Greenwich police host food drive to help the community’s needy

The GPD will maintain a meals drive on the city’s Public Security Advanced off Greenwich Avenue at 11 Bruce Place from 8 a.m. to midday Jan. 23, rain or shine.

Probably the most wanted gadgets are cereal, oatmeal, beans, peanut butter and jelly in addition to canned tuna, rooster and chili.

The meals drive is the most recent neighborhood initiative of the Greenwich Police Division.

Within the “Battle of the Badges” blood drives, the GPD, Greenwich Fireplace Division and Greenwich Emergency Medical Service have a pleasant competitors to see which one can get essentially the most donors. This previous December, the GPD held a profitable “stuff a cruiser” toy drive to produce presents for households on the town.

Organizing these sorts of occasions are essential to the division, GPD Capt. Mark Zuccerella stated.

“These occasions will assist those that are in want, and as public servants we wish to assist individuals in want,” Zuccerella stated. “And these sorts of occasions are nice for connecting us to the neighborhood and constructing relationships. Most individuals solely see a police officer when they’re in disaster or being pulled over. We emphasize to every officer the significance of constructing optimistic relationships with members of the neighborhood and we reinforce the messaging that each citizen contact has the potential to enhance or hurt the general public belief.”

The meals will then be given to Neighbor to Neighbor, which runs a meals pantry. Through the pandemic, the demand for meals has skyrocketed. Meals drives is usually a enormous assist to the nonprofit group’s efforts to assist the needy.

Neighbor to Neighbor is working out of the Arch Avenue Teen Heart, which has more room to permit for social distancing and to satisfy the massive demand for meals. Development is underway on its new headquarters, which can be on the grounds of Christ Church.

Previous Greenwich

There’s a vacant seat in District 6 within the Consultant City Assembly, and leaders hope to fill it earlier than the physique’s subsequent full assembly on Jan. 19.

Residents within the emptiness should contact the district chair and may seem on the district assembly Jan. 14. If multiple candidate steps ahead, the district’s delegation will vote.

To be eligible to serve on the RTM, you should be a resident of the district and be a registered voter on the town. The RTM is a nonpartisan physique, and a member will be registered as a Republican, a Democrat, a 3rd social gathering member or unaffiliated.

The particular person elected to the seat will fill out the rest of the time period, which ends on the finish of 2021. The particular person can have the choice of working for reelection in November to a full time period.

To launch your candidacy for the seat, contact District Chair Candace Garthwaite. Extra info is posted about doing that at www.greewnichct.gov. At www.greenwichct.gov/721/Consultant-City-Assembly-RTM, there’s a enroll sheet for audio system on the Jan. 19 assembly of the RTM.

Central Greenwich

The Junior League of Greenwich is accepting functions from younger ladies on the town for its Group Service Award.

The annual award goes to an area feminine highschool scholar and carries a prize of $1,000 for a scholar who “exemplifies the mission of the Junior League of Greenwich by demonstrating sustained dedication to neighborhood service.”

In accordance with the league, “The recipient should be somebody whose volunteer actions reveal initiative and present important and sustained dedication to neighborhood service and management.”

The competition is open to native feminine college students in grades 9 by 12 who’re city residents or who attend faculty on the town, public or non-public.

“The recipient should be somebody whose volunteer actions reveal initiative, management, and a sustained dedication to neighborhood service,” the league stated.

The functions can be accepted by March 29. It may be downloaded from www.jlgreenwich.org. The functions should be accompanied by two written suggestions from non-family members who’ve data of the scholar’s volunteer actions.

Final yr, the league offered its award to Stephanie Guza, who was a senior at Sacred Coronary heart Greenwich. She was acknowledged for her work in founding the Assist Finish Interval Poverty Undertaking, which unfold consciousness, created training and supplied free female hygiene merchandise to ladies in want.

Guza held three fundraisers at Sacred Coronary heart Greenwich and raised sufficient to donate $2,000 of female hygiene merchandise to a number of nonprofit organizations that assist low-income and homeless ladies. She used her $1,000 award to additional her undertaking by buying and donating merchandise to organizations and shelters on the town.

Cos Cob

A “misplaced panorama” has been introduced residence, and it may be seen on the Greenwich Historic Society by the general public beginning Saturday.

The brand new exhibit, “Misplaced Panorama Revealed,” will run from Jan. 16 to March 28. It options works by Amerian Impressionist painter Childe Hassam and by different artists who reveal Cos Cob’s function within the historical past of American artwork.

The exhibit is constructed round Hassam’s portray “The Purple Mill, Cos Cob,” which was acquired by the Greenwich Historic Society final yr.

“That is an thrilling alternative to debut an distinctive portray that speaks to the environment and environment that attracted Hassam and plenty of different famous artists to Cos Cob,” stated Maggie Dimock, the society’s curator of exhibitions and collections. “Cos Cob was as soon as on the heart of Impressionism in America when Hassam, and different artists like John Henry Twachtman, Theodore Robinson and Elmer MacRae gathered at Holley Home, now the Bush-Holley Home, to color and train.”

In accordance with the society, the exhibit “explores how Hassam, considered one of America’s foremost Impressionists, and fellow artists, together with Elmer MacRae and Kerr Eby, captured the looks of the waterfront neighborhood referred to as Cos Cob’s Decrease Touchdown. Via work, pictures, and artifacts this one-time busy mercantile district can be delivered to life.”

“The Purple Mill, Cos Cob” depicts a view throughout Cos Cob Harbor towards the Palmer and Duff shipyard. which was as soon as on a peninsula within the Mianus River reverse the Holley boardinghouse. The society notes that the “pink mill” within the title will not be the truth is a mill however is a big constructing utilized by Palmer and Duff staff for sail making and ship carpentry.

Tickets should be reserved upfront by visiting www.greenwichhistory.org/go to.