Boomers and Beyond: Brookline Senior Center announcements
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Food commodity: Due to COVID-19, the senior center conducts its modified Food Commodity program outside the senior center. Participants pick up their food at specified appointment times wearing masks and maintaining strict social distancing. Any low-income senior older than 60 wishing to participate in the program to receive 35 pounds of shelf stable food on the third Wednesday of each month should contact Patricia at 617-730-2743 or pburns@brooklinema.gov.
New no-contact activities with Brookline High School SHOP students: COVID-19 has put many Brookline Senior Center programs on hold in the way that they have been implemented for so many years. This includes the SHOP program. However, the students are still eager to help seniors with no contact activities. No contact is essential as seniors are in the very high risk category and young people who often do not exhibit symptoms may be positive and could ina
January 12, 2021
Organic, trimmed green beans are a highlighted item being shipped this winter by Frank’s Distributing of Produce, LLC.
Speaking Jan. 6 by phone from Frank’s San Diego office, Jorge Vega, said the beans’ harvest started in late December on the firm’s Culiacan farm and would remain on the market until the first week of April. This is Frank’s second season producing the organic green beans.
This and the other organic products are shipped with the brand Signature Brand Organics by Frank’s.
Vega, who is the firm’s director of operations, is also particularly excited about Frank’s organic blueberry program. Produced in hothouses in Guasave, Sinaloa, that harvest season runs from mid- to late-February until about May 15. As is traditional with the blueberry industry, these are packed in various sizes of clamshell packages.