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Tag: Friends And Neighbors

  • Saturday, October 31, 3:30 – 5:30 pm – Clarendon Street Playground Halloween Party

    Join your friends and neighbors for the Annual Halloween Party on Saturday, October 31, from 3:30 – 5:30 pm.  Pizza, drinks, and glow necklaces will be available for purchase.  Entertainment and variety shows will be provided by Jenny the Juggler.Hayrides around the neighborhood, photography by Aurora De Luca, and trick or treating safe house lists will be available as well.

    Marlborough Street between Berkeley and Fairfield Streets, as well as Dartmouth and Clarendon Streets between Commonwealth and Beacon, will be closed to traffic from 3:30 pm – 9:30 pm.  Parked cars may stay there during this time, but they cannot be moved.


    The Clarendon Street Playground Committee needs volunteers to make this event happen.  Please sign up for a 30 minute shift to help with the party.  Email playground@nabbonline.com.  Also, if you wish to be on the safe house list, call the NABB office at 617-247-3961, or email info@nabbonline.com.

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  • Friday, August 21 – Sunday, August 23 – 25th Annual Wilbraham Peach Festival

    Wilbraham’s Twenty-fifth Annual Peach Festival, August 21, 22, & 23, 2009, will be held at Fountain Park, Tinkham Road in Wilbraham. Come join friends and neighbors and enjoy the country fair atmosphere of Wilbraham’s biggest event!

    There is a full schedule of activities for both adults and children along with plenty of food and exhibits. The main stage and children’s tent will feature a variety of local and regional talent, and FlippenOut Productions will make a return appearance on Sunday. And with peach sundaes, peach bread, peach shakes, and of course, Mr. Peach, we’re sure you will have a peach of a time!

    All proceeds from the Wilbraham Peach Festival go to local community groups and scholarships.  For directions, times and more information, log on to www.pickyourown.org.

  • Friday and Saturday, August 21 & 22 – Boston GreenFest 2009

    Boston GreenFest 2009 will be held on Friday and Saturday, August 21 and 22, at Boston City Hall Plaza.  Global warming affects not only our planet, but our personal lives.  What does this mean for us?  How can we work together in our neighborhoods to change the future now?  Come have fun!  Learn and share new technologies and ideas that can immediately change our daily lives and help our planet at the same time.  Bring the family, friends and neighbors to the FREE Boston GreenFest 2009.  Wear green.

    There will be the One Gallon Challenge – a race from Greenfield to GreenFest.  On display will be a group of cars you’ve never seen before.  On Thursday, August 20, they will have “raced” 100 miles from Greenfield, MA to the festival on the energy of one gallon of gas.  The Museum of Science is offering reduced rates to visit the Museum for everyone who attends Boston GreenFest.  There will be Solar Energy Workshops, kids activities, the Boston Community Choir, the Nathan Hale Elementary School Choir, Ruff Ruffman from WGBH’s FETCH, Project Recycled Runway featuring Sam Mendoza and Sparklle (sic) Thames.  Meet Miss Earth Massachusetts (and not the former Miss California!), hear Jeff Wolfe, groSolar talk about the future of solar energy, and see a Kung Fu and Tai Chi demo by Yang’s Martial Arts Academy of Boston.  Walk through the amazing Time Tunnel, join a community greentable discussion, attend a Green Business Breakfast, attend Green Training Seminars, and see the Inconvenient Truth Slideshow Presentations in Spanish and English.  Play GEO (Green Earth Olympics), and enjoy Valet Bike Parking.  There will be Green Roofs and Living Walls, Organic Gardens, retrofit seminars, community initiative information, compost lessons, and much, much more.  For additional information log on to www.bostongreenfest.org.