Friday, July 20, 2018
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Volume 12, Number 16
New deputy Quinnipiac hosts camp for teenagers who have lost limbs police chief is named
By Lauren Takores The Citizen
By Lauren Takores The Citizen
A dozen teens participating in an overnight camp for young people with limb loss tried something new Wednesday, July 11 — driving.
The Board of Police Commissioners promoted Kevin Glenn to deputy police chief, effective July 2, at a special meeting last month.
CorRales Dupree, 21, came from Richmond, Virginia, to participate in Camp No Limits at Quinnipiac University.
Former Deputy Chief Jonathan Mulhern accepted the deputy chief position with the Branford Police Department and was sworn in July 9.
He got behind the wheel of a driving simulator, steering and engaging the gas and brake with his hands, with the road before him on three screens.
Mulhern had served more than 25 years in North Haven.
Dupree has attended the camp the past three years. “Coming to camp helped to get me a scholarship to play adaptive basketball for college,” said Dupree, a junior at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
Bella Tucker, 16, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, tries a driving simulator at a Camp No Limits teen program at Quinnipiac Lauren Takores, The Citizen University’s North Haven campus.
He first tried adaptive sports at camp. Sledding led to basketball, he said.
ing simulator from her wheelchair. The high school senior traveled from Londonderry, New Hampshire.
Now, as an older camper, he works with younger participants.
“I was excited to come here for the driving stuff,” Tucker said.
“Their energy really runs off and inspires me,” he said.
Camp info
Sixteen-year-old Bella Tucker, a quadruple amputee, tried a driv-
The camp ran July 11 to 15 on Quinnipiac’s York Hill Campus in Hamden, hosted by the universi-
ty’s Center for Interprofessional Healthcare, and aims to optimize the functional independence of children and adolescents living with limb loss. The teen program, called Prepping for Our Future, is a new aspect to the camp. The day-long event was held at the Ergonomics and Assistive Technology Lab in See Camp, A6
Police Chief Thomas McLoughlin said Monday that Mulhern was the quintessential law enforcement professional and an asset to the department, mentoring a number of young officers and supervisors.
Glenn
Mulhern
“He was someone from the day he walked through our front door,” McLoughlin said, “that you could identify as a future leader in the law enforcement community.” McLoughlin said Glenn “is from the See Police, A13
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