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Celebrities Come Together To Help Sandy Hook Promise

Published: Dec 02, 2014 12:00 am

In advance of the second anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, musicians, celebrities and influential organizations are donating special items and experiences to benefit Sandy Hook Promise, in partnership with the luxury charity auction website CharityBuzz. The auction opened on November 25, and will continue to accept bids through Thursday, December 18.

Among the 16 items included in the auction are the first five pages of your life story, written by the award-winning writer/director Adam Mckay; the chance to meet Carson Daly with two tickets to a live show of The Voice Season 8 in Los Angeles; a visit to New York Mets batting practice and a behind-the-scenes tour of Citi Field; a round of golf with Joe LaCava, Tiger Woods’ caddy, at Newtown Country Club; the opportunity to have Sarah Silverman record your outgoing message on your phone; a Fender Telecaster guitar signed by Sheryl Crow; and two tickets and cocktails to Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live! hosted by Andy Cohen in New York City.

All auction items are found at https://www.charitybuzz.com/support/2230.

Sandy Hook Promise is a community organization founded in Newtown in the days following 12/14. Money raised through the auction will go to support the programs and services Sandy Hook Promise offers in the arenas of mental health and wellness, social development, community connectedness, bystander behavior, and firearm safety and security.

Charitybuzz raises funds for nonprofits around the globe through online auctions with recognizable celebrities and brands.

Sandy Hook Promise will premiere a new documentary at The Helen Mills Theater in New York City tonight. The documentary is part of a comprehensive educational effort designed to help parents protect children from becoming future victims of gun violence. The organization is also introducing new tools and programs to help parents and communities protect children from gun violence, and focused on preventative steps to help stop individuals from hurting themselves or others with a firearm.

Among the items being offered in an online auction to benefit Sandy Hook Promise is lunch for 12 and a private screening of Night at The Museum: Secrets of the Tomb at the 20th Century Fox Studio in Century City, Calif.; the first five pages of your life story, written by the award-winning writer and director Adam McKay; and a round of golf at Newtown Country Club with Joe LaCava, Tiger Woods’s caddy.

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You are correct, Bruce. I know how hard these plans are to put together, but I still believe that we can have more definitive and measurable goals. I know there are a number of units coming online, and the community truly needs them. If only we can move the development of affordable housing to more of a partnership between the community and the developers than the adversarial tug-of-war it seems to be now, that would be good progress.

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Here is the plan Newtown signed on to. https://westcog.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Final-Newtown-Affordable-Housing-Annex_2022.pdf

I agree, but we need to make sure they are pedestrian activated. The ones on Glover were supposed to be by order of the Police Commission, but the ones installed by Public Works were the cheaper flashing light. A couple of extra dollars are worth the lives it can save.

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We have been doing the planning work. The State of Connecticut mandates every municipality to develop an affordable housing plan under C.G.S. §8-30j by June 1, 2022, to specify how they “intend to increase the number of affordable housing developments in the municipality.” In lieu of all eighteen municipalities in the Western Connecticut Region duplicating efforts to research, document and analyze affordable housing, the Council of Governments decided to work collectively by splitting the work into two parts: Regional Toolbox Specific, Policy Driven Municipal Annexes.

Great Idea. We used a similar process when Pat Llodra wanted input on Fairfield Hills. very useful.

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