Living Treasure Awards

 Woodbridge Human Services is pleased to announce the 5th Living Treasure Award Recipients

Mary Lee Barker

Joseph Crisco 

    Matthew Giglietti  

 Lynn Piascyk 

 Purchase Tickets now for September 14th, 2023 5:30 pm

                 This year's event will include a program, silent auction and a delicious catered meal.  Tickets are on sale through September 7, 2023 at the Human Services office,  Center Building, Room 14.  $40 per person.  Print and share the flyer!

There are options to support for The Woodbridge Center at the Living Treasure Awards. Please choose the one that best suits you or your business.

SILENT AUCTION:  We will gladly accept goods, services, or gift cards. A sign with your business name will be displayed next to your item.

PROGRAM ADS: Consider advertising in our Woodbridge Human Services Award Dinner Program!  Not only will this professionally printed ad book be available at the event but it will also be stocked at the Woodbridge Center. 

ADVERTISING SIGNS:  If you have a company sign, it will be prominently placed.

DONATIONS:  In Memory or In Honor of a loved one, please consider making a donation to the Woodbridge Center.       

                          Please print form and submit your request with all necessary information and payment.                                                                


                                                               Thank you for supporting The Woodbridge Center!

Beginning with the inaugural Living Treasure Awards in 2018, Human Services honors deserving individuals who are nominated, and selected by committee, for their outstanding dedication and consistent community service. Any Woodbridge resident, age 60 or over, who has demonstrated positive actions to improve the quality of life for Woodbridge, has contributed and may continue to contribute their time to enhance our community as a whole, and has performed this work on a volunteer, unpaid basis, is eligible for nomination for the Living Treasure Award.   Friends, co-workers, principals, teachers, students, neighbors, group leaders, clergy, and volunteer agencies are among those who may nominate a candidate for consideration.  Family members may not nominate a relative.

Updates for the upcoming awards will be posted here, in the Town's Newsletter and in local newspapers.

2021 Living Treasure Honorees joined by Elected Officials

The 3rd Living Treasure Awards Dinner was held on September 23, 2021 after missing 2020 due to the pandemic. Human Services was pleased to honor Nate Case, Andy Esposito and Lorenzina "Lor" Ferrante Fernandes and celebrate their volunteerism.

J. Glicksman, M.E. LaRocca, Beth Heller with C. Whiting, M. Hamilton, V. Callistro and E. Sheehy
 The 2nd Living Treasure Awards Dinner was held on October 2, 2019  to honor  Margaret Hamilton, Ellie Sheehy, Virginia "Ginny" Calistro and Charlie Whiting. The event, a fundraiser for The Woodbridge Center,  brought together nearly two hundred community members.


Our Inaugural event, celebrated in 2018, honored  Living Treasures Louisa Cunningham, Robert Conniff, Leland Torrence, Sr. and Dorothy Martino, pictured here with First Selectman Beth Heller and (former) Human Services Commission Chair, Sharon Bender.  Dorothy Martino served on the 2019 Living Treasure Committee and Leland Torrence returned for as a Celebrity Server!