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Saturday March 20th

This Saturday Mar 20th the LEO egg hunt will be held at Capron Park.

The Village Lions usually turn out in force because our members are busy at our breakfast on the same day . This year the have their appraisal event and our breakfast is the following Saturday.

We could use help.

We need a few members with 3 or 4 pound hammers to drive steaks into the ground around 9:30 and then string the caution tape.

We will need several members to just stand by and maintain safety and order from 10:30 to 11:30, and help get the area cleaned up.

Parking gets tough after about 10:15.

If you have never been there to watch, you have missed something amazing.

If you have an hour or two we will be at the Northeast end of the park near the parks and recreation building which is near  Dennis St

JCPENNEY AFTERSCHOOL ROUND UP PROGRAM BENEFITS HOCKOMOCK AREA YMCA IN NORTH ATTLEBORO

(North Attleboro, MA) Spare change helps change lives. From Wednesday, March 24 through Tuesday, April 6, shoppers are urged to ‘round-up’ their purchase to the next whole dollar at JCPenney in the Emerald Square Mall. From there, the JCPenney Afterschool Fund will donate the difference to the Hockomock Area YMCA in North Attleboro to provide children in our community with access to life-enriching after school programs thru the School’s Out Program.

The School’s Out Program at the YMCA provides a great setting for school-aged children to play, learn, and grow in a safe and caring environment. This program services over 350 children in Wrentham, Plainville, and North Attleboro when school is out for the day as well as during school vacations and summer. Offerings include the Before School Care Program (7:00 am until the start of school) and After School Care Program (from end of school until 6:00 pm). The curriculum includes homework support, health & wellness, service learning, and much more.

For more information about the School’s Out Program at the Hockomock Area YMCA, please contact Barbara Zimmer, School Age Program Director at (508) 643-5246 or barbaraz@hockymca.org.

Some cast members of the student written and produced play “Not Strictly Shakespeare” (from left to right): Tim Flannery ’10 (West Warwick), Nick Corey ’13 (Scituate), Gaston Touafec ’13 (Providence), Matthew Sullivan ’12 (Cranston), Ward Pettibone ’10 (Providence), Graham Duff ’10 (East Greenwich).

(Warwick, RI – March 17, 2010) On Saturday, March 13, 2010, the Rhode Island Theater Education Association and the New England Drama Council announced that Bishop Hendricken High School and its play “Not Strictly Shakespeare” was awarded the state championship to advance to the New England Drama Festival.  The Bishop Hendricken production competed alongside 13 other high school drama programs. The 82nd annual RI Drama Festival was held at South Kingstown High School with over 350 students from around the state in attendance. Over the course of the two day Rhode Island Drama Festival, high school theater students and their directors gathered to share, collaborate and support the arts in our high schools. Three professional artists/arts educators adjudicated the festival and offered feedback to the school after each performance. They also selected the top two winning schools and awarded All-state acting awards.

Bishop Hendricken High School performed in the Drama Festival with an entirely student created production titled “Not Strictly Shakespeare.”  It was created by 34 students in the Drama Arts Academy at Hendricken. The students wrote a plot outline and then divided up writing responsibilities for creating the script. Two student directors supervised the process of writing.  Each student took a hand in crafting costumes for 30 different characters that appear on stage. The class worked together to create the set required to transport the audience to “not strictly England, 1589.”  Alex McKhann ’10 of Rumford and Billy Cavanagh ’10 of Warwick served as student directors. 

Mr. Brian Cordeiro, Director of the Arts and Drama Program Director at BHHS states, “I am so very proud of the young men from the Bishop Hendricken High School Drama Arts Academy. They embodied all the best characteristics of what we hope to see in the Hendricken Man. They worked together, challenged themselves, were gracious, humble and in the end, proud not just in themselves but for each other. Our entire arts program celebrates this extraordinary achievement as a remarkable milestone in the first year of the Arts Academy at Bishop Hendricken.”

In addition to the state title for the school, two Bishop Hendricken seniors, Daniel Holmes of West Warwick and Graham Duff of East Greenwich, received All-State Cast Awards, which are presented to exceptional acting performances in a production.

“This experience was incredible,” states McKhann. “We all worked so hard together to create this production. I am so proud of my friends and classmates who worked as an ensemble to create this production.  Winning the state title is an honor and an affirmation that great things can come from young people.”  

“Not Strictly Shakespeare” and its company of students and faculty will now advance to the New England Drama Festival in Falmouth Maine during April 15-17.   Productions from each New England State will be presented and discussed in a showcase of the best student theater from 2010.  Bishop Hendricken High School will offer a performance of its award winning production at BHHS at some point in April. 

Bishop Hendricken High School is a Diocesan, Catholic, all-male, college preparatory school, conducted by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, located at 2615 Warwick Ave, Warwick, RI 02889. Established in 1959, Bishop Hendricken has a history steeped in traditions of service and excellence in all areas. Bishop Hendricken’s mission is to strengthen every community member’s relationship with God through cultivating the whole person: heart, mind, soul and body. For more information about Bishop Hendricken, call 401.739.3450 or visit us online at www.hendricken.com.

Natural Egg Dyeing, Saturday, March 27^th, 1-4pm

Slater Mill Community Guild Studios

Let the colors of nature decorate you Easter basket!

Learn how to create natural dyes from items you already have in your kitchen.

Using simple, non toxic recipes, you will work with Fiber Artist and Gardener Ellen Stone to create an assortment of decorated eggs in a palette of unique hues.

 Class fee: $20, $25 for child accompanied by an adult (minimum age 7 yrs old, children MUST be accompanied by an adult)

Supplies:

Please bring 1 – 2 dozen eggs per person, white or brown, uncooked, blown or hard boiled

Bits of ribbon for decorating and hanging

Glue or glue gun and sticks

Optional: masking tape or wax crayon

Please register before March 26 to assure spots are open. Contact Bernadette Vaughan at Bernadette@slatermill.org or 401.725.8638 x 105

Friday March 19th

[FOXBORO, MA] – The Invensys Foxboro Branch of the Hockomock Area YMCA will host a Family Fun Night for the families with children in the Igo Elementary School on Friday, March 19 from 6:30-8:30pm. The Foxboro facility will make special accommodations for Igo families to utilize the YMCA for a night of family fun!

The pool will be open for Family Swim until 8:30pm for Igo Elementary families in addition to our other members. The main pool and the family pool will be open, with 3 lanes in the main pool being reserved for lap swimming.  The gym is available for Igo Elementary families with half of the gym open for pick-up basketball and the other half activities. An additional room will also be open with games and arts & crafts. The Foxboro YMCA staff encourages all Igo families to come join in on the fun!

Sunday, March 21st

FRIENDS OF LINDEN PLACE will continue to celebrate the bicentennial year of the historic mansion at 500 Hope Street, Bristol, with a concert of the music of 18^th century Paris on Sunday, March 21 at 3 PM in the mansion parlors.  Featured performers will be Laura Gulley, baroque violin; Kathryn Roth, baroque flute; Marcy Jean Brenner, viola da gamba; and Catherine Gordon-Seifert, harpsichord.  This concert features music by 17th- and 18th-century French composers (Marais, Couperin, and Rameau) and a piece written in the French style (Telemann), each embodying the French proclivity for sensuous sonorities, rhythmic intricacies, and graceful musical gestures.

Admission to the concert is $10 ($7 for members of Friends of Linden Place and free to members of the Colt Circle). There will be a reception following the concert to meet the artists.  The concert is part of an on-going series of cultural programming and exhibitions to observe the 200^th birthday of the treasured 1810 Federal style mansion located in historic downtown Bristol, Rhode Island.

South Attleboro St.Theresa’s Women’s Guild will hold a May Breakfast & Fashion Show on Saturday, May 15^th at 10:00am in the Church Hall located at 18 Baltic Street (corner of rte.#1). Featuring fashions from the Dress Barn.

For tickets costing $15, please call Betty Enright at 508-761-7441

            Seekonk Public Library is pleased that “Tom Foolery” will be the March guest at Family Night on Monday, March 22, at 6:30 p.m.

            This program is generously sponsored by The Friends of Seekonk Public Library.  It is free and open to the public.

            Tom Foolery brings outrageously silly magic, puns, props and comedy intended for preschool children and up. With the intent to mesmerize, Tom Foolery stays true to his name as his audience is usually the one who ends up helping Tom out of his silly situations!! Plus, meet his assistant, Jenny the bunny…who seems to be able to teach Tom a few tricks!

            If patrons have a special physical or communication need that may affect their participation in Seekonk Library services or activities, they should contact the Library staff to discuss accommodations.  Seekonk Library cannot ensure the availability of appropriate accommodations without prior notification of need.

            For more information on this program or any other service provided by Seekonk Library, please call (508) 336-8230.

As is tradition in Mrs. Sally Sullivan’s 1st grade class at St. Mary-Sacred
Heart School, the students created simple mechanical traps to try to catch a
leprechaun.  The children explained how their traps worked and what they had used for their lures, to Mrs. Sullivan yesterday, as the set up the traps to
catch the little wee folk.  

When they came into school today their classroom had been turned upside down by the green man. He had hopped on each and every trap testing the gold to see if it was real, but none of the traps were able to capture the tricky little leprechaun.  

He left a mess of green footprints, papers, and books all over the room, and escaped by using green streamers out of the classroom window.

In this photo,
Christine Lee, Allisondra Lordan, Gabrielle Landry, Joseph Carmusin and
Thomas Rasicot stand near their poster boards of their New England
destinations.  

The 4th grade at St. Mary-Sacred Heart School had to do a geography
“stay-cation” project for their teacher Mrs. Diane McKenna this year.  The
students had to pick a place in New England, do a presentation on it and
create a poster board like brochure of their destination.