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Tea and Talk Tuesdays: TED Talk: The Brain-Changing Benefits of Exercise, by Wendy Suzuki.Tuesday, January 26, 3-4pm. We all know that exercise is good for our bodies and January is the most popular time to start thinking about it. But did you know that exercise can not only have immediate long-lasting effects to your brain but it can also have longer lasting effects that can protect your brain from different conditions like depression, Alzheimer's disease and dementia? Before you join us for the discussion, we invite you to watch Wendy Suzuki's Ted Talk at bit.ly/Ted-Wendy-Suzuki.  We'll talk about our own experiences with exercise and how it may have transformed our bodies or changed our brains for the better. Email us at framinghamlibraryevents@gmail.com to receive an invitation and link to the Zoom session.

Looking for a job? Need to create or update a resume? Make an appointment for free one-on-one resume help and job searching strategies with career coach Ed Lawrence. A limited number of appointments are available on Thursdays January 7, 14, 21, and 28 from 9am-1:30pm online via Zoom.* Please email Ed at elawrence@minlib.net to schedule an appointment. *If you need access to a computer, please email the Framingham Public Library at fplmail6@minlib.net or call the Main Library at 508-532-5570.

Join the Framingham Public Library and guest speaker Dr. Helen Heineman, President Emerita of Framingham State University, for the Lifelong Learning Lecture, "Dickens and His Fictions of Childhood."?? This lecture will examine several of his child characters and will also look at Dickens himself, father of ten children, at once loving, demanding, and distant. Importing the child into a central place in the novel, he made a difference in the way our culture thinks about children.?? Please email framinghamlibraryevents@gmail.com to join our Winter-Spring 2021 mailing list and to receive Zoom links to our lectures. All requests must be received by 5:00 pm on the day of the lecture.?? NOTE: If you registered for the Fall 2020 series, you do not need to re-register.

The Summer of protest across the country, the pandemic, the food insecurities, evictions, unemployment, and mental health. We have marched and voted; what do we do now to make the conditions for Black and Brown people better from this point forward?

Mayor Yvonne M. Spicer will be joined by Framingham's Chief Financial Officer Mary Ellen Kelley and Framingham Public Schools’ Executive Director of Finance and Business Operations Lincoln Lynch to discuss the City's fiscal picture. Attendees will be able to pose questions during the hour via Zoom's Chat function. If people cannot Attendees will be able to pose questions during the hour via Zoom's Chat function. If people cannot attend and have questions, please email kmcfalls@framinghamma.gov with the subject line: January 26 Community Hour. A video recording of the Zoom will be available following for those who cannot attend.