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Baseball Lessons and the Game of Life
The 2013 World Series is now history, the champagne has been cleaned from the clubhouse floor, the parade is over and the confetti has been swept from the streets of a grateful city. Yet long after the players have dispersed to their non-baseball hometowns and our region’s thoughts have turned to Super Bowl and Stanley Club dreams, conversations continue about this year’s victorious Boston Red Sox.
Hands-On Learning in Pawtucket at the Slater Mill
In early October, one of Cardinal Cushing Centers’ high school classes had the opportunity to experience the Industrial Revolution first hand. On a field trip to the Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, RI, students visited three eighteenth century buildings and learned about life in a textile town. Guides were dressed in period clothing and gave a tour of the first water powered mill used to produce cotton, an artisan’s home where students saw tools used for hand-spinning, the way…
Fall Family Weekend
During the last weekend in September, our campus hosted our annual Fall Family Weekend. Throughout the weekend, many exciting events were held, such as a flag football game involving students, their families, and even staff. Our brand new scoreboard was also revealed before the game. Families enjoyed a delicious spaghetti dinner together that night, as well as a dessert reception with music by John Pappone of Zildjian Companies. The Harvest Festival took place on Saturday, with numerous activities to take…
Cookies and Chat: Intergenerational Communty
“Cookies and Chat” has become a monthly event for Cardinal Cushing Centers’ adult clients and seniors living at the Union Towers Retirement Community in Weymouth. What first started as an employment arrangement where adults participating in the South Shore Industries program provided cleaning services to Union Towers has now developed into a meaningful relationship. Each month a group of adults with intellectual disabilities visits with the residents of Union Towers to enjoy conversation, music and stories. “Our guests from Cardinal…
A Message from President & CEO Jo Ann Simons – November 2013
Dear Friends, Welcome to the first edition of Cushing Community News, a quarterly e-newsletter designed to help us communicate with our closest friends and share the latest and greatest happenings on both our Braintree and Hanover campuses. When you support over 500 individuals each year across two campuses and 12 community residences, with over 500 staff working tirelessly each day to do so, you generate so many great stories. It’s hard to share them all. We hope you tune in…
United We Play
Recently I blogged about one of those heartwarming stories where an individual with a disability gets a moment “in the sun” to switch from team manager and play the final seconds in a basketball game or catch a pass in a football game.I acknowledged the “feel good” nature of the story and the joy and happiness it brings to the individual, their family and to the community. I also questioned whether it was actually helping us achieve a truly inclusive…
Cushing Connector- Spring 2013 Edition
If you missed the Spring issue, you can find it here!
Cardinal Cushing Centers Welcomes AmeriCorps to Braintree Campus
Cardinal Cushing Centers welcomed an AmeriCorps team to its Braintree campus Tuesday in preparation for the beautification project the team will be doing over the next three weeks.
Board Member Frederick M. Misilo, Jr. Featured on Boston Business Journal Website
Frederick Misilo Jr., a director at Fletcher, Tilton PC, has recently been named to the Cardinal Cushing Centers’ board of directors. READ MORE>>
Cardinal Cushing graduates expressed their joy in Hanover
Enjoy the photo slideshow from the Patriot Ledger.
