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CampHorizonsNews(Oct15)-HOR120_Rev_HorizonsNewOct15 10/16/15 9:25 AM Page 2 Chris McNaboe — Chief Executive Officer Kathleen McNaboe — Organizational Manager October 2015 Vol. 36 No. 2 Neil Gonda heroically mounting his horse with a little help from Michael Krywonis and Mario Perez courageously confronting his friends legislators in the face of state budget cuts, with James Oliver and Tyler Prochnik There are countless heroes at Horizons! Every day individuals are given opportunities to be the heroes they truly are! Marisa Blum powerfully mastering drill skills with Hailey Baker and Steve Daly Sarah Markowitz and Lewis Saloman enthusiastically rocking the Matt LoMonaco intently creating his string and letter monogram house with David Foster & the Shaboo All-Stars block with apprentice Chris Russo EVERYDAY HEROES EVERYDAY CampHorizonsNews(Oct15)-HOR120_Rev_HorizonsNewOct15 10/16/15 9:25 AM Page 3 Heroes for 30 Years It was 1985 when both Steve Schneidermeyer and Mike Popp began their careers at Horizons. What’s their secret? “Relationships are key,” says Supported Employment & Options manager Mike, mentor and friend to hundreds of coaches and individuals in Supported Living and Supported Employment & Options over the years. Educational Support Services director Steve recalls an early insight: “I understood this was a mission, Mike Popp not just a job.” Thank you, Mike and Steve, for 30 years of being heroes every day! Steve Schneidermeyer Thank You Connecticut Foundation of Eastern Connecticut & Fisher Foundation for supporting the “Medical Matters for Women & Girls 2014-2015 Project.” Generous grants from these foundations improved quality of life and fostered positive Thank You Adolph & Ruth engagement for women and girls at Schnurmacher Foundation, Inc. summer camp and “Weekends in the & SI Financial Group Country” this year as we were able to Foundation, Inc. & Laurenti purchase specialized medical equipment Thank You SBM Family Charitable Trust & to meet their unique needs. Thank You! Leo J. and Rose Pageau Trust A record number of campers attended for supporting the “Sustaining a Trusted Horizons Summer Camp 2015. Thanks Lifeline 2014-2015 Project.” When a to the “Creative Tool Chest Project” person with a developmental disability funded by the SBM Charitable lives in the family home, the entire family Foundation, they were able to engage routine is arranged to support that with plenty of new program materials, person day in and day out. Weekends from soccer balls to yoga mats to and summer camp at Horizons are a ukuleles to water polo nets. Thank you, true lifeline, giving family members “time SBM! Your generosity helps assure the off” to regroup, rest and live. Thank you continued freshness, variety and overall so much for sustaining this trusted excellence that characterize the lifeline with your wonderful grant support. Horizons summer camp experience. CampHorizonsNews(Oct15)-HOR120_Rev_HorizonsNewOct15 10/16/15 9:25 AM Page 4 It has taken many heroes over the years — players, sponsors, and volunteers — to make the Horizons Golf Tournament the great event it is today. No one has been more important than Karen Parks-Cyr, whose involvement goes back to 1993. She stepped down as chair this year after yet another gorgeous day of golf and friendship August 3rd at The Golf Club at Windham. Thank you for being our golf hero, Karen! And thanks to everyone who took part in this year’s Thank You New Canaan 26th Annual Tournament! We raised over Community Foundation & $40,000 for our Campaign for Campers. The Dionne Fund for Special Needs for supporting “The Keep Swimming and Riding in Summer 2015 Project.” Once again these two Foundations joined forces to ensure campers have the maximum opportunities to experience success and learn new skills at Horizons. Fabulous grant support enabled us to make ongoing improvements and secure the highly qualified talented individuals so critical to carry out the Swimming and Horseback Riding Programs this summer, which are both unique and very popular programs. Thank you, Thank you! Thank You Liberty Bank Thank You Willimantic Rotary Foundation for supporting the Club Foundation “Technology to Enhance Workforce Supported Employment & Options is Skills for High School Students with launching an exciting new Hospitality Special Needs 2015 Project.” This year, program to teach serving skills. Thanks to Horizons has entered into a new a grant from the Willimantic Rotary Club partnership with Eastern Connecticut Foundation, the Horizons kitchen now State University to support area High has more of the tools needed to help School students in special education to future servers learn through real-life learn workforce skills while experiencing experience with professional caterers. A college life at the Eastern campus in big Thank You to Willimantic Rotary Club Willimantic. This unique opportunity Thank You UPS Foundation. was greatly enhanced with a grant for technology from the Liberty Bank Horizons Supported Employment & Foundation. Options crews work at a variety of jobs in our community. One dedicated crew works year round at our on- grounds woodlot operating a firewood delivery business. Recently the woodlot crew’s job got easier as a generous grant from UPS enabled us to attach a much needed permanent, winterized bathroom to their break building. Thank You so very much, UPS, for helping Horizons get better every day! CampHorizonsNews(Oct15)-HOR120_Rev_HorizonsNewOct15 10/16/15 9:25 AM Page 5 Every person who contributes to the Horizons Annual Campaign for Campers is a hero! Below is the list of contributors to the 2014-2015 Campaign for Campers from October1, 2014 to September 30, 2015. Thank you, heroes! Rich & Augusta Turner John D. Morawski # Paul & Betty Butler F F THE Many thanks to all who made a Sally Turner Karen Parks-Cyr & James Carboni Plumbing & new pledge commitment or gift to Rick Cyr # Heating, Inc. HORIZONS Horizons between October 1, Susan & Andrew Rankin F CKS Electrical Construction LEGACY 2014 and September 30, 2015: $2,500-$4,999 Janet Scharr Gochberg Con Serv, Inc. GROUP Donahue General Contracting, Shuley Nakamura Charitable Ann & James Culley Investor Society Inc. # Foundation Thomas Curry, Jr. In celebration of all our loyal $100,000-$299,999 Carol & Hilary Donegan #F Mary & Ed Smith Cyr Woodworking Inc. parents, friends, organizations, F Anonymous Elena Gervino & Kathy Ward Wendell & Margaret Smith Jim & Lorraine DeFreitas F and staff whose lifetime F Joan F. Dionne H.O.P.E. for Youth Foundation, Inc. Foundation Dunkin’ Donuts giving or pledges total Lester E. Foster & Phyllis M. Christy & Bill Keating Robert & Laura Smits Judith Dyer $100,000 or more: F# Foster Foundation Laurenti Family Charitable Trust Soroptimist International of Alan Eugley Liberty Bank Foundation Willimantic David Garside Visionaries Patron Society New Canaan Community William & Robin Spiro Gilbane Building Company $500,000 and up $50,000-$99,999 Foundation Doreen Steele Shelley & Greg Gullette Adam & Jennifer Milne Jeffrey P. Ossen Family Foundation Brewster & Judith Perkins # Russell & Lisa Taylor F Patricia & John Hipp Dr. & Mrs. George Milne SBM Charitable Foundation Probus Club of Greater New United Way of Coastal Fairfield Diana Hodgins Joan F. Dionne, Dionne Haven County Dr. & Mrs Raymond Johnson Diamond Circle Foundation, Inc. & Probus Club of Greater Van Buren Printing # Michael & Wendy Judge $30,000-$49,999 Dionne Fund for Bridgeport Willimantic Rotary Club Matthew Liskom Eastern Connecticut State Special Needs at New Probus Club of Greater Hartford Charitable Foundation Mary McGrath University #F Canaan Community Swindells Charitable Foundation McGrath & McGrath Foundation United Way of Central & Platinum Circle Meehan & Daughters Real Estate Clean Energy Finance & $20,000-$29,999 Northeastern Connecticut $500-$999 & Dev. Investment Authority of F Connecticut State Council of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Wirth Gay & Christopher Adams Charles Morawski CT Columbiettes American Foundation for Louis Nappi Disabled Children, Inc. Blackhaw Fund Ni Design Cornerstone Society $1000-$2,499 Hartford Founation for Public Anonymous Donald F. O’Neill $300,000-$499,999 Barnum Engineered Systems/ Giving Thomas Antonio/Estelle P. Osterman Propane John Campbell & Cavallaro family Johnson Family Foundation Antonio Trust Michael & Maria Pallein Susanna Peyton Mable P. Brady Charitable Trust Art’s Septic Tank Service UPS Foundation Christine Paulson SBM Charitable Carlin Construction Company Larry Barbo Probus Club of Torrington Foundation, Inc. # F Silver Circle LLC Blackledge Country Club PT Custom Carts $10,000-$19,999 Andrea Colabella & Investor Society American Savings Foundation Baraka Stubbs $100,000-$299,999 Margot Haeflich Community Foundation of Blackhaw Fund Adam & Jennifer Milne # Eastern CT Lester E. Foster & Susanna Peyton & Dime Bank Foundation, Inc. Phyllis M. Foster John Campbell # Ted Ducas Foundation Art & Kitty Quirk F Kathryn Dyer Hartford Foundation for Jennifer & Charles Enders F Public Giving Bronze Circle Caroleigh & Win Evarts Lincoln Financial Group $5,000-$9,999 Fisher Foundation, Inc. Foundation, Inc. Dr. Anne Curtis Robert & Barbara Hauser Timothy & Joan Parkos Dionne Fund for Special Needs, William & Judith Hurley Moran & Joan Parkos New Canaan Community Robert Kaufman & Joann Chapel Moran Foundation Fdn. Colin J. Kelleher John H. & Ethel E. Noble Collette, Ronald & George A. & Grace L. Long Charitable