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The Rite Aid on Winter Hill spent a few days converting over to Walgreens. We, like many in the neighborhood, enjoyed going to Rite Aid. The pharmacists are fantastic and they really do help people out. The only consolation is that the same pharmacy people will still be there to serve everyone, just under a different business name.

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If you would like to subscribe to receive a digital edition of our paper, go directly online to our website – www.thesomervilletimes.com – over to the right side and fill out your email address to receive a free, full PDF copy of the paper. By the way, if you scroll further down, a link to former editions of the paper are online as well, and all recent legal ads have been online for anyone who needs the legal ad they just ran.

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Happy birthday this week to several locals: Happy birthday to Amanda Fee, a good friend here in the city. We wish her the very best on her birthday. Happy birthday to Bruce Taylor, the former owner of ERA Key Realty Services, now ERA Hunt. We have known Bruce a long time. He’s a nice guy and we wish him well in his retirement. Happy birthday to Walter Wedlock, who is celebrating this week as well. A great guy himself. We hope he has a great day. Happy birthday to everyone here and from the city who is celebrating this week. We wish every one of them a very happy birthday.

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The Middlesex County Bar Association this Thursday evening will be bestowing an award to Bob McWatters, who is former alderman and lifelong resident of Somerville, not to mention his many years of service to the Cambridge Probation Department. The award is the prestigious Presidents Award, which is to honor his many years of outstanding service in the Judicial Department for his work and dedication. We wish him the very best and congratulations for this award. We know he deserves it.

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Good luck to someone from one of Somerville’s oldest families. Bill Chambers, who is running for VP of the Lawrence Rod and Gun Club in So. Lawrence. A dedicated and great member of the club, we wish him well in his re-election.

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Somerville Garden Club members love to travel. And when they travel, they like to visit parks, gardens, farms — anywhere where things are grown. November’s meeting, Gardens from Around the World, will feature more intriguing gardens as club members share their travels and research with slide presentations of gardens they have visited. Rosemary Broome-Bingham will share famous gardens she visited in Ireland this summer, and Mary Kocol will talk about world renowned gardens she visited in France. There will also be the usual plant roundtable and raffle. All meetings are free and open to the public. Meetings are held 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. at the Tufts Administration Building (TAB), 167 Holland Street, second floor, wheelchair accessible. Parking is available, and the building is a ten-minute walk from the Davis Square MBTA stop. For additional information please visit www.somervillegardenclub.org.

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The Little Sisters of the Poor on Highland Ave will be holding their Annual Christmas Bazaar on Saturday, November 10, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Great bargains, bake sale, raffles, fun and games. At the Jeanne Jugan Residence,186 Highland Ave.

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The Somerville City Club is looking to increase its membership, for the time being membership is open to any resident here in the city, a great organization that has been around a long time, with lots of activities that support local charitable groups here. Contact the club on Innerbelt Road across from Holiday Inn for more details.

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Sharing Our Stories – A Support Group for Families with Children who have Special Needs. Raising a child who does not always fit in can be challenging. This free open-ended group will offer adults the opportunity to share joys, concerns, frustrations, questions and resources about their experiences. Facilitated by Amy Bamforth, LICSW.Thursday, November 8, 7:00-8:30pm at the Cummings School, Room 11, 42 Prescott St.

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Have you thought you’d like to do some writing, a little story about Somerville as either a newbie or Villen? We have about 80K people and we would love to hear about your adventures here in the city. Maybe you want to write about a particular subject like our Bob Doherty and Dorothy DiMarzio, or like Jimmy Del Ponte with his stories about the city. Or maybe you’d like to express your opinion like Bill Shelton. Not just the politicians, but those from our community. Give us a call at 617-666-4010 or email news@thesomervilletimes.com and tell us about your idea. We would love to tell it to the rest of Somerville.

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Are you retired and looking for part time work, and you’re experienced in sales? Give us a call here at The Somerville Times at 617-666-4010. We are looking for advertising telemarketers.

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Miss watching the Board of Aldermen meetings on TV? You can view them in their entirety on Comcast channel 22, as well as on YouTube. Watch your city at work and see how these dedicated members of our community are serving you, the public. We can’t say this enough, watch the meetings on either cable broadcast live, or go online to YouTube to watch them. You will find some pretty hysterical information there about what’s happening in the city. This should be required viewing for everyone who cares about what is happening here. Even the committee meetings are online. After all, the Board of Aldermen is voting to spend your money. Wow, the raises some department heads are getting. Ask yourself, if you own property has your taxes gone down or stayed the same over the past 14 years? And do you remember what they kept telling us what the benefit of Assembly Square would be to our tax base? Watch and remember. Don’t let a small minority of a certain group run our city, be aware of what is going on, and VOTE.