Darien Morning Briefing: 4.16.12, Monday

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JUST LOOK AT THAT WEATHER FORECAST:

• Monday: "Sunny, with a high near 79. South wind around 11 mph."
• Monday Night: "Mostly clear, with a low around 58. Southwest wind between 6 and 11 mph."

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Today is Monday, April 16, 2012.

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HEADLINES:

"Titanic + 100" series:

EVENTS & REMINDERS

Adults

• National Health Care Decision Day: 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Darien Senior Center. "Presented by Visiting Nurse and Hospice of Fairfield County.  This free program will provide seniors tools to enable them to discuss their wishes with family, friends, and helathcare providers. Seniors will be tought how to select a health care representative and how to complete your own writeen advance directives in accordance with Connecticut state laws."—from the on Darien Patch
• Buy tickets for the Library Spring Gala: $130. Saturday, May 12, at 6:30 p.m. "Join us at Light Up the Library at the Imagination Gala! We will have cocktails, Hors D'oeuvres, entertainment, silent art auction and a live auction. Funds that are raised will be used for Library materials (all books, movies, computers, magazines, books on cd, information resources, and programs are paid for by private donations)."—library announcement

Kids:

• Family Film: The Muppets: (2011) 1 p.m. (1 hr., 43 mins.). Community Room, Darien Library. "Watch a movie on the Library's big screen and enjoy an afternoon with your family. Rated PG, parental guidance suggested."—library announcement—IMDb—trailer—Rotten Tomatoes
• Storytelling Yoga: 1 p.m., Stepping Stones Museum for Children in Norwalk. "Parents and children together enjoy a short story while participating in yoga-based movement in the Performance Gallery."—from the Stepping Stones website.
• IMAX movies at the Maritime Aquarium: 10 North Water St., Norwalk. Sea Rex (11 a.m., 2 p.m.), Born to be Wild (noon), Search for the Great Sharks  (1 and 3 p.m.)—from an aquarium Web page

Teens:

• Movie Mondays: 3 to 4 p.m., Darien Library. "Stop by the Teen Lounge at 3PM to watch a movie enjoy snacks!"—library announcement
•   "Trashless Tuesday" is April 24 during Earth Week. "There will be a  “Swap, don’t Shop” event in the vending area of the café.  Staff and students are invited to bring in a gently used item – and take home a new treasure!  Anything that can be carried out by hand is welcome.  For more information, see Katie Maccarone or Felicia Knise."—Darien High School announcement
• Depot April Calendar

DARIEN PLAYHOUSE SHOWTIMES

• The Three Stooges: 1:30, 3:30, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m., PG (1 hr., 46 min.)—IMDb—trailer—even stupider trailer—Rotten Tomatoes
• The Hunger Games: 1, 4 and 7 p.m., PG-13 (2 hrs., 22 mins.)—IMDb—trailer—Rotten Tomatoes

GOVERNMENT MEETINGS

All meetings take place in , 2 Renshaw Rd., unless otherwise noted. Since Darien town government provides no reliable, centralized list of town government meetings, and there is not enough time in the day to go searching for them, this list may well be incomplete:

No known government meetings today.

FORECAST as of 12:30 p.m. Monday (update)

• Monday: "Sunny, with a high near 79. South wind around 11 mph."
• Monday Night: "Increasing clouds, with a low around 59. Southwest wind between 7 and 10 mph."

INTERSTATE 95 TRAFFIC CAMS

See also Darien Patch's "Traffic & Gas Prices" page.

• Stamford: southbound, Exit 8 - Elm St.

• Stamford: northbound, south of Exit 9 - Lockwood Ave.

• Darien southbound, north of Exit 9 - Darien Service Plaza

• Darien northbound Exit 12 - Tokeneke Rd.

• Darien northbound, south of Exit 13 - Darien Service Plaza

• Darien southbound, Exit 13 - Rt. 1 (Boston Post Rd.)

• Norwalk southbound, Exit 15 - Stuart Ave.

• Norwalk Rt 7 south of Exit 1 - Connecticut Ave.

• Norwalk northbound, Exit 15 - Rt. 7

TIDES & TIMES

• Sunrise: 6:12 a.m.
• Sunset: 7:35 p.m.

• Low tide: 2:43 a.m. (0.5) 
• High tide: 8:42 a.m. (6.9')
• Low tide: 3:05 p.m. (0.4')
  
• High tide: 9:09 p.m. (7.3)
  

HOW TO USE PATCH:

Forecast obtained from the National Weather Service; tide information obtained from saltwatertides.com (calibrated to Long Neck Point).