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Waterford Gov. Ned Lamont held a press conference Monday morning at Camp Harkness to announce $500,000 in state funding to improve accessibility and infrastructure at the park.
Camp Harkness is one of the few state parks in the country reserved exclusively for citizens with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD).
Both U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd, and Lamont said the funding was an opportunity to serve this community better.
The property, owned by the state, is managed by the Department of Developmental Services. DDS Commissioner Jordan A. Scheff said the $500,000 for Camp Harkness would come from the $2.7 million the state received this year in federal bond money.
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Published July 01. 2021 6:22PM
Kathleen Stauffer
Kathleen Stauffer
The ocean was layered with the legion-blue and emerald-green waves that curl along Florida’s Treasure Coast. We were newly vaccinated and on our honeymoon.
A table of cruise travelers nearby was taking the joviality that so often accompanies vacations and fruity drinks to a new level of loud. Despite a blazing sunshine, their merriment dampened the atmosphere for the rest of us. One bellowing fellow repeatedly ignored his friends’ polite shushes while the rest of us winced, exchanged glances and shook heads in mutual annoyance.
“I’m so retarded!”
“Sh-h-h….” With a futile whisper, an embarrassed dining companion tried a redirect. “I told you, we don’t say that word anymore.”
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The camera is focused on a young woman standing centerstage at the Garde Arts Center, and it captures behind her the empty but dramatically illuminated theater. The strains of one of the most powerful and empowering numbers on “The Greatest Showman’s” soundtrack begin.
As the lyrics are spelled out, literally, on screen, the woman uses American Sign Language to relay them. But she also conveys all the emotions in the song the hurt, the pride, the love, the self-confidence.
Along with her evocative facial expressions and arm movements, she mouths the words to “This is Me”: “When the sharpest words wanna cut me down / I’m gonna send a flood, gonna drown ‘em out / I am brave, I am bruised / I am who I’m meant to be, this is me … I’m not scared to be seen / I make no apologies, this is me.”