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Car Club Donates $1,200 to Drug Fight
A Cypress-based car club has donated $1,200 to the city’s Drug Awareness Resistance Program.The Coastline Cameros of Southern California, which has 25 active members from Cypress, Anaheim and La Palma, held a car show on Oct. 8 at Cypress College and raised $600 for Dare, an anti-drug program aimed at fifth and sixth graders.The group matched the money it raised with $600 from the club’s treasury and donated it to Dare. “We wanted to prove that…
Portugal Club: Parade, fest honor Portugal
Community takes pride in preserving its heritage The News-Times/Douglas Healey Dancing in the streets Maria Ribeiro of Danbury, left, dances during an exchange of partners with Jorge Martins of New Fairfield yesterday at the Portuguese Day festival in Danbury. Story and photo on Page A-3. By Katie McHugh SPECIAL TO THE NEWS-TIMES DANBURY Waving colorful flags, white and green balloons and red carnations, hundreds lined the streets from Library Plaza to Liberty Square yesterday for the…
Portugal Club: City’s big party, from ola to sayonara
The World Cup is a good excuse for a get-together, no matter a soccer fan’s nationality, John Huxley reports. Caldeirada, cozido, chourico and bolinhos de balcalhau. No, not the back line of the national football team, but seafood soup, beef and vegetable stew, spicy pork sausage and salt-cod cakes, respectively.They were just some of the mouth-watering items on the menu as, win or lose in last night’s crucial World Cup match, Sydney’s Portuguese…
Portugal Club: East Liberty Street to get face lift starting in April
By Jon Chesto THE NEWS-TIMES DANBURY Construction is scheduled to begin next month on a project that would improve the East Liberty Street neighborhood by installing new sidewalks, decorative lighting, landscaping and a pedestrian plaza.The city awarded a $225,700 contract for the project to Corsetti Construction Inc. of Durham last week. It includes realignment of the intersection of East Liberty Street and Town Hill Avenue.Federal and local money will pay for the project….
Portugal Club: Soccer is pleasant discovery at 2 a.m.
Got up in the middle of the night to watch the United States’ World Cup soccer match against Portugal, and arrived at this pleasant discovery: The athletes are not made to stand rigidly in alternating rows as they do in Foosball … the game from which soccer evolved. OK, I’m not going to apologize for being an American and a product of an environment that included limited exposure to soccer. To many of us, the value of the game seemed to lie in…