Wellesley Community Bulletin Board

April 14, 2021 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

Check out the Community Bulletin Board section on The Swellesley Report, a place to find out about exciting events going on in the area.

Featured this week:

Wellesley Nursery School in the Hills

PreK & Preschool openings for 2021-2022
[email protected]
781-237-9137

Wellesley Square salon news

Spacious, bright, and sunny hair salon overlooking the village in Wellesley Square has one chair available for the right stylist …. interested parties please call or text 781-223-8558

Little Arnie’s Cleaning Service

Old-fashioned, white-glove service
[email protected]
617-420-5579

“Quick Sketch” pencil portraits

Pencil portraits from life.
Ready-to-frame standard size of 11″ x 14″
617-721-5330

Wellesley Youth Lacrosse

Spring season will run through mid-June
All ability levels welcome!
Go Raiders!

The Concord Review History Camp

Seminar for middle school students
Promotes a love for history by allowing students to conduct in-depth research into their chosen historical topic.
[email protected]

Summer Programs at the Rivers School Conservatory

Unique summer programs for students of every interest, age, and level.
Jazz and contemporary music; jazz ensembles
Percussion workshop; orchestra.

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Looks like Wellesley will get the movie treatment with “The Artist”

January 6, 2021 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

We’ve noticed a couple of huge tour buses parked in the lot at Weston Road and Washington Street, as have a few readers. What gives, we wondered.

Wellesley movie, The Artist — Thanks to sharp-eyed reader PL for this shot.

The buses seem to be connected to a casting call for an upcoming film titled The Artist, by FNB Productions, an independent film company based in Dedham. Locally based director L. Steven Stanley is seeking actors to portray a German sculptor; an art buyer; an art model; and a WWII-era nurse.

Initial interviews for the roles will be done via Skype, and actors must be able to transport themselves to Wellesley for shoots and weekly in-person rehearsals.

If you’re interested, email a headshot, resume, cover letter, and general availability as well as a time for a Skype interview to [email protected]

This wouldn’t be the first time FNB has filmed in this area. Last year the company was in Sudbury at Pride’s Crossing, and at Fatima Shrine in Holliston to work on scenes for The Train, a futurist Christian noir film set in the year 2041, with flashbacks to the present. In the film, Christians are facing persecution for their beliefs. The Train has not yet been released.

In a Wellesley Public Media interview last year, L. Steven Stanley gave an overview of The Train, talked about what it was like to film during a pandemic, and expounded on the novel coronavirus.

Movies filmed in Wellesley, Mass.

Wellesley Rotary Club to host farmer and food industry expert

November 1, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Wellesley Rotary Club, Lori Stevermer — Rotary Club speaker Lori Stevermer

Food availability, nutrition, and safety issues continue to be major concerns for consumers. These issues have become even more relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic. On November 3, 2020, 6:30pm, the Rotary Club of Wellesley in partnership with The
National Pork Board Speakers Bureau will host , marketing manager of Hubbard Feed and an active farmer.

Mrs. Stevermer will explain how food moves from farm to local grocery stores, how the pandemic has affected the food industry, and will share information about the current food safety practices that are employed to produce nutritious food.

Mrs. Stevermer serves on the National Pork Producers Council’s Executive Board. She is an enthusiastic advocate for the swine industry and will use the pork production to illustrate how the overall food industry operates.

The Rotary Club of Wellesley is one of Wellesley’s oldest community service groups and conducts local programs to benefit the Town of Wellesley. The public is always invited to any Rotary program. Due to COVID-19, all meetings take place on Zoom. Please check www.wellesleyrotary.org for times. If you are interested in attending, please send an email to [email protected] to receive a Zoom Meeting invitation.

ZOOM EVENT: How the food Industry operates
DATE: November 3, 2020
TIME: 6:30pm – 8pm

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Wellesley League of Women Voters to e-host international security expert

October 2, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Juliette Kayyem, Wellesley League of Women Voters speaker — Juliette Kayyem

The League of Women Voters of Wellesley invites the public to attend its fall Opening Meeting on October 8, 2020 at 7pm. The featured speaker will be international security expert, Harvard Kennedy School Lecturer and best-selling author, Juliette Kayyem.
Ms. Kayyem will speak on “COVID-19: Elections and the Road Ahead”.

More on Juliette Kayem

Juliette Kayyem is Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security at the Harvard Kennedy School and Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Over the last two decades she has managed complex policy initiatives and organized government responses to major crises in both state and federal government.

She is currently the faculty chair of the Kennedy School’s Homeland Security and Security and Global Health Projects and is a frequent on-air national security analyst for CNN. Previously, she served as President Obama’s assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, where she played a pivotal role in major operations responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and H1N1 pandemic, and she was the homeland security advisor to Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts.

Ms. Kayyem is the author of the best-selling book Security Mom, and a Pulitzer finalist for her opinion columns in the Boston Globe. She is the founder of Kayyem Solutions, Inc, which provides strategic advice in cybersecurity, resiliency planning, risk management, mega-event security, infrastructure protection, and cybersecurity.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, she has been advising mayors through the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, as well as governors and CEOs, on crisis response and recovery efforts. Now a contributor for The Atlantic, she has a new book, Beyond 9/11: Homeland Security for the Twenty-First Century, that was released in August 2020.

How to register in advance for this webinar:

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Morses Pond extends the beach season in Wellesley to August 23rd

August 13, 2020 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

The Morses Pond season will be extended to August 23rd, 2020. The beach hours and the reservation process will remain the same until August 23rd. Beach access is available to Wellesley residents only.

To register for a 2-hour time slot for a blanketing area, go to this link. The time slots start at 10am. The last slot is 5:30 – 7:30pm. the Turner Road gate closes at approximately 7:45pm.

Wellesley Rec is looking for additional staff to keep the beach available and extend the season through Labor Day or later. So if you have a college student who is studying remotely this semester and would like to pick up some work hours, contact Rec via email at [email protected] or at 781-.235-2370.

Wellesley Rotary Club speaker to be Political Affairs Ambassador for The Borgen Project

August 12, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Wellesley High School graduate and New York University student Lara Smith will be the featured speaker at the August 18th, 6:30 – 8pm meeting of the Wellesley Rotary Club. Smith is currently a Political Affairs Ambassador intern for The Borgen Project, a national campaign that works to make worldwide poverty a focus of United States foreign policy. The Politics and Journalism major’s presentation will focus on the work The Borgen Project does to benefit those in need around the world, and how that work has direct domestic benefits.

Lara Smith, Wellesley Rotary Club — Lara Smith will be the Rotary Club’s speaker at its August 18th meeting.

The Borgen Project’s mission

The non-profit organization mobilizes constituents to contact their congressional leaders and urges them to support legislation that benefits impoverished countries. At the moment, the US spends just about 1% of its federal budget on foreign aid. The Project encourages investing in global communities that are in need as a way to build up those populations while creating more consumers for American products. This in turn benefits the US economy and creates US jobs.

Furthermore, the Project maintains that investing in impoverished communities and countries around the world protects the US’s national security. The Seattle-based group takes issue with the notion that military action and/or strength is the key to
national security. Instead, it suggests that investing in impoverished countries stabilizes them and in turn, stabilizes the countries around them, as well as the US.

Join the conversation

If you are interested in attending this Zoom meeting, send an email to [email protected] and the club will send you an invite to the August 18th, 6:30 – 8pm online meeting.