Community Meal, Reducing Plastics, Meet the Artists

Time for your Monday Essentials, a weekly snapshot of one or more critical things coming in the week ahead. If you know of something coming up that would make a great addition to Monday Essentials, email watertown@patch.com.

For a full listing of events and happenings, check out the Watertown Patch events calendar.

Church Hosts Community Meal 

The Church of the Good Shepherd hosts a meal to celebrate the harvest from its gardens. The event is Monday at 5:30 p.m. Bring a dish to share and the recipe.

Reducing Plastics in Watertown

Members of Watertown Citizens and Sustainable Watertown invite residents to discuss how to further reduce the amount of plastics discarded in Watertown on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Watertown Library.

Town Council Meets

Councilors will hear a presentation of a study of the staffing and organization of the Department of Public Works and consider funding for upgrades to Casey Park. The meeting begins at 7:15 p.m. in Town Hall.

Meet the Artists

The Arsenal Center for the Arts presents "text + conText" on Thursday at 7 p.m. You can meet fabric artist Adrienne Sloane, multi-media artist Janet 
Scudder and painter Rob Wilstein, who have works in the Flash Art exhibit during the free event. Find out more here.