Charter Oak

awards 9 grants

WATERFORD — Charter Oak Federal Credit Union approved nine grant requests in its third quarter totaling $24,500.

This past quarter, nine local groups received funding through Charter Oak’s Community Giving Grants Program: Center for Hospice Care Southeast Connecticut; Children First Norwich/School Readiness Council; the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, Inc.; LifeFAQs; Martin House, Inc.; Thames River Community Service, Inc.; United Cerebral Palsy of Eastern Connecticut; United Way of Southeastern Connecticut on behalf of Gemma E. Moran United Way/Labor Food Center; and the YMCA of Mystic, Inc.

Grant awards ranged from $1,000 to $5,000. Requests are accepted at any time, and are reviewed by Charter Oak’s Community Giving Committee quarterly. The next deadline is Jan. 1. Visit CharterOak.org/community for more information regarding Charter Oak’s Community Giving Program.

 

 

Farmers Market

POMFRET --- The Pomfret Farmers Market is held from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays at the Grill 37 on Rt. 44. New vendors always welcome. Call Sarah Green at 860-792-1104.

 

Fund-raiser

POMFRET —  Celebrations Gallery & Shoppes will help keep the home fires burning for the many local families who will need heating assistance this winter by selling HomArt wooden matches in decorative boxes and Colonial Candles votives for $10 each now through Jan. 11. Once again, Celebrations will donate 100 percent of the sales to the Access Agency’s LIHEAP (Low Income Heating Assistance Program).