WIS

Friends of Hemlock Gorge Next meeting: This coming Tuesday, November 13, 2012 (delayed due to the elections) 7:30 p.m. Emerson Community Center. Critical agenda item: Using our dues money to landscape around the Stone Building. The windows are in (see website for pictures) and the spillway dam is very nearly complete (see website for pictures) · Erica has written: “If the Friends want to use dues money to improve the area around the barn there are a couple of options.

The Waban Improvement Society strives each year to maintain a warm and family-friendly atmosphere in our village. In addition, we work to keep our green spaces clean and attractive and to help beautify Waban. This year, we are inviting Waban neighbors and businesses to help us in a new endeavor “Waban Lights”. We have contracted with a professional outdoor lighting company to properly light our fabulous evergreen tree in the middle of Waban Square. Waban is our village and pride has never run deeper, especially after such run-away successes like Waban Village Day.

Community discussion on the formation of the Waban Area Council

Here is our sister organization, the Waban Area Council. While the WIS will continue to focus on community building as it has since 1889, the Area Council will focus on community concerns such as sound barriers, land use, parking meters, etc.,

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Waban-Neighborhood-Area-Council/329966997078584

Guess where in Waban this video was taken? Does it bring back memories?

Lots of fun for kids ages 4-84
Games, prizes and snacks provided by Whole Foods Market. As usual, we will be serving free coffee from our good neighbor, Starbucks.
Suggested $5 donation for the whole family to help benefit the library's continuing mission.

Tree Lighting and Sing-a-long. Join us in Waban Square under Waban's Evergreen tree and celebrate the season with our traditional event of Lighting up Waban and singing some songs with our neighbors. The Newton Family Singers will be leading us in song. Festive refreshments and other fun surprises!

The Waban Improvement Society’s Eighth Annual Progressive Dinner is just around the corner---March 12, 2011. Your attendance in past years has helped make this evening one of our neighborhood’s most popular and cherished new traditions. Every year, we are all treated to an evening of new and renewed friendships, the warm hospitality of neighbors, delicious cuisine and delightful conversation. We come together as neighbors in one another’s homes and are once again reminded of how exceptional Waban truly is.