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439 Washington Street Dedham, MA 02026 Inside This Issue
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Friendship Starts With You
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Celebrate National Chefs Appreciation Week
Meanwhile, the Ex-Chairman of Google Is Discovering Ancient Sea Life
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Cultivating Creativity to Optimize Efficiency in 3 Steps
Weeknight Curried Apple Pork Chops
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Good News From Around Boston
Good News From Around Boston Curbside Trivia and Urban Gardening
Even when bad news seems to find us without having to do much looking for ourselves, we can still be thankful that good news is out there for those who know where to look. Amidst riots, violence, and the ever- present COVID-19 pandemic, we at Brooks & Crowley want to remind you to look for that good news by sharing a few good-news stories with you. And while these stories may be from a few months ago, we don’t believe good news has an expiration date. CURBSIDE TRIVIA Speaking of knowing where to look, apparently some good news can be found just by looking at a stranger’s apartment window. When Boston’s bars shut down all those months ago, our communities didn’t just lose a place where they could get a drink — they lost a place where they could gather with friends and compete against one another in a round of bar trivia. East Somerville roommates Lauren Carter and Nicole Purcell did what they could to replicate bar trivia in the COVID-19 era. Each week, they would write a trivia question on a chalk board and put it in their window, with a phone number to text an answer to, for passersby to see
on their daily strolls. While it might not be bar trivia, the same desire for competition and camaraderie definitely fueled what the roommates called “Curbside Trivia.” URBAN GARDENING Even before the pandemic, Yasser Aponte grew carrots, snap peas, raspberries, lettuce, and other kinds of produce on a 2-acre plot in the middle of Dorchester. His garden is owned and managed by The Food Project, a nonprofit organization that gets fresh produce to Bostonians everywhere. Since the coronavirus hit in earnest, Aponte’s work has grown more urgent than ever, as he works to make sure people in his neighborhood still get the foods they need to stay happy and healthy. It’s not the kind of work that will go away after the pandemic, but it’s the kind of work we desperately need right now — and we’re happy people in our community are stepping up to the challenge.
Be sure to read our next newsletter for more good news!
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