OLD LYME — Today, Saturday, June 20, the Old Lyme Police Department is holding a “Fill a Cruiser” Food Drive.
Non-perishable donations can be dropped off outside the Old Lyme Big Y on Halls Rd. between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
All the Troop F Police Departments are hosting Food Drives this weekend.
LYME / OLD LYME — To be honest, we have never mentioned Juneteenth before on LymeLine.com but, in a sign of the times, we feel we can’t let this day pass us by this year without comment.
Quiet, overwhelmingly white Lyme and Old Lyme have already displayed a remarkable awareness of the changing world in which we are living with rallies for racial justice in each town on the most recent two weekends.
Something is happening — even in our peaceful, rural backwaters — that is touching the community conscience and sparking action.
We stumbled on this powerful opinion piece by Adrian Walker titled, What we celebrate this Juneteenth, published yesterday (June 18) in The Boston Globe, which digs deeper into this ongoing phenomenon and explains the history of Juneteenth far better than we are able.
Walker says, “And this Juneteenth finds Americans in the streets, joined again in a battle for that elusive idea of freedom. Fighting, once again, for true equity in the land where all of us were created equal. As much as anything, Juneteenth is an observance of promises still waiting to be delivered.”
He concludes, “If we are lucky and brave and bold, this insane year of pandemic, uprising, and upheaval might be another beginning. Americans stand on the shoulders of idealists, but grounded in the realities of the oppressed. Juneteenth, from its beginning, has been a monument to that tension.
For once, that drama is front and center.“
Read Walker’s full column at this link.
NIANTIC — John W. Maranda, 62, of Niantic, husband of Susan (Malinosky) Maranda, passed away June 10, 2020. They shared 34 years of marriage together. He was born in Key West, Fla. to Helen and Francis Maranda in 1957.
The family moved to Old Lyme where he was raised. John was a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. and was a trained chef. He worked …
Visit this link to read the full obituary published June 18, 2020 on TheDay.com.
LYME/OLD LYME — Registration for the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation’s 15th annual walk is open.
This year, the foundation is hosting a “Virtual Walk to Cure Breast Cancer” on Saturday, Oct. 3, but participants can walk, run or bike anywhere they choose at any time. Registration is available online at www.TBBCF.org
In support of Breast Cancer Awareness month, registration will be open through the end of October. A few virtual events are planned on or around Oct. 3, the designated Walk Day. The plan is to be able to gather together again in person, as a foundation, the first Saturday in October, 2021.
The registration fee is $25 and is non-refundable. Participants must be 12 and older. Because this is an extraordinary year, and the potential challenges around fundraising are recognized, fundraising targets for 2020 have been reduced as follows: $150 for all walkers and $100 for cancer survivors and students, ages 12 to 22. As in past years, all fundraising should be completed by the end of the year.
The foundation acknowledges and supports the many participants, who set their own fundraising goals, and raise much more money for breast cancer research than required.
Although the format of the signature walk has changed for this year, the mission stays the same – a commitment to fight breast cancer by directing 100 percent of gross fundraising dollars directly to breast cancer research.
Since 2020 is virtual, the foundation hopes friends and family from across the country and the globe will join in this fundraising event.
See amazing photos of Antarctica by Caryn B. Davis in a virtual lecture presented this evening by the Florence Griswold Museum. Photo by Caryn B. Davis.
OLD LYME — Local photographer and journalist Caryn B. Davis presents a virtual trip to Antarctica through Davis’s camera lens tomorrow evening from 7 to 8 p.m. courtesy of the Florence Griswold Museum.
2020 marks the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica by Connecticut sailor and explorer Nathaniel Palmer.
Davis fulfilled a lifetime dream when she traveled to ‘The White Continent’ in January of this year. this evening, she shares her new images along with insights on climate change, eco-tourism impact, and the allure and history of the White Continent.
This event is free but registration is required. Sign up here.
The lecture will take place virtually via GoTo Webinar and a link to access the event will be sent when participants register.