In Sight

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Sofia Rinaldi, 12, center, puts on her game-face during the Stamford Youth Foundation’s middle school field hockey team practice at Rippowam Middle School.

MAKING ME FEEL OLD: I had the following conversation with an eleven-year-old before the practice:

KID: Is that the new iPhone?
ME: Yeah.
KID: I don’t even have a cell phone.
ME: Well, I didn’t have one until I was in college.
KID: Yeah, but…
ME: Wait. Please don’t say ‘they didn’t have them when you were a kid.’
KID: Well, they didn’t.
ME: Hey, I’m still hanging on to my twenties. I’m not that old. I had a beeper.

–CP

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Margaux Lovell (front) dances with Daryl Addams, while Tony Hurtado gives Josephine Addams a spin to the left at The Palms on Columbus Park. The Palms restaurant is going all Spanish food and providing a place to dance.

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Mirsa Castro and her two daughters, Jacqueline, 12, and Katherine, 6, Caria-Castro spend the afternoon playing outside on their front porch in Stamford, Conn. Castro attends classes for Spanish speaking parents through the Exchange Club of Stamford and has utilized many programs in the city. The Exchange Club Parenting Skills Center in Stamford received a $12,000 grant from the Children’s Trust Fund in January to help Spanish-speaking parents get involved in their children’s schools

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SLIDESHOW: Documenting a quinceañera in Stamford.

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Skaters crowd the Norwalk Skate Park at Calf Pasture Beach in hopes of getting a sponsorship in the Utopia Skate Shop “Sponsor Me Jam” in Norwalk, Conn, on Saturday March 29, 2008.

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Two members of the United States Marine Corps Honor Guard present arms as the body of Norwalk Police Officer and former U.S. Marine, Matthew Morelli, is brought into St. John’s Cemetery after a funeral mass at St. Matthew’s Church, in Norwalk, Conn. Morelli died while on duty March 21 in an apparent suicide.

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A group of parishioners from St. Benedict’s-Our Lady of Montserrat Church process into the church after a Stations of the cross service in Stamford, Conn, on Good Friday, March 21, 2008.

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A group of men watch a soccer game outside on the basketball courts at Lathon Wider Community Center in Stamford, Conn.