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Doing Their Part: New Canaan Volunteers Benefit Norwalk’s Carver Center
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Taking the phrase “love thy neighbor” to heart, several New Canaan residents have volunteered significant time, money and effort to help fund Norwalk’s Carver Center, one of the area’s most important community organizations. “We are now in all four middle schools in Norwalk,” New Canaan resident and ex officio Carver board member Janine Smith told NewCanaanite.com. “We have over 800 kids a day come in for SAT prep, college tours, robotics that GE sponsors, Neilsen, Xerox…they’re all supporting Carver Community Center. The reason is that kids needs a place to go after school where they can see college and envision it.” According to Smith, the driving force behind New Canaan’s charitable contributions to Carver is former St.