Neighbor to Neighbor has moved into one other non permanent house in downtown Greenwich at 1 Horseneck Lane, close to Interstate 95’s Exit 3.
Based on Neighbor to Neighbor, being at its third location this 12 months has created an amazing quantity of upheaval and but workers and volunteers are working to ship roughly 450 baggage of groceries plus 50 curbside pickups each week.
“Whether or not we determine it as grit or demonstrating resolve in going through the entire surprising occasions over the previous 12 months and a half, Neighbor to Neighbor’s workers and volunteers have devoted their efforts to serve these in our Greenwich neighborhood most in want,” mentioned Government Director Margaret Tjimos Goldberg. “Everybody has proven the perfect of themselves throughout these very making an attempt occasions.”
Building work is ongoing on their new everlasting house on the Christ Church campus on East Putnam Avenue. The Greenwich nonprofit is is in search of help to fill the brand new constructing, which has been used as non permanent headquarters by every part from the Greenwich Fireplace Division to the Greenwich Worldwide Movie Pageant.
The “Fill the Construct” marketing campaign is being finished in honor of Neighbor to Neighbor workers, whom John Cooper described as “heroes.”
“They moved from the basement of Christ Church to the Teen Heart on Arch Road, then North Greenwich Congregational and now to the non permanent fireplace station on Horseneck Lane,” mentioned Cooper, a co-chair of the Fill the Construct marketing campaign. “They made these huge strikes with out skipping a beat, persevering with to ship meals.”
The marketing campaign is amassing financial donations — on-line at ntngreenwich.org/occasions/fill-the-build — in addition to cabinets, chairs and tables. Present meals wants embody canned tuna, rooster, chili, Spam or Chef Boyardee with meat, in addition to pasta sauce, peanut butter and jelly, cereal and any type of oil — in modest-sized, easy-to-carry containers — like olive, vegetable, sunflower and canola.
“It might be fantastic if everybody in Greenwich helped them land solidly on their ft once they transfer one last time,” Cooper mentioned.
The hope is the present location throughout from the Boys & Women Membership of Greenwich will probably be their final non permanent house. Whereas building has run into delays on account of COVID-19 and the present provide chain disruptions, the move-in date for East Putnam Avenue is about for 2022.
Downtown
To have fun 20 years in Greenwich, the downtown girls’s clothes retailer J.McLaughlin is donating a portion of its gross sales to the Greenwich Parks and Recreation Basis.
On Sunday, 15 % of gross sales from all consumers who point out “Parks & Rec” at checkout will go to the inspiration.
“The tradition of J.McLaughlin as an organization is one among being good neighbors by giving again to the neighborhood,” mentioned Kristin Kidder, the shop supervisor at 55 East Putnam Ave.
“This occasion is a good instance of the inspiration’s efforts in connecting the neighborhood to funding quite a lot of experiences and enabling us to ship first-class facilities,” mentioned Director of Parks and Recreation Joseph Siciliano.
City services are seeing elevated demand, after sure elements had been shuttered final 12 months as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, Siciliano mentioned.
“We had a really profitable summer season with a document variety of individuals served by Parks and Recreation,” he mentioned. “Now within the fall, we proceed to see record-breaking use of the seashores, parks, and services. The Basis helps the City’s leisure infrastructure and utilization of our services.”
Moreover supplementing the city’s yearly funds for the Parks & Rec division, the inspiration “offers monetary help to income-eligible resident households for participation in youth actions via the Parks and Recreation Scholarship Program,” the inspiration mentioned in a press launch.
That scholarship program permits Greenwich children, who may not in any other case be capable to attend summer season camps, participate in youth sports activities or different packages.
Outdated Greenwich
The Dana’s Angels Analysis Belief raised greater than $130,000 final month to assist analysis for simpler remedies, scientific trials and genetic testing for Niemann Decide kind C illness (NPC), a really uncommon childhood illness sometimes called youngsters’s Alzheimer’s.
The Sept. 25 DART to the End charity stroll happened at Greenwich Level and just about throughout the nation. Greater than 325 individuals and organizations participated.
“We need to thank everybody who walked with us, each in-person and just about, for the DART to the End charity stroll,” mentioned Andrea Marella, co-founder of DART. “The solar was shining, the temperature was good and each particular person there did a lot to assist us increase funds for locating higher remedies for NPC.”
Greenwich residents Andrea and Phil Marella based the Dana’s Angels Analysis Belief in 2002 after two of their 4 youngsters, Dana and Andrew, had been identified with NPC. Dana died in 2013 on the age of 19. Andrew, 22, is doing higher, his household mentioned, and enrolled in a scientific trial to sluggish the development of the illness.
“We’ve got seen the success of sure remedies via scientific trials DART has helped fund,” Phil Marella mentioned. “Outcomes are in and we’re working with the (Meals and Drug Administration) to achieve approval of those remedies so extra youngsters can profit from their use. It’s grassroots occasions like our DART to the End charity stroll and others that occur all through the nation, that assist transfer the needle when funding such essential medical analysis. We all know first-hand how a medical breakthrough might help a baby. It has helped our son Andrew be with us in the present day and we’re happy that these funds will assist proceed the event of different NPC remedies.”
Extra details about DART is on-line at danasangels.org, on Fb @danasangels, on Instagram @danasangelsNPC and on Twitter @danasangels.
Backcountry
Greenwich Historic Society is heading to Outdated Mill Farm, as soon as the house of actor Mel Gibson, for its annual Fall Fete.
The Nov. 4 “elegant profit” will probably be introduced by famend designer Oscar de la Renta and sponsored by Betteridge Jewelers and Douglas VanderHorn Architects, each primarily based in Greenwich.
“This can be a crucial fundraiser to assist our expanded free and low-cost academic packages for native colleges, which is particularly necessary this 12 months because the pandemic continues to distance us and our kids from one another,” Historic Society Government Director and CEO Debra Mecky mentioned.
Tickets are required for the Fall Fete, which is able to happen from 6 to 9 p.m. on the Elizabethan-style property that boasts the Sylvans Selleck Gristmill, which dates again to 1796.
“(It) is an idyllic venue completely suited to the Historic Society’s dedication to preserving Greenwich’s architectural heritage,” the Historic Society mentioned in a press launch. “Visitors will be capable to roam the expansive grounds with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres.”
