DERBY — Rep. Themis Klarides teamed with the Salvation Army tonight to help raise money for needy Connecticut residents. She rang a collection bell outside the Walmart on New Haven Avenue here and in just an hour ended up with roughly $160. Walmart agreed to match the amount she collected. Inside the store, Maj. Theresa [...]
DERBY — Nothing says Christmas like tradition, and Rep. Themis Klarides did her part to ring in the holiday season today with an annual trip to Griffin Hospital. Klarides donned a Santa Claus costume and handed out candy canes to people hospitalized for the holidays. Her father, picutred above with family friend Karen Arnold, dressed [...]
HARTFORD — Rep. Themis Klarides today joined Republican lawmakers in rejecting plans to cut town and city aid and instead proposed closing the projected budget deficit by cutting state spending by $466 million. Klarides and her House and Senate Republican colleagues called for immediate action from super-majority Democrats whose budget was unbalanced as soon they [...]
Rep. Themis Klarides spent time with a hundred or so Beecher Road School students at the Capitol for a tour today. Five classes traveled to Hartford from the Woodbridge elementary school, and children talked to Klarides about how the legislature conducts its business. Some students jokingly asked Klarides how they could create a bill that [...]
