From Evelyn Clarke this afternoon – the Medfield Housing Authority has cancelled for tonight –
Selectmen,
FYI Medfield Housing Board will not attend tonight’s meeting
Candace Loewen telephoned Michael to let him know the individual she is collaborating with regarding financial assistance with the expansion at Tilden is unable to attend the meeting.
We will confirm at a later date if they will be available for the Jan. 31 or February 7 meeting.
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Do you know someone in Medfield who volunteers countless time and energy to a worthy community cause or initiative? If so, now is your chance to recognize that person as part of the Medfield Foundation volunteer awards.
Anyone interested in submitting a nomination for one of the 2017 Medfield Foundation volunteer awards can download the form at www.MedfieldFoundation.org. Completed forms should be e-mailed to “MfiVolunteerAward@gmail.com” no later than January 31, 2017.
The MFi’s 2017 volunteer recognition reception is scheduled for 3 -5 PM on Sunday, March 19, 2017 at The Center.
Above in the photo are the 2015 nominees:
Eight Medfield volunteers received recognition in 2015.
The Medfield Foundation, Inc. is a volunteer-run private nonprofit, tax deductible 501(c)(3) corporation created in 2001 to raises private monies for public purposes in the Town of Medfield. The MFi allows donors to designate their donations for particular purposes. The MFi also allows motivated groups to raise monies for Medfield purposes under the rubric of the Medfield Foundation. To date, the MFi has raised over $1,800,000.00 for the Town of Medfield and celebrated over one hundred volunteers.
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From my American Association for Justice daily news feed –
AP (1/2) reports that the family of Moriah Modisette, a 5-year-old girl killed near Dallas in a Christmas Eve 2014 crash with a vehicle operated by a driver who was purportedly using Apple’s FaceTime video chat app while driving at 65 mph, had filed suit against the tech giant. The complaint, filed in Santa Clara Superior Court and obtained by KTLA, alleges that police found FaceTime running on the driver’s iPhone and that Apple knew the risks associated with using FaceTime while driving, but it nonetheless failed to implement iPhone technology that would have automatically disabled FaceTime when used in a vehicle moving at highway speeds – technology which Apple had itself patented in 2008.
The Washington Post (1/2, Wootson, 11.43M) reports that the driver, Garrett Wilhelm, was following the Modisette family’s Camry, and police believe that Wilhelm, due to his use of FaceTime, never saw the Modisettes’ brake lights when their car stopped, and his SUV “slammed into the Camry at full highway speed.” The Post adds that Wilhelm’s iPhone survived the collision and when police found the device, FaceTime was still running. While Wilhelm faces criminal manslaughter charges, the Modisette family believes Apple is also at fault, because iPhones should detect whether the user is operating a moving vehicle and disable the FaceTime app preloaded on iPhones. The Post notes that the Modisette case represents “yet another example of drivers’ crashing while distracted by apps on their smartphones..”
Business Insider (12/30, Price, 3.42M) quotes the central allegations of the Modisettes’ complaint, which avers that Apple’s “failure to design, manufacture, and sell the iPhone 6 Plus with the patented, safer, alternative design technology already available to it … and failure to warn users that the product was likely to be dangerous when used or misused in a reasonably foreseeable manner … rendered the Apple iPhone 6 defective when it left defendant APPLE INC.’s possession, and were therefore a substantial factor in causing plaintiffs’ injuries and the decedent’s death.”
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The Medfield Foundation (MFi) annually fetes at its Volunteer Awards those individuals, suggested by fellow residents, whose extraordinary efforts and activities have made a special marked difference in the quality of life in Medfield.
At a reception on March 19 at The Center the town will celebrate all the individual nominated this year, and the MFi will name its Volunteer of the Year, Youth Volunteer of the Year, and Lifetime Achievement Award recipients.
The Volunteers Awards are based entirely on nominations submitted by the public, and solely on the information submitted. Give recognition to your special volunteer by submitting your nomination before January 31 on the form found at www.medfieldfoundation.org.
Brothers Marketplace generously sponsors the MFi Volunteer Awards, and support is also received from The Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation.
2013 Medfield Foundation volunteer awards nominees
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