News and events in Southborough, MA

Above: Rec is inviting men to sign up for hockey and baskeball, and all adults to join classes for ice skating and tennis. (images clockwise cropped from flickr posts by Elvert Barnes, Ticket Club and DaveMontPhotography)

Southborough Recreation is offering these upcoming sports programs/classes for adults this fall/winter:

Men age 17+ can sign up for Basketball or Ice Hockey.

Men’s Basketball:

Inspired to play some basketball? Join us on Sundays from 6 -7:45 pm at the Fay School, and Wednesdays 7 – 9 pm at the Finn School. Newcomers are always welcome. Attendance need not be regular. We call our own fouls and shoot foul shots. We keep score in order to know when to stop for water. No basketball held if the schools are closed, or if the gyms are needed for school or town activities (such as voting).

The first session is already in progress, but there are three more sessions starting November 18th. The cost is $60 per session.

Men’s Ice Hockey

a non-competitive, no check, no slap shot game for all hockey enthusiasts. All skill levels are invited to play. Helmets are required. Register before your spot is taken, first come, first serve! The following are estimated dates based on St. Mark’s availability, an update will be emailed to all participants. Dates posted are tentative.

Two options are listed for Sundays November 25th – February 17th – 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm. Each program costs $210 join.

While “all skill levels” may be welcome – I’d imagine the ability to skate is key. If you never learned, you may want to put off the above option this year and sign up for the class below.

Learn to Skate for Adults

The adult co-ed skate is for ages 16+ who want to learn or improve:

Come learn to skate or enhance your skills in a comfortable learning environment! Gain strength and stay fit with skating lessons designed for adults. Whether your goal is just to skate, play hockey, or figure skate, this class will introduce basic skills to those with no prior knowledge and also help develop skills and proper technique for those with prior skating experience.

Skaters should arrive 15 minutes prior to class to lace up.

Practice time will follow at the end of the lesson only for participants enrolled in the program.

Tennis

There are also out-of-town lesson options for beginner – intermediate tennis players aged 14+ Westboro Tennis & Swim Club.

For more details or to register for any of these programs, click here.

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Above: Southborough native Linnea Leger is working for a cause that was important to her late mother Helen. (images here and below edited from contributed photos)

On November 4th, Linnea Leger will Walk to Defeat ALS.

The fundraiser to find a cure for the disease is all the way on the other coast. But her personal cause has deep Southborough roots.

In hopes of finding support from her hometown, Leanna reached out to share her story.

Below, she writes about her memories of her hometown and, most importantly, her mother Helen Grimm Leger:

Helen Grimm Leger grew up on 10 Latisquama Road in Southborough with her 4 brothers, all of whom attended Algonquin Regional High School. She married my dad at Pilgrim Church in 1990 and when I was born 3 years later, 10 Latisquama was my first home. After purchasing a house on Parkerville Road and quickly outgrowing it after my two younger brothers were born, my parents decided in 2001 to move our family back into the home my mother and uncles had been raised in.

Growing up in the heart of Southborough was perhaps not the most exciting childhood, but it was definitely a good one. After school, my brothers and I would walk down to Mauro’s Market to buy slushies, check out more books than we could carry from the library, or ride our bikes to Woodward. Growing up in a house that had been in my family for decades offered me the opportunity to hear those childhood stories that only come back in the place where they happened. It gave me a stronger sense of identity and a closer relationship to my mom and grandmother, who to this day remain the strongest women I have ever met and my biggest role models. I heard stories about how my grandmother took in neighborhood kids who had nowhere else to go even while my she herself was living off of yogurt in order to afford feeding her family.

These stories were made all the more real by the house and town around me. Seeing the words “Coop was here” inked into my bedroom windowsill introduced me to stories about one of a dozen “brothers” whom my mother had grown up with. My parents often took in boarders themselves as a way to give back to relatives and friends who had nowhere else to stay. My mother and grandmother taught me the importance of giving back regardless of how little money we ever had. “No matter how bad your situation may seem, there is always someone who is in more need” is the motto that I was raised by, and when I decided to study social work in college, it felt like I had been preparing for it my whole life.

On April 29, 2010 I was a sophomore at Algonquin. Mom had been experiencing strange symptoms for over a year after a family trip to Rhode Island, and was convinced that her weakened muscles and decreased mobility in her left foot were caused by Lyme Disease. After visiting countless doctors and specialists and receiving many negative test results, it was on this date that she finally received an answer: ALS. [click to keep reading…]

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