Join the Breast Cancer Alliance and presenting sponsors Starwood Foundation with Westin Hotels & Resorts and Omnicom Group, Inc. in the third annual Hands Across the Avenue walk to fund advances in research and promote breast health. The entry fee is $20.00 (children under six are free). The walk will be led by Grand Marshall Donna Moffly, Editorial Director, Moffly Publications and Co-founder of Greenwich Magazine, and followed by a celebration honoring breast cancer survivors, their families and friends. Team entries are encouraged.  Bring family and friends and join us in the walk and in the fight.

Get ready for the ninth annual McArdle’s Sales Days, during which McArdle’s will generously donate 15 percent of every purchase to the Breast Cancer Alliance to fund breast cancer research, education and outreach.  The Sales Days start Thursday, April 24 and continue through Saturday, April 26. Owner James McArdle III has been a tireless supporter of the
Alliance through this annual event.  “We strongly believe in giving back to our community.  We hope that doing our part will plant hope for breast cancer patients and their families,” he says.    

Be sure to sign up for the popular raffle for one year’s worth of McArdle’s “Bouquet of the Month,” featuring seasonal plants artfully arranged.   

McArdle’s Florist and

Garden
Center is an outdoor and indoor living center featuring a vast array of flowers and plants, along with fountains, pottery and garden sculpture to complete your decorating.  

Store hours are 8-5:30. McArdle’s is located at

, off I-95 at Exit 3, in
Greenwich.  Ample parking is available.  Please call 661-5600 for more information.

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” 

                                                                                     —Native American Proverb

One of the hottest trends in housing is creating a “green” home.  Many Greenwich homes are incorporating green designs in new construction and renovation projects.  In fact, in two places where Mother Nature has wiped the slate clean, green homes are all the rage.  In the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, actor Brad Pitt has Headed the creation and donation of 150 new environmentally friendly houses that will be 75% more energy efficient.  In Kansas, after being completely destroyed by a tornado, the ironically named town of Greensburg will be rebuilt as the nation’s first green town.

Green homes save money by lowering energy bills and reducing a home’s impact on the environment.  What may be even more important, however, is the pride of ownership involved in owning a green home and the positive effect it has on the community and the world.

If everyone swapped out just one traditional light bulb for a CFL (compace flourescent light bulb) it will reduce carbon emissions by 150 pounds a year (now here’s a diet where I can be successful!)?  Doing your part for the enviroment is now as easy as changing a light bulb!  Here are a few more easy ideas to implement:

• For every mile you walk, bike or carpool, you will save one pound of carbon dioxide.
• Recycling half of your home’s waste will save 2400 pounds of carbon dioxide annually.
• Propertly inflated tires improve gas mileage by 3%, and every gallon of gasoline saved prevents 20 poinds of carbon dioxide waste. 
• Using less hot water reduces energy consumpiton.  Installing a low-flow shower-head and washing your clothes in cold or warm water can save up to 85 pounds of carbon dioxide.
• Adjusting your thermostat by 2 degrees in the winter and summer can save 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.
• Planting trees reverses the efects of carbon dioxide.  A single tree wil absorb 1,200 pounds of carbon dioxide in its lifetime.

HUGE COMMUNITY TAG & BAKE SALE

 Saturday, April 5th      9am - 4 pm

Nearly 20 vendors at this community event - Don’t miss out on a bargain!!!!!   All welcome - someone’s trash could be your treasure!!!

Enjoy fresh waffles and coffee and a delicious assortment of HOME BAKED goods for sale: Pies, Cakes, Cookies, brownies, etc. Proceeds benefit BCH Programs.

 Banksville Community House is located off North Street, north of the Merritt Parkway.  Follow North Street until you see the IGA Shopping Center on left, then make your next RIGHT TURN onto Banksville Road.  BCH is on the  right side about a 1/4 mile up Banksville Road.

BCHinfo@optonline.net    203/622-9597

This exhibition of 24 fine-art prints spanning the 20th century and selected from the collection of the Bruce Museum includes works by:

COMMUNITY TAG SALE TO BENEFIT Banksville Community House Programs!!!!!

12 Banksville Road, Greenwich, CT 06831 (off North Street, north of the Merritt Pkwy)

Saturday, April 5th  9:00-4:00   RAIN or SHINE

Rent a table for $10.00, clean out your attic/basement/garage, load up the car and sell your items at the Banksville Community Tag Sale OR

Support the community and the BCH by shopping at the TAG and BAKE SALE.  Coffee and home made treats for sale.

If you would like to rent a table, contact BCH at BCHinfo@optonline.net, or call 203/622-6567 to get a reservation form. 

Just some quick information on some actions that the Issues Advocacy Trustees approved recently regarding the fight to allow the sunset for the increase in the municipal portion of the conveyance tax to simply happen this June.

There is a new Web Site  -  http://www.myhouse-mymoney.com/   It will help you easily understand and make your opinions known to those elected officials who can vote on this important issue.  You can send e-mails or get a letter to send to a Senator, Representative or Mayor/First Selectman. 

Sellers traditionally don’t even know of the increased tax until they write the check.  The legislature needs to hear (loud and often) that this kind of discriminatory and stealthy tax is unfair.  People are relying on income, they need the income, from the sale of their property - and they are not getting it all. 

Over the next couple of weeks, Palm Cards and Postcards will be made available.

There will be short spots (5 Seconds) on WTNH TV, as well as radio spots (available for you to listen to on the web site) through the end of April.

Realtors kept the legislature from enacting this increase on a permanent basis last year - we got another sunset.  This time, pulling out all the stops, we’re gunning for the legislature to simply allow the conveyance tax to revert to its’ pre-increase status.  Just let the sunset occur.

If municipalities need the additional revenue that this “hidden” tax provided, allow them to raise it through a fair, equitable and above board tax - spreading the pain across the entire population - not simply by targeting those unlucky enough to be selling their home.

For information on the Greenwich Real Estate market, please visit www.KayeLewis.com. 

With the rapid advance of technology in the past 50 years, robots have moved from the world of science fiction to the reality of becoming an integral part of our daily lives. The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, examines this burgeoning phenomenon in its major winter exhibition of 2008, Robotics. On view from Saturday, January 26, 2008, through Sunday, April 20, 2008, the show explores the science behind the operation of robots in an environment designed for fun and presents the fictional robots that inspire the imagination.

The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, presents a new exhibition on a familiar topic of conversation - the weather - opening March 8, 2008, and running through November 30, 2008.  Phenomenal Weather is a family-friendly exhibition that showcases the astounding variety of weather events that take place around the globe and explores the subject through interactive displays, objects and images