29 Apr: 9:00 AM – Wednesday Meeting for Worship – Westerly Friends Meeting
04 May: 6:00 PM – Westerly Town Council Meeting – Council Chambers – Westerly Town Hall
06 May: 9:00 AM – Wednesday Meeting for Worship – Westerly Friends Meeting
06 May: 5:30 PM – Westerly School Committee Meeting – Council Chambers – Westerly Town Hall
09 May: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM – Permanent Board meeting – Wellesley Friends Meeting in Wellesley, MA – Hybrid
We welcome your interest and participation. Click here for general information and background documents pertaining to Permanent Board, and a link to register to attend.
If you are interested in learning more about recent Permanent Board discernment, the minutes and advance documents for past PB meetings can be found here.
12 May: 11:00 AM – Open House Celebration – WARM Center – 58 Spruce Street, Westerly, RI
You’re Invited! – Join us to celebrate the opening of our new project! – This special milestone represents an important step forward in expanding safe, stable housing for families in our community, and we would love for you to celebrate with us. This project reflects the power of partnership and community support, and we’re excited to share this moment with the people who help make WARM’s work possible.
Following the ribbon cutting, guests are invited to stay for a casual open house and informal lunch. We hope you’ll join us as we celebrate this exciting milestone and the continued effort to ensure our neighbors have a place to call home.
Please RSVP to Jill at 401-596-9276 or by clicking the link RSVP
13 May: 9:00 AM – Wednesday Meeting for Worship – Westerly Friends Meeting
13 May: 5:30 PM – Peace Essay Award – Westerly Friends Meeting
Please plan to attend this event to show our support to the community and the winner of the peace essay contest. The winner will read their essay as part of the celebration and refreshments will be served.
17 May: 9:00 AM – Neighbor Day – Wilcox Park – Saturday, May 17, 9:00-2:00
Save the date for the Town of Westerly’s annual Neighbor Day celebration. This event, organized by the Multicultural Committee, is a chance to learn more about your town, it’s history, and interact with your neighbors. This year’s theme is “Honoring the Diversity of Westerly’s Forgotten Patriots.” Highlights include: Educational Activity: Visit displays with the names of area veterans of the Revolutionary War, where they are buried locally, histories of important individuals, maps of key battles, and more. Scavenger Hunt: Test your knowledge of the park and the diverse group of Rhode Island Revolutionary soldiers who fought for our freedom from the English. Children’s Activities & Music: Participate in Revolutionary Era Children’s games, practice your artistic skills, and enjoy the music of Frank Pendola, along with selections from the musical Hamilton. See more details here.
17 May: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM – Observer Training – St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (East Greenwich) Registration
Join with your neighbors and other people of faith as we work together to support our immigrant communities. Our work together is grounded in our two core values: everyone is a beloved child of God and a commitment to non-violence. Link to Website
This training will provide guidance on how stay within the law when you:
- are protesting
- are a friend or bystander during ICE and CBP actions and arrests
- are documenting ICE and CBP actions and arrests
- are protecting your home, school, place of worship, or business from ICE and CBP
18 May: 6:00 PM – Westerly Town Council Meeting – Council Chambers – Westerly Town Hall
20 May: 9:00 AM – Wednesday Meeting for Worship – Westerly Friends Meeting
20 May: 5:30 PM – Westerly School Committee Meeting – Council Chambers – Westerly Town Hall
26 May: 9:30 AM – Friendly Hikes – Bluff Point Loop Trail – Bluff Point State Park, 55 Depot Rd, Groton, CT
This is the classic loop at Bluff Point. It is a well-maintained, wide gravel carriage with magnificent ocean views along the way. Many optional spur trails take you out to gorgeous ocean overlooks. Trail length 3.6 miles, elevation gain 157 ft and estimated hiking time 1 to 1.5 hours.
Bluff Point is the last remaining significant piece of undeveloped land along the Connecticut coastline. This wooded peninsula, measuring one and one-half miles long by one mile wide, encompasses over 800 acres of protected land.
Bluff Point was designated a “Coastal Reserve” by a special act of the Connecticut legislature in 1975 to establish the area “for the purpose of preserving its native ecological associations, unique faunal and floral characteristics, geological features and scenic qualities in a condition of undisturbed integrity”.
27 May: 9:00 AM – Wednesday Meeting for Worship – Westerly Friends Meeting
30 May: 9:00 AM – Extended Meeting for Worship – Westerly Friends Meeting, Westerly, RI
Extended Meeting continues the practice of Friends, in earlier times, often worshiping for hours fully expectant and deeply patient for the Living Presence to do its work in the gathered body of Friends. These experiences were core to Quaker convincement, personal transformation, and prophetic challenges to the cultural behaviors in the places where Quakers lived. Modeled on a 25 year practice in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, we have begun these opportunities for NEYM Friends. You are welcome to quietly get up and move around as needed for your health and well being.
01 Jun: 6:00 PM – Westerly Town Council Meeting – Council Chambers – Westerly Town Hall
03 Jun: 9:00 AM – Wednesday Meeting for Worship – Westerly Friends Meeting
03 Jun 5:30 PM – Westerly School Committee Meeting – Council Chambers – Westerly Town Hall
07 Jun: Southeast Quarterly Meeting – Smithfield Friends – 108 Smithfield Rd. (Rte 146-A), Woonsocket, RI
10 Jun: 9:00 AM – Wednesday Meeting for Worship – Westerly Friends Meeting
17 Jun: 9:00 AM – Wednesday Meeting for Worship – Westerly Friends Meeting
20 Jun: “Meeting for Listening” – NEYM – the spiritual life in our local meetings – full-day, hybrid
Together, we will:
- Dream together
- Identify the resources meetings have to offer each other
- Explore themes in State of Society reports and trends from statistical reports
- Discover what’s possible now
We gather to share with each other–to reflect on where Spirit is alive in our local worshiping communities. These insights and reflections also inform programmatic planning in the year ahead and our Yearly Meeting’s annual priorities.
24 Jun: 9:00 AM – Wednesday Meeting for Worship – Westerly Friends Meeting
19 Jul: 10:00 AM – Meeting for Worship and Picnic – Ninigret Park, Charlestown, RI
This 227-acre park features a state-of-the-art playground, ball fields, ten-speed bike course, tennis and basketball courts, picnic areas and a freshwater swimming pond with public beach; lifeguards on duty.