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empty baseball field
a dandelion seed floats through
the strike zone
– George Swede
biking to the field
under a cloudless sky
my glove on the handlebars
– Cor van den Heuvel
Chris Preovolos/The Advocate
lost in the lights
the high fly ball that
never comes down
– Raffael de Gruttola
Chris Preovolos/Staff photo
Alex Rothwell, of the Montessori School, adjusts the microphone stand during the Regional Spelling BEE of Lower Fairfield County, held at the UConn Stamford Campus on Thursday.
This is way harder than it looks. I feel particularly bad for the girl who went down on an obscure Hawai’ian noun.
I’m too tired to comment much on the whole scene and how cute the kids were since I spent all night editing a video about the Spelling Bee, please check it out here.
–CP
Kathleen O’Rourke/The Advocate
Spring-like temperatures hit the area today and people ventured out to the Mill River Playground to enjoy it.
This playground sits around the corner from the old Advocate building and being there today reminded me of how much I loved working downtown. It was a hotbed of activity and prime for enterprise.
Kathleen O’Rourke/The Advocate
Peter Arahovitis, a 17-year-old Stamford High School junior, sits in his room at Yale New Haven Hospital awaiting a bone marrow transplant. He was diagnosed with leukemia in December, after battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2004. A donor has been found in Europe, and Peter says “it puts him one step closer” to recovery. The procedure is scheduled for March 26.
I went to Yale New Haven Hospital today with Advocate reporter Devon Lash to begin this story. It was another one of those moments when I say to myself “this is why I do what I do”. The newspaper industry is going through a period of extreme change and strife, but I’m a firm believer that if journalists can continue to bring stories like Peter’s into the public eye than the industry will flourish. He was an absolute joy to meet and I look forward to telling his story from diagnosis to recovery.
Kathleen O’Rourke/The Advocate
ABOVE: A group of boys from area schools spend an afternoon bowling at AMF Rip Van Winkle Lanes during Yeshiva Bais Binyomin’s winter break mini-camp. The yeshiva, where boys and men ages 13 to 20 come from ultra-Orthodox communities in the tri-state area to live and study Talmud, has begun hosting community events to strengthen the bond between their institute and the Stamford Jewish community.
Advocate educational reporter Wynne Parry and I are working on an upcoming story about Yeshiva Bais Binyomin and its relationship with Stamford’s Jewish community. We were invited to accompany this group of students, from local bi-cultural schools, for an afternoon of bowling during their winter break. The boys are involved in a community outreach program at the institute and spend a few hours every Thursday night socializing and studying with the students that live at the yeshiva. This was our second time meeting with Rabbi Belsky (pictured below) and he is the driving force behind outreach to Jews in the community. As many of you may know, it is open to men only, and granting access (although limited) to two female journalists was unprecedented. It’s been an educational and memorable experience! Keep an eye out for the story sometime in March.
Dante Hicks greets Angel Colon, who was taking a break from the cash register to enjoy the afternoon at La Fabulosa Grocery on South Pacific St. in Stamford, on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009.
2/11/2009
I found this while cruising around the South End for a weather photo.
–CP
Chris Preovolos/The Advocate
The scene after a round of judging at the 133rd annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York.
02/09/2009
I’ve been covering the Westminster for a few years now and no matter how many times I’ve been there, or how many times I’ve watched “Best in Show,” I’m never quite prepared for the often bizarre scene that awaits. Above all, it’s a lot of fun.
This year, along with Sarah Lipman, a reporter and beagle owner, I followed Anna Stromberg, a woman from South Salem, N.Y., who runs a dog grooming business in Stamford. Stromberg and her husband were showing a whippet, Glory Bound (who won Best in Breed) and two Afghan hounds. They will show giant schnauzers tomorrow.
The benching and grooming areas are a bustling with activity all day. Owners, groomers, handlers, fans and members of the media pack into the rows of crates and grooming tables making it nearly impossible to navigate from one end of the room to the other.
Even the press room proved to be fairly entertaining, as Uno, the only beagle to ever claim Best in Show honors (2008) at Westminster, drew a crowd during a press conference of sorts; my famously unyielding cynicism melted slightly as I watched him being all adorable while standing on a table drinking water out of a cocktail tumbler.
Champion or not, dogs will be dogs.
READ SARAH’S STORY: HERE
–CP
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