Newsletter: Post installs monument, Shelton History Center car show

Dear readers, 

Our latest Valley Voice newsletter features annual car show at the Shelton History Center, monument installed in Derby, more.

Thanks for reading,

Patti and Ralph

Learn about mosquitoes at Kellogg Environmental Center in Derby

DERBY - Visit the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection's Kellogg Environmental Center at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday to learn the biology of mosquitoes and the threats they pose to public health. 

Roger Wolfe, coordinator for the CT DEEP Wetland Habitat and Mosquito Management will present this program, which will include  training on how to use the GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper. 

This app allows the public to collect data for GLOBE’s ongoing citizen science efforts, and teaches them mosquito identification methods.   

The WHAMM program uses an Integrated Mosquito Management strategy which manages mosquitoes by monitoring adult and larval mosquito population, offering public education, and biological and chemical control methods. 

The focus of WHAMM’s public education is to educate the public on how to eliminate sources of mosquitoes around their homes and minimize exposure.         

The Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment Program is an international science and education program sponsored by NASA that allows the public to participate in data collection and better understand the earths systems and global environment. Currently the GLOBE observer program accepts data on mosquito habitats. The data is used to help predict disease out breaks and the range and spread of invasive mosquito species.  

This event is free and open to the public. 

Registration is requested, but not required. All ages are encouraged to come and learn about the biology and impacts of mosquitoes in Connecticut. 

The Kellogg Environmental Center, 500 Hawthorne Ave., is a facility of the DEEP.
It is open 9 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. 

For information or directions email donna.kingston@ct.gov or call 203-734-2513.


This is a press release from DEEP.

Recuperation journey: Upside-down squirrel

I realize this photo taken through the window is fuzzy but I thought the squirrel's acrobatics were quite amusing. He (she) was busy eating mulberries for breakfast this morning.

Seymour Culture and Arts to present doo wop band concert

Fundraiser slated Sunday in Ansonia to benefit Team Seymour Pink

Derby Day to feature music, vision screenings, vendors, duck race, more

White Hills Fire Company in Shelton to hold annual pancake breakfast

Sharing from the fire company's Facebook page:


SHELTON - The White Hills Fire Company, 2 School St., will hold its annual pancake breakfast fundraiser from 7:30-11:30 a.m. Sunday. 
Cost is $7 per adult, $5 each for children and senior citizens (kids under 5 eat free).

Guests will enjoy an all-you-can-eat, home cooked breakfast prepared by members of the White Hills Fire Company. They also will be able to view the company's fire apparatus.