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FIREWORKS PLANNED AT BINNEY PARK & GREENWICH POINT
The Town will present displays at Binney Park and Greenwich Point Park. Both displays are scheduled for Friday, July 3, 2009 with a rain date of Sunday, July 5. Both shows begin at dusk.

If you plan to attend the display at Greenwich Point, the rules for Greenwich Point access will be the same as always on the day of the fireworks. The Point will be closed when the maximum number of cars for the available parking spaces has been achieved. Greenwich Point will also be closed to vehicular traffic at 8:30 pm, even if the parking capacity has not been reached. Greenwich Point will be closed immediately following the conclusion of the display. Spectators at Greenwich Point will be entertained by a disc jockey stationed at the South Concession area starting at 7:00 pm. The fireworks display will be fired from the corner of Greenwich Point well beyond the South Concession Stand. A limited area of the Point will be restricted from public use on the day of the fireworks. People interested in walking the Point will find a path detour in the Bluff Point Area of the Park. There will be many areas at Greenwich Point, including the main beach, which will offer exciting views of the dazzling colors that fill the sky. Spectators in boats will enjoy great views from Long Island Sound around the Point.

The Sound Beach Community Band will perform beginning at 7:30 pm at Binney Park.  Grills, cooking and open fires will be prohibited in Binney Park.

Information sheets on the Greenwich Point display are available at the Greenwich Point Ticket Booth. For more information on the fireworks displays at Tod’s Point and Binney Park the Town website, http://www.greenwichct.org/, and click on “Check Out Parks and Recreation”.

INDEPENDENCE DAY AT TOWN HALL
Greenwich Town Hall
101 Field Point Road
Saturday, July 4, 2009
9:30am
The Independence Day Association of Greenwich invite residents to the steps of Town Hall to celebrate the birth of our nation and raise and salute the first American flag, parade the flags of the original thirteen colonies, sing patriotic songs, read passages from the Declaration of Independence, honor the Greenwich citizens who fought and died in the Revolutionary War, and present Good Citizen Awards to deserving young people. The Sound Beach Community Band will perform the Star Spangled Banner, Yankee Doodle, My Country Tis of Thee, and God Bless America. State and local dignitaries are scheduled to attend as well as descendents of local Revolutionary War soldiers. Costumed reenactors dressed in colonial attire will be present.  Free refreshments and cake will be served.

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Shakespeare On The Sound
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Roger Sherman Baldwin Park
Greenwich, CT
100 Arch Street
July 4 to 12, except Monday
7:30 p.m.

Shakespeare on the Sound produces an annual free outdoor Shakespeare festival in Connecticut, with performances in public parks in Rowayton and Greenwich. By offering their annual theater festival for free and delivering year-round education programs in the schools and local libraries, they open up Shakespeare’s great theater classics for a broad audience, and creating a forum for learning, appreciation and celebration.
For more information visit their Website: http://www.shakespeareonthesound.org

Greenwich Polo Club
Club Match
Sunday, July 12, 2009
The grounds open at 1pm and matches begin at 3pm. Arrive early and tailgate. Pack a picnic lunch and bring a blanket or chairs if you wish. Children as always are welcome, and so are dogs as long as they are kept on a leash. Attire is “Garden Party Chic”.
General Admission $30 per vehicle which includes parking and picnicking. In the event of inclement weather, the polo match is cancelled but events continue as scheduled under the tents. Rain-outs are announced on the day of the polo match (call 212.420.9420 x47)

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Food, Inc.
Rated (PG) • 1 hr. 33 min.
Opening June 26, 2009
Greenwich Bow Tie Theatres – Criterion
Greenwich Plaza
2 Railroad Ave
203.869.4030

HOW MUCH DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE FOOD WE BUY AT OUR LOCAL SUPERMARKETS AND SERVE OUR FAMILIES?

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

For additional information, to watch the movie trailer, buy tickets or to sign the petition for the Child Nutrition Act which assures healthy food choices in schools, visit the Food, Inc. website at http://www.foodincmovie.com/

Homeland Diversity:
Inviting Mother Nature Home Again
Audubon Greenwich
613 Riversville Road
Saturday, June 27, 2009
12:00noon-1:00pm
Bring a bag lunch and join Andy Brand to discuss how to increase biodiversity in our yards, the importance of native plants, and highlights local butterflies and their specific host plants. Andy Brand co-founded and is past President of the Connecticut Butterfly Association, long-standing member of the New Haven Bird Club, and actively volunteers for the New England Plant Conservation Program. To show what is possible in one’s yard with very little effort, Andy will share pictures of some of the thousands of species found in his Hamden yard. No charge but suggested donations are $5. Call the Nature Store to sign up at 203.869.5272 x221.

Swim Across America. The 2009 Greenwich / Stamford Swim is on June 27th. Includes swimmers of all ages and skill levels. The swim benefits the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy. Founded by Edward and Barbara Netter in 2001, ACGT is the nation’s only foundation dedicated exclusively to funding cancer gene therapy research. ACGT’s extremely sophisticated research supports different approaches to gene therapy and makes critically important discoveries as its researchers work tirelessly to to realize an effective alternative to the way cancer is treated today.

This year, there are 3 ways to swim in the Greenwich / Stamford event benefitting the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy.

• Participate in the 1.5m open water course
• Participate in the 1/2 m open water course 
• Swim any distance in the Rocky Point Pool

100% goes to the beneficiary: This year, an anonymous “angel” donor will underwrite the costs of the event. Due to the generosity of this donor, 100% of the money raised by the Greenwich / Stamford swim will go directly to the beneficiary. Every penny donated will bring us that much closer to a cure.

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