Cycling Safety Advisory Committee hosts coffee
The Lincoln Cycling Safety Advisory Committee invites residents to a coffee and chat on Saturday, May 6 at Trail’s End at 10:45 a.m. to learn more about how we are trying to make the town’s roads safer for all. The event will feature a safety talk by Ian Spencer of the Lincoln Police Department, some information on the new committee, and free coffee provided by the Lincoln Police Association. It will be run in conjunction with the local cycling club “The Monsters in the Basement” opening day activities. For those up for a longer ride at a modest pace (15-16 m.p.h.), the group will leave Fern’s in Carlisle Center at 9:30 a.m. using this route to arrive at Trail’s End by 10:45.
Brennan Srisirikul at First Parish
Brennan Srisirikul
The First Parish in Lincoln (FPL) will host Brennan Srisirikul at its service on Sunday, May 7 at 10 a.m. in the Parish House Auditorium (14 Bedford Road). He will speak along with Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti, FPL’s senior minister, and after sharing some of his life journey, he’ll will participate in a public question-and-answer session at 11:30 a.m. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth, Mr. Sirisirikul is an actor who wrote a one-man show, “In My Own Little Corner,” seen at the Metropolitan Room in New York City. He recently gave the keynote address at the Massachusetts Federation for Children with Special Needs annual conference.
Sara Lewis to give talk on fireflies
Sara Lewis
Lincoln resident Sara Lewis, a professor of biology at Tufts University, will dive into the mysterious world of fireflies and reveal the most up-to-date discoveries about these charismatic insects in the first annual Chuck Roth Memorial Lecture on Thursday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m in the Morrison Theater at Newbury Court (100 Newbury Court, Concord). Roth, a Lincoln resident for more than 30 years, was credited as being the father of environmental literacy, an internationally recognized environmental educator and Mass Audubon’s first director of education. The lecture is co-sponsored by Newbury Court and by the Littleton Land Conservation Trust, where Roth served as director for many years.
