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Award

The Putnam Bank Foundation recently awarded a $2,500 grant to  The Performing Arts of Northeast Connecticut. Left to right: Lynn K Bourque, Lindsay B Paul, Paula K Schimmel and Thomas A Borner. Courtesy photo.

 

PUTNAM — It's’s a sure sign that spring has arrived in northeastern Connecticut with the return of the Children’s Educational Opera and Symphony Programs sponsored by Performing Arts of Northeast Connecticut. Thomas A. Borner, president and CEO of Putnam Bank and president of the Putnam Bank Foundation, along with Lynn Bourque, SVP and Branch Administrator, recently presented a $2,500 grant to Lindsay B. Paul, chairman, of the Performing Arts of Northeast Connecticut and Paula K. Schimmel, vice chairman. Borner said, “We are pleased to support this organization and program which enriches and inspires young minds as part of our mission and responsibility as a community bank.”

The grant will help to fund upcoming children’s educational programs. This seasons programs include local 3rd graders who will participate in the New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s Red White and Brubeck, and 5th graders who will engage in the educational opera program of Mozart’s’ The Magical Flute. Additionally, a new music and literacy program targeted at kindergartners will be launched in collaboration with the New Haven Symphony, called Creating Musical Readers.  Over 154,000 children have participated in the programs through the Performing Arts 41-year history.