Acton COA Presents: Hearing Screening Appointments with Audiologist Megan Ford
2025-10-28 09:30 - 11:45 (America/New_York) | Acton Senior Center, 30 Sudbury Road Rear, Acton, MA, 01720
Megan Ford Au.D., a licensed audiologist in practice since 1998, will provide hearing screenings, ear wax checks, and basic hearing aid checks. Please allow 15 minutes for your appointment.
Dr. Ford has worked at several major medical centers in Boston, Cleveland and Worcester. In 2013 she opened her private practice, HearSmart Audiology, in Littleton. There has been such a high demand for Dr. Ford’s appointments, she will now be coming to the Center monthly!
To sign up for a slot, contact the Council on Aging by phone (978-929-6652) or email (seniorcenter@actonma.gov).
Acton 60+ only.

Acton COA Presents: Becoming Janet: Finding Myself in the Holocaust with Author Janet Singer Applefield
2025-10-28 13:00 - 14:30 | Acton Senior Center, 30 Sudbury Road Rear, Acton, MA, 01720
The Friends of the Acton Council on Aging proudly announce that the Honoring Excellence program will host Holocaust Survivor, Author and Public Speaker Janet Singer Applefield. Janet wrote a memoir about her experience as a Jewish child in Poland, surviving by taking on the identity of a deceased Catholic girl and hiding in plain sight with the aid of strangers. Her father, weighing just 110 pounds, survived the Theresienstadt camp-ghetto and reunited with his daughter. He transcribed Janet’s recollections of her years of survival, which served as the basis for her memoir.
Refreshments will be served following the program. At 89 years old, Janet continues to write, research, and speak about her experience as a child survivor, teaching students about human rights, the ever-present specter of genocide and the importance of standing up to bigotry and hate.
Open to all age 60+/free.

Opening celebration: 549 Main Street
2025-10-28 14:00 - 16:00 | 549 Main Street, 549 Main Street, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
You are cordially invited to join us in celebrating the public opening of the 549 Main Street property, known by many as the Conant land.
This multi-year project represents a partnership of state and local government, the Conant family, and non-governmental organizations in preserving historical, natural, and water resources while opening new opportunities for public passive recreation.

Welcome
Remarks
Refreshments
Guided Walk (for those interested)

Parking is available at 8 Post Office Square Behind, Acton, MA – please look for blue arrows directing you to the site.
Please wear comfortable shoes. Mobility assistance will be available from the parking area.
Contact Shawn Case with questions or to RSVP
978-263-9107
shawn@actonwater.com

Library: Yarn & Needle Club
2025-04-22 15:00 - 16:00 | Acton Memorial Library Meeting Room (1st floor), 486 Main Street, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Knitters, crocheters, embroiderers, and sewers, join the library to work on your project and socialize! We meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month.

Library: Virtual – “The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto” with Historian Elizabeth R. Hyman
2025-10-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Register for the Zoom link here.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is one of the most storied events of the Holocaust, yet previous accounts of which have almost entirely focused on its male participants. In “The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising”, Holocaust historian Elizabeth Hyman introduces five young, courageous Polish Jewish women—known as “the girls” by the leadership of the resistance and “bandits” by their Nazi oppressors—who were central to the Jewish resistance as fighters, commanders, couriers, and smugglers. Join us as Elizabeth shares this extraordinary, important, and heretofore hidden history with us.
This program is in partner with the Ashland Public Library
