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Thursday
May 21, 2015
in the press
Canton gets
AAA bond rating
Canton’s bond rating has been
upgraded to AAA by Standard &
Poor’s. Per a May 6 letter sent to
Amy O’Toole, director of finance,
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services
assigned a rating of AAA to the
town and believes the outlook for
this rating to be stable. PAGE 17
Hometown
Heroes honored
It was standing room only in the
main meeting room of Simsbury
Town Hall as local residents were
recognized for their longtime
commitment to their community and celebrated as Hometown
Heroes. “It’s the most exciting evening of the year,” First Selectman
Lisa Heavner said. “It’s a phenomenal group of people.” PAGE 17
Photo by Lisa Brisson
Waiting for the parade to pass by
Children playing soccer at Canton Intermediate School pause from their drills to cheer on the firefighters and their engines who were parading by during
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Stella Plavcan enjoys some time coloring.
Pine Grove fourth-graders Brady Ladouceur
and Caitlin Garcia-Stevenson enjoy the fun.
Brynn Cararini, 10, gets a cool, refreshing
gelato.
Avon Middle School eighth-grader and
volunteer Christina Murphy tie-dyes a shirt.
Students swap out
screens for a week
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children, daughter Ridley Jean and son Reece Cuscovitch.
ine Grove Elementary School in Avon recently celebrated the school’s Screen Free Week. Students were
encouraged to put down their electronic devices —
including the television, video games and other electronics — and enjoy some time engaged in other activities. The
week wrapped up with an end-of-the-week celebration that
included food, music, crafts, a dunk tank, bounce house
and a bicycle safety clinic hosted by the Avon Police Department.
Photos by Alicia B. Smith
Fourth-grade teacher Christina Thavenius awaits her fate at
the dunking booth.
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Student historians honored at History Day Contest
Connecticut’s top student historians
were honored Saturday, May 9 at the Connecticut History Day Contest, which took
place at Central Connecticut State University. More than 400 students competed in the
annual contest, which determines who will
make up the Connecticut delegation at the
National History Day Contest scheduled to
take place at the University of Maryland in
June.
This year, students presented their projects, based on the 2015 History Day theme
of Leadership and Legacy in History, in one
of five categories – either as an individual or
as a group. History Day categories include
exhibits, papers, performances, websites
and documentaries.
To qualify for the Connecticut History Day Contest, students must have placed
within the top three in their category at their
Regional Contest. The six Regional Contests,
which are based in Hartford, Torrington,
Manchester, New Haven, Fairfield and
Mansfield, took place throughout March.
History Day teachers were also honored
at the State Contest. The Patricia Behring
Connecticut Teacher of the Year Award was
presented to Sharon Wlodarczyk of Southbury and Al Meadows of Wilbur Cross High
School in New Haven. The History Channel
Award was presented to Alice Warren, an
educator at Fairfield Woods Middle School
in Fairfield.
Students who placed first or second
in their respective categories at the State
Contest have been invited to represent Connecticut at the National History Day Contest where more than 2,500 students from
across the United States will compete for
prizes and scholarships.
Nearly 30 special prizes, sponsored
by various Connecticut groups and organizations, were awarded to students as
well. Each of the first place winners and
their teachers received a free subscription
to Connecticut Explored, the magazine of
Connecticut History.
Farmington High School students Smrithi Raman, Swati Rath and Sahiti Alavala
took first place in the group website category in the senior division for their work,
World Wide Webster: Noah Webster and
His Legacies, while students Renukanandan
Tumu and Prashant Swami took third for
their project, J. Edgar Hoover and the Professionalization of the FBI. FHS senior division
students Allen Haugh, Chase Fountain, Alec
Bohlman and Eric Chiarillo also placed first
in the group documentary category for their
project, Igor Sikorsky and the Invention of
the Helicopter. Third place in that category
went to Lewis S. Mills student Theo Camara
for Woody Guthrie: Voice of America.
Samuel Porcello of Conard High School
in West Hartford took first place for his individual exhibit, Pope’s Unexpected Legacy:
Paving the Way for America’s Mobility.
In the group documentary category
of the junior division, West Hartford’s King
Philip Middle School students Jake Zweifler
and Scott Steinmetz placed third for the
project Julius Caesar: Creating an Empire.
Third place in the individual performance
category of the junior division went to Sedgwick Middle School (West Hartford) student
Fallon Moore for Vive La Resistance: Lucie
Aubrac’s Legacy from the French Resistance
to the Leadership in Women’s Suffrage.
Avon’s Talcott Mountain Academy student Varun Aggarwall took first place in
the junior paper category for Unwavering
Resolve: The Life, Leadership and Legacy of
Golda Meir, and Sedgwick Middle School
student Joy Lemieux took third place in the
same category for Cesar Chavez: Legacy of
Labor.
The Laurie Rayner Spirit of History Day
Award in the senior division went to Alanna
Uthgenannt of Conard High School, while
Sedgwick student Cameron Slocum won
for outstanding entry in contemporary history and Maya Rose from King Philip won
for outstanding entry in Native American
history.
According to a press release from
Farmington High School, students from that
school collaborated for 10 months researching, writing and revising their projects in
formats that included formal papers, museum exhibitions, video documentaries and
websites. They learned how to mine an array
of primary and secondary sources, conduct
oral history interviews, and edit their own
documentary film footage.
At the daylong contest, teams presented and defended their projects and process
papers before panels of history professors
who judged hundreds of student entries
from all over Connecticut. They were presented with first place medals, certificates
of achievement and invitations to compete
at the National Finals.
More than 100 local historians, educators, museum professionals and history
lovers served as judges at this year’s State
Contest. History Day in Connecticut is one
of 56 affiliate programs of National History Day. It is led by Connecticut’s Old State
House, with support from the Connecticut
Historical Society, the Connecticut League
of History Organizations and the ConnecticutHistory.org website. Major funding is
provided by Connecticut Humanities.
Tootin’ Hills to host
first Lucky Duck Race
Tootin’ Hills School of West Simsbury will
host its inaugural Lucky Duck Race Friday, May
29, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the historic Drake Hill
Flower Bridge on Old Bridge Road in the center
of town. It is positioned over the Farmington
River, which will serve as the day’s racetrack for
thousands of rubber ducks.
Tickets are $5 for the rights to the number
on a specific duck – hopefully, a lucky duck.
Ticket packages are also available, providing
more “ducks for the bucks” or more chances
to win prizes including a one-night stay at The
Mayflower Inn in Washington, four Disney
World Park Hopper Tickets, or monetary prizes.
“For many years we have had the tradition
of hosting fun events on our school campus
located in West Simsbury. But, this year, we decided to step into the center of the town so we
could partake in and contribute to the heart
of Simsbury,” said Tootin’ Hills Principal Kevin
Cazzetta. “I am so proud of my students. Why
not showcase them and their school spirit for
everyone to enjoy?”
Many local businesses are also getting involved by purchasing 10-inch business ducks
for a sponsorship rate of $100. Businesses are
encouraged to decorate their duck to speak for
their business or personal style. The business
race winner will receive a golden duck trophy.
The Tootin’ Hills Duck Race will also offer music, food, free games for children and a
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“We have much to offer both residents
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‘Model’ robotics team at FHS seeking new home
By Ted Glanzer
Staff Writer
The paradox of the 2nd Law Enforcers,
Farmington High School’s robotics team, is
that it had perhaps its best year ever and, simultaneously, is facing a bit of a crisis.
The Enforcers were presented the District Chairman’s Award by FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), the organization that oversees the
nationwide robotics competition. According
to its website, the District Chairman’s Award
is the most prestigious award at FIRST, honoring the team that “best represents a model
for other teams to emulate and best embodies
the purpose and goals of FIRST.”
Only one team in the district receives
the award, according to Superintendent of
Schools Kathleen Greider.
“It’s about giving back, being an exemplar
to others,” Greider said during the Board of
Education’s May 4 regular meeting. “It’s a community effort. … I couldn’t be more proud of
these students.”
School board Chair Mary Grace Reed
lauded the team members, many of whom
were in attendance at the meeting, for receiving such a high honor.
“I want to congratulate the 2nd Law Enforcers on achieving what I know all of you
and all of your predecessors worked very
hard to achieve,” Reed said. “There are schools
across the nation with robotics teams that
will never see [the] light of day of this particular award. It’s that prestigious. It’s that difficult to get. I wish there was a way to impart
the depth [of] how hard an acknowledgement
and a recognition it is in getting the District
Chairman Award. ... We’re very proud of you.
From our heart we congratulate you.”
Greider said the robotics team isn’t just
responsible for running such a successful program that incorporates so many of the school
district’s values at the high school.
“You inspired the installation of makerspaces throughout the district, where stu-
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Members of the Enforcers work on a robot earlier this year.
dents just mess about and figure things out,”
Greider said. “We’re preparing them for the
Enforcers team.”
The team’s student directors – Brandon
Cheng, Sean McCluskey, Lauren Schneider, Allen Haugh and Kaitlyn da Silva – each described
what they do, which included working on the
robot to community outreach. Not everyone
works on the engineering – the robot – side.
“We have a lot of cross-pollination with
our engineering and our outreach,” McCluskey said.
Tim Barron, who, along with Michele Hall,
coaches the team, said the award is the culmination of 18 years of hard work and dedication
by the students involved with the program.
“If anything, I’ve known through the
years that we’ve had an excellent robotics
team in Farmington,” Barron said. “It’s nice
after 18 years of knowing that we finally got
recognized.”
Still, not everything is perfect in the
world of the Enforcers. The team had been
using a space donated by EBM-Papst on New
Britain Avenue. The company, however, needed the space and took it back, leaving the Enforcers without a home.
Parent Jean da Silva requested the board’s
assistance in helping the Enforcers find a new
home.
“We do need help in finding a space,” da
Silva said. “All of our equipment is in trailers. ...
Parents have formed a task force … [but] there
is no definite plan where [they’re] going to go.”
While moving out of the space, da Silva
said the students never once showed any negativity.
“They were positive. They’re determined
to find new location,” da Silva said.
Others said they hoped another company located in town might step up and donate
some space for the Enforcers.
Reed, for her part, said that, while it was
difficult to see the robotics team have to vacate its home, Greider included in the school
district’s outline of needs at the high school
the necessity of a space for the Enforcers.
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Members of team Finding Cure, comprising students from Irving A. Robbins Middle School,
at Relay for Life of Farmington Valley
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Members of 101 Cures from Irving A. Robbins Middle School pose for a photo.
Relay for Life
elay for Life of the Farmington Valley had a record-setting weekend, both in terms of the number
of participants and in fundraising. The 24-hour event,
which was held over the course of two days Saturday, May 16
and Sunday, May 17 at Farmington High School, had more
than 1,700 participants representing 700 teams, according
to event Chair Linda Kime. Those participants raised more
than $407,000 for cancer research, as numbers were still being counted as of press time. The initial total is well above this
year’s goal of $350,000 and $82,000 over last year’s total. This
year’s theme was Lights, Camera, Cure! The event included
a survivors lap, a caregivers lap and a luminaria ceremony.
Left to right: Town Councilors Meredith Trimble, John Vibert
and Amy Suffredini were present at the event.
Photos by Ted Glanzer
Relay for Life luminaria bags lined the walking path at night.
Above, left: Relay for Life of Farmington Valley walkers give the thumbs up on Saturday morning as they started
their walk around the FHS parking lot that served as the event space and track; above: members of Aloha Life,
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HARTTWORKS
Andrew Matte and Gabrielle Collins
On Friday, May 22, at
7:30 p.m. and Saturday, May
23, at 7:30 p.m., The Hartt
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original, multigenre evening
of dance.
This performancehighlights an engaging selection
of classical ballet works and
newly commissioned modern and jazz choreography.
Performances will be held
in Millard Auditorium at the
University of Hartford, 200
Bloomfield Avenue, West
Hartford.
Reserved seating tickets
are $20, and can be obtained
by calling the university Box
Office at 860-768-4228.
HarttWorks invites audience members to enjoy an
inspiring, multi-genre, professional caliber dance production, presented by HCD’s
preprofessional students.
Performance Lab students
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The students from the
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Theatre in Torrington May
28-31. A young soldier learns
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Based on the 1991 Warner
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Photo by John Long
From newly developed classical ballet pieces to the cutting-edge premieres of commissioned choreographers,
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Stanley-Whitman House exhibit features
New England-inspired art of three women
A love of art, a passion
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The show will be open
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May 31 as part of an ongoing
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Artists Anne Pingpank
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Stanley-Whitman
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Lisa Johnson said the muse-
Courtesy photo
Pictured in the photo, from left to right, are Amy Conover,
Marianne Flynn, and Anne Pingpank. um has featured the works
of more than 30 artists since
offering gallery space to local artists in 2010. The exhibition program was initiated
to deepen the museum’s
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encouraging the sharing of
creativity and ideas.
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beyond my original expectation, and participating
artists have brought a beauty and energy to the museum,” Johnson says. “We look
forward to each new show
opening and are sad to see
each show close.”
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The starting line of the Try Simsbury: River to Ridge Try-athlon Sunday, May 17
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Ned Kennedy on his bicycle; Kennedy
placed second in the race.
bout 150 people took part in the second
annual Try Simsbury: River to Ridge
Try-Athelon Sunday, May 17. The event
included a 3.6-mile run, an 11.5-mile bicycle
ride, a 1.6-mile paddle up and down the Farmington River and a quarter-mile sprint to the
finish. Matt Pomeroy of Massachusetts placed
first with a time of 1:31.37, while Ned Kennedy
was second in 1:32.32.
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Benjamin Hollenbeck, 3, shows his spirit by waving the American flag
along the parade route on Simonds Avenue.
Adam Young, 4, and his 6-year-old brother Bryce
have a perfect view of the parade along Simonds
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Members of the Avon Volunteer
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Above: Kevin Belmonte smiles as he is handed his raffle prize during the dinner that followed
the annual Canton Chamber of Commerce golf tournament; below: Golfers hit a few golf balls
at the start of the daylong event Monday, May 11.
Linda Hadley chats with fellow golfers
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Bob Bessel, chair of the Economic Development Agency in Canton, enjoys the evening.
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played in the tournament, which raised more than $10,000. A portion of the proceeds fund
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higher education in business or pursuing an entrepreneurial endeavor. “It was a phenomenal day: great weather, great turnout for a great cause,” tournament Co-Chair Gary Roman
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Robert Hensley &
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She brings a wealth of experience within the industry, having spent the last seven years
at Unum, where she was an
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and management teams.
The Golf Club of Avon
hires new GM
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The Farmington Chamber of Commerce welcomes Scene Art Bar with
a ribbon cutting and presentation of a Farmington Chamber Member
Plaque. It is located at Village Artisan Galleries, 29 Mill St., Unionville.
Scene Art Bar combines a step-by-step painting class along with music, beer and wine. Scene Art Bar is a form of social-tainment where
you can laugh, socialize and learn something new.
The Golf Club of Avon welcomes new General Manager
Ara P. Daglian to the team. Formerly the general manager at
Tumble Brook Country Club in
Bloomfield, Daglian, who joins
fellow TBCC alumni Executive
Chef Robert Vastano and Food
and Beverage Manager Richard
Sinclair at GCA, brings a wealth
of experience and enthusiasm
with him. He is joining the club
as it wraps up $1 million in
dining and banquet area renovations and begins enhancements and upgrades to the 27hole golf course, pool area and
tennis Pro Shop.
Angelica Padua elected to
Girl Scouts’ board
Angelica Padua of Farmington
was elected to the Girl Scouts
of Connecticut’s board of directors as a Girl Board Member.
Angelica is from Farmington High School. She is a
member of the crew team and
a part of the Teen Advisory
Group. Angelica has earned her
Bronze and Silver Awards, two
high achieving awards in Girl
Scouting and says Girl Scouts
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Representing all eight
counties throughout the state
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community leaders, nonprofit
and corporative executives, and
many board veterans. The 28
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the state’s largest girl-focused
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families navigate the healthcare system by overseeing and
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PRESSBUSINESS
Sola Salon Studios opens Avon location
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
Sola Salon Studios takes
the drama out of working in
a salon.
Sola, which opened a
location at 314 West Main St.
in Avon May 12, is a different
type of hair salon.
Instead of a big salon
with several hairdressers
working for the owners or
renting booths, Sola offers
each stylist his or her own
studio, explained franchisee
Brian Jersey. The concept,
called salon suites, allows
stylists to run their own business without stress.
The Avon location,
which Jersey said he expects
to be full in six months, is the
second Sola Salon Studios in
Connecticut. He also has one
in Glastonbury.
There are more than 225
locations nationwide with
more than 5,000 salon professionals who own and operate
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Visionary Private Wealth Management Group founding
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Businesses form partnership
The Peter M. Bakker
Agency, Inc., a 42-year-old
insurance agency headquartered in Avon, recently forged
a relationship with Visionary
Private Wealth Management
Group and both companies are now located at 302
West Main Street in Avon.
“After a very intense
vetting process, I decided
to forge a relationship with
Visionary Private Wealth
Management Group, a Registered Investment Advisory
firm based right here in the
Farmington Valley,” Bakker
said.
As a “fee only” RIA, Visionary acts in a fiduciary capacity for its clients and does
not receive commissions,
thus providing transparency
to its clients. “This partnership will
allow us to more effectively
assist clients as they pursue
their long-term financial
and investment goals,” Bakker said.
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Management Group. “We
are extremely excited about
our venture to work closely
with the Bakker Agency, as
both firms share the same
values of putting the clients’
interests first.”
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Sola Salon Studios recently opened in Avon.
and said that at Sola there
are walls between each salon.
“At the end of the day,
like Brian said, you can shut
your door and do what you
want to,” she said. “It’s just
like having a brother or sister
and saying, ‘Go away.’”
Donna Nardi, who
owned Tangles in Avon for 20
years and most recently rented a booth inside another salon, also opened inside Sola,
which she said is inviting,
relaxing and private.
Jersey started working
with Sola in Denver 11 years
Courtesy photo
ago. He plans to open more
locations in Hartford County.
According to a release, Sola studio spaces are
equipped with ample storage
and retail shelving, private
spaces with doors and floorto-ceiling walls, high quality
hydraulic chairs and shampoo bowls, individual ventilation in each studio, lighting
and other amenities.
Space is still available at
Sola. For more information
call Jersey at 860-341-1276,
or email bjersey@solasalons.
com.
Lisa’s Luna Pizza raising funds for Connecticut Brain Tumor Alliance
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their own businesses around
the country, he said.
“Salon
professionals
come to Sola to escape salon politics and experience
a new sense of freedom,” said
Matt Briger, CEO of Sola.
“Sola stylists can customize
their studio, create their own
schedule, set their own prices and sell retail to create a
larger profit margin.
Many Sola professionals
are former traditional-style
salon owners who were
looking to simplify business
needs and take their career
to the next level.”
After 13 years working
in various salons, Kristen Altiere was ready to open her
own business. Inside Sola,
she has opened Kristen Ann
Hair Designs.
“I’m the type of person
where I needed to do my own
thing,” she said. “Sola came
about and I love it so far.”
Altiere echoed what Jersey said about salon drama
es each purchase. Half of the
money raised goes to Morgan
herself and the other half to
the Connecticut Brain Tumor
Alliance.
“The alliance helps patients, survivors and caregivers financially and emotionally, and also advocates for
more funding and research,”
said Kathy Platt, Morgan’s
mom. “They have donated
things like media glasses that
children use to watch a movie
while they’re having an MRI.”
“Morgan handles things
so well for someone so young
and I want to support her,”
said Lisa Maurer of Avon,
owner of Lisa’s Luna Pizza. “I
met Kathy two years ago at a
breast cancer fundraiser we
had at Luna and last year, I
decided to do something for
brain tumor awareness. We
raised close to $700.”
The sticker design also
graces a ceiling tile on the
oncology floor at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center,
where Morgan has been receiving treatment since June
2011 when she was diagnosed
with a brain tumor in her
speech and language corridor.
A biopsy taken during a sixhour surgery determined she
has glioblastoma multiforme
grade 4.
Over the past four years
Morgan, who received media
attention in November 2013
after filming a YouTube video
at CCMC set to the Katy Perry song “Roar,” has had three
surgeries, two sets of radiol-
Courtesy photo
Lisa Maurer of Avon, left, the
owner of Lisa’s Luna Pizza,
and Morgan Platt of Avon
ogy treatments and ongoing
chemotherapy, both oral and
intravenous. Once a month,
she has MRI imaging, which
she is able to endure without
sedation.
“She’s defied the odds,”
Kathy said. “The video has
had more than 200,000 hits,
and we’re getting ready to
shoot another video.”
According to the National Cancer Institute, $4.79
billion was spent on cancer
research in 2013, she said,
and of that, only $185.1 million was for pediatric cancer
research. Platt added that,
according to the American
Brain Tumor Association,
700,000 people in the United States are currently living
with a brain tumor, and it is
estimated that 14,000 of them
will lose their battle this year.
Morgan is now a
fifth-grader at Thompson
Brook School in Avon.
Lisa’s Luna Pizza is located at 530 Bushy Hill Road in
Simsbury Commons. For information, call 860-651-1820.
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Chamber launches new initiative
Photo by Sloan Brewster
Asta Plankiene, daughter-in-law of Gitana Plankiene, owner of Dom’s Coffee on Route 44 in
Avon, makes a cappuccino.
Dom’s Coffee opens in Avon
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
The owners of Avon’s
newest coffee shop wanted to
bring a twist on the standard
American “cup of joe.”
Dom’s Coffee on Route 44,
which opened Friday, May 15,
offers European coffee, which,
to the owner and her family,
means no sugar or flavors.
Sure, there’s sugar in the place,
it’s just not out in the open.
Gitana Plankiene, Dom’s
owner, along with her son,
Andrius, and his wife, Asta,
hope customers will at least
give their coffee beverage a
taste before adding sweetener. They believe the drink’s
own flavor will be enough to
turn any sugaraholic.
“Really, from coffee you
can get all flavors,” Gitana
said. “You don’t need sugar.”
That is even more true
with cappuccino, she said,
because the steamed milk
adds another layer of natural
sweetness.
If, after giving the coffee
a taste, customers still want
sugar, it’s available.
A true cup of coffee has
multi-levels of flavor, according to Andrius.
“All the time you should
have the same three tastes,”
he said. “In the beginning,
you should taste sour, in the
middle it is sweetness, in the
end it is bitter.”
To assure that experience
is found in every cup, a half an
hour of preparation is done
every morning on equipment
alone, Andrius said.
Beyond that, the special
grinders used to grind the
fresh beans Gitana purchases
from J.René Coffee Roasters
of West Hartford are changed
two or three times each day,
she said. Coffee absorbs all
the flavors around it, and if the
grinder sits around all day, it,
too, will take on flavors that
could be transferred to the
coffee.
“It is very sensitive,” Gitana said. “Coffee absorbs everything from air.”
If the grinder is not
changed, the coffee loses
sweetness, she said.
Gitana and her family
are from Lithuania. She came
to the United States 14 years
ago with plans to stay a short
time, return home and help
Andrius get through college.
She found she loved
America and remained here.
Andrius,
Asta
and
Dominykas, their 3-year-old
son for whom Dom’s is named,
joined her three years ago.
“It’s an amazing country; it’s amazing,” Andrius
said. “This is like paradise for
young families.”
The coffee shop was all
Gitana’s idea.
“Mom always dreamed
of opening a coffee shop,” Andrius said.
Gitana and Asta went to
school in New York to learn to
be baristas and merged what
they learned about American
coffee with what they already
knew about European coffee
to make what they believe is
the ideal cup.
Though Dom’s is directly
across the street from another coffee shop, the two businesses are not competitors,
Andrius said, in his opinion.
“We wanted to create
something new,” Andrius
said. “If somebody wanted
different coffee that we cannot offer, I always would say
go across the street to Coffee
Trade. ... There’s enough cake
for everybody.”
Asta said she had already done that when a customer came in and asked for
flavored coffee.
Dom’s, which is 1,800
square feet, has four rooms
where customers can sip cappuccinos and lattes alone or
with friends, or where groups
can hold meetings or parties,
Andrius said.
Michael Acosta, a graduate student from Trinity
College who manages The
Underground Coffeehouse at
Trinity and has been helping
out with training at Dom’s,
said it would become a hot
spot for college students.
“We want to create a
coffee community,” Asta said.
Dom’s is located at 20
West Main St. in Avon. For
more information, call 860707-0925 or visit www.facebook.com/domscoffeellc.
The Avon Chamber of
Commerce is asking area
residents to think “Local
First” when shopping for
goods and services.
“Local First” is the
name of an initiative the
chamber has launched to
increase the visibility of
its members and to offer
benefits to the community.
Mailings were recently sent
to all residences and businesses in Avon containing
a brochure along with key
tags and cards entitling
the holder to deals at many
chamber businesses.
“People who live or
work in Avon will have access to deals, discounts and
perhaps, most importantly,
information on local mer-
chants, service providers,
restaurants, lodging and
more,” said William Raveis
Realtor Margo Ross, chairman of the chamber’s marketing committee. “Participating Avon Chamber
member businesses benefit
from a range of free advertising opportunities, while
residents gain ways to save
money on what they’re already buying – or always
wanted to buy but didn’t
dare – by supporting local
businesses.”
The Local First brochure will not only provide
information on participating chamber businesses
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It will also explain an
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Signs will be seen
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and local shops, alerting
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Those who live outside
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Hometown men and women honored
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By Alicia B. Smith
Staff Writer
Photo by Sloan Brewster
Cooper, a English Springer Spaniel poses for a picture with her owner,
Joan Cloutier, at Paw Meadow Dog Park in Simsbury during the annual
Strut Your Mutt event held Saturday May 16. The fundraiser, which
showcases local vendors and awards various prizes, benefits the park
by helping pay for maintenance and projects.
Canton gets AAA bond rating
By Alison Jalbert
Assistant Editor
CANTON — Canton’s bond
rating has been upgraded to AAA
by Standard & Poor’s.
Per a May 6 letter sent to Amy
O’Toole, director of finance, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services assigned a rating of AAA to the town
and believes the outlook for this
rating to be stable.
The rating is based on Canton’s $5.6 million general obligation
bonds issue, which O’Toole said
represents the new bonds the town
is currently selling. Every time it
goes out to bond, a rating is given.
Standard & Poor’s summary of
the rating explains that the rating
is based on its local general obligation criteria.
See RATING on page 21
SIMSBURY — It was standing room only in the main meeting room of Simsbury Town Hall
as local residents were recognized for their longtime commitment to their community and
celebrated as Hometown Heroes.
“It’s the most exciting evening of the year,” First Selectman
Lisa Heavner said. “It’s a phenomenal group of people,” she
added of this year’s honorees.
Simsbury has been selecting Hometown Heroes since
1986 when former Gov. William
O’Neill encouraged communities to do so in recognition of the
state’s 350th anniversary.
Simsbury has maintained
the tradition ever since. Nominees are solicited from the community and selected by a committee. This year, the selection
committee consisted of Heavner,
Selectman Michael Paine, business owner Tom Horan, Simsbury Historical Society member
Roger Spear, former Hometown
Hero T.J. Donohue and veteran
Len Lanza.
Those recognized for the
2015 Hometown Hero included Wanda Colman, president of
the Tariffville Village Association; the late Jackson Eno for his
Photo by Alicia B. Smith
Jackon Eno Jr. accepts the honor on behalf of his late father, Jackson
Eno, who passed away in April.
many contributions to the community; former First Selectman
Mary Glassman; Paul Lanza, a
member of the Design Review
Board and former member of
the Public Building Committee;
Robert Lyle, for his work in many
town projects including helping
to create Simsbury Youth Soccer,
Inc.; and, finally, Larry Linonis
and the Simsbury Silver Steering
Committee of the Simsbury Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee, which is actively involved
in all things bicycle-related in
Simsbury.
Each honoree was presented with flowers and their names
will be engraved on a plaque.
Heavner joked that somehow
the long-named steering committee for the bicycle advisory
group would be squeezed on the
plaque, too.
Selectman Mike Paine said
of Colman: “She loves the town.”
He added that she uses her enthusiasm for Tariffville and her
commitment to making improvements in that part of town.
A brochure printed for the
evening said, in part, Colman “is
part of everything that happens
in Tariffville, from kayak races to
See HEROES on page 24
Planning and Zoning Commission renders decision in favor of Lost Acres Vineyard
By Ted Glanzer
Staff Writer
GRANBY — After addressing
the matter over the course of four
meetings, the Granby Planning
and Zoning Commission unanimously rendered a final decision
May 12 on the Lost Acres Vineyard’s efforts to expand its farm
store’s operations.
The commission approved
the application from Lost Acres,
a boutique vineyard located at 80
Lost Acres Road that produces 11
wines and hosts special events and
farmers markets, to change its special permit to be open seven days a
week, year-round, as well as operate from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The commission also approved that the vineyard can
remain open for the consumption and sale of wine until 9 p.m.
for special events and that all
guests must leave the premises by
10:30 p.m.
Much of the discussion centered on offering neighbors an appeal process should an issue arise.
Initially, a memorandum prepared
for the commission stated that the
commission would re-examine the
issue in five years.
Commissioner Eric Lukingbeal said it didn’t provide neighbors
with much protection if something
became a problem immediately.
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Accessibility concerns
prompt possible change
CHS, community center proposed as voting spots
By Alison Jalbert
Assistant Editor
This map
shows the
planned
changes.
Streetscape changes ongoing in Collinsville
By Alison Jalbert
Assistant Editor
CANTON — Visitors to
Collinsville may notice some
changes as the Collinsville
Streetscape project gets underway.
Work on the project
began the last week of April,
when construction workers
marked pavement and the
town put up signs alerting
drivers to road closures or
detours. The pavement was
cut May 5 and hauled away
May 7.
Tom Sevigny, a member
of the Board of Selectmen,
said the project is the town’s
investment.
“If we expect merchants and other developers to come in and invest
their money in Collinsville,
we need to invest in Collins-
ville, too. [This will make it]
more pedestrian-friendly and
bike-friendly,” he said.
Bob Bessel, chairman
of the Economic Development Agency, said one goal
of the project is to show cyclists passing through on the
Farmington River Trail that
Collinsville is worth a stop.
The changes include adding more bike parking and
widening sidewalks, which
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Sevigny believes will encourage people to walk up Main
Street. There will also be new
lighting, new trees planted
and trash cans.
The town hall parking
lot is getting a makeover;
drivers no longer have to
back out, but will now be able
to drive all the way through.
“The real magic is we’re
doing it without losing any
parking spaces,” Bessel said.
The patio outside
Downright Music will be
removed, but a plaza to
be installed outside of LaSalle’s Market will provide
a place for people to play
music or enjoy a meal. Bessel said it will have lighting
and a watering station.
Amy Parchen, a member of the EDA and chairwoman of the Canton
Main Street Association,
said the project is making
subtle changes that people
will appreciate once it is
complete.
“There are things we
don’t notice that could be
improved because we’ve
gotten used to them,” she
said. “We’re not looking
to change the look of the
town. We’re preserving
what we have and improving it from a safety and
beautification perspective.”
Sevigny asks residents
to be patient, as there is
going to be a two-month
period where Collinsville
is “going to be kind of hectic; you may not be able to
drive where you want to
drive or park where you
want to park.”
This is what officials
call Phase 1; the town continues to put in requests
for grant money to take on
Phase 2, which will carry
the changes up Main Street
and down River Street.
CANTON — Canton officials are considering changing the voting location from
the town hall due to concerns that there is not sufficient access to the building
during elections.
At the May 13 Board
of Selectmen meeting, Bob
Skinner, chief administrative
officer, said he received a letter from the Commission on
Aging in December 2014, explaining the difficulty some
residents have getting into
town hall on election days.
The commission asked him
to examine the issue and
come back with a report and
recommendations.
Skinner said the town
hall has been the lone voting
site in town since 1920, and
there have been complaints
raised about accessibility in
the past. In the mid-2000s,
a committee was created
to look at points of access
to town hall. The resulting
report recognizes certain issues about the building.
There is limited handicapped parking, and the access ramp into town hall is 42
feet long. Skinner explained
that the Americans with Disability Act regulations call for
a 5-foot-long level landing
at every 30-foot horizontal
length of ramp.
Elevators are supposed
to be 51 inches wide, but the
town hall elevator measures
40. Those who use off-street
parking then have to go up
one floor to the auditorium,
where voting is held. Both
entrances accessible from
on-street parking use stairs to
access the building.
The report did find
some advantages to using
the town hall. The proximity
to the town clerk and registrar’s offices is convenient,
it allows residents to complete other tasks while in the
building, the auditorium has
Wi-Fi and a special phone
line required by the Help
America Vote Act of 2002,
and residents are familiar
with the voting process, as
they have been voting at the
same place for 100 years.
The committee also
looked at the possibility of
voting in the community
center or at Canton High
School. The community center has 110 parking spaces,
an ADA-compliant elevator
and a convenient space in
which to hold the election –
the parks and recreation ac-
tivity room, which would be
used for referendums, primaries and small elections.
The high school has 248
parking spaces and power-assisted doors. Handicapped
parking is within a reasonable
distance from the building,
and the election could be held
in the cafeteria or gymnasium.
The ultimate recommendation was to have voting remain at the town hall.
One concern about the
high school was the fact that
it would bring many people
into the building and would
disrupt the school day. Recent legislation, however,
calls for all public schools in
the state to have a uniform
calendar, in which case Election Day is a professional development day, with no students attending school.
Skinner said, when taking all that into consideration, his recommendation
is that the town look at holding the general election at the
high school, as it’s all on one
level, there is adequate parking, it will eliminate all or
most of the access issues and
provides enough room for
the necessary voting equipment. Non-general elections
can occur at the community
center in the parks and rec
community room.
“I know it’s tough to
change 100 years of tradition,
and I’m certainly cognizant
of that,” he said. “At the end
of the day, it’s pretty important that we give everyone the
right to vote, which includes
being able to get to the polls
safely. The high school and
community center provide
the best opportunities to do
that. If we have a place that
has all the access and meets all
the recommendations and is
readily available due to change
in scheduling, we probably
should think about using it.”
He spoke with the town
attorney, who said changing
the voting location would
require a town meeting vote.
Skinner acknowledged
the concern that voting in
two different places could be
confusing to residents, but
he said if this system is implemented, it would only be
November elections at the
high school.
The selectmen, save for
absent First Selectman Dick
Barlow, had no issues with
the proposed plan.
The discussion was tabled until the next Board of
Selectmen meeting, to be
held May 27.
Budget approved
by large majority
By Alison Jalbert
Assistant Editor
CANTON — Canton residents overwhelmingly approved the budget for fiscal
year 2015-16 at the annual budget meeting.
The budget was approved 153 to 7,
with one abstention.
The town charter requires 150 registered voters be present for a quorum; if not, it will automatically go to a
referendum.
At the beginning of the May 11 meeting, held in the Canton High School auditorium, meeting moderator David Leff
said the number had almost been met,
and encouraged those in attendance to
call any registered voters who were not
present and urge them to come to the
meeting.
Board of Finance Chair Brian First
summarized the board’s $1,949,688 budget, a 32.5 percent increase over the current fiscal year. Leslee Hill, Board of Education chair, gave an overview of the
board’s $25,901,796 budget, which represents a 1.23 percent increase.
Chief Administrative Officer Bob
Skinner, speaking on behalf of the Board of
Selectmen, announced the required number of voters had been met, which drew
applause from the crowd. He summarized
the selectmen’s $10,082,815 budget, an increase of 4.37 percent.
“Thank you for coming out tonight
and being part of the process,” he said.
Leff called for any residents who
wished to comment on the budget, but no
one spoke. Votes were then cast by ballot;
the results were tabulated and announced
before the meeting was adjourned.
Partial funding for senior center design received
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
SIMSBURY — The town of Simsbury
has received half the funding toward creating a design for the proposed senior center.
At the May 11 Board of Selectmen
meeting, the board accepted a $204,000
grant approved by the State Bond Commission in January of last year.
“I just would like to thank again State
Rep. John Hampton for getting this together,” First Selectman Lisa Heavner said before
the board approved a resolution accepting
the funds.
According to documentation in the
meeting packet, the funds will be used to
complete a design study for the senior center. The design may be for renovations of an
existing building or for a new one.
The funding may cover the cost of surveys, geotechnical services, land use approvals and permits, an environmental study, an
architectural/engineering design study and
advertising for the bidding process.
“Goals of the project shall be to increase
useable space, improve access in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities
Act, improved kitchen facilities, parking
spaces, and a covered portico and drop off
location for vehicles and Dial-A-Ride busses,” states a description of project from the
State of Connecticut Department of Social
Services.
The town will pay an additional
$204,000 toward the project, which is estimated to cost a total of $408,000.
After years of haggling and nearly 40
meetings on the subject of where to put
the proposed facility, selectmen, in March,
agreed to split the new center between a
new facility at the Performing Arts Center
and Eno Memorial Hall, the idea being to
use a combination of the two locations for
an expanded senior center.
Throughout the discussion, selectmen
agreed that whatever choice they made,
wherever the senior was to go, Eno Memorial would still require attention.
Some consideration had previously been given to the prospect of putting
the center on a piece of property on Iron
Horse Boulevard owned by the Department
of Transportation [DOT], but selectmen
shared a distaste for that proposal as the lot
has other potential.
The site was singled out during the
town charette in 2009 as an ideal spot for
a mixed-use building and board members
said they do not fancy the idea of using it for
municipal purposes.
“We did spend a lot of money on the
charette,” Selectmen Nancy Hasse said
during the discussion. “We spent all that
money and now we’re going to be the first
people to say we didn’t know what we were
talking about. ... I could not support the DOT
site for a lot of reasons.”
The town could build a mixed-use facility there with the senior center on the bottom floor and other space, such as senior
apartments on upper levels, said Architect
Tom Arcari of Quisenberry Arcari Architects
in Farmington. But that would be a complicated process and would push the completion of the facility years into the future.
Complications would include finding
a private developer willing to enter into a
joint venture with the town and determining what percentage of the property would
remain taxable.
Another hiccup to building on the DOT
site without including a private party would
be that the town would never garner taxes from the property’s use, a potential lost
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The new senior center will be at both Eno
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million in revenue per year, according to Director of Planning Hiram Peck, who spoke
at the meeting. Still, some board members
pointed out pros to building on the DOT
site, including that it is a clean, flat site for
building purposes.
In the end, the Performing Arts Center
and Eno were chosen.
“Those two sites together: what we
can’t get out of one we can get out of the
other,” Hasse said then.
At that meeting, the board also agreed
to do a town-wide survey to get residents’
opinions on a senior/community center and
other town services.
As of press time, the survey was scheduled for the week of May 18. According to a
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Electronic sign for FHS approved by P&Z Commission
By Ted Glanzer
Staff Writer
FARMINGTON — The Farmington Plan
and Zoning Commission approved a text
amendment to the zoning regulations Mon-
day, May 11 permitting an electronic sign to be
installed at the entrance of the Stephen A. Flis
Municipal Complex on Monteith Drive.
The measure, which passed 5-1, with
Barbara Brenneman voting against, was proposed at the urging of several Farmington High
School students.
Town regulations prohibit lighted signs,
however the students said that an electric
sign would promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics as well as provide
the town the ability to post scrolling messages
concerning meetings and safety.
“An electronic sign will show what direction Farmington High School is going,” student
Danielle Swanson said, adding that there are
currently three signs at the municipal complex
entrance and one sign would reduce the clutter.
Student Austin Zhu said the current sign
requires a faculty member to walk down a hill
and manually change the letters. The sign typically does not have the same message on either
side, Zhu said.
The funds for the sign will come from the
current junior and senior classes, while the
electricity would likely come from the town,
according to Zhu.
While the sign had not been picked out,
the students showed commission members
prototypes of what they were looking at. Town
regulations limit the size of signs to 24 square
feet, which is within the range of the signs being considered, Swanson said. At its May 4 regular meeting, the Board
of Education provided support for the proposed sign.
School board Chair Mary Grace Reed said
she and the rest of the board supported the
proposal, as it is a gift from two grades, it improves the safety of the community and it will
be run by students.
Commission members limited their approval to a sign to be located just in front of
Monteith Drive, preventing requests from other schools for similar signs.
Brenneman, for her part, said requests for
a similar sign had been rejected in the past.
Resident Patricia Karwoski said she not
only supported the proposed amendment, but
also suggested that the commission examine
its regulations with regard to signage.
“I highly recommend and suggest you go
a step further and look at the regulations and
keep up with the 21st century; update them
and allow more architectually pleasing signs in
the town of Farmington,” she said. While the text amendment was approved, the students will still need to make an
application for a site plan before the commission as well as appear before the Town Council for approval, as the sign would be located
on town land.
In addition, Town Councilor Jeff Apuzzo
raised another issue May 12, requesting that
the town attorney examine the matter. Apuzzo
said that limiting the amendment to government use could be unconstitutional under the
Equal Protection Clause.
“You’re creating two separate classes [in
government and private citizens],” Apuzzo said.
The amendment could “open Pandora’s box”
enabling businesses to have electronic signs,
too, if the measure were deemed unconstitutional, Apuzzo said.
In other business, the commission unanimously approved a proposal by Green Tea
Restaurant on Route 4 to have a 450-squarefoot, fenced-in outdoor dining area with six tables and umbrellas for the summer.
Owner Dennis Chui said his restaurant
had been in town for 17 years and “it is time
for an upgrade,” noting that Cugino’s had outdoor dining.
“It’s a good time for us to do it this year,
and a lot of customers asked for it, too,” Chui
said.
The commission approved the request on
the condition that no music was played outside. Town Planner Bill Warner also said he
was getting quotes from consultants to review
traffic and environmental issues with regard to
the Charles House project that tentatively calls
for the construction of an apartment complex
with 298 units on the property adjacent to
Union School.
Warner said an ordinance permits a
third-party review in such a situation and encouraged the commission to do so. Warner said
he would have quotes at the commission’s next
meeting.
Supermarket project scrapped
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
BURLINGTON — The supermarket
planned for the center of Burlington will not
be built.
At the May 12 Board of Selectmen meeting, First Selectman Ted Shafer announced
that the market previously expected to be
constructed on Dwight Harris’ 5.5-acre Library Lane property would not be coming
to town.
“David Brenner is not going to be able
to move forward with the market,” he said.
Brenner, owner of the Bantam Market
in Bantam and the Northville Market in New
Milford, pulled out of the project as it ended
up not fitting into his business plan, Shafer
said.
Harris said Brenner would be the best
person to discuss why he pulled out of the
project. As of press time, Brenner had not returned calls to the paper.
In 2013, Harris signed an option agreement with Gavin Soraghan giving him the
right to buy the property if he finds tenants
and develop a plan that meets with the approval of the Planning & Zoning Commission.
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sented the plans for Brenner to rent a
20,000-square-foot barn style store to be developed on the property.
Brenner was looking into how running
the proposed store would fit with his longterm goals.
“Like I said to Gavin, it’s got to make
sense to use as a business,” Brenner said for
an article printed in September of last year.
“The numbers have to work for me. If the
numbers work, we’re going to do it ... if the
numbers work we’ll do it, we want to, we really like Burlington as a town.”
Soraghan’s option to buy Harris’ lot does
not run out for two months and he may be
looking into additional options for the property, Harris said. In the meantime, he’s resurrecting a plan to build town houses there.
The Planning & Zoning Commission
has already approved the town houses, and
Harris will be at the May 28 meeting to present a tweaked version of the plan.
A sand pile in the back of the lot has
been removed, so Harris has reconfigured
the design.
“I’m just spreading my units out,” he
said. “I’m not going to sit on the property any
longer. If nobody goes in there, I’m going to
put in town houses.”
RATING
from page 17
“The town’s full-faith-and-credit
pledge secures the bonds,” the report
states. “We understand officials intend to use series 2015 bond proceeds to finance roof replacements
at the community center and various
school facilities, acquire a fire truck,
and make various road and drainage
improvements within the town.”
Canton’s economy is considered to be very strong, as it has a
projected per capita effective buying
income of 180 percent of the national level and per capita market value
of $150,606. The town’s market value
fell by 3.7 percent over the past fiscal
year to $1.6 billion in fiscal year 2015,
mostly due to a revaluation.
The town’s management is also
considered very strong, with “strong”
financial management policies and
practices under Standard & Poor’s
Financial Management Assessment
methodology.
This indicates that financial
practices are strong, well embedded and likely sustainable. The report compliments Canton’s 15-year
budget projection, monthly budget-to-actual reports, its formal fiveyear capital improvement plan and
the formal debt management policy,
among other practices.
The budgetary performance
is strong, according to the report.
The 2015-16 fiscal year includes a
fund balance appropriation of about
$200,000 to mitigate tax increases.
“Management indicates it
could continue to appropriate small
amounts of fund balance over the
next few years to smooth out tax in-
creases. Due to the town’s financial
management policies and historical
performance, however, we do not expect these small fund balance appropriations to negatively affect budgetary performance over the next few
years. The revenue profile is stable, in
our opinion,” the report states.
There is strong budgetary flexibility, as Canton has an available fund
balance of 14.6 percent of operating
expenditures. The report indicates
that budgetary flexibility will likely
remain strong because the town has
an informal policy of maintaining at
least 10 percent of expenditures in
unassigned fund balance.
Standard & Poor’s rates Canton’s liquidity as very strong, with total government available cash of 17.3
percent of total governmental fund
expenditures.
“In our view, the town has
strong access to external liquidity
if necessary, demonstrated by the
town’s issuance of debt several times
over the past 20 years,” the report explains.
Also labeled as very strong is
the town’s debt and contingent liability profile. Overall net debt is low
at 1.3 percent of market value, and
approximately 69.3 percent of the
direct debt is scheduled to be repaid
over the next decade, which are positive credit factors.
The report also states that Canton has very strong institutional
framework.
Since the outlook is stable, it reflects Standard & Poor’s opinion that
Canton’s economy and management
practices will likely translate into
strong budgetary performance and
operating flexibility over the twoyear outlook period.
“We expect Canton’s debt and
contingent liability profile to remain
very strong because the town does
not currently have any significant
debt plans within the next two years,”
the report states. “Although unlikely
to occur, we could lower the rating
if budgetary performance were to
deteriorate, resulting in a decrease in
available reserves to levels we consider adequate. We, however, do not
expect to change the rating within
the outlook’s two-year period.”
O’Toole said receiving an upgrade to AAA is a positive asset for
Canton, as it shows the town’s financial strength.
“It allows us to get a better interest rate for borrowing,” she explained.
“It will lower our cost of debt.”
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PRESSOPINION
EDITORIAL
Televising means
transparency and
other benefits
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VALLEY
There is no down side to having the
proceedings of town government available
to residents for viewing by the change of a
channel or click of a mouse.
The Farmington Board of Education is
in the midst of discussing the possibility of
having its meetings recorded and shown on
cable television and the Internet.
Nutmeg television has recorded and
shown the Town Council’s meetings on cable
TV and online for years and, during a recent
meeting, support was shown for the school
board to do the same.
It may be frustrating that we live in such
a fast-paced, electronically charged world,
causing fewer and fewer citizens to participate in the process of government in the traditional ways, but as the proverb goes: Muhammad must go to the mountain.
Televising the meetings or making them
available online brings the proceedings directly into the homes of residents, making it
more accessible for those who want to stay
engaged on their own time.
Having the meetings available for viewing makes a huge leap forward from simple
availability of the meeting minutes. Residents
will be able to understand the context of discussions in a real way and view the interactions among their elected officials.
This will increase transparency and ensure information accuracy.
Though no citizen may be present in
chambers as a meeting is conducted, dozens
could be viewing from another location.
When it comes time to vote on budgets or other matters of referendum, voters
will have one more way by which to stay informed. Those who were not previously able
to become involved due to the time of the
meetings could now stay up to speed and,
perhaps, find they have an interest in their
municipal government that they never before discovered.
The inherent nature of our government
is to be by the people and for the people,
but when we stop being part of its creation
it stops working for us by design.
While the onus in large part should be
on the citizens to seek out knowledge and
understanding and to stay abreast of the decisions that impact day-to-day life in town, it
is also the responsibility of a government to
do everything in its power to ensure its taxpayers are well informed.
While the council has long had this option, the parents in the community do not
when it comes to learning of the governing
done with regard to their childrens’ education.
Farmington is a town that lauds its
residents for taking part in civic activities,
charitable organizations and school events.
However, those activities can interfere with
scheduled meetings, which means, if there is
a way for the conflict to be mitigated, than
that option should be taken.
This is a free, effective way for the town
of Farmington to bring more residents into
its process of government.
An increase of even a few percentage
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Observations of cycling
By Jim LaFrance
Spring has arrived and it’s time to break out the
bikes and get out there on the trails and roads. One
cannot help but notice the significant upswing in cycling in the Farmington Valley over the last few years.
It’s easy to understand why – everyone can do it, it’s
great for the mind, and it’s a fantastic, low impact
exercise.
The Farmington Valley is blessed with a tremendous riding environment: diverse terrain, excellent bike trails, and roads which are increasingly bike
friendly thanks to the concerted and coordinated
efforts of state and local government and our bike
advocacy groups.
With increasing ridership, it is important for
both cyclists and non-cyclists to contribute to the
safest possible riding environment for all. I wish to
provide some tips and makes some observations on
how best to “share the road.”
Let’s start with driving safety around cyclists.
The most important single thing all drivers need to
understand is cyclists are not pedestrians – they are
essentially slower moving, two-wheeled vehicles. As
the Connecticut driver’s manual states, a “bicyclist
has the same rights, privileges and responsibilities as
you.” They are to be yielded to just like other cars
– at a stop sign, or when pulling onto or exiting a
road. A cyclist is not restricted to the “shoulder of
the road” – they may ride anywhere on the road, and
will “take the driving lane” when turning left or simply to avoid a hazard. Cyclists are required to ride as
far right “as is safe,” and drivers are required to give a
cyclist three feet of space while passing. Most drivers
are tremendously courteous around cyclists, but the
fact is, approximately 800 cyclists lose their lives every year in this country. Cyclists lose every encounter
with a car or truck.
Cyclists also have a huge role and responsibility
in staying safe on the roads. First and foremost, if you
want drivers to treat you like a “two-wheeled vehicle,” follow the traffic rules. Do not blow stop signs.
Do not cruise passed standing traffic at stop lights.
Do not race through high traffic areas at inappropriate speeds. Do keep your head on a swivel with a
high degree of awareness of what’s around you at all
times. Do make eye contact and use hand signals to
indicate your intended path. And don’t forget “the
wave” to courteous drivers as a sign of thanks for
keeping it safe.
Cyclists and walkers also have a responsibility in sharing bike paths. Based on the editorials in
the papers, it seems that there may be more “close
encounters” here than anywhere. Ironically, the role
of the cyclist flips to being “the traffic” on the bike
path – and it is the walker who is most vulnerable.
Most safety issues on the bike path come from cyclists passing walkers safely. Frankly, the “system” we
have now of communicating by horn or by voicing
“on the left” does not work particularly well. I have a
really easy solution to the problem.
On the road, cyclists ride “with traffic” and runners or pedestrians travel “against the traffic.” That is,
runners and walkers travel on the left, and cyclist ride
on the right. For some reason, when we get on a
bike path, we forget all this and pedestrians and cyclists both travel on the right. This contributes to the
passing problem, as the “faster moving traffic” of the
cyclists, are over-taking pedestrians from behind.The
solution is simple: walkers should walk on the left on
a bike path “into traffic” just like on the road. That
way you will always see a cyclist coming right at you
rather than worrying about something approaching
from behind. This solution also does not require anyone else to make a change; if you walk on the left on
the bike path – you will be immediately safer and
have fewer “close encounters.”
Cyclists should have a different attitude on a
bike path than on the road. Here, we can cause the
most damage. Bike paths are not designed for your
high-intensity interval training or for your club ride
pace line. Bike paths are narrow, bumpy, and often
quite crowded. Slow your roll, announce your passes
(to those still on the “wrong” side), and be courteous
to your fellow cyclists and bike trail users.
I have to say that there is one place that cries
out for improvement in the Farmington Valley, and
that is how traffic interacts with bikes and pedestrians at bike path crosswalks. I am amazed at how
routinely drivers fail to stop. If you live in the Valley,
there is no excuse for not knowing where the bike
trails are and where the roads intersect them. This is
your backyard; you likely cross bike trails every day.
Know where they are and slow down, and stop every
time there is a pedestrian or cyclist in the crosswalk.
My last observation is this: attitude is everything. If we all have a “sharing, cooperative” attitude
toward creating a great biking community – it will
be the greatest force in making it happen. See you
out there.
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Issue of heavy traffic congestion discussed by council
By Ted Glanzer
Staff Writer
FARMINGTON
—
Farmington is known for
three things: great schools,
low taxes and terrible traffic.
Unfortunately for the
town, the latter was exacerbated last week due to
the perfect storm of spring
construction, accidents and
general bad luck.
“In general terms, as
everyone knows, there is a
significant amount of work
being done on the roads,”
Town Manager Kathy Eagen
told the Town Council May
12. “We can’t do road work
in winter. We have a lot of
work going on.”
Egan noted the nighttime sewer replacement
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“There’s not much of an
appeal process,” Lukingbeal
said. “I guess I do have a concern ... I would be very surprised if we didn’t have some
glitches. I assume good faith
on everyone’s part. But this is
an operation which has a lot
of activity. It’s capable of generating a lot of noise. I’d like
more of a safety valve than
the ZEO’s good judgment.
If there are issues, there is a
review process before this
commission before 2020.”
The commission ultimately decided to remove
the five-year mandatory
meeting. Instead, as with
all applications before the
commission, if there is a
complaint or a zoning enforcement action, the commission can revisit the issue.
Prior to the approval,
the vineyard was required
to be closed from January
project beginning at Garden
Street and ending at Mountain Spring Road, as well
as the bridge replacement
near Sanford and Hawley
on Route 4 in Unionville,
has caused major snarls
during morning and evening rush hours.
Eagen also sent out a
press release recently alerting the public that the sewer replacement project had
caused delays Friday, May 8
and Tuesday, May 12.
“During the evening
of [May 8], a safety-related
surface condition was noted that required the town to
immediately shut down one
lane of traffic,” Eagen wrote
in the release.
“The second event
occurred during the early
hours of Tuesday, May 12,
when a sewer pipe failed
underground and emergency repairs were needed.”
Traffic on May 12
reached the point where
the school district sent
out emails and automated
phone calls alerting parents
about the possible delay in
bus pickup.
Eagen told the council that the sewer project,
which had been going on
for three weeks and will
take up to a year, takes
place at night from 8 p.m. to
5 a.m. and that the project
requires the actual road to
be opened up and closed. Eagen noted that there
are utilities such as gas lines
and electricity that require
additional care be taken
to March. When it was in
operation, the vineyard was
open six days a week, Tuesday through Saturday, from
noon to 6 p.m. and noon to
5 p.m. on Sunday.
In addition, to give the
vineyard’s neighbors a degree of certainty, the plan
also laid out how many special events would be held per
year, particularly those that
call for outdoor, amplified
music.
The expanded hours
are necessary because local
farmers need to diversify if
they want to stay in business, according to attorney
Mark Fiorentino, who represents vineyard owners
Kevin Riggott and Michelle
Niedermeyer.
An overwhelming majority of residents who attended the public hearings
in March and April spoke in
favor of the application.
On March 24, artist
Laura Eden submitted a letter signed by 88 people in
support of the amendments.
“We greatly appreciate Lost Acres Vineyard’s
support of the arts in Granby,” Eden said, noting that
the vineyard hosts exhibits
from Granby Memorial High
School, the Granby Land
Trust and the Winter Wonders Show, among others.
“Lost Acres supports writers, musicians, painters and
poets. I rely on [Lost Acres
Vineyard] for the sale of my
artwork.” Ginny Wutka of Lost
Acres Orchard, a separate
business from the vineyard,
said on March 24 there was
a need for farms to not only
diversify, but to support one
another.
“We all need each other to be sustainable,” Wutka said. “If [Lost Acres Orchards] was to just rely on
fruit sales, we could not be
during construction.
“This area … it’s a difficult part of the road project,” Egan said. “We hope to
be off the section soon. On
“We can’t do road work
in winter. We have
a lot of work going on.”
–Kathy Eagen
Friday [May 8], there was
a safety issue on top of the
opening and closing that
had to be taken care of immediately.”
Further exacerbating
the problem were several
unrelated motor vehicle
accidents along Route 4,
Eagen said. “We hope there are no
more extreme emergenin business. We could not
sustain ourselves.”
There were, however,
those who also vocally opposed the expanded operations.
For example, Carole
Day, a neighbor of Lost Acres
Vineyard, read a five-page
letter into the record April
14 that called the vineyard’s
past conduct into question
and its current proposal “excessive.”
Paul Jenkins, who spoke
on behalf of his parents, Linda and Walter Jenkins, said
he was concerned about
the environmental impact
of possibly having more
patrons at the farm store,
which means more cars and
more potential for runoff
onto the property located at
62 Lost Acres Road.
Fiorentino noted, however, that those issues did
not relate to the application
to expand the special permit.
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cies,” Eagen said. “We are
going to continue to reevaluate it. I’ll be coming back
to you. It hasn’t gone on
long enough – we have to
get the project done.”
Town Councilor Jeff
Apuzzo suggested portable signs on Main Street to
turn off to Route 6 and encourage people to take the
highway.
“We could keep it there
until the project is completed,” he said. Apuzzo also
suggested signs elsewhere,
including one for those who
do not live in Farmington,
to divert traffic away from
the construction areas and
to encourage the use of alternate routes.
Egan said she agreed
that the use of signs might
be helpful.
The traffic issue didn’t
abate May 13, with a section of Route 177 between
Coppermine and Meadow roads closed due to
downed electrical wires
from a fallen tree.
In addition, a section of
Meadow Road was closed
May 13 due to a motor vehicle hitting a utility pole.
Senior
Signals
By Stephen Allaire
Probate: Some Facts
There are so many misconceptions about “probate” that it
is difficult to know where to begin. So let’s start with the typical
family of husband and wife with grown kids and see how they
might be affected. Assume they have a house owned jointly with
right of survivorship, jointly owned bank accounts, an IRA or
401K or 403B, two cars with both names on them, and some
life insurance policies.
The first surprise for such a couple, is that if one of them
dies, none of the above asserts will go through probate. That is
because assets owned jointly that go to a survivor, such as a
bank account that has “either/or” language on it, is automatically owned entirely by the survivor if one co-owner dies. Same
with the cars and the house. The reason that IRAs and 401Ks
and 403Bs, and life insurance do not go through probate is
because they have named beneficiaries, and that means the
money passes directly to the beneficiary. It does not go through
probate. Many surviving spouses are very pleasantly surprised
to learn that there is no property that has to go through probate.
But that is only a part of the story.
The other part is that in order to clear the title on the land
records for the jointly owned family home, it is necessary to file
an inheritance tax return, called a “Succession Tax Return” to
show that there is no tax due,. Since the Connecticut Inheritance
Tax exemption is $2,000,000 almost no one owes any tax. After
it is determined that no tax is due, the Probate Court sends out a
“Certificate of No Tax” which is recorded in the land records so
that the surviving spouse is the only owner of record.
Although there is zero inheritance tax for most people,
there is a probate fee based on the value of the property listed
on the inheritance tax return and that fee is the same whether
property is owned in your name, your trust, or joint survivorship. But there is one very good benefit. The value of the house
or stocks owned by the deceased will receive what is called a
“step up in basis”, which means that if you bought your house
for $20,000 thirty years ago, and it is now worth $300,000 at
the time of death, the IRS treats it as if you bought the house for
$300,000 so your children will not pay capital gains tax on up to
that amount. The same is true for stocks.
One myth is that probate takes forever to finish. There are
no doubt cases that drag on, but that is usually because the
executor is not doing his job, not because of the system. A typical non taxable probate estate should not take more than six
to eight months to complete. If family members are bringing
lawsuits against one another, then of course the months can
change to years, but that is pretty rare. In the meantime, the executor or administrator has the ability to pay the bills and handle
the property of the estate. Usually the time issue is not probate,
but getting the family home ready to sell, and selling it.
In recent years the probate system has made it possible to
do everything through the mail, so in most cases no one actually
has to go to the court. The main goal is to insure that your wishes are carried out, so getting seasoned advice on using wills,
trusts and other methods of passing property to your loved ones
can make a significant difference for your family.
Attorney Stephen O. Allaire is a partner in the law firm of Allaire Elder Law, members of the National Academy of Elder Law
Attorneys, Inc., with offices at 271 Farmington Avenue, Bristol,
(860) 259-1500, or on the web at www.allaireelderlaw.com. If
you have a question, send a written note to Attorney Allaire at Allaire Elder Law, LLC, 271 Farmington Avenue, Bristol, CT 06010,
and he may use your question in a future column.
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her efforts to help save the
post office in town. Despite
all she gives, she still has
time for her beloved pugs.”
Jackson Eno Jr., the late
Jackson Eno’s son, accepted
the honor on his father’s behalf, noting that his dad was
aware he had been nominated before he passed away
April 15 and he would be
“smiling from ear to ear for
this.”
There is little in the
town that Eno was not involved with, which ranged
from the Simsbury Land
THE STATE OF WISCONSIN
Trust, the Simsbury Historical Society, serving on the
Board of Selectmen, as president of the Simsbury Cemetery Association and at the
age of 26 steering the town’s
Bicentennial Committee. He
was also on the board of the
Simsbury House (Simsbury
1820 House) Steering Committee, the Simsbury Free
Library and Simsbury Main
Street Partnership. He was
also a founding member
of the Simsbury Bank and
Trust.
“He was an actively, beloved supporter of Simsbury,”
said Selectman Nancy Haase.
CIRCUIT COURT
BMO HARRIS BANK N.A.
f/k/a HARRIS N.A., successor by merger to
M&I MARSHALL & ILSLEY BANK
770 North Water Street
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Plaintiff,
v.
ONLY HER, LLC
c/o Pamela K. Kindschuh, Registered Agent
213 Watson Street
Ripon, WI 54971
FOND DU LAC COUNTY
Case No. 15CV78
Case Code: 30404, 30303 and 30301
Mortgage Foreclosure, Replevin and
Money Judgment over $10,000.00
PAMELA K. KINDSCHUH
14 Mallard Drive
Avon, CT 06001
FILED
APR 08 2015
RAMONA M. GEIB
FOND DU LAC COUNTY, WIS.
Clerk of Circuit Court
JOHN DOE SPOUSE, unknown spounse of PAMELA K. KINDSCHUH
14 Mallard Drive
Avon, CT 06001
CITIBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION as successor
by merger to CITIBANK (SOUTH DAKOTA), N.A.
701 East 60th Street North
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
CAPITAL ONE BANKK USA NA p/k/a
CAPITAL ONE BANK
c/o Registered Agent
1111 East Main Street, 16th Floor
Richard, VA 23219
ASSET ACCEPTANCE LLC
c/o Corporation Service Company
8040 Excelsior Drive
Suite 400
Madison, WI 53717
MIDLAND FUNDING LLC, by its servicing agent
MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT INC
c/o Corporatioin Service Company
8040 Excelsior Drive, Suite 400
Madison, WI 53202
JOHN DOE TENANTS (S), unknown tenant(s) of
PAMELA K. KINDSCHUH
213 Watson Street
Ripon, WI 54971
And
JANE DOE TENANT(S), unknown tenant(s) of
PAMELA K. KINDSCHUH
213 Watson Street
Ripon, WI, 4971
Defendants.
PUBLICATION SUMMONS
TO:
PAMELA K. KINDSCHUH
14 Mallard Drive
Avon, CT 06001
ONLY HER, LLC
c/o Pamela K. Kindschuh, Registered Agent
213 Watson Street
Ripon, WI 54971
JOHN DOE SPOUSE, unknown spouse
of PAMELA K. KINDSCHUH
14 Mallard Drive
Avon, CT 06001
You are hereby notified that the Plaintiff named above has filed a lawsuit or
other legal action against you. The Complaint, which is also served upon you,
states the nature and basis of the legal action.
Within Forty (40) days after April 23, 2015 you must respond with a written
Answer, as that term is used in Chapter 802 of the Wisconsin Statutes, to the
Complaint. The Court may reject or disregard an Answer that does not follow the
requirements of the statutes. The Answer must be sent or delivered to the Court,
whose address is:
Fond du Lac County Circuit Court
160 South Macy Street
Fond du Lac, WI 54936-1355
and to Krawczyk, Duginski & Rohr, S.C., Plaintiff’s attorneys, whose address is
16620 West Bluemound Road, Suite 500, Brookfield, Wisconsin 53005. You may
have an attorney help or represent you.
If you do not provide a proper Answer within Forty (40) days, the Court may
grant Judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the Complaint, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or
may be incorrect in the Complaint. A Judgment may be enforced as provided by
law. A Judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you
own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure
of property.
Dated this 6th day of April, 2015.
KRAWCZYK, DUGINSKI & ROHR, S.C.
Attorneys for Plaintiff
By: Matthew J. Krawczyk
State Bar No. 1064349
P.O. ADDRESS
KRAWCZYK, DUGINSKI & ROHR, S.C.
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“Mary has been a great
friend to me and mentor,”
Heavner said as she presented Glassman with her award.
“I want to say personally how much I value your
friendship,” Heavner continued.
She went on to share
Glassman’s contributions
to Simsbury for more than
20 years that included helping to preserve open space,
helping to get the first Bicycle Friendly Community
designation in the state, going on to receive the silver
designation,
establishing
a charrette and preserving
historical downtown – all
done while serving as first
selectman.
“When my husband and
I moved here 30 years ago, we
knew it was a special place,”
Glassman said. “I pause and
ask, what is your gift, what
can you give back to the
community? We live in such
a special place. It’s important
we keep it that way.”
Lanza has been a diligent community supporter in many ways, including serving on the Design
Review Board, the Public
Building Steering Committee and Historic District
Commission. Residents may
not know him personally,
but may be familiar with the
large green collection box
located at Rosedale Farms,
which collects nonperishable items for the Simsbury
Food Bank. Lanza was responsible for making the
box and joked that he painted it Green Monster green,
a nod to the famous Boston
Red Sox ballpark.
Rosedale owner Marshall Epstein was so pleased
with the idea that he asked
Lanza to paint numbers on
the side of the box to em-
Photos by Alicia B. Smith
Above, left: Selectman Mike Paine presents Hometown Hero Wanda Colman with flowers;
above, right: Former First Selectman Mary Glassman was recognized as a Simsbury Hometown Hero; below: Larry Linonis and members of the Simsbury Silver Steering Committee
of the Simsbury Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee were selected as 2015 Hometown
Heroes.
ulate the famous ballpark
scoreboard.
The box has collected
700 bags of food to date. Lanza has also worked with state
Rep. John Hampton with
weekend food drives. Among
his hobbies is building sea
chests, which Lanza said was
what inspired him to create
the food collection box.
Selectman Cheryl Cook
said she was recently inspired to buy a bicycle, jokingly blaming her actions on
the bicycle advisory committee, “those people who
brought me back to the pleasure of bike riding.”
Cooke was referring
to Larry Linonis and the
Simsbury Silver Steering
Committee of the Simsbury
Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory
Committee.
Linonis helps direct
Simsbury Free Bike and is an
advocate for bicycle education in the schools and has
been known to sweep sand
off the bike path to ensure
riders’ safety. Committee
members included in the
honor are Pattie Smith Jacobus, Diana Moody, Steven
Mitchell, Deborah Thibodeau, Robert Carmen, Sheree Landerman and Chuck
Brody.
“We have something
special here,” said Mitchell.
“In 2010, the town received
the bronze status, the first
in southern New England.
Once you get bronze, you
have to get silver. It’s a very
hard accomplishment.” The
town received the silver designation this year.
Lyle has lived in town
for almost 50 years. He
founded Simsbury Youth
Soccer, Inc. for both boys
and girls and, eventually,
added travel teams enabling
more than 1,000 young
residents to enjoy playing
soccer. Lyle was also a volunteer for the Simsbury
Service Unit of the Salvation
Army where he participated
in the organization’s kettle drives. Lyle is a Master
Gardener and is active with
the 4-H Education Center
at Auer Farm in Bloomfield. Lyle also serves on the
board of the Simsbury Historical Society and as chair
of the building and grounds
committee.
Lyle’s son and daughter
accepted the honor on their
father’s behalf as Lyle was
out of town.
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Robert E. Roberts is
Veteran of the Month
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The annual fine arts show was held Friday, May 1.
The Master’s School hosts Spring Art Show
The Master’s School
held it’s annual fine arts
show Friday, May 1. Attendees delighted in the colors
of spring on display in a
variety of student-created
mediums. Poetry readings
and live music were an
additional highlight to the
captivating talent-saturated evening.
James DeCesare, head
of visual and performing
arts, commented on the
evening: “The value of the
arts is far more than the
quality of paintings hung
on a wall or performanc-
es on a stage. The arts are
about creativity woven
into all facets of our academics and technologies
... helping us tell our story
better, encouraging students to be innovators, to
think outside of the box,
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Local science club among finalists in national bowl
The Farmington Science Club team was among
the top finalists in the 2015
National Science Bowl, an
academic competition held
earlier this month in Washington, D.C. Farmington
Science Club finished first
place among eight schools
in its division and advanced
to the double elimination
rounds, where it tied for
ninth place overall. Participating teams from around
the country qualified for the
championship by winning
regional events earlier this
year. More than 4,500 middle school students competed in regional events.
The all-eighth-grade
team is comprised of Captain Kumar Darsh, Alex
Benham, Stewart Buzdon,
Alan Liu and Neel Mirano,
and guided by coach Laurene Powers-Buzdon. The
team members are all Irving
A. Robbins Middle School
students.
As a top 16 finalist
team, Farmington Science
earned $1,000 for its school’s
science program.
According to its website, “The U.S. Department
of Energy National Science
Bowl® is a nationwide academic competition that
tests students’ knowledge
in all areas of science and
mathematics. These teams
face off in a fast-paced question-and-answer
format,
being tested on a range of
science disciplines including biology, chemistry, Earth
science, physics, energy, and
math. The DOE created the
National Science Bowl in
1991 to encourage students
to excel in mathematics and
science and to pursue careers in these fields.”
State Sen. Kevin Witkos named Robert E. Roberts the “Veteran of the
Month” this May.
Roberts, a Simsbury
resident, served during the
Vietnam War on a military
submarine known as an “undersea boat.” Roberts is also
an active community member
serving with the local American Legion, Talcott Mountain Music Festival, Knights
of Columbus, and Simsbury
Memorial Day parades and
Veterans Day programs. Roberts was born Nov.
6, 1947 in Enterprise, Ore.
He enlisted in the Navy and
served from May 1967 to April
1971. Roberts attended boot
camp in San Diego, went to
Engineman A school at the
Great Lakes Naval Training
Center in Chicago, and, eventually, made his way to the
Submarine School in Groton. Roberts served on the
USS Halfbeak (SS 352) where
he ran and serviced diesel en-
gines aboard the submarine.
As a result of that work, Roberts lost hearing in both ears.
While Roberts was homeported at New London/Groton, he got to travel the world
aboard the Halfbeak. Roberts’ work earned him many
honors including the National Defense Medal, three
Navy Good Conduct Medals,
Navy Overseas Medal, Navy
Sharpshooter Medal, Rifle
and Pistol, and a Qualified in
Submarine Warfare Dolphins
Pin. Roberts moved to Connecticut and started work as
a lineman apprentice with
Hartford Electric Light Co.
one month after discharge
from the Navy. He worked his
way up to a supervisory position with Connecticut Light
and Power Co. in the Hartford
and Simsbury offices. Roberts
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teacher. Together the couple
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Grant awarded
to New Horizons Village
New Horizons Village
was recently awarded a
$10,000 grant from Farmington Bank Community
Foundation to be used in
conjunction with the CHEFA grant for its new Wireless Call for Aid system.
New Horizons Village
is a community of accessible housing with support
services for adults with
physical disabilities located
in the Unionville subsection
of Farmington.
For more information
about New Horizons Village see www.newhorizonsinc.org.
The monies will be
used to purchase a stateof-the-art wireless Call for
Aid system for the Care Services Program. The current
Call for Aid system is antiquated and unreliable. The
purpose of the system is to
provide residents reliable
access to care 24 hours a
day, including emergency
care. The new system offers
numerous features, some of
which include voice activation, highly sensitive radio
receivers, emergency alert
and battery backup.
“This system upgrade
was a long time in coming. We are appreciative
of the generosity through
Farmington Bank from the
grant program. Our residents are all comforted
by the knowledge that our
new Call for Aid system will
ensure timely response to
care needs,” said Michael B.
Shaw, executive director.
The Farmington Bank
Community
Foundation
Inc., set up in 2011, has the
goal of improving “the economic viability and well-being of the residents and
the communities in which
Farmington Bank operates.”
Courtesy photo
David Rivera, Eileen Fielding, Incy Muir, Kathleen Marshall, Sharene Wassell, Bob Pierce, Cheryl Donahue, Ed LaMontagne,
Ann Carabillo, Terry Corbo, Hap Poole, Althea Greaney, Karen Handville, Lisa Heavner and Vickie Dirienzo
Simsbury Woman’s Club gives ‘gifts to the community’
The Simsbury Woman’s
Club gave away about half of
the money it earned from its
2014 Arts and Crafts Festival at its annual “Gifts to the
Community” luncheon. The
remainder of the club’s earnings will be given away at a
later date after two Simsbury High School graduates
are chosen by the SWC to
receive scholarship money from the club’s college
scholarship fund. An adult
woman currently enrolled
in an institution of higher
learning will be the club’s
third scholarship recipient.
The Gifts to the Community presentation ceremony took place this year
at Simsbury’s Masonic Hall
where club members host-
ed a luncheon for representatives from each of the
organizations receiving the
club’s donations. First Selectman Lisa Heavner also
attended the luncheon. Most of the funds were
given to Simsbury-based
nonprofit community service organizations.
The Simsbury Social
Services Department received checks for its Food
Closet, Fuel Bank, Senior
Center and Social Workers
Fund. Simsbury Voluntary
Ambulance,
Farmington
Valley Visiting Nurses Association and the Simsbury
Veterans Memorial Fund
were also supported by the
club along with McLean’s
Meals on Wheels and Mc-
Lean’s “Personal Needs”
Fund.
Additional Simsbury
organizations
receiving
money from the club were
the Simsbury ABC House,
Simsbury Aging and Disability Commission, Simsbury Community Television, Simsbury Community
Band, Old Drake Hill Flower
Bridge and the town’s public library, Summer Theatre
and crew team. Regional non-profit organizations receiving funds
from the SWC are Hartford-based Interval House (a
shelter for women and children who have left abusive
situations), the Helen and
Harry Gray Cancer Center
and the Farmington River
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Watershed Association.
Funding these “gifts
to the community” and
the club’s scholarships is
the SWC’s annual Arts and
Crafts Festival. This year
will be the 46th consecutive
year the club has held the
event. The 2015 Festival will
be Sept. 19 and 20. Last year,
the Festival had 120 vendors
from throughout the Northeast and thousands of shoppers, making this one of the
largest arts and crafts festivals in northwestern Connecticut. The Festival is held
annually on Ironhorse Boulevard in downtown Simsbury close to restaurants,
biking and hiking trails and
Simsbury’s famous Flower
Bridge.
The SWC Arts and
Crafts Festival is a juried
event ensuring a wide variety of hand-crafted items. Applications from artists
and crafters who want to
participate in the Festival
are currently being accepted. Visit www.simsburywomansclub.org. For more
information about the
festival, contact Madeline
Gilkey at 860-658-5982. Jurying for this year’s event
will take place June 1, July
20 and Aug. 24.
The Simsbury Woman’s
Club welcomes new members. Club members regularly donate non-perishable
food items to the food pantry, clothing to the veterans
“Home of the Brave” organization, and personal care
items, clothing, housewares
and toys to Interval House. Club members also go to six
different Farmington Valley nursing homes where
they visit with the facility’s
residents, and at Christmas
time the club adopts two
Simsbury families through
the town’s Social Services
Department with the goal of
brightening the holidays for
those families.
Simsbury Bank gives grant to Hill-Stead
Courtesy photo
Simsbury Bank awarded Hill-Stead Museum $5,000 to support the museum’s May Market benefit event. Simsbury Bank is the presenting sponsor of May Market, a two-day
home, garden and gourmet festival on the grounds of Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington. Pictured from left to right: Robin DiNicola (Simsbury Bank VP and senior market
manager), Christine Bogino (Hill-Steaders president), Martin Geitz (Simsbury Bank president and CEO), Susan Ballek (Hill-Stead Museum executive director), Jocelyn Mitchell
(Simsbury Bank senior VP and chief retail banking officer), and Susan Orred (Hill-Stead
Museum director of development)
‘Wildman’ Steve Brill coming to nature center
On Saturday, May 23 at
1 p.m., well-known naturalist and author “Wildman”
Steve Brill will lead one of
his famous foraging tours at
Roaring Brook Nature Center, 70 Gracey Road, Canton.
The tour has been scheduled
just as late spring herbs and
greens should be popping up.
A 30-minute talk in the Nature Center auditorium will
be followed by a one hour
walking tour along the trails
of Werner’s Woods in search
of wild edibles. He is the author of “Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medici-
nal Plants in Wild (and Not
So Wild) Places” and “The
Wild Vegetarian Cookbook.”
Pre-registration is recommended. The pre-registration cost is $15 per person;
$20 at the door. Call 860693-0263 or at [email protected].
Is your
number
up?
The Simsbury Volunteer Fire Company
is reminding residents
to be sure that house
numbers are easily visible to all the emergency
services in town. A vital
piece of information is
one’s location.
A Simsbury ordinance specifies that
numbers not less than
three inches high are
placed in such a way that
they are visible from the
street. It is also helpful if
the numbers are reflective so they are visible at
night. Posting a home or
business number helps
emergency
services
personnel help those in
need without delay.
“Try finding the
numbers to your house
at night, in a rainstorm,
or when your shrubs and
trees are in full bloom.
Can you?” a press release
asks. “Putting your numbers up is easy, inexpensive and only takes a few
minutes.”
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bass; Branaugh Morton, viola; Sophia Cho, violin; and
Shane Pardus, cello. Their
teacher is Janet Fantozzi.
Fantozzi was also selected
to present a session entitled,
“How to Write, Produce and
Direct a Suzuki Drama.” The
Suzuki Drama is a 20-year
Union School tradition. “Young string students
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Farmington Scouts
attain the Eagle rank
On Friday, March 27,
Will Sanford and Spencer Pelham, members of Boy Scout
Troop 68, received their Eagle
Scout designations at a Court
of Honor conducted at The
Porter Memorial at the First
Church of Christ, 1652, in
Farmington.
Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable in the Boy
Scouting program.
Both Sanford and Pelham have been actively involved in Scouting for more
than eight years. During that
time, both have camped over
100 nights, volunteered many
hours for numerous service
projects, attended the Boy
Scouts National Youth Leadership Training and served
their troop as senior patrol
leader. Both have been elected to the Boy Scouts Honor
Society, the Order of the Arrow and earned the Troop
68’s Mountain Man Award for
hiking the tallest peak in each
of the New England states.
Sanford, 18, is the son of
Ted and Liz Sanford. His Eagle service project included
the construction of two trail
kiosks, trail work and the
creation of a trail map in the
Courtesy photo
Back row: Region 10 BOE Vice Chair Phillip Penn, Lewis S. Mills HS Athletic Director Dave Francalangia, Lewis S. Mills HS
crew coach Kyle Saraceno, Region 10 Superintendent Alan Beitman, Region 10 BOE Treasurer Paul Omichinski, Harwinton
Lions Club President Harry Schuh, Burlington Lions Club past President Jim Hunt, Burlington Lions Club President Rob
Cook; front row: Lewis S. Mills HS crew captains Sierra Thibault, senior; Benn Kelly, senior; Sage Iacovazzi, senior; Nick
McGough, junior; Tom Walker, junior; Emily Nedley, senior
Courtesy photo
Will Sanford and Spencer
Pelham at the Court of Honor
Farmington Memorial Town
Forest. He is a dean’s list
student at Avon Old Farms
School and next fall plans to
attend St Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. His grandfather, Robert W. Sanford, was
also an Eagle Scout in Troop
68.
Pelham, 18, is the son
of Doug and Teresa Pelham.
His Eagle service project included the creation of a permanent orienteering course
and course guide in the Farmington Memorial Town Forest. He is a senior honor roll
student at Watkinson School
and after a gap year he plans
to attend Vassar College in
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
For more information on
the troop visit troop68farmington.scoutlander.com.
New Lewis S. Mills crew team boat dedicated
On Monday, May 11
at Winding Trails in Farmington, the new chase boat
for the Lewis S. Mills High
School crew team was dedicated. The chase boat is
necessary to allow the coach
to ride alongside the crew
boats and instruct the rowers while they are training.
The donation of the chase
boat was made possible due
to the generosity of the Burlington Lions Club and the
Harwinton Lions Club. Originally, parents of LSM crew
members made a request of
the Lions Clubs asking if they
would help support their
purchase of a new boat. After
a good boat and motor were
located, a local paint shop
donated its services to give
the boat a fresh, clean look
and then the two Lions Clubs
donated the boat to the Mills
crew team. The chase boat is
emblazoned with the Lions
Club insignia as a thank you
for the support and generosity of the Burlington and Harwinton clubs.
Traveling Valley Artists celebrated at Seabury
Seabury Retirement
Community in Bloomfield
hosted a reception for The
Traveling Valley Artists
May 4. The artists being
celebrated were Helen David, Rose Mary Knoll, Bonnie Faraclas, Claire Padron
and Carol Mintell.
Their watercolors, oils
and acrylics will be at the
Seabury Gallery through
the month of May.
The group is committed to bringing paintings to various venues
throughout Connecticut
in hopes of providing opportunities for the enjoyment of art.
The group was founded by Mintell in September 2013. The artists hail
from the Simsbury, Avon,
Granby and East Granby
area.
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Gray
Matters
By Scott Gray
Above: Farmington goalie Vincent Stevens flattens Northwest Catholic’s Connor Murphy in the final minute.
Below: Farmington’s Owen LaPorte (2) scores a goal in the final minute of the third quarter.
Photos by David Heuschkel
Big playoff push for Farmington boys lax
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
On the mat, Vincent Stevens is a state champion heavyweight wrestler. On the lacrosse
field, he is a behemoth goaltender for the Farmington boys lacrosse team.
Listed at 5-feet-10 and 304
pounds on the CIAC website,
Stevens did his impersonation
of an 18 wheeler last week when
he ran over an opposing player
after Farmington’s opponent refused to roll over in the second
half.
Leading by seven goals at
halftime, Farmington held on
to beat Northwest Catholic 12-9
May 12 at Saint Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield.
Eight different players
scored for Farmington, led by senior Kyle Sopelak (three goals).
Seniors Owen LaPorte and Jake
Setzko each had two goals, and
junior Max Ruh had a goal and
three assists as Farmington improved to 9-3 overall and 3-0 in
the CCC North.
“We’re finding offense coming from multiple players, which
is very nice. You really can’t just
shut one of us off,” Farmington
coach Walt Stefanow said. “Obviously, they tried to shut Owen
LaPorte off, and we were able to
find offense from other players
like Kyle Sopelak and so forth,
and it worked out big for us.”
Farmington led 9-2 at halftime and 11-6 heading into
the fourth quarter. Northwest
Catholic scored three straight
goals, trimming the deficit to
two goals when Connor Murphy
took a pass from Spencer Merkel
and beat Stevens with 6:21 left.
Murphy had another good
chance with 3 ½ minutes remaining, but Stevens stopped
him this time. A minute later,
Stevens got lucky when another
shot by Murphy hit the post.
Setzko provided a big insurance goal, the only one by
Farmington in the fourth quarter, when he beat goalie David
Kalamarides with 1:42 remaining to bump the lead to three.
As Northwest Catholic
tried to gain possession, play
got physical. First, Murphy sent
Farmington defender Justin
Marsh flying backward as he
was throwing a pass. No infraction was called.
Seconds later, a flag flew
when Stevens blasted Murphy
to the right of the goal. Stevens
was assessed a push with possession penalty and spent the
last 24 seconds on the sideline.
“If you’re going to stand
on the crease, you better be
See PUSH on page 31
Ultimate championship for Avon team
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
It was not the ultimate
championship for Jim Murray.
His 2001 girls soccer team at
Avon that punctuated a perfect
season with the first state title
for the program would likely
earn that nod.
Make no mistake, though.
This was his Ultimate team.
Murray, who has won five
state titles as the girls soccer
coach, picked up his first in the
sport known as Ultimate when
Avon defeated three opponents
May 9 to win the Division II state
championship.
The Falcons went 3-1 in
the eight-team tournament
with wins over North Branford,
RHAM and the Forman School.
timate at UConn, where he was
a team captain.
One of those seniors was
Liam Toal, who played Ultimate
at the University of Maryland.
Brian Toal, Liam’s father, knew
Murray and has assisted him
with coaching the team.
In 2013, Avon had a meeting in January and played its
first full schedule that spring.
Submitted photo
The Frisbee-sized, hard-carved wooden disc will stand out in the trophy The Falcons played 10 matches
case at Avon High, the prize for winning the Division II state championship. and won just two, according to
the Connecticut Ultimate Club
Ultimate, a club sport, is started an Ultimate club back (CTUL) website.
played by 21 high school or in the 1980s that would practice
Last spring, Avon won 11
prep schools in the state. Avon and scrimmage each other, but matches and finished fifth in the
just completed its third varsity that ceased after several years D-II tournament.
season. The team was formed due to a lack of interest.
The object of the sport is
“Four years ago, a group of to move a flying disc (or Frisin 2012, playing one game that
seniors started organizing prac- bee) down a 70-yard field that
spring against a JV team.
Murray, a math teacher at tices in the fall and scrimmagAvon High, said he originally ing,” said Murray, who played UlSee ULTIMATE on page 30
Kevin Streelman has vivid memories of “living on couches and burning out cars” trying to find his way to the PGA
Tour. He remembers going to an ATM machine for $20
and receiving a one-word message, “Sorry.”
“I don’t take for granted anything that I have,” the
young pro from Chicago last week told a gathering at
the TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, where he reminisced about his second PGA Tour victory, the 2014
Travelers Championship.
Five weeks from now, Streelman will return to Cromwell to defend the title he won in record setting fashion,
when he finished a final nine 28 with seven straight
birdies, the longest string in PGA Tour history to win
a tournament. Streelman stood on the tee at the 12th
hole on the final day six strokes behind leader Aaron
Baddeley, tied for 19th place.
“It’s a magic place, where you just trust your instincts,” Streelman said of the zone that produced seven straight birdies, including a 40-foot putt on the par
three 16th hole that circled the cup and dropped in the
backdoor, and a downhill drizzler that caught the left
side of the hole on 17. “Mostly it’s just fun.”
Streelman waited more than an hour after finishing to
learn if he’d have to go back out for a playoff. He didn’t.
His 15 under stood up as Baddeley and the rest of the
field finished their rounds. “After coming off,” he said, “I
figured I’d go into a playoff. I was just having fun talking
to the people around the practice area.”
It’s been a fun and magical year for Streelman and
his young family since he left Cromwell last June with
the crystal trophy and a check for more than $1 million.
He opened golf’s big week at Augusta National with a
win in the Masters Par 3 competition with 13-year-old
Ethan Couch of the “Make a Wish” Foundation on his
bag. Only a hole-in-one by Jack Nicklaus could steal
any of his thunder in the event. Masters week ended in
equally magical fashion when Streelman dropped a 10
foot par putt on the final hole to secure a tie for 12th
place, ensuring an exemption for next year’s Masters.
These magic moments didn’t come easy for Kevin
Streelman.
“Coming out of Duke,” he recalled after viewing a
video of last year’s final seven holes, “I didn’t want to
get a regular job or go to med school, so I thought I’d
give this mini-tour stuff a try.”
His first attempts at making a living at golf were discouraging, “My first time at Q-School (PGA Tour qualifying school) didn’t go well. I missed the final by one shot.
I thought I was better than I really was.
“I got some money together to try some mini-tours
out West, but everyone out there were amazing golfers.
I lost all my money and went back to Chicago with my
tail between my legs and started looking for a real job.”
Sometimes dreams find you when you aren’t looking. So it was for Streelman.
“I was living in my parents’ basement and caddying
in Chicago. The Western Open was coming up. My dad
gave me $400 to pay to get into the Monday qualifier. I
made about an 18-foot left to right ‘snake’ on the final
hole to qualify for my first Tour event.”
Streelman lasted only two rounds. “I think I shot a
78-77 and missed the cut by a bunch,” but after two
rounds with touring pro Mike Weir, he felt he could
compete. “I knew what I wanted to do right there.”
In his sixth trip to Q-School, in 2007, Streelman
earned his card. More than 200 events later he says of
traveling the Tour with his wife and 1-year-old daughter: “It’s been an incredible journey.”
As Kevin Streelman relived his victory in Cromwell,
the defense, six weeks before the fact, got even tougher, as five major tournament winners – Ernie Els, Zack
Johnson, Louie Oosthuizen, Padraig Harrington and
Keegan Bradley – added their names to a Travelers’
field that already included Jason Day, Sergio Garcia,
Brandt Snedeker and former Travelers champs Hunter
Mahan and Bubba Watson, a two-time Masters winner.
With five weeks to go, three of the top 10 in the Official
World Golf Rankings are already in for June 24-28 at
the TPC River Highlands, as Travelers CFO Andy Bessette and tournament Director Nathan Grube continue
to outdo themselves from one year to the next.
Defending a PGA Tour championship isn’t meant to
be easy. Kevin Streelman, who once had an ATM machine deny him a request for $20, isn’t going to worry about how tough it will be, not after what he went
through to get to that defense. He’s in a magic place
now, where, as he says, “Mostly, it’s just fun.”
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Oliver returns for Canton
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
The Canton girls lacrosse team had little time
to feel sorry for itself following a last-second loss
to Immaculate of Danbury
last week in the final of six
non-league games for the
Warriors.
The next day, Canton
resumed its NCCC schedule with an 11-6
win over Suffield
in the penultimate game of
the regular season
for both teams.
The victory set the
stage for the May 19 match
between Canton and
Granby for the NCCC regular season championship.
Canton improved to
7-2 in the NCCC and 9-6
overall. The nine wins are
the most by the Warriors
since they began playing
as a varsity team in 2010.
With the 11-10 loss
to Immaculate May 13,
Canton finished 2-4 in
non-conference
games.
The other three losses
were to Fairfield Warde,
Bethel and Joel Barlow.
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is 40 yards in width and has
25-yard end zones. Players
cannot run with the disc. If
it is dropped, the other team
gets possession. Each team
has seven players on the
field at one time.
“It’s very fast paced.
You’ve got to really transition
quickly,” Murray said.
Avon had about 25
players on its co-ed roster,
The loss to Immaculate marked the return
of Canton junior Kaelyn
Oliver, who was recovering from a knee injury
she suffered playing field
hockey in the fall. She had
more than 50 goals as
a sophomore and
scored in the opening minute against
the Mustangs.
ing how to win,” Canton
coach Sean Cole said. “We
beat Granby, we
beat
Avon
[in]
two
close games.
I
didn’t
think this
Immaculate
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chance against
were the kind of
Immaculate with
Canton junior
games I thought
the score tied at
Kaelyn Oliver
we were learn10. Sophomore
Grace Giancola scored five
goals, but her final shot
was stopped by senior
goalie Bryanna Lopes with
1:40 left. Emma Charron
and Oliver each scored two
goals.
Playing her first competitive game since tearing her ACL last October,
Oliver was understandably
nervous. If she had any
fears or lingering questions
about her knee, she put
them to rest after taking
a pass from Giancola and
scoring 33 seconds in.
“I felt better about myself. It made me feel like my
knee was OK,” Oliver said.
“I could breathe a little.”
The plan was to play
five minutes, then take a
break. She wound up playing more than expected
because her knee felt well.
She did not play the next
day against Suffield.
“She’s been working
her butt off,” Cole said.
“Some kids get hurt and
feel sorry for themselves,
but Kaelyn has had a terrific attitude from the getgo. It makes it easy to pull
for her because she works
hard.”
ular season, the first team to
score 15 goals wins. Tournament games are played to 11.
Avon went 3-7 in the
regular season, but Murray said
the losing record was mostly
the result of teaching players.
“The only way they’re going to
learn is if they play,” he said.
In the one-day tournament, held at the Hotchkiss
School in Lakeville, Avon overcame a four-goal deficit at halftime to beat North Branford
11-9 in the first game. After
losing to Middletown JV, Avon
advanced to the championship
by defeating RHAM 11-2.
In the final, Avon
scored five unanswered
goals in an 11-5 win over
the Forman School. Young
had three assists and Guerrero had four goals, Koepke
and junior Mike Rostenberg
each had two goals and one
assist, and senior Jon Oh
had two assists and a goal.
which included three girls.
Murray credits senior captains Jack Young, Caleb Paul,
Dom Martinez and Logan
Edwards with organizing the
team and keeping it focused.
Young led the team
with 43 assists, meaning that
many of his tosses went for
scores. Many of them were
caught by freshman Nick
Guerrero, who led the team
with 27 goals, and Jonas
Koepke (20 goals). In the reg-
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Hope Shevchuk (Lewis Mills ’13), a sophomore shortstop on
the WPI softball team, is taking part in the Division III Super Regionals. Shevchuk went 2-for-3 against Williams May 10 to help
the Engineers to a 4-0 victory. Shevchuk was batting .360 on the
year. … Alexa Cipkas (Granby Memorial ’14), a freshman distance runner on the Salve Regina University womens track and
field team, enjoyed a stellar first year running for the Seahawks.
She was named one of the cross country team’s co-Rookies of the
Year for 2014. The award recognizes outstanding varsity contributions from a first year runner. She was part of the lineup that holds
the SRU record for combined team time for the 5K. Amy Irving,
Cipkas and four - other teammates set the record – 1:36:00.61 –
at the UMass-Dartmouth Invitational Sept. 20, 2014, eclipsing the
previous record by more than three minutes. It marked the first time
in the 33-year history of cross country at Salve Regina that all five
scorers broke 20 minutes for the 5K. … Sara Stokesbury (Avon
’14), in her first year on the Tufts University womens cross country
and track and field team, also enjoyed a terrific year. Stokesbury
was awarded the Rookie of the Year award for the womens cross
country team and was the only Tufts freshman to compete at the
Division III Cross Country Nationals in Mason, Ohio, where the Tufts
women finished 16th out of 32 teams. She was also chosen by the
U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) for the NCAA Division III Cross Country All-Academic
team. Honorees must have a cumulative grade point average of
at least 3.30 and have finished in the top 25 percent of all runners
at the NCAA regionals. ... Sophomore Mitch Glasgow (Simsbury
’13) and freshman Richard Rorick (Simsbury ’14) each contributed
to the recent success of the UConn mens lacrosse team this spring.
The team won the PCLL Division I conference tournament for the
first time and earned its first trip to the MCLA national tournament
held this year in Irvine, Calif. … Ashley Piccirillo-Horan (Granby Memorial High ‘13), a sophomore on the Brandeis University
womens track and field team, placed 14th in the 1500 at the UAA
Track and Field Championships April 25. … Also at Brandeis, Liam
O’Connor (Avon ’12), a junior on the baseball team, hit .328 this
year. He led the team with 24 runs scored and was second with 44
hits. Connor Doyle (Avon Old Farms ’12), is a catcher on the team
and hit two home runs and drove in 13 runs for Judges. College corner is a periodic feature that follows the collegiate athletic careers of former high school students from Farmington Valley
towns. Please email the name of any individuals along with their
college and sport to staff writer Ted Glanzer at [email protected].
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Granby senior Julia Mazzotta was named to the
All-State Team in girls basketball by the Connecticut
High School Coaches Association. She became the
first female player in school history to surpass 1,000
career points. She is pictured with Coach Dean Godin
at the CHSCA banquet April 21.
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Last week is a clincher for Farmington baseball
By Brendan Driscoll
Corresponent
For the Farmington
baseball team, it doesn’t get
any more exciting than last
week. It began with back-toback extra-winning wins over
Newington and Southington,
and ended with a walk-off
victory against Conard.
And the best part of a
3-0 week was the Indians secured a spot in the Class LL
state tournament, which begins next month.
One mighty swing ended an 11-game losing streak
to Southington. Farmington’s
David Maljanian provided
the decisive blow, a three-run
homer to left that sailed over
the tree and broke a tie in the
top of the eighth.
“They were in stunned
disbelief,” Farmington coach
Mike McGuire said.
The 4-1 win by Farmington May 13 avenged a
14-3 loss to Southington in
the first game between the
teams this spring.
The next day, Farmington beat Conard 4-3 with
a run in the bottom of the
seventh. The win ended an
eight-game losing streak to
the Chieftains (4-12) and put
them on the brink of being
mathematically eliminated
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prepared to get hit,” Stefanow
said. “I have no problem with
Vinny doing that.”
With its fifth straight
loss, Northwest Catholic
(3-10) was mathematically
eliminated from qualifying for
the Class S state tournament
after advancing to the semifinals a year ago. Northwest
played without Cameron Von
Hollander (thumb).
from qualifying for the state he kind of slings the ball,”
tournament.
McGuire said. “I told him all I
With six wins in eight wanted him to do was throw
games, Farmington im- strikes and try to get ahead
proved to 9-7 with four in the count. I knew they’d
games left in the
be out in front because he
regular season.
doesn’t throw too hard.
“I knew
…I call the pitches, so if I
it had been
called slider on the corner,
awhile since
he delivered it.”
we had beatIn
the
en Conard
4-3 win over
and I had
Conard, Dom
never beatAlfano trotted
en Southhome with
ington,”
the winning
McGuire
run on an
said. “Even
error by
when I had
third basethe team that
man Lucas
went to the
Busch.
state finals in 2011,
Trailing
they handled us
3-2 in the fifth,
both times. It’s nice
Farmington tied
to exorcise those
it with consecutive
demons.”
two-out hits. AfPhoto by
Senior
ter Max GermaBrendan Driscoll
Connor Welsh
no was thrown
got a rare opportunity to
out attempting
start against Southington,
to steal, Derek
ranked No. 4 in the state. He
Duffy singled
did not factor in the decision
to center
but held the Blue Knights
and
scoreless until they scored Farmington pitcher Derek
their only run in the fifth.
Fern
Ethan Finn
McGuire called it a
fol“phenomenal performance.” lowed with a triple to left.
Welsh induced 16 fly ball outs.
“When I got to the
“I just had a hunch. His park Fern was sitting on the
motion is a little funky and bench with a terrible mi“Northwest is a good
team, I don’t care what their
record says. They are a good
team,” Stefanow said. “They
graduated a good team last
year and they’re well-coached.
They play hard. I told [my]
guys the whole game, ‘We
cannot sit on a lead with
these guys.’ Northwest gritted
it out, hustled back. Luckily, we finally woke up from a
little sleep at halftime and we
were able to hold them off.”
With the win, Farmington remained in contention
for the CCC North regular
season title and was in a good
position to play in the CCC
tournament, which begins
May 26. The Indians moved
up to Class L.
“We have a very large
senior class that has been
playing together since youth
lacrosse. It’s just finally culminated to having a good season,” Stefanow said.
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graine headache,” McGuire
said. “He took a little batting
practice and said he wanted
to give it a shot. He was on
it today. I said to him we are
going to find out how to give
him a migraine every game.”
McGuire likely had a
headache when he learned
pitcher Noah Gulino, who
was scheduled to start against
Conrad, was scratched due to
a bout with bronchitis. Elijah
Sicklick started the game but
lasted only 13 pitches before leaving with a sore arm.
Joey Harrell inherited a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the
first but escaped the threat by
inducing Conard’s Brendan
Dakin to ground into a 6-4-3
double play.
Ethan Finn, who entered
the game in the fifth, earned
the victory. He retired all seven batters, striking out two.
The Chieftains left 10 men
on base during the game and
loaded the bases three different times, but only managed
to score one run in those situations.
“We believe we can beat
anybody,” McGuire said. “So
we go out with the mindset
that we are going to take care
of our jobs and the results
will take care of themselves.”
Simsbury softball
Photos by David Heuschkel
The Simsbury softball team secured a berth in the Class
LL state tournament with wins over Hall and New Britain
last week. Lauren Catalano, pictured, allowed just four
hits and struck out nine in a 15-0 win over Hall. At the
plate, she had three hits and drove in two runs. Nicole
Gomez-Nieto had four hits and drove in two runs. Erica
Bushey, pictured, had two hits and two RBIs. The Trojans
improved to 8-7 with a 4-2 win over New Britain.
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No ‘mercy’ shown in Farmington loss
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
The disparity in talent had much to do
with the lopsided score when the Farmington softball team lost 42-0 to Southington
last week. It was the 60th straight win by the
Blue Knights, the No. 1 ranked team in the
state, and the ninth time this spring the Indians lost a game by 15 or more runs.
In high school softball, the 15-run mercy
rule is designed to prevent one team from embarrassing another. That rule did not work
this time. In fact, it wasn’t even invoked.
According to the CIAC mercy rule, the
game is stopped if a team is leading by 15 or
more runs after five innings or the visiting
team is trailing by 15 after the top of the fifth.
After four innings against Southington,
Farmington coach Betsy Harvey had seen
enough. She spoke to athletic director Jack
Phelan and Harvey made the decision to
stop it at that point.
“I have been involved in situations
where other teams have had to do that with
us. We have never had to end a game early,” Harvey said. “It was getting to the point
where the kids weren’t getting anything out
of it. So I made the call unfortunately, which
I think questions the integrity of the game. I
said we’ll end after four innings.
Last Friday, CIAC spokesman Joel Cookson said he was not aware of any plans to explore score management issues in softball.
Any such decision would have to come from
the softball committee, he added. Nothing
was done when Farmington beat Bloomfield
45-1 two years ago.
Southington scored 22 runs in the first
inning. According to a Farmington parent,
the electronic scoreboard at Tunxis Mead
was turned off when it was 37-0 in the third
inning. Several parents refused comment.
Conard coach Tom Verrengia was asked
what would be a solution to prevent future
embarrassing situations.
“I’m not sure,” he said. “I just think as
adults we have to understand situations as
best as we can.”
Verrengia, who is in his 21st season at
Conard, said there have been times his team
had a comfortable margin and he instructed
his players to bunt balls back to the pitcher
rather than swing away. He said he doesn’t
want his kids to purposely swing at pitches
that are out of the strike zone because it embarrasses the other team.
Farmington pitchers had trouble consistently throwing strikes against Southington
and issued a lot of walks, Harvey said. According to the line score, Southington had 20 hits
and Farmington fielders made eight errors.
Southington coach Davina Hernandez
was quoted in a New Britain Herald story,
calling it “a bad situation all the way around.”
She said she had right-handed batters hitting from the left side of the plate and pulled
some starters.
“Yes, I do think the situation got out of
hand. However, I don’t think it was as malicious as it looks,” Harvey said. “We struggled to throw strikes. There were a lot of full
Photos by David Heuschkel
Farmington senior Abby Peltier wasn’t
swinging for the fences – there aren’t any on
Conard’s softball field – but she still drove a
pitch far enough for her second home run of
the game in a 14-4 loss to the Chieftains May
14 in West Hartford.
counts where I thought Southington could
have swung at more pitches. Our struggle
this year is pitching. If you don’t have consistent pitching in high school softball, that’s
really going to be your downfall.”
The next day, Farmington played considerably better in a 14-4 loss to Conard
that mathematically eliminated the Indians
(3-13) from qualifying for the state tournament. Farmington senior Abby Peltier hit
two home runs.
“You can see from our scores we’ve had
a really rough year,” Harvey said. “Coaches
need to be aware of that. Coaches need to
check the scores. They need to see what’s
happening. When we played Southington
previously, we only got an inning and a half
in, not even two full innings, and it was
already 17-0.
“We – the coaches, the umpires – don’t
want to take away from the integrity of the
game, so we’re not going to dial it down and
make it rec league rules. It’s still a game, it
still has a book of rules, and we’re going to
play by those rules. It’s really just how the
game is managed by the coaches.”
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Simsbury has better aim in second half
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
Back in April, Simsbury
boys lacrosse coach Jim Martocchio watched Conard
beat Newtown by one goal.
Seven days later, Martocchio
watched his town team lose
to Newtown by a goal.
Based on those results,
the CCC West match between the Trojans and Chieftains last week figured to be
a close encounter. And it was
for one half.
But the Trojans scored
five straight goals to start the
second half and went on to
beat Conard 16-10 May 12 at
Holden Field.
Since he took over as
Simsbury varsity coach in
2010, Martocchio’s teams are
8-0 against Conard and have
gone 31-3 against CCC teams
in the regular season. All three
losses were to Glastonbury.
Simsbury travels to
Glastonbury to play the
Tomahawks May 22. The
result of that game will determine the seeding for the
conference tournament later
this month. Conard could be
among the teams in the Will
Hunter Classic and there’s
a possibility the Chieftains
could meet Simsbury.
Last week, Conard and
Simsbury were tied at 5 at
halftime. But the Trojans
scored five straight goals to
start the third quarter, highlighted by Keith Penney’s
goal in which he threw a
huge fake on Conard defender Nate Richam and beat
goalie Tim Fisher to make
it 10-5 with 1:38 left in the
quarter.
After Conard’s Jack
Gerundo scored with 43
seconds left, Sean Penney
scored 16 seconds later when
he squeezed a shot between
Fisher and the right post to
make it 11-6.
“Simsbury is – what do
you call it? – lightning in the
bottle, and you’ve got to try to
contain them,” Conard coach
Bill Condon said. “I thought
in the first half we did just
that. We had nice possessions on offense. Our defense
did a good job of containing
the Levin brothers, who are
always dangerous. That was
the tempo we wanted.”
Zack Levin led the Trojans with four goals. Sean
Penney and Alex George
each had three, and Willem
Rooney added two as Simsbury improved to 10-2.
Martocchio said George
did a good job controlling the
face-offs. The Trojans had
better aim in the second half,
beating Fisher with several
high shots.
“He’s good low for a big
kid,” Martocchio said. “The
first couple of quarters, he was
making some good saves right
down low at his feet. Once we
started hitting the net, it was
just a matter of finding it.”
Photo by David Heuschkel
Simsbury’s Zack Levin sets his sights on knocking the ball away from Conard goalie Tim Fisher.
Simsbury’s two losses
were to Newtown and Joel
Barlow, with one goal being
the difference in both games.
Martocchio said his team
didn’t play well in a 7-6 loss to
Newtown. So, he wasn’t overly
concerned that Conard beat
the Nighthawks a week earlier.
Simsbury and Conard
had three other common
opponents besides Newtown. The Trojans and
Chieftains each played – and
beat – Northwest Catholic,
Southington and Farmington. Against those teams,
Simsbury’s average margin
of victory was 13 goals and
Conard’s was 5.67.
“The thing when you
scout Conard, you never
know,” Martocchio said.
“Bill’s been doing this forever. He was the coach when
I played here [at Simsbury].
You never know what they’re
going to throw at you. You
can never trust one scout to
the next with these guys. You
got to just trust your game
and whatever you’re going to
do. That’s kind of what we did
going into this.”
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Six straight for Farmington boys volleyball
By Ted Glanzer
Staff Writer
Farmington boys volleyball coach Juliette Givens is not using the state
championship won by the
girls team last fall as motivation for the boys this
spring.
“They’re establishing
their own identity,” said
Givens, an assistant on the
girls team that capped a
25-1 season with the Class
L title in November. “It’s
just something that they
are working on their own.”
A 3-0 win over Conard
(25-14, 25-16, 25-20) May
13 was part of a six-game
winning streak by Farmington, who won all three
matches last week to im-
prove to 13-3.
When this week began,
Farmington was No. 5 in the
Class L rankings with four
matches remaining. This is
the first year the Indians are
in L, which is based on enrollment size. The Indians
went 16-9 overall last spring
and lost in the Class M state
tournament quarterfinals
for the fourth straight year.
Photo by Ted Glanzer
Farmington junior Carson Frey, right, goes up for a kill that Conard’s Derek Ehle attempts to
block. Frey had eight kills in a straight-sets win by the Indians May 13.
In the win over Conard,
senior setter John Dunphy,
a team captain, led the
way with 20 assists, setting
the table for middle hitter
Carson Frey (eight kills),
outside hitter Mark Steele
(eight kills) and middle hitter Robert Oakley (seven
kills). Outside hitter Matthew Lizon also had 8 kills
and 13 digs.
“[Dunphy] is one of the
best in the state, he’s our
quarterback,” Givens said.
“He’s carrying this team.
He’s doing a very good job.” Frey, who is just a second-year player, clogged the
middle with his height and
athleticism. “He’s coming along
very, very strong,” Givens
said. Defensively, the Indians were led by libero Griffin Cecil, who had 29 digs. And while the Farmington boys may not be using
the girls' title as a template,
they are looking forward to
having their own deep run
in the state tournament. “We’re trying to compete in Class L. We’re trying to prepare ourselves for
Class L,” Givens said. Darien has also moved
up to Class L. The No.
4-ranked Blue Wave (152) eliminated Farmington
three straight years (201113) in the M quarterfinals.
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Athletes of the Week
Tessa McNaboe
Girls Lacrosse
Class: 2015
Other high school
sports: Cross Country
Chosen college: Southern Connecticut State
University
Keys to success: “Hard
work and passion.”
Honors: All-Conference
2012 and 2013, Register
Citizen All-League 2014
Dream job: Elementary
school teacher
Best word that
Tessa McNaboe
describes me as an
Lewis Mills
athlete: Competitive
Favorite quote: “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether
you get up.” –Vince Lombardi
Pre-game ritual: “My teammates/best friends and I spray our favorite
scent (Coconut Lime Verbana) on right before the game.”
Favorite snack: Trail mix
Favorite meal: Chicken Parmesan
Song that pumps me up: “Black Dog” by Led Zeppelin
Been listening to (artist/band): Twenty One Pilots
Hidden talent: “I can play the trumpet.”
Favorite movie: “The Devil Wears Prada”
Famous person I met: Billy Joel
My must-see TV show: “Modern Family”
TV show character who cracks me up: Chandler from “Friends”
Favorite pro team: Green Bay Packers
Dream vacation: Australia
My time machine is set to…: “1980 because they had the best music.”
My three dinner guests would be: My grandfather, Robin Williams,
Jennifer Aniston
Steven Carrier
Baseball
Class: 2015
Keys to success: “Work
hard, be a team player,
always strive to be
better.”
Success: Four-year
varsity baseball, 2014
CT Junior All Star Team,
Scholar Athlete award
as freshman
Best word that
describes me as an
athlete: Dedication
Favorite quote: “Never
be content with being
average. Strive to be the
Avon High
best you can be.”
–Coach Armstrong
Pre-game ritual: “Always have to take Advil before every game,
keeps the pain away, been doing this since Little League.”
Favorite snack: Cinnamon Toast Crunch bars
Favorite meal: My mother’s chicken cutlets
Song that pumps me up: “Sun Daze” by Florida Georgia Line
Been listening to (artist/band): Luke Bryan, Chris Young
Hidden talent: Throw a great knuckleball
Favorite movie: “Big Hero 6”
Famous person I met: NHRA drag racer John Force
My must-see TV show: “Walking Dead”
TV show character who cracks me up: Roger from “American Dad”
Favorite pro team: Boston Red Sox
Dream job: “Working with my father and grandfather in their construction business, Carrier Home Builders Inc.”
Dream vacation: Alaska
Dream car: Lamborghini Aventador
My time machine is set to…: “2009, 12-year-old Little League season,
playing in All-Stars and also playing in Cooperstown Dreams Park.”
My three dinner guests would be: Jimmy Fallon, Channing Tatum,
Rob Dyrdek
Steven Carrier
check it out
AVON–––––––––––––
Avon Senior Center, 635 West Avon
Road, 860-675-4355: closed May 25 for
Memorial Day; Dress Down Day Tuesday,
May 26; Story of My Life Tuesday, May
26, 12:45 p.m.; Shuffleboard Wednesday, May 27, 10 a.m.; Caregiver Support
Group Thursday, May 28, 2:30 p.m.;
Breakfast with October Kitchen Friday,
May 29, 10 a.m., Five Healthy Steps for
living over 65, breakfast by Chef Paul,
sign up; free hearing screenings Friday,
May 29, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Perennial Plant Sale Saturday, May 23,
8 a.m.-noon, Church of St. Ann, corner
West Avon and Arch roads, plants from
members’ gardens, sale benefits social
justice scholarship program
Memorial Day Parade and observances Monday, May 25, stepping off at 11
a.m. from parking lot of Sperry Park on
Simsbury Road, 11:30 a.m. memorial
service at Veterans Memorial on Town
Green; in event of rain, ceremonies at
Avon Senior Center, 635 West Avon Road
at 11 a.m.
Avon Newcomers meeting Tuesday,
May 26, luncheon at 11:30 a.m.
Sew Thankful Quilters making Quilts
of Valor for service people touched by
war Thursday, May 28, 6-9 p.m., at Avon
Congregational Church, 6 West Main St.,
drop in
Garden Club of Avon bus trip June 24
to Wayside Inn Historic Site in Sudbury,
Mass., and The Garden in the Woods in
Framingham, Mass., $78, call Lynn at
860-989-7590 by June 10
Weekly meditation class ongoing
Tuesdays, 7:15-8:30 p.m., at Be.Yoga,
17 West Main St., $10 per class, info
at 860-266-6041, everyone welcome
– (Really) Enjoying Relationships with
resident teacher Kadam Eve Arias from
Odiyana Center, East Hartford
Rec and Parks Department registration for summer programs including
swim memberships and swim lessons at
www.avonrec.com
Avon Arts Association Spring Mem-
bers Show June 7-29 at the Simsbury
Library, with opening reception June
7, 1:30-3:30 p.m. and presentation of
scholarships
ren, former guard for Boston Celtics,
presenting his experiences with drugs
and alcohol Wednesday, May 27, 6:30
p.m., at Canton High School, open to the
public (860-693-0887)
BURLINGTON–––––––
Current dog license renewal during
months of May and June at town clerk’s
office, or by mail with a stamped,
self-addressed envelope to Canton Town
Clerk, c/o Dog Licensing, P.O. Box 168,
Collinsville, 06022 – all dogs whose licenses are purchased or renewed by
June 30 entered in a special drawing to
receive Tag #1 and a basket of goodies
Burlington Parks & Rec programs
at
www.burlingtonctparksandrec.
com: Cardio Kickboxing Mondays and
Wednesdays thru June 17, 6:30-7:30
p.m., at Lewis S. Mills Aerobics Room,
walk-ins $10 per class;Toning and Shaping ongoing thru June 22, 7:15-8:15
p.m., fee $45, at Town Hall auditorium or
Senior Center, walk-ins $4 per class at
the door with signed waiver; Total Body
Fitness Tuesdays and Thursdays thru
June 25, 6:15-7:15 p.m., at the Senior
Center, $4 per class at the door; accepting applications for counselors-in-training and junior counselors for Foote Road
camp program, info on website
Register now for all Canton Parks and
Rec summer programs and events online at www.cantonrec.org or call 860693-5808: Explorers Day Camp, CAST,
Red Cross swimming lessons, Dusky
Dolphins swim team, Lifeguard and Water Safety Instructor Certification courses, Mad Science Camps, Let’s Gogh Art
Camps, Tiny Tots Pre-School Camp, Teen
Adventure Travel Camp, SCUBA certification course, Water Aerobics, Water Polo,
Skyhawks Sports camps, self-defense
class and more
Burlington Library’s board of library
directors looking for a few dedicated
people to serve on the New Building
Committee, send or email letter with
qualifications by Friday, May 29 to: Marie Spratlin Hasskarl, Library Director,
Burlington Public Library, P.O. Box 1379,
34 Library Lane, Burlington, 06013
Farmington River Coordinating Committee offering two scholarships to high
school graduates or current undergraduates from Canton who will be attending
college to major in environmental science or a related field, info at farmingtonriver.org
CANTON––––––––––
At Roaring Brook Nature Center, 70
Gracey Road, 860-693-0263, rbnc@
thechildrensmuseumct.org:
• May-June Discovery Days four-week
program, “Exploring Together,” for preschoolers ages 3-5 and a parent/grandparent, beginning Friday, May 22 and
running thru Friday, June 12, 1:15-2:15
p.m.
• “Wildman” Steve Brill Saturday, May
23, 1 p.m., pre-register for $15, $20 at
the door
FARMINGTON––––––
Game Night Benefit Auction Thursday,
May 21, 6-10:30 p.m., at the Hill-Stead
Museum, 35 Mountain Road – multicourse dinner, live and silent auctions
At the UConn Health Center, 263 Farmington Ave.:
• IVF Info Session Thursday, May 21,
6-8:30 p.m., Cell and Genome Science
Building, 400 Farmington Ave., register at
860-679-4580 or www.uconnfertility.com
• Infertility Peer Support Group Thursday, May 21, 7 pm., Center for Advanced
Reproductive Services, 2 Batterson Park
Road (860-523-8337)
• Free Hospital Maternity Tours Saturday,
May 23, 2:30-3:30 p.m., main lobby, call
1-800-535-6232 to register
Calling all veterans for Memorial Day
Parade Monday, May 25, 10 a.m. – if
interested, contact CAO office at 860693-7841
VNA blood pressure screenings
Wednesday, May 27, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.,
at the Canton Community Center, 40
Dyer Ave.
Canton Valley Dental and The Wide
Open Committee (golf classic) sponsoring motivational speaker Chris Her-
To submit an event for the calendar,
e-mail Sally at
[email protected]
• New Stroke Survivor Group Wednesday, May 27, noon-1 p.m., Outpatient
Pavilion, 3rd floor, 860-679-4846
Pancakes on Parade Day Monday, May
25, 9:30-11:30 a.m., at First Church of
Christ, 61 Main St., Unionville, $7 adults,
$5 seniors and kids under 11, available
to go – pancakes with sausage and coffee or juice
VNA blood pressure screenings Tuesday,
May 26, 1-2:30 p.m., at the Farmington Senior Center, 321 New Britain Ave., Unionville
Tunxis Seniors bingo Wednesday, May
27, 1 p.m., at the Farmington Senior
Center, 321 New Britain Ave., Unionville,
buy boards between 12:30 and 1 p.m.
(860-404-0737)
Farmington UNICO and Amy’s Angels’
A Taste of Italy Thursday, May 28, 6:309 p.m., at Farmington Gardens, 999
Farmington Ave., NBC News anchor Todd
Piro as MC, pouring by Wine Cellars, tickets $35 at the door or at Franklin Jewelers, Post Office Square
Farmington Chamber of Commerce
annual dinner Thursday, May 28 beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Farmington Club,
162 Town Farm Road, announcing business leader awards, with speaker Sen.
Chris Murphy, $60 per person, register
at 860-678-8490
Farmington Garden Club offering the
June Ray Scholarship of $1,000 to a
graduating senior at Farmington High
School who will be attending a four-year,
two-year or technical college in September, majoring in horticulture, agriculture,
environmental studies or a related major,
applications obtainable in FHS counseling office
Unionvillle Museum’s exhibit, “These
Are a Few of Our Favorite Things,”
Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, 2-4
p.m., thru June 7, at the museum, 15
School St., Unionville, 860-673-2231
GRANBY––––––––––
At the Granby Senior Center, 15 North
Granby Road, 860-844-5352:
• Excursion to: Ocean Beach, New Lon-
don, Wednesday, May 27, departing 9:30
a.m., $5 for the ride
Summer sessions at Maple View
Farm, Salmon Brook Street, starting
July 6, weekly thru Aug. 14, sign up on
website or in Farm Store
Pilgrim Covenant Church Vacation Bible School June 22-26, 6-8 p.m., open
to the public, registration forms at the
church, 605 Salmon Brook St., or printed
from www.pilgrimcovenantchurch.org
SIMSBURY–––––––-–
At the Simsbury Senior Center, Eno
Memorial Hall, 754 Hopmeadow St.,
860-658-3273:
• Lunch Café Friday, May 22, 11 a.m.noon, New England clam chowder, sliced
turkey and tuna salad sandwich, take out
or eat in, $3 sandwich, $3 soup Simsbury
residents age 50 and over, non-residents
and Simsbury residents under 50 $4
• Foot Care Clinic Tuesday, May 26,
appts. starting at 8:30 a.m. thru Senior
Center, cost $29
• Hearing clinic Tuesday, May 26, appts.
starting at 10 a.m., free
• Lunch at Eno Wednesday, May 27,
noon, turkey cutlet in mushroom cream
sauce, sign up by the Friday before (May 22)
• Senior Citizen Night at Simsbury High
School Thursday, May 28, 5 p.m. dinner,
6 p.m. art show, 7 p.m. choral review,
sign up by Friday May 22
• Dinner and Bingo Monday, June 1,
4:30-6:30 p.m., $3, sign up by Thursday,
May 28
Events at Simsbury Free Library, 749
Hopmeadow St., 860-408-1336 or [email protected]:
• Genealogy Road Show Saturday, May
23, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., free to members, $5
for non-members, RSVP
• Movie “To Catch a Thief” Thursday,
May 28, 1 p.m., RSVP
Simsbury/Tariffville Memorial Day
Parades Monday, May 25 – Tariffville
assemble at 8:30 a.m. and step off at 9
a.m.; Simsbury assemble at 1 p.m. on
Owens Brook Boulevard and step off at
1:30 p.m.
Simsbury High School Art Show Tuesday,
At the Library
Avon Public Library,
281 Country Club Road, 860-673-9712,
www.avonctlibrary.info:
• Blood Pressure Screening Thursday,
May 21, 12:15-1:45 p.m.
• Teen Karaoke Thursdays from 2:30-4
p.m. thru June 11, grades 7-12, drop in
• Family Game Night Thursday, May 21,
6:30-8 p.m., ages 7 and up
• Teen Book Discussion “Cinder’ by
Marissa Meyer Tuesday, May 26, 2:303:30 p.m., at Avon Middle School Media
Center
• Tobacco Shed program Wednesday,
May 27, 3-4 p.m. – sheds in Valley area
• Computer Classes with the Uberbots
Wednesday, May 27, 3:30-5 p.m. – rent
an Uberbot Day
• 3D Printing Thursday, May 28, 7 p.m.,
what is it, why it’s important and how
to do it
Burlington Library,
34 Library Lane, 860-673-3331,
www.Burlingtonctlibrary.info:
• TAC meeting Thursday, May 21, 6:30
p.m., grades 6 and up, register
• Bag Sale Saturday, May 30, 10 a.m.1 p.m.
• Journey Around the World children’s
program Saturday, May 30, 1 p.m., all
ages, register
Canton Public Library,
40 Dyer Ave., 860-693-5800:
• Storytime Storywalks Thursdays,
1:30 p.m., for children 4-5-K with
caregiver: May 21, Clouds (Condensation) and May 28, Raindrops Keep
Falling on My Head (Precipitation)
• Music for Me: Drop-in Music and
Movement Time Friday, May 22, time
TBD, ages 6-36 months
• Drop-in Story Time: May Flowers
Tuesday, May 26, 10:30 a.m., ages 3
and up
• PJ Story Time: Silly Animals Wednesday, May 27, 6:30 p.m., ages 3 and up,
register
• Artist Mary Wooten in main gallery
space; Collinsville Farmers Market
exhibit in display case (market in the
library/community center parking lot
last three Sundays in June)
Farmington Library,
6 Monteith Drive, 860-673-6791, ext. 1,
www.farmingtonlibraries.org:
• Afternoon at the Bijou Thursdays,
2 p.m.: May 21, “A Face in the Crowd”
and May 28, “Room for One More”
• What’s the Buzz? Honey Bees and
Beekeeping Thursday, May 21, 7 p.m.,
with Ned Farrell, beekeeper and owner
of The Bee Happy Co., register
• Read to Lucy! certified therapy dog
Saturday, May 23, 9:15-10:45 a.m.,
sign up for 10-minute time
• Stomp Rockets Wednesday, May
27, 3-4:30 p.m., grades 7-12, design,
build, launch stomp rockets
• Director’s College event: Growing
Up in World War II Czechoslovakia
Wednesday, May 27, 7-8:30 p.m., with
host Joseph A. Voves
• Spring Art Show in Community Room
thru July 10, contact library in advance
on room’s availability
Barney Library, 71 Main St.,
860-673-6791, ext. 2
• Crafting quilts with old T-shirts Thursday, May 21, 1 p.m., free – no prior
knowledge of sewing or quilting required
Granby Library,
15 North Granby Rd., 860-844-5275:
• Libraries closed Saturday, May 23
and Monday, May 25
• Family Story Hour Tuesday, May 26,
6:30 p.m., at Cossitt Library, 388 North
Granby Road, 860-653-8958
• Sci-Fi Book Group Wednesday, May
27, 7 p.m.
Simsbury Library,
725 Hopmeadow St., 860-658-7663:
• Sit and Stitch Needlework Group Friday, May 22, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
• Friday Flicks 1-3:30 p.m.: May 22,
“Mame” and May 29, “The Music Man”
• Friends Coffeehouse: Hungrytown –
Original Roots Music Friday, May 22,
8-9:30 p.m., sign up
• Bicycle Repair and Maintenance
with Dave Bishop Wednesday, May 27,
6:30-8 p.m.
• Books wanted for September Used
Book Sale, collection site at library May
26-Aug. 29
• Art display for the month of May:
Frank Marotta’s sportraits, Bernard
Duffy’s paintings and Shirley Mae
Neu’s contemporary paintings in
the Program Room; Donna Morency
portrait paintings in the West Gallery;
Sally Sargent Markey’s watercolors
and crafts in display case; Simsbury
Camera Club photographs in East
Gallery
Teen programs
• Practice PSAT Exam Saturday,
May 23, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., RSVP
Children’s programs
• Baking: Grades K-2 Thursday, May 21
at 4 p.m., Lightning Cake, register
• Baking: Grades 3-6 Thursday,
May 28 at 4 p.m., Fashioned Gingerbread, register
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Arts & Events
May 26, 6-8 p.m., Wednesday, May
27, 7:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m., and Thursday, May 28, 7:30 a.m.-noon at the
high school, 34 Farms Village Road
Avon, Stop & Shop in Simsbury and
Shop Rite in Canton – all proceeds
benefiting local, state and national
veteran causes
Simsbury Chamber of Commerce
Coffee and Networking Wednesday,
May 27, 8-9 a.m., hosted by Peter
Mowry, financial adviser with Edward
Jones, 714 Hopmeadow St., Suite 7,
register by Monday, May 25, 860651-7307, www.simsburycoc.org
Tunxis Community College in
Farmington Open House for its
Business and Technology programs Wednesday, May 27, 5:30
p.m., Room 6-127, info at 860-7731490
Latimer Lane Bike/Walk to School
Wednesday, May 27
Farmington Valley VNA blood pressure screenings Wednesday, May
27, 11:45 a.m.-2:15 p.m., at Eno
Memorial Hall, 754 Hopmeadow St.
Bicycle Repair and Maintenance
with Dave Bishop of the Bicycle Cellar Wednesday, May 27, 6:30-8 p.m.,
at Simsbury Library as part of National Bike Month, registration suggested at 860 658-7663
Concert Series: Music in the Garden Saturday, May 30, 7 p.m., Phelps
Homestead lawn, Simsbury Historical
Society, 800 Hopmeadow St., Asylum
Quartet, free admission, donations
suggested
Wounded Warrior Project Bake Sale
Monday, May 25, Memorial Day, at
12:30 p.m. in the Martocchio Music
parking lot, 1 Massaco St., all proceeds benefiting Wounded Warrior
Project, to donate baked goods, contact [email protected]
VALLEY & BEYOND–
Pedals for Progress collecting
working or repairable sewing machines and bicycles Saturday, May
23, noon-3 p.m., at Holcomb Farm,
113 Simsbury Road, Granby, $10
minimum donation toward shipping
(860-653-7758, www.p4p.org)
Avon-Canton VFW Post 3272 Buddy Poppy Drive thru Sunday, May
24, in three locations – Walmart in
Farmington Valley VNA Caregiver
Support Group Thursday, May 28,
2-3 p.m., at the Avon Senior Center,
635 West Avon Road, Avon, pre-register by contacting Karen Bignelli,
R.N., or Laura Perednia, LCSW, at
860-651-3539
Registration for summer credit courses at Tunxis Community
College in Farmington under way,
five- and eight-week sessions: June
1-July 2, June 1-July 21 and July
6-Aug. 6, visit , (860-773-1300)
Red Cross blood donation opportunities in May Wednesdays from
11:45 a.m.-5:30 p.m. and Saturdays,
6:30-11:30 a.m., at the Farmington
Blood Donation Center, 209 Farmington Ave., Farmington, to schedule
appt. visit redcrossblood.org or call
1-800-733-2767
Connecticut Swish Basketball
Camp at Farmington High School
for boys entering grades 1-9, 3
weekly sessions starting June 29,
July 6 and 13, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.,
email [email protected] for
registration form and camp info
John Mirabello’s Northwest Catholic Basketball Clinic 2015, cost
$125, registration accepted until
enrollment full, 860-236-4221, ext.
130 or 860-670-0030, jmirabello@
nwcath.org: boys entering grades
8-9 June 22-25, 8:30 a.m.-noon;
boys entering grades 5-7 June 29July 2, 8:30 a.m.-noon; bonus boys
weeks (grades 5-9) July 6-9, 8:30
a.m.-noon; girls entering grades 5-9
July 13-16, 8:30 a.m.-noon
Talk and book signing, “Listening
to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu
Noguchi,” Thursday, May 21, 6 p.m.,
at the Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main
St., Hartford, with author Hayden Herrera discussing her book “Listening to
Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi,” arrive between 5 and 6 p.m. to
view American art galleries and attend
a pre-lecture reception, free and open
to the public
At Infinity Music Hall and Bistro:
20 Greenwoods Road North, Norfolk,
860-542-5531: May 21, 8 p.m., Art
Garfunkel; May 22, 8 p.m., The Smithereens; May 23, 8 p.m., The Cast of
Beatlemania; May 29, 8 p.m., Kal David
& The Real Deal featuring Lauri Bono
32 Front St., Hartford: May 21, 8 p.m.,
Mullett; May 22, 8 p.m., Art Garfunkel SOLD OUT; May 23, 8 p.m., Live at
The Fillmore, tribute to original Allman
Brothers Band; May 24, 8 p.m., Forward
Festival in Concert: Sybarite 5; May 28,
8 p.m., Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra
At the Mark Twain House & Museum,
351 Farmington Ave., Hartford:
• Collection of Han Dynasty stone rubbings exhibition with a free opening
reception Thursday, May 21, 5-7 p.m.,
in Webster Bank Museum Center, reservations recommended, exhibition on
display thru Aug. 31
• An evening with author Thomas
Santopietro discussing his book “The
Sound of Music Story: How a Beguiling
Young Novice, A Handsome Austrian
Captain, and Ten Singing Von Trapp
Children Inspired the Most Beloved
Film of All Time” Thursday, May 21, 7
p.m., free Book/Mark event followed
by book sale and signing, reservations
recommended at 860-280-3130
Hungrytown, married duo of Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson and
original roots music, Friday, May 22,
8-9:30 p.m. at the Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St., Simsbury,
doors open at 7:30 p.m., reserve a seat
at 860-658-7663, ext. 2200
At Bridge Street Live, 41 Bridge St.,
Collinsville, 860-693-9762: May 22, 8
p.m., Comedy Night: Rachel Feinstein;
May 23, 8 p.m., The Kortchmar McDonald Band w/special guest Alectro; May
28, 8 p.m., The Amazing Kreskin; May
29, 8 p.m., Comedy Night: Will Noonan
HarttWorks, an original, multigenre
evening of dance, Friday and Saturday,
May 22 and 23, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Millard
Auditorium, University of Hartford, 200
Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford, tickets
$20, call 860-728-4428
Ramblin’ Dan Stevens at Crown & Hammer, 3 Depot St., Collinsville, Friday, May
22, 9:30 p.m.; Happy Hour Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays, 4-6 p.m.
Revolutionary War Encampment and
several crafters Saturday, May 23, 10
a.m.-4 p.m. at the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, 211 Main St., Wethersfield - 2 p.m., 18th-century horseman
David Loda demonstrating sword and
pistol skills on horseback
“Freckleface Strawberry” at Playhouse on Park, 244 Park Road, West
Hartford, Saturday and Sunday, May 23
and 24, 1 and 4 p.m., tickets $15-$17
each, call 860-523-5900, ext. 10 or
www.playhouseonpark.org
Give Back & Tribute Night Saturday,
May 23, 7-10 p.m., at LaSalle Market
& Deli, 104 Main St., Collinsville, with
4 bands – The CRB, The Cody Bondra
Band, BRO-kin and musician Melanie
Michaud – and donations going to the
Burns Latino Studies Academy’s music
department
“Hairspray” thru May 31 at The Repertory Theatre in New Britain, 23 Norden St., tickets $25/$23, Fridays and
Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at
2 p.m., www.connecticuttheatrecompany.org – performers include 3 Valley
residents, Jodi Dickson, Michael Ruby
and Mallory Thompson
Adult auditions as well as young
males ages 11-16 for Theatre Guild
of Simsbury’s production of “The
King and I” June 2, 4 and 16 from
7-10 p.m. at Eno Memorial Hall, 754
Hopmeadow St., Simsbury, for audition
forms, requirements, etc., go to www.
theatreguildsimsbury.org
At the Farmington Valley Arts Center,
25 Arts Center Lane, Avon, 860-6781867: “Natura,” exhibition of artworks
inspired by the natural world, thru Saturday, May 23; StoryWalkR thru May
31, pages from Peter H. Reynolds’ children’s book “The Dot” posted throughout FVAC grounds for all to enjoy
Exhibits at the Gallery on the Green
in Canton thru Sunday, May 24, hours:
Friday-Sunday, 1-5 p.m., www.galleryonthegreen.org: Maxwell Shepherd
Memorial Exhibit of painting and sculpture by Peter Waite, “IN/TRANSITIVE,”
in the main gallery downstairs; “The
Florence Five,” work of Kent McCoy,
Walter Kendra, Rowena Okie, Jane Hoben and David Owen, all of Canton, in
the main upstairs gallery; Diane Wright
in the Spotlight Gallery with “Limbo”
Westminster School’s Alumni Art
Exhibit thru Monday, May 25 in Baxter
Gallery at the school, 995 Hopmeadow
St., showcasing work of the late Bryan
Nash Gill, class of 1980, gallery hours:
Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Moonlight Lounge Party of music
and dancing at the Simsbury Meadows
Performing Arts Center in Simsbury Friday, May 29, 7 p.m., general admission
$10, 860-651-4052
Susan Dorazio exhibiting at the Ethel Walker School Library Gallery, 230
Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, thru June 7,
gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5
p.m., obtain guest pass from receptionist in Beaverbrook, the main building ([email protected])
At La Trattoria, 21 Old Albany Turnpike, Route 44, Canton: music by Andre
Balazs every Thursday from 6-9 p.m.
and music by Swing Jazz starting at 7
p.m. every Friday
Jim Bean Art Show at Art League of
New Britain, 30 Cedar St., New Britain,
Saturdays and Sundays from 1-4 p.m.,
thru May 31
New England Carousel Museum,
95 Riverside Ave., Bristol, open to the
public Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.5 p.m. and Sunday from noon-5 p.m.,
admission $6/$5.50/$3.50/$2
Cheryl Davis Fine Art Open Studio
Art Show Friday-Sunday, May 22-24,
noon-6 p.m., at her studio, 2 Triangle
Road, Canton (860-558-0378)
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Home & Garden
Maintaining bird feeders is essential to avian health
Bird watching is a pastime enjoyed by
people of all ages. While many people trek
into the woods to see their favorite birds,
homeowners can take steps to entice these
fascinating and feathered friends right to
their backyards.
Homeowners who want to attract
birds to their properties can do so by providing the birds food, shelter and places to
wash up or cool off. Installing a bird feeder
and a bird bath in your yard is one way to
attract a bevy of winged creatures that can
provide hours of enjoyment.
Establishing a bird-friendly environment may seem as simple as hanging a
feeder on a pole or tree and erecting a bird
bath nearby, but a certain level of maintenance is needed to keep birds healthy and
happy.
According to the experts at the Bird
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that bird feeders and baths can serve as
transmission stations for diseases such as
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Recently, scientists noted that the spread of
trichomonad protozoan parasites is on the
rise, especially among mourning dove and
band-tailed pigeon populations.
Such warnings are not meant to deter
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like the Audobon Society hope that such
warnings send the message that disin-
Installing a bird
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that can provide
hours of enjoyment.
fection and maintenance is necessary to
maintain sanitary environments for birds.
Doing so is relatively easy and well worth
the time for birding enthusiasts.
The Humane Society of the United
States advises cleaning hanging feeders
once every two weeks or more often if
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Feeders can be immersed in a very-diluted
solution of bleach to water (nine parts water to one part bleach). Let soak for a few
minutes, and then scrub the feeder with a
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Allow the feeder to dry completely before
refilling it with seed.
Bird baths should be emptied of water each day. Brush or wipe the bath clean,
then rinse and refill with fresh water. Do not
leave standing water overnight; otherwise
bird baths can easily become a breeding
ground for mosquitoes and other parasites.
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Got an hour?
Quick hits for updated kitchens and baths
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of home updates. Luckily, there are several
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In fact, here are a few projects that can be
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to understand. By dressing professionally, you’ll feel more professional, and your productivity and
quality of work will keep pace.
The same axiom can apply
to your home office. Is it tucked
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covered in old toys? Is your filing
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If your home office doesn’t feel
professional and uplifting, how
productive and happy will you be
spending eight or more hours a
day there?
Decorating your home office
isn’t an art, but following some basic principles of office design can
help create an organized, effective and productivity-enhancing
space.
Choose a wall color that
facilitates focus.
Even if your home office will be
in the guest room that you just
painted last year, it may be a good
idea to repaint. Not only does a
fresh coat of paint make a room
feel energized and new, repainting
gives you the opportunity to put a
color on the wall that’s office-ap-
Roof windows bring not only vision-friendly natural light and fresh air
into the home office, but provide access to the roof for maintenance or
for emergency egress. A number of models are available including a
double-sash balcony model that opens onto the roof and provides much
more light than a dormer.
propriate.
In an interview by Chris Bailey of the blog “A Life of Productivity,” color psychologist and author Angela Wright suggests that
your home office color scheme
needs to match the type of work
you do because different colors
create different effects. For example, Wright says, blue might
be stimulating if you do a lot of
mental work in your home office.
Additionally, yellow could encourage creativity, and green might be
soothing if your work is particu-
larly stressful and balance is important.
Luxuriate in light.
“You are stuck in your office – albeit at home – all day, working
and slaving away, staring at the
same wall and some bland office
furniture you got at a garage sale,”
writes Herman Chan in Home
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those hours in the same spot, it
would behoove you to splurge on
one luxury piece.” Chan suggests
an inspiring piece of furniture, but
you can also create a luxe effect –
with only a modest “splurge” – by
decorating with lighting elements
such as a skylight.
“The mental and physical
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and fresh air are well documented,” says Ross Vandermark of VELUX America, makers of Energy
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and productive, they can help you
control heating, cooling and lighting costs, too.”
Add a solar-powered fresh air
skylight and an energy-efficient
solar-powered blind to your home
office and the products, as well
as the installation, can be eligible
for a 30 percent federal tax credit as a green home improvement.
Ground-floor offices can benefit
from SUN TUNNEL tubular skylights. Visit whyskylights.com
or energystar.gov to learn more
about energy-efficient skylights.
If your home office happens
to be located in a renovated attic
space, roof windows, which are
very much like skylights but are
in-reach, can offer natural light
and fresh air plus access to the
roof for debris removal, maintenance or for emergency egress.
Organize with
attractive storage.
If your idea of home office storage includes the cardboard boxes
you used to transport files from
the last job you had outside your
home, it’s time to revisit your organizational plan. A cluttered,
disorganized home office can
cause you to misplace important
documents and can make you feel
overwhelmed.
As more people have begun
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out from the sterile-looking metal
storage units ubiquitous in workplaces across the country. Today,
it’s easy to find attractive storage
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home office decor.
If you just can’t find a file cabinet that speaks to your soul, why
not try some alternative storage
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else in your house – into your
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doesn’t feel crowded.
Working from home offers
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BIRDS
from page 37
Frequently collect discarded seed hulls
and clean bird droppings from beneath feeders. If the area around the feeder has become
especially soiled, relocate the feeder elsewhere
and clean its initial location.
Follow proper instructions with regard to
seed and other bird food. For example, reduce
the amount of suet offered in hot weather.
Heat can cause suet to spoil, and sticky suet
can become stuck in birds’ feathers and make
it hard for them to keep clean.
Try to provide more than one feeder and
bird bath to prevent overcrowding. Crowding
can contribute to the spread of disease.
Do not situate feeders and bird baths under perches where they can be soiled by droppings.
If you notice birds look sick or are not
acting strangely, halt feeding and bathing to
prevent healthy birds from becoming ill. Wait
a week before resuming feeding and notify
wildlife officials if you find dead or sick birds
around your property.
Locate feeders and baths at least 30 feet
away from windows so birds do not get confused by reflections and collide with the glass.
Store seed in a dry container with a
tight-fitting lid to prevent mold from forming
and moisture from getting in.
Creating a thriving habitat for bird watching is easier than one might think. But once
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HOME IMPROVEMENT
www.JPCountryBuilders.com
Old Fashioned Quality You Can Live With
Remodeling
RY BUILDERS
O UN T
•Additions • Bath • Kitchens
LL
C
P
Replacement
Since 1988
•Windows & Doors • Siding • Decks
Lic#0621710
860-738-1502 John T.Yacawych 860-589-2267 Pat Collin
HOME IMPROVEMENT
Bruto’s General Services, LLC
LANDSCAPING & TREE SERVICES
• Expert Tree Removal
• Pruning
• Stump Grinding
• Landscaping
• Lot Clearing &
Excavation
and much more.
HOME IMPROVEMENT
C
• Kitchens
• Basements
• Dormers
• Barns
• Offices
• Designs
No Hidden Charges • No Over Wetting
Pet Stains & Odors
License #103858 & 103859 • Fully insured
A Full Service Building Contractor
860-895-9301
Carpets & Upholstery
www.brannackelectric.com
ACCENT BUILDING, CO.
ACCENT KITCHENS, LLC
FLOORING
ALISTAR SERVICE CO.
A Professional Cleaning Service • Commercial & Residential
24 Hour Emergency Service
• Generator installations
• Interior & Exterior Lighting
• Remodeling & Additions
• Service Upgrades
• Telephone, Cable TV, &
Computer Network Wiring
• Repair & Upgrades
• Pool & Spa Wiring
KITCHENS
FLOOR & CARPET CLEANING
J
ELECTRICAL
More Like A Friend Than A Company
“WE SHOW UP”
Residential * Commercial * Industrial
CT Lic. 575422
Additions * New Homes
Service Up-grades * Service Calls
* Generator Hook Ups * Prompt Service
860-269-3103
35 Peters Road
Bloomfield
Call for
Free Estimates
CIZEK ELECTRIC INC.
www.advancedequipmentct.com
860-242-6486
860.953.6519
www.renew-asphalt.com
Over 30 Years In Business
LIC. #104659
155 Brickyard Road, Farmington
Call today
for your
FREE, no
obligation
consultation
& estimate.
• Sealcoating
• Hot Crack Filling
• Line Striping
Kyle
SPRING TUNE-UPS!
ELECTRICAL
RENEW ASPHALT
MAINTENANCE
ELECTRICAL
EQUIPMENT SERVICE & REPAIR
DRIVEWAYS
HOME IMPROVEMENT
20% off
STONE WORKS SPECIAL
EXPIRES 5/30/15.
• Patios
• Walkways
• Steps
• Retaining Walls
• Driveways
• Chimney Repointing
• Nautral Stone Walls
959-999-4056
860-218-7886
Fully Licensed & Insured
MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED.
FREE ESTIMATES
HOME IMPROVEMENT
HOME IMPROVEMENT
HOME IMPROVEMENT
BARRETT ENTERPRISES LLC
Home Improvement Contractor
So Many Amateurs . . . So Few Professionals!!
- COMPLETE MAINTENANCE & REPAIR • Siding
• Decks
• Kitchens
• Bathrooms
• Remodeling
• Improvements
SMALL OR LARGE • WE DO IT ALL!
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www.berkshirewoodsmiths.com
Licensed & Insured
860.738.4931 or 203.232.9114
Lic. #HIC0625936
• Complete Basement Renovations
• Kitchen & Bathrooms Updated
• Windows/Doors Installed
• Pre-Finished Floorings • Custom Ceramic Tile
• Maintenance-Free Decks • Finish Carpentry
• Complete Painting Service • Custom Countertops
Jim Barrett, Owner
CT. LIC. #602130 • Office (860) 796-0131
HOME IMPROVEMENT
HOME IMPROVEMENT
NICK
HOME IMPROVEMENT
We canCHARLIE’S
rebuild stone walls
CONSTRUCTION
CONSTRUCTION
• Site Work
• Backhoe Service
• Bobcat, Wood Chipper For Hire
• New Lawns Installed
• New Septic Systems & Repairs
• Small Demolition Work
Serving the Farmington Valley
for over 10 years
* Concrete * Stone Walls * Patios
* Bricks * Belgium Blocks * Chimneys
* Wood Fencing
203-206-2839
HOME IMPROVEMENT
Lic.#514976
In business for a blessed 29 years
(860) 582-0712
Fax: (860)410-1190 or (860) 583-2183
PO Box 9656, Bristol, CT • Fully Ins. Worker’s Comp & Liability
Email: [email protected]
• Additions • Vinyl Siding Trim
HIRE
• Sunrooms • Flooring
US
• Garages • Drywall & Taping
because
• Interior Painting
• Decks
we like
• Windows • Popcorn Ceilings
what
we
do!
• Snowplowing
• Roofing
• Kitchens
One Call Does It All!
• Bathrooms
Quality Work Cleanup Daily
• Basements
Over 20 Years Experience
FREE
ESTIMATES
No Job Too
Small
LANDSCAPING
FallMowing
Clean-ups
Weekly
• Mulching
Aerating
• Overseeding
Hedge
Trimming
& Pruning
• Mulching • Weekly Mowing
Powerwashing
• Stump
Grinding
Pruning • Hedge
Trimming
Complete Landscape
• Powerwashing
• StumpServices
Grinding
• Complete
Landscaping
Services
SENIOR
DISCOUNTS
www.advancedprosite.com
860-798-4275
$149
For single truck load up to 1 Ton
PINNACLE
MAINTENANCE,
LLC.
Price includes dump fees,
labor and fuel cost. We will
remove junk from basements,
attics, and garages
Mattress & Box Springs
$50 extra.
“Building Trust By Doing Jobs Right!”
P.O. Box 791
[email protected] Farmington, CT 06034
www.pinnaclemaintenancellc.com T 860-284-8975 Fax: 860-255-7900
LANDSCAPING
D.H. RADOMSKI, INC.
HOME IMPROVEMENTS
High in Quality and Dependability
FREE ESTIMATES
LANDSCAPE
CONTRACTORS
• Pool Patios
• Poolscapes
• Lawn Installation
• Tree & Shrub
HYDROSEEDING
Planting
EROSION CONTROL
• Pruning
Based In & Serving The Farmington Valley • Walkways
For Over 18 Years
& Patios
Fully Licensed & Insured
• Walls & Steps
• Yard Drains
• Excavating
• Grading
cell: 860-250-2908
• Snowplowing
• Bucket Loading
LANDSCAPING
MASONRY
ALEX EUROPEAN MASON
LANDSCAPE & DESIGN, LLC
Stone Work • Patios • Retaining Walls Custom Vinyl & Wood Fencing
Sidewalks • Fire Pits • Pruning • Plantings Tree Removals
MASONRY
860-906-6736
STONE MASON CONTRACTOR
Stone Walls • Veneer Stone
Brick Walls • Blue Stone
Steps • Fireplaces
Chimneys • Patios • Sidewalks
Pavers • Retaining Walls
860.225.3077
cell 860.839.8971
SPECIALIZING IN:
Stone Wall Patios & Veneers • Patio Walls - Walk Ways
Chimney Rebuilding - Brick & Block Additions - Partition Walls
Basement Waterproofing - Drainage Work - Pre-Cast Retainer Walls
Pre-Cast Artificial Stone Veneers - Ceramic Tile Installed
Bobcat Service - Snow Plowing - Trucking
Satisfaction Guaranteed ~Free Estimates ~ Lic#0637095
Andi’s Masonry
860-417-9968
MASONRY
Olde Tyme Service
I will respond to all phone calls and will be present on all jobs.
Over 25 years experience. Insured • Free estimates • 24 Hour Message Center
CT LIC. #621995 • RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL
www.OldeTymeServiceLLC.com
• Patios
• Walls
• Driveways
• Pools in Stone
• Brick, Bluestones
& Pavers
• Stairs and Walkways
Serving the Farmington Valley
for over 17 years!
FREE ESTIMATES
CT Lic# 602717
860-368-9486
MASONRY
KC MASONRY
Stonewalls • Brick Walls
Bluestone • Steps
Fireplaces • Chimneys
Patios • Sidewalks
We can also do all
Masonry Repairs!
Fully Insured
Call Tom Ajro
860-274-7681
Cell - 203-565-4381
Quality Workmanship
Free Estimates • Lic#0604514
Ken (203) 558-4951
Satisfaction Guaranteed ~Free Estimates
PAINTING
Call Andrew at 860-930-0392 or 860-659-1296
All type of Masonry Work
Stone Walls • Brick Walls
Blue Stone • Steps
Chimneys • Sidewalks
Pavers • Retaining Walls
All Masonry Repairs
[email protected]
WWW.BOOCAMASONRY.COM
• Ceilings – Textured or Smooth –
Repaired, Repainted, or Replaced
• Woodwork – Crown Molding, wainscoting,
etc – Installed, Repaired or Replaced
• Drywall & Plaster Repairs
• Wallpaper Removal & Hanging
AD MASONRY
Tom’s Masonry
Stone/Brick Walls
Side Walks/Steps
Fireplaces/Chimneys
Firepits/Outside Living
(203) 263-0109
Cell: (203) 558-8019
WATER DAMAGE REPAIR
PAINTING -ALL PHASES
MASONRY
MASONRY
Free Estimates
Booca
Masonry Company
PAINTING
203-232-0257 Lic. #0580443
860-810-4196
30 Years Experience • License #0630165 • New Britain, CT
All Masonry Repairs
•
•
•
•
Free Estimates • Fully Insured
MASONRY Dennis Volpe
MASONRY
Retaining Walls, Chimney Repair,
Steps, All Masonry Services
Land Clearing • Brush Clearing
Shrub Removal • Hardscaping
New Lawn Installations
MASONRY
Buki -
Over 30 years experience
Expert Tree Climbers & Crane Service
Spring Cleanups • Mulching • Mulch Deliveries
860-296-3405
LANDSCAPING
Arboretum
CT LIC# 0630444
FULLY INSURED
FULLY
INSURED
Lic. #578351
Junk Removal
CT REG.
ROOFING
#509749
SIDING • WINDOWS
DOORS • GUTTERS • DECKS • AWNINGS
JUNK REMOVAL
AVALLONE ADVANCED PRO HOME IMPROVEMENT
ROOFING
SIDING
REPLACEMENT WINDOWS
GUTTERS
ADDITIONS
TOTAL REMODELING
INTERIOR & EXTERIOR
LOW
PRICES
860-653-4677
HOME IMPROVEMENT
CONTRACTORS
Visit us at www.dhradomski.com
We can rebuild stone walls
Email: [email protected]
CT License #HIC0616677
HOME IMPROVEMENT
PAINTING
PAINTING
Simsbury’s Hometown Painting Company
VALLEY PAINTER
Serving the Valley since 1980
FULL CREW READY TO GO
EXTERIOR SPECIALS
Quality Craftsmanship • Competitive Prices
Call Peter Sottile 860-658-7745
Insured - Interior & Exterior • CT Reg. #562798
May 21, 2015
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PAINTING
Quality Painting by Joseph’s & Co.
Exterior Experts
Since 1950
ALL WORK The Experienced, and Reliable Company.
GUARANTEED Staining • Power Washing • Carpentry
860-561-0146
PAINTING
beautify the inside of your home.
Scheduling interiors as well as exteriors.
If you sign within the next 2 months, receive $25 gift card to Starbuck’s
860-459-6705
[email protected]
lic. #0623272
We also offer general handyman/repair services.
Akcent
OWNER
MR. JOSEPH PONTILLO
MANY SATISFIED CUSTOMERS
25 years of experience
in Farmington Valley
Reg #0562179
[email protected]
EPA
CERTIFIED
CONN. LICENSE NO. 536406 COMPLETE INSURANCE
PAINTING
HIC#0629057
Pro Quality
Painting & Home
Repair, LLC
860-201-7788
www.pqpainting4u.com
Small renovations,
home repair, carpentry
& painting.
Complete prep.
INTERIOR SPECIALS FOR
THE NEXT TWO MONTHS
2 rooms plus a 1/2 bath
785 includes materials
$
T.C. Home Improvement
Any 3 rooms plus a 1/2 bath
$
978.67 includes materials
860-673-7280
PAINTING
PAINTING &
CEILING REPAIR
• High Quality interior/exterior painting
• Remodeling • Interior/exterior restorations
• All home repair • Fully licensed and insured
Cell 860-916-6287
Free
Estimates Home 860-523-4151
The best decision you’ll ever make
POWER WASHING
ROB’S
POOL
CONSTRUCTION
& REPAIR
Complete In House
Services
include:
Complete In House &
Services
include:
POOL
CONSTRUCTION
REPAIR
CONSTRUCTION
&
REPAIR REPAIR
POOL
CONSTRUCTION
&Plaster
REPAIR
Aluminum,
Vinyl
& Wood
POOL
CONSTRUCTION
&
REPAIR
Complete
In House
Services
include:
Plumbing
- POOL
Coping
-Complete
Tile
-CONSTRUCTION
- Paint
POOL
Siding & Shingles
Plumbing
- Coping
- include:
Tile
- Plaster &
- Paint
Complete
In House
Services
include:
In House
Services
Interior & Exterior
Painting and Remodeling
Specializing in:
INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR PAINTING
• Powerwashing • Deck Staining
• Ceiling Repairs • Spraying
• Home Improvements & Renovations
and more
Over 15 years of experience
Call Chris @ 860 944 9100
www.AkcentRestoration.com
20 year experience. HIC #0575928
Call: Zenon 860-518-0630
Bodgan 860-518-2625
PLUMBING
RAINBOW
HYDRA-BLAST
WHY JUST POWERWASH
Specializing in high pressure
house detailing since 1988.
Fully Insured/Free Estimates
860-649-4953
860-402-7672
GUTTER CLEANING
POWER WASHING
ROOF CLEANING
Complete
In
Services
include:
POOL
&- Patios
REPAIR
- Coping
Tile
-House
-Paint
Paint
Water
Features
Spas
-Plaster
Stonework
- Decks
- Coping
---Tile
- Paint
Plumbing-- Spas
Coping
--Plumbing
Tile
-Plumbing
Plaster
-CONSTRUCTION
Paint
Plumbing
- Coping
- Tile
-- Plaster
Plaster
-Decks
Water Features
Stonework
Patios
POOL
CONSTRUCTION
&
REPAIR
Complete
In
House
Services
include:
FREE
ESTIMATES
Quality
Guaranteed
Water
Features
Spas
Stonework
Patios
Decks
Plumbing
- -Patios
Tile
- Plaster
- Paint
Water
Features
Spas
-- Stonework
Patios
Decks
Complete
In--House
Services
include:
Features
-Water
Spas
Stonework
Patios
-Coping
- Spas
- Stonework
--Decks
INTERIOR WORK: Water
repair
ceilings,
walls,
trim,-Features
Plumbing
-Decks
Coping
--Tile
- Plaster
- Paint
FREE
ESTIMATES
Quality
Guaranteed
FREE ESTIMATES
Quality
Guaranteed
FREE
ESTIMATES
Quality
Guaranteed
Coping
Tile
Plaster
Paint
FREE
ESTIMATESPlumbing
Quality
Guaranteed
moldings, baseboards, doors,
windows
860-559-9104
FREE
ESTIMATES
Quality
Guaranteed
Water Water
Features
-860-559-9104
Spas
Stonework
- Patios
Features
- Spas -- Stonework
- Patios
- Decks - Decks
EXTERIOR WORK: Small Masonry RepairWater Features - Spas - Stonework
-Licensed
PatiosQuality
- Insured
Decks
&
35
years
of craftsmanship
FREE
ESTIMATES
Guaranteed
FREE
ESTIMATES
Quality
Guaranteed
860-559-9104
860-559-9104
860-559-9104
Licensed
& Insured - 35 years of craftsmanship
860-559-9104
Free estimates. You can count on us for a precise & excellent job!
FREE ESTIMATES Quality Guaranteed
• Good painting preparation
• Trim, Window Painting & Glazing
• Shingle Repair • Power Washing
POWER WASHING
Power Washing,
Deck Staining, Light Carpentry
PAINTING
POOLS
POOL
CONSTRUCTION
& REPAIR
ZB PAINTING
PAINTING
Interior & Exterior Painting
KITCHENS - BATHROOMS - WALLPAPER
TILES- BASEMENTS - ATTICS
ALUMINUM SIDING
Refer a friend, you both receive 10% OFF
Our success is based on your satisfaction. Since 1986.
PROFESSIONAL HOME
IMPROVEMENT-REMODELING
Farmington
PAINTING
Speedy Pride Painting
PAINTING BRECHUN PAINTING
(860) 675-4025
In need of having a couple of rooms painted?
Let
PAINTING
ZIBBY DRZAZGOWSKI
We also Spray Paint Faded Aluminum & Vinyl Siding
like new with a 15 Year Written Guarantee
Insured
Lic. #062380
PAINTING
Complete In House Services include:
860-982-3300
Licensed & Insured - 35RobPolo.com
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ROOFING
ROOFING • SIDING
• WINDOWS • & more...
ANDY WOTTON
PLUMBING &
HEATING, LLC
(860) 833-8153
Old fashion, honest, reliable
service at a reasonable price.
All residential plumbing, repairs
done from leaky faucets to
snaking your main drain.
ROOFING
STUMPS?
G OT
Call
VALLEY STUMP
GRINDING, LLC
Call now.
Roofing
& Siding
Sale!
Lic #:HIC0607969
HARMONY
Home Improvement (860) 645-8899
Call today and we will
show you quality still
makes a difference!
ROOFING
ROOFING
Creating HARMONY
between customer,
contractor & community
STUMP GRINDING
STUMPS?
G OT
Call
VALLEY STUMP
GRINDING, LLC
Fully Insured
FREE Estimates
Lic. #604200
SIDING
VINYL SIDING SPRING SPECIAL
SAVE 35% OFF NOW
Free estimates. Absolute lowest prices possible!
Deal direct with owner.
REPAIRS/GARAGES
860-614-1173
Lic. #0639246
STUMPS
WINDOW WASHING
860-614-1173
Lic. #0639246
WINDOW WASHING
When It Comes To Tree Service
We Run Rings Around The Competition.
WE CLEAN WINDOWS!
Grimshaw Tree Service
and Nursery Company
Commercial & Residential
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WINDOWS
(SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO)
TREE CARE OR TREE REMOVAL
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• Free estimates • Fully Insured & Bonded • Uniformed • Reliable
“Residential”
WINDOWS & DOORS
*Sales * Service * Installation*
A BETTER VIEW
WINDOW CLEANING, PLUS
(203) 284-8836
860-249-1558
www.fishwindowcleaning.com/3053
860-747-8875
thewindowmanofct.com * [email protected]
*Bill Morrell Contractor * Ct Lic.#0509785 * Insured*