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March is National Music in Our Schools Month and Westport celebrates with its annual Town-Wide Music Festival on Wednesday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m.
The concert will be held in the Staples High School Gymnasium and will feature the combined 7th and 8th grade middle school bands, as well as the Staples combined bands.
This year’s guest conductor is David Winer, former music supervisor for the Westport Public Schools.
The concert is free and open to the public.
Jay Dirnberger, who flew helicopters during the Vietnam War, will be the featured speaker at the Y’s Men of Westport/Weston’s Thursday, March 12 meeting at the Unitarian Church in Westport at 10 Lyons Plains Road.
Coffee and donuts start at 9:45 a.m. with the talk at 10:30 a.m.
Dirnberger saw his first drone-like weapon in 1968 as an infantry captain flying helicopters with the 1st Cavalry Division in South Vietnam.
While patrolling the coast of North Vietnam, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Mansfield, with Dirnberger aboard, deployed a modified unmanned aerial submarine detector to bomb enemy installations.
Dacia Toll, co-CEO and president of Achievement First, will be the Y’s Men of Westport/Weston’s featured speaker at its March 19 meeting at the Unitarian Church in Westport at 10 Lyons Plains Road.
Achievement First is a nonprofit management organization that operates 29 public charter schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.
Toll will talk on the activities of Achievement First—what needs to be done to improve elementary and secondary education and the role of charter schools. Coffee and donuts start at 9:45 a.m. followed by her talk at 10:30 a.m.
A Morehead Scholar as an undergraduate at University of North Carolina, Toll went on to earn a Master’s Degree at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, a J.D. from Yale Law School and a teaching certificate from Yale University.
Boy Scout Troop 36 is back to meeting on Monday nights at Westport’s Saugatuck Congregational Church which has chartered the troop for over 60 years. The troop was one of the organizations that was displaced after the November 2011 fire. Now Troop 36 will be doing some rebuilding of its own by holding Open Houses for boys 11-17 on March 16 and April 6. Gathered in Hoskins Hall (l-r) are: Scoutmaster Matt Ferencz, Phillip DeMunck, William Bean, Kelvin May, Toby Patton, Jake Trock, Liam Borner, William Bean, Ben Waller and Assistant Scoutmaster Craig Patton. Not pictured: Peter Campbell, Michael Dodd and Lucas Nash. For more information, contact Barbara King, (203)454-3566. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo
Matthew Mandell (r), executive director of the Westport Weston Chamber of Commerce, today presented a check to Jeff Wieser (l), president of Westport-based Homes with Hope, a beneficiary of the third annual 2014 Slice of Saugatuck Festival held on Sept.14 Joining in the check presentation ceremony were Jim Donaher of Gault Energy; Linda Matthews, Chamber of Commerce staff, Maria Funicello, Tutti Ristorante owner, and Karen jewell, owner of Down Under. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
The children at Saugatuck Nursery School today enjoyed a visit from the Westport Fire Department during Fire Safety Month. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo
Westport’s Saint Luke Parish today held an Oktoberfest run by the Youth Group. Pictured are the Edelweiss Oompah Trio and youth group members, including: (top row, l-r) Gabriela Vega, Linus Nickel, Bobby Becker, Sean Driscoll, (bottom row) Lauren Revay, Jane Schutte, Sofia Vega, and Ryan Peterson. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo
The founders of ITN Coastal CT, the nonprofit driving service for seniors and the visually disabled, met at the annul fundraiser for ITN at the Pequot Library Friday night. Pictured (l-r) are Stan Nayer, Leslie Wolfe, Stephanie Ross, Maybeth Wirz, John Thompson, Judy Guthman and Peggy Kamins. The event raised money to purchase gas cards and to permit the organization to provide rides to seniors in the six-town region of Fairfield, Easton, Norwalk, Weston, Westport and Wilton. For information about memberships or volunteering, contact Nancy McCormick at (203)858-2001 or go to www.itncoastalct.org. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo
To help promote Westport Restaurant Week and urge residents to “eat local,” First Selectman Jim Marpe (3rd r) and Matthew Mandell, Westport Weston Chamber of Commerce executive director, (2nd l) had lunch at Post 154 today and tasted the creations of Executive Chef Alex Rosado (3rd l) They were joined by Jonathan Baron, chairman of the coard of the WWCC, Steve Desloge president of the Downtown Merchants Association (2nd r), and Dewey Loselle (r) operations manager for Westport. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo
Rain today did not deter people from getting rid of their hazardous household wastes at the Westport Weston Health District on Bayberry Lane. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Robert Eckman for WestportNow.com
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