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Greenwich
The town will start its budgeting process this week. At 6 p.m. Tuesday, First Selectman Fred Camillo will present his budget to the Board of Estimate and Taxation’s Budget Committee. The presentation also will be broadcast live on Greenwich Community Television and on GCTV’s YouTube channel.
Following Camillo’s presentation, Superintendent of Schools Toni Jones will present the proposed school budget. There will then be a public hearing before the Budget Committee.
Central Greenwich
Greenwich Library has announced that Ray Dalio, founder and CIO mentor of Bridgewater Associates, is the recipient of this year’s Peterson Business Award. The award will be presented by Gov. Ned Lamont at a special award dinner on April 4 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Greenwich. Individual tickets and tables for the event are available at greenwichlibrary.org /peterson.
According to a release from the library, Dalio is a global macro investor who founded Bridgewater Associates out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City before moving to Connecticut, and ran it for most of its 47 years, building it into the fifth most important private company in the United States, according to Fortune magazine. He has been married to his wife Barbara for more than 40 years, with three sons and five grandchildren.
The Peterson Business Award was established in 1997 by Greenwich Library and the Peterson Foundation “to recognize and honor an individual whose innovative thinking, leadership and sustained record of achievement has had a profound impact on the national and global economy, and whose words and deeds have demonstrated a commitment to intellectual freedom and open access to information,” according to the library.
Previous Peterson Business Award recipients have included Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. in 1997, former chairman and CEO of IBM; Sanford I. Weill in 2000, former chairman of Citigroup; William B. Harrison, Jr. in 2002, former chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase; and Dr. Henry A. McKinnell Jr. in 2004, former chairman and CEO of Pfizer Inc., among others.
The Peterson Business Award is named in honor of Clementine Lockwood Peterson, whose 1992 bequest of $25 million to Greenwich Library made possible a new 32,000 square-foot wing there.
Co-chairs for 2024’s Peterson Dinner are Susan Bevan, Lawrence Codraro and Sharon Phillips. For additional information on sponsorship or group tickets, contact Lisa Mandel, Greenwich Library development director, at 203-622-7957 or email lmandel@greenwichlibrary .org.
Old Greenwich
The ESA Ephemera Fair, officially sanctioned by the Ephemera Society of America and produced and managed by Sanford L. Smith + Associates, is set to return to the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Old Greenwich from March 16 to 17 for its 44th Edition. The ESA’s annual conference, themed Conflict/Resolution, will precede the fair on March 15, featuring eight presentations addressing topics related to conflict and/or resolution.
The Ephemera Fair boasts more than 10,000 items ranging from advertisements, banknotes, baseball cards, business cards and cookbooks to fans, greeting cards, luggage tags, rare maps, playbills, receipts, sheet music, wood engravings and more, spanning generations of human history and culture.
The fair will showcase more than 50 exhibitors from across the country, including longtime participants including Evie Eysenburg Ephemera, aGatherin’ and Stephen Resnick. For more information, visit esafair.com.
Downtown
A talk about Greenwich’s trees originally planned for Jan. 9 has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Jan. 31 at Greenwich Library. The Greenwich Tree Conservancy, Greenwich Land Trust and Greenwich Library are teaming up to bring Greenwich residents a panel of tree experts to discuss solutions for challenges facing the town’s native trees including a rising number of pests and diseases
The event will be moderated by Will Kies, executive director of Greenwich Land Trust, with a panel of experts including ISA Certified Arborist and Expert Tree Consultant Allan Fenner of Bartlett Tree Company; Jack Swatt, president of the Connecticut Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation; and Greg Kramer, superintendent of parks and trees and tree warden for the town of Greenwich.
For more information and to register, visit greenwichtreeconserv ancy.org/jan-9-tree-panel/