Sharon Business Spotlight: Invitations Etc.

The place to go for personalized stationary, invitations, party favors and so much more!

Invitations, Etc., owned by Cheryl Kalp, is located at 378 South Main St. at the Sharon Heights Shopping Plaza. Sharon Patch recently sat down with Kalp to discuss a few things about how the local business is doing, and what it has to offer. Sharon Patch: How long have you been in business? Cheryl Kalp: I started my business more than 25 years ago with the last 15 years here at the Heights Shopping Plaza location. SP: What are some of your specialty items? CK: Invitations, Etc. has the finest selection of Invitations and accessories from traditional to contemporary for any affair. Some special order items include sweat pants, tee shirts, bags, hats, seating boards, sign in boards along with many other personalized favors and place cards. …

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Sharon Business Spotlight: Pam's Pet Sitting

Since 2009, Pam's Pet Sitting has been operating in Sharon. Find out more about this local business in Sharon.

Pam's Pet Sitting in Sharon is owned and operated by Pam Lipman, a veteran pet sitter since 2009 who is fully insured and bonded. Her specialty includes cats, dogs, turtles, fish and even lizards. Lipman was spotted walking one of her regulars, a dog named Dodger who happens to be a Hurricaine Katrina rescue. "I have clients whose dogs I walk every day, mornings and evenings because of their work schedules," Lipman said. "I also have clients who need pet sitting done when they are away on a weekend or an extended vacation." Lipman serves Canton, Sharon, Easton and Stoughton. You can contact her at: paml461@aol.com or (781)603-7877.

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Five Things You Need To Know Today, Nov. 27

Support local businesses today.

"Five Things You Need To Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. 1. Shop locally Support the small businesses in Sharon and its neighbors this holiday season. 2. Support the Gifts for Kids drive More than 1,000 Sharon-area children seek gifts this holiday season. The Gifts for Kids drive seeks sponsors for the children, all identified by human services providers in South Norfolk County. Interested sponsors may e-mail or call one of the following individuals between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.: Abigail Marsters at abigailmarsters@comcast.net or 781-784-4372; Teri Gorsky at luckygorsk@aol.com or 781-784-1441; or Karen Gordon at kwgordon@gmail.com  or 781-784-7616. 3. Attend a craft show A …

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Enthusiasm Fuels New Sharon Martial Arts Academy

Owner Derek Field loved doing ninja moves as a kid.

As a kid, Derek Field marveled at Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello. "I used to love doing the ninja moves," Field says. As an adult, Field recently opened the Field Martial Arts Academy on Merchant Street, off Route 1. His kids' classes seek to build off modern youngsters' enthusiasm for the fighting skills they see on TV and in film -- much like he thought the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the Power Rangers, were cool. "My goal is to train students to be a champion in life. Character development, especially with the kids program, is a big part of it," says Field, who offers both youth and adult programs. "I want them to have fun just like when I was a kid doing ninja moves in my back yard. I see all these kids come in, …

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Beautiful People

Local Dentist Sends 288 Toothbrushes To Uganda

Sharon resident Dr. Robert Chavez, who has a Stoughton office, supports a former patient doing humanitarian work.

A Ugandan village has 288 toothbrushes partly thanks to Dr. Robert Chavez going to a Brockton McDonald's about three months ago. Chavez says there, by chance, he met former patient and sterilization technician David Rice. Rice told the Sharon resident and local dentist about the Ugandan Water Project, a humanitarian effort he was participating in for the second straight year. "He said, 'I am going to Uganda.' And then I said, 'Wow. Why?' And he told me the story of Uganda and the fact that he had been in Uganda the year before, and felt so compelled to go back because of the accomplishments that he had achieved, and that he was going this time with a dental hygenist," Chavez said in his ARCH Orthodontics' Stoughton office last week. "And …

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Sharon Pre-Teen Entrepreneurs Start T-Shirt Business

Donates 20 percent of proceeds to Make A Wish Foundation.

Pre-teen Sharon entrepreneurs Ty Goldstein and Jimmy Fitzhenry, both 11, have celebrated their one-year anniversary of running their own T-shirt business called Hometown T-Shirts. The pair, who have been playing various sports together for six years, said they have sold over 100 T-shirts already and have just expanded their business.    Each T-shirt has the town's name and zip code, and is available in all sizes.  Goldstein said what motivated him to start the business with Fitzhenry was that "my sisters made an airbrush tattoo business,” when they were teens.          He also confessed, "I've always liked money." "We did T-shirts, because Jimmy's mom makes T-shirts," said Goldstein.  Fitzhenry's mother Alyssa used to own a store in …

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Fresh Thanksgiving Turkeys Fly Out Of Sharon These Days

Bird demand leaves some consumers beating the bushes.

Jim Ward ordered about 245 fresh Thanksgiving turkeys this season and had no leftovers. So, responding to the demand, Ward's Berry Farm ordered about 20 more on Friday. "Unfortunately, we're only putting people on our waiting list from this point on," said Ward, whose family owns the South Main Street farm. Thirteen turkeys were left as of Monday afternoon. Sharon's Ward's and Crescent Ridge Dairy both are selling fresh turkeys for Thanksgiving. That's because consumers are beating the bushes looking for a bird in the hand. For the first time, "to see how it will work," Crescent Ridge offered, only to its online customers, 35 fresh turkeys from Misty Knoll Farms in Vermont, Crescent Ridge Sales and Marketing Manager Brad Pond says. "Fresh …

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