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if anyone wants to help them but isn't able to make it to the fridges to donate food you can also give them money here: woofridges open collective page.

Not to mention a lot of shopping is done online today and most of the new places in the canal district aren’t easily accessible by car. So unless you’re a hipster who can afford to live near Union station a lot of it likely won’t be appealing.

Just letting you know, there are loads of discounts you may be applicable for that you can apply even retroactively. For example, the First Responder Discount (police, EMT/EMS, nurse, teacher, veteran, active military, firefighter,) gets you $15 off if anyone in your house is one. Higher education discount is $10. And if you qualify for the Affordable Connectivity Program (essentially any government assistance, including Medicaid or Masshealth, you can get up to $60 off the gig package. If you have a VZ phone line, that’s a $25 discount too. Some stack, some do not.

Just saying, 300/300 is the new bare minimum Fios offers. If you qualify for the Affordable Connectivity Program, you can get it for 100% free.

Good tip and thanks for the heads up.

Cornwell display 26 Dawson Road.

shbooms is mezcal now. you went to jury duty a block away.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Thanks for all the responses, I'll DM you all

Redesigning our streets to make them safe would benefit everybody in the city, including small businesses.

You are thinking of Beto’s Tacos, since reopened as Main Tacos.

You can be remote if you take a customer service position

I can see why my reply confused you. I think your premise, that people who moved here more recently are higher on Worcester than people who left long ago, may have some merit. But there are probably also quite a few people like me who are comparing today’s Worcester not to the Worcester of the 1990s, but to more functional similarly sized cities. Worcester does not come out looking good in those comparisons.

Yes!!! Labeling and dating is great. Cleaning is amazing and always needed. Getting the word out, sharing food with a neighbor, encouraging folks at work to bring in a sweet potato, using the QR codes on the doors to do quick check-ins, there are all kinds of ways to love the fridges.

I think I may have posted this here before. Sometime in the 1950s my dad got laid off at his job a few weeks before Christmas. To get out ahead of things my folks told us something about Santa being sick or something like that. One of my aunts worked at Spag's and was telling a coworker about my dad's lay off and the prospects of a lean Christmas for us kids. Mr Borgatti overheard the conversation and got involved. A truck pulled up in front of our house on Christmas eve. Christmas morning when we got up there were two rooms filled floor to ceiling with presents. Mr Borgatti's generosity was legendary and that Christmas still ranks as one of the best in my memory. It was pure magic for us kids and gave me a lifetime appreciation for Spag and the spirit of Christmas.

Make sure to label and date everything you add to the fridges or else people are unlikely to take it.

Look up Leicester Light Display on FB, it's their last year.

These are such a good, compassionate, even loving idea. It makes me feel guilty that I've yet to donate, especially since my large immediate family benefited from things like this when I was very young.

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Bunch of local townies hating because they have nothing

Sure I dont disagree with that. Not sure why you originally replied to me because as I said I was talking about people who have real hate so evidently not you, despite your rant (ranting is cathartic, not criticizing you!).

I'll say this. I've lived in much better cities and I've lived in much worse cites.

I think people who slam Worcester the most have never been out of it . Travel the country and the world . Expose yourself to other places and cultures . Then come back and tell me how bad Worcester is . Compared to other cities in the country it's fantastic. Worcester has everything you need . You can get anywhere in the city within 15 minutes . While also taking one of the best public transportation systems I've ever seen . It runs like clockwork. Most days. Schools , restraints and museums are plenty. Then if you need to get out you can be in the deep wilderness by driving 20 minutes in any direction . There's swimming , hiking and climbing . The ocean is 45 minutes to an hr away . This city has everything . And if you think your neighborhood is bad then you haven't seen a bad neighborhood . I've seen bad sides of town in FLA, Cal, LA , San Diego, Hawai and also Mexico . Trust me nothing in this city compares . It's a great place to live actually . Enjoy it .

As a woman who’s lived in multiple parts of Massachusetts and is in my late 20’s I will say that Worcester is my least favorite place I have lived. The food scene is great and there’s always things to do which I like as well as the affordability of living compared to elsewhere in Mass. But I have never in my life felt less safe living somewhere. I cannot even walk down my own street as all the drug dealers and homeless people congregate at the end and recently have started making their way up and into the neighborhood. I know there are nicer neighborhoods but at higher costs. There is not much for nature that isn’t polluted with trash and I like to get outdoors. We tried going swimming in the summer and every time the pond was closed for toxic algae blooms. I noticed a difference in available fresh produce at grocery stores compared to nearby towns. I’ve also noticed a difference in the overall helpfulness and happiness of people who work in the retail industry, they are a lot more miserable and less likely to help. I’ve had friends sexually harassed at the gym and the male managers do nothing about it. Also the freaking fireworks every night in the summer scare the shit out of my cat. I’ve made great friends in the city and have had great experiences but I do not plan on buying a house or raising a family here. As someone who wasn’t raised in Worcester or a similar city/town it has been a bit of a culture shock.