Newtown High School senior Maggie Wruck and her date Kollin McDonald of Stony Brook, N.Y., decided on a Batman theme for the NHS Senior Prom, held this past Friday, April 25, at the Matrix Conference & Banquet Center in Danbury. Maggie donned these shoes, and I hear she customized them herself, hand gluing roughly 10,000 rhinestones all over them, including the Batman insignia. Kollin followed the theme, wearing a Batman bowtie and cufflinks.

If, while watching the Diane Sawyer interview on ABC’s 20/20 with Bruce Jenner, last Friday evening, you thought you caught a glimpse of a familiar newspaper, you were not imagining it. Publisher Scudder Smith and wife Helen caught it as a scrap of The Newtown Bee flashed across the screen, and recognized it as from a 1976 front page issue showing Bruce Jenner running over a hurdle, during the summer Olympics. Jenner is a 1968 graduate of Newtown High School.

Each year, just before Memorial Day, Newtown VFW Post 308 places new flags on the graves of all veterans buried in Newtown, to honor departed service members. This year, volunteers will meet at the VFW Post clubhouse on Freedom Defenders Way, Thursday, May 14, at 4 pm, to spread out and place the new flags (rain date: May 21). While organizers are pleased at the response they have received from community members to assist in this important task, individuals and organizations are still welcome to sign up — many hands make light work. Please register in advance, at vfwpost308newtown@gmail.com. The VFW spends at least $1,500 each year to supply these flags, so donations are always welcome. Visit www.vfwpost308.com to donate through Pay Pal.

Judit DeStefano shared this photo of a piñata with us this week, made for her son’s 6th birthday. Besides being pretty cute, there’s something else special about this piñata… but you probably can’t quite spot it. Judit stopped in to the office a few weeks back to get a stack of old newspapers, and received a generous stack. That’s right: this piñata is made from strips of The Newtown Bee.

Jo Gamble is an All-Star bus driver here in town, but next weekend you won’t find her — or husband Jonathan — behind the wheel of any vehicle. Jo and Jonathan are one of nine local teams taking part in the Cape Cod Ragnar Relay, a nearly 200-mile overnight team run from Hull to Provincetown, Mass. The race is May 8–9, and the Gamble family (son Chris is a member of an elite team) would appreciate support. Money raised will benefit Dylan’s Wings of Change, a foundation set up by Nicole and Ian Hockley in memory of their son Dylan, who died 12/14. Dylan’s Wings of Change is dedicated to helping children with autism and related conditions. To support Jo and Jonathan, visit www.crowdrise.com/fundraise-and-volunteer/the-team/themisfitsragnarrelay/dylanswingsofchange. You can locate other local runners you might know, and donate at www.crowdrise.com/capecodragnarrelay2015.

You can’t go wrong with flowers for mom on Mother’s Day, and that special day is coming up soon — Sunday, May 10. The Ladies Auxiliary of the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company wants to help you out. They’ll be selling all kinds of plants and flowers perfectly suited to bring a smile to mom’s face at the Riverside Road firehouse, Friday and Saturday, May 8 and 9, from 10 am to 6 pm on Friday, and beginning again at 10 am on Saturday. But don’t delay — when the flowers are gone, the sale is over.

I understand the Newtown Senior Center is honoring all of the members who are mothers with a Mother’s Day Tea, on Wednesday, May 6. The staff puts together a really nice party with tea (of course!), and an array of delicious treats, every year. Members are encouraged to wear their fancy hats, and tables are elegantly laid with china, silver, and linens. Hats off (no pun intended) to the Senior Center, for remembering the moms in their midst.

I’ve been studiously watching all of the spinning classes at the local gyms, and noting the increasing number of bicyclists tearing up the roads around town as weather improves. There is no doubt in my mind that they are all preparing for National Bike To Work Week. This year, Bike To Work Week runs May 11 through 15, with the 15th designated as Bike To Work Day. It’s a great effort to get people out of the cars and exercising, so I’m willing to put up with sweaty co-workers for a few days. Who knows? Maybe it will start a year-around trend… We’ll have a ways to go to catch up to Copenhagen, Denmark, though, where 36 percent of all Danish adults bike to work and 45 percent of the children bike to school. Cycling-embassy.dk claims that nine out of ten Danes owns a bike, and that every Dane puts on at least 1.1 km each day. It is through investing in bicycle infrastructure and campaigns (just like Bike To Work Week) that this country has steadily increased its bicycling population.

When mommy’s bandage is not enough to take care of a boo-boo, it may be a highly skilled nurse making it all feel better. You can take a moment to thank these modern Florence Nightingales beginning next week, on May 6, the start of National Nurses Week. This week of celebrating nurses runs through May 12, giving you plenty of time to let these specialized health care workers know they are appreciated.

I can already feel the appreciation streaming toward me for news yet untold. No doubt, there will be reason next week to… Read me again.