Luau at the Lake - Save the date: August 21, 2010, 3:00pm-6:30pm

SAXONVILLE, MA – Aloha! The Friends of Saxonville invite you & your family to an afternoon of fun at Saxonville Beach for their “Luau at the Lake“, Saturday August 21, 2010 from 3:00pm-6:30pm.

Saxonville Beach is located on Lake Cochituate with entrance and parking at Lake Road, (off Old Connecticut Path, near Wayland town line).

The Luau Feast will include foods from local Saxonville area restaurants.  Admission is $15 per person, kids 12 & under are free! Live entertainment will be provided by the George Ede Trio.  Refreshments, raffles & prizes, fun & games are planned.  Bring a chair or blanket.  No alcohol permitted.

For more information or to order advance tickets, call (508) 877-7034.  Tickets will also be available at the Luau.

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Shop at Whole Foods Framingham store on Tuesday, March 30, and your purchases also support New England Wild Flower Society’s celebration of Earth Day at Garden in the Woods.

5% of the proceeds will be donated to New England Wild Flower Society.

NOTE: Earth Day at Garden in the Woods has FREE admission, special storytelling, Mother Earth, games, scavenger hunts, and more.

Stop by the Society’s information table at Whole Foods Framingham on March 30 to learn more about Earth Day and all of the other activities planned by the Society for 2010.

Garden in the Woods Open to the Public April 15-October 31

The April edition of the Framingham Tales and Trivia program on FPAC-TV will be about “old objects that we have always kept.”

I have been invited to participate in the panel discussion for this show and am trying to decide what to bring and talk about.

I look around and see things in my home that we have had so long that they are literally like part of the woodwork, some we use, like an old iron doorstop from Nana’s house, or wedding presents used only special occasions.

What kinds of things have you kept? And why?

Next year is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War.

Framingham has many significant connections and contributions to The Civil War, from weaving wool for uniforms and blankets, to sending the most men per capita of any town in Massachusetts.

The Battle Hymn of the Republic was first publically sung here at Plymouth Church.

William Lloyd Garrison created a national uproar by burning the Constitution during a anti-slavery rally at Harmony Grove on Farm Pond.

Dr. “Zab” Adams instituted the first triage “hospital” in the midst of a battlefield at Gettysburg.

Various Framingham organizations will be planning a year long series of events. The Framingham History Center hosted a meeting to start pulling the organizations together and to create committees. It was great to see such a large turnout and to hear about some of the plans already underway.

To get involved and find out about future meetings, contact Michelle McElroy at michelle@framinghamhistory.org.

When I was grocery shopping, I noticed some flyers under the windshield wipers of several cars in the parking log.

I find it annoying and an invasion of privacy. (I don’t like finding door hangers on my front door, either.)

I only know of one time that someone told me that they responded to a flyer stuck under their wiper. Do people respond? Is it worth it? When the exhibit Bodies was in town, there were several occasions when I found a postcard about it on my car when I parked in Shoppers World. And they littered the parking lot.

It’s also illegal, according to Framingham’s Sign By-Law. I wonder if a sign inspector has ever fined a business for putting literature on a car.