Community Access

iHeartCommunities is honored to help support MADD CT and their Walk Like MADD events across the state. We will be at the walks on May 6th in West Hartford - I’ll be your emcee and October 7th in Branford with Kerry Collins as your emcee. Interviewed are Jennifer Rossi, MADD CT Program Specialist and one of the most beautiful humans I’ve ever met, Priscilla Johnson-Headley who lost two of her sons Kaivon & Kii in one accident. My heart will forever keep her and her family in prayers. She will be one of our guests this weekend on Community Access.

Step Up & Step Out 2023: Cocktails for a CauseThursday, April 20, 2022
5:30-8pm
The Society Room, HartfordYou are cordially invited to Interval House’s 2023 Step Up & Step Out Gala: Cocktails for a Cause! Get ready for sophisticated sips, sumptuous nibbles, lively music and a chance to celebrate survivors of domestic violence. Whether you fancy yourself Cosmopolitan or a little more Old Fashioned, get your tickets to join us!

Alexia Woodruff and Abigail (Abbey) Riley are both grad students, finishing the Prosthetics and Orthotics program at UHart this spring. They also did their undergrad at UHart and joined Associate Professor Duffy Felmlee, for 10 days on a goodwill trip to Kenya to work with under-served children who are missing limbs (either born that way, or lost them due to trauma). This was done in partnership with the Limb Kind Foundation. The team left for Kenya on March 24th. They lived at the hospital, creating prosthetics for the children. You can also help them fundraise for special shoes that can go on the kids’ prosthetics and grow with them over time, so they will hopefully last for years. The shoes are called “Shoes That Grow.”

Maggie Austen is a two time Fidelco Guide Dog client and her room mate Elizabeth is a puppy raiser! Maggie is a strong, lovely young woman and at 32, lives in Boston and recently graduated from law school. The cause of her blindness is an underdeveloped optic nerve, which she goes into detail about in our conversation. “Gus” is Maggie’s second guide dog, who is pictured with her below. "Bella” who will turn 11 in April, was her guide dog from 2014 – 2022 and she now lives with Maggie as a retired guide. Maggie received “Gus” around the same time she graduated from law school last November. Maggie has also had the good fortune of wrking with Fidelco trainer Ali Parkes for both placements.

Help Connecticut teens have the best night ever by donating to Operation Prom~
Ethan Allen in Manchester has partnered with Operation Prom and is collecting new or gently used attire through March 31 at 49 Hale Road, Manchester, CT

Exchange Club of Waterbury is hosting our Annual Dr. Lawrence Shea Banquet Awards