Wellesley ABC is an organization in its 39th year that brings 6 girls from the underserved communities to Wellesley. They live in a program-sponsored house with a resident family, attend Wellesley High School, and go off to college, with a better chance of getting into college, being successful at college, and having a bright future.

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We suspect in this case worst might actually mean best.

The winner gets a $50 restaurant certificate and entries are due by 6pm Feb. 5.

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A men’s grooming/haircut business called Roosters is coming soon to Linden Square in Wellesley on the Roche Bros. side of the street alongside French Lessons, Divine Kitchens, etc. From the Roosters Men’s Grooming Centers website, you can see the outfit’s focus is strictly on men, men, men and boys. Among the services, a scary sounding 7-step facial shave. Roosters has some 50 franchises around the country, including many in Colorado and Texas, though none listed in Massachusetts. The first Roosters opened in Michigan in 1999.

Roosters’ emergence should provide competition most directly to the Linden Street Barber Shop, which opened recently at 153 Linden St., where Larry’s Barber Shop used to be.

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One space still looking for a tenant is the old Rugged Bear location at 34 Central St., although the space has at least been kept vibrant via rotating Welelsley Community Art Project exhibits, the latest being a series of self-portraits by Tenacre Country Day School students.

RELATED: Rugged Bear returning, though don’t look for a new Wellesley Square store

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Jimmy’s Cafe on Linden Street in Wellesley officially closed at the end of January, but a reader points out that the sign now on the door says “closed, but re-opening soon.”

Owner Bedros Kaya had told us recently that it was possible the business would re-open if a buyer could be found.

RELATED: Where to eat in Wellesley

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Wellesley Police deputy chief William Brooks will be taking over as Norwood’s chief of police in May, ending his 12-year run here. In addition to his work on Wellesley’s force, Brooks has led the regional NORPAC outfit focused on narcotics-related crimes.

The announcement, made at Monday’s Board of Selectmen’s meeting, was a “bittersweet” one, according to BoS chair Barbara Searle, who wished Brooks well in returning to a force he was a member of being joining Wellesley’s department.

Brooks has also been very helpful to us in the past, such as in explaining the ins and outs of Wellesley’s liquor laws, so we wish him well, too.

Brooks says he worked for the Norwood PD for 18 years, 14 as detective sergeant (he worked at Westwood PD for five years before that, so now has worked 35 years as a police officer).  “I’m going back to a department where I spent many years.  I wouldn’t leave Wellesley for just any department,” Brooks says.

Asked about his most memorable moment on the job here, Brooks relayed this story:

“I remember my first week here in Wellesley – I think it was my second day – when Chief Cunningham told me we were having a meeting about the Boston Marathon.  I had run the marathon once and I recalled that it passed through Wellesley, but I never gave any thought to what it must be like to manage the middle five miles of a world-class event like that.  Then I realized that it was the following Monday.  Then Chief Cunningham informed me that he was running in it and wouldn’t be around, so I was in charge.  Everyone had a laugh at the expression on my face.  Of course, the department had handled a hundred marathons by then so everyone knew their jobs.  And my old academy classmate, Peter Nahass, who was still a sergeant then, took my under his wing and told me he’d make me look good.  And he did; it went off without a hitch.”

Brooks says the example set by Cunningham and the support of the rest of the department will help him take the next step.

Meanwhile, we hear the market for limited edition Bill Brooks WPD police cards (seen above) has reportedly shot up this week. If only we could put our hands on our autographed edition.

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According to Girls Varsity coach Kristin Cieri, the night will include many acknowledgments beginning with the Boys Varsity game, continuing throughout the night with the major dedication at halftime of the Girls Varsity game.

Separately, this coming Friday’s (Feb. 3) Girls Varsity game at 6:30pm vs. Newton North is Think Pink Cancer Awareness Night. A 50/50 raffle will be held, with proceeds going to the Jimmy V/Kay Yow foundations and the Jimmy Fund. Players will wear pink warmups and fans are encouraged to sport  pink as well.

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From Wellesley College:

In honor of National Girls and Women in Sport Day, the Wellesley College Department of Physical Education, Recreation and Athletics will host Title IX: 40 Years & Counting, a panel event on Monday, Feb. 13.

The event celebrates 40 years of Title IX, the legislation that positively influenced the growth and culture of women’s sports in America. Three-time Olympian and International Soccer star Kristine Lilly (shown here) highlights a panel of outstanding women sharing stories of personal challenges and successes.

Other panelists include: Carol Stiff, ESPN’s vice president for programming and acquisitions; Amy Baltzell, former Olympic rower and noted sports psychologist; Melissa Ludtke, the former Sports Illustrator writer who made headlines when SI sued Major League Baseball on her behalf; and Laura Pappano, an award-winning journalist and author who is the founder and editor of FairGameNews.com.

The panel is free and open to the public. It will be held at 7:00pm in Wellesley College’s Diana Champman Walsh Alumnae Hall.

For more information, including full biographies on all five panelists, please visit: www.wellesleyblue.com/titleix

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Among the articles, at a glance:

*To see if the town will establish a department to oversee maintenance of town-owned buildings and grounds

*To see what money the town will provide to make the new Rockland Street bridge safe and to improve the Wales Street bridge, to buy a new ladder truck for the fire department, to revamp the DPW recycled materials loading structure, to bolster the HVAC at Public Works & Park/Highway Building and to spruce up Bacon Street and the Hills Branch of the library.

A citizen’s petition seeks to curb use of gas-powered leaf blowers. A general article seeks to protect town board members and other officials from legal and other expenses up to $1M related to claims against them related to town work.

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