Monday: No school --- Labor Day.

Woodstock Elementary/ Middle

Tuesday: Pancakes, hash browns, turkey sausages, fruit. Wednesday: General Tsao Chicken, snow peas, fruit. Thursday: Chef salad, cookie, fruit. Friday: Pizza, carrot sticks, fruit.

Pomfret Community

Tuesday: Pizza, baby carrots, salad. Wednesday: Sloppy Joes, corn. Thursday: BBQ roasted chicken, three-bean salad, cole slaw. Friday: American Chop Suey, salad.

Putnam Elementary/Middle

Tuesday: Bosco pizza dippers, marinara sauce, pasta, broccoli. Wednesday: Homestyle Sloppy Joes, cole slaw. Thursday: Popcorn chicken potato bowls. Friday: Stuffed-crust pizza, Caesar salad.

Putnam High

Tuesday: Chicken bacon ranch panini or bacon cheeseburgers. Wednesday: Mozzarella sticks, marinara sauce or buffalo chicken wrap. Thursday: Nachos Grande or chicken Caesar salad. Friday: Homemade calzones or fish and chip dinner.

 

 

Fund-raiser race is Sept. 16

EASTFORD — At 10 a.m. Sept. 16 the 6th Annual “5K We Never Stop Fighting  in Loving Memory Marilyn T. Krom” will be held. It will benefit Eastford cancer patient Barbara Aquila, who has Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. 

The race departs from the Eastford Town Office Building on Westford Road. Numbers are assigned starting at 8 a.m. Winners in all categories receive medals. The Eastford races have raised some $30,000 for local families. 

Marilyn Krom was an RN for children’s camp at Nahaco, a school aide and friend to many; she assisted many Eastford families during their times of need; she died of uterine cancer in 2009.

Registration prior to Sept. 14 is $25; Day-of-Race Fee is $30. Register online at: racemine.com until 8 p.m. Sept. 14, but one can also register at the race. Group discounts available - contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

Donations also may be made at racemine.com. To register or donate by check: Make check payable to The Marilyn T. Krom Foundation, and mail to: Recreation Commission, Town of Eastford, P.O. Box 98, Eastford, CT 06242. For information, contact (860) 933-8012. Sponsors are: Eastford Recreation Commission and The Marilyn T. Krom Foundation. 

Volunteers needed - call Valerie (860) 933-8012. September is Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month. 

The person chosen for the 2017 5K Benefit is Barbara Aquila, who is recovering from Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. She was first diagnosed and treated at Day Kimball Hospital starting in November 2015, followed by treatment at Yale-New Haven which consisted of the harvesting and replanting of her own stem cells. After almost two years she is now recovering and being monitored at Day Kimball and Yale.

Aquila is a fixture in Eastford, living at the very center of town, across from the Post Office and Coriander’s Cafe and next to Eastford Building Supply. Her much-treasured Sheltie-mix, Ginger, was considered the “Mayor of Eastford. ”Ginger was the official greeter on Barbara’s lawn as people came to the Post Office until her passing in 2015, an event of great mourning for many residents.

 

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PUTNAM — The Bradley Playhouse is performing the romantic comedy, Be Yourself. A Farce of Lovers and Liars. This one-act play was written by local author and Bradley regular Jonathan Loux. It will be staged at The Loft, upstairs at Victoria Station Café. The show opens Sept. 8 and there will be four performances.

Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 8, 9, 15 and 16. $10. Benefits the playhouse. Call 860-928-7887 for tickets. They will also be available at the door. Play uses strong language and is not suitable for children. There is no handicapped access.

Jonathan Loux has been involved at the Bradley since 1994 as an actor, director, light and sound board operator and member of the theatre Board of Directors. 

Watch as two women, Gwen and Ceci, are roommates in an upscale Upper West Side Manhattan apartment. Oscar and Al are also roommates in lower East Side Manhattan, a hundred blocks away. Will they find each other? What will that lead to? Is there a safe place in the middle where both can feel at home? The show stars Larissa Bailey, Vince Chaisson, Sharon Starr and Matt Bailey. The actors are also Bradley regulars. Vince Chaisson was last seen in The Underpants. Sharon Starr appeared in Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike and The Underpants. Larissa and Matt Bailey just finished Disney’s The Little Mermaid and were also seen in Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story.