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TOWN OF WOODBRIDGE COMMUNITY LINKS Amity Regional School District Woodbridge School District (Beecher Road School) Woodbridge Town Library Aquatic Club of Woodbridge
Boy Scout Troop #63
Boy Scouts of America - Troop #41
Boy Scout Troop #907
Cub Scout Pack #902
Chamber of Commerce - Woodbridge/Bethany
Child Care Providers
Community Garden - Woodbridge
District Animal Control
Friends of the Woodbridge Library
Garden Club of Woodbridge
Historical Society - Amity/Woodbridge
Humane Society - Connecticut
Land Trust - Woodbridge
League of Women Voters - Amity
Lions Club International - Woodbridge
Places of Worship
Pyramid Temple Shriners - The Shrine of North America
Quinnipiack Valley Health District
Rotary Club - Woodbridge
Soccer League - Woodbridge
Veterans of Foreign Wars
WGAT/GATVOC
Women of Woodbridge
Women's American ORT - Central Connecticut Region
Woodbridge Fathers Baseball League
Woodbridge Park Association
Woodbridge/Bethany Business Council of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce
Woodbridge Soccer Club
Aquatic Club of Woodbridge
Dave Reilly (203) 458-2494
The Woodbridge Aquatic Club encourages boys/girls, 6-17 years of age to join its swim team. Members participate in competitive swimming at either or both the NUTMEG League and United States Swimming Level.
Woodbridge Fathers Baseball League
Dwight Rowland (203) 397-8584
The Woodbridge Fathers Baseball League (WFBL), founded in 1972, is affiliated with Babe Ruth League Inc. This is a Program of serving our Youth and is geared to provide an outlet of healthful activity and training under good leadership in the atmosphere of wholesome community participation.
The objective of the WFBL is to provide a supervised program of Baseball (both learning and competitive) under the rules and policies of the Babe Ruth League. It is dedicated to implant in our children (ages 5-18 as of April 30th,2005) the ideals of good sportsmanship, loyalty, courage, sense of teamwork, honesty and the respect for authority so that they may be well adjusted, stronger, happier individuals who will grow to become good, decent, healthy and trustworthy citizens. This Program will strive to instill within the individual a goal thereby helping to enrich their lives toward the day when they must take their place in the world ... Registration is held during the month of January - to learn more about the WFBL and the benefits it offers our children, please visit our web site at www.woodbridgefbl.com for updates.
Boy Scouts of America - Troop #41 at Congregation B'nai Jacob
Boy Scout Troop #63
Mike Walter (203) 298-9273 John Dwan (203) 389-8494 Bob Tucker (203) 387-1984
This is a Bethany, Orange, Woodbridge Troop. Every November the Troop holds a Christmas tree and wreath fund-raising sale at the Woodbridge Fire House. The goal of Troop 63 is to produce young men "of fine character, physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight."
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Boy Scouts of America - Troop #907
Nate Case (203) 393-2983
Paul Konwerski (203) 389-9344
Troop 907 is a member of the Boy Scouts of American encompassing the Town of Woodbridge and the surrounding communities of Bethany and Orange. The troop meets at the First Church of Christ in Woodbridge on Thursday evenings from September through mid-June. The goal of scouting in Troop 907 is to raise young adults with good common sense, sound ethics and values, and first-class leadership skills.
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Pack 902 is open to all Woodbridge boy students starting in first grade. Meetings are held during the school year on Friday nights at the Center Road School gym or senior center cafeteria. The Pack is made up of dens of boys that are in the same grade level. Some highlights are the campouts at Camp Whiting here in town, hikes, marching in the parade, earning advancements in rank and doing den projects.
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Woodbridge/Bethany Business Council of The Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce
900 Chapel Street - 10th Floor
New Haven, CT 06510-2865
Phone: (203) 787-6735
Fax: (203) 782-4329
email: jtesta@gnhcc.com
May be contacted for Woodbridge Information
Community Garden - Woodbridge
Andy Stack - (203) 397-0818 The Community Gardens provides residents with plots of Town land on which to grow vegetables, berries, flowers, etc.
District Animal Control
135 Bradley Road, Woodbridge
(203) 389-5991
Emergencies - Call the Police
Hours: Every Day of the Year - 10:00 am - 3:00 pm DAYS: Injured dogs and cats; rabid or sick animal; stray or roaming dogs; any complaint involving a dog, dog bite, cat scratch or bite.
NIGHTS: Dog bites, injured dogs, dogs causing traffic nuisance or public safety problem; rabid or sick wildlife animal with definite human or domestic animal contact. * District Animal Control will NOT come out for: Cats in trees, wildlife complaints (unless rabid or sick).
- Injured deer - call DEP (1-860-424-3333)
- Dead deer - notify Town Highway Dept. or State DOT
- Raptors (birds of prey) and other wild animals - Call DEP
- Animal nuisance complaints (wild animals in house or attic) (203) 393-1050 (Wildlife Hotline)
* Laura Simon rehabilitates wild animals and can advise on wildlife problems: (203) 393-3669
Friends of the Woodbridge Library
Mildred Gibson President (203) 397-1922
The mission of the Friends of the Woodbridge Library is to offer support to the Woodbridge Town Library. The Friends group consists of approximately 20 board members and 600 general members who pay annual dues from $10 to $100. Membership is open to non-residents as well as Woodbridge residents, businesses, and organizations. Through monies raised primarily from membership dues and the operation of a used bookstore, the group helps to provide the Library with funds for children and adult programs, materials, professional development, museum passes, and miscellaneous items that might not otherwise be possible within the Library's budget. The Friends also sponsors two lectures per year which are free and open to the general public - one in October and one in April.
The Friends Used Bookstore is open on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. There are no Saturday hours from July 1st through Labor Day. Donations from the community of gently used books, CDs, videos, and audiotapes are appreciated and are resold to raise funds for the Library. The Friends cannot accept textbooks, magazines, condensed books, or books in poor condition. Tax receipts are available for all donations. Books may be dropped off at the Library or can be picked up at your home. Call Mary Lee Barker at 387-1859 to make an appointment.
Membership envelopes for the Friends are mailed each March to all Woodbridge residents as well as other past members and are always available at the circulation desk of the Library. The Friends of the Woodbridge Library welcomes all and urges you to support the Library through your membership donation.
Garden Club of Woodbridge
Linda Reilly, President - (203) 387-1051
The purpose of the Garden Club of Woodbridge is to promote interest, education and involvement in individual and civic gardening activities including horticulture, flora culture, arrangement of flowers, bird life and conservation. The club has an active Junior program that is open to all children in the community.
Ten meetings are held per year. The club meets at the Town Library, Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Woodbridge at 63 Center Road and at members' private homes. Day meetings are at 11:30 a.m. with educational program at 12:30 p.m. The evening meetings are at 7:00 p.m. with the program at 7:30 p.m.
In addition to educational meetings and field trips, members are involved with civic beautification and have designed and planted and now maintain many of the town gardens. The Garden Club civic beautification committee meets Tuesday, 8:15 a.m. at the town Library Garden throughout the spring, summer and fall seasons.
The Club continues its joint Notable tree project with the Woodbridge Park Association, Inc., which identifies and documents unusual and noteworthy trees in Woodbridge.
The Club is open to all residents of Woodbridge and area towns. Yearly dues are $25. Please contact membership chair Valerie Traumer at (203) 397-8931 for more information. Historical Society - Amity/Woodbridge
Donald Menzies (203) 387-0789
A non-profit organization offering membership to everyone, especially residents of Woodbridge and Bethany. Their purpose is two-fold: (1) preservation of historical material, and (2) education in local history through lectures, field trips and tours of their headquarters, the Thomas Darling House, staffed by volunteer guides.
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Humane Society - Connecticut
George Furphy (203) 393-0150
788 Amity Road
Bethany, CT 06524
The CT Humane Society is an adoption agency and assists Animal Control Offices. Land Trust - Woodbridge
Woodbridge Land Trust Inc.
James Bilotta, President (203) 397-5833
The Woodbridge Land Trust, founded in 1964 exists to conserve and preserve the natural resources of the Town of Woodbridge, including wooded and open land and all other water and mineral and historic sites and location therein for the benefit of the general public and of posterity, and to promote and encourage the education and interest of the public generally in all of the purposes of the Conservation.
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League of Women Voters-Amity
Barbara Pico (203) 397-2723
The League of Women Voters is a national, non-partisan organization whose purpose is to encourage informed and active participation of all citizens in government. Based on thorough study and membership support, the League acts to promote legislation in the public interest. Lions Club International - Woodbridge
P.O. Box 3606 Amity Station, Woodbridge, CT 06525
Robert Fries, President
(203) 397-0180
A service/social club meeting 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month at the Oak Lane Country Club. New members welcome.
Pyramid Temple Shriners - The Shrine of North America
349 Wheelers Farms Road, Milford, CT 06460
Phone: (203) 876-2811
Fax: (203) 876-2791
Operates Shriners' Hospitals for children. Nearest orthopedic hospital: 516 Carew Street, Springfield MA. Nearest burns hospital: 51 Blossom Street, Boston MA. All services are free to all races, religions and sexes to 18 years of age. All services are paid for by the Shrine of North America. For admission, contact any Shriner. All Shriners are Masons.
Quinnipiack Valley Health District
1151 Hartford Turnpike
North Haven, CT 06473
Phone: (203) 248-4528
QVHD serves as the local public health department for Woodbridge and is charged with monitoring and protecting the public's health and well being. Activities include: Enforcement of the CT Public Health Code and certain other laws and ordinances. Providing environmental permits, licenses and inspections for code complying septic systems, wells, swimming pools, food service operations and beauty and nail salons. Conducting nuisance complaint investigations. Providing community health information, screening, surveillance and follow-up for disease prevention and control.
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Rotary Club - Woodbridge
Michael Lohne, President
P.O. Box 4096
Woodbridge, CT 06525
The Woodbridge Rotary Club is a service organization actively engaged in projects in Bethany, New Haven and Woodbridge. Meetings are held every Friday at 12:15 p.m. at Oak Lane Country Club, 1027 Racebrook Road, Woodbridge. Anyone interested in becoming a member should call Michael Lohne at (203) 387-8454. Veterans of Foreign Wars
Lt. G. Bronson Bedworth Post 2871
P.O. Box 3606 Woodbridge
(203) 468-4520
Brian E. Moreland, Post Commander
The VFW is an organization composed of United States Veterans who served the country in time of war in foreign service. It sponsors national and local scholarship contests for Amity Jr. & Sr. High School students - "Voce of Democracy" (for grades 9 through 12) and "Patriots Pen" (grades 6, 7 and 8) and promotes veteran's benefits and political interests as well as performing community service. These services includes placing a flag on all veterans' graves in the three cemeteries in Town and holding town ceremonies on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. They also hold Blind Vets' Bingo at the Veterans' Administration Hospital in West Haven. In addition the Post has available two scholarships for an Amity Senior. The VFW meetings are held the first Monday of every month at the Oak Lane Country Club. New members are welcome.
WGAT/GATVOC
Government Access Television Commission:
Sheila McCreven-Helfenbein
Theresa Burr-Bahner, Co-Chairman
Jonathan Furst
Nancy Polk
Henry Kopel, Co-Chairman
WGATV Coordinator: Pua Ford
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Nancy Cavallaro
(203) 397-1503
A social and civic organization for women residents of Woodbridge and surrounding towns. Activities include varied programs and special interest groups: gourmet and community service. Meetings are held September through April.
Women's American ORT
Central Connecticut Region
P.O. Box 3736
Woodbridge
(203) 393-1884
The organization for educational resources and technological training is a giant international school system. With programs in 60 countries and some 262,00 students in 800 schools, ORT is the largest non-governmental network of vocational and technical training schools in the world. ORT has brought freedom, independence and human dignity to world Jewery for over 120 years. Through education, ORT has enabled millions of people to become productive members of society. Women's American ORT is the largest affiliate and number one source for the World ORT Union.
Woodbridge Park Association Inc.
Christopher Dickerson, President
P.O. Box 3883
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 430-0034
e-mail: cdrunner@yahoo.com
The Woodbridge Park Association is the trustee for the beautiful 93 acre Alice Newton Street Memorial Park with access to the 22-acre Wepawaug Falls tract of the Woodbridge Land Trust. The entrance from the green on Meetinghouse Lane is north of the Woodbridge Town Hall and west of the First Church of Christ Parish House, and is open to all, every day of the year. The Park Association is also improving access to its conservation area on the east side of Newton Road north of Amity High School to Hampton Drive.
The non-profit Woodbridge Park Association, established in 1928 by a donation from Town Clerk Newton H. Street, consists of a 21 member Board of Directors and holds approximately three meetings annually. We are always seeking residents interested in conservation for our board or park maintenance activities. Also, we are strongly interested in acquiring open space conservation land in Woodbridge either through purchase, grant, donation or conservation easement.
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Woodbridge Soccer Club
Randy Foldy, President. www.woodbridgectsoccer.org
Places of Worship
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
990 Racebrook Road
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 387-7799
Congregation B'Nai Jacob (Judaism - conservative)
75 Rimmon Road
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 389-2111
http://www.bnaijacob.org
Minyan (Judaism -orthodox)
Woodbridge Senior Center
4 Meetinghouse Lane
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 389-2988
New Apostolic Church (Independent)
922 Greenway Road
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 397-0834
Our Lady of the Assumption Church (Catholic)
Assumption Chapel
1700 Litchfield Turnpike
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 387-7352
Assumption Church
81 Center Road
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 387-7119
http://www.assumptionchurch.com
The First Church of Christ of Woodbridge (United Church of Christ)
5 Meetinghouse Lane
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 389-2119
www.firstchurchwoodbridge.org
Trinity Evangelical Free Church (Evangelical)
33 Center Road
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 387-4711
www.trinityefc.com Child Care Providers Cabbage Hill Country School Inc.
Virginia Calistro, Director
35 Ansonia road
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 387-8582
Children's Garden Daycare & Early Learning Center
70 Bradley Road
Woodbridge, CT 06525
Contact Person: Holly Rosa
(203) 387-7018
Gan Hayeled Nursery School
Susan Shapiro, Director
75 Rimmon Road
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 389-2111
www.ganhayelednurseryschool.org
The Children's House of Montessori, Inc.
Contact Person: Carolyn Chapman
1666 Litchfield Turnpike
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 397-8178
Trinity Community Pre-School
Sharon Culbertson, Director
33 Center Road
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 387-4710 Ext. 17
www.trinityefc.com Yeladim Childcare Center at the
Jewish Community Center
Gwen Cohen, Director
Lynn Bullard, Assistant Director
360 Amity Road
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 387-2522 Ext. 278 or
(203) 397-7415
www.jccnh.org Woodbridge Child Center, Inc.
Helen Wilson, Executive Director
4 Meeetinghouse Lane
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 389-9118
email address: wcc_ct@sbcglobal.net
The Woodbridge Child Center, Inc. is a nonprofit childcare center formed by parents in 1990. The center is licensed to serve 64 children
ages 6 weeks to 5 years old and is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. WCC is conveniently
located in te center of Woodbridge, adjacent to the Library, Plice and Fire Departments. There is a large enclosed playground. WCC's
ratios and curriculum meet NAEYC standards and the preschool program meets goals and benchmarks established by the Connecticut
Department of Education for children preparing for Kindergarten. For further information, call (203) 389-9118 or send an email.
Woodbridge Co-Op Nursery School
Contact Person: Lori Roy
5 Meetinghouse Lane
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 387-8223
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