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NC Lions Club 08-03-17

Q&A with the Lions Club of New Canaan

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Today in our Q&A series on New Canaan’s service organizations, we hear from longtime Lions Club member Helen Risom Belluschi. New Canaanite: Is the Lions Club of New Canaan part of a national or international organization? If so, please provide details of that organization, such as the year it started, its size and scope. Helen Risom Belluschi: Our “Lions Club of New Canaan” is a part of the greater organization “LIONS Clubs International”, which began on 7 June 1917 … thus we are in our centennial year! The first club was started as a Service Club by a young businessman in Chicago: Melvin Jones.

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‘Found Materials’ Art Exhibition Coming to Carriage Barn

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Several local businesses are helping to sponsor a soon-to-launch exhibition at Carriage Barn Arts Center that features “found” or repurposed materials, as a long-established arts culture in New Canaan increasingly integrates with other parts of the community. The exhibition, “Spectrum/Sustainable Arts Show” (the 25th annual Spectrum show) launches March 23 following a free, open reception at the Waveny-based arts center from 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 22. Among the featured New York artists is June Ahrens, now New Canaan-based, whose “Staying Afloat” uses the kinds of found materials she’s worked with for her entire career, according to a written statement from the Carriage Barn Arts Center. “Artistically, I transform discarded objects to create a visual language that evokes the experiences of impermanence and loss, fragility and vulnerability, pain and most of all healing and survival,” she said in the release. The exhibition is sponsored in part by Baldanza (whose mixed-bag kale salad is to die for, we’re told), New Canaan Wine Merchants (owned by wine-pairing expert Jeff Barbour), Karl Chevrolet (which recently donated equipment to youth baseball and softball programs in New Canaan), April Kaynor Homes, New Canaan Lions Club, Earth Garden and New Canaan Foreign Car.