Parent Programs

By MELISSA MASON

Published: May 22, 2001 12:00 am

Parent Programs

Ongoing

Fathersâ Night - Completed series. See you again in the fall.

Monday, June 4: âParents of Children with Special Needs,â 9 am.

New Momsâ Support Groups

For further information or questions, call the office at 270-4335. Registration is necessary for all parenting courses.

Upcoming - Mark Your Calendar

Tuesday, June 26 â âDOUGHâ - 6 pm, NYS

âManaging Your Money: Risks, Responsibilities & Rewards,â This is a program for high school students and parents. Pizza will be provided.

Some of the topics to be covered are: opening a checking account, pitfalls of credit cards, budgeting and saving. Ed OâMalley from Western CT Credit Union is the presenter. Please call NYS to register.

4-H

Letâs Get Ready For Garden Season!

Elementary School â Monday, 3:15-4:30 pm;

Middle School â Wednesday, 4-5:30 pm.

Harvest your own flowers and vegetables in a garden plot you design yourself. Help us build a Butterfly Plant Nursery, a Childrenâs Theme Garden, and a Chicken and Rabbit Garden. Plant a row for the hungry in our garden and bring your pet to our pet show. We meet at NYS, so come and join us.

Attention High School Students

Opportunities For Community Service Hours!

If you like deer ticks, mosquitoes, sunburned shoulders, dirty fingernails, slug slime, muddy shoes, poison ivy, heat stroke, sweaty, frizzy hair, and an experience that you will cherish until the day you die, then Newtownâs Youth Garden is for you.

Our project includes a farmerâs market garden, a wildlife habitat garden for a daycare center, and a nature trail for a local retirement community, with the possibility of more projects added when we get your ideas.

We need your help with the gardens, starting from the planning, then to the planting and finally to the maintaining. You will learn about vegetable gardening and produce marketing, flower garden designing, and wildlife habitat observation gardens.

You may also be interested in assisting the 4-H after-school garden club. The 4-H club consists of elementary and middle school students who happen to idolize high school students and would be thrilled to work with you. Besides working in the garden, the 4-H clubs work with animals and learn about Newtownâs diverse environment. To volunteer, call Jonathan Aragones at NYS at 270-4335.

Youth Group Meetings

The High School Youth Advisory Board (HS YAB) has completed its organized meetings for the year. New members are always welcome. Officers for the 2001-2002 school year are Karen Earle and Gregg Hammond, co-chairs; Jeanmarie Moriath, secretary; and Jen Kotch, treasurer. Feel free to contact any of these students for further information.

Middle School Youth Advisory Board (MS YAB): will hold the last meeting for this school year on Tuesday, June 5, 4 to 5 pm, at NYS. This will be our end of the year party and NYSâs way of thanking all who worked with MSYAB this year!

NYCAAP will meet on Tuesday, May 29, from 5:30 to 6:30 pm.

Please watch this column for all meeting dates and times. Membership in the above groups is free and new members are welcome at all times. For additional info please call the NYS office.

All programs will take place at Newtown Youth Services, 41-A Main Street, unless noted. To register, or for further information, call 270-4335.

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A town administrator/operations manager will facilitate a more efficient management of town reseoruces and will result in cost avodiance in all departments. The position will payback much more than it costs.

Disagrees With Capeci On Administrator

Thank you Brandon for providing a realistic view of the cost of war.

Do Not Glorify Violence

Thank you for your service and thank you Brandon Moore. I come from a family of veterans that goes back decades. I am grateful for their sacrifice and have advocated for their rights, as an attorney. There is such a divide between the demands of military service and civilian everyday life that many do not appreciate. I watched my oldest brother manage the two cultures. In the current political climate, I want someone with a long track record of community advocacy that addresses the needs of the Newtown elderly, students, young families, the growing costs of everyday living expenses, gun violence, food insecurity, division amongst groups, long term strategizing for economic development and improvement of quality of life. I have lived in Newtown five years and still do not know all there is to know in order to address the needs of neighbors. Michelle has lived in Newtown for sixteen years and has a record of fighting for the needs of the entire community. At this moment in our existence that is the type of fighter that we need and that is why I am grateful for Brandon Moore's service but my family and I support Michelle Ku and hope that she will be the State Representative and that Brandon Moore will be involved in moving the needs of the Newtown community forward, with the rest of us learning the needs of the community.

I Served Under Brandon And He’s The Real Deal

In the time since this letter was written, the developer looking to redevelop this location reasonably accommodated this concern with an entrance and exit onto state rt 34, a main road. They did not get the same accommodation Toll Brothers was granted for the Simpson's condos, condos on what used to be horse pasture, and before that a Native American camp site. As for the open space concerns, this site is located adjacent to public sports fields, walking distance to Sandy Hook Center, and there is a trail head for a nice walking path in the woods and along the river directly across Oakview. Potential residents would have generous access to open space.

Accessible Housing Is Good, But Not On Ill-Equipped Oakview Road

I generally agree with Tom Johnson, re: following the rules of the road, both legal and/or commonly accepted. However, there are times, especially when the bulk of the traffic is using Main Street to bypass congestion on 84, when yielding to turning drivers at the flagpole makes the most sense. Coming home from Trumbull today, I noticed that several southbound drivers were planning to turn left onto Church Hill, and the line of cars went beyond what I could see. The northbound lane was also very busy. I admit that I may have waived my right by slowing down to create a gap for a southbound car to turn. I then moved to the staging position within the circle (small car so no disruption to northbound traffic), but the intersection was then blocked by southbound traffic turning left. Of note, that intersection can easily become gridlocked if 6-8 drivers claim right of way (3 or 4 cars in each direction).Thankfully, the third lefthand turner stayed back and waived me through. To many people, it is not clear who has right of way in such circumstances. IMO, it makes sense to ensure that traffic can travel north and south, and sometimes that means yielding the right of way. Hopefully someday the State will address the traffic issues on 84 and we will no longer have as much congestion at the flagpole.

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