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VSAAC Presents 2006 Valley Community
Champions Awards & Recognition Breakfast
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 VSAAC
held its first Valley Community Champions Breakfast and Award
Recognition Event on November 17th at John J.
Sullivan’s Restaurant in Ansonia. The event honored several
Valley citizens who have “taken action and effected change to
help prevent substance abuse in the Valley community.”
Cathi Kellett,
Girl Scout Troop 290 Leader/Program Coordinator for Griffin
Hospital’s Valley Parish Nurse Program; Marlene Anderson, Oxford
resident/Board of Education Employee; and Richard Kearns,
Seymour resident/Seymour Public Schools Director of Security
were this year’s Community Champions Award recipients. Girl
Scout Troop 290 members Calli Kellett, Sarah Kutash, Kaite
Roberts, and Brittany Ruggiero also received special
recognition. “We are so excited about the awards and the
positive response that we received from the community in
participating in the nomination process,” said Pamela Mautte,
Director of VSAAC. “The work that is being done to help prevent
substance abuse, on the grass-roots, community level, is so
critical to our efforts to keep our kids safe from tobacco,
alcohol and drug abuse – and these awards will help spotlight
and applaud those efforts.”
The Valley
Community Champions Awards were supported on a national level by
General Mills. As the makers of Wheaties cereal, General Mills
created special memorial Wheaties cereal boxes featuring
pictures of each award winner. In addition to the awards
ceremony, the breakfast event also featured David Pease as the
main speaker. Many Valley residents will remember Mr. Pease,
who lost two sons to alcohol-related incidents, as a guest
panelist at VSAAC’s much heralded Town Hall Meeting this past
spring.
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