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Tag: Summer Picnic

  • Sunday, August 16, 11:00 am – 1:30 pm – Japanese Summer Picnic Bento and Book Signing

    Learn to make a sumptuous bento box lunch for a summer picnic at a Sunday, August 16 class (11 – 1:30) at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston. In this hands-on workshop you will create the colorful rice salad called chirashizushi: a mélange of vegetables, and shrimp atop seasoned rice, Accompanying the rice will be a variety of tasty side dishes like seaweed salad, miso salmon and, for dessert, an icy treat called kakigori. We will use some of the garden’s Japanese herbs in the bento box. Debra Samuels, author of My Japanese Table, will include a short presentation on Japanese cuisine and culture. $55 for THBG members, nonmembers $65. Register online at www.towerhillbg.org.

  • Thursday, July 17, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Hayes Park Summer Picnic

    Please come to a picnic in Hayes Park on Thursday, July 17 beginning at 5:30 – a great time to mingle with friends and neighbors and enjoy the Park in its summer best.  The Friends of Hayes Park will provide beverages, hot dogs, hamburgers, veggie burgers and condiments. Please bring a side dish or dessert to share.  Activities include face painting and music by Wayne Potash and his Music Fun Band.  Rain date July 18. Hayes Park is located at the corner of West Canton Street and Warren Avenue in the South End.  For information on The Friends of Hayes Park, visit www.hayespark.org.

  • Sunday, October 25, 4:00 pm – Friends of Hayes Park Annual Auction

    The Friends of Hayes Park, Inc. is a group of public-spirited neighbors dedicated to maintaining Hayes Park, a green gem located at the corner of Warren Avenue and West Canton Street in Boston’s South End. Organized in 1987 to redesign what was then a derelict, concrete-paved lot, the Friends now have a membership numbering more than 250 families. Each year, members donate an extraordinary 1,400 hours to keep the park beautiful.

    Since renovating the park in 1992, the Friends, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, has been a “Park Partner” with the Boston Parks Department. The funds needed to maintain the park are all provided by the Friends. In addition, the Friends host free community events, that draw visitors from all across the city — including an annual May Day, Summer Picnic, Harvestfest, and Christmas Caroling — and support local partners, organizing such events as canned goods collections for a local food pantry, and for the last 18 years, sponsoring a South End Little League Baseball team, the Hayes Park Yankees.

    The group’s annual Auction will take place Sunday, October 25, beginning at 4:00 pm at the Boston Ballet Building,  19 Clarendon Street in Boston.  Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door, and may be purchased on line at www.hayespark.org.  An enticing sample of auction items can be found on their home page, so we encourage you to support this fine organization.

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