5 Things You Need To Know Today in Framingham: Tuesday, December 28, 2021

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1 FLYERS in action:

• Framingham High boys ice hockey team has a game at 5:10 p.m. at Loring Arena. “

The game is “family only per Framingham Park Department. The general public will not be allowed to attend,” according to Framingham High athletics.

• The annual Dan Balboni Holiday Classic wrestling tournament has been cancelled.

2. According to the Mayor’s publicly posted schedule, Mayor Yvonne Spicer has no public events today or this week on her calendar. Her final day in office is Friday, December 31.

The inauguration for Mayor-elect Charlie Sisitsky and other elected officials is Saturday, January 1 at noon. It will be a virtual event for the public.

3. City of Framingham MEETINGS:

• Framingham Traffic Commission at 7 p.m.

4. Framingham Library is hosting a Tea & Ted Talk today at 4 p.m. virtually.

Trust is the foundation for everything we do. But what do we do when it’s broken? In an eye-opening talk, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei gives a crash course in trust: how to build it, maintain it and rebuild it—something she worked on during a recent stint at Uber. “If we can learn to trust one another more, we can have unprecedented human progress,” Frei says.

​​To receive the Zoom link, register at bit.ly/FPL-Events by 9 a.m. on December 28. Before the discussion, we invite you to watch the YouTube video at bit.ly/Tea-Talk-Dec-2021.

Registration or event questions? Email framinghamlibraryevents@gmail.com or call us at 508.532.5570.

5. Today is Pledge of Allegiance Day. Congress adopted the “The Pledge” into the United States Flag Code on December 28, 1945.

Francis Bellamy receives credit for writing the Pledge of Allegiance. The Youth’s Companion, a magazine for young people, first published it anonymously on September 8, 1892, under the title “The Pledge.” It was written in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America.

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