Compost your pumpkins
Give your Halloween pumpkins a new life and compost them curbside on your neighborhood trash day! You can learn more here! You can check out the pick-up schedule here!
Eastie Gals Friendsgiving and Warm Clothing Donation Drive
The Eastie Gals Gals are hosting a Friendsgiving Event Donation Drive for East Boston Community Soup Kitchen on Tuesday, November 14th at 6:30pm. You can RSVP here. Kindly bring a potluck item! Also, all attendees are also expected to bring a Winter Warmth Donation item.
Harboring Creativity
The East Boston Artists Group presents Harboring Creativity: Launching East Boston Artists at the ICA Watershed. Featuring the work of 40 local emerging and established artists who live, work, or create in East Boston, this presentation is a wonderful reflection of the creativity and innovation of East Boston and the surrounding neighborhoods. Harboring Creativity will be on view at the ICA Watershed on November 18 + 19 from 11 am – 4 pm. The ICA Watershed is located in the Boston Shipyard and Marina, 256 Marginal Street in East Boston. Entry is free and the artists will be selling their works (cash; credit; Venmo/Zelle).
MFCF Thanksgiving Day Dinner
The Madaro Family Community Fund’s (MFCF) annual holiday programs, the Thanksgiving Day Dinner and Eastie’s Elves, will once again be celebrated in-person this year. Each holiday season, MFCF has supplied hundreds of meals and donated thousands of toys through the Thanksgiving Day Dinner and Eastie’s Elves events. The Madaro Family Community Fund hopes to spread holiday cheer and give back to those in the community who need it most. The Thanksgiving Day Dinner will supply nearly a thousand sit-down, carry-out, and delivery meals to local families at the Salesian Boys & Girls Club. Additional program details can be found on the Madaro Family Community Fund’s website at www.madarocharity.org.
Save the Date
On Tuesday, November 2st from 6pm-8pm, EBO Grocery is hosting a Beaujolais Tasting with Violette just in time for Thanksgiving! Oysters will be shucked in addition to pomegranates, flowers, pumpkin purée and cranberries in stock for Thanksgiving!
Maureen Dahill is the editor of Caught in Southie and a lifelong resident of South Boston sometimes mistaken for a yuppie. Co-host of Caught Up, storyteller, lover of red wine and binge watching TV series. Mrs. Peter G. Follow her @MaureenCaught.
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