Just as people trained in CPR help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR — Question, Persuade, Refer — learn how to recognize the signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade and refer someone to help.
Newtown Historical Society, in partnership with C.H. Booth Library, will host Dr Cyd Cipolla for the lecture, “Putting Yourself Back in the Narrative: The Past, Present, and Future of Women in Science.”
In conjunction with recent Sunday School lessons about The Good Samaritan, the children and families of Christ the King Lutheran Church are conducting a donation drive to benefit Newtown Animal Shelter.
An opening reception and awards ceremony is planned for late afternoon tomorrow at Brookfield Craft Center for its 9th Annual Juried Student Exhibition: Artists on the Rise. Multiple Newtown students have had their work accepted into this show.
Forty years ago, when I began a career in journalism in Connecticut, most towns had a reasonably well-staffed, thriving weekly newspaper. And the area had a substantial, award-winning daily paper.
Newtown is fortunate to have The Bee and should not take it for granted.
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The screenshots from NAFC's private group show prominent members of the organization naming businesses that hosted certain political signs ahead of the last election as these allies self-organized to crowdsource a running list of businesses not to patronize for the sin of supporting candidates such as [gasp] our incumbent State Rep who has a great record with small business associations - claiming that makes them unsafe. The NAFC official account was involved in moderating the discussion as they banned one "problematic" member for questioning the "witch hunt." This tacit threat to the livelihoods of local business owners has a chilling effect on free speech, yet the response from the organization was to claim that anyone who saw it as bullying was "stifling such conversations." If anyone is interested these screenshots are widely available.
Someone either does not understand how the state legislative process works, or is willfully misleading people to try to make the delegation look bad. I hope it is the former scenario.
