'Grease' is the word Friday and SaturdayPink ladies and T-Birds surround Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson, played by eighth graders Andrew Aguirre and Sabrina Piersol, in a dress rehearsal of Western Middle School’s musical ‘Grease.’ The students will perform Grease this weekend, Friday and Saturday, Jan. 23 and 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the school’s auditorium. Snow dates are Jan. 30 and 31. The musical, by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, calls for 100 students in the cast and stage crew. They have been rehearsing for the upcoming production since November, under the direction of Western Middle School teachers Luanne LaRose, director and producer; Luz Casado, assistant director; Maria Davis, musical director; and parent volunteer Sue Mendogni, choreography. Tickets are $11 each. For more information and tickets, call 531-5700.
The middle school council of Save the Children has planned a fund-raising event for students in grades six through eight. “Fiesta for El Salvador” will take place on Saturday, Jan. 31, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Boys and Girls Club of Greenwich.
Proceeds from the night will benefit early childhood education in El Salvador.
The evening will include a DJ, dancing, karaoke and pizza donated by Planet Pizza in Greenwich. Individual tickets may be purchased at the door for $10.
The evening will include a DJ, dancing, karaoke and pizza donated by Planet Pizza in Greenwich. Individual tickets may be purchased at the door for $10.
The high honors continue to pile up for ARCH School science and electives teacher Anthony Mullen.
After being named one of Greenwich’s Distinguished Teachers last spring, Mr. Mullen was named Connecticut’s teacher of the year last November. Now the former New York City homicide detective-turned-teacher has been named one of four semi-finalists for the National Teacher of the Year.
State Rep. Alfred Camillo Jr. toured the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority (CRRA)’s Single Stream Facility in Hartford last week, calling the technology “the way of the future.”
Single-stream recycling is the process in which paper and cardboard may be mixed with bottles and cans in a single recycling bin. Since single-stream recycling permits collection using 64-gallon wheeled barrels rather than the 14-gallon bins currently in use, people may now recycle more material.
Previously, all recyclables delivered to CRRA had to be separated, with newspaper, junk mail, cardboard and other paper products brought to one portion of the facility, and bottles, cans, jars and other containers brought to another portion.
CRRA sells recyclables to companies on the open market and those companies then turn them into new product. The Hartford facility is taking single-stream deliveries from 59 cities and towns, with qualifying municipalities receiving rebates.
“It makes it much easier for citizens to participate, incorporates more materials and has proven to be a huge success in the places it has been implemented around the nation,” Mr. Camillo said of single stream recycling. “If protecting the environment as well as becoming more financially efficient are the goals we are striving for, this concept is a winner.”
“While we are in dire economic times, the $6 million needed to retrofit the Bridgeport facility is an expenditure that will pay big dividends down the road,” he added. “We need to find that money at some point to allow us to go to the next level in recycling.”
Nationally known school psychologist and adolescent counselor Stephen Wallace will speak to parents on Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 7 p.m. in the Lennie and John de Csepel Theater at Convent of the Sacred Heart.
Sponsored by the Parents’ Association, the event is free and open to the parents from other schools.
For more information, call Jennifer Keller at 532-3115.
Mr. Wallace, who is the author of Reality Gap, is chairman and chief executive officer of Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD). SADD is a national organization, which consists of nearly 10,000 middle school, high school and college chapters across the country. His book paints a portrait of a modern-day adolescence filled with potentially deadly behaviors carefully hidden from the view of parents and other adults. But it is also a book about hope and inspiration, pointing to the powerful role that parents and other mentors can play in the lives of young people and highlighting the tremendous contributions that many teens are making to their families, schools and communities.
Mr. Wallace has broad experience as a school psychologist and adolescent counselor and has held positions in educational and clinical settings. He is the director of counseling and counselor training at the Cape Cod Sea Camps Inc., a senior consultant at ML Strategies Inc., the principal of Summit Communications Management Corporation and the Summit Foundation for Teen Leadership Inc., and an adjunct professor of psychology at Mount Ida College in Newton, Mass.
Tony Campolo, a nationally known pastor, sociologist, social activist, author and commentator, will discuss “Faith and the Future of the Church” at a brunch Saturday, Jan. 24, from 10 to noon at Second Congregational Church, at 139 East Putnam Ave.
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