Pictured with his daughter Kathy Collins.

Jodi Purdy-Quinlan – East Weymouth

“What I love about Weymouth is its historic culture and its environmental culture. It’s a beautiful Town and the second oldest Town in Massachusetts and I love and appreciate everything in this Town and I appreciate the preservation efforts taking place.”

WHAT I LOVE ABOUT WEYMOUTH - Sophie Kizino

I love Weymouth Whipple Center. It is a warm friendly place with lots of activities for seniors.

I joined the Choral Group under the direction of Portia Miller and Betty Nash. Through this group, I have made lots of wonderful friends. We enjoy singing at the Weymouth Nursing homes.

I always feel welcome anytime I come into the Center. The receptionists at the desk are very friendly and helpful. Steve, the trip coordinator is always so pleasant and accommodating. Camille is precious. She is a real gem – always a hello and always a smile.

The luncheons, Bingo and Geronimo games are so nice.

I don’t want to forget Bill & Shirley Goodwin and all the lovely trips I’ve gone on with them. They are so wonderful in planning trips by Conway. We are so lucky.

I could go on and on. It is my second home and after my mother passed away several years ago, it has been a lifesaver to me.

God bless each and everyone there. Wishing all the best.

“What I like about Weymouth, it’s more than just like, I love Weymouth. It’s my hometown. There’s isn’t anything maybe I don’t like about Weymouth. It’s easy to get involved in anything that you want to do here. You can volunteer at any number of things, you can get involved in the politics of the Town. It offers everything a person could possibly want in a community. I have done a lot of travelling all over the world and you come back here and it just has everything you could possibly want. It’s convenient to the City, it’s convenient to the seashore, it’s convenient to the ocean, and it’s a real thriving community and I love the history of Weymouth. The fact that it was one of the earliest communities in the entire United States and I love the history of Weymouth more than anything.”

“What I like about Weymouth is its central location, its accessibility to all types of recreational resources, the people. That’s probably what I like about Weymouth the most.”

"I've had the good fortune of doing a lot of traveling. Mine, even more fortunately paid for by my company. What I've realized over that time and my time in and around Boston is that Weymouth ain't Wellesley and it's not Weston and it sure isn't Hingham. And that's a real good thing. Growing up in Weymouth, most of us didn't spend time on soft rolling lawns or private prestigious schools or in country club swimming pools. In fact, we didn't have Nanny's, we had parents. We didn't have trust funds, we had jobs. At that time, we didn't have the MCAS, we had teachers who threatened to kick our ass if we didn't get up and do our work at school. Our idea of European travel was going to the restaurant of the same name in the North End. Which, I wish was still there.

In the end what I got and what I believe thousands of others just like me got from this town was a bedrock set of values. And the ability to tell right from wrong. The appreciation that hard work is often the best road to some success. And the amazingly elusive concept that dignity is deserved by people of all stripes and incomes and colors and shapes and sizes.

And these things were taught to me and many others by a collection of people in this town, in many walks of life."

“What I like most about Weymouth is the parks they have to offer. They have a lot of parks and my children absolutely love going for walks in the parks.”

“When I first came to Weymouth as a child, it was something of a rural town, big in area and relatively small in population. It was inhabited in large measure by people of common experience and background. Shoes were still being manufactured. There were active farms. The South Shore Hospital consisted of a couple of small buildings, one that looked more like a home, than a medical facility. The Fore River Shipyard was not only a major economic force, but a principal employer. The Town Meeting was an important part of tradition and the lore and the high school football team had such a national reputation that it was featured in an article in the Saturday Evening Post. Today, the size of Weymouth's land mass is still a factor in our reality, but the population is larger and much more diverse. Shoes and ships are no longer made here or nearby. The old factories have been replaced by new, lighter and more contemporary industry. The South Shore Hospital now has a very large and modern campus and is considered one of the leading medical facilities in the region. Weymouth still has a good football program, but now the reputation for student achievement also rests on success in many other sports including soccer, gymnastics and wrestling and through its national champion Academic Decathlon Team and the accomplishment of its computer team in international competition.

Weymouth essentially went from being small town America to being an integral part of the metropolitan region that surrounds the State's capital city. Even in that transition, in fact, maybe strengthened by it, Weymouth remained a good place in which to grow up and to go to school. Weymouth was a good place to buy a house and to raise one's family and it is still a good place for the children to buy their own homes, to start their families and to become active in the community. Then and now, the people of Weymouth have supported public education and by their actions evidenced their understanding that good schools are an important element in the quality of life in a community. May it ever be so!”

“What I like about Weymouth is that it has a lot of resources for families. I have two young children, a two year old and an eight month old and they have the Weymouth Family Network, which I found to be a very valuable resource.”

“What I like most about Weymouth is the sense of community. Having grown up in this Town and lived in the Town my whole life, you really appreciate it as you get older, the great people who live in this Town and especially, on a day like today, where people come out and spent time together and come out and enjoy the festivities that the Town of Weymouth is putting on. So I guess in a nutshell what I like about Weymouth is its people and its sense of community.”

Albert Boulier – North Weymouth

“What I like about Weymouth is that Weymouth is a wonderful Town. I was born in Quincy and brought up in Weymouth and I have been in Weymouth all my life. There are wonderful people and lots of things to do and I enjoy it. I am a volunteer with the Town of Weymouth Emergency Management/Civil Defense and I enjoy everything that we do, and we proudly do things for the Town of Weymouth and the townspeople.”

“What I really love most about Weymouth is the fact that, every corner I turn and every street I go down, I find somebody from the neighborhood that I grew up in, it’s just an extension of the City. I really love Weymouth.”

“What I like about Weymouth is all the different people that have moved from out of Town into Town and have become part of Weymouth’s backbone. The volunteerism is above and beyond control. We have as many volunteers as we need and constantly updating all of those people, making Weymouth probably one of the nicest and greatest places to live for you and your kids.”

“What I like about Weymouth is the parks, the boats, the water, the people are good walking their dogs and walking around the sites and talking to strangers. It’s pretty nice over here in North Weymouth and I like it very much.”

“I was born and raised here and now I am raising my daughter here. The whole Town has great community spirit. Everybody’s friendly to each other, the schools are great and these wonderful community events just bring everybody together and everybody just has a really good time.”