The City of Newton’s Public Health Nurse will teach a Friends and Family CPR Class on April 8, 12PM-2:30PM at the Hyde Community Center (90 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands). Come learn the lifesaving skills of adult/child/infant hands-only CPR and Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) and how to help a choking adult/child/infant.…
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Students have until 5PM on April 10 to apply for one of up to four scholarships to be awarded this year by the Charles River Regional Chamber to deserving students who either live and/or attend school in Needham, Newton, Watertown, or Wellesley and who plan to attend an accredited college…
Newton’s nonprofit CAN-DO is partnering with the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) to offer free tax help to people with low to moderate incomes (generally, $74,000 and below) who are seeking assistance in preparing and submitting their tax returns for 2024 and earlier. Information you will need: CAN-DO…
Newton’s JourneySongs is an interfaith choir committed to singing for people with hospice services and their caregivers, as well as at memorial services and celebrations of life. We rehearse on Sundays, twice a month, in Newton, MA and sing in surrounding communities. JourneySongs uses the gift of song to provide both comfort…
You Can Help Send Deserving Students to Summer Camp! Summer Camp Matters. For five years now, Newton Neighbors Helping Neighbors has been supporting families who cannot afford to send their children to summer camp. This year, its goal is to provide a summer camp experience for 50 students, to enable…
Emily Craven — who is running the Boston Marathon to help fund the Fig City News summer internship program — is also organizing the Fig City News Shamrock 5K for the same purpose. The race is twice around Jamaica Pond plus 0.1 mile to the finish, for a total of…
Since 1988, the Newton-San Juan del Sur Sister City Project – founded by former City Councilor and School Board member Rodney Barker, with other Newtonians – has worked to establish a meaningful connection through activism with the city of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. The nonprofit organization has built and renovated over…
The First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton (FUUSN) hosts a monthly free lunch with a different social-action speaker each month at FUUSN (1326 Washington Street, West Newton). At noon on February 9, the speaker will be Yael Yaaloz, Program Director at Communities for Restorative Justice (C4RJ). From FUUSN: Yael Yaaloz will speak…
The American Red Cross will hold blood drives in Newton — for both blood and Power-Red donations: Donors must schedule an appointment beforehand, either online or by calling 800-RED-CROS (800-733-2767).
The Rebecca Pomroy Foundation is accepting applications for grants to fund health-building, educational, and recreational opportunities to people of all ages, with a special preference for organizations located in Newton that provide training, education, and counseling for girls and women in need. Applications are open until March 1 for any…
The Carroll Center for the Blind will present the 2nd Annual Stargardt Summit on Saturday, February 22, 10AM-4PM both in-person at the Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart (785 Centre Street) and virtually. This free event has speakers and panelists discussing the research of treatments for the Stargardt eye disease, the advancements…
The Newton Free Library will host a presentation, Caregivers in Focus: Recognizing and Supporting Family Caregivers in Our Communities, where participants can learn about participants the often-overlooked realities of caregiving, deepen their understanding of “caregiver burden” as a pressing public health issue, and leave equipped with actionable insights. It will…