Atria Darien Residents Help With Person-To-Person Food Drive
DARIEN, Conn. -- Residents of Atria Senior Living Darien recently stapled shopping lists to 2,000 paper grocery bags, in preparation for the upcoming Wilton Postal Food Drive.
The food drive will take place on Saturday, November 21.
The event will benefit the Norwalk chapter of Person-to-Person, an organization established in 1968 to provide low-income residents of Fairfield County with basic emergency services and help in achieving self-sufficiency. With offices in Darien and Norwalk, the group’s service area includes Darien, New Canaan, Norwalk, Stamford, Weston, Westport and Wilton.
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Alvaro Ricardo Pereda, 67, Of Garfield
GARFIELD, N.J. -- Alvaro Ricardo Pereda, of Garfield, died Friday, Nov. 13. He was 67.
Pereda resided in Salavery, Peru before coming to the United States in 1989, eventually settling in Garfield. He was a paraprofessional for the Passaic Board of Education, where he taught at School # 1.
He is survived by his wife, Celinda Ackerson; his son, Axel Pereda; and his sisters and bothers, Elsa Caypo, Carmenrita Pereda Lee, Aida Aronson and Oscar and Pepe Pereda.
Cremation will be private.
Westport Man Charged With Possession of Narcotics After Traffic Stop
WESTPORT, Conn. – A Westport man has been charged with two counts of possession of narcotics stemming from an August traffic stop, according to police.
On Monday, Nov. 9, police officers served a narcotics violation arrest warrant to Brendon Davidson, 31, at his home in Westport, officials report.
The arrest warrant stemmed from a motor vehicle stop back in August, in which officers located three syringes containing residue and liquid in the vehicle, according to officials.
Suspecting that the needles contained narcotics, police seized them and sent them to the state lab for testing, off…
