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Page 4 Franklin Local Town Pages www.localtownpages.com September 2018 FDP Harvest Festival Registration Open Registration for booth space at the Franklin Downtown Partnership’s 16th annual Harvest Festival is now open! The largest annual community event in downtown Franklin, the Harvest Festival will be held Saturday, October 13 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is expected to attract more than 7,000 people! Plans for the festival are well underway and booth space is filling up fast. Visitors will enjoy local entertainers, delicious dishes from local restaurants, children’s ac-tivities, shop specials, artwork and crafts by area artisans, and helpful information from community groups and vendors. The event will take place on Main, West Central, Dean and Depot Streets in down-town Franklin. The Harvest Festival’s rain date is Sunday, October 14. Organizers expect booth space for this event to sell out. Franklin Downtown Part-nership members receive a booth for free; non-members pay $125. Downtown businesses must send in an application to ensure storefront space. Booths are as-signed on a first-come first-serve basis. Find the registration form on the Partnership’s website, www. franklindowntownpartnership. org. Send a completed form with payment to the Partnership office before September 20. A late fee will be added after Septem-ber 20, and no forms will be accepted after Sept. 30. Contact Scott Martin, chair of the Harvest Festival, at fdpharvestfest@ gmail.com with questions about the event. The FDP also welcomes businesses to help support the Harvest Festival. The follow-ing businesses have already confirmed their sponsorship of the event. Silver sponsors for the Harvest Festival are Dean Bank and Middlesex Savings Bank. Bronze sponsors are Arcadia Dental, Atria-Franklin, Chestnut Dental Associ-ates, DCU, Franklin Ford, and Glen Meadow Apartments. Friends sponsors are Beaux Regards Photographic Art, D.G. Ranieri Real Estate, Fenton Financial Group, Franklin Cultural District & Historical Museum, MyFM, Tom Fricker Heating & A/C Inc. and LeafFilter. The Children’s Area Sponsor is the Ber-non Family Branch YMCA. The Franklin Downtown Partnership is a nonprofit, 501©3 organization made up of 250 business owners, community leaders and residents working to stimulate economic development downtown and create a positive impact throughout the ar-ea. Go to www.franklindowntownpartnership.org/ for more information. DEMENTIA continued from page 1 mentia-friendly community. Franklin will create a steering committee of community organizers, local government and municipal representatives, first responders, and at least one member and caregiver living with dementia. The steering committee’ goals would be to train and educate the community, says Alves. Training could include interactive situations where someone would be able to experience aspects of what it’s like to live with dementia and how it affects such senses as perception and balance. “We would go about it pretty methodically. We’d work with the Alzheimer’s Association to train first responders, businesses and merchants, and when businesses go through that training, they’ll get a decal. We’ll work with schools and do training probably with the school committee.” Students, she says, may have parents or grandparents living with dementia. “I think it’s important, because so many people are affected,” says Alves. “I don’t think if you had a random sample of people that you would find someone who doesn’t know someone who lives with dementia. Baby boomers are getting older, and numbers of elderly people are significant. It’s just becoming that much of an issue that it affects everyone.” As part of the program, in July, the Franklin Senior Center launched its first Memory Café. “This is a regularly scheduled event where folks living with dementia and their care partners can come and enjoy social engagement and talk to each other about shared circumstance,” says Alves. The monthly social event is geared to making people feel safe and engaged, with an activity and refreshment. “It’s a place you can go with the person you love living with dementia,” says the senior center director. The trend, she says, began in Europe and came to the United States just five or six years ago. If you would like to sign up for the Memory Café, call (508) 520-4945. Run Your Inserts With Us! localtownpages Published Monthly Mailed FREE to the Community of Franklin Circulation: 12,527 households & businesses Publisher Chuck Tashjian Editor J.D. O’Gara Advertising Sales Manager Lori Koller Franklin - Millis - Medway (508) 934-9608 Production & Layout Michelle McSherry Susan Dunne Advertising Department 508-934-9608 lorikoller@localtownpages.com Ad Deadline is the 15th of each month. Localtownpages assumes no financial liability for errors or omissions in printed advertising and reserves the right to reject/edit advertising or editorial submissions. Send Editorial to: editor@franklintownnews.com © Copyright 2018 LocalTownPages FREE ESTIMATES Complete Bathroom Remodeling FRANKLIN BATH & TILING Gary - 508-528-7245 Jim - 508-294-1130 HISTORY MATTERS VISIT OUR MILITARY MUSEUM G.I. JOE’S ARMY & NAVY STORE 847 E. 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September 2018 Franklin Local Town Pages www.localtownpages.com Page 5 The Amazing Story of Franklin State Forest, Sept. 9th, 1:15 p.m. SECOND SUNDAY SPEAKER SERIES Continues at Franklin Historical Museum Most people, of a certain age, know the term CCC. A public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed and unmarried men. There were CCC camps and environmental projects in every state. The project was responsible for planting more than three billion trees and constructed trails and shelters in more than 800 parks nationwide during its nine years of existence. These programs and projects helped to shape the modern national and state park systems we enjoy today. Join us to learn about Franklin’s own CCC Camp and its place in this program’s history. Contrary to what a casual observer might assume, the Franklin State Forest is not the forest primeval - undisturbed by humans -- but a “modern” invention – spawned by a 1914 act of the Massachusetts legislature that authorized gradual creation of state forests around the commonwealth. It was finally made a reality during the Great Depression through “bargain” land purchases and with plantings and improvements by President Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps, which had a large encampment in town for a time. Further modest enlargements were made in the late 20th century. Join us Sunday afternoon, September 9th at 1:15 as local historian Alan Earls, tells the forest’s story through Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) records, maps, and film clips made in 1935 by Franklin’s pioneer documentarian, Stanley Chilson. The museum is located at 80 West Central Street, is wheelchair accessible and admission is always free. Join us, and learn your history! Homemade Ice Cream Organic Beer & Wine Wood oven THIn CrusT PIzza Organic Valley Meats & Cheeses, Organic Vegetables no artificial Colors or Flavors, Gluten-Free & allergy Friendly 508-520-7900 oPen year round 11:30 am - 9 pm • 7 days a week! spruce Pond Creamery Dine In or Take Out www.sprucepondcreamery.com 370 King St. (Exit 16) Franklin Dean Bank to Host “Dancing on Dean” Block Party Kevin R. Goffe, President and CEO of Dean Bank, has announced that Dean Bank will host a free, recurring community event on Friday, September 14th. Dancing on Dean, a free “block party-style” event complete with live music, beer and wine, local food vendors and fun; is something Goffe has dreamed of doing in downtown Franklin for years. Through the efforts and cooperation of town officials, the Franklin Downtown Partnership, the Franklin School for the Performing Arts, other local businesses and our employees…we’re excited to be able to announce that the next Dancing on Dean will take place on Friday September 14th from 5-8 p.m. Each Dancing on Dean will feature live bands throughout the evening and (of course) dancing is encouraged. Goffe hopes that local bands will become interested in playing in front of a hometown crowd, in a familyfriendly environment as the event gains momentum. The September Dancing on Dean will feature local band the South Street Six playing a variety of music from 5 – 8 p.m. Beer and wine will be available for purchase and local restaurants will be selling food throughout the evening. Dancing on Dean will be held at the corner of Dean Ave. and Main Street, directly adjacent to Dean Bank’s Main Office and will continue down Dean Ave, which will be closed to traffic. Attendees are invited to bring lawn chairs or blankets to sit and listen to the band that evening and, of course, dancing is encouraged. With the completion of the bank’s Main Office renovations, there will also be a ribbon-cutting and Open House prior to the start of Dancing on Dean. Goffe stated, “Downtown Franklin has been Dean Bank’s home for almost 130 years. It’s a vibrant and exciting community to be a part of. Dean Bank simply wants to create a recurring event that our families & friends, neighbors & co-workers can look forward to during the nice weather. We know that if our downtown thrives, the residents and businesses of Franklin benefit. Dean Bank wants to do its part to make that happen. We’ve scheduled a final event to occur in conjunction with the Harvest Festival on October 13th. If it’s well-received, we’ll increase the frequency in 2019.” Dean Bank, founded in 1889, is a Massachusetts state-chartered, mutually owned institution with assets of $300 million. 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