MultimediaSlideshows Community snapshots By mycitizensnews - November 22, 2013 0 136 Karen Ambari of the Beacon Falls Rotary Club reads to students at Laurel Ledge Elementary School in Beacon Falls Nov. 1. Guest readers from throughout the community visited the school to read to classes as part of CT Loves to Read Day. -CONTRIBUTED The Naugatuck Hounds Pee Wee football team recently won the Southern Connecticut Pop Warner bob Ross Championship. Naugatuck defeated the Milford Eagles, 20-6, in the semifinals and the Trumbull Rangers, 18-13, to win the title. -CONTRIBUTED Kyle Harris, a student at Naugatuck High School, participated in the state’s Veterans Parade in Hartford Nov. 3. Harris is the son of Mary Harris, a U.S. Army veteran and member of American Legion Post 17.-CONTRIBUTED Local painter Steve Kijak recently donated his services to restore the front doors of the United Methodist Church on Meadow Street in Naugatuck. The 150-year-old wooden doors needed extensive preparation to restore them. -CONTRIBUTED Woodland Regional High School Principal Kurt Ogren, left, and Beacon Falls Bakery & Deli owner Samantha Negron sample and judge cupcakes during the Beacon Falls Library’s 2nd Annual Beacon Falls Great Cupcake Competition Nov. 16 at St. Michael’s Lyceum. There were 20 cupcakes entered in total. Beacon Falls resident Erica Golembeski won first place with a maple bacon cupcake. Amanda Moriarty won second place with a caramel apple pie cupcake and Laura Barret took third place with an apple spice cupcake. Gigi Mancini won first place in the under 18 category with a chocolate peanut butter cupcake. –LUKE MARSHALL All About You Home Care Services in Naugatuck recently donated several lap blankets to Glendale Center to be distributed to their residents. Pictured, Alice Turley (holding the blanket, Glendale Center Admissions Director Patricia Birch, left, and Veronica Rinaldi from All About You Home Care Services. -CONTRIBUTED Prospect Mayor Robert Chatfield, center, stands with his wife, Ginny and his daughter, Leslie as he is sworn in for his 19th term by, at left, state Rep. Lezlye Zupkus (R-89) and retired Community School Principal Joseph Nuzzo Nov. 15 at Community School. –LUKE MARSHALL Naugatuck Mayor Robert Mezzo, left, is sworn in by Judge of Probate Peter Mariano at City Hill Middle School Nov. 19. Mezzo won his third term in office on Nov. 5. –LUKE MARSHALL Beacon Falls First Selectman Christopher Bielik hugs Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman after being sworn in Nov. 15 at the home of John “Jack” Betkoski III IN Beacon Falls as state Sen. Joseph Crisco (D-17),left, and Selectman Peter Betkoski applaud. –LUKE MARSHALL Kyle Harris, a student at Naugatuck High School, participated in the state’s Veterans Parade in Hartford Nov. 3. Harris is the son of Mary Harris, a U.S. Army veteran and member of American Legion Post 17.-CONTRIBUTED