Happy New Year!

Chaloux Family

Peace on Earth to all in the new millennium!

Cindy & Fuzzy Simon

A wish for peace, good health and good will.

Mr & Mrs Steven A. Karng

The Rules Of Life

According To Our Dogs:

Don’t wait for special occasions to express affection.

It’s what’s inside that counts… especially if it’s a big Milkbone box.

Kisses and smiles are more productive than growls and snarls

Eat your own food, but learn to share the goodies.

Smile at a stranger once a day.

Patricia & Andrew Garson

Loving wishes for a new year filled with love, laughter, good health and the ability to spread it to all we know and love.

Anna Wiedemann

and family,

Dan, Jen, Steph and James

To the Newtown Ambulance Association,

Thank you. The town is a safer place because of you.

Newtown Construction & Remodeling LLC

To Newtown’s  fire companies:

Thank you for all the dedication

Newtown Construction & Remodeling LLC

To Newtown Youth Services,

A Bright Future

Newtown Construction & Remodeling LLC

Quiet upon the terraces,

The garden chairs repose;

In fall they wore their sooty dress,

Now the lees of snows.

How like the furnishings of youth,

In backyards of the mind:

Residuals of summer’s truth

And seasons left behind.

“Chairs In Snow” by E.B. White

Curtis Clark

Our millennium wish is that our daughter Katherine will always have the love and support that has been given to her by Mrs Vetrano, Mrs Buffa & Mrs Brown, as well as the whole staff at Sandy Hook School. All children are special and our community shines brighter because of them.

Maureen & John Will

To my wife Leslie, although I seldom say it I do want to thank you for all you do for me. We have much to be thankful for, but for me the most important is the time I have spent with you.

Love Mike

A new century begins

opportunity abounds

to reflect, resolve, adjust and astound.

How important that I, we, town, group or state

be fully informed when decisions we make

the consequences there of be fully aware

have courage, confidence, commitment, prepare.

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato

Patricia Shea, State Rep. 112th

Aubrey & Joyce DeWolfe

We are happy to be part of the Newtown community and wish everyone a happy and healthy millennium.

The Stolfi Family

To all our  friends  and neighbors: We wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!

The Delollis Family

Best Wishes for the New Year.

The Hugo Family

Dear Newtown: Every year the children at Sandy Hook elementary school raise money to try to save a small piece of the rain forest. It seems the wild places, diverse species and such, are necessary for our survival, or so the children are taught. Maybe the kids should start to raise money to save the last wild places and diverse species of Newtown. While the bulldozers destroy the homes of deer, fox, wild turkey, hawks, raccoons and others, our natural resources are not the only ones disappearing. Sandy Hook elementary is officially overcrowded and will lose a resource room next year. Will it be music, art or computer studies that suffers?  Let’s have a moratorium on building in Newtown. So we can get our priorities in order.

Sincerely,

Richard Knickerbocker

Happy New Year  2000

We dedicate our message for the new millennium to our three grandsons: Samuel Alec Boeger, August 26, 1997; Nicholas Straw Patane, October 10, 1998; Alexander Bruno Boeger, March 4, 1999. You touch our lives and hearts every day. Thank you for the memories!

Will all our love,

Oomie Too and Papi

Happy New Year 2000

To the Beitels, Raub, Sharon, Karli, Max, Christian and Boffey

With love from your Lana

Marty, Happy New Year 2000, to my best friend. We are making a difference!

Love, Lana

May the spirit of Christmas past and present comfort and guide you through this last year of the millennium and prepare you for the journey into the next. And when your flock is safely in shelter may you hear the shepherd’s benediction, “Well done,  that’ll do!”

The Harrison Family:

Beryl, Jack, Trent,

Derek & Clare,

(three border collies

& four cats)

As we enter the new millennium our wish for our family and granddaughters, Courtney, Sydney and Emma is that they enjoy peace and love with each other and their fellow man. Through their lives and efforts we will have a wonderful world.

Art and Chris Polstein

Trace under the common thing the hidden grace and conjure wonder out of emptiness till mean things put on beauty like a dress and all the world is an enchanted place. – anonymous

Anne M. Schnieder

To our children, Marissa and Evan: We wish for you a century full of only good things – health, happiness and personal success.

With love,

Mommy and Daddy

Merry Christmas!

Happy New Year!

We wish you health and happiness!

Julie DeAngelis & Family

Happy New Year from our hearts to yours!

“Fond memories, as are the memory makers, are gifts to be cherished because time never stops transforming the young into the old.” Quote from “Outer Banks Sentinel”

Love, the Tschorn Family

Best Wishes to all of our family, friends, and business associates.

Live long and prosper.

To our daughter Jen and her fiancée Chris, much happiness for the next millennium.

Happy New Year to all!

Tim & Holly Shanley

Peace on Earth – Please!

Paul & Marilyn Alexander

Let us hope the various peoples and religions of this world will learn to live at peace with themselves and each other and use food and knowledge to help each other rather than to do harm.

William H. Biesel

“The man who has become a thinking being, feels a compulsion to give to every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He accepts as being good: to preserve life, to raise to its highest value life which is capable of developments; and as being evil: to destroy life, to injure life, to repress life which is capable of development.” –Dr. Albert Schweitzer, “Out of my Life and Thought,” 1933

Helga Roegele

Millennium Greetings to all. Well wishes for health and happiness. A particular wish for the emotional and mental health for the children, teenagers, and adults who bravely battle a mental illness. You are not alone. Call the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of CT 800/215-3021.

Sally E. Lukeris

Happy Holidays in memory of Stephen Mazuroski

The Mazuroski Family

In the new millennium, “Let there by peace on earth, and let it begin with me.” May we each connect with the unconditional love of our divine creator and send that love out into the world to every person we meet every day.

Lynn Buttner

In memory of Elmer Maki, father of Ray Maki and father-in-law of Mary Maki, both dedicated, conscientious “newcomers” in Newtown and wonderful neighbors. Happy New Year, Century and Millennium.

Al & Nancy

To my wonderful family – Steve and Tanya, Marilyn, Mark and Gina and my beautiful grandchildren – Tori, Michael, Samantha and Alexandra, may God bless you and keep you through the new millennium. Love Mom.

Doris M. Esposito

We hope for world peace in the new millennium

Carol, Charlie & David Foss

May the religious teachings, the remarkable scientific discoveries and the artistic enrichment of the last centuries inspire each of us as the next millennium begins. How important is our heritage!

Robert & Caroline Stokes

Jennifer, as we have watched you grow from a child into a fine young adult, we would like to thank you for making this the most rewarding experience of our lives. We are proud to have known you as a child and look forward to many years ahead as friends.

Michael, as we have watched you grow from a child into a fine young adult, we would like to thank you for making this the most rewarding experience of our lives. We are proud to have known you as a child and look forward to many years ahead as friends.

To Alex, Stefan, and Gregory Hennessey.

Happy New Year and I hope it will be a wonderful year for all of you. May your days be filled with happiness, joy and lots of love.

All my love, “Meema” Hennessey

Mary B. Hennessey

A wish for good health and tranquility in the New Year.

Jerry and Kaaren Valenta

Dear Maria, Alex, and Morgan,

I love you all very much. I am so grateful for everything we have as a family. As we enter the new millennium, I’m excited about our future and look forward to all of the challenges and adventures that we will face together. Love, Dad.

Bill Flannery

A Poem For The Millennium

To the Editor:

I think the following poem is appropriate at this time of year when we are thanking God for our bounty and especially for our children for they are the most precious gifts that He has bestowed on us, each one another flower in our garden. We ask Him to help us as parents, as teachers, and as whomever else our children may come in contact with in life, to help build strong yet kind and gentle individuals. The word “son” can also apply to daughters.

Build Me a Son

Build me a son who will realize that

the true joy of life is the journey.

Build me a son who will not regret

yesterday with its pains and sorrows or

fear tomorrow with its unknowns and

anxieties but relish the moment.

Build me a son who will climb more

mountains, swim more rivers, watch

more sunsets, laugh more, cry less.

Build me a son who will stay true to

his beliefs even when others ridicule him for them.

Build me a son who will find inner

peace, never fail to see the good in people,

and know that every day is a learning experience.

Build me a son who will not be embarrassed

to tell someone he loves them… especially

himself, who will utter the words

“I’m sorry” especially when they need to be said.

Build me a son who will never lose touch

with good friends, be kind to his fellow

man and watch out for family and friends.

Build me a son who will not fear to dream,

who will cherish life because life is meant

to be lived not taken, life is beautiful.

And when this has been accomplished –

then and only then will I be able to sit back, smile and say

“I have not lived in vain.”

Carol R. Giannettino

Sedukah! It eminates from ones heart. Thanks to people such as Elwood “Pop” Scholl, Bob Andrews, Dave Giantz and Fred Frankel I discovered it’s true meaning in Newtown.

Happy & Healthy Millennium to all!

“Lash” and the critters

@Jolly Hill Animal Farm