🌱 Booster Clinic + Stay-At-Home Mom Bashed + Worst Schools

Happy Thanksgiving Woonsocket! Let's get you all caught up to start this weekend off on an informed note. Kathleen here with everything you need to know around town.

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First, your weekend weather:

• Thursday: Milder. High: 55 Low: 37. It's going to feel positively balmy!
• Friday: A little rain; breezy, cooler. High: 45 Low: 26.

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Here are the top stories today in Woonsocket:

1. The City of Woonsocket will be offering a Moderna COVID-19 booster clinic at Monsignor Gadoury School 1371 Park Avenue in Woonsocket. Register at www.vaccinateri.org Enter "Woonsocket" in the "Search by Name Location" box and register for the time that is convenient for you. If you need help scheduling an appointment, call 1-844-930-1779. Residents may also contact Kerri Topalian directly at Woonsocket City Hall at 767-9257. (Press Release Desk)
2. Erica Sanzi, the director of outreach at Parents Defending Education and a former educator and school committee member, wrote a recent op-ed piece blasting NEA Director Bob Walsh for comments he made about stay-at-home moms and their public school advocacy. (Facebook)
3. Woonsocket School Department plans to roll out 'high dosage' tutoring to target the pandemic loss. The plans come after test results released last month showed Woonsocket students performed the worst in the state on the 2021 Rhode Island Comprehensive Assessment System (RICAS). In addition to tutoring, they plan to hire additional academic support staff and social workers across the district. (Valley Breeze)
4. In her first official meeting as acting executive director of the Woonsocket Housing Authority (WHA), Vasiliki Milios, warned that years of deferred maintenance at WHA properties could lead to a spending spree over the next six to 12 months. WHA has the cash. (Woonsocket Housing Authority)

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This weekend in Woonsocket:

Thursday, November 25: Happy Thanksgiving!

• Don't forget the football tradition so come out to Cumberland's Tucker Field and support our Woonsocket Novans at 10 am!

Friday, November 26

• The Stadium Theatre presents Ornament, southern New England's premier rock orchestra that performs a tribute to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra Friday night at 8 pm. The amazing musical production is bursting sound and a dazzling light show including strobes, lasers, and fog. Using traditional holiday carols and songs set to rock, blues, and gospel music, Ornament's show tells the tale of a real Christmas story and wishes being answered. Get your tickets! (Stadium Theatre)

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Woonsocket Patch Notebook

• Woonsocket High School Music Department: All are invited to join the WHS Band and the Cheerleaders today at Tucker Field in Cumberland to cheer on the Novan Football team as they take on the Cumberland Clippers for our annual tradition! (Facebook)
• St. Agatha Senior Senior Group in Woonsocket announces the next meeting will be on Dec. 1 and this will be the last time members can purchase a ticket for the Christmas Dinner scheduled for Dec. 8. (Facebook)
• If you have any Woonsocket photos or artifacts you would like to share, please visit the Woonsocket Historical Society on Wednesdays 9 - 1 or Saturdays 12 - 3. Consider joining the society by either phone, 356-0067 or Instant Message. (Facebook)
• RI Hospitality Association says the best way to support your favorite restaurant or hospitality business this #SmallBusinessSaturdayis to purchase a gift card as a holiday gift! (Facebook)

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You may have noticed that I didn't mention Black Friday shopping. Don't worry, I'll be all over Small Business Saturday!

I hope you enjoyed this Thanksgiving edition of the Daily. Please know that, like most of you, I will be taking the day off to enjoy the festivities, so there will not be a newsletter in your inbox tomorrow. We hope you all understand the slight pause in the Woonsocket Daily. But don't worry -- we will be back to our normal routine Saturday morning!"

Neighbors, please don't think we're crazy but my husband deep-fries our Thanksgiving turkey and he lowers it into the pot with his hockey stick!

Any ideas or feedback, email me at KathC21Homes@gmail.com

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