CELEBRATIONS

Perrot launches seed library

On March 17, Perrot Memorial Library launched the Nancy Altznauer Memorial Seed Library, in partnership with Girl Scout Anna Mulligan, the Garden Club of Old Greenwich and Greenwich Land Trust. Altznauer was a former Perrot Library board member who was instrumental in planning and executing Perrot Library’s landscaping and gardens.

“The Seed Library represents the combined efforts of many individuals and organizations,” said Kathy McCormack, Perrot Library board president, in a news release. “Perrot Library partnered with Senior Girl Scout Anna Mulligan of Troop 50126 on the seed library as part of her Gold Award Project.”

Lori Mulligan, Girl Scout Troop 50126 co-leader; Girl Scout Gold Award Project Advisor Wendy Yu; and the master gardeners at Garden Club of Old Greenwich and Greenwich Land Trust “all helped make the seed library a reality,” she said.

A seed library makes a variety of seeds available for the public; the Nancy Altznauer Memorial Seed Library includes a variety of vegetable and flower seeds, the release said.

Perrot’s seed library is opposite the Adult Circulation Desk in the Waid Building. For now, there is a limit of one envelope of seeds per variety per home. All seed packets have a QR code to scan for easy planting directions.

Visit perrotlibrary.org/ seed-library/ for more information about Perrot Library’s

Nancy Altznauer Memorial Seed Library. For questions, call Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066, ext. 15.

Greenwich Public Schools gives gift cards to Neighbor to Neighbor

Greenwich Public Schools recently received 335 $25 gift cards from ACME Markets & Kings Food Markets Foundation’s Nourishing Neighbors Program and GENYouth, a school-based national nonprofit.

Superintendent of Schools Toni Jones presented the gift cards to Neighbor to Neighbor’s Executive Director K. Brent Hill to be used in their Summer Supplement Program.

NTN’s Summer Supplement Program is a 10-week program that serves more than 300 families with school-aged children during the summer when school meals are not available.

Recent customer donations from Greenwich and Riverside ACME stores and Old Greenwich Kings store to help eradicate childhood hunger by keeping food banks stocked and supporting meal distribution programs at schools totaled $8,375.

Local man inducted into state Special Olympics Hall of Fame

David LaRusso, of Greenwich, was inducted into the State of Connecticut Special Olympics Hall of Fame on March 19 in Plantsville. LaRusso has owned and run a successful sporting goods store in Greenwich for the past 40 years and with the support of his sister Lisa, a Greenwich Special Olympics athlete, in 1996 started a golf program at the Stanwich Golf Cub that continues today.

Greenwich student makes Dean’s List

More than 590 students were named to the Dean’s List at Bates College in Maine for fall 2023. This honor is earned by students with a 3.92 gradepoint average or higher, and included Sadie Kriegler, of Greenwich, who is majoring in politics, and William Butler, of Riverside, who is majoring in philosophy.

Central Middle third at math competition

The Central Middle School Math Counts Team earned a third place finish in the recent Connecticut State Competition of Mathcounts competition at the University of Hartford.

The competition is comprised of four rounds: sprint, target, team and countdown round. The CMS team of Rocky Ha, Carter Henske, Sohan Javeri and Gus Schuhmacher were led by coach Elana Brookman.

Mathcounts is a nonprofit organization that strives to engage middle school students of all ability and interest levels in fun, challenging math programs to expand their academic and professional opportunities. Mathcounts provides free, highquality resources to educators and enriching, extracurricular opportunities to students to lay a foundation for future success.