--submitted by Ashish Cowlagi, member of New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill,  Community Advisory Committee.  Visit nebg.org for details

Gnomevember due August 9, 2024 Stipend $350

Horticultural Heroes, due August 23, 2024 Stipend $600

Vison-Aid presents "The Dancer's Pledge" a Broadway style musical on Sunday July 21st 2024 at 4 PM at Littleton High School, Littleton, MA

Vision-Aid Early Bird Tickets at www.VisionAid.org/event

Free Baseball clinics at Polar Park

The July 13 Youth Clinic will be a special clinic for members of the WooCrew presented by Shaw's, our youth fan club for fans 17 and under. Click the button below to sign up for the WooCrew and to reserve your spot at the July 13, August 3, & 17  clinic!

Sign up for the WooCrew!

The Worcester Red Sox and The Hanover Insurance Group have teamed up to provide five youth clinics throughout the summer of 2024. Young fans between the ages of 7-14 will have the opportunity to participate in multiple drills on the field at Polar Park during each Youth Clinic. Registration for each date will open up a couple of weeks prior to each Youth Clinic date.

2024 Youth Clinic Dates:
July 13
August 3
August 17

Rules & Regulations: Each clinic will start promptly at 10am. Fans will need to enter the ballpark via the DCU Plaza. Gate D will open at 9:40am. Check-in will take place in the DCU Plaza. Parents will be asked to watch the clinic from Section 1 or the University Dental Group Berm. Fans up to the age of fifteen can register to participate in the Youth Clinics. Fans are encouraged to bring a glove. Cleats cannot be worn on the field. Water will be provided. We ask fans to leave any other food and beverage in the stands.

Join the Youth Council (High School Students )

$15 per hour, 12 hours per month

Applications for the 2024-2025 Youth Council are currently being accepted with a deadline of July 5, 2024. To apply please fill out this application form, which includes answering a few questions and uploading a resume. If you have questions, please feel free to email our Youth Coordinator at youth.coordinator@aapicommission.org.

This past Saturday on June 8th, the Project Eagle team organized their fundraising walk in Dean park to raise funds for the non-profit organization called "Snehawan". Around 40+ registered participants enjoyed the great weather, good company and delectable snacks after the refreshing walk. It was a morning well spent for good health and good cause. The event was a grand success and raised over $1000 for Snehwan.

The Project Eagle is a group of few volunteers from Shrewsbury MA USA who support Snehwan through various fundraising initiatives for the past 10 years. Through the Project Eagle fundraising efforts, Snehawan gets a steady stream of small funds every month for tutors fees. Apart from that Project Eagle has also donated  school supply kits & other equipment such as cameras for Snehwan students in the past. https://www.snehwan.in/about-snehwan/ (https://www.snehwan.in/about-snehwan/) Snehawan is a  non-profit organization founded by Ashok Deshmane in December 2015. It is based near Alandi, Pune. Their aim is to create a nurturing and inclusive learning environment for the less fortunate children of farmers and poor families.

 .  .The Project Eagle Team has  been consistently working on many interesting fundraising  initiatives to help raise funds not only for Snehawan but also other non-profits back home in India as well as here locally in Massachusetts. Few years ago, the Project Eagle team had organized a Marathi Musical Program called 'Sur-Kavita as a fundraiser which was very well received by the local community.Other initiatives include bake sales during holidays of specialty cookies and brownies. Cake and bakery products are sold throughout the year on the need basis for various occasions with 100% sale proceeds going to non-profits. Team also makes and sells art items like greeting cards and paintings at various art festivals or again on a need basis. They have also held paint nights and fundraising walks like this past week. Most of the funds also get a matching donation from the employers of the volunteers, like Intel Corporation, Dell, BCBS etc. 

Thanks to all Snehwan supporters & donors from Shrewsbury area for their continued support.

Project Eagle Team - Priya Vaidya, Manjiri Patil, Atul and Sarita Deshpande

Asian Festival, 2024 June 22, 2024 Noon to 5 pm at Worcester State University

For more info visited https://www.seacma.org/

send email to 

Thuy Ngo <thuyngo@seacma.org>
Nathan Chiem <nchiem@seacma.org>

Its hosted by  SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA 

SEACMA support Southeast Asian immigrants, refugees and long-term residents to meet their basic needs, overcome language and cultural barriers, successfully integrate into mainstream society, and become self sustainable contributors in economic, social, and civic life.

contact Ishani Shah

Mothers Day Celebration with Umrao Jaan
May 12, 2024

Sharad Mehta

WEAF 2024 on March 16th at WHS from 1:00 - 4:00 PM

The Westborough Environmental Action Fair 2024 is scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, March 16th at the Westborough High School from 1:00 - 4:00 PM. Co-hosted by the Westborough Rotary Club and Sustainable Westborough the purpose of the Fair is to share information about environmental topics including practical tips on ways to anticipate and mitigate environment-related issues. 

The lineup for the Fair includes the following:

• 47 Exhibitors (vendors &  non-profits) 
• 33 Student Exhibitors 
• 8 Games and Challenges including:
  • Environment Trivia Game
  • Games on Energy, Buildings, Composting, Recycling and others
  • "I Spy" for Toddlers!
• About 40 submissions for the Art for Earth Poster Competition
• Raffle for a Sugar Gum Tree ($500 value) 
• 2 Refreshment vendors - Sugar Shack and Yummy Mummy 
• A wonderful 6 ft wide artwork prepared for this event by the High School arts students will be on display 

For more info contact Sharad Mehta

Five Days of Music

ISW  Symphony is a proud partner of the LearnQuest Academy of Music. We share  details of a remarkable event that has been organized each year for the past two decades. We have over 70 world class artists of which 50 are coming from India. Buy your tickets for both weekends or for only one of the weekends. Group discounts are also there for parties of 10.

To buy tickets, go to www.learnquest.org and select Annual Conference 2024 in the tab at the top.

See you at the festival

Do you help take care of a family member, neighbor or friend ? 

The Equity in Caregiving project is looking for a diverse group of community members to share their experiences and insights as a family caregiver (any family, relative, partner, friend, or neighbor with significant personal relationships) for a person living with a chronic and/or serious illness.

We want to understand real-world caregiver experiences that affect your ability to support your ability to support your family member with a serious or chronic illness. These insights will inform the development of policies to improve caregiver support and resources.

Participation would include a short survey and interview that could last for up to 1 hour. Expert facilitators will create a safe, confidential space for participants to share their unique experiences.

We are looking for individuals from your community who are

• are at least 18 years old
• have experience as a caregiver for an adult with a serious illness
• Whose primary residence is in Massachusetts
• Whose primary language is English or Spanish

If you are interested, please fill out this survey and someone from our team will reach out to you: https://arcsapps.umassmed.edu/redcap/surveys/?s=JTMMR7PKNX

Thank you again for your interest and please feel free to reach out to Sruthi.Tanikella1@umassmed.edu if you have any questions! Please see our website if you also would like to learn more about our initiative: www.equityincaregiving.org