The Danbury Commission on Aging is sponsoring a Medicare presentation at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4 at the Keystone Place at Wooster Heights assisted dwelling group, at 66 Wooster Heights in Danbury.
Richard Felitto, a Connecticut licensed and authorized senior advisor, will current “The the Mystery out of Medicare.”
Attendees will be in a position to find out about the ins and outs of Medicare, make clear any of their very own Medicare well being care plan choices, and see all of their selections.
Masks will be required and offered if obligatory.
RSVP at yadroc98@gmail.com or 203-417-8966.
Danbury
American Dream Awards Gala held
The eighth annual American Dream Awards Gala, hosted by The New American Dream Foundation, Inc, was held Friday, Sept. 16, at the Amber Room Colonnade, with almost 300 visitors and award winners in attendance.
The basis’s vice chairman, Emanuela Palmares, was the grasp of ceremonies for the night, marked by speeches and movies of honorees produced by RmediA of Danbury.
The Gala’s theme, “A Celebration of American Immigrants,” was illustrated with 5 dwell musical performances that includes songs honoring every honoree. Singer-songwriter, “aka Nora,” awarded titles akin to “The Voice of Danbury” and “Hudson Valley’s Most Talented,” carried out.
The award ceremony started with the Rising Star Award, offered to Luanna Barcelos, the daughter of Brazilian immigrants. Barcelos is a 21-year-old freelance artist, muralist, UCONN graduate, and the artist behind the City of Danbury’s 45-foot mural celebrating the life and legacy of classical singer and civil rights pioneer Marian Anderson. Barcelo created a customized piece of artwork that was auctioned off at the gala, donating all proceeds towards the basis’s applications.
The Community Hero Award was offered to the Connecticut Institute for Communities, Inc. for its impression on the lives of immigrants in our group.
The American Dream Award $3,000 scholarship was offered to Adamaris Loja, a significant in administration info methods at WCSU. Born in San Fernando, Azuay, Ecuador, Loja moved together with her father to the United States at 11 when her mom handed away.
The occasion’s presenting sponsor, Union Savings Bank, furnished the scholarship.
The Lifetime Achievement Award was offered to the Honorable Judge Dianne Yamin. First elected probate choose in 1990, she made historical past as the first girl to maintain that place in Danbury and the youngest elected choose in the state.
The New American Dream Foundation’s mission is to promote our wealthy immigrant historical past, spotlight all immigrants’ cultural, social, and financial contributions throughout generations, and supply schooling, well being, and civic engagement alternatives. In the pursuit of such effort, the basis at the gala:
– Granted $3,000 in an American Dream Scholarship, and
– Raised $10,000 from ticket gross sales in direction of Mission Health Day – A day of free well being screenings and different group providers for the uninsured and the revenue challenged, hosted by Nuvance Health- Raised $34,000 to help The New American Dream Foundation applications, its senior scorching meal program, and its latest initiative.
Danbury
Events to elevate consciousness for home violence
The Center For Empowerment and Education is internet hosting events and workshops to assist unfold consciousness about home violence for October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
The middle is an area home and sexual violence useful resource for higher Fairfield County and decrease Litchfield County. The group kicked off the month with a Safe Walk, one of its largest events of the 12 months, on Oct. 1 and a pair of.
Other confirmed events are:
Oct. 12 6 to 7:30 – Self Care Yoga Nidra Workshop
Oct. 19 6 to 9 p.m. – DVAM Bingo at Charter Oak Brewery
Oct. 20 – Purple Thursday
• Join group members in touting purple attire to unfold consciousness of home violence.
All Month – native library shows
The middle is positioned at 2 West St. in Danbury. For extra info on events or providers, go to www.thecetnerct.org.
Danbury
Blessing of the Animals occasion returns
The King Street United Church of Christ will host its annual St. Francis Blessing of the Animals at midday on Sunday.
The Rev. Paul Bryant-Smith will supply blessings to canines, cats, turtles, fish, pigs, geese, horses and different animals. Attendees can also deliver a photograph of a pet.
The occasion is an annual custom at King Street, however was suspended for just a few years as a result of of the coronavirus pandemic. There may even be a free will providing to profit the New Fairfield-Sherman Animal Welfare shelter.
Updates are going to be obtainable on the church’s Facebook social media platform web page, which is https://www.facebook.com/ksucc.
Regional
Support group having conferences
The National Alliance on Mental Illness Child and Adolescent Network is internet hosting help group conferences on Oct. 3 and Nov. 7, each from 10 to 11:30 a.m. over Zoom.
The teams are meant for folks of youngsters with behavioral, emotional and psychological well being points. The conferences are free, confidential, secure, and led by educated volunteer facilitators with private experiences in this area.
The hyperlink for the assembly is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89958265912.
Parents coming to the conferences from Redding, Weston, Westport, Wilton and different native cities.
The Meeting ID is 899 5826 5912.
More info and the password can be found by calling Beth at 203-984-0123, or by emailing bethes@gmail.com, or Vanessa by calling 203-970-4130, or by emailing eliasvanessa5@gmail.com.
Regional
2023 pet calendar contest to be held
The New Fairfield/Sherman Animal Welfare Society is holding a 2023 pet calendar contest to elevate funds for the deserted, uncared for, and abused canines and cats that the group rescues. The contest can also be to rejoice contestants’ pets.
Enter the contest by visiting https://nfsaw.org or New Fairfield/Sherman Animal Welfare Facebook web page. Participants can also go to https://www.gogophotocontest.com/newfairfieldshermananimalwelfaresociety
Voting concludes at 10 p.m. Oct. 21. All pets are welcome. Photos of pets should not have folks in them. Participating animals do not want to be an adoptee from the group.
The prime vote recipient will be on the calendar’s cowl. and obtain a Portraits by ShawnaLee present certificates valued at $325 for an 11-by-14-inch pencil or charcoal pet portrait accomplished by artist ShawnaLee Kwashnak.
Each of the subsequent 12 prime votes getters will be featured as a full web page pet of the month.
The second place recipient will obtain a $200 VISA present certificates. The third place recipient will obtain a canine or cat present basket valued at $150. All winners obtain a free copy of the calendar.
The contests prices $10 to enter. Each vote prices $1.
The group can be known as at 203-746-2925 to promote a enterprise card on the calendar at a value of $50.
Ridgefield
Boehringer Ingelheim hosts professional bono seminar for nonprofits
Members of the Boehringer Ingelheim pharmaceutical firm authorized staff hosted a 3 day digital seminar from Sept.13-15 with 90 nonprofits.
The volunteers, by partnership with United Way of Western Connecticut and the Boehringer Ingelheim Cares Foundation, work with the collaborating teams to present precious info to nonprofit organizations and social service companies. Fourteen audio system and panelists shared their experience on subjects together with greatest enterprise practices, employment legislation, variety and inclusion and situational consciousness at work.
Ridgefield
Keeler Tavern to host exhibition, fundraiser
The Keeler Tavern Museum and History Center is internet hosting its fall fundraiser and opening an exhibition this month.
The exhibition, titled “#HandsOnHistory: It Takes a Village,” opened on Oct. 1 and is on show by Sunday, Nov. 6, in the Tavern Museum and History Center’s historic carriage barn at 152 Main St. in Ridgefield.
The exhibition is a curated show the place guests can study extra about Ridgefield’s trades by hands-on actions with specialised instruments, methods, and actions. The exhibition explores the shift from the colonial period in historical past, to the early twentieth century. Demonstrations and household actions from blacksmithing to shoemaking are featured every Sunday.
Roxbury
Pets to be blessed
A Blessing of the Animals occasion will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Christ Episcopal Church in Roxbury, rain or shine.
The Blessing of the Animals has historically honored St. Francis of Assisi, who’s the patron saint of animals and celebrates folks’s shut bond with animals of all species.
Pets ought to be leashed or correctly contained to guarantee their security in addition to that of others. Participants whose pets would be unruly, too frightened or not simply transported, are requested to deliver a photograph. All are welcome, even when they don’t have a pet.
There will be a drawing at the occasion for a $25 Petco Gift Card.
The Rev. Nagy welcomes requests for native blessing home requires farms or bigger animals which will be inconceivable to transport to the occasion.
There may even be refreshments and a possibility to make a voluntary donation to the Connecticut Humane Society.
The church is positioned at 4 Wellers Bridge Road.
More info or appointments can be found by calling the Rev. Nagy at 860-354-4113.
Sherman
Sherman Playhouse opens musical thriller ‘Carrie: The Musical’
The Sherman Playhouse lately opened its third manufacturing for its 2022 efficiency season.
The manufacturing, “Carrie: The Musical,” is directed by Bradford Blake, with music course by Charles Smith.
The manufacturing is produced by Al Chiappetta. The curtain rises at 8 p.m. for a four-week run of the manufacturing.
“Carrie: The Musical,” tailored from Stephen King’s 1974 novel, encompasses a rating by Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford (“Fame,” “Footloose,” “Camp”) and e book by unique screenwriter Lawrence D. Cohen. The musical tells the story of teenager Carrie White (Kennedy Morris), who longs to be seen.
The present opened Sept. 30.
The manufacturing additionally runs Friday, Oct. 7, and Saturday, Oct. 8, Friday, Oct. 14, and Saturday, Oct. 15, Friday, Oct. 21, and Saturday, Oct. 22, with all reveals at 8 p.m. on Fridays, and Saturdays.
There will be two 2 p.m. Sunday matinees on Sunday, Oct. 9, and Sunday Oct., 16.
Tickets are $30 for adults and $15 for college students. Reservations can be made on-line at the Sherman Players web site, or by calling the field workplace at 860-354-3622.
The Sherman Playhouse is a non-Equity theater firm positioned at 5 Route 39 North in Sherman.
