East Boston Senior Lunch Program
If you are 60+ years of age, the East Boston Social Centers at 68 Central Square in East Boston has a table and a meal waiting for you!
The Senior Lunch Program sponsored by ETHOS Congregate Meal Program provides a hot, nutritious lunch, along with wonderful socialization, Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. A suggested donation of $2 is asked.
We welcome seniors from our East Boston Community and surrounding areas.
East Boston Branch Library events
365 Bremen Street
East Boston, MA 02128
617-569-0271
ESOL Intermediate English Class
Wednesdays and Fridays from 11:30 to 1 p.m.
Starting on February 6.
This is an adult ESL Intermediate English class for people with some English experience. You will review grammar basics, learn how to offer and request advice, talk about future hopes and plans, and fix common mistakes in English pronunciation!
Registration is required. To register and for more information, please visit us, call 617.859.2446, or email [email protected].
Classes are free.
Caravan Puppets
Friday, February 22, at 3 p.m.
Caravan Puppets has delighted countless children and families throughout the USA, Canada and Japan. “The Four Season Bear” is a delightful tale of the year of a young bear with memorable songs, beautiful puppets, storytelling and audience participation. Funding for this program was made possible by the Highland Street Foundation.
OHNC meeting set for Feb. 18
The next meeting of the Orient Heights Neighborhood Council (OHNC) will be Monday, Feb. 18, at 6:30 p.m. at the YMCA gym on 58 Ashley St. For your information and so that you can post/share it, I’ve included the agenda below.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thanks,
Sarah Plowman
OHNC Secretary
Monday, Feb. 18, 2019 Meeting Agenda
Location: YMCA 58 Ashley Street
Meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. – Agenda is subject to change.
Introductions – Welcome and report from the board (President, VP, Secretary)
OHNC email list sign-up.
Public Safety – Station 7 Community Update Sgt. — Jim Martin & Officer Dan Simon
Development Presentations – New and voting matters
INFO: 18 Crestway Rd., Demolish existing single family and erect 3-story 9-unit building with 12 off-street parking spaces.
INFO: 5 Waldemar Ave, Raze building and erect new 6-story 34-unit building with 12 parking spaces.
INFO: 119 Barnes Ave., Erect 6-unit residential building with 6 parking spaces
Next meeting: Monday, March 18, 2019
East Boston Social Center Pizza and Comedy Fundraiser
East Boston Social Centers to Hold Annual Pizza and Comedy Fundraiser April 11.
The East Boston Social Center will hold its Annual Spring Fundraiser, a Pizza and Comedy night at Prince Restaurant in Saugus, on the evening of Thursday April 11, 2019 – doors open at 6:30 p.m. We look forward to seeing you and sharing a great night of laughs, pizza and friendship.
The East Boston Social Center is a 501(C) 3 non-profit multi-service agency that has served the children, families, and senior citizens of East Boston since its founding over 100 years ago, in 1918.
Net proceeds from this event will support the Social Centers’ programs, which serve over a thousand members of the East Boston and Greater Boston community each year. The Social Centers provide fully licensed and accredited Early Learning and After School programs for children ages two months through fourteen years, free after-school programming for at-risk teens, a Summer Program, as well as nutritional and social and recreational programming for seniors, and community space for advocacy, self-help and community groups.
Ticket price of $35 per person includes unlimited cheese pizza and soft drinks and a hilarious comedy show with some of the area’s best comedians. Other menu items and a cash bar are also available for purchase.
There is also a Raffle for an assortment of gift certificates, sports tickets, baskets and much more. Chances are $20 for a book of 10 (Need not be present to win).
Thank you for your continued generosity to the East Boston Social Centers and support of the community of East Boston. We look forward to seeing you on April 11th!
To purchase tickets for the event or for raffle chances, please call Marisa at (617) 569-3221 ext. 107, email at [email protected] – or contact any of our Board members.
You may also purchase tickets online at: https://www.ebsoc.org/new-events/
East Boston Social Center’s Senior Program now offering Spanish Language Classes
The Senior Program at the East Boston Social Centers is now offering Spanish Language Classes for adults over 60 years old. Classes are held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Room 209. All are welcome to attend. Class is taught by Mr. Montaro. No need to register, just come by on Wednesday at 10 a.m. for this fun class. The East Boston Social Centers is located at 68 Central Square.
Learn Italian Free
The class will be held at Robert DeLeo Senior Center, 35 Harvard Street Winthrop for residents age 55 and above.
Whether you have Italian ancestry, or just want to learn one of the world’s most beautiful languages, join us at informal and friendly Italian language and culture classes. Wednesday afternoons from 1:15 to 2:45 p.m.
For info call 617-846-8538.
East Boston Tech Meetup
The purpose of the East Boston Tech Meetup is to build a community of people currently working in tech or those aspiring to move into a tech career who live or work in East Boston. These meetings will be held in the heart of Maverick Landing conveniently located steps from the Maverick T station, in the Maverick Landing Meeting House at 31 Liverpool Street.