October 2018 - Neighbors - lists.buenavistasocialclub.org

Need a computer geek
by Rachel Joffe 19 Oct '18

19 Oct '18

Dear neighbors, Can anyone recommend a good computer tech who comes to your home? I bought a new laptop, as my current laptop is old, and I need everything to be transferred on it, as well as a redesign of the interface, which is not user friendly and a tutorial on how to use the new system. Any recommendation would be appreciated. Best, Rachel Joffe 5 herbert street rfalmagne(a)gmail.com

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Reminder! -- Trees! PSNA meeting Oct 18th, 7-9pm
by Ruth Ryals 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

You are all invited to come! PSNA Meeting on TREES! Thursday, Oct 18, 7-9 pm Lesley University Hall 1815 Mass Ave, Rm 2-078 Porter Square has been identified as one of the city’s heat islands. Mass Ave—a main thoroughfare for cars, buses, bikes, and pedestrians—is an increasingly hot corridor. Street trees help reduce that heat! Many of us share the vision of a shady Mass Ave and are interested in doing what we can to improve our tree canopy and our planet. We have invited staff from the Urban Forestry department to join us, to help us understand what the city is doing and what we can do. We will learn about: The scope and condition of the urban forest in the city What the city is doing to maintain our forest and expand it Plans for Mass Ave from Porter to the Arlington Line The Adopt-A-Tree program and how residents and businesses can support the city’s efforts to help our trees thrive Please join us with your questions and ideas! Ruth Ryals President, PSNA rryals(a)comcast.net

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FW: Get Smart on Social Media - Tonight!
by Ruth Ryals 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

From: Cambridge Local First <info(a)cambridgelocalfirst.org> Reply-To: Cambridge Local First <info(a)cambridgelocalfirst.org> Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 5:59 AM To: Ruth Ryals <rryals(a)comcast.net> Subject: Get Smart on Social Media - Tonight! View this email in your browser Social Media Session Tonight @ 5:30 pm Did you know... Cambridge is one of the most digitally savvy communities in the country, with 60% of residents making online purchases each month 69% of the Americans use social media 75% of Facebook users and 60% of Instagram users log in daily Are you reaching these customers?? RSVP for Social Media Strategy Session Tonight A Social Media Strategy - Where Do You Start? Tuesday, October 16, 2018 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Cambridge City Hall Annex, 4th floor Conference Room, 344 Broadway Free to Cambridge residents and business owners, $10 for all non-Cambridge participants. Cambridge's Economic Development Department has contracted the local, women-owned firm Metter Media to run the session. CLF will be there to meet you and let you know how members benefit from our robust social media presence. Attendees should have a general knowledge of the main social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn) and come to class with a laptop and some questions about their business' social media strategy. Register via the blue box links or contact Rona Abrahams at 617-349-4637 or rabrahams(a)cambridgema.gov. RSVP for Social Media Strategy Session Tonight Want more updates? Follow us on social! We're Proud to Highlight Our Founding Sponsors: Copyright © 2018 Cambridge Local First, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website, Facebook Page or other electronic vehicle. We only use this list occasionally and do not use it for any For-Profit purpose. Our mailing address is: Cambridge Local First649 Massachusetts Ave Suite 6 Cambridge, MA 02139 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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FW: Last Chance: Buy Your Party Under The Harvest Moon Tickets!
by Ruth Ryals 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

From: Food For Free <development(a)foodforfree.org> Reply-To: <development(a)foodforfree.org> Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 3:46 PM To: Ruth Ryals <rryals(a)comcast.net> Subject: Last Chance: Buy Your Party Under The Harvest Moon Tickets! This Friday, October 19th, at MIT's Morss Hall. See you there, 6-10pm! Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Friday, October 19th is the day, Morss Hall is the place. See you there, 6-10pm! Bridging the gap between waste and want Party Under the Harvest Moon Friday night! Hey there Food For Free fans! It's about that time again: Party Under the Harvest Moon time! It's not too late to buy your tickets online! The Party Under the Harvest Moon will take place Friday October 19th, from 6-10pm at MIT's Morss Hall at 142 Memorial Drive. [map] Morss Hall is a 7-10 minute walk from Kendall Station, and is served by several major bus routes. Click here for parking information. The Party Under the Harvest Moon auction is open now for bidding! Please remember to register before bidding. The auction will close at approximately 8:45pm during the Party. And don't forget about the food! We'll be serving delicious eats donated by these fabulous local establishments: BuenasCafe du PaysCambridge School of Culinary ArtsCelesteDave's Fresh PastaEffie's HomemadeFlourHarvard University Dining ServicesHenrietta's TableiCaterJaju Pierogi Mainely Burgers Manoa Poke Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub Nubar Q's Nuts Royal East Restaurant Russell House Tavern Sofra Something Savory Spindler Confections Tanam Viale Beer and wine provided by: Bandit Wines ♦ Cambridge Brewing Company See you soon! Your friends at Food For Free Party Under the Harvest MoonFriday, October 19th, 2018 6-10pm Morss Hall at MIT | Kendall Square, Cambridge [more info] We are enormously grateful to our Leadership Sponsors for all their support! Get involved: Volunteer | Make a donation | Attend an event | Visit our website | Email us Forward this email STAY CONNECTED Food For Free Committee, Inc., 11 Inman Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 SafeUnsubscribe™ rryals(a)comcast.net Forward this email | Update Profile | About our service provider Sent by development(a)foodforfree.org in collaboration with Try it free today

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Trees! PSNA meeting Oct 18th, 7-9pm
by Ruth Ryals 13 Oct '18

13 Oct '18

You are all invited to come! PSNA Meeting on TREES! Thursday, Oct 18, 7-9 pm Lesley University Hall 1815 Mass Ave, Rm 2-078 Porter Square has been identified as one of the city’s heat islands. Mass Ave—a main thoroughfare for cars, buses, bikes, and pedestrians—is an increasingly hot corridor. Street trees help reduce that heat! Many of us share the vision of a shady Mass Ave and are interested in doing what we can to improve our tree canopy and our planet. We have invited staff from the Urban Forestry department to join us, to help us understand what the city is doing and what we can do. We will learn about: The scope and condition of the urban forest in the city What the city is doing to maintain our forest and expand it Plans for Mass Ave from Porter to the Arlington Line The Adopt-A-Tree program and how residents and businesses can support the city’s efforts to help our trees thrive Please join us with your questions and ideas! Ruth Ryals President, PSNA rryals(a)comcast.net

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nanny recommendation
by Ruth Ryals 13 Oct '18

13 Oct '18

Hello parents, This is a message to those parents in the neighborhood who might need a babysit for an evening or a weekday/weekend. We have been working with Stefany Sanchez for the past two years. She is our nanny for evenings and weekends when we need help, while she was a full-time nanny with other families. She is great! Playful and responsible. Our daughter is 3.5 years old, we plan to continue working with her. She is also fluent in Spanish if that's a plus for you. If you are interested, I can provider her contact info. Thanks! Ying 11 Buena Vista Pk yingburkedong(a)gmail.com

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Fwd: [NorthCommons] nice piece on News Hour last night about Cambridge recycling!
by Ruth Ryals 13 Oct '18

13 Oct '18

From: "Amy Perlmutter amy(a)aperlmutter.com [NorthCommons]" > Date: October 12, 2018 at 8:57:09 PM EDT > To: North Commons > Subject: [NorthCommons] nice piece on News Hour last night about Cambridge recycling! > Reply-To: Amy Perlmutter <amy(a)aperlmutter.com> > > https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/loss-of-chinese-export-market-drives-new-… > > __________________________________ > Amy Perlmutter > Perlmutter Associates > 23 Avon Street > Cambridge, MA 02138 > landline: 617-354-5456 > Strategy, partnership building, communications, and > program design for a sustainable future > www.aperlmutter.com > Twitter: @AmyPerlmutter > > > > > > __._,_.___ > Posted by: Amy Perlmutter <amy(a)aperlmutter.com> > Reply via web post • Reply to sender • Reply to group • Start a New Topic • Messages in this topic (1) > > Have you tried the highest rated email app? > With 4.5 stars in iTunes, the Yahoo Mail app is the highest rated email app on the market. What are you waiting for? Now you can access all your inboxes (Gmail, Outlook, AOL and more) in one place. Never delete an email again with 1000GB of free cloud storage. > > VISIT YOUR GROUP > • Privacy • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use > > SPONSORED LINKS > > > > . > > > __,_._,___

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Fwd: Losing the Somerville Home
by Ruth Ryals 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

Our state senator makes a lot of sense in the article which follows. Ruth. > From: Senator Pat Jehlen <pat(a)electpatjehlen.org> > Date: October 10, 2018 at 2:04:27 PM EDT > To: Ruth <rryals(a)comcast.net> > Subject: Losing the Somerville Home > Reply-To: Senator Pat Jehlen <pat(a)electpatjehlen.org> > > > View this email in your browser > > Dear Neighbor, > > The Massachusetts population -- like all of us -- is getting older. In 2010, 14% of Mass. residents were over 65; by 2030 that will be 20%. > At the same time, we're losing institutions that care for people who need help, and we're not developing the workforce to provide care. > > After 120 years, the Somerville Home will close in December. It's a rest home, which provides more care than assisted living but not skilled nursing like a nursing home. > > > REST HOMES > The closing of the Somerville Home is not the fault of the staff or the board. It is certainly not the fault of the 47 residents. Some of them have lived there for decades; some moved there when other rest homes closed; some were previously homeless. > > The Home's problem is that the state, which pays for almost all the residents, hasn't raised its rates since 2012. All of the Home’s costs have gone up but their income hasn’t. > > Since 2008, 24 rest homes have closed; out of 147 rest homes in 1998, 53 remain. One that closed recently is now a doggy day care. > > Because of low state payments, rest homes often can’t access loans to upgrade their facilities and attract private pay residents who would pay higher rates. > > Residents who are displaced from rest homes often find no other such home, and wind up in nursing homes which offer less independence and cost a lot more. Already five Somerville Home residents are moving to nursing homes. > > I recently visited the home, and was really moved to hear some of the residents talk about how important their relationships with each other and the staff are, and how disturbed they are to have to move, perhaps far away from family and the community they know. > > ADULT DAY HEALTH > We aren't just losing rest homes. Last November the Windsor House adult day health program at Sancta Maria in Cambridge closed, displacing 47 people. > > Adult day health programs provide care during the day, allowing many people to live at home. 23 programs have closed since the last rate increase in 2012. Frozen rates don't cover the cost of new requirements, or increases in health insurance premiums, earned sick time, minimum wages, and other costs of living. Many staff qualify for MassHealth. > > While nonprofit, high quality services close, some new, for-profit services have opened, but they care for private pay people. > > > > 15-20% of those who are displaced when an adult day health closes enter nursing homes within 6 months; even if they find a new program, the disruption causes them to decompensate. Moving to nursing homes costs the state millions of additional dollars a year. > > > > NURSING HOMES > Nursing homes are also at risk. Sancta Maria Nursing Facility in Cambridge was also scheduled to close in December, but in September announced a reprieve after hiring a new management company. > > > At least eleven other nursing homes have announced their closure this year. Again, the closures are generally non-profit, high quality nursing facilities; they are being replaced by for-profit, multi-state, lower-quality homes, as reported by Kay Lazar in several Globe articles. Lazar found that for-profit nursing homes spend less on food and nursing care. > > Most nursing home residents are paid for by Medicaid, which reimburses $37 per day below the cost of patient care, according to Mass. Senior Care. > > > The Senate has twice adopted my provision in the budget requiring CHIA to study costs in nursing homes: we need to understand why some nursing homes can’t make it, while others are bought by investors who expect to make a profit. That would be a first step to creating a requirement, as we have in health insurance, that a certain percentage of income go to patient care. Unfortunately, the provision didn’t survive conference committee. > > Of course it's not just payments that has caused reductions in nursing home beds. More people, both publicly and privately paid, are receiving home care. There are more assisted living residences, though only a few -- like the ones run by the Visiting Nurses in Somerville -- are affordable for most people. But low rates to agencies, and low pay for workers, are creating a crisis in home care as well. > > WE WON'T GET WHAT WE DON'T PAY FOR > Each of these programs -- the Somerville Home, Windsor House/Sancta Maria, and the Sancta Maria Nursing Home -- was/is at risk because they primarily serve people who are paid for by the state, which has not increased its inadequate rates, although I and other legislators advocate for increases every year. Each was running at a loss. Each is representative of many other programs for older people which are closing while the number of older people is rising. > > When corporations, agencies and nonprofits hire executives, they justify high pay in order to attract the best. But when rest homes, or nursing homes, or adult day health programs, or other social service programs seek just to catch up with the cost of living, or to pay their workers a living wage, state officials say we can't afford it. > > Do we need more revenue? That's a major question in the governor's race. Gov. Baker says we don't. (The income tax will probably go down again in January if revenues continue high enough to hit the "trigger"). > > I don't think we can continue to squeeze agencies and direct care workers. What do you think? > > Stay in touch, > > > > > > Copyright © *Committee to Re-Elect Pat Jehlen, All rights reserved. > > Our mailing address is: > CTE Pat Jehlen, 67 Dane St, Somerville MA 02143 > > Want to change how you receive these emails? > You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list >

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Does anyone have a bedside table they are not using?
by Ruth Ryals 07 Oct '18

07 Oct '18

We are trying to outfit a room for an ill son. Thanks, Ruth

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Fwd: [Richdale Ave] Fwd: [CCH-talk] free weight bars and plates
by Ruth Ryals 06 Oct '18

06 Oct '18

Thanks, Ruth Ryals Begin forwarded message: > From: Jeffrey Lipshaw <jlipshaw(a)gmail.com> > Date: October 6, 2018 at 2:02:00 PM EDT > To: richdale-ave-community(a)googlegroups.com > Subject: [Richdale Ave] Fwd: [CCH-talk] free weight bars and plates > > > > >> From: Norma Wassel <normawassel(a)yahoo.com> >> Date: October 6, 2018 at 1:14:05 PM EDT >> Subject: Fw: [CCH-talk] free weight bars and plates >> >> >> >> Hello Neighbors - After organizing our exercise room,@ Cambridge Cohousing, we have two lifting bars and 10 assorted plates to give away, ranging from 45lbs to 2 lbs. >> >> Please reply to me only if you or anyone else that you know would like them. Thanks - Norma

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