Baby Bailey Named as Newtown's Most Beautiful Baby

NEWTOWN, CT — Bailey Alice Lennon has won the prestigious award and was featured in the Newtown Labor Day Parade on Monday, September 5, as the most beautiful baby in Connecticut. Bailey’s photo won The Homes For Our Troops Beautiful Baby Photo Contest. Bailey and her parents, Meghan and Mark Lennon live in Southbury, CT and her photo was entered by her grandmother, Pam Curley of Naugatuck.

The contest is a fundraiser for our nation’s wounded military to receive a specially adapted house through the national non-profit Homes for Our Troops. One hundred percent of the money raised was donated to for a specially adapted house for a soldier returning with life-altering injuries. This year’s contest funds were earmarked for Army Ranger Sean Pesce of West Haven. Pesce was shot through the spine and is now permanently paralyzed.

Next year’s contest will help support Marine Corps Corporal Roger Rua from Naugatuck, CT, who was also shot in the back. Rua’s home will be built in ether Cheshire or Middlebury, CT. If you would like to enter a photo in next year’s 2017’s Beautiful Baby Contest, please email babycontest2010@gmail.com to be notified when the contest kicks off next year.

Photos will be collected, starting in February. The contest is for children newborn – 4 years old. The child does not need to live in Newtown to win, but should able to travel to Newtown for the Labor Day Parade, held every year on the Monday of the holiday. The entry fee is a $10 donation made payable to Homes for Our Troops.

Written by Lois Barber

Photo of Bailey by Pam Curley