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Tiffany Gambill Rides Again!





TEAM TIFFANY!

On October 11, we rode to cure Friedreich's ataxia (FA), a debilitating, life shortening neuromuscular disease that affects the heart, eyes, bones; the ability to walk, talk, eat, swallow and live a normal life. We rode with local FA families, friends and cycling enthusiasts to redefine what is possible in FA research.

We want to thank everyone for your support in the past. FARA is in the last leg of the marathon to find a cure!

This year, Tiffany is joining us in her wheelchair bike that she received from FARA's Ataxia Athletic Initiative Grant. We are very excited to be Team Tiffany!  Please donate: checks can be made out to FARA and sent to 20 Woodland Drive, Bridgewater, MA 02324, 533 W. Uwchlan Ave, Downington, PA 19335, or just follow this link and donate on-line to Team Tiffany!

 
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Congratulations
Laurie Hartrey

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

You should play
our Historical Tidbit Trivia Game at the bottom of this column.

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Historical Tidbit :   Our Neighbor to the North


  
   In early 1819, the North Parish of Bridgewater formed a committee petitioning the General Court of Massachusetts for a division of the town, listing two specific concerns. The first concern was the area and population of Bridgewater was getting too big and the expense of time and travel made attending town meetings difficult so far from their homes. The second concern was the meetinghouse was in disrepair and lacked sufficient size for the whole town to meet and transact their business. North Parish would be much better served by forming their own town.
 
   A smaller group in North Parish petitioned against the division believing such reasons and arguments presented for the division were unjustified. They also wished if the petition for division was passed, they and their estates would be exempt and remain part of Bridgewater.
 
   The town of Bridgewater itself also petitioned the General Court expressing regret and surprise regarding the division. They disagreed with the alleged sufferings expressed of road conditions and time of travel along with the size and condition of the towns meetinghouse. Their opinion, generally speaking, was the conditions in Bridgewater are uncommonly good compared to most towns throughout the state. Their main concern was this division would lead to the division of the whole town!
  
 After much debate and consideration over the next two years, the State Senate and House passed the bill granting North Parish incorporation on June 15, 1821. The new town of North Bridgewater celebrated its first town meeting Independence Day in 1821.The name was changed from North Bridgewater to Brockton in 1874.

Submitted by: Robert Lundquist
Information from: www.Ancestry.com
 

Monday, October 26

Painters - 9a - Council on Aging (COA)
Lunch - noon - COA
Halloween Bingo - 4:30p - Library

Tuesday, October 27

Zumba - 9a - CYSC
Shopping - 10:15a - CYSC
Lunch - noon - CYSC
Drop-In Story Time - 1:30p - Library
Pumpkin Painting - 4:30p - Library
Water & Sewer Comm - 5p - 90 Cottage St
FDR Lecture - 6:30p - Library
Veterans Council - 7p - CYSC
Conservation Comm - 7p - Police Station
Wednesday, October 28
Rotary Club of The Bridgewaters - 7:15a - Good Days Restaurant, WB
Exercise - 9a - CYSC
Crafters - 9a - CYSC
Drop-in Story Time - 9:30a - Library
Shopping - 10:15a - CYSC
Quilters - 11a - CYSC
Book Babies - 11a - Library
Spanish Class - 11:15a - CYSC
Gravestone Girls - 6p - Library
Thursday, October 29
Zumba - 9a - CYSC
Food Pantry - 10a - Central Square Congregational, UCC
Book Babies - 10:30a - Library
Friday, October 30
Exercise - 9a - COA
Crafters - 9a - COA
Mah Jong - 10a - COA
Read Together, Grow Together - 10:30a - Library
Saturday, October 31
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Mass - 4p
Whist - 7p - CYSC
Sunday, November 1
First Parish Church - 10:30a 
Bridgewater Baptist Church - 10a
Saint Thomas Aquinas Mass - 7:45a, 10 and 12p 
Trinity Episcopal - 8am and 10a worship services, 10a Sunday school 
Central Square Congregational, UCC - 10a
Bridgewater United Methodist - 10a
Faith Chapel Assembly of God - school 9a, service 10a
Trinity Covenant - 10a
United Methodist  - 10a - Worship & school 
New Jerusalem - 10:30a
Scotland Trinitarian Congregational - 10:30a 
St. Basil's Chapel - 10:00a and 5p -  note new 5p time * -
BSU Campus  
West Bridgewater Baptist Church - 10:30a
 
* Information compiled in this issue from Town web sites, submitted information and "Senior Publishing."  Feel free to submit events & information from your non-profit group.


Bridgewater Public Library Presents:

 

Dance Theater of New England
It is Not Too Late to Register for Fall Classes!
    
Why DTNE?
Check Out Why Dance Theater of New England Is Meghan's Choice!

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50 Central Square
Bridgewater, MA 02324
                      (508) 697-5255


Bowl For A Cure
 
Walking Teams Register Today!  

For questions, contact Emily Ryan E.Ryan4191@yahoo.com or 508 245 0899
  Goulish Mini Golf

Sunday, November 1,  11:00am to 3:00pm
Bridgewater Public Library
 
$5.00 per person, under 3 free.  Costumes are encouraged.  
Light lunch will be available.  Raffles galore.  
Proceeds to help defray cost of Museum passes and programming.
Come on out and support the Friends of the Bridgewater Public Library, 
15 South Street. 


Bridgewater Square Chiropractic

HEALTH CONDITIONS WE TREAT

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» Mid Back Pain   » Neck Pain   » Sports Injuries
» Work Injuries

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                63 Main Street 
     Bridgewater
    (508) 697-0050


Nobel Prizes Explained 
Monday, November 2  4pm-6pm
Dana Mohler-Faria Science and Mathematics Auditorium

The Center for the Advancement of STEM Education and the Center for Advancement of Research and Scholarship at Bridgewater State University cordially invite you to Nobel Prizes Explained

BSU Faculty members in each of the Nobel Prize categories will explain, discuss and entertain questions on the recently announced prizes in: Chemistry, Economics, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology/Medicine.

The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.

Kindly R.S.V.P. to tinyurl.com/Nobel-Prize-2015

Please join us to discuss, learn and be inspired by these ground breaking 'noble' ideas. Parking is available in the BSU parking garage.

Reservations for this NY City bus trip must be received by Nov. 3, 2015. For more information, please contact joangam@comcast.net 

BRIDGEWATER FARM SUPPLY

 

Give the leaves an inch and they will take your yard

 

We Have All Your Fall Clean-Up Supplies

 

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1000 Plymouth St, (Rt104) 
Bridgewater

(508) 697-0357 

 



Hot Mess Concert Fundraiser for the 
Greater Bridgewater Women of Today
 
November 7, 7-11 PM
Bridgewater Veterans' Club
Ticket Price: $25 per person, (all proceeds benefit our Family in Need Fund)
For Tickets: Wheel House Real Estate office-604 Bedford St. 
E. Bridgewater, or e-mail: KARoss1@comcast.net
(Please note that groups of 10 may reserve a table for this event.)
Greater Bridgewater Women of Today will be hosting a concert with Boston area favorites Hot Mess! Hot Mess is a party band with roots that run deep into the Boston Music scene. Boasting drums, keyboards, guitar, bass & both male & female vocalists, Hot Mess can serve up a wide range of "OMG, they sound JUST like the original band" & "Oooooh, I love this song!"

Admission cost is $25.00 per ticket and the group asks that each person brings a canned good for donation to our local food pantry. Proceeds will benefit our Family in Need Fund. The GBWOT Family in Need Fund has been established to help assist local families experiencing hardships. 

To date, GBWOT has helped more than 40 families in various ways, including supplying gift cards to families with an immediate family member in the hospital, providing photography services to families with a terminally ill parent, providing meals and Christmas gifts to families with a parent 
recently passed away, donating gift cards to family who lost their home in a fire, and much more.

GBWOT meetings are open to the public and are held on the third Monday of the month. For meeting location in Bridgewater, visit the group's Facebook page and send them a private Facebook message.  To access event flyers and for more information on the group visit: www.mawt.org/gbwot.

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The Catholic Center and Saint Basil Chapel in Bridgewater
                                      Celebrate 50th Anniversary
 
For half a century, the Catholic Center and Saint Basil Chapel has offered hospitality, friendship, service and prayer among the Bridgewater State University and Town communities.  On November 15, 2015, the Catholic Center, with roots as a Newman Club in 1936, will celebrate its 50th Anniversary at 122 Park Avenue on the BSU campus.

 Dinner reservations may be made until November 1st at www.stthomasaquinas.com $35 / per person

That Sunday, former Chaplains will celebrate an Anniversary Mass at 3:30 PM in the Chapel, accompanied by a host of current and former music ministers.  Community residents and BSU Administrators, faculty, staff, alumni, students, and friends are cordially invited.
 
An Anniversary Dinner will follow at 5:30 PM in the Rondileau Campus Center Ballroom.  Newly-inaugurated BSU President Fred Clark, and his wife, will attend. Keynote speaker Lou Ricciardi, former BSU Trustee, will address "The Place of the Catholic Center in a Secular University." A short video tracing the legacy of the Center will be featured.

A 50-Square Commemorative Quilt telling the stories of various members and groups affiliated with the Catholic Center and Saint Basil Chapel will be unveiled on November 15.  Highlights of the Center's historic founding and history will also be on display that week.
For further information on the dinner:  Rita Garufi at (508) 531-1346 or at ritagarufi@bridgew.edu. 
  
To commemorate the 50th Anniversary, the Catholic Center invites donations that will fund a perpetual endowment to defray the cost of spiritual and charitable service retreats, in the U.S. and in developing countries, for students today and into the future.  The goal is to reach 1,000 donors who "Give 50 for the 50th." 
 
Donations can be made online at http://www.stthomasaquinas.com, or by checks payable to "Saint Basil Chapel, Give 50 for the 50th."  Further information can be obtained from Leo Cote at (508) 697-6072 or at ldcote@aol.com.  Businesses are encouraged to contribute by calling Mr. Cote.
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

Town Buildings

 

Town Hall

64 Central Square

508-697-0921

Mon-Thurs 8a-4p

Fri 8a-1p

 

Public Library

15 South St

508-697-3331

Mon-Wed 9a-8p 

Thurs10a-5p

Fri & Sat 10a-2p

 

Cole-Yeaton Senior Center
10 Wally Krueger Way
508-697-0929

Mon-Thurs 9a-3p

Fri 9a-noon 

 

Food Pantry

Central Square Church

71 Central Sq.

 508-697-6016

Thursdays - 10a

Small Businesses make our Community Strong. Support them every day!

Mary Kay Consultants

Cindy Guarino

Jeanne A. Smith
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Bridgewater
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DAYLIGHT Saving Time

ends Sunday, 

November 1 at 2pm

Don't forget to turn your clocks back 1 hour,

and change the batteries in your smoke detectors!

Democratic Town Committee Needs New Members

Interested in seeing your name alongside Presidential candidates? The Bridgewater Democratic Town Committee is looking for new members to join!

If you are interested in learning more about the Bridgewater Democratic Town Committee, please "Like" their page on Facebook.

For information on joining, please email bridgewaterdems@gmail.com.

 

Free Admittance for ALL Senior Citizens to concerts, shows and sporting events!

 

The BR School Committee offers Senior Citizens living in the towns of Bridgewater or Raynham ages 62 and older with ID to be allowed FREE admittance to district events such as athletic contests and school concerts.  Please call the COA at 508-697-0929 for more information.  

The Bridgewater Cultural Council is looking for members. 
Help us distribute funds to artistic and cultural endeavors!

Any further questions should be directed to:  Angela Dimisioris, Secretary, Bridgewater Cultural Council at angie@dimisioris.com

The Bridgewater Garden Club evening meeting 

Monday, Oct. 26, at 6:30 pm at the Bridgewater Senior Center


 Flower Show Judges Elaine DiGiovanni and Linda Ladd will create six different designs for the holiday season. The day meeting will be held on Oct. 28 at 1:00 pm.  "Green Animals Topiary Garden" will be the program. Dan Christina will discuss the design, creation and maintenance of one of the oldest topiary gardens in North America, located in Portsmouth, R. I. This meeting will be at the Bridgewater Cole-Yeaton Senior Center,
Wally Krueger Way.
For information,  
call 508-697-7617 

Pumpkin Painting
Tuesday, October 27  4:30-5:30 pm
Bridgewater Public Library

Join us for Pumpkin painting. Bring your own pumpkin to decorate! Paint and decorations supplied. 
 No registration for this program, ages 3+ with adult.

Health & Safety Expo

Tuesday, October 27

11am-2pm

Bridgewater Senior Center

 

K-9 Demo, free raffles, senior IDs, blood pressure & glucose screening, 20-plus vendors 

and much more. 

Free boxed lunch for the first 100 seniors.

Transportation is available by calling 508-697-0929


Welcome to the Graveyard
Wed, Oct 28, 6pm
Bridgewater Public Library
 
Cemetery educators, The Gravestone Girls, whose mission is to "Keep Our Dead Alive," will be presenting a virtual tour called "Welcome to the Graveyard," centered on Bridgewater's 18 local cemeteries at the Bridgewater Public Library, Wednesday, October 28, at 6:00pm. The 90- minute presentation is built on photographs recently taken in these special and interesting burying places around Bridgewater, which was established in 1656, and charts the evolution of cemeteries and gravestones from the colonial era into the 21st century.

The group teaches about the art, symbolism and history of these living history museums located on everyone's main streets and backyards and they examine why we have cemeteries and gravestones, why they look like they do, and how styles and art have evolved over almost 400 years.

The Gravestone Girls also create beautiful and unusual sculpted art pieces using the primitive art from the faces of original New England gravestones as well as teach gravestone rubbing classes and lead cemetery tours. Their gravestone artwork will be available to view plus there will be purchasing opportunities. Questions and answers are welcomed at the end. www.gravestonegirls.com

The event, which is funded by the Friends of the Bridgewater Public Library, begins at 6:00 p.m. at the Bridgewater Public Library, is free and open to the public.
"Remembering Franklin D. Roosevelt,"
Tuesday, Oct 27, 6:30pm
Bridgewater Public Library

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the death of Franklin Roosevelt, a president whom many historians celebrate as the greatest president of the twentieth century.

Join us as we discuss how FDR's New Deal Programs worked to relieve the unemployment crisis of the Great Depression and in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, to fight and win a war in both Europe and Asia. No matter how grave the situation appeared, a confident FDR assured the nation that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Hylander is currently an independent scholar who specializes as a presidential historian, a pedagogical specialist for the National Endowment for the Humanities and professor of history.

The event, which is funded by the Friends of the Bridgewater Public Library, begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Bridgewater Public Library and is free and open to the public.
"Ready for the Holidays?"
Wednesday, Nov 4
6:30pm
Bridgewater Public Library

Join Bettie Howarth of the American Credit Counseling Service, Inc., a United Way Community Partner.  Although the holidays bring cheer and celebrations, they also bring stress to many, especially when it comes to finances. The key to enjoying an affordable holiday season is creating a budget that covers all expenses. 
Topics of discussion will include how to develop and stay within a budget, tips for reducing expenses, as well as how to prepare for the impact of higher fuel costs this winter.
 
The event, which begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Bridgewater Public Library, is free and open to the public.


Early Morning Visitors at the Birdbath. 

Thank you to Sue Basile for these wonderful fall pictures.
 

The movie Jaws was all about  Martha's Vineyard.
So it is with some hometown pride that the movie that never really died is such a big part of the "Day Marty McFly lands in the Future" Celebration this week, Oct. 21, 2015, displayed on the Delorean time machine. 
Just for hoots and giggles, here is the clip: 
Marty McFly Lands Oct 21, 2015
Marty McFly Lands Oct. 21, 2015

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WEEKLY TRIVIA GAME

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A facial and a $10 gift certificate of Mary Kay products from Jeanne Smith and Cindy Guarino, Mary Kay consultants

Historical Tidbit Question:
On what date did the State Senate and House passed the bill granting North Parish incorporation?

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your name in next week's 
Buzz Around Bridgewater.
 
On October 27, 2015, we will randomly pick a winner from the correct answers.
The Buzz was compiled
this week by Stephen Kelley, Theresa McNulty, Marla Prince, Stacy Rancourt, Jacquelyn Rose, Jill Silvia  & Betty Stirling.


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