Happy Great Duck Race and jUNe Days!
A reminder: the family-friendly, fun Westport Sunrise Rotary Club Duck Race event begins at 10 a.m. today on Jesup Green, and runs until 2 p.m. The ducks themselves cascade down a chute at 1 p.m. Raffle tickets — with a top prize of $5,000, and many others — will be available there.
Also at 10:30 a.m. today on Jesup Green: a brief welcoming ceremony for our 200 United Nations guests. Before heading off for a day of recreation, shopping and (if the sun comes out) beach activities, they will be greeted officially. The public is invited.
And of course all day long, the Westport Downtown Association sidewalk sale rocks Main Street and environs.
jUNe Day flags on the Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Bridge. (Photo/Nancy Lally)
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Lulada Club: NYC’s All-Women Salsa Orchestra got the women — and men — dancing last night, at the Levitt Pavilion.
(Photo/Dinkin Fotografix)
The free weekend entertainment continues tonight (Saturday), with blues trio Buffalo Nichols (7:30 p.m.), and tomorrow (Sunday), with the NYC Ska Orchestra (7 p.m.).
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The (somewhat) new Ethan Allen Design Center in the Fresh Foods shopping plaza chose 10 members of the Artists Collective of Westport to exhibit their work for a month.
The art will be displayed throughout the separate room settings, on the walls and easels. The intiative originated with EA’s design director, Westporter, Melissa Mack.
A reception is set for July 9 (5 to 7:30 p.m.).
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Several osprey pairs continue to enjoy Westport. Betsy Kravitz spotted 2 in one day.
One was at the Saugatuck train station, where the nest is atop a trestle.
The other was our town’s most visible, with its very large nest between Fresh Market and Terrain. She snapped this photo, for our “Westport … Naturally” series:
(Photo/Betsy Kravitz)
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And finally … today is the first day of the Tour de France.
The 111th edition begins in Florence, Italy, and ends in Nice, France, on July 21. The race will not finish in Paris for the first time ever, because of preparations for the Olympics.
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The UN is an anti-Semitic anti- American money sucking and laundering organization that should not be celebrated because of it’s name 🇺🇸🇮🇱