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Through the generosity of a grant from the Suffield Foundation for Excellent Schools, and collaboration between Allison Daly, special education teacher, and Morgan O’Malley, special education paraprofessional, the Coffee Cart project was established in 2017 at Suffield High School.
As part of the fifth-grade journalism unit at McAlister Intermediate School over the past three years, representatives from The Suffield Observer have been invited to speak to the students about what it takes to put together a monthly paper and how getting something written might actually happen. This year, on a beautiful October day, the fifth-grade students were gathered on the tennis courts behind the school to allow for social distancing and a speaker system was set up. Andy Sauer, one of the Observer columnists, spoke about where he gets his ideas and explained his process for getting words to paper (or computer). As editor of the paper, I spoke about the nuts and bolts of how the paper gets from article ideas to print. The students had lots of questions, and we encouraged the kids to think about writing something for publication in the paper.
“Learning to do, doing to learn, earning to live, and living to serve.”
Congratulations to Ava Yunis who was chosen as the Rotary Student of the Month for November.
The Lincoln Highway was a route that ran from the East Coast to California. This tale starts in Nebraska.
The Suffield Cooperative Preschool students and their families celebrated safely at the school’s annual Halloween Costume Party.
If every town has a story, then it stands to reason it must have a history. It is easy to dismiss the day-to-day happenings of a small town as inconsequential, but string those events together, and a picture develops of a place that people call home. Like all images, literal and figurative, that picture will be used by those in the future to imagine the past. That image of Suffield — a town that despite its quiet personality has a number of interesting, if not quirky, character traits — has been well documented in Suffield Stories from Another Half-Century, 1970-2020. The hardcover book, available for purchase locally, reflects the herculean effort by Suffield’s 350th Anniversary Committee, led by Observer Editor-in-Chief Beth Chafetz, to solicit, collect, edit and publish the Suffield stories from roughly 100 writers.
This fall was a busy time at the Kent Memorial Library. In addition to a steady stream of patrons, the library hosted thirty-three programs in October.
The Suffield Arts Council will present a wonderful display of fine art works by two of the area’s top artists. Viewers will enjoy a collection of paintings, created in a variety of media. Included will be landscapes, still lifes, portraits and florals,
Be sure not to miss this show, featuring Linda Lastoff and Beverlee Corriveau. Linda LastoffA graduate of Boston University, Linda taught art in public schools in Massachusetts, Vermont and Connecticut. She has given private lessons and held workshops in pastel painting and has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards for her art.