Fairfield Community Events & Updates

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January 25, 2022
Our community is hosting an array of events in the coming weeks. You will find information on how to participate below as well as COVID resources.
 
TONIGHT at 7PM, Representative Leeper and I will join Mike Lawlor, a criminal justice professor at the University of New Haven and the former Undersecretary for Criminal Justice at Connecticut’s Office of Policy and Management, and Detectives Beth Leetch and George Buckmir from the Fairfield Police Department - who participated in last month's discussion - for Juvenile Criminal Justice: A Deeper Dive.

I hope you will join us! Click the button below to register for the Zoom panel. The discussion will also be streamed Live on Representative Leeper's Facebook page.
Register for Discussion
 
In just over 2 weeks, the General Assembly will be back in session. I’d love to hear from you about your priorities. On Wednesday, February 2nd, during two separate time-blocks, I will host office hours, scheduling one-on-one or small group meetings for 20 minutes. Please join me to share your questions, ideas, concerns, and solutions.

You can click here, or on the image above to RSVP to Ken Neal who serves as my legislative aide.
 
Every home in the U.S. is eligible to order 4 free at-⁠home COVID-⁠19 tests completely FREE. To ensure at-home testing kits are easily accessible, you can now call to order your tests in addition to ordering online. To place an order or receive additional support, call 1-800-232-0233 or TTY 1-888-720-7489 – the phone line will be available to offer assistance in more than 150 languages 7 days a week from 8AM-12AM. The USPS says orders will usually ship within 7-12 days.

Order your tests online by clicking the button below:
Order FREE At-Home COVID Test
Free N-95 Masks

As a part of this effort by the Federal Government to stop and slow the spread of COVID-19, you now have access to

FREE N-95 masks at pharmacies and community health centers.

Here is all you need to know about collecting your free masks:
  • Where can I get FREE N-95 masks?
  • When can I get FREE N-95 masks?
    • According to the White House, shipping began this week and you will be able to pick them up at participating locations next week.
  • How many FREE N-95 masks can I get?
    • To ensure broad access for all Americans, there will be a limit of three masks per person.
 
Grants Awarded to Fairfield Organizations

Congratulations to the eight Fairfield organizations who were awarded more than $400,000 combined in state grant funds through CT Humanities.

The following Fairfield organizations were given grants:
  • Connecticut Dance School: $21,000
  • Fairfield Center Stage: $14,800
  • Fairfield County Children's Choir: $21,100
  • Fairfield Museum and History Center: $79,300
  • Fairfield Theatre Company: $161,700
  • Fairfield University Art Museum: $5,000
  • Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestra: $27,700
  • Pequot Library: $79,500

The grants will assist these wonderful community organizations as they continue to recover from the pandemic, connect teachers and students to strong humanities and arts content, and improve information technology and digital infrastructure.

The board of directors at CT Humanities awarded 624 nonprofit museums and organizations a total of $16 million in CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants. These grants are part of $30.7 million in funding support we voted on in the legislature to aide organizations over the next two years.
 
Medicare Bootcamp

The CT Department of Aging and Disability Services is offering a FREE webinar on navigating Medicare on Tuesday, February 1, from 2PM – 4PM. For more information, please call 860-887-3561 and ask for CHOICES.

You can pre-register for the webinar by clicking the button below:
Medicare Bootcamp Registration
 

New Glass Recycling Program

The Town of Fairfield announced that starting this month, our community will test a new approach for handling glass recyclables. Under a pilot program - designed by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) - residents will be able to voluntarily bring their glass recyclables separately to a collection point at the Town Transfer Station on Richard White Way.

The glass will then be transported to a company in Beacon Falls where it will be crushed and turned into a substance called pozzolan, an additive for high-end cement that helps reduce its carbon footprint by up to 40%.

This new system will help our town offset the growing issue of glass contaminating an entire of batch of recycles in the "single stream recycling" process.