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Q House Celebration Brings Winter Joy

by | Jan 2, 2024 1:37 pm | Comments (2)

Winter Wonderland celebration in full swing.

There were toys, every kind of toy, over 2,000 in all. There were remote-control cars and action figures and explorer kits and puzzles and Legos and Slime and board games and magnetic building blocks and light boxes and glow-in-the-dark basketballs and crystal balls, as well as dolls of every age, model, and style.

Young partygoer amid snowflakes.

Under the brights lights of the Dixwell Community‑Q House gymnasium at the first annual Winter Wonderland Celebration toy giveaway on the Saturday before Christmas, there was music booming and people dancing and kids tearing around the hardwood floors, and snow swirling from a snow machine, and cotton candy, and Santa and Mrs. Claus perched on a sleigh for photo-ops.

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Elm City Montessori Welcomes Winter Through Song

by | Dec 18, 2023 2:58 pm | Comments (0)

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Students sing loud and proud at Elm City Montessori's eighth annual Winter Sing.

Students, families, and teachers bundled together in the subfreezing temperature at Elm City Montessori School (ECMS) to lift their voices in song during the school’s eighth annual Winter Sing — which played out as candles flickered, under the silhouette of West Rock.

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New Mural Brings Flowers To Fair Haven

by | Nov 15, 2023 7:30 am | Comments (4)

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Kwadwo Adae (center) with friends at Grand-Blatchley mural unveiling.

For nine weeks, they painted, enduring darkness of night, thick humidity, and driving rain.

The result: Las Flores de Esperanza, a mural color-saturated with flowers that spans 50 feet of concrete wall at the corner of Blatchley and Grand, and the latest street-beautifying creation of the Ghanaian-American visual artist and muralist Kwadwo Adae.

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