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With the weather starting to warm up, the beach in Greenwich will soon be a very popular place to be — and the town is now accepting applications for those interested in working there.

Greenwich youth are being sought to fill seasonal and fulland part-time summer jobs across town, including at Greenwich Point in Old Greenwich, and both Byram Beach and the municipal swimming pool in Byram.

Jobs include beach crew, assistant head lifeguard and assistant director for the town’s Kamp Kairphree. For more seasoned workers, jobs include beach operations manager, which oversees the seasonal employees working there, boat crew and umpires to work at town games during the spring and summer.

A full listing of ejobs is online at www.governmentjobs.com/ careers/greenwichct.

First Selectman Fred Camillo, who himself has experience working for the town as an umpire, encouraged people to apply for the positions in his weekly e-blast out to residents.

“Parks and Recreation provides a fun and welcoming work environment while fulfilling important needs in our community,”

Camillo said. “These flexible jobs also offer great work experience and resume building opportunities.”

According to Brian Kerzner, the town’s superintendent of Marine and Facilities Operations Division, there are close to 100 lifeguard, dockmaster, gatekeeper, beach crew, deckhand and boat crew positions up for hire for the season. Interviews are being lined up; applications should be made “at their earliest convenience,” he said.

Town Recreation Superintendent Susan Snyder said that the town has close to 100 seasonal positions for its three-day camps as well as for Kamp Kairphree and Adventurers, Music and Art. There are also positions for skatepark instructors, tennis instructors, umpires and tennis clerk and monitors.

“Most positions are currently posted and a few more will be added soon to the website,” Snyder said. “People should apply as soon as possible. We will keep hiring until positions are filled.”

Byram

The Byram Veterans Association will be holding special ceremonies on March 29 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, a tradition that began nationwide in 2012 and is slated to continue until Veterans Day 2025.

The ceremonies will be held at 10 a.m. in front of the Havemeyer Building on Greenwich Avenue and at 11 a.m. in Eugene Morlot Park in Byram behind McKinney Terrace and abutting the Dorothy Hamill ice rink. Members of the public are invited to attend one or both ceremonies as a tribute to veterans who served in the war.

In 2017, then-President Donald Trump designated March 29 as Vietnam Veterans Day. Don Sylvester, head of the Byram Veterans Association, said that the Pentagon has supplied them with Vietnam commemoration lapel pins and material that can be distributed at the ceremonies.

“We want to bring awareness to this time as the U.S. started troop withdrawals with the war, officially ending it in 1973,” Sylvester said. “That will be the 50 year anniversary but Washington is calling this the 50th anniversary of the end of the war so we are following their lead.”

Greenwich

Aspiring young artists in town have a chance to have their work displayed as the new logo for the town Department of Human Services.

According to the town, the department is looking to create “an easily recognizable logo” that can be used to “raise the visibility of the department and its services (and) highlight the support that the department provides through community partnerships.”

The contest is open to students living in town ages 5 to 19. There is an April 12 submission deadline for original designs. The winning logo may be used in all media, including online, print and on merchandise.

Submissions can be done by an individual or a team but submissions are limited to no more than two. All entries will be evaluated based on relevance, originality and aesthetic quality.

“The current Greenwich Department of Human Services logo was designed about six months ago and was always meant to be a temporary logo,” said Commissioner of Human Services Demetria Nelson.

Nelson added, “GDHS provides a variety of direct services and collaborates with area partners to meet the needs of our residents. By displaying the new logo online, in print, and the like, I want the community to be able to easily associate these initiatives with GDHS and the town.”

A form for the contest as well as an entry form is posted at www.greenwichct.gov/ 1679/Department-of-HumanServices-Logo-Design. All entries must be submitted by April 12 to gdhslogocontest @greenwichct.org, which is also where people can send questions. All entries will become the property of the Department of Human Services. By submitting an entry, each entrant agrees that any and all intellectual property rights in the logo design are deemed assigned to the town of Greenwich.

Downtown

Neighbor to Neighbor is expected to be in its temporary facility in the Horseneck Parking Lot through spring as the final work is done on its new headquarters at Christ Church on East Putnam Avenue and has agreed to allow the facility to be used during the annual Greenwich Town Party.

The nonprofit, which provides food to clients all over town has reached an agreement with the Greenwich Town Party to allow use of the Horseneck facility on May 27 and May 28 during the annual all-day musical festival in the nearby Roger Sherman Baldwin Park.

Under the agreement, which was unanimously approved by the Board of Selectmen, the GTP would be able to use the facility, including the kitchen and restrooms, and its parking spaces after 6 p.m. May 27 and the parking and offices all day May 28, the day of the event.

Margaret Goldberg, Neighbor to Neighbor’s executive director, said they would not be receiving any payment for use of the town-owned facility, which is currently leased to the nonprofit.

“Margaret said with open arms, I’d love to help,” said Scot Weicker, the GTP’s event manager. The area would mostly be used for parking.

The Greenwich Town Party will be headlined this year by the legendary Billy Joel.

While there is money in the budget to demolish the Horseneck parking lot structure during the upcoming fiscal year, the town is exploring a lease with the neighboring Boys and Girls Club of Greenwich for use of the structure for administrative and storage.

The proposed lease would go into effect on Sept. 1 and remain in place until Sept. 30, 2024 with an option to extend into 2025. The facility has been used by the Greenwich Fire Department during work on both their central downtown and Byram stations as well as by the Greenwich International Film Festival.

No decision has been made on that proposal, which will be considered by the Board of Selectmen in April.

Greenwich

Greenwich Choral Society is hosting an online discussion with baritone Eddie Pleasant about the history of protest songs on April 3 as the next offering in its special lecture series.

This is being done, according to the society, “…for those interested in a deeper engagement with choral music and with the professional staff of the Greenwich Choral Society.” Pleasant will discuss the history of protest songs “through the lens of such movements as labor unions, civil rights, women’s rights, Americans with disabilities, LGBTQ+ rights and Black Lives Matter.”

Email admin@greenwichchoralsociety.org to receive the Zoom link. The lecture series is free thanks to the support of David and Patti Watkins.