Good morning, !

This Saturday, April 26, 2025

8:30 a.m. Breakfast meeting, followed by Green Up Day community service.

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall

GREEN UP DAY 2025

Eversource representative(s) will set up outside around 8:30 a.m. to distribute trees and shrubs to participants in the Green Up Day litter collection. Tom Failla will set them up. In the past, the utility has provided a variety of trees and shrubs, including white and pink dogwood, sweet bay magnolia, Okemo and other cherries, viburnums, witch hazel, and spice bush. There will be bags available for the green-up clean-up after the meeting.

Weston Girl Scouts are coming at 9 a.m.

At breakfast, we will honor Millie Best. Millie brought Green Up Day to Weston, and with Weston Kiwanis members, State Representative John Stripp, and State Senator Judi Freedman, worked to make the last Saturday in April a statewide event after the passage of Public Act 95-67 in 1995.

The act requires the Governor of the state of Connecticut to proclaim the last Saturday in April “Green Up Day," to encourage people to clean up their communities, plant trees and flowers, and enhance the physical beauty of the state's communities and countryside.

Weston’s first and many subsequent Green Up Days were led (until her death) by the late Millie Best and supported by her associate Mila Grieb. Millie was inspired by volunteer efforts to clean up trash along Vermont’s roads.

This Saturday, we celebrate the 51^st anniversary of Green Up Day in Weston. The Kiwanis Club of Weston played an early and continuing role in Weston Green Up Day observances, and Kiwanis is now the lead organization in Weston. Weston Kiwanis has worked for decades to promote and organize Green Up Day, collaborating with Millie and Mila, as well as scores of volunteers from schools, neighborhood groups, the Scouts, the Weston Garden Club, and many other organizations.

Since 2005, the Kiwanis Club of Weston has presented the annual Millie Best Environmental Award, "Honoring Her Establishment and Continuance of Green Up Day," to volunteers who have made outstanding contributions to the environment. Their names and years of service are added to the award plaques in Weston Town Hall. At press time, Kiwaniscope has no information on the 2025 awardee.

Green Up Day efforts have helped maintain Weston’s pristine natural beauty for the enjoyment of its residents, visitors, and future generations.

All Westonites are urged to participate in Green Up Day activities.

Weston Kiwanian Dan Lerner, with bags from his and Harry's cleaning up along Weston Road last year, is shown in the nearby picture, contributed by Harry Spencer.

COMING BIRTHDAYS

April 27, David McConnaughey

May 6, David Weber

May 10, Joan Clayton

May 12, Harry Spencer

May 25, Karen Chrisley

COMING WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

April 27, Frank Ferrara (Annalise)

April 29. Glenn Van Deusen (Diana)

April 30, Bill Brady (Louise)

May 5, Paul Schultz (Sabine)

May 10, Dan Gilbert (Sharon)

May 19, Katherine McConnaughey (David)

May 19, David McConnaughey (Katherine )

May 20, Reed Ameden (Torild)



PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

By Tom Watson

We are only six months away from the 2025 Reservoir Run!

 Thank you to Amy Jenner, Dallas Kersey, and Harry Falber for their work with the Reservoir Run Sponsorship Committee. 

As we seek three to four very large sponsors, every member is being given access to our “pitch book”; I am counting on each of you to solicit at least one large sponsor, particularly if you have a personal or business connection.

This year’s beneficiaries, the Ronald McDonald House, The Child and Family Guidance Center, and Weston Volunteer EMS, are all counting on us!

On April 6, shortly after we finished work on the sponsorship deck, the committee received an email from Bob Uzenoff, with Ellen copied. Whenever I see an email from Bob, I expect some good advice, well-written words, or a form of Kiwanis acumen, given his service dating back to 1994. It was a big surprise to read that Bob and Ellen were donating $1,000 to this year’s event! What a generous donation! The whole club appreciates this, and I am sure it will bring a smile to the recipients as well. Thank you so much, Bob and Ellen. And thank you, Bob, for all you continue to do in your role as club secretary and more. You are a model of service.

MAY

Saturday, May 3, 2025

8:30 a.m. Breakfast and annual meeting. Please contribute to a quorum by attending this meeting, where we will discuss and vote on club and foundation bylaws and policies, and elect new officers and directors.

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall

Saturday, May 10, 2025

8:30 a.m. Club Meeting. Breakfast and Kiwanis Club of Weston 2025 Service and Leadership Awards presentation.

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall

Saturday, May 17, 2025

8:30 a.m. Club Meeting. Breakfast and speaker: Westport Country Playhouse Art Director, May 17, Mark Shanahan

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall

Saturday, May 24, 2025

8:30 a.m. NO MEETING - Kiwanis provides food service at the Hurlbutt Elementary School and Weston Intermediate School PTOs' Memorial Day Weekend Fair.

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall

Saturday, May 31, 2025

8:30 a.m. Breakfast and program TBD.

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall

SAVE THE DATE

June 25–28, 2025, Kiwanis International Convention, Forge the Future, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

August 14-17, 2025

106th Annual Kiwanis New England and Bermuda District Convention, Sheraton at Bradley Airport, Windsor Locks, Connecticut

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Kiwanis Summerfest. Lachat Town Farm at the Juliana Lachat Preserve. Starting time to be set. Ending no later than four o'clock.

Sunday, October 26, 2025

14th Annual Weston Kiwanis Reservoir Run half marathon and 5K foot races and kids fun run.

Kiwaniscope is the award-winning newsletter published weekly for the members and friends of the Kiwanis Club of Weston on Thursday mornings September through June. Kiwaniscope is edited and published by Bob Uzenoff, who takes responsibility for the content.

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