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Trio helps feed hungry neighbors countywide – The Litchfield County Time – Denise Butwill of Litchfield volunteered with her church’s food pantry until they were forced to close due to Covid-19 concerns.
Faith Matters: It’s an amazing time of learning how to reinvent our own lives – New Haven Register – In the faith world we are often encouraged to “let go and let God.”
Suffrage anniversary commemorations highlight racial divide – WCAX3 Burlington VT – All over the country on Wednesday, people commemorated the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment in the United States. The law said no one could be denied the right to vote because of gender. In Burlington, speakers came together in front of City Hall to talk about the past and about the future.
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Trio helps feed hungry neighbors countywide
The Litchfield County Time
Denise Butwill of Litchfield volunteered with her church’s food pantry until they were forced to close due to Covid-19 concerns. She then approached Deirdre Houlihan DiCara, executive director of FISH (Friends in Service to Humanity of Northwest Connecticut), a long-time non-profit that provides food and shelter, to assess the current needs for other local non-profits.
Denise, a children’s librarian, said, “The project is important to me because I want to help provide food to those that don’t have enough to eat and I truly want to support the non-profit workers that have been feeding people through the pandemic. This project is a way to stay flexible and direct help quickly to where it is needed most, which in turn will accomplish both goals.” […]
Faith Matters: It’s an amazing time of learning how to reinvent our own lives
New Haven Register
As both a priest in an Episcopal church with its own church band and someone who chose to take lessons and become a jazz drummer, I’ve had the chance to play with some fine musicians. Several of those musicians can legitimately claim to be inventors. I’ve seen their inventions out in the marketplace. I’ve also watched their creative minds at work when, right there in the moment of a jazz performance, they improvise their solos.
I’m aware that inventions of something new to offer into the world in the marketplace and improvising a jazz solo are not quite the same. Yet, what I know about my musical inventing and improvising friends is that they approach life with little room for the impossible. Their attitude is that the impossible is just something requiring a different way of thinking, a different energy, and for sure a goodly dose of daring and not being afraid to make an honest mistake. […]
Suffrage anniversary commemorations highlight racial divide
WCAX3 Burlington VT
All over the country on Wednesday, people commemorated the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment in the United States. The law said no one could be denied the right to vote because of gender.
In Burlington, speakers came together in front of City Hall to talk about the past and about the future.
Bishop Shannon MacVean-Brown of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont noted that this anniversary gave the right for white women to vote. She says it wasn’t until the Equal Voting Act of 1965 that race no longer became a barrier.
“But today as we celebrate, we have come together as a diverse group of people, concerned about our future and the concern about everyone’s right to vote,” MacVean-Brown said.
“There are 7 million more women in the U.S., in this country, than men. We hold the power to change our laws, our leaders, our lives and the world. And although this year marks the first 100th year of suffrage, it doesn’t need to take another 100 years to make those changes a reality,” said Lisa Senecal, the chair of the Vermont Commission on Women. […]