We Love Weston, Stories From The Heart

11/16/2025

11/16/2025

08/07/2025

This Instagram reel was developed by Bruce Plotkin from images he took during a celebration of Aidan Baker and his relationship with Lachat Town Farm.

It’s not a stretch to say that Aidan has been the fabric that has greatly contributed to making Lachat, and our community, what it is today. Nor is it a stretch to say that Aidan also opened himself to create both a working relationship and a friendship between the two of us.

There’s 61 years of separation between our ages (18 & 79), but not even millimeters between the way we think, care, work, and dedicate ourselves to causes such as Weston’s Town Farm.

This past year alone, Aidan dedicated over 1200 hours of volunteer service.

In a few short weeks, my friend and volunteer colleague will leave for US Marine boot camp to serve our country.

I’ll miss his smile, quick wit, pithy texts and comments, thoughtfulness, problem solving, and attention to even the smallest detail immensely.

But most of all, I’ll miss this friendship that bridges over 60 years of age- unique among the human experience.

Semper Fidelis, Aidan, my friend and Lachat partner.

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10/10/2024

THIS NOVEMBER, IN EASTON, REDDING, AND WESTON, WHO YOU VOTE FOR LOCALLY IS AS IMPORTANT AS WHO YOU VOTE FOR NATIONALLY.

WATCH CANDIDATE ANSWERS TO YOUR NEIGHBORS' QUESTIONS FROM THIS PAST SUNDAY'S DEBATE AND FORUM.

DISTRICT 135 CANDIDATE DEBATE - OCTOBER 6TH, 2024 IN WESTON'S TOWN HALL

The League of Women Voters of Weston and the Redding League co-sponsored a Candidates Debate/Forum with incumbent Anne Hughes and challenger Christopher Peri...

08/29/2024

Breakfast this morning on the back deck. Lenny's last day with us for this trip 🥲, but it has been a great week🙂

05/28/2024

Congratulations to our two 2024 Weston Kiwanis Memorial Day Raffle Winners of two round-trip tickets on JetBlue to any of more than 100 cities worldwide!

Cathey R
Lisa Y

To all winners, we thank you for participating in the campaign to raise money for Weston children and families and our neighboring communities.

05/27/2024

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05/23/2024

https://bit.ly/Veterans_MemorialDay_Breakfast_RSVP

03/17/2024

Dear Weston Neighbors,

This is a reminder that GREEN UP DAY is April 27. This is Green up Day’s 50th anniversary

Kiwanis will sponsor the event, as it has done for decades, by giving out collection bags at 9 a.m. at Norfield Church Hall to pick up litter around the town center and schools, parks and along roads and neighborhoods.

Kiwanis volunteers will also pick the filled bags and get them to the transfer station.

Eversource, once again, supports Weston’s efforts by giving all participants tree seedlings as long as their supply lasts.

We hope you, your neighbors, your group will participate and perhaps adopt a specific area to patrol.

So we may prepare for the event, please reply to this post with an indication of whether you or your group will join the effort and let us know approximately how many participants and whether there is an area your group would like to adopt.

From all of us at Weston Kiwanis, Thank you!

02/02/2024

This is worth reading… more than once. Sorry I’m not the writer!

“This is probably going to tick some people off, and I hope it does. But I’m going to keep on sharing it and saying it. And once again, I am not a Swiftie, but I am a human being, a Dad AND, a Monstrous Football fan.

I am extremely disappointed in so many of you who think that "not being a fan" of someone means you're entitled to s**t all over them.

I want to remind you of something.

Your children are watching you complain about Taylor Swift sitting at a football game, being happy, and cheering for a man she loves in what appears to be a very loving, respectful relationship.

Your Children are watching you judge a woman for literally just EXISTING and taking up space happily.

And you know what? Ms. Swift has won 324 awards? How many do you have?

She brought $5 BILLION dollars in consumer spending and boosted the U. S. economy so significantly, that leaders from other countries actually beg for her to play there?

Did you know that there are over 20 college courses about her skills as an artist, lyricist, and musician - including at places like Harvard, Stanford & UC Berkeley?

Did you know that Taylor Swift quietly donates mass amounts of money to local food banks in every city she performs in?

AND DID YOU KNOW …

That Taylor Swift was sexually assaulted by a radio DJ, and she got him fired? When he sued HER for over $3 million for defamation, she counter sued for a symbolic $1 in a court case that took 2 YEARS for her to win. And, she did that just to show women that fighting for what's right has no price tag & to never be silent in the face of oppression.

WELL IF YOU DON’T CARE BY NOW, YOU SHOULD.

Because your daughters, nieces, and your nephews are watching you run your mouth. And they are seeing the world hate a woman who does so much good, simply because she exists in their line of sight.

DO BETTER PEOPLE.

Teach your boys to respect women. Teach your girls that as women - they are ALLOWED to take up space.

Fix it. Become aware of your words. Because we all have the ability and the obligation to fight for the future of our children with simple moments. And we need to consciously choose to be better for them.”

05/16/2023