Schools/Sports

New Director of Special Services Appointed

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The Suffield Board of Education has selected Mrs. Diana Kelley to be the new Director of Special Services for the Suffield Public Schools. Diana comes to Suffield from the Glastonbury Public Schools where she has been a member of the Special Education department for the past eighteen years. She has served as their Director of Special Education since 2015. There were eleven applicants for the position, of whom four candidates were selected for interviews based on their previous work experiences. A search committee that consisted of Board of Education members, administrators, faculty, staff, and parents interviewed the candidates over a period of several weeks.

Government/Town

Senior Center & Mini Bus News

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The Caregiver Support Program is a valuable resource for caregivers who play an important role in the health and well-being of our veterans.

Churches

Second Baptist Vacation Bible School

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Second Baptist Church will be hosting our community Vacation Bible School July 8-12. Our program begins at 9 a.m. each morning and ends at noon. Our time includes music, drama (the good kind), crafts, snacks, games and lots of good Bible teaching. Children in PreK – sixth grade are invited to join us. Kids in seventh grade through adults can help.

Organizations

Suffield Teen is CEO-Ready

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Emily Brydges, 14, recently completed the winter session of an after-school entrepreneurship academy called Girls With Impact. She plans now to go into business with the program she developed. She participated in the 12-week program through 50-minute online classes at home, in audio and visual contact with local and global classmates and their coaches.  In a final online meeting, the students presented the business plans they had developed.  Emily’s virtual company was No Loose Ends, which would sell multi-colored shoe laces to runners, with all proceeds going to support Campaign for Female Education. In a statement prepared for the program, Emily said, “Prior to joining Girls with Impact, I did not have the courage or resources to take my passion and make it into something real. Now, having completed Girls with Impact, I can use my knowledge and experience to make a difference.” She plans to bring her company into reality this summer. 

Suffield 350th Golf Fundraiser

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They say “Third Time’s the Charm,” well Friday, October 11, will actually be the fourth time that the Suffield 350th Anniversary Committee has scheduled our golf fundraiser. Rainy weather and soggy course conditions have been our nemesis, but October can also be great time of year to play golf! Our golf event, to be held at the Suffield Country Club, is a major fundraiser for the 350th Committee. Proceeds will be used to pay for events, projects and programs celebrating our town’s big anniversary in 2020. Registration and lunch for the 18-hole scramble format golf tournament will begin at noon.

Schools/Sports

SHS Trivia Night

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Each school year the Suffield High School Chick-fil-A Leader Academy is challenged with completing an “Impact Project” to benefit the community and to practice their leadership skills. This year the group, made up of 30 sophomores and juniors, decided to put on a Trivia Night to benefit the Dustin L. Doyon Memorial and the Brianna Mailloux Scholarship funds. It was an incredibly successful night. The Trivia Night was held Friday, May 17 at 6 p.m. on the Suffield High School grounds. Twenty-one teams of six to eight people each consisted of mostly high school students, their parents, and three teacher teams – one from Suffield High School, one from Suffield Middle School and one from McAlister Intermediate School.

Churches

Pocket Friends – From Norway to Suffield

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These adorable Pocket Friends made their way to Suffield in May 2019. Each are hand knit creations by Signe Wright, an 87-year-old Suffield resident. “Each one takes about two to three hours of work, some more than others,” said Signe. While she does not get out much these days, Signe has always been very industrious knitting year round, making hats and mittens for homeless shelters, knitting gifts for Suffield Community Aid Baskets, and participating in the Annual Church Fair selling her hats and shawls at Second Baptist Church. Signe was energized when she found these adorable Pocket Friends in a knitting group in her home country of Norway.