LIFE

Amber and Banner were celebrities for a day at Corpus Christi School in Wethersfield. An assembly of excited students met the two dogs that are trained to serve people with disabilities including former military personnel who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Nick Frasco is an artist who loves to create. But he also understands the business aspect of being a professional artist and the need to market one’s work. Put the two together and you have a combination of art, performance and live music scheduled for May 2 at the Keeney Memorial Cultural Center. Plumrose will be the musical guest.

Before you know it, the Wethersfield High School Marching Band could be strutting its stuff in the emperor’s new clothes. Perhaps that’s a slight exaggeration. But the 66-year-old musical organization could be losing points in competitions because the 13-year-old uniforms are dinged and damaged and showing their age.

Old Wethersfield Stray & Kitten Rescue puts the “wow” in the “meow.” Since its inception in 2021, approximately 600 cats and kittens have been saved starting with the efforts of a woman who is allergic to, of all things, these finicky felines.