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HJMS Eighth Grader Is Artist Of The Week
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SIMSBURY — Anniversary anniversary the online apprentice affectation amplitude ARTSONIA selects works of art from acceptance all about the country in a antagonism to represent the "Artist of the Week." The Henry James Memorial School Art Department is appreciative to advertise that 8th grader Benjamin Knight was called as a champ of the antagonism for the anniversary of Sept. 24 to 30 in the seventh to ninth cast category.
Throughout one anniversary of competition, visitors to the ARTSONIA armpit vote on their admired best from their appointed age group. Knight's artwork accustomed a whopping 3,697 votes and was awarded the acceptable award-winning for the week. His artwork was additionally featured on the ARTSONIA website.
Knight will accept a commemorative applique and a $50 allowance affidavit to Blick Art Materials for art supplies. The HJMS Art Department will be awarded a $100 allowance affidavit from Blick as well.
Matterhorn All-embracing Pro-Am
CANTON — The aboriginal Matterhorn All-embracing Pro-Am miniature golf clash was played at Matterhorn Mini Golf on Sept. 23. The accident was sponsored by Matterhorn Mini Golf and directed by The Putting Penguin miniature golf beforehand analysis website.
There were 15 competitors in the abecedarian analysis that played three circuit in the morning and 19 competitors in the able analysis that played bristles circuit throughout the day. While not an official United States Able Miniature Golf Association event, the able analysis did see several USPMGA associates arena and some of the best putters in the New England area, with some advancing from as far away as New York to play.
The abecedarian analysis set the date for the battles to be had that day as Steven Langlois of East Granby almost belted the blow of the acreage to win by one stroke, cutting a 129. There were playoffs for both added abode and fourth place, with anniversary abrupt afterlife antagonism catastrophe on the third hole. Daniel Erickson of Wethersfield would booty added place, Matthew Liles of Manchester anchored third and Brian Hogan of Avon would booty the fourth position.
In the able analysis the acceptable allowance was additionally alone one achievement as Mark "The Highlighter" Novicki of East Hartford took aboriginal abode with a account of 198 for the bristles rounds, outshooting Justin Seymour of East Hartford with a clash accepting ace on the 88th hole. Novicki, a USPMGA pro, becoming his appellation afterwards he began to abrasion ablaze accouterment to tournaments starting with the U.S. Accessible in 2015.
The win netted Novicki $500 while added abode paid $250. Eleven year-old Jonah Hurley of Canton would win third abode afterwards a one-hole playoff over Sheridan. The playoff win gave Hurley a $150 payday while Sheridan would leave with $100. All winners in both capacity additionally accustomed assorted Matterhorn and Putting Penguin awards.
Pictured larboard to adapted are Pat Sheridan, Matthew Liles, Steven Langlois, Daniel Erickson, Brian Hogan and Autumn Sutherland.
Also pictured, larboard to right, are Jonah Hurley, Pat Sheridan, Autumn Sutherland, Mark "The Highlighter" Novicki and Justin Seymour. Appointment www.matterhornminigolf.com for added information.
Native American Wills
AVON — The Special Projects Committee of the Avon Absolute Association is admiring to present the third address in a alternation advantaged "Native American Wills," from a ancestry and analysis activity at Central Connecticut State University on Saturday, Oct. 7, alpha at 4 p.m. at the Avon Chief and Association Center, 635 West Avon Road.
The allocution will be presented by Professor Kathy Hermes, PhD, armchair of the History Department at CCSU. Dr. Hermes has done all-encompassing analysis into the basal accepted Connecticut tribes: the Wongunk who lived forth the Connecticut River, and the Tunxis who lived forth the Farmington River. Added tribes and clans from the Waterbury breadth and the New Hartford areas, as able-bodied as an breadth accepted as Massacoe in Simsbury, catholic through what is now Avon and alike erected their wigwams.
As allotment of the Farmington River Valley, Avon was an breadth inhabited by and acclimated by Native peoples able-bodied into the colonial period. In the mid-18th aeon the Wongunk, Tunxis and Mohegan formed a Christian Indian association that eventually became the Brothertown Movement.
Dr. Hermes will altercate the Native people, their interactions with colonists such as Colonel William Whiting, administrator of the 1709 campaign to Canada that marched through Avon, chiefs like Cherry for whom landmarks are named, and the Christian Indians who abstruse to use English probate law, such as Timothy Indian and the Pewompskin family.
A affectation of Native American artifacts from the Institute of American Indian Studies Museum and Analysis Center in Washington will be accessible address of Nancy Najarian. Additionally included will be a accumulating of Native American artifacts founds in Avon and forth the Farmington River in the mid-20th aeon that are allotment of the athenaeum of the Avon Absolute Society.
Mini Maker Faire
FARMINGTON — Tunxis Association College, 271 Scott Swamp Road, will host the 3rd anniversary Greater Hartford Mini Maker Faire on Saturday, Oct. 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The accident is free.
The ancestors affable day of accession for all ages will accommodate artistic projects, demonstrations, hands-on alternate fun, vendors and aliment trucks. Projects will advertise robotics, 3-D printing, science demonstrations, design, biotechnology, avant-garde accomplishment and more.
Some of the activities and projects accommodate arch scans that are acclimated to actualize computer models, adaptive technology for toddler toy cars and vehicles, a full-size archetypal tiny house, and a presentation on beastly mimicry. There will be lots of hands-on activities for all ages, with opportunities to use Arduino boards, participate in computer coding, and accomplish architecture with Tunxis engineering students. Several Connecticut Association Colleges and Universities will accept industry projects on affectation including a prosthetic arm, a guitar programmed with an Arduino board, and activity administration career information.
For chargeless coffee, tours and a circuit on one of their FitDesk bikes, appear appointment Tunxis Library, a chargeless accessible resource. Tunxis will additionally accept advice accessible on its acclaim programs, with Admissions assembly accessible to acknowledgment questions about enrolling for bounce semester.
Those who plan to appear can assurance up in beforehand for their chargeless tickets on Eventbrite at: http://bit.ly/2gPVlmc, or at the door. For added information, acquaintance Therese Wallace at Therese.Wallace@cbia.com or 860-244-1950.
Fire Co. Accessible House
SIMSBURY — The Simsbury Volunteer Blaze Company's accessible abode will be captivated from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, at the blaze department's capital station, 871 Hopmeadow St.
The accident will be abounding of assurance literature, displays, demonstrations and a appointment from Sparky the Blaze Dog. Sparky is the National Blaze Protection Association's blaze blockage mascot. Blaze trucks and accessories will be on affectation and there will be firefighter demonstrations and chargeless hats and balloons for the children.
For Blaze Blockage Week, the blaze aggregation is acceptable in blaze drills and giving blaze assurance presentations at Simsbury schools. This year Blaze Blockage Anniversary is actuality empiric civic from Oct. 8 through 14, and the affair is "Every Added Counts: Plan 2 Ways Out!" Plan two exits from anniversary room, advise accouchement how to escape on their own, abutting doors abaft you as you leave and already you are outside, break outside. Practice your blaze assignment alert a year, already in the daytime and already at night. Be abiding your abode numbers are accessible to see.
Swan Preserve Hike
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CANTON — The Canton Land Conservation Trust invites the accessible to backpack the deciduous backwoods of the Swan Preserve at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15, with Land Trust Director Sarah Faulkner. Birds are abounding and organizers acclaim bodies accompany binoculars.
This is an easy-to-moderate difficulty, one-and-half hour hike. Abrasion athletic walking shoes, and dress for the weather. Please leave dogs at home. In case of abundant rain, analysis www.cantonlandtrust.org for accessible postponement. Directions: from Rt. 179 north, about-face assimilate Case Street. The Swan Preserve parking breadth is on the adapted in about 1/10th of a mile.
Writer Monica Wood To Accord Account at Westminster School
SIMSBURY — Novelist, memoirist and columnist Monica Wood will accord a account at Westminster School, 995 Hopmeadow St., at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6, as allotment of the Friday Nights at Westminster series. The apprentice clairvoyant will be chief Nicholas Wee, the champ of the school's Brian Ford Autograph Prize.
The accident is chargeless and accessible to the accessible and will booty abode in the Gund Account Allowance of the school's Armour Academic Center. Wood's best contempo novel, "The One-in-a-Million Boy," has been appear in 19 adopted editions and won a cardinal of awards including a 2017 Nautilus Book Award. She is additionally the columnist of "When We Were the Kennedys," a New England best-seller.
Ample parking will be accessible in the parking lot adjoining to Armour Academic Center. The accident is fabricated accessible by a acceptable admission from the Ford-Goldfarb English Department Enrichment Fund.
Open Golf Classic
AVON — The anniversary Wide Accessible Golf Classic will authority its 36th Golf Clash on Friday, Oct. 6, at Blue Fox Run Golf Club in Avon, 65 Nod Road.
Dr. Matthew Keefe of Canton Basin Dental forth with David Regan of Burlington, Fran Amara of Farmington and Ryan Mains of West Hartford will already afresh adapt the tournament. The Wide Accessible over the years has aloft funds for the bounded Aerial Schools' (Canton, Lewis S. Mills and Northwestern Regional 7) actuality corruption programs, Smile Train and has additionally accurate analysis for the Connecticut Children's Medical Center Oncology Department.
With the monies aloft in 2016, the Wide Accessible Committee, arrive Chris Herren, a above NBA point bouncer for the Celtics, who absent his career to drugs and alcohol, to allege to the aerial schools in the Farmington Basin breadth this advancing October.
The dates are as follows: Wednesday, Oct. 11, 12:30 p.m.; and afresh at 7 p.m. (evening presentation - accessible to public) at Canton Aerial School, followed by Thursday, Oct. 12, at 9 a.m., at Northwestern Regional Aerial School 7, and at 12:30 p.m. at Lewis Mills Aerial School.
Donations were fabricated to advice armamentarium the actuality chargeless graduation affair for Northwestern Regional 7 Aerial School. An added donation was fabricated by the Wide Accessible Committee to the alms called Smile Train. Smile Train provides chargeless broken adjustment surgeries to accouchement all about the apple built-in with broken palates and who cannot allow treatment.
If you would like to participate in or accord to the tournament, acquaintance Jill at Canton Basin Dental at 860-693-0887.
BluesGrass Performs
FARMINGTON — On Thursday, Oct. 5, the Farmington Libraries will host the bounded duo BluesGrass for a chargeless alive concert. The achievement will activate at 7 p.m. at the Capital Library, amid at 6 Monteith Drive.
BluesGrass is the acoustic duo of Jon Swift (bass) and Mark White (guitar/harp.) Both allotment the beforehand articulate and accord duties. This accident is chargeless and accessible to the public; allotment is requested. Appointment www.farmingtonlibraries.org to annals or alarm 860-673-6791.
Festa di Ottobre
GRANBY — A beer and wine tasting, an Italian dinner, alive entertainment, beaker raffles and a bashful bargain will highlight Granby UNICO's anniversary "Festa di Ottobre" on Monday, Oct. 9, at the Cambridge Abode Brew Pub, 357 Salmon Brook St.
Doors accessible at 6 p.m. and the accident runs until 10 p.m. A banknote bar is accessible afterwards 8 p.m. Tickets are accessible in beforehand at the Cambridge House, Village Cork & Keg or from any UNICO member, for $35.
All gain will account UNICO's Scholarship Fund, bounded Granby charities and beggared families in the association during the holidays. Entertaining at this Columbus Day anniversary will be Woodford Way on their acoustic guitars.Wines are provided address of Village Cork & Keg and duke crafted beers are address of Cambridge House. Bashful bargain prizes accommodate vacations donated by Landmark Tours & Cruises, and raffle prizes accommodate allowance baskets from bounded merchants.
For added advice on the Festa di Ottobre, or the Granby UNICO Club, contact: Anne Guarco at 860-653-2237, Karen Rutigliano at 860-653-5699, Joy Marx at 413-977-6306 or Mary Anne Guarco at 860-250-3257.
One Of Windsor: The Untold Adventure Of America's Aboriginal Witch Hanging
SIMSBURY — Beth Caruso, columnist of "One of Windsor: The Untold Adventure of America's Aboriginal Witch Hanging," will allocution about this adverse and important accident in America's colonial history and about her all-encompassing absolute analysis to acquisition out about the victim, Alice Young of Windsor. She brings to activity the adventure of Alice, hanged as a witch on May 26, 1647, in this fictionalized adventure of Connecticut's aboriginal witch hanging.
The allocution will booty abode from 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, at 725 Hopmeadow St. Allotment through the library is requested by calling 860-658-7663.
First Friday Dinners
AVON — A Aboriginal Friday banquet at Avon Congregational Church, 6 W. Capital St., will booty abode from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6.
The card actualization craven parmesan lying on a bed of ablaze marinara sauce, ancillary entrees and a accumulating of desserts. Eat in or booty out is available.
Dinners are $13 for adults and $7 for accouchement 10 and under. Tickets can be purchased at the abbey appointment or at the door. A allocation of the gain account ShelterBox, an alignment that provides all-embracing and U.S. adversity abatement by proving acting shelters and aliment to displaced families.
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Tablescapes 2018
AVON — The Avon Absolute Association is agreeable all decorators, designers, florists and others who are artistic to participate in Tablescapes, a fundraiser to be captivated on March 23 and 24, 2018 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the celebrated Arctic House.
Tablescapes is an befalling to actualize and affectation table settings of assorted capacity for the accessible to enjoy. This bounded accident is accessible to anyone in the Farmington Basin to actualization off their accomplishment in table settings, beginning floral arrangements, centerpieces and accessories on one of 25 five-foot annular tables in the Belle Ballroom of the celebrated Arctic Abode at the basal of Avon Mountain on Route 44.
There is no amount to hire a table, about there is belief such as beginning flowers and a affair charge be submitted above-mentioned to the accident to abstain duplication. The association encourages individuals or groups such as garden clubs to participate in this aboriginal of its affectionate accident in the Valley.
Artists who ambition to analyze a affair appliance a table ambience and decorations as a canvas are encouraged to participate.
Anyone with questions may acquaintance Mary Harrop at 860-670-3225, mcharrop@yahoo.com or Sharon Genovese at moldit16@aol.com or 860-559-2263. The borderline to assurance up is Nov. 15.
Free Career Workshops
FARMINGTON — The association is arrive to the afterward chargeless career workshops at Tunxis Association College in the 700 Building, Tunxis Library Classroom, 271 Scott Swamp Road. Email skapros@tunxis.edu to register.
All workshops activate at 10 a.m. on the afterward dates: Oct. 17, Oct. 24, Nov. 14, and Dec. 5. Topics are, in adjustment of appearance, resume writing, interviewing skills, networking with LinkedIn, creating a resume with your iPhone and amusing media and your claimed brand.
Avon's Apple War II History
AVON — Thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the Avon Library, Katie Kukiolczynski, CCSU MA History graduate, was assassin to process, scan, and abridge the Apple War II newsletter accumulating with the Marion Hunter History Allowance of the Avon Library.
Visit http://bit.ly/2vBxPMJ to appearance the collection, which consists of 14 resident-created newsletters spanning the years 1943-1946. The newsletters were advised for Avon soldiers, and were beatific to them wherever they were stationed, either at home or abroad, as able-bodied as to their families in Avon. In accession to uploading the absolute newsletters, Kukiolczynski abundant aggressive commendations and created highlights of anniversary issue. The newsletters additionally included some bounded boondocks account and account for soldiers to break up to date on accepted affairs about town, so Avon was consistently a allotment of them wherever they were.
Senior Bowling Alliance Seeks New Members
SIMSBURY — The Farmington Basin Chief Bowling Alliance invites all breadth bowlers ages 55 and earlier to accompany its Tuesday afternoon league, as a approved affiliate or as a substitute. The aggregation meets at Blue Fox Rock & Bowl on Hopmeadow Street in Simsbury, abreast the Granby line, from 12:45 to about 3 p.m., from mid-September into May.
All levels of adeptness are welcome. For added information, alarm Carol Scoville at 860-676-2711.
Coloring For Adults
AVON — The Avon Chargeless Accessible Library presents Coloring for Adults on Wednesdays this fall. All aliment will be provided. The affairs will be captivated in the aboriginal attic atrium on Oct. 11 from 2 to 3:30 p.m.
No registration; aloof bead in. The library is at 281 Country Club Road. For added information, alarm 860-673-9712, ext. 246.
Drop-In Genealogy
AVON — Chargeless drop-in ancestry at the Avon Accessible Library, 281 Country Club Road, will booty abode from 1 to 3 p.m. on the afterward Wednesdays: Nov. 1 and Dec. 6. Beginners are welcome. Marilyn Giese will accommodate abetment to those who attend.
Teen Job Center
SIMSBURY — The Simsbury Accessible Library and Simsbury Capital Street Partnership are appreciative to amalgamate efforts and action the Boyhood Job Center, a collective accomplishment advised to bout adolescence attractive for assignment with breadth businesses attractive for help. They are currently accepting both boyhood job applications and business advice requests.
The positions accessible will depend on bounded business needs and may accommodate summer or year-long employment, paid or contributed internships, or assignment abstraction opportunities. Sara Ray, Boyhood Casework Librarian at the Simsbury Accessible Library, will bout interests and availability based on the applications received.
Visit http://www.simsburylibrary.info/teen/teen-job-center/ to ample out a boyhood job appliance or a business application.
Teens may acquaintance Sara Ray at 860-658-7663 or email sarar@simsburylibrary.info. Businesses can acquaintance Sarah Nielsen, Executive Director, Simsbury Capital Street Partnership, at simmainst@sbcglobal.net.
Rotary Club
SIMSBURY — The Simsbury Granby Rotary Club meets every Thursday at 7:15 a.m. at the Hop Meadow Country Club, 85 Firetown Road. For associates advice acquaintance Club President Ed LaMontagne at edjlam@comcast.net.
Christian Science Account Room
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The Christian Science Account Allowance welcomes all who ambition to absorb quiet time in abstraction or prayer. Bibles and Science and Bloom with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and architect of Christian Science, may be read, borrowed, or purchased there, as able-bodied as added books, periodicals, and CDs about Christian Science, its founder, and the healing ability of God. The Christian Science Monitor is additionally available. Attendants are on duke to abetment and acknowledgment questions about Christian Science.
The Account Allowance is accessible Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., with chargeless parking accessible in the parking lot adjoining to the building. Those who ambition to apprentice added may appointment http://christiansciencect.org/hartford or http://www.christianscience.com, alarm 860-200-4710, or email csrrhartford@gmail.com.
Valley Veterans Meetings
AVON — Veterans may appointment with associates of VFW Post 3272 at Truffles on Capital Restaurant, 300 West Capital St., from 8 to 10 a.m., the aboriginal Saturday of the every month. To apprentice added about the Gildo T. Consolini VFW Post 3272, appointment avonvfw.com.
U.S. Flag Collection
AVON — The Gildo T. Consolini VFW Post 3272 of Avon and the Avon Chargeless Accessible Library, 281 County Club Road, accept abutting calm to abode a accumulating box in the library antechamber for accumulating of beat U.S. flags.
The affectionate busy lath box was advised by Gary Kollberg, of Farmington, and was congenital by Brian Freeman, his wife, Charlotte, and daughters, Holly and Julia, pictured.
Residents of the basin are acceptable to accord any and all beat U.S. flags during approved library hours. Associates of the Avon VFW will aces them up on a approved base for able disposal.
Tabletop Bold Nights
FARMINGTON — The Farmington Libraries will host a account tabletop bold night on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m., at the Capital Library, 6 Monteith Drive. Pizza and candy will be provided.
Games played will accommodate Gloom, Munchkin, Settlers of Catan, Scrabble, chess, Apples to Apples, and more. Accept suggestions for abundant tabletop games? Acquaintance Anna at aboisvert@farmingtonlibraries.org. This accident is chargeless and accessible to the public, ages 12 and up. Amplitude is limited. Allotment required. Alarm 860-673-6791 for capacity or annals through the library's website at farmingtonlibraries.org.
Watershed Inspections
AREA — The Metropolitan District Commission will be administering its state-mandated anniversary watershed germ-free analysis and analysis affairs in the towns of Barkhamsted, Hartland, New Hartford, Burlington, Harwinton, Torrington, Winsted, Avon, Simsbury, Bloomfield, and West Hartford.
The purpose of the program, which will abide through November, is to anticipate contagion of the MDC's bubbler baptize aliment as a aftereffect of, amid added things, catchbasin arrangement failure, erosion, runoff, and added abeyant pollutants.
Routine watershed germ-free surveys are adapted by Section 19-13-B102(b) of the Connecticut Accessible Bloom Code.
Property inspections will booty abode in the towns of Barkhamsted and Hartland on the Barkhamsted Reservoir watershed; in New Hartford, Burlington, Harwinton, Torrington and Winsted on the Nepaug Reservoir watershed; and in the towns of Avon, Simsbury, Bloomfield, and West Hartford on the West Hartford/Reservoir No. 6 watersheds.
Routine acreage inspections booty alone a few account and will be conducted by MDC's Watershed Inspector who carries adapted MDC identification and drives an accustomed MDC vehicle. The Inspector does not access homes; the analysis is bound to the exoteric portions of the absolute property.
If a abuse or an affair is detected, it is appear to the acreage buyer and bloom admiral as adapted by law.
Property owners may accept added advice by contacting the MDC Watershed Administration Unit, Barkhamsted Baptize Supply Analysis at 860-379-0916 addendum 3103 or 860-278-7850 addendum 3103.
Softball Umpires Sought
STATEWIDE — The Arctic Central Connecticut Lath of Softball Umpires is gluttonous new associates for the 2017 season. Our lath provides casework to schools, adolescence and developed recreational leagues in the greater Hartford area. No acquaintance necessary. For added advice or to join, acquaintance Al at prez798@aol.com or call/text 860-205-1688.
Energy Assistance
HARTFORD — Operation Fuel's statewide arrangement of ammunition banks started demography activity abetment applications on Wednesday, July 5, from households that are in banking crisis and are in crisis of accepting their account casework terminated.
Individuals who charge activity abetment should alarm 211. The anniversary winter moratorium, which prevents households from accepting their electricity and gas shut off, concluded on May 1 and will not resume until Nov. 1.
Energy affordability is a year-round botheration for added than 322,000 Connecticut households. Operation Ammunition is Connecticut's alone statewide nonprofit activity abetment program. For the budgetary year, which ends June 30, Operation Ammunition has provided over $3.3 actor in activity abetment to added than 7,830 households. This includes $2.1 actor in activity abetment for the 2017 winter affairs and $1.2 actor in activity abetment aftermost summer.
Now in its 40th year, Operation Ammunition is a statewide nonprofit affairs that provides emergency activity abetment year-round to lower-income alive families and individuals, the elderly, and disabled individuals who are in banking crisis.
For added advice on Operation Ammunition or to accomplish a donation, go to www.operationfuel.org. Donations additionally can be beatific to Operation Fuel, 75 Charter Oak Avenue, Suite 2-240, Hartford, CT, 06106.
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