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September 4, 2024 By whvoice

Mayor Dorinda Borer and City Council Chairman Nicholas A. Pascale, D-at large, hand out a free backpack to Carrigan Intermediate School seventh grader Zuhaib Shah of Savin Rock Communities’ Spring Heights Apartments on Glade Street on Aug. 23.
Dozens of backpacks are donated by Laborers Local Union 455’s back-to-school backpack program at Savin Rock Communities’ Spring Heights Apartments on Glade Street on Aug. 23. At least 100 backpacks and school supplies were distributed to K-12 students living at the public housing complex. From left, West Haven police crime prevention Sgt. Scott Allard, laborer Jorge Rivas of Laborers Local Union 455 of East Haven, police Sgt. Pat Buturla, West Haven Community House Development Director Alan Olenick, Local 455 laborer Mark Simeoli and office manager Georgette Richardson, Mayor Dorinda Borer, Community House Executive Director Amy Guay-Macfarlane and office/ERSEA assistant Jhoely Castillo, and Local 455 Business Manager and Secretary-Treasurer Andrew T. Inorio.


At least 100 backpacks were distributed days before school opened, part of a community outreach by a local union chapter.

Each containing a pencil bag with a ruler and a pencil sharpener, were donated by Laborers Local Union 455’s back-to-school backpack program and were distributed to K-12 students living at the public housing complex. Each student also received a notebook, and a box of crayons donated by the East Haven-based local, along with coloring books, pencils, water bottles and T-shirts given out by Sgt. Pat Buturla and crime prevention Sgt. Scott Allard on behalf of the West Haven Police Department.

Other backpacks benefited the West Haven Community Hose’s McKinney-Vento Homeless Students Case Management Program. The giveaway was organized by Andrew T. Inorio, the local’s business manager and secretary-treasurer. Inorio was assisted by office manager Georgette Richardson and laborers Jorge Rivas and Mark Simeoli.

Other participants included Community House Executive Director Amy Guay-Macfarlane, Development Director Alan Olenick and office/ERSEA assistant Jhoely Castillo, as well as Kiara Davila, Savin Rock Communities’ assistant resident services coordinator. The Community House officials also enrolled preschoolers in the social service agency’s Head Start program at 227 Elm St. for the new school year.

(City Photo/Michael P. Walsh)

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