Loren Luddy’s advisory at Woodland Regional High School held its 16th annual toy and gift drive recently. Teachers, staff, and students donated gifts for 40 children and families from Waterbury’s Positive Parenting Program. –CONTRIBUTED
Post University men’s basketball player Tyler Collodel, of Prospect, reads to Xander Ramalhete, Prospect, recently during a pajama storytime at Pond Place Pediatrics in Prospect. Members of the basketball team participated in the event, which was run in conjunction with St. Mary’s Hospital, and contributed funds for the purchase of books for each child to take home. –CONTRIBUTED
Members of ProfNet, Inc., the Professional Networking Group of Waterbury, including Prospect business owners Peter Hughes, owner of Hughes Insurance Agency (first from left, back row), Margie Lindsay, owner of My Little Margie Cleaning Company (second from left, second row) and Barbara Rompre with Ambit Energy (third from right, second row), and Pam Davis, office manager with Brown Roofing Company, Inc. in Naugatuck (second row, center), recently donated dozens of men’s coats the nonprofit Acts 4 Ministry organization in Waterbury. –CONTRIBUTED
The Naugatuck Pop Warner Pee Wee cheer team took home third place Dec. 6 at the Pop Warner Cheer and Dance Nationals in the Pee Wee small level one category at ESPN in Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. –CONTRIBUTED
Mya Fontes, 7, right, and Ella Iannone, 7, both of Prospect, create as Christmas tree-shaped ornament on Dec. 15 at the Prospect Library. –LUKE MARSHALL
Maple Hill Elementary School kindergartners Mya Evangilista, left, and Paige Kovach hand presents they brought to donate to a toy drive to physical education teacher Angela Loomis Dec. 16 during the school’s holiday celebration in Naugatuck. The annual toy drive was run in collaboration with the Naugatuck Fire Department. –LUKE MARSHALL
Maple Hill Elementary School first-grader Jacob Neal helps Naugatuck firefighter Nick Traycheff fill a bag with toys on Dec. 16 during the school’s holiday celebration. The students held a toy drive in collaboration with the Naugatuck Fire Department. –LUKE MARSHALL
Members of the Naugatuck High School jazz band play a selection of holiday music for an audience at the Glendale Center in Naugatuck on Dec. 16. –CONTRIBUTED
Naugatuck resident Daniel Whitman, right, presents a cake to Safe Haven of Greater Waterbury Executive Director Lee Schlesinger. The cake, which was donated by Costco in Waterbury, was part of a Thanksgiving dinner that Whitman donated to Safe Haven’s domestic violence shelter. In recent years, The Manor Inn Restaurant in Southington has prepared the meal. –CONTRIBUTED
Cub Scouts from Pack 109 visited the Naugatuck Fire Department Dec. 6 where firefighters Katie Judson and Ben Mike taught the scouts and their siblings about fire safety. –CONTRIBUTED
Michelle Smith, a Liberty Bank branch manager, left, recently presented a $3,500 grant, awarded by the Liberty Bank Foundation, to Literacy Volunteers of Greater Waterbury Executive Director Tina Agati. –CONTRIBUTED
Girl Scouts from Naugatuck troops spread holiday cheer by caroling Dec. 3 at Shady Knoll Health Center in Seymour. –CONTRIBUTED
Members of City Hill Middle School girls basketball team each donated gifts for children for the Naugatuck Police Department’s toy drive. –CONTRIBUTED
From left, Naugatuck Board of Education Chair Dorothy Neth-Kunin, Connecticut Commissioner of Education Dianna Wentzell and Naugatuck Board of Education member Ethel Grant are pictured at the Leadership Awards presentation during the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education/Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents Convention in November. The Naugatuck school board received CABE’s Level One Leadership Award, which recognizes boards that work effectively as a team with superintendents. –CONTRIBUTED
City Hill Middle School eighth-grader Juan Jimenez measures syrup for a slushie as his ‘business partner’ eighth-grader Brody Moore talks with fellow students waiting to buy a slushie during the school’s ‘Math Mall’ Dec. 23 in Naugatuck. The ‘Math Mall’ is the culmination of a lesson taught in the real world math class at the school, explained math consultant Rebecca Moore, who teaches the class. Students created a business and learned the math involved with running a business, including expenses, profits and taxes. The students sold their products at the ‘Math Mall.’ All the ‘taxes’ generated will be donated to charity, Moore said, and any profits were kept by the students. –ELIO GUGLIOTTI
City Hill Middle School seventh-grader Hopeton Guthrie prepares a plate of taco salad to sell as his ‘business partner’ CJ Smith looks on during the school’s ‘Math Mall’ Dec. 23 in Naugatuck. The ‘Math Mall’ is the culmination of a lesson taught in the real world math class at the school, explained math consultant Rebecca Moore, who teaches the class. Students created a business and learned the math involved with running a business, including expenses, profits and taxes. The students sold their products at the ‘Math Mall.’ All the ‘taxes’ generated will be donated to charity, Moore said, and any profits were kept by the students. –ELIO GUGLIOTTI
