Parent Programs

New Mom’s Tag Sale – June 16, 9 am to 1 pm.

If you no longer need clean, well cared for items for children ages 1 to 4, you can drop them off at Youth Services on Friday, June 15, from 9 am to 5 pm.

The Newtown Police Department will be conducting a car seat safety check on Saturday, June 16, from 10 am to 2 pm. Remember, all children ages 4 and under need to be in a car seat and children up to the ages 10 to 12 need to be in a booster seat.

 

Ongoing

Fathers’ Night – Completed series. See you again in the fall.

Monday, June 22: “Parents of Children with Special Needs,” 9 am, breakfast meeting.

New Moms’ Support Groups

For further information or questions, call the office at 270-4335. Registration is necessary for all parenting courses.

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!

Elementary School – Monday, 3:15-4:30 pm.

Middle School – Wednesday, 4-5:30 pm.

Harvest your own flowers and vegetables in a garden plot you design yourself. Help us build a Butterfly Plant Nursery, a Children’s Theme Garden, and a Chicken and Rabbit Garden. Plant a row for the hungry in our garden and bring your pet to our pet show. We meet at NYS, so come and join us.

Attention High School Students

Opportunities for Community Service Hours!

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

Sibshop – A support group for siblings of children with special needs (emotional or physical). Thursday, June 14, from 6:30-7:30 pm at Youth Services. Call Nina or Addie for information. Open to children 6-12 years of age. This will be the last meeting of the school year – See you in the fall.

 

The High School Youth Advisory Board (HS YAB) has completed its organized meetings for the year. New members are always welcome. Officers for the 2001-2002 school year are Karen Earle and Gregg Hammond, co-chairs; Jeanmarie Moriath, secretary; and Jen Kotch, treasurer. Feel free to contact any of these students for further information.

Middle School Youth Advisory Board (MS YAB) will hold the last meeting for this school year on Tuesday, June 12, 4 to 5 pm, at NYS. This will be our end of the year party and NYS’s way of thanking all who worked with MSYAB this year!

NYCAAP has concluded its meetings for the school year.

Please watch this column for all meeting dates and times. Membership in the above groups is free and new members are welcome at all times. For additional info please call the NYS office.

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