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Estuary Council of Seniors breaks ground on new wellness park
July 16, 2021
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The Estuary Council of Seniors recently broke ground on an expansive grounds project that will help older adults and the general public achieve better health and well-being.Estuary Council of Seniors / Contributed photo
OLD SAYBROOK The Estuary Council of Seniors recently broke ground on a grounds project that will help older adults and the general public achieve better health and well-being, according to a statement.
Two years ago, the Estuary Council started the process of working to maximize the space behind the existing senior center, to take advantage of the gorgeous views of North Cove and create an outdoor haven for furthering wellness. Landscape Architect Anne Penniman was hired to design a space that would help fulfill the Estuary’s mission of promoting healthy, independent aging. The design of the wellness park will be accessible and focused on overall wellness with a w
Vox Church will send its message from its new 27,000-square-foot anchor home in Branford
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From left; Vox Church Kids Director Maria Conrad of Plainville, Lead Pastor Justin Kendrick of Guilford, CFO Tom Holeva of West Haven and church member Charles Maynard of Madison break ground Sunday on a new church in Branford April 8, 2021.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media
BRANFORD The site where bowlers once scored strikes and spares is gone. In its place a church will rise to serve as an anchor for a growing congregation in Connecticut and beyond.
Vox Church, a nondenominational Christian group that launched as City Church in 2011 in New Haven, will build its first anchor location on Commercial Parkway, a 27,000-square-foot church where the congregation will be able not only to hold services, livestreaming them to its nine satellite churches, but have the space to hold ministry programs and meetings.
Gray House director: Donor generosity testament to human kindness in difficult times
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
Posted Dec 10, 2020
Kristen McClintock is executive director of Gray House, a neighborhood center in the North End of Springfield, that has seen the number of families it provides food assistance to double on a weekly basis since the start of the coronavirus disease pandemic. (Photo by Anne-Gerard Flynn, Special to The Republican)
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SPRINGFIELD Whenever Kristen McClintock has doubts about the depth of human kindness, she looks around Gray House, the neighborhood center in the city’s North End for which she serves as executive director, and notes all the donations from both organizations and individuals despite current challenges.