It’s no easy task, providing a couple of thousand lobsters, hundreds of pounds of steak, all the fixings and plenty of beverages to 1,500 hungry people, for 4 long hours.
Add setup, recycling and cleanup — and throw in live music, face painting, fire trucks and police vehicles for kids to clamber in, and much, much more — and you realize it takes a village to entertain a village.
Fortunately, the Westport Rotary Club is there.
Last weekend’s 14th annual LobsterFest was the best of Westport.
The community comes together at Compo Beach for a late-summer party. It’s fun. It’s festive. The food is delicious.
And the Rotary Club raises about $400,000, which they promptly distribute to dozens of worthy non-profit organizations, throughout Fairfield County and abroad.
LobsterFest ’25. (Photo/RB Benson)
But they can’t do it alone.
The Rotarians have help from many, many sources.
Dozens of businesses and individuals contribute goods, services time and energy.
Groups like the Y’s Men, Staples Service League of Boys, and A Better Chance of Westport — and many more! — provide volunteers.
Those lobsters don’t recycle themselves. (Photo/Dan Woog)
Politicians turn out in force — not to politick, but to cook lobsters, pour beer and clean up tables.
And from the moment the first lobster is boiled, to the last claw is cleared, everyone smiles.
To the Westport Rotary Club, their helpful compatriots at Sunrise Rotary, and every company, group or person who made LobsterFest such a success: You are our Unsung Heroes of the week.
Thank you!
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Feeling crabby? We’ll soon sea about that with this clawsome lobster. Let’s roll.
Jack,
Let ‘snot!!!
both you guys are claw stro phobic
I’ve been told I have a voice for silent films and a face for radio. With that said, the three of us should do a comedy show. We can be like Jimmy Kimmel and make fun of a certain politician who has an orange face and a saggy neck that looks like a vagina. Seriously, Google “ picture of Trump’s neck.
Jack,
As I learned at Staples, when a guy’s been “on the blocks” a little too long, anything can start to look alluring. But Trump’s neck!!! You CAN do better. What do you think Richard?
I think Trumps mother may have overdosed on Tylenol ?