Wayland Town Crier 5/18/12: Eager young fishers cast their lines in Wayland. The fish were flying at the Wayland Youth Fishing Derby on May 12 at Mill Pond in Wayland. For the past 13 years, the event has been organized and sponsored thanks to the efforts of Carpentry by Tom Antonellis. The derby supports a different charity or nonprofit in the community each year, hoping to encourage the community to give back.
You are cordially invited to join us for a WHS Spring Pops Choral Concert on Monday, May 21 at 7:30pm in the beautiful new Mainstage Theater. Donations will be accepted for the Lauren Dunne Astley Foundation and Jim Griffin Family Support Trust. We look forward to seeing you there.
It wasn’t too difficult to figure out what to give Mom for Mother’s Day—a beautiful bouquet, a pretty scarf, a trip to the MFA. But, then comes Father’s Day. What do you do for Dad? A new tool, another shirt that he doesn’t wear, or a book he doesn’t read? The Wayland Habitat Project [...]
Wayland Town Crier 5/10/12: Team Cure of Wayland to be honored at Hearts and Heroes Gala. The 30th annual Hearts and Heroes Gala on Saturday, May 12 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place will include the presentation of the Nancy Jones Diabetes Champion Award to Team Cure of Wayland. The goal of the black tie event is to raise more than $1.2 million to fund research to cure, treat and prevent type 1 diabetes (T1D).
Wayland Youth Lacrosse would like to invite you to a special screening of “CROOKED ARROWS”. Crooked Arrows is an original, uplifting sports movie in the tradition of such classics as Mighty Ducks, Rudy, and Hoosiers – set in the fresh, contemporary worlds of Native American reservations, prep schools, and lacrosse. Wayland and Sudbury are partnering [...]
The Wayland Public Schools Foundation (WSPF) was selected by Mahoney’s Garden Center in Wayland to be the recipient of its 10% Charitable Day on Wednesday, May 16. Mahoney’s will generously donate10% of the total sales from all purchases made in the Wayland store throughout the day on Wednesday, May 16 to the WSPF. Please [...]
Kids’ Night Out to benefit Christopher’s Haven. The Longfellow Children’s Center and Zip Zone will hold a special Kids’ Night Out to benefit Christopher’s Haven (“a home for kids when cancer hits home”) on Friday, May 11 from 6-9pm. Children ages preschool and up will enjoy an evening of crafts, games, Zip tennis, pizza and [...]
Wayland Town Crier 5/8/12: Event honoring Wayland High grad comes home. It seems only fitting that a collection of sporting events inspired by Katie Lynch and held in her honor in Newton for the past three years be hosted by her hometown and held at the high school she attended. In a highly anticipated and applauded move, Katie’s Races, previously called The Heartbreak Hill Half Marathon and Purple Shoes Challenge, will come home to Wayland this fall.
Come cheer on the Wayland varsity baseball team as they take on rival Weston High, and help fight cancer at the same time! Coaches vs. Cancer Game – Monday, May 14th, 7PM at Weston High School under the lights. $5.00 per person entry fee with a donation table accepting cash or checks. 50/50 raffle. 100% [...]
Saturday, May 12, Annual Fair and Silent Auction, Church of the Holy Spirit, 10am-3pm. Come to the Church of the Holy Spirit's Annual Fair and Silent Auction on Saturday, May 12, 10am-3pm. Grab a bite to eat while browsing the White Elephant, Jewelry, and Book areas. Find fantastic bargains at the Silent Auction! The Church [...]
New "Mass Central Rail Trail – Wayland" teeshirts are now on sale at the Wayland Depot. For $20 you can show your enthusiasm for the multi-use trail now being planned along the former right-of-way. Your entire contribution goes towards the ongoing volunteer work to improve the trail. Get yours now!
Wayland Town Crier 5/3/12: Wayland resident hopes to make a difference through yoga . Sarah Gardner of Wayland will share her mat with close to 1,000 men and women at the second annual Yoga Reaches Out Yogathon on Sunday, May 6 at the Gillette Stadium Field House. Yoga Reaches Out (YRO) is a nonprofit organization [...]
The Wayland Business Association (WBA) Annual FUNdraiser is scheduled for *Tuesday, May 22, 2012* and will be held at Viva Mexican Grill and Tequileria. The evening promises to be a great time for all and will include food, entertainment and raffles. The WBA is more than just a business group. It is a part of the [...]
Guardian Angels Cat Rescue will receive a donation of $3.50 from every large, and $1.75 from every small flatbread sold during this special evening. Dine-in or take-out! Here are the event details: Place: Flatbread Pizza Company Date: May 8, 2012 (that's NEXT Tuesday) Time: 5-9pm Location: 213 Burlington Road Bedford, MA (Corner of Network Drive, 2 miles [...]
There are wonderful gifts for mom at the Wayland Depot! Consider the beautiful hand painted silk scarves by Terry Kessel Myers of Stow, featured in this photo. We also have greeting cards, pocketbooks, jewelry, placemats, pottery, and much more, all at reasonable prices. Select the perfect gift for Mother's Day at Wayland's only gift [...]
Wayland Student Press 4/27/12: Girls tennis to host tournament in Astley’s honor. This Saturday, April 28, the girls tennis team will be hosting a round robin tournament to raise money for the Lauren Dunne Astley Memorial Fund. All varsity teams are required to complete a community service project, and the senior tennis captains wished to [...]
Wayland Patch 4/28/12: Wayland Yogi Brings Gillette Stadium Dream to Life. On May 6, Wayland resident Sarah Gardner hopes to bring 1,000 people together for an all-day yogathon at Gillette Stadium. It’s hard to believe Gardner, now a Lululemon ambassador, resisted even trying yoga about nine years ago when a friend presented it as an option. ”At first, I was like, ‘No way, I have to pound the pavement,’” said Gardner, a longtime runner who earned a Master’s of Education in health and fitness and went right into personal training after graduate school. “It took me awhile to understand the benefits and joy that come from [yoga]. Now it is not what I do, but who I am. I love every aspect of it.” But going from personally understanding the benefits of yoga to hosting a yoga fundraiser for 1,000 people at Gillette Stadium didn’t happen overnight.
The Annual Patriots/Booster Basketball Game will be Wednesday, May 2nd at 7:00 in the Field House. Fresh off their spectacular Super Bowl Season members of the New England Patriots will once again come to Wayland to match up against members of the community and several of this year's senior basketball players. The Patriots players will [...]
Wayland High School’s Creative Arts Parents Association’s Bottle and Can Drive is in its final days! Held every year in May, the drive offers an opportunity to go green – and to help Wayland’s only parents organization designed exclusively to support the arts at the high school. So, if you’ve been collecting your bottles and [...]
The wayland girls tennis team is hosting a round robin tennis tournament in memory of Lauren Astley. It will be held from 11-1 on Saturday April 28th, 2012. All ages and skill levels are welcome. There will be light refreshments and optional donations to the Lauren Dunne Astley Memorial Fund. Doubles teams are currently being [...]
Wayland Patch 4/18/12: Wayland Moodz day spa salon offers haircuts for charity. On Sunday, April 29 more than 70 salons throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire will participate in Boston Children's Hospital's annual HAIRraising event. For the third year in a row, participating salons will provide customers with a stylish haircut for a [...]
HRS will hold its Seventh Annual Arnold Kerzner Award Dinner and Auction to benefit The Human Relations Service on Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 6:00 pm at Hunnewell House at Elm Bank, Wellesley. Celebrity Chefs include: Geoff Gardner, Sel de la Terre; Mitchell Maxwell, Maxwell’s 148; Derek Labounty, The Cottage Restaurant, and Richard Rayment, Seaport Boston Hotel. Celebrity Auctioneer will [...]
Florence Adler METCO 5K Road Race will be held on Saturday, May 12. Registration 9-10:45 a.m. Race starts at 11:00 at Wayland Middle School. Contact the METCO Office 358-3755 or register on line. Please click on the following link for all the necessary materials for participation. www.wayland.k12.ma.us/administration/m_e_t_c_o/news/
For the second year running, the student-run “ Servolution” community service team, in conjunction with the Wayland Council on Aging, welcome serving the elderly of the Town of Wayland at their upcoming Electronics Recycling Event, to take place next Wednesday, April 18 from 3pm to 6pm. For the students, their mission is to participate in [...]
You’re invited to join us in… “Puttin’ On a Little Ritz” a FUNraiser to benefit Golden Tones chorus Sunday, May 6th at 2:00pm, Sandy Burr Country Club, Wayland Festivities will include: · Celebrity guest - curious? View our most recent newsletter at www.goldentones.org. · Vocal festival throughout the afternoon featuring 3 different singing groups · Dancing to Wayland’s own Mid Life Crisis Band · Silent and [...]
Whole Foods Market in Wayland is hosting a 5% Community Giving Day for Yoga Reaches Out on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012. Customers who shop at the store, located at 317 Boston Post Road, will contribute to the total donation dollars going directly to the organization. Yoga Reaches Out is a local non-profit created to bring the yoga community together [...]
Wayland resident Marni Roitfarb is hosting a cocktail party/fundraiser for La Casa de Fe, an orphanage in rural Ecuador that cares abandoned and special needs children in the heart of the Amazon. Marni is a pediatrician who specializes in kids with complex needs, and has worked with Casa de Fe (CdF) for 5 years and has [...]
Parmenter Community Health Care BiddingForGood Fundraising Auction. The online portion of Parmenter 2012 Auction is now open. The auction will run from April 1, 2012 to April 30, 2012. Proceeds go to Parmenter Community Health Care in order to support visiting nurse services, rehabilitation care, palliative care, Hospice care and community services for the Metrowest area. Auction items range from exotic vacation getaways to donated items guaranteed to delight and surprise. We will be adding items as we receive them, so tell your friends, family, community to check the website more than once. Let the bidding begin!
Wayland High School is getting ready for its annual Bottle and Can Drive. Held every year in the fall and spring, the Bottle and Can Drive offers an opportunity to go green – and to help the Creative Arts Parents Association, Wayland’s only parents organization created exclusively to support the arts at the high school. [...]
Beth Oleson, First Aid, CPR, Home Alone, and Babysitting Instructor for Wayland, and friend Jan Aarsheim, pilot, are flying much needed supplies to tornado victims in hard hit Jeffersonville, Indiana on April 15. Wayland Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts are joining the cause. We are collecting gift buckets to help the tornado victims. The Indiana [...]
At last, you can find the location of the soon-to-be-built Habitat houses in Wayland. The sign in the photograph is on Stonebridge Road, on land the town voted to donate to an affordable housing developer to build four units—two duplexes—of affordable housing. Josh Rose, a Wayland resident and member of the Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity [...]
Bella Cappella, a local 12-woman a cappella group, will perform live at the Dudley Chateau in Wayland on Thursday, March 22nd at 7:30pm. Admission is free, but a good faith donation of $5 is recommended and will go directly to the Lauren Dunne Astley Memorial Fund. Bella Cappella was formed in 2010 when a few [...]
Russell's Garden Center Winter Farmers' Market: This Saturday, March 10 is the last day of the Wayland Winter Farmers’ Market at Russell’s Garden Center, 10am-2pm. Lunch is available from many vendors and can be enjoyed in the greenhouses surrounded by tropical plants. Russell’s will be donating 5 percent of store sales on Saturday to Mass [...]
First Parish in Wayland will be holding its popular and kid-friendly rummage sale on Saturday March 31 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The sale has been a Wayland institution for nearly 70 years. According to the records of its Women's Alliance, the first rummage was held in June 1944. There is a department [...]
Last year in the Loose Change campaign the whole town of Wayland came together to collect lost and forgotten coins. In 1 week a remarkable $15,000 was raised. The money was raised with the purpose of building a new schoolroom in the remote Andean village of Atuen in Peru. Not only were we able to complete the [...]
Wayland Town Crier 2/26/12: Local businesses step forward to support Late Night 2012. The fundraising campaign for Late Night 2012 is off to a great start with an initial burst of extremely generous donations from local parents and businesses. Saturday, May 19 will be a big night for Wayland High School juniors – the night [...]
Domestic Violence Roundtable delivers Valentines gift bags. Each year the Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable sponsors a Valentine’s Day gift bag drive to help make the day a little brighter for adults and children in local shelters. Consider attending their monthly public meetings on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June at 3 p.m. in the Wayland Public Safety Building at the intersection of routes 20 and 27. Find more information online.
Wayland Patch 2/24/12: Waylanders Running Boston Marathon for Dana-Farber Team. Wayland residents Christopher Crowell, Steve Lesser and Lynda Nijensohn, of Wayland, Mass., will be running in the 116th Boston Marathon to help conquer cancer as members of the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team. These Wayland residents, along with Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge teammates from across the United States and around the world, will run Massachusetts' historic marathon route from Hopkinton to Boston with a goal to raise $4.8 million for cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. To contribute to the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge or to support a runner, click here or contact the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge office at (617) 632-1970 or via email. Follow DFMC on Facebook. .
Boston Globe 2/23/12: Parmenter Community Health Care in Wayland receives $5.6 million gift. At a time when health care agencies are struggling to make ends meet, Parmenter Community Health Care can breathe a little easier thanks to a generous donation from a former patient. Former Wellesley resident Joan Batchelder, who died of cancer in 2010, left $5.6 million to the nonprofit organization. The bequest is by far the largest in its 56-year-history, said Cynthia Maher, chief executive officer of the Wayland-based agency.
The High Heels and Hard Hats event will take place Sunday, April 29 at 5pm at the Neiman Marcus Court at Natick Mall. Tickets are $50 per person with group deals available. Purchase tickets online here (choose Wayland Build from the "please direct my donation to" drop-down menu (or call the Habitat Office at 508-799-9259). Click [...]
Kids Night Out (okay, Parents Night Out!) Date: Saturday, March 24, 2012 Time: 6:00 to 9:30 pm (check in starts at 5:45pm) Place: Wayland High School Field House Cost: $20-first child, $5 each additional child with a $30 family limit (Any checks should be made out to Wayland High School.) Ages: age 4 – grade [...]
ScrubaDub ~ A Great Car Wash 2012 FUNdraiser to Benefit WBSA Now through April 11, 2012 How it Works: DONATE $10 to WBSA = Receive ONE ScrubaDub Express Wash DONATE $100 to WBSA = Receive TEN ScrubaDub Express Washes ScrubaDub is helping WBSA FUNdraise by creating a web page designed just for us. Simply go [...]
Wayland Town Crier 2/7/12: Village Bank awarding scholarships to Wayland residents. The Village Bank’s Auburndale Community Charitable Foundation will award a total of $40,000 in college scholarships to Newton and Wayland residents graduating from high school this year and intending to pursue studies at an accredited college or university in the fall. The foundation will [...]
Wayland Town Crier 2/6/12: Wayland resident helping to organize event for One Mission. Rachel Spooner of Wayland is inviting residents to join her for some tea and charity at a special event to benefit One Mission, a childhood cancer foundation dedicated to enhancing the lives of pediatric cancer patients and their families. The One Mission [...]
Local band Mid-Life Crisis will be appearing at The Bone (formerly The Chicken Bone Saloon) on Waverly Street in Framingham Thursday, February 9. The band, which features tight harmonies backed up by strong instrumental work, will cover a variety of songs from the categories of Classic Rock, R&B, New Wave, Grunge, and Blues. A favorite [...]
Wayland Town Crier 1/31/12: Planning under way for Late Night 2012 at Wayland High. Saturday, May 19 will be a big night for Wayland High School juniors – the night of the Junior Prom, where excitement is high and memories will be made that last a lifetime. “Late Night” is a 16-year Wayland tradition. Every [...]
The WHS Sailing Team is preparing for its second season on Lake Cochituate. We are in need of a boat trailer in order to get the boats back to the water. If you have an unused boat trailer that you are willing to donate, we would greatly appreciate it and will provide a tax donation [...]
With a new season just a few short months away, WayCo Amateur Sports Development, Inc., – whose cornerstone program is the WayCo Softball League – announces its recent charitable donations. The non-profit organization donated a total of $2,250 in 2011 to eight different recipients. A successful summer raffle and individual donations meant WayCo was [...]
Wayland Patch 1/23/12: Wayland Food Pantry Receives Grant. The Celebration International Church Food Pantry in Wayland received a $1,500 grant from Foundation MetroWest. The grant was a portion of $55,000 awarded to food pantries throughout the MetroWest region from the Foundation’s English Family Fund and Herbert and Esther Atkinson Fund.
MarketWatch 1/23/12: Neighbor Brigade Adds Collins and Mavrikos to Its Board of Directors. Neighbor Brigade, a non-profit organization committed to delivering community-based support for neighbors when they need it most, today announced that Susan Collins and James (Jim) Mavrikos have joined its Board of Directors. Collins is an attorney in the real estate law firm [...]
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