The Wrentham Times

Dooley To Host Charity Food Truck Festival

State Representative Shawn Dooley along with several local businesses, is pleased to announce the First Annual Fall Food Truck Festival. 100% of all ticket sales will go to two local charities: The Random Smile Project and The Santa Foundation. Both of these charities focus all of their efforts to helping those in need in our surrounding communities.

The details of the event are as follows:

State Representative Shawn Dooley’s Fall Food Truck Festival
Thursday, September 13th
5:30-9:00 p.m.
Lake Pearl - Wrentham (formerly Lake Pearl Luciano’s)
299 Creek Street, Wrentham

Tickets can be purchased in advance at: http://www.randomsmile.org/fall-food-truck-festival or at Lake Pearl on the day of the event - while supplies last. $20 for adults: Get to sample the delicious offerings of each of our food trucks. $10 for children (13 and under) choose your favorite 3 trucks to explore.

Space limited to the first 350 guests

Open to the Public - All Welcome!

Food Trucks ranging from GottaQ Smokehouse BBQ, Atomic Blonde Ice Cream, Juliana’s Italian Catering, Paco’s Tacos, as well as Ming’s Asian Street food will be serving their assorted specialties. Live music will be provided by an awesome local band: The Pushbuttons.

“My mantra has always been, ‘Service with a Smile,’” said Dooley. “This event is about giving back and helping to put a smile on someone else’s face. I hope we get a huge crowd for this fun filled evening and really support these great causes.”

Dooley added, “Our goal is to have this be an annual event, bringing in more and more trucks and have it be the signature charity fundraiser for our community.”

Corporate Sponsors of this evening include: Subaru of New England, Plainridge Park Casino, DiPlacido Development Corporation, The Preserve at Mill Pond, Plumb House, Inc., Custom Art Framing, Glen Meadow Apartments, and CVS Health.

Wrentham Day 2018

Wrentham Day & Wroad Wrace is Saturday, September 8 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.on the Town Common. The annual tradition has something for everyone. “Wrentham Recreation is looking forward to another great Wrentham Day," says Jeff Plympton, Director of Wrentham Recreation. "A fantastic way to kick off the fall season.”

Plympton added, “I am excited for a lot of new creative ideas that this year brings to a great New England small town.”

This year’s line-up will include:

• Touch A Truck (Police/SWAT/Fire/DPW) along Common Street / 9AM -1PM
• Pat Patriot (mascot of NE Patriots) take pictures & sign autographs / 9:30AM – 1:30PM
• PAW PATROL characters (Marshall, Skye, Chase) 10AM – 1PM
• Trackless Train all day
• Funny Face Photo Booth
• Barn Babies 10AM – 2PM (puppies, rabbits, goats etc…)
• Pioneer Engine CO. – Clam Chowder
• Wrentham Youth Baseball & Softball – barbeque
• DJ Joe Botaish
• Music entertainment – Berkshire Valley Boys
• Lion’s Club – 100’ ice cream sundae
• 50+ vendor tables
• Wrentham Wroad Wrace 5K / 10AM start – 8:30AM registration Pizza and drinks supplied by Eaglebrooke Saloon / Prizes & race t-shirts for everyone that enters

Old Fiske Museum to be open on Wrentham Day

The Wrentham Historical Commission would like to announce that the Old Fiske Museum, 55 East St., will be open for Wrentham Day on Saturday, September 8, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. View maps, paintings, photographs and artifacts that detail Wrentham's unique history. Learn more about the Historical Commission, and their role in preserving local history. Bathrooms are available, and the building is handicap accessible. The Old Fiske Museum is also open to the public the first Sunday of every month from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

October Road Returns to Wrentham Common for Night of James Taylor Music

October Road will perform this Sunday, 6 p.m. on Wrentham Town Common. The James Taylor tribute band was rained out last week and will play this Sunday instead. The six piece band is the perfect way to end a summer weekend performing the hits of James Taylor.

 

Vacation Bible School at OCC

Original Congregational Church is offering Vacation Bible School, “Rolling River Rampage”, August 6 through August 10, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

FREE for Children, Preschool - 5th Grade. Snack provided. 

Original Congregational Church is located 1 East St., Wrentham. Register by downloading form at www.occhurch.net or by calling our Director of Children's Ministries at 508-244-9774.

Walk-In Registrations are also welcome.

Trinity Church Yard Sale

Trinity Episcopal Church, 47 East Street, Wrentham will hold its annual summer yard sale this weekend. Most items inside. LOTS to choose from: household items, sporting goods, books, jewelry, collectibles, small furniture, piano and more. Friday, June 15th 3-7pm Saturday, June 16th 8am-2pm

Wrentham Yard Sale and Plant Sale

The Original Congregational Church in Wrentham will continue it’s inside spring yard sale on Saturday June 9th from 8 am to 11 am. Books, perennials and many new items will be available. The church is located at the intersection of routes 1A and 140 in the center of Wrentham.

Plainville Splash Fundraiser

Waterboys founder and NFL player, Chris Long, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid author, Jeff Kinney, are coming to Plainville to help raise awareness for the lack of clean water in Tanzania. The Plainville Splash fundraiser will be held on Saturday, June 2 from 3 to 5:30 p.m. at Telford Park in Plainville. Please help us spread the word about this amazing foundation and how to raise awareness for clean water!

Leading up to Plainville Splash, An Unlikely Story Bookstore and Café will be raising awareness in-store with a special book display that includes a variety of thought provoking titles for children and teens. Let it flow, Plainville! By donating to the Waterboys foundation, you will receive a water droplet to put your name on and post on our faucet display. On the day of Plainville Splash, we will choose one droplet from the faucet and that person will win a chance to fill a Water Walk bucket with as many books as they can in 80 seconds (one second for every one hundred million people who lack access to clean water). There will also be limited edition, stainless steel Plainville Splash water bottles featuring art by Jeff Kinney sold in-store. To learn more about Waterboys and Plainville Splash or to donate to the cause, visit www.anunlikelystory.com/event/plainville-splash. There is also volunteer positions available.

An Unlikely Story is an independent bookstore/café located in Plainville, MA. The owner of the unique bookstore is none other than best-selling children’s author Jeff Kinney, writer of the popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.