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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Phish Fans' Foundation Grants $5K to Montville Group

Pathways for Exceptional Children to benefit from Mockingbird grant.

Pathways for Exceptional Children is the recipient of a $5,000 grant from a foundation formed by a coalition of Phish fans, the Mockingbird Foundation announced. The grant money will be used to fund various expenses for Pathways' music programs, which are set to expand this year as the group is planning to open a new creative space in Montville. The Mockingbird Foundation is a nonprofit organization run by volunteers inspired by music of the rock band Phish. Phish's following has spanned three decades, the band's concerts continuing as one of the largest live acts in the country. The Foundation was formed in 1996 and has distributed more than $700,000 in grant funds to organizations throughout the country to support music education for …

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Pathways Celebrates 10 Years Promoting Inclusion for Children, Creative Studio Will Help 'Exceptional' Children Express Themselves, and Montville Township Municipal Building

Comfortably Numb

11:17 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Pathways Celebrates 10 Years Promoting Inclusion for Children

Program that began for children with disabilities now teaches all children about including others and leadership.

For ten years, Pathways for Exceptional Children, a Montville-based program that promotes inclusion of children of all abilities in activities and programs, has been inspiring kids. Pathways will be celebrating its decade anniversary on Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the back parking lot of Montville Township High School with special performances from several kids involved in the program, carnival-type activities and more. Melinda Jennis, president of Pathways, said she started the organization because of her personal experiences with her multiply disabled son. "I had a son with multiple disabilities and there was no place for him to go or things for him to do at all," Jennis said. She organized a group of parents who began developing …

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Montville Township High School and Montville Township Municipal Building

Craig Chapman

11:02 am on Monday, May 21, 2012

On behalf of Montville's youth rugby program and all the many mentors we have brought to the Pathways rugby program since 2003 we say congrats to 10 years well done!   more ›

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