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Here's to keeping abreast of the many great ways to enjoy summer, and really each season of the year, with neighbors and newcomers at local events and growing in community networking efforts.

A few folks have asked me, "Well, what does Community Networking mean..what will happen or who does that involve?" What I've been doing since very young in these small CT towns as well as in larger ones (New Haven and Fairfield CT, at Vassar College and then back in the hill towns of the northwest corner CT and more recently for a couple of years in Brooklyn NY) is getting to know who is doing what in

The wheels of change are starting to turn but it's a bigger uphill journey than most realize..and bridging gaps among many people and systems could take a decade or so, but it's a challenge we have to muster the courage to take on.

A second grassroots community  coalition action meeting was held in the MA/NY CT tricorner area for people to learn abouut the scope of opiate abuse (which often starts with a prescription for opiates for pain that can readily lead to an overdependence, abuse and addiction.

Instead of getting prescribed drugs or a program to guide one to taper off use, many