Editorial

Library Staff – “Thank You”

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The community of Suffield should be thankful to Jackie Hemond, Library Director, and her library staff. With the Kent Memorial Library closed for almost five years, they managed to provide services to our residents through an undersized temporary building on Fyler Place. To say this was an inconvenience for them is an understatement. They managed to hold most of their usual events there or they were creative in finding a more suitable place in which to hold them. The reopening of the library was such an up-and-down situation with the Department of Environmental Protection calling all the shots that planning was extremely difficult. Basically the Town had no control over the situation.

Government/Town

SVAA Chief’s Next Chapter

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For nearly twenty years Art Groux has been taking care of Suffield. A paramedic, he began serving the town as a volunteer on Martin Luther King Day in 2000. With a bachelor’s degree in emergency management services, Art became Chief of Services at the Suffield Volunteer Ambulance Association. At the SVAA he supervised a staff of nine paid, part-time workers and 80-90 volunteers. Art remained so positioned, meanwhile taking direction of Enfield’s volunteer emergency services from 2005 until 2009. Early this September of 2019, on the ninth of the month to be exact, Art informed the SVAA Board of Directors and members that he would be leaving Suffield.

Government/Town

Senior Center & Mini Bus News

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We’re getting Suffield AMP-ed again—join the adventure! The Aging Master Program® (AMP) is designed to inform, encourage, and support older adults as they take steps to improve their lives and engage with their communities.

Organizations

The Garden Fairy

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Please join Julie Harrison (‘The Garden Fairy’) and the staff of the Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden for the finale of our unique garden-to-arrangement experience, the From our Gardens series.

Government/Town

Suffield Parks and Recreation News

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In the blink of an eye summer is at an end, and so is my first year as Director of the Suffield Parks and Recreation Department. What a fantastic year I have had, filled with meeting wonderful people that live and work in Suffield, and sharing in their passion for the Town!

Organizations

Suffield Auxiliary Donates $80,000 to The Village

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The Suffield Auxiliary of The Village for Families & Children has outdone itself! This year, the completely volunteer-run Auxiliary contributed $80,000—a new record for their group—to The Village through sales at its Second Chance Shop.

Farming/Nature

The Red Eft: Exemplar for Change

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There were many great things about my childhood best friend. One of those was her family’s school bus that they had turned into a camper long before the word glamping was coined. They had painted it white with blue trim and jury-rigged calico curtains in its windows. We got to play in it in the yard which was a dream. We jumped from seat to seat with no bus driver to yell at us, pretended to drive it careening around corners at high speeds, and sometimes we just sat and inhaled that naugahyde smell.

Through the Looking Glass

Quantum Physics for Second Graders

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There are big things and small things in our world, and they work in different ways. In the Big World are all the things that you can see around you, so these are the things we learn about first. Even as a baby, you begin to notice that some things are big and heavy and you have to try harder to push or lift them. You learn that if you are holding something up and let go, it will fall to the floor. We all grow up seeing and learning these things; we begin to think that everything is logical and natural and that we understand how things work in our world. These Big World observations are part of what scientists call “Newtonian Physics.”

However, there is also the Small World, which has things that are too small for us to see.