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Thank You, Avidia for Supporting the Arts! WMPA grant goes to a piano
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.
Annual Rabies Clinic 2010 Sponsored by Westborough Woman's Club
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.
Westborough Community Land Trust 2010 Scholarship
Westborough Community Land Trust Scholarship Offered
Each year the Westborough Community Land Trust (WCLT) awards a $500 scholarship to a graduating Westborough High School senior. The scholarship goes to the winner of WCLT's annual Earth Day Essay Contest.
Any graduating senior may enter the contest, reflecting the WCLT view that awareness and appreciation of the natural environment are important for everyone. It is not necessary for a senior to be planning an environmental focus in further studies or a career. In fact, the contest and scholarship are open to all graduating seniors, whether or not they plan to attend college.
The scholarship, which was inaugurated in 2006, recognizes a young person's sensitivity toward the environment and environmental concerns, as evidenced by the essay.
"Nurturing connections with the natural world provides us all with opportunities for lifelong learning and satisfaction," according to Allison Gergely, past WCLT Scholarship Committee chair.
To enter the contest in 2010, applicants should submit their Earth Day essay to the WHS Guidance Office anytime between March 1 and Wednesday, April 28, 2010. The WCLT Scholarship Committee will announce the winning essay and the scholarship recipient at the Westborough High School graduation.
Essays should be 500-750 words and should address one of these three topics:
- An environmental issue in Westborough
Describe an environmental issue that affects a natural resource in Westborough. Propose a solution that would address this issue and/or describe activities in which you have been involved that have worked towards solving this particular problem.
- Sustainable living in Westborough and beyond
Discuss ways that you and others of your generation could live more sustainably on Earth. If applicable, include a description of changes you have made in your own life that have enabled you or your family to live more sustainably.
- Protection of Westborough's natural heritage and special places
Describe a place in Westborough that you think is especially important to protect, and explain why. Discuss what you have done or propose ways that you could help to protect Westborough's natural heritage.
The scholarship forms are available in the WHS Guidance Office.
The deadline for applicants to deliver essays and signed application forms to the Guidance Office is Wednesday, April 28, 2010.
WCLT members are encouraged to spread word of the essay contest and scholarship among friends and neighbors.
"The Earth Day Essay Contest is a great opportunity for graduating seniors to take a few minutes to think about the natural environment that surrounds them here in Westborough and to put their thoughts down on paper – and perhaps win the scholarship as a result," says Annie Reid of the WCLT Scholarship Committee.
Button Battery Recycling Program
The Westborough Woman's Club is pleased to announce that their button battery recycling program continues to be successful. The club collects the button batteries from hearing aids, watches, clocks, etc. for recycling due to the mercury in them. In cooperation with the Board of Health boxes are at their office, the senior center, library, jewelers, and at club meetings. Each year the club has received a five hundred dollar check for the recycling. The money is used for the club's Community Improvement projects. Last year the club donated one thousand two hundred dollars to the school department. The money is earmarked for electrode pads and batteries for the Automatic External Defibrillators (AED) at the schools. Club members are now investigating ideas for a town project for this year.
The Westborough Woman's Club is a member of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. For information on programs, projects or membership please call Judy at 508-870-1895.
Thanks to the Community from Westborough Woman's Club
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
The Westborough Woman's Club would like to thank the community for their tremendous support of our Holiday House Tour. Over one hundred sixty people toured our five lovely homes and raised funds for the club's programs. The money will be used for our scholarship fund and community improvement projects. We would like to thank our home owners for being so gracious in opening their homes. Special thanks to Daintina and Michael McClure, Cori and Dennis Fenton, Polly and Jay Thayer, Jessica and David DiTuillo and Leslie and Walter Leslie.
The club members are very appreciative of the community's support in all of our fund raisers and projects. We wish you all a wonderful holiday season
Judith Wilchynski
President
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