Thursday night’s Fowler Winter Concert saw a record crowd in the auditorium listen to joyful music by our young Chorus and Band musicians. For the first time in more than 5 years, we have been able to support both 4th and 5th grade chorus, and hope to see it expand next year to Grade 6 and beyond. Chorus teacher Ms. Sommer has done a wonderful job leading chorus at both Fowler and MHS. Under the direction of Band Director Mr. Kozik, the Grade 6 band performed well, and the Grade 7/8 band took the stage to finish the evening. After all performances, there was a standing ovation from at least 300 parents, grandparents, siblings, many teachers and staff members, and countless children. Fowler Music is shining brighter than ever before, and none of this would be possible without the support of the parents in the Maynard Music Association. We hope the concert added light and joy to your holiday season!

As you may know, Cheryl & I are co-chairing the planning committee to bring the music students from Maynard High School, down to Disney World in Florida for workshops and to perform. Our final fundraiser is a GoFundMe. Here is a link to our account:

https://gofund.me/dc89133a

Please share this with everyone that you know.

Thanks,

Danny Lucas

National Music Inc.

394 Main Street

Woburn, MA 01801

781-933-6300

ArtSpace Maynard welcomes you to our Artists’ Holiday Shop—an Art Gallery and Gift Shop presented at our community gallery and satellite space at 63 Nason Street. Support ArtSpace Maynard and our talented artists at our new location for our annual Holiday Sale! We’ll be featuring a wide variety of original creative art including paintings, prints, sculpture, photographs, jewelry, and textiles from over 20 of our ArtSpace studio artists! 30% of the proceeds will be donated to ArtSpace to find a new home for our artists so we can once again offer classes, workshops, gallery shows and much more for our surrounding community.

The Artists’ Holiday Shop will be open on Fridays (4pm-8pm), Saturdays (10am-5pm), and Sundays (12pm-4pm) beginning December 2 and continuing through December 18. Our Artists’ Holiday Shop storefront is conveniently located in Downtown Maynard, across from Veteran’s Park, and close to parking, eating, and other galleries and shops in the area. We will be open during the Maynard Holiday Parade on Sunday, December 4 so we hope you can stop by!

An opening reception will be held on Saturday, December 3 from 6 pm – 8:30 pm at the Artists’ Holiday Shop! This special event will coincide with Maynard’s Holiday Sip & Stroll, hosted by the Maynard Business Alliance, on Saturday, December 3rd, 6 pm - 8:30 pm. Meet the artists and enjoy refreshments as you shop, for one night only — we hope you will join us!

The MHS freshman class is offering a 'Parents Night Out' event on Friday, December 16th from 5-9pm.

We are sponsoring a fundraising event in support of Buddy Dog at Maynard Fine Arts Theatre Saturday December 10 at 3:00pm. Admission is free, donations will be accepted (but certainly not required!) at the theatre. We will have someone dressed as Buddy the Elf there handing out candy canes. If folks want to send in a photo of a favorite pet, we will be making a little film montage of all the pet photos, so they can be seen on the ‘big screen’.

Looking to get rid of old sports equipment? Rose Mendez is holding a sports equipment drive for old sports equipment in good condition! (balls, bats, shoes, sticks, etc.) (all sports!!) Running from November 12 to November 28 . Boxes in the lobby! All proceeds will go to the future communal sports closet, open to all for borrowing!

Another opportunity - Looking for a fun after-school job with flexibility? The Boys and Girls Club of Assabet Valley is hiring! We are looking for friendly staff members over the age of 17 to help oversee our amazing after-school program. The hours are 2:30-6:00 and hires can work anywhere from 1-5 days a week! Staff is responsible for overseeing children's activities including gym games, homework, arts and crafts, gameroom activities, outdoor play, and more!

If interested, please contact Nikki Tyler Richardson - tyler@bgcav.org

Please note, we are looking for someone who can commit to the winter session so if you are playing a winter sport, please hold off from applying until Spring!

The Green Meadow Elementary School project team has submitted its second MSBA submission! This submission is called the Preferred Schematic Report (PSR) and it advances the initial existing conditions verification, educational visioning & programming and Owner / Community coordination into multiple design alternatives, shows MSBA the design alternative evaluation process taken by the project team, and highlights which design alternative was ultimately selected at the end of the process.

Below is a link to a Google Drive folder that contains the previous Preliminary Design Program (PDP) submission as well as the recent PSR submission. As always, we thank you very much for your attention to the project, and we’ll continue to keep you informed as the project moves along the MSBA process!

GMES Google Drive Link