Westport’s 11U Heads to States, Continuing Success as a Team
Westport’s 11U Baseball Team won their sectionals this past weekend, continuing their success from last season into this year as they head to Newington this weekend for the State Championships. The team of boys is familiar with the progression - they conquered the State Championships last year. Contributed photo with players Dylan Burdeshaw, Miles Delorier, Henry Ellis, Justin Goldshore, Wyatt Johnson, Christopher Lambert, Chase Landgraf, Jack McGrath, Luke Moneyhon, Torrey Rossetter, Toby Slavin, Grant Theisinger and Nolan Walters, manager Justin Walters, Coaches Marc Theisinger and Jon Ellis.
Westport COVID-19 Cases Up 3; State Positivity Rate Down, Hospitalizations Up
The State Department of Public Health reported 3 more COVID-19 cases in Westport over the past day. The State positivity rate was down to 10.59% while hospitalizations were up to 312 patients.
Westport total positive or probable cases: 5,491 cases.
Westport total COVID-19 Deaths: 37 deaths
State Daily Test Positivity: 10.59% [down from 10.78%]
State COVID-19 Hospitalizations: 312 patients [+7 patients]
“You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” Hits the Bedford Middle School Stage Friday
After several weeks of rehearsals, local middle schoolers and other teens in the Westport Summer Teen Theatre are excited to present their final performance of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” from the Bedford Middle School stage. The show will begin at 6:30 Friday evening in the school’s auditorium, with tickets available at the door with cash or check ($15/adults, $10/children). Contributed photo.
Wanna Have Fun? Cyndi Lauper Coming to Levitt Pavilion September 30th
From the Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts:
THE LEVITT PAVILION GALA IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE LEAD SPONSORSHIP OF THE CLAUDIA AND ARTHUR COHEN FOUNDATION
Cyndi Lauper is a groundbreaking Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning songwriter and performing artist with global record sales in excess of 50 million. Her iconic voice, influential punk glamour, and infectious live shows have catapulted her to stardom. Lauper won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist with her first album, She's So Unusual, and became the first woman in history to have four top-five singles from a debut album. Since then, Lauper has released ten additional studio albums, yielding timeless classics like “Time After Time” and “True Colors,” and the anthemic “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” She’s been nominated for 15 Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, seven American Video Awards, and 18 MTV Awards. In 2013, Cyndi Lauper became the first solo woman to win Best Original Score (music and lyrics) for Kinky Boots. She contributed a Tony-nominated song to the score of the Broadway musical SpongeBob SquarePants and is currently writing the score for the Broadway adaptation of the 1988 feature film Working Girl.
A pillar of female success, Lauper was inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015, released a New York Times best-selling memoir, and continues to collect impressive accolades across the music industry and beyond. In 2018, Lauper designed and launched a sold-out Home Decor Collection with Grandin Road and added a guest starring role on CBS’ hit TV show Magnum PI to her acting resume. In 2018, she received the “Icon Award” from Billboard at its 13th annual Women In Music event and brought down the house with a rousing tribute to Cher at Kennedy Center Honors.
In January of 2022, Cyndi Lauper‘s smash debut 1983 girl-power anthem, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” joined the YouTube one billion views club. And in May, Sony Music Entertainment officially went into production for a Cyndi Lauper documentary titled “Let The Canary Sing,” a feature-length film that promises to explore the singer’s 30-plus year career. The film, which is being made in partnership with Lauper herself, will be directed by award-winning documentarian Alison Ellwood, who most recently directed the Emmy-nominated two-part documentary, “Laurel Canyon.”
In addition, Lauper is tireless in her advocacy work. She has been an activist since day one, always fighting for the underdog - especially women, people living with HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ people. Her commitment runs so deep that she started her own charity, the True Colors United in 2008 to bring an end to homelessness amongst LGBTQ youth, who make up to 40% of the youth homelessness population. Over the past 10 years, the True Colors United has had an indelible impact on ending youth homelessness in America. From playing a lead role in securing $167.5 million in new annual federal funding from Congress to invest in 46 communities across the country, which Cyndi powerfully testified in support of in the U.S. Senate, to training close to 2,000 homeless youth service providers for free over the past year to inclusively work with LGBTQ youth, Cyndi and the True Colors United are fundamentally changing how the country is working to prevent and end youth homelessness for the 4.2 million youth who experience it each year.
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