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The Fall is coming and children are returning to school, so it must be time for AHNA Board of Directors elections soon. Our Nominations and Governance Committee has sent out notice to AHNA members asking interested people to send us their nominations. We are starting the process earlier than in the past to provide more transparency and more time for AHNA members to learn about the candidates or to decide to run yourself.
Greetings to my friends and neighbors in Asylum Hill!
From the House - Census Reminder
By Representative Matt Ritter
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of responding to the 2020 Census.
Your response shapes decisions about how billions of dollars in federal funds will flow into communities - including Hartford - each year for the next 10 years for critical services like health care clinics, hospitals and emergency services like EMTs and fire departments.
While Asylum Hill is blessed with the most Community Gardens of any Hartford neighborhood, we don't actually have a Farmer's Market located in out neighborhood. We are, however surrounded by them, and they are all less than a 5 minute walk outside of Asylum Hill.
On Sunday August 30, we held our Love your Block Clean Up and Celebration at Grace Lutheran Church in Hartford. More than 45 volunteers came from the Asylum Hill Neighborhood Association, Grace, Trinity and Immanuel Churches and Catholic Charities Asylum Hill Family Center. There were people of all ages, races and religions.
There's been a free food pantry in front of 202 Laurel St for several years now, and it's gotten a lot of use. But it's not the only nourishment that's needed. So September 4th was the day that everything came together, most especially the weather, to allow the installation of the Little Free Library on S. Marshall St. It has been a plan for many months to supplement the occasional "Pop-up" events on South Marshall St that provide food and information along with books, especially the books, to the parents and children who live there.
Asylum Hill Congregational Church is providing Sunday dinner for neighborhood residents from 3 PM - 5PM. The original plan was to continue through the month of August, but because of the response and the need, the dinners are still ongoing. For more information click on the link below.
