Larry Cassella

Larry Cassella

LARC

Inside the ground floor of the organization's headquarters at 314 Main St., executive director Larry Cassella welcomed people.

"We're honored," Executive Director Larry Cassella said after accepting the check from club president Dave Neri.
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LARC has held catered meetings of the Lions Club one month out of the year at the LARC building and has given presentations about the association, Cassella said.Other lions clubs have also participated, he said.

"To me, doing it as a community project with a number of nonprofits involved, it can only be made stronger," said Larry Cassella, executive director of LARC, which had originally discussed doing a similar public art project of its own.

"There is so much more to be gained," he said.

It will be decided with the Ebersol family, said LARC Executive Director Larry Cassella.
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About $450,000 still needs to be raised, Cassella said.That money will be used for new programming slated to begin next year, he said.

Until now, the fund-raising has been done privately with business and individuals.Now the drive will kick into high gear with a more public effort, he said.

Larry Cassella 84-R Main St. Torrington 06790 860-482-9364

Larry Cassella

LARC Executive Director Larry Cassella remembers seeing a walkway that was made out of granite slabs, some of which had writing inscribed.In the basements of two of the three houses on the property, automotive parts, including transmissions and body parts, were found, he said.

"Whoever was there used it for a myriad of things," he said.

He was surprised the earlier cleanup of the site did not unearth the marker."We walked it pretty well, (but) obviously not back there," Cassella said.

The tombstone likely will be removed when contractors begin clearing the property to start construction, he said.He's not sure what the organization will do with it.

LARC Executive Director Larry Cassella said the money will go toward finishing a new facility at 320 Main St. that is currently under construction.

"We are extremely pleased to have the support of the Torrington Area Foundation," Cassella said."Their endorsement of the work that LARC employees do mean a lot."

The facility, which will cost an estimated $1.5 million, will provide day care to patients with complex medical conditions.

"The individuals who will be there will have physical and medical needs as well as being developmentally disabled," Cassella said.

The building should be done by fall, Cassella said, and money received after its completion will go to reimburse LARC for construction costs.