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  • Food Allergies at School: What Works?

    FRAMINGHAM, MA — A roundtable discussion about how to keep children with food allergies comfortable and safe at school will be the topic of the Metro-West Allergy and Asthma Educational Support Group meeting on Wednesday, January 20 at 7:00 p.m. at Allergy & Asthma Treatment Specialists, 475 Franklin St., Framingham.

    The program is free; pre-registration is not required.

    Support group leaders Lori Brockway and Linda Drews will share their years of experience as parents of children with food allergies and as a teacher, and moderate a discussion of how parents can work most effectively as an advocate for their child.

    AAFA New England organizes educational support group programs throughout the region, publishes a newsletter, and runs a telephone resource and referral line for people coping with allergies and asthma. For more information, or a free copy of the AAFA New England newsletter or parent checklist for managing food allergies in school or child care, call (781)444-7778 or see www.asthmaandallergies.org

  • Elementary School Reorganization Proposed

    Framingham, MA – Framingham Superintendent of Schools Steven Hiersche presented a school reorganization plan to the school committee on January 5th. Information and a link to view the presentation are available on the Framingham Public Schools website: http://www.framingham.k12.ma.us
    The plan suggests reorganizing the elementary schools so that schools are paired and that one serves kindergarten through second grades and the other serves third through fifth grades.

    School Officials will field questions and comments from the public about the reorganization at two community forums.

    The presentation Format for January 11 (7PM Fuller auditorium) and January 14 (7 PM FHS auditorium) community forums:

    • PRESENTATION IN AUDITORIUM
    Superintendent Hiersche will re-present the information he presented to School Committee on Tuesday, January 5. Translations into Spanish and Portuguese will be available.

    • BREAKOUT GROUPS IN CAFETERIA
    Those who have seen the presentation will be able to provide feedback and input, and ask questions in a small group setting. These questions will be compiled and responded to as part of the Frequently Asked Questions.
    Feedback on the presentation and plan can be emailed to: reorgteam@framingham.k12.ma.us

    On January 20 the School Committee will continue discussion of the proposed reorganization plan.

    There is a discussion group on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=280442260680&ref=ts about the reorganization as well as considerable discussion on the frambors email list which you can subscribe to by emailing:  majordomo@syslang.net

  • Framingham Loses Two Community Activists

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – Within the last few days Framingham lost two people who were active  in the community:  Ruth Gordon, and Jim Friel.  I didn’t know either one of them, but I do know some members of their families and it is clear that the parents passed on the baton of serving the community to their offspring.

    I look to my own parents, who were active volunteers in Little League, scouts, PTA, Board of Health, and Board of Library Trustees, as well as community activists and planted the seeds of service in my siblings and me.

    Not enough people are thanked and acknowledged for their contributions.   I was thinking about that today when I was talking with Kathy Foran about her advertising.  I thanked her and mentioned how I appreciated all the donations and service that she and her siblings and her parents had put into the community.

    There are a lot of business people in Framingham that have done well, but not as many like Kathy, that also do good.

    And I’d like to note that, by and large, the people who have been sponsoring advertisers of  framingham.com are active in the community and deserving of your business.

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