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Town Residents Establish Latino Scholarship Fund

Jacqueline and Michael Albis say they created the scholarship as a "means of fostering relationships between the townspeople as a whole and Latino residents," according to the fund's website.

Fred Musante, Neighbor
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As and continue to look for ways to move forward in improving relations with East Haven's immigrant community, a new scholarship fund has been established for Latino students at East Haven High School.

Hartford Courant columnist Susan Campbell, herself an resident, reported that Jacqueline and Michael Albis have established the East Haven Unity Fund, a new scholarship fund to benefit Latino graduates from East Haven High.

Jacqueline Albis is an English teacher at EHHS and Michael Albis, a lawyer, is a graduate of the school. They said they would donate $1,000 to the fund and have urged others to contribute as a way to show that the negative publicity from the police controversy does unfairly reflects the feelings of the typical town resident.

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