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Downtown
Greenwich residents who have piles of papers to dispose of will have an opportunity to do so safely and securely on Sept. 25 at the 10th annual Paper Shredding Day.
The event will run from 9:30 a.m. to noon in the Island Beach Parking Lot. The cost is $3 per box, with a maximum of five boxes per car. Exact change is requested.
The Greenwich Recycling Advisory Board and Greenwich
Green & Clean organized the event and supplied the volunteers to run it. The First Bank of Greenwich and Santaguida Sanitation are co-sponsors.
Resident are asked to only bring papers with personal information, such as tax returns, medical records, bank statements or anything to be securely destroyed. The papers should be put in a box that is no larger than 12 inches by 18 inches by 12 inches.
Folders, cardboard, metal clips, binders, plastic and covers should be removed, but
staples are OK. Books, newspapers and magazines will not be shredded.
Masks will be required, and people must remain in their cars. The volunteers will remove the boxes for shredding and will practice social distancing.
Residents are also asked to bring canned and/or dried food items to the event to donate to the food pantry at Neighbor to Neighbor. Needed items include canned tuna, chicken or meat; canned chili and/or pastas; pasta sauce; peanut butter and jelly; cereal; and any form of cooking oil.
Old Greenwich
Residents can join the fight against the rare childhood disease Niemann-Pick type C by taking part in the fourth annual DART to the Finish charity walk.
The walk will be held at Greenwich Point on Sept. 25, but participants can also take part virtually from anywhere in the world. It will benefit the Dana’s Angels Research Trust, a Greenwich-based nonprofit formed by town residents Andrea and Phil Marella.
The money raised is used to fund research into NiemannPick type C, which is often referred to as children’s Alzheimer’s disease.
The registration fee is a tax-deductible donation to DART of $25 for adults and $10 for ages 10 to 21. Registered walkers will receive a DART to the Finish T-shirt.
The Marellas formed DART after two of their children were diagnosed with Niemann-Pick type C disease. Dana Marella, who was the inspiration for Dana’s Angels, passed away in 2013 at age 19. Her brother, Andrew, who turned 22 in June, is doing better since enrolling in a clinical drug trial to slow the progression of the disease.
“The need for funding crucial NPC treatments and research has never been more important than it is today,” Phil Marella said. “The NPC community was stunned earlier this year when Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals suddenly abandoned the Adrabetadex clinical trial, of which our son Andrew and other NPC children have been a part of for more than seven years. Fortunately, in June 2021, the court approved the sale of Adrabetadex to Mandos, LLC, which will allow the medication to continue to be used in the clinical trial.”
For more information on the event or DART, visit www.danasangels.org or www.dartevents.org.
Riverside
The League of Women Voters of Greenwich will mark its 100th birthday on Sept. 23 as it awards its highest honor to recognize outstanding work on behalf of the league and the broader community.
The Mary Award, named after long-term members Mary Sullivan and Mary Lou Woods, will be given to Joanne Stavrou and Rebecca Gillan at the Centennial Dinner. Cocktails will be served at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. at the Riverside Yacht Club.
A 27-year resident of Riverside, Stavrou has been an active league member for 10 years. She led the Voter Services Committee, which organizes all of the league’s political debates in Greenwich and oversees the annual legislative picnic to hear from the town’s delegation to Hartford. She also has been working on the league’s voter registration efforts.
Gillan has been part of the league’s board since June 2020, served with Stavrou as co-chair of the Voter’s Services Committee and assisted in organizing last October’s state legislature candidate debates. She is also a trustee and docent at the Bruce Museum and has been a board member for the YWCA Greenwich and the Breast Cancer Alliance.
The dinner’s keynote speaker will be Akhil Reed Amar, a professor of law and political science at Yale University and author of “The Words That Made Us.” Amar will discuss “how Americans addressed the weighty issues facing them in the formative decades of the United States and its constitution.”
To register and buy tickets, which are $75 per person, visit www.lwvgreenwich.org. All attendees must show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19.
Downtown
The United Way of Greenwich’s Reading Champions program has been helping kids for years, and now the community can learn more about its work at a special seminar at Greenwich Town Hall on Sept. 21.
Everyone, including potential volunteers, is invited to the 10 a.m. event. It will focus on fostering a better understanding about efforts to develop literacy while meeting the needs of emerging readers.
Margie Gillis, a literacy expert and the founder of LiteracyHow.org, will speak. A workshop will follow on how volunteers can get involved and help meet the need of young readers.
Reading Champions was founded in 2008 by resident Joan Lowe, a former teacher who wanted to create oneon-one literacy programs in town in which volunteers could help teach local kids to read.
Reading Champions offers one-on-one and small group instruction as well as afterschool tutoring. The program is offered in 11 of the town’s elementary schools as well as in after-school programs. A total of 500 students are expected to be involved during this school year.
To attend, RSVP by email to cmeunier@GreenwichUnitedWay.org or call 203-8692221.