CALENDAR
FRIDAY, APRIL 2
Books and Blocks Storytime: 10:30 to 11 a.m. Ages 1-3. Join Miss Stacy for stories then play with blocks! Great for building fine motor skills and pre-literacy. Parents must remain with their children throughout the program. No registration Required! Location: Library Storytime Room.
Cub Scout Pack 12: 6 to 9:30 p.m. Pack meeting and space derby. Location: Library Meeting Hall A&B.
SATURDAY, APRIL 3
Camera Club of Central New England: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Meeting being held to set up for the snow. Location: Meeting Room A&B.
Book-making for Children using recycled materials: 11 a.m. to noon. Join Literacy Specialist Cheryl Cloutier for this fun bookmaking class! In four different sessions you will have fun learning how to make a step book, a hot dog book, an accordion book, and a travel journal! Ages 7+ Limited to 8 participants! Location: Library Storytime Room.
Easter Egg Hunt: 2 p.m. Townsend VFW Post 6538 and its Ladies Auxiliary will hold an Easter Egg Hunt on the VFW grounds in West Townsend. Children nine years of age or younger who live in Townsend or who are relatives of Townsend VFW Post or Auxiliary members are welcome to participate.
The children should gather in front of the VFW Pavilion prior to the 2 p.m. (sharp) starting time. The young people must bring their own bags, pails, or baskets to hold their “finds.”
Please — only bring in children who live in Townsend unless you are affiliated with the Townsend VFW Post or Auxiliary, be prompt, and allow children to locate eggs without adult coaching.
Improve your S.A.T. Verbal Score: 2 to 3:30 p.m. Beginning on Saturday, March 27 the Townsend Public Library will offer a 5-session S.A.T Verbal prep course to any high school, charter school, or home schooled student in the 11th grade, in order to provide valuable test-taking strategies. Students from the North Middlesex School District and Townsend residents have priority when signing up. Students are welcome to come to any or all sessions. Each session will run 90 minutes and will focus on a different section of the test: short and long reading passages, vocabulary and sentence completion, grammar and usage, and essay writing. Practice tests will be administered and immediate feedback will be given. All materials will be provided by the instructor. The workshop will run five Saturdays (March 27, April 3, 10, 17 & 24). Mrs. Janet Loomis is a retired teacher with more than 30 years of classroom experience and 20 years of experience in private tutoring, writing workshops, and S.A.T prep courses. Location: Library Historical Meeting Room.
SUNDAY, APRIL 4
Camera Club of New England: Photography show in the Library Meeting Hall.
MONDAY, APRIL 5
Qi Gong: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Exercise. Location: Meeting Hall A&B.
Housing Authority: 7 p.m., Town Hall room 1
TUESDAY, APRIL 6
Townsend Meeting Hall Committee: 10:30 a.m. to noon in Library Meeting Hall A&B.
Preschool Storytime and Craft: 11 to 11:45 a.m. Ages 3-5. No registration required. Location: Storytime Room.
Well adult clinic/Ashby: 11 a.m. to noon. Nashoba Associated Boards of Health, in conjunction with the Ashby Board of Health, announces that a Well Adult Clinic will be held free of charge for the general public at the Ashby Library and on Thursday, April 15 from noon to 1 p.m. at the American Legion Hall, New Ipswich Road, Ashby. Drop in for Blood Pressure, Pulse Screening and Diet Teaching. No appointment necessary. For further information, please contact Nashoba Nursing Service & Hospice at 978/425-6675 or 1-800-698-3307. or visit us at www.nashoba.org.
Town Meeting Hall Committee: 10:30 a.m., Meeting Hall
Recycling Committee: 7 p.m., Town Hall room 1
Board of Selectmen: 7 p.m., Selectmen’s Chambers
Trustees of Veteran’s Memorial: 5 p.m., Town Hall
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7
Well adult clinic: 1 to 3 p.m. Nashoba Associated Boards of Health, in conjunction with the Townsend Board of Health, announces that a Well Adult Clinic will be held at the Senior Center on Dudley Road and another on Wednesday, April 14 from 9-11 at Atwood Acres, Dudley Road, Townsend. Drop in for Blood Pressure, Pulse Screening and Diet Teaching. No appointment is necessary. For further information, please contact Nashoba Nursing Service & Hospice at 978/425-6675 or 1-800-698-3307 or visit us at www.nashoba.org
Senior Bingo: 1:30 to 3 p.m., Library/Senior Center Meeting Hall A&B.
Learn Sign Language: 4 to 5 p.m. Location: Storytime Room.
Literacy Volunteer Information Night: 7 to 9 p.m, in Library Meeting Hall A. Please see below for more details.
Library Trustees: 7 p.m., Trustee’s Room Library
THURSDAY, APRIL 8
Home School Night: 6 to 7 p.m in Library’s Storytime Room. Contact: Molly Benevides 978-597-1714 or mbenevides@cwmars.org.
Lego Club: 6 to 7 p.m. in Library. Join Bob Harrison for this fun and exciting club. Changed to Thursday nights! Ages 6+ Limited to 25 participants! Contact: Stacy Schuttler 978-597-1714 or sschuttler@cwmars.org.
Finance Committee: 7 p.m., Selectmen’s chambers
FRIDAY, APRIL 9
Books and Blocks Storytime: 10:30 to 11 a.m. Ages 1-3. Join Miss Stacy for stories then play with blocks! Great for building fine motor skills and pre-literacy. Parents must remain with their children throughout the program. No registration Required! Location: Library Storytime Room.
Senior Social: 2 to 4 p.m. Social for seniors sponsored by NMRHS Honor Society, in Library Meeting Hall A&B.
Townsend Historical Society Potluck Supper: 6 p.m., Townsend Congregational Church Fellowship Hll. Please see below for details.
Townsend 4H CLub: 6:30 to 9 p.m. Monthly meeting in Library Meeting Hall A.Contact: John King 978-597-5804 of johnkimking@verizon.net.
SATURDAY, APRIL 10
Book-making for Children using recycled materials: 11 a.m. to noon. Join Literacy Specialist Cheryl Cloutier for this fun bookmaking class! In four different sessions you will have fun learning how to make a step book, a hot dog book, an accordion book, and a travel journal! Ages 7+ Limited to 8 participants! Location: Library Storytime Room.
Improve your S.A.T. Verbal Score: 2 to 3:30 p.m. Beginning on Saturday, March 27, 2010, The Townsend Public Library will offer a 5-session S.A.T Verbal prep course to any high school, charter school, or home schooled student in the 11th grade, in order to provide valuable test-taking strategies. Students from the North Middlesex School District and Townsend residents have priority when signing up. Students are welcome to come to any or all sessions. Each session will run 90 minutes and will focus on a different section of the test: short and long reading passages, vocabulary and sentence completion, grammar and usage, and essay writing. Practice tests will be administered and immediate feedback will be given. All materials will be provided by the instructor. The workshop will run five Saturdays (March 27, April 3, 10, 17 & 24). Mrs. Janet Loomis is a retired teacher with more than 30 years of classroom experience and 20 years of experience in private tutoring, writing workshops, and S.A.T prep courses. Location: Library Historical Meeting Room.
Townsend Community Couples Club: 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Monthly meeting to discuss a community project, in Library Meeting Hall B.
SUNDAY, APRIL 11
Camera Club of Central New England Artists reception: 1 to 5 p.m., in Library Meeting Hall A&B. Open to the public.
Stitches and Stories: 2 to 2:30 p.m. This is a fun and safe sewing class for toddlers. We will make a single craft and read some stories. Ages 3-6, limit 12, in Library’s Storytime Room.
SAVE THE DATE
Literacy volunteers
Have you ever wanted to help someone learn to read who did not have the opportunity when they were a child, or to teach a person who is learning English as a second language to read and understand the details of the written word? If so, consider becoming a Literacy Volunteer.
There will be an informational meeting in the meeting room next to the Collette Library in Townsend on Wednesday, April 7 at 7 p.m. to discuss what it takes to be a volunteer and answer questions.
Any questions contact Judy Maider at 978-597-5927.
Annual Pot Luck Supper and Program: Townsend Historical Society invites the public and Society members to its Annual Pot Luck Supper on Friday, April 9, 6 p.m. at the Congregational Church’s Fellowship Hall, 5 Brookline St., Townsend Center. The meal will be followed by a program, “Glass Plate Negatives: From Storage to Screen.”
The society owns a large collection of glass plate negatives that date from 1880 to 1920, the period when gelatin dry plate negatives were in common use. The technology replaced the old wet-collodian glass plates that required a photographer to travel not just with a camera and the heavy glass plates, but with a whole darkroom (often a head and body tent) and messy chemicals that had to be applied to the plates before and after the image was taken. The invention of the gelatin dry plate technology in 1871 made photography simpler, easier, and accessible to amateurs.
The Townsend Historical Society owns hundreds of these glass plate negatives, but the majority of the images they held were undecipherable. Society volunteer Bob Wilson has undertaken the massive project of scanning the society’s large collection of glass plate negatives onto computer discs, inverting each image to show the actual photograph on each glass plate. Although the project is still in its early stages, the society invites everyone to see what’s coming out of the vault onto the projection screen for the first time. Since these are photographs taken in Townsend in the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries, help in identifying some of the subjects will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.
For more information, please call 978-597-2106.
International dinner
The Friends of the Townsend Seniors once again will be hosting the ever popular International Dinner on Saturday April 17, at the Meeting Hall between the Senior Center and Library on 19 Dudley Road. Dinner will be served from 5 to 7 p.m.; price, $7 per adult, children three (3) and under are free. Those wishing to donate a main course dish and/or dessert and for more information, contact Tubby at 978-597-8876, Avis at 978-597-6829 or Connie at 978-597-5420. Tickets may be purchased ahead of time or at the door. Many have requested this event and we hope that all will come out and enjoy all the wonderful food provided by the best cooks in Townsend. There will be music while enjoying dinner by D&K Entertainment.
EARTH DAY APRIL 24
Waterway Clean Up
Our theme of water conservation goes hand in hand with our Earth Day waterway clean up. Grab a few neighbors and friends and pick up along the banks of the river, ponds or streams near your home. Help the environment and enjoy the outdoors!
Earth Day on the Common, run by Townsend Recreation and Recycling Committee is April 24, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; rain date is April 25, noon to 4 p.m.
Have lots of old books and records to get rid of? Bring them to the common during Earth Day. We will get them out of your way. Free of charge!
Vendors wanted: Slot space is $20 for profit and 0 for nonprofit groups. The theme is water conservation this year. If your company helps the environment, we especially want you to join us! Acts needed to perform on the gazebo too. Tom Knight Puppets will be presenting an environmentally themed show from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m.
E-mail clem6six@verizon.net to confirm space. Payment may be sent to Townsend Recreation, c/o Karen Clement, 101 Main St., Townsend, MA 01469.
Meetings will be held , March 30 and April 6, 13, 20 at 7 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
Dreading Shredding?
Then come to Earth Day on the Common, run by Townsend Recreation and Recycling Committee, April 24, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Rain date is April 25, noon to 4 p.m. Proshred will shred all your paperwork, free of charge, during the Earth Day Celebration! With identity theft on the rise, Proshred can help put your mind at ease. They are able to process large quantities of paper in minutes.
Have lots of old books and records to get rid of? Bring them to the common during Earth Day. We will get them out of your way. Free of charge!
Vendors wanted- Slot space is $20 for profit and 0 for nonprofit groups. The theme is water conservation this year. If your company helps the environment, we especially want you to join us! Acts needed to perform on the gazebo too. Tom Knight Puppets will be presenting an environmental themed show from 12:30-1:20 P.M. www.tomknight.com/puppet.html E-mail clem6six@verizon.net to confirm space. Payment may be sent to Townsend Recreation, c/o Karen Clement, 101 Main St., Townsend, MA 01469. Meetings will be held, March 30 and April 6,13,2 at 7 p.m. in the Townsend Town Hall.
Townsend Earth Day Bake Sale
Benefits Heifer International
The Townsend United Methodist Church is planning a Bake Sale on Saturday, April 24th, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. It will be held in conjunction with the Earth Day Celebration on Townsend Common located at the corner of routes 13 and 119, in Townsend center.
Proceeds from the bake sale will go to Heifer International. Visit the bake table on Earth Day for Heifer International information and delicious brownies, cookies, breads, pies and cakes!
Heifer International’s creed is “Ending Hunger and Poverty, While Caring for the Earth.” For more information please check their Web site: www.heifer.org. Baked goods and monetary contributions may be brought to the Common on April 24, or call the Methodist church office at 978-597-2486.
From Townsend Rec.
After School Tennis Program — Summer Tennis Program
Townsend Recreation-Ashby Elementary, Spaulding Memorial and Hawthorne Brook Middle School will be offering a five-week tennis skills program, April 26, May 3-10-17-24, immediately after school for one hour. Cost is $25. Racquets and balls can be borrowed. Five students per school needed to run program. Form to Townsend Recreation, c/o Karen Clement, 101 Main St., Townsend, MA, 01469. You must e-mail clem6six@verizon.net to secure a slot by April 16. Please indicate which school in e-mail. Still seeking instructors to run this program at Varnum Brook and Nissittissit in Pepperell. Please e-mail!
Summer Tennis — Townsend/Ashby at the Ashby Town Courts: August 16-20, Monday-Friday,
1-2 p.m., 7-11 year olds, 2-3 p.m., 12 and up; $70 for the week. www.planettennisusa.com
Archery Class
Townsend Recreation — Archery, Age 12 and up. Townsend Rod and Gun on Fridays, April 9-16-23-30, May 7; 6-7:30 p.m. Five week session, $90. Confirm by e-mail to clem6six@verizon.net. Mail in form and payment.
Summer Recreation
Townsend Recreation — All surrounding towns invited to join Summer Rec, to be held at the Hawthorne Brook Middle School, Monday-Friday, from June 28-August 6. Cost for the 9 X 12 program is $175 and the 9 X 2 program is $250. These prices are for the entire six weeks. Check out our site for Counselor in Training Programs, Musical Theater and Comedy Theater. Get forms and info from http://www.townsend.ma.us/towngov/culture&rec/recreatn.htm.
Get Slim in 6 weeks, with instructor Donna Kinch!
Slim in 6® is one of Beachbody’s top-selling at-home fitness DVD (next to P90X). This program is for all fitness levels! You need to bring a mat, resistance band or hand weights (no heavier than 6 lbs), towel and water. Session 1 — Monday and Wednesday evenings, 7 – 8 p.m., April 5, 7, 12, 14, 19, 21, 26, 28, May 3, 5, 10, 12. Session 2 — Monday and Wednesday evening, 7- 8 p.m., May 17, 19, 24, 26, June 2, 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28. Location TBD.
Class size max: 20 participants, e-mail clem6six@verizon.net to secure a spot.
Send $60/session to Townsend Recreation, c/o Karen Clement, 101 Main St., Townsend, MA 01469.
COMING IN MAY…
Family Festival
On Saturday, May 1, the Townsend Rod and Gun Club is holding a Family Festival at the Club, located at 46 Emery Road, Townsend.
The dinner selections will include several nongame dishes as well as a variety of wild game dishes. The event will start at 12:30 p.m. with a live animal demonstration by Michelle’s Menagerie, various demonstrations and competitions for all age groups and strolling magic by Steve Charette. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m.
Tickets for the grand raffle of a $500 Cabela’s Gift Card, are on sale now at $10 each with only 100 tickets being sold. Winner does not need to be present to win, so purchase your ticket soon.
Tickets for afternoon-only activities/demonstrations 12:30-6 p.m., not including dinner/dancing) are $5 each. Afternoon-&-Supper tickets are $20 each through April 21 and $25 each beginning April 22. Tickets for children ages 6 through 12 years are $10 each, and children 5 and under are free. Seating is limited.
To purchase tickets or for more information, please call Jaime Berry at 978-771-1269.
Calling All Crafters for 29th Annual Townsend Craft Fair
The Townsend United Methodist Church 29th Annual Spring Festival and Craft Fair is Saturday, May 15. Rain date is Sunday, May 16.) The location on Townsend Common at the junction of routes 13 and 119 makes it a highly visible venue.
Crafter sites are 12 feet by 12 feet; the fee is $20. There will be a full food court, activities for the whole family, plenty of free parking, and rest room facilities.
Applications for crafters and artists with their own hand-crafted items are available by calling the church office at 978-597-2486. Applications can be sent via postal mail or e-mail.
