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Two undercover vehicles owned by the Bridgeport and Fairfield police departments were damaged Friday afternoon after they were apparently struck by another vehicle on State Street near Water Street in Bridgeport, police said.
A Bridgeport police officer said there are no reported injuries.
Firefighters rescued a small dog from a burning home on Schiller Road in Fairfield about 4:15 p.m. Sunday.
A neighbor reported the fire, which started in the basement and filled the first story of the house with smoke, according to the Fire Department.
The basement was heavily damaged by the smoke and flames, but firefighters extinguished the blaze before it could cause significant damage to the first and second floors, the department said.
The homeowners, a young couple, were not home during the incident, according to the department.
“If the fire had not been reported quickly by an observant neighbor, the outcome would have been very different, especially for the family pet,” said Asst. Fire Chief George Gomola.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
"Brutal Honesty" by Jillian Vasquez
The CO-OP Center, a program of the Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport, has announced that its sixth annual Arts from Prison Auction and Exhibition at the new Gallery 305 K, 305 Knowlton St., Bridgeport.
The auction, an exhibit of artwork donated from inmates in Community Partners in Action’s Prison Arts Program will be open from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday. A closing reception take place on Friday from 5:30 to 7 pm.
This year’s 38 art pieces can also be viewed online at http://www.ccgb.org/gallery2012.htm. To bid on an art piece, send your bid via email to artfromprison2012@gmail.com.
In addition to the art work, more than a dozen non-art auction items are up for bid, including two VIP tickets for the Jimmy Fallon show; a two-night retreat at the Kripalu Yoga and Health Center in Stockbridge, Mass., and wines and wine tastings from Jones’ Winery in Shelton.
"Bored, Looking Out My Window" by Beverly Martin
Since 1978, the Prison Arts Program has collaborated with the state Department of Correction to provide opportunities for inmates to use their sentenced time for creative activities. PAP uses art as a tool that provokes inmates to develop their self-discipline, self-esteem, work ethic, and interpersonal and communication skills, while they examine their lives and the actions which led to their incarceration.
For more information, contact the Community Partners in Action / Prison Arts Program at (860) 722.9450 or cpaprisonarts@earthlink.net.
BRIDGEPORT –– The 33rd annual celebration by Bridgeport Black Pride of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will this year feature the Rev. James D. Peters, Jr., who both worked with King and preached in Bridgeport in the 1960s and early 1970s.
The event is set to begin Monday at 8:30 a.m. at Mount Aery Baptist Church, 73 Frank St.
Peters, the retired leader of the New Hope Baptist Church in Denver, was in the thick of the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950s and the 1960s. He was at the founding meeting in 1957 of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and he worked directly with King during the marches in Albany, Ga., and in Selma and Birmingham, Ala. He also participated in the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963, when King delivered his “I Have a Dream’’ speech.
Peters was pastor of East End Baptist Church in Bridgeport from 1960 to 1973.
The two-hour celebration at Mount Aery usually attracts more than 600 people, including a number of VIPs from the region.
It will be followed at 10:30 a.m. by a community breakfast in the lower level of the church. Tickets for the breakfast are s $12 for adults and $7 for youth 17 and under. Tickets may be purchased at Ms. Thelma’s Restaurant, 140 Fairfield Ave., or by calling 203-526-8086. There will also be a coat drive during the event.
Bridgeport’s Holiday Inn today announced that the celebration honoring Maestro Gustav Meier’s 40th anniversary at the artistic helm of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony will include a Nov. 12 dinner prior to the orchestra’s “Gustav and Mozart” concert.
An Austrian-themed buffet will be offered in honor of Meier’s favorite composer: Mozart. Cost is $35 (reduced from $40), including tax, with a portion of each ticket benefiting the GBS.
Seatings will take place from 5 until 6:30 p.m. so that diners will be able to travel the short distance between the 1070 Main St. hotel and the 8 p.m. concert at the Klein Memorial Auditorium, 910 Fairfield Avenue.
The buffet, say hotel officials, will include such Austrian specialties as potato pancakes, spaetzle, Wiener schnitzel with lingonberries, beef goulash with paprika, bratwurst, broiled salmon and sauteed cabbage. Desserts will include apple strudel and Linzer cookies. Coffee, tea or hot chocolate will be included. For reservations, call 203.334.1234, extension 5181.
The 8 p.m. concert, “Gustav and Mozart,” will feature violinist Elena Urioste performing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish. Tickets for the concert, $20 to $50, may be purchased by calling 203.576.0263 or visiting www.GBS.org.
The concert will be repeated at a 3 p.m. matinee on Sunday, Nov. 13, also at the Klein.
Urioste and GBS Executive Director Benjamin Loeb, a noted pianist, will be featured at the inaugural event in the Guest Artist Recital Series on Monday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. at First Church Congregational, 148 Beach Road, in Fairfield. Tickets, available at the door, are $40.
From the arts desk:
The Fairfield Museum and History Center announced this morning that it will extend the run of its current exhibit in memory of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America that killed nearly 3,000.
The exhibition was to have closed on Sunday, Sept. 18, but museum officials said today that the show is “not coming down now until after 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 21, because “is has been so well attended and received.”
Admission to the museum is free during the run of the exhibit. Featured in the show are several photographs taken at Ground Zero by the renowned Westport photographer Stephen Wilkes shortly after two commercial airliners were crashed by terrorists into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, destroying them both.
The museum presents exhibitions on the history of the Greater Bridgeport area, as well as topics of general interest to the region. It is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., weekends noon to 4 p.m. For additional information: www.fairfieldhs.org; 203-259-1598.
A community-minded Fairfield youth is helping Bridgeport Rescue Mission fight poverty from the inside out.
Sixteen-year-old Connor McGuiness, a member of Boy Scout Troop 199, selected the Mission as a service project in working toward the rank of Eagle Scout. In two weeks time, he collected 2,400 pounds of food through drives at two local Stop & Shop supermarkets and 1,500 pounds of clothing through his church, St. Pius X Parish in Fairfield. He also collected $1,900 in cash, which was used to purchase urgently needed underwear for the Mission’s guests and residents and, under the direction of the Mission Head Chef Paul Byron, specific food items from Restaurant Depot.
McGuiness selected the Mission for the project after conducting an online search and learning of the number of people the Mission serves and their need for food and clothing. The Mission provides nearly 40,000 meal per month to its residents and guests and struggling families in the community and 100 beds each night—along with clothing and case management—to homeless men and women and students working toward sobriety and independence in the Mission’s long-term recovery program.
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