Memorial Tag Sale Happening Oct. 21

Grief Education Center Creates Memorial Garden

VCF Board Chariman Alan Tyma and Adam's House
Founder/CEO Allison Wysota

SHELTON – A $2,500 grant from the Valley Community Foundation helped volunteers with Adam’s House construct a front garden on June 14 that encircles the memorial walkway at the nonprofit grief education center at 241 Coram Ave.

 

Adam’s House Founder and Executive Director Allison Wysota said, “We are thrilled that our front garden surrounding our memorial walkway is now a beautiful, welcoming space that will offer peace and healing not only to grieving children and families that enter our program, but to all in the Shelton community that pass by our doors.”

 

As part of the Adam’s House “Healing Hearts” program, children can create a commemorative brick to place on the memorial walkway to honor and celebrate the life a loved one.

 

The Valley Community Foundation grant funded the plantings and construction of the gardens that encompass the memorial walkway.

 

“Valley Community Foundation (VCF) President and CEO Sharon Closius works closely with our program officer and community grants committee to make smart investments in the changing needs and opportunities of the Valley,” said Alan Tyma, VCF Board Chair. “The Foundation is thrilled to be able to support the mission of the Adam’s House at the maximum level of our community grants, ranging from $250-$2,500. One focus of the Foundation is to strengthen the impact of small nonprofits, those with fewer than two full-time or fewer than four part-time staff, by supporting a variety of community engagement efforts. Based on their presentation, Adam’s House should be a valuable member of our community for a long time.”

 

The Olde Ripton Garden Club in Shelton led by Garden Designer Renee Marsh, owner of A Simpler Place, contributed the project’s landscape design. Twelve volunteers from the Shelton office of Nasdaq made up the labor force that turned Marsh’s landscape design into reality. During a warm, sunny day, the Nasdaq volunteers cheerfully planted a new array of hydrangeas, lilies, catmint, roses, a dogwood tree and other plantings to create the memorial walkway landscaping and front garden. 

 

(This is a press release from Adam's House)

Legion Post 10 to hold memorial at Shelton church

The Four Chaplains

SHELTON - The saga of The Four Chaplains will be memorialized at a service at 7 p.m. Feb. 3 at St. Margaret Mary Church, 50 Donovan Court.

Members of Emil Senger Post 10, American Legion, of Seymour will present the service.

The service will honor those four men of God who sacrificed their lives aboard the USAT Dorchester on that fateful night of Feb. 3, 1943. They were all U.S. Army chaplains.

The ship was sunk by a torpedo from a German U-boat.

Come join us to honor their courageous actions and their unwavering duty to God and country when without regard for themselves they gave away their own life jackets to save others on deck that frigid winter night.

Light refreshments will be served in the church hall.

For more information contact Post 10 Commander Mike Kearney, 203-888-7813.

The service is open to the public.



This is a press release from Post 10 Commander Mike Kearney of Seymour.

 

Seymour war hero to have memorial dedicated

SEYMOUR - A permanent memorial will be dedicated to John Thomas DeBarber at a service at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 19 at St. Augustine's Cemetery.

DeBarber was the first casualty from Seymour during the Vietnam War. He was killed in action on Oct. 17, 1966.

This memorial service, with full military honors, will take place at the family plot in St. Augustine’s Cemetery on Cedar Street.

A town wide reception will follow at the Seymour Community Center, 20 Pine St.

This is a press release from Michael Kearney, Commander, Emil Senger Post 10, American Legion, Seymour. 

Seymour to remember fallen hero

Note: This is taken from Seymour First Selectman Kurt Miller's Facebook page.

Late Ansonia educator honored at middle school

ANSONIA - A new sign outside the Ansonia Middle School auditorium honors the late Superintendent of Schools and Ansonia native Dr. Richard F. Nicolari, who died in 2011.

A dedication ceremony will be held in June.

Memorial created for Ansonia man killed in Derby

The Register's Patti Villers took several photos from the memorial set up in Derby paying tribute to Javon Zimmerman, 22, who was shot and killed early Saturday morning.

Derby police say they are closing in on a suspect and hope to make an arrest soon.