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Newtown Rotary’s 2022 Winter Raffle Underway

Published: Jan 14, 2022 07:45 AM

Since 1939 Newtown Rotary has supported the community with hundreds of grants, community service projects, student programs, scholarships, and much more. Every year the club seeks support from the community to finance this work.

Club members are currently selling tickets for the 2022 Newtown Rotary Winter Raffle. Tickets are $20 each, with all proceeds to benefit the local chapter and its ongoing outreach efforts.

This year’s raffle offers $3,000 in three prizes: $1,500, $1,000, and $500 Visa gift cards.

Tickets can be purchased online through NewtownCTRotary.org. They are also available in person at Newtown Florist, 111 South Main Street, or by contacting Newtown Rotary President Alex Villamil, 203-223-3524.

Just 1,000 tickets are being sold. Ticket sales close at midnight Friday, February 18. The winning ticket will be drawn Tuesday, February 22, at 7:30 pm, at MaryGold’s on Main, 19 Main Street.

Members of The Rotary Club of Connecticut are shown during the general assembly meeting in September 2021 at MaryGold’s on Main. The club is conducting one of its largest annual fundraisers. —photo courtesy Chris Hoeffel

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I am sorry but $88.8 million dollars to educate 4030 kids is way out of line! That's over $22k per kid, used to be $8k per kid, the kids aren't getting any smarter, the administration eats all the cost. Time to cut the budget by 20% and also cut the $225k salary of the superintendent and $193k of the superintendent assistant ! You can get a lot of teachers for $400k wasted for 2 overpaid positions. Common sense should tell you that spending $2.5 million per every week for population less than 30k people is just way too high! Also voting should be done by mail, enough with these nonsensical referendums where barely 16% of voters show up. 51% voters approval should be MANDATED!

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Encouraging. The town budget squeaks by but the school budget got dinged. Let the games begin.

Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.

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The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).

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