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Volume 17, Number 22
Friday, June 3, 2022
Local artist takes on wild assignment
A NEW CHAPTER BEGINS Art Studies graduate Danielle Minicucci, of North Haven, waits by a window before the start of the 55th annual Middlesex Community College commencement ceremony at Platt High School in Meriden, Thursday, May 26. Middlesex awarded more than 360 degrees and certificates to 335 graduates at the college’s first in-person commencement exercises in more than two years.
This spring, North Haven artist Andy Yelenak was handed a daunting challenge: to paint one of the largest pieces he has ever done, in oil, and finish it in just 10 weeks. The imposing canvas would measure 3feet-by-4-feet and was to show a picturesque view of antelope at a Kenyan waterhole. Yelenak’s client had traveled to Kenya a number of times and commissioned the
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National Honor Society welcomes 46 new members By Nicole Zappone The Citizen
Forty-six students were celebrated at North Haven High School’s National Honor Society induction ceremony, held Tuesday, May 17 at the NHHS auditorium. Students from the Class of 2022 and the Class of 2023 were recognized for both their academic prowess and their character. “I want to say to you inductees that it is often difficult in the midst of something to appreciate it,” Principal Dr. Russell Dallai stated at the ceremony. “We tend to live thinking about the past often,
and the future. I want you to think about right now and imprint this moment.” Band director Susan Oakley was the guest speaker at the ceremony, and challenged the Class of 2023 to “picture what you want your senior year to look like.” See National Honor Society, A10
Members of the North Haven High School Class of 2022 and Class of 2023 came together on Tuesday, May 17 for the National Honor Society induction ceremony. Photos by Nicole Zappone
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