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Milford Chamber awards mini-grants to 6 students

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 by:John Burgeson

We received this press release today from the Milford Chamber of Commerce:

The Milford Chamber of Commerce Trust Mini-Grant Program helps students grow, learn, and develop leadership and business skills by initiating projects that will benefit the Milford community. On Feb. 1, six projects were chosen to receive $1,200 in funding from the Milford Chamber of Commerce Trust Fund.

During the application process, students were asked to take a professional approach and format the application as a business plan, including a budget. Applicants then presented their projects at an informal luncheon earlier this year. Middle school and high school students were eligible to apply.

The following student service projects were chosen as 2013 mini-grant recipients:

1. “Helping Hands” – Jacqueline Fernous of Foran High School, along with 20 other students, have created this project to help Milford citizens in a variety of ways including providing dinners at Beth-El Shelter, Valentine’s Cards for local seniors, and a Veterans Day event.

2. “Pie in the Sky” – Kellie Courville and The Milford Girl’s Volunteer Organization developed “Pie in the Sky”, a project where the girls will bake thirty apple pies for AIDS Project New Haven. The pies will be sold prior to Thanksgiving and the funds collected will be used to provide meals for AIDS patients and their families in New Haven County.

3. “Lap Blankets for Wheelchair Bound Seniors & Veterans” – Jennifer Weissaver of Foran High School applied on behalf of the Girls Volunteer Org. of Milford. This project will make cheerful and comforting lap blankets then distribute them to senior and disabled residents in Milford.

4. “Thanksgiving Luncheon” – Anne Pierre-Louis and Nicole Gesko applied on behalf of their Platt Technical High School class project. The group will host a Thanksgiving luncheon at the school’s orchard for citizens with financial insecurity to attend, eat and enjoy.

5. “Peer Mediation Training” – This student-run program, out of Platt Technical High School, was submitted by Joseph Petrillo. By employing students as conflict facilitators, the project will benefit the Milford community by promoting respect, recognition of diversity, and compromise.

6. “PGTA Garden Project” – The PGTA class at The Academy in Milford created this project to care for a plot at the Milford Community Garden, as well as helping fellow gardeners with their plots. All of the vegetables grown will be donated to the local food bank.

Mini-grants are awarded annually by the Milford Chamber of Commerce Trust. Applications are published every fall and high school and middle school students are invited to apply.

Musical memorial service set for Robert S. Tellalian

Thursday, January 17, 2013 by:Phyllis Boros

A musical memorial service for lawyer and community leader Robert S. Tellalian will take place Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at 1 p.m. at the 1,100-seat United Congregational Church, 877 Park Avenue (at the corner of State Street) in Bridgeport. The service will be open to the public.

Mr. Tellalian died at his Stratford home on Christmas, Dec. 25, 2012, just a few weeks following the death of his wife, Jean Hamilton Tellalian. He was 91.

Known throughout his life as a choral singer and supporter of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, Mr. Tellalian will be memorialized by more than 75 GBS musicians and chorale singers from around the state. All are volunteering their time.

An event spokesman, John Polo (a GBS board member) said that Mr. Tellalian’s long and rich life will be celebrated with several masterworks from Mendelssohn, Brahms and Rutter as well as with pieces on pipe organ by Dr. John Michniewicz, the church’s director of music.

Mr. Tellalian was predeceased by his older brother, Judge Aram Tellalian, with whom he was partner for more than 50 years in the downtown Bridgeport law firm of Tellalian & Tellalian. The firm moved to Trumbull a few years ago.

Mr. Tellalian served on numerous committees and boards, most notably as chairman of GBS since the mid-1990s and a leader of Goodwill of Western & Northern Connecticut (portraying Santa for 54 years at parties for the disabled and impoverished children).

Prior to his passing, Mr. Tellalian asked that, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions benefit the organizations that he loved:

Greater Bridgeport Symphony,
446 University Avenue,
Bridgeport, CT 06604

Goodwill Industries,
165 Ocean Terrace,
Bridgeport, CT 06605

United Congregational Church,
Special Music Fund,
877 Park Ave., Bridgeport, CT 06604

For a full obituary, written by Phyllis Boros:

http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Community-leader-lawyer-Robert-S-Tellalian-dies-4147314.php

For an OP-ED tribute, written by Dave Keyes, in Sunday’s paper, 12/30/12 :

http://www.ctpost.com/opinion/article/Tellalian-man-of-many-roles-4152732.php

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Tellalian memorial set for Jan. 19

Wednesday, January 2, 2013 by:Phyllis Boros

A memorial service for lawyer and community leader Robert S. Tellalian will take place Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at 1 p.m. at the United Congregational Church, 877 Park Avenue (at the corner of State Street) in Bridgeport. The memorial is open to the public.

Mr. Tellalian died at his Stratford home on Christmas, Dec. 25, 2012, just a few weeks following the death of his wife, Jean Hamilton Tellalian. He was 91.
He was also predeceased by his brother, Judge Aram Tellalian, with whom he was partner for more than 50 years in the downtown Bridgeport law firm of Tellalian & Tellalian. The firm moved to Trumbull a few years ago.

Mr. Tellalian served on numerous committees and boards, most notably as chairman of the board of trustees for the Greater Bridgeport Symphony since the mid-1990s and a leader with Goodwill of Western & Northern Connecticut (portraying Santa for 54 years at parties for the disabled and impoverished children).

Prior to his passing, Mr. Tellalian asked that, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions benefit the organizations that he loved:

Greater Bridgeport Symphony,
446 University Avenue,
Bridgeport, CT 06604

Goodwill Industries,
165 Ocean Terrace,
Bridgeport, CT 06605

United Congregational Church,
Special Music Fund,
877 Park Ave., Bridgeport, CT 06604

For a full obituary, written by Phyllis Boros:

http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Community-leader-lawyer-Robert-S-Tellalian-dies-4147314.php

For an OP-ED tribute, written by Dave Keyes, in Sunday’s paper, 12/30/12 :

http://www.ctpost.com/opinion/article/Tellalian-man-of-many-roles-4152732.php

Stratford Women’s Club seeks vendors for 25th annual fair

Monday, August 27, 2012 by:Brittany Lyte

Press release:

The Stratford Women’s Club will be hosting its 25^th annual Treasures, Treats and Trinkets Fair on Saturday, November 10 at The Stratford United Methodist Church, 2000 Main Street from 10am-4pm.

Treasures, Treats and Trinkets will be held indoors and admission is free to the public. Also, as added entertainment, The Usual Suspects barbershop quartet will be performing live from 1 to 2pm.

Rental space is $30 for vendors selling handmade crafts, jewelry, collectibles, new merchandise, antiques, as well as brand name products such as Avon, Pandora, Mary Kay, Tastefully Simple, Pampered Chef, etc.

“Our success has largely been based on the diversity of crafts, specialty items and new products that can be found at Treasures, Treats and Trinkets,” said Marilyn Pearson, founder of the Stratford Women’s Club. “The silver anniversary of this fair will be no exception and we look forward to showcasing great vendors for Stratford.”

Pearson, who has served many roles since founding the Stratford Women’s Club in 1976, was elected President at the Installation Dinner in June.

For more information, call Dolores 203-378-9981, email StratfordWomensClub@gmail.com, or visit Facebook.com/StratfordWomensClub

Volo Aviation invites public to learn about jets

Tuesday, August 7, 2012 by:Stacy Davis

Volo Aviation is hosting a Bridgeport Regional Council’s Business After Hours networking event Wednesday from 5 – 7 p.m.

Participants can learn firsthand how private jets operate, what they look like inside and what it feels like to be inside of a private jet.

Volo Aviation and Stanziale’s are sponsoring the event. One free drink ticket will be included.

Volo Aviation is located at 900 Great Meadow Road, Stratford, CT 06615. For more information, call 203-335-3800.

Storefront churches: Perception and reality

Tuesday, July 31, 2012 by:John Burgeson

McRoberts

Soon, the Connecticut Post will take a look at the so-called storefront churches in the city.

We’re not going to give away our findings here; you’ll have to pick up the paper for that. But, suffice to say, the opinions that many have about these “churches in non-traditional locations” are mostly false, we have found.

Have you ever wondered why storefront churches seem to be clustered together, sometimes almost next door to one another?

There’s a reason for this, and to understand this phenomenon, you’ll have to turn the clock back to the early to mid-20th century, when waves of blacks were migrating to the Northeast to work in factories.

According to University of Chicago sociologist Omar M. McRoberts, housing discrimination forced blacks to live in so-called “black belts,” because there was nowhere else for them to go. In Bridgeport, the black belt stretches along a southern swath of the city, from the P.T. Barnum public housing complex on the West End out to the East End along Stratford, Connecticut and Barnum avenues.

“African Americans were confined to these areas with high densities,” he said. “But after Civil Right legislation opens up housing options, the middle-class blacks move out, so you get these concentrated areas of intense, multigenerational black poverty. The commercial establishment leaves, and suddenly you have many, many vacant commercial spaces.”

Scores of these spaces, he said, became churches, as pastors were lured by the lower-cost rents.

“I decided to take a look at the presence of all of these churches and find out why there were so many of them,” he said. “What I called the ‘religious district.’ ”

McRoberts details his research in his book, “Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood.”

“It’s an urban sociological story in many ways,” he said. “People who wanted to open businesses there couldn’t get loans, so you get all of the forces colliding to create these religious districts.

For “Streets of Glory,” McRoberts studied the religious landscape for years in Boston’s Four Corners neighborhood. If you’re familiar with Boston, Four Corners is a .6-square mile area on the Roxbury-Dorchester line.

“A lot of people think that if there weren’t storefront churches, business would occupy these locations,” said. “That’s simply not the case.”

Trumbull officials reach out to businesses

Wednesday, July 11, 2012 by:Stacy Davis

Trumbull officials are reaching out to local businesses.

Edward Lavernoich, the town’s director of economic and community development, and Jamie Bratt, the planning and development director, said they hope to meet with 100 local business by Dec. 31.

“A primary goal of this outreach is to solicit feedback from the business community regarding its experience dealing with the town,” First Selectman Herbst said in a press release. ”I want local businesses to be fully satisfied with the town of Trumbull.”

So far the pair has met with seven businesses, they said Tuesday.

For more information or to set up an appointment with Lavernoich, call 203-452-5043 or email elavernoich@trumbull-ct.org.

Knowlton Street park’s official opening, final Bazaar session, today

Thursday, June 7, 2012 by:Phyllis Boros

Bridgeport’s Knowlton Street area will percolate Saturday, June 9, with the final session of the Bridgeport Bazaar and General Market and the official opening of a new city park.

Mayor Bill Finch is expected to cut the ribbon at 1 p.m. at the Knowlton Street Park, followed immediately by a free public reception at Gallery 305K (305 Knowlton St).

The BBGM — an indoor market at the gallery featuring one-of-a-kind local goods, crafts, art, retro clothes, furnishings, food and music hula — will run from noon to 5 p.m.

Admission is free. This will be the last BBGM at the gallery until it picks up again in September.

Those interested in participating as a vendor are asked to call 203.814.6856 or contact BridgeportBazaarGeneralMarket@gmail.com.

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