The Little Sisters of the Poor are holding their very last Bazaar on on Saturday, November 9 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., 186 Highland Ave. The Little Sisters of the Poor have provided a home for the elderly poor of Boston for 150 years. Although they are saddened to be leaving the Somerville area, they are currently seeking a values-driven sponsor to continue providing senior care at The Jeanne Jugan Residence. They hope that you will join in for their very last Bazaar. This has become a long-standing tradition in Somerville. It is a great way to get an early start on Christmas shopping, win big raffle prizes, and enjoy food and games while supporting a great cause. Don’t pass up the chance to win an Apple Watch, a Roomba i7 Robot vacuum, drones, cash prizes, and much more! They look forward to welcoming you to their home to celebrate the memories and community that they have shared here in Somerville.

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Victor’s Deli in Ball Sq. closed this week after serving great food to many of us in and around the city. We want to thank Rosa, Victor, Nancy and Jason from Victor’s for their hard work and we wish them the very best in the next chapter of their lives. Everyone will miss surely Victor’s Deli.

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Congratulations to all those who ran in this year’s citywide election. Whether winning or losing, just participating means everything to all the residents of Somerville. It takes courage, conviction and stamina to mount and follow through with a political campaign, and everyone who did so is deserving of our respect and gratitude.

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Please join the Somerville Department of Public Space and Urban Forestry, Ward 4 City Councilor Jesse Clingan, and the Somerville Public Schools on Thursday evening, November 7, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. for a community update on the layout and features for the new Healey Schoolyard. The meeting will be held in the Healey School cafeteria, 5 Meacham St. To see the plans and sign up for future project updates at www.somervillema.gov/healeyschoolyard. For more information, contact Arn Franzen at AFranzen@somervillema.gov.

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Join the City’s Public Space and Urban Forestry Division to discuss site remediation at Conway Park and its future design at a community meeting on Wednesday, November 20. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Public Safety Building, 220 Washington Street. City staff will be joined by consultants from Weston Sampson Associates, who have been developing the site remediation plan in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the Federal Environmental Protection Agency. For more information on Conway Park remediation and to sign up for project alerts, please visit www.somervillema.gov/conwayfield.

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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 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 Somerville Arts Council (www.somervilleartscouncil.org) invites you to take one last adventure with Puppet Palooza 2019: Tales from Around the World! Stories have always been a connective thread that brings cultures together. For this series, featured performers bring those stories to life. Audiences are whisked away on journeys to far-away lands featuring global tales from Africa, Persia, Indonesia, and more. Puppet Palooza 2019 is a series for free puppet performances in East Somerville, showcasing local, national, and international performing companies. Great for kids and adults and 100% free. The following events will take place at Connexion (149 Broadway in East Somerville). Thursday, November 7, 6:30 p.m. – The Brothers Čampur presents An Evening of Indonesian Shadow Puppet Theater, Wednesday, November 13, 6:30 p.m. – Maggie Whalen of Magpie Puppets presents Leopard Learns a Lesson and Wednesday, November 20, 6:30 p.m. – Tanglewood Marionettes presents An Arabian Adventure.

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The Somerville Community Growing Center invites you to a benefit fundraiser at Flatbread Pizza in Davis Square (45 Day Street in Somerville). A portion of all pizza sales on Tuesday, November 19 between 5:00 and 9:00 p.m. will be donated to the Somerville Community Growing Center. Eat in or take it to go! Learn more about this and other upcoming Community Growing Center events at www.thegrowingcenter.org.

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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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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.  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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The Somerville Garden Club’s June meeting on Wednesday, November 13 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. will feature Dorothy Gilman, longtime Somerville Garden Club member and a former club president, giving a talk about houseplants. Dorothy maintains almost two hundred plants at home and in her greenhouse. She will discuss her favorites and how to propagate new plants through division, and cuttings. Expect an informative and entertaining evening. There will also be the usual plant roundtable and raffle. All Somerville Garden Club meetings are free and open to the public. Meetings are held at the Tufts Administration Building, (TAB), 167 Holland Street, second floor, wheelchair accessible. For additional info please visit www.somervillegardenclub.org.