, questions and suggestions.
The format will be:
A Day of Community Service
Sunday April 26th, 9:00 am — 4:00 pm
Rain or Shine
Morning, Afternoon and All Day Projects
NewtonSERVES—A Day of Community Service is the kickoff for NewtonSERVES Volunteer Week. Mayor Setti D. Warren is encouraging religious organizations, schools and non-profits to identify service projects that need volunteers. He is also asking citizens, businesses and civic organizations to volunteer and make a difference in the community.
There are lots of ways that you can volunteer including: donating food to the local food pantries, delivering meals to a sick neighbor or friend, tutoring a child, picking up litter in your neighborhood, donating blood at your local Red Cross, or volunteering on Sunday April 26th for the Day of Community Service.
Do you have a project that you would like to be part of NewtonSERVES? Each project must be organized by a NEWTON non-profit, community service agency, city department, or a group of citizens (e.g., neighbors cleaning up a park). Sorry, no businesses or political action groups.
Register your project http://www.newtoncommunitypride.org/NewtonSERVES-project.php
Underwood PTO On line Auction has begun and will run through Sunday, March 15th at 10:00 pm. Check out great deals on local restaurants, sporting events, concerts, birthday parties, services and more. http://www.charityauctionorganizer.com/auction/springauction
Anyone can learn CPR – and everyone should! Sadly, 70 percent of Americans may feel helpless to act during a cardiac emergency because they either do not know how to administer CPR or their training has significantly lapsed. This alarming statistic could hit close to home, because home is exactly where 88 percent of cardiac arrests occur. Put very simply: The life you save with CPR is mostly likely to be someone you love.
Don’t be afraid; your actions can only help. If you see an unresponsive adult who is not breathing or not breathing normally, call 911 and push hard and fast on the center of the chest.
For more information, please contact jo************@***il.com
March 15th, 1:00 – 2:30 pm. $45.00
Red Cross Certified
TEMPLE EMANUEL
385 Ward Street
A wellness expo with interactive exhibits and demonstrations for children and adults will be held at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center.
Co-sponsored by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital – Needham, the expo will include MYCHIP child identification kits, nutritional counseling, body massages, balance testing, running advice, Beth Israel Hospital’s “Ask the doctor,” and make-your-own smoothies.
Activities for children include inflatable moonwalks, nut-free toddler snacks, and a visit from Boston Red Sox mascot Wally the Green Monster and Olympic swimming gold medalist Lenny Krayzelburg. There will also be giveaways, food samples, raffles and wellness product discounts.
The event is free and open to the public. Call 617-558-6459 for details.
March 22nd, 1:00 -4:00 pm
JCC, 333 Nahanton Street
If you are looking for a fun, enriching activity for your toddler this summer, there are still some spaces open in the Summer Time for Partners. Art & Music classes with experienced teachers, for children 18 months to 4 years, accompanied by an adult. The classes take place at Franklin Elementary School, 125 Derby Street, from June 30th – August 8th, 9:30 – 11:15 am. Pick Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. Your child will have fun learning and making new friends.
Visit www.newtonma.gov and click on Cultural Affairs or call 617-796-1540 for registration information.
Notice of Public Hearing – Special Permit – Turtle Lane
March 10th, 7:00 pm, Newton City Hall, Aldermanic Chambers
Petition to rezone from Multi-Residence 1 to Mixed- Use 4 and to restore and expand an existing structure known as the Turtle Lane Playhouse to provide a mix of uses including preserving the theater use, adding a street-level restaurant with office space above, and constructing a separate 23-unit multi-family structure with a below grade parking garage for 30 cars at 283 Melrose Street, Ward 4, Auburndale
Notice of Community Workshop/Traffic Signal Improvements in Auburndale
March 12th, 7:00 pm, Newton City Hall, Aldermanic Chambers
Specific improvements may include traffic signal upgrades at the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Lexington Street, Commonwealth Avenue and Melrose Avenue, Lexington Street and Wolcott Street; new traffic signals at the intersection of Lexington Street and Auburndale Avenue; geometric improvements at the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Lexington Street, installation of new granite curb, minor stormwater improvements, driveway and sidewalk reconstruction and other miscellaneous items of work.
Registration is still open for Newton Kindergarten Soccer. The spring program offers two divisions: the Kindergarten Division is for those children currently in kindergarten. The Pre-K Division is for children who will enter kindergarten in the Fall of 2015. Games are at Richardson Field and Zervas Elementary in Waban beginning April 11th. To be eligible, children must live or attend school in Newton. Register by March 15th to avoid the late fee.
Newton Kindergarten Soccer is an introduction to soccer with a focus on making friends, learning teamwork, and developing confidence. Each spring, over 200 incoming kindergarteners and 200 current kindergarteners throughout Newton play in the league. Players are grouped with other children who either live in the same neighborhood or will attend the same school for kindergarten, so that incoming kindergartners can meet future classmates.
To find out more or to register, please visit our website: http://kindergartensoccer.org/.