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Danbury's A Tribute to Newtown

Musicians gathered, Reverends and Rabbis spoke and hundreds of people gathered at the O'Neill Center Wednesday in a Tribute to Newtown. This template was created for you to tell your story. Use photographs or videos or your own words in the comment

A Tribute to Newtown was put together by area towns, Western Connecticut State University and other people who want to help out their friends in Newtown. Upload your photos and videos here.

David M. Coelho offered this comment at 5:45 a.m., "What a fine tribute. I am very glad that I went. It was important for the Danbury area to show our support to Newtown. Every speaker had a different and equally important message to all of us. The Clergy of all Faiths were great! The singer during the candlight montage, Ms. Amy Masse sang like an Angel. The artist Scott LoBaido, with is now famous flag painting was amazing. I hope that they sell copies of that painting. He amazed the entire auditorium with how fast he painted it. What was the song that was playing while he painted?"

The performers included Performing Artist, Scott LoBaido
Emmy Award Winning Acoustic Guitarist, Kevin Briody
Singer, Amy Masse
Danbury High School’s Madrigals
Rogers Park Middle School Chorus
Western Connecticut State University’s Wind Ensemble.

Nancy said, "It was a wonderful service. i thought the blend of faith speakers, government, first responders, and music and art was extremely effective. I have to believe that gatherings such as this, with such outpouring of love and positive energy, help to counteract with light the darkness of which the rabbi spoke. And by the way, I found his remarks to be completely amazing; I was incredibly impressed with what he had to offer us."

Scheduled to speak were Clive Calver, Walnut Hill Community Church Senior Pastor, Faith Church Pastor Frank Santoro, United Jewish Center Rabbi Clifford E. Librach.

The gathering was a way for the people of Bethel, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Danbury, New Fairfield, New Milford, Newtown, Redding, Ridgefield and Sherman to come together in this time of need to support Newtown.

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Soccer May 20, 2013 at 06:27 pm
g, Let's throw out some more numbers... Here is a site to look at:Read More http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/PDF/dgm/report1/basiccon.pdf This is the Connecticut State Department of Education Bureau of Grants Management spreadsheet. It shows and compares what Danbury is paying per student compared to the rest of the state. Looking at the numbers, out of the 170+ districts in the state, Danbury pays the 8th LEAST amount per pupil. Out of the 10 districts in Connecticut that have over 10,000 students, Danbury ranks 2nd LOWEST in the state. This amount is about $3,000 less per pupil than the average of the state and the average of districts with 10,000+ students.
g May 20, 2013 at 01:33 pm
Good afternoon Jessica, Danbury plans to spend approximately $114,000,000 on teaching staff salaryRead More and benefits for the next school year per the school budget here - http://www.danbury.k12.ct.us/bbadmin/Budget/2012-2013%20budget.pdf the total budget is $121,000,000. Teachers, administrators, contracted professionals, staff enrichment programs, staff insurance, and the rest comprise about 95% of the school system budget. See staff cost summary on page 8 of the report. You'll also note our board of education plans to spend a bit more than 3 million dollars on supplies and materials plus a million on equipment. The budget represents a 5% increase from the prior year. On our district home page - http://www.danbury.k12.ct.us/ it says Danbury has 10,300 my calculator tells me that's about $12,000 per child in the district. With $12,000 per child, why are teachers paying for supplies? Hmm ... let me think ... 95% of the budget goes to staff salary and benefits for the long 185 day year .... I have a guess where the money goes. Do you?
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You should invite all the spics to the lake to go swimming. The Squantzter is usually hungry thisRead More time of year.