Workshops on recycling, native landscaping
MetroWest Climate Solutions is co-sponsoring two upcoming workshops:
“Everything You Wanted to Know about Recycling But Were Afraid to Ask!”
Wednesday, April 27 from 7–8:30 p.m.
Ever wonder whether and how you personally can make a difference in the quest to reduce waste? Join us for a free Zoom workshop featuring Stephanie Miller, author of Zero Waste Living: The Busy Person’s Guide to a Lighter Footprint. The session will focus on the importance of “recycling right” and help participants identify what’s recyclable and what’s not. We’ll delve into the recycling waste streams by material: metals, glass, paper/cardboard, and plastics. Click here to register.
“Your Landscape Matters: Changing the Conservation Paradigm”
Thursday, May 5 at 7 p.m.
Extinctions of plants and animals and climate change seem like overwhelming problems but each of us can fight these crises right at home, especially by treating our home gardens as habitat to nurture the living things native to our continent. Claudia Thompson, founder of Grow Native Massachusetts, will discuss her home landscape rich with habitat — supporting wildlife, birds, and pollinators. Register here. Ready to add native plants to your yard? Attendees who live within five miles of Wayland will be offered a community service garden visit by Jean Milburn, Wayland’s Native Plant Ambassador from the MCA Native Pollinator Task Force.
Workshop on elder abuse
About one in 10 older adults experience physical, emotional, sexual, financial, and spiritual abuse. Join the Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable on Tuesday, May 10 at 3 p.m. for a workshop highlighting what our communities should know about the important issue of elder abuse, presented by Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse. While the workshop will look broadly at responding to elder abuse at the local level, Safe Havens notes that approximately 86% of older adults are faith-affiliated. Research suggests that, when faced with abuse, older adults often turn first to their faith leaders for help. With that in mind, the speakers will focus in part on the importance of faith in the lives of older adults and the ways in which community members might use these insights to offer effective support to people who might be experiencing abuse now or could be vulnerable to abuse in the future. To receive a Zoom link to this program, please click here to register.
Five teachers wins FELS grants
FELS, the Foundation for Educators at Lincoln-Sudbury, awarded just over $8,000 in grants for 2022, allowing high school staff to embark on adventures to pursue their professional and personal interests and passions, and then return to the classroom positively transformed. The 2022 FELS Grant recipients are:
- MJ Galano, French faculty for her application to visit the Loire Valley in France
- David Grace, History, for “Rethinking Assessment: How Can We Build More Equitable Systems?” (Alaska)
- Humberlys Galindez, Special Education, for “Reconnecting with My Roots through Food and Travel” (Spain)
- Dan Lewis, English for “The Big Stone (El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, California)
- Nancy Dion, Special Education, for “Backcountry Journeys – Glacier National Park, Montana: ‘The Last Best Place.”
Lincoln’s Melo wins award from BC High
Arcel Melo of Lincoln received the Rev. Edward S. Stanton, SJ, Men for Others Service Award at Boston College High School’s annual senior awards ceremony. The April 14 event celebrated the accomplishments of the members of the class of 2022 and recognized students for their leadership in various co-curricular activities and their academic excellence.