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The Month of Giving campaign will culminate with Jersey Mike's “Day of Giving” on Wednesday, March 27, when local Jersey Mike's restaurants will give 100 percent of the day's sales to Make-A-Wish Connecticut.

Dime Bank shares great updates for March! Learn about wealth management, the services Dime Bank offers and community banking,

5K Run To Remember Our Beloved Pets to benefit the Dan Cosgrove Animal Shelter
Location: 
20 Island Avenue
Madison, CT US 06443

DescriptionThis 5k race/2 mile walk is in memory of, or in honor of our beloved pets. We encourage you to bring a picture of your pet to pin to your shirt as you race through Madison's coastline. This race is on a very flat terrain, with minimal small hills. A professional timer will be present. T-shirts guaranteed for the first 175 registrants! Awards, snacks, and water will be provided. Check-in/same day registration opens at 8am. All proceeds will be donated to the Dan Cosgrove Animal Shelter in Branford, CT

ConnCon ’24, the new Connecticut Tourism Conference This event runs 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
This is our time. Connecticut is receiving more attention than ever as a great place to visit, frequently earning top national rankings and earned media from prestigious news outlets. This is our moment, and we need you to be part of the momentum.

Gerald LearyBlind since birth, Gerry, a Boulder CO resident, has never let his visual challenge prevent him from attaining his goals. He partnered with his first Fidelco guide dog, “Devyn” in 2018 and previously worked with Labrador guide dogs.Gerry had a huge interest in cars growing up, and his dad, an auto mechanic, taught him while working on cars in their home garage. Gerry used his highly developed sense of hearing to determine when a car’s noises indicated a mechanical problem and then made the needed repairs. Despite the challenge of becoming a car mechanic, Gerry worked in that field for 40 years.After his many years as a mechanic, Gerry decided to follow a different path-- become a master coffee roaster. His interest in coffee began after visiting a San Francisco café in 1994. When he couldn’t secure an apprenticeship in the coffee business locally due to his vision loss, he travelled to San Francisco and trained at the West Coast Specialty Coffee Company. After returning home, Gerry began roasting with a tiny roaster in a shed in his back yard. Despite the inherent challenge of not being able to see the coffee beans he selected and the roasting process, he worked diligently, creating a log of each roasting trial and used the sound and smell of the roasting beans to perfect his craft.Initially selling quarter pound bags of his coffee to friends, Gerry founded his specialty coffee roasting facility, “The Unseen Bean”, in 2003 and then opened two coffee shops. He later partnered with two Italian coffee lovers to open a new coffee roasting facility which sells (including online) over 20 varieties of coffee and coffee-related products (mugs and chocolate coffee bars) to retail and wholesale customers. According to The Unseen Bean’s website, Gerry is believed to be the only blind coffee roaster in the world!

Interview with Lieutenant Marisol Rodriguez-Velez, District Commander, Southwest DistrictHartford Police Department