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There's nothing like coming together as a community to achieve a common goal.

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MAYOR ELICKER TO JOIN SUNRISE CAFÉ AT ITS GRAND REOPENING SERVING FREE BREAKFASTS TO NEW HAVEN HOMELESS AND HUNGRY RESIDENTS

Free meals and support services offered Monday to Friday 7:30 am – 9:30 am

NEW HAVEN, CT – On Wednesday, April 27^th at 8 am, Mayor Justin Elicker and City officials join Sunrise Café to celebrate its grand reopening and return to indoor seating at 57 Olive Street (corner of Olive and Chapel Streets), and will serve with Café staff and volunteers as they provide free breakfasts to New Haven homeless and hungry residents.

 SUNRISE CAFE a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that has been serving breakfast without charge since 2015 -- Monday to Friday 7:30 am to 9:30 pm -- providing an indoor dining experience of “white tablecloths, flowers and a rotating menu of fresh, warm, nutritious home-cooked food”. Sunrise Café “provides a safe space for New Haven’s food insecure and unhoused to rest, have conversations and prepare for the day’s challenges with a full stomach… and is also the entry point for housing, mental and physical health, and job placement services provided at the Cafe by partner organizations.”

DETAILS:

WHAT:  Mayor Elicker to attend and volunteer at Sunrise Café’s grand reopening and return to indoor seating of free breakfasts for New Haven’s homeless and hungry residents.

WHEN: Wednesday, April 27^th at 8 AM

WHERE: St. Paul & St. James Church, 57 Olive Street, New Haven (Corner of Olive & Chapel)

WHO: Mayor Elicker and Sunrise Café staff, volunteers and guests

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The Center for Disability Rights, with the Department of

Health & the Emergency Broadband Program, is offering FREE TABLET DAY! This is on a FIRST COME – FIRST SERVED basis.

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday May 9, 2022, at Center for Disability Rights, 369 Highland Ave., West Haven.

BRING WITH YOU
* Picture ID
* Verification/proof of CT state program (EBT/MEDICAID CARD)
* Income Verification (SS letter, YTD pay stub)
* $11 Activation fee

WHAT YOU WILL GET
* A new tablet with 1 year Wi-Fi included

ELIGIBILITY
* CT Residents on Husky, Medicaid/T-19, SNAP/WIC & SSI
* Individuals with less than $45,000/yr. income
* 1 tablet per consumer

CITY OF NEW HAVEN TO DISTRIBUTE 5000 FREE AT-HOME RAPID TEST KITS AND MASKS AT ALL CITY LIBRARIES ON MONDAY AND THURSDAY

*** CORRECTION: On Thursday, April 28^th, the distribution time for free COVID-19 at-home rapid test kits and masks will be 12 noon to 2 PM at all New Haven public libraries. (The previous media advisory stated the time incorrectly in one location.

Mayor Elicker & Health Director Bond to kick-off and assist with test kit distribution at the Stetson Library on Monday at 10 am

NEW HAVEN, CT – The City of New Haven with distribute 5,000 free COVID-19 at-home rapid test kits and masks during two citywide distribution events occurring at all five branches of the New Haven Free Public Library on Monday, April 25^th and Thursday, April 28^th. Mayor Justin Elicker and Health Director Maritza Bond will help kick-off and assist with the distribution of the test kits and masks at the Stetson Branch (197 Dixwell Ave) on Monday at 10 AM.

On Monday, distribution will take place between 10 AM to 12 PM at the Ives, Fair Haven, Stetson and Wilson Libraries, and between 12 PM to 2 PM at the Mitchell Library. Thursday’s distribution is scheduled between 12 to 2 PM at five library branches. New Haveners must present proof of residency in order to receive the test kits.

“While cases of severe illness are down, the uptick in cases associated with the highly transmissible BA.2 variant means we can’t let our guard down, especially amidst the recent relaxing of mask requirements,” said Mayor Justin Elicker. “It’s critical that New Haveners continue to have free and convenient access to COVID-19 tests so that they can protect themselves, their families, and their neighbors. We’re glad that these 5,000 free at-home rapid test kits can be made available to New Haven residents at our public libraries.”

“We know it can be challenging at times to access test kits at a pharmacy or get to a testing site at the first sign of symptoms or when exposure to someone testing positive is suspected,” said New Haven Health Director Maritza Bond. “We hope having one of these rapid test kits at home will break down those barriers and provide for the early intervention we need to stop the spread of this virus, especially among those who are still unvaccinated, particularly children under age 5, the immunocompromised, or those otherwise at-risk of contracting COVID-19.”

EVENT DETAILS:

Calling all models! Runway model casting calls will be held at Graduate New Haven Hotel on April 23 & May 7 from 1-4pm. Arts & Ideas is seeking a diversity of sizes and genders to walk the runway for this Fashion Expo. Casted models will be paid.

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Visit the second floor of the New Stetson Branch Library and take in the breathtaking artwork of local artist Katro Storm, Carl Van Vechten’s Harlem Heroes portrait collection, “O, Write My Name”, and African Artwork donated by the Yale University ~ Peabody Museum, New Haven, Connecticut. Our thanks to Gabe Da Silva and The Frame Shop & Da Silva Gallery.

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Collage featuring Carl Van Vechten’s Harlem Heroes portraits, artist Katro Stom’s paintings hung on a green wall above the library’s teen fiction collection, a portrait of Trayvon Martin by artist Katro Strom hung outside the Teen Discovery Lounge of Stetson Library, and African artwork hung on the walls among Stetson Library’s African Diaspora Non-Fiction collection.]

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