Connecticut
Husky Hoopsters To Help East Hartford Dunkin' Aid Children's Hospital
Hassan Diarra, Solomon “Solo” Ball, Jayden Ross and Jaylin Stewart will appear at the East Hartford Dunkin’ Donuts at 364 Silver Lane, East Hartford, at 7:30 a.m.
There, they will be meeting and greeting fans and serving iced coffee on National Iced Coffee Day.
The Husky quartet, all members of the 2024 national championship team (with Diarra also on the 2023 title squad) will be joined by a CCMC patient ambassador.
All four of the players are expected to play huge roles in UConn’s quest to win a third title in a row, a quest that received a major boost when beloved head coach Dan Hurley spurned a job offer to coach the Los Angeles Lakers last week to stay at UConn.
According to Dunkin’, the Dunkin’ Joy in Childhood Foundation’s mission is to provide the
“simple joys of childhood to kids battling hunger or illness” and has granted more than $50 million since its inception in 2006.
“Thanks to support from guests nationwide, Dunkin’ Iced Coffee Day collectively raised $3.5 million to support kids in children’s hospitals throughout the country,” wrote Dunkin’ in a statement.
The search continues for a rare collection of Abraham Lincoln artifacts that went missing after a visit to Connecticut College in New London, including a letter written days after the president’s assassination.
Sameer Somal, a Lincoln enthusiast, said the artifacts disappeared Tuesday after he accidentally left the folder containing them on top of his car and drove away following interviews with fellow Lincoln scholars at Connecticut College.
“The plan was to interview them, and I was going to show them some of these artifacts,” Somal said.
Somal said he has spent years assembling the collection, which included portraits of Lincoln, original Civil War-era newspapers, and an original invitation to Lincoln’s 1864 inaugural ball.
Among the items was a document Somal described as especially significant.
“There was a letter, which is particularly precious, written on April 17th, 1865, from General William Tecumseh Sherman about the assassination of Mr. Lincoln,” Somal said.
After realizing the folder was missing, Somal contacted campus security. He said he was initially told the folder had been recovered, but later learned security had mistaken it for a book that had fallen from his car.
“I proceeded to look in the dark in my state of disappointment and trauma,” Somal said.
The next day, Somal made the five-hour trip back to New London and checked with the police. He believes the folder likely fell on or near the Connecticut College campus, but it has not been turned in.
Somal said the loss goes beyond the monetary value of the artifacts, as the collection was intended to serve as a centerpiece for a future museum dedicated to Lincoln in Illinois.
Now he is asking whoever found the folder to return it.
“I will do anything to get these items back and anything to help someone else in life if I can just get them back,” Somal said.
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