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Dedication
Day Kimball Health and the Day Kimball Healthcare Foundation dedicated the hospital’s main entrance lobby in honor of Claire and Joseph Langevin, lifelong residents of Plainfield and dedicated supporters of Day Kimball Hospital. The newly named “Langevin Lobby” commemorates a generous gift from Claire Langevin and honors the legacy of her late husband, Joseph, as well as their four daughters — Kate Langevin, Sandra Peterle, Christine Earehart, and JoAnn Titus—all of whom have had personal connections to the hospital throughout their lives. The donation will support several vital programs and services that they designated as having had a significant and positive impact on their family’s healthcare, including the Cardiopulmonary Rehab program, Hospice and Palliative Care, HomeCare, Pediatrics, and the Oncology Transportation Fund. The Day Kimball Health family is deeply grateful for this generous and heartfelt gift and is honored to have the privilege of recognizing the Langevin family’s enduring legacy.
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Woodstock Fair
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Well done!
Aug. 31 Boy Scouts from Troop 21, Joseph Vergoni, Jayce Jodoin and Jordan Travisano saw a small fire that had been started within the fairgrounds. They advised their troop leader and grabbed a fire extinguisher. They made their way back and extinguished the fire before the firefighters made their way over. According to the Woodstock Volunteer Fire Association Station 76 "Their fast thinking and immediate response possibly saved the fair from a major incident, early closing, property damages, or personal injury."
The Beef Show was dedicated in memory of Bob Guillot of Twin Brooks Farm in Putnam, a long time exhibitor and supporter of the beef industry.
4 juniors and 6 adults participated in the blueberry pie eating contest.
Molly Hatchet was in the house on the new Main Stage.
Pet goat class: Eli Wyrostek, 6, tells the judge about “Caramel” the goat. On the cover, winner Gene Lariviere's pumpkin.
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POMFRET — Christ Church Pomfret invites all in the community to join in the excitement of Come, See Sunday at 10 a.m. Sept. 8.
To celebrate the unofficial end of summer and the beginning of the program year—which includes off-site work in the Quiet Corner—the parish will host a Ministry Fair with a festival breakfast in the church’s Great Hall following the 10 a.m. Eucharist service.
“This is an opportunity for us to open our doors to the community to introduce ourselves and what we do here—not just on Sundays but throughout the year,” said Reverend Sandra L. Cosman, Priest-In-Charge of the parish. “Volunteering in one of our ministries is a way to be involved in the greater community as well as to develop meaningful relationships,” she continues.
Tables staffed by parishioners with clipboards will compete for visitors and recruits with tempting breakfast offerings ranging from donuts to deviled eggs to fresh fruit to gluten-free breakfast bars. “The fun we had participating in events here at the church was the reason my family and I decided to become members,” said Gregory Hesler, Senior Warden of the parish. Opportunities range from the occasional reading of scripture on Sunday morning to being part of a team hosting coffee hour once a month to volunteering in a youth classroom weekly to staffing food collections for TEEG once a month of volunteering for one of TEEG’s many programs. The breath of activities at Christ Church are briefly described on the church’s new website, https://www.christchurchpomfret.org/services-4.
The church is at 527 Pomfret St., Rt. 169, across from the Rectory School. An 8:00 a.m. traditional Eucharist service is also offered during the program year, Labor Day to Father’s Day.
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CT state poet laureate returns
to read at Roseland Park Sept. 15
WOODSTOCK — State Poet Laureate Antoinette Brim-Bell returns for a second year to read in the Poets at Large Roseland Park series. This free poetry/spoken word event will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Sept. 15 in the barn at Roseland Park.
Featured with Brim-Bell will be Massachusetts Beat Poet Laureate Linda Bratcher Wlodyka and Christopher Reilley, former poet of Dedham, MA. Sign up for open mic at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Five- minute limit as time allows. Recommended for ages 14 and up.
Antoinette Brim-Bell is in the second year of her term as the poet laureate of Connecticut. She is Connecticut’s 8th state poet laureate and is the author of three full-length poetry collections: These Women You Gave Me, Icarus in Love, and Psalm of the Sunflower. She is a Cave Canem Foundation Fellow and an alumna of Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA). Her poetry has appeared in various journals, magazines, textbooks, and anthologies, including Villanelles, 44 on 44: Forty-Four African American Writers on the 44th President of the United States, Not A Muse, and has appeared in Poetry Magazine and Poem-a-Day.
Additionally, Brim-Bell has published critical work and essays, most notably: “Living Behind the Numbers: A Statistic Muses about her Life” (National Association of African American Studies Monograph Series); “The Myopic Eye in Alice Walker’s ‘Flowers’” (Critical Insights: Alice Walker, Salem Press) and “Juxtaposed Dichotomies: the idealized white suburban pastoral, the surrealist tableau of black poverty & the women in between” (The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent, Haymarket Books).
A printmaker and collage artist, Brim-Bell also serves on various arts and humanitarian boards among many other accomplishments. She is a speaker, educator and consultant, as well as a Professor of English at Capital Community College in Hartford.
Linda Bratcher Wlodyka is the current Massachusetts Beat Poet Laureate, 2023-2025. In the summer of 2023, she was chosen as a contributor to WordxWord a summer poetry festival in the Berkshires where she collaborated with a team of poets creating a very large poem that was read aloud for the audience at The Mount. She also has held the position as a docent at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s summer home in Lenox, MA from 2002 -2006. She retired as an educator from Mt. Greylock Regional School District in Williamstown in 2020. Wlodyka’s poem, “Secret Cottage,” was voted Best in the Berkshires in 2012, and she has three chapbooks previously self-published; Her Spirited Cameo, Voices from the Blue Room and Tick Tock. If Brambles Were Bookends, Collected Poems, is her first full length poetry collection (Human Error Publishing, 2023). Wlodyka is a member of the Florence Poet’s Society.
Christopher Reilley (former poet laureate for Dedham) is a contributing editor at Acoustic Ink. He has been involved in print and print production for more than 30 years, working for such companies as Xerox, EFI, Ricoh USA and Online Print Solutions. He is a copywriter for the Bytesized Studio. His poems have appeared in a wide number of publications, including the Boston Literary Journal, Word Salad Poetry, Wild Winds, Coldnoon, Travel Poetics and many others. His work can be found in several anthologies.
Poets at Large is a project of Windham Arts. This series is sponsored in part by bankHometown, Charter Oak Federal Credit Union, and Weiss, Hale & Zahansky Strategic Wealth Advisors and Global Partners and Tom and Kathy Borner and Linemaster Switch.
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