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5 Things You Need To Know Today: May 14
Busy night in Framingham: history of U.S. Post Office at the Library, More Than Honey documentary at Plymouth Church, Environmental Fair at Potter Road Elementary, Night 8 of Town Meeting and Game 7 of the Bruins vs Canadians series.
1. Potter Road Elementary will hold its 4th Annual Environmental Expo tonight from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
The kindergarten class will perform a short play based on the book The Great Kapok Tree. There will be puppet making, games using recyclable items and help to teach about reusing and reducing. Mass Horticultural Society, Next Step Living, Town of Framingham, Refoamit and many other organizations will have booths at the expo. Refoamit will be recycling Stryofoam at the event. Attendees are encouraged to bring packing peanuts and another other Styrofoam. This is refoamit's only evening recycling event all year.
2. Learn about America's first informational highway tonight at the main Framingham Library.
Spellman Museum of Postal History Education Director Henry Lukas will present A Philatelelic History of the Boston Post at 7 p.m. Attendees of the free event will learn about the history of the U.S. Postal System and the many ways mail has been delivered since colonial times from the Boston Post Road (America’s first information highway) and beyond. Refreshments will be served by Trader Joe’s in Framingham.
3. Framingham Town Meeting members approved the Framingham Public Schools and the Keefe Tech school budgets on Tuesday night during night 7 of the Annual Town Meeting.
Night 8, is scheduled to begin tonight, May 13 at 7:30 in Nevins Hall inside the Memorial Building or when a quorum is reached. Town Meeting will continue discussion and voting on a $247 million operating budget for Fiscal year 2015, which starts July 1. It is Article 19 of a 40+ article warrant.
- If you missed Night 7 of Town Meeting, you can read Framingham Patch's live blog by clicking here.
- If you missed Night 6 of Town Meeting, click here to read the LIVE BLOG.
- If you missed Night 5, click here to read the LIVE BLOG.
- If you missed Night 4, click here to read the LIVE BLOG.
- If you missed Night 3, read the LIVE BLOG here.
- If you missed Night 2, read the LIVE BLOG here.
- If you missed Night 1, read the LIVE BLOG here.
4. Plymouth Church will hold a free screening tonight at 7 of the documentary More Than Honey, by Swiss filmmaker Marcus Imhoof. The documentary shows the relationship between mankind and bees, nature and our future. The film is relevant to Albert Einstein's words: "If bees were to disappear from the globe, mankind would only have four years left to live."
5. In case you missed it: In its first two years of giving, Impact Framingham has distributed more than $50,000 in support of 28 community projects which enhance the civic, educational, recreational, cultural and/or benevolent interests of Framingham and its people. The foundation anticipates awarding approximately $25,000 through the current grant cycle. Applications ar ebeing accepted for its third grant cycle, but the deadline is May 16. Click here for more details.
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