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The Putnam Rotary Club’s Interact Club helped TEEG in a very big way by volunteering with the backpack distribution at Pomfret Community School, Woodstock Middle School and the TEEG facility in Thompson.
Families were able to come to these locations and fill their backpacks with school supplies. The Interact Club also made a donation of nine Scientific calculators, some composition books, folders, paper and pens, according to Interact Advisor Roberta Rocchetti.
Chelsea French, TEEG program director, said many families were helped and she thanked the Interact volunteers: Emily St. Martin (Putnam High School) and Mikayla Walford from Putnam, Abigail Morin, Jeff Phongsa, Talia and Kaelyn Tremblay, Jackie Dearborn, Kira Greene and Abby Smith (Woodstock Academy); Jordyn Butler, Eric Levesque, Melanie Noonan and Kaylee Beck (Tourtellotte Memorial High School).
The Putnam Rotary Interact Club is a regional club for students ages 12 - 18 and meets from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesday from September through May at the Putnam Library. Rocchetti said “It is a great way to help our community and earn community service hours at the same time. Our volunteer activities help TEEG, Daily Bread, the local Salvation Army, Day Kimball Hospital, the Alzheimer’s association and Relay For Life, to name a few. Sept. 13 is the date of our first meeting.”
For more information contact Rocchetti at 860-933-8603 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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WEST WARWICK, R.I. — The Centreville Bank Charitable Foundation announced the 2022 recipients of the Robert O. Pare College Scholarship.
Sofia DaSilva of E. Providence and Aimee Girard of Waterford each will receive $5,000 towards their college education from the Centreville Bank Charitable Foundation.
Over the course of 55 years, Robert O. Pare served Centreville Bank in a variety of roles, including president, trustee and corporator. Centreville Bank’s board of directors established the scholarship in 2018 upon Pare’s retirement. The intention of the scholarship is to acknowledge local students who positively influence their communities as Pare did while at Centreville.
Each of the scholarship recipients were asked to submit an essay showcasing the valuable lessons learned through community service and the impacts they have had on them. The winning essays discussed a range of involvement, from educating elementary and pre-school students about music and Spanish to working in food pantries and fund-raising for non-profit organizations.
“People want to belong to something more, something bigger than themselves,” wrote DaSilva, who focused her essay on her volunteer work with young students, her church, and local library, and how the experience has enabled her to become closer to her community. DaSilva will attend the University of Rhode Island this fall.
Girard, the recipient from the Connecticut area, attributes much of her personal growth and leadership skills from her volunteerism and involvement in the broader community. In her essay, she described her experience with the Spanish Honor Society where she served as a group leader, working with elementary students and creating Spanish learning activities aimed to inspire them to learn a foreign language through fun. Girard will attend Southern Connecticut State University in the fall and will study nursing.
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soles pg 3 8-18-22
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Successful ‘Soles’
The Soles4Souls used shoe-raising event was a huge success. In fact, the driving forces behind the effort were invited to the home base for the organization, Nashville. From left, Lisa Marie Rivera, Quiet Corner PeaceJam Group facilitator; Grace Berberian, PeaceJam Youth leader; and Tayler Shea, NOW executive director). Courtesy photo.
After three months of raising shoes and funds for Soles4Souls Northeast Opportunities for Wellness, Inc. (NOW) announced that members of the NOW Quiet Corner PeaceJam group were invited to Nashville to deliver thousands of pairs of used shoes to the Soles4Soules warehouse.
Aug. 2 Tayler Shea, NOW executive director; Lisa Marie Rivera, Quiet Corner PeaceJam Group facilitator; and Grace Berberian, PeaceJam Youth leader traveled to Nashville to donate the shoes that were collected by the Quiet Corner community.
Shea said, “Our small group set a goal of raising 2,500 pairs of shoes for Soles4souls and with the help of multiple local businesses, community members, and supporters, we were able to make the donation!”
The local businesses that helped this endeavor become such a success by hosting a Quiet Corner PeaceJam Soles4Souls donation box were: Chubby Dog Coffee Company, The Complex Performing Arts studio, The Broken Crust, Jewett City Savings Bank, the Putnam Public Library, Pomfret Community School, and Spa One.
Shea said “We are so proud of our PeaceJam youth leaders, local community members, and our community partners who collaborated on this project. It is always inspiring to see what a profound impact the northeastern corner of Connecticut makes on the lives of so many individuals. We are so thankful to reside in this community!”
Souls4Souls turns unwanted shoes and clothing into opportunity, by keeping them from going to waste and putting them to good use — providing relief, creating jobs and empowering people to break the cycle of poverty across the world. Quiet Corner PeaceJam is a youth group for middle school-aged children in northeastern Connecticut. Quiet Corner PeaceJam’s goal is to inspire a new generation of leaders who will transform themselves, their local communities, and the world through acts of service, compassion, and one billion acts of kindness.
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Grace Kretchman, 4, of Putnam, left, and Gemma Pomposelli, 7, of Woodstock went to work with chalk.
Christine Olhman
Town crew member gets the propane tanks ready for the final River Fire of the season.
She's got a great seat on the bank for watching River Fire
Thobias Lirette, 4, of Killingly