Darien First Selectman Will Be Climbing the Walls in Stamford

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Darien’s athletic First Selectman Jayme Stevenson will be climbing the walls in Stamford in October — or really one wall, and she’ll be climbing down it from the outside. Stevenson has announced that she’ll be rappelling down Landmark Tower in Stamford as part of “The Shatterproof Challenge,” a fundraising effort against substance abuse addiction. “Addiction is preventable and treatable,” Stevenson wrote on a Web page on the Support.Shatterproof.com website. “In the United States alone, alcohol and other drugs claim more than 135,000 lives every year — 370 people every day including our children. “I accepted the challenge to rappel down Landmark Square on Saturday, Oct.