Brookfield

Woodstock 50th anniversary celebration

The Brookfield Library will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Woodstock with a multimedia presentation by musician and historian Craig Harris on Thursday.

The presentation begins at 7 p.m. and will feature rare audio and archival film of the weekend-long music festival in August 1969.

To register, call 203-775-6241.

Brookfield

New pastor ordained

Newbury Congregational Church, 126 Tower Road in Brookfield, is pleased to announce the recent ordination of Richard C. Marquette. The congregation plans to work with Marquette to continue church services and community outreach projects, such as collections for Brookfield Social Services and clothing drives for the Salvation Army.

Marquette is a graduate from Yale Divinity School.

Brookfield

Library hosts programs

The Brookfield Library, 182 Whisconier Rd., will host a concert at 4 p.m. Sunday with free ice cream served from 3:30 to 4 p.m. The band will perform music from the 1960s. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted for future concerts.

A DNA testing and genealogy program will be held the following day at 6:30 p.m. Nora Galvin will present the lecture. Please call to register 203-775-6241.

Brookfield

Eisenhower to be discussed

Local historian Martin Tuite will discuss President Dwight D. Eisenhower at a program at 7:30 p.m. July 15 at the Brookfield Museum.

The program, “From Soldier to President,” will focus on the 1952 presidential election and the road to the Republican convention in Chicago. Tuite will detail how Eisenhower pursued the women’s vote, his effective use of TV during the campaign and his policy on civil rights.

Admission is free and complimentary refreshments will be available. The Brookfield Historical Society is hosting the event.

Danbury

Retirement seminars scheduled

Doug Kuring, with Danbury-based Reby Advisors, has announced a series of educational seminars in response to the expected passage of the bi-partisan SECURE Act, a bill that includes many changes impacting how people plan for retirement. The seminar is titled: “Replacing Your Paycheck with Sustainable Retirement Income.”

The seminar lasts 60 minutes and will be held at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday and July 25 in the Main Floor Conference Room, at 44 Old Ridgebury Road.

In addition, Kuring will cover the biggest mistakes people make when transitioning into retirement and the strategies he and his team use utilize to increase the probability of his clients’ retirement being successful.

Anyone interested in signing up may do so at www.RSVPforRetirement.com or by calling 203-790-4949.

Danbury

Residents graduate from Greater Danbury Community Health Center

The fourth class of post-MD medical residents recently graduated from the Greater Danbury Community Health Center’s Internal (adult) Medicine Residency Program.

The nine graduates were presented with their diplomas at a recent graduation ceremony after completing their three-year residency training at the community health center, in compliance with all the requirements of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the national Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Most of the graduates are going on to practice in primary care or a primary care subspecialty.

The graduates are Dr. Nahid Suleman, Dr. Melvin Philip, Dr. Swati Patel, Dr. Leonidas Miras, Dr. Samah Hajjar, Dr. Ishtiaq Habib, Dr. Ismail Almokyad, Dr. Ahmad Alharbi, Dr. Majed Alfi.

Connecticut Institute For Communities Inc. sponsors the Greater Danbury Community Health Center, a federally qualified health center. The center provides health care to people of all ages on a sliding scale. Services include pediatrics, internal (adult) medicine, women’s health, and adult and pediatric dental and behavioral health services. The nonprofit organization also manages school-based health centers in Danbury and Newtown . It is also the only Teaching Health Center in Connecticut and one of only 56 Teaching Health Centers nationwide.

Danbury

Students earn scholarships

Two recent graduates of Henry Abbott Technical High School have received $1,500 scholarships

The students, Karla Chillogalli and Jennifer Villa, earned the funding through KBE Building Corporation’s annual Connecticut Technical High School scholarship program.

This year, KBE awarded $18,000 to 12 students in technical high schools in the state. The students plan to pursue post-high school education programs in the building design and construction industry.

Kent

Free concert series returns

Kent Park and Recreation will present free concerts on the Green on Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m. each night with the last concert on Aug. 1.

Concerts will take place on the front lawn at Kent Town Hall, 41 Kent Green Boulevard.

The inclement weather site is Kent Community House, 93 North Main St.

Attendees are invited to bring a lawn chair or blankets and a picnic dinner.

For more information, call 860-927-1003.

Kent

Artists earn awards

Kent Art Association recently celebrated the opening of its juried Presidents’ Show, which will run through Aug. 4.

The President’s Show attracts artists from Connecticut, eastern New York and western Massachusetts and features mixed media and graphic works in oil, watercolor, pastel, acrylics sculpture, digital art and photography.

KAA President Connie Horton handed out over $2,000 in awards to 15 artists from three towns in New York and 11 towns in Connecticut.

Redding

Photographs of Weir Farm featured in library exhibit

To celebrate the new book, Weir Farm National Historic Site, a select number of the photographs showcasing the park are on view until July 31 at the Mark Twain Library.

The photographs were created by the book’s author, Xiomaro, who is the visiting artist at Weir Farm and an alumnus of its Artist-in-Residence program. The book tells the story of Julian Alden Weir, a leading innovator of American Impressionist painting, and chronicles his farm’s rescue from residential development to its establishment as a park. The book’s historical narrative unfolds with well over 100 photographs, most of which were created by Xiomaro under commissions from the National Park Service.

Sherman

Exhibit shows how residents lived

The Sherman Library will open an exhibit of photographs and ceramics depicting how people lived in Sherman from 1850-1890s with a reception from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday.

The reception, hosted by Sherman Historical Society, will include stories behind the images and the ceramics around 7:15 p.m.

The exhibit will run through Aug. 28 at the Sherman Center library.

Gloria Thorne curated the display from the photographic collection of the historical society, while Paul Fortenberry created jugs, urns, pitchers, and water pots like those used in the day.

In addition, Thorne and Fortenberry will give a special presentation about the exhibit at 12:45 p.m. on July 24.

Danbury

Music to be performed

CityCenter Danbury’s Country Music & Food Truck Rally, now in its fourth year, will run from 5 to 10 p.m. on Saturday on the CityCenter Green.

There will be live country music, line dancing, beer and food trucks. Local bands Whiskey & Rye and Mike Collins Band will share headlining duties for the evening. Admission is free.

Meanwhile, the annual Summer in the City Concert Series, with free live music on the Green will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. every Friday night through Aug. 23. Green Eyed Lady will perform this Friday, with other bands planned for the rest of the summer.

Newtown

Play kicks off this weekend

Town Players in Newtown begin its run of Annapurna at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.

The show follows an estranged couple as it searches through mists of memory to understand the past and cope with the present.

Performances are also on July 26, 27 and 28, and Aug. 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10.

Friday and Saturday performances are $25. Thursday evening and Sunday matinees are $20. Curtain is at 8 p.m. for Thursday, Friday and Saturday performances and 2 p.m. on Sundays. Visit www.newtownplayers.org to learn more.

New Milford

Youth Agency presents Narcan training session

The New Milford Youth Agency will present a free Narcan training session from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the John Pettibone Community Center on Pickett District Road in town.

Narcan (Naloxone) is an opiate antidote. Trained individuals are allowed to possess and administer Narcan to a person having an overdose.

Training will include overdose prevention strategies, signs and symptoms of an overdose, how to administer Naloxone, the Good Samaritan Law and support information and resources.

Narcan kits will be available to those who are uninsured. Individuals are asked to bring their insurance and prescription card for the mobile pharmacist.

For more information and RSVP, call 860-210-2030.

New Milford

Schaghticoke Middle School student wins national writing awards

Seventh grader, Stella Mahlke, competed this year for the first time and won two of the coveted gold medals, one for short story and another for the “Best-in-Grade” writing award at the recent Scholastic Art and Writing competition. The awards were recently handed out at New York City’s Carnegie Hall, where Tina Fey addressed the elite group of young artists and writers.

“Best-in-Grade” is a special achievement award that recognizes two writers and two artists from each grade and, with the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies, comes with a $500 scholarship to support future creative work.

Since 1923, students from public, private, and home schools all over the country in grades 7-12 have submitted their creative work in 29 categories. More than 340,000 works were submitted this year. Past winners include Andy Warhol, Stephen King, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike and Ken Burns.

Since third grade, Mahlke has been recognized and included in UCONN’s Connecticut Writer’s Project publication. Her poetry and short stories have been published in this annual celebration of K-12 exceptional writing, and her artwork has been showcased on the volume’s cover for the past four years. These statewide awards gave Stella the courage to enter the Scholastic contest this year and finally compete on a national level.

She said she is continuing to write short stories, and she is actually nearly finished with her first novel.

Roxbury

Church hosts annual barbecue

Christ Church, 4 Wellers Bridge Rd.,will host its Sixth Annual Smoked Barbecue Dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturday.

Chicken, ribs, home-style baked beans, cole slaw, cornbread and watermelon will be served. Diners will have a choice of iced tea, lemonade or water to drink.

There will be seating on the Church grounds for “eating in” or the meal can be wrapped up for take-out. This event is rain or shine.

Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for children 10 and under. Tickets may be purchased in person at the Christ Church office on Monday, Wednesday or Friday from 9 a.m. until noon. Tickets may also be reserved by calling the Christ Church office at 860-355-3695. Places are limited.

Washington

Library offers opera program

Gunn Memorial Library in Washington will present a program, “A Night at the Opera,” with musicologist, music theorist and award-winning professor Gil Harel at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

Harel will provide a broad, yet detailed overview of opera in its various incarnations, with the ultimate goal of illuminating the “how” and “why” it has been and remains one of the most compelling musical idioms in the world.

During this discussion, classics by Mozart, Verdi and Wagner will be considered.

The program at the Wykeham Road library is free. For more information and RSVP, call 860-868-7586.

Washington

Program gives chance to meet and adopt horses

HORSE of Connecticut in Washington will hold a special summer horse parade from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday at the 43 Wilbur Road farm.

The parade offers an opportunity for folks interested in adopting, leasing, sponsoring or volunteering to meet many of the organization’s horses. Volunteers will also be on hand.

Horses, which range in age from 6 to 29, include mini and draft horses, with many available for the advanced-beginner to experienced rider.

The leasing program is geared toward people over 18 who ride regularly and want to find out what is involved in caring for a horse, while adoption is for the experienced horse owner looking for a lifetime companion.

Sponsoring is an introductory option for those that would like to groom and hand walk a horse.

For more information, call 860-868-1960 or email horsectinfo@gmail.com.