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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Memorial Day Parade Details Announced
Westport Veterans Council President William Vornkahl and Parks and Recreation Director Stuart McCarthy announced today details of the Memorial Day parade and ceremonies to be held on Monday.
The parade starts promptly at 9 a.m. from Riverside Avenue near Saugatuck Elementary School and will end in Parker-Harding Plaza. Memorial sevices will follow immediately on Veterans Green.
The program will begin with the Invocation by the Rev. Edward Horne of United Methodist Church. Maggie Miller and Molly Liles of Brownie Troop 5048 will lead the assembled in the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by the National Anthem performed by Staples High School soloist Grace McDavid Seidner.
First Selectman Gordon Joseloff will give a welcoming address, followed by “America The Beautifu"l by Tyler Jent, a student at Staples High School.
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BBQ’s Await Memorial Day Weekend Crowds
All was in readiness today at South Beach at Compo Beach for the Memorial Day weekend cookouts. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Mark Molesworth for WestportNow.com
Thursday, May 23, 2013
8:15 a.m. – Town Hall Room 309 – Downtown 2020 Committee
8:30 a.m. – Parks/Rec Conference Room – Compo Beach Site Improvement Committee
10 a.m. - 2 p.m. - 50 Imperial Avenue lot - Westport Farmers Market
10 a.m. – Earthplace – Sasco Brook Pollution Abatement Committee
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. - Westport Arts Center - “SOLOS 2013”
4:30 p.m. – Town Hall Room 201 – Historic District Commission Work Session
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Main Street area - Art About Town street party
6 p.m. - Westport Public Library - Just Out on DVD: “Zero Dark Thirty”
7 p.m. – Earthplace – Sherwood Mill Pond Committee
8 p.m. – Town Hall Auditorium – Board of Finance Public Hearing (live coverage cable channel 79, AT&T channel 99, and westportct.gov)
See more events: Celebrate Westport Calendar
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Booked for the Evening Celebrates Meacham
By James Lomuscio
Jon Meacham at the Westport Public Library tonight displaying Southern charm and self-deprecating humor. CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo
With wit, Southern charm, self-deprecating humor, grace and an overwhelming optimism about America’s future based on its past, journalist, historian and Pulitizer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham tonight accepted the Westport Library Award at its 15th annual Booked for the Evening fundraising gala.
The event drew about 400, including many local officials, to the library’s Great Hall.
Library Director Maxine Bleiweis presented the award, describing Meacham, a Tennessean, as “journalist, editor, writer, pundit, public intellectual and Southern gentleman.”
“It is equally impressive that this list of accomplishments accrues to a person who only two days ago had his 44th birthday,” Bleiweis noted.
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Author Images
The image of author and journalist Jon Meacham, tonight’s Westport Public Library Booked for the Evening honoree, is projected on screens around the library’s Great Hall. Several hundred persons turned out for the 15th edition of the library fundraiser. See more pictures here. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo
Foreigner Headlines Levitt Summer Gala
The Westport Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts said today its summer gala on June 22 will feature Foreigner, one of the world’s best-selling rock bands.
The Foreigner concert will be held at the Staples HIgh School field house. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo
The Levitt, which this summer will make temporary use of Jesup Green while its new home is under construction, said the gala will be held at the Staples High School field house. It will help underwrite 50 free nights of music and performing arts.
With 10 multi-platinum albums and 16 Top 30 hits, Foreigner has dominated the pop charts since it was originally formed in 1976.
It has worldwide sales of almost 80 million albums, including 37.5 million albums in the United States alone. Foreigner hits include “I Want to Know What Love is,” “Double Vision,” “Hot Blooded,” “Feels Like the First Time,” “Cold As Ice,” “Head Games,” “Juke Box Hero” and many more.
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Yale Study: Bias Toward Elderly on Facebook
By Grace Merritt
www.ctmirror.orgAgeism exists and has been unmasked on Facebook.
A Facebook page that denigrates the elderly . (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Ctmirror.org photo
A startling – and some say disturbing—percentage of young people berate old people on Facebook, a Yale study has found.
Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health analyzed 84 Facebook groups and found that all but one had negative stereotypes of the elderly. Many portrayed old people as being debilitated and advocated banning them from driving and shopping. One even suggested they be put before a firing squad.
“The hypothesis was that we would find some negative portrayals, but I don’t think we anticipated the level we found,” said Becca R. Levy, associate professor of epidemiology and psychology at the Yale School of Public Health. “The number of negative portrayals was surprising to me—and disturbing.”
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WestportNow Teardown of the Day: 89 Compo Road North
An application for a permit to demolish the house at Westport’s 89 Compo Road North is in process. Built in 1948, the 1 1/2-story cape has 1,360 square feet and is situated on a .36-acre property. Because the house was built more than 50 years ago, the application will be reviewed by the Westport Historic District Commission. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
A Hallowed Playground to Honor Sandy Hook’s Dylan
By James Lomuscio
Donated manpower, machines and materials are set converge at Westport’s Long Lots Elementary School Friday, June 7, to build a playground honoring Dylan Hockley, a 6-year-old who died in the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown.
Site of the new playground at Long Lots Elementary School. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
According to Deputy Fire Chief Robert Kepchar, who is overseeing the event, the new playground at no cost to the town should be completed within a day.
The playground equipment costing $117,000 is a gift from the New Jersey State Firefighters Mutual Benevolent Association which is raising funds to build 26 playgrounds throughout the tri-state area, each one dedicated to one of the victims. Kepchar said the Hockley family selected Westport because they have relatives in town.
“The goal is to build 26 playgrounds in the tri-state area prior to the one-year anniversary,” said Kepchar. “Stratford is going the week after us.”
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Suddenly Summer
It was suddenly summer Tuesday with temperatures soaring into the mid-80s. Compo Beach and nearby waters were busy as residents sought to cool off. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Westport Public Library is closed for a benefit.
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. - Westport Arts Center - “SOLOS 2013”
12:30 p.m. - Westport Arts Center - SOLOS 2013 Lunchtime Artist Talk: Nell Bernegger and Joel Werring
4 p.m. – Town Hall Room 201 – Tree Board Canceled
7 p.m. - 9 p.m. - Westport Public Library - BOOKED for the evening 2013: Jon Meacham
See more events: Celebrate Westport Calendar
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
DTC Committee Recommends Garten for Top Spot
By James Lomuscio
Helen Garten: “very excited” about campaign. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
A search committee of the Democratic Town Committee (DTC) tonight recommended Helen Garten of the Board of Finance as its candidate in November to face Republican Jim Marpe. Two other would-be candidates challenged the endorsement.
Garten said she is confident she will be the fourth woman to hold Westport’s top job as First Selectwoman.
“We can win, and we will win,” said Garten, who previously served on the Representative Town Meeting. “The Republicans want to win because they think it’s their turn. We want to win because we have a record of achievement.”
Garten, 60, who has been on the finance board eight years and who teaches law at Rutgers University, made her comments following a ringing endorsement from the search committee. Current First Selectman Gordon Joseloff, 68, a Democrat, is not seeking a third term.
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Helen Garten: ‘We Can Win and We Will Win’
Helen Garten, a Board of Finance member, addresses the Westport Democratic Town Committee (DTC) at Town Hall tonight fellowing a search committee’s recommendation she be the party’s First Selectman candidate in November. “We can win, and we will win,” she said. No recommendation was made for Second Selectman. Two other Democrats, state Rep. Jonathan Steinberg, and Kenneth Wirfel, a former Board of Finance member, challenged the endorsement. The Democratic candidate, to be formally nominated in July, will face Republicans Jim Marpe and Avi Kaner. Current First Selectman Gordon Joeloff, a Democrat, is not seeking a third term. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Bipartisan Support
Westport First Selectman Gordon Joseloff and Selectman Shelly Kassen, both Democrats, and Jim Marpe, the likely Republican candidate for First Selectman in November, tonight showed bipartisan support for Barbara Butler (c), the town’s Human Services Department director, who was honored by the Westport-Weston Chamber of Commerce at its inaugural First Citizens Awards dinner at the Inn at Longshore. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Chamber Honors Present and Future Leaders
The Westport-Weston Chamber of Commerce tonight held its inaugural First Citizen Awards Banquet and Salute to outstanding current and future leaders in the Westport and Weston communities at the Inn at Longshore. Lisa Parrelli Gray, Chamber executive director (c), poses with award recipients (l-r) Staples High School student Jacqueline Devine, Weston High School student Matthew Proctor, Westonite Ken Edgar, Staples High School student Corey Werner, Barbara Butler, director of Westport’s Human Services Department, and Weston High School student Claire Cook. The students received Future First Citizen Awards. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
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