This looks fun!
Touch a Truck event on Saturday, September 26th
9:30 am – 12:00 pm
2 Wells Avenue
Newton, MA
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3rd Annual Newton Children’s Book Festival!
Meet 100+ Children’s and Young Adult Authors and Illustrators at the 3rd Annual Newton Children’s Book Festival.
They will be selling and signing their books.
We have a NEW LOCATION at American Legion Nonantum Post 440, 295 California Street in Newton.
For more information, go to our website.
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Free 3-Week Kids Kung Fu Class (Ages 4-8)
Free 3-Week Kids Kung Fu Class
Boost your child’s strength and confidence!
From August 23 to September 6, Master Huan Zhang and Sifu Stephanie Gellar are hosting free self-defense and kung fu sessions at GBCCA at 437 Cherry Street in West Newton.
Perfect for learning self-protection and standing up to bullies.
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Children’s Book Writing Class FOR KIDS!
My author friend, Joy Meng, is teaching this children’s writing class in WESTON, MA …Turn your child’s imagination into a published book—at the Weston Recreation Center in just 8 weeks!In Write It, Draw It, Publish It, children ages 7–10 will brainstorm, write, and illustrate their own stories under the guidance of an Amazon best-selling author. By the end, each young creator will proudly hold a book published worldwide and showcase it at two local book shows!
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#CranesForOurFuture
My Japanese side of the family is from Hiroshima.
I’m sharing a paper crane to represent my hope for a world free of nuclear weapons.
#CranesForOurFuture art by Ukrainian paper artist Mariia Lapitan-Yashchenko.
https://buff.ly/3zlKW6H
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Incredible Writing Tutor & Guitar Teacher Available!
Posting for my daughter’s boyfriend. He’s an incredible writer and can help with college application essays or tutor in English essay writing. He also gives guitar lessons.
Hi! My name is Ben, and I am a Brown University alumni. I graduated with a 4.0 GPA with a double major in English and Music. While at Brown, I won two first-place Preston Gurney prizes— Cultural Criticism and Literary Criticism—awarded to the best undergraduate senior essays in each subject.
I was also the Editorial Director at WBRU, an editor at the Brown Political Review, and TA’d music production courses. I attended The Lawrenceville School (top 10 high schools nationwide) where I won the fifth form English Prize, received the Emerson Prize for a published paper in the Concord Review, and scored 1590 on my SAT. I currently work part-time at a documentary studio as a Writing Assistant for two Emmy-nominated directors.
I mentor students on private/boarding, undergraduate, and graduate school application essays. I can also tutor students in essay writing and research in English, history, political science, poetry, and film.
In my free time, I play in two indie-rock bands, Bogus Rex and The Rug (on Spotify and Apple Music), performing around the New York area. I have experience teaching beginner/intermediate guitar, songwriting, and music production for small groups and individuals.
I am available both on Zoom and can travel around the Williamsburg/NYC area.
Please reach out if you’re interested – my email is benjamin_cunningham@alumni.brown.edu
Thank you!
Ben Cunningham
photos by Zoe Lee
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Story Starters Winter 2024 Registration is now Open!
Story Starters Winter 2024 Registration is now open through January 19!
Meet author Kaija Langley at our program kickoff!
Our eight-week Family Conversations Program is designed for parents who want to start and strengthen conversations about race with their young children. Join our Winter 2024 Cohort and be the first to receive our brand new book bundles, along with updated supplemental book lists!
Our program provides families with:
- A bundle of 6 books tailored to your children’s ages
- 5 caregiver guides full of research, resources, and family activities to support and deepen family race conversations
- 4 curated book lists to support further exploration and conversation
- 2 in-person family events and 2 virtual caregiver workshops
- 2 virtual office hours
- Support from a network of current families and alumni to lean on and learn from
- Special events to facilitate community connection
The program kickoff is Sunday, January 28 from 3:00-4:30 pm at Jammin’ With You. For additional program dates and details, visit: www.story-starters.org/
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GBH Kids Scriptwriting Fellowship
The GBH Kids Scriptwriting Fellowship is a program designed to mentor early-career writers, who are members of underrepresented groups in the greater children’s media industry (including individuals of African American, Asian, Latinx/Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific Islander descent), in writing scripts for a GBH KIDS animated series focused on STEM learning. The goal is to diversify the pipeline of writers for both this show, and the greater children’s media industry with a hands-on learning experience in television writing for children and an opportunity for their scripts to be produced for this new series.GBH Kids looking for 5 exceptional scriptwriting fellows to participate in this 4-month writing workshop. Applications will be accepted until Friday, November 12th at 5 pm EST. More information about the program and application requirements is available at https://www.wgbh.org/gbhkidsfellowship -
Newton Food Pantry Volunteers Needed!
Are you looking for a volunteer experience that allows you to give back to your community? The Newton Food Pantry is looking for volunteers. Volunteers are especially needed for Wednesdays starting in September – our food distribution days.This is a great volunteer opportunity for older kids – feel free to sign up along with your Middle or High School student!
We are a 100% run volunteer organization with a mission to help families in Newton put food on their tables. We simply cannot carry out our mission without the support of our dedicated volunteers. Will you volunteer today? – sign up here
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Russo’s to Close this Fall
To Our Devoted and Loyal Customers,
After more than 70 years working for the family business, Tony Russo is retiring.
Our business will close this fall.
It has been Tony’s privilege to serve our many wholesale and retail customers for seven decades.
Our business began as a small farm in Watertown more than 100 years ago. Every day at Russo’s – while surrounded by fresh produce – Tony is reminded of working alongside his grandparents on the farm and later, of working alongside his father and uncle at their wholesale warehouse. Their work ethic became his inspiration. Throughout the years, Tony has worked in all areas of the retail and wholesale business including trimming vegetables, driving trucks, loading and unloading trailers, putting up wholesale orders, sweeping the floor, buying produce, and overseeing the most subtle details of the retail store. At any time, customers can find him involved in the displays of the fruits, vegetables, flowers, bakery, deli, cheese, and garden departments. His days begin around 3:30 AM and end after 8 PM.
Tony has treasured watching generations of families shopping together as they choose their first spring vegetable plants or the first local apples of the season, and as they shop for Christmas trees (with classical music playing in the background, of course).
Tony deeply appreciates and will truly miss the employees who have worked every day, sometimes outside in the harshest of weather conditions. These employees represent the backbone and the energy of the Russo’s environment, and their efforts will never be forgotten. We cannot overstate Tony’s dedication to the world of fruits, vegetables, and flowers. We also cannot overstate his dedication to Russo’s wonderful employees, customers, growers, and suppliers. And we cannot thank Tony enough for what he has brought to so many people’s lives.
Thank you, Russo’s
