People interested in learning how best to socially engage their memory-impaired loved ones attended an informational session on the topic held January 18 at Church Hill Village, a new assisted living complex at 2 The Boulevard. Tracy Brady, a certified dementia practitioner with Visiting Angels, presented the subject.
About two dozen people attended the Newtown Senior Center’s Lunch & Learn program to learn more about how to be a Dementia Friend on January 17.
The hour-long informational session was led by Jessica ...
Newtown will be well represented as Church Hill Village celebrates its grand opening - more than half of the residential assisted living and memory care facility’s employees are also Newtown neighbors.
The Newtown Senior Center, at 8 Simpson Street, was selected as the location for the State Unit on Aging’s “Community Conversation” event on the morning of Tuesday, January 7.
The roughly hour-and-a-h...
LOF Adaptive Skiers will be at Mount Southington, 396 Mt Vernon Road, Plantsville, Conn., Wednesday, January 15, at 9 AM, demonstrating a brand-new TetraSki.
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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.
