In this episode of Navel Gazing: The Valley Indy Podcast, Valerie Knight-DiGangi of the Valley Community Foundation talks about two grant opportunities available for organizations in the Naugatuck Valley.

Then Paul Velardi, chairman of the Ansonia Recreation Commission, talks to The Valley Indy about a new funding opportunity available there.

The commission wants to hear ideas from the public regarding recreation programs. They'll fund a few of those ideas with $500 grants to get them off the ground.

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Dave Nagy talks to Valley Indy reporter about an open house happening all day and night Saturday, Feb. 17 at Derby Elks Lodge No. 571 at 73 Elizabeth St.

In the second half of the podcast, Driscoll talks about a recent change Facebook forced upon local publishers, the most-read stories of the week, and about how talking about "pending litigation" in public does not result in an automatic death sentence.

Valley Health and Human Services has a Hunger Task Force which will be working with a consultant to figure how many people in the Valley are going hungry, and how the area's five food pantries can provide better services.

The guests, from the task force, are Patricia Tarasovic of The Valley United Way, and David Morgan of TEAM Inc.

This episode is sponsored by ValleyGivesBack.org.

In this episode of "Navel Gazing: The Valley Indy Podcast," reporters Eugene Driscoll and Ethan Fry spill the beans . . .

. . . on everything they're working on this week.

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