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Tammy won a martial arts birthday party for 10 children at South Shore Martial Arts, 
Rt 106, Halifax, MA

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Historical Tidbit: TELEPHONES
 
 
   The first entry on Halifax town records of telephone service was from the Southern Massachusetts Telephone Company saying, "You are hereby notified on erecting poles and placing wires, etc., for telephone service." This refers to Thompson Street, Middleborough line to Walnut Street and Walnut Street from Thompson Street to Bridgewater line on November 3, 1899.
 
   On March 6, 1901, privilege was granted for poles from the Post Office to the Plympton line and from Plymouth Street to the Monponsett Hotel.  [The Post Office at that time was located in a store that sat where the present Pope's Tavern is today.]
 
   In 1904 a permit was granted to place poles as far as Bosworth's Mill [located on Furnace Street] going along Monponsett Street and Plymouth Street. (It would come soon to Summit, Thompson, Pratt and River Streets.)   An intense period of telephone installations took place between the years 1901 and 1910.
 
  116 years ago this November our ancestors waited patiently for a phone line to keep in touch with the outside world and hear from family far away. Today we wait for the next version of cell phone to hit the market. Not many families even have a "land line."

Respectfully submitted, Sue Basile

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Upcoming Schedule of Events
Monday, October 26
Church - 9a - Council on Aging (COA)
Cribbage - 10a - COA
Computer Class - 10a - COA
Lunch - noon - COA
Crochet/knitting - 1p - COA
Joy of Writing - 2p - COA
Lions Club Sharing the Vision - 2p - Library
Finance Committee - 7p - Town Hall
Tuesday, October 27
Men's Coffee - 9a - COA
SHINE Counsel - 9a - COA
Drop-in Knitting - 10a - Library
Council on Aging - 10a - COA
Lunch - noon - COA
Line Dance - 2:30p - COA
Evening Book Club - 6:30p - Library
Board of Selectmen CANCELLED
Wednesday, October 28

Exercise - 9:30a - COA

Quilting - 10a - COA

Wii Games - 10:30a - COA

Chair Yoga - 11a - COA

Line Dancing - 6:30p - All Seasons

Friends of the Library - 6:30p - Library

 Thursday, October 29

Men's Coffee - 9a - COA

Oil Painting - 10a - COA

Lunch - noon - COA

Shopping Van - 12:30p - COA

Read to a Therapy Dog - 3p - Library

Friday, October 30

Our Lady of The Lake Church Mass - 9a  

Errand Van - 9a - COA

Ballroom Dance - 11a - COA

Lunch - noon - COA

Halloween Dance - 7p - Halifax Mobile Estates
Saturday, October 31

Our Lady of The Lake Mass - 4p

 Sunday, November 1
Our Lady of The Lake Church Masses - 7:30a & 10:30a
Halifax Congregational Church Service - 10a  

*Information compiled from the Town & Library Websites, Council on Aging Newsletter, and individual submissions. If you'd like something listed, email us.


Evening Book Club
Tuesday, October 27, at 6:30 pm
Holmes Public Library

The Evening Readers Book Club is joining the community in reading the new Halifax Reads selection this month:
Weekends with Daisy
by Sharron Kahn Luttrell.
Copies of the book will be available at the library starting Oct. 3rd. New members are always welcome!
One-time visitors to the group are also welcome, if you just want to come to discuss Weekends with Daisy, this moving memoir by a Massachusetts author about family, friendship, dogs, and making mistakes!
This event is part of Halifax Reads!  Join the community in reading Weekends with Daisy by Sharron Kahn Luttrell, a memoir of her experience as a weekend puppy raiser with NEADS and the year she spent sharing the training of Daisy with a prison inmate at the J.J. Moran Medium Security Facility in Cranston, Rhode Island. Books are now available!
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Click Fix Program Comes to Halifax

 

The Town of Halifax is now using a new program that will allow residents
to report quality-of-life issues and request services through an online
and mobile interface. Powered by SeeClickFix, the place-based reporting Commonwealth Connect platform allows residents to document neighborhood concerns and improvements alike, ranging from litter and flooding to damaged sidewalks and malfunctioning traffic signals.

With the online and mobile reporting platform, residents can report
quality-of-life concerns through service request categories via
or use mobile applications available for download from the Town's web site. 

When submitting issues via mobile app, for example, residents can
provide location, descriptive, and photographic information as they
see the issue in real time. Once the resident submits an issue, the
person reporting the issue, the Town, and anyone 'watching' the area
will receive an alert. Halifax can then acknowledge the service request,
route it to the proper department, and update the request and residents following the issue, once it has been resolved.

Launched in 2008, SeeClickFix allows citizens anywhere in the world to
report and monitor non-emergency community issues, ranging from potholes and planted trees to garbage and graffiti. Through web and mobile applications, as well as embeddable widgets, SeeClickFix empowers citizens, community groups, media organizations, and governments to work together to improve neighborhoods. It is the most widely distributed citizen-reporting tool in the country, having recently surpassed 1 million fixed issues.

In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts initiated a grant program to launch the platform, powered by SeeClickFix and titled Commonwealth Connect, to communities throughout the state.

Charlie Seelig
Halifax Town Administrator
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A Big thanks to our Fire Department for a great Open House last weekend! Tons of Fun!
Enjoying the colors: 

"Red is the ultimate cure for sadness." ~ Bill Blass


"Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow."
~ Fran Drescher
"There is no blue without yellow and without orange." 
~ Vincent Van Gogh

It's like the warmth has left the air 
and infiltrated the leaves to create warm colors.
  
~ Jacquie
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Holmes Public Library
470 Plymouth Street
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Tues, Thurs, Fri  10a-5p
Saturday 10a-2p

Council on Aging
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781-293-7313
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Friday 9a-1p

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Read to a Therapy Dog
Thursday, October 29
at 3pm
Holmes Public Library

Join us for an after school event for children grades 1 and up to read one-on-one to a R.E.A.D. trained therapy dog.
Koda is a big, friendly, non-judgmental, 7-year-old Newfoundland!  Come in anytime throughout the program to take a turn reading - up to ten minutes per child.
This event is part of "Halifax Reads" running from October 3 to November 17.
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Lions Club: Sharing the Vision
Monday, Oct. 26, at 2pm
Holmes Public Library
470 Plymouth St.

Sharing the Vision -- October is World Blindness Month -- Please join library staff and the Lions Club for this brief presentation by members of the local Lions Club to raise awareness about services and assistance they provide to residents with vision (or hearing) loss throughout the community, and how you might be able to help with donations of old eyeglasses and hearing aids. Light refreshments will be served.
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Halloween Party
Saturday, October 31
at 11am
Holmes Public Library

Dress the little ones up in their costumes to listen to stories, march in the indoor parade around the library, and (of course!) trick or treat at the annual Holmes Public Library Halloween Party!

Veterans' Day Ceremony 
Wednesday, November 11 at 9 am
 Halifax Town Hall

 This short ceremony includes the laying of wreaths at the various monuments near the Town Hall and a few words from the attendees.
For more information, please contact the Veterans' Agent, Wil Corey, at 781-293-1724.
Halifax in Lights Committee
While the 2016 edition of Halifax in Lights, the Town's summer 
celebration, is nine months away, the Halifax in Lights Committee is 
looking for residents and others to serve on the Committee. Halifax in Lights is one of the Town's largest events and the planning and fundraising for the event must start months in advance, so volunteers are needed now. Anyone interested on serving on the Committee can contact the Halifax Board of Selectmen's office at 781-294-1316.
Overnight Parking Ban for the Winter Months
The Halifax Board of Selectmen has sent out the Town's annual notice concerning the overnight parking ban in Halifax from November 1, 2015, to March 31, 2016. In addition, the Board has reiterated that the Halifax Highway Department is not responsible for damage to property placed on Town property or within the rights-of-way for streets plowed by the Town.

This includes, but is not limited to, mailboxes, sprinkler systems, trees, shrubs or landscaping, fences, lightpoles, etc. In most cases, the Town owns 10 feet beyond the asphalt surface for roads accepted by the Town. Mailboxes should be installed at least four feet from the edge of the asphalt to the front of the mailbox. Many of the plows that are used have a wing that extends two feet or more beyond the cutting edge. This, combined with the snow coming off the plow, is what causes most of the damage. It is impossible for the driver to see the edge of the asphalt under the snow; therefore, the plow may be off the edge of the road at times. In heavy snow conditions, the Department tries to push the snow at least a foot off the road.

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Historical Tidbit Question:
 In 1904 a permit was granted to place poles as far as where?

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