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Wellesley Community Center summer appeal

June 22, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

For over forty years, the Wellesley Community Center has been the largest common civic organization in town. We are a self-sustaining non-profit organization and our campus is busier than ever before. In the past year, we’ve forged new partnerships, sponsored community events and broadened our horizons.

If our mission resonates with you, please consider supporting our annual Summer Appeal. Just some of the organizations we support:

Wellesley Friendly Aid. World of Wellesley. Cub Scouts. Boy Scouts Knox Trail Council. Girl Scouts of Eastern Mass. Chamber of Commerce. Little League. Youth Basketball. Wellesley United. Youth Lacrosse. Wellesley School District. Wellesley Service League. Hills Women’s Junior Club. Lymphoma and Leukemia Society. Susan G. Komen. Society of Artists. WHS Key Club. Wellesley Theatre Project. Wellesley Historical Society. Women’s Business Group Connects. Mass League of Women Voters. Democratic Town Committee. Republican Town Committee. Heifer International. American Needlepoint. Business Network International. Society of Young Magicians. Foundation for Metro West. NMRA Hub Division. International Brotherhood of Magicians. Modifiers Car Club. Wellesley Cancer Prevention Project to name a few…

Go to http://www.wellesleycommunitycenter.org/

and click the DONATE button. It is that easy.

A big thanks from The Wellesley Community Center

219 Washington Street Wellesley Hills MA 02481

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Wellesley Food Pantry asks for summer donations

Here’s a list of Wellesley charitable and community action groups, all of whom would be happy to help you with your donation needs. More here on Wellesley fundraisers.

Fund for Wellesley disperses $30K to local nonprofits

June 21, 2017 by bbrown Leave a Comment

The Fund for Wellesley, an endowed fund of the Foundation for MetroWest that’s been around since 2008, says it has distributed over $30,000 to seven local nonprofit organizations in the areas of community building and civic engagement, and youth development and opportunity.

2017 Grantees:

Wellesley Scholarship Foundation: To support development of an online Town Common Scholarship and Financial Aid Application.

Wellesley Information Technology Department: To support adding Texthelp’s Browsealoud service — which helps make websites more accessible with easy speech, reading, and translation tools — to the Town’s website.

Wellesley Recreation Department: To support the Town’s first-ever Family Campout, at which families can come together to enjoy an eco-friendly evening of games, a camp fire, and a variety of educational experiences.

Special Olympics Massachusetts: To support Wellesley High School’s Unified Champion School track program, bringing students with and without intellectual/developmental disabilities together.

Wellesley Choral Society: To enhance the social engagement of seniors through attendance at and participation in the Society’s concerts (funded through the Al Robinson Fund for the Arts).

OUT Metrowest: To support the Wellesley meetings of the Umbrella program, which provide a safe space for teens to connect with transgender and gender non-conforming peers and adult mentors.

Wellesley Friendly Aid: To support Wellesley Connects, an all-volunteer college mentoring program, in its second year at Wellesley High School.

Wellesley food pantry asks for summer donations

June 15, 2017 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

Wellesley Food Pantry is asking people to remember to clean out their pantries and cupboards before going away this summer, especially for items that are close to their expiration dates. WFP relies on the community’s generosity to support the needs of the 400+ Wellesley residents who use the pantry.

Summer is a leaner time for the pantry, as many donors are away. But the outfit’s needs don’t abate, especially considering that kids don’t have access to reduced price or free meals from the schools.

Sustainable Wellesley puts in a plug for planting milkweed

June 8, 2017 by Deborah Brown 2 Comments

Sustainable Wellesley is once again offering healthy and sturdy milkweed plants in an effort to help out Monarch butterfly populations, which are down by 90 percent due to habitat loss and the use of pesticides and herbicides. You can help restore the Monarchs by planting milkweed plants (Asclepius incarnata) in your pesticide and herbicide-free yard. Milkweeds are an essential part of the Monarch diet – the caterpillars MUST eat it in order to survive.

The milkweed plant is attractive with beautiful pink and white flowers that will attract butterflies and other pollinators to your home. Sustainable Wellesley accepts donations of $5.00 for each plug of milkweed. You can also buy the plants at their cost of $2.00 each, because Sustainable Wellesley wants everyone to be able to take part. The plugs grow quickly and are very low maintenance.

There are three varieties to choose from:

Asclepius incarnata, which is very healthy and sturdy
Syriaca which is bigger and more vigorous than the Incarnata and easy to grow. Folks with wilder gardens will really love them. They are very nectar rich, attracting many pollinators, providing habitat for the monarch caterpillars.
Tuberosa. Its bright orange flowers attract many pollinators.

Order your variety of organic milkweeds today here. Email [email protected] with your variety choice. These are going fast so order soon. This is the third year that Sustainable Wellesley has offered milkweeds. Last year was a great success with over sixty homeowners planting over 200 plants, and Monarchs were spotted taking advantage of the bounty. Please take part in helping the Monarchs and plant milkweeds in your yard this summer.

Sustainable Wellesley would like to thank the Mosher Family who donated some of the Incarnata plugs.

Blue Ginger says final goodbye at yard sale

June 5, 2017 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

The last butterfish has been served and the last Pollytini has been shaken. The party is over, folks. After nineteen years of serving the best in East-West cuisine, Blue Ginger has officially closed. (Here’s our exit interview with owner Ming Tsai). They ended things today in the Church Square parking lot with the yard sale to end all yard sales. Tsai sold off saute pans, food processors, chefs’ coats, cutting boards, plates, and pretty much everything he ever used (or bought thinking he might someday use) for every season of his TV show, Simply Ming, as well as stuff from the legendary Wellesley Blue Ginger kitchen, where it all began.

Seriously, they had more stuff there than Target, and people came in droves with money to spend. Some of the proceeds from the yard sale will benefit Family Reach, for whom Ming has raised over 5 million in seven years. The Church St. merchants set up a sidewalk sale as well, because why should Ming have all the fun?

They came ready to buy at the Blue Ginger yard sale.

Lyn Evans, Jenn Shotkus — Jenn Shotkus, co-owner of Lyn Evans, on hand at the sidewalk sale component of the Blue Ginger yard sale.