Links
We hope you enjoy this wide variety of links. Please be aware that when you link through to any of the sites we recommend, you are leaving the Westminster Vine community. Enjoy the recommendations, but use common sense when you visit any site links.
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Local
Hager Park is located off of Route 140 (known locally as Hager Park Road) just south of the intersection with Route 2A and the Route 2 East on-ramp. The park consists of approximately 57 acres on the east side of the road, which abuts Woodside Cemetery and surrounds the Water Treatment facility. There are another 18 ± acres located on the west side of Route 140.
Clubs and Groups
Westminster Wakeboard Club president, Michael Gendron
2006 WMCA Champions, 2008 WMCA Co-Champions
The club meets every Wednesday, 7-11 PM at Fitchburg State College, McKay Campus School, Room C199.
Welcome to the MOMS (MOMS Offering Moms Support) Club® of the Montachusett Region. We are a social, activity, and support club for stay-at-home moms and their children. Our chapter covers the towns of Ashburnham, Gardner, Winchendon, and Westminster Massachusetts. We also are currently accepting members from the town of Athol to help them generate enough interest to form their own chapter.
This club was organized in 2004 by a group of Central Massachusetts men and women who enjoy telling tall tales, writing clever poetry and spouting ideas in exciting essays for interested audiences. The club meets on Mondays at 1:00 pm at the Westminster Town Hall with the exception of holidays.
A social club for waterskiing, wakeboarding, snowmobiles, and jetskis. membership is free.
Education
Get Organized!
FlyLady was like many of us. She was disorganized, overwhelmed and in need of structure. She suffered from CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome). FlyLady has gotten her life in order and now teaches that we are not behind - we are just getting started! I've subscribed to this at two different times in the last 8 years and both times I really felt on top of things when I did what she recommended. Give it a try!
Spybot is the best privacy software available to clean up your computer for free. So says PC World, PC Magazine and lots of people we know.
Music and Movies
Pandora
A great site to legally get music for your computer. Seed your own personal radio station with music you like. Pandora presents you with bands and songs that are similar in obvious or subtle ways. Thumbs-up or thumbs-down songs. Pandora then revises songs it gives you and figures out which songs you are most likely to thumbs-up. After a few hours of sitting at the computer (working on other things, of course), we found the majority of songs Pandora was playing were ones that we would thumbs-up.
Jango
Similar to Pandora, Jango allows Users to seed their 'stations' with artists and songs that they like to create a personalized listening experience. A big thumbs-up!
Newspaper and Blogs Links
Drudge Report The first, and often most accurate news. Hear it here first! Sometimes it's tabloidesque, but always interesting reading.
Google News This site is a great source of world news, culled from sources such as the BBC, Wall Street Journal, Jerusalem Post and the New York Times. The news is sorted by category and can be personalized based on your preferences.
The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal is for those of us who will not be fooled by the mainstream media. It is in-depth unbiased coverage of politics, finances, and much much more.
Miscellaneous
For those of you who appreciate those posters in the HR department at work, or at your accountant's office, these posters and this site ARE NOT for you. At first glance, they look like the traditional motivational posters. However, reading through some of them will result in side-splitting laughter or 'YES! That's exactly what it's really about!' Check it out.
Google Maps Street View points out just how awful your house looks when winter is turning into spring. You can 'drive' all over your neighborhood and check out addresses of people you know.
This site contains graphs that are submitted by site users. Some are dumb, but many make you laugh out loud.
Video clips with everything from the infamous exploding whale to panda bear babies, and a whole lot more.