The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/2016/07/page/8/)
This year’s North Central Connecticut Relay For Life began on June 4 at the Intermediate/Middle Schools track on a lovely spring morning, continued through a perfect day and ended in a gloomy drizzle on Sunday morning.
Some fruits and vegetables are meant to be picked and eaten right away and others should be left on the vine or on your counter to continue the ripening process. To pick or let ripen? . . . that is the question.
It’s been ten years since USMC Cpl. Stephen R. Bixler’s heroic death in combat operations in Iraq, and while his ninth annual picnic was an enjoyable outing, it was clear that no one forgot the reason they were there.
Creeping slowly clockwise around Quail Run Road, the Galasso crew lay down the first coat of new pavement on the milled surface as a roller follows closely behind.
Enfield Loaves and Fishes (soup kitchen) is in need of garden vegetables.
Those who commented about Suffield’s Memorial Day this year all agreed that, while they were disappointed that rain had cancelled the customary parade, the ceremony at Suffield High was the best ever.
