Halloween activities for kids at the library Movies & Muffins — Friday, Oct. 24 at 3:30 p.m. Watch Halloween-themed short films based on the beloved children’s books Fletcher and the Falling Leaves and Dem Bones, and the “Little Bear’s Moonlight Serenade”TV episode. For ages 2 and up. Oogly Googly Halloween Puppet Show — Monday, Oct. 27 at 4 p.m. Come hear a Halloween…
seniors
Letter to the editor: support a multigenerational community center
To the editor: My parents moved their young family to Lincoln in 1948. Growing up, I was always impressed by how much my parents gave back to the community, and how much the Lincoln community gave to our family. I remember my Dad very clearly saying how important it is to pay it both forward…
Letter to the editor: come to CCSC forum on Oct. 17
To the editor: The Community Center Study Committee and the Lincoln Council on Aging invite Lincoln residents of all ages to a public meeting on Friday, Oct. 17 at 1 p.m. in Bemis Hall to explore the need for a new community center in town. The Community Center Study Committee (CCSC) was appointed by the…
Residents brainstorm options for a community center
By Alice Waugh More than 100 residents packed into Hartwell Pod C for an October 8 charrette to share ideas for a community center in Lincoln and discuss where it might be located. The evening included lively discussion over pizza as attendees clustered around maps and models of five sites identified in a 2012 report by the Community Center Feasibility Study…
Death Café aims to start a conversation
By Alice Waugh
Death, like sex and money, is not usually considered a topic for frank conversation in America. But an event in Lincoln later this month aims to challenge and overcome that reluctance.
News acorns
Drumlin Farm offers winter CSA program Registration for the winter Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) program at Drumlin Farm is now open. Winter CSA shareholders will receive eight distributions from early November through mid-February of vegetables from the Drumlin Farm root cellar, including garlic, onions, brussels sprouts, cabbage, potatoes, sweet potatoes, radishes, beets, winter squash and more….
October activities sponsored by COA
Here are the October activities sponsored by the Lincoln Council on Aging.
Enjoy old-time jazz with the Lincoln Trad Jazz Jammers
October 2 at 2:30 p.m.
If you ain’t been to one of these yet, find out what you’ve been missin’! Come celebrate the joy of jazz at Bemis Hall on Thursday, October 2 at 2:30 p.m. when the Lincoln Traditional Jazz Jammers will share with you their love of this hot and cool music in a delightfully spontaneous jam! If you find you just can’t sit still, go ahead and tap your toes or get up and dance as they belt out favorites we all know and love, like Ain’t Misbehavin’, Makin’ Whoopie and others. The musicians are mostly retirees, amateurs who give life to the music of the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s at the Trad Jazz Jams at Bemis Hall, the library, and the Colonial Inn on Wednesdays.
Chaplin meets Beethoven
October 3 at 1 p.m.
Mark your calendars for Friday, October 3 at 1 p.m., at Bemis Hall when the COA will show The Immigrant, a silent film by Charlie Chaplin, accompanied by a live string group, Con Affeto, which includes Lincoln residents Laura Bossert and Terry King and others. Con Affeto will play music by Beethoven, Mozart, Kreisler and more. They have performed on New York music station WQXR and elsewhere in the region. This event is supported by the Friends of the Lincoln COA.
Jazz group gives books to library
To celebrate the start of their 35th season, Classic Jazz at the Lincoln Library (CJALL) presented the Lincoln Public Library with “The Jazz Shelf,” a collection of books on classic jazz. The books were originally owned by CJALL founders Bill Poisson and Ed Williams, and current members Harold McAleer and Vern Welch added a few of…
News acorns – 9/14/14
Public forum on school project this week
The School Building Advisory Committee will hold the first of four public forums on Tuesday, Sept. 16 from 7-9 p.m. in the Smith gym as part of the planning process for Lincoln School renovations and/or additions (see the Lincoln Squirrel, Sept. 8, 2014). The forums will be iterative in nature, beginning with a discussion of cost estimates of renovation components and moving through the development of a range of solutions.
Lincoln Police warn citizens of phone scams
The following is a notice from Lt. Sean Kennedy of the Lincoln Police Department. We would like to notify the community that we have received numerous citizen complaints over the past few months of several different telephone scams. These citizen complaints are not unique to Lincoln, as neighboring communities are fielding similar complaints. Several of…