Connecticut
Sunflowers for wishes
July 17, 2024 5:23 pm
• Last Updated: July 17, 2024 8:32 pm
Griswold ― A preview was held Wednesday to promote the Make-A-Wish Connecticut’s Sunflower for Wishes event at Buttonwood Farm that runs from July 20 to July 28.
The event takes place on 14 acres owned by the Button family where more than 300,000 flowers will be harvested. The money raised from the event is used to make making wishes come true for Connecticut children. Over the past 21 years, the organization has raised $1.9 million to provide 194 wishes.
Buttonwood Farm is known for its homemade ice cream that is sold at the farm.
A 17-year-old student at West Hartford Public Schools was pronounced dead on Tuesday after a double shooting in Hartford on Sunday, police said.
Officers were in the area of Ann Street around 1:49 a.m. Sunday when they heard gunfire. They immediately responded and found Camden Seigel at the scene with gunshot wounds. He was listed in “extremely critical condition,” according to police. Hartford Police said he was later pronounced dead on Tuesday.
While officers were still at the scene, a man in his twenties, who was also shot, arrived at a local hospital in a private vehicle. He is in critical, but stable condition at the hospital, police said.
Paul Vicinus, superintendent of West Hartford Public Schools, identified Seigel as a student in the district. Vicinus said that a group of WHPS students were “tragically caught in the crossfire” of the shooting.
“In moments like this, the strength of a community is measured not only by its response, but by its care for one another,” Vicinus said in a statement Sunday morning. “We will move forward together with empathy, compassion, and an unwavering commitment to the well-being of our children.”
The Hartford Police Department’s Major Crimes Division and Crime Scene Division are investigating the shooting, which remains ongoing.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Hartford Police Tip Line at 860-722-TIPS (8477).
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