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‘Planting Seeds Of Kindness’ To Celebrate, Fundraise For Nonprofit Organization

Published: May 06, 2025 7:00 am

UPDATE (Wednesday, May 21, 2025): Ahead of inclement weather expected tomorrow night, organizers of Celebration of Kind Works have announced the postponement of the May 22 fundraiser to Thursday, May 29. Same location, caterer and band. Refunds are available for those who cannot attend the new date. The event's silent auction link is open, and has also been added below.

Kind Works will present “Planting Seeds of Kindness,” its annual fundraising event on Thursday, May 22, 6-9 pm, at Reverie Brewing Company, 57-B Church Hill Road.

Tickets are $85 adults, with age 20 and under free when accompanied by an adult.

Tickets include two drinks and dinner.

Guests will experience an evening of joy and community spirit while contributing to a great cause. Back by popular demand, the event’s catering will be provided by FLIK Independent School Dining and will feature a brick oven pizza food truck.

Each guest will receive two complimentary beverages from Reverie’s extensive craft beer selection. Soft drinks and water will also be available free of charge.

Live music will be performed by Oddfellas of Stratford, while guests engage in family-friendly games and activities including the dual hoop zone donated by Super Fun Inflatables.

A highlight of the evening will be the live and silent auctions, featuring exceptional local art and other gifts and services. Exclusive mosaic benches and stepping stones, designed and made by dedicated volunteers, will be among the auction items only available at the Celebration of Kind Works.

The silent auction offering more than 75 items has opened. Bidding can be done here. Bidding closes Thursday, May 29.

A special pop-up shop will also be available for Kind Works shopping, featuring limited edition necklaces also exclusive to the Celebration of Kind Works.

Kindness Awards will also be presented to community champions who have made significant contributions.

Each ticket purchased helps support the initiatives of Kind Works, a Bethel-based nonprofit organization founded and sustained by volunteers who believe in the transformative power of kindness.

The organization was created to continue the work that Ben’s Bells CT volunteers — including many Newtown residents — did over nearly 12 years before its studio closed in August 2024. Kind Works is founded on the belief that fostering a culture in which kindness is not just an act but a way of life leaves a lasting impact on generations to come. Kind Works offers a volunteer-operated art studio, educational programs and workshops for community groups and corporations, and offers the talents of its volunteers in the creation of public murals.

For more information about the organization and to purchase “Planting Seeds of Kindness” tickets, visit kind-works.org. For those who have tickets for the event's original date, May 22, and are unable to attend the event on May 29, contact Kind Works for a refund via email at info.kindworks@gmail.com.

Kind Works will present “Planting Seeds of Kindness,” its annual fundraising event, on Thursday, May 29, at Reverie Brewing Company. The event has been rescheduled from May 22.

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Sorry Lynn, not letting you get away with this. Yes, we all have the constitutional right to demonstrate peacefully but NO, no one ever said anything about taking that right away. You just made it up.

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A small Newtown business lost important revenue because of the protest. Traffic was disrupted causing a safety concern. Newtown taxpayers paid for police OT because the PD had to react to the protest rather than be prepared in advance. God forbid, if there was loss of life or property, Newtown could be liable legally for negligence. Your comment sounds like Liberal Woke thinking and apparently you are more sympathetic to protestors than to Newtown. Non-issue? In Kerrville TX the legislative body had the chance to vote for a flash flood siren warning system. They thought it was a non-issue. Now, over 200 people are dead and families are destroyed. No way does the town not get expensively buried in court should it be foolish enough to NOT go down this path.

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Hi David, I did not ignore anyone. I presented 4 quantifiable advantages and one intangible that an ordinance addressing protests would benefit Newtown. That was my only standard. No one that came to the meeting including the other LC members provided any argument to over come those benefits and remember, the threshold was set extremely low. The only thing the LC was voting on was to "just consider" if an ordinance would be in order. Get over the "stadium" joke. It is scandalous that you don't have the mental capacity to understand it was a joke. Remember when I asked to meet with you for breakfast to see in we could compromise on some of your many complaints? I am sure could have found compromises but apparently the word "compromise" is not a part of your vocabulary. Either is acting like an adult. By the way, the intangible...that was to provide protection for you and your family, God forbid, that you were protesting and someone came barreling through the crowd in a car. My point was you always plan for worst case scenario, not best case scenario. In Kerrville TX, the legislative body had the chance to vote to put a flash flood warning siren in place. Someone like you probably thought they didn't need it. Now over 200 people are dead. Nothing bad could ever happen in Newtown right?

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Reservoir Rd. does indeed appear to have an interesting history that I often ponder as I hike the Rochambeau Trail. Early on it was apparently part of a main route from the center of the Borough to Taunton, which went up Mt. Pleasant Rd. and then roughly followed a watershed boundary from Mount Pleasant to Taunton Hill. When the current switchback road was built from West St. to Castle Hill in the 1800s, replacing the indirect route through the campground that Rochambeau used, the part of that original route to Taunton now known as Reservoir Rd. became redundant. But on an 1868 town map and topographic maps from 1892 and 1915, it looks like both routes were still maintained as roads. By the time of the 1934 aerial survey of CT, the connection to Mount Pleasant Rd. (maybe called Reservoir Rd. by then since the reservoir is visible) even had two outlets onto Castle Hill Rd. Since it is only shown as a partial dashed line on a 1953 topographic map, it may have stopped being maintained as a passable through road by then. But on a 1963 topographic map, where the section down to Knollwood Dr. had become a normal road again, the other end is shown as a dashed-line road, still with two connections to Castle Hill Rd., and a structure on the east side where one can still find remnants of a house today. Maybe a longtime resident can add comments about what it looked like in the 1950s and 1960s?

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