Facilitated by Arley Gray, the Tutor Training for Teaching English, was held on March 23-25. Arley has his M.A.  from Columbia University in Teaching English as a Second Language and currently offers project management and editorial services to ESL publishers in the United States and the United Kingdom.  Please welcome the following to the LVG Family of Tutors: Lisa Atkinson, Loretta Bayers, Elenor Bristol, Laura Cleary, Alexandra DiPentima, John Frank, Judith Friedman, Kam Ho, Margaret Kistinger, Darren Lougee, Frances Morris, Helen Piacquadio, Rick Slivka, Frank Tedesco, and Wendy Walker. 

This spring, Tutor Training for Teaching Basic Literacy was added to LVG’s training programs. Patty Buchan who earned a master’s degree in reading, founded a literacy volunteers group in Maine, and teaches at Naugatuck Community College taught the sessions for us on April 24 and June 5.  Four current and five new tutors are now available to teach basic literacy: Norman Adler, Loretta Bayers, Saun Ellis-Drohojowska, George Gishman, Marylyn Hendricks, Marty Lambert, Barbara Leahey, Helaine McDermott, and Franz Ryerson.

The 2010 Tutor Training Sessions are funded in part through a grant from the Savings Bank of Danbury. There will be another Tutor Training for Teaching English session in the fall.

What: A Gala Dinner and Auction to Benefit Literacy Volunteers on the Green
When: Friday, April 30th, 2010
from 6:30 to 11:30 pm
Where: Candlewood Inn, Brookfield, CT

For further information please call 860-355-0830.

Our next tutor Training will be held Tuesday, March 23rd, Wednesday, March 24th and Thursday, March 25th from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at St. John’s Church Parish Hall, New Milford, CT. For further information please call 860-355-0830.

DECEMBER 19 2009

This gathering is the first Annual Meeting of Literacy Volunteers on the Green. It is an opportunity for us to thank all of the volunteers, donors and other friends who have helped us during 2009, and to report on our activities in this period. (more…)

Two of LVG’s former students, Melinda and Alma Mucka, have just opened a restaurant in Lakeville, CT.

New West Main
8 Holly Place
Lakeville, CT
Open for lunch and dinner 7 days
860-596-0505

Please join us in celebrating this wonderful accomplishments and in sending our best wishes for continued success!

NEW MILFORD – (November 10, 2009) – Literacy Volunteers on the Green, Inc., the non-profit organization that helps newcomers to the area learn English, has scheduled its annual meeting December 19, 2009 at 10 am at  St. John’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall  in New Milford .

The purpose of this meeting will be to review the organization’s activities for the past year; elect directors and officers for the next year; and to conduct other business as may be properly brought before the meeting.

During the first three years of its existence LVG operated under the aegis of United Way of Western Connecticut , but after receiving designation as a 501 [c] (3) corporation by the Internal Revenue Service in 2008 it now operates independently.

Contact:  Allan Priaulx, 800-762-4763

Click on the link below to read an article in the Danbury News-Times featuring LVG and our participation in the Family Read program.

http://www.newstimes.com/search/ci_13679157?IADID=Search-www.newstimes.com-www.newstimes.com (NOTE: This link is no longer available)

Board members Margaret Wiener and Carol McCarthy recently did a Cablecast about Literacy Volunteers on the Green.

It will air: Nov. 15 at 4pm, Nov. 17 at 8pm, Nov. 22 at pm, and Nov. 24 at 8pm.

NEW MILFORD – (October 1, 2009) – Literacy Volunteers on the Green, a local non-profit organization that helps new residents from abroard learn English, has completed the training of 15 new tutors.

Training was held recently at the LVG headquarters in St. John’s Episcopal Church on the Green under the direction of Anne Maitland, co-founder and executive director of LVG, and Arley Gray, a veteran educator living in the area who conducts the training sessions twice a year.

“We are absolutely delighted at the quality and enthusiasm of our newest group of tutors,” said Ms. Maitland. “Following the intensive program under Arley Gray’s supervision these volunteers will be fully equipped to help our newest residents from abroad to speak, read and write English and thereby become much more productive members of our community.”

Ms. Maitland said the new class of tutors brings to 174 the number of instructors LVG has trained since its founding four years ago. So far over 400 people in Litchfield and northern Fairfield counties and adjacent New York State have been given the gift of the English language.

For further information about LVG visit www.lvg-ct.org or call 860-355-0830.  LVG has been designated as a 501[c[ (3) organization by the IRS.

New tutors have completed training for Literacy Volunteers on the Green  program to teach English to area newcomers.
Back row - left to right:
Martha Lambert [Brookfield], Gillian Merritt [New Fairfield], Zane Swanson [Sherman], Annie Swanson [Sherman], Eric Ho [New Milford], Judith Russell [Roxbury], Jeanne Wardell [Lakeville], Jeanne McRoberts [Sherman], John Davidson [Washington]
Front row – left to right:
Gayle Pantaleo [Kent], Lyn Mattoon [Sharon], Robert Fellone [Brookfield], Skip Mattoon [Sharon], Nancy Mao [Sherman], and Kathleen Bertram [Bridgewater].

Check out three newspaper articles written about our last tutor training which was a huge success.

Voices article about Tutor Training (6/3/2009)

Republican American article about Tutor Training (6/18/2009)

Litchfield County Times article about Tutor Training (6/5/2009)