Going to Jamaica Plain World's Fair on Sat. Sept. 12. 12noon to 6pm in Hyde/Jackson Square on Centre Street. Great event.

www.jpworldsfair.org.

See Neighbors For Neighbors Jamaica Plain

The new recycling bins arrived at my apartment this morning in JP. I made quick video about them.

Nearly $200,000 in statewide grants help families cope with the economic crisis

Summer is coming. Time for football – signups.

The local Pop Warner Football leagues are already in process of signing up youth for the fall season in their respective neighborhoods. Pop Warner has programs for youth football players and cheerleaders in multiple age categories. The Pop Warner program in West Roxbury recently changed its name to the “Parkway Falcons” and is now accommodating youth in West Roxbury, Roslindale, and Jamaica Plain.

Boomerangs is an award-winning resale store based in Jamaica Plain. Even better, all of our proceeds support the great programs and services of the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts. Since 1996, we have been selling a vast array of finds and treasures, and specialize in new and vintage clothing for men, women, and children as well as gifts, housewares, electronics and furniture.

We Media and Ashoka's Changemakers are searching to find the best new ideas for inspiring a better world through media and technology. They are looking for business and non-profit ideas and will award $50,000 in seed funding to the innovators who can bring the best ideas to life. (Sorry deadline already passed).

I submitted Neighbors for Neighbors,the non profit I founded and run in Jamaica Plain as a contestant and would appreciate your votes to help us win the 50K!

To win we need your votes - please give us five stars now at http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/node/17505

State wildlife biologist considers video taken by Steve Garfield of the squirrel near Jamaica Pond, says it looks like a true albino squirrel, as opposed to being a squirrel with white fur (albinos have pink eyes; white-furred squirrels have dark eyes).