Several stops in the region are planned today for 5th District Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty.  She is starting the afternoon in New Milford with Mayor Pat Murphy.  Esty will attend the weekly New Milford Rotary Club meeting.

Esty has a visit planned to the Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut, which opened the Center for Comfort Care and Healing in late January.  More than 1,000 patients, many of them children, are expected to come to the new, 36,000 square foot hospice center during the first year.

Esty will then lead a roundtable discussion at Western Connecticut State University on sexual assault in the military.  A screening of the documentary called The Invisible War will be held in Route 201 of the midtown campus Student Center.  The screening is at 4:45pm and open to the public.

Esty will wrap up the day with a visit to the supper program at Ellsworth Avenue Elementary School in Danbury with End Hunger Connecticut.  The statewide organization works to eliminate hunger.  According to a 2012 USDA study, 13.4% of CT residents are “food insecure.”  Esty says providing supper to students in afterschool programs ensures all students have access to nutritious meals.