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The Friendly House annual Christmas party – always in style!

This year’s Annual Holiday Program for our neighborhood families celebrated, in addition to the Spirit of the Season, two other events: our 50th such Christmas Party and the first major event in our newly renovated gymnasium.

The program was attended by more than 1,100 people who enjoyed performances by the Friendly House Afterschool Program, Friendly House Teens, a clown act, the Imperial Lion Dance Team, Herbalife Dancers, Irish Step Dancers, Santa, WAIT, Ritmos Academy, In Da Zone (IDZ) and Novian.

– Gordon Hargrove, Executive Director
Friendly House

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Today! Join 15,000 people on the Worcester Common for the Latin American Fest! MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC! FREE!!!

But first, in the a.m., … head to the REC FARMERS MARKET at Crystal Park!

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Then from noon to 9 p.m.

on the Worcester Common, behind City Hall

(Main Street, DOWNTOWN WORCESTER)

Bands, singers, dancers, visual artists, kids activities …

food trucks, vendors, flags, fun …

It’s Centro’s LATIN AMERICAN FEST!

MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC!

Folks come from all over New England for Centro’s annual summer musical celebration/extravaganza! Why not join ’em, coyote? – Rose T.

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Always in style: THIS WEEKEND! Worcester World Cup! (Cultural exchange through soccer!!)

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This weekend!

AUGUST 12, 13 and 14

Foley Stadium
305 Chandler St.

We’re celebrating the 11th Worcester World Cup this year!

Let’s say that again, we’re celebrating the 11th anniversary of the best darn celebration of soccer this City has seen!

Kid Zone – Games, Moonbounce, Skill Building, Facepainting

Affordable authentic food from:

Somalia, Mexico, Iraq, Liberia, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Vietnam, China and Nigeria

BRING YOUR VUVUZELA ! ! !

Admission: FREE! – for kids! (under 18 yrs old)
Adults: $6 for Weekend Pass!

Friday, August 12:

5pm OPENING CEREMONY

5:30pm Honduras v Ecuador

6:45pm Jamaica v Somalia

8pm El Salvador v Albania

Saturday, August 13:

9:30am Iraq v Guatemala

10:45am Myanmar v Togo

12:00pm Youth Exhibition Game

1:15pm Nigeria v Brazil

2:30pm Liberia v Ghana

3:45pm USA v Kenya

5:00pm Men’s Quarterfinals

6:15pm Men’s Quarterfinals

Sunday, August 14:

9:00am Men’s Quarterfinals

10:15am Women’s Ecuador v Italy

11:15am Men’s Quarterfinals

12:30pm Women’s Ecuador v USA

1:30pm Men’s Semifinals

2:45pm Women’s Italy v USA

3:45pm Men’s Semifinals

5:00pm Women’s Final

6:15pm Men’s Final

7:30pm AWARDS CEREMONY

The Worcester World Cup was literally started 10 years ago in the dirt behind Elm Park Community School by Cultural Exchange Through Soccer(CETS).

It was started in response to the hostile climate against immigrants in our country and the way soccer was treated in our City.

The Worcester World Cup is our challenge to Worcester and our gift to Worcester’s many amazing immigrant communities!

CETS is a youth/adult volunteer community soccer effort. We play soccer. We get involved in community projects. We promote youth development and youth leadership. We are a mixture of nationalities, ages and backgrounds.

We ask our City leaders why they’re not fixing and building soccer fields.

We started as a 6-week youth soccer clinic in 2003 and have grown into so much more!

THANK YOU for being a part of this journey and for making the WWC an amazing festival every year.

Today, 6 p.m., at the Worcester Public Library, Salem Square…a celebration of the magnificent Maya Angelou…

…her poems, essays, memoirs, songs have changed so many lives. Comforted so many, given hope to so many, strengthened us all!

Head to the Worcester Public Library main library at 3 Salem Square tonight to celebrate a great American artist, the late Maya Angelou. Come and sing her songs, speak her poetry, watch video clips of her!

A GATHERING IN MY NAME – A CELEBRATION OF MAYA ANGELOU

6 p.m. tonight, Tuesday, July 22
Worcester Public Library
in the Saxe room
FREE

Celebration hosted by the fabulous Parlee, Keesha, Robert and friends! Love Parlee – Worcester’s Maya!

Be there!

– R.T.

This issue of Rolling Stone magazine is all about John Lennon …

Listened to the “final” John Lennon interview on WZLX a few nights ago (he was murdered by Chapman 30 years ago). The program was OK … . Better way to remember Lennon’s death/celebrate his life: listen to his music and pick up the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine. I have a copy of The Play Boy interviews and I have Jann Wenner’s Lennon interviews (when he had just quit the Beatles), AND I have tons of books, including the “Beatles Anthology,” the giant coffee table book that was actually kinda cool to read through again a few nights ago. 

Anyways, I miss the old Rolling Stone – when it was physically bigger and about great musicians and liberal politics – not about electronic gadgets and stupid video games. Still, I am going out to buy this RS issue as soon as I post this … If you don’t want to buy RS, check out their on-line edition. Also, dedicated to Lennon. www.rollingstone.com

– R. Tirella