Organizations

Baby Trees Distributed Again

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For the 57th year since the establishment of the custom, members of the Suffield Garden Club observed Arbor Day by distributing seedling trees provided by the Club’s Vallery Gallivan Tree Fund to all the Suffield fourth grade students.

Organizations

Tree Care & Pruning Workshop

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Michael Feli, an arborist with Bartlett Tree Experts, will be our guide in this hands-on program to be held on Saturday, June 11.

Government/Town

Parks and Rec News

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The highly anticipated and well-deserved Jimmy Deren Memorial/Bowling Buddies season-end banquet for the Parks and Recreation Bowling Buddies group was held on Tuesday, May 10 at beautiful Sunrise Park.

Organizations

Big Brothers Big Sisters Award

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It was recently announced by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut that former Suffield resident Lisa Bonner has won the organization’s Victoria L. Soto Memorial Award for 2022.

Organizations

Zak Fund Announces Grants

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Editor’s Note: For those who have not lived in Suffield long enough to know him, Amiel P. Zak (1915-1984) was born on East Street in Suffield to Polish immigrants. He graduated from the Suffield School in 1934, received his bachelor’s degree from Acadia University (Nova Scotia) and taught at Suffield High School from 1940 to 1973. He earned a Bronze Star while serving in the Pacific theater during World War II. He was very active within the Town of Suffield, holding many elected and appointed seats on boards and commissions, including Third Selectman. Ten Suffield organizations have received grants totaling $85,210 from the Amiel and Mary Anne Zak Public Service Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

Library

KML General Programs

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Children’s Programs Check out Kent Memorial’s Summer Reading Program, Oceans of Possibility, for kids (age 3 to grade 4) and teens (grades 5-12)!!!  Each week that you read, you can win a prize, and you’ll earn a free ticket for a fun raffle. What do you have to read? Anything! Read a book, magazine, newspaper, website – write your own book — it all counts! Come join us this summer and have fun.

Director’s Corner

Where the Wild Things Are

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“The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called him ‘WILD THING!’ and Max said, ‘I’LL EAT YOU UP!’ so he was sent to bed without eating anything.”