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Wednesday Update -- October 30, 2024 | |
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Table of Contents
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- Philip Eliasoph to Discuss Art of the Grateful Dead
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Y's Men and Library Present Consumer Reports
- Entry Period Now Open for Expo 21 Photo Contest
- Classical Music Society Focuses on Aaron Copland
- Fire Department Requests Help for Hurricane Victims
- Woman's Club Seeks Funds to Buy Coats and Blankets
- Y's Men Volunteers Needed for Library Book Sale
- Eyeglasses Needed to Help Others
- Upcoming Trips Announced by T&E Committee
- Y's Men Holiday Party Set for December 19
- How to Order Free Covid-19 At Home Tests
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Y's Man Mario Ottaviano Passes Away; Related News
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From Haight Ashbury…To The Vegas Strip
Looking at the Grateful Dead From All Sides, Now
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Calling all Deadheads!
Think you’ve been fooling anyone with your Ivy League haircut and business casual clothes? That it’s not obvious you’ve spent six hours at a stretch on your feet with the best band of the Sixties, the Grateful Dead?
Tomorrow is the time to embrace your past and reveal your present.
Academic, critic and polymath Dr. Philip Eliasoph is our morning speaker on his lifelong study of the Grateful Dead. He examines the San Francisco phenomenon through the lenses of art history, mythic narrative, and Pop cultural consumerism.
He calls his approach post-modernist to the Dead’s intersection of music, political protest and capitalist creativity. And during his talk encourages foot-stomping, twirling, and hand clapping.
Guess that means he’ll be playing some cuts, too. Wear your oldest Dead t-shirt and maybe win a prize as the best one!
As always, Thursday morning meetings are in Hoskins Hall downstairs in the Saugatuck Congregational Church, 245 Post Road East in Westport. Speaker starts at 10:30 am, finishing no later than 11:30 am. Coffee, donuts, bagels and cream cheese are served during the social hour from 9:00 to 10:00 am, when a short business meeting begins before the speaker. Guests are always welcome.
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Y’s Men and The Westport Library
Present Consumer Reports, Thursday, November 7
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Consumer Reports always has your back when it comes to the information you need to make the right decisions on, well, virtually everything!
The Y's Men of Westport/Weston in association with The Westport Library bring Consumer Reports experts Ellen Kunes, Barrie Rosen, and Jen Shecter to the Library for an inside look at how CR delivers the key information you need through Consumer Reports magazine.
Invite your spouse and friends as this Y's Men presentation is open to the public and is not to be missed.
| Entry Period Now Open for Expo 21 Photo Contest |  | |
Northern Lights
Photo by Ted Horowitz
Our 21st Annual Photo Contest is open only to Y’s Men members and our wives, plus participants at the Westport Center for Senior Activities. In short, Expo 21 is only for shooters old enough to have decided what’s good – or not!
The period for submitting entries has begun and will end Thursday, November 7.
If you’ve entered before (or a first-timer) be sure to read the new rules click here. As always, your three photos have to be mounted to a precise size and delivered to one of our meetings or to the Senior Center. The entry fee has been waived and a new honest category has been added “Highly Manipulated.”
That label applies to too many photos we see in shows now. They are heavily edited with software to make, for example, the most spectacular sunset ever seen on the planet and like no reality the photographer ever did see – just imagined.
The rules are specific about photos fitting in this category which “look more like art than a depiction of reality.” Welcome to the new era of creative photography. Nothing wrong with being creative with photographs, except when not labeled as such and viewers are deceived. Expo 21 is requiring labels.
Judging will take place on Tuesday, November 12, and the entries will be on display at the Senior Center from Friday, November 15 through January 2025.
Please don’t wait for the last minute to enter. It takes some time.
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Classical Music Society
Discusses Copland Next Tuesday
The Y's Men Classical Music Society will again dip into the classical music TV series “Keeping Score” by Michael Tilson Thomas. This time to examine Aaron Copland and the American Sound at its next meeting Tuesday, November 5, 2:45 to 4:15 pm, Westport Center for Senior Activities.
In the segment, Conductor Thomas focuses on Copland, widely known as the "Dean of American Composers." He shows how Copland wrote classical music in his own special way "capturing the energy of America's bustling cities and the vast quiet of its empty plains."
Non-members and new members are welcome. Reservations required. Contact Ed Bloch at 203-227-4920 or edbloch71@gmail.com.
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Westport firefighters are collecting much needed supplies and monetary donations to assist residents in North Carolina affected by Hurricane Helene. They are filling a trailer and traveling South to help support the hurricane victims.
Needed Items include:
Food, bottled water, contractor-size trash bags, blankets, first aid supplies,feminine hygiene products, diapers and baby clothes, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, paper towels, bleach, shovels, brooms, gloves, coolers, propane, cook stoves, flashlights, batteries, fans, dehumidifiers, and generators.
Drop items off at Fire Department Headquarters at 515 Post Road East at any time.
Checks can be made out to "Westport UFCF" with Hurricane Relief in the Memo section and dropped off at Fire Department Headquarters.
Mail donations to Westport UFCF "Hurricane Relief," PO Box 5182, Westport CT 06881, or go to www.wufcf.org/donate-now to make an online donation and be sure to note that it is for the Hurricane Relief effort.
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Donations Needed to Purchase Coats and Blankets | |
The Westport Woman's Club, which ended its acceptance of clothing donations last Friday, is now seeking donations which it will use to purchase coats and blankets for those affected by the recent hurricanes. A $100.00 donation provides one coat and two blankets for someone in need. | |
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Y's Men Volunteers Needed for Library Book Sale
The Westport Library's Fall Book Sale is this weekend (Friday, November 1 through Sunday, November 3). They need volunteers before, during and after the sale. The Library is a great partner with the Y’s Men and many of our members have regularly volunteered for years.
Please consider signing up to help in this important (and fun) Library fundraiser. For further information, contact volunteer coordinator, Suzy Hooper at 203-434-7344 or at geosoo143@yahoo.com
Here are the dates and times that volunteers are needed:
Wednesday, October 30, 9:00 am to 8:00 pm
Thursday, October 31, 9:00 am to 8:00 pm
The sale starts Friday, November 1
Sunday, November 3, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Monday, November 4, 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Go to https://signup.com/go/NaowWqC to review available shifts and jobs
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You may be able to read this, but many others can’t.
They need your help, and now it’s easy for you to give it to them.
Please bring your unused glasses, whether prescription or just readers, and drop them in the donation box at tomorrow morning's meeting.
The more pairs you bring, the more people you help, so bring in those unused glasses, or you will have to answer to Jon Fox.
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Place Your Order for Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests | |
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Residential households in the U.S. are now eligible for another order of #4 free at-home tests from USPS.com.
Expiration Dates Extended
Tests may show “expired” dates on the box, but FDA has extended those dates; see the full list of extended expiration dates.
For more information and to order (and it’s really easy) click here: https://special.usps.com/testkits
Meanwhile, don't forget to get vaccinated for Covid and flu. The CDC says both diseases are major killers: Covid, still third after heart disease and cancer; flu is fifth. Now is the time to get both shots at the same time, perfectly safe for most but check with your provider.
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Y's Man Mario Ottaviano Passes Away at 91 | |
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Mario Ottaviano
Y's Man Mario Ottaviano passed away on Sunday, October 27. He was 91, and joined the Y's Men in 2006.
A Celebration of Life ceremony will take place on Saturday, November 30, at 10:30 am at Harbor Lights restaurant, 82 Seaview Avenue, Norwalk. All family and friends are welcome. Remembrances of Mario can be shared in the memory book at the Cognetta Funeral Home’s website (www.cognetta.com). The interment will be held privately.
A full obituary of Mario may be viewed by clicking here.
Bryan Alix
A memorial for Y's Man Bryan Alix, who passed away on Thursday, October 3, will be held this Saturday, November 2, at 1:00 pm at the Westport Woman’s Club, 44 Imperial Ave.
The Y's Men send their condolences to the Ottaviano and Alix families.
Nick Clarke
Y's Man Nick Clarke suffered a stroke about a month ago and was hospitalized. He is now at Ludlowe Center for Health and Rehabilitation and would like visitors. Ludlowe is at 118 Jefferson Avenue in Fairfield. The phone number is 203-372-4501.
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