Trouble-Making Earns Award, Not Rebukes
by | Apr 30, 2012 4:05 pm | Comments (8)
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Bonita Grubbs got a surprise when she Googled herself. She discovered that she has “caused a lot of trouble.”
Social Services
2012: A Space Odyssey
by | Apr 16, 2012 8:25 am | Comments (0)
They were there to celebrate a new job-training and youth-arts center. They couldn’t stop talking about “space” — as in, “This space is amazing!”
CAA Looks East On Whalley
by | Mar 22, 2012 10:58 am | Comments (0)
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CAA’s Amos Smith.
The Community Action Agency of New Haven is making a move — seven-tenths of a mile up the street.
Block Grantee "Emeritus"?
by | Mar 20, 2012 7:46 am | Comments (2)
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Aldermen Elicker and Rodriguez.
Two aldermen have come up with a plan so that non-profits who’ve shown they’re doing good work wouldn’t have to sit through several-hours-long hearings in order to give five-minute pleas for money.
St. Francis Expansion OK’d
by | Mar 19, 2012 1:31 pm | Comments (1)
Over neighborhood objections, a group home in the Hill has gained approval to expand the number of beds it offers to adolescent boys in trouble with the law.
Clawfoot Tub Recalled
by | Mar 2, 2012 9:07 am | Comments (1)
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Thomas Cama remembered looking out the window of the Ezekiel Cheever School to watch the new Farnam being built.
Thomas Cama grew up at Poplar and Pine in Fair Haven in an apartment with only an old clawfoot tub. When he was a third-grader in 1963, the new building of Farnam Neighborhood House opened. Cama was there to play basketball and afterwards take the first shower of his young life.
Gateway Feeds 600
by | Dec 12, 2011 12:22 pm | Comments (2)
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The largest holiday-season meal for the needy took place again at Gateway Community College.
24 Hours, $205K “Forwarded”
by | Nov 10, 2011 12:02 pm | Comments (2)
An innovative idea for holiday season gift-giving prompted people to snap up more than $100,000 in charitable gift cards — which drew another $100,000 to the cause.
“Tent City” Hits The Stage
by | Nov 4, 2011 8:40 am | Comments (0)
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Grande.
Not long ago, New Haven Home Recovery used to field 75 calls a month from families facing homelessness. Now the agency receives 15 calls a night.
Check It Out:
Libraries Open Saturdays
by | Sep 30, 2011 7:37 am | Comments (7)
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When their story time was interrupted for an announcement, children cried out. When the library chief announced new Saturday hours, they joined their in happy applause.
Crowd Bonds, Camps Out For Irene Bucks
by | Sep 27, 2011 12:44 pm | Comments (13)
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Langley with his rain check.
A possum gave the crowd a middle-of-the-night scare. Otherwise some shared coffee and a bootleg copy of “Transformers” helped over 100 hearty help-seekers make it through as they camped out overnight in hopes of obtaining $200 to $1,000 in emergency post-Irene help.
New Haven Tells
DeLauro: Hold Steady
by | Jul 26, 2011 4:31 pm | Comments (2)
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Stephen Monroe Tomczak (left) and other demonstrators at Rosa DeLauro’s office.
“Don’t let them default on the American dream.”
"M.O.R.E." Rooms For
Women Leaving Jail
by | Jun 15, 2011 1:02 pm | Comments (1)
670 George St.
City zoners approved a new “custodial care facility” on George Street, clearing the way for Project M.O.R.E to do even more for women reentering society.
Help, Not Jail, For Dads Who Owe Moms
by | May 16, 2011 11:05 am | Comments (25)
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“Do you love Isaiah? Do you still want to be his father?” Magistrate Linda T. Wihbey asked.
“Yes,” replied Victor Gonzalez, seven weeks sober.
“Then step up,” the judge ordered.
Foster Parents Honored
by | Apr 22, 2011 11:15 am | Comments (0)
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Fifteen months ago, Dale Little took in a four-week-old baby. On Thursday, she carried little Camal Rice up to a podium in City Hall as she was recognized for her dedication as a foster parent.
Seniors Strut
To Save Lunch
by | Apr 11, 2011 8:01 am | Comments (0)
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Event organizer Marge Ottenbreit
Facing cutbacks that could leave some seniors hungry, members of the Atwater Senior Center took matters into their own hands — with style.
Downtown Crossing, Youth
Continuum Snag State $$
by | Mar 25, 2011 3:06 pm | Comments (6)
Two New Haven projects are set to receive a funding boost from the state, thanks to Connecticut Bond Commission decisions Friday.
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‘Downtown Crossing, Youth
Continuum Snag State $$’
Fellowship Place
Readies $1M Rehab
by | Mar 15, 2011 12:57 pm | Comments (1)
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This bright ceiling mural with cosmic and zodiacal designs was done over the years by a single artist during his visits to Fellowship Place It will be preserved and reinstalled when the mental health facility completes a long-overdue rehab of its Elm Street clubhouse.
Tent CIty's $20K
Goes To Homeless
by | Feb 28, 2011 5:15 pm | Comments (3)
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Youth Continuum’s Carol Shomo, CCA’s Bonita Grubbs, & NH Home Recovery’s Kellyann Day at Monday’s event.
Amid a cascade of news about painful budget cuts, New Haven temporarily was a “big tent” again Monday as five agencies picked up an extra $20,000 to house homeless women and children.
Budget Official: City
Won't Play Favorites
by | Feb 17, 2011 1:39 pm | Comments (1)
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As private social-service agencies gird for block-grant cuts from City Hall, a city official promised that government agencies would not get preferential treatment in dividing up a dwindling pool of money.
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‘Budget Official: City
Won't Play Favorites’
Yes Free Lunch
by | Feb 16, 2011 3:50 pm | Comments (0)
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Lead Volunteer Melzetta Reed serves up daily lunch to Jeannette Green at the Dixwell/Newhallville Senior Center.
Representatives for elderly New Haveners came to City Hall with a request Tuesday night: restore the Elderly Nutrition Program to its original five-day per week run.
City Braces For Block Grant Cuts
by | Feb 9, 2011 1:32 pm | Comments (8)
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T.J. Blount (left), 8, and Ramon Yates, 13, shoot hoops at Farnam Neighborhood House.
With President Obama planning to shrink a pool of social-service grant money, Mayor John DeStefano has released projections of how the city will dole out fewer dollars this year. The upshot: New Haven non-profits like Fair Haven’s Farnam Neighborhood House are prepared for belt-tightening.
2 Marys Make
2 Snow Choices
by | Jan 28, 2011 4:04 pm | Comments (4)
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As record snowfall collapsed the tarps of her “Tent City,” one homeless woman named Mary stayed outside, making her way to her post selling New Haven Registers by the Boulevard. Another woman named Mary joined 80 other homeless New Haveners in staying inside at Columbus House, which decided to keep its doors open all day.
Tent City Highlights
Homeless Families
by | Nov 19, 2010 9:11 am | Comments (6)
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City inspector Rafael Ramos (pictured) wasn’t tracking down slumlords on Thursday night . Instead, he was setting up tents on the Green, lickety split. He’s good at that, too, having had lots of practice taking 50 or 60 kids camping every summer for the past nine years.
The tents were needed for Tent City on the Green, the city’s third annual community event to raise money for homeless shelters.
Non-Profits Sweep Election
by | Nov 2, 2010 6:19 am | Comments (0)
Voting began early Monday — not for political candidates, but for local not-for-profits in a first-of-its-kind contest with beaucoup bucks at stake.