Coats for Kids 

Recipients wait outside at Friday’s Knights of Columbus “Northeastern Connecticut ‘Coats for Kids’” program held at the Town of Brooklyn Recreation Department on South Main Street. Hosted by the recreation department and Mystical Rose Council 49, of Wauregan, eight local Knights of Columbus councils conducted the event, where they gave away more than 550 new and used coats and blankets to needy local children and adults. The Supreme Office of the Knights of Columbus donated almost 300 new children’s coats toward the effort, while the local councils spent months collecting used coats and blankets for adults. Photo: John D. Ryan.