Annual arts festival slated in Shelton

SOUPSTOCK Music and Arts Festival is the annual fundraising event for the Mary A. Schmecker Turtle Shell Fund. 
This is a family-oriented event featuring live music, handmade artisans, and a soup competition.

For more information visit the festival's Facebook page.

Ansonia Rod and Gun Club donates $5K to TEAM Senior Services

Pictured from left: TEAM Director of Family Support Services Suzanne Reilly, TEAM Board of Directors member Ken Gurin, Ansonia Rod & Gun Club Treasurer Horace Behrle, TEAM Executive Vice President Diane Stroman, TEAM President/CEO David Morgan. / Credit: Fred Ortoli Photography

DERBY - TEAM Inc. announced today the Ansonia Rod & Gun Club presented the agency with a $5,000 donation in support of the Senior Service programs. 

Serving more than 840 Valley seniors, many of whom are elderly and homebound, TEAM’s Senior Services include Meals on Wheels, Homemaking, and Transportation. 

Without the daily and weekly contact these services provide, many of these seniors would be isolated and without interaction with the community. 

Meals on Wheels, for example, provides a simple, inexpensive service that can help prevent the need for more costly services, such as hospitalizations and nursing home care. Assigned to daily routes, drivers become familiar with the routines of their senior clients, and can alert family members or emergency services if a client does not answer the door.

In response to the generous donation, Diane Stroman, TEAM Executive Vice President said, “We are extremely appreciative of this special gift from the members of the Ansonia Rod and Gun Club. 

Their support of programs such as Meals on Wheels, which provides one meal a day to the home of a homebound senior, helps ensure that our elderly are not only eating, but eating food that meets the nutritional standards necessary to keep them healthy and active.

In addition, the program provides a daily social contact, something that is essential to older adults living alone.”

The Ansonia Rod & Gun Club has a storied history of supporting local programs that benefit the community. Club members pay monthly dues, which are used to support club activities, such as youth gun safety programs, as well as enabling the club to support programs such as TEAM’s Senior Services.

Horace Behrle, Treasurer for the civic-minded Ansonia Rod & Gun Club, said, “We are happy to be able to assist TEAM in their mission of helping the seniors in our community. They provide critical services to insure the wellness and well-being of our community’s greatest generation.”

This is a press release from TEAM Inc. , a private, non-profit corporation whose mission is to connect individuals and families with solutions that lead to well-being, self-sufficiency and full participation in the community.  

It aims to achieve its mission by conducting activities that address the needs of economically disadvantaged individuals and families including resource mobilization, education, advocacy and service delivery. 

TEAM programs serve the communities of Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Derby, Milford, Orange, Oxford, Shelton, Seymour and Woodbridge. 

Guild to hold retreat Saturday at church in Ansonia

 Hartford Archdiocese photo

ANSONIA - The Rosary Guild of Holy Rosary Church will sponsor a retreat starting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.

The $10 fee includes lunch and refreshments.

The church is at 10 Father Salemi Drive.




This information is taken from an online community calendar sponsored by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the New Haven Independent.

Derby Library to hold annual book sale in April

DERBY - The Derby Public Library Annual Spring Book Sale will begin on the last day of 

National Library Week, April 18, and run from 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. 

The sale will continue April 20 and 21 from 10 a.m.-7 p.m.

Shoppers are invited to fill a bag for $5. Bags will be provided.

Adult and children's fiction and non-fiction, paperbacks, magazines, video and audio materials will be available.

For more information, stop by the Library at 313 Elizabeth St., call 203-736-1482 or visit www.derbypubliclibrary.org.

This is a press release from Cathy Williams, Director, Derby Public Library. 

Seymour PD to hold citizens academy

* Information shared from the Office of the Seymour First Selectman's Facebook page.

Valley residents graduate from phlebotomy program at Griffin in Derby

DERBY - Griffin Hospital today announced that several Valley residents recently graduated from the Phlebotomy Program at its School of Allied Health Careers, 300 Seymour Ave. and are now certified phlebotomists.

Graduates include Joseline Carias, Shaneka Jones, Ivette Ramos and Madalyn Wild, of Ansonia; Allegra Anglace and Loran Russell, of Derby; Rudina Muca and Sabrina Williams of Seymour, and Alexandra Kerwin of Shelton.

The School of Allied Health Careers’ Phlebotomy Program is a concentrated, 13-week program that allows students to learn as well as participate in a 40-hour internship with phlebotomists at Griffin Hospital.

In the end, the students graduated with a national certification in phlebotomy as well as becoming CPR certified.

Griffin Hospital's School of Allied Health Careers was one of the first hospital-based schools of its kind to be authorized by the Connecticut Department of Higher Education and offers Phlebotomy and other professional educational programs to provide training, education, and certification in selected health careers.

Students with a high school diploma or a GDE can apply.

Courses are offered for students to become Certified Nursing Assistants, Patient Care Technicians and Phlebotomists. Classes are taught by certified instructors in the Griffin Hospital Medical Building, 300 Seymour Ave.

For more information about Griffin Hospital’s School of Allied Health Careers, call 203-732-1276 or visit griffinhealth.org/allied-health.


This is a press release from Griffin Hospital.

Boating safety course slated Saturday in Oxford

OXFORD - The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary is offering a one-day Boating/Personal Watercraft Safety (PWC) Course from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at American Legion Hall, 43 Oxford Road.

Walk-ins are welcomed. Admission is $50.

Upon completion you will be able to obtain your Boating/PWC license/certificate from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, allowing you to operate a vessel and/or PWC.

The About Boating Safety Course exceeds the state requirements that allow you to obtain that license/certificate.

Topics include safety, Connecticut state law, trailering, waterways, canoes, motor boats, sailboats, PWCs, to name a few.

For information or if you would like to pre-register contact Peter Aiksnoras, 203-888-7252, or aiksnoras@sbcglobal.net.


This information is taken from an online community calendar sponsored by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the New Haven Independent.