Organizations

Our Polish Heritage

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Chain migration has been a hot topic in the United States in recent years and it is a sociological pattern that has gone on for centuries. Suffield benefited from it over one hundred years ago when the Poles began to arrive here and resuscitate the overused Connecticut River Valley soil. They may have made the journey across the Atlantic and through Ellis Island one by one, but over the years they came as families and friends. Between 1900 and 1915, my grandmother (Serafina Kreczko), three sisters, two brothers and six cousins came to the Springfield/Suffield area. The sisters married and settled in Suffield.

Organizations

Scholar-Sip Wine Tasting

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Come join the Suffield Rotary Club for some fun, some food, and yes… some wine, infused liquors, hors d’oeuvres, food tables and a raffle hosted at Suffield by the River on Friday, May 17 at 7:30 p.m.

Organizations

Polish Heritage Meeting

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The Polish Heritage Society will meet on Wednesday, March 6 at 10 a.m. in the Suffield Ambulance Center. Our guest will be Susan Urban, a Polish folk artist. She will be demonstrating “pisanki,” the traditional art of decorated Easter eggs, using wax and brightly colored dyes. Ms. Urban has enlightened and entertained the PHS previously with her presentation on “wycinanki,” Polish paper cutting.  If schools are closed in the case of a weather event, this meeting will be canceled. 

Now and Then

Making the Golden Years Shine

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Do we take for granted that Suffield offers low-cost housing for the aging and handicapped? If we do, we may find it hard to believe that a half-century ago a proposal for low cost housing for the elderly was dismissed.

Library

Award-Winning Film Bag It Offered Free

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This documentary is the first in a series of free programs on current environmental issues presented by The Second Baptist Church in collaboration with the Kent Memorial Library and the local chapter of the Sierra Club. It will be shown on Sunday, March 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Fellowship Hall, Second Baptist Church on 100 North Main Street. Childcare services are available and there is ample parking behind the church. Popcorn will be provided. Bag It follows “everyman” Jeb Berrier as he tries to make sense of our dependence on plastic bags.

Library

Museum Passes with a Library Card

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For eons, the Kent Memorial Library had free and discounted museum passes, paid for by The Friends of the Library. The Library still has them – 16 in fact. But now you can reserve and print the majority of them from your home without coming to the library. You have to have a current Suffield library card. You have to go to the library’s website at suffield-library.org.

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FOS Egg Hunt and Bunny Visit

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It’s back! By popular demand, the “Welcome Spring! Egg Hunt and Bunny Visit,” hosted by the Friends of Suffield, returns to town this year. Perfect for families with young children, the activity-filled event takes place Saturday, April 6, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Spaulding Elementary School. Volunteers are busy planning a variety of hands-on fun, which will be posted on www.friendsofsuffield.org.

Library

Library Work Enters Home Stretch

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Interior painting at the library, which had begun with the new year, was completed in short order. Then the library rested for a few days with the external heaters removed and the new HVAC system operating normally, and on January 23, the required air quality tests were run. Samples were taken at multiple locations, and the results were taken to Fuss & O’Neill, the Town’s environmental consultant, for interpretation. Initial reports were encouraging, but final results were not in hand at press time. In the meantime, members of the library staff have shared in several walk-through examinations, learning the shelf installations and planning the specific locations where wiring for power and computer connections will be required, now that the interior layout has been significantly changed.