Darien Morning Briefing: Dec. 27, 2011

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 27, the 361st day of 2011, four days before New Year's Eve.

HEADLINES

EVENTS & REMINDERS

Adults:

• Festival of Lighthouses Display . From our events listing: "through Jan. 16, 2012, Aquarium visitors can follow these homemade beacons through the galleries and then cast a vote for their favorite.  The lighthouse with the most votes wins $1,500." 
• The Catherine Lindsey Actors/Playwrights Workshop will present a series of workshops at Darien Library in February, March and April. "Interested playwrights should submit ten pages of their scripts to Robert Cusack at robert.cusack1@att.net by Feb. 1, 2012. [...] The workshops will allow the playwrights to refine their scripts, which will then be submitted to the Darien Library Selection Committee. On Sunday, June 10 at 2 p.m., the Actors/Playwrights Workshop will present the first public-staged reading of selections from the plays in the Library’s Community Room."—from the Library website.
• WEDNESDAY: "Stamford Hospital's Mobile Wellness Center, a clinic in a large bus, will visit the Darien Rowayton Bank for convenient, fast, digital mammograms from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 28."—from our events listing.

Kids:

• Toddler Tales at Darien Library: 10:30 to 11 a.m. in the Storytime Room 
• Sleepytime at Darien Library: 6:15 to 6:45 p.m. in the Storytime Room

TEENS

The Depot: Closed all this week

Darien Library:

• JAN. 28: Talent Competition of bands and other acts from Darien High School. The free event will feature free food. "A $350 first prize and $150 runner up prize will be offered to the best acts, chosen by members of the Darien Teen Advisory Board (Caroline Farrington, Katherine Feehan, and Dylan Gabriel ). Come to see all of your friends perform or come and be in the show! If you are interested in being an act, talk to any of the judges, Caroline Farrington, or Danielle Tilford."—from the Darien Library website. Here's the application form to download and fill out.

DARIEN PLAYHOUSE SHOWTIMES

• Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked: 7 and 8:45 p.m. (1 hr. 27 min.) —IMDb—trailer—trailer—trailer—Rotten Tomatoes
• War Horse: 2, 5 and 8 p.m. (2 hrs. 26 min.)
  
  

GOVERNMENT MEETINGS

All meetings take place in Town Hall, 2 Renshaw Rd., unless otherwise noted.

No meetings are scheduled.

FORECAST as of 5:55 a.m., Tuesday (update)

See also:

•  Tuesday: "Rain likely, mainly after 5 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 51. South wind between 9 and 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
• Tuesday night: "Rain and possibly a thunderstorm before 11 p.m., then a chance of rain. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Low around 39. Breezy, with a southeast wind 15 to 24 mph becoming west. Winds could gust as high as 41 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100 percent. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible."

INTERSTATE 95 TRAFFIC CAMS

• 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

• High tide: 12:40 a.m. (7.3')
• Low tide: 6:57 a.m. (-0.3')
• Sunrise: 7:18 a.m.
• High tide: 12:58 p.m. (7.8')
• Sunset: 4:32 p.m.
• Low tide: 7:28 p.m. (-0.5')

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