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9:33pm–#Trumbull CT– A employee at Best Buy at Halley Lane called police that a customer stole his cellphone.

(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that $5.76 million to fund road improvements and resurfacing in Connecticut state parks was approved at Friday’s meeting of the state Bond Commission.

“Connecticut’s state parks and forests are a destination to millions of residents and tourists each year, and roadways in many locations are showing the signs of all of this use,” said Governor Malloy.  “In a year when we are celebrating the centennial of our state park system, it is especially important to make the investments needed to ensure that people can travel safely and conveniently into and around our parks. These projects will also create much needed construction work for Connecticut workers.”

Most projects will begin as soon as the weather permits and continue throughout the spring and early summer.  Major projects include:

• East Lyme – Resurfacing the approach road to the beach at Rocky Neck State Park
• Litchfield – Milling and resurfacing the road leading to the mansion at Topsmead State Forest
• New Fairfield – Resurfacing the access road to Squantz Pond State Park, as well as incorporating a new drainage system during the resurfacing
• New Fairfield – Improving the parking area at the state boat launch at Squantz Pond State Park on Candlewood Lake
• Derby – Resurfacing the parking lot for the Kellogg Environmental Education Center

“These bond funds are the latest example of an extraordinary commitment Governor Malloy and the General Assembly have demonstrated toward maintaining and improving the infrastructure in our state parks and forests,” said DEEP Commissioner Rob Klee.  “These and other previous funds that have been allocated allow us to make improvements that will ensure our parks remain first-class attractions for many years to come.”

Bridgeport – March 26, 2014

The WorkPlace, southwestern Connecticut’s regional workforce development board, announces a four-part series to address topics such as business growth, employment trends and workforce evolution within industries that are important to the region. Join us for the third part of the series as a panel of experts from local businesses, education and community leaders discuss employment and ways to strengthen Connecticut’s workforce.

All members of the press are welcome to cover the event.

WHO:          William Jennings, President & CEO Bridgeport Hospital

Anita Gliniecki, President, Housatonic Community College

Dr. Earl Johnson, Director, Office of Family Assistance, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families

Ludwig Spinelli, Chief Executive Officer, Optimus Health Care, Inc.

Dr. James Morris, Vice President, Education & Executive Director, Institute for Excellence, Yale New Haven Health

Ron Bucci, Campus Administrator, Waveny LifeCare Network

WHAT:        Forum on Employment Trends in the Healthcare Industry

WHERE:      Housatonic Community College

Lafayette Hall, Wing A, Room 101

900 Lafayette Boulevard, Bridgeport, CT 06604

WHEN:        Thursday, March 27, 2014 at 7:45 AM

For more information on this event visit www.workplace.com

or call (203) 610-8528.

CRAZY CUPS – The Crazy Cups is the newest ride at Quassy Amusement & Waterpark in Middlebury, Conn., introduced to guests in 2012.

Plan to enjoy a day at Quassy Amusement Park & Waterpark in Middlebury CT on Saturday, May 3 or Sunday, May 4, 2014. You will help The Barnum Museum during their time of restoration and recovery.

Take advantage of this fantastic offer online

by 11 p.m. on Friday, May 2 and Quassy Amusement Park & Waterpark in Middlebury will donate $5 to The Barnum Museum in Bridgeport for each $35 Carload Pass purchased.

The Carload special is valid for up to 10 persons in your vehicle. Parking is included, and each person in the vehicle will receive an all-day ride wristband. This offer to benefit The Barnum Museum is valid online only. You may forward this invitation to family and friends for their participation.

Quassy Amusement Park & Waterpark is open noon to 6 p.m. both May 3 and May 4. There’s entertainment, too! Purchase the Carload Special now! Click on this link to purchase!

The Barnum Museum children’s craft activities during Quassy two-day carload promotion will include:

The museum will have some fun, easy read-aloud and picture books at the booth to spur creativity.

The three finalists in the 2014 TEAM Westport Teen Diversity Essay Contest have been selected. They will be

named and recognized at an Awards Ceremony on Monday, March 31 at 6:30pm in the McManus Room of the

Westport Library.

Co-sponsored by TEAM Westport and the Westport Library, the Contest asked teens to consider the following:

According to the U.S. Census, 30 years from now racial and ethnic groups that are currently in the minority in

our country will collectively outnumber whites. For people aged 20 and younger, the total minority population

already outnumbers whites. As a high school student in 2013-14, you and your contemporaries are part of this

new reality. Please reflect on the impact this demographic trend will have on our country and on your life. In

1,000 words or less, describe what you think are the benefits and challenges of this change for Westport and for

you, personally.

The Contest was open to all Grade 9-12 students who are Westport residents or attend a Westport school (public or

private). The Ceremony will not only recognize the first, second and third place winners in the Contest but celebrate

the efforts of all 25 teen authors who submitted essays. Each of the 3 finalists will read their essay aloud and then be

awarded their prize. Prize amounts for first, second and third place are $1,000, $750 and $500 respectively. Judges

for the essay contest were Patricia Wei, of Yale University; grant writer, editor and educator Judith A. Hamer,

Ph.D, ; and the Westport Library’s Teen Services Librarian Jaina Lewis. The awards ceremony is free and open to

the public.

TEAM Westport is the official committee of the Town of Westport established to “achieve, celebrate and extend a

more welcoming, multicultural community” with a focus on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and religion. TEAM

is an acronym standing for “Together Effectively Achieving Multiculturalism”. Initially convened in by First

Selectwoman Diane Farrell in 2003 as a taskforce, TEAM Westport became a Selectman’s ad hoc committee in

2004 and a town committee in 2005.

The Fairfield Holocaust Commemoration Committee is pleased to invite the public to attend the keynote address delivered by Shiri B. Sandler, the granddaughter of a survivor who serves as the U.S. Director of the Auschwitz Jewish Center, a museum and study center in Auschwitz, Poland which is an affiliate of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. Shiri has devoted herself to educating the world about one of the darkest periods in modern history.

In her capacity as U.S. Director of the Center, Shiri runs the Center’s American Service Academies Program a unique educational two-week program in which a select group of cadets and midshipmen from the United States military academies travel to Poland and face the reality of genocide along with the ethical and moral questions they may face as military officers.

During her address, Shiri will be accompanied by her grandmother Gisela Marianne Adamski, who at the age of fifteen, was deported with her parents from their home in Oppeln, Germany to the concentration camp at Auschwitz. Gisela escaped from a Nazi death march and survived by hiding until she was liberated. Inspired by her grandmother’s story of courage and hope, Shiri has contributed significantly to the critical objectives of preserving the memory of the Holocaust and educating those who have little knowledge or understanding of the events of the Holocaust. The theme selected by the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum for this year’s Days of Remembrance is Confronting the Holocaust: American Responses. Through her work with the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Auschwitz Jewish Center, Shiri Sandler has created an “American Response” all her own which will serve to ensure that atrocities such as the Holocaust are never permitted to happen again.

Admission is free; contributions are welcomed

100% to benefit:  The Auschwitz Jewish Center, Auschwitz, Poland

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