Final COVID-19 Relief Fund Grant will support summer jobs for teens
Stephanie Hawkinson
Council on Aging greeters, Recreation Department camp counselors, mobile movie staff, and more these are just of few of the teen job opportunities this summer that are now possible thanks to a final grant from the Community Fund for Wellesley’s COVID-19 Relief Fund. As COVID-19 cases in our community continue to decline and the pandemic recedes, the fund wrapped up its grant making program with one final donation this week that will meet immediate needs for youth employment in our community. The money will support the Wellesley Green Shirts 2021 summer jobs program administered by the Wellesley Youth Commission.
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Wellesley Civil Discourse Initiative to hold community dialogue
Stephanie Hawkinson
Wellesley residents are invited to join in A Community Conversation on Coping with COVID-19 in Wellesley from 7 to 9 p.m. April 6.
This Zoom discussion will be hosted by trained facilitators who are part of the newly launched Wellesley Civil Discourse Initiative.
The goal of the event and the initiative is to help build understanding and connections among people throughout our community. The Zoom discussion will begin with a brief introduction to facilitated dialogue, followed by small group discussions led by a trained facilitator.
The event is open to the public and will not be recorded or broadcast. Register at https://bit.ly/3rSFsun to receive the Zoom link which will be sent out on April 5.
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They could have been separated by race. Instead, they were united by mutual respect.
Lillian Stokes is gone now. Henry Petrilli, almost 95, eventually moved from Illinois to Wellesley and then to North Hill in Needham.
Time and distance didn t change Petrilli s admiration for the woman he thought of as the sister I never had. The two met on the job, while working for the Illinois Department of Welfare. It was wartime, and Lillian took over her husband s job while he was in the service.
Lillian was Black. Petrilli, 19 at the time, is white, and Lillian was the first black person he really got to know. As the two co-workers became friends over the the next three years, Petrilli gained insight into what it meant to be part of a society where skin color defined one s place.