New at Noroton Heights Railroad Station: A Garden of Native Plants

Jim Cameron Speaks Thursday on Metro-North’s Problems & Importance to Darien

‘Metro-North: From First to Worst’: Jim Cameron’s Talk to New Canaan Mens Club Friday

Jim Cameron Wins ‘Blood Donor of the Game’ Prize at Fenway Park

Gardening

By DARIENITE.COM | August 6, 2022

Darien Library

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Transportation

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Community Organizations

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Rose of Sharon at Noroton Heights Railroad Station

Nature is alive at the Noroton Heights train station. There are fresh new plantings of native shrubs and plants with fragrant blossoms attracting bees, butterflies and birds. — an announcement from The Commuter Action Group

The new plantings are the work of Darien’s Beautification Commission and a grant from The Commuter Action Group, a rider advocacy group founded by Darien’s Jim Cameron. “Commuters deserve a break,” Cameron said. “I’m so glad we can bring a little beauty into their time at the train station.

How did the best commuter railroad in the US suddenly become subject of Federal safety investigations after a series of derailments and collisions claimed lives? Why is Metro-North’s survival crucial to real estate prices in Darien? What’s the future of rail service along CT’s “Gold Coast”? It’s a story of political intrigue, corporate malfeasance and corruption befitting a cheap novel — but it’s all true. Darien resident and long-time commuter advocate Jim Cameron spins the tale of “Metro-North: From First to Worst”.

Jim Cameron of Darien will speak Friday on “Metro-North: From First to Worst,” at the New Canaan Senior Mens Club, meeting at 10 a.m. in St. Mark’s Church, Oenoke Ridge. An announcement from the Connecticut Rail Commuter Council:
How did service get so bad on Metro-North? Is it safe to ride these trains? When will service improve again? These are the questions every commuter and occasional rider of Connecticut’s commuter rail has been asking in recent years. And they will all be answered on Friday Aug. 7, when longtime commuter advocate Jim Cameron addresses the Senior Mens Club of New Canaan.

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Jim Cameron of Darien recently won the prize of being “Blood Donor of the Game” at Fenway Park when the New York Yankees played the Red Sox on July 12. Cameron, founder of the Connecticut Commuter Action Group, one of the people running Darien’s TV79 Government Access Channel and a member of the Darien Representative Town Meeting, was entered in the American Red Cross contest when he recently gave blood. The Red Cross is looking for more blood donors during the summer, when donations normally go down (in part because about a fifth of donations come from high school and college donation drives when schools are in session). You, too, can enter to win a prize as “Blood Donor of the Game” when you donate blood (until the baseball season winds down). Here’s the announcement (slightly edited) from the American Red Cross:

Jim Cameron recently had the experience of a lifetime when he was honored on the field at Fenway Park prior to the Boston Red Sox game against the New York Yankees on July 12, 2015.