Dealership in Shelton to receive 22nd annual 'Good Scout' Award

SHELTON - The Housatonic Council, Boy Scouts of America, will present this year’s “Good Scout” Award to longtime community leader Curtiss*Ryan Honda.  

The award will be presented to Curtiss*Ryan Honda Oct. 20 at the Brownson Country Club, 15 Soundview Ave. The event will run 5:30-7:30 p.m.

The Housatonic Council presents a Good Scout Award to an individual or organization that exemplifies the ideals of the Boy Scouts of America as expressed in the Scout Oath and Scout Law.  

The recipients are chosen for their outstanding community service as evidenced by the interest and leadership given to many worthwhile organizations as well as the respect and esteem in which they are held by their colleagues.

Good Scout Award honorees are selected by a committee that is chaired by Mayor Mark Lauretti and members of the Executive Board of the Housatonic Council.

“Curtiss*Ryan Honda has contributed to the betterment of life in our Valley towns in many ways,” Lauretti said.  “Curtiss*Ryan Honda has been an engaged partner with the Housatonic Council and through their support of many of the Valley’s community organizations and initiatives to improve the quality of life for area residents.”

Previous recipients of the Good Scout Award include Walter Archer, Jr., Jamie Cohen, Helen and Gerald Bogen, David Rifkin, Lauretti, James Ryan, John Anglace, state Rep. Richard Belden, Robert Scinto, Dean Borgman, Norman Santa, Patrick Charmel, Royal Wells, the Jones family, Fletcher Thompson, William Bassett, Monty Blakeman, David Grant, the law firm of Welch, Teodosio, Stanek & Blake, LLC (formerly known as Winnick, Vine, Welch & Teodosio, LLC), Ned Miller, and Jeff Bruner of the Iroquois Gas Co.

The Housatonic Council serves the towns of Ansonia, Derby, Oxford, Seymour, and Shelton.   
Established in 1923, the Housatonic Council is one of the oldest councils in the Boy Scouts of America.  
In addition to delivering the Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Venturing, and Learning for Life programs, the Housatonic Council owns and operates the Edmund D. Strang Scout Reservation in Goshen.

If you would like to attend or support the Good Scout Award Ceremony, contact the Housatonic Council at (203) 734-3329.

This is a press release from the Housatonic Council.

Friends of Seymour Library to discuss 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'

SEYMOUR - "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith is the next Friends of the Library Book Club offering. 

The club will meet at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 20 in the lower level of the Library to discuss this "oldie but a goodie." The novel was published in 1943.

Copies of the book are currently available to anyone interested in joining in the discussion. 

This is a great book that should bring much to the table!

The library is at 46 Church St.

*Information shared from Facebook.

Derby Public Library will hold herbal reed diffuser workshop

DERBY - The Derby Public Library has scheduled a Scents & Sensibility/Make & Take Herbal Reed Diffuser workshop at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 26.

Presented by Velya Janncz-Urban and Ehris Urban, participants will first learn historical tidbits and medicinal benefits of various herbs and oils.  
They will then create their own eight-ounce herbal reed 

diffusers based on their own preferences and needs.  

Space is limited and registration is required.

For 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.

Smoke in the Valley Kick-off planned in Seymour

134 Derby students receive school clothing, supplies from Volunteer Council

Students receive back to school items at Irving School in Derby. / Contributed photo   

DERBY- Members of the Corporate Volunteer Council gathered Thursday at Irving School to proudly send 134 students in great need, back to school in style and ready to learn. 

The students at Irving who participated in this program are some of the community’s most vulnerable, and in need of assistance to go back to school with all the necessary supplies, like notebooks, pencils, crayons, and backpacks.

Principal Jen Olson and her incredible staff were so appreciative of the support from Valley United Way and the Corporate Volunteer Council companies who contributed and could not say enough about the impact this will have on their students. 

When the students and their families arrived to meet with the company who sponsored them, the children smiled ear to ear with excitement for all of their new items. Many moms were brought to tears at the generosity, stating people will never know just how much this is helping their family. 

Each child received a bin filled with two complete outfits to start school in style, a pair of sneakers, a winter coat, and a backpack filled with every school supply imaginable. 

Director of the Volunteer Center and Corporate Volunteer Council Patricia Tarasovic said, “The generosity and kindness of the CVC with Back to School reflects the overall CVC mission of making the greatest impact.” 

As the Corporate Volunteer Council wraps up its 20th Anniversary, members can proudly say that to date, the Back to School Clothes for Kids Program has supported a total of 2,987 children and invested $604,940 in Valley youth.

Thank you goes to all of the companies who participated and made an impact in our community’s children.

To Join in the Fight for a Stronger Community and help Valley United Way reach its goal, visit www.valleyunitedway.org or call 203-926-9478. 

Valley United Way is a registered 501(c)(3) organization proudly serving Ansonia, Derby, Oxford, Seymour, and Shelton.  

United Way fights for the health, education of financial stability of every person in every community.  

In collaboration with our partners we work to prepare youth for success, strengthen families and help people in crisis.


This is a press release from Valley United Way. 

Newsletter features talk on bears, Y camp in Ansonia, Food Trucks in the Valley

Dear readers,

Here's a link to the latest Valley Voice newsletter featuring a presentation at Seymour Historical Society about black bears in Connecticut.


Thanks for reading!

Alliance for Prevention & Wellness to host screening in Seymour of addiction documentary

SEYMOUR - BHcare’s Alliance for Prevention & Wellness will host a special screening of GENERATION FOUND at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 15 at Entertainment Cinemas, 814 Derby Ave. 

The documentary is a powerful story about one community coming together to ignite a youth addiction recovery revolution in their hometown. 

Devastated by an epidemic of addiction, Houston faced the reality of burying and locking up its young people at an alarming rate. 

GENERATION FOUND takes an unprecedented and intimate look at how a system of treatment centers, sober high schools, alternative peer groups, and collegiate recovery programs can exist in concert to intervene early and provide a real and tested long-term alternative to the “War on Drugs.” 

GENERATION FOUND is a great way to catalyze a dialogue on youth addiction and recovery issues in your community. View the trailer at http://generationfoundfilm.com.

Tickets are $11 each and may be purchased at http://gathr.us/screening/16561.

The Alliance for Wellness and Prevention is a program of BHcare. For more information, visit www.APW-CT.org. 

For more information on BHcare, visit www.bhcare.org.

This is a press release from BHcare,a regional community provider of behavioral health, addiction prevention, and domestic violence services for the Lower Naugatuck Valley, Greater New Haven, and Shoreline communities.  

Church in Waterbury to host dinner theater fundraiser

Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Schlicter

OAKVILLE - Kick off your evening with a bang!  
Join “Uncle Franco” and his mobsters Oct. 7 in a professional dinner theatre production by AspenDream Productions™. 

This hilarious class reunion murder-mystery event to benefit Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church will be held Oct. 7 at Grand Oak Villa, 550 Sylvan Lake Road. 

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; show starts at 7 p.m.

Call 203-756-8981 for tickets, which are $65 (includes dinner and the show). Hurry this event will sell out!

Now in its 19th year, the smash hit “Class Reunions Can Be Murder” is an enormously entertaining audience-participation dinner theatre show by AspenDream Productions™, Connecticut’s longest-running dinner theatre company.  

Written, produced, and directed by Janice Luise-Lutkus of Burlington, the interactive comedy wedding and murder mystery shows have been hailed by audiences throughout New England. 
“People love to be a part of the show,” said Luise-Lutkus. “This show is so unique, you never see the same show twice.”

For most people, an alumni class reunion is a time to party and renew old acquaintances, but Franco Machiavelli isn't an ordinary guy - he's the head of the New York crime family, and trouble seems to follow him everywhere he goes. 
As he begins to renew old friendships, someone is murdered.  
Discovering who the killer is becomes the question all are determined to answer. There is lots of murder, bribery, and back stabbing as we meet Hugh Jass, Class Politician, Melvin Wedgewood or “Wedgie”, Pom Pom Splits, Head Cheerleader, and the rest of the gang.

Guests will be assigned a name tag and are encouraged to attend dressed ready to play the role of a gangster, movie star, politician, and friend to the well-respected “Uncle Franco," head of the New York Mob Family.  
Someone is killed and no one can leave until the mystery is solved by Agent Orange while enjoying dinner, lots of dancing, singing, and drinks.  

Guests are encouraged to dress in their finest mob figure, movie star attire.  
After all Uncle Franco will be there! Book early … avoid the mob …

For more information visit www.AspenDreamProductions.com.


This is a press release from a representative of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. 

Re-posting: Tunes for Tea fundraiser slated Sept. 18 in Seymour

Performance at Ansonia furniture store to benefit The Valley Goes Pink

A fundraiser for The Valley Goes Pink will be held from 6-9 p.m. Oct. 7 at Spector Furniture, 385 Main St., Ansonia.

Mystery On Main is hosted by Spector Furniture and Mattress Gallery, the Young Emerging Professionals, and Valley Shakespeare Festival. 

Proceeds will go toward breast cancer screenings at The Hewitt Center For Breast Wellness at Griffin Hospital in Derby. 

This Clue-inspired event will provide actor-led tours of the showroom, with entertainers incorporating the game itself into their performance. 
Don't get caught in the library with Colonel Mustard and his lead pipe!

Admission is $40 for all ages.

Sushi, pierogis, finger sandwiches, and much more will be served, with cocktails provided by David M. Grant Caterers.

The Valley Goes Pink is Griffin Hospital's grassroots effort to raise awareness about breast health.

Note: This information is shared from a Facebook event page.