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ABOVE: The Three Kings, a/k/a, Armando Gonzalez and Roy Morgan, of Stamford, and Florentine Mercado, of Perth-Amboy, N.J., confer in a locker room during the Latino Foundation of Stamford’s annual Three Kings event at the Yerwood Center in Stamford.
There was – as usual – enough slack time in this assignment to duck out and head to Casa Villa for tacos de barbacoa de cabrito. Check out the goat taco action on the Lunch Break Chronicles.
–CP
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Some of the coolest people in Fairfield County could be found at Compo Beach in Wesport on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2009. The event; the 6th Annual Polar Plunge was sponsored by the Team Mossman triathlon club is held annually as a fund raiser for Save the Children. Andrea Williamson-Hughes (center) wrote the names of her sponsors on herself in red Magic Marker as a way of thanking them for their support.
This is the 6th time I joined Team Mossman on New Year’s Day for their Polar Plunge event. The Plunge is a fundraiser for Westport-based Save the Children. The exuberance of the group; considering that they jump into 40 degree water in bathing suits in January is remarkable. Every year a core group of stalwarts makes the pilgrimage to Compo Beach in Westport. This is the third time I photographed Andrea Williamson-Hughes. This year, she ‘double-dipped’. She along with Robin Meyers sprinted in once, ran out, then came into the water a second time. That is a whole lot of new year fortitude. Either that or the entire assembly is stark raving mad.
-paul desmarais
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ABOVE: From left, Kevin Gallagher, of Stamford, center, and other Santas head from the Brick House Bar & Grille to Tigin Irish Pub and Restaurant during the 2008 Stamford Santa Pub Crawl on Saturday. The costumed revelers drank at several downtown Stamford bars, ending a Tiernans Pub and Restaurant on Saturday night as part of the crawl that was organized and promoted on the internet.
BELOW: Matt Zielinski, of New Rochelle, N.Y., left, and Paul Bergagnin, of Stamford, right, talk over a pint at Tigin.
I was driving east on Broad St. today and a snow-covered Saab with four adults in full Santa costumes pulled up next to me at the red light at Greyrock Place. I reached for my Canon G10 point and shoot, which happened to be on the passenger’s seat. The battery was dead.
Eventually, after heading back home I was able to figure out this was part of a downtown Stamford Santa pub crawl. I decided this must be documented and I caught up with them in front of Brick House Bar & Grille.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Does he come to your work dressed like Santa and mess with you? Leave the man alone, he was work to do!”
–CP
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Elizabeth Ast, 11, takes a seat as students in The Ballet School of Stamford prepare for their student performance at the Leonhardt Studio in the Rich Forum.
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During a talk at Darien High School, Bob Schieffer, a legendary broadcast journalist and host of Face the Nation, leans in for a question about the future of journalism from the concerned father of a young reporter.
His answer was refreshingly upbeat in a general sense, though he did mention something about newspapers being devastated. Still, I came away from this not wanting to bang my head into the wall…which is pretty much how I have been feeling lately.
Long story short: I can forgo the boilermaker I had earlier predicted needing after work today. Well, at least the shot.
–CP