The Walpolean

If you had trouble reading the pdf, this might work better. – Lil

“Great Decisions”

Monday, May 15, 6:00 p.m. 

Ambassador Stapleton Roy presents:

“Sino-American Relations: Past, Present & Future”

In just one week, on Monday, May 15, Ambassador J. Stapleton (“Stape”) Roy will lead our “Great Decisions” public forum in the Walpole Town Library. You won’t want to miss Ambassador Roy’s presentation: “Sino-American Relations: Past, Present & Future.” 

The Ambassador will be joining via Zoom, and there will be an opportunity for questions and discussion following his presentation.

Ambassador Roy has immersed himself in the study of China and modern Asia throughout his long career. A fluent Mandarin-speaker, he rose to become a three-time United States Ambassador, serving in Singapore, the People’s Republic of China, and Indonesia. In 1996, he was promoted to the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest rank in the U.S. Foreign Service. In 2008, Roy was named director of the Kissinger Institute for Chinese-U.S. Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where he is now Founding Director Emeritus and a Distinguished Scholar. (Tonight he is attending Kissinger’s 100th birthday celebration!)

Suggested reading is the Foreign Policy Association’s article “China and America: Back to the Future,” by David Lampton, which is available at the library. A copy can be emailed to you upon request by contacting Jane Malmberg, Library Director: jmalmberg@walpoletownlibrary.org 

Also available at the library is the DVD “Great Decisions,” with a 30-minute Master Class on China & the United States.

All are welcome to join this public forum at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, May 15, either in person in the Hubbard Meeting Room at the Walpole Town Library or via Zoom. For the Zoom link, please contact Jane Malmberg in advance of the meeting: jmalmberg@walpoletownlibrary.org.

Sue Kibbe

Selectboard announced that there will be a parade on the 29th at 11:30.

Saturday, April 29, 2023, 9 am – 12 pm

This is a reminder that the Walpole Trail Committee’s Help Our Trails Day is tomorrow, Saturday, April 29.  Volunteers should meet at Town Hall by 9 am.  There will be donuts and coffee.  Our Trail Committee members have identified areas on Walpole trails that are in need of trail work.  We’ll divide our volunteers into small teams and send the teams out to tackle various maintenance projects on our town’s trails.

Please dress for trail work and bring your own water, bug repellant, work gloves, and hand tools (clippers, loppers, hand saws, etc.) if you have them.  Do not bring chain saws or power tools.  Litter bags will be provided.

We think and hope that the rain forecast for tomorrow will mostly hold off until the afternoon. Just in case there are rain showers, it would be a good idea to bring rain gear.

If you haven’t signed up yet and plan to attend, it is recommended that you RSVP to walpoletrailhelpers@gmail.com, so that you will receive any last minute information.

We look forward to seeing you on Help Our Trails Day!

​Wendy Grossman

​Walpole Trail Committee

Important information. Be sure you get the whites washed before then. – Lil

Hydrant flushing will be performed this week, Wednesday 4/26 and Thursday 4/27.

Tomorrow (Saturday, April 22) the great people of Walpole will once again join together to tidy up the highways and byways of our beautiful town for our Annual Walpole Clean Up Day.

At 8:00 am, we will be ready at the Walpole Recycling/Transfer Station with blue bags, gloves, coffee and donuts, plus suggestions of the best routes for trash-picking. Coffee and donuts will be consumed, strategies set, and off the volunteers will go in a race to see who can collect the most trash.  By 11:00 am, volunteers will bring their booty back to the Transfer Station, where it will be counted.  Keep in mind that yard waste will be counted toward our totals!  

Our Clean Up Day, in addition to being good for the town, is a great way to have fun with a group of friends on a Saturday morning in Spring – plus you have the whole rest of the day for chores and leisure-time activities.  Gather a group from work, church or neighborhood–the more the merrier!

So everyone please join us for three hours on Saturday, April 21st for this fun event, and help keep Walpole the prettiest town in New England!  

Happy Earth Day!

– Kara Dexter and Tara Sad

Invitation for new members to join our investors group that has been active since December 1997.  The purpose of the group is to invest the assets of the partnership solely in public traded equities for the education and benefit of the partners.  Monthly meetings are held at the Walpole Library on the third Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. for approximately one hour.  Requirements include members have an interest in learning & sharing knowledge about investing.  Monthly minimum investment is $30.

Please join us for one meeting to see if it is a good fit for all involved.   Email Carol Malnati @ carolmalnati@yahoo.com  with questions and available times to attend a meeting.

Yes, finish up your taxes, and then get your May CLARION submissions to me by next Saturday the 22nd – now eight days away. If possible, by next Friday the 21st even better. As usual, I already have a number of submissions, so the sooner you get me your articles, announcements or advertisements, the proverbial better for proper placement and design work.

As I have said, this is “your community resource” to share information about your group – its activities and events that residents will enjoy attending. And, having a nice mix of articles for readers, I welcome “feel good” news of past local events, stories and accomplishments to share. All subject to space, of course, space that is made possible by the CLARION’s supporting advertisers. We all owe them a big “thank you.”

If you have any questions, or interest in placing an advertisement, reaching over 1900 Walpole, North Walpole and Drewsville addresses, I welcome your inquiries, so please do get in touch with me. All contact information is on the CLARION website.

Thank you, yours, RAY BOAS, Publisher