Rochelle: $17M approved in additional heating assistance funds

Friends and Neighbors, [On Wednesday] we approved $17 million in additional cold weather heating assistance funds. Many residents and families who receive assistance through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) or Operation Fuel will have access to funds to ensure they can heat their homes through the cold weather season.

As your state representative, it is my responsibility to stand up for my constituents. This funding ensures that none of our neighbors must choose between paying their bills or freezing. I am committed to enhancing the safety and quality of life for all residents, and I will continue to do so throughout this legislative session.

Please feel free to contact me with any thoughts and concerns you may have on Kara.Rochelle@cga.ct.gov or 1-800-842-8267. 

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All my Best,

Kara Rochelle
State Representative

Derby Neck Library seeks community participants with read-a-thon

 

Help us help youth!

By pledging, you'll be empowering teens to work with the library in co-creating a space just for them. 

Every book they read goes towards a space that will support them and their development into engaged members of their community.

By participating, you'll be co-creating a space for yourself and other teens not just in the Derby Neck Library, but in your community.

https://go.rallyup.com/playyourpart/Campaign/Details

The Library is at 307 Hawthorne Ave., Derby.

This is shared from the Library's Facebook page.

Seymour Pink donates $80K to Hewitt Center for Breast Wellness at Griffin Hospital

From left: Seymour Pink former Treasurer Chris Vartko, Hewitt Center Manager Tori Kochiss, Griffin Hospital Chairman of Radiology Dr. Devika Jajoo, Seymour Pink Treasurer Tina Godkin, Seymour Pink President/Founder Mary Deming, and Griffin Health Diagnostic Imaging Outpatient Manager Cindy Madsen./ Contributed photo

DERBY - Seymour Pink recently helped to enhance the accuracy of breast ultrasound screenings at The Hewitt Center for Breast Wellness at Griffin Hospital.

The community breast cancer fundraising organization donated $80,000 to the Center for the purchase of an advanced RS85 Prestige ultrasound system which provides images with superior quality and other technological advances, including elastography, an emerging sonographic imaging technique that provides information on breast lesions in addition to conventional ultrasonography and mammography. 

Recent studies show that ultrasonographic elastography (USE) provides higher diagnostic accuracy compared with conventional ultrasonography during breast cancer diagnosis, which eventually helps to reduce false-positive results and therefore is useful in avoiding breast biopsy.

Breast ultrasound uses sound waves to produce images of the inside of the breast. It can show certain breast changes that can be harder to see on mammograms. Ultrasound can be especially helpful in women with dense breast tissue, which can make it hard to see abnormal areas on mammograms.

“The Valley is very near and dear to us and they have supported Seymour Pink for all these years, so this is how we give back to the community,” said Seymour Pink Board of Directors President Mary Deming. “We’re also very tied into helping women with dense breast tissue and this precise technology will help find cancers more easily before they spread.”

For more information about Seymour Pink, visit seymourpink.com. 

For more information about The Hewitt Center for Breast Wellness, visit griffinhealth.org/breast.

This is a press release from Griffin Hospital.

Recuperation journey: Looking at the sky

 Good morning! Happy Thursday.