Residential home celebrates 125 years

Today, the Victorian-era nonprofit home with sweeping ocean views still offers an affordable place to live for older single women. The 12 residents receive three home-cooked meals a day, afternoon tea, and laundry and housekeeping services.

In honor of the home’s 125th anniversary, the residents, staff, board members, and friends dressed in period dresses and hats celebrated with a Victorian tea that included petits fours, cake, cucumber sandwiches, punch, and tea. Music was provided by William Sano of Salem.

CELEBRATING DIVERSITY: A World Folk Festival, celebrating the region’s diverse heritage, is Saturday at the Lynn Heritage State Park.

The event features music, dance, and food from around the world. Artists will present workshops in African drumming, Brazilian capoeira, salsa, Japanese calligraphy, and storytelling.

The event runs 2 to 7 p.m. on the Lynnway and is followed by fireworks. Call 781-479-8407.

HONOR FLAGS: In advance of the Field of Honor flag display being planned for Sept. 11 on Bartlet Mall in Newburyport, the Exchange Club of Greater Newburyport is selling flags Saturday and July 11.

The flags, which cost $40, will be delivered to the Exchange Club for installation on the mall Sept. 10. They will remain in place through Sept. 13, and can be picked up by the individuals who bought them the next day.

The goal is to have hundreds of American flags arranged in rows across the mall in honor of those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as well as all military, veterans, police, and firefighters that people choose to honor.

Flags are being sold from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in Market Square and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 11 in the Tannery on Water Street during the weekly farmers’ market.

PLAY SPACE SPONSOR: The Danversbank Charitable Foundation has become a sponsor of the Northshore Education Consortium’s campaign to build a play space for physically and mentally challenged students at the Kevin O’Grady School in Beverly.

The foundation recently awarded $50,000 for phase one of the campaign. The consortium is close to its goal of $125,000, and plans to build the play space this summer.

The foundation also awarded $1,500 to the Beverly Children’s Learning Center for summer field trips for children ages 5 to 12 in the full-day program at the Cummings Center.

HELP WITH COLLEGE: The Women of Northern Essex Community College recently held its 14th annual fund-raising event at the North Andover home of Deane and Lacey Dolben, raising $10,700 for student scholarships.

The group was organized in 1997 to help the college, which has campuses in Haverhill and Lawrence, raise money for scholarships for needy and deserving students. This year, it will award $24,500 for the upcoming academic year.

Officers include Gerri Murphy of North Andover, president; Judy Morrison of Salem, N.H., vice president; Betty Jaffe of Andover, secretary; Nancy Greenwood of Concord, N.H., treasurer; and Marie Dow of North Andover and Carole O’Connor of Andover, cochairs of membership.

For more information on the Women of NECC, contact Lori Smerdon 978-556-3789 or e-mail lsmerdon@necc.mass.edu.

WHO’S WHAT WHERE: Winchester Hospital operating room nurses Leigh Ferrante of Woburn and Stephanie Celata of Tewksbury have received the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses for their role in the relief effort for Haitian earthquake victims in January. . . . Lawrence native Laurence M. Demers, chairman of the board of trustees of Merrimack College in North Andover, has been awarded the 2010 American Association for Clinical Chemistry Morton K. Schwartz Award for Significant Contributions in Cancer Research Diagnostics. Demers was recognized for his work in the development of aromatase inhibitors for treating breast cancer. He is a professor emeritus at Penn State University.

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