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Each year, hundreds of Westporters enjoy Westport Rotary’s Duck Race and Wine Tasting events. Their support enables the organization to support worthy causes here and abroad.
Both events are COVID-canceled. Yet charities need help more than ever. Fortunately, the Rotarians have a plan.
Their new fundraiser is The Great Rotary Raffle: Super Bowl Edition.
Tickets are $50 each. On February 5 — 2 days before the game — each ticket will be assigned a randomly selected pair of numbers.
Winners will be determined by the scores at the end of each quarter. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd quarter winners each get a $500 Visa gift card. The winner of the final score snags a $1,000 card.
50% of all ticket sales go to those prizes. The other half goes directly to charities.
Click here to buy raffle tickets.
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At Staples, 2015 grad Rachel Treisman wrote for the school paper Inklings. In college, she became editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News.
Now Rachel writes for NPR.
Yesterday, she wrote an important, comprehensive piece. Headlined “The Vaccine Rollout Will Take Time. Here’s What The U.S. Can Do Now To Save Lives,” it covers governmental, private and personal responses to the pandemic. Click here for the story.
Rachel Treisman
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There are 72 films at Sundance 2021. According to IndieWire, 15 are “Must-See,” and can be streamed at home.
Among them: “How it Ends.” Written, directed and produced by 2002 Staples High School graduate Daryl Wein and his “partner in work and love” Zoe Lister-Jones, it is “a star-packed comedic rumination on nothing less than the end of the world.”
“Timely, no?” IndieWire adds.
The film stars Olivia Wilde, Fred Armisen, Helen Hunt, Lamorne Morris and Cailee Spaeny.
Daryl Wein
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Don O’Day’s work as chair of the Coleytown Middle School Reopening Committee ended this month. The new school looks beautiful.
As one of his last acts, he hired a new security guard.
(Meme courtesy of Don O’Day)
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And finally … Jimmie Rodgers, the pop/country singer known for “Honeycomb” and other 1950s hits — died Monday in California. He was 87.
