A view of our new Y, looking north, to the large windows of the Wellness Center.
The Westport Weston Family Y’s campaign to fund and construct a modern, sustainable new home on our Mahackeno campus has been years’ long and at times imperiled. But thanks to the steadfast support of our members, the tireless efforts of the volunteer leaders who guide us, and the selfless contributions from hundreds of donors from throughout our community and beyond, we are ready to truly “Build What Matters.”
On December 21, the Y received a Zoning Permit from the Town of Westport, which will allow us to proceed with plans to begin construction of our new Family Y facility. We will soon announce the date of our groundbreaking and will extend an invitation for Y Members and supporters to join us at the onsite celebration of this momentous event.
The Family Y also has signed a GMP (Guaranteed Maximum Price) contract with Turner Construction Co., which means that any additional savings accrued from work negotiated with subcontractors will be returned to the project. This will allow the Y to include additional amenities above and beyond the base building, a 54,000 sq. ft., full-service, family-oriented facility that we’ll all be tremendously proud of.
This first stage of our new Y will be built on a portion of the footprint that has been approved by the Town of Westport. Upon completion of all construction stages, the Family Y at Mahackeno will comprise 102,000 sq. ft. and will include a Gymnastics Center, Child Care wing and expanded Aquatics and Health & Wellness areas.
To be on sound financial footing by the time we open our doors in late 2014, we must raise a further $4 million. To find out how you can help, please call Paul Bernetksy, Chief Development Officer, at 203-226-8981, ext. 115, or email pbernetsky@westporty.org.
To view a brief video about our campaign for a new Y, please click on the image below.
Coach Mark Sedlak getting ready to take part in the parent-child relay.
The Family Y’s annual Water Rat “Red & Blue” Intrasquad swim meet took place Saturday, December 21, and rarely has our Y been the scene of such high energy and holiday cheer.
Postponed from its original date due to Hurricane Sandy, this casual “total team” event featured more than 150 young swimmers participating in fun relays and concluded with the much-anticipated swimmer vs. parent race.
With hundreds of parents, friends and Water Rat alums cheering on from the bleachers and pool deck, our Pool Lobby was the busy setting for the Water Rats traditional spread of refreshments, as well as a display about our ongoing “Just Add Water Soon” (aka JAWS) effort to expand of the Aquatic Center of our new Family Y.
The doughnuts and hot chocolate help explain the high energy, and here’s what much of the holiday cheer was all about: Our “JAWS” campaign has succeeded!
Thanks to the generous support of so many dedicated Y members, we have raised sufficient funds (more than $340,000 since September) to give the volunteer Boards that guide our “Building What Matters” capital campaign the confidence to proceed with plans to enlarge our 25-yard competitive lap pool by an additional two lanes (for a total of 10 lanes) and to increase the size of our warm-water family/teaching/recreational pool by an additional seven feet in width and more than 70 percent by water volume.
Our successful “JAWS” effort will allow the Family Y to provide more space for lap swimming, swim instruction, water-safety lessons and recreational play and will significantly increase space and flexibility for aqua exercise and other fitness programs. It will increase our opportunities to serve special-needs populations as well as the many fellow nonprofit groups with whom we partner.
Adding two lanes to our competitive lap pool will give our Aquatic staff greater programming flexibility. Additionally, having a 10-lane lap pool will allow us to add an aquatic climbing wall (a new play innovation that is proving popular at other Ys).
Former Water Rat coach Bill Krumm with current head coach Ellen Johnston.
What’s more, our campaign leaders are delighted to announce that the new home of the Water Rat Swim Team will be named The Strittmatter Family Aquatic Center, in honor of Board President Bonnie Strittmatter, her husband Bill, and their children, Laura and Alex. Bonnie’s tireless efforts and her family’s philanthropic leadership are an inspiration to us all as we continue to build what truly matters — a modern new Y facility on our Mahackeno campus that will serve our members and the entire community for generations to come.
Our work is not done: To make the Strittmatter Family Aquatic Center the best it can be, we need your support to help finance essential features and equipment and to close the remaining funding gap of $660,000.
Here’s a link to our online donation page on the Y’s website, which will allow Y supporters to contribute to our capital campaign as well as our annual fundraising effort, which allows us to continue our charitable work in our community. We thank you for your support!
The Family Y’s Child Care Center is bustling once again, after reopening on Dec. 10 following six weeks of rebuilding due to flood damage caused by Superstorm Sandy.
During the last week of classes before the holiday break, our Y Child Care kids got a wonderful package: A sheaf of hand-drawn cards and a generous check from YMCAs that are part of the Illinois Alliance of YMCAs.
When this group of Ys heard the news of our storm damage, they sprang into action to support our Family Y in its time of need. Contributions to help us rebuild our Child Care Center were gathered from Ys throughout Illinois: Illinois Valley YMCA, Alred Campanelli YMCA, The Decatur Family YMCA, Mattoon Area Family YMCA, Canton Family YMCA, Danville Family YMCA, The West Cook YMCA, Clinton Community YMCA, PAV YMCA and the Kishwaukee Family YMCA, as well as Ruth and Thomas Knous and Richard Clegg, Y Resource Director.
In all, our Y friends from Illinois collected $2,300, which is being used to pay for the entirely new collection of furniture and other material in our Child Care Center.
We thank these Ys and friends, and the many other families and individuals who have contributed to our annual fundraising campaign, which is being used not only to rebuild, but also to allow our Family Y to continue to help local families in need be able to be active in the Y, through financial aid, scholarships and other support.
Happy holidays to all from the Y Child Care kids and staff!
Take a stroll through the photo gallery below of the children and Y staffers reading the cards and enjoying their wonderful new Child Care Center!
Meaghan George and Becky Newman with a terrapin and turtle at Earthplace (Camp Mahackeno's longtime mascot is a snapping turtle from Lees Pond).
The Westport Weston Family Y and Earthplace, the Nature Discovery Center have announced plans to conduct a joint camp next summer at Earthplace. Located at 10 Woodside Lane in Westport, Earthplace is situated among a 62-acre wildlife sanctuary that features an interactive natural history museum, over two miles of trails, live animal hall, Birds of Prey and a preschool facility.
Camp Mahackeno, which has been home to the Family Y’s summer day camp since the early 1940s, will be unavailable next summer due to construction of the new Y facility on a portion of the Y’s 32-acre Mahackeno campus along the Saugatuck River, north of downtown Westport.
“We’re so excited about this partnership,” says Meaghan George, Camp and Youth Director for the Family Y. “Our Mahackeno campers will be in a wonderfully natural setting that’s close to our longtime home and that will also provide them great new opportunities to learn about nature, science and the environment while having fun.”
“We’re delighted to be able to host the Y’s Mahackeno counselors and campers next summer,” agrees Becky Newman, Camp Director for Earthplace. “Not only will our campers have access to the Y’s pools for free swim throughout the summer, the Y’s campers will experience a variety of Earthplace activities including pond studies, trail walks and animal encounters.”
Part of Earthplace's 62-acre property that will be used for some camp activities next summer.
Combining the two camp programs will require considerable teamwork among the two staffs as well as some enhancements to Earthplace’s current camp facilities. Camp capacity will increase to 175 campers, from grades 1 through 11. (Earthplace’s preschool program, which serves up to 50 children entering Kindergarten or younger, will continue to be registered and served by Earthplace staff.)
The combined camp operations next summer will also allow both nonprofit organizations to continue their charitable work with the towns of Westport and Weston, as well as with agencies such as the Fresh Air Fund, to provide scholarships and other financial assistance that will make it possible for deserving children to attend camp and to benefit from the life lessons summer camp offers all children.
Camp co-directors George and Newman are currently finalizing the weekly themes for the 2013 season as well as enrollment and registration procedures. Further information about the combined camp will be provided in coming weeks. Be sure to visit both websites for the most up-to-date information.
“Talk about a win-win – I know both camps will learn new things from the one another about how to make our great local camp programs even better,” says Rob Reeves, Family Y CEO. “We thank Earthplace for giving our Mahackeno campers this opportunity next summer, and we look forward to collaborating in the future, sharing our facilities and expertise to serve local families and the community as a whole.”
Marie Dalton-Meyer, Interim Executive Director at Earthplace, welcomes this new partnership with Family Y. “We look forward to this collaboration, which offers great learning opportunities to all who attend and enables two great organizations a chance to work together on creating a new way to serve the community.”
A contractor from Fairfield Electric Co., which re-installed the Y's electric switch gear.
Now that the Westport Weston Family Y has succeeded with its repairs to flood damage caused by Superstorm Sandy and re-opened after a month-long closure, it’s worth reviewing what we’ve learned as a result of our Y’s “lost November.”
Frist, the Y’s vintage electric switch gear, which is housed in a sub-level of our facility that was flooded by the tidal surge that swept up Main Street, needed to be entirely rebuilt. According to Pat Costanzo, the Y’s senior director of property and facilities, the loss of this piece of crucial equipment nearly led to the permanent closure of our downtown facility. Current building code requirements do not allow the Y to simply replace the switch gear with new equipment. Rather, the switch gear needed to be refashioned using the original blueprints.
As luck would have it, our contractors were able to track down those original specs at the plant where the switch gear was made long ago. “The switch gear is our building’s heart, and if you don’t have it beating, there’s not much you can do,” says Pat. “If we hadn’t gotten lucky in getting those parts made, there was a good chance we wouldn’t have been able to re-open at all.”
Is the downtown Y facility still vulnerable to flooding? Yes. Would it be possible for the Y to “flood proof” the building? No. Those remediations would be too costly; moving our electrical and mechanical systems to safer areas within our facility would require a lengthy closure and a significant sacrifice of space now used by classes and programs.
As it stands, the Y’s Lower Gym remains closed. We need to replace the parquet floor due to flooding — for the second time in two years.
Second, the Y’s temporary closure exposed a critical shortage of indoor pool capacity in our community. The Family Y is far and away our area’s largest provider of swim lessons; it’s also home to the 200-member Water Rat youth swim team, a nationally renowned Y Masters swim team composed of older athletes, and is our community’s primary location for swimming for recreational, fitness and therapeutic reasons.
The Family Y re-opened its circa 1929 Brophy Pool last weekend.
The Y struggles to accommodate all these aquatic activities in the best of times. During our closure, we were able to arrange for some swim lessons and practice time at alternate sites, such as the Norwalk YMCA and Staples High School – though Staples’ own varied uses of their six-lane pool (water polo, swim team, public swimming) meant that some Water Rats took to that pool as early as 5:15 am to get in their weekday practices.
In her 25-plus years of coaching the Water Rats, Ellen Johnston has sent dozens of swimmers off to college on scholarships; myriad studies have shown the lifelong benefits of participating in a youth swim program, still more research attests to the value of aqua fitness, especially for seniors. And, of course, learning how to swim and to be safe around water is an invaluable life skill.
The Y’s plans for its Aquatic Center at the new facility to be built starting early this winter at Mahackeno currently call for a 25-yard lap pool with 8 lanes and an adjacent warm-water teaching/family/therapeutic pool. However, a separate capital campaign was launched this fall to increase the lap pool to 10 lanes and to expand the shallow family pool by nearly one-third. Called “Just Add Water Soon” (aka JAWS), this effort has raised more than $330,000 of the $1.5 million required.
This is a campaign well worth supporting. The Y will only build what it can afford, but it’s abundantly clear that having a larger Aquatic Center is an investment that will provide continuing benefits to our entire community over the years to come.
Third and last: Though the Y’s flood insurance will cover a significant portion of the repairs, our lost November will add to our annual operating deficit. Like many other charitable nonprofit organizations, the Y gives out more money each year than it takes in, relying on private donations to make ends meet.
One of the primary justifications of our impending building project at Mahackeno, if not the main reason, was our Y’s pressing need for a new facility that can be run on a financially sustainable basis. Our new Y has been designed to attract the kind, and number, of family memberships that will place us on sound financial footing and allow us to continue to evolve with the changing needs of the community.
The Westport Public Library, once in this building on the Post Road, has its own ambitious expansion plans.
The recent announcement that the Norwalk YMCA is closing at the end of the year, due to declining membership and the cost of maintaining its 85-year-old facility, is a reminder to us all that the status quo – staying in an outmoded building in a problematic location – is not an option.
Our beloved downtown facility has served the Family Y and community well for nearly 90 years. But just as other downtown “institutions” – the old public library, old town hall, old post office, old court building and old firehouse – have decamped to more suitable locations, so, too, should the Family Y be allowed, even welcomed, to continue to serve its members and the entire community with a modern new facility in the only viable place it could be built: on the Y’s own Mahackeno campus, just north of downtown.
Superstorm Sandy taught us some hard lessons, but good will come from taking those lessons to heart.
(Note: To find out more about the Family Y’s “Building What Matters” campaign to fund and construct a new Y, visit www.westporty.org. Or join Y members and supporters at our “Welcome Back!” celebration, 7 pm, Tuesday, Dec. 11, at the Branson Hall of Christ & Holy Trinity Church at 75 Church Lane. A new short film showing what the new Y will look like, from both outside and inside, will be shown.)
After nearly a month of undertaking a complex sequence of remediation and repair due to flooding, the Westport Weston Family Y is nearly ready to re-open on a limited basis. Once again, we thank you for your patience and understanding as we strive to put our beloved but aged downtown facility back in working order. And special thanks to the many Family Y members who have so graciously offered to donate their membership credit during our closure toward helping us continue our mission of service to those in need.
As the week begins, we expect to be ready to test key mechanical, electrical and life-safety systems. If all goes well, we will then be in position to request inspections by the Fire Department and Town in order to receive a new Certificate of Occupancy (CO), allowing us to re-open our doors.
As mentioned previously when we are able to give you an exact date of our re-opening, and the services we will be able to provide at that time, we will let you know as soon as possible via email, on westporty.org and other media.
Status of Repairs Pat Costanzo and his team of Y staffers and outside contractors have worked through the holiday weekend to accomplish the following:
The boiler that supplies heat to the Bedford Building is now operational.
The new heater for the Stauffer Pool is expected to be operational this weekend. Once back in service, it should be able to raise the water temperature from the current low 60s by about two degrees per day. The regular temperature is 81 degrees.
The Weeks Pavilion, which houses our pools, gymnastics center, racquet courts and locker rooms, now has heat and hot water.
The entire facility continues to run on temporary power. We will continue to have to rely on temporary power until we finish reinstalling the rebuilt electric switch gear and can have it inspected and certified.
The Child Care Center in the lower level of the Bedford Building, inundated by five feet of water, has been dried. Renovations began this weekend and will continue as a high priority until completed. (Our Y Child Care families will receive a separate, more detailed update.)
Repairs to the smoke detection, sprinkler and fire-alarm systems are nearly complete and will be tested early this coming week.
Classes & Programs Please be aware that upon our re-opening, the lower level of the Fitness Center, where our free weights and workout machines are located, will remain closed. Water that seeped under the floor mats will require some of this heavy gear to be moved so that we can completely dry the area.
With some fitness/dance studios and spaces likely to be unavailable for regular programming, please consult our website upon our re-opening for the current schedules of classes and programs. Also, please be aware that the Brophy Pool will remain closed temporarily, after the Stauffer Pool re-opens. The current Pool schedule will also be posted on our homepage as our re-opening plans are finalized.
Membership Credit Options Allow us to repeat the following important membership information from our previous update:
Here is a pdf of a notice we are mailing to all Family Y Members that outlines credit options covering the period from our closure on Oct. 29 through our re-opening. Please let us know if you would like to make any of the choices offered by following the instructions provided in the letter.
If you have a specific question or would like to volunteer your support, please contact Rob Reeves directly, via rreeves@westporty.org or 203-226-8981, ext. 131.
Support the Y
To support our Family Y’s efforts to rebuild as well as to continue to help us provide financial assistance so that local families in need have access to our programs and services, please click here to access our online donation form, or contact Paul Bernetsky, Chief Development Officer, at 203-226-8981, ext. 115 or pbernetsky@westporty.org. (Use the Comment box to give us specific information about processing your gift. We thank you.)
From all of us at the Family Y, we wish you and your family the happiest of Thanksgiving holidays. We also offer our most sincere thanks for your continued patience and understanding. Despite our current travails — or maybe because of them — we count our blessings and treasure all that we have, and what we hope to soon regain.
We are continuing to put the pieces of the intricate puzzle that is our Family Y back in place. If all goes well, we are hopeful that we will be able to safely resume limited operations sometime next week.
When we are able to give you an exact date of our re-opening, and the services we will be able to provide at that time, we will let you know as soon as possible via email, on westporty.org and other media.
Craig Pietrowicz, an employee of Northeast Generator in Bridgeport, looks at the damaged gym floor. Photo courtesy of Connecticut Post.
We are truly sorry for the disruption and inconvenience our temporary closure has caused our members and the community. As you may have read on the front page of the Connecticut Post this weekend, our Family Y is just one of the buildings in downtown Westport that remain closed due to damage caused by Superstorm Sandy.
Status of Repairs
Progress continues, though not without hurdles — most of them due to the age of our facility and of the antiquated systems that run it.
A second external generator is now online and supplying power to more of our facility, allowing the workers to proceed with the difficult task of repairing, reinstalling and then testing critical parts. However, this temporary hookup necessitated additional repairs: the electrical feed from the panel to our hot-water system needed to be completely rewired.
Pat Costanzo, our senior director of Property and Facilities Management, continues to orchestrate the various teams at work throughout the building. Among the specific tasks at hand:
The replacement parts for the boiler that heats the Bedford Building have been installed. We expect to fire it up today (Tuesday) and check it for operational safety.
The new heater for the Stauffer Pool will be installed this week. Once it’s operational, we will be able to proceed with the days-long task of bringing the now-chilled water back up to a tolerable temperature.
A phalanx of blowers, fans and heaters continue to dry the Child Care Center, which was inundated by water. When that task is complete, we will begin rebuilding that space. (For a more detailed update about our Child Care Center, including an account of the various offers of support to help rebuild it, please click here.)
Repairs to the sprinkler and fire-alarm systems are ongoing and once they are completed and heat and hot water are restored, we will be able to bring the inspectors in to re-certify the facility for use by our Members, staff and community.
Also, please check our home page for the current list of classes & programs taking place at alternate sites.
Membership Credit Options
Allow us to repeat the following important membership information from our previous update:
Here is a pdf of a notice we are mailing to all Family Y Members that outlines credit options covering the period from our closure on Oct. 29 through our re-opening. Please let us know if you would like to make any of the choices offered by following the instructions provided in the letter.
If you have a specific question or would like to volunteer your support, please contact Rob Reeves directly, via rreeves@westporty.org or 203-226-8981, ext. 131. Note: Family Y email will not be available Tuesday evening through Wed., 9 am. We need to take the servers down as part of the electrical panel testing.
To view a brief video about our efforts to “Re-Build What Matters,” please click on the image below.
Support the Y
To support our Family Y’s efforts to rebuild as well as to continue to help us provide financial assistance so that local families in need have access to our programs and services, please click here to access our online donation form, or contact Paul Bernetsky, Chief Development Officer, at 203-226-8981, ext. 115 or pbernetsky@westporty.org. (Use the Comment box to give us specific information about processing your gift. We thank you.)
Some repairs to our flood-damaged facility will take longer to complete, but the Family Y hopes to resume partial operations in the coming week.
We thank our members and the community for continued patience and understanding as the Westport Weston Family Y proceeds with the complex task of making the necessary repairs to our facility in order to re-open as soon as we possibly can.
As you will see from the following progress report, resuming operations even on a limited basis requires many things to be accomplished in sequence and without further complications.
If all goes well with this process, we hope to re-open our locker rooms, fitness center, upper gym and group-fitness studio the week of Nov. 19. We will announce a specific date for our re-opening as soon as that decision can be made and will provide further details regarding access to the building and the scope of the services we will be able to provide at that time.
In the meantime, Family Y staffers have arranged for some of our classes and programs to take place at alternate sites around our community. Here’s the current schedule for those Family Y activities.
We also encourage Y Members to continue utilizing other area YMCAs through the “Always Home at the Y” AWAY reciprocal program.
Membership Credit Options
We realize that these temporary measures are not convenient for every member nor do they adequately address the terms of your Membership with the Family Y. Therefore, we want to offer credit during this difficult time.
Here is a pdf of a notice we are mailing to all Family Y Members that outlines credit options. Please let us know if you would like to make any of the choices offered by following the instructions provided in the letter.
Status of Repairs
The types of major repairs required to our aged infrastructure do not happen quickly, but we continue to make positive progress each day. Here are some specifics:
Power, Heat and Safety Systems
- The new burner and replacement parts for the boiler that provides heat to the Bedford Building have been delivered. Installation will begin on Thursday and will take about 3 days to complete before we can fire up the boiler and test it for safety.
- The boiler that supplies heat to the Firehouse, which houses our Fitness Center, will be repaired once parts arrive as expected on Friday.
- The internal components for the main electric switch gear located in the Bedford basement will arrive on Thursday and will take 3-4 days to be installed.
- The secondary power supply, located in the sub-level of the Weeks Pavilion, has been rebuilt. Once the repairs are complete, a second external generator will “back feed” that panel to supply power to rest of the facility. We expect that to take place on Thursday, if all goes well.
- At that time, likely by Friday, we can get the smoke detection contractor to begin the necessary repairs to this system.
- On Monday, we expect to have our sprinkler system repaired.
- Only then can we ask the fire marshal and building inspector to clear us to allow members back into the facility.
Our beloved Brophy Pool, built in 1929, awaits water, and a whole lotta heat, to bring it back to its customary 90-degree temperature.
Pools
- The Stauffer Pool circulator motor has been removed and is being rebuilt. We hope it will be back to us on Monday to be re-installed.
- We expect the new pool heater for the Stauffer Pool to arrive by Friday.
- After the Stauffer pool heater is back in service it will take a few days to raise the temperature to an acceptable level.
- The Brophy pool is heated by the main boiler, so once that is operational we’ll be able to refill, filter and heat it.
- Bottom line: If all goes well, our pools will be ready for swimmers after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Again, we will provide you with specific dates for the re-opening of each pool as soon as they are established.
Remediation
- We are getting bids to restore the floor of the lower gym and will undertake those repairs as soon as possible. The upper gym was not affected.
- Portions of the walls and flooring of our Child Care Center that were damaged by the flood water have been removed. Once that area is completely dry and disinfected to prevent mold we will begin to rebuild that space. Most of the electrical panels have already been replaced.
Child Care
Our Family Y is the area’s largest provider of child care services, and we fully realize how hard our temporary closure has been for our Y families with young children who need care, and maybe more importantly, need a semblance of normalcy and order back in their lives.
It is impossible for us to give a firm date of when we’ll be able to restart our Child Care services at the Family Y. If everything falls into place, it’s likely that the earliest date would be the week of Nov. 26.
At that time, please be aware that Y Members will not be allowed to enter the facility through the Bedford Building. All Y Members will have to enter the Y through the doors on Church Lane or the Baldwin Parking lot. The Bedford Building entrance, and restrooms across from the Bedford Room, will be restricted to use by Child Care students.
Dance Center
Lillian Cenatiempo, Dance Center director, has been in contact with participants and reports that upon re-opening our dance classes will take place in the upstairs studio and the squash/racquet ball courts.
“I have taught classes in the courts before and they are very similar to the studio space; the only thing they are missing are mirrors,” she says. Because of this venue change for some classes, she asks that dancers check in at the Membership Services Desk 5 minutes before their class time so that their instructor can take the students up to the squash/racquet ball area should that be where their class is.
A Special Note of Gratitude
Please join in expressing our profound appreciation for the tireless and expert work being done by Pat Costanzo, senior director of facilities management, his staff and small army of contractors toiling to get our Family Y back up and running.
If you have a specific question or would like to volunteer your support, please contact Rob Reeves directly, via rreeves@westporty.org or 203-226-8981, ext. 131.
To support our Family Y with a financial contribution, please click here to access our online donation form, or contact Paul Bernetsky, Chief Development Officer, at 203-226-8981, ext. 115 or pbernetsky@westporty.org. (Use the Comment box to give us specific information about processing your gift. We thank you.)
Below are two photo galleries. The first is of various Family Y programs taking place at alternate sites during our temporary closure. The second gallery is of photos of our repair efforts.
Scott Smith joined the Westport Weston Family Y as director of communications in January 2011. He previously held the position of director of communications, editor, for the United States Golf Association and has been a staff writer and editor for an array of magazines, including BusinessWeek, Bon Appetit and Golf Digest. A resident of Westport since 1997, Scott is active in local community affairs, most recently serving as chair of the town-appointed Longshore 50th Anniversary Committee.
ssmith@westporty.org
203-226-8981, ext. 112
Midge Deverin
Midge has served as Family Y Membership Coordinator since 2007. Born and raised in New York City, Midge worked as a researcher for “60 Minutes” and was a producer at CBS News. She moved to Westport in 1993 and has watched her two children, now 19 and 15, grow up at the Y. Midge is also an active volunteer in the community, having served on the board of the Westport Young Woman’s League, among other civic efforts. mdeverin@westporty.org
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