Discover Saxonville’s Athenaeum Hall, Saturday, October 5, 2013
FRAMINGHAM, MA – Discover Saxonville’s Athenaeum! The Athenaeum is getting a little help from its “Friends”.
Join The Friends of Saxonville for community, culture and cuisine — a reception and concert to benefit the Restoration of The Athenaeum Community Hall at 7:00pm on Saturday evening October 5th, 2013
Although the exterior of Athenaeum has been restored, the interior is in complete disrepair. Our event goal is to raise $10,000 to help with construction costs, provide furnishings and accessories, (i.e. media equipment and kitchen necessities), and provide operating expense support.
Event Highlights include delectable Hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar of fine wine and beer, a brief review of the planned restoration of The Athenaeum Community Hall, a concert of Baroque Period selections for Harpsichord and Flute by The Hunt Trio and the event is topped off with decadent desserts, coffee and tea.
The Tavern in Downtown Framingham will host a fundraiser to support “One Mission”, a MA based pediatric cancer charity.
FRAMINGHAM, MA – During the 2013 Memorial Day Weekend, on Friday May 24th and Saturday May 25th, The Tavern in Downtown Framingham will be hosting the 2nd Annual Lager Cask Fundraiser (Party!!!) to benefit One Mission.
“One Mission” is a Massachusetts based charity and serves the needs of pediatric cancer patients and their families living in the greater New England area.
There will be 24 lager casks available, and tickets are being sold each of the (3) two and a half hour “sessions”.
97.7 / 107.3 WAAF Radio Personalities “LB” and “SPAZ” to pole-sit for 3 days on Rt. 9 in Framingham to raise money for area food banks!
FRAMINGHAM, MA – 97.7/107.3 WAAF hosts an inaugural event, “WAAF’s Rise Up Against Hunger”, from Tuesday, December 4th to Thursday, December 6th, 2012.
For three days, WAAF on-air personalities LB and Spaz will rise up on boom cranes, where they will live on a platform suspended high in the sky for three full days in an effort to raise funds for The Greater Boston, Worcester County and New Hampshire Food Banks. For the past 20 years, the station’s personalities had enlisted themselves in various physically challenging stunts in an effort to engage listeners to support area food banks.
WAAF’s on-air personalities literally “rise up” to live suspended by cranes for three days to raise funds for local food banks
Beginning at 7:00 a.m. on December 4, LB will “rise up” in a boom crane (more…)
Be sure and grab a few tickets to the 2012 Fundraiser Dance to support the Curtis Family Thanksgiving in Framingham.
FRAMINGHAM, MA – It’s almost time for the 22nd Annual Curtis Family Thanksgiving Dinner!
A Fundraising Dance and Raffle are being held to support this important community event.
On Saturday, November 10th, 2012 there will be a Dance at the Eagles Hall featuring live music by the Off the Hook Band. Join your friends and neghbors for an evening of dancing, cocktails and a wonderful array of hors d’oeuvres which will be served throughout the night. Tickets are $25.00 per person and can be purchased in advance or at the door.
On November 22nd, 2012, Mark and Karen Curtis, along with volunteers of all ages and backgrounds will once again peel, chop, and prepare meals to support their annual thanksgiving feed hosted in the banquet room at the Framingham Eagles Club.
As they have in the past, Mark and Karen, together with an army of volunteers will open up at noon and stand ready to serve a hot meal to anyone that comes through the door. For those unable to attend, they plan to deliver more than 500 meals to the elderly and others that may be less fortunate. Last year, nearly two-thousand Thanksgiving meals were served!
The OFF THE HOOK Band, (photo taken at Concert on the Green, Framingham, MA, summer of 2012)
Thanksgiving Raffle!
Thousands of dollars worth of items, services and gift certificates are also being raffled off. Raffle tickets are $10.00 with 100% of the proceeds supporting the Curtis Family Thanksgiving Dinner.
Winning raffle numbers will be drawn and prizes awarded throughout the night of the dance, (you do not need to be present to win — but why miss all the fun?)
$10 Raffle Tickets are being sold to help support the 2012 Curtis Family Thanksgiving Dinner in Framingham.
Raffle Prizes include: a Bose Wave Radio, Red Sox, Celtics, and Bruins tickets, Kitchen Aid Mixer, and a variety of gift certificates including Love Those Nails, the Oregon Club, Samba Sushi/Steak, Beerworks, and many other local establishments!
Tickets to the dance and/or the raffle can be purchased at:
Maenzo Hair Salon
440 Franklin St. (in the old CO-OP Shopping Center)
Framingham, MA
508-872-1778, (Tony Maenzo)
Or:Eagles Grill
44 Park St.
Framingham, MA
508-820-0600
Dennis Lehane – Author, Screenwriter, (Photo by Diana Lucas Leavengood)
FRAMINGHAM, MA– You’ve read the books and seen the movies — “Mystic River“, “Gone, Baby, Gone“, “Shutter Island“, and “The Given Day” — one of his most recent books which has been hailed as a classic Great American Novel.
Now you can meet famed author and Boston-area native Dennis Lehane, in Framingham.
On Saturday, October 6th, 2012, from 7:00-9:00 p.m., the Framingham Public Library Foundation presents “An Evening With Dennis Lehane”.
A coffee and dessert reception will be followed by a talk and a book signing by Mr. Lehane, a passionate supporter of public libraries.
The New England Mobile Book Fair will be on site selling Mr. Lehane’s books, and all attendees will be entered in a drawing for a signed copy of his novel Moonlight Mile.
Admission to this fund raising event for the Framingham Public Library Foundation is $30 per ticket.
Tickets go on sale beginning September 4th, 2012 at (more…)
Vendor space is still avialable for the Framingham Auxiliary Police sponsored Craft Fair that will be held December 10, 2011 at Keefe Tech.
FRAMINGHAM, MA – The Framingham Auxiliary Police will be holding their twenty-fourth annual Craft Fair from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 10, 2011. The fair will be held at the Keefe Vocational Technical High School, 750 Winter Street, Framingham, MA.
A limited amount of exhibitor space is still available for crafters.
The Craft Fair will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. where you will find a unique holiday shopping experience. During this fund raising event we anticipate over 125 exhibitors will be selling various merchandise including hand made crafts, hand crafted jewelry, hand decorated clothing, sketches, photographs, assorted flea market merchandise, and (more…)
''Circle of Five'' fundraiser to benefit the Ellie Fund to be held in Framingham Oct. 26, 2011.
FRAMINGHAM, MA – Circle Furniture in Framingham is celebrating National Breast Cancer Awareness Month with “Circle of Five” – their fifth annual event to benefit the Needham-based Ellie Fund.
In honor of the fifth anniversary of Channel 5 Reporter Kelley Tuthill’s breast cancer diagnosis, five newswomen from WCVB-TV5 are starring in this year’s exclusive event on October 26, 2011 at Circle Furniture on Route 9 in Framingham.
Starting at 6:30 p.m., guests will have and an exclusive opportunity to mix and mingle with their favorite Channel 5 newswomen: Susan Wornick, Bianca de la Garza, Kelley Tuthill, Rhondella Richardson and JC Monahan while enjoying (more…)
FRAMINGHAM, MA – Riders in the 2nd Annual Warrior Thunder Motorcycle Ride will be meeting up at the Paramount Harley Davidson dealership’s parking lot in Downtown Framingham on Saturday morning, September 17, 2011.
Riders will arrive for registration between 9:30am – 11:15am, and then at 11:30am, they’ll put up their kickstands and begin a police escorted benefit/charity ride that travels 50 miles of scenic Middlesex County roads between Framingham and Millis, MA,
The event, hosted by the Warrior Thunder Foundation raised over $4000.00 last year — all to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project®, an organization which supports combat wounded U.S. “war fighters”.
The ride ends at the Millis, MA AMVETs club where (more…)
Dr. Sheri Phillips, National Spokesperson for the ''3-Day for the Cure'' organization, shown here during a 2010 walk.
FRAMINGHAM, MA– The Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure is a 60-mile walk to fund breast cancer research and support local community education, screening and treatment programs.
This year (2011) the Boston 3-Day is July 22nd, 23rd and 24th, and the Opening Ceremony and starting point for the Boston walk is again at Farm Pond in Framingham!
The Boston 3-Day begins Friday morning, July 22, 2011. Crew members should arrive at 4:00 a.m., walkers should arrive between 5:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m., and the Opening Ceremony, which begins with community stretching is at 6:30 a.m.
I had a chance to speak with Dr. Sheri Phillips, this year’s National Spokesperson for the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure organization.
At the start of the interview, I said “I’ll ask some questions, and if any are too personal, or you prefer not to answer, or want me to leave anything out — let me know.”
Sheri, the Homewood, Illinois mother of two teenage daughters, and a practicing physician for the past 18 years who is now a 2-year survivor of breast cancer said, “None of it is too personal. Information is power. It’s important to get as much information as possible out to others and raise awareness not only with those who (more…)
K9 outfitted with bullet proof vest from Massachusetts Vest-a-Dog (photo by Christian Kozowyk)
FRAMINGHAM, MA – Once again, Robinson’s Hardware and the merchants of the Pinefield Shopping Center in Saxonville are hosting and a family fun (and dog friendly) event for a good cause.
On Saturday June 18, 2011 from 10:00AM ’til 2:00PM,the shopping center merchants are raising money in support of the Massachusetts Vest-a-Dog organization which raises money to purchase bullet proof vests for K-9 officers (more…)
