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 The Latham School  2008

The Latham School is located in Brewster, Massachusetts.

This is one of our ongoing projects.

Planting, Landscaping and Enjoying Mother Earth !

More Hard Work  - Planting Shrubs.

They really know how to take a picture !

A Great Job by All !

The New England Shelter For Homeless Veterans 

The Thomas Sherwin Chapter paid, through fundraising, for a fish dinner for approximately 200 Veterans at the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans, 17 Court Street, Boston MA,  on Wednesday, April 16, 2008.  Not only did Chapter supply the meal but the volunteers, active and life members, served the meal. 

It was a great time had by all.

17 Court Street Boston, MA. 02108

Website: www.neshv.org/

Our lively crews heads over with food and goodies to help out !

We prepare and get ready to serve !

We talk about our assignments and We Are Ready To Go !

And a fine looking crew it is ! !

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They deserve our thanks for a job well done !

Mosquito Control

Joseph Plouffe, Life Scout of Troop 2000, accompanied by Dan Carnali. For his Eagle Project Joe hung up bat houses to increase the bat population and lower the mosquito population therefore lowering the risk of getting EEE. Through the help of telephone pioneer Dan Carnali the bat houses were placed on poles, twenty feet from the ground.
 

Dan Carnali and Joseph Plouffe

The Finished Product

The Latham School 

The Latham School is located in Brewster, Massachusetts.   Latham Center’s 192 dedicated employees are committed to the safety and welfare of 87 children with severe behavioral or emotional problems and children with Prader-Willi Syndrome that live at and attend the school.  The Latham Center outreach program consists of 8 off campus houses.  Between the school and outreach programs the Latham Center provides services to over 200 children, adolescents and adults.

The Latham Center relies on donations and volunteer help. 

 Through the TelecomPioneers Dictionary Project we have donated dictionaries to each of the students attending the Latham School.  Our rug map project gave us an opportunity to assist even more with the donation of a 9’x12’ rug map of the United States to aid the students with their learning endeavors.    

When we heard that the Latham schoolhouse had lost their library due to flooding, Roberta Poli of the Pilgrim Council took up a collection of books at the Braintree Office.  Verizon employees got together and donated boxes of books, new and gently used to help them start a new library and for use in their outreach program.

This past fall on Make a Difference Day, some of our members got together to help paint rooms in a newly acquired house to be used to house students attending the school. 

On May 12, 2006 fourteen members of the Thomas Sherwin Chapter 14, Pilgrim Council, and Cape Cod Life Member Club got together for a spring-clean up.   Three projects needed to be done.

Four areas needed to be seeded with grass and aerated, one of the houses needed scrapping and readied for painting, and a garden for flowers and vegetables prepared and planted.

Arriving at 9:00 a.m., little time was needed to organize our group of willing volunteers.   During the morning and into the afternoon the team worked to complete all four areas preparing, seeding and fertilizing a large area for the children to use as a playground plus three other areas on the grounds of Latham Center.

The house that needed scraping appeared to be a large undertaking for one day’s work.  Using TelecomPIoneers initiative, it was concluded that a pressure washer would do the job in record time, and it did.

The garden area turned out to quite an undertaking also.  Largely overgrown with weeds, our volunteers got to work and produced an area that now houses a combination of perennials, annuals, herbs and vegetables. 

What we accomplished in one day is solely due to the wonderful people who volunteered their time and dedication to the completion of this project, our TelecomPIoneers Volunteers.

Thank you So very much 

Dictionary Project Inc

“The limits of your language are the limits of your world” according to a quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein on the cover of the new “A Student’s Dictionary”. The dictionaries are part of the Verizon TelecomPioneers signature education project, to be provided to third-fifth graders in local schools.

Verizon Pioneer Chapters around the US had already connected with the Dictionary Project, Inc. and found it to be an exciting idea for a Verizon TelecomPioneer project. Local Pioneer Councils, Clubs and Chapters have given books to school libraries, after school programs, shelters, and entire classes of school children.

Once it was decided to make the Dictionary Project our signature mission, it was decided we would design our own cover. The dictionaries were personalized for the Pioneers, with both the Pioneer logo and the Verizon logo on the cover, with a tag line reading “Partnering to Build Stronger Communities”. The back of the book gives a brief description of who the Pioneers are and what we do. It also includes the website addresses of both the Pioneers and Verizon Foundation. We will be working closely with the Foundation on this project.

The dictionaries are 524 pages long, filled not only with definitions, but with all sorts of other useful information such as US Presidents biographies, weights and measures, the US flag, the Constitution and Amendments, Declaration of Independence, and many other subjects, including the longest word in the world, which consists of 1909 letters and describes the formula for a certain protein.

The Verizon TelecomPioneers placed an initial order of 80,000 dictionaries. 

Pictured below are some of the happy children of this project.

430 Children received dictionaries at the Mattahunt School in Mattapan, MA.

 Children show the dictionaries they received at the The Plouph School in Brockton, MA.

The Rochester Memorial Elementary School in Rochester, MA. show their dictionaries.

More happy children get dictionaries at the Gidley Elementary School in Dartmouth,MA.

In the Sherwin Chapter Area  we have given

 out over 15,000 Dictionaries to 

3rd and 4th grades  in many various cities and towns

 in the northeast, southeast, cape and the islands.

Computers for Schools

Pictured are John Walsh and Joe Verza

"The Telecom Pioneer Recycling Project has collaborated with the North Shore Computer Society, an active group of 400 members. They have monthly meetings and are very well attended. Our goal is to have monthly clinics, educate the public, and bring guest speakers to the mainstream for interesting sessions.  In June, we coordinated efforts to move 10 tons of Computer equipment in less than five hours,  

26 volunteers, and 8 pizzas."

Pioneers volunteer to coordinate the acquisition, refurbishment and distribution of computers donated from the private sector.  In many instances Pioneers go beyond the basic donation of hardware to provide schools with upgraded wiring, network installation, Internet connections and computer training.

Sherwin volunteers recently refurbishing 38 computers for Immaculate Conception School in Newbury, Ma.  Repair and delivery was coordinated by Thomas Rowen.   

(email  thomasr192@aol.com)

Donations are now being accepted of Pentium 1 and higher  processors. 

To contact the computer refurbishing group

Call the Pioneer office at  617 743-3324

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