NewsCommunityMultimediaSlideshows Community snapshots By mycitizensnews - April 9, 2016 0 70 From left, Naugatuck Mayor N. Warren ‘Pete’ Hess, Naugatuck Economic Development Corporation President and CEO Ron Pugliese, and Wing It On owner Michael Woodruff, holding his grandson, prepare to cut a ribbon March 24 to celebrate the opening of the Wing It On TAP restaurant at 175 Church St. in Naugatuck. –LUKE MARSHALL A board Break-A-Thon was held at USA Martial Arts in Naugatuck on March 5 to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Boston. Thirty-one breakers broke over 1,000 boards and raised $1,695 this year. The Break-A-Thon has raised $59,700 since inception in 2004. The top fundraisers were Ben Meleschnig, pictured, and Brian Nelson. –CONTRIBUTED The Naugatuck Fire Department honored the winners of Naugatuck’s 10th annual Connecticut Fire Prevention Poster Contest at fire headquarters March 16. Pictured, front row from left, winners Zach McCasland, Josephine Burke, Delilah Powell, Mireya Trelles, and Sophia Onofrio; back row from left, acting Deputy Fire Marshall William Scanlon and Naugatuck Mayor N. Warren ‘Pete’ Hess. Danille Johnson, pictured at right, was also among the winners. McCasland also won the New Haven County contest. –CONTRIBUTED Authors Stephanie Robinson, left, and Jessica Haight talk with members of a fourth-grade book club at Hop Brook Elementary School in Naugatuck March 28. The club, which meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays, recently finished reading Robinson and Haight’s book, ‘The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow.’ In addition to talking with the book club, Robinson and Haight talked with students in Lynn Meyers’ fourth-grade class, who had read the book as well. –LUKE MARSHALL U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Matthew Conor Hale, a 2011 graduate of Woodland Regional High School, started the Basic Officer Leaders Course in Fort Benning, Ga., in March. Hale will spend eight months at Fort Benning and then be assigned to Fort Bliss, Texas. Hale is the son of Kevin and Carrie Hale of Beacon Falls. –CONTRIBUTED From left, former Beacon Falls First Selectman Susan Cable, Beacon Falls Tax Collector Mary Anne Holloway, Nancy Betkoski and Pat Caldwell put words together during the Friends of the Beacon Falls Library’s annual Letters for Our Library Scrabble Challenge fundraiser March 31 at St. Michael’s Lyceum. Rather than playing against each other, the challenge featured teams of players putting together words for the highest possible score across the board. –LUKE MARSHALL Cross Street Intermediate School fifth-grader Adrian Ocampo, left, shows off his invention, the Vac-Brush, to fifth-grader Ayana Williams March 31 during the school’s Invention Convention. –LUKE MARSHALL Long River Middle School Spanish teacher Stacey Groshart, dressed as the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, discusses Diego Rivera’s mural, ‘Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park,’ with students April 4 at the school. Long River and the world language department received a grant to rent the Teacher’s Discovery Traveling Exhibit for two weeks. The exhibit features three life-sized reproductions of murals created by Rivera, a renowned Mexican artist. The exhibit was displayed at Long River for a week and will be displayed at Woodland Regional High School for a week. Woodland will host a student and parent viewing and reception at 6:15 p.m. on April 14 prior to the World Language Honor Society induction. –ELIO GUGLIOTTI Cross Street Intermediate School fifth-grader Nathaniel Parker shows off his invention, the Practice Target 2000, to his peers March 31 during the school’s Invention Convention. –LUKE MARSHALL Six Boy Scouts from Troop 258 in Prospect recently achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. Each scout completed a community service project. Pictured, bottom row from left, Michael Framski, whose project was landscaping at St. Anthony’s Church, Connor Valinsky, whose project was painting playground games on the blacktop of Prospect Elementary School, James Jensen, whose project was photographing, recording and uploading all the graves in the Prospect Cemetery; top row from left, Kyle Bolduc, whose project was renovating the gazebo at St. Michael’s Church in Beacon Falls, Matthew Iannone, whose project was to build picnic tables for Canfield Park, and Antonio D’Amelio, whose project was landscaping at St. Anthony’s Church. –CONTRIBUTED The Prospect Library sponsored a Kerry Boys concert March 5 at Prospect Elementary School. Nearly 200 people attended. –CONTRIBUTED