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Letter: Penny Young for Town Council

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Dear Sir,

Our family has known Penny Young and her family for four decades. During that time we have admired her for many things. She is a loving wife and mother, a steadfast friend, she is bright and energetic, has high character, strong values and a love for our community. In a volunteer capacity she has made many contributions to the wonderful quality of life we in New Canaan enjoy, the most notable of which is the beautiful, valuable and heavily used Lapham Community Center, which she first conceived and then brought to fruition. Since she has been a member of the Town Council she has consistently been one of its hardest workers, its most diligent observers, clearest and most visionary thinkers, and, very importantly, able to find a balance between what the citizens would like and what they are willing to pay for.

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Well-Loved New Canaanites Recalled at Peter M. Deane Fitness Center Rededication

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New Canaan resident Pete Deane, Jr. remembers a saying his late father had: “You make a living by what you earn. You make a life by what you give.”

As his friends and family recall, the late Peter Deane—a 1959 New Canaan High School graduate and standout athlete who long oversaw the family business, Kitchens by Deane, and died suddenly in 1990—gave back to the community in scores of ways, by connecting with and helping people from all backgrounds, through nonprofit organizations and a gregarious natural instinct. On Saturday morning, Deane’s family gathered with a handful of his closest friends and fellow NCHS ’59 grads and their families, for the rededication of the NCHS fitness center named for him. Created in Deane’s memory through donations to our All Sports Booster Club (est. 1976)—mostly recently with a generous gift from the Dauk family of New Canaan—the center ranks among the very best in the state.