Newtown chef helps to raise over $50,000 for World Central Kitchen, among Danbury area highlights
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The finale of CityCenter Danbury’s “Taste of Danbury” event will be held this month.
For only $25, participants can enjoy a variety of delicious meals from four different establishments throughout the downtown area
More information and purchasing tickets are available at https://citycenterdanbury.ticketbud.com/tastes-of-danbury-may.
Danbury
Immaculate engineering team wins national merit award
The Brave engineering team from the Immaculate High School in Danbury received the 2022 United States Design Viability Merit Award at the virtual International Real World Design Competition in Washington, D.C.
The team members were: Nikolas Badinelli, Danbury resident and Class of 2022, Paulina Garcia, Danbury resident and Class of 2022, Carolyn Jandura, Redding resident and Class of 2022, Mario Perez, Newtown reisdent and Class of 2022, Nicole Radllif, New Fairfield resident Class of 2024, Ava Viola, Sherman resident and Class of 2023, and Yipeng Simon Zhao, Danbury resident and Class of 2024.
Immaculate High School teacher advisor Jeanine Antonios led the team. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Engines company technical manager mentored the members.
The team was challenged to present their design evolution and final design, which included the processes that are used to determine the viability of the specifications of their N-21 BE Eagle drone creation, command controls, operation center, ground control station operations, and safety measures, delivery capabilities, unplanned events, and business model.
The challenge is also an annual competition that provided high school students with the opportunity to work on real world engineering challenges in a team environment.
Danbury
Resource fair to be held for families
Various organizations are hosting a free 2022 Early Childhood and Community Resource Fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Danbury Sports Dome.
The Action Learning Center / the Community Agency of Western Connecticut are hosting the event in collaboration with the Danbury Public School district, Latinos for Educational Advocacy and Diversity, United Way, the Danbury Senior Resources council, and the Parent Leadership Training Institute.
The event is intended to provide information and resources about how to access to services and programs that benefit all of the children and the families in the community.
Attendees will be provided with the opportunity to gather and exchange information from different agencies in the community.
Agencies will provide information that range from childcare services, kindergarten registration, special education services, summer camps, dental health services, food assistance services, family support services, and more.
There will also be workshops, resource tables, face painting, children’s activities, music, arts and crafts, games, and raffles.
Newtown
School hosts annual spring get together, auction
The Fraser Woods Montessori School hosted its annual spring get-together gala and auction fundraiser event, “Let’s Get Acquainted at Aquila’s,” on May 1.
This year’s fundraiser supported the school’s Fund-A-Need campaign, with money going toward a new fabrication laboratory.
The lab is meant to equip students in kindergarten through eighth grade with the tools to independently design, invent and create. It will cultivate an environment that encourages students to apply foundational knowledge to unique challenges. Additionally, it will encourage students to develop a growth mindset that they will carry to all future endeavors. Importantly, it is also a space where our students have fun.
Newtown
Chef helps to raise over $50,000 for World Central Kitchen
Newtown Chef Plum recently organized a celebrity chef beer dinner to benefit the World Central Kitchen.
The April 25 event raised over $50,000 as Food Network television network chefs came together to support the crisis in Ukraine.
The celebrated chefs, who are known for heating things up on the network, partnered with the Boston Beer company, and prepared a six course dinner that was paired with beers, all to benefit the World Central Kitchen.
The Chefs were: Chef Plum, who is also from PBS and National Public Radio, along with Jeff Purazzi, who is the co-host of the the Plumluvfoods podcast, Nick Calias from the Hotel Colonnade television show on the Food Network, chef Michele Ragussis, who is also a Food Network Judge, Robert Sisca, who is a chef, and a partner at The Banks, and the Bistro du Midi venues of the Himmel Hospitality Group, and Adam Young, who is a pastry chef on the Food Network.
The 65-person dinner took place at the Boston tap room and was organized by Chef Plum after a conversation with Jamie Mcdonald on “Seasoned” from WNPR radio.
Newtown
Organization to have fundraiser for Ukraine
The Western Connecticut Music Teachers Association is hosting a free festival and fundraiser in the Newtown Meeting House for Ukraine from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday called “Young Musicians For Ukraine.”
The Meeting House is located at 31 Main St. in Newtown.
The event will include live music by students under 19.
There will also be performances that will include music works by composers Chopin, Grieg, Albeniz, Beethoven, and other composers. A jazz group will also perform.
All donations will go to protect and restore lives in Ukraine and other countries where families have been displaced.
Monetary donations to the UN Refugee Agency, USA for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, will be accepted at the event and online.
Donations can be made at https://fundraise-for-refugees.funraise.org/fundraiser/young-musicians-for, for Ukraine.
Regional
Mental health programs available
The Housatonic Valley Health District will be offering two-hour sessions to learn more about promoting positive mental health and combating feelings of anxiety, stress and loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
To raise awareness about mental health, Housatonic Valley Health District will begin hosting “Coping During Times of COVID-19” programs in the community.
Topics will include general information regarding mental health, facts and myths regarding mental health, how to promote positive mental health through a healthy lifestyle, tips to combat stress, tips to deal with COVID related stress and anxiety, and supporting the senior community with the effects of the COVID pandemic.
To attend the program virtually, people can join the Housatonic Valley Health District from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday. To register for the virtual program, visit hvhd.us/event/coping-during-times-of-covid-19/.
Roxbury
Church to support World Central Kitchen
Christ Church Roxbury is having a benefit tag sale event for the nonprofit organization World Central Kitchen from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday.
The event will be in the parish hall of the church at 4 Wellers Bridge Road in Roxbury.
Call Roxbury resident Dona Murphy at 860-354-6760 with any questions.
Southbury
Local caregiver receives National Caregiver of the Year honor
Local Southbury caregiver Kay Madlingozi, a certified home health Agent, of the BrightStar Care Southbury, has received a Caregiver of the Year honor. She was recognized for the outstanding care that she continues to provide her clients and her commitment to health care.
She was named the Northeast region winner from BrightStar Care, but the nationwide home care and medical staffing franchise opted to reward all regional winners with national recognition due to the challenges caregivers have faced over the past two years.
Madlingozi was nominated for the honor by one of her client’s family members for unparalleled empathy, care, and patience that she provided to her client during the 3 1/2 years that she was his certified caregiver.
Southbury
Social justice group host speaker
The social justice advocacy group, Justice Southbury. has planned the fourth session of its speaker series, on the topics of diversity, equity and inclusion
This interactive Zoom conversation will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday.
The speaker for the May 15 session is Aunrée Houston, former vice president of marketing operations for HBO’s programming sales division. Currently, Houston partners with companies to develop and enhance work culture, diversity, equity and inclusion policy, and talent management.
A self-described “Futurist for Equity & Equality,” Houston will present a “DEI Empowerment Talk” to Justice Southbury’s audience. DEI stands for diversity, equity and inclusion.
To receive the Zoom link to attend, email [email protected].
Washington
Institute of American Studies announces new quilting project
The Institute for American Indian Studies has announced a new community quilting project for the month of May.
The project, titled “Blocks of Hope and Healing,” is a way to support and bring attention to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2-Spirit People, MMIWG2, epidemic.
The concept of the community made quilt will be used to honor and remember the plight of missing, and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and 2-Spirit People.
The institute invites the public to become part of the global movement by participating in two upcoming quilt workshops.
The first workshop will be on Saturday, at 11 a.m. Saturday. The second workshop will be at 11 a.m. May 22.
Institute for American Indian Studies Education Director Darlene Kascak will conduct the workshops. She is of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation.
Attendees who don’t complete their quilt packages during the workshops can complete them at home, as long as they return them to the institute by June 1.
All participants are asked to make a $25 donation to the National Indigenous Women’s Rights Council. Donations may be made at https://www.niwrc.org/donate.
Call 860-868-0518 or email [email protected] to reserve your section on this community quilt, sign up for one of the quilting workshops, or if you have any questions about this initiative.
CORRECTION: An original version of this article incorrectly identified the name of the nationwide home care and medical staffing franchise that caregiver Kay Madlingozi earned the award from. The name is BrightStar Care.
An original version of this article incorrectly reported the technology that would be supported through the Fraser Woods Montessori School’s fundraiser. The event raised money for the school’s fabrication laboratory. The school has had 3D printers since 2017 and a laser cutting machine since spring of 2018.
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