WEST HAVEN - A Country Harvest Fair will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 6 at First and Wesley United Methodist Church, 89 Center St.
A pancake breakfast will be held as part of the fair from 8 to 10:30 am.
Lunch is from 11:30 a.m. to 1 pm.
A ziti and meatball dinner will be served at 5 p.m. The meal is $8 for adults and $4 for children, with no charge for children younger than 5.
The fair will include craft booth, baked goods, jewelry booth, plants, cookie walk, tag sale, used books and more.
For more information, call 203-933-8795

The Fairfield Public Library will hold a technology workshop on “The Hidden Google” at 7 p.m Nov. 18.
The session will be held in the Rotary Room, 1080 Old Post Road, officials said in a statement.
Instructor Alan Weaver is the owner of The Big Picture, a web design and hosting firm, as well as an adjunct instructor of business and technology courses at Housatonic Community College, the statement said.
He "will discuss the many tools within Google, including cloud computing features such as the online calendar, how to use Google Earth and literally put yourself on the map, and the variety of Google business services and products that are available, including free websites," the statement said.
Register for this event online at www.fairfieldpubliclibrary.org, or call 203-256-3160.
Seating is limited, so register today. All events at the Fairfield Public Library are free of charge.
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NEW HAVEN — Gateway Community College will hold student job fairs 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 26, and Thursday, Oct. 28, in the cafeteria of its Long Wharf campus at 60 Sargent Drive.The fairs are open to GCC students and alumni.Participants are encouraged to bring their resumes with them.Participating employers will accept applications and may conduct interviews on-site for full- and part-time openings, as well as internships.Employers who are scheduled to attend the events include: Verizon Wireless, Frito-Lay, IKEA, Universal Life/ING, Guilford Savings Bank, Wal-Mart and others.The events are being held by GCC’s Career Services Office.For more information, contact Michael V Buccilli, MSW, director of career services at GCC, at 203-285-2144 or mbuccilli@gwcc.commnet.edu.

The event will help local animals


Wags & Whiskers will hold the group's annual haunted house for the animals from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m. Oct. 31 at 242 First Ave. in West Haven.
Participants will have a chance to help Wags & Whiskers with its largest fundraiser of the year and have fun doing it, organizers said.
Volunteers are needed to help man the Haunted House including monsters, escorts, security, make-up, costumes, and props.
Check out the website at www.terroronfirstave.com or e-mail info@terroronfirstave.com for more information.
Hardware supplies and candy donations also being accepted.

You'll be in good company if you do

The Orange Land Trust, in conjunction with the South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority, will hold a Fall Guided Walk on Oct. 30.
Participantas will meet at 9:30 a.m. at the Race Brook Tract parking area on Race Brook Road in Orange, organizers said. The site is just north of Route 34.
The Land Trust has arranged for a bus to take the group to the Maltby Lakes, also on Route 34, organizers said.
There, a guide from the RWA will be ready to lead the walk through the Maltby Lakes area, sharing information and teaching about its natural assets. The walk will then proceed through to the Race Brook Tract, explaining the interrelationship and history of the two areas, organizers said.
The easy to moderate walk should take about two hours. The walk will end at the Race Brook Tract parking area, organizers said.
The rain date is Nov. 13. All are welcome, and please bring a friend.
For information, call Judy at 203-799-6321.

BRIDGEPORT – On Wednesday, Oct. 27, Housatonic Community College students will have the opportunity to attend a panel discussion on careers in Criminal Justice and business, the school said in a statement.
Panelists will include Adult Probation Officer Eileen Marano; Blanca L. Kazmierczak, vice president, customer service manager, People’s United Bank; Atty. Leticia Crespo; Audra Wilder, Director of Marketing, GE Credit Union; Dr. Stephen M. Brown, Professor of Management, John F. Welch College of Business, Sacred Heart University; and Terrence P. Dwyer, Assistant Professor, Legal Studies, Division of Justice and Law Administration, Western Connecticut State University.
The event will begin at 11 a.m. in the Events Center in Beacon Hall.

One of the largest food pantries in Stratford, in 2009 the pantry provided food for more than 7,000 people, and food for more than 62,000 meals, the agency said in a statement.

The pantry also provided new back packs with school supplies to more than 300 children this September.

Last year the pantry provided all the fixings for a complete Thanksgiving meal to more than 200 families

The pantry now has a new storage room for food renovated by a local Eagle Scout and is asking the public to help fill it. The following food items are needed: Canned soups, vegetables, fruits, tuna, chicken and ham. Also, single serving items such as ravioli, corn beef hash, chili, rice items (white rice, Rice A Roni), instant mashed potatoes, hot and cold cereals, peanut butter & jelly, crackers pasta and pasta sauce.

For more information call Ray O’Donnell, food pantry manager at Sterling House; 203-378-2606, Ext. 110 or rodonnell@sterlinghousecc.org

Thirty-eight works from one of the country’s most ambitious collection of Jewish artists, amassed over five decades by Sigmund R. Balka, will be on display through January at Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek in Chester.
The opening of the exhibit, including a reception and a talk by Balka, will take place at 2 p.m. Oct. 10.
Artists represented include: Saul Raskin, renowned illustrator, engraver and etcher; hyper-realist Max Ferguson, whose etching, “My Father in the Empire State Building,” is an example of master craftsmanship; and groundbreaking female artists Selma Bluestein and Ruth Leaf, organizers said in a statement.
The exhibit, co-sponsored by the synagogue and the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, "brings together paintings, drawings, prints and photographs that reflect and record impressions of Jewish life and culture during the golden age of creativity," the statement said.
“I am enormously grateful to Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek for their vision in making it possible for many of us to view the distinguished Sigmund Balka Collection," Jewish Federation CEO Sydney A. Perry said in the statement. "The artists that the collector so carefully chose for his collection allow us to view 200 years of Jewish history. The paintings, prints and graphics provide us with the major themes of the past two centuries of Jewish life... tradition, worship, assimilation, immigration, the struggle for human rights and social justice and the Shoah.
“The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven is proud to co-sponsor this event with CBSRZ. It is a unique opportunity to see these works of art and to contemplate the visual memory of the experiences and values of the Jewish people. It is truly a gift to our community.”
The works on display are from a collection housed at the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion. Laura Kruger, the collection’s curator, who will speak at the opening, said, “Sigmund Balka recognized that the 20th century was a threshold for Jewish artists. The adherence to the second commandment, ‘Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth,’ kept most observant Jews from creative graphic expression for millennia.
“Persecution, exile, dislocation and economic restrictions added another dimension that stifled creativity. Not until the mid-19th century, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Emancipation of the Jews, did Jewish artists, depicting Jewish subjects, began to make an appearance.
“Virtually all Jewish artists working in America are permanently impacted by their own epic immigration or that of their parents, by the struggle for acceptance in the American culture, the economic devastation of the Great Depression, and the ultimate horror of the Second World War and the Holocaust. The shades and depth of bleak survival differ for each individual, but it is always present in each work. The more joyful scenes have a tentative suggestion of threat, of impermanence. The hope-deprived Holocaust images are despair incarnate…. The artists in this collection are linked together by their heritage and memories.”
Sigmund R. Balka has been associated with Krasdale Foods since 1980, where he is vice president of public and cultural affairs and general counsel. He is director of the Krasdale Galleries in White Plains and New York City, where he has curated more than 100 exhibitions of contemporary art by artists from around the world.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays. Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek is at 55 E. Kings Highway, in Chester. Phone 860 526-8920 for more information, or log on to cbsrz.org.
Shown is: "The Blessing" - by Razel Kapustin (1952)

And that is not just the books

Some of the area's "most stunning and important artwork" will be on display at Pequot Library’s 13th Annual Art Show Gala Fundraiser, "Unlocked: Masterpieces of the Private Collections" on Oct. 15.

"A diverse and deep collection of European and American Masters and Contemporary fine art will be on loan from prominent, local collectors who are generously unlocking the treasures of their collections to support the Pequot Library," library officials said in a statement.

The gala kicks off the weekend art show, which helps underwrite the wide range of programs offered by the library throughout the year, the statement said.
During the Art Show weekend of Oct. 16-17, there also will be an extensive show of art for sale to benefit the library from some of the best galleries in the region, along with “The Best Sellers List” - artists whose work has proven the most popular in past Pequot Library community art shows, the statement said.

“The Art Show is wonderful event where the community can see fabulous art, meet the artists, and support both the arts community and the Library at the same time,” Sissy Biggers, chairwoman of the event, said in the statement.

The galleries that will be part of the show are: the Cooley Gallery of Old Lyme; Southport Galleries, ARC Fine Art LLC; and Barrett Fine Art.

"All are well known throughout the region for offering the very best art in a wide range of styles and taste. There will be surprises and visual treats galore, as their displays will be filled with fine works by both historical and living artists," the statement said.
Among the “Best Sellers” are long time favorites at previous Art Shows such as Miggs Burroughs, Elizabeth Gaynor, Jill Kelly, Jak Kovatch, Karl Soderlund and Eve Stockton, among others. All of the Galleries and ‘Best Sellers’ donate a percentage to the Pequot Library.

“The Art Show Committee has outdone themselves in putting together an ambitious and unique gala on Friday night, selecting our partners from the regional galleries and by inviting community’s most exciting artists,” Dan Snydacker, library executive director said, also in the statement. “The rich and vibrant collections, like so many things at Pequot Library, will pull together diverse interests in the community.”

Members of the committee include Sissy Cargill Biggers, Shawna Barrett, Heather Carey, Phillip Eliasoph, Pina Ferlisi, Allie Kagel, Deborah Foote Kouzoukian, Edward V. Lahey III, Samantha Mooney, William P. Russell, Jr., Courtenay Sicre, and Gertrude Grace Sill.

Also, at 1 p.m. Saturday, a Sculpture Workshop for ‘Tweens and Teens, presented in collaboration with the Fairfield Arts Council, will feature renowned Assemblage Artist, Nina Bentley, the statement said.

Participants will work to produce a unique, sculpted piece by the end of the program. The program is for children fourth grade and up, and registration is required, the statement said.
At 7 p.m., the Greens Farms Academy Jazz Combos and the Julliard Concert Jazz Ensemble will perform the inaugural concert marking the new collaboration between Greens Farms Academy and Julliard, the statement said. This event will take place in Pequot’s Auditorium and the seating area will be surrounded with art from the four galleries participating in the show.
Sponsors of the event include: The Russell Agency, and Petra Construction of North Haven, additional special support has been provided by Mumm Napa, California Caviar, Isabelle et Vincent Fine French Pastries, Connecticut Cottages & Gardens, Diageo, Miller/Coors and Macallan Single Malt.
The show and sale ends with sherry in the library at 2 p.m. Sunday.

“This delightful gathering is now a tradition on Sunday as a social way to end the weekend and a last look at the artworks before they move onto their new homes and, of course, a last chance to buy the remaining art—to support the Pequot Library,” Biggers said, also in the statement.

For more information about the Art Show and Sale, call the Library at 203-259-0346, or visit the website at http://www.pequotlibrary.org/ where tickets for the Gala Fundraiser, priced at $125 per person, can be purchased directly. The rest of the Art Show is free and open to all. Hours for the weekend show are noon to 9 p.m. Oct. 16 and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 17.

The library is at 720 Pequot Ave.

Photos: "Penny Candy" by Stevan Dohanos of Westport for the Saturday Evening Post and “Reflections on the Scream” by Roy Lichtenstein

MILFORD — The registrars of voters will register voters 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 16 and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 26 at the registrars of voters office, Parsons Government Center, first floor, 70 W. River St.
Deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 2 state and federal election is 8 p.m. Oct. 26.
Any U.S. citizen 18 years of age or older, who is a bona fide resident of Milford is eligible to register to vote in the city.
Mail-in voter registration forms must be completed and mailed back to the registrars of voters by Oct. 19.
For information, call 203-783-3240.