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Anand Bhatt Interview on HLN (CNN)

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Musician Anand Bhatt (who recently was inducted into the Latin Grammys) is a wonderful supporter of Simply Smiles. In this interview from Los Angeles, he talks in detail about his involvement with Simply Smiles Coffee. Check it out.

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Tribury Rotary Club

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

Voices / Woodbury CT

Tribury Rotary President Dom Calabrese (left) presented Bryan Numberger, president and founder of Simply Smiles, Inc., with a book that will be donated in his name to the Middlebury Public Library. Mr. Numberger spoke…

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A Humanist First, a Photographer Second

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Naugatuck’s Josh Dufresne seems to be dedicating his life to assisting others. To this 30-year-old, clicking a camera is a distant second.
By Don Harrison
Naugatuck Patch

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Sea-to-sea cyclists splash down in support Westport charity

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Fairfield Citizen
Mike Lauterborn

There were smiles all around as Fairfielders Lucas Gubinski and Joe Ruscito came bicycling up the boat ramp at Penfield Beach into the welcoming arms of friends and family, completing a 60-day, 4,168 mile cross-country journey from San Francisco.

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First Church Stages Final Fundraiser for Service Trip to Mexico

Sunday, June 5th, 2011

Folk/pop trio helps support Oaxaca feeding program
By Mike Lauterborn | Email the author | June 5, 2011

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Building Relationships in Mexico

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

by Drew Page

OAXACA, MEXICO (05/23/2011) — Silver Lake Conference Center and Simply Smiles Inc. teamed up for the fourth year to bring youth and adults from Connecticut to Oaxaca, Mexico, for a week of service and relationship building.

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Choate Community Service Abroad Students Travel to Oaxaca, Mexico Over Spring Break

Friday, April 8th, 2011

By Emma Zehner ’13, Copy Editor

This year, from March 14 to 21, twenty-one Choate students traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico on a community service trip for the third spring break in a row.

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Local musician heads to Mexico

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Stamford Plus Magazine

Nationally touring singer & songwriter, Kristen Graves, is heading to Oaxaca, Mexico on Wednesday, March 2, to spend 10 days working with Simply Smiles, a charity organization, in the mountains of Mexico. Graves has been involved with Simply Smiles since it’s inception in 2003, and is happy to take her first 2011 trip. The week will involve working in the city of Oaxaca helping to construct the organization’s Center of Operations, and will also involve working in Santa Maria Tepexipana, a remote mountain village in the southern jungle of Mexico, by hosting a food distribution.

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The Need Always Trumps the Obstacles: a Pastor Joins Simply Smiles

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Posted at: ctucc.org/news
By: Eric Anderson
WESTPORT: 2/28/11

Ordained in 1988, the Rev. Dr. Peter Allen spent twenty-three years as a local church pastor in United Church of Christ congregations in New Hampshire and Connecticut. After seventeen years as senior pastor of the Monroe Congregational Church UCC, Allen heard a new call, and joined Simply Smiles this February as its first Vice President.

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Guilford students eager to help in Mexico

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

The New Haven Register (CT)
By Susan Misur, Register Staff
smisur@nhregister.com

GUILFORD — Cell phones, running water, electricity — a group of Guilford High School students wants to leave it all behind for a week if it means helping an impoverished community in Mexico.

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