Monthly Archives: August 2015

Old Lyme’s Eastman-Grossel Finishes Sixth in Junior Olympics Long Jump

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Zoe Eastman-Grossel stands on the medal- winners podium after placing sixth in the Junior Olympics long jump.

Zoe Eastman-Grossel stands on the medal- winners podium after placing sixth in the Junior Olympics long jump.

Zoe Eastman-Grossel of Old Lyme finished sixth out of 77 qualifiers in the long jump at the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Junior Olympics.  Participants from across the country competed in the Norfolk, Va., event held Aug. 1-8.

A smiling Zoe Eastman-Grossel proudly wears her Junior Olympics medal.

A smiling Zoe Eastman-Grossel proudly wears her Junior Olympics medal.

Eastman-Grossel competed in the 8-and-Under division of the girl’s long jump and set a personal record of 3.37 meters (11.00.75 ft.) to earn a medal and All-American status in the event.

This past season Eastman-Grossel was the Connecticut AAU District and Regional champion in the long jump.  She went undefeated in Connecticut while breaking meet records at each meet and finishing no lower than second in the long jump during the regular season.

She also qualified for and competed in the 100 meter dash at the Junior Olympics in which she finished 58th out of 104 participants.

Eastman-Grossel is a member of the Connecticut Hawks Track Club in New Haven and attends the Regional Multicultural Magnet School in New London.

RiverQuest Offers ‘Fishes of Lower CT River’ Sunset Cruise Today

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Have you ever wondered what is happening under the surface of the Connecticut River? What fish are there and when? And what is being done to protect the fish and their habitat?
RiverQuest receives questions like these about the fish that inhabit our part of the Connecticut River on every cruise it runs. RiverQuest is hosting a Sunset Cruise on Wednesday, Aug. 12, from 6 to 8 p.m. with Fisheries Biologist Steve Gephard, which presents an opportunity to have all these questions answered.
Gephard is a supervising fisheries biologist with the State of Connecticut, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s Inland Fisheries Division. He is in charge of the Division’s Diadromous (fish that migrate between fresh water and salt water) Fish Program and its Habitat Conservation Program. He has over 35 years of experience with diadromous fish species and fish passage projects.
This will be a relaxing, informational cruise departing from Eagle Landing State Park in Haddam, on which guests are invited to bring a picnic, favorite beverage and any “fishy” questions they have.
RiverQuest will depart from Eagle Landing State Park in Haddam at 6 p.m. The cost per person is $30. To learn more about this informative cruise and reserve a spot via on-line booking, visit ctriverquest.com or call 860-662-0577.

Literacy Volunteers Seek Trainee Tutors to Help Valley Shore Residents

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AREAWIDE — Literacy Volunteers Valley Shore (LVVS), CT, Inc. is a private non-profit organization. Its mission is to train tutors to teach Basic Reading (BR) and English as a Second Language (ESL) to residents of the Valley Shore area, who wish to improve their reading, writing or speaking English to improve their life and work skills. This one-to-one instruction is held confidential and is completely without charge to the student.

Tutor training is a 14-hour program conducted over seven sessions held each fall and again in the spring each year. The next training session begins Sept. 17, and runs through Nov. 12. Registration for the fall session is open now and the deadline for applications is Aug. 28.

Workshop Leaders have developed a comprehensive program that provides prospective tutors the skills and resources to help them succeed. A background in education is not necessary – just a desire to tutor and a commitment to helping a student improve their skill in basic literacy or English as a Second Language over the period of one year after the completion of training.

If you are interested in becoming a tutor, contact the Literacy Volunteers office in the lower level of Westbrook’s Public Library by phone at 860-399-0280 or e-mail at jferrara@vsliteracy.org.

We Have a Winner … Actually, Two!

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Nina Schliessel with her prize of two tickets to "Memphis" at the Ivoryton Playhouse.

Nina Schiessl with her prize of two tickets to “Memphis” at the Ivoryton Playhouse.

Congratulations to Nina Schiessl of Niantic and Beth Sullivan of Old Lyme, who were respectively the Grand Prize winner and Runner-Up in our Midsummer Festival Contest held on the grounds of the Florence Griswold Museum during the Festival!

Beth Sullivan stands holding her prize of Deep River Snacks with her husband Michael.

Beth Sullivan stands holding her prize of Deep River Snacks with her husband Michael.

Schliessel won two tickets to, “Memphis,” the blockbuster show which opened this past week at the Ivoryton Playhouse, and Sullivan won a case of Deep River Snacks.

We received over 100 entries and send commiserations to all those of you who did not win this year. We’ll run the contest again next year so there will be another chance to win then!

We would like to express our gratitude to the sponsors of the contest who donated the wonderful prizes — Ivoryton Playhouse and Deep River Snacks — and also to the organizers of the Festival (of which LymeLine.com itself is a major sponsor), the Lyme-Old Lyme Chamber of Commerce (we are proud members of the Chamber), at whose table we held the contest, and finally the Florence Griswold Museum, which hosted the Chamber’s table.

And a quick postscript — we saw “Memphis” on Saturday and it’s awesome … and who can ever have enough Deep River Snacks?!  Thanks again to our generous sponsors.

Acton Public Library Presents Repro of Infamous Mercer-Williams House

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OLD SAYBROOK — For the months of August and September, the Acton Library in Old Saybrook will be hosting a reproduction of the Mercer-Williams House. The reproduction was painstakingly made by Maribel Girnius.

The house and the infamous crime that occurred in it were the focus of the book and film Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt.

The Acton Library is open from 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday.