October 9, 2025
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Madison & Killingworth Vol. XXX Iss. 41
A New England Newspaper of the Year 2018
AED Donation Boosts Emergency Readiness at Post 79 By Aaron Rubin Staff Writer MADISON
The American Legion Griswold Post 79 has received an automated external defibrillator (AED)—a “big thing” for the local veterans’ organization, according to one of its staffers. Donna Farrell, adjutant for the post, told
The Source that the AED will support any of the post’s 110 members—most of whom are senior citizens—in the event of a cardiacrelated emergency. Farrell likened the AED to the post’s fire extinguisher: “something you hope you never have to use… but you’ve got to have one” to respond to an emergency. “An AED is [a similar] situation: you hope to open that case to use it, but it’s here if you
need it, and it can save a life,” said Farrell. The availability of the AED offers an additional layer of support in a crisis before personnel from the nearby Madison Ambulance Association can arrive, Farrell added. The device was donated to the post by Guilford-based vendor Defibtech, following
Helen Bosch is officially retiring as the CEO of Vista Life Innovations...................................2
See AED Donation page 13
New Home, New Hope For Family
Staying Locked In Hand girls’ soccer won two games last week, while boys’ soccer took a tie and football won big...............14
Deyon Honore looks out a window of his future home in Madison as his grandmother Symesha Gillis beams with joy on Oct. 4. The Honore family, children Deyon, Storri, and Aiden, and mother Deya, are working with Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Haven and Raise the Roof to receive the new property on land donated by Kent and Susan Allen of Madison.
Photo by Wesley Bunnell/ The Source
Artists Coming Together Nick Carlino and Maura Gianakos reunite this fall for A Duo Exhibition....................................25
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