More than you really want to know about Wellesley, Mass.
The Department of Veterans’ Services in Wellesley is looking for volunteers to assist in placing U.S. flags on veterans’ graves at Woodlawn Cemetery on Wednesday, May 9th, starting at 3:00 p.m., weather permitting. The rain date is scheduled for Thursday, May 10th starting at 3:00 p.m.
If you are interested in helping or if you have any questions, please call the Wellesley Veterans’ Office at 781-489-7509.
The hockey community in Wellesley is mourning those killed in a bus crash in Canada over the weekend that claimed the lives of 15 people, including 10 Humbolt Broncos junior hockey team players and 2 coaches.
Mary Beth Mosher Grimm reached out to us as part of an effort to encourage Wellesley residents to honor those who died and were injured in the crash by putting a hockey stick on their porch, as families across Canada are doing.
“As long time hockey mothers, we are setting out to bring this poignant tribute to Wellesley,” she wrote in a Facebook post. “We are asking that over the next couple of days you put a stick by the door on your front porch. Let us show the people of Humboldt that the hockey community really is one family, both near and far, and we are with them as they struggle through this terrible time.”
UPDATE (3/25/18): Sadly, Mica was found and has passed away. The dog’s owner wrote on FB: “Thank you to everyone – the kindness we’ve experienced outweighs our sadness and will make healing easier.”
We just heard from concerned Swellesley Report readers that Wellesley resident Bethany Giles Colavincenzo’s almost 13 year old dog, Mica, got out last night and did not return. On her Facebook page Colavincenzo writes, “We are in the Bates neighborhood and she was last seen on Martin Rd. heading toward Elmwood. We are desperately looking for her. She’s a red tri-Australian Shepherd with light brown and white markings on her face. She has a collar and microchip. We have connected with Sue Webb from animal control and have spent hours searching on foot. She is friendly and sweet and a beloved part of our family. Please help spread the word and reach out if you have any information. Thank you!”
If you have any information, contact Wellesley police at (781) 235-1212
We hope Mica finds her way home soon to her worried family.
The 18th annual breakfast in honor of Martin Luther King Day sponsored by World of Wellesley and Wellesley College took place Monday, Jan. 15 at Wellesley College’s Alumnae Hall, while Hardy School hosted fun events for families as well. The World of Wellesley sent along some pictures of the happenings and Wellesley Public Media has posted a video, which we’ve embedded at the bottom of this post. All photo credits to World of Wellesley.
Wellesley resident, amazing photographer, and dear friend Beth Shedd recently contacted us with an intriguing idea. She has started a 2018 Instagram and Facebook challenge she calls Wellesley Wednesdays. The idea is that in a series of weekly posts, she will feature people she encounters in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The common thread will be their photo in the context with which she knows them, along with their answer to a specific question.
Beth is all about the positivity in life, which makes her a wonderful foil to our hard-boiled journalistic ways. We are honored to have been her first victims — ahem — subjects for this project. You can see her great pictures on her Instagram and on Facebook. Here we are, just out of hair and makeup and ready for our close-up:
Stay tuned to Beth’s Insta to find out where this project is going. We hear a Wellesley Free Library exhibit of her photos may be coming up.