These are recent pictures of Beals Park.  Click on the pictures to see a bigger version.

This coming Saturday, come gather at Beals Park  from 10 – 12 to help us clean it up!  It’s suppose to be a nice day with some clouds.  If you have garden gloves, try to bring them along.  Even if you just want to pop over to mingle, come on by!  The more the merrier!

Also, a NWCA sponsor, South Shore Family Chiropractic on Sea St. is having a Johnson Early Education Center fundraiser on Saturday from 9-11.  It is a complimentary Family Health & Wellness Fun Fair.  There will be complimentary breakfast treats and fun for the kids – including, face painting, balloons, games, raffle prizes and more!  All money donated goes to the Johnson Early Education Center located on Pearl St. in North Weymouth.  They will offering a complimentary new patient spinal check – and for every new person that comes in for the complimentary visit on Saturday (or makes an appointment for another day), South Shore Family Chiropractic will donate $10 to the JECC!

So stop by South Shore Family Chiropractic and walk on over to Beals Park for some clean up fun this Saturday!  If you have any questions regarding the Beals Park clean up, please call Becky at 781-812-1294.

The following link has our 2010 Bridge-to-Bridge Clean Up Flyer!  View, print and share!

2010 Bridge-to-Bridge Clean Up Flyer

Last fall, a dedicated member of the NWCA  personally hand delivered a letter to many businesses in North Weymouth.  The letter, simply put, stated that Bridge Street has become overgrown with weeds, vandalism and rot.  We were simply asking business owners to do their best to make their property look aesthetically pleasing.

In order to support our vision of a better looking neighborhood, the association has decided to embark on a monthly clean-up of North Weymouth starting in April.  We are calling this our “2010 Bridge-to-Bridge Clean Up”.  Clean ups will take place the second Saturday of every month at 10 am.  We are hoping to just do trash pick-up, simple landscaping (if needed), and possible light painting.  Depending on how many volunteers come out, these events would only be about 1 -2 hours long.  Garbage bags will be provided.  Here is the tentative schedule:

April 10th – Beals Park (corner of Athens St. & Bridge St.)

May 8th – Great Hill Park (top of Bradley Rd.)

June 12th – Great Esker Park (Bridge St. Entrance, behind Margarita’s)

July 10th – George Lane Beach (End of Neck St.)

August 14th – Wessagusset Beach (Wessagusset Rd.)

September 11th – Smith Beach (Fore River Rd. & Birchbrow Rd.)

October 9th – Webb State Park (End of River St.)

These events are not just limited to association members – all interested people are invited to attend.  Kids are more than welcome to come out to lend a hand.

If you are associated with any local Boy Scout, Girl Scout or other volunteer group, we’d be happy to have your group join us – possibly to help out in earning badges.

In case of rain, we will postpone the events to Sunday at 1 pm.  We will update this webpage and our Facebook Fan Page with this information.

Lastly, if you have any supplies you’d like to donate (i.e. paint brushes, rollers, paint, garbage bags, etc.) please contact Becky at 617-610-2971.

We’re looking forward to getting out in the community this Spring & Summer to do our part to help North Weymouth!  We hope that you can join us!  Even if you can attend just one of our clean-ups, it will make a huge difference.

Last night, members of the NWCA attended the meeting being held by MASS DOT and the Accelerated Bridge Program at the Hingham Town Hall.  Also note that there were over 60 Weymouth residents in attendance. 

There was a very informative handout there that explains our options and the process in which the new bridge construction will take place.  The current proposal has construction beginning Spring 2011 and ending in 2015.  We’d like to urge you to view and print this document by clicking HERE.  You can see the proposed pictures (Proposed Vertical Lift vs. Proposed Bascule) on that document as well.

Some things to highlight:

–  They really pushed a new vertical lift bridge (similar to what the current temporary bridge is).  The speeds of raising and lower it will be dramatically different.  It currently takes 7 minutes to raise the bridge.  The new bridge will take 2.5 minutes.  It currently takes 6 minutes to lower the bridge.  The new bridge will take 2.5 minutes. 

–  The height of the concrete towers of the new bridge will be approximately 85 feet higher than what the current steel ones are (you can see this in the picture on the PDF file mentioned above).

–  Construction will last approximately 4 years from start to finish.

–  This project is estimated to cost $255 million. 

–  Follow the progress of the bridge construction development by clicking HERE. 

–  Approximately 32,000 vehicles cross the bridge each day.

–  PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING WHICH WAS TAKEN FROM THE PDF FILE (MEETING HANDOUT):  Citizen Input: Your input to the project is solicited and appreciated. Wherever possible, MassDOT Highway Division will integrate citizen input into its design and construction of the new Fore River Bridge. There will be opportunities for you to offer your thoughts throughout the process. Should you have further questions, please feel free to contact Stephanie Boundy by phone at 617-973-8049 or by email at stephanie.boundy@state.ma.us

If you have specific requests for the construction (aesthetics, type of bridge, noise during construction, traffic delays, deterioration of 3A due to construction vehicles, side road traffic due to detours, etc.) please contact Stephanie at MassDOT at the above contact. 

Also consider stating your concerns to your local politicians:

District Counselor:  Victor Pap

Mayor of Weymouth:  Susan Kay

State Senator:  Robert Hedlund

There will be more meetings in the future as development progresses.  We’ll inform members as soon as we have any information about these meetings.

If you are available on Wednesday, February 24th at 7:30 pm, please consider going to the Fore River Bridge Construction meeting being held at the Hingham Town Hall.  It’s important to get a lot of input from residents from North Weymouth so both the construction and finish product works best for us!

More details can be found by clicking  HERE.

Come out to support a local business and the NWCA!  The Cathay Center will hold it’s weekly meat raffle tomorrow from 3 pm – 6pm!

The January Newsletter was mailed out earlier this month.  If you are a current member and did not receive it, please contact John Peruzzi to check your Association status.  If you wish to become a member, please visit the “Join Us” tab and fill out the form and mail it to Mr. Peruzzi.

There will be a Meat Raffle at Kelly’s Landing on November 7th from 3 pm – 7 pm.  Nancy Marrapese Burrell will be beginning her efforts to raise $10,000 for the Weymouth Food Pantry and CarePacks, Inc.

Nancy will be running a 100-mile ultramarathon on May 15th-16th, 2010.  She hopes to raise $10,000 which will be split between the Weymouth Food Pantry and the local Weymouth charity Carepacks, Inc. 

Click HERE to get more details and information.