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Rotary Clubs throughout the nation are fighting against the deadly opioid epidemic. Each day, more than 130 people die from opioid-related drug overdoses.
The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/organizations/page/117/)
Rotary Clubs throughout the nation are fighting against the deadly opioid epidemic. Each day, more than 130 people die from opioid-related drug overdoses.
The Suffield Observer owes its existence to a large number of volunteers, as well as other friends who send us news and photos (and opinions!), so we get together occasionally to give thanks.
In the May, Observer issue, we published a partial list of local organizations that welcome volunteers. As we were reminded by readers, there are others that we did not include that are equally deserving of being recognized as fine places to volunteer – actually many, many, others.
The Suffield Firefighters Association proudly announces the 23rd annual Firefighters 5K walk/run.
FFA Members from the Suffield Agriscience program offer ready-to-plant vegetables and flowers at the Suffield Garden Club’s May Market on May 11.
The Phelps-Hatheway House, 55 South Main Street, opens for its 48th season with something for everyone!! Please join us on Friday, May 3, at 5:30 p.m. to fete nature photographer, Libby Lord, as she opens the art gallery of the Phelps-Hatheway Visitor’s Center for 2019.
The Suffield Woman’s Club (SWC) welcomed Lauren Perleoni from The Potting Shed on Remington Street to their gathering recently. Lauren led a make-and-take presentation on plants that can help cleanse the air in the home.
The way I see it, it all started as we sat around the dining room table, my dad telling us stories about growing up while I was trying to hide my peas under my mashed potatoes. He was a good storyteller, and it was important to him that we knew what life was like growing up on the farm around the corner where he was the seventh generation to take his first steps on that patch of land.
The fields and streams of Hilltop Farm are a great place to learn about the outside world.
Bob Warren served on the Editorial Board for the paper’s first issue and was Chairman of the Observer’s Board of Directors from 2001 to 2012.