NORTH HAVEN – Town firefighters are raising money today for the Atlantic Regional Fire Fighters Burn Foundation.

The event will take place from 5 to 10 p.m. Thursday (4/19) at Buffalo Wild Wings, 350 Universal Drive North.

Buffalo Wild Wings will donate 10 percent of all pre-taxed food sales toward the foundation, according to North Haven fire Lt. Paul Januszewski of Local 2987 of the International Association of Firefighters.

There will be happy hour specials from 4 to 7 p.m.. Fire trucks will be on the scene for children to view.

There also will be a “Blazin' Challenge” for firefighters and police officers, with a maximum of one participant per department. There is a $50 entry fee that includes wings and one draft beer. In order to place one must eat 12 wings in six minutes. To obtain an entry form, email nhfd50@comcast.net.

HAMDEN -- Mayor Scott D. Jackson has proclaimed the week of April 15 to April 22 2012 as Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust.  The Town will host a Holocaust Remembrance Day observance at noon Friday in Thornton Wilder Hall, Miller Library Complex.  The ceremony is open to all members of the public and will include a responsive reading and the lighting of seven candles.  This year’s theme is Choosing to Act:  Stories of Rescue, and commemorates the actions of rescuers during the Holocaust.  The stories of ordinary people who chose to intervene and help rescue Jews despite the risks, remind us that individuals have the power to make a difference. 

Our keynote speaker this year will be Renee Glassner of Hamden, a survivor of the Holocaust, who was born in Losice, Poland.  Along with members of her family, Mrs. Glassner  was one of only 16 of the 6,000 Jewish Losice natives who survived the Holocaust.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Rabbi Menachem Piekarski of Chabad of Hamden will provide the invocation.  Dr. Barry Herman of the Ethnic Heritage Center will be the Master of Ceremonies.  Mayor Scott Jackson will provide remarks and a proclamation.  Rabbi Benjamin Scolnic of Temple Beth Sholom will lead the audience in a responsive prayer.  Students from Hamden’s Public and Parochial Schools will participate in a candle lighting ceremony, and Hamden High School students will perform a reading.  Audience members will be invited to make brief comments.  A light lunch will be served following the ceremony.   

This year’s observance is the Town’s tenth Holocaust Remembrance Day.  The United States Congress established the Days of Remembrance as our nation’s annual civic commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust, and as a time for reminding Americans of what can happen to civilized people when bigotry, hatred and indifference reign.

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NORTH HAVEN – Flair for Hair will sponsor its annual “Night for Nurses” from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at 310 Washington Ave.

The event is owner Joyce-Lyn Altieri's way of honoring nursings, whom she feels are the “compassionate and understanding backbones” of the hospital.

Services include a haircut and style, sea salt scrub hand treatments and samples of anti-aging skin care. For more information call 203-234-1111.