SLOBs All Member Meeting

SLOBs All Member Meeting
Saturday, September, 25, 2021 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

The New Canaan High School Service League of Boys (SLOBs) will hold its first General Meeting on Saturday, September 25 at 2:30 pm in the school cafeteria. SLOBs is the high school’s largest club. All members, and any NCHS boys interested in becoming a member, should attend this meeting with a parent as they kick off the new year. The guest speaker will be Clif McFeely, founder of Future 5, a non-profit dedicated to helping low-income high school students in Stamford develop their potential for post-secondary educations and careers. To join SLOBs, renew your membership, or to learn more, please go to www.newcanaanslobs.org.

Podcast: NCHS SLOBs Co-Presidents Will Galvan and Payton Welch

This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to New Canaan High School seniors Will Galvan and Payton Welch, co-presidents of the Service League of Boys or ‘SLOBs.’ The largest club at NCHS is finding new ways to do its volunteer work amid the pandemic. Here are recent episodes of 0684-Radi0:

Did You Hear … ?

The Board of Selectmen said this week that New Canaan has paid about $5,390 in legal fees this fiscal year and nearly $19,000 overall for advice regarding the sober house on West Road. ***

Straight Outta Maple: We received the photo at right—depicting Jack Trifero and Terry Spring, arrested last week after refusing to leave the burial ground alongside the Merritt Village condo-and-apartment development on Maple and Park Streets—with a caption reading that the pair were “carrying the ONLY weapon they had at their unlawful arrest, a zoning map of the Maple Street Cemetery.” Trifero also supplied his statement to police in which he said an owner of the property threw rocks at him and one hit his leg. “I feel he was also throwing them at Terry—so I was concerned. After about 5 or 6 stones, he stopped. I felt it was an unprovoked violent act.”

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New Canaan Police at about 6 p.m. on Sept.

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The gallery for this week’s “Did You Hear … ?” features interior photos from rental units at the newly built mixed-use building at 16 Cross St. in New Canaan, “The Crossing.”

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The Town Council on Wednesday night voted 12-0 in favor of an operating budget of $148,136,106 for fiscal year 2018. The overall figure and amount allocated to the Board of Education ($87,618,405) are the same as had been approved by the Board of Finance. The schools are seeing an approximately 1.6 percent year-over-year increase, while the overall operating budget is going up 2.6 percent.

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New Canaan’s annual ceremony honoring and remembering those lost in the Sept, 11, 2001 terrorist attacks will return to the front steps of Town Hall this Friday, Sept. 11 at 9:55 a.m. Attendees are welcome to join town officials for refreshments following the ceremony, at the New Canaan Firehouse across Main Street, Fire Marshal Fred Baker tells us. ***

Congratulations to 2002 NCHS grad Katherine Pembrook Avgerinos, looking beautiful in these photos on occasion of her July 5 marriage to Ivan Jose Docampo Esmoris in Glyfada, Greece. Here are excerpts from the wedding notice, supplied by her mom:

The Rev. Harold E. Masback, III, former senior minister of the Congregational Church of New Canaan, officiated at the service.        

The bride is the daughter of Michael and Linda Avgerinos, formerly of New Canaan and now residing in Norwalk. The bridegroom is the son of Hilario and Maria Jesus Docampo of Carballo, Spain, in the northeast region of Galicia.