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Old Town Hall Exchange open this week

Need extra china place settings or glassware for your holiday meals, or some last-minute gift ideas? Check out the Old Town Hall Exchange, which has an array of gifts as well as affordable antiques. It will be open this week on the following schedule:

• Tuesday, Dec. 20 — 10.a.m to 4 p.m.
• Wednesday, Dec. 21 — 10.a.m to 2 p.m.
• Thursday, Dec. 22 — 10.a.m to 3 p.m.
• Friday, Dec. 23 — 10.a.m to 2 p.m.

Tucker Smith recognized for 25 years of helping families

Tucker Smith of Lincoln was profiled by Bay Cove Human Services for her 25 years of work to send holiday presents, grocery gift cards and other items needed to make the holidays bright for early-intervention (EI) families. The effort began in 1998 when Smith and her husband learned that there were unanswered letters to Santa at the postal annex, “so we decided to go get a couple of them and fulfill the requests,” she says in the Bay Cove blog post. “Not long after that, we were attending church at First Parish, and [fellow parishioner] Dan Boynton got up and began speaking about the agency he had founded—Bay Cove Human Services—and its EI program. I couldn’t wait for him to finish, so that I could run up to him and ask him whether we could supply Christmas for the people in the program!”

Bay Cove Human Services is a Boston-based nonprofit that provides services for individuals dealing with the challenges of mental illness, intellectual disabilities, substance use disorder, and/or homelessness in greater Boston and southeastern Massachusetts.

Shortsleeve named to Mt. Auburn board

Lincoln resident Michael Shortsleeve, M.D., is one of four new board members and board chair announced by the Mount Auburn Hospital Board of Trustees. Shortsleeve served as chair of the Department of Radiology for 21 years and program director for the Radiology Residency Program for 18 years. He has served as an officer on the Board of Trustees and chair of the Trustee Philanthropy Committee, and he founded the Physician’s Leadership Circle.