The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/2018/page/31/)
The summer after my sophomore year at Suffield High, I was offered a spot along with two fellow Interact peers at a state-wide conference at Springfield College to demonstrate our leadership abilities and learn how to work better in groups.
In early August, Mr. Ken Smith was hired as the new principal at Suffield Middle School. Smith, a graduate of UConn with a Masters in Secondary English, went on to teach seventh grade English in Portland, Conn., for eight years.
The sound of almost two dozen basketballs being dribbled at once is something like quiet thunder. That’s what was going on in Suffield Academy’s parking lot off Mountain Road near the end of July, when Basketball World’s summer day camp was in session.
The Suffield Polish Heritage Society will hold its monthly meeting (first Wednesday) on Sept. 5 at 10 a.m. in the Ambulance Center, 205 Bridge St.
This Great Golden Digger Wasp is enjoying Asclepius Tuberosa – a more ornamental variety of milkweed – in the butterfly garden at Hilltop Farm.
The wide-ranging presentations at the Suffield Arts Festival offered the town an opportunity to enjoy a free sample of local music, dance, drama, mime, comedy, painting, crafts and more. The Suffield Youth Theater (SYT), always adventurous, tackled this as their summer event on Saturday, July 14.
It’s not the kind of parade with marchers in step, but the motif was Patriotism, and patriotic spirit was certainly evident with the splendid red, white, and blue trappings on many of the boats that circled Middle Pond on Saturday, July 7. This traditional event held by Citizens Restoring Congamond was bigger than ever this year.
Torrential rain was not an auspicious start to Saturday, August 4, but the afternoon turned lovely for the Volunteer Appreciation Picnic hosted by The Friends of the Farm at Hilltop. Joan and Tom Heffernan of Suffield were honored as FOFAH’s 2018 “Volunteers of the Year.”
Joan is an amazing gardener!
The Suffield Woman’s Club (SWC) will be selling 9” fall mums on Saturday, September 22 and Sunday, September 23 at Sacred Heart Church after each service.
The Suffield Arts Council is featuring a collection of watercolor paintings by noted artist Alan Izatt of Belchertown in the Gallery of Suffield’s Kent Memorial Library, continuing through September.