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Newtown Youth Services

Cullens Summer Programs – A FEW SPACES LEFT! One week; Back to Basics: Discover the Outdoors Camp for third to fifth grades (grades being entered in the fall). The theme this year is “Forces of Nature.” Topics include The Whispering Wind, The Soaking Rain, The Warming Sun, and Green Things. Dates are June 25 to 29. Grades 3 to 5 meet from 11:30 am to 1 pm. This program is held at Cullens Memorial on Taunton Lake Road. Fee is $25. Call 270-4335.

Volunteers Needed: Newtown Youth Services is sponsoring a Red Cross Blood Drive on Thursday, July 5, 2001, at Edmund Town Hall from 8:30 am to 7 pm. We need volunteers to work that day, hang up posters, and recruit donors.

Please call NYS at 270-4335 to volunteer or to schedule an appointment to donate blood.

(Not only do we ask for your time and your money, now we need your blood, too.)

Parent Programs

 

Ongoing – Sibling Group: Special Needs/Learning Differences, Thursday, July 19, 6:30 PM - It’s a party! Please call 270-4335.

All other Parenting Groups are on summer hiatus. Please look for them in the fall.

Upcoming – Mark Your Calendar

Important Workshop: Tuesday, June 26 – “$DOUGH$” – 6 pm, NYS

“Managing Your Money: Risks, Responsibilities & Rewards.” This is a program for high school students and parents. Pizza will be provided.

Some of the topics to be covered are opening a checking account, pitfalls of credit cards, budgeting and saving. Ed O’Malley from Western CT Credit Union is the presenter.

 Please call NYS to register.

 

4-H

 

Let’s Get Ready For Garden Season!

Volunteers are needed to tend and harvest the garden this summer. Please contact Jonathan Aragones at NYS for details.

Attention High School Students – Opportunities for Community Service Hours!

MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY, 9 TO 11 AM, at Plymouth Hall, any time you can give would be greatly appreciated.

If you like deer ticks, mosquitoes, sunburned shoulders, dirty fingernails, slug slime, muddy shoes, poison ivy, heat stroke, sweaty, frizzy hair, and an experience that you will cherish until the day you die, then Newtown’s Youth Garden is for you.

Our project includes a farmer’s market garden, a wildlife habitat garden for a daycare center, and a nature trail for a local retirement community, with the possibility of more projects added when we get your ideas.

We need your help with the gardens, starting from the planning, then to the planting, and finally to the maintaining. You will learn about vegetable gardening and produce marketing, flower garden designing, and wildlife habitat observation gardens.

You may also be interested in assisting the 4-H after-school garden club. The 4-H club consists of elementary and middle school students who happen to idolize high school students and would be thrilled to work with you. Besides working in the garden, the 4-H clubs work with animals and learn about Newtown’s diverse environment. To volunteer, call Jonathan Aragones at NYS at 270-4335.

Youth Group Meetings

All Youth Groups have concluded their meetings for this year. Membership is always open. Watch for meeting dates in the fall.

Thanks to all who participated for your time and support. Have a great summer!

All programs will take place at Newtown Youth Services, 41-A Main Street, unless noted. To register, or for further information, call 270-4335.