Connecticut Christian Academy will be holding their annual Fall Festival on November 21st, complete with a craft fair, food, and activities for children. The fair will run from 10am – 3pm at 30 Brooks Road in Middletown. This is a free event and there are no parking or admission fees. Photo credit: nkzs.
The final Fifth Friday for 2009 is October 30. The Fifth Friday meetings are part of a New England-wide prayer movement in which the New England Alliance promotes quarterly prayer meetings every fifth Friday (which is four times a year). Churches and prayer ministries across New England are praying in unity for the hand of God to move in our region. (For more information on Fifth Fridays, visit www.newenglandalliance.us).
The following churches are participating in Fifth Friday prayer events this week:
Source: Connecticut House of Prayer. Image by Doug Kerr under Creative Commons license.
Even though we are supposedly one of the States with the lowest incidence of swine flu, we’re still affected as Guilford High will remain closed until at least Wednesday, with 42% of students having been absent on Thursday.
Dr. Thomas Forcella, Guilford Superintendent said, “It was becoming very difficult to run classes when we were approaching 50 percent of the school absent. You could have classes that have 20 kids normally, having eight or ten kids.”
Absences have been rising all week. At first, schools were canceling just after school activities and sports. However, after seeing the absentee numbers from Friday and talking to state health officials, they decided to shut the school down all together.
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The Courant’s Rick Green opines that incumbents like Mr. Dodd and Mrs. Rell are in trouble as unemployment here will hit 10% in 2010. Quoting Mrs. Rell’s top economic advisor:
Delinquency rates on single-family mortgages have risen four-fold since 2006, and consumers are spending less and saving more given overall economic uncertainty. This means continued pressure on state sales and use taxes, incomes taxes, and corporate income taxes, your three big generators of state tax revenue. Bottom line conclusion: I highly doubt that our state budget problems have been resolved, only delayed and postponed.
A report from The Warren Group paints a bleak picture of 2009 Connecticut:
Personal bankruptcy filings in Connecticut skyrocketed 44 percent in the third quarter compared with a year earlier as job losses and salary cuts squeezed household budgets burdened by high credit card bills, a new report showed Monday.
There were 2,569 personal bankruptcy filings in the state in the three months ending Sept. 30, compared with 1,773 for the same period in 2008, according to the report from The Warren Group.
“It all boils down to consumers that are stretched too thin,” said Donald L. Klepper-Smith, an economist at DataCore Partners Inc. in New Haven. “It’s the basic lack of income in an economic downturn.”
Connecticut has lost 79,100 jobs since employment peaked in March 2008. When the state releases its September employment report today, Klepper-Smith said he expects that the state will have lost 1,500 to 2,500 additional jobs.
There is now a regular Thursday morning Share and Prayer at the Norwalk YMCA, 370 West Avenue in Norwalk, CT. All are invited to meet each Thursday morning for a time of sharing and prayer. There will be fellowship and refreshments from 7:00 – 7:30 am, followed by scriptural reflection, sharing and prayer from 7:30-8:30 am.
Meetings are held in the Norwalk YMCA Conference Center, which is on the first floor of the grey (middle) building of the north (Maple Ave) Parking lot. Please invite a friend!
For more information, contact Bill Tetreault at (203) 866-4425 x339.
The Norwalk YMCA is hosting another Family Fun Night on Friday, Oct 16th from 6:00 PM -8:30 PM. There will be many events, crafts, and fun activities. Admission is Free for Members and only $2/ person for Non-Members. Slice of pizza, salad,and drink available for an additional $2/person. For more information, please contact Anna at (203) 866-4425 ext 307.
There will be a country fair this Saturday, October 17th from 9 AM – 2 PM at the Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, 110 Ellington Road (Route 5), in East Hartford, CT. The fair will include holiday decorations, home decor, handicrafts, Grandma’s Attic Treasures and more… Lunch will be served from 11:30 AM – 1 PM. For more details, please call (860) 528-0577.
“House of Grace” Community Coffee House is hosting Christian musical group “IN-NOT-OF” on November 14, 2009 at Grace Baptist Church, 400 Burnt Plains Road, Milford, CT. Food & fellowship at 6:00 PM; concert at 7:00 PM.
Free admission, donations welcomed. For more information call 203-874-8928 or visit www.houseofgracecc.com.