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Celebrate the season of harvest at a special potluck dinner. Bring something you grew, something made from local produce, or a family recipe. Watertown Community Gardens and Church of the Good Shepherd invite all lovers of real food, real community, and pleasant Sunday evenings to enjoy this event! Kids especially welcome – craft table for them. No sign up: Just show up!
The Alzheimer’s Association is offering the program Dementia Conversations, Tuesday, Oct. 18 from 4-6 p.m., at the Alzheimer’s Association, 480 Pleasant St., Watertown. The program is free and open to family and friends caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. Dementia Conversations offers tips on how to have honest and caring dialog about some of the most difficult topics when you are caring for someone with memory problems. The program will cover having going to get a diagnosis or medical care, deciding when it is necessary to stop driving and making plans for managing finances and legal documents. To register or for more information call 800-272-3900.
The westbound lanes of Arsenal Street will be closed due to nearby construction on Tuesday, Oct. 4 from 7 a.m to 3 p.m. and detours will be set up. Eastbound traffic will be sent down Irving Street, to North Beacon Street and back up Louise Street to Arsenal Street. Traffic heading west will use Arsenal Street and will be rerouted around the work zone. Police officers will be assigned to the area to help vehicle and pedestrian traffic.
What did you do this summer? For eight Watertown high schoolers, the dreaded first assignment is a little easier this fall. Together they completed over a thousand hours of work as interns for which each received a $1,000 stipend under the Watertown Community Foundation’s high school internship program, WCF announced. The program, open to Watertown residents in grades 9-12 attending any school, required at least 20 hours of voluntary work per week for at least six weeks. This was the second year WCF has offered the program, which grew from five students in 2015 to eight in 2016.
In between the cartoons on my award winning television series, “Drawing With Fred,” you can watch actors Brandon Stumpf, Cuyle Carvin, Kazy Tauginas, Staff Sergeant Tom Lennon and model Eric Wessel flex their muscles after eating spinach or drinking milk. I was inspired to add brief fitness related segments to my show based upon a program conducted by Popeye announced on May 11, 1963 in The Daily Capital News from Jefferson City Missouri. The article stated; “Popeye the Sailor is putting all his muscles to work for the President’s physical fitness program. Station KRCC-TV announced the start of a campaign, the object of which is to get the theme, “fitness through exercise” over to the youngest children in the community. Curley Howser, host of “Showtime,” read a letter from Popeye on the air in which the famous cartoon hero said he’s gone into a month of vigorous training during which he’ll eat no spinach, just to show how strong exercise alone can make him. Popeye’s fitness test, consisting of pull-ups, sit ups and squat thrusts, is the one prescribed by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness under the John Kennedy’s Administration, which has given its approval to the Popeye campaign.
Library users now have the ability to carry the Watertown Free Public Library in their pocket with the Minuteman Library Network app, the library announced. Users on the go can use the app to search the catalog and place holds, keep tabs on their library account, renew or freeze their items and manage holds. Users have access to a digital library card on their phone. The app provides access to thousands of eBooks, streaming movies, digital magazines, and premium subscription resources for lifelong learning. The app is customized for each library in the Minuteman Network – it’s like having 43 different apps, each with its own unique resources, events and social media.
Cynthia Maloney’s first public opposition to infant circumcision was unexpected and visceral. In her early 30s, she sat in a bar with a friend in Waltham, chatting with two guys. When talk turned to circumcision, Maloney could not stay quiet, according to a report from Intact America. “I popped up off of the barstool and onto my soapbox,” she recalls. Back then, in 1999, she didn’t know the facts behind her position.
Register today for the Watertown Boys & Girls Club 13th Annual 5K Road Race. The race will take place on Sunday, Nov. 6 at 10 a.m. starting at 25 Whites Ave. in Watertown. There will be a 1K Fun Run, refreshments, raffles, and more! Don’t miss this fun family event.