STRATFORD - Shelton Artist John Ulatowski is the featured artist for the “Places of Rest,” photography and poetry exhibit that will be the November art display at the Stratford Library, 2203 Main St.

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Ulatowski has displayed his photographs and complementary poetic verse at local libraries in Bridgeport, Easton, Ridgefield, Shelton, Naugatuck, Ansonia, Orange and Milford, as well as Trumbull Town Hall.

His first exhibit was at the Stratford Library in 1995 and it has always remained a special place for him, library officials said in a statement.

The new exhibit is a collection of images of nature, the sea and people taken in and around Connecticut, the statement said. His poetic verses offer the reader a life theme - "a universal sense of a common bond of an image, place or life experience," the statement said.

Ulatowski graduated Sacred Hearth University with a degree in English. He is the author of several children’s short stories and much of his work has been published in a new book, "Places of Rest," available through Blurb.com.

He lives in Shelton and can be reached at jrulatowski@yahoo.com

Viewing hours for “Places of Rest” are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays: and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. The art exhibit, is in the main lobby of the library, runs through Nov. 30. For more information, call the library's Public Relations and Programming Office at 203.385.4162 or visit http://www.stratfordlibrary.org/.

Milford author Elliot Storm will be a panelist for the Hamden Veterans Commission a panel discussion on how and why Americans respond to the call to service in an ever-changing world from 7 to 9 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium located in the Hamden Middle School, 2623 Dixwell Ave., Hamden.

The event is free and the first 150 attendees will receive signed copies of Storm’s novel, "These Scars are Sacred,"compliments of Beecher & Bennett Funeral Service, which also is a sponsor of the event.

Storm, shown, has travelled the country to meet with veterans and others to discuss his book, which focuses on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

The discussion will include local, state and national speakers. The public is invited and veterans and their families are especially welcome to attend the pre-Veterans Day event.
Abner Oakes, Chairman of the Hamden Veterans Commission, said in a statement that, "It is worth pausing to reflect on what our veterans and their families must give in order to serve." In addition to the panel discussion, there will be an audio/visual presentation tracing the national response to military service over the past half-century, organizers said.
"The Hamden community has always honored its veterans and we are especially proud to help in any way we can," Arthur Erickson of Beecher & Bennett said in the statement.

Erickson’s firm has been active in collecting items for soldiers serving overseas and Beecher & Bennett is a certified Veterans and Family Memorial Care Provider, the statement said.
Panelists also will discuss a range of important health care, education and other benefit issues affecting veterans and active duty personnel and there will be opportunities for audience questions to the panelists. Attendees can view a mural, shown above, honoring veterans recently constructed by Hamden Middle School students in the lobby of the auditorium.

MILFORD - There will be a special screening and discussion of HBO’s documentary "The Alzheimer’s Project, Momentum in Science," at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 2 at the Milford Public Library, 57 New Haven Ave.

Momentum in Science outlines scientific developments in Alzheimer’s research, organizers said. It explores the current explosion of knowledge within the scientific and medical communities, from imaging earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease, to understanding roles genetics and lifestyle might play, to progress being made in the effort to develop drugs to treat or even prevent the disease, organizers said.
Maria Tomasetti, Alzheimer’s Association, Connecticut Chapter, will facilitate a discussion following the viewing. For moreinformation or to register for the program, call (203) 230-1777, ext. 14.

The Alzheimer’s Project was created by the award-winning team behind HBO’s acclaimed Addiction project and is presented by HBO Documentary Films in association with the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, the Alzheimer’s Association®, The Fidelity® Charitable Gift Fund, and Geoffrey Beene Gives Back® Alzheimer’s Initiative. The series is Produced by John Hoffman and Executive Produced by Sheila Nevins and Maria Shriver.

A state legislator from Milford is expected to be on hand as Domestic Violence Services of Greater New Haven holds its 10th annual Sound of Hope event from 1 to 2 p.m. Wednesday at Long Wharf Pier in New Haven.

The annual event is free and open to the public, and is held in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month and to commemorate victims and survivors of domestic violence.
Last year, DVS provided emergency shelter, crisis services, counseling, advocacy and other support to more than 7,000 women and children in Greater New Haven, Milford and the Shoreline.
Scheduled speakers for the event include state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal; New Haven Board of Aldermen President Carl Goldfield; state Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford, shown; Tirzah Kemp, of STRIVE New Haven; and Pam Nuchols of Guilford Youth and Family Services, organizers said.
Testimonials from domestic violence survivors are planned, as is a reading of names of state residents who lost their lives to domestic violence in the past year. Participants will receive a flower to throw into the harbor; each flower represents the hopes and struggles of survivors as they work to end violence in their lives, and honors those who died due to domestic violence. The event will culminate with a bagpipe procession and light snack.
For more information about DVS or the event, call 865-1957 or the DVS 24-hour crisis hot line at 789-8104, or visit www.dvsgnh.org. DVS is a program of Birmingham Group Health Services Inc.

MILFORD — The public can recycle electronic equipment for free 8 a.m. to noon Oct. 3 at Fowler Memorial Field behind the Milford Public Library, 57 New Haven Ave.
Acceptable items include computer equipment, including monitors, and appliances such as washing machines, refrigerators and air conditioners. A fee will be charged for television sets: $8 for plastic and $14 for wood. The event is sponsored by the Milford Technology Advisory Council and the Boys and Girls Club.
The volunteer MTAC provides free computers and technical support to United Way organizations. The computers are donated by the Board of Education and refurbished by MTAC. More than 200 computers have been distributed and installed. MTAC also provides computers to city youths who do not have computers at home. MTAC aims to ensure that all low- and moderate-income youths have a computer at home. It also wants to provide free wireless service downtown.
For more details, call Paul Brunelle at 848-7268 or Paul.Brunelle@microsoft.com or Michael Zabinski at 710-5771 or zabinski@fairfield.edu.