'Fill the 

Tote'

N. GROSVENORDALE — TEEG and Interfaith Human Services of Putnam (Daily Bread) encourage all voters to Fill the Tote when they vote!

As you head to the polls to cast your vote for the candidate that you feel would be the best fit, please consider bringing a nonperishable food item with you. TEEG and Daily Bread will have collection bins at voting sites in Thompson, Woodstock, Pomfret, and Putnam.

Food insecurity is a real challenge, especially for our friends and neighbors in the Quiet 

By filling the tote when you vote, you are helping to ensure that the shelves of your local food pantries are stocked, especially during the winter months where times get a little tougher for everyone.  

 

NORWICH — During October 16-22, Connecticut’s Credit Unions will celebrate the first-ever Connecticut Credit Union Week in conjunction with International Credit Union Day® on Thursday, October 20. CorePlus Credit Union has a role in improving the community they serve by being an affordable alternative of financial services. In honor of this special week, CPCU invites its members and the entire community to learn more about the credit union advantage and our authentic difference. 

Credit unions are not-for-profit financial cooperatives that work in the interest of their member-owners. CorePlus Federal Credit Union, founded in 1936, currently has 8 full service branches locally in Norwich, Taftville, Groton, East Lyme, Waterford, Plainfield, and within the Putnam and Brooklyn Walmart Supercenters. CorePlus currently has more than 21,000 members and $190 million in assets.  Its services include a number of consumer loan and savings products, including checking, car loans, personal loans, credit card services, mortgages and home-equity loans.  CorePlus Federal Credit Union managed by an all-volunteer Board of Directors along with President and CEO, Nicholas K. Fortson. For more information call 860-886-0576 or visit our website at www.coreplus.org.  

 

POMFRET — Playing for Patrick CDs are now available at Pomfret businesses.  Pizza 101, Martha’s Herbary, the Vanilla Bean, Pomfret Spirit Shoppe, and the Pomfret School Store are offering Pat’s CD for $15 to benefit his scholarship at Pomfret School.  

Playing for Patrick is a live recording of a memorial concert for Patrick Wood by his piano teachers at the Pomfret School chapel last fall.  Howard Frazin and Deborah Yardley Beers composed and performed original pieces.  Kathleen Stephenson Sadoff, and Margreet Pfeifer Francis performed pieces by Chopin and Schumann.  Ann Warde, who first guided Patrick’s voracious appetite for music, contributed a digital recording based on piano four-hand pieces she played with Patrick when he was 7 years old. The CD culminates with Patrick’s own performance of the Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor.

“Patrick was a brilliant but sensitive student, and these teachers knew how to guide without being too demanding.  Their tactfulness and expertise is reflected in the fine pieces they played and which are now available on the CD,” said Lisette Rimer, Patrick’s mom.  “Pomfret businesses have been longtime supporters of Pat’s scholarship with sales from his first CD, Patrick Wood: Piano Solo and Trio, at over $1,500.”  Both CDs are also available at www.PatrickWoodPrize.org.  

Patrick was a Peck Scholar at Pomfret School and a National Merit Scholarship winner.  He earned perfect SAT scores and went on to graduate with distinction from Stanford University in 2005.  He was a computer programmer for the Automation and Drive division of Siemens in Berlin when he took his own life at age 23.  

“The CD is a tribute to Patrick and the magnitude of his loss, but it is also a recognition that gifted students are vulnerable to depression.  We have to be vigilant for students of all abilities.” Rimer said.