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In partnership with Blue Earth Compost and FLIK Independent School Dining, Pomfret School has started converting food scraps generated during meal prep into clean, renewable energy at a licensed composting and anaerobic digestion facility.
Blue Earth Compost is Connecticut’s leading food scrap collection service for residents, municipalities, and businesses. They work with many independent schools.
“Blue Earth Compost is happy to be working with Pomfret School to help divert food scraps from landfills,” said Blue Earth Compost CFO and Director of Business Development Sam King. “Schools are essential to us. We are encouraged by the students’ passion for sustainability and are honored to help see the tangible effects of their advocacy for composting and waste reduction.”
While this partnership with Blue Earth Compost is new, some Pomfret faculty have been composting food scraps in their homes. The number of families composting increased last year after Maya Gerum ’23 helped secure a grant to provide compost tumblers to faculty houses around campus. Her efforts were part of her sustainability certificate project, which focused on helping faculty, their families, and their advisory groups learn how to compost to reduce waste and methane emissions. “The partnership with Blue Earth Compost is a great step in helping Pomfret reduce the amount of food waste that ends up in landfills,” said Director of Sustainability Annie O’Sullivan.
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Members of the Woodstock boys’ golf team recently took part in a community service day, helping with the clean up from the winter at the Woodstock Golf Course. Photos by Marc Allard/Woodstock Academy.
Donny Sousa
Boys’ Golf Preview
Youth will create excitement for Centaurs boys’ golf
Pretty strong for the next few years.
That could be the case for the Woodstock boys’ golf team thanks to an infusion of some youth with talent.
“The sophomores played a lot of golf over the summer and came in with a lot of ability. I’m pretty excited about the youth on this team. I think we will be strong this year and probably for the next few years if this trend continues,” said coach Rich Garceau.
The Centaurs did lose Davis Simpson who placed fifth in the ECC tournament but they do have two of their top players returning. Senior Donny Sousa will lead that returning cast along with junior Logan Rawson.
“Donny and Davis are really different people but they seemed to have a good relationship. I think Donny learned a lot about golf and leadership from Davis and I think he carried that over to the hockey team. He’s definitely carrying it over to the golf team,” Garceau said.
For instance, Garceau was tied up with a coach’s responsibility and the team had volunteered to do a community service day to help clean up the Woodstock Golf Course from some winter work that it had done.
Sousa was in charge of the work detail.
He, like Garceau, likes what he sees on the team.
“We have a lot of returning guys, losing only a couple of key seniors. This year, we’re going to have a really good look at the ECC tournament as well as placing high in the States,” Sousa said. “Davis was a great golfer and taught me a lot since my freshman year. It’s how I got to where I am today. I would not be here as captain if it wasn’t for Davis and I thank him for that a lot. It was tough losing him but we have guys like Logan and Aidan O’Connor who are ready to take his spot.”
Abdullah Choudhry is another junior on the team with Rawson while O’Connor, Alec Nunes and Lucas Thompson are three of the key sophomores.
Nick Sivertsen is the other senior while Brady Hebert is one of the seven freshmen who are out for the team.
But even with players like Sousa, Rawson and O’Connor, there are still doubts.
He has 23 players on his roster to start the season.
In most cases, he doesn’t know what their capabilities are as they are out for the team for the first time and the team hasn’t had the chance to get out on a course anywhere.
Garceau thought the team could have done better last year when it finished 8-8 overall, sixth in the ECC and 14th in the Div. I state tournament.
He thinks this year’s version could eclipse those numbers.
Getting out on the golf course any time soon, however, might be difficult.
For example, the Centaurs quickly moved a match with Fitch, scheduled for April 2 at Quinnatisset, further into the spring.
Woodstock currently has five matches scheduled in April, the first being on April 8 against Ellis Tech at the Harrisville Golf Course.
The other 11 will take place in May.
Even the Centaurs practice and JV course, Woodstock Golf Course, doesn’t look like it will be open any time soon after the removal of trees left behind not only debris on the edges but also some deep ruts in a couple of the fairways.
At least, Sousa and his teammates got to be on the course, outside, to get a taste of what it’s like again.
“It’s a mental thing now; get your mind ready for the game. We can use simulators, which means you are not on the course, but you are working on your swing and trying to get used to your yardage,” Sousa said.
It will be the senior’s last sport season at Woodstock Academy.
“It’s kind of sad, honestly. I will be off to bigger and better things but I’m going to miss this a lot, the guys I’ve met through it, the accomplishments I’ve had and it’s going to be tough to see it all go,” Sousa said.
Marc Allard
Director of Sports Information
The Woodstock Academy
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Free Shred Days
WOODSTOCK — bankHometown will hold a Shred Days from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. April 20 (*or until the truck is full) at the Woodstock Office on Rt. 171. No appointment is necessary.
Local residents can reduce their risk of identity theft by bringing old mail, receipts, statements or bills, cancelled checks, pay stubs, medical records, or any other unwanted paper documents containing personal or confidential information and shredding them safely and securely for free. A professional document destruction company will be on site in the bank’s parking lot and can accept up to two boxes of documents per person.
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Left: Members of the Putnam Rotary Club, the Putnam Lions and Leos and the Putnam Elks Lodge 574 braved the raw weather to man the Good Friday Food Drive to benefit Daily Bread. Linda Lemmon photo. Right: Kira Greene and Jacqueline Dearborn represented the Putnam Rotary Club's Interact Club earlier in the day (courtesy photo).
Good Friday Food Drive a winner
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
NE CT — Cars lined up and when they were done, Daily Bread Food Pantry was the proud recipient of a truck filled with food and a cash box filled with thousands in monetary donations.
The traditional Good Friday Food Drive, held in the WINY Radio parking lot, is a joint effort among the Putnam Rotary Club and its Interact Club, the Putnam Lions Club and its Leos Club and the Putnam Elks Lodge #574.
Doria Daviau, a Putnam Lions advisor for the Leo Club, said at the end the truck was filled. Daviau has been a volunteer at the food drive for more than 10 years.
Karen Osbrey, head of the IHSP-Daily Bread, said the final number of monetary donations received was $4,760.13 and the final tally for food was 1,198 pounds.
The wind was cold and raw and definitely not helpful — it tried to steal the volunteers’ tent. Despite the windy challenges, the volunteers were collecting with smiles on their faces.
The rain didn’t stop the Putnam Rotary Club’s Interact Club from waving and encouraging cars to stop by and make a donation. Kira Greene, left, and Jacqueline Dearborn had fun despite the cold wet weather.
The volunteers said: “We had an excellent day. Great volunteers and great people donating.”
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