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September 5, 2015

Codman arts and crafts festival on Sept. 12

The Codman Estate’s Fine Arts and Crafts Festival will be Saturday, Sept. 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine. This annual event features the work of more than 100 artisans, including painting, pottery, photography, jewelry, glass, fiber art, metalworking, woodworking, clothing, food wares, and folk art. Visitors can enjoy live entertainment, food vendors, and Codman Estate tours. Free for Historic New England members and kids under 12, $5 for nonmembers.

Library news notes

Saturday hours at the library resume on September 12.
Lincoln residents can now instantly borrow free digital music, audiobooks, movie, TV and books, 24/7 from the Lincoln Public Library. No waiting and no late fees. Items may be streamed or downloaded, and new content is added every week. Visit hoopladigital.com, log in with your library card, and start borrowing. See this library web page for details.

L-S Class of ’17 sponsors 5K Color Run

During this event over the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School cross-country course on Saturday, Sept. 19, runners wear white “L-S Color Run” T-shirts and when passing color stations, they get “decorated” with non-toxic colored powder thrown onto the T-shirts. Color Runs are some of the fastest-growing 5K events and fun for the entire family. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. and the race begins at 10 a.m. Meet in the L-S parking lot. All ages are welcome for this run/walk—go at your own pace. Proceeds benefit the Class of 2017. Those who sign up in advance online for $35 receive a T-shirt and color bag. Participants can also sign up on the say of the race for $40, but T-shirts may not be available. Checks should be made out to LSRHS Class of 2017 with forms turned into West House or South House at L-S.

St. Anne’s in-the-Fields returns to two services

On Sunday, September 13, St. Anne’s in-the-Fields returns to its two-service schedule with Holy Eucharist at 8:00 a.m. and Holy Eucharist with Choir at 10:00 a.m. For more information, visit www.stanneslincoln.org or call (781) 259-8834.

Another former Celtic selling his Lincoln home

August 24, 2015

Rajon Rondo’s Fridolin Hill home.

Who wants to commute 3,000 miles each way every day? Former Boston Celtics player Rajon Rondo, whose work address is now in Sacramento, is selling his Lincoln home overlooking the Cambridge reservoir. The asking price? Nothing remarkable by Lincoln standards—just $1.99 million, dropped from $2.45 million in May.

“We especially appreciated being part of the Lincoln community, which was always welcoming and warm to us. This was a very lucky house for me, and I have nothing but fond memories of my time here,” Rondo said in this Boston Globe article. He bought the property at 9 Fridolin Hill seven years ago when he was just 22, and got along well with his neighbor, according to WEEI.com.

Two years ago, Celtics player Paul Pierce also put his Winter Street home on the market for $2.65 million after he was traded to the Brooklyn Nets.

According to Trulia.com, Rondo’s asking price pales in comparison to those of several other Lincoln homes on the market as of August 21, including 109 Todd Pond Rd. ($8.59 million), 18 Page Rd. ($7.5 million), and 7 Silver Hill Rd. ($3.5 million).

A bevy of birds (Lincoln through the Lens)

August 22, 2015

A suspicious-looking finch and female cardinal pair, a male cardinal (are they hiding from him)? and a great blue heron were photographed in recent weeks by Harold McAleer.

Readers may submit photos for consideration for Lincoln Through the Lens by emailing them to lincolnsquirrelnews@gmail.com. If your photo is published, you’ll receive credit in the Squirrel. Photos must be taken in Lincoln and include the date, location, and names of any people who are identifiable in the photo. Previously published photos can be viewed on the Lincoln Through the Lens page of the Lincoln Squirrel.

Library invites residents to brainstorming session

August 21, 2015

The Lincoln Public Library’s Tarbell Room.

Do you want more fiction in the stacks? Do you wish the Reading Room were better lit? Do you want nonfiction out of the basement? Do you think the Young Adult section is too small? Are you tired of pink and green? Do you wish you could meet a friend for tea at the library café? Do you have to duck under the low ceiling in the basement? Do you need more Internet support or electrical outlets? Whether you rush in and out of Circulation or linger in the stacks, do you dream of improving your library in ways small or large?

Join the Lincoln Public Library Board of Library Trustees and designers on Tuesday, September 1 at 7 p.m. in the Tarbell Room to explore possible improvements and enhancements to our library. Your opinion matters and the trustees want and need to hear from Lincoln residents.

News acorns

August 21, 2015

Literary walk at deCordova

Inspired by Walking Sculpture, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is offering a free ambulatory event in the Park on Wednesday, August 26 at 6:30 p.m. with poet Cole Swensen that includes readings by some of literature’s greatest walkers and responsive writings.

Lincoln Agricultural Day on Sept. 19

The second Annual Lincoln Agricultural Day sponsored by the Lincoln Agricultural Commission will be on Saturday, Sept. 19 from 9:30 a.m. to 2 alongside the farmer’s market at the front of the Lincoln Station mall. The event is hosted by the Lincoln Rural Land Foundation. If you’re interested in selling produce or other agricultural products or have an agriculture related activity or skill you’d like to share, please contact lynne@stonegategardens.com to secure your space and become part of the celebration. There are no fees for vendors or participants.

Codman Harvest Fair coming up; entries sought

If you have an amazing garden with vegetables and/or flowers, please consider entering the old-fashioned Harvest Fair competition at Codman Community Farm slated for Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 19-20. Categories include individual vegetables, grouped vegetables, flower arrangements, herbs, fruit plates, and canned and preserved goods. Children’s categories include animals made from veggies, ugliest vegetable, sewing, paintings and drawings, and flower arrangements. Click here for a complete listing of categories, rules and drop-off information.

Tickets for the fair’s feast, catered by Blue Ribbon BBQ, will go on sale soon. The fair can’t run without volunteers, and it’s fun—contact us at info@codmanfarm.org if you’re willing to help run games, sell food, help with the Rooster Run, or collect admissions and sell game tickets.

LEAP now offering before-school care

Starting in September, the Lincoln Extended-day Activities Program (LEAP) is offering before-school care for Lincoln School students from 6:50-8 a.m. Rates below include breakfast. To sign up, call 781-259-0615 or email leap0615@gmail.com.

1 day a week	$43 per month
2 days a week	$85 per month
3 days a week	$119 per month
4 days a week	$152 per month
5 days a week	$183 per month

Fall wellness clinics for all ages

Lincoln residents of all ages are invited to meet with a nurse through a free town service. Come to get your blood pressure and/or Body Mass Index checked, ask questions, or learn about wellness resources. Clinics will be held at the Community Building at Lincoln Woods at 50 Wells Road from 10 a.m. to noon on four Fridays: September 18, October 2, November 13, and December 11. These clinics are funded by the Ogden Codman Trust and provided by Emerson Hospital Home Care. For more information, please call the Council on Aging at 781-259-8811.

Darius Theriault passes away in motorcycle accident

July 31, 2015

Darius Theriault

Darius Theriault, 27, died on July 4 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in Shrewsbury. He is the son of Richard and Vita Theriault and brother of Minty Theriault, all of Lincoln. Darius grew up in Lincoln and played soccer, Pop Warner football and hockey in town programs. He graduated from Austin Preparatory School, attended Saint Anselm College and was finishing his degree at Framingham State University. Donations in his memory may be made to the Wounded Warrior Project.

The following article ran on July 7 in the MetroWest Daily News and is reprinted with permission.

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Environmental Club at L-S wins national award

July 28, 2015

Christy Goldfuss, Managing Director of White House Council on Environmental Quality, Eleanor Burke, L-S Environmental Club Advisor, PEYA awardees Michael Bader (’14) and Grace Chin (’15) and U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy.

The Environmental Club at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School traveled to Washington, D.C., last month to receive the 2014 President’s Environmental Youth Award.

The club, which includes Lincoln residents Clara Cousins and Savannah Snell along with Sudbury residents Michael Bader, Brianna Bisson and Grace Chin, received the award for their efforts to bring awareness of climate change to the 1,600 students at L-S and to promote the use of reusable water bottles and recycling. The group raised money to purchase two purified water fountain refilling stations for the school with the goal of decreasing and eliminating the sale and use of one-use plastic water bottles and reducing overall plastic waste at the school.

The group started off its project with a waste audit to measure the plastic waste from the school cafeteria. Next they held a water taste test. The results showed that water from water fountains can taste just as good as water from one-use bottles as long as the temperature of the water is held constant.

The group then embarked on fundraising to purchase the water bottle refilling stations. Members partnered with Next Step Living to recruit local residents to conduct home energy audits, each of which nets $10 for the school. In this manner, the club has raised more than $2,600 to date to fund the purchase of the stations.

Through this project, Environmental Club members learned that they have the power to make a difference at the local school level and also to teach fellow students about the power of individual local action to make a difference on a town-wide and ultimately global level, since community members who’ve taken the home energy audit have learned strategies and improvements to reduce their own carbon footprints.

40 percent of Lincoln ticks tested positive for Lyme in ’14

July 21, 2015

By Alice Waugh

Forty percent of ticks submitted by Lincoln residents for testing in 2014 came back positive for the bacterium that causes Lyme disease—but some also carried bacteria that cause lesser-known tick-borne diseases.

In this recent Bedford Citizen article, Dr. Anne Kiessling presented data from testing gathered by the Middlesex Tick Task Force, a group of public health staff members and residents from 32 Massachusetts towns including Lincoln that was formed in September 2012 to confront public health issues posed by tick-borne diseases. A statewide Community Innovation Challenge Grant provided free testing of approximately 100 ticks in each of the 32 towns last summer.

Lincoln residents submitted 113 ticks for testing in 2014, and 40 percent of those insects were positive for Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Nine percent of the tested ticks were also positive for Babesia microti, which can cause babesiosis, and 3 percent carried Anaplasma phagocytophilum, which can cause anaplasmosis. Babesiosis can results in flu-like symptoms or anemia, since it infects the red blood cells, but it may also cause no symptoms at all. Anaplasmosis symptoms vary, but it can be a serious illness that requires hospitalization.

The 2014 testing also showed that 38 percent of Lincoln ticks carried Borrelia myamotoi. Patients with this newly emerging disease (first reported in the Northeast in 2013) can have symptoms similar to those of Lyme disease (fever, headache and muscle aches) but do not have a bull’s-eye rash. Anaplasmosis likewise does not cause a rash, but patients with this disease may have a rash anyway because they are also infected with Lyme disease at the same time, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Here are data on the four most common tick-borne bacteria gathered by the Tick-Borne Disease Network over the period from 2006-2014:

Time period: 2006-2014	B. burgdorferi	A. phagocytophilum	B. microti	B. myamoti
Massachusetts	29.9%	4.5%	4.4%	3.3%
Lincoln	39.5%	6.9%	6.9%	10.7%

Tick-borne diseases are estimated to be underreported by a factor of 10 due to lack of good surveillance methods because persons with symptoms of a tick-borne disease are usually prescribed medication before they actually test positive for the infection, according to the Bedford Citizen article.

Although the state grant for free tick testing has expired, Massachusetts residents may still send any species of tick for testing at a cost of $50 apiece to the Tick Borne Disease Network.

Obituaries – 7/18/15

July 18, 2015

Joanna Crawford, 89 (died July 1) – instrumental in social justice work with the Martin Luther King Action Project at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. “How many Habitat trips, Food Bank expeditions, homeless shelter dinners, alternative service vacations did she make possible? Innumerable. She believed in service and in an education that took us out of our ‘comfort zones.’ She paid her rent to the planet,” former L-S history teacher Bill Schechter wrote in a Facebook post on the day of her death.

Robert Sutherland

Ann Janes

Robert Sutherland, 80 (died June 26) – won the Lincoln Council on Aging’s Man of the Year Award in 2013.

Ann Janes, 85 (died June 13) – author of historical works, longtime member of St. Joseph’s Church and Lincoln Public Library volunteer.

Marian Cook, 88 (died December 3, 2014) – mother of Peter, John and Catherine Cook.

News acorns – 7/6/15

July 7, 2015

The Lincoln Minute Men march down Lincoln Road on July 4.

Watch video of the July 4 parade

Harold McAleer has posted a video of the first few minutes of Lincoln’s July 4 parade. Click here for a five-minute version or watch the full 18-minute version (including a glimpse of the Lincoln Squirrel at the 13:20 mark).

Berkshire condo rentals benefit Friends of the COA

A generous Lincoln resident has donated 20 nights at a time-sharing condo resort in South Lee, MA in the Berkshires, just 20 minutes from Tanglewood. All proceeds from renting these condos will go to benefit the Friends of the Lincoln Council on Aging, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of Lincoln’s senior citizens.

These condos are two bedroom/two bath with sleeping accommodations for six, including a sleep sofa in the living room. Each condo has multiple TVs, controllable air conditioning, a Jacuzzi tub, and many other amenities. One condo is available from 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 25 until 1 p.m. on Friday, July 31. Two other two condos are available from 4 p.m. on Friday, August 14 until 1 p.m. on Friday, August 21. The condo that’s available in July rents for six days at $1,500 and the two condos available in August rent for seven days at $1,700 each. All three condos are also available at $265 daily, with a minimum two-day stay.

This is an unprecedented chance for you to relax in the bucolic Berkshires this summer, enjoy world-class music and an feel good about helping Lincoln seniors weather next winter’s frigid blasts! Call (617) 378-1415 for further information on how to make these donations to the Lincoln Council on Aging.

Codman meat now available

Stop by the Codman Community Farm store to purchase Codman-raised beef and pork right from the freezer. Packages are individually priced and marked. This is an honor system, so please be sure to fill out a payment envelope, enclose cash or a check, and place it in the payment box. Products include bacon, ham, hamburger, sausage, ground pork and more, and all meat is free of antibiotics and hormones.

Scholarships announced for Lincoln graduating seniors

The Lincoln Scholarship Committee announces the winners of two awards and two named scholarships for Lincoln graduating seniors for 2015. They are:

Clara Cousins received the Fanny Campbell Award for academic achievement
Leah Kanzer received the Sumner Smith Community Service Award
Katherine Flanagan received the Ogden Codman Scholarship
Savannah Snell received the Ogden Codman Opportunity Scholarship

The Lincoln Scholarship Fund also offers need-based scholarships based in part on the community’s response to its annual appeal letter. The recipients of those scholarships will be determined in mid-July. To date, Lincoln community members have contributed $4,695 to the Lincoln Scholarship Fund 2015 appeal. The members of the committee are appreciative of all those who have helped launch these seniors on their next steps in their education. Anyone wishing to add to this support may do so by sending a check to The Lincoln Scholarship Committee, P. O. Box 6283, Lincoln, MA 01773.