June 1 The Hopkinton Cultural Council Reception & Community Meeting 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm @ CAA Building. Please join us to learn about recent cultural grants, and provide us with suggestions for further programs. Open to the entire Hopkinton Community, kindly rsvp to: Jean Bertschmann, jeanber65@hotmail.com, 508-435-5195.

June 2 The Hopkinton Education Foundation will be holding its Second Annual Golf Ball Drop at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, June 2^nd (Rain date June 3^rd) at the Hopkins Elementary School (Field 10). RE/MAX Executive Realty is sponsoring the event for the second year in a row. HEF is selling 1,000 raffle tickets, which correspond to 1,000 golf balls that will be dropped from the RE/MAX hot air balloon over a golf hole. The person holding the ticket that corresponds to the ball that goes in the hole or comes closest to it wins the grand prize of $1,000. There also is a prize of $100 for the ball that lands furthest from the hole. In the event of a tie, the prize will be split. Tickets are $10 each or 6 for $50. Winners need not be present to win. The fun-filled event will feature tethered hot air balloon rides ($10 per adult, $5 per child with adult); cotton candy and other concessions; and, free face painting and balloons." We are very grateful to Chuck Joseph and Bill Wright and the entire Re/Max Executive Realty team for sponsoring this event again. We sold 863 tickets last year and hope to sell all 1,000 tickets this year. All proceeds will be used for educational grants for the Hopkinton Public Schools.” stated Andrew Wailgum, HEF Board Member and Chairman of the Golf Ball Drop. “Bring the kids and come out and watch. It’s a fun time and a one of a kind experience.” Tickets can be purchased from any HEF board member or by contacting Andrew Wailgum at 508-625-1447 or awailgum@verizon.net.

June 2 With end-of-school events and summer planning well underway, this can be a busy time for moms to squeeze in a little time for themselves. If you fall into this category, please join the Central 495 Area Chapter of Mothers and More for a relaxing evening  from 7-9 p.m, at the Cultural Arts Alliance Farmhouse on Hayden Rowe Street in Hopkinton. This low-key event will feature a mix of activities: 10-minute chair massage, Summer book recommendations -- bring a book you’d like to swap, Discussion of parenting issues, Suggestions for upcoming meeting topics and Moms’ Night Out venues.

June 5 Several Boston-area musicians will perform at a benefit concert to raise money for the Michael Carter Lisnow Respite Center 7 p.m., at the First Congregational Church in Hopkinton, 146 E Main St.  Admission will be $10 per person, and a suggested $20 per family. Performers include Dan Cloutier of Upton (myspace.com/dancloutiermusic), Ricardo Barraza of Grafton (myspace.com/ricardobarraza), Kim Jennings of Worcester (www.myspace.com/kimberleyjennings), Oen Kennedy of Holliston (www.myspace.com/oenkennedy), and Dennis Pearne and AnnaPurna of Framingham (www.dennispearnefolkmusic.com).

June 6 The Friends of the Library will be holding a Book Sale on  Saturday June 6 from 9-1 pm in front of the Library, rain or shine.  There will also be baked goods for sale.  This is always a great event and a wonderful way for families to get some amazing books at great prices.  Donations of books can be left off at the Library during regular business hours.  Go to www.hopkintonlibraryfriends.org for more info. The Friends of the Library are also looking for new Friends!!!   Do you have a couple hours a month for volunteering?  Our meetings are the first Wednesday of the month at the Library from 7-8 pm.  There are some great new happenings being planned for the coming year.  Join us and be a part of the excitement.  We want the Library to be a shining star in our community and we need help to accomplish this. Do you belong to a Book Club?  The Friends of the Library would like to connect with your group.  Please contact Susie Johnson at susie.johnson@commonmoves.com for more information.

June 6 Purchase Scratch Tickets to help support Hopkinton Youth Lacrosse 10:00 am - 5:00 pm @ Colella's Supermarket. Every ticket gives you two chances to win! 1.Scratch Ticket and Win Instantly - $10, $25, $50, Best Buy Gift Cards, (4) Boston Cannon Tickets, and Golf for (4) at Hopkinton Country Club! 2. Raffle Drawing to be held on June 12th for a week long Next Level Lacrosse summer camp ($400 value), and so much more! Any questions? Contact Cindy Bernardo at cindybernardo@hotmail.com.

June 12 6th Annual CAA Talent Showcase 7:30 pm @ High School Auditorium. Ages 8 - adult. Audition times: May 11th 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm & May 14th 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Audition Fee $10/individual or $20/group. Auditions at the Hopkinton High School Auditorium, walk in auditions welcome. To register, email Your name, talent and age to info@caahopkinton.org  or call 508-435-9222- We will accept video tape auditions.

June 13 Moving Sale 9:00 am - 1:00 pm @ 10 Deer Run in Hopkinton. Yard/Garden tools, including push mower and rider mower, Radial Arm Saw, Dining table & kitchen table (no chairs), Housewares, Longaberger Baskets!!! Craft Items: Creative Memories & Stamping Up, Toys & Games, VHS videos, 6" banquet tables, Folding chairs, Sports items: wind surfers, ice skates, skies, cleats.

June 14 Springfest & Yard Sale 9:00 am - 3:00 pm @ Congregational B'nai Shalom in Westborough. Fun Activities for all ages including a Giant Yard Sale with furniture, clothing, books, toys, and much more! We will have food, plants and children's activities including a moon bounce, face painting, arts & crafts and more! Fun for the whole family! Public Invited! Contact: Nancy Leveillee (nleveillee@charter.net)

June 17 Hopkinton Public Library presents Cooking with Chocolate 6:30 pm @ the Public Library. Chef Liz Barbour will create two decadent recipes for tasting! Call 508-497-3400 or email smarshall@cwmars.org to reserve your spot at this yummy event!

June 17,24,30 First Rehearsal for the Hopkinton Community Summer Band 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm at the High School Band Room. Hopkinton Community Summer Band will perform at the Town Common as part of the Summer Concert Series. The Hopkinton Music Association is again sponsoring the fifth annual Hopkinton Community Summer Band. The band is open to the greater Hopkinton Community ages 14 and up. If you played an instrument in the past or are currently playing an instrument, come and join us. Rehearsals will be from 7:00 – 8:30 on Tuesday nights in the High School Band room. The first rehearsal, however, will be on Wednesday, June 17^{th. The second rehearsal will on Wednesday, June 24th with the remainder of the rehearsals on Tuesday nights, June 30th through July 21st.  There is a $25.00 registration fee to help defray some of the costs of the summer band program. Please return the registration form with a check for $25.00 made payable to: Hopkinton Music Association, Summer Community Band, Hopkinton High School, 90 Hayden Rowe Street, Hopkinton, MA 01748. For addition information, please contact Steven Yavarow at Syavarow@Hopkinton.K12.MA.US. or at 508 497-9820 X 1154. For Registration form, click here.}

June 18 Join The Post Marathon Party to Celebrate the successful running of the 113th BAA Boston Marathon Hosted by The Hopkinton Marathon Committee 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm @ New England Laborer's Training Center, 37 East Street, Hopkinton. Tickets...$25.00 per person (includes dinner, raffle prizes and commemorative T-shirt, all in air conditioned comfort). RSVP by June 15, 2009. Please make checks payable to: Jean's Catering. Send to: Dorothy Ferriter, 57 Pinecrest Village, Hopkinton, MA 01748. Dottie 508-435-0254 Dorothy.Ferriter@comcast.net, Anne Marcy 508-435-0244 a_marcy@yahoo.com.

June 19 ESL Presents: A Night on the Town & ESL's Tone Deft 7:30 pm @ ESL Studio. Join us for an evening of music featuring some of Hopkinton's own teachers and students. The Metro Sax Quartet will entertain you with their smooth arrangements of jazz standards while Tone Deft demonstrates their vocal versatility through spiritual, classical and world music.

June 20 6th Annual Sharon Timlin Memorial Event to Cure ALS 9:00 am - 12:00 pm behind Hopkinton High School. The Sharon Timlin Memorial 5K Race/walk and Family Fun Day began as the premier race of the Hopkinton Running Club and has grown yearly. The event’s amenities are extensive; some of which are a wide spread of food, raffles, a timed 1 mile race for 7-10 year olds, music, awards, prizes, games and an all around exceptional event. This year the well organized 5K race will be limited to 1500 participants, although the family fun day is open to families and includes activities for all age groups. As Dave McGillivray, race director for the Boston Marathon stated, “I highly recommend this race to anyone looking for an entertaining and very well run race for the entire family.” For more information visit web site at www.sharontimlinrace.org or contact Race Director, Abbie Rosenberg at email: angelabbie@aol.com or by telephone at: 508-625-1660.

June 20 17th Annual Against The Tide to benefit the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition 7:00 am - 12:00 pm @ Hopkinton State Park. “Against The Tide” is a one-mile competitive or recreational swim, two-mile kayak, and three-mile fitness walk to benefit the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition (MBCC). This fun and inspirational morning statewide event brings swimmers, kayakers and walkers of all ages and abilities together with MBCC in efforts to stop the breast cancer epidemic. Participants from all over New England commit to raising a minimum contribution of $150, which can be pledged online after registering at www.mbcc.org/swim or the minimum donation of $150 can be made on the day of the event in order to participate in the festivities. Participants may enroll in one or as many events as they would like. All funds raised go directly to breast cancer prevention through the advocacy work of MBCC and research initiatives of its sister environmental organization, Silent Spring Institute. Registration materials, sponsor information, and fundraising ideas can be found at  www.mbcc.org/swim. Donations may be sent to the following address: Against the Tide c/o MBCC, 1419 Hancock Street, Suite 202, Quincy, MA 02169.

June 20 Volunteer Day! (your theater needs you) 10:00 am - 2:00 pm @ ESL Studio. We are doing some SPRING CLEANING AND REDECORATING! With the help of Sparks Art Studio, ESL is getting a facelift! We hope you can stop by and donate some of your time to get the studio looking great for the summer and fall! Please send us an email if you can attend esltheater@comcast.net. Food and Fun Provided!

June 21 Water Baptism at Hopkinton State Park 1:30 @ the lower beach. Everyone is welcome to join us for this lakeside service! If you would like to be baptized, go to vch- baptism.eventbrite.com for details and to sign up.

June 22 Billy Webber Memorial Golf Tournament 9:00 am @ Juniper Hill Golf Course in Northborough. All proceeds to benefit  Dana Farber Cancer Research. Billy Webber was the Southborough Chief of Police who lost his life to pancreatic cancer November 11, 2008. click here for more info.

June 23 All of Hopkinton is invited to attend a Chamber of Commerce Networking and Barn Raising Event 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm @ Hopkinton Public Library, 13 Main Street. Cost Free. Hopkinton's first BarnRaising™ started about 3 weeks ago when 18 of our neighbors participated in an intensive, seven-step process designed to help them propel a current job search or entrepreneurial endeavor.  For the past 2 weeks, these individuals have helped each other refine their work, and the process culminates in this Barn Raising Event. A "Barn Raising Event" is an open reception or social hour with a ten (10) minute program highlighted about half-way through the event.  During this program, our "guests of honor" - neighbors who are looking for employment or aiming to start their own business - are introduced.  Each person in attendance is asked to think of one (1) thing that he/she can do to help a Guest-of-Honor get closer to their goal.  It doesn't matter what each person does, whether it's big like scheduling an appointment with someone they know, or small like sending an article or piece of advice!  The goal is simply to mobilize the good will of community members to help an individual to find a job or kickstart a new business.  Just like a real "barn raising" - everyone can do something to help

June 24 2009 Hopkinton Good Scout Award Event honoring Cherylann Lambert Walsh & David Stoldt 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm @ Hopkinton County Club. The Hopkinton Good Scout event occurs every two years to celebrate Hopkinton's Scouting program which has served our youth and families for many decades. This event will publicly recognize Cherylann's and David's contribution of service to our youth and many community causes in Hopkinton. The Good Scout reception is also conducted to raise necessary funds to support Scouting. The Good Scout Award recognizes those individuals who personify the Scout Oath and Law in their daily lives and who have excelled in their chosen career and personal interesls. This award has been presented to many individuals in the MetroWest area. We are very pleased to add David Stoldt and Cheryl ann Lambert Walsh to this prestigious list. Click here for the reservation form which must be mailed by June 17, 2009.

June 25,26,29,30 radKIDS is the national leader in children's safety education and provides the only holisitic, practical and realistic life skills safety program available for children and parents today.  radKIDS training gives children the tools they need to recognize, avoid and escape potentially dangerous situations, including bullying, assault and abduction.  The radKIDS program is a 12 hour family centered safety education program that emphasizes essential decision-making skills and physical resistance options to escape violence. This program is designed for children from 5-12 years of age.  A few of the program components include: stranger tricks, internet safety, bullying prevention, personal safety, out and about safety, school safety, and realistic physical defense skills against abduction.  Children become empowered, learning to replace the fear, confusion, and panic of dangerous situations with confidence, personal safety skills and self-esteem. Hopkinton residents and parents of 3 young children, Kim and Tim Brennan are certified radKIDS Instructors and are now offering this course to children and families in Hopkinton and surrounding towns.  The next radKIDS class will be held on June 25, 26, 29, & 30 from 8:30 - 11:30 am at 6 Main Street, Hopkinton (the John Warren Masonic Lodge).  The cost for the class is $90 per child ($60 for a sibling) and includes a Family Safety Manual, Safety Activity Book, Certificate, and more.  Another radKIDS class will be offered over the course of 4 Saturdays in July and August.  Dates for this class are July 11 & 18 and August 1 & 8; classes will be held again at the John Warren Masonic Lodge, 6 Main Street from 8:30 - 11:30 am.  The Freemasons of the John Warren Masonic Lodge have graciously donated their space for the radKIDS classes to be held. A free return and practice policy is honored at radKIDS classes across the country.  Once a child has taken the radKIDS class, they can enroll in any radKIDS class, free of charge up to the age of 12, for as many times as they would like. To sign up for one of the radKIDS classes, for more information, or if you are interested in sponsoring a radKIDS class contact Kim Brennan at  kim.brennan@comcast.net.  Space is limited and will be filled on a first come first serve basis.  Plans are in place to offer the radKIDS course again in the fall.  To learn more about radKIDS, visit www.radKIDS.org

June 27 The Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Upton Kids Ride will be one of 40 PMC Kids Rides held in neighborhoods throughout New England and beyond. Nearly 7,000 cyclists between the ages of two and 15 will ride between one and 26 miles in mini-bike-a-thons to raise money for cancer research. The PMC Kids Rides are spokes in the PMC wheel, supporting more than 5,500 adult PMC cyclists in their mission to fund cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through its Jimmy Fund. The Pan-Mass Challenge is the two-day, 190-mile bike-a-thon held each August. Since 1980, the PMC has raised nearly $240 million for the Jimmy Fund. PMC Kids Rides offer a way for children to become part of the PMC mission, involving young people in volunteerism and fundraising in a safe and athletic way. To give the PMC Kids Rides an additional push, Patrick Byrne, CEO of e-business Overstock.com, has challenged the PMC Kids Rides program to raise $1 million. If they do, he will contribute an additional $500,000 to the PMC Kids Rides. After the tykes pulled in $728,000 in 2008, and with this new corporate challenge, there is no telling how far they will push in 2009. The PMC Upton Kids Ride expects 200 children, ages three to 15, to ride 15 miles near Blackstone Valley Regional High School, Upton. The PMC Upton Kids Ride was started by retired Chief of Police Tom Stockwell and Officer Lisa Vass. The PMC Upton Kids Ride will hold a party after the ride, which will include refreshments, music, face painting and more. The ride hopes to raise $30,000.. The PMC Upton Kids Ride will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 27 at Blackstone Valley Regional High School, 65 Pleasant Street.

June 27 June 27th will be the final recycle effort for the Hopkinton Lions Club. For many years Hopkinton residents have stepped forward with their recyclable bottles and cans, delivering them to Colella’s Market parking lot on the last Saturday of each month, enabling the Lions Club to gather funds to carry out their many service projects. While the club’s main focus is assistance with sight issues, providing eye exams, glasses, and sometimes surgery in many parts of the world, the Hopkinton club also supports local food and heating needs and programs for our town’s youth. Service will continue to be the club’s focus and they thank the many Hopkinton contributors for their years of giving. Recycle hours for this month will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. – rain or shine.

June 30 The Hopkinton-Ashland Youth Football and Cheerleading will be holding Paperwork Night on Tuesday, June 30, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, at the Ashland Middle School, 87 West Union Street. You must have all of your child's paperwork in before they can participate in any practice. Practice will begin on Monday, August 3rd, at Stone Park in Ashland. There are NO EXCEPTIONS. Paperwork needed is: * A Signed Medical Release. * A Report Card (complete copy, all pages, front and back)*if report cards are not issued, they must be brought to the first practice. * An ORIGINAL Birth Certificate (only if the child did not participate in the 2008 Season). A Copy of the child's Birth Certificate (whether they played before or not). * The Parents/Players Code of Conduct. * A Physical (has to be dated 2009) if the child does not have a scheduled physical the parent may get a letter from the child's physician. If you have any questions, please send us an email by visiting www.raiderfootball.org.