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City Lights West art gallery opens Saturday in Dragone Classic Cars on Post Road West. Photo: Kirk Lang

In Westport, a showroom for classic cars begets a gallery for new art works.

It’s City Lights West, a gallery opening Saturday in Dragone Classic Motor Cars, 176 Post Road West. There’s a reception to mark the event from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Artwork will be displayed both in Dragone’s front showroom, as well as a larger gallery space at the rear of the business, according to George Dragone, co-owner of Dragone Classic Motor Cars.

City Lights West draws its name from City Lights and Co., an art gallery and community-based arts organization in downtown Bridgeport. The gallery organizers’ mission is to help raise awareness of the growing arts community in the Park City and provide a showcase for local artists’ work.

For more information about City Lights West, call 203-349-8840.

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Westport Town Hall, where volunteers are sought to serve on several town boards and commissions. Photo: Paul Schott/Westport News

Westport town officials are seeking volunteers to fill openings on a number of municipal boards, commissions and committees.
“Nothing is more fulfilling than being able to serve our community as a volunteer,” said First Selectman Gordon Joseloff. “Hundreds of Westporters already give their time in so many ways to the town but there is always a need for new faces.”
Terms on these panels range from one to four years. More details about their work can be found on the town’s website, www.westportct.gov.
Individuals interested in applying or seeking more information can call the Selectman’s Office at 203-341-1111, e-mail selectman@westportct.gov, or write to the office at 110 Myrtle Ave., Westport, CT 06880.
Applicants, who must be Westport residents, are asked to include pertinent information about their qualifications for a position and/or a general statement about their background, interests, or skills.
Open positions include:
Boating Advisory Committee — three regular member vacancies
Conservation Commission — one alternate member vacancy
Dangerous Dog Hearing Board — three regular member vacancies
Flood and Erosion Control Board — one alternate member vacancy
Hillspoint Road Committee — one regular member vacancy
Municipal Employees Pension Committee — one regular member vacancy
Public Site & Building Commission — one regular member vacancy
Shellfish Commission — two regular member vacancies
Sherwood Mill Pond Advisory Committee — three regular member vacancies
Tree Board — six regular member vacancies
Youth Commission — one regular member vacancy

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A hometown perspective on world affairs. That’s what Westport resident Anthony Banbury — who also is the United Nations assistant secretary general for field support — will offer when he speaks Wednesday, Oct. 12, at the Westport Public Library. The free talk is set for 7:30 p.m.

Addressing the topic, “Challenges of Disaster Relief and Peace,” Banbury knows whereof he speaks. After Haiti was devastated by an earthquake in January 2010, Banbury was dispatched as the UN secretary general’s special representative there, where he served until March of that year. Before assuming his current post, Banbury served as the UN world food program regional director for Asia.

Here’s a LINK to a Dan Woog column about Banbury published in the Westport News in April 2010.

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The selection of Westport resident Ralph Steinman as a recipient of this year’s Noble Prize for medicine received widespread attention Monday, not just because of the tribute to his groundbreaking research in the human immune system and how it can be harnessed to fight disease, but because announcement of the prestigious honor came just three days after Steinman’s death.

In addition to coverage of Steinman’s achievement and tragic death here on westport-news.com, the website of Rockefeller University in New York, where Steinman was a biology professor, has more details about his award-winning research, as well as a webcast and photos of his family at a press conference Monday.

The link is here.

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See if they make the grade.

The four candidates for the Westport Board of Education — Mark Mathias and Michael, Democrats, and Jeannie Smith and Jennifer Tooker, Republicans — are scheduled to debate tonight (Monday, Oct. 3) in a forum sponsored by the Westport League of Women Voters.

The Nov. 8 municipal election is just about a month away, so this will be one of the few times voters can take their measure of all the school board contenders in one place.

The debate gets under way at 7 p.m. in the Town Hall auditorium. It will also be televised on public-access cable Channels 79 (Cablevision) and 99 (AT&T).

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Even though the dog days of summer are waning with the official start of fall last week, “dog days” at Compo Beach are just beginning as of  Saturday, Oct. 1.

That’s right, canines are allowed at Westport’s largest beach through March 31 as long as they and their owners conform to the following regulations:

• Dogs are prohibited from the pavilion, playground and boardwalk.

• All dogs must be leashed in all areas of the park except in the designated off-leash area of the beach south of pavilion, including South Beach. Off-leash regulations are posted at the entrance of the designated area.

• Owners are required by law to clean up an animal’s defecation.

• Owners who violate any of the rules are subject to a $77 fine.

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Westport Volunteer Emergency Medical Services is offering new sessions of several training programs.

Free to Westport residents and municipal employees is the American Heart Association “HeartSaver “ CPR program. There is a fee for non-Westport residents.

Also, the next session of the National Safety Council’s Defensive Driving Class training program offered by WVEMS is set for Oct. 10 and 18 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Students must attend both sessions. Fee is $15; many insurances companies offer discounts for those who have completed the program.

The CPR classes are scheduled mornings, afternoons and evenings, as well as weekends if students need them. The instruction covers life-saving adult, child and infant CPR; obstructed airway management, and use of automated external defibrillators.

WVEMS also teaches AHA HealthCare Provider and first-aid classes for a fee. The organization also offers free, non-certification classes — Introduction to CPR and AED — that take less than 30 minutes.

Classes are held at Westport Police/EMS headquarters, 50 Jesup Road, and arrangements can also be made for classes at other locations.

The defensive driving program includes a classroom-based review of collision prevention; steps to ensure that both the driver and the vehicle are ready for the road; conditions that affect driving, how to deal with impaired drivers; how to manage emotions while behind the wheel; how road rage affects drivers; how to avoid the six most unsafe driving behaviors, and other safe driving strategies.

The driving classes will also take place at Westport Police/EMS headquarters, 50 Jesup Road.

For more information or to sign up, e-mail cpr@westportems.org or call 203-341-6030.

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The pool at Staples High School has reopened to the community for the season.

The pool, which reopened Monday, is available to all Westport residents, 6 years old and over, and their guests for recreational and lap swimming.

Fees are $7 daily for town residents and their guests, as well as a variety of memberships.

For details on schedules and fees, check here.