‘Be Kind’ signs return

By Summer Lerch

When COVID hit and the Durham Fair was canceled, the Middlefield Lions Club had a brainstorm – Let’s fill our town with “Be Kind” signs.

So we did that.

At the height of COVID, our town became filled with the signs. Middlefield had become part of a movement to encourage “acts of kindness, and the belief that the world can be changed by small acts, through words, deeds and art, to raise the vibration of the community.” That’sa quote from the Infinite Love Project (infiniteloveproject.com).

I know as I drove around town, I loved seeing these signs up. I loved feeling a part of a larger, kinder movement, especially as I thought about the changes happening in our greater society around our communications and our news cycles, and how different groups treated one another.

Three years later, the “Be Kind” signs are weathered, or have disappeared. So the Middlefield Lions are bringing them back; bringing back these simple reminders of the difference small acts of kindness make for us all.

Middlefield Lions’ “Be Kind” signs are $30. To place an order, e-mail Lions President

Birdie Curtis, at curtisbirdie@hotmail.com and include your address and phone number so we can connect for delivery. Payment can be made via Venmo (@Middlefield-Lions) or check (payable to Middlefield Lions Club). Send checks to: Middlefield Lions, P. O. Box 1, Middlefield CT, 06455. Include your address, e-mail and cell number. Please join us in expanding the “Be Kind” message in and around Middlefield. You are the best thing about Middlefield. And Middlefield becomes the best because of you. Thank you for your act of kindness. Together we are making the world a better place.

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Thank you

Editor:

Thank you to all who helped make the Durham Garden Club Tag Sale a huge success. We are grateful to those who contributed items for the sale and to those who purchased items or simply cheered us on.

The sale helps us fulfill part of our mission to reuse and recycle items and the proceeds will help fund our yearly scholarship granted to a Coginchaug High School graduate.

In our 90th year, we are currently engaged in restoring and re-planting the atrium garden at the Korn School

Community Center which, when complete, will emerge as a Pollinator Pathway.

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Garden celebration

Editor:

This Saturday, April 22, at 10 a.m., the Durham-Middlefield Giving Garden team will be recognizing three young men whose Eagle Scout projects included improvements to the garden.

Sully McCoy installed a sink and washing station so that gardeners can clean off the produce collected, Logan Watts built a seed cabinet, and Nathan Strang made four raised beds and two picnic tables.

The garden is located behind the Middlefield Community Center.

Everyone is invited to come see the projects and thank the Scouts for their hard work. Light refreshments and an overview of the garden are also on tap.

Regular volunteer gatherings will start on Saturday, April

29 at 10 a.m. and continue Wednesdays and Saturdays through the gardening season. Volunteers of any age and gardening skill level are welcome for whatever amount of time you can give. Hard rain cancels.

For further information, contact Betsy St. John at 860807-5242 or Jen Huddleston at 860-716-0464.

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