Hey Greenwich! Did You Know ... Got Sneakers You Want to Get Rid Of?

Today is Wednesday, April 25, 2012 and it's National Zucchini Bread Month.

in 1719 Daniel Defoe's fictional work The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is published.

In 1859, at Port Said, Egypt, ground is broken for the 101-mile long Suez Canal.

Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald is born in Newport News, VA in 1917.

Locally...Here's What You're Going to Want to Know ...

Got paper? Got stinky, smelly old sneakers you don't wear anymore?

So get packing.

We've got Earth Day in Greenwich. As part of the continuing Earth Day celebration throughout April, the Greenwich Recycling Advisory Board is holding 2 events on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m in the employee parking area of Greenwich Town Hall.

EARTH SHRED 2012!
Shred sensitive documents such as financial statements, tax documents, medical and social security records at a one-day paper shredding event organized by the Greenwich Recycling Advisory Board and sponsored by The First Bank of Greenwich and Santaguida Sanitation. Five boxes free, $1 each additional. Box size guideline - record retention/10 ream case. Remove paper clips, plastic bindings and covers. For information, email GreenwichGRAB@gmail.com or call 203-629-2876.

Recycle Your Old Sneakers - One Day Only!
The Greenwich Recycling Advisory Board will collect in-house and bring to Town Hall employee parking lot. If sneakers are reusable, tie together and keep separate - others will be sliced and ground up into rubber pellets and used to create playground and athletic surfaces.
For info, call 203-629-2876 or email: daviesally@aol.com

If you prefer the clicker ...

Greenwich Community Television, the local government access channel, can be viewed on channel 24 and Cablevision channel 79.

If you'd rather be there ... town meetings scheduled for today:

8 a.m.: Board of Education special meeting to appoint school superintendent; Havemeyer Building, 290 Greenwich Ave. 

For entertainment: