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OPPORTUNITIES TO CREATE THE WORLD WE WANT

We hope you and your aptly led came out better and stronger. family are safe and We can’t naively expect that a better world healthy especially filled with more goodness is a guaranteed in this time of high outcome. No, we must be the stewards of anxiety when there is the change. Our actions are the insurance increasing turmoil in our streets. These are policy ensuring success. undoubtedly the most broadly challenging The situation we find ourselves in today months most of us have lived through. presents us with a chance to make a lasting It’s obvious that the impression on our society- this is our time, world today feels we have opportunities right now to make very different than it changes in ways that would otherwise be did in early March, impossible if not for the tumult we are before stay-at home experiencing. There’s a yearning in our issues were ordered. world that is palpable. Disparate groups Each of us is affected in our own towns and cities and around by the events of the the world are stirring- looking toward a past 12 weeks. We’ve better future. And it should be us, now lost family members who commit to that better future. It can and jobs, we’ve be the legacy of our generation- that in

STEVEN SCHIMMEL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR missed milestone events and so much more. That was the year 2020 through the hardship and divisiveness, we choose to play the leading role in bettering the world and bettering before millions of our ourselves. Let’s do all we can so that we fellow Americans began protesting as the may look back at this time satisfied with nation reached a breaking point over the ourselves. Let’s work until we are tired, important issues of equality and justice. until we have met our issues head-on. Most But as hard as the times are upheavals are importantly let each of us be leaders in our unique opportunities to address important own lives- the world is in desperate need of changes needed in society. Throughout leadership and goodness, let us change the history, across the globe, civilizations world to be a better place than we found it progressed though the chaos and turmoil starting today, starting now. they encountered- and when united and

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PJ LIBRARY AND PJ OUR WAY Daily activities online for quarantined families https://pjlibrary.org/familyactivities PJ weekly Summer You Tube Storytime and Craft with Rowan and Congregation Beth Israel. New episodes posted weekly on https://www.facebook.com/pg/ PJLibraryCentralMA/ or on PJLibrary CentralMass https://www.facebook.com/ profile.php?id=100010025564840

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COMMUNITY Weekly class for women beginning June 15th (all ages) Summer Night Cool Down with CarynNeed to take the edge off? Craving a little “me” time to relax? Join us for a Monday night “Yoga-esque” 30-minute zoom class for women with group fitness trainer and community member, Caryn Beth Gold. WHEN: Starting weekly Monday, June 15th, 8:00-8:30 pm WHERE: Zoom indoors or outdoors, wherever you want RSVP: Mindy Hall, JFCM Director of Outreach, mhall@jfcm.org (RSVP’s required via email so that we don’t get Zoom-bombed. You can RSVP for the summer all at once or per class) COST: 30 minutes of your time to stay healthy in body and mind

OUR YAD COUNCIL STILL STICKING TOGETHER THROUGH COVID.

DISCUSSION: “How Covid-19 has Impacted Special Education” Wednesday, June 24th, 8:00 pm via Zoom

For more information or to RSVP on any of the above, please contact Mindy Hall, JFCM Director of Outreach, at mhall@jfcm.org or call 508-756-1543.