Show teacher appreciation with HATS gift
Looking for a special way to thank an L-S teacher or staff member this holiday season? Recognize them with a personalized HATS (Honor a Teacher and Staff) gift. Follow the instructions on the Lincoln School Foundation web page and LSF members will deliver your HATS certificates to honorees before the winter break. HATS gifts help teachers and staff uncover new and innovative tools and techniques to bring to the classroom, and LSF grants provide seed money. The deadline to order is Tuesday, Dec. 20.
Christmas events at St. Anne’s
St. Anne’s in-the-Fields Episcopal Church offers its most-loved event of the season, Lessons & Carols, on Sunday, Dec. 18 at 5 p.m. in a joyful service that tells the Christmas story through scripture and music. Prophesies, carols, anthems, Gospel readings, and prayers combine to lead us from Advent anticipation to the manger. Reception to follow.
Christmas Eve services begin at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 24 with Daylight Eucharist with carols and pageant. We will continue worship with two additional Holy Eucharists at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. with the choir singing Advent hymns, leading carols and culminating in a candlelit singing of “Silent Night.” St. Anne’s welcomes everyone from all walks of life and faith. For more information, visit StAnnesLincoln.org or email parishoffice@stanneslincoln.org.
New Housing Commission member sought
The Town of Lincoln is seeking applicants to fill a vacancy on the Housing Commission. The person appointed will serve a partial-year term that will expire in March 2023, at which point the may stand for re-election to continue serving. The Housing Commission works with organizations and town boards to promote, guide, and support affordable housing needs in Lincoln; monitor the town’s affordable housing to ensure compliance with state 40B requirements and DHCD regulations; oversee the annual certification and lease renewal for residents residing in town-owned affordable housing units; and address ongoing maintenance needs for town-owned affordable housing units. Send letters of interest to housing@lincolntown.org. For more information, call the Select Board’s Office at 781-259-2601.
Talk on “Who’s Raising the Kids?”
Join us for a book talk on Who’s Raising the Kids? with author Susan Linn hosted by Lincoln Nursery School at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum on Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 7 p.m. in the museum’s Dewey Gallery. Linn, an expert on the impact of big tech and big business on children, provides a deep dive into the roots and consequences of the monumental shift toward a digitized, commercialized childhood, focusing on kids’ values, relationships, and learning. Linn is a psychologist, a research associate at Boston Children’s Hospital, and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Read the New York Times review of her book. Click here to register for the talk.