July 26, 2008
Late night fun
"Hollywood Nights" was the theme of the recent Ansonia High School post prom event.
On Saturday, May 3, from 12:30 to 4:30 a.m., 185 students enjoyed Ansonia High School’s annual post prom event hosted by the Ansonia High School Parent Teacher Student Organization.
The event, which took place at the school, featured obstacle course inflatables, a palm reader, game show host, hypnotist, food/refreshments, and raffle prizes for all seniors in attendance.
This year’s surprise theme was “Hollywood Nights,” and the group enjoyed photo opportunities with Elvis, Marilyn Monroe and Beyonce!
The free event was made possible by generous contributions from local businesses, family and friends, as well as grants and fundraising efforts.
Many thanks go to the countless adult and student volunteers who helped make the post prom event happen.
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All they're 'quaked up to be'
The spring entrepreneurship class at Joel Barlow High School took part in Quack! for a Cause on April 26 on the Easton Firehouse Green. The kids’ fair benefited Save the Children's Survive to Five program.
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Lessons in empathy
The 5 Day 5's class at Trinity Parish Nursery School with the supplies and educational materials they purchased are wrapped to be given to clients of the Quinlan Cottage in Norwalk. Top row, from left, are Brian Meagher, Nicholas Morris, Cole Spencer, Eric Young and teacher Marianne Sabo. Bottom row, from left, are Callie Dammeyer, Ellen Kelly, Elizabeth Crager, and Callie Cirilli.
The 5 Day 5’s class at Trinity Parish Nursery School in Fairfield has concluded its fourth annual community service classroom fundraiser. The eight children earned money by doing small chores around the house for family and friends. The funds raised were used to buy arts and crafts supplies and educational materials which were then given to the Quinlan Cottage.
The children spent a morning wrapping and decorating the gifts.
Quinlan Cottage is a halfway house for female offenders preparing to reenter the community. The program is under the auspices of NEON (Norwalk Economic Opportunity Now Inc.) and provides a variety of services to those in need in the greater Norwalk area.
A dozen children ranging in age from 5 to 11 are part of the Cottage program. Materials supplied by the Trinity children will be used in a special weekend of activities designed to bring the children and their mothers closer together.
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Little ones learn about, celebrate Arbor Day
Kindergartener Christopher Lakin helps his mother, Theresa, left, a member of the Long Hill Garden Club, ready the seedlings and book with Kara Canney, right, children’s librarian, for the Kindergarten Club meeting.
The Trumbull Library’s Kindergarten Club and the Long Hill Garden Club joined together for an Arbor Day celebration on April 24 in the Children’s Room.
Kara Canney, children’s librarian, read the story “Franklin Plants a Tree” to the eager kindergarteners. In the book, Franklin has grand ideas about the tree he is going to receive at an Earth Day celebration. He is disappointed with his sapling, but learns to take care of his tree.
The children worked diligently on a seed craft and at the end of the session, each child went home with a blue spruce sapling provided by the garden club. Arbor Day was April 30.
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Congratulations are in order
Above, James Amann, state speaker of the House, congratulates Robert Morton Jr., a senior at Fairfield University and president of its Iota Psi chapter of Beta Alpha Psi. The primary objective of Beta Alpha Psi is to give recognition to scholastic and professional excellence. Morton graduates May 18, then immediately begins full-time pursuit of a master’s degree.
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Cambridge Manor was the site of the nuptials of Joseph Gagner and Barbara Rusnak on April 26.
Joseph is the son of Cambridge Manor resident Barbara Gagner.
Congradulations!
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Monroe students recently participated in the American Statistical Association’s Poster Competition. The competition was open to all state schools.
Students created graphs to represent the data they collected in school, at home or researched on the Internet. They then drew conclusions from the data.
Bristol-Meyers Squibb hosted a reception for all winners at its Wallingford location on April 5. First-place winners received $100; second place, $75; and third place, $50. This year, Monroe students received 12 of the 19 awards presented among the 356 posters submitted for the competition.
Winners included:
Fawn Hollow Elementary: Kevin Arther, first; Kyle Weiss, Alexander Gutierrez and Louis Duh, third; Brianna Mulloy, Andrew Maslar, Sian Stockman and Matthew Scanzillo, honorable mention.
Monroe Elementary: Mrs. Flynn’s third-grade class, honorable mention.
Stepney Elementary: Ali Moraveck, Claire Kopfmann and Sydney Hirsch, first; Spencer Dai and Emerson Carlson, third; Jane Capozziello and Angela Yu, honorable mention.
Chalk Hill: Naomi Potterf, first; Justin Marcinek, second; Kim Magyar, third; Alexandra Vickowski, Nicole Yanouzas, Mike Dellapiano, Michael Monaco, Jenna Carpenter and Carolyn DeCredico, honorable mention.
Jockey Hollow: Ryan Lancaster, first; Amy Rajpolt, second; Noah Kreski and Christopher Butler, honorable mention.
Masuk High: Andrew Rivard and Alexander Wesler, first.
Ryan Lancaster also won first place, and Louis Duh and Alexander Gutierrez won second place in the national competition.
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Dynamic duo shares love for service
Officer Jay Valle of the Fairfield Police Department has chosen to honorstudent Shawn Higgins, a recent graduate of Fairfield Ludlowe High School.
Every month, in a feature called Heroes Honoring Heroes, People’s United Bank and a local police department honor a police officer and a student for excellent school performance or for the good works they do. To the student winner, People’s gives a $100 U.S. Savings Bond.
This month, recognition goes to Officer Jay Valle of the Fairfield Police Department, who has chosen to honor student Shawn Higgins, a recent graduate of Fairfield Ludlowe High School.
What has impressed Valle about Higgins is the young man’s dedication to community service. Higgins’ mother, Donna, succumbed to cancer in January 2002, and even before his loss, Higgins made it his personal goal to raise as much money as he could for cancer research. He recalls meeting a nun associated with Bridgeport’s St. Vincent’s Medical Center in 2001. She was taking part in the Swim Across the Sound’s Aquathon, in which area residents swim laps in the Fairfield University pool to raise money for cancer research.
When Higgins met the nun at St. Vincent’s, he was so impressed that “she was swimming for my mom,” that he went out that evening and raised $1,000 to help fight cancer. In the seven years since, Higgins has raised more than $10,000 in his mother’s memory. He has participated in both the Aquathon and the Walk-a-Thon that support the Swim.
“He’s a very unselfish young man,” Valle notes. “I am proud of him because he took on a responsibility — raising money for cancer research — and continues to follow it through.”
Higgins, who is pursuing a career as an electrician, has lived with his grandparents since the loss of his mother.
Valle, a 16-year veteran of the Fairfield Police Department, has been a field training officer in the Patrol Division, and worked with the Drug Enforcement Administration. He is the department’s Officer Friendly, “so I’ve run the gamut from chasing down bad guys to being kindergarten cop! And I’ve enjoyed it all!”
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Quota springs into action
Spring has found Quota International of New Haven busy helping the needy.
Group serving
A group of Quotarians prepared and served a meal for 40 members of Fellowship Place, a facility in New Haven that assists people with serious mental illness and substance abuse problems. Serving are Quotarians Vicky Jacobsen, Lynn Stewart, JoAnn Soules, Pat Jakupkovic and Lynne Maser.
Presenting check
The Quota club of New Haven donated $5,000 to the CHAIN Fund. This organization is a financial assistance and social intervention network for cancer patients who are unable to work while undergoing treatment. Pat Jakupkovic, Quota president, along with Nancy Suski and Shirley Washington, present the check to Kelly Turner of the CHAIN Fund.
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Bard encounter
During the month of April, National Poetry Month, Hillcrest Middle School students participated in a Shakespeare enrichment program with the support from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism.
Students attended a series of instructional workshops where they explored the world and language of William Shakespeare. These workshops were then followed by a live, interactive performance by Shakesperience Productions Inc.
During this performance, students had the opportunity to become Shakespearean actors, as they read and acted through vignettes from a number of Shakespearean tragedies and comedies. The program was very successful and will return next spring.
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Wildcats team up for nice 'Grinch'
Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele and students in the Stepney Elementary School Wildcats Read Across America Team.
Students participating in the Stepney Elementary School Wildcats Read Across America Team were recently honored with a visit from Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele, who accepted the students' written invitations to attend an original play, “How the Grinch Became So Nice.”
Following the play, students interviewed Fedele and learned more about his job, family, interests and favorite books. Fedele presented the school with a book, “N is for Nutmeg,” which tells about Connecticut.
The team received funding for their program through educational grants from the Rotary Club of Monroe and Connecticut Association for the Gifted.
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Fundraisers aid children's shelter
Jason Prevelige of Fairfield, left, Cindy Lord of Cheshire, director of the Quinnipiac University physician assistant program; Janice Dadio of North Haven, the secretary for the program; Kathleen Swift of Geneseo, N.Y.; and Andrew Turczak of Shelton. Prevelige, Swift and Turczak are all students in the program.
The Quinnipiac University Physician Assistant Student Society raised $10,000 for the Children’s Shelter of San Antonio, Texas, during its Ninth Annual Run for Your Life: 5K Road Race, 10th Annual Cow Chip Bingo and Second Annual Kids’ Fun Run on April 12 at Quinnipiac.
The fundraisers were part of the American Academy of Physician Assistants Host City Prevention Campaign, which promotes childhood literacy. The Quinnipiac students will attend this year’s AAPA conference, which will take place in San Antonio in May.
More than 150 runners competed in the 5K Road Race.
Following the race, three Holstein cows took to the “bingo board,” which, in actuality, was a field at Quinnipiac. With 1,000 squares lined on the field, students sold tickets for $10 per bingo square. The first cow to drop chips on a given square on the field earned the winner $1,500, with the second prize $1,000, and a third prize of $500.
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