Events
Valley Brook offers summer camps
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Valley Brook Community Church is offering three camps this summer for children age 4 through 12. All camps are held at Valley Brook’s campus, 160 Granville Road (Route 189), North Granby.
Health Notes
Promote and protect your cognitive function: seven pillars of dementia prevention
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There are many things that individuals can do to promote cognitive function. Being proactive in overall health and lifestyle may increase brain flexibility as well as encourage a positive mental state.
People
Granby Girl Scouts earn Silver Award
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Granby Girl Scouts Lauren Badorek and Amber Tomasino from Troop 66174 have been awarded the Silver Award, the highest award a Girl Scout Cadette can earn. The idea behind this award is to help the community and to make a long lasting impact.
People
Motorcycle shop builds show bikes
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If people are looking for service, repair, modifications or customizations for their motorcycles, they should visit American Muscle Cycle Works at 561 Salmon Brook Street in Granby. American Muscle Cycle Works opened in April 2015 and has become the area’s trusted name in motorcycle repair.
People
For this gymnast, life is flippin’ fantastic
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When Addyson Earl, 11, tells you she’s going to flip, she probably means it literally. The Granby Memorial Middle School student has been dancing since she was 3 and doing acrobatics almost as long as she can remember.
Events
Shared Voices coming to Granby this summer
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Shared Voices is a fun, intergenerational chorus for people living in the early stages of Alzheimer’s and their families. Rehearsals will be in Granby on Sunday afternoons, twice a month, May through September.
People
Healing Meals and Holcomb Farm receive support from Hartford Foundation Donor-Advised Funds
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Simsbury resident Gayle Murphy has a stack of cards that she has been saving for the past three months. She had them on display for every week that she received a food delivery from Healing Meals Community Project (HMCP), and now she takes them out to remind herself of how far she’s come.
People
Granby residents receive volunteers of the year award
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The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) presented its highest accolades to Granby residents Tim and Deb Lenihan at its Annual Volunteer Awards Reception in March. The Lenihans were chosen to receive the Volunteer of the Year Award because of their unwavering dedication to raising funds to help accelerate cystic fibrosis (CF) research.
People
Stop & Shop donates to Granby food bank
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Stop & Shop of Granby recently presented a check to Farmington Valley Visiting Nurse Association in support of the Granby Food Bank. Stop & Shop cashiers often ask customers if they would like to donate to various causes, and the food bank is one of the fortunate recipients.