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Celebrate Kindness With Ben’s Bells Project Annual Fundraiser

Published: Apr 27, 2023 7:00 am

Readers are invited to join Ben’s Bells to celebrate kindness at its biggest fundraising event of the year.

The 2023 Celebration of Kindness Day is planned for Thursday, May 25, from 6 to 9 pm, at Reverie Brewing Company, 57-B Church Hill Road.

The evening will include live entertainment, food, drink, and a live and silent auction. Guests will enjoy all of that while supporting kindness education and studio programming.

Organizers are also excited to announce that Ben’s Bells Founder Jeannette Maré will be a special guest, making her return to Connecticut.

Tickets are $75 for adults. Due to the generosity of an anonymous donor, tickets for ages 18 and under this year are $1.

Reservations are available through bensbells.org/ctcelebration

Food for the event will be provided by FLIK Independent School Dining and will feature a Smok’d Food Truck. Each guest will receive two free beverages from Reverie’s large craft beer selection. Soft drinks and water will also be available at no charge.

Live music will be performed by Oddfellas of Stratford. Guests can also enjoy various outdoor games including a dual hoop zone donated by Super Fun Inflatables.

The live and silent auctions are among the event highlights and include local art and other gifts and services. The most exclusive items of the evening will be this year’s Ben’s Bells mosaic benches, available only at the Celebration of Kindness each year.

Also returning to the silent auction are mosaic stepping stones designed and built by Ben’s Bells volunteers.

A special Shop Kind pop-up shop will be open. Special to Celebration of Kindness, 30 limited edition necklaces designed by Newtown artist Dave Brooker will be available for purchase.

A Kind Campus Award will be presented to Ella Makowski, representing Watertown High School, and the 2023 Kind Colleague Award to Eva Aveiga, president and founder of Miss and Teen Danbury.

The mission of Ben’s Bells is to inspire, educate, and motivate people to realize the impact of intentional kindness, and to empower individuals to act according to that awareness, thereby strengthening themselves, relationships, and communities.

For more information about Ben’s Bells visit bensbells.org or contact the Ben’s Bells Project-Connecticut studio, located in Bethel, at 203-501-9999 or ct@bensbells.org.

Readers are invited to join Ben’s Bells Project to celebrate kindness at its biggest fundraising event of the year, May 25 in Newtown.

Custom plates will be among the unique items available through the upcoming Ben’s Bells Celebration of Kindness.—Ben’s Bells Project-Connecticut photo

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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.

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