The Lincoln PMC Kids Ride kicks off.
PMC Kids Ride draws hundreds
The first annual Lincoln Pan Mass Challenge Kids Ride on May 3 was a big success. Eighty riders—well in excess of the 50 hopes for—raised over $6,000 to help fight cancer. Organizers thank the many volunteers, including students from the middle school (thank you Steve Cullen for spreading the word) and Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, the Lincoln Police Department (especially Det. Ian Spencer), the Lincoln Recreation Department (especially Dan Pereira and Stacey Mulroy), and sponsors including Lincoln’s Something Special and the Whistle Stop as well as Boston Sports Clubs, Dunkin Donuts, Spotify, Penny Lu Designs and Busy Bee Jumpers.
Correction
In a May 12 story about the Lincoln Garden Club’s photo contest, photographer Bob Wadsworth’s name was listed incorrectly. The story has been updated to reflect this correction.
Phone directory stuffing party
The Friends of the Lincoln Library’s 2015 Lincoln directory is being printed this week and they need help putting all of them into envelopes on Monday, May 18 in the library’s Tarbell Room between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Please call or email Belinda Gingrich (belinda.gingrich@verizon.net) if you can help for a couple of hours. Thanks for helping support the library.
ArtGala paintings on sale until Saturday
There are a few paintings remaining from the successful Lincoln Public Library ArtGala 2015 in the first floor gallery until Saturday, May 16 that are for sale at a discount. For those of you who missed the event, take a look at the ArtGala website for images and then visit the library to have a look. The show and sale must end Saturday to make way for a new show, so contact Julie Brogan at foll@lincolntown.org or 781-259-3558 if you’re interested in making a purchase. “The Julia Zanes Dream Image is a steal for serious collectors!” Brogan says.
Free jazz concert on May 27
To wind up the 35th year of classic jazz at Lincoln Library, there will be a concert on Wednesday, May 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Bemis Hall featuring the Bay State Syncopators. The Syncopators are a reunion band formed in the 1980s by Paul Monat to rekindle the two-cornet sound of Bob Connor’s Yankee Rhythm Kings of the 1970s that featured Paul and Dave Whitney on cornet and Blair Bettancourt on clarinet. The band carries on the New Orleans sounds of Louis, King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton, reborn in the 1950s by Lou Watters, Turk Murphy and Bob Helm in San Francisco.