Column: More Than a Mentor – The Lasting Legacy of ‘Weeds’ Camillo

By Fred Camillo

Recently, I attended and spoke at the grand opening of the new Greenwich Boys & Girls Club building on Horseneck Lane, a place I knew well from my days as a member of the old Greenwich Boys Club in the 1970s. When I saw the brick I purchased in memory and honor of my late uncle, Lorenzo “Weeds” Camillo, I took a photo and posted it online. I knew that my uncle — whom my siblings and cousins called “Uncle Raines” — had positively impacted the lives of perhaps more than 20,000 young men during his tenure at the club from 1926 to 1981. Still, reading the hundreds of comments from former club members truly struck a chord. My uncle likely never realized how deeply he had shaped so many lives, characters, and fu

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