Darien Morning Briefing: 5.1.12, Tuesday

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Today is Tuesday, May 1, 2012.

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HEADLINES:

Darien Community Sports Gallery

EVENTS & REMINDERS

Adults

• Crazy for Quilts ~ Scrapbooks in Silk and Satin: "Elegant, silk crazy quilts from the collection of the Darien Historical Society."—from on Darien Patch
  
• WEDNESDAY: Website Marketing Strategies & Social Media Integration: 6 p.m., Darien Library. "You have a website or plan to have one soon, so how do you get people to visit it and tell others about it? [...] This event is co-sponsored by the Darien Chamber of Commerce, SCORE, and the New Canaan Chamber of Commerce. Advanced registration is recommended."—from the library announcement
• Darien 4th of July Fireworks t-shirt contest: "Submit your artwork and the winner’s designs will serve as Darien’s official 4th of July Fireworks T-shirt! Hurry soon and fill out the information below, the contest will close May 15."—from 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

Parents:

• Methodist Family Center Preschool Camp: "MFCP is offering camp for preschool children starting May 29 and ending June 29"—from on Darien Patch
• New Methodist Family Center Preschool program for 4-year-olds: "MFCP is offering the new Navigators program to students enrolled in the four-year-old classes this fall."—from on Darien Patch.
• YWCA Toddler Time and Summer Fun Registration for 2012-2013
• at the Darien Nature Center

Kids:

• Tuesday Night BMX Racing: Trumbull Racing And Cycling Kids, Indian Ledge Park Road, Trumbull. "Practice from 5 to 6:45 p.m. Racing starts at 7 p.m. "If you can ride a bicycle, we have a racing class for you! Riders race against other riders of the same age and ability."—from on Darien Patch
• IMAX movies at the Maritime Aquarium: 10 North Water St., Norwalk. FRIDAY: Living Seas (11 a.m.), Born to Be Wild (noon), To the Arctic (1 and 5 p.m.), Sea Rex (2 and 4 p.m.). "11 a.m. movies sometimes change to accommodate school children." The schedule changes on weekends.—from an aquarium Web page

Teens:

• Darien High School schedule: "C" Day. Order of periods: 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 6
• Darien Depot: May Calendar
• Theatre 308 auditions: "Auditions for Theatre 308s student productions will be [...] Tuesday after school in the Little Theatre - all are welcome!"—announcement on the Darien High School website
• Seniors: Get your head shots to Neirad: "[T]he Neirad staff invites you to send a photograph of yourself (headshot) to neiradgrad2012@gmail.com by Friday May 4 for the Neirad graduation issue!! Include in the subject of the email your full name and plans for next year."—announcement on the Darien High School website

DARIEN PLAYHOUSE SHOWTIMES

• The Three Stooges: 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., PG (1 hr., 46 min.)—IMDb—trailer—even stupider trailer—something else—Rotten Tomatoes
• The Lucky One: 7 and 9:15 p.m., PG-13 (1 hr., 41 min.)—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:

• Sewer Commission, 4:30 p.m., Room 206 (PDF of agenda)

• Planning & Zoning Commission, 8 p.m., Room 206 (PDF of agenda)

FORECAST as of 1:57 a.m. Tuesday (update)

• Tuesday: "Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before noon, then scattered showers between noon and 2pm. High near 68. South wind 9 to 11 mph becoming west. Chance of precipitation is 80 percent. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms."
• Tuesday Night: "Partly cloudy, with a low around 51. North wind 6 to 8 mph becoming east."

DARIEN  GOVERNMENT  ACCESS  TELEVISION - TV79

 Airing this week…

• Board of Selectmen  4-24  ( runs 1:06 )                             AGENDA
  • Airs:  2:07 AM, 8:15 AM, 2:22 PM & Prime Time

• RTM Rules Comm.  4-24  (runs  :55 )                                 AGENDA
  •  Airs:  4:04 AM, 10:12 AM & Prime Time

• Planning & Zoning Comm.  4-24   ( runs  3:15 )                  AGENDA
  • Airs  5 AM, 11:07 AM, 4 PM, 10:52 PM

•  Darien Housing Authority  4-24   ( runs  :30 )                   AGENDA
  •  Airs  3:34 AM, 9:42 AM, 3:28 PM, 7:15 PM & PT

•  Bd of Ed / Mather / Shuffle  4-24     ( runs  :21 )
  •  Airs   3:13 AM, 9:21 AM & Prime Time

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

HOW TO USE PATCH:

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