Rochelle to Host "Future Fair" Nov. 2

                      

Valley Senior Fair Oct. 16

Health & Safety Fair

Sen. Logan to Host Annual Senior Fair

Beer Fair on Tap

FIRST ANNUAL BEER FAIR SEPTEMBER 2 Our 1st Annual Beer Fair will be Sunday September 2nd! We've got a massive inflatable obstacle course, tricycle race course, dunk tank, football toss, cornhole, cotton candy machine, fried dough, and more. Contests and prizes! Releasing two new specialty cask beers! Be sure to come by for a day filled with fun, games and beer!!

Spring Fair in the Valley May 7

Annual children's fair slated in Ansonia

Fair in Ansonia to mark Week of the Young Child

ANSONIA - 

In celebration of the Week of the Young Child, April 6-12, the Eighth 
Annual Play & Learn Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 5 at Warsaw Park, 119 Pulaski Highway.

This free event is being 
underwritten through the generosity of the Valley Directors Network, 
the School Readiness Councils in Ansonia, Derby, Seymour and Shelton, 
the Early Childhood Task Force, and the Katharine Matthies Foundation.



“We are extremely excited to organize this popular family event for the community again,” said Sharon Kelley, Co-Chair of the Valley Directors Network.

“In years past, we have attracted crowds of over 1,000 people," Kelley said. "This year we want to make this free event even bigger and better than ever.”


The Play & Learn Fair will feature many fun, hands-on activities for 
children and their parents, including Touch A Truck and many 
exhibitors.
Early childhood providers will set up learning centers: 
including, art, blocks, math, music, science, sensory, and more.

An Infant & Toddler play space will be featured along with free snacks 
and informational handouts.


The theme for the 2014 Week of the Young Child Celebration is, “Early Years are Learning Years.”


This annual celebration is sponsored by the National Association for 
the Education of Young Children, the world’s largest early 
childhood education association.


The purpose of the Week of the Young Child is to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early childhood programs and services that meet those needs.



For more information, contact Kelley, Co-Chair of the 
Valley Directors Network, 203-736-2554 or 
juldaynursery@sbcglobalnet.



The Valley Directors Network, a collaborative, was founded in 2005 to 
foster support for children, families, and staff in the field of early 
care and education.
The group has been responsible for many regional family events and professional development trainings.
Membership currently includes 50 childcare professionals and family support organizations in the lower Naugatuck Valley and surrounding areas.


This is a press release from the Valley Directors Network.

Families invited to free carnival in Shelton

This is always a great event!

Info shared on resource fair in Ansonia

Food collected in Derby for Valley needy

Derby resident Maxwell DiCarlo, 13, helps advertise a vendor fair/food drive held today in a storefront on Main Street, Derby. His mother, Wendy DiCarlo, coordinated the event.

All of the donated food will be given to a Valley nonprofit to distribute to needy residents.

Food drive/vendor fair is Saturday in Derby

DERBY - On Monday I had a story in the paper about this event that is happening Saturday.

Wendy DiCarlo, a Derby resident, has been working hard to make the food drive a success. There is great need in the community and she wants to help out, and inspire other people to do so as well.

Please consider stopping by Saturday to wrap up that last-minute shopping at the vendor fair and to donate non-perishable food or toiletry items to our needy neighbors. 

'Tis the season.

Health fair, carnival slated Sunday in Shelton

SHELTON - A free family carnival will give parents some valuable information as they have fun with their children.

The event will run from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday at the Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 1 Positive Place.  It combines the Club's 'Day for Kids' and the 11th annual Children's Health & Safety Fair.

It is sponsored by Griffin Hospital's Valley Parish Nurses, the Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley and Griffin Hospital Faculty Practice: Primary Care.

Activities will include carnival games, moon bounce, touring fire engines and rescue vehicles, a safe house demonstration and more.

Free bicycle helmets will be given to the first 300 children who attend.  

There will be health and wellness interactive displays including CHIP (child identification program), and a car-seat safety clinic.