Y's Men News -- Sunday, May 25, 2025 | | |
Table of Contents
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- No Travel Club Meeting Tomorrow
- Y's Men Float in Tomorrow's Memorial Day Parade
- Y's Men Annual Meeting at Sherwood Island This Thursday
- T&E Announces Several Outings
- Westport and Weston First Selectwomen: Town Updates
- Yale's Dr. Mark Mercurio Spoke About End-of Life Decisions
- Y's Man Bob Cooper Performs with Roger Kaufman Thursday
- FYI: A Little Folk Music This Saturday at The Westport Library
- Y's Men Spring Golf Outing Set for Monday, June 9
- Volunteers Needed for Summer Coffee Brigade
- Mission of Mercy Dental Clinic Needs Y's Men Helpers
- Non-Fiction Book Club to Host Ted Aldrich July 9
- Steve Lewine Memorial Service This Thursday
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No Travel Club Meeting Tomorrow
The Y's Men Travel Club, normally scheduled to meet every other Monday, will not meet tomorrow (Monday, May 26).
Why? It's Memorial Day (and don't miss seeing the Y's Men float in the Westport parade).
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Be sure to attend Westport's Memorial Day Parade tomorrow, May 26. It kicks off at 9:00 am on Riverside Avenue. The Y's Men float is number 25 in the line of march.
Come cheer on the work that fellow Y's Men achieved in what surely will be another award-winning float.
| | Annual Meeting, Picnic at Sherwood Island Thursday, May 29 | | |
Y's Men will meet at the Sherwood Island Pavilion on Thursday, May 29.
On Thursday, May 29 the Y's Men will meet at the Pavilion on Sherwood Island for the annual meeting and picnic. The meeting begins at 9:00 am for coffee, and the last business meeting of the fiscal year begins at 11:00 am. Y's Men will be ratifying the vote on the slate of officers and directors. At noon, pre-ordered lunch will be available compliments of the Y's Men.
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Monday, June 2
NYC Walk: High Bridge & George Washington Bridge
Spouses, Significant Others & Guests Welcome!
https://conta.cc/4k5jEaR
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Tuesday, June 10
Copps Island Oystering
This event is for Y’s Men Members only
https://conta.cc/4lQttKY
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Tuesday-Wednesday, June 17-18
WOODS HOLE – NEW BEDFORD – FALL RIVER
Spouses, Significant Others, and Guests Welcome!
https://conta.cc/3G9ibBa
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Tuesday, July 1
United Nations Tour
Spouses & Significant Others Welcome!
https://conta.cc/44Bd5rE
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Tuesday, July 8
Seaport Association’s Famous Tuesday Night Clambake at Sheffield Island
https://conta.cc/3RBIXoo
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Friday, October 17
Essex Fall Foliage Excursion & Luncheon
This event is only open to Y’s Men members
& spouses/significant others
https://conta.cc/4iGa0Kg
| | Westport, Weston Selectwomen Wrap Y’s Men Speaker Season | | |
Weston First Selectwoman Sam Nestor (left) and Westport First Seletwoman Jen Tooker are interviewed by Y's Man and former Westport First Selectman Jim Marpe at last Thursday's Y's Men meeting, the last speaker meeting of the 2024-2025 season.
Y’s Men learned the new Westport tax rate before anyone outside town government from First Selectwoman Jen Tooker at last Thursday‘s meeting. Tooker, who is running for governor, said taxes will increase 1.2 percent next year to a new mill rate of $18.86 for each $1,000 of property assessment.
She shared the stage with Wilton First Selectwoman Sam Nestor, who emphasized the challenges of her more rural town.
“We depend on taxing people since we have only five commercial properties – including the Post Office,” she said, adding the town was building its “first ever sidewalks.”
Tooker said she’d “dance around” a question about her position on the controversial Hamlet at Saugatuck, the retail/residential/hotel/marina complex proposed around the railroad station and the river.
“It’s the single most expensive development project Westport has ever seen,” she said, noting it was in the capable hands of the Planning and Zoning Commission.
Click here to view the entire interview with the First Selectwomen.
| | Yale's Dr. Mark Mercurio Spoke About End-of Life Decisions | | |
Dr. Mark Mercurio
Photo by Ted Horowitz
How to make complicated and heart-breaking end-of-life decisions about loved ones was presented by the founder of Yale’s medical ethics programs at the Thursday, May 15 Y’s Men meeting.
Dr. Mark Mercurio, now head of Yale’s Pediatric Ethics Program, said the essential question for doctors and parents is always “What should we do?”
“’What ought we do?’ is a physiological problem,” he said. “The ethical question is ‘Should we really be doing this?’”
The issue is complicated when the patient can’t speak.
With adults, relatives’ end-of-life issues involve “substituted judgment,” he said. “The question is not what I would want in the patient’s place. But what the patient would want.”
For babies, it is the child’s best interests.
Dr. Mercurio advised anyone facing issues about a sick loved one of any age in a hospital ask to involve the institution’s “ethics committee” that can help think through the problems.
Click here to view Dr. Mercurio's full presentation.
| | Y's Man Bob Cooper Performs with Roger Kaufman Thursday | | |
Y's Man Bob Cooper performs with Roger Kaufman this Thursday evening at The Warehouse in Fairfield. This will be the same show presented last fall at The Westport Library, called "Road Trip to the 5 M's" - it's a bit of American popular music history combined with a live concert with an excellent band and great vocalists.
The 5 M's refers to the five locations that each produced its own flavor of r&b, soul or funk from the 1960s into the 1980s - Memphis, Macon, Miami, Muscle Shoals and Motown.
For more information call The Warehouse in Fairfield at 203-259-1036 or to buy tickets, click here.
| | Y’s Men 2025 Spring Golf Outing Set for Monday, June 9 | | |
This year’s Y's Men Spring Golf Outing will be on Monday, June 9 at the Longshore Golf Course. The first tee time is at 10:30 am, and the entry fee is $85.00. This fee covers the greens fee, cart rental, refreshments, and goodies at the 19th hole, which will be at the Black Duck. And prizes are awarded to the lowest scoring team and to individual golfers for the longest drive, closest to the line, and closest to the pin on two holes.
The Tourney’s format will be Scramble or Best Ball utilizing a team of three or four players.
Please register for the outing by email to Bob Leng at leng_7@msn.com or text 978-289-0940. The deadline is Friday, June 6.
For additional details, click here.
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Wanted: Y’s Men Volunteers to Serve on the
Summer Coffee/Donut/Bagels Committee
Throughout the summer and starting June 5, the Y’s Men meet every Thursday at 9:00 am to share fellowship, coffee/donuts/bagels at the Sherwood Island State Park Pavilion.
You do not have to know how to brew coffee, make donuts or boil bagels. We just need guys to pick up the coffee or donuts or bagels and clean up the area.
If you are free to help out please contact Baxter Urist at burist@optonline.net
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Volunteers Needed for Connecticut
Mission of Mercy Dental Clinic
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We're looking for more than just dentists. If you have any skills at all we're looking for you. Check your calendar.
Giving Smiles - Giving Hope
Click here to watch an explanatory video about the clinic.
Volunteer Dates
- Tuesday, June 19: Assembly of the Clinic
- Friday and Saturday, June 20-21: Patient Clinic Days
- Saturday, June 21 (Afternoon) and Sunday, June 22 (Morning): Breakdown and Packing
Location: New Britain High School
Questions? Contact Y's Man Jeff Pivor at jpivordds@yahoo.com
The Connecticut Foundation for Dental Outreach believes that everyone deserves dental care. The Foundation, through its Connecticut Mission of Mercy Free Dental Clinics, provides the underserved and uninsured with free dental care so no one will suffer needlessly from mouth pain, complications from lack of care, or be embarrassed about their smile.
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Non-Fiction Book Club to Host Author Ted Aldrich July 9
Ted Aldrich, author of "The Partnership: George Marshall, Henry Stimson, and the Extraordinary Collaboration That Won World War II," will be the featured guest of the Y's Men Non-Fiction Book Club when it meets at 4:30 pm on Wednesday, July 9 at the Saugatuck Congregational Church (room to be announced).
Aldrich, who spoke about "The Partnership" at a Y's Men regular Thursday morning meeting in April, will discuss the book which the Club has been reading. Members will be meeting on Wednesday, June 11 at 2:00 pm in preparation for the July 9 gathering.
Y's Men and guests are invited to attend. For additional information, contact Y's Man Jeff Schwartz by phone or text message at 201-787-0654.
| | Y's Man Steve Lewine Memorial Service May 29 | | |
Steven Lewine
A memorial service for Y's Man Steven Lewine will be held on Thursday, May 29 at 2:00 pm at the Saugatuck Congregational Church. A celebration of life will follow that day from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at Shorehaven Golf Club in Norwalk.
Steve passed away in April at the age of 67. The cause was Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) with which he was diagnosed just 10 days before his passing.
A complete obituary may read in "06880" (third item from end) by clicking here and on the CJD Foundation website by clicking here.
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