Kent

KENT — Of course it’s important to attend fundraising galas to support area nonprofit organizations, such as the Kent Memorial Library, which is hosting its spring gala this Saturday, June 15, 5 to 8 p.m.
The Kent library is a particularly active and interesting one, with not only a large collection of books and other media but also a full calendar of activities that bring the community together. The fundraiser helps make these activities possible.

KENT — Enthusiasm mingled with sweat as beams were raised at the site of the Center for Innovation (CFI) campus of South Kent School on Friday, May 31.
Headmaster Andy Vadnais explained that this experimental campus is the school’s way of modernizing education to best serve the school’s students. The traditional classroom education will still be offered at the main campus, but the CFI campus will be where ideas and theories are made physical.

KENT — The art show on display at the Kent Memorial Library gives new meaning to the concept of “mixed media.” Several of the artists who contributed work to “Portraiture: From Master to Protégé” are professional writers as well as talented painters.
As writers, they use their observational skills and their insights into people to create portraits with words. In this show, they are presenting similarly deft and detailed portraits, but on canvas, in paint.

First Selectman Bruce Adams, at far left in photo, and the Rev. Richardson Schell of Kent School, Arthur Goodearl of the Marvelwood School and Andrew Vadnais of the South Kent School had a formal signing on May 24 of an agreement for the three private schools to contribute $20,000 each for two years to the town to help pay for the cost of having a resident state trooper in town. The document was signed at the Kent Senior Center, where the three schools have been providing Friday lunches for the past three years. Adams called it “an important and historical day in the town of Kent.”