Volume 20, Number 27
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PETIT FOUNDATION RACE SUNDAY
Thursday, July 8, 2021
Group aims to eradicate racism in community The Plainville Anti-Racism Task Force hosted its first event in the series "Plainville Unites: A Celebration and Conversation about Diversity and Inclusion Here at Home" on Tuesday night, June 29 at Norton Park. For the past year, the Plainville Anti-Racism Task Force has been navigated by Roberta Brown.
The 13th Annual Petit Family Foundation Road Race and Fitness Walk is planned for Sunday, July 11, at Plainville High School, 47 Robert Holcomb Way. The race will start at 9 a.m., and all roads along the route will be closed. Woodford Avenue will be closed from East Street to Woodland Street from 8:30 a.m. to approximately 10:30 a.m. East Street will be closed from 8:30 a.m. until at least 9:30 a.m. Businesses on Woodford Avenue will be open with access from the East Street end of Woodford. Register online at petitfamilyfoundation.org. The popular event had raised around $1.1 million in its first 11 years. Foundation President William Petit Jr. said the support allows them to provide scholarships for local high school graduates and grants for organizations addressing violence against women, among other causes.
After the death of George Floyd in 2020, Brown started
a support group for students at Plainville High School, so that they would have a safe space to talk about their feelings with regard to the events happening in the country at the time. Many students spoke about their own experiences with racism. After a few months, other members of the community, along with school district See Racism, A3
State grant will help transform property Governor Ned Lamont announced that his administration is awarding more than $19 million in state grants to help with the costs of assessing and remediating 31 blighted properties across Connecticut – including a parcel in Plainville – for the purposes of putting them back into productive use.
“Cleaning up blighted properties that have been vacant for decades and putting them into productive use will ultimately generate back many more times the amount of these grants through private investments,” Lamont stated in a June 24 press release.
Summer Soccer Registration! Week-long soccer camps for children age 4 to 14
Register Today at CheshireSoccerClub.org
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