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Steve McCurry visits Greenwich gallery 4/18

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 by:Phyllis Boros

You many not know his name, but chances are you know his photos.

For decades, photojournalist Steve McCurry has been traveling the world to document the human experience in all its beauty, chaos, diversity and struggle — a mission to which he remains committed.

Many of his magazine photos have become iconic, such as “Afghan Girl” (National Geographic, June 1985), with stunning, penetrating eyes who he photographed in a refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan. That image was subsequently named as “the most recognized photograph” in the history of National Geographic and has been frequently used on Amnesty International brochures, posters and calendars.
In celebration of his life’s work, Cavalier Galleries in Greenwich has mounted a 30-year retrospective that runs through May 6. On Thursday, April 18, the gallery will host an evening public reception for McCurry.

Cavalier Galleries is at 405 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich. Reception: Thursday, April 18, 6 to 8 p.m. Free. www.cavaliergalleries.com; 203-869-3664.
NOTE: FOR A full interview with the photographer, see Sunday’s Pulse, April 21.

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

Spooner House starts collecting turkey

Tuesday, November 8, 2011 by:Amanda Cuda

The Spooner House annual frozen turkey and fixings drive will feature four locations during the week of November 14. More people than ever in the lower Naugatuck Valley are in need of support to obtain all the ingredients necessary for satisfying holiday meals. Hundreds more non-perishable fixings, frozen turkeys and/or cash donations will be needed to fill the void this year, so Spooner House is asking everyone to be as generous as possible.

Smile Dental Centers owner, Dr. Bruce Sofferman, along with his wife Deborah Sofferman and their daughter Sophia Sofferman will be wearing traditional Pilgrim and Native American costumes and joined by a turkey mascot as they attempt to flag down drivers to drop off turkeys and fixings from 7 to 10 a.m. in Oxford on Wednesday, Nov. 16. at 318 Oxford Road (Route 67) and again on Thursday Nov. 17, from 7 to 10 a.m. at the R.D. Scinto Corporate Park, located at One Corporate Drive in Shelton.

Dr. Sofferman’s Smile Dental Centers at 318 Oxford Road in Oxford and 61 Elizabeth Street in Derby will also be collecting frozen turkeys and fixings all week during regular business hours Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 14-18.

The final drive location will be collecting only frozen turkeys on Sat., Nov. 19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Seymour. The 8th Grade Gold Team from Seymour Middle School is again sponsoring this drop off location at 211 Mountain Road.

A list of specific food items needed for the frozen turkey drive is at the end of the release or visit www.actspooner.org for more details.

Smile Dental Centers will be accepting frozen turkeys and the fixings on:

Monday – Friday, Nov. 14 – 18 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
318 Oxford Road (Route 67) in Oxford and

61 Elizabeth Street in Derby

R.D. Scinto Corporate Park will be accepting frozen turkeys and the fixings on:

Thursday, Nov. 17 from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.

One Corporate Drive in Shelton, in the parking lot of the Scinto Towers

Seymour Middle School, accepting only frozen turkeys

Saturday, Nov. 19 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

The 8^th Grade Gold Team, 211 Mountain Road in Seymour

If these dates and times are not convenient, you may also drop food items at the Spooner House, 30 Todd Road in Shelton, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 1 to 5 p.m. Contact: tvellucci@actspooner.org or 203-225-0453.

New members sought for Youth Orchestras

Thursday, March 31, 2011 by:Phyllis Boros

From the desk of arts writer Phyllis A.S. Boros

Wanted: Kids who love music.

That’s the word from Barbara Upton, who has announced that the Greater Bridgeport Youth Orchestras will offer an open rehearsal for prospective members on Sunday, April 10 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at Roger Ludlowe Middle School, 789 Unquowa Road in Fairfield.

Upton, the GBYO executive director, said that the GBYO ensembles are open by audition to area students who will be entering grades 5 through12 in the fall of 2011.

Students are encouraged to attend with their parents or guardians and/or music teachers. (Visitors are asked to enter the school on the lower level.) The GBYO is seeking new members in all instrumental categories: strings (violin, viola, cello and bass); woodwinds (flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon); brass (French horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba) and percussion.

Each student who attends will be given audition information and a free ticket to the GBYO’s Spring Concert on May 15, Upton said. Parents of current orchestra members will give tours of the rehearsal areas and answer questions. Refreshments will be served.

The Greater Bridgeport Youth Orchestras, founded in 1961, now offers five developmentally sequential performing ensembles: the Principal, the Symphony, the Concert, and the String orchestras, and a Wind Ensemble. The GBYO currently includes about 250 young musicians from dozens of municipalities in Fairfield and New Haven counties.

Rehearsals are conducted throughout the school year on Saturday mornings; every member is given the opportunity to perform at concerts throughout each season. A nominal tuition is charged for each student in the program, although Upton noted that no one is turned away because of an inability to pay the fee.

For additional information, visit www.gbyo.org or contact Upton at 203.452.0003.

Bridgeport unemployment rate climbs to 15 percent

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 by:Brittany Lyte

In January, the unemployment rate in Bridgeport climbed to 15 percent, higher than any other month since before 1994, according to data from the state Department of Labor.

Only Hartford and Waterbury had higher unemployment rates that month, at 17.1 percent and 15.1 percent, respectively.

In 2010, the Park City’s average rate of unemployment was 13.8 percent. The rate peaked in January that year with 14.9 percent of the city’s workforce unemployed.

January 2011 unemployment rates in Greater Bridgeport:

Ansonia: 11.4 percent

Derby: 10.6 percent

Fairfield: 7.7 percent

Milford: 6.9 percent

Monroe: 7.8 percent

Seymour: 9.7 percent

Shelton: 8.6 percent

Stratford: 10.2 percent

Trumbull: 7.5 percent

Westport: 6.3 percent

All labor data is from the Connecticut Department on Labor

Are you ready for ice, sleet and snow?

Monday, January 17, 2011 by:Brittany Lyte

A winter storm warning has been issued by the National Weather Service for northern Fairfield County with two to five inches of snow and sleet expected to fall overnight into Tuesday, making for a hazardous morning commute.

Snow is expected to start falling at midnight, with a quarter to half-inch of ice predicted to fall on top of that snow later in the day.

The weight of precipitation throughout the day Tuesday is expected to bring down tree branches and utility wires. Afternoon road conditions are expected to be treacherous.

Overnight temperatures will drop to the teens to lower 20s, then rise to the freezing mark Tuesday.

Southern Fairfield County is under a winter storm advisory from 1 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, with one to three inches of snow expected to fall early Tuesday morning. The afternoon is expected to bring about one-tenth of an inch of freezing rain.

Seymour teen critical after being shot by pellet gun

Monday, December 20, 2010 by:Amanda Cuda

SEYMOUR — A 13-year-old Seymour boy was critically injured after being shot in the head with a high-powered pellet gun rifle Saturday night.

According to Seymour police, officers received a 911 call about 7:45 p.m. Saturday reporting that a teenage male was shot with a pellet gun. Upon arrival, a 13-year-old boy, whose name wasn’t released, was found in a second-floor bedroom bleeding profusely from a head wound. He was immediately treated by Seymour Ambulance medical personnel and transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital with life-threatening injuries. He remains in critical condition.

A preliminary investigation of the incident revealed that the incident took place while three middle-school-aged boys were in the bedroom “play wrestling.” The pellet gun was leaning again a wall in the bedroom and was apparently knocked over while the boys were playing. It fell in close proximity to where two of the boys were wrestling on the floor. The third teen tried to grab the gun and get it out of the way of the other gun, but accidentally shot the gun. A metal pellet projectile was discharged, striking one of the boys in the side of the head.

According to police, adults were home at the time of the incident, but weren’t in the bedroom.

The incident is still under investigation by Seymour Police Youth Officer Joseph DiNigris, who stated in a press release that the shooting appears to be an accident.

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