It's time to make your reservation for Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 19 at The Wellesley College Club. This year's speaker is Eric Hilt, Economics Department, Wellesley College.

5:00-6:30 Reception
6:30-8:30 Dinner & Speaker

Sponsorship Opportunities

GOLD -- $1,000

• Table discount (see below)
• Event Signage
• Marketing table space
• Publicity in The Wellesley Townsman and e- newsletters
• Acknowledgement on chamber website and event program

• Event Signage
• Publicity in The Wellesley Townsman and e- newsletters
• Acknowledgement on chamber website and event program

• Publicity in The Wellesley Townsman and e- newsletters
• Acknowledgement on chamber website and event program

Plan to attend this interesting session on Friday, May 21, Noon - 1:30pm. Dr. Paul Powers, Management Psychologist, will speak on the topic of "How to Get Employees to Love Their Jobs in Any Economy."

Dr. Powers is the author of the book Winning Job Interviews and the co-author of Love Your Job! Loving the Job You Have, Finding a Job You Love. His work has been noted in The Wall St. Journal, National Business Employment Weekly, and hundreds of newspapers, radio stations and other media outlets nationwide. As a popular speaker and seminar leader he travels extensively sharing his wisdom, his humor and his belief that each of us has a gift to be discovered, developed and shared.

This event is hosted by Wellesley Free Library, 530 Washington Street (Rt. 16), Wellesley.

Special Thanks to Lunch Sponsor
~The Upper Crust Pizzeria ~

Please register by May 17. Call / email Cathy McGrath 781-235-2446 / cmcgrath@wellesleychamber.org

Voted "Best of Boston" by Boston Magazine, Personal Trainer Andrew Provost will enable you to focus on your fitness plan. Focused on Fitness is a private 24- hour club.

In addition to the membership component, Focused on Fitness also offers: numerous fitness classes for adults, children, and persons with special needs such as muscle conditioning, boxing boot camp, sports training, spinning; a Weight Loss Clinic and Senior Center; massage; yoga; and much more. Focused on Fitness is in its 25th year and is conveniently located in Natick.

Award-winning design/build firm Divine Kitchens has now opened their Wellesley showroom at 180 Linden Street in Linden Square. The showroom is open to the public and design trade Monday-Friday 10-5 and Saturday 10-3.

On June 10th, Divine is partnering with Boston Design Guide for a Design Industry Preview Event, which is open to all architects, interior designers and builders. The event will preview the 2010 Boston Design Guide before it hits newsstands and Leicht, Germany's top cabinet manufacturer, which is being directly imported by Divine as the exclusive Massachusetts dealer. Leicht was recently featured at Eurocucina 2010 in Milan, the top kitchen exhibition in the world. For an invitation to the June 10th event, please call 781-235-5650 or email mariette@divinekitchens.com.

For the month of May.

If you are an experienced, successful Salesperson and are searching for a fun local (Newton, Waltham, Concord, Lexington and surrounding towns ) opportunity read on. WellesleyWeston Magazine seeks an energetic and driven Advertising Sales Professional.

You should enjoy handling multiple accounts and developing new business. If you have a passion for customer service and sales, plus the ability to create and deliver a compelling presentation I'd love to hear from you.

For more details, please call or email Beth Furman at: 781 235 6980 or Beth@WellesleyWestonMagazine.Com

One of the major horticultural events of the year will be in MetroWest Boston's back yard on Saturday, May 22 as the Massachusetts Horticultural Society hosts the Society Row Plant Sale at Elm Bank.

The 'Society' in question isn't high society but rather, as many as two dozen plant societies - groups of individuals with a keen appreciation for one particular family of plants, be it daylilies, rhododendron, or hosta. Once a year, these societies sell plants they've cultivated in their own gardens. The result is the opportunity to find the rare, the unusual and the well- pampered plant.

The sale takes place at Elm Bank, the home of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Elm Bank is in Dover; the entrance is on Route 16 at the Natick/Wellesley line. Visitors will be able to choose from thousands of perennials, plants and shrubs from area plant societies and selected specialty growers. It's the rare opportunity to talk directly to the person who grew the plant you're thinking of purchasing.

In addition to opportunities to shop for quality plants, there will tours of Mass Hort's gardens led by Master Gardeners, a plant demonstration stage and the Master Gardener Help Desk. The latter is an opportunity to "Ask an Expert" as you add to your collection of rare and unusual plants. There will also be a Silent Auction.

Elm Bank is approaching its peak in mid-May, with its Italianate Garden, Bressingham Stroll Garden, and Weezie's Children's Garden all in bloom. The Alan Payton Rhododendron Garden is currently drawing hundreds of visitors a day to see the azaleas and rhodies in full display.

The sale opens at 10 a.m. and runs until 4 p.m. There is no admission charge but Mass Hort asks for a donation for parking.

There is going to be a very wonderful Livingston Taylor concert on Saturday, May 8 at 7:00pm to benefit The Rachel Molly Markoff Foundation for pediatric cancer research. The concert will be held in the Sorenson Center for the Arts at Babson College. There will also be a silent auction and dessert buffet. Gary and Eliane Markoff are long time Wellesley residents and created the organization in memory of their daughter Rachel who died of brain cancer at age 9, 17 years ago.

Tickets can also be purchased on line by clicking on the link below.

Jazz Up Mom's Day at the WSO. Complimentary tickets are available at the chamber office for this concert on Sunday, May 9, 3:00pm. The program includes works by Bizet, Debussy, Dvorak, and teenage jazz saxophone sensation Grace Kelly.

Performances are held at MassBay Community College, 50 Oakland Street, Wellesley, MA. If you are interested in obtaining ticket(s) to this event, please call/email Cathy at 781-235-2446 / cmcgrath@wellesleychamber.org.

If you want a "Shop Wellesley First" decal like the one pictured below the Calendar of Events (on the left), contact Cathy. Actual size is 5" by 5".

The Wellesley Police Department has partnered with Nixle www.nixle.com to bring community notifications to a new level. The system, which is free, allows citizens to sign up for notifications from the Wellesley Police Department. Users then decide what type and how many notifications they will receive. Users can also specify whether they receive the alerts via their text capable cell phone, email, website, or all three.

This is a great way to stay informed about what is going on in the Wellesley community, whether you are at home or away. The Wellesley Police Department is very committed to this service and strive to make accurate, fast notifications to citizens.

Here is a breakdown of what the Wellesley Police will be sending via this service:

ALERT ADVISORY: This is the highest level of community notification and will be reserved for very important events. Such notifications will include significant crimes of violence, bank robberies, bomb incidents, mass evacuations, missing children and major fires.

ADVISORIES: This is the second level of community notification. Items that will be sent include serious accidents, property crimes (break ins), vehicle and suspect descriptions, and other minor events that the Wellesley Police is involved in.

TRAFFIC: This is the lowest level of community notification and will include planned street closures, traffic updates around town, expected delays due to construction, and other traffic related matters.

COMMUNITY: This notification is reserved for Wellesley Police non-breaking news, non-emergency type notifications that may be of interest to the Wellesley community.

For more information about NIXLE and detailed instructions on how to sign up, click on the WPD link below. Then go to the PUBLIC INFORMATION webpage.

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