The MASS Blog
January 2020
Thanks to everyone who came out to our SnowBall event on December 18th. It was great to celebrate with everyone and raise some funds to help members attend the upcoming Self Advocates Becoming Empowered Moving Mountains Conference! Stay tuned for more ways you can support leaders to attend this amazing conference. Thanks also to everyone who donated warm gloves and hats for the Merrimack Valley Hope Mission. We wish to salute the following businesses and individuals for donating food or gifts to our event: Edible Arrangements in Haverhill; Cedars Foods; Panera Bread Company; Emily’s Bakery; Gametime; DeLeo’s Brick Oven Pizza; The Wicked Big Café; The Tap Restaurant; Paula Mione; and Wanda Burns.
Our next meeting is our Annual Meeting at 261 N. Main Street, Middleton at 6PM on January 15th. We are holding elections for Treasurer and Secretary of our Region. These positions are two-year commitments and they require you to attend the monthly regional meeting and one officers’ meeting a month. For more information, please contact Bridget at 781-789-4274. Happy 2020 to everyone!
January 2020
The Central self-advocates had a fun and snowy December!
We celebrated the season at our regional meeting and get together in Worcester. We have some big plans for the new year but we took time out to watch a slide show of our year together, swap some cookies, play music, and enjoy being together!
The HMEA program that the self-advocates in Hopedale attended has moved to Franklin!
We continue to attend REDD and transportation group meetings in the region even as we dodged a LOT of snow in December! Deb Pierce is our transportation “rep”.
Jillian continues to surprise us …she recently made a video! And one of the members of the group talked about possibly moving someday! Justin generously continued his giving to help needy children at Christmas. His story was told in the Worcester Telegram newspaper!
The group is still talking about the MASS Conference, giving feedback and overall sharing what a good time they had!
Some of us are planning to attend the ADDP luncheon at the State House in January. We also talked about inviting a legislator to one of our regional meetings.
We were glad the weather cooperated with our December plans, and we are looking forward to the our next meeting in 2020. Happy New Year everyone!
