The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT)
Home care agency expands services into Woodbury
WOODBURY — Abbey Road Home Care has expanded their home care services agency to Woodbury.
“As a concierge service company, we personally go to people’s homes, hospitals, and assisted living facilities to meet with individuals and families who are seeking compassionate inhome care for their loved ones,” said owner Hal Hutchison. “We consistently strive to offer a culture of kindness to all our clients and aides.”
Abbey Road Home Care’s live-out and live-in aides typically provide personal care assistance with daily living, light housekeeping and cooking, and companionship. They help a client with dressing, bathing, grooming, prescribed medications, movement, driving to appointments, and other daily living activities.
Each employee is extensively screened, beginning with an in-person interview accompanied by multiple references. We check for criminal history in over 400 databases and verify that each aide has a good driving record.”
The Hutchison family-based business is also ‘adopted parents’ to a mixed therapy companion minidachshund and red standard poodle named Lucy who loves to visit nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
To learn more, visit www.Abbeyroadhomecare.com, call 203-613-4222, or send an email to info@abbeyroadhomecare.com.
Society receives Museum Makeover Grant
SHARON — The Sharon Historical Society & Museum recently received a Museum Makeover grant for 2022. Museum Makeover is a program of Conservation ConneCTion and funded through a grant from CT Humanities to the Connecticut League of History Organizations. The program for 2022 received 63 applications and
funded 15 projects, according to a statement.
The grant provides Sharon Historical Society & Museum with two site visits from expert museum curators. The expert curators will examine the SHS exhibit areas and collections, and work with staff on a small-scale proofof-concept exhibit for implementation in October 2022.
In addition, CT Humanities will provide up to $3,000 to help cover the costs of implementing the mini-exhibition. The focus of the proof-of-concept exhibit will be to explore a littleknown story from Sharon’s iron and agricultural history, and to explore ways to engage visitors with the exhibit in-person and online. The outcomes of the Museum Makeover project will help to inform plans for a larger permanent exhibit.
UR Community Cares receives assistance grant
TORRINGTON — The Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation awarded a grant to UR Community Cares to connect volunteers to older adults and people with disabilities.
As people are coming out of the hospital, recovering from surgery or they are less mobile due to aging, now Northwest CT residents can safely connect with neighbors to provide assistance via URCommunityCares.org, allowing them to stay independent at home.
Volunteers aged 15 and older are urged to sign up to help a neighbor, they can be in a group or individual
enrollments; businesses can get involved and have volunteer days, high schools can have students volunteer together, churches can get their youth group involved.
Visit UR Community Cares website to learn more about volunteer and donor opportunities. UR Community Cares is 100% volunteer and a testament to the flexibility and efficiency of the process. Contact Michelle Puzzo, co-founder and President at 860-4304557 or info@urcommunitycares.org to arrange an interview or if you would like to become a Hometown Hero.
Give Local fundraiser benefits 288 nonprofits
WATERBURY—Give Local Greater Waterbury and Litchfield Hills, an annual online giving event hosted by Connecticut Community Foundation for the tenth year, concluded a 36-hour flurry of giving at 7 p.m. on April 27, raising over $1.9 million. The bounty is earmarked for 288 nonprofit organizations serving the Foundation’s 21-town service area, including Beacon Falls, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Cheshire, Goshen, Litchfield, Middlebury, Morris, Naugatuck, New Milford, Oxford, Prospect, Roxbury, Southbury, Thomaston, Warren, Washington, Waterbury, Watertown, Wolcott and Woodbury. Collectively, these organizations serve tens of thousands of people in the region, according to a statement.
“Year after year, we are humbled by the generosity of the thousands of local residents who participate in Give Local and the deep and lasting connection these donors feel toward organizations doing extraordinary work throughout the region. In the past ten years, Give Local donors have channeled
more than $13 million into organizations addressing food insecurity, shelter, access to healthcare, youth programing, the arts, environment, and more. These resources translate into real, positive, and lasting change for local residents,” said Julie Loughran, president and CEO of Connecticut Community Foundation.
The town of New Milford exhibited particularly strong Give Local spirit with a town-wide effort organized by volunteer Jeff Kilberg. The town decorated its downtown lampposts with 26 banners featuring town nonprofits participating in the Give Local initiative. More than 30 leaders from New Milford nonprofits were on-site for a celebration where Mayor Pete Bass delivered a proclamation calling on residents to “Give Where It Counts” by donating to New Milford nonprofit organizations.
More than 6,200 individuals throughout the region and beyond contributed during the campaign to 288 nonprofits. Connecticut Community Foundation, presenting sponsor Ion Bank Foundation, and many other sponsors provided over $156,000 in bonus funds to boost all donations during the event. And, as the giving tallies grew in real-time on the Give Local website, nonprofits vied for nearly $50,000 in cash prizes from sponsors — adding fun, urgency, and some friendly competition to the event.
Total dollars raised for each of the participating nonprofits can be viewed on the leaderboard of the Give Local Greater Waterbury and Litchfield Hills website at www.GiveLocalCCF.org. Grand Prizes were awarded through the generosity of Ion Bank Foundation.