The Swifts Beach Improvement Association received $600 for the Saturday, May 27 grand opening of its new playground. New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance founder Krill Carson warned everyone to watch out for terrapins crossing the road. The South Coast Terrapin Project’s volunteer work includes approaching fishers on the Narrows, to collect any terrapins the fishers find, and planting gardens to serve as terrapin nests. The New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance received $500 for equipment to help protect the vulnerable diamondback terrapin. “Every time we do this, I get more and more admiration for what went through,” Smith said. “We don’t know what we have because of what these gentlemen went through.” Militia member Howard Smith said that more and more history is getting lost in Wareham, and that it’s the Minutemen’s job to keep it alive. The Wareham Minutemen and Militia received $1,500 for Wearing Wareham, the colonial fashion show held in April.
Onset Bay Association member Milly Burrows announced that this year’s theme will be “Weird, Wacky and Wonderful” chalk art.
The Onset Bay Association received $1,500 for its Summer of Love concert series, and $1,084 for its “Chalk Full-O-Fun” chalk art festival, scheduled for Saturday, August 19.
“Music is a common denominator no matter what your abilities are or what your age is,” Council on Aging Director Sharon Rice said. The Council on Aging received $1,600 for its “Music for the Ages” concert series. “We don’t care if it’s winter,” joked Buzzards Bay Coalition Vice President of Outdoor Exploration Stuart Downie. “Just wear the right clothes.” The Onset Bay Center, part of the Buzzards Bay Coalition, received $1,800 for its programs, such as the Polar Plunge in January and the Beach Madness sand sculpture competition in March. If we can fund them all, maybe we would, but we have a finite amount of money.” “A lot of people apply, and most of them are very good,” said Cultural Council member Jackson Gillman. “The ones that we can see are tried and true, and have something to offer the community, we try to fund. Wilson, and recipients of $18,000 in grants from the Cultural Council, announced what they were going to do with the money at the Onset Bay Center on Wednesday, May 3. “I am so grateful that we get to go to children and teach them things!” “Sally” said in an aggressively cute baby voice. Puppeteer Mary Wilson received a $500 grant from the Wareham Cultural Council for her upcoming Puppets Paul & Mary musical variety show at the Wareham Free Library - and nobody was happier about it than Sally, one of Wilson’s puppets.
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