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Central Greenwich
For the 17th year in a row, the Junior League of Greenwich will host an event that is hugely popular with young and adult alike as they get an up-close look at trucks of all shapes and sizes.
Touch A Truck will be held rain or shine from 10 to 2 p.m. June 9 at Town Hall, with thousands expected to attend this family-friendly event.
It will feature vehicles from the Department of Public Works as well as the Greenwich Fire Department’s current fire engines and antique fire trucks. Police cars, Greenwich Emergency Medical Service ambulances and motorcycles will also be on display. Plus, private construction firms will take part by exhibiting some of their heavy equipment.
“This is a very important event to us,” JLG President Elizabeth Cook Peyton said. “Not only is it one of our biggest fundraisers, but it’s the event that we’re really known for. People associate Touch A Truck with the Junior League of Greenwich, and it’s a great chance to show off everything that the league does. Plus it’s a chance for us to give the community a fun and enjoyable day.”
Tickets can be purchased online for $12 per person or $50 for a family of up to six people at www.jlgreenwich. org/touch-a-truck. Prices will be higher on the day of the event. VIP tickets ($150 for up to six people) will allow early entry at 9:30 a.m. along with some special treats.
In addition to the trucks, there will be kids’ activities, food trucks and live musical performances from Jay and Ray.
Proceeds will benefit the league’s programs, including PositivelyMe!, Boys Achieving More, the Done in a Day community service projects and Money Sense, a program for teens on financial literacy that will debut this year.
Kids will also receive a coloring book filled with pictures of trucks and other vehicles as well as information about the league.
Glenville/Pemberwick
There are two vacancies on the Representative Town Meeting for District 9, which covers the Glenville and Pemberwick parts of town.
The RTM, the town’s legislative body, meets throughout the year, though not every month. Last month, in one of its biggest decisions, the RTM voted to approve the town budget for 2019-20. It handles other legislative matters such as approving nominations to boards and commissions, voting on spending outside of the budget, accepting gifts to the town, considering ordinances, voting on labor contracts and making the RTM’s voice heard through sense of the meeting resolutions.
To be eligible for one of the two openings, a town resident must live in District 9 and be a registered voter. The RTM is a nonpartisan body so party affiliation does not matter. District 9 will fill the two vacancies at its June 6 meeting, which will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Bendheim Western Greenwich Civic Center. If more than two candidates step forward, the seated members of District 9 will vote on the candidates.
For more information, contact District 9 Chair Betsey Frumin at 203-531-7203 or Betsey@nacca.com.
The RTM’s current term lasts through the end of the calendar year. All seats on the RTM will be on the ballot for November’s municipal election. The members who fill these two vacancies will have the option of running for re-election.
Backcountry
Peter Sutton is retiring as head of the Bruce Museum, but he won’t be leaving without a special tribute from the Greenwich Rotary Club.
The Rotary will present Sutton with its Citizen of the Year award, now in its 24th year Thursday at the Round Hill Club. “We honor Greenwich citizens who have demonstrated their willingness to serve our community to better others’ lives,” Greenwich Rotary Club President Laura Hughes said. “Our motto is ‘service above self,’ and we try to find people who demonstrate this. We are honoring Peter because of his tireless commitment to make the Bruce Museum a cornerstone of arts and science.”
For more information visit www.greenwichrotary.org/
Sutton officially stepped down as of Friday after 18 years of leadership at the Bruce. Robert Wolterstorff, the new executive director and chief executive officer, takes over this week. Sutton will remain active at the Bruce in his new position of director emeritus.
The transition of leadership is taking place as the Bruce undertakes a major expansion to more than double its size from 30,000 square feet to 70,000 square feet of space. When completed, the Bruce will have more space to display permanent and temporary collections of art, offer science and natural history exhibits, and hold educational programs. The Bruce will also add an auditorium and café.
Hughes credits Sutton with leading the museum’s staff and volunteers in the “enormous campaign” to raise the private funds needed for the $45 million project, which will modernize the Bruce for generations to come. And she said he did that while focusing on helping Greenwich’s youngest residents. “He has introduced numerous children to the arts who would never have an opportunity to visit otherwise,” she said.