RADFORD â Kat Owens laughed last week as she said that her best friend is a duck named Jellybean.
âIâm the âDuck Lady.â Itâs stuck and Iâve embraced it,â the 23-year-old said.
The nickname began around her Fairlawn home, Owens said, but has extended to other parts of the New River Valley, thanks to Jellybean accompanying her to all manner of community events in the past few years.
âI very rarely leave him at home,â Owens said.
You may have seen them together â Jellybean on a leash and wearing a discreet diaper that blends with his dark feathers, sometimes snuggling in Owensâ arms, sometimes pacing around her, head darting toward whatever interests him, muttering a constant, soft, quacking cluck.
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Each week volunteers with Foodshare have been working to help fight hunger in Connecticut.
As a Foodshare truck arrived on Hamilton Road in East Hartford on Monday, volunteers quickly got to work.
Tables were set up, boxes were unloaded off of the truck and bags were filled.
âIt is significant you get people that come out here early to make sure that they can get their allotment of the food that is being distributed to them,â said Dana Hyatt, safety coordinator, Foodshare. âA lot of these people have lower incomes or have lost jobs.â
The truck has been visiting various sites across the state since before the pandemic.