Darien Morning Briefing: 4.4.12, Wednesday

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LAST CHANCE:

"Interested in being a part of the DHS-China Exchange next year? Applications are now available. Submit completed applications by April 4. Contact Mrs. Armiger with questions."—Darien High School website

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Today is Wednesday, April 4, 2012.

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HEADLINES:

EVENTS & REMINDERS

Adults

• Author Ruta Sepetys at Barrett Bookstore: 7 p.m., Barrett Bookstore. The author will "discuss her critically acclaimed novel "Between Shades of Gray". This gripping historical novel tells of the atrocities that take place in war-torn Lithuania through the eyes of a fifteen-year-old girl. To reserve a seat please call (203) 655-2712."—from on Darien Patch

• THURSDAY: Meet the Author—Jane Ziegelman: 7 p.m., Darien Library. "In 97 Orchard, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York’s Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century—a city within a city, where Germans, Irish, Italians, and Eastern European Jews attempted to forge a new life."—from on Darien Patch.

Teens:

• Darien High School schedule: "G" Day. Periods: 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 6
• Darien High School: "Carnival in the Courtyard after school; admission is $5."—Darien High School website announcement.
• "Interested in being a part of the DHS-China Exchange next year? Applications are now available. Submit completed applications by April 4. Contact Mrs. Armiger with questions."—Darien High School website
• Depot April Calendar

DARIEN PLAYHOUSE SHOWTIMES

• Mirror, Mirror: 7 p.m., PG (1 hr., 46 min.—IMDb—trailer—Rotten Tomatoes
• The Hunger Games: 7 and 10 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:

• Darien Police Commission, 5 p.m., Darien Police Department, 25 Hecker Ave.

• Darien Youth Commission, 7:30 p.m., Room 119

• Environmental Protection Commission, 7:30 p.m., Room 206 (agenda)

• Advisory Commission on Coastal Waters, 7:30 p.m., Room 213 (agenda)
  

FORECAST as of 10:26 p.m. Tuesday (update)

• Fire Weather Watch through Wednesday evening.

• Wednesday: "Sunny, with a high near 63. Southwest wind 6 to 16 mph becoming northwest."
• Wednesday Night: "Clear, with a low around 37. North wind between 13 and 18 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: 6:31 a.m.
• Sunset: 7:22 p.m.

• High tide: 4:02 a.m. (-0.1') 
• Low tide: 10:03 a.m. (7.6')
• High tide: 4:25 p.m. (-0.2')
  
• Low tide: 10:26 p.m. (8.1)
  

HOW TO USE PATCH:

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