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September 8
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Speaker: Colebrook Historical Society, Route 183 and 182A, Colebrook, 7 p.m., “Section Hiking the Appalachian Trail.” The Colebrook Historical Society will host a amusing acquisition with refreshments. Highlighting the black will be a presentation by our appropriate guest, Libby Borden. A longtime citizen of Norfolk, Libby’s interests are abounding and varied; one of her accurate passions is breadth hiking the Appalachian Trail. The Trail is over 2,100 miles, traversing 14 states, and Libby has hiked over bisected of it. In Never Too Late Libby will allotment her all-inclusive adeptness about the Trail and her claimed adventures as she, her friends, and her admired Golden Retriever, Annie Rose, hiked forth it. Libby enjoyed a acclaimed career in both accounts and publishing; she was admiral of Garland Publishing in New York from 1992-1998. Back her retirement, Libby has volunteered her time and efforts to the community. She is currently Admiral of the Norfolk Land Trust. She additionally serves on the boards of the Norfolk Conservation Commission, the Economic Development Commission, the Norfolk Library, Norfolk Foundations, the Accessible Amplitude Institute, and the Coalition for Sound Growth. In her chargeless time, Libby enjoys gardening, birding, music, bridge, and golf. The Acquisition will be captivated at the home of the CHS, the celebrated Seymour Inn, amid at the circle of Routes 183 and 182A in the centermost of Colebrook. All are best welcome. For added advice acquaintance Carol Lord at carol.9508@yahoo.com or 860-738-8244.
September 9
Event: First Church of Winsted, 95 North Main St., Winsted, 6-10 p.m., “Steam Vent Coffee House.” The Steam Vent Coffee House bliss off its abatement season. Featured Performers accommodate Mad River Crossing, Eric Paradine, Joel Blumert, Stephen Prout and Silk and Steel. The 9:30 aperture is still accessible for performers, and there is an accessible mic from 6-7 p.m., with assurance up the night of the event. It’s Pizza Night in the bistro confined Pizza, salad, and assorted desserts $10 for abounding meal a-la-cart additionally available. Donations accustomed against children’s missions. For added advice or to assurance up, amuse alarm Debbie 860-482-3491.
Walk: The Woodbury Accessible Library, 269 Main Street South, Woodbury, 10 a.m., “Interactive Walk.” In affiliation with the Woodbury Library’s contest adulatory the 200th ceremony of the bearing of Henry David Thoreau, Woodbury’s Shade Timberline and Sidewalk Committee has admission Arborist Bud Neal to beforehand an alternate airing forth Woodbury’s sidewalks, highlighting appropriate copse forth the way. The airing will accommodated at the Woodbury Accessible Library and will aftermost about one hour. Abounding timberline facts that you adeptness not accept ahead accustomed will be shared. To annals for the program, arrangement www.woodburylibraryct.org or alarm the library at 203-263-3502 for added information. If rain cancels, there is a rain date of Saturday, September 16.
5K run/walk: Runners/Walkers Wanted to Run for the Woods September 9th, 2017 at Sessions Woods WMA, Burlington, CT Adore a 10K run or 5K Run/Walk and advice CFPA accession funds to assure your trails! Beforehand allotment fees are $25 for the 5K run/walk and $35 for the 10K run. Fees admission by $5 on the day of the race. For beforehand maps, to register, and added accident details,
please arrangement CFPA’s Run for the Woods accident website at www.ctwoodlands.org/runforthewoods If you accept questions, amuse alarm 860-346-TREE (8733)
September 10
Book Sale: Thomaston Accessible Library, 248 Main St. Thomaston, 10 a.m. “Book Sale.” A book bargain will be captivated in advanced of the Thomaston Accessible Library. A ample alternative of hardcover, softcover, and accumulation bazaar paperbacks will be available. The book bargain is actuality captivated in affiliation with the Thomaston Police Explorers Car Appearance in city and Thomaston Woman’s Club Crafts Fair at Seth Thomas Park. For advice about the book sale, alarm the library at 860-283-4339.
Garden Tours: Hollister House Garden, 300 Nettleton Hollow Rd., Washington, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., “Romantic Country Gardens.” Analyze bristles clandestine breadth in Roxbury and Washington, accessible for self-guided tours to anniversary the Garden Conservancy and Hollister House Garden. Highlights accommodate adventurous country gardens, an arrangement of bright annuals, a belted acid garden, alfresco sculpture, a vine-covered dining pergola overlooking abroad hills, animated borders, and affluence of stonework. Activate at Hollister House Garden or see website for added locations; hours vary. No anxiety required; rain or shine. Acceptance is $7 at best locations; $10 at Hollister House Garden including acceptance to the bulb sale; accouchement 12 beneath free. For Added Information: See www.opendaysprogram.org or alarm The Garden Conservancy toll-free weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 888-842-2442.
Healing Sessions: Healing Modalities Institute, The Owl Centermost in Depot Square Mall, 51 Depot St., Suite 213, Watertown, 1-3:30 p.m., “Alternative Healers Provide Chargeless Healing Session.” Healing Modalities Institute is alms an accessible chargeless healing session, which is accessible to the public. No arrangement is all-important and there is no fee for the healing services, donations are accustomed but not required. The Healing Modalities Institute (HMI) is a accumulation of certified, insured bodies (nurses, able counselor, beating therapist, shaman and others) committed to acceptable individuals in their own healing process. HMI has offered their casework throughout Connecticut for abounding years. We accommodated on the added Sunday of every month. Specialties offered accommodate Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, Intuitive Healing, Therapeutic Massage, EFT “Tapping” and Spiritual Counseling. Healing Modalities Institute is not affiliated with the Siemon Company. For added information, or for abandoning due to brutal weather, alarm Sunny Torres at 860 485-1557 or Lorraine Babb at 860 485-6911.
The Garden Conservancy’s Accessible Days Program: Analyze bristles clandestine breadth in Roxbury and Washington, accessible for self-guided tours to anniversary the Garden Conservancy and Hollister House Garden. Highlights accommodate a bulb bargain with some of the Northeast’s arch specialty nurseries, adventurous country gardens, an arrangement of bright annuals, a belted acid garden, alfresco sculpture, a vine-covered dining pergola overlooking abroad hills, animated borders, and affluence of stonework. No anxiety required; rain or shine. Sunday, September 10; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (most locations) Visitors may activate at any of the afterward locations: Hollister House Garden, 300 Nettleton Hollow Road, Washington (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.); The Garden of Philip Gorrivan & Lisa Rossi Gorrivan, 116 Judea Cemetery Road, Washington; The Sumacs, 23 Ferry Arch Road, Washington; White Ash Farm, 155 Shearer Road, Washington; or Steep Acre, 2 River Road, Roxbury. Acceptance is $7 at best locations; $10 at Hollister House Garden including acceptance to the bulb sale; accouchement 12 & beneath free. See www.opendaysprogram.org or alarm The Garden Conservancy toll-free weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST, 1-888-842-2442
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September 11
ESL Classes: Allotment for chargeless GED and English as a Added Language classes will booty abode September 11-14. Classes Beginning the ceremony of September 18. Allotment will be captivated at assorted locations in Torrington, Thomaston, Falls Village, Winsted, Woodbury, Southbury. Alarm 1-800-300-4781 for added information.
September 12
Fundraiser: Edison Grill, Harwinton, “Cruisin’ for the Y.” A cookout and car appearance will booty abode at Edison Grill. Car enthusiasts, aliment lovers, associates of the Y, association leaders, and abounding others who are aloof attractive to accept a acceptable time for a acceptable anniversary will accumulate at the Edison Grill in Harwinton to go “Cruisin’ for the Y.” Aftermost year’s awful acknowledged “Chillin’ & Grillin’” fundraiser adds a new aspect this year as it will additionally affection an aged and beef car appearance in accession to the affair and cookout featuring drinks by Patron, adeptness beer by Stony Creek, food, games, music and a bashful auction. Proceeds from the accident anniversary the Northwest CT YMCA. This year’s accident marks the third after year the Y has teamed up with Edison Grill to accompany bodies calm for a night of fun – a night that goes a continued way in authoritative abiding that the Northwest CT YMCA is able to abide to accommodated the growing needs aural the community. Aftermost year’s accident netted able-bodied over $7,000. The Northwest CT YMCA, in 2016, provided added than $235,000 in banking abetment to 829 individuals while confined 10,000. Tickets for the “Cruisin’ for the Y” cookout are $50 per actuality or $90 per brace and are accessible at the Y or at Edison Grill. The admission includes admission to the affair and games, aliment and three cocktails. Tickets can additionally be purchased at the door. There is no allegation to appearance the car appearance and it is aloof $10 to admission your auto into the show. Those who admission a car in the appearance additionally accept the advantage to accompany the cookout for aloof $20 more. Aliment is included in the $20, but drinks are not. Cars will be registered for the appearance as they arrive. Awards will be handed to the Top 3 cars as voted on by the viewers. There will be no alone categories. “Cruisin for the Y” runs from 5-9 pm on Sept. 12. A rain date is appointed for Sept. 19. For added advice acquaintance the Y at 860-489-3133 or Edision Grill at 860-485-1401.
Speaker: Scoville Memorial Library, 38 Main St., Salisbury, 6 p.m., “Tom Shachtman: How the French Saved America.” White Hart Apostle Series is presented in accord with Oblong Books & Music and the Scoville Memorial Library. To the rebelling colonies, French abetment fabricated the aberration amid looming defeat and closing triumph. Even afore the Declaration of Independence was issued, King Louis XVI and French adopted abbot Vergennes were acceptable the rebels. After the Declaration, that abetment broadened to accommodate accomplishment for our troops; guns, cannon, and ammunition; engineering adeptness that enabled victories and prevented defeats; adept recognition; safe havens for privateers; battlefield administering by adept officers; and the army and agile that fabricated accessible the Franco-American achievement at Yorktown. Tom Shachtman has accounting or co-authored added than thirty books, as able-bodied as documentaries for ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and BBC, and has accomplished at New York University and lectured at Harvard and Stanford. He is a above administrator of The Writers Room in Manhattan, a trustee of the Connecticut Humanities Council, a founding administrator of the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area, and is currently a adviser to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s science and technology initiatives.
Workshop: St. Michael’s Parish, 25 South St., Litchfield, 7-8:30 p.m., “Singing in Chant.” Dr. Marguerite Mullée will be alms a bristles ceremony branch in singing Chant. This accident will booty abode ceremony Tuesday evening. For the aftermost session, October 10, the accumulation will present a Candlelight Chanted Compline including chants and motets from Anglican, Roman and Orthodox traditions. Dr. Mullée is Music Administrator at St. Michael’s and a specialist in Carol and articulate pedagogy. Carol is absolutely the music of the bodies and this branch will analyze the admirable assortment of chant. Topics accommodate articulate address absorption on animation abutment and legato singing, anniversary Gregorian notation, altered forms of psalmody, and an celebrated overview of carol in the Christian Church. The fee is $95 and includes all materials. For added information, or to annals for the workshop, the contacts are music@stmichaels-litchfield.or g, or 860-927-5265
September 14
Garden Club: Harwinton Boondocks Hall, Harwinton, 7 p.m., “Gordon Hayward.” We are advantageous to accept Gordon Hayward as the apostle for the Harwinton Garden Club. Gordon Hayward is an internationally accustomed Garden Designer and Author. His presentation, “The Inevitable Garden”, will affect participants to see their own breadth in a new light, one that is affluent with applied ideas. $10.00 fee for non-members. For added advice acquaintance Mary at 860-485-1108.
Open House: Housatonic Valley Regional Aerial School is admiring to advertise that its ceremony Accessible House will be captivated on Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 6:30PM in the Henry Burgess Auditorium. Parents will chase their child’s schedule, accommodated associates of the faculty, staff, and administration, and accept an overview of ceremony class’s agreeable and expectations. They will additionally apprentice about the aerial school’s co-curricular offerings, apprentice activities and amusing and anniversary groups. HVRS is amid at 246 Warren No 1 Turnpike, Falls Village.
September 15
Candlelight service: Friday, September 15th is National POW/MIA Recognition Day which is a day to bethink our nation’s unrecovered prisoners of war, those missing in action, and their families. POW/MIA CT Forget-Me-Nots will accept an alfresco candlelight anniversary on Friday, September 15th at 7:30 p.m. in advanced of the St. Francis Xavier Parish Centermost on Elm Street at the top of the New Milford Green. Lightsticks will be provided. All are acceptable to attend. Questions, acquaintance Kathy Shemeley 860 355-2567.
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September 17
Celebration: Roxbury Ambulance Association, Mine Hill Distillery, 1-4 p.m. “Roxbury Ambulance 50th Anniversary.” The Roxbury Ambulance Association will bless its 50th ceremony with an Accessible House Reception at the base at Mine Hill Distillery. Past and present associates of the Association will be in attendance, as able-bodied as borough leaders. The accessible is invited. RAA’s birth was in 1967 back citizen Everett Hurlburt donated $6,234 to acquirement an International Harvester ambulance. The Association has been accustomed over the years for its adherence and adamantine assignment and was appointed as a HEARTSafe Association already afresh by the State Department of Accessible Health. Currently, the Roxbury Ambulance Association serves the association with 24 alive beforehand EMT’s who address endless hours to training, administering and responding to emergencies every year in anniversary to the town. RAA is gluttonous to accept 26 new associates for our 50th anniversary, bringing our alive beforehand cardinal to 50. An EMT chic begins in September, if you are interested, acquaintance Chief Sarah Lauriat for added advice at 203-788-2056. Roxbury association will be offered a scholarship for the course.
Meet Phil Donahue: On September 17th at 5:00PM, the Winsted Association Bookstore will host the allegorical Phil Donahue - the television allocution appearance host, who for 29 years afore abounding millions of bodies in his circadian audience, entertained, to be sure, but additionally bankrupt through censorship and taboos on abounding subjects, causes and injustices whose accessible altercation we booty for accepted today. Attendees can allege with Phil about their adventures watching his circadian appearance (which assured in 1996—over 6000 shows) and the appulse that his guests and his interviews may accept had on their lives and families.Tickets are accessible for $100.00 and accommodate a Bookstore membership, which additionally includes ten chargeless books. Amuse abutment your bounded association bookstore by acceptable a affiliate and accessory this different gathering. Seating is bound so RSVP to winstedbooks@gmail.com. Sunday, September 17, 2017 5:00-6:30PM 414 Main Street, Winsted
Ongoing Events
Book: Thomaston Accessible Library. Longtime history abecedary and bounded historian Walter Robinson’s two-volume analysis of “Connecticut Vignettes and Visits” is accessible for acquirement at the Thomaston Accessible Library. Aggregate one contains belief of abracadabra in Colonial Connecticut, British bastille ships, English convicts as a antecedent of labor, Litchfield’s adventuresome Revolutionary War soldiers and the Hartford Convention. Aggregate two includes belief of the Thomaston Opera House, Wadsworth Atheneum, the Thimble Islands, the Adopted Mission School of Cornwall and the Amistad mutiny. The books may be purchased calm or separately, at a appropriate amount of $20 per volume. Stop by the library and aces up your copies; alarm 860-283-4339 for information.
Event: Bridewater Pavilion, Sarah Sandford Rd., Bridgewater, 6-10 p.m., “Little Britches Benefit.” Save the black of September 16 for music, dancing, abundant aliment and fun—all to anniversary Little Britches Therapeutic Riding, a bounded nonprofit that helps kids and adults with appropriate needs ascertain their strengths admitting horseback riding. The high-energy bandage Hazzard County will be on duke with avant-garde country sounds to get bodies dancing. Windover BBQ & Catering of Newtown will bowl up barbecued ribs, craven and brisket with sides. A bashful bargain will action array of items, including: Disney esplanade day passes, amphitheater tickets, paintings contributed by Connecticut artists, and abundant more. Little Britches, based in Roxbury, has been allowance individuals with disabilities back 1979. The alignment currently serves almost 80 riders from 28 breadth towns. The Connecticut Association Foundation has offered a analogous admission to advice date the event. Added sponsors accommodate Dobson Pools of New Milford and Maple Bank Farm of Roxbury. Tickets are $50 per person. The accident is BYOB, but mixers and bendable drinks are included. To buy tickets or apprentice more, go to the group’s website www.littlebritchesct.org, or alarm Alice Daly at 203-598-2595.
Instructors Needed: Foothills Developed & Continuing Education, a affairs of EdAdvance in Litchfield, is attractive for advisers to allotment their talents and advise our black developed accessory classes September through December for sites in: Falls Village, Winsted, Torrington, Danbury, Litchfield, Plymouth, Woodbury, and Southbury. You do not accept to be a certified teacher, aloof charge the adeptness and accept the adeptness to advise it to added adults. Amuse alarm 800-300-4781 for added information.
Job Training: Torrington American Job Center, 59 Acreage St., Torrington, “September Appliance and Training Workshops.” The Connecticut Department of Activity and the Northwest Regional Workforce Investment Board are alms a array of training and appliance workshops to abetment breadth association in September. Amuse acquaintance the buzz numbers listed to register. Beforehand allotment is encouraged due to amplitude limitations. In accession to these workshops, the Ability Room continues to action job-related Internet admission and online appliance assistance. The afterward workshops are now actuality offered:
Veterans’ Representative appointments: Eligible veterans can accept veteran-specific re-employment services. Department of Activity Veterans’ Representative Lina Marte is available, by appointment, to accommodated with barter by contacting her at lina.marte@ct.gov or 203-437-3297. Appointments can be scheduled: September 8, 15, 22 and 29.
Successful Job Chase Strategies: Apprentice job chase strategies to advice you auspiciously defended your abutting position. Topics accommodate employer research, the accent of alertness and alignment in the job search, networking and application amusing media to authorize a agenda presence. Alarm 203-437-3380 to register. September 26, from 9 – 11:30 a.m.
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Advice Session: Participants can analysis activity and accommodation requirements for allotment of job training programs through this federal appliance initiative. No arrangement is needed. September 14, 21 and 28, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
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Interviewing Strategies and Techniques: Apprentice how to strategically adapt for analytical job anniversary questions. Topics accommodate aggregation research, developing a applicant message, questions to ask the employer, closing the anniversary and afterward up. Alarm 203-437-3380 to register. September 12, from 9 – 11:30 a.m.
Health Professions Opportunity Admission Orientation: September 14, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Apprentice about careers in the healthcare acreage through the Careers Advancement Project. Eligible participants can accept training that will abetment them in accepting a job (and beforehand forth a career) in the healthcare field. Acquaintance Joyce Liljedahl at joyce.liljedahl@nrwib.org or 203-574-6971 x461.
Bureau of Rehabilitation Casework (BRS): September 15, from 10-10:30 a.m., This branch offers a 30-minute accumulation orientation, followed by a one-hour one-on-one-on arrangement with BRS agents to analysis services/eligibility and apprentice about the abounding casework accessible at the AJC. Alarm (860) 496-3500 to annals for the orientation.
Fundamentals of Résumé Writing: September 19, 9-11:30 a.m. Apprentice how to address a focused résumé bare to defended job interviews and appliance offers. Topics accommodate cerebration like an employer, strategies for developing capital genitalia of the résumé, keywords, accordant vs. extraneous information, formatting and awning letters. Alarm 203-437-3380 to register.
Northwest Connecticut Construction Careers: An acclimatization for individuals gluttonous appliance in construction-related fields. The affair includes a analysis of pre-employment and job training criteria. Alarm 203-574-6971 x434 to register.
Computers Basics: September 18, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Apprentice to use the mouse, keyboard, convenance typing, cross websites, accoutrement an email account, and apprentice about appliance assets accessible through the Department of Activity website. Microsoft tutorials available. Alarm (860) 496-3500 to register.
Disability Ability Coordinator: September 29, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Accommodated with a agents actuality to apprentice how to admission the assorted programs that action casework and supports bare to access and advance employment. The accent is on abilities, not disabilities. Acquaintance Gary Madison at gary.madison@nrwib.org or 203-574-6971 x442.
ITXpress Program: Apprentice about training, accreditation and appliance opportunities through the TechHire ITXpress Program. Eligible participants can authorize to accept training that will abetment them in accepting a job in the Advice Technology acreage (software developer, IT security, or computer programmer). Acquaintance Angelo Santa Maria at angelo.santamaria@nrwib.org or 203-574-6971 x465.
Ticket to Assignment – Acclimatization for Bodies accepting SSI or SSDI allowances (NRWIB): Advice for SSI/SSDI beneficiaries, their accompany and families, about the advantages of accommodating in the Amusing Aegis Admission to Assignment Program. The job centermost is an accustomed Admission Appliance Network. There is no obligation. Alarm Gary Madison at 203-574-6971 x442 or gary.madison@nrwib.org to register.
Raffle: The Kent Memorial Library has called a 1998 Porsche Boxster as this year’s ceremony fundraising raffle car. This amphitheatre red with gray autogenous has actual low mileage. Tickets are $20. Raffle tickets are actuality awash in the Library and during the ceremony Library Book Sale. The car will be anchored in advanced of the Library. The acceptable admission will be fatigued on at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 29 at the cessation of the 41st Ceremony Kent Pumpkin Run. Advice is accessible on the Library’s website. Admission holders charge not be present to win.
Raffle: The Accompany of the Bakerville Library are affairs raffle tickets for a 2017 Dodge Challenger R/T in Octane Red, called Ruby. Tickets are $100 each, and alone 550 accept been printed. The cartoon will booty abode September 30, 2017 at the Bakerville Library. You charge not be present to win. Watch for Ruby displayed at businesses about the breadth and at bounded car shows and added events. Tickets may be purchased at these events, as able-bodied as at the Bakerville Library, 6 Maple Hollow Rd. in New Hartford, or from any Friend. For added information, alarm 860-307-3243, or arrangement bakervillelibrary.org. Proceeds from the raffle will anniversary the Bakerville Library, including the continuing advance on the library Annex.
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Volunteers Wanted: New Milford Accessible Library is gluttonous Agenda Literacy Volunteers to advice assemblage with basal technology skills. Volunteers charge be patient, adore teaching others, and be accomplished in accepted computer operations and internet searching. This actuality would be accessible for at atomic one two-hour time aperture ceremony ceremony to assignment one-on-one with patrons. A abiding and reliable agenda is a must. If you are absorbed in acceptable a volunteer, acquaintance Rachael Schuster at 860-355-1191 x206. The New Milford Accessible Library has been an invaluable ability for the association for over a century, accouterment information, apprenticeship and resources. For added information, alarm 860-355-1191 x206.
Volunteers Wanted: The Gunn Historical Museum, amid at 5 Wykeham Rd., Washington, is attractive for volunteers to advice with their 10th Ceremony Washington Green Cemetery Bout demography abode on Friday, October 27, 2017 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Actors, bout guides, bureaucracy helpers, cleanup helpers, alleviation servers, monitors, and others are needed. Students can acquire association anniversary hours by volunteering for the cemetery tour. The Washington Cemetery Bout Beforehand Acclimatization Affair will booty abode at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, September 12 in the Wykeham Room of the Gunn Library. Those absorbed in volunteering at the cemetery bout are asked to appear the affair to apprehend how they can help. For added advice acquaintance 860-868-7756 or curator@gunnhistoricalmuseum. org.
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