Additional Hall Rental info

Any one wishing to obtain more information about renting the hall can contact Sue Rafferty @ 203-881-5467 if you are unable to contact Frank or Ann Conroy @ 203-888-6968. Thanks

Christmas Festival work party thanks!

Good morning everyone! Big thanks to the group that came out yesterday to begin turning our beloved Legion Pool into a “WINTER WONDERLAND”! I can’t believe just how much we got done in one day! There is still much to be done to prepare for a visit from Seymour Land Trust’s special friend Santa. Most of the lights are working and have been installed, we just need to hook them up. If we have any electricians out there we could use your help. Also, many tasks during the event need to be spoken for such as; baking (Santa loves his cookies), preparing hot chocolate in the kitchen and staffing the food booth, help setting up the fireworks (need about 6 capable workers with hammers), security and some helpers for Santa. We will also need a crew to help clean up after Santa leaves. If you can do any of these things or anything else, please feel free to give me (Joe Grabinski) a call @ 203-641-1819. Thanks! Joe Grabinski

Christmas Festival work party

Like the song says, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year”. Yes, it’s the “Holiday season” and time for our annual Christmas Festival, in less than a month, on December 12th. Lots of preparation is needed for that event and it all starts this Saturday, November 21st at 9 am. We will have a brief meeting followed by a work party sorting through our decorations and lights and then decorating the park. Anyone interested in helping out is encouraged to come lend a hand whether it’s 5 minutes or 5 hours or anything in between. Nothing is better than seeing the amazement in a kid’s face (both young and old) while they watch our winter fireworks followed by a visit by Seymour Land Trust’s special friend Santa. Come join the fun this Saturday from 9 am to 2 pm as we begin to transform our beloved park into a winter wonderland. Thanks!

Halloween Festival Update

The Halloween Festival's Pumpkin Patch for kids will be happening today Oct 17th from 1pm to 4pm. The forecast of heavy rains later today and tomorrow the 18th forces the postponment of the Haunted Trails until Sunday Oct 25th. See you all then!!

Halloween Festival

This year's halloween festival will be held on Saturday October 17th 7-10pm haunted trails. Time to be determined for pumpkin painting. Details will be announced when they are available. We still need people to set up scary scenes along the trails. Any one wishing to participate please email Alex Danka- alexdanka@sbcglobal.net. Come be a part of the fun!

Tag Sale

We will be holding our tag sale fund raising event on Saturday October 3rd. Please email Sue Rafferty suzi.rafferty@sbcglobal.net for details. Details will be available on line here as soon as they are available.

Pumkin Festival

Seymour Land Conservation Trust will be at the Pumpkin Festival this year again Sept 20th, rain date Sept 27th. There will be a meeting on Sept 8th at 7pm for volunteers. Call Ann Conroy 888-6968 if you would like to help out.

Tee Shirts for sale

We have a limited supply of tee shirts for sale with the land trust logo. Show your support and purchase one (or two). They are only $12 each. Please call or email Alex Danka if you are interested. 881-3400 or alexdanka@sbcglobal.net Thanks!

Thanks, Tim!

A big Thanks to Tim Boroski for helping with the website this year! Good Job Tim!

Volunteer meeting on August 24th.

We are working on having a tag sale this fall. This will be a fund raising event. We need participants and volunteers. Any one looking to be involved is asked to come to this meeting. We are also trying to put together a bocee league at the Veterans Park. Any one interested in just playing bocce for fun is welcome to come to this meeting. The next meeting will be held on August 24th at the Henry Hamel environmental center. Please call Sue Rafferty for more information on the tag sale 881-5467. Call Frank Conroy at 888-6968 for the bocce games.

Seymour Land Trust’s Movie Nights and Cruise Nights

We are having movie nights(flyer) and cruise nights (flyer) through out the summer. Anyone interested in getting involved or bringing a car to the cruise night please contact Jim Rafferty at 881-5467. Thanks. The cruise night flyers handed out to the schools had the third date listed wrong . It should be August 14th not July 14th. Movies have a tentative start time of 8:30pm. The cruise nights are 6 to 9 pm. The cruise night on July 17th and July 31st was cancelled due to the weather. See you on August 29th. Don't forget, movie nights are continuing throughout September. 5th, 12th 19th, 26th. Email Alex Danka alexdanka@sbcglobal.net or Jim Rafferty james.rafferty@sbcglobal.net with suggestions on what YOU would like to see. G or PG rated only. Or fill out the suggestion form and drop it off or mail it to us.

Seymour Land Trust’s Annual membership meeting

Seymour Land Conservation Trust will hold it's annual meeting for it's membership on Monday July 20, 2009 at 7pm at the Henry Hamel Environmental building. All are welcome!

Seymour Land Trust’s Scholarship Award

At the High School Award Night the Land Trust environmental conservation scholarship was award to Jessica Boroski for $500.

Seymour Land Trust’s 19th Annual Fishing Festival

Friday night and all day Saturday the volunteers at the Seymour Land Trust did a fantastic job AGAIN as they conducted their 19th Annual Fishing Festival Legion Pool. Hundred of children from 5 years old to 90 enjoyed both beautiful weather and a pool filled with 800 new and cooperative brook, rainbow, brown and other types of trout. The fisher-men, and fisher-girls had a wonderful time catching and releasing fish all day on Saturday. Friday evening hosted an informative 1/2 hour of discussion with the anxious participants before they were allowed to help stock and then catch some of the fish. Saturday was the big day when anglers started to arrive as early as 7:30 AM in anticipation of catching "the really big one" (a 28" rainbow that would have qualified the lucky person for a $500 prize, or $1,000 if they were a member of the Land Trust. Unfortunately, the wiley one is still swimming in the pool. But many members of his family contributed to the enjoyment of the event.

You can watch approximately 1 hour of the informative talk as well as pictures of the kids, parents and volunteers in action. The Seymour Democratic Town Committee volunteered its web site and the following link will get you to hosts the video for your downloading. In time, the Land Trust will have the link on its web site as well.

Please click on the following link to get you to file for downloading:

Fishing Festival Video

- once you are connected, click on the "democracy on demand" link -- then choose the "DoD" link showing "Fishing Festival". A message will ask you if you want to run or save the video file on your computer. The file is approximately 1 GB and will be placed in your "temp" folder unles you want to save it. You then choose a file to save it in, or create a new file, say LegionPool, to save it in for future screenings. It should take approximately 20/30 minutes to download depending on the speed of your computer. Have fun! Just a reminder

The video for the Land Trust Fishing Festival will be shown on Comcast Cable 10, on Thursday, May 28th at 8:00 PM.

Thanks to Frank Loda for filming the video!

Seymour Land Trust’s 19th Annual Fishing Festival

This year’s annual fishing event, in memory of William “Bill” Melson, will be held on Friday, May 15th and Saturday, May 16th, 2009. On Friday, there will be an education class from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Environmental Building. On Saturday, May 16th, 2009 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. there will be a fishing event for children 3 to 16 years of age.There will be an afternoon program for special needs individuals from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 16th, 2009.  View Details

Bus trip to Mohegan Sun ----CANCELLED-----

There will be a bus trip to Mohegan Sun on Saturday, June 6 - leaving at 4:00 p.m. from the old middle school. Any questions, call Alex Danka on his cell phone at 464-4345. ----CANCELLED-----

Financial/ Investment Educational Seminar being offered to Seymour Land Trust members - free, no obligation

These are very trying times. Individuals are experiencing tremendous losses in their portfolios , retirements are being postponed, college educational accounts are evaporating and retirees are cutting back on their expenses. Brian Barrett, a life time member and financial advisor with Smith Barney will be discussing the current investment environment and offer some viable alternatives. Where is the economy going from here and what investments look attractive moving forward? We will discuss principal protected investments, income generation, annuities and much more.. Brian has more than 30 years experience in the financial industry and will also have another guest speaker from Prudential Securities. All these topics and any questions you have will be discussed Wednesday evening April 29,2009 at 6:30PM at Seymour Land Trust, Environmental Building at Legion Pool, 13 Chatfield Street, Seymour,Ct. 06483.

Short Hikes and Walks in Seymour

Seymour Land Trust is putting together a booklet that has a list of trails, hikes and walks in Seymour that can be of interest to anyone looking to explore the area. If you know of any short walks or hikes that you enjoy, please tell us and we will include them in our booklet. E-mail Ron Skurat raskrat@snet.net with your suggestions. Thanks!

Seymour Land Trust’s Annual Meeting

This year’s annual meeting will be held on Monday April 20th, 2009 at 7:00pm. Carol S. Blake from the Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo will be giving a talk on amphibians. All are welcome!

Seymour Land Trust Work Parties at Legion Pool

Every Saturday (weather permitting) during the months of April and May we will be asking members to join us in sprucing up our park. From 8 a.m. to approx. 1 p.m. we will be sweeping, raking, cleaning, repairing, painting, staining and all the other things necessary to restore our Legion Pool to it’s peak beauty. It’s been a long hard winter and we have a lot of work that needs to be done. Many of you have expressed a desire to have a more active role in our organization, here is your chance and we NEED you! No registration or commitment, do what you can when you can, JUST SHOW UP!

Here is a list of 2009 Projects we will be working on.

Each Saturday morning we will have someone a Legion Pool to provide you with our tools or if you prefer, you can bring your own as some folks did on Saturday, April 4th. If fact, if there are some simple things you would like to do during the week, feel free to help out when you can.

For any questions, please call Joe Grabinski (203-641-1819) or Alex Danka (203-464-4345)

Thanks!

Bocce Ball League is forming

We have been working to complete the bocce ball court at the old VFW park. By May we are hoping to have a league put together. If you are interested in becoming a member of the league or just playing, please contact Frank Conroy at 203-888-6968,

April Board Meeting

There will be a board meeting of on Thurs April 2nd, 2009 at 7pm.

Addition Construction

The construction of the addition to the environmental building is proceeding. View the work being done.

Read the recap of 2008 news and events.