The Friends of the Rail Trail monthly meeting is intended to inform, and drive progress with the trail. We will start with an update on Wayland's progress, then open for questions. We will then discuss the action plan for both our short term objective (removing the tracks and creating a three mile soft surface path across [...]
Wayland is going to have a year-long celebration—a 375th birthday bash—and we need your help to plan the party! The 375th committee will host a year-long celebration for our town beginning in June 2013 and ending in June 2014. The committee will plan some major events and we invite all Wayland groups, organizations, and individuals [...]
Wayland Town Crier 1/15/12: Whats going on with Habitat for Humanity project in Wayland?. Last spring Town Meeting approved the transfer of 3 acres of land on Stonebridge Road so that Habitat for Humanity can build two duplexes. While work has been going on behind the scenes, you probably haven’t heard anything about the project [...]
Have you ever thought about tutoring someone in English? Most people who decide to become tutors are thinking of the good it can do, helping others become more proficient in English and better able to cope with employment, landlords, schools or the medical profession. But then they discover the rewards, the satisfaction that comes [...]
Interested in getting involved with the Wayland Habitat project? There will be a meeting about the project on Thursday, January 12 at 7:30pm in the Town Building. If you are interested in learning more, if you can write some articles or explain a bit about the project at Russell’s Farmers’ Market, if you would like [...]
Boston Globe 1/5/12: Pam Washek’s nonprofit Neighbor Brigade offers support for those in need. Wayland resident Pam Washek is the executive director of Neighbor Brigade Inc., a nonprofit with chapters in 24 Massachusetts communities, from Winchendon to West Bridgewater.
Train in order to be part of a civilian team that is prepared to respond to town wide emergencies/disasters in Wayland. Volunteers are trained in rescue operations and shelter management. Training begins in mid-January for nine weekly evening sessions.
The Wayland Schools' Green Team meets every first Monday of the month in the Happy Hollow library. We share ideas on how to make our schools greener. Discussions include recycling, gardens, composting, stewardship and more. All are welcome. On Monday, December 5, we will meet from 4:00-5:30 pm. Please visit www.waylandgreenteam.org for more information.
The Wayland Council on Aging is in need of drivers for their Meals on Wheels program. All that’s needed is a commitment of 1.5 to 2 hours per week, a valid driver’s license, and a desire to make a difference in the life of a homebound senior. Drivers can sign up to drive weekly or [...]
The Wayland Library is hosting a Read to Dogs program on Saturday November 5 from 11am-12pm. Volunteers from Dog B.O.N.E.S. Therapy Dogs of Massachusetts will be here with a variety of dogs to read to. It is not too early to sign up. Sign up for a 15-minute session by calling April Mazza at 508-358-2308. [...]
SOAR 55 is currently accepting applications from former and current (part-time) executives/professionals with marketing or development expertise who are available to help local nonprofits with management projects through the award winning SOAR 55 Nonprofit Management Consulting Group program, generously funded through the Tufts Health Plan Foundation. The group works in teams of 3 on assignments [...]
Per Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 71, Section 59C, at each public elementary, secondary and independent vocational school in the commonwealth there shall be a school council consisting of the school principal, parents of students attending the school, teachers who shall be selected by the teachers in such school, and other persons, not parents or teachers [...]
Wayland Patch 8/23/11: Wayland Students Spend Their Summer Giving Back. Two hundred hours – otherwise known as 12,000 minutes or 8.3 days. No, it isn’t a countdown or the length of a fabulous vacation, it’s the combined number of hours donated this summer by about 15 Wayland High School students who spent their time away from school doing everything from grooming horses at Pond Hollow Farm, to moving books at the Wayland Town Building, to plucking tomato worms off plants in the area community gardens. The students took part in a summer community service program designed to help them meet their required community service hours for junior and senior privileges at Wayland High School, and, if coordinator Amy Schoeff had anything to say about it, create lifelong volunteers in the process. “My goal is to get the kids to look at community service not just as something they need to get done,” said Schoeff, who works as a school nurse at WHS. “[I want them] to realize they have something to give.”
Wayland Town Crier 8/13/11: Next informational meeting for Wayland Habitat Project. The next informational meeting about the Wayland Habitat Project will be Wednesday, Aug. 17 at the Wayland Town Building at 7 p.m. Come if you would like to learn more about the project and how you can get involved. At this point, we are [...]
Help an at-risk elementary school child improve their reading or math skills to succeed in school. Utilize your life experience to inspire children, help students gain confidence and competence and help support their future success as students by helping them master critical skills and abilities. No teaching experience necessary. Meet with student (s) twice a [...]
The Wayland Green Team invites those who can handle a saw or drill or who can simply provide another pair of hands to help build with the first stage of building composting bins at Claypit Hill and the Middle School during the week of August 8. Using money raised during the Whole Foods 5% Day [...]
Wayland Town Crier 7/28/11: Habitat for Humanity project in Wayland needs your help. Wayland’s incipient Habitat for Humanity project held its fourth local outreach meeting last week, and put out a call for volunteers to help the venture reach fruition. Specifically, Habitat is seeking Wayland residents for three committees – outreach, design and construction oversight, and fundraising and development.
Wayland Town Crier 7/25/11: Volunteers help clear water chestnut plants from Heard Pond. Wayland High School Community Service volunteers Kate Fiske and Jesse Vogel were out on Heard Pond in Wayland, hand-pulling the water chestnut plants that have infested the pond for a number of years. In 2003, there were 1.2 million pounds of the weed harvested from the pond, and in 2010 just 427 pounds. Success depends on just about 100 percent removal of the plant for each growing season for a number of years, since the seeds lie in dormancy in the pond sediments for up to 12 years. Because the plants are much fewer than just a few years ago, this type of hand-pulling effort requires a trudge through quite an area of mucky bottom and lily pads to find the occasional water chestnut plant.
Wayland Town Crier 7/25/11: Wayland dog does good work in Joplin, Mo.. Gracie, a 5-year-old golden retriever and registered therapy dog who lives in Wayland with the Penrose family, returned recently from Joplin, Mo., where she visited with tornado victims and volunteers alike. John Penrose escorted Gracie on the 4,000-mile roundtrip in his pick-up truck, loaded with donations from generous Wayland and Weston residents.
Wayland Town Crier 7/3/11: Explosive growth for Wayland-based Neighbor Brigade. Growing almost exclusively through word-of-mouth, the Neighbor Brigade, a year-old nonprofit, is successfully spreading its mission of neighbors helping neighbors into towns throughout the MetroWest and beyond. When the organization officially launched in May 2010, it had nine founding chapters. That number has nearly tripled to a total of 24 chapters serving 26 Massachusetts communities. Neighbor Brigade provides a proven method for local communities to create and maintain volunteer networks that support neighbors in crisis due to an acute illness, sudden tragedy, debilitating-late stage chronic disease or terminal illness. To date, the organization has signed up more than 2,400 volunteers who have delivered more than 2,500 meals and given more than 200 rides to families in crisis.
The next informational meeting about the Wayland Habitat Project will be Monday, July 18th at the Wayland Town Building at 7 pm. Come if you would like to learn more about the project and how you can get involved. At this point, we are looking for people interested in outreach to the community and fundraising. [...]
Wayland Town Crier 6/26/11: Volunteers needed to help clear Heard Pond in Wayland. The Wayland Surface Water Quality Committee just started the 2011 season of harvesting water chestnuts on Heard Pond in Wayland. Water chestnuts are an invasive species that just a few years ago completely covered many parts of the pond from shoreline to [...]
Wayland’s Board of Public Works invites public comment on the proposed Wellhead Protection Plan on Monday, July 25, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at the Town Building. The draft Wellhead Protection Plan, which is on the DPW page of the Wayland town website (www.wayland.ma.us/Pages/WaylandMA_DPW), identifies potential sources of contaminants in our drinking water supply, prioritizes the [...]
The Food Pantry Garden, located at the Community Gardens is growing like topsy! Tomatoes, beets, peppers, squash, beans, kale and broccoli are well mulched and weed free but we need people to water. This food will go to Parmenter pantry and local shelters. There are watering cans, an umbrella, and a chair — bring a [...]
There are several opportunities for citizens to volunteer to serve as a member of a town board, committee or commission. A complete list of vacancies is posted here. Of particular note are five seats on the Permanent Municipal Building Committee. Selectmen seek individuals with training, education or experience in construction management, structural or civil engineering, [...]
Wayland Patch 6/5/11: Wayland Green Team Invites Help with Composting Project. Over the last two years, the Wayland Green Team has worked hard to improve recycling efforts in the schools, reduce car idling in driveways, promote school gardens and on-site kitchen and cafeteria composting, promote use of school water fountains, and to find efficiencies in green purchasing for the schools. It organized the Earth Day celebration and also proudly presents a new website: www.waylandgreenteam.org. One of the projects for this summer is Gardens and Composting. The Green Team is working with Claypit Hill School to establish on-site kitchen and cafeteria composting and school gardens. On Tuesday, June 7, shop at Whole Foods in Wayland and 5 percent of the net sales will go to the Wayland Green Team’s School Gardens and Composting project. The proceeds will help fund the materials (timber, mesh, hardware) for the permanent compost bins, which will be built July 12-15.
The High School Summer Community Service Program, which will be led by WHS nurse Amy Schoeff, kicks off on Thursday, June 23rd and winds up on August 11th. All students from entering freshmen to graduating seniors are welcome to participate. Students meet weekly on Thursday evenings from 6 to 7 to plan projects; the community [...]
Wayland Patch 5/31/11: Habitat for Humanity Project in Wayland Keeps Moving. Fifteen volunteers came to the Large Hearing Room at the Wayland Town Building last Thursday to hear about the next steps – and how they could help take them – in the Habitat for Humanity project planned for Wayland. Beth Rust, community housing specialist with the Town of Sudbury, is the liaison between Wayland’s still-forming local Habitat team and the regional Habitat for Humanity MetroWest/Greater Worcester chapter, of which Wayland is a part. Rust explained that while the regional chapter of Habitat had resources to support Wayland’s project, the Habitat model is really designed to be a local, community project.
Have you made your summer plans? Would you think about hosting a Fresh Air Fund child from New York City? Come to the Host Night to learn more….. WHEN: Wednesday – June 1, 2011,7:00 – 8:00 PM WHERE: First Parish In Wayland,50 Cochituate Road,Wayland, MA 01778 Get all your questions answered about this life [...]
Wayland Town Crier 5/17/11: Help clean up Dudley Pond on Saturday. Help clean up Dudley Pond’s perimeter, by boat or on foot, on Saturday, May 21 from 10am to 1pm or anytime in between. Meet at Mansion Beach between 9:45 and 10am, rain or shine. Community service credits available for high school volunteers. Bring gloves, [...]
Date: Wednesday, June 1, Time: 2:00-7:00pm Location: Wolbach Farm, Sudbury In memory of former SVT Director Eric Menoyo, come to Wolbach Farm to give the gift of life. Help SVT collect over 40 pints of blood. Signups are every fifteen minutes. Register early to get your preferred time slot. To register, call 1-800-RED-CROSS. For more [...]
Wayland Patch 5/6/11: The Fresh Air Fund Offers City Kids a Week in Wayland. Seven years ago, Penny Beer saw a pamphlet in the Wayland Public Library that would change her family’s summers for years to come. The pamphlet advertised The Fresh Air Fund, a 130-year-old nonprofit organization dedicated to offering New York City’s disadvantaged children a chance to experience life outside the city.
Get in on the ground floor for this exciting project! Wayland is starting a Habitat for Humanity project in partnership with the MetroWest – Greater Worcester Habitat for Humanity affiliate- http://www.habitatmwgw.org/ – to build four units of affordable housing on Town-owned land on Stonebridge Road. Please join us to hear about the Habitat homeownership model, [...]
Help SOAR 55, a program of Newton Community Service Center, “celebrate service” in Framingham and Metro West by joining us for the first anniversary commemoration of SOAR 55's Framingham Public Library Satellite Office on Thursday, May 12, 7-8:30 pm at the Library, Costin room, 49 Lexington Street, Framingham. SOAR 55 mobilizes adults age 55 and [...]
This year, our focus is to improve the connections between Wayland, Sudbury and Weston. If we can get 20 people and $500 in donations, we can make significant progress. The photo is of a deeply rutted section filled with crusher run last spring. Now its much easy and safer for everyone to navigate. We will [...]
Fresh Air Open House on Wednesday April 13 at the Stokey Library, First Parish Church in Wayland. Fresh Air brings inner city New York City children out into the suburbs for a vacation they would not otherwise have. Have you made your summer plans? Would you think about hosting a Fresh Air Fund child from [...]
Wayland Town Crier 4/8/11: New fencing on Route 27 to help wildlife. Students, teachers and community volunteers worked long days to install fencing behind the guardrails on Route 27 near the Wayland-Sudbury line to prevent wildlife from entering the roadway and ending up as roadkill. The fencing lines both sides of the roadway, running north from River Road and the small bridge to the Water Row crossing. Emily Norton, an environmental sciences teacher at Wayland High School (and sponsor for the Environmental Club), organized the "Wayland Community Stewardship Challenge" to protect wildlife in this corridor through the wetlands. Norton arranged grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and from the Wayland Public Schools Foundation for the project. Wildlife experts were involved in designing and installing the fence.
Please join us for SOAR 55's April and May Events: Wednesday, April 13, "Reconnecting through the Volunteer Experience", Weston Public Library, 87 School Street, Weston (Community Room), starting at 10:30am Explore how a volunteer experience can be a pathway to change, self-fulfillment, great relationships and a sense of purpose. If you are looking to make [...]
Wayland Patch 4/1/11: Saving Wayland's Turtles One Fence at a Time. Driving along Route 27 between Water Row and River Road, you’ve probably become accustomed to the undeveloped, slightly wild look of the landscape. Were you surprised to see a fence going up last weekend? As it turns out, the fence is not an effort to domesticate the wildlife living in the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, but is rather an effort to help keep it alive.
Jeff's Place is looking for volunteer facilitators to lead peer-based support groups. No experience necessary. They provide comprehensive training. You can take the training and then decide if it feels “right” for you. They only offer these trainings once or twice a year, so please join now. Training dates are Saturday, April 2 (9am-5pm), Monday, [...]
The Weston Public Library invites you to join SOAR 55, Service Opportunities After Reaching 55, a program of Newton Community Service Center on Wednesday, April 13, 10:30 AM, Weston Public Library, 87 School Street in the Community Room for “Reconnecting through the Volunteer Experience” generously supported by the Tufts Health Plan Foundation. Explore how a [...]
WAYLAND, MA – With the mounds of snow gone, revealed is a bumper crop of roadside litter – so mark those calendars for the sixth annual Wayland Cleans Up!on Saturday, April 9 – pick up and recycle. This year the cleanup effort will be done on the same day as the Earth Day Celebration produced [...]
Students, teachers and community volunteers worked two long days this past weekend to install fencing behind the guardrails on Rte. 27 north near the Wayland-Sudbury line to prevent wildlife from entering the roadway and ending up as roadkill. The fencing lines both sides of the roadway, running north from River Road and the small bridge [...]
Please come to a meeting for Wayland’s affordable housing advocates on the proposed Stonebridge Road Project. The meeting is on Wednesday March 30, 2011 at 7:30pm at the Wayland Senior Center. Key leaders Wayland Housing Partnership and Habitat for Humanity will provide an overview of the project and answer questions. MetroWest/Greater Worcester Habitat for Humanity [...]
WPI 3/25/11: Colleges of Worcester Consortium Praises WPI Students' Community Engagement. A team of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) student researchers received a Community Engagement Award on March 24, 2011, from the Colleges of Worcester Consortium Inc. for a project that helped AIDS Project Worcester grow a community garden to support the nutritional needs of local HIV/AIDS patients. Given annually, the Community Engagement Awards are presented to individual students and groups of students from Greater Worcester that provided outstanding service to their communities within the past year. Last fall, Lee Hermsdorf-Krasin, a chemistry major from Wayland, Mass. was among four students who researched, organized, and helped build a community garden at the corner of Gold and Green streets that will support the nutritional needs of HIV/AIDS patients using the services of AIDS Project Worcester.
Gardeners–of all ages– please join others to plant and maintain a garden at our Community Garden on Old Sudbury Road to raise food for the Parmenter pantry and local shelters; we’ll need sage advice, planners, sowers, transplanters, weeders, weeders, weeders, waterers, harvesters, and help on delivery to pantries. We have a lovely sunny and well-drained [...]
The WHS Environmental Science classes and Environmental Club have a grant to construct wildlife fencing along route 27 between Water Row and River Road. The grant is provided by US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Wayland Public Schools Foundation. We'll be constructing the fencing on Saturday March 26 and Sunday March 27 from 8:00 [...]
Two Field Classes: Saturday, February 26, 9:00AM Saturday, March 26 9:00AM Wolbach Farm, Sudbury, 18 Wolbach Road Are you a nature photography enthusiast? Sudbury Valley Trustees is looking for local residents to help document wildlife on SVT properties. Those interested will learn how to track, locate, and photograph local wildlife such as otters, foxes, and [...]
Join a fun community event – Saturday May 7, 10 am-2pm. The WBSA is an all volunteer organization and volunteers are need! We are starting our planning for the upcoming season and need your assistance as we are in the process of setting up the leagues, coaches and key positions. WBSA has needs for [...]
SOAR 55, Service Opportunities After Reaching 55 a program of Newton Community Service Center with a satellite office at the Framingham Public Library is seeking volunteers age 55 and over to help elementary school students in Wayland with reading and math skills. This is an opportunity to make a significant difference in a child’s life [...]
