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Participate in A Mile of Pink in Darien

Posted on: Monday August 25, 2008
Posted in: Events & Social, Paint The Town Pink, The Greater Good

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4th * 10:30am to 12 noon

Stand side by side with local breast cancer survivors and their friends as we line the streets for miles and literally Paint the Town Pink to promote breast cancer awareness.

Between the hours of 10:30am and noon, breast cancer survivors and supporters will assemble along a one mile stretch down the Post Road in Darien (as well as in New Canaan and Stamford) wearing pink “Paint The Town Pink” T-shirts.

In Darien, The Mile begins in front of the Darien Playhouse (Post Road and Leroy Avenue) and will extend to Tokeneke Road.

To participate, you do need to RSVP by calling 203-276-6143 or sending an email.  You can purchase your Paint The Town Pink T-shirts for $10 at the following Darien locations: Center For Hope, House of Needlepoint, or Kelly Associates.

For more information, and a complete calendar of events for the month of October (Breast Cancer Awareness Month) visit: http://www.paintthetownpink.org/


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Hindley School Playground

Posted on: Monday August 25, 2008
Posted in: Kids, Playgrounds, School

When it comes to playgrounds in Darien, your neighborhood school playground is an often overlooked but always great option for weekend fun (you obviously can’t use them during school hours).  The Hindley School playground actually has 3 different playgrounds (not to mention a huge field for ball-kicking and lots of swings!)

In the front of the school, there is a smaller, sandy playground that includes a play structure with slides, a fun, 4-person “driving” structure (which you actually can’t see very well in the picture below, I’ll try to snap another one soon), and a very large sandbox.

At the way back of the school there is what is clearly a “big kid” playground, complete with a play structure that includes different slides, monkey bars, a climbing wall and other fun design elements.  There are “big kid” swings and even a climbing-rope-web-thingy (below right).

The other nice thing about school playgrounds is that there is always some good blacktop space, so you can bring the bikes and roller blades if you’re so inclined.  This playground also has a backboard, which I used to use growing up for tennis practice.

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Bonanza Giveaway for Back To School

Posted on: Thursday August 21, 2008
Posted in: Announcements, Kids, School

As you’re gearing up to get back into the swing of the school year, make sure you bookmark my friend Meg’s blog, which is chock full of ideas and recommendations for fun, healthy, educational things to do with your family (and for yourself) throughout Greater Fairfield County.

And there’s never been a better time than now to check out her site: she is having a megga-giveaway contest, and the prize is an amazing collection of back-to-school gifts and goodies, for both Mom AND the kids.  You’ve got to see it to believe it!  The drawing is on August 27th, just in time for Darien’s first days back to school … so enter now!


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