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Green Island Grrrl
- Holiday stories for you!🌲❄🎅⛄ November 23, 2020 Christmas Dolls By Rosalie Tirella Rose, November 2020 When I was a kid growing up in Green Island, Christmas used to mean getting that ONE SPECIAL DOLL from Santa Claus – aka Ma and Whites Five and Ten on Millbury Street – on Christmas morn – and always ...
InCity Voices
- Suicide Prevention: the School’s Role By Edith Morgan Edith and family In my experience, the best preventer of suicide among the young is a caring and supportive adult: teacher, relative, best friend and, of course, a warm, understanding and aware family. Do we have school counselors in all our schools? Or do we ...
Politically Speaking
- “Saint behind the glass” By Rosalie Tirella pics: R.T. I’m eating lunch, and there he sits, between my make-up “counter” to the left and my cocktail shaker-mini bar to the right, behind the tip of Cece’s tail in the photo: Saint Behind the Glass. Jesus behind the glass. Or, more accurately, the ...
Fashion
- 🍎Donate/$ to the COATS FOR WORCESTER KIDS program!🍎🍎 HELP OUR WPS STUDENTS! By John Monfredo, Worcester School Committee Many organizations, year after year, have helped provide new winter coats and outerwear for low-income Worcester kids: Hanover Insurance Group, DCU for Kids, Mechanics Hall, Teamsters Local 170, Spring Street School in Shrewsbury and numerous departments within ...
Music
- Worcester’s changes, big and small Text and photos by Rosalie Tirella While eating breakfast today with CeCe … … I thought about the changes – big and small – happening in Worcester, my hometown. Big change: Quinsigamond Village is getting the Blackstone Visitors Center – a bigger-than-I-expected new building now under construction ...
Speaking Out!
- Make your Thanksgiving turkey-free❤! (Buy your tofurkey + other vegan holiday roasts +cake/muffin mixes at TRADER JOE’S – SHREWSBURY, rt 9, right over the bridge❤) From PETA.ORG: Celebrate ThanksVegan this Year! Turkeys are lovely birds! Spare them this holiday season! vintage postcard courtesy of Worcester Historical Museum PETA is launching a fresh take on the traditional Thanksgiving! What is ‘ThanksVegan’?!❤ ThanksVegan is a day when compassionate people feast on meat-free roasts, mashed potatoes made ...