Lemonade For A Cure, the lemonade stands that were to be set up at Babe Ruth Baseball games last weekend, has been rescheduled to this weekend, thanks to the big storm that rolled through town late last week. Tables will be set up Saturday, June 18, at Glander Field 1 and 2 at Fairfield Hills, Sandy Hook School, Hawley School, and Watertown Field (behind Reed Intermediate School), from 10 am until about 5 pm. Pay just $1 for two cups of lemonade, with additional donations welcomed. All donations benefit Team Always Have Hope, which benefits The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Ivy Pearson and LLS and Newtown Babe Ruth President Randy Dieckman are behind the fundraiser, which will culminate with what LLS Special Events Coordinator Kristen Angell is calling Coach Bocce. Taking place at 5 pm at Glander Field 1, Babe Ruth players will, for an additional donation, get to lob a softball from home plate toward one of their coaches, in the outfield. The player who throws closest to the will win a prize, and LLS will earn a few more dollars for its mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Is your car dusty? The ecumenical work camp students from town are having a car wash at Scalzo Realty, 48 South Main Street, Saturday, June 18, from 9 am to 1 pm. The event will provide funds to send 30 local teenagers to West Virginia to help out less fortunate families improve their living conditions. The campers leave July 2, and this is a final fundraiser before they go. There is no charge for the car wash, but donations are welcome.

Alex Aitchison knows two Good Eggs. “We would like to nominate our neighbor Chris Symes for a good egg award. Chris is a contractor who my wife and I employ to help us in our later years, to do the chores necessary for the upkeep of our home. In the past few years I have been ‘grounded’ with medical problems that have precluded me from doing even minor things around the property. It has not been unusual to find our 350-foot driveway blown clear, or our curbside cleaned, or our grass cut, or our deck cleared of debris, courtesy of Chris. He is someone who cares about his neighbors and drops in to see if we are okay, particularly when the weather gets rough.  We certainly appreciate all that he does for us,” writes Alex. But he goes on: “I would also like to nominate my wife, Marjorie, for a Good Egg Award. Marjorie and I have been married for 52 years and during that time she has carried out our wedding vows “for better or for worse, in sickness and in health,” to the utmost. It seems like that our whole life together she has had to look after me with my many medical problems and idiosyncrasies and she has done this with great fortitude,” Alex says. “Not only does she take care of me, but she is also a volunteer that dedicates time to serving others in need by delivering meals to seniors, and being a friend to many. Her disposition does not allow her to say No when someone needs help. There are not enough eggs in the basket to cover all the things that she does for others. What a great find I made all those years ago,” Alex tells me. Marjorie and Chris, you are Good Eggs!

The St Rose Parish Carnival is next week, complete with carnival rides, games of chance, and plenty of carnival food, on the parish grounds on Church Hill Road, beginning Tuesday, June 21. It will run nightly until Saturday, June 25, from 6 to 10:30 each night. The St Rose Home School Association will host its next Bingo Night, June 24, as well, with doors to the gathering hall open at 5:45 and games beginning at 6:45. Admission is $17 per person, for the regular and most of the special games. Call the school’s administrative office, 203-426-5102, for additional information.

Martha Millett and Marty Maciag offer thanks on the part of the Rocking Roosters Square Dance Club to Don Springer and his buddy Bruce, who allowed the group access to St John’s Church basement last Tuesday evening, “on a moment’s notice.” Because the Masons were preparing for an upcoming event at the Masonic Hall next door, the dancers could not do-si-do there, as they usually do. “We very much appreciate the generosity of both organizations,” say Martha and Marty.

Newtown Historical Society has added a second session to the History Camp. Morning session runs from 9 am to noon but that one is full, says Gordon Williams, so now a new afternoon session will run from 1 to 4 pm, July 15-19, at The Matthew Curtiss House. The camp is for kids 8 to 10 years old, and costs $150. Campers will make Colonial vests and mop caps, make ice cream (and eat it!), pound out tin lanterns, make, paint, and play marbles, and take part in lots of other fun activities, as they learn about life in 18th Century Newtown. Call Gordon at 203-426-6443 for information.

Get your bags and baskets ready: the Sandy Hook Organic Farmers Market opens for its ninth year on Tuesday, June 28, from 2 to 6 pm, at Fairfield Hills. Newcomers to the market this year are the R Bar Company; Grayledge Farm (free range meats and local cheese); Rowanwood Farm (soaps and fiber); and Billy & Kate’s Lemonade and Tea. Look for returning vendors like Shortts Farm & Garden, Waldingfield Farm, Ronnie’s Bread, and many others. Monthly entertainment and guest speakers will be featured this year, too. For more information, contact market master Mary Fellows at 203-313-9908, or become a Facebook fan of the Sandy Hook Organic Farmers Market.

The longest day of the year, June 21, is the official start of summer. Laze in the hammock, take a nap, or whatever it takes to enjoy the lazy, hazy days. I’ll keep on gathering the news you need to know, so be sure to… Read me again.