CCTV will present a specially produced commemorative video piece by local artist London Bridgez in honor of World AIDS Day (Dec.1). London's spoken word piece " Can’t Stop (Loving You)" pushes our expectations of the genre, building creative bridges between blues and soul. Her work mimics afro Caribbean oral traditions of story telling about love, life, and loss.

CCTV will be commemorating World AIDS Day by darkening our local cable Channel 10 and displaying a continuous scroll of names of Cambridge community members lost to HIV/AIDS along with this programming.

World AIDS Day will be recognized around the globe on December 1st with events that highlight progress, raise awareness, and remind us of how much work still needs to be done.

image credit: Alexandra @ Finch Studio : www.finchstudio.com

Join
Cambridge at Home Walking Group
on
Thursday morning December 18 at 10:00 AM
for a walk around Fresh Pond.

Cambridge At Home is a senior walking group that moves at a moderate pace for approximately one hour.

Please contact Kristen at 617-864-1715 or kristen@cambridgeathome.org for more information.

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What is Operation Potter?

(No, not Harry.)
Operation Potter is the code name for the full-scale Emergency Dispensing Site (EDS) Exercise that the Cambridge Public Health Department conducted Saturday, November 8 at the Tobin School.

Why did the Cambridge Public Health Department conduct a full-scale EDS? exercise?

Local health departments need to be prepared to dispense mass vaccines or medications in response to a large-scale public health threat such as a flu pandemic or bioterrorist attack. read more...

NAMI Connection is a weekly recovery support group for people living with mental illness in which people learn from each others’ experiences, share coping strategies, and offer each other encouragement and understanding.

Our meetings are held at Cambridge Hospital every Wednesday evening
at 1493 Cambridge Street from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Learning Room C&D 3rd floor
Contact 617-776-7972

Now that we’ve survived Halloween, it’s time for something even scarier...FLU SHOTS!

Flu can kill you

Every year
5% to 20% of the US population gets the flu,
more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu complications,
and about 36,000 die.
Flu can put you out of commission for a week or longer with cough, fever, aches and weakness.

What can you do to stay healthy?

Cambridge residents age nine and older can get a FREE flu shot at any of the Cambridge Public Health Department’s annual flu clinics (see schedule below) from now through December 10th. read more...

This Friday (Halloween) is Walk Ride Day so have some fun with it. Dress up in costume or dress up in Green and Orange and reduce your carbon BIGFoot print for the day.

Wear green, go green, be green...feel good about yourself- and get LOOT from participating sponsors (see list below)!

Find alternate transport other than your gas-powered fume-emitting car -- walk, bus, train, bike, or carpool...(yeah, it's a car, but at least you're sharing it...) Always the last Friday of every month

To become a sponsor visit For Sponsors.

For more information on Walk / Ride Days and the Green Streets Organization, visit gogreenstreets.org. read more...