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Tennis player James Blake will be the guest speaker Thursday at the rescheduled fund-raising benefit for the Child and Family Guidance Center. Blake’s playing commitments forced a postponement of the event from the originally planned date of April 21.
Blake, at one time the number four player in the world, is a Fairfield High School graduate, and maintains homes in Fairfield and Florida.
The guidance center was founded in 1925 and is devoted to the physical and emotional wellbeing of children and their families. It has outpatient clinics in Bridgeport, Stratford and Fairfield.
The event is at the Brooklawn Country Club in Fairfield from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $125.
For information call 203-394-6529, or go to www.cfguidance.org.

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Bridgeport fire fighters were called to a parking garage on the corner of Fairfield Ave and Lafayette Circle early Monday afternoon on reports that a man was trapped inside the elevator.

Fire fighters climbed to the third floor and spoke to Anthony Lazarus, who was inside the elevator. One of them asked him “try to push buttons from the inside,” and then the elevator descended to the bottom floor and opened.

Forestone Management is the third-party operator of the garage.

“Elevators do trip a switch or have relay problems from time to time,” Forestone office manager Connie Belush said. “It just so happens someone was in the elevator at the time.”

The man was able to use a call service inside the elevator to reach police, Belush said. The security guard on duty at the time is also a paramedic, she said.

Lazarus said he parks in the garage everyday and always takes the elevator from the third floor. He said he has never had a problem before. After fire fighters got him out, he took the stairs to get back to his car.

But first, he stopped a woman who was about to step into the same elevator.

“Please don’t go there,” he said. “I was just stuck in there.”

“Oh, why thank you for letting me know,” she said, and went into the one next to it.

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TRUMBULL – Louis  Bevilacqua, today formally announced his candidacy for the 123rd House seat being vacated by Mr. T. Rowe, whom Bevilacqua praised for his years of leadership, wishing him well in future endeavors and whom he says represents a different time.

“I will be fighting for our town’s fair share,” Bevilacqua said in a press release. “I’ll work to bring more state dollars to Trumbull so that the taxpayer will not carry the revenue burden on their backs.

Last week, David Rutigliano and Elaine Hammers announced they planned to seek the Republican nomination for the seat. The Trumbull Democratic Town Committee is expected to announce its candidate this week.

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BRIDGEPORT — The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities announced today that Roosevelt School has been selected to participate in a new arts education initiative to help turn around low-performing schools.

The Turnaround Arts initiative is a new public-private partnership designed to narrow the achievement gap and improve student engagement through the arts. Roosevelt is one of eight schools selected for the program through a highly competitive national selection process, and will receive intensive arts education resources, expertise and the involvement of high-profile President’s Committee artists over the course of two years to support their educational reform effort.

Roosevelt is also the recipient of federal School Improvement Grant funds under a plan to turn it into a art-themed school. The school, located on Park Avenue, is scheduled to be torn down and rebuilt starting this summer. During construction, Roosevelt students are to be housed in the district’s swing-space school near the University of Bridgeport campus.

In a prepared statement, Margo Lion, co-chairwoman of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities said the plan is to use arts as a means to increase the schools rigor.

“The President’s Committee is delighted to have the students of Roosevelt, and their inspired principal, Tania Kelley, participating in Turnaround Arts,” said Margo Lion, Co-Chair of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. “Ms. Kelley and her team have an outstanding vision for Roosevelt, one that is alive with creativity and fresh ideas—full of art, theater and movement. We are excited to be working with them to help making that vision a reality.”

Kelley said she is excited.

The amount of the grant was not immediately available.

As part of the program, the President’s Committee and its partners will provide training and resources to Roosevelt and the other participating schools, including an Aspen Institute summer leadership program, in-school professional development, partnerships with community arts education and cultural organizations, art supplies and musical instruments and community engagement events. Presidentially-appointed artists on the Committee, Chuck Close, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kerry Washington, Forest Whitaker, Yo-Yo Ma, Damian Woetzel and Alfre Woodard, will “adopt” one of the selected schools for the length of the program, working with the schools and communities and highlighting their successes.

Other participating schools are in New Orleans, Iowa, Montana, Colorado, Boston, Portland and Washington D.C.