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The Girl Scouts of Suffield will be hosting an Earth Day celebration at Hilltop Farm on Sunday, April 22, 2018 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The Girl Scouts and FOFAH invite families to three separate STEM based activities. Participants can come build, color, and fly their own kite. Learn how a kite uses air as lift to stay in flight. The second activity is geocaching. Use your phones to find the Geocache box hidden on the property.
The Suffield Garden Club will hold a monthly meeting on Monday, April 2, at 5:45 p.m. at the Second Baptist Church, Fellowship Hall, 100 North Main Street. A light fare precedes a business meeting and program. Guest fee is $5 and guests are cordially welcomed up to three visits per year. Our guest speaker, Barbara Yaeger, is a professional landscape architect and accredited nursery pro as well. She has been an advisor and inspiration to the SGC’s long-term project of researching and documenting the type and health of our Main Street trees.
The Enfield Loaves & Fishes Soup Kitchen is once again beginning its Springtime Challenge, our principal fundraising drive that keeps our doors open. The Soup Kitchen is seeking monetary donations through April 30. Letters were recently mailed to past benefactors, and area schools and churches, in an effort to raise money and supply food items to enable Enfield Loaves & Fishes to feed the ever-increasing number of needy people in Enfield and surrounding towns. The Soup Kitchen, located at 28 Prospect Street, served 140,211 meals in 2017, including meals to hungry children and 108,115 snacks served to children participating in after school programs of Educational Resources for Children (ERfC). Another 46,259 meals were provided for home consumption in emergency situations.
The Suffield Tree Committee has the pleasure and responsibility to follow the directives of two special Funds. The first was left in memory of Helena Bailey Spencer, in care of the Town to be administered by a committee of the First Selectman, Town Treasurer and the President of the Suffield Garden Club. The second was a bequest from Vallyn Gallivan, a forward looking woman, who left her gift in care of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving to be administered by that same committee. Additional members have joined this committee and many of the past presidents of the Garden Club have stayed on. In the past few years the committee has planted 46 new trees with 39 of them planted within the Main Street Historic area.
Suffield Land Conservancy’s Annual Spring Programs are a wonderful opportunity to connect with the outdoors, discover wildflowers, explore the forests and uncover different species of birds that are right in your very own backyards. Open to the public, please join us for each of these outdoor adventures with your friends and family members. Annual Wildflower Hike will be held on Sunday, April 29 at 2 p.m., rain or shine. Please meet at Sunrise Park where we will gather at the pavilion. Come discover over 30 beautiful spring wildflowers.
Home from college for Thanksgiving last November, new Eagle Scout Evan Cashman had his official ceremony in Boy Scout Troop 260 and received his Eagle credentials. After graduating from Suffield High School last spring, Evan is now in his first year at Savannah College of Art and Design, where he is majoring in film. He entered the Scout program through Cub Scout Pack 209 and advanced to become the Assistant Patrol Leader of Troop 260 as well as a Brotherhood member of the Order of the Arrow, the Boy Scout honor society. Along with all the other achievements for the rank of Eagle Scout, Evan’s Eagle service project was to build a sand box about 6 feet square, with benches alongside the sand, for Spaulding School. The unit has been installed in the fenced playground behind the school.
A great combo – eat better and save money! Your inner guidance will help you plan on starting or building on the success you’ve already achieved with your gardening endeavors. The only sure way we can be certain of eating organic produce is to be proactive and grow it ourselves. We all know there is no way we can always dine on 100% pure, chemical-free food but, it behooves us to reduce or eliminate buying and eating toxic items whenever and wherever we can. Read this:
“Glyphosate is widely used on genetically engineered crops, and the pesticide [sic] cannot be washed off, as it’s taken up into every cell of the plant.
The April meeting of the Polish Heritage Society will be held on Wednesday, the 4th, at 10 a.m. in the Suffield Ambulance Center at 205 Bridge St. The guest for that meeting will be Susan Urban of West Springfield. Ms. Urban is a Polish artist who creates intricate designs called “Wycinanki”, the Polish word for paper-cut designs. According to the artist, this type of art originated in Poland during the early part of the 18th century and served as an inexpensive way for Polish peasants to decorate their homes. The original designs had no sketch or stencils to use.
Cubs from Den 4 of Cub Scout Pack 266 show the no-sew blankets they made to donate to Project Linus, a non-charity organization that provides blankets to children in need due to traumas or medical illness.
A workshop for lineage research, which is open to the public, will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 28 at the Second Baptist Church, 100 N. Main Street. The workshop is sponsored by the Sibbil Dwight Kent Chapter of the Daughters of The American Revolution. It will be conducted by Jolene Mullen, a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and Field Genealogist of the National Society of the Daughters of The American Revolution. Mrs. Mullen will direct how to research individual genealogical lines and will answer questions from the participants. She will have reference materials available.