Tomorrow: Building Bridges in Westport with Jay Norris

Jay Norris

The big picture:
The Y’s Men host a candid conversation tomorrow morning about Westport’s future covering how the town will grow, how it's governed, and how we make this town feel like home for everyone.

Driving the conversation: Community builder Jay Norris, founder of Westport10 and a member of The Westport Library board, returns to share how connecting Black residents and allies is reshaping the conversation about belonging in town. Jay will be the featured speaker at tomorrow's regular morning meeting.

He’ll talk about what has changed since he last spoke to the Y’s Men, the challenges that remain, and why he believes our children’s experience of Westport will be the real measure of success.

Y's Men Thursday morning meetings are in Hoskins Hall downstairs in the Saugatuck Congregational Church, 245 Post Road East in Westport. Coffee, donut, and bagel social hour begins at 9:00 am, business meeting at 10:00 am, speaker at 10:30 am. Come early and meet your fellow members. Guests are always welcome.

Reminder: Live Flute Concert Tomorrow Afternoon

The Y's Men Classical Music Society has invited the entire membership to its February meeting featuring "A Celebration of the Flute" a live concert performed in the sanctuary of the Saugatuck Congregational Church. The concert begins at 2:30 pm tomorrow composed of two flautists and a piano accompanist. Works by Bach and Debussy are included in the program.

Flautist Aimee Toner’s extensive experience includes performing as flutist and piccolo player with orchestras throughout New England, headlining contracted recitals along the east coast, and collaborating in chamber groups that have ranged from jazz trios in Italian restaurants to wind quintets on stage at Carnegie Hall. 

Lynn Padell has been playing the flute on and off since elementary school.  In college, she studied classical flute with renowned flautist and arranger Louis Moyse. But many of us know her as a solo vocalist and flautist with the almost all doctor rock and roll band, DNR, in which her husband, Y's Man Dr. Robert Altbaum, plays the keyboard. 

Y's Man Dr. Harry Sauer will provide piano accompaniment. He is retired chair, department of obstetrics and gynecology, Yale New Haven Health; chair of ob/gyn at Bridgeport Hospital in the Yale New Haven Health system; and a Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Medicine. A part time pianist, Harry has performed for the Classical Music Society at several past meetings.

For additional information, contact Y's Man Ed Bloch at edbloch71@gmail.com.