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. 

Connecticut State Police urge residents to use caution as new school year starts

      MIDDLETOWN - Connecticut State Troopers urge drivers, parents and children to prepare for back to school safety.

As more than half-a-million Connecticut children head back to school over the next few weeks, Connecticut State Troopers urge all parents and guardians to discuss school, traffic, and personal safety with their children.  

Troopers also caution all drivers to be aware of “back to school” bus, pedestrian, and bicycle traffic.  

Drivers are urged to use extra caution as they travel on Connecticut’s roadways, and to be alert to children who may be hurrying to and from school.

Under state law, it is mandatory that drivers stop for school buses that have their flashing red warning lights activated, whether they are approaching or following the school bus. 

The yellow flashing lights are a warning to drivers that the bus will be stopping to pick up and/or drop-off students.  

Drivers should anticipate that the red flashing lights will come on shortly after seeing the yellow flashing lights as the bus comes to a stop.  

The red flashing lights on a school bus indicate that the bus is stopped and students are either getting on or off the bus. 

Failure to obey this law not only puts our children at great risk, but it carries a hefty penalty for drivers. Fines for passing a school bus that has its flashing red warning lights activated starts at $465 for a first offense. 

Parents should remind their children to wait in a safe place, out of the travel portion of the roadway, and only cross the street after looking both ways, even if the red lights are activated.  

Urge children to tell an adult and the police about anything that makes them feel unsafe or uncomfortable on the way to/from school and while they’re in school. Children should be reminded not to speak to, or get into the vehicles of, people they don’t know.

All Resident State Troopers and Troopers on patrol will periodically monitor school bus stops to help ensure the safety of all students as they travel back to school to begin the 2016-2017 school year.

This is a press release from the Connecticut State Police.

Seymour Historical Society talk features black bears in Connecticut

The skull of a black bear. 

SEYMOUR - More than 60 people attended a program on black bears Sunday presented by Paul Colburn, a Master Wildlife Conservationist, at Seymour Historical Society. 
The presentation focused on black bears' habitat, diet, behavior, and more.


Stay tuned for a story in The Valley Voice newsletter this week.

Tech Time sessions offered at Derby Public Library

DERBY- The Derby Public Library offers monthly Tech Time sessions.  

Every third Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. and every

third Thursday of the month at 10 a.m. a staff member will 

be on hand to answer all your tech-related questions and concerns.  

Whether you are having downloading e-books, searching databases, completing on-line job applications, 

scanning/sending documents and photos, etc., your problems will be addressed. 

The next sessions will be held Sept. 21 at 6:30 p.m. and Sept. 15 at 10 a.m. No registration is needed.  

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

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