The public art project was created by Natick’s Carol Krentzman and installed in early June.
Natick artists & friends rally behind injured couple
The group behind this summer’s LOVE 01760 public art campaign has taken the hundreds hearts down from the Natick Center bridge, but now they have a new cause: make hearts for Kimberly Gunner and Andy Colbert, the couple injured in the recent hit-and-run accident. The couple married last year at the bridge, then decorated with flowers.
The public is invited to create mini hearts using the template file on this page. Templates will be available this week at the Natick Center Cultural District Welcome Center, 20 Main St. Completed hearts, featuring art and messages, can be dropped off at 3 Adams St., double blue doors, by Sept. 30.
The public has already rallied around the injured couple by pledging about $90,000 through a crowdfunding campaign.
Marijuana testing lab eyes Natick site
Kaycha Labs, a business that has independent marijuana testing facilities in Florida, California and five other states, is looking to add Massachusetts to that list via a location at 16 Tech Circle in Natick.
The town has scheduled a community outreach meeting to take place at 6pm on Aug. 31: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86842658349#success
The Meeting ID is 868 4265 8349
Submit questions in advance to jschwartz@kaychalabs.com
Kaycha submitted an application to Natick’s request for information and the town interviewed the company this past week.
This is separate from the eight recreational marijuana outfits that have responded to the town’s RFI, and at most two of them will be given the go ahead. So a couple of potential customers for Kaycha if its application goes through.
Testing labs check the safety of cannabis products.
Purple power in Natick: Flags honor those who died from opioids
The lawn at First Congregational Church in Natick Center will be covered for the next two week with red and purple flags to honor the 2,015 lives lost last year in Massachusetts to opioids.
SOAR Natick has spearheaded the public display, assembled on Aug. 21 by several dozen volunteers, including those who planted red flags in honor of individuals. The flags will stay up until Sept. 4.
Preliminary data from January-March 2020 show there were 467 confirmed and estimated opioid-related overdose deaths in Massachusetts, an estimated 28 fewer deaths, which is a 5.7% decline compared to the first three months of 2019.
Of particular concern now is the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the opioid situation, both in terms of resources reallocated and vulnerability of those under pandemic-related stress.
Natick applying for racial equity grant, puts focus on housing
Natick announced at its Select Board meeting this week that it is submitting an application for a grant designed to help the town come up with a racial equity plan.
The Racial Equity Municipal Action Plan, offered through a collaboration including the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, will only be awarded to three to five municipalities. Natick is already in the midst of forming an equity task force.
The goal of the grant program is to provide cities and towns with “technical assistance to create racial equity action plans and to take meaningful action to advance racial equity,” according to MAPC. Recipients will be announced by Sept. 10.
Deputy Town Administrator James Errickson says Natick’s application will focus on “barriers to housing in regards to equity and the need to make sure that we are not unnecessarily burdening any one population.” Zoning and land use will be examined, he said.
Anything developed through such a grant would need to sync up with the town’s 2030+ master plan.
Natick is partnering with neighboring communities, including Framingham, to support each other’s submissions for this program.
Wellesley has also applied for this grant.
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