Join Lincoln Democrats and friends for strategizing and putting into action the “roadmap for 2020” on Saturday, Jan. 11 at 9 a.m. in Bemis Hall. In November, Lincoln Democrats voted climate change as the #1 issue but also identified gun control, health care, and immigration as “very important.” What do you think? Ideas and energy welcome.
The Birches School (100 Bedford Rd., Lincoln) will hold its winter admissions open house on Saturday, Jan. 11 from 1–3 p.m. Tour the new campus set on three acres of private woodlands and speak with faculty, parents, and current students about the school’s K-8 program centered on cultivating curiosity, creativity, empathy, and self-reliance. Children are welcome to attend. Click here to register.
Join the First Parish in Lincoln and the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) for Climate Sunday on Sunday, Jan. 12 starting at 10 a.m. Climate Sunday is a gathering for those interested in learning more about how to take action on environmental justice, clean transportation, zero-waste initiatives, and more. Interactive workshops on issues such as environmental justice, transportation, and zero waste will focus on the current state of environmental advocacy in Massachusetts from experts working on the ground.
Participants are welcome to come for the entire day or just the lunch and afternoon workshops. Below is the schedule of events. Space is limited; please click here to RSVP.
- 10 a.m. — The First Parish in Lincoln morning service with sermon by Rev. Jenny Rankin and reflections by Peter Shelley, CLF’s senior counsel.
- 11:15 a.m. — Check-in opens at the Stone Church.
- 11:15 a.m.–12 p.m. — Environmental fair featuring booths and informal presentations by CLF, Green Energy Consumers Alliance, HomeWorks Energy, and others. Learn what you can do to combat climate change.
- 12 p.m. — “How to Stay Optimistic in a Warming World,” a lunchtime presentation by CLF President Brad Campbell.
- 1 p.m. — Workshop #1: Staci Rubin, CLF’s senior attorney, will discuss her work around environmental justice and clean transportation, as well as how you can get involved.
- 1:45 p.m. — Workshop #2: Kirstie Pecci, CLF’s Zero Waste Project director and senior fellow, will discuss her work on plastics and zero-waste initiatives and how you can take action.
Anyone with questions may contact Katie Ardrey at 617-850-1729 or kardrey@clf.org.
Come to Bemis Hall on Monday, Jan. 13 at 12:30 p.m. when Ray Anthony Shepard discusses “The MLK You Don’t Know.” Award-winning author and historiographer Ray Anthony Shepard discusses his forthcoming collective biography, A Long Time Coming: Chronicles of Six African Americans from Ona to Obama. Written in flash lines of verse, prose, and quotes, it tells the story of six African Americans’ quest to transform the United States into a multiracial democracy. Ray will share how he compressed two and a half centuries into less than 300 pages and why he chose to tell that history in free verse. In honor of MLK’s birthday, he will also read from his story poem on Martin Luther King Jr., “A Man in a Hurry.” For more information on our speaker, click here. The COA provides beverages and dessert. The lectures last about an hour, including a question and answer period. Participants are welcome to stay after the program to continue their discussion. All ages welcome.
Matt Borrello is the featured performer at the next LOMA (Lincoln Open-Mike Acoustic) night on Monday, Jan. 13 in the Lincoln Public Library’s Tarbell Room. The event runs from 7–10 p.m., and Borrello will perform a half-hour set starting around 8:30. He is a Bob Dylan acolyte, regularly performing at Dylan tribute shows, and plays venues like Passim, Lizard Lounge, Toad and the Rose Garden, and further afield through the Mid-Atlantic to the Carolinas. Admission is free and refreshments are provided. Performers can sign up at the event or email Rich Eilbert at loma3re@gmail.com for a slot. There is a sound system with mikes and instrumental pickups suitable for individuals or small groups.
Meet with a nurse at 50 Wells Rd. in Lincoln Woods on Tuesday, Jan. 14 from 10 a.m.–noon or Bemis Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 21 from 9 a.m.–11 a.m. Blood pressure, nutrition and fitness, medication management, chronic disease management, resources, and more. Services provided by Emerson Hospital Home Care. The Bemis Hall clinic is supported by the Pierce House.
Massage parlors in the area and all over the country have been the focus of police raids targeting sexual exploitation. Do you wonder if people choose this life are are being forced into it? Would legalizing prostitution make things better for all involved? How is the issue of prostitution being addressed locally and within the state of Massachusetts? Join the Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable for a panel presentation and discussion on “Sexual Exploitation: It’s Happening in Our Communities” on Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 3 p.m. in the Wayland Public Safety Building (38 Cochituate Rd., Wayland).
Panelists will include Peter Qualliotine, co-founder of the Seattle-based Organization for Prostitution Survivors (OPS), and an advocate from RIA House, a local program that supports women with experience in the commercial sex trade and its associated exploitation, trafficking and prostitution. The remaining panelists will be community members who knew something wasn’t right and explored ways to deal with what was happening in their community.
Join Rev. Jenny Rankin of the First Parish in Lincoln and a small group to reflect, consider your life through a “spiritual” lens and write about it in a “Spiritual Autobiography” course over five weekly sessions starting Tuesday, Jan. 14 from 7–8:30 p.m. in the parish house (14 Bedford Rd.). Through in-class exercises and short writing assignments, participants will consider the different chapters or stepping stones of their life’s journey up until now. Some things to consider: What have been the gifts and graces of your life? Where were the losses and hurts? How would you articulate your sense of the sacred, God, or whatever spiritual vocabulary do you use? What “language of reverence” do you speak? Email sarah@fplincoln.org to sign up.
If you are a veteran or spouse who needs in-home care or you know someone who is, please come to Bemis Hall on Thursday, Jan. 16 at 10:15 a.m. when Lincoln’s veterans services officer, Peter Harvell, will explain the Aid and Attendance Veterans Benefit. These benefits will pay for in-home care, such as that provided by visiting nurses, so that veterans and spouses can age in place. Bring your questions and concerns.
Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School will host an information session and tour for parents of middle school students on Thursday, Jan. 16 (snow date: Tuesday, Jan. 21) from 6:30-8 p.m. in the high school library. Hosts will include L-S administrators Bella Wong and Virginia Blake as well as L-S veteran parents, who will talk about the school’s academic profile, enrollment projections, median class sizes, student clubs and activities, athletic teams, theater and music opportunities, college planning, the Global Scholars Program, and more. For further information, please contact L-S School Committee member Carole Kasper at carolemkasper@gmail.com or Virginia Blake at virginia_blake@lsrhs.net.
LSB Players, the theater production company of Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, present “Beanstalk!” by Ross Mihalko and Donna Swift on Friday, Jan. 17 at 6 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 18 at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. in the Kirshner Auditorium. The 11 a.m. show will be a special sensory-friendly performance. Audiences of all ages will enjoy this fun adaptation of a classic fable. There will be lobby activities for young children. Ticket prices are $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens/students, and $5 for children age 5 and under. Tickets may be reserved at LSBtickets@gmail.com and will also be available at the door.
LSB Players, the theater production company of Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, present “Beanstalk!” by Ross Mihalko and Donna Swift on Friday, Jan. 17 at 6 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 18 at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. in the Kirshner Auditorium. The 11 a.m. show will be a special sensory-friendly performance. Audiences of all ages will enjoy this fun adaptation of a classic fable. There will be lobby activities for young children. Ticket prices are $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens/students, and $5 for children age 5 and under. Tickets may be reserved at LSBtickets@gmail.com and will also be available at the door.
Meet with a nurse at 50 Wells Rd. in Lincoln Woods on Tuesday, Jan. 14 from 10 a.m.–noon or Bemis Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 21 from 9 a.m.–11 a.m. Blood pressure, nutrition and fitness, medication management, chronic disease management, resources, and more. Services provided by Emerson Hospital Home Care. The Bemis Hall clinic is supported by the Pierce House.
Lincolnites 60 and older are invited to enjoy a delicious gourmet lunch with friends new and old at 11:30 on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at St. Anne’s Church. Our special guests will be Dan Pereira and David Sequeira from Parks and Recreation. Come meet them, ask them your questions and give your ideas. Tricia McGean, Lincoln’s public health nurse, will offer free blood pressure readings. The cost of lunch is $5 per person. Caregivers are welcome to come with those for whom they are caring. Let the COA know if you need transportation or a seating partner. The lunch is co-sponsored by the COA, the Friends of the COA, Minuteman Senior Services, Newbury Court, St. Anne’s, and the Lincoln Garden Club.
Winter storms, with power outages and the possibility of not being able to leave your home for days, can be dangerous. The Fire Department, Parks and Recreation Department, and Council on Aging invite residents of all ages to come learn how to be prepared to weather whatever comes our way on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 2:15 at Bemis Hall. Interim Chief Brian Young and Ben Juhola of the Fire Department, David Sequiera of Parks and Recreation, and Tricia McGean, Lincoln’s public health nurse, will discuss shelter opportunities in Lincoln, how to prepare a winter emergency storm kit, maintaining your health during a storm, creating a support network should you need help, and more.
The Commons in Lincoln, Right at Home In-Home Care and Assistance, and the Council on Aging invite those with dementia and their family, friends, and caregivers to the free Lincoln Memory Café on Thursday, Jan. 23 from 10:30 a.m.–noon in the main building of The Commons in Lincoln. Enjoy delicious refreshments and an interactive creative program with ElderPlay specialist C.C. King in a fun, informal, social atmosphere. The Memory Café is held on the fourth Thursday of the month from 10:30 a.m.–noon at The Commons in Lincoln. Call Elizabeth Kaupp of Right at Home at 781-275-1400 or the COA at 781-259-8811 for more information.
Hospice and palliative care can be the right choice for many people with a life-limiting illness and their families. But too often people are not aware that this opportunity is available or avail themselves of it only in the last days of life. Come to Bemis Hall on Wednesday, Jan. 24 at 10 a.m. for a program for families and friends presented by Care Dimensions, which offers hospice, palliative care, and support services. The program will feature a discussion of the common myths and misconceptions of hospice care along with an overview of the benefits of hospice and palliative care services and how to access this help.
Revitalizing South Lincoln has been a major initiative for many years, and the South Lincoln Planning Implementation Committee (SLPIC) will be putting forth a number of proposals at next March’s Annual Town Meeting. Come to Bemis Hall on Friday, Jan. 24 at 1 p.m. when Jennifer Burney, Lincoln’s Director of Planning and Land Use, and Gary Taylor of the Planning Board and SLPIC will update you on the work of the committee and listen to your concerns and ideas. This is your chance to make your voice heard in an informal, conversational milieu.
The Friends of the COA invite all Lincoln residents 60 or over to the Top of the Town Winter Gala on Saturday, Jan. 25 from 5–8 p.m. at the deCordova Museum. Meet and greet old friends and new at this elegant gala party. Enjoy beverages along with finger food, small plates, and delicious desserts. Be sure to send in the reservation form you will receive or may have already received. If you are a Lincoln resident 60 or over and do not receive an invitation by January 10, please call the COA right away. The form must reach the FLCOA at PO Box 143, Lincoln, MA 01773 or Bemis Hall by January 17 to confirm your attendance. This is a catered party, and an accurate head count is important. Because there is a space limit of 200 persons, the FLCOA will start a wait list if replies reach that number. They request that you let them know promptly if you must cancel so they can notify the next person on the list. While the Friends of the Lincoln COA are pleased to host this event with free admission for Lincoln residents, they greatly appreciate your donations to help defray expenses for this event.
St. Anne’s Episcopal Church will host a Haiti Art Sale on Sunday, Jan. 26 after morning worship (8 a.m. spoken Eucharist, 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist with choir). Items made by artisans from Haiti will be for sale, and all proceeds benefit the artists who are helping support their families. That evening at 5 p.m., St. Anne’s is hosting a four-parish Evensong — St. Anne’s choir will be joined by choirs from Church of the Good Shepherd in Acton, Trinity Episcopal Church in Concord, and St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Sudbury. A reception will follow. All are welcome.