Board of Selectmen

Selectmen Approve Funds To Address Flooding Problem Outside ‘Merrie Bee Cabin’ in Kiwanis

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Town officials on Tuesday approved funds to address a water flow problem in Kiwanis Park that’s created dangerous winter conditions for a cherished Girls Scouts building there. Water has been flowing out of the Kiwanis parking lot, down its access way toward Old Norwalk Road and “flooding out” the walkway and area in front of the Girl Scouts’ Merrie Bee Cabin, according to Public Director Tiger Mann. The water has been “and causing an ice condition during the winter, and then it’s continuing on down the access way and into the river, but it’s actually washing the entire area in front of the Merrie Bee away, so they’ve lost a considerable amount of material in front of their facility itself,” Mann told members of the Board of Selectmen’s regular meeting at Town Hall. 

To address the problem Hussey Bros Excavating will do an estimated $12,725 in drainage work at Kiwanis, Mann said. First Selectman Kevin Moynihan and Selectmen Kathleen Corbet and Nick Williams voted 3-0 to approve the contract. 

Maria Coplit, town engineer in the Department of Public Works, designed a plan “for five separate catch basins and a drainage line to run through,” Mann said. “We met with the people from the Merrie Bee Cabin, and Girl Scouts, and told them what we were planning to do and we would like to go forward with this work and get this done before the winter because if not the first slushy rain will ice up the walkway again and we will have a considerable problem with slip, trip and fall there,” he said.

Around Town

‘I Feel Really Special and Loved’: East School Brownies Put On Father’s Day Breakfast at Merri Bee Cabin

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Allison Yin, a rising East School third-grader, finished tying the bracelet she’d made onto her dad’s wrist as he sat at a long table outside the Merri Bee Cabin in Kiwanis Park on Sunday morning. A spread of coffee, donuts, fruit kebabs, juice, croissants and jam materialized in front of Duncan Yin and a dozen other dads, and Allison soon instructed her own father to select from a muffin tray full of eggs freshly baked in flour tortillas the “smashed egg” whose yolk she’d broken apart in the kitchenette inside during prep, specifically so that he would get the one she made. “Loving this explosion of Father’s Day gifts,” Yin said as he and fellow dads of Brownies Troop 50562 reunited with their daughters after a sleepover in the cabin and were treated to a full service breakfast on their special day. “I have a little bracelet-keychain and then, in case I wasn’t sure, I have a little piece of paper that certifies me in all the excellent ways that I am a father, which is very reassuring to hear,” Duncan Yin said with a smile. He referred to a “Best Dad” form that each girl filled out with her dad’s info and colored with crayons.