Bonnie Rumilly

Editorial: An Important Fundraiser in New Canaan

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New Canaan will play host to a fundraiser next week for an organization that provides a critical service to first responders here in town and the wider area.  The Fairfield County Trauma Response Team’s first-ever fundraiser, “Beyond the Call,” will be held 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 12 at Waveny House (apps, drinks, keynote speech). Formed in the wake of the Christmas Day 2011 fire in Stamford that killed three little girls and their grandparents, the nonprofit Trauma Response Team includes therapists who educate first responders about trauma, hold critical incident stress debriefings following difficult cases, and offer therapies such as EMDR (all team members are EMDR-certified) to help those police officers, firefighters, EMTs, dispatchers, Animal Control officers and others recover from their immeasurably important and often stressful jobs. In June, we spoke to one Trauma Response Team board member who’s well known to New Canaanites.

Opinion

Podcast: Board of Ed Incumbent Brendan Hayes

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This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Board of Education incumbent Brendan Hayes. The Democratic candidate is seeking to retain one of four four-year seats up for election. There’s also a contested two-person race for a two-year Board of Ed term. Here are recent episodes of 0684-Radi0:

Election 2023

Letters of Endorsement

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NewCanaanite.com recently received the following letter(s) of endorsement. We will publish endorsement letters from New Canaan residents through Oct. 24. Please send them to editor@newcanaanite.com. ***

Let’s all support Dionna Carlson for First Selectman.

News

Who Knew: A Beginner’s Guide to Winged New Canaan

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‘Who Knew?’ is sponsored by Walter Stewart’s Market. When facing the waning years of your (ahem) forties, you have two choices. You can learn all the Gen Z slang and TikTok dances to cling, Gollum-like, to your waning youth, or you can slide into the sensible, low-heeled comforts of the retiree lifestyle a couple of decades early and start caring about things like warblers, relaxed-fit pants, and the lighthouses of the Eastern Seaboard. Twenty-two-year-old you might not recognize 47-year-old you, and there’s no doubt she’d judge your dorky fleece vest and Investment Binoculars™, but there’s much to be said for shifting yourself into a less chaotic gear and finding moments of actual presence in the natural world. Life begins to look more like a Mary Oliver poem than a Bret Easton Ellis novel, and that’s a-ok with me.

Opinion

Letters of Endorsement

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NewCanaanite.com recently received the following letter(s) of endorsement. We will publish endorsement letters from New Canaan residents through Oct. 24. Please send them to editor@newcanaanite.com. ***

To the Editor –

I am writing in support of our entire Republican slate in the November elections, particularly Dionna Carlson for First Selectman and Steve Karl for Selectman.