[LincolnTalk] Power at 1:59 am

[Sarah Cannon Holden]

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Re: [LincolnTalk] Last Night's Community Center Forum

[john gregg via Lincoln]

 If you build it they will come. 

You have services but no facility which makes it harder on the Parks and Rec 
staff or LEAP to provide quality services to everyone. You build a school with 
up to date facilities to help encourage people to move to Lincoln with 
children, you provide elderly services to keep families in the town, or even as 
families grow older the parents need more assistance and move back with the 
kids to help provide the necessary help instead of living alone. It gives 
flexibility and leverage to attract people to the town and then keep those 
people there instead of chasing people away because the overall view of Lincoln 
is they are concerned with themselves, not others, not a very diverse community 
of people live in the town. 
Lincoln is a beautiful town, lots of history. close to Boston but from the 
outside people do not want to move to Lincoln unless you fit the criteria. 
School population is going down for several reasons, we moved to Lincoln for 
the school and LSHS. My belief is that Lincoln needs to take a look in the 
mirror and ask if they just want to be a town where the priority is to continue 
to make Lincoln less welcoming to others or make it more welcoming. There is no 
need to run more studies, or take more census, the need is to understand and 
provide the necessary services for children, parents, and the elderly of the 
Town a Community Center makes Lincoln on par with other surrounding towns to be 
more attractive to move into. 
If this was a discussion to put in EV Charging stations at the Commuter Rail 
Parking lot for $10 Million dollars the project would already be under way, why 
is it that hard to commit to provide positive services to the community in 
general and society as a whole? A Community Center to house programs for the 
elderly, LEAP facility for after school programs that help working parents, a 
central housing area for Parks and Rec Staff to provide other quality services 
makes a community more centralized and welcoming. This entire discussion is 
eerily similar to the School discussion, at that did not end well.
“ The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but 
expecting different results” – Albert Einstein 

Thanks,John01776

On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 07:08:44 PM EDT, Peter Buchthal 
 wrote:  
 
 Lynne, Karla and David make excellent points.  One of the challenges the town 
faces with the community center is the lack of trust in the building committee 
to size a COA/ParksRec building to meet our needs and not our wishes.  I 
believe the major hill the community is trying to climb is how many seniors 
actually use the facilities today.Parks and Recreation has provided actual 
attendance figures for all of the activities.  COA has provided only maximum 
and minimum numbers without means or averages.   The maximum and minimums for a 
particular activity can vary greatly with the maximum being sometimes triple 
the minimum headcount.  For residents who are not awash in money, in may be 
hard to justify building a larger council on aging  for the occasional 
activities that may need more space once every three months.   Wayland, a town 
with twice the senior population compared to Lincoln  just built a new Senior 
Center for 11 Million dollars.  Their building that meets the needs of a town 
with twice the senior population is 12,900 square feet.  Our small, medium and 
large Community Center proposals are 16K, 18K or 20+k.
I believe the Building Committee should ask Fincom or the Select board to fund 
a consultant to provide average and mean numbers from the COA computer system 
so that the community can see the actual consistent usage of today's COA.  As 
someone who is familiar with computers, I believe the town could easily also 
find several residents (representing different groups within the town) who 
might volunteer their time to provide the needed computer expertise to extract 
the needed average and mean numbers from COAs computer system and generate more 
meaningful usage statistics for the community.
Let's not overbuild a public building again.  
Peter BuchthalWeston Rd.

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[LincolnTalk] Opened Dry Cat Food Royal Canin Urinary SO & Cat Treats

[Kim Jalet]

Dear LT,

Our kitty recently passed, and we had recently bought a bag of his Royal
Canin Urinary SO food.  Since it's opened, we can't donate it to a shelter,
but this stuff is pricey, so if you have a cat on this diet and would like
the food please let me know.  We are happy for the rest of it to get
eaten.  We also have some opened cat treats (Temptations Seafood Medley).

Let me know if you're interested, and when you would be available for
pickup in North Lincoln.

Best, Kim
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Re: [LincolnTalk] Last Night's Community Center Forum

[Laura Crosby]

Thanks John , a lot to think about  here. And yes, a good, well researched plan 
is being picked apart to such a degree that it may never happen. All of Lincoln 
could benefit greatly from a Community Center.  And it will never cost less 
than it will if we move forward now. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 14, 2023, at 7:53 AM, john gregg via Lincoln  
> wrote:
> 
> 
> If you build it they will come. 
> 
> 
> You have services but no facility which makes it harder on the Parks and Rec 
> staff or LEAP to provide quality services to everyone. You build a school 
> with up to date facilities to help encourage people to move to Lincoln with 
> children, you provide elderly services to keep families in the town, or even 
> as families grow older the parents need more assistance and move back with 
> the kids to help provide the necessary help instead of living alone. It gives 
> flexibility and leverage to attract people to the town and then keep those 
> people there instead of chasing people away because the overall view of 
> Lincoln is they are concerned with themselves, not others, not a very diverse 
> community of people live in the town. 
> 
> Lincoln is a beautiful town, lots of history. close to Boston but from the 
> outside people do not want to move to Lincoln unless you fit the criteria. 
> School population is going down for several reasons, we moved to Lincoln for 
> the school and LSHS. My belief is that Lincoln needs to take a look in the 
> mirror and ask if they just want to be a town where the priority is to 
> continue to make Lincoln less welcoming to others or make it more welcoming. 
> There is no need to run more studies, or take more census, the need is to 
> understand and provide the necessary services for children, parents, and the 
> elderly of the Town a Community Center makes Lincoln on par with other 
> surrounding towns to be more attractive to move into. 
> 
> If this was a discussion to put in EV Charging stations at the Commuter Rail 
> Parking lot for $10 Million dollars the project would already be under way, 
> why is it that hard to commit to provide positive services to the community 
> in general and society as a whole? A Community Center to house programs for 
> the elderly, LEAP facility for after school programs that help working 
> parents, a central housing area for Parks and Rec Staff to provide other 
> quality services makes a community more centralized and welcoming. This 
> entire discussion is eerily similar to the School discussion, at that did not 
> end well.
> 
> “ The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but 
> expecting different results” – Albert Einstein 
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 01776
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 07:08:44 PM EDT, Peter Buchthal 
>  wrote:
> 
> 
> Lynne, Karla and David make excellent points.  One of the challenges the town 
> faces with the community center is the lack of trust in the building 
> committee to size 
> a COA/ParksRec building to meet our needs and not our wishes.  I believe the 
> major hill the community is trying to climb is how many seniors actually use 
> the facilities today.
> Parks and Recreation has provided actual attendance figures for all of the 
> activities.  COA has provided only maximum and minimum numbers without means 
> or averages.   The maximum and minimums for a particular activity can vary 
> greatly with the maximum being sometimes triple the minimum headcount.  For 
> residents who are not awash in money, in may be hard to justify building a 
> larger council on aging  for the occasional activities that may need more 
> space once every three months.   Wayland, a town with twice the senior 
> population compared to Lincoln  just built a new Senior Center for 11 Million 
> dollars.  Their building that meets the needs of a town with twice the senior 
> population is 12,900 square feet.  Our small, medium and large Community 
> Center proposals are 16K, 18K or 20+k.
> 
> I believe the Building Committee should ask Fincom or the Select board to 
> fund a consultant to provide average and mean numbers from the COA computer 
> system so that the community can see the actual consistent usage of today's 
> COA.  As someone who is familiar with computers, I believe the town could 
> easily also find several residents (representing different groups within the 
> town) who might volunteer their time to provide the needed computer expertise 
> to extract the needed average and mean numbers from COAs computer system and 
> generate more meaningful usage statistics for the community.
> 
> Let's not overbuild a public building again.  
> 
> Peter Buchthal
> Weston Rd.
> 
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[LincolnTalk] Select Board Newsletter

[Elder, Peggy]

We've been advised that there was a small error with the printing of the latest 
Select Board newsletter and we thank you in advance for your patience!

The online version of the newsletter (in color and with live links!) can be 
found here:

https://www.lincolntown.org/DocumentCenter/View/79299/2023-09-01-Select-Board-Newsletter



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Re: [LincolnTalk] Last Night's Community Center Forum

[sally kindleberger]

Thank you John Gregg for your thoughtful ideas about the Community Center.
We desperately need a Community Center that meets the needs of the *whole
community.*  This Build is a long time coming!  If the town votes on a 50%
or even 75% reduction in size from the original proposed 100%
it will be a huge mistake.  Programs won't be possible in the smaller
spaces.  Why build something that does not meet the needs of the town?  And
prices will only increase over time.  If we continue to quibble and bring
up the same arguments and the same suggestions over and over, again we will
never have a Community Center.  Prices will never come down.  We need to
bite the bullet and build a useful space that works for the community.
Visit community centers in other towns like Arlington,Bedford, Belmont, and
Wellesley,(And yes I know these are towns with bigger populations and more
money.)   But we can build something that meets our needs if we just do
it.  There are folks in this town with big houses and expensive cars. Let's
all dig deep and fund the build.

On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 9:44 AM Laura Crosby 
wrote:

> Thanks John , a lot to think about  here. And yes, a good, well researched
> plan is being picked apart to such a degree that it may never happen. All
> of Lincoln could benefit greatly from a Community Center.  And it will
> never cost less than it will if we move forward now.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 14, 2023, at 7:53 AM, john gregg via Lincoln <
> lincoln@lincolntalk.org> wrote:
>
> 
> If you build it they will come.
>
>
> You have services but no facility which makes it harder on the Parks and
> Rec staff or LEAP to provide quality services to everyone. You build a
> school with up to date facilities to help encourage people to move to
> Lincoln with children, you provide elderly services to keep families in the
> town, or even as families grow older the parents need more assistance and
> move back with the kids to help provide the necessary help instead of
> living alone. It gives flexibility and leverage to attract people to the
> town and then keep those people there instead of chasing people away
> because the overall view of Lincoln is they are concerned with themselves,
> not others, not a very diverse community of people live in the town.
>
> Lincoln is a beautiful town, lots of history. close to Boston but from the
> outside people do not want to move to Lincoln unless you fit the criteria.
> School population is going down for several reasons, we moved to Lincoln
> for the school and LSHS. My belief is that Lincoln needs to take a look in
> the mirror and ask if they just want to be a town where the priority is to
> continue to make Lincoln less welcoming to others or make it more
> welcoming. There is no need to run more studies, or take more census, the
> need is to understand and provide the necessary services for children,
> parents, and the elderly of the Town a Community Center makes Lincoln on
> par with other surrounding towns to be more attractive to move into.
>
> If this was a discussion to put in EV Charging stations at the Commuter
> Rail Parking lot for $10 Million dollars the project would already be under
> way, why is it that hard to commit to provide positive services to the
> community in general and society as a whole? A Community Center to house
> programs for the elderly, LEAP facility for after school programs that help
> working parents, a central housing area for Parks and Rec Staff to provide
> other quality services makes a community more centralized and welcoming.
> This entire discussion is eerily similar to the School discussion, at that
> did not end well.
>
> “ The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again,
> but expecting different results” – Albert Einstein
>
> Thanks,
> John
> 01776
>
>
> On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 07:08:44 PM EDT, Peter Buchthal <
> pbucht...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Lynne, Karla and David make excellent points.  One of the challenges the
> town faces with the community center is the lack of trust in the building
> committee to size
> a COA/ParksRec building to meet our needs and not our wishes.  I believe
> the major hill the community is trying to climb is how many seniors
> actually use the facilities today.
> Parks and Recreation has provided actual attendance figures for all of the
> activities.  COA has provided only maximum and minimum numbers without
> means or averages.   The maximum and minimums for a particular activity can
> vary greatly with the maximum being sometimes triple the minimum
> headcount.  For residents who are not awash in money, in may be hard to
> justify building a larger council on aging  for the occasional activities
> that may need more space once every three months.   Wayland, a town with
> twice the senior population compared to Lincoln  just built a new Senior
> Center for 11 Million dollars.  Their building that meets the needs of a
> town with twice the senior populati

[LincolnTalk] FS: treadmill

[Cynthia Faulkner]

Vision Fitness heavy duty T9250 treadmill for sale --
$200 or BO ..
pick up (ground level)

Great for the upcoming winter weather!

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Re: [LincolnTalk] For sale: Graco turbo booster seat. Excellent condition. $20

[Ellen Davis]

Booster seat is sold.

On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 8:08 AM Ellen Davis  wrote:

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Re: [LincolnTalk] What is it?

[Sara Lupkas]

It's a swallowtail caterpillar! 

Sara Lupkas 

> On Sep 14, 2023, at 2:34 PM, Donald Milan  wrote:
> 
> 
> I just discovered this on my parsley plant. 
> It’s had a very good meal.
> Any idea what it is?
> 
> 
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[LincolnTalk] wood chips

[Colleen Katsuki]

Does anybody know where I can get a small load of wood chips?



Colleen Katsuki

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Re: [LincolnTalk] What is it?

[Margo Fisher-Martin]

Plant some Queen Anne’s Lace. They will eat that instead next year!
Best,
Cookie Martin

On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 3:05 PM Sara Lupkas  wrote:

> It's a swallowtail caterpillar!
>
> Sara Lupkas
>
> > On Sep 14, 2023, at 2:34 PM, Donald Milan 
> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > I just discovered this on my parsley plant.
> > It’s had a very good meal.
> > Any idea what it is?
> >
> >
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[LincolnTalk] Fwd: POP UP TOMORROW FRIDAY September 15...... 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

[Lindentreefarm Csa]

> Subject: POP UP TOMORROW FRIDAY September 15..  3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
> 
> 
> 
> Tomatoes
> a cooking green
> eggplant
> leeks
> shishitos
> 
> PYO cherry toms
> PYO ground cherries small amount
> PYO tomatillo also not large amount
> 
> I think that will be it. Not sure
> somewhere from $28 to $38 
> 
> paste tomatoes available too.  
> 
> RSVP ASAP thank you!
> Moira
> Sorry for the short notice.
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[LincolnTalk] Town of Lincoln Public Flu Clinic

[Dan Pereira]

*Town of Lincoln FLU VACCINE CLINIC for Residents and School Families*
*Ages 9 and up!*
*Saturday October 21, 2023*
11:00-1:00 pm
Lincoln School - Reed Gym
6 Ballfield Road Lincoln, MA

Register here:
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All participants must download an Acton Pharmacy Vaccine Administration
Record
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Re: [LincolnTalk] Last Night's Community Center Forum

[Wendy & Lem Kusik]

thank you for such a thoughtful and positive peice. Your quote from Einstein was right on the mark. Our town needs a community center.Sent from my iPhoneOn Sep 14, 2023, at 12:12 PM, sally kindleberger  wrote:Thank you John Gregg for your thoughtful ideas about the Community Center.  We desperately need a Community Center that meets the needs of the whole community.  This Build is a long time coming!  If the town votes on a 50% or even 75% reduction in size from the original proposed 100%it will be a huge mistake.  Programs won't be possible in the smaller spaces.  Why build something that does not meet the needs of the town?  And prices will only increase over time.  If we continue to quibble and bring up the same arguments and the same suggestions over and over, again we will never have a Community Center.  Prices will never come down.  We need to bite the bullet and build a useful space that works for the community.Visit community centers in other towns like Arlington,Bedford, Belmont, and Wellesley,(And yes I know these are towns with bigger populations and more money.)   But we can build something that meets our needs if we just do it.  There are folks in this town with big houses and expensive cars. Let's all dig deep and fund the build.On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 9:44 AM Laura Crosby  wrote:Thanks John , a lot to think about  here. And yes, a good, well researched plan is being picked apart to such a degree that it may never happen. All of Lincoln could benefit greatly from a Community Center.  And it will never cost less than it will if we move forward now. Sent from my iPhoneOn Sep 14, 2023, at 7:53 AM, john gregg via Lincoln  wrote:
If you build it they will come. You have services but no facility which makes it harder on the Parks and Rec staff or LEAP to provide quality services to everyone. You build a school with up to date facilities to help encourage people to move to Lincoln with children, you provide elderly services to keep families in the town, or even as families grow older the parents need more assistance and move back with the kids to help provide the necessary help instead of living alone. It gives flexibility and leverage to attract people to the town and then keep those people there instead of chasing people away because the overall view of Lincoln is they are concerned with themselves, not others, not a very diverse community of people live in the town. Lincoln is a beautiful town, lots of history. close to Boston but from the outside people do not want to move to Lincoln unless you fit the criteria. School population is going down for several reasons, we moved to Lincoln for the school and LSHS. My belief is that Lincoln needs to take a look in the mirror and ask if they just want to be a town where the priority is to continue to make Lincoln less welcoming to others or make it more welcoming. There is no need to run more studies, or take more census, the need is to understand and provide the necessary services for children, parents, and the elderly of the Town a Community Center makes Lincoln on par with other surrounding towns to be more attractive to move into. If this was a discussion to put in EV Charging stations at the Commuter Rail Parking lot for $10 Million dollars the project would already be under way, why is it that hard to commit to provide positive services to the community in general and society as a whole? A Community Center to house programs for the elderly, LEAP facility for after school programs that help working parents, a central housing area for Parks and Rec Staff to provide other quality services makes a community more centralized and welcoming. This entire discussion is eerily similar to the School discussion, at that did not end well.“ The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results” – Albert Einstein Thanks,John01776





On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 07:08:44 PM EDT, Peter Buchthal  wrote:



Lynne, Karla and David make excellent points.  One of the challenges the town faces with the community center is the lack of trust in the building committee to size a COA/ParksRec building to meet our needs and not our wishes.  I believe the major hill the community is trying to climb is how many seniors actually use the facilities today.Parks and Recreation has provided actual attendance figures for all of the activities.  COA has provided only maximum and minimum numbers without means or averages.   The maximum and minimums for a particular activity can vary greatly with the maximum being sometimes triple the minimum headcount.  For residents who are not awash in money, in may be hard to justify building a larger council on aging  for the occasional activities that may need more sp

Re: [LincolnTalk] What is it?

[Brian Jalet]

I’d guess a black swallowtail caterpillar. They make a very interesting 
butterfly:



> On Sep 14, 2023, at 2:33 PM, Donald Milan  wrote:
> 
> I just discovered this on my parsley plant. 
> It’s had a very good meal.
> Any idea what it is?
> 
> 
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Re: [LincolnTalk] Last Night's Community Center Forum

[Peter Buchthal]

My late father lived till he was 97 and was a big user of his local Council
on Aging.  They were fantastic and helped us out is innumerable ways as my
late mother suffered from dementia.  My father enjoyed his weekly senior
lunch followed by a competitive game of scrabble with a local policeman.

I support all Council on Aging programs, period.

What I think the Community Center's committee hasn't yet made the case for
is the following:

1) Without real average and mean numbers to COA's programs,  I can not get
behind the size of program rooms requested to provide all ongoing programs.
The COA has only provided min and max numbers with huge variations that
make over building very likely.  Lincoln has a tendency to over build, that
is why our school is much, much larger than we really needed by any
standard.

2) The town has yet to disclose other competing capital expenditures in the
pipeline for the town's tax resources.  I have heard rumors that we soon
will need to replace the drinking water pipes along many parts of the
town.  I have heard other rumors on lincoln talk, that our repaving and
roadside path/bicycle safety  wishes may also require additional town
borrowings.

3) The arguments for the Hartwell Community Center being made to the town
is a bit of a False Choice.  We need to separate building or renovating a
Senior Center of the correct size with "If you don't support this project,
the town will never get a community center/ senior center that meets its
needs."

I want to build a new or renovated facility that is the correct size for
our Senior Community. I have continuing doubts that it should be on the
Hartwell campus.  My late father was a terrible driver and I can't imagine
purposefully placing our young children near senior drivers navigating
parking lots.  I keep reading in the newspapers that seniors drivers often
have unintended accidents  driving into buildings that involve putting
their foot down on the gas pedal instead of the brake.   Why are we
unnecessarily setting ourselves up for a potential tragedy.

Let's stop this rush to build and build a newly renovated Council on Aging
somewhere else in town like the Pierce House.



Peter Buchthal
71 Weston



On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 12:12 PM sally kindleberger 
wrote:

> Thank you John Gregg for your thoughtful ideas about the Community
> Center.  We desperately need a Community Center that meets the needs of the 
> *whole
> community.*  This Build is a long time coming!  If the town votes on a
> 50% or even 75% reduction in size from the original proposed 100%
> it will be a huge mistake.  Programs won't be possible in the smaller
> spaces.  Why build something that does not meet the needs of the town?  And
> prices will only increase over time.  If we continue to quibble and bring
> up the same arguments and the same suggestions over and over, again we will
> never have a Community Center.  Prices will never come down.  We need to
> bite the bullet and build a useful space that works for the community.
> Visit community centers in other towns like Arlington,Bedford, Belmont,
> and Wellesley,(And yes I know these are towns with bigger populations and
> more money.)   But we can build something that meets our needs if we just
> do it.  There are folks in this town with big houses and expensive cars.
> Let's all dig deep and fund the build.
>
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 9:44 AM Laura Crosby 
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks John , a lot to think about  here. And yes, a good, well
>> researched plan is being picked apart to such a degree that it may never
>> happen. All of Lincoln could benefit greatly from a Community Center.  And
>> it will never cost less than it will if we move forward now.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Sep 14, 2023, at 7:53 AM, john gregg via Lincoln <
>> lincoln@lincolntalk.org> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> If you build it they will come.
>>
>>
>> You have services but no facility which makes it harder on the Parks and
>> Rec staff or LEAP to provide quality services to everyone. You build a
>> school with up to date facilities to help encourage people to move to
>> Lincoln with children, you provide elderly services to keep families in the
>> town, or even as families grow older the parents need more assistance and
>> move back with the kids to help provide the necessary help instead of
>> living alone. It gives flexibility and leverage to attract people to the
>> town and then keep those people there instead of chasing people away
>> because the overall view of Lincoln is they are concerned with themselves,
>> not others, not a very diverse community of people live in the town.
>>
>> Lincoln is a beautiful town, lots of history. close to Boston but from
>> the outside people do not want to move to Lincoln unless you fit the
>> criteria. School population is going down for several reasons, we moved to
>> Lincoln for the school and LSHS. My belief is that Lincoln needs to take a
>> look in the mirror and ask if they just want to be a to

[LincolnTalk] Bedford Arts and Crafts Society Hosting Several Events on Bedford Day

[Sara Mattes]

Take a look at what is happening in a sister town


https://thebedfordcitizen.org/2023/09/bedford-arts-and-crafts-society-hosting-several-events-on-bedford-day/


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