By Amanda Falcone
 Record-Journal staff
  MERIDEN — Hanover School will hold a pasta din­ner Oct. 18 in Platt High School’s cafeteria. Proceeds will benefit the Noah’s Ark of Hope Foundation.
  Noah Bourdon, the 14 month-old who accidentally fell from a playscape at Baldwin’s Pond, struck his head and died from his in­juries in August, never at­tended Hanover, but his grandmother, Katherine Bourdon, teaches second grade there. Because those at the school know Kather­ine Bourdon so well, Suzanne Orozco, a first­grade teacher at the school, said they decided they want­ed to help.
  “We are trying to turn something awful into some­thing positive,” Orozco said. The Oct. 18 pasta dinner will be from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The menu includes pas­ta, salad and desserts. Tick­ets will be sold at Hanover from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

today. Platt High School will have tick­ets on sale during its open house next Thursday. Tom’s Place and Brookside Pack­age Store are selling tickets until Oct. 18.
  Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children 4 to 12. Chil­dren 3 and under will be ad­mitted free. Donations are also wel­come, and there will be a raffle. Most of the food, pa­per goods and raffle prizes have been donated by local businesses, Orozco said.
  Noah’s parents, Christian and Sarah Bourdon, started the Noah’s Ark of Hope Foundation. Money from the foundation will be given to the city’s Hubbard Park Playground Committee, and it will help with the cost of construction for a new playscape in honor of their son.
  “We are all deeply touched,” Katherine Bour­don said. “This is a way we can focus our grief on some­thing positive. We are over­whelmed by the support from the community.”
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