Marilyn Raymond shops at the Regional Environmental Council’s Mobile Farmers Market in the UUCW parking lot on Thursday, June 25, 2020, the opening day of the season. The market will be here weekly through October. (photo by Betty Jenewin)
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Linda Morse, right, listens as Anna Marinescu, REC Regional Manager, instructs shoppers before the Mobile Farmers Market opens on Thursday, June 25, 2020. Linda, along with Dianne Mann, are the liaisons with the REC for this program. Linda arrived on scene at 6 AM to put the sign and cones out. In addition to her volunteer work at UUCW, she also volunteers at the Senior Center and for the Worcester Public Schools. (photo by Betty Jenewin)
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This February 1973 Evening Gazette newspaper clipping from the UUCW scrapbooks shows church member Carole Howe, in conjunction with her advocacy work on the legalization of nurse midwifery in Massachusetts. Nurse midwifery was legalized in Massachusetts in 1977. Carole became a state registered midwife in England in 1969-1970. In England she had to be a State Registered Nurse first, and then, after the midwifery course, she sat for the exams earning the right to be a State Certified Midwife. She then received her Masters from UConn Storrs in Primary Health Care in 1981 and her doctorate from UW Milwaukee in 2002. Carole started coming to UUCW with her five siblings and parents when the current building on Shore Drive first opened. Carole currently volunteers on the Green Thumb Committee (with a native plant focus) and the Side with Love Committee.
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In this May 24, 2009 photo from the church archives, UUCW President Denise Darrigrand explains the church’s Food Pantry to the children in the Religious Education program. (photo by Betty Jenewin)Continue reading →
Coming Of Age youth, clockwise from left, Lilly (standing in for brother Chris), Davin, Elisabeth, Ellie, Justin, Nate and Timothy pose on May 31, 2020 with scrapbooks they have been working on all year. They came to church that afternoon to pick up their tiles; they will decorate them to depict their coming of age. The tiles will be hung in the church hallway, as has been the custom for the last 20 years. Jenny Delgizzi places Coming of Age participant Elisabeth’s scrapbook within a hula hoop on the front lawn of the church on May 31, 2020. The hoops will be used for spacing for a socially-distanced group photo.Director of Religious Exploration and Education, Robin Mitzcavitch, directs proceedings for Coming Of Age participants on May 31, 2020.Among the participants at the Solidarity Protest for George Floyd/Amplify Black Voices rally at City Hall on June 1, 2020 were, from left, a member of the First Parish UU Church of Northboro, Conrad Homan, Sheri Linn and Sean Reynolds.Continue reading →
