Civic Groups

Rotary Club of Westborough and Sun Multisport Events are partnering to bring a new Sprint Distance Triathlon event to Westborough, MA. The date for the new race will be Sunday, August 15, 2010 and will be based at the Westborough State Hospital on Hospital Road off of Lyman Street in Westborough, MA.

Triathlon: Westborough Sprint Triathlon
When: Sunday, August 15, 2010 @ 8:00 a.m.
Where: Westborough State Hospital, Westborough, MA
Divisions: Age Group, Relay

Website: www.sunmultisportevents.com/Westborough_Sprint.htm

The event will consist of a .25 mile Swim in Lake Chauncy. Athletes will then transition to a 14 mile bike course and will finish with a 3.1 mile Run that is mostly off road on the scenic and flat trails that surround Lake Chauncy.

See the website above for full information, and for course maps, too.

Beneficiaries of the 2010 Westborough Sprint Triathlon: The Westborough Rotary Club has selected Sun Multisport Events to produce this event as a fundraiser for the Rotary Club. All sponsorship revenue will be donated the Larry Ware Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Awards: Awards will be given to the top 3 male and female finishers in each age group as well as for the top Athena, Clydesdale and relay team. 

Registration is now OPEN for the new Westborough Sprint Triathlon event. This is a USAT Sanctioned event.  Registration closing date: Friday, Aug 13, 2010 @ 11:59 PM

Entry Fee: Individual: $65; Relay Teams: $120

Click here to register via active.com

Westborough Garden Club
ANNUAL PLANT SALE

Tufts Machine Parking Lot

All proceeds benefit community plantings, scholarship and education.

Thank you for your support!

Here's a link to the Westborough Garden Club PSA, created by WestboroughTV:

Westborough Garden Club PSA from WestboroughTV on Vimeo.

Hi, I'm Lisa Rowe. Hi, I'm Ann-Britt Hoover, and we're co-presidents of the Westborough Garden Club.

I'm Beverly Linnane, chairman of the Downtown Beautification Committee. We're here at one end, one end of our community gardens -- the Gateway Garden. We have nineteen gardens that we take care of in Westborough, five of which are veteran's gardens.

We have people from our garden club that are assigned to each garden to take care of them through the year.

Two major fund-raisers throughout the year:

One of our major fund-raisers is the plant sale, which is coming up May 22nd at the Tufts Machine Lot. It goes from 9-12

It's a great annual event, with something for every kind of gardener. We'll have herbs and perennials, and a beautiful raffle table.

So, please come early, it's a great annual event.

We also have group outings to such events as the Boston Flower Show, the Beacon Hill Garden Tour, and Tower Hill, to name a few.

We're an active club with monthly meetings and programs, that are held at the Senior Center, on the last Wednesday of each month.

Come join us! ...for friendship, knowledge, and fun!

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WESTBOROUGH MUSIC PARENTS RECIPIENT OF AVIDIA GRANT

The Westborough Music Parents Association are pleased to announce that  they received an Avidia Charitable Foundation grant.  The grant of twenty two hundred dollars was used to purchase a digital piano for the Hastings Elementary School.  It was the only school in the district that did not have a digital piano available.  It will provide portability to move from room to room, allows the teacher to see the students over the piano while playing, and provides for allowing music to be read from a USB flash drive, or to be recorded to the drive.  This is extremely helpful in the classroom and for performances at the general school assemblies. The DP-990 has an 88-key stereo multi-sampled piano sound with three silver-finish pedals that naturally reproduce every detail just like an acoustic grand piano. Avidia Bank is a mutual community bank with branches in Hudson, Westborough, Clinton, Leominster, Marlborough, Northborough, and Shrewsbury.

(Click to enlarge)  Left to right: Patty Berkey, Hastings Elementary School Principal; Wendy Clark, Music Teacher; David Jost, Westborough Public Schools Coordinator of Fine Arts; Joseph MacDonough, Executive Vice President of Avidia Bank; Kimberly Perkins, Branch Manager, Avidia Bank and Judy Wilchynski, Westborough Parents Music Association and writer of the grant.

The Westborough Woman's Club is sponsoring the annual rabies clinic for dogs and cats on Saturday, April 3. It will be held at the Westborough Department of Public Works garage on Oak Street. Dogs on a leash will be vaccinated from 9 to 9:45 a.m. Cats in a carrier will be vaccinated from 10-10:15 a.m. The club appreciates the help of Paul McNulty at the Board of Health, Nancy Yendriga, town clerk, who will be selling dog licenses, the DPW and Dr. Susan Gilham of Associates Animal Hospital for their assistance with the clinic.

There is a $12 fee per animal.

Owners are asked to bring last year's rabies certificate. For information please call Cory at 508-366-6222.