Holliston June 2020

Page 8 Holliston Local Town Pages www.localtownpages.com June 2020
Holliston Newcomers & Neighbors Reflects Back and
Looks forward
As summer approaches, Holliston
Newcomers & Neighbors’
year of activities comes to a close.
Our year started off with a bang
last fall helping our community
through Thanksgiving Baskets
and Thanksgiving Senior Meals,
while the community also had
some fun with our Great Pumpkin
Trail Walk and Gingerbread
House Decorating Party. These
fundraisers, along with the fundraisers
earlier in 2019, all benefited
the 2020 HNN Community
Grant Fund. To start 2020, after
review of the many grant requests,
the HNN Community
Grant Fund was distributed to
the following deserving recipients:
• Holliston Public Library for
discounted Museum Passes
• Parks and Recreation for
their free Summer Concert
Series
• Holliston Fire Department
for an Ice Commander Rescue
Suit
• Holliston Police Department
for Flex-safe Barricades
• Holliston Community Farm
for Electrical Upgrade
• Marigold Project for additional
Bulbs for Fall Planting
Unfortunately, due to
COVID-19, two of our traditional
fundraisers - Princess &
Superhero Party scheduled for
April & Touch-A-Truck scheduled
for June, had to be cancelled.
This was not only sad that
our community missed out on
attending these fun events, but
this also meant that the HNN
Community Grant Fund would
be missing out as well. But with
a little planning and a lot of support
from our local businesses,
HNN introduced a new online
fundraiser - A Prize A Day for
the Month of May. We hope that
everyone had fun waiting to see
if they were a winner every day
in May. We had so much fun
running it - this may just become
an annual event! And of course,
the community can always help
HNN give back by contributing
directly to the HNN Community
Grant Fund here https://hollistonnewcomers.org/Donate.
The HNN membership social
calendar had some adjusting to
do as well. After a series of fun
get-togethers in the fall including
the Children's Trick-or-Treating
at Mission Springs, a Ladies
Escape November social, a December
Dinner Club of hors
d’oeurves as well as our monthly
INTEGRITY - QUALITY - CREATIVITY
Book Club - HNN went virtual.
We ‘Zoom’d’ to our monthly
board meetings, Book Club gettogethers,
Ladies Night In social,
and a Saturday morning children’s
playdate. Thank goodness
for technology!
Of course, we could not have
accomplished all this without the
support of our 2020 sponsors
• Gold Sponsors: Harelick Dental
Associates & Goldfish
Swim School in Milford
• Silver Sponsors: Tink’s Magical
Vacations with Donna
and Jensen Sheehan Insurance
• Bronze Sponsors: Blessed Beginnings
Preschool, Dr. Preussner
Aesthetic and Family
Dentistry, The Bloom Center
for Esthetic Dentistry, the
Prana Center, Archambault
Construction, & Farrell Pool
Service
We look back on this year of
ups and downs knowing that
with some adjustments and a bit
of creativity - HNN was still able
to accomplish our mission of
giving back and bringing people
together. If HNN sounds like
something you want to be a part
of - then become a member at
hollistonnewcomers.org/members.
We look forward to a new
year of fun starting again in the
fall. See you around town!
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Neighbors - Building Friendships,
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