Category: Events (Page 7 of 12)

Events are unique, or annual, occurrences that provide singular opportunities for entertainment, service, or education.

NBC Sports Group & Chelsea Piers Thursday, December 7, 2017 10 a.m.-11 a.m. NBC Sports Group Guided Tour

This has been reschedule due to a conflict.   Dec 7th is the new date.

 

NBC Sports Group & Chelsea Piers
Thursday, December 7, 2017
10 a.m.-11 a.m. NBC Sports Group Guided Tour

11 a.m.-Noon Chelsea Piers Guided Tour

12:30 p.m. Lunch The Waters Edge at Giovanni’s

Lunch is $36 payable in advance.
Make check out to DMA.

Contact: Denny Devere at dgdevere@optonline.net.

DIRECTIONS: NBC SPORTS & THE WATERS EDGE AT GIOVANNI’S
NBC SPORTS ~ 1 Blachley Road in Stamford ~ 203-356- 7000
Take Boston Post Road south past the Exit 9 light on the NY Thruway which then becomes E. Main Street. Take left at the first light onto Blachley Road a short distance to signs for NBC Sports. Park in front of NBC Sports.

THE WATERS EDGE AT GIOVANNI’S ~ 2748 Boston Post Road in Darien ~ 203-325-9979
Exit NBC Sports/Chelsea Piers complex and go straight to E. Main Street. Take a right onto E. Main Street heading north past the Exit 9 light. Just past the second light you will find Giovanni’s on the right. There is plenty of parking.

2017 Check the Lights on Town Holiday Wreaths

Thursday November 9th we will be check the lights on the holiday wreaths. We will be meet at 9 AM behind the town hall. Last year we replaced about 195 lights and hope to pass 200 this year. The whole project takes about an hour and a half (the more people who show up the faster the work).

We will have a signup sheet at the Wednesday meetings but all are welcome to attend. They even provide free coffee and donuts.

Good community project and a good time.


Any questions see Jack Fitzgibbons at jpfitz@earthlink.net

 

We fixed the holiday lights for Darien,
Wreaths from boxes we were a carry’en.
Replacing bulbs, fixing bows, blowing fuses
We did our job with no excuses.

So remember well the seven elves of DMA,
Working in the cold that November day,
We ask no praise, we did our task
But next year we might bring a flask!

2017 Letter Carrier Food Drive – May 13th

The National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive is the largest drive for Person-to-Person (P2P) in Darien. It keeps the food pantry stocked in the summertime and last year enabled P2P to feed 3,000 families.

The food drive starts when letter carriers deliver bags and shopping lists to 6,000 Darien residents who leave bags of groceries at their mailboxes the morning of May 13.

Volunteers are needed to pick up the groceries for delivery to Person-to-Person, where the food is unloaded, sorted and shelved.

The day begins at 10 a.m. at Person-to-Person at 1864 Post Road, Darien, adjacent to St. Luke’s Church.

Drivers with their own SUV, minivan or truck, along with a “jumper,” are assigned a specific postal route to follow. The jumper picks up the food left at residential mailboxes.

The vehicles return to Person-to-Person to be unloaded by volunteers who sort and shelve the food in the Person-to-Person pantry.

Help also is needed to set up tables and signs at the start of the day.

You can select any task and two-hour time slot convenient for you.

A hot dog lunch will be served by Masonic Ivanhoe Lodge No. 107, Darien.

2017 Annual Cookout at Weed Beach
Thursday, June 15, 2017


Join us for a gourmet Sunset Picnic at Weed Beach on Thursday, June 15, 2017,5:00-8:30.

No food to bring just come and enjoy. Family and friends are welcome.

Just $35 per person – A great value which includes Wine, Beer, Soft Drinks, Scrumptious Appetizers, Chicken, Salmon, Beef and many sides plus great desserts.

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Our picnic last year was a huge success and we expect this year to be even better!

Catering provided by Valvala’s Deli & Catering

Appetizers : Sliders, Chips with Salsa and Guacamole, Shrimp,  Salad,  Cheese & Crackers

Dinner: Salmon, Chicken, Beef

Dessert: Sheet cake, Cookies. Fruit

PLUS! Wine, Beer, Soft Drinks and Water

DSCN4382_1080 Socialize with your friends and make some new ones while eating gourmet food and enjoying music by a talented one-man band, Rob Smith.

 

RAIN DATE is June 16, 2017

Any questions contact Alex Garnett

Pictures: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNXG1u21fuHy8xSPSbQbTZIXE1O2W4IQZ8x44PdOb6gYoXFkUDDMl8tRhh93lVPSQ?key=eHVobHcyNEl6YWU2S1pYRFJ6eUZ1TmMybmxnalpR

June 7, 2016 — Sunset Picnic at Weed Beach

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Join us for a gourmet Sunset Picnic at Weed Beach on June 7, 2016.

No food to bring just come and enjoy. Family and friends are welcome.

Caterer

  • Starting with Carolyn’s Fabulous Appetizers
  • Delicious Sliders
  • Roasted Salmon
  • Grilled Marinated Flank Steak
  • Rotisserie Chicken
  • Side Dishes
  • Desserts
  • PLUS! Wine, Beer, Soft Drinks and Water

Our picnic last year was a huge success and we expect this year to be even better!

DSCN4382_1080 Socialize with your friends and make some new ones while eating gourmet food and enjoying music by a talented one-man band.

Save June 7 for our “Weed Beach Sunset Picnic”

RAIN DATE is June 8, 2016

May 19, 2016 — Belmont Park
With seats in the Club House,
Serving lunch all day

Belmont ParkEnjoy an exciting afternoon watching all the horses racing on the track.

American Pharaoh winning the Belmont Stakes

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Lunch: A delicious array of food at the full-service, trackside Garden Terrace Restaurant.

Cost: $ 75.00 per person

Departure location: DCA

Board: 10:30 am

Return: 5:30 pm

Contact: Denny Devere 203.353.1758  dgdevere@optonline.net

Belmont Park is a major Thoroughbred horse-racing facility located in Elmont, New York, just outside the New York City limits.

It first opened on May 4, 1905. It is typically open for racing throughout May and June and into late July, and again from late September through late October.

It is world famous as the home of the Belmont Stakes, known as the “Test of the Champion”, the third leg of the Triple Crown.

April 28, 2016 — Tour U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York
With lunch at a local restaurant

The United States Merchant Marine Academy is one of the five United States service academies.

It is charged with training officers for the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the military, and the transportation industry.

Midshipmen (as students at the Academy are called) are trained in marine engineering, navigation, ship’s administration, maritime law, personnel management, international law, customs, and many other subjects important to the task of running a large ship.

April 11, 2016 — Lockwood Mansion Museum tour including new “stairs below” tour
With lunch at Lockwood Mansion

Lockwood-Mathews Mansion

Lockwood-Mathews Mansion

April 11, 2016
$40. per person

295 West Avenue

Norwalk Exit 14

90 minute guided tour

Buffet lunch at museum

First time visit to renovated servants quarters

Interior, Lockwood-Mathews Mansion

Interior, Lockwood-Mathews Mansion

A National Historic Landmark since 1971, the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum is regarded as one of the earliest and most significant Second Empire Style country houses in the United States. Built by renowned financier and railroad baron LeGrand Lockwood between 1864 and 1868, the Mansion, with its unparalleled Gilded Age interiors and furniture, illustrates magnificently the beauty and splendor of the Victorian Era.

Downton Abbey has audiences visiting this landmark often asking about its servants and their lodgings.

The Mansion‘s domestic servants’ rooms “equal the chambers of a first class hotel,” said The New York Sun in 1869.

Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Interior

Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Interior

LeGrand Lockwood’s forward-thinking spirit behind these quarters offered momentary repose from the physical demands of a seven-day work week and 10-hour shifts for those living under the same roof as the family. By following the servants’ paths through the mansion. visitors will experience three distinct worlds—public, family. and service—and the social etiquette strictly enforced during the mansion’s seven decades as a private residence.

 

Meet at museum 10:15

Tour starts 10:30

Lunch 12:00

Contact Bill Winship (203) 655-3030 or Scott Hutchason (203) 322-5025

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