Newtown Support Groups

By NANCY CREVIER

Published: Jan 29, 2010 12:00 am

Friday, January 29Â Â Â Â Â Â Â

AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion.

Saturday, January 30Â Â Â Â Â Â

Daily Reflections meeting, St Rose School (Monsignor Conroy Room), 46 Church Hill Road, 6:30 to 8 pm.

Sunday, January 31Â Â Â Â Â Â

AA, Newtown Senior Center, Riverside Road, 2 pm, open speaker discussion meeting, 90-minute meeting.

AA, Newtown United Methodist Church (lower level), 92 Church Hill Road, 7:30 pm, open speaker discussion meeting.

NA, Narcotics Anonymous, St Johnâs Episcopal Church, 5 Washington Avenue, Sandy Hook, side entrance, 7:30 to 8:30 pm, information pamphlet/discussion meeting.

Monday, February 1Â Â Â Â Â Â

AA Beginnersâ Big Book meeting, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 7 to 8 pm.

AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 8:15 pm, closed discussion meeting, teens welcome.

Tuesday, February 2Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â

AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 12:15 pm, closed step meeting.

AA, St Johnâs Episcopal Church, 5 Washington Avenue/Route 34, 6:30 pm, one-hour closed step meeting.

Al-Anon, 38 Church Hill Road, Second Floor (use rear entrance), beginnerâs group, 7:30 to 8 pm. Open meeting, 8 to 9:30 pm. For more information, call 860-244-0022, or visit ct-al-anon.org.

Alateen, Newtown Youth & Family Services, 17 Church Hill Road (use rear entrance), 7 to 8 pm. For more information call 203-270-8577.

Wednesday, February 3Â Â Â Â Â Â

Grandâs Place, support group open to grandparents or other family caregivers raising children in diverse family situations, noon to 2 pm, Parent Connection office, 115 Mt Pleasant Road. For more information call Newtown Parent Connection at 203-270-1600 or 203-426-8375. All are welcome.

Sibshop, a support group for siblings of children with developmental disorders. NYFS, 17 Church Hill Road, 5 to 6 pm. Call 203-270-4335 for information.

AA, Menâs Group, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm.

Thursday, February 4Â Â Â Â Â Â Â

Children of Divorce, to help children heal from the separation of divorce, 5 to 6 pm, NYFS, 17 Church Hill Road. Call 203-270-4335 for information.

Newtown Parent Connection Hope & Support, 115 Mt Pleasant Road, 7 to 9 pm; 203-270-1600.

AA, Trinity Episcopal Church, 36 Main Street (at flagpole), 8 pm, closed speaker discussion, nonsmokers meeting.

Monthly Meetings

The Alzheimerâs Support Group, meets the last Wednesday of each month at The Homesteads, 166 Mt Pleasant Road, 6 to 7 pm; 203-426-8118.

Newtown Parent Connection Bereavement Group, meets the first Wednesday of each month, 115 Mt Pleasant Road, 7:30 to 9 pm; 203-270-1600.

Compassionate Friends, at Healing Hearts, 73 Stadley Rough Road, Danbury, 7:15 pm on fourth Tuesday of each month, grief support group for families who have experienced the death of a child. For information call Karen Butterfield, 845-225-5895.

Special Moms Prayer Group, support for moms with special needs children, at St Rose, 38 Church Hill Road, at 7 pm, the third Wednesday of the month (except July; no meeting). Open to all faiths. For information call Beth, 203-426-3606.

Autism Support Group meets the first Thursday of each month at 7 pm at Newtown Youth & Family Services, 17 Church Hill Road. For information, call 203-270-4335.

Newtown PAC, for parents of children with learning disabilities, meets the 2nd Thursday of each month, 7 to 9 pm, at NYFS, 17 Church Hill Road. Contact Suzanne at 203-270-9869 for information.

Siblings Healing Support Group meets 9 am to 10 am on the first Saturday of each month at 115 Mt Pleasant Road, sponsored by Newtown Parent Connection. Information at 203-270-1600.

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How do you propose tapping the brakes, Dave? 8-30g already trumps any local regulations- you don't have a brake pedal to push. Brookfield, Trumbull and now Ridgefield have a clear case for a moratorium based on the development (thanks to 8-30g) that has already occurred. I don't see a clear case for Newtown to request a moratorium... yet.

Backs Moratorium On Dense Development Applications

Nobody is suggesting shutting the doors on new neighbors. What neighboring towns are doing, and what we should be doing too, is to tap the brakes on all of the multi-family residential development proposals so that we can spend 6 months updating our regulations such that if you want to build dense residential housing here, XX percent of it needs to be affordable (we will never make any headway on increasing our percentage of affordable housing otherwise, short of 8-30g), and the rest needs to be done in as low an impact manner as possible. Low impact on traffic, health & safety, the environment and on the cost of town services.

Hey, there you go! Richard solved it. Thanks, that seems so easy- we'll just get rid of the 2nd amendment and the Supreme Court. Seriously, the 2nd amendment doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The Supreme Court doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The problem is not the tools, but the criminals & the mental illness. The state of Connecticut seems to be focused on the tools, like Richard, while ignoring the users of those tools.

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Ned, please familarize yourself with 8-30G, and then please share the unique flaws that may be helpful in formulating a denial An 8-30g project can be denied only on very narrow grounds – i.e., if it presents health, safety or other concerns that exceed a town’s need for affordable housing. According to the TOG website, “projects cannot be rejected for incompatibility with a Town’s Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD); density; traffic congestion; height; aesthetics; concerns of neighbors or the community; and failure to comply with local zoning regulations.” 8-30g proposals are rarely denied by planning and zoning officials because the burden of proof on appeal is on the town. Appeals are costly, but a municipality can be successful in a court case if it has sufficiently established that the concerns leading to denial are factual and substantive.

P&Z Should Reject Vessel Proposal

The town should certainly measure its performance against the statewide strategies. Unless I missed it I only know of one small cluster of homes that would meet the affordable housing program. Given the 500 or so new units being added in the last 10 years I think that 4/500 would not meet the metric to allow for a moratorium. I mean, fingers crossed for a Christmas miracle but I suspect we will see a few 8-30's sent our way in a method to avoid the Nimby mob. Thanks, Nimby mob.

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