MultimediaNewsSlideshows Community snapshots By mycitizensnews - November 8, 2014 0 26 Sokol’s Taekwondo in Naugatuck held rank testing for black belts on Oct. 10. Three students tested for their next rank and the rest did a mid-term test. -CONTRIBUTED Long River Middle School boys soccer team, coached by Steve Ruhl, completed the season undefeated and for won the junior NVL 2014 championship. -CONTRIBUTED American Legion Post 17 and Naugatuck Fire Fighters Local 1219 hosted their annual Halloween Parade Oct. 31. –LUKE MARSHALL American Legion Post 17 and Naugatuck Fire Fighters Local 1219 hosted their annual Halloween Parade Oct. 31. –LUKE MARSHALL From left, Valley Women’s Health Initiative Co-Chair Kate Cosgrove, Nancy Cappello, VWHI Co-Chair Dr. Stephanie Wain and state Sen. Joseph Crisco, Jr. (D-17) at Women Making a Difference Day 2014 Oct. 2 in Derby. Crisco was among the Special Recognition Award recipients honored by the Valley Women’s Health Initiative. He was honored for his legislative work over the past five years in regards to early breast cancer detection and treatment. Crisco is the first man in the17-year history of the initiative to be honored. ‘I am deeply touched by this recognition from the Valley Women’s Health Initiative, but I have to say that my greatest joy is knowing that women in Connecticut — our sisters and mothers and daughters and others — are getting life-changing treatment because we in the legislature had the courage and the resolve to do the right thing’ Crisco said in a press release. ‘It is women’s advocates like the Valley Women who have been leading the charge for these changes. They are the true heroes.’ -CONTRIBUTED Sokol’s Taekwondo in Naugatuck held rank testing for black belts on Oct. 10. Three students tested for their next rank and the rest did a mid-term test. -CONTRIBUTED American Legion Post 17 and Naugatuck Fire Fighters Local 1219 hosted their annual Halloween Parade Oct. 31. –LUKE MARSHALL Cynthia Barrere, of Prospect, left, professor and chair of faculty development at the Quinnipiac University School of Nursing, and Bobbie Berkowitz, president elect of the American Academy of Nursing at the academy’s annual conference in October in Washington, D.C. Barrere was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing on Oct. 18 at the conference. ‘I am honored to receive this recognition,’ Barrere said in a news release. ‘Research and quality improvement are essential to providing nurses with the evidence for best patient care practices, nursing education and health care policy development. I am pleased my work helps move these efforts forward.’ Barrere oversees nursing research programs for the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) and the Academy of Medical Surgical Nurses (AMSN). She created and is the program director of the AHNA Research and Quality Improvement Consultation program to advance the level and rigor of holistic nursing research and quality improvement nationwide. -CONTRIBUTED American Legion Post 17 and Naugatuck Fire Fighters Local 1219 hosted their annual Halloween Parade Oct. 31. –LUKE MARSHALL American Legion Post 17 and Naugatuck Fire Fighters Local 1219 hosted their annual Halloween Parade Oct. 31. –LUKE MARSHALL American Legion Post 17 and Naugatuck Fire Fighters Local 1219 hosted their annual Halloween Parade Oct. 31. –LUKE MARSHALL American Legion Post 17 and Naugatuck Fire Fighters Local 1219 hosted their annual Halloween Parade Oct. 31. –LUKE MARSHALL American Legion Post 17 and Naugatuck Fire Fighters Local 1219 hosted their annual Halloween Parade Oct. 31. –LUKE MARSHALL American Legion Post 17 and Naugatuck Fire Fighters Local 1219 hosted their annual Halloween Parade Oct. 31. –LUKE MARSHALL