07/15/09 MEDIA ALERT: Gov. Rell Thursday Schedule: Norwalk, Greenwich, Brookfield

Public Schedule for Gov. M. Jodi Rell

Thursday, July 16, 2009

10:00 AM

Bill Signing Ceremony: Brownfields

Norwalk Train Station, outside, weather pending

30 Monroe Street

South Norwalk

***The bill makes it easier for parties acquiring a brownfield to recover investigation and remediation costs from those responsible for contaminating the property.

Directions: Interstate-91 South to Interstate-95 South. Take Exit 15. Take 1^st Exit toward South Norwalk/Maritime Aquarium (Exit comes up quickly). Stay to left at end of ramp (Lockwood Matthews Mansion will be on right). Take left onto West Avenue (passing under highway). Follow West Avenue to intersection with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (approx. ½ mile). Turn slight right onto Dr. MLK Jr. Blvd. (a large, surface parking lot and 12-story office building will be on your left). Cross West Washington Street and remain on Dr. MLK Jr. Blvd. Turn left on Monroe Street (2^nd left after crossing intersection with West Washington Street). Pass under tracks and take IMMEDIATE right into parking lot. Event will take place outside Train Station (East bound side). 30 Monroe Street is within 1 ½ miles of the Route 7 exit

11:15 AM

Bill Signing Ceremony: Asthmatic Inhalers

Hamilton Avenue School (in community room)

184 Hamilton Avenue

Greenwich

**This act requires, rather than allows, the State Education Department to adopt regulations governing medication administration by school personnel and student self-medication. It specifies that the latter must address students using asthmatic inhalers and epipens.

2:00 pm

Bill Signing Ceremony: Lyme Disease

Rotary Park in front of Brookfield Town Hall (outside, weather pending; otherwise in Town Hall)

100 Pocono Road

Brookfield

**Beginning immediately, this act allows a licensed physician to prescribe, administer, or dispense long-term antibiotic therapy to a patient for a therapeutic purpose that eliminates the infection or controls the patient's symptoms if (1) a clinical diagnosis is made that the patient has Lyme disease or has symptoms consistent with such a diagnosis and (2) the physician documents the diagnosis and treatment in the patient's medical record.

Hi all,
Just wanted to be sure you received this from the Governor's Office.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Kim

Kim Eves
Director of Communications
Greenwich Board of Education
290 Greenwich Avenue
Greenwich, CT 06830

www.greenwichschools.org

Phone: 203-625-7415
e mail: kim_eves@greenwich.k12.ct.us
Fax: 203-869-8003