To The Editor:

The Newtown Fund was organized in 1959. Our wonderful board is made up of volunteers who are available for emergency requests from Social Services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. During the year we provide funds to help when people fall through the cracks. We pay for medical insurance when someone is incapacitated and can’t get any more help from other sources or when a young person needs extensive dental work and no insurance is available. We have a fuel assistance fund. Social Services is responsible for screening all candidates.

I want to reassure everyone in our community that any contributions to the Newtown Fund are always spent directly in Newtown and that there are no administrative costs to run the fund except for postage and letterhead.

The holidays are my favorite time and every year they are especially gratifying because of the Holiday Basket Program put on by the Newtown Fund. We hope that you can help us this year as you have in the past to make the Holiday Season a happy one for all of the people in this community who really need it.

Delivery Day is at the Fraser Woods School on December 12th this year beginning at 7:30AM. If you would like to volunteer that day we can always use help at the wrapping table, in the parking lot loading cars, as hall monitors, and delivering the baskets to our needy families.

We expect to have over 80 families to adopt and still have at least 18 who haven’t been adopted yet. The Fund also includes gift certificates in every basket for gas, shoes, food, etc. We need monetary con-tributions for these items. Our collections are down nearly 50 percent this year!

For more information call Layne Lescault at 203-270-6481. Send your contributions to The Newtown Fund, P.O. Box 641, Newtown. Come and deliver with us on the 14th!

Thank you in advance for your generosity and kindness. Newtown is a wonderful place to live, and we feel that by helping others in Newtown this December 12th.

Linda Bates

Chairperson Holiday Basket Program

President,

The Newtown Fund, Inc.

P.O. Box 641, Newtown         November 24, 2015