East Mountain Neighborhood Association
Waterbury, Connecticut 06706

Check our WebSite http://www.EastmountainCT.com

 
 

The May 2009
minutes are posted

    
July 4, 2009   Click for Waterbury, Connecticut Forecast  
 

Shop
& Buy Local

Here are some of our supporters that we plan to spotlight in our project to let you know of local sources of talent and services.

Keep our neighborhood businesses active Support these people on East Mountain
Let us know of your Talent, hobby, services, or business.

Send us your info to: tonyL@Loechner.com

 

Click on the picture to get a form
to buy a brick for the park

 

Help Us Represent You

Please help us keep East Mountain Involved
For only $ 10 (Sept 2007 to June 2008) you can be a member of the East Mountain Neighborhood Association

Click on the "button" above (Membership Form) and join us representing your neighborhood

Please help make a difference by joining the East Mountain Neighborhood Association. Add your voice and participation by contacting us today.

 

East Mountain Board Members

President: Pat Norton

575-0947
V- Pres: Turner Langdon
teeitup61@sbcglobal.net
 756-0749
Treasurer: Jean Guisto jgusto@sbcglobal.net 575-9180

Secretary: Nancy Ptak napdig@aol.com

 754-9311

 

 

  

Earth Day Clean-up

Our trusty crew from the Neighborhood Association managed to gather a bunch of tires and junk from East Mountain Road. Click Here to see the photos.

 

East Mountain Park Opening
- June 27th 11 am to 4 pm

The East Mountain Park reopening ceremony will be held on Saturday, June 27th (rain date the 28th) starting with a parade at 11:00am. After the parade which will consist on a Police & Fire Department honor guard, an escort for the new flag and 200 children from the sports association and engine 5, the flag will be raised and three East Mountain residents will sing the Star Spangled Banner. There will be a blessing of the park and the four Memorial stones, a few short speeches, a reading of the park history and then the ribbon cutting.

There will be hotdogs, hamburg's , soda and chips for sale, one bouncing station, one slide, a dunk tank, sno-cones and popcorn available. Starting at 2:00 we will have a band playing until 4:00 pm.

East Mountain Road will be closed off from 9:00 in the morning from Our Lady of Lebanon Church up to the first golf course driveway until after the parade and the barriers will be moved down to Pineridge after the parade kicks off with the remaining of East Mountain still being closed off. Anyone living in East Mountain is asked to walk to the park to help alleviate parking issues. Anyone with questions can call me at 754-9311.

EAST MOUNTAIN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION 2009 AWARD RECIPIENT

Joseph Silva, son of Joseph and Nancy Silva, is the 2009 recipient of the East Mountain Neighborhood Association annual award.Joseph graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in the top five percent
of his class. He was a student in the S.O.A.R. Program, the School of Academic Renown. Joseph was very active in both school activities and extracurricular activities. He also spent many hours doing community service. He will attend Kings College in New York. The award is presented in honor of the late Harry Northrop. Harry was a lifelong resident of East Mountain. He took up residence here in 1949. Harry was one of the original members of the East Mountain Community Club and the sole organizer of the first East Mountain Athletic Association. It is because of his efforts that the people of East Mountain now have the park, the present East Mountain Neighborhood Association and the East Mountain Athletic Association Beverly Guevin, Harry Northrop's daughter, presented a check in the amount of $750 to Joseph, at the June meeting of the East Mountain Neighborhood Association.

Next EMNA Meeting
7:00 pm Wednesday

September 23, 2009

EMNA
Meeting Dates

(summer break)

September 23, 2009 October 21, 2009 November 11, 2009 December 16, 2009

   January 27, 2010
February 17, 2010
March 24, 2010 April 21, 2010
May 26, 2010
June 23, 2010

 

 

Awards
Honor Roll (9-12)
Highest Honors (10, 11)
Superintendent's Award (2001)
SOAR Math Award (10)
SOAR English Award (9)
National High School Scholars (10)
CAPT Scholar (10)
2008 Greater Waterbury Youth Excellence Award (11)
Yale Book Club Award (11)

Community Service
Volunteer at Crescent Manor Convalescent Home (9)
Volunteer at Waterbury's Soup Kitchen (9)
Habitat for Humanity (10)
Taught guitar and violin lessons at West Side Middle School (10)
Help tutor students at KHS, Wendell Cross School, West Side, Algonquin School (10, 11)
Spoke at Chase Elementary School's CMT Pep Rally (11)
Teacher's aide in children's church at Apple Valley Worship Center (9) (10)(11)12)
Key Club Service Projects (10) (11) (12)
-Making sandwiches for local shelter
-March of Dimes walk for premature babies
-Making Easter baskets for local shelter
-Guide for parents during Open House
-Collected money for people with AIDS in Kenya (UNICEF)
-Helped organize penny wars for leukemia patients (Pennies for Patients)
Volunteered at the Tinker Elementary School After-School Program (9, 10, 11, 12)
Organize and Volunteer a Kids Day Camp in Glasgow, Scotland (2008)