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April 30, 2015
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Decision on
Prattling Pond
tabled
After five meetings on the issue,
the Farmington Conservation
and Inland Wetlands Commission
tabled a decision on a proposed
four-lot subdivision on a 26-acre
parcel of land on Prattling Pond
Road. PAGE 13
Local and state officials as well
as union members and former
employees testified at a Public
Utilities Regulatory Authority
hearing on the proposed closure
of the Eversource work center in
Simsbury. PAGE 13
Photo by Lisa Brisson
Marking a celebration of innovation
Squadron Line School third-grader Matthew Picoult, 8, was chosen as the honoree to cut the ribbon to open the Innovators’ Workshop Mini-Makerspace
in the Children’s Department of the Simsbury Public Library. He was selected based on his Invention Convention winning entry called the “Neater
Burrito Eater.” Watching him is Marianne O’Neil, president of the library’s board of trustees. Simsbury’s inaugural Innovation Fair was held Saturday,
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“This is our road and we
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‘Every dog goes to heaven’
Veteran credits happiness to service dog and local ECAD organization now celebrating 20 years
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
Tony Charles, an Iraq War
veteran, considers his service dog
Dozer a guardian angel.
“He’s like a gift of God to me.
He’s like an angel more than a
dog,” Charles, of West Hartford,
said. “He’s convinced me that dogs
have souls and every dog goes to
heaven. He’s made such a difference in my life and I thank God
every day for that.”
Charles, an army chaplain
who retired in 2012, suffers from
post-traumatic stress disorder,
has a spinal cord injury and a
traumatic brain injury.
Dozer, who is trained to respond to 90 different commands,
helps with the ongoing issues.
Charles got the dog from
Educated Canines Assisting with
Disabilities Project HEAL Program, a program that places service dogs with veterans living with
PTSD, physical injuries and/or
traumatic brain injury.
ECAD, which has campuses in
Torrington and upstate New York,
was started in a garage in West
Granby in 1995 by Dale and Lu
Picard and is celebrating its 20th
anniversary.
According to a press release,
through Project HEAL, ECAD
dogs help veterans who have become disabled and/or are contending with PTSD or TBI.
As part of Project HEAL,
therapy dogs are brought to Veterans Administration hospitals
and schools.
ECAD also places dogs with
children with autism and people
living with a variety of disabilities
including multiple sclerosis or
muscular dystrophy, ALS, sleep
apnea, stroke-related disabilities
and others.
ECAD tailors each dog’s skill
to the specific needs of the client,
according to the press release.
Dozer
was
specifically
trained to gently wake Charles
from nightmares and be there as
a comfort to him, according to
ECAD lead trainer Sherry Cookinham.
Charles credits the dog with
saving his life twice.
“It’s been twice that he jerked
me back and I didn’t know why he
jerked me back, and all of a sudden a car went by,” Charles said.
“He’s prevented me from getting
hit by a car.”
Poor, low and blurred vision
are among the lingering issues
from the traumatic brain injury.
As Charles spoke during a recent interview, the golden retriever lay quietly at his feet.
That was not the case when
the duo first arrived for the meeting in Bishops Corner in West
Hartford. Dozer, at first, would
not sit or relax, a reaction to anxiety he sensed in Charles, who had
just driven from Norwich in heavy
traffic.
The dog can sense if Charles
is feeling stressed or anxious by
the smell and taste of his skin and
will lick his hand to see if he is
calm or not.
If Charles exhibits anxiety or
stress, the dog reacts by standing
near him, an action which makes
Charles take a few deep breaths
and pet the dog to help calm
down.
“When I’m calm, he knows
it and he knows that he’s done
his job,” Charles said. “When I’m
anxious, he will stand up, get my
attention so I will pet him, calm
down and then he will sit.”
The dog also pulls him out
of potentially stressful situations,
including those with loud noise or
bright lights that may cause flashbacks, often before Charles recognizes the threat, he said.
“If it’s really bad, Dozer will
literally pull me by the pants or
the shirt and pull me to the door,”
Charles said.
In addition, Dozer performs
numerous tasks for Charles, including helping him go up and
down stairs and bracing him
when he sits or stands to prevent
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Iraqi War veteran Tony Charles relies on his service dog Dozer, a golden retriever, to help him deal with daily life
in the aftermath of PTSD, a traumatic brain injury and a back injury. Since getting the dog last summer, Charles
has been able to shop at malls again and can stop for refreshment at a coffee shop, things which he was
unable to do before the dog became his companion.
spasms in his back.
“He helps me with stability,
mobility and balance,” Charles
said.
The dog retrieves keys
dropped on the floor, gets Charles
his shoes and can even get a piece
of paper off the floor.
Charles got Dozer in July of
2014.
Getting the dog involved an
interview process with members
of ECAD, who also spoke with his
doctor and were apprised of his
prognosis, Charles said.
Then there was the training.
The dog was already trained, but
Charles also needed to know some
things including how to communicate and care for the dog.
During a two-week period,
known as Team Training or “Boot
Camp,” clients, dogs and teachers
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Training was also where
Charles met and was chosen by
Dozer.
He described the scenario as
something akin to musical chairs,
where the people getting dogs
would run with them and each
dog would make it clear which
person they liked best.
“The dogs will come back to
that person over and over again,”
Charles said. “It was like love at
first sight. ... Dozer kept coming to
me and I was enthralled.”
Cookinham said she had had
Dozer in mind for Charles since
the first time she met the man.
“You kind of get a feel when
you meet somebody,” Cookinham
said. “You have a feel for who they
are and what their lifestyle is.”
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according to the press release.
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service dogs, but clients are expected to secure $10,000 before
being placed with their dog, and
ECAD asks each client to join the
Alumni Network and participate
in the “Pay it Forward” fundraising campaign. Funds are raised by
clients for clients, helping them to
receive future successor dogs.
Charles raised funds for
Dozer and donated to the cause
himself. In addition, the family
of a veteran who had committed
suicide donated $10,000 toward
Charles’ dog, and ECAD itself
raised about half the funds.
To date, ECAD has placed
275 service dogs in more than 20
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Artists to open their studios to the public for sixth year
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
SIMSBURY — A group
of Simsbury artists will be
awaiting visits to their studios this weekend.
The Sixth Annual Simsbury Open Studios event will
take place Saturday and Sunday, May 2 and 3, with more
than a dozen local artists
opening their studios to the
public. According to a press
release, the artists have been
busy preparing their studios,
creating signage for the event
and creating new art work.
The weekend-long event
will include demonstrations
by the artists, some that will
be geared toward children,
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Between 12 and 15 artists will be involved this year,
four of which will gather at
the Simsbury Free Library,
749 Hopmeadow St., and
show their work there, instead of from their home studios. In addition, there will
be a sampling of work from
all the participating artists at
the library during the event.
The idea is to give the
public some face time with
the artists.
“It is a great opportunity for people to buy directly
from the artists,” Bond said.
They’ll be able to ask
artists questions and seek
out information about taking up art, Bond said, or,
perhaps, just wander from
studio to studio on a quest
for inspiration.
This year, most of the
participating artists will be
painters, Bond said. There
will also be a couple of
potters and sculptors and
at least one jewelry maker, who creates handmade
beads.
Karyn de Punte’Sweezy, according to the
open studio’s website,
enjoys working with her
hands.
“As a teenager heading into college I enjoyed
silversmithing, beading and
all types of metal work,” she
wrote in her biography.
She began lampworking, or making glass beads,
an art, she said that was
completely captivating.
“Glass is an extremely
versatile media in which to
work,” she wrote. “It has a
certain mystery that always
seems to unveil itself in new
and creative ways. With glass,
you can paint, sculpt and
there is an almost magical
reaction that occurs when
mixing and layering colors. I
have combined lampworking
with my metal working skills
to create wearable art.”
She pointed out that the
process of creating the art
is as fascinating as the outcome.
The open studio event
is also great for gift buying,
Bond said.
“Really, it’s a chance to
just see creativity, perhaps
buy gifts if you want,” she
said, adding that there will
be opportunities for folks to
spend a lot or a little money. “Even if you have $10 to
spend, you can find something.”
Bond, whose studio
is in her home off Climax
Road, paints New England
and coastal scenes in acrylic
and oil, she said. Her paintings vary in size from small
to quite large. She also sells
cards.
During the open studio
event, Bond will share her
space with fine art photographer April Aldighieri.
Aldighieri, according
to the open studios’ website,
has been showing her work
throughout New England
in art shows, galleries and
restaurants for more than 10
years. She has won numerous awards for her work. She
travels extensively in search
of unique images, architecture and private gardens.
She is a volunteer photographer at the Berkshire
Botanical Gardens.
“Mine will be a two for
one,” Bond said.
Though in past years
Lori Racicot-Burrous, who
is transitioning to a new studio at the Farmington Valley
Arts Center, has opened her
home studio, this year she
will be one of the four artists
at the Free Library.
This is Racicot-Burrous’
fifth year in open studios. A
painter, she will bring a combination of different works.
“Of course, my standby
animals,” she said, “the cows
and pigs and a pretty handsome goat.”
She will also have some
floral paintings, which she
has done in a new style with
which she has been experimenting. “I’m kind of leaning toward abstract,” Racicot-Burrous said. “I call it
realistic abstract.”
For more information about the artists, artwork and Open Studios, or
to download a map of the
event, visit www.simsburyartists.org. Last year, SCTV
Manager Althea Greaney
created a 30-minute program
about the artists that may be
viewed www.simsburytv.org.
The event will take place
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“It’s just a really great
fun thing to do, it’s like a garden tour but not a garden
tour,” Bond said.
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This pastel is modeled after a
painting by Wolf Kahn and will
be one of several offerings at
Painting in the Woods.
‘Painting
in the Woods’
open to all
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
Learn to paint while sipping wine and enjoying nature.
Painting in the Woods at
Roaring Brook Nature Center with local artist Lori Racicot-Burrous will take place
this Friday, May 1.
The event, which supports
the nature center, is a chance
for locals, including beginning
artists, to get creative, have
fun and make a colorful woodscape painting to take home,
Racicot-Burrous said. No experience is necessary as she
will guide everyone through
the entire process from choosing a color palette to planning
the design and completing the
painting.
Racicot-Burrous wanted
Painting in the Woods to be a
bit different from some of the
other wine-and-art offerings,
so participants will be able to
choose from a variety of woodscapes in several color palettes.
“All I did was I came up
with different, really colorful
woodscapes inspired by Wolf
Kahn paintings,” Racicot-Burrous said.
Roaring Brook Executive
Director Jay Kaplan said the
event will not support any
specific needs or projects.
“We need money for lots
of things. That’s just a general
education event,” he said. “We
are in the quiet planning stages of something.”
Painting in the Woods
will take place May 1 from 7 to
9 p.m. Doors open at 6:45 p.m.
Information is available
at www.roaringbrook.org. The
fee is $45. Click on “events,”
scroll down to May 1, “Painting in the Woods,” and click
on the link to register.
Refreshments will be
available during the event,
but participants should bring
their own beer or wine.
“It’ll be fun and it’ll be
bright and it’ll be colorful, and
that’s what it’s really all about,”
Racicot-Burrous said.
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Garmany Music Series features S’Fere Jazz Ensemble
On Thursday, May 7 at
7 p.m., S’Fere will return to
the Farmington Libraries,
6 Monteith Drive, for an
evening of jazz. S’Fere is a
four-member jazz ensemble
that specializes in a sophisticated blend of mainstream,
funk and Latin jazz. The Enfield-based group consists
of Frank Payeur on guitar,
Andy Lawson on bass, Dave
Choquette on percussion
and Mark Mooney on keyboard. Advanced registration is required by calling
860-673-6791 or visiting the
library’s web site at www.
farmingtonlibraries.org. The
event is made possible by
Richard P. Garmany through
a grant awarded by the
Hartford Foundation for
Public Giving.
Event to correspond with ‘Legacies of the Civil War’ exhibit
The Avon Historical
Society’s Sesquicentennial Committee of the Civil War will present two
events in May that correspond with its final exhibit, “Legacies of the Civil
War,” which is located
outside the Marian Hunter History Room of the
Avon Free Public Library,
281 Country Club Road,
Avon, through May 14. On
Saturday, May 2 at 1 p.m.,
“The History of our Nation
Set in Stone: Arlington
National Cemetery” will
be presented by Carolyn Ivanoff, housemaster
at Shelton Intermediate
School who was named
Civil War Trust Preserva-
tionist Teacher of the year
in 2003. In 2010, 2011 and
2013, her educational programs received awards of
Merit from the Connecticut League of History Organizations.
Her presentation will
follow the history of Arlington from its humble
origins during the Civil
War as a burial place of
necessity, to its current
celebrity as the most prestigious cemetery in the
United States.
The presentation will
explore this hallowed place
and remember the stories
of sacrifice and honor that
Arlington can tell.
The event is co-sponsored with the Gildo T.
Consolini Avon VFW
Post 3272, which begins a summer-long
commemoration May 1
of the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII
with exhibits, talks and
events in the library.
The second event,
“Memorializing a Generations Service: Connecticut Civil War Monuments,” will be May 9
presented by Matthew
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On May 1 and 3, Farmington Valley Chorale, Ellen
Gilson Voth, artistic director, will partner with the
Emerson Theater Collaborative of Mystic to mark this
year’s 150th anniversary of
the end of the American
Civil War.
The event, “Farmington Valley’s Freedom Trail:
a Choral Tribute,” will feature “Harriet2 (“Harriet
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Simsbury and Farmington,
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First Church of Christ, 689
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and Sunday, May 3 at 3 p.m.
at First Church of Christ
Congregational, 75 Main
St., Farmington. Tickets for
these performances are $15
and free for full-time students. For more information and tickets visit farmingtonvalleychorale.org.
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Acoustic Nights, the
Farmington Valley’s own
version of Tanglewood, will
take place Friday, May 8, at
Nature’s Porch, just across
the pond from the amphitheater in Winding Trails in
Farmington.
The event will be held
from 7-9 p.m. Tickets are
free to members of Winding Trails and Greater
Hartford Arts Council card
holders (the event is supported in part by the United Arts Campaign), $5 for
non-members and $3 for
children (4-12).
Tickets may be purchased at the door the day
of the event.
Food, beer and wine
will be served for a fee.
For more information, call
860-677-8458 or visit www.
windingtrails.org.
Tracy Walton will
headline the night. Walton’s
third solo album, “Moderately Unknown” is due out
in early spring. He is up for
Best Male Performer in The
New England Music Awards
for the second straight year.
Opening for Walton
will be Bill Benson, a singer/
songwriter from Collinsville
who plays a variety of acoustic folk rock and is known
for his ballads and smooth,
strong vocal style. Benson
was winner of Connecticut
Idol – A Vocal Competition
held at the Warner Theater
in Torrington.
Hosting the event
will be Blackberry Jam, an
acoustic guitar duo based
out of the Farmington Valley. Its music involves an
organic blend of blues, folk,
funk and classic rock.
PRESSARTS&ENTERTAINMENT
Father and son duo at Roaring Brook Nature Center
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Left to right: Melanie Varricchione, Katie Stodd Knapp, Rick
Fiocco, Melissa Veale, Christen Feola, Dianna Waller
FV Stage Company’s ‘Five Women
Wearing the Same Dress’
The Farmington Valley
Stage Company will present
the comedy “Five Women
Wearing the Same Dress” by
Allen Ball Thursdays, April 30
and May 7; Fridays and Saturdays, May 1, 2, 8 and 9 at 8
p.m.; and Sundays, May 3 and
10 at 2 p.m., at the Canton
Town Hall, 4 Market St., Collinsville. The play takes place
during a wedding reception
at a Knoxville, Tenn., estate,
when five reluctant and identically clad bridesmaids hide
out in an upstairs bedroom to
avoid the proceedings below.
As the afternoon wears on,
the five different women discover a common bond in this
funny and touching celebration of the women’s spirit. The
performance is for mature
audiences. The cast includes
Melissa Veale of Simsbury,
Melanie Varricchione of Canton, Christen Feola of Simsbury, Katie Stodd Knapp, Dianna Waller and Rick Fiocco.
The play is directed by Doreen
Cohn of Simsbury. Tickets are
$20/$18 in advance online,
$22/$20 at the door. Visit
www.FVStage.org.
The unique relationship
of a father and son cannot
be argued nor explained,
but when the relationship
includes musical passion,
virtuosity and showmanship, magic happens. Tim
and Myles Thompson, who
will be at Roaring Brook Nature Center, 70 Gracey Road,
Canton, Saturday, May 2 at
7:30 p.m., have been inspiring audiences throughout
the country. With recent
performances that include
the Montreal Jazz Festival,
ral world as their muse. The
exhibition, entitled, “Natura,”
opens with a reception Saturday, May 2, 2-4 p.m. in the
Drezner Visitors Gallery, 25
Tim and Myles Thompson
is focused on the sound the
duo delivers live. Tickets are
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$20 in advance at 860-6930263, $22 at the door.
Classical Music in the Afternoon: Mother’s Day concert
The Rosewood Chamber Ensemble and pianist
Mia Kang will present a free
Mother’s Day Concert at the
Simsbury Public Library, 725
Hopmeadow St., Saturday,
May 2 from 3-4:30 p.m.
The Rosewood Chamber
Ensemble, with Barbara
Hopkins on flute and Judy
Handler on guitar, will present Music from Monticello.
Their program includes
‘Natura’ at Farmington Valley Arts Center
The Farmington Valley
Arts Center welcomes the
spring with an exhibition that
brings together the work of
artists who look to the natu-
Walnut Valley Festival, and
the Chet Atkins Festival,
they have polished their craft
to a fine luster. The duo has
opened for Spyro Gyra, Don
Williams, Mountain Heart
and Richard Elliot. It’s not
surprising that Tim and Myles Thompson’s new album,
“Time4Me2Go,” is filled with
complex, masterfully played
tracks. The father/son duo
have been playing together
now for, basically, all of Myles’
19 years. “Time4Me2Go,” the
duo’s fourth studio release,
Arts Center Lane, Avon. The
reception will run concurrently with the FVAC First Saturday Open Studios taking place
May 2, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Arcangelo Corelli, H.R. Bishop, Carl Maria von Weber,
Wolfgang Mozart and two
anonymous pieces. Kang, an
active soloist and chamber
musician throughout the
U.S. and South Korea, will be
playing the Mozart Sonata in
C Major K. 545 and 3 Chopin
waltzes. Registration is recommended at 860-658-7663
or www.simsburylibrary.info.
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A human-sized chess set made by Simsbury Historical Society volunteers was a popular
attraction, as players faced off as either Colonists or British.
Above, left: Ethel Walker School Wirecats 5686 FIRST Robotics team member Lyrica Yanaway,
15, shows Yifan Jiang, 9, and Micah David, 6, how to use the LEGO Mindstorm computer
program that directs the movements of a toy car; above right: Simsbury High School senior
John Daguerre-Bradford, 17, displays the electric car that was designed by students in the
Engineering Design and Development class, which is propelled by the energy of two 12-volt
batteries.
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“E is for Ella,” said Ella Humpherys, 3, as
she displays the 3-D doodle.
State Rep. John Hampton (center) learns about the process of
constructing the human-sized chess set from Simsbury Historical
Society volunteers Chris Rice and Dennis Fallon.
Mark Scully brought along his 2013
Tesla Mode S electric car as part of the
Innovations in Transportation and Cars
exhibit in the North Village.
Above: Devlin Moody times a Snap Circuit Challenge between Benjamin Jeannin, 9,
and his 11-year-old sister Lauren at the library; right: Ashlyn Mahon, 13, examines a
meal worm with a magnifying glass. The Mighty Morphin’ Mealworms display enabled
children to take home the worms in order to see them morph into bugs; far right: Jim
Ray, historian at the Simsbury United Methodist Church, speaks to visitors about the
three large Tiffany stained glass windows in the church.
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past, as well as providing a platform for them to view all that local students and companies are working on in order to innovate and
propel future technological progress. Visitors learned about its natives
who changed the world in subtle and not so subtle ways, from William
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and not only invented the sand-handle baseball bat and padded body
protectors for catchers, but also developed technology that led to the
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Simsbury students and Fitzgerald’s Foods celebrate Earth Day
To raise awareness
about Earth Day, Simsbury
kindergarten classes team
up annually with Fitzgerald’s
Foods on Hopmeadow Street
in Simsbury. Now marking its
45th anniversary, Earth Day
on April 22 was a date first established in 1970 in San Francisco, Calif., to celebrate the
Earth and heighten awareness about the environment.
Each year, Fitzgerald’s
donates stacks of paper grocery bags for children to
decorate with markers and
crayons. The images and accompanying words reflect the
Earth Day themes that the
students discuss in class before the projects. Simsbury’s
kindergarten classes have
participated in this event
since 2008, when Andrea Pranaitis’ Central School class
first started the tradition. The
bags are returned to the store,
and during Earth Day week,
Simsbury shoppers’ purchases get packed into the bags,
giving Fitzgerald’s shoppers
reminders to reduce, reuse
and recycle.
Squadron Line School
kindergarten teachers Kim
Brassard, Julia Warren and
Michelle Fabiano made sure
that students understood
why they were participating
in the Earth Day project, with
discussion about why the day
is significant and what potential messages could look like,
such as “don’t waste water,”
“plant more trees,” or “don’t
litter!” One idea that emerged
from Warren’s class was recycling by constructing a guitar
with rubber bands and a milk
carton.
After brainstorming, the
children got to work to put
their own creative stamp on
their bags. Many drew trees,
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hildren had the opportunity to paint a piece
of hand-thrown pottery for a special person Sunday, April 26 at the Simsbury Public
Library during the Simsbury Junior Woman’s
Club’s Mugs & More event. This is the third year the
club has offered the pre-Mother’s Day event. The
pottery was purchased from Debbie Altschwager
of the Gildersleeve Pottery Studio in Collinsville.
Completed projects were fired in the kiln at Henry
James Memorial School.
Squadron Line School kindergarten teacher Julia Warren
and her students brainstorm ideas for Earth Day messages.
flowers and rainbows to reinforce their message.
Fabiano’s class had the
opportunity to work with its
“book buddies” on the Earth
Day project. Debbie Lotstein’s
fifth-grade class joined the
kindergarten students to help
decorate Earth Day symbols
on their bags. Said Fabiano,
“The students created a list of
Earth Day symbols on chart
paper from the previous
day after reading nonfiction
books and watching video
clips about Earth Day. The
chart was used as a visual
reference as the fifth-graders encouraged and assisted
the kindergartners with their
drawings.”
For more information
about Earth Day, visit www.
earthday.org/.
The father and daughter team of Mark and 5-year-old
Emmy Shapiro are all smiles as they decorate a mug.
The Master’s School student accepted to All-State orchestra
Elizabeth “Liz” Graves,
senior at The Master’s School,
was recently accepted in the
Connecticut 2015 All-State
Music Festival Orchestra.
The prestigious ensemble is
comprised of students who,
after auditioning and being accepted into a regional
Connecticut band, orchestra,
or choir, and participating
in a regional music festival,
were invited to audition for a
chance to perform in an AllState ensemble.
Liz has been playing
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has been studying privately
The Kowal sisters – Sarah, 7, and Emily, 4 – team up
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A ‘thank you’ for
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Janet Schwartz
Chairman Advisory Council
Burlington Bell Community
Fund
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To the editor:
The Burlington Bell Community Fund wishes to thank everybody who came out to the Family
Fun’raiser at KC Dubliner Saturday,
April 11. Thank you to all who provided auction items and to those
who bid for those auction items,
to Cajun Ray and the Steamers
who provided foot-stompin’ music,
and thank you to all who danced,
whooped, and enjoyed their music. Because of you and all who
helped (especially Chris Birk and
the staff of KC Dubliner) the Community Fund can continue to assist
our Burlington neighbors when
they are in difficulty. The Burlington Bell Community Fund at the
Main Street Community Foundation has been in existence for almost four years. In that time, we
have been contributing to groups
in town who are trying to enhance
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in our own backyard. Thank you
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What it means to be a mom
From what I understand, being a mom is a tough job.
I’m also told it’s a job you are
unable to fully appreciate until you
become a mom and gain the firsthand experience.
I’ve been thinking a lot about
Abigail Albair,
what it means to be a mom lately,
Editor
thinking back on all the things my
mother did for me and contemplating what life will be like if, one day, I am lucky
enough to have children of my own.
Being a mom means sleepless nights.
It isn’t just the days of a child’s infancy that
bring sleep deprivation, but every day for the rest
of your life. This is something I know for certain,
having witnessed all my mother went through.
I didn’t cry much the first few days after I
came home from the hospital, but as my dad tells
the story, my mom didn’t sleep for a moment – she
stayed up watching me closely to make sure I was
breathing.
Every night throughout my childhood, after
she would put me to bed, I’d hear her – a middle
school math teacher by profession – downstairs rifling through paperwork as she graded and caught
up on other work. I know those night shifts lasted
long after I drifted off to sleep.
There was the Christmas season when she
burned her fair share of midnight oil making an
outfit for a doll to be exactly as I envisioned it – red
velvet, green lace trim and patent leather shoes to
match.
There were the Halloween costumes and
the birthday cakes that took up so much time
that could only be found in the wee hours of the
morning.
Then, of course, came all the nights of my high
school days when she stayed up waiting for me to
make it home safely after first dates and parties
with friends.
Even today, I know occasional worries (Is her
daughter working too much? Is she remembering to eat lunch? Is she getting enough sleep?) are
things that keep her awake.
Being a mom means sleepless nights, but if
you ask my mom, being a mom is the fulfillment
of a dream.
Being a mom means learning a whole new
level of prioritization.
My mom worked full time and earned a master’s degree all while raising a child. She took care
of the dog I swore I’d walk and feed, and took care
of a house that was often lonely as my dad traveled for work and I joined an increasing number
of teams and clubs as years went by.
She did anything and everything I asked of
her and she never got enough credit.
She was a scapegoat and a best friend for a
teenager who was often less than kind.
Being a mom means giving up on personal time, but, if you ask my mom, she’ll say it was
worth the sacrifice.
I never appreciated my mom enough growing
up, and I’m not certain I always tell her I appreciate her enough now, but with each passing year I
understand more just how much of a difference a
good mom can make.
Every time I went to my room, frustrated because she refused to let me go to a friend’s house
where there were no parents home, was a time I
stayed out of trouble. Every time we argued over
decisions I was making was a time I gained a little
more self-worth.
I think most mothers would say being a mom
is an answer to a prayer.
For me, the chance to be a mom is just the
first of many wishes.
I pray my kids are smarter than me. I pray they
get my nose, but their father’s tendency toward
innovation. I pray they make good decisions and
they inherit my work ethic, but take better care of
themselves than I do.
I pray they spend time outside, that they
love to travel and develop no attachment to cell
phones. I pray they never outgrow their imagination and that they find a passion.
I pray they have 10 fingers, 10 toes and are
healthy.
I pray they have a mom as good as their
grandmother was, and that one day they’ll have
the time to reflect on what a wonderful example
their mother was for them.
As the holiday approaches, let’s all take a moment to reflect, for being a mom means so many
things. For whatever it means to all the moms out
there and all the kids who love them, happy Mother’s Day.
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Taking out the trash around town
PURA hearing draws testimony
on proposed Eversource closure
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
Photo by Ted Glanzer
Adrian Enrique and Jack Rutherford show off their haul after emerging from the woods at Tunxis Mead
during Farmington’s annual townwide cleanup day Saturday, April 25. See more photos on page 20.
SIMSBURY — Local and
state officials as well as union
members and former employees testified at a Public Utilities
Regulatory Authority hearing on
the proposed closure of the Eversource work center in Simsbury.
The hearing took place in
New Britain Wednesday, April 22.
State Rep. John Hampton
led the testimonies, speaking
of the long-term effects of the
closure of the Simsbury work
center.
He raised concerns including that Eversource, which was
formerly CL&P, would not be
able to respond in a timely manner to emergencies and the move
would burden the local economic situation.
Among other things, he said
closing the facility could lead to
an increase in taxes.
“This closure could have a
substantial negative effect on the
town’s mill rate,” he said.
First
Selectman
Lisa
Heavner spoke to the same concerns as well as to an inability to
get straight answers from Ever-
source officials, who, she said,
had agreed on more than one occasion to provide the town with
information.
The information she was
looking for included a report of
the company’s response times,
an impact analysis for time lost
to get materials outside of Simsbury, a written commitment that
the company would respond to
priority one incidents within a
half an hour and a protocol for
meeting that response time.
To date, Heavner said, the
company had not come through
with any of the promised
information.
“Our concerns about emergency response time are real,”
Heavner said. “A Simsbury Public Works employee was trapped
when live wires fell on his truck.
Eversource was able to respond
to this life threatening incident
in 20 minutes. Longer travel time
in this instance could have resulted in serious injury or worse.”
Heavner and other local
officials have vocally opposed
the closure since it was first announced in January and have
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Decision on Prattling Pond proposal tabled amid continued neighborhood concerns
By Ted Glanzer
Staff Writer
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meetings on the issue, the Farmington Conservation and Inland
Wetlands Commission tabled a decision on a proposed four-lot subdivision on a 26-acre parcel of land
on Prattling Pond Road.
The application by Karen and
Martin Wand of 85 Prattling Pond
Road calls for three new homes to
be built on the land, with another
12 acres of wetlands to be donated
to the Farmington Land Trust.
Despite concessions from
the applicants, including grading
a driveway to the south to ensure
water runoff doesn’t flow into a
neighbor’s property, residents who
live near the proposed subdivision
continued to oppose the project.
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within 200 feet of the affected parcel was not adequate, as the residents on the road live so far apart
from one another.
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Feedback on trail connection includes support, environmental concerns
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
SIMSBURY — A proposed bike trail connection to Tariffville was met with mixed
views.
Residents crowded into the cafeteria
at Tariffville Elementary School April 22 to
discuss the proposed trail and, while most
speakers were in favor of the idea, there were
a number of people with concerns.
The issue that received the most concern
was the potential environmental impact of
the trail.
One of the possible routes discussed property for the trail.
would bring the trail along the edge of the
“I think you should consider the people
Farmington River, a design that would put living on that street because it is our home,”
the trail through wetlands and floodplains one speaker said.
and, according to some speakers, could harm
Director of Public Works Tom Roy said
endangered wildlife in the area.
pedestrian and bike traffic would increase,
Wanda Colman was the most vehement but not car traffic.
speaker against the bike trail. The several
Shea did not directly answer the quespages of concerns she read were laced with tion of whether or not property would be
a strong desire to protect the river and its wa- taken. “That piece of trail is going to have
tershed, along with the tree buffer and species to be looked at extremely comprehensively,”
living within the floodplain.
he said.
“A path for people does
On a small scale, the
not belong in the wetlands
idea for the trail is to make
of Tariffville,” she said. “I beTariffville accessible to the
lieve there’s really no place
rest of the town via other
for the East Coast Greenway
methods besides driving.
to pass through our village.”
In addition, the trail would
Colman mentioned the
draw bikers into Tariffville,
river’s Wild & Scenic Desigwhich, according to supnation and raised concerns
porters, would bring an ecoabout sacrificing the river
nomic boon to the village.
for the sake of the trail.
On a broader scale,
Farmington River Wathe short connector is a
tershed Director Eileen
key spine in a trail running
Fielding did not share Colalong the East Coast.
man’s staunch opposition,
“We have this whole
pointing out that one of
idea that we’re going to conthe reasons the river is elnect Maine to Florida. It’s
–Wanda Colman
igible for the designation
2,500 miles long and Conis because of its recreation
necticut is 200 miles,” said
capacity.
Molly Henry, New England
Fielding encouraged finding the right trail coordinator for the East Coast Greenway.
balance and choosing a route for the trail that “It’s all about connectivity.”
would run through areas that could withThe Tariffville connection is a top prioristand a little damage and staying away from ty for the greenway as it would tie into a trail
the more delicate sections.
to Rhode Island.
Avid cyclist Larry Linonis also respondA portion of the trail that has already
ed to concerns about the wetlands.
been funded will go through Bloomfield, Shea
“We care a lot about wetlands,” he said. said. Conceptually, it would stretch into Hart“It’s not all about the environment, it’s about ford and turn east to Rhode Island.
making Tariffville better than it is. ... Typically,
“There’s funding for 2.2 miles in Bloomreal estate values along trails increase by 10 field to end south of our town line,” Shea said.
percent.”
No decisions have been made conTown engineer Jeff Shea said the po- cerning the Tariffville trail. The idea of the
tential environmental impact would be fully meeting, according to First Selectman Lisa
Heavner, was to get public input.
studied before any decisions were made.
At the meeting’s close, she promised
“The honest answer right now is we don’t
know what the environmental impacts will careful consideration would be given to the
be,” he said. “We know there’s going to be hab- environment in any design that is considered
and echoed Fielding’s remarks.
itat that needs to be investigated.”
“I think that Eileen is exactly right,” she
A proposal to bring the trail down Main
Street Extension drew some concern with said. “If you want to preserve nature, you have
residents asking how traffic would be af- to make sure people have some access to it. ...
fected and if the town would take private We don’t want to hurt it while we do it.”
“A path for people
does not belong
in the wetlands of
Tariffville. I believe
there’s really no
place for the East
Coast Greenway
to pass through our
village.”
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Residents call for BOS action on racial profiling study
By Ted Glanzer
Staff Writer
Photo by Ted Glanzer
The current plan should have the project to replace windows
at Canton High School underway by 2016.
Plan to replace loose windows
at CHS moves ahead
By Alison Jalbert
Assistant Editor
CANTON — After exploring the most cost-effective way to replace windows
at Canton High School, town
officials are moving forward
with a plan that should have
the project underway in 2016.
Paul Drummey, project
manager for CREC Construction, spoke to the Board of
Education during an April 21
special meeting with an update on the project after a recent discussion with the Permanent Municipal Building
Committee.
The Board of Education
initially presented the window
replacements at a January
Board of Finance meeting.
The $1.8 million project would
include replacing loose windows in the cafeteria and in
some classrooms in the back
of the building.
Asbestos abatement was
also propositioned, although
the harmful material is not
in the windows themselves,
but rather in the surrounding
brick and caulking.
Drummey said Anna
Robbins, business manager
for the school district, approached him and asked for
a worst-case scenario with
the windows. After gathering data, CREC calculated
the price due to the potential
presence of polychlorinated
biphenyls, or PCBs.
“Since that point, we
met with a consultant and assessed the facility. He brought
up popping the frames, which
is basically encapsulating the
current frames and not disrupting the current caulking,
which could contain PCBs,”
Drummey explained.
That process reduced the
cost to less than a third of the
original price tag, bringing it to
around $500,000.
The replacement windows are a “solid” product that
would provide more energy
efficiency than the current
windows offer.
Leslee Hill, board chair,
asked if this process has been
done in other school districts.
Drummey said he was not
sure, but that it has been done
successfully in other types of
buildings.
Window replacements
are considered a priority project, Drummey said, which
means it needs to be put on
the bond list before June 30.
Should it receive approval, it
will be put on the state Bond
Commission List in January
2016. In order to move forward
with the state by June 30, Robbins said the funding needs
to be in place. The Board of
Selectmen will refer it back to
the Board of Finance, which
will in turn refer it for a town
meeting, a tight time frame
given the deadline, she said.
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GRANBY — Two residents called on the Granby
Board of Selectmen at its
regular meeting Monday,
April 20 to address the recent study that concluded that the Granby Police
Department may have engaged in racial profiling.
The Granby Police Department was one of five
law enforcement agencies
in the state cited as having
“statistically significant” racial or ethnic disparities in
its traffic stops, according
to a statewide Central Connecticut State University
racial profiling study.
The study revealed
that Granby police engaged
in 1,484 stops in 2013-14,
1,392 of which – or 91.1 percent – were white drivers,
while 85, or 5.7 percent, of
the stops were black drivers, 42, or 2.7 percent, were
Hispanic drivers, while 6, or
.4 percent, were Asian.
The study also revealed
what it called significant
statistical variations between when black and Hispanic drivers were pulled
over in the daytime than
during the evening hours,
a model known as the “Veil
of Darkness.” Minority drivers were more likely to be
pulled over in the daytime,
presumably when it’s easier
to discern a driver’s race,
than in the evening hours.
Granby Chief of Police
Carl Rosensweig issued a
statement that the department does not engage in racial profiling, nor have there
been any complaints from
those pulled over concerning racial profiling.
But resident Gerald
Ledger told the selectmen
he believed the press release issued by the chief appeared “defensive.”
“As a citizen, I call for
an internal review,” Ledger
said, adding that he hoped
Rosensweig was speaking
with the officers who issued
the tickets as well as the authors of the report. He also
called on the selectmen to
notify residents of when the
town spoke to the report’s
authors.
“I’m really disturbed,
and I believe a lot of people out there are disturbed
by this,” Ledger said. “We’re
singled out as one of a few
towns in the state of Connecticut that has this kind
of record.”
Resident Mark Migliaccio also said the report
presented a “cause of concern for me.”
“I think it’s just one
piece of a larger perceived
issue that may exist,” Migliaccio said.
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National initiative will help ‘stamp out hunger’ locally
By Alison Jalbert
Assistant Editor
REGION — On May 9,
letter carriers will not only
be dropping off mail, but also
picking up food.
The National Association of Letter Carriers’ annual
food drive, Stamp Out Hunger, will be held Saturday,
May 9. It takes place in more
than 10,000 cities and towns
across America, according to
the NALC website.
It is an effort to raise national
awareness
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ongoing problem of hunger
in many communities and is
an attempt by NALC to use
its “unique delivery network”
to do something about it.
People who wish to donate are asked to put out the
food at 9 a.m. Special bags
are not needed. Letter carrier participation in the drive
is on a voluntary basis, so
NALC encourages people to
call their local post office and
ask to speak to the local food
drive coordinator.
All food collected stays
in the community. Locally,
some food will be heading
to the Farmington Food Pan-
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the food drive is one of only
two townwide food drives
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every spring.
“We rely on it enormously for inventory for our
shelves,” she said. “This one is
huge.”
Its importance is compounded because the food
pantry’s shelves are lean in
the summer, Ramsay said.
“No one remembers
us in the summer. The need
is even greater for families,
particularly for children,”
she said, since they are now
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Finance board approves funding for Old Farms Road
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
AVON — After more
than four decades, Old
Farms Road in Avon is on the
way toward a makeover.
At a special meeting
April 15, the Board of Finance approved funds for
two projects on the long,
winding road: $400,000 for a
new bridge and $340,000 for
a study to determine the feasibility of moving the road.
The plan is to build a
new bridge to the north of
the existing bridge at the intersection of Old Farms and
Waterville Road [Route 10]
and to do some fixes at the
intersection, Town Manager
Brandon Robertson said
“This is that little spindly bridge,” he said.
The study will look at
the possibility of relocating
the road from Tillotson Road
to Thompson Road, Robertson said.
“The scope is pretty
broad but it’s designed to determine if the road construction would be eligible for a
type of permit from the Army
Corps of Engineers,” he said.
Earlier in the month, the
Board of Selectmen determined how much the town
would need to complete the
bridge work and study.
The council also agreed
to hire C&C Consulting Ser-
vices to perform the study.
The state Department
of Transportation has taken
over the bridge project and
will reimburse the town 100
percent of its costs, Robertson said. It is currently working on designs for the project.
The state will reimburse
90 percent of what the town
spends on the study.
The town has been planning to do something about
the road for more than 40
years, Robertson said. In
1968, the project, in a similar incarnation to what the
town is now considering,
was included in the town’s
Plan for Conservation and
Development.
“That was the first time
that it was conceptualized,”
he said.
State and federal government hiccups have
stalled the projects’ completion. Now they are “teetered
to go forward.”
“In 2012, the state
agreed to take on the project, the bridge project, but as
these things go, it just takes
time,” he said.
He would not even venture a guess as to when the
bridge work would be started or completed.
“As soon as possible,” he
said. “It’s just hard to say.”
The town is also working with Avon Old Farms
School on its share of the
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The Board of Finance approved funds for two projects on Old Farms Road: $400,000 for a new bridge and $340,000 for a
study to determine the feasibility of moving the road.
plan to repair the road.
“We’re going to keep
working with the school
to determine what their
contribution to the project
would be,” Robertson said.
“The discussion that we’ve
been having with the school
is they would provide land
equivalent to the difference
between fixing the road in
place and moving it.”
Moving the road would
benefit the school as it would
create more of a buffer area
between the school and the
road.
“The idea has always
been that if we move the
road, we can work with the
school to provide a nice open
space buffer,” Robertson said.
The open space would
abut Fisher Farm and provide access to Fisher Meadows, he said.
The plan for the road includes moving it and adding
a base, which it lacks, special
projects engineer Tom Daukas said at the April 2 council
meeting.
Because the larger project has been bandied about
for so many years, the town
only does quick fixes to the
road each year.
A more permanent
solution such as reclaiming
the road would run the town
upwards of $3 million, Town
Council Chairman Mark
Zacchio said. It would not
be a sensible expenditure as
there is no base on the road
and the long-term plan is to
move it.
“We have, in my time
here, tried chip sealing,” Zacchio said. “We’ve been filling
the holes, skin coating it every year.”
“We don’t want to spend
a lot of money on it,” agreed
Daukas. “We’ve been remiss
in not doing it because we
always anticipated we would
be realigning it.”
Resident John Papadopoulos, who spoke during a
public hearing on the project
at the April 2 meeting, said
he was surprised there were
not more accidents on the
road.
“It’s just very dangerous,” he said. “I just find it
extremely dangerous.”
After that meeting, this
reporter took Old Farms
from Route 44 to Route 10
and noted that along the
narrow curving road there
are many potholes to avoid
as well as frost heaves and
other bumps.
The reimbursement for
the road project will also
cover items the town has already paid for and will result
in $45,000 in positive cash
flow, Daukas said.
Daukas estimated that
in the next couple of years
the road will be moved and
repaired, but Papadopoulos
was less optimistic.
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is going to be a five-year project,” he opined.
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By Ted Glanzer
Staff Writer
FARMINGTON — A developer informally presented its plan
Monday, April 27 to the Farmington Plan and Zoning Commission
for a proposed $60 million, 298unit luxury apartment complex on
the property of the former Charles
House factory that is adjacent to
Union School in Unionville.
Representatives from CenterPlan Development Company outlined a plan to construct studios,
one- and two-bedroom luxury
apartments, ranging in size from
750 and 815 square feet, and townhouses in four total buildings on
24 acres of land.
The luxury apartments, designed to attract young professionals and “empty-nesters” would
have hardwood floors, granite
countertops and washers and dryers. Tenants would have access to
a swimming pool and a health and
fitness center.
The project includes the reconstruction of the dilapidated
building adjacent to the Union
School as a clubhouse to be used
by apartment residents.
The plan also calls for providing Unionville residents motor
vehicle access to the Farmington
River via a connection from Perry
Street. There would be a possibility
of constructing a boathouse or a
kayak launch site on the Farmington River, according to landscape
architect Mark Arigoni.
Architect Michael Stein said
there would be surface-level parking for the buildings, ranging from
two stories to four stories.
The larger buildings would
be in the southern portion of the
parcel. The grading of the parcel
is such that all of the roof planes
would appear level to pedestrians
on Perry Street, Stein said. Viewed
from the Farmington River, however, the largest building would
appear to be five stories, including
the basement, Stein said. There will also be a road that
loops in back of Union School to
help with the queuing issue during
pickup and drop off on Perry Street,
according to Bob Landino, CenterPlan’s chief executive officer.
Traffic
engineer
David
Sullivan said he completed a
study, gathered all data and is in
the process of drafting recommendations. During morning peak
hour, the complex would create
an additional 150 trips in and out
of the site, he said. During the afternoon peak hours, the complex
would create an additional 180
trips. “We’ve identified that we
could maintain the status quo out
there with minor operational improvements,” he said. “But status
quo is not a great thing out there
at this point. We’re looking deeper
into it to see where we have opportunities to improve operations out
there.”
The Old Mill Commons project, which called for underground
parking, was previously approved
for a 91-unit complex in 2007. That
project did not proceed, however,
due to the significant environmental remediation needed on the
site as a result of contamination
from the felt factory, according to
Landino.
Landino said that, due to
changing lifestyles, young professionals don’t settle in one job and
stay for 30 years. As such, people
in their late 20s and early 30s no
longer prefer to commit to homeownership and prefer to rent. The
market in Farmington will easily
be able to bear 298 apartments, he
said.
Landino acknowledged the
“800-pound gorilla in the room,”
that the plan calls for more than
tripling the size of the development. However, the cost of remediating the property is at least between $5 and $7 million, he said,
adding that the number of units
CenterPlan is proposing would
make the project economically
viable.
“If we take a big hit with density, then it probably kills the project at the end of the day,” Landino
said. “Density needs to be a part of
the plan [ for CenterPlan] to execute the plan.”
He explained that CenterPlan
hired the same landscape architect and architect that helped
design the original Old Mill Commons because they understood
what Unionville represented and
wanted to look like.
Christian Hoheb, an attorney
representing CenterPlan, said that
the project would bring myriad
benefits to the community.
“It would bring to conclusion
a decades-long contamination of
property that abuts a school and
our waterfront,” Hoheb said.
While no formal application
was before the commission, commissioners offered their initial
thoughts on the project. Several
said they believed it was a good
“If we take a big hit
with density, then it
probably kills the
project at the end
of the day.”
–Bob Landino, CenterPlan’s
chief executive officer
project and wished the developer
well.
Others, however, offered a
more critical view of the massive
complex.
Chairman
Phil
Dunn
and
Commissioner
Barbara
Brenneman both said they didn’t
believe permitting cars to access
the Farmington River was a good
idea because the parking capacity
would be overwhelmed.
“If you invite public access to
the Farmington River, you’re going to chew up your parking in a
heartbeat,” Dunn said. Brenneman said she didn’t believe the increase in size was ideal.
“I don’t want you to think 298
units is perfect,” she said. “It’s a lot
of units.”
Dunn said he was also concerned about the overall impact of
traffic on the area.
“You’re taking a project that
was already approved and you’ve
more than tripled it,” Dunn said.
“It’s not just Perry, it’s Mill Street.”
Dunn said he is interested in
finding out from CenterPlan’s traffic engineer what would happen
with queuing up on Mill Street,
which likely would be used as a
back way in or out of the complex.
Commissioners also said
they would like to see some of
the townhouse units converted to
condominiums, as people with an
ownership interest would be more
likely to want to be a part of the
community.
The plan was first unveiled
informally before the Board of Education April 7 due to the project’s
proximity to the Union School.
Board of Education Chairman
Mary Grace Reed and Superintendent of Schools Kathleen Greider
were in attendance at the April
27 Plan and Zoning Commission
meeting, as well as Town Councilors Meredith Trimble and Peter
Mastrobattista.
Because it was an informal
proceeding, the public was not
invited to comment on the plan.
However, an open public meeting
with CenterPlan and the Unionville Improvement Association is
scheduled for May 27 at the Community Center on New Britain
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of the neighborhood, several
residents say.
Mountain Spring Road
is designated a scenic road,
something that several
neighbors say will be rendered meaningless if the application is approved.
“This is ugly, let’s face it,”
Pazzani said.
CJ Thomas and Portia
Corbett, both of Mountain
Spring Road, echoed some
of Pazzani’s sentiments.
“Once the trees go
down, they’re never coming
back,” he said. “Once houses
go up, that property will never be open space again.”
Corbett said the residents “are the experts on the
road.”
“This is our road and
we know our road and our
yards,” she said. “We deal
with it. … Are we a scenic
road or not? What does
that mean? It means we are
beautiful.”
But Attorney Robert
Reeve, who represents the
Wands, said that, despite
the neighbors’ concerns,
there was no evidence that
the catch basin and rain
gardens wouldn’t fulfill their
functions properly.
“I haven’t heard any evidence through five nights
of testimony that the detention basin upland will have
any impact [on runoff],”
Reeve said.
Berms would be constructed to block the view of
the drainage pond and water
gardens, though neighbors
were also skeptical of the efficacy of such a proposal.
Members of the commission, for their part, decided to table a decision on
the matter until the next
meeting, though the hearing
was closed.
“Vey little comes under
wetlands jurisdiction,” commissioner Robert Hannon
said. “I need to think about
what’s proposed and what
the issues are to figure out a
possible alternative southern
detention basin. I’m not ready
to render a decision on this.” Commissioner Robert
Isner agreed.
“It would be good to
take additional time to go
through the record to segregate the conservation and
wetland concerns,” he said. The commission’s next
meeting is scheduled for
Wednesday, May 6.
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Staff Writer
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to Ferraris, Lamborghinis,
muscle cars, electric cars and
pickup trucks.
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Farmington High students
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Gallo and Carolyn Bittner
– that was expected to raise
more than $3,000.
The event has grown every year.
“In the past, we had
baked goods sales and collected donations to raise
funds,” Gallo said. “We decided to try something different. For our first car show we
were expecting 50 show cars
and ended up with 120 filling
EVERSOURCE from page 13
decried the company’s claims
it will be able to respond to
local emergencies in a timely manner. The 69 Simsbury
employees will be moved to
Cheshire, Hartford and Torrington.
According to Tricia Taskey Modifica, CL&P media relations manager, the closure is
a consolidation and is part of
an overall plan to streamline
operations and build on the
improvements the company
has already made to customer
service.
When he was cross examining Steven Gilkey, Eversource’s vice president of
operations in Connecticut,
Attorney Michael Wertheimer
asked him if the company had
made a commitment to Simsbury to respond to emergen-
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Migliaccio said the police department had been
accredited by an organization
through 2009, but that the department was not reaccredited in 2010, and he was unable
to determine why after some
inquiries.
Further, Migliaccio noted that two police officers
who were employed in Granby left for South Windsor and
Simsbury.
Dawn Lombardi paints
a Chevrolet for charity.
the Post Office Square parking lot with cars. Last spring,
we moved the car show to
Tunxis Mead and had double
the amount of cars.” The show was sponsored by Edward Motor Service, MOTORCARS, with
additional sponsors includ-
ing Advanced Reprographics,
Canton Auto Supply, Farmington Car Wash, Maximum
Beverage, Plainville Oil, ConnectiCare, Hagerty Classic
Car Insurance and Farmington Bank. LaSalle Market provided food, and New
Sound Systems played music.
cies in 30 minutes.
Gilkey alleged it had not,
stating the company would
do its best based on weather
conditions.
“The approach is we will
try,” Gilkey said, adding that
situations such as storms and
impassable roads could cause
delays.
Gilkey agreed to sit down
again with Heavner and local
officials.
Simsbury officials were
not the only ones to speak out
at the hearing.
Douglas Wright, a lineman for 40-plus years at the
Simsbury facility, asked PURA
to give thought to the closure
as it could lead to unnecessary
risk and even death.
“There is no easy access
to the Valley,” he said. “Rule
favorably and hold them to
task.”
Frank Cirillo, president of
the International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers, also
criticized the plan, saying he
did not know how Eversource
would be able to service the
towns in the Farmington Valley if it moves out of Simsbury.
“Crews won’t be able to
get there because they’ll be
scattered all over the place,”
he said.
For its part, the company said it would be able to
reach the Valley using a new
approach whereby workers
would clock in at work centers
in Hartford, Cheshire or Torrington, then would spend the
day in mobile units.
There will be workers in
vehicles 24 hours a day, Gilkey
said.
PURA is scheduled to
make its decision on the closure in July.
“Do we have a pay scale
issue or morale issue?” Migliaccio asked. “I’m not sure
if this is indicative of a problem, or the perception of a
problem, but this needs to
be looked into to see what’s
there.”
Finally, Migliaccio said
that surrounding towns such
as Suffield and West Hartford
have a citizen-based police
commission to provide additional oversight of their respective police departments.
First Selectman Scott
Kuhnly, for his part, said the
town would notify residents
of when administrators spoke
with the report’s authors.
The selectmen, in the
only other business during
the 18-minute meeting, approved the consumption
of alcoholic beverages for
two events at the new Pond
House at Salmon Brook Park.
One event was scheduled to
take place April 25, the other
Sept. 5.
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Dan Rose looks for some litter during Farmington’s annual
townwide cleanup.
Caitlin Farnan and Chris Czyrko walk along a roadside.
State Sen. Beth Bye and Ray Vicino pick up trash along
Brickyard Road.
Cleaning up
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armington’s treasure – its residents
– picked up the town’s trash on Saturday, April 25 during the annual
townwide cleanup day. Participants went
around town the week of April 17 to 25,
picking up trash. They then weighed and
dropped off their hauls at one of four locations: Tunxis Hose Firehouse, Tunxis
Mead, the Farmington Public Library and
Farmington Firehouse. A “Heaviest Haul”
competition was held in four categories:
families and individuals, civic organizations, businesses and school groups, youth
groups or teams. These photos are from
around Farmington on Saturday.
Photos by Ted Glanzer
Farmington High student Michael Rose picks up some trash
along Mountain Road.
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Wagging Tails celebrates 20 years of serving pooches and families
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
When, after graduating
from Syracuse University and
getting a corporate job, Krista Cugno Lofquist decided to
switch to a career in dog walking. One of her first thoughts
was how she would tell her
parents.
She pondered the conversation with her parents, chatting
with her dog, Bella, a Labrador
retriever puppy she got when she
moved to Boston for her new corporate job.
“When I looked down at her, I
basically said, ‘What are we going
to do?’” Lofquist said. “I’m going
to tell my parents we’re going to
be walking dogs. ‘Uh-oh.’”
By then, Lofquist was already walking dogs for friends
and neighbors and, as she put it,
people who liked their jobs and
worked long days and through
lunch. Unlike them, she took every excuse she could to leave the
office.
“I was running out the door
to be with Bella,” she said.
Once she decided to take
a leap of faith and leave her job,
Lofquist needed to name the dog
walking business. That involved
Bella, too.
“I looked at Bella [and said],
‘What are we going to do?’ and
she wagged her tail,” Lofquist said.
That was when she came up
with the name Wagging Tails Pet
Sitting. She also decided to come
back home to Connecticut. For a
time, while she lived in an apartment in Waterbury and did business in other towns, she even
hired dog walkers to care for her
pets, a fact that made her chuckle
as she recalled it.
That was 20 years ago. Since
then, in 2009, Lofquist added a
mobile grooming service.
In celebration of the 20-year
milestone, the firm launched a
completely revised website and
blog, and is expanding its service
area with a second mobile grooming van, according to a press release.
The fully equipped vans offer all the luxuries of a traditional
grooming salon in a portable platform. The firm uses 100 percent
all-natural grooming products,
and the vans contain specialized
equipment to accommodate the
needs of senior pets, impressionable puppies and those with
special needs.
While the business is actually
located in Southington, Lofquist’s
clients are all over the state, including the Farmington Valley
and West Hartford.
Included in the services is
pet sitting, even overnight stays
during which visits the sitter will
take in the mail, water the plants,
feed any and all pets in the home,
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walk the dog and clean up pet
waste or other messes.
Currently, there are 22 pet sitters and two groomers who work
for Wagging Tails, Lofquist said.
She no longer does the pet walking or sitting, save when there’s a
special case such as a disabled dog
that requires special attention.
“Or, if I’m having a bad day
and there’s a really cute puppy
that I want to go see,” she said.
Lofquist still has clients she
took on years ago, she said. She
remembers one woman in particular who had a baby on her hip
while they talked about the dog
walking service. That baby has
grown up and is now in college.
Since those beginning days,
the business has changed and it’s
now much easier to do things on
the run, Lofquist said. She remembers her old-fashioned cell phone,
big and clunky, and the $800 bill
that came with it and the days
when she had to carry quarters
for pay phones.
Back then, dog walking was a
luxury that fewer people thought
of doing, but as dogs have become
members of the family, filling their
needs has become more of a necessity.
Carol Elyett, who is 71, has
worked for Wagging Tails for 10
years.
“It helps keep me healthy,” she
said.
On April 14, Elyett said she
Not only does Wagging
Tails take great care of the dog,
Mortensen said, but Lofquist
schedules last minute visits without a problem.
“I felt like the person who
looked over Packer ended up loving him like another family member,” Mortensen said. “He’s very
demanding of affection.”
Mortensen also appreciates
the updates he gets telling him
how the dog is doing. He generally
asks to be texted for three out of
the four daily visits and to get a
phone call for the last one.
“The communication is
great,” he said.
According to the press release, the Wagging Tails team is no
stranger to large and unique pets,
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that includes fish, ferrets and reptiles to birds, rabbits and chickens.
Wagging Tails has been the
recipient of the Reader’s Choice
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Groomer for nine years in a row.
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aid to ensure the highest level of
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was working with several different
dogs that week, and she was doing morning, afternoon and evening visits. At the visits she let out
the dogs, changed the water and
checked on other pets.
As Elyett spoke, she was
walking Klondike, a 1 1/2-year-old
wolfhound that was begging for
attention. Another visit she did
that day involved a house with
two dogs, Stella, a black lab, and
Shalia, a border collie. It was a bit
of a challenge because Stella has
bad legs and can’t run around and
Shalia loves to run.
Elyett tossed a stick for Shalia
and while she chased it, gave Stella some extra love.
A downside to the job is
when one of the pets she cares for
passes away, she said.
“It’s like losing your own all
over again. That’s the only drawback to this job because you do
get attached to the four-legged,”
she said.
ESPN’s Chris Mortensen,
who lives in Farmington, said
he swears by Wagging Tails and
wishes he had started using them
sooner. With long nights in the
studio and frequent road trips to
events including the NFL playoffs,
he is often forced to leave Packer, a
13 1/2-year-old German shepherd
mix at home, but he trusts Wagging Tails with him.
“It’s like handing your child
over, at least it was for me,” he said.
Relay For Life of Farmington Valley
Saturday, May 16 • 9:00 A.M.
Farmington High School, 10 Montieth Drive, Farmington
We celebrate survivors.
5 p.m. – Survivor & Caregiver Celebration Laps, followed by
Reception for Survivors and their Caregivers
For more information or to register visit our website at:
relayforlife.org/farmingtonct
In the fight against cancer, silence is the last thing we need. Your local
American Cancer Society Relay For Life event is a great place to take
action and make noise. The Relay For Life movement features community and campus events that offer an inspiring opportunity to honor cancer
survivors, promote how individuals can reduce their cancer risk, and
raise money to help end cancer. Today, with the support of thousands of
volunteers, the American Cancer Society is helping save more than 400
lives a day. And we won’t stop until we finish the fight against cancer!
April 30, 2015
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PRESSBUSINESS
DAVIDsTEA second CT location opens at Westfarms
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
DAVIDsTEA endeavors to make not only
drinking a cup of tea an experience, but shopping in its store one as well.
The tea shop opened inside Westfarms
Saturday, April 18. It’s the company’s second
Connecticut location.
The company, which specializes in loose
leaf teas, is based out of Montreal, said Stephanie Campbell, certified trainer for the company, on a tour of the store April 24.
Teas are brewed throughout the day in
the store, and customers are offered samples to
give certain offerings a try.
As she listed ingredients in various
blends, Campbell showed jars, resplendent with bright, colorful dried leaves,
flowers and berries, with rich aromatic
scents.
The company has 150 types of teas, she
said. There are black, white, green, oolong and
pu’erh teas with such items in them as cranberries, pears and apples.
Sweet Ginger Heat has licorice, ginger and
peppercorns, which, Campbell said, add a nice
sweet spiciness. Another blend includes North
African mint, ginger, peppermint, licorice, fennel and cardamom.
There are also a few other blends with licorice.
“Licorice is really nice in teas,” she said. “It
gives it a nice natural sweetness. It feels nice on
your throat.”
The spring collection has floral and fruity
blends, such as Elder Flower Spritz, which is
white tea with elder flowers.
Berry Poppins blend includes blackberries,
apples, hibiscus and rose petals. Strawberry
Rhubarb Parfait has strawberries, rhubarb, carrot bits and raisins. Yogi Berry has ginger, black
tea leaves and strawberries.
Blueberry Jam has blueberries, elderberries, cornflower petals and is one of the company’s organic mixtures.
To be certified organic, everything in the
tea, the leaves and other ingredients and the
way it’s packaged and shipped, must follow the
proper specifications.
April’s tea of the month is Serenity Now,
one of DAVIDsTEA’s organic teas with lavender, strawberries, blueberries and a little bit of
spearmint.
The company also sells traditional teas,
meaning tea leaves only, sans the added flavors. All the teas – white, green, oolong, black
and pu’erh – are from the same plant, Campbell
said.
The company also has Matcha, Japanese
green tea ground to powder form.
“They remove the vein and the stem and
grind it to a fine powder. You’re actually consuming the full tea leaf. This is also typically
shaded before it’s removed from the plant,”
Campbell said. “One cup is equal to almost six
cups of green tea, so you’re getting a strong energy. It’s definitely being talked a lot about very
recently.”
As customers entered the store, employees
welcomed them, offered them a tour, showed
them teas and even taught them how to brew
People on the move
Augusto Russell honored as
Professional Agent of the Year
by PIA Connecticut
Photo by Sloan Brewster
Stephanie Campbell, certified trainer for
DAVIDsTEA, demonstrates a tea infuser that
releases liquid into a cup.
the loose leaf blends using a tea infuser made
to fit in a mug.
“We’re always celebrating; it’s always a
celebration,” Campbell said. “We take people
through a tea journey when they come through
the store. It’s definitely an experience.”
The store also offers gifts, and Campbell
showed a couple of ideas for Mother’s Day, such
as a tea sampler and a Relaxation Kit with a
candle and tea.
Lexa Lopez of New Britain bought some
pu’erh and Love Tea Number 7.
“It’s just been such a nice friendly environment, and it’s just been a great experience
coming in here. It’s so nice to come in here and
see smiling faces,” Lopez said. “The tea is wonderful. It’s nice and fresh and aromatic.”
Farmington resident Augusto Russell,
CIC, partner at May, Bonee & Walsh,
received the Professional Insurance
Agents of Connecticut Inc.’s Professional
Agent of the Year award during the association’s annual business meeting at
Foxwoods in March.
The Professional Agent of the Year
award is given to an agent who has
demonstrated excellence and achievement in insurance marketing and service, has shown a personal commitment
to professionalism, and has contributed
to PIA and the community.
An active member of PIACT since
2005, Russell served as president for
2013-14; as vice president of the association for 2011-13; treasurer for 2010-11;
and as secretary for 2009-10. He also is
chair of the Administrative/Nominations Committee and a member of the
Executive/Budget & Finance and Legislative/Business Issues committees.
Active in his community and in his
church, the Greater Hartford Church of
Christ, Russell serves on the board of
directors for several organizations. He is
the chair of the Farmington Economic
Development Commission. He also is a
member and past president of the Farmington Rotary Club, chair of FAVARH
(Arc of the Farmington Valley, Inc.) Capital Campaign and a Tufts alumnus.
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Church
to celebrate
25 years
River Valley Christian
Center in Farmington is celebrating its 25th anniversary with special services May
8-10. This will be a joyous
time with music and ministry of God’s Word with
guest ministry, the Rev. John
DeCarmo and the Rev. Ryan
Young.
River Valley Christian
Center was founded by the
Rev. Al Chapman and his
wife, Karen, in May 1990
with 30 parishioners.
The Rev. Mark Taylor is
currently the pastor of River
Valley Christian Center.
Through the years,
missions to Argentina, El
Salvador, Guatemala, Israel,
Philippines, South Africa,
Ukraine and Uruguay have
been held, and the church
has donated to a variety of
needs locally and beyond.
In response to needs in Louisiana due to hurricane destruction, $20,000 was sent
to Faith Church in New Orleans. Also, through a giving
fund, more than $430,000
was given in the past 25
years to various needs.
For more information
call 860-676-0896 or visit
www.rivervalleychristiancenter.com.
Bicycle Trails’ Past, Present,
and Future lecture and ride
Courtesy photo
The Knifty Knitters made baby hats for the CCMC NICU.
Young knitters donate baby hats to NICU
On April 15, the Farmington Library’s Knifty
Knitters presented handmade baby hats to the
Connecticut
Children’s
Medical Center’s Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit. Jeanne
Lattanzio, coordinator of
the March of Dimes-NICU
Family Support Program,
received the hats and
thanked the group for its
donation.
The Knifty Knitters,
made up mostly of girls
ages 7-12, started a little
over a year ago and has
continued to grow through
word of mouth. “As new
knitters joined the group,
I loved watching the more
experienced knitters help
the newbies. They would
sit and chat about their
day at school and share
with each other,” said
Farmington Library staff
member Paula Montes.
“Once they learned
the skill, I suggested we
do a group project. They
loved the idea of knitting
baby hats,” said Montes.
The group worked hard,
using two of the patterns
they learned to make 87
hats for babies staying in
the NICU. “For me to see
the perseverance, patience
and excitement made me
very excited. Their sense
of accomplishment and
pride was a joy to witness.”
Members of the group
were on hand to present
the hats at the Farmington
Main Library, as the NICU
is not open to visitors under the age of 14.
Each girl received a
certificate of accomplishment during a celebration.
“I think this project
taught the girls so much,
and they are eager to continue and work on another
group project. It also has
been nice for mothers and
daughters to learn to knit
together,” said Montes. The
group will start up again in
September.
The Farmington Library is part of the Farmington Village Green and
Library Association. Director of Simsbury
Free Bike and bicycle enthusiast Larry Linonis, who
has ridden 40,000 miles
since 2011, will share his
enthusiasm for the trails of
the Farmington Valley in
celebration of National Bike
Month. He will begin with a
brief history of the Farmington Canal, The New Haven
& Northampton Railroad
‘Canal Line’ and the Connecticut Western Railroad
Sunday, May 3 at 1 p.m. at
the Simsbury Public Library,
725 Hopmeadow St., Simsbury. Following his presen-
tation, Rob Dexter will relate
what’s coming up in the future for the East Coast Greenway, the Tariffville Connector and the “Gaps.” The
30-minute lecture will be followed by a bicycle ride (rain
or shine) that is intended
to visit all three of the trails
that pass through Simsbury.
Participants should preregister through the library at
860-658-7663, ext. 2200, or
www.simsburylibrary.info
(click on calendar). Let the
library know if one has to
borrow one of the Simsbury
Free Bikes.
SVFC member completes course
Firefighter Renee Cafasso, Firetown station, of
the Simsbury Volunteer
Fire Company, has been
certified Firefighter I by the
state of Connecticut.
The 160-hour course
covers fire suppression,
breathing apparatus, search
and rescue, ladders, ropes,
hydrant hook-up and salvage and overhaul. The
class prepares students to
become online firefighters,
trained in all phases of fire
suppression.
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Pet therapy at The Gables
On the afternoon of April
20, the residents of The Gables
at Farmington were awaiting the arrival of Jack. They
watched with amazement
when Jack, at 250 pounds,
jumped out of a minivan and
strutted down the hall to the
East Lounge.
Jack is a beautiful, gentle
and intelligent llama owned
by Debbie Labbe of Country
Quilt Llama Farm in Cornwall. As part of her pet therapy program, Labbe visited
The Gables’ residents with her
llama, where she presented an
informative and fun-filled afternoon on “llama life,” engaging residents with samples of
clothing from llama wool and
pictures of her “family.” Jack did
his part, too. He was an attentive, patient and an undeniably
cute llama. Life is always exciting and one never knows who
or what will walk through the
doors at The Gables at Farmington, Independent/Assisted
Living.
Simsbury Fire District proposes
budget with no mill rate increase
At its regular monthly meeting in April, the Simsbury Fire
District completed its budget
workshops for the coming year
and voted unanimously to pass
its recommended $2.95 million
budget on to the district’s annual town meeting for approval
by the taxpayers. If that budget
is adopted May 11, there will be
no change in the mill rate, which
will remain at 1.19 mills for the
second consecutive year. This
follows a mill rate reduction from
budget year 2013-14 where it was
previously 1.21 mills.
According to District President Gary Wilcox, the goal was
to offer a budget that maintained
services to the community without increasing the mill rate. This
fiscal year the Fire District has
taken delivery of two new fire
engine pumpers and has done so
as in its past history without any
borrowing of funds. These two
pumpers are expected to provide
25 years of service life similar to
the pumpers they are replacing.
The proposed budget includes
replacement of the department’s
breathing apparatus equipment.
The annual meeting and
budget vote of the Simsbury Fire
District is scheduled for May 11
at 8 p.m., in the Main Meeting
Room of the Simsbury Fire Main
Station at 871 Hopmeadow St.
The proposed budget can be
reviewed on the website www.
simsburyfd.org under the Fire
District section.
Dozens of people and their canine friends will come together for
fun, food, contests, dog demos and
a walk to celebrate canine companionship for cancer survivors. Participants are also raising funds to support the American Cancer Society’s
mission to save lives from cancer.
The event will be Saturday, May
9 at 867 West Avon Road in Avon
near Farmington Woods/Unionville
from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Activities
include a Farmington Police dog
demo, dog contests for best dressed,
dog/owner look-alike, best trick,
smallest dog and biggest bark.
Two dog rescue organizations
will be there. Veterinary groups, Canine Clubhouse, dog supply vendors
andtrainers will be there to answer
questions. Food from Big Red Truck,
Bounce House and photo booth
from OneTentCo. will be available.
‘Comedy for a
Cause’ to benefit
Avon organization
Avon Dollars for Scholars
will host its second “Comedy for a
Cause” fundraiser Saturday, May 9
at the Golf Club of Avon, 160 Country Club Road. Tickets are $50 per
person and include hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. Doors open
at 7 p.m. The comedy show begins
at 8 p.m.
Proceeds from the show will
benefit Avon Dollars for Scholars,
a nonprofit community-based organization that works year-round
with local residents, businesses and
foundations to raise money to provide scholarships to Avon residents
who are qualified graduating high
school students pursuing post-secondary education.
This year’s show will include
host Rick Roberts, who has performed at Mohegan Sun, and headliner John Fisch, who has appeared
on the “Late Show with David Letterman.” It will also feature Dr. Jay
Sutay, a finalist in New England’s
Funniest Comic Contest.
Last year’s “Comedy for a
Cause” sold out, so Avon Dollars
for Scholars recommends advance
ticket purchase by contacting Steve
Hahn via phone -860-690-7352, or
email
steveavondollars@gmail.
com. Any remaining tickets will be
sold at the door.
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A Gallup survey reports the
average American household has
four Bibles. However, research by
the Pew Forum on Religion and
Public Life found that only 16 percent of Americans read the Bible
every day.
West Granby United Methodist Church is hoping to reverse
this trend, starting with its own
congregation. Pastor Peter Preiser
believes that “The Story,” a Zondervan best-seller, is the right tool to
increase biblical literacy, presenting
the Bible in an engaging format,
reading like a novel. The church is
inviting local residents to order a
copy of “The Story” and follow the
reading schedule on the church’s
website while attending Sunday
services, which, began on Easter,
and will follow the reading schedule
for 31 weeks. Small group discussions are held weekly on Thursday
nights at 7 p.m. For more information, visit www.westgranbyumc.org
or call 860-653-7437.
check it out
AVON––––––––––––- BURLINGTON––––––Avon Health Center’s “Wellness Brings
Happiness” Health and Wellness Fair
Thursday, April 30, 1:30-4 p.m. at the health
center’s main dining room, 652 West Avon
Road, free and open to the community, 35+
vendors including massage therapists giving
chair massages, ballroom dance at 3 p.m.,
pet adoptions with Simon Pet Foundation,
food samplings
Avon Senior Center, 635 West Avon Road,
860-675-4355: Current Events Thursdays,
April 30 and May 7, 11 a.m.; Foot Care
Monday, May 4, 9 a.m.-noon, with Dr. Lindsay, $40, call 860-677-7272 to make appt.;
Free Blood Pressure Screening Tuesday, May
5, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.; Story of My Life
Tuesday, May 5, 12:45 p.m.; Shuffleboard
Wednesday, May 6, 100 a.m.
First Friday Dinner May 1, 5:30-7:30 p.m.,
at Avon Congregational Church, 6 West Main
St., chicken piccata along with pasta, veggies,
salad, dessert bar, $13/$7, dine in or take out,
portion of proceeds go to Simply Smiles
“The History of Our Nation Set in Stone: Arlington National Cemetery” Saturday, May
2, 1 p.m., in the Alsop Room of the Avon Free
Library, Country Club Road, co-sponsored by
Avon Historical Society and Avon VFW Post
3272, with Carolyn Ivanoff, historian and educator, presenting virtual tour of the cemetery
from the Civil War to present
Canton Chamber of Commerce 22nd Annual Golf Tournament May 11 at Farmington Woods Golf Club, individual fee $160,
foursome $640, dinner guest only $35 per
person, Canton ChamberOfCommerce.com or
call 860-693-0405
Pre-bus tour lecture and tasting by Corin
Hirsch Thursday, April 30, 7 p.m., at Canton
Community Center, 40 Dyer Ave., $5 for those
not joining the Historic Taverns & Tastings:
A Bus Tour Saturday, May 2, reservations at
860-676-8878
FARMINGTON–––––--
At the UConn Health Center, 263 Farmington
Ave.:
• Free IVF Information Session Thursdays,
April 30 and May 7, 6-8:30 p.m., Cell and Genome Science Building, 400 Farmington Ave.,
register at 860-679-4580
• “Ready to Lose” Weight Management Program Tuesday, May 1, 5-6 p.m., UConn Health
Outpatient Pavilion, thru June 4, $70/$50 for
past participants, 1-800-535-6232 for info
• Walk for Bladder Cancer Saturday, May 2, 1 p.m.,
Farmington River Trail, Route 4 (860-986-3170)
• Free Hospital Maternity Tours Saturday, May
2, 2:30-3:30 p.m., Main Lobby, register at
800-535-6232
• Nutrition for a Healthy Heart Wednesday,
May 6, 2-4 p.m., Outpatient Pavilion, fee $30,
register at 800-535-6232
• UConn Health Auxiliary Hanging Plant Sale
Thursday, May 7, starting at 8 a.m. at 16 Munson Road, outside the Connucopia Gift Shop
at 9 a.m. and at Outpatient Pavilion Gift Shop
at 9:30 a.m.
Pets on Wheels Friday, May 1, 10:30-11:30
a.m., at the Canton Senior Center, for those
interested in adopting a pet, with Jennifer Holt, director of operations with Pets on
Wheels, info at Canton Senior & Social Services, 860-693-5811
Farmington Valley VNA blood pressure
screenings Tuesday, May 5, 11:30 a.m.-1:30
p.m., at the Senior Center, 635 West Avon
Road, and Thursday, May 7, 12:15-1:45 p.m.,
at the Avon Library, 281 Country Club Road
Cherry Brook Garden Club annual Plant
Sale Sunday, May 3, 8:30-11 a.m., in Canton Town Hall parking lot, plants for Mother’s
Day, annuals, perennials, herb and vegetable
plants, fairy gardens, butterfly feeders and
more; annual luncheon May 12 at First Congregational Church of Canton Center, $20,
reservations at 860-306-3140
Avon Dollars for Scholars’ “Comedy for a
Cause” May 9, 8 p.m., at the Golf Club of Avon,
160 Country Club Road, headliner Jon Fisch and
featuring Dr. Jay Sutay, tickets $50, call 860690-7352 or [email protected]
Canton Parks & Rec Boston Bus Trip Saturday, May 9, tickets $55, register at www.
cantonrec.org
CANTON––––––––––-
Trinity Arts Series fundraiser Friday, May 1, 7
p.m., at Trinity Episcopal Church, 55 River Road,
Collinsville, $5 – Kara Sundlun speaking about
“Finding Dad: From “Love Child” to Daughter”
Avon Lions Charities Pasta Dinner May 9,
5-7:30 p.m. at the Avon Senior Center, 635
West Avon Road, tickets $10/$5 from club
members or at the door (860-810-7154)
“An Evening at the Theater,” community
fundraiser hosted by Canton Republican
Town Committee, Saturday, May 9, 6-7:30
p.m. reception at the Canton Historical Museum, 8 p.m. “Five Women Wearing the Same
Dress” performed by Farmington Valley Stage
Company, Town Hall, 4 Market St., tickets to both
events $75/couple, $40/person at 860-693-0407
Donation drop-off Thursday, April 30 or Friday, May 1, 5-8 p.m., at the Harwinton Fairgrounds for the Annual Tag Sale & Bottle Drive
to benefit Lewis S. Mills High School Project
Graduation 2015 Saturday, May 2, 8:30 a.m.2 p.m., at the Fairgrounds
Senior Citizens of Avon Organization at 635
West Avon Road, Monday, May 4, board meeting at 10:30 a.m., pizza and salad at noon,
dessert and bingo
National Day of Prayer Thursday, May 7,
noon, at the Avon Library Community Room,
Country Club Road, with clergy and lay people from several churches leading prayer for
towns, state and nation, and special music
of students from Avon High School – Gildo T.
Consolini VFW Post 3272 participating, VFW’s
Color Guard providing Presentation of Colors
and Retirement of Colors
rale Concert Thursday, May 7, depart Canton
Community Center at 5:30 p.m., sign up at the
Canton Senior Center, 860-693-5811, admission non-perishable food item
Burlington Parks & Rec programs at www.
burlingtonctparksandrec.com: 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, 6:157:15 p.m., at the Senior Center, $45 one class
per week, $85 two classes per week, $4 per
class at the door; accepting applications for
counselors-in-training and junior counselors
for Foote Road camp program, info on website
Kevin Adorno Memorial Ride and Festival
Saturday, May 2 at Winding Trails, register
at www.AdornoRide.org, register at bailey@
windingtrails.org – 50-mile ride 8 a.m., 28mile ride 9 a.m., 5K trail run 11 a.m., festival
noon-9 p.m. ([email protected])
Red Cross blood donation opportunity
Monday, May 4, 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., at Midas, 66 Albany Turnpike, appts. at redcrossblood.org or 1-800-733-2767
NAMI support group for parents of children with behavioral and mental health
concerts Monday, May 4, 7-8:30 p.m., at
the Canton Community Center, 40 Dyer Ave.,
questions: Grace at 860-693-9310 or Jennifer at 860-371-8111
At Hill-Stead Museum, 35 Mountain Road,
860-677-4787: First Sunday Open House
May 3, noon-4 p.m.; First Sunday Activity for
Kids May 3, 1 p.m., play old-fashioned games,
admission; First Sunday Gallery Talk: Paul Durand-Ruel, commercial advocate of French
Impressionism and friend of Alfred Pope, May
3, 1 p.m.; First Sunday Estate Walk May 3, 2
p.m.; May Market May 8 and 9
Farmington Valley VNA blood pressure
screenings Wednesday, May 5, 9:30-11 a.m., at
Walgreens at Canton Village, 220 Albany Tpke.,
and Wednesday, May 6, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., at
the Canton Community Center, 40 Dyer Ave.
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p.m., at the Senior Center, 321 New Britain
Ave., Unionville; Wednesday, May 6, 9-11 a.m.,
at the Farmington Library, 6 Monteith Drive;
and Thursday, May 7, 9:30-11:30 a.m., at Middlewoods of Farmington, 509 Middle Road
Tunxis Seniors bingo game Wednesday,
May 6, at 1 p.m., at the Farmington Senior
Center, 321 New Britain Ave., Unionville, buy
boards between 12:30 and 1 p.m.
Middlewoods of Farmington hosting a
Pasta Night to benefit Relay for Life and the
American Cancer Society, Thursday, May 7,
6-8 p.m., at 509 Middle Road, cost $10/$6 –
sit-down dinner including salad, bread, beverages, choice of fettuccini alfredo or spaghetti
and meatballs, dessert and raffles (www.middlewoodsoffarmington.org)
Farmington Chamber of Commerce annual
dinner May 28 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––––––––––
Events at Granby Senior Center, 15 North
Granby Road, 860-844-5352:
• Shopping at Enfield Mall Friday, May 1, 10 a.m.
• AARP Safe Driver Tuesday, May 5, 8:45 a.m.,
fee paid to instructor, call 860-844-5352 to
reserve a space
• Excursions, $4 for ride: Ethnic Markets
Wednesday, May 6, 9:30 a.m., Cora Cora for
South America cuisine; Laurel Ridge Daffodils
Friday, May 8, 9:30 a.m., in the Litchfield Hills
• Normal Aging vs. Dimentia Wednesday, May
6, 3 p.m., seminar presented by Arden Courts,
Avon, Memory Care Community
• Food and Medical Myths with Sandee Fleet,
Farmington Valley VNA Wednesday, May 6,
12:45 p.m.
• Senior Club Talent Show Thursday, May 7, 1
p.m., RSVP
Women’s Breakfast Group Wednesday, May
6, breakfast at 8:30 a.m., program at 9 a.m.,
cost $3, call 860-653-9891 to reserve a spot,
program by Susan Campbell, former Courant
columnist and author
SIMSBURY–––––––--
Westminster School Spring Caberet Thursday, April 30 and Friday, May 1 at 7 p.m., in
Werner Centennial Center at the school, 995
Hopmeadow St., free (860-408-3060)
At the Simsbury Senior Center, Eno Memorial Hall, 754 Hopmeadow St., 860-658-3273:
• Lunch Café Friday, May 1, 11 a.m.-noon,
chicken gumbo soup, ham salad and egg salad sandwich, $2 sandwich, $2 soup, take out
or eat in
• Foot Care Clinic Tuesday, May 5, appts.
starting at 8:30 a.m., $29
• Bird Watchers Wednesday, May 6, 8 a.m.,
meet at Band Shell on Iron Horse Boulevard
• Lunch at Eno Wednesday, May 6, noon, BBQ
beef brisket, sign up the Friday before (May
1) by noon
• Massage Wednesday, May 6, 10 a.m., $10
• Meditation Thursdays, May 7-June 25,
11:15 a.m.-noon, $24
• Ice Cream Sundae Bingo Thursday, May 7,
1:30-3 p.m., $2, sign up by Monday, May 4
National Bike Month events: May 1, 1 p.m.,
Board of Selectmen Bike Ride, Town Hall; May 2,
9 a.m.-noon, Bike Safety Check for Kids grades
3-5 at Bicycle Cellar, Hopmeadow St.; May 3, 1
p.m., “The Bike Trails of the Farmington Valley,”
lecture and ride, Simsbury Library; May 4, Eastern Bloc Rides 6 p.m., Mountain Park (Mondays
thru summer); May 5, Eastern Bloc Rides 6 p.m.,
Farms Village Plaza (Tuesdays thru summer);
May 6, National Bike to School Day, Tootin’ Hills
Bike/Walk to School; May 7, Eastern Bloc Rides,
women only, club pace, 6 p.m., Stratton Brook
Park (Thursdays thru summer)
Latimer Lane Elementary School PTO’s All
4 Kids Consignment Sale Saturday, May 2, 8
a.m.-1 p.m., in school gym, 33 Mountain View
Road, noon-1 p.m. all white tagged items one
half off – gently used quality children’s spring/
summer clothing, outerwear and shoes, toys,
books, games, outdoor play equipment, sports
equipment and baby strollers/furniture
Connecticut Valley Volkssport Club sponsoring a walk Saturday, May 2, 9 a.m., 5K
and 10K with start/finish point on Iron Horse
Boulevard, thru town center, registration
$6/$4/$3/$2 9 a.m.-9:25 a.m., guided walk
begins at 9:30 a.m. – volkssporting promotes
non-competitive outdoor exercise for people
of all fitness levels and ages, walks that include historic town centers, parks and other
points of interest
Rabies Clinic Saturday, May 2, 10 a.m.-noon,
at the Weatogue Fire Station, 251 Hopmeadow St., $20 per animal, cash only (860-6583110)
Simsbury Land Trust events:
• Tunxis Trail Hike Saturday, May 2, 10 a.m.,
Farmington Valley VNA blood pressure
screenings Monday, May 4, 11 a.m.-12:30
See CHECK IT OUT on page 26
At the Library
Avon Public Library,
281 Country Club Road, 860-673-9712,
www.avonctlibrary.info:
• Shakespeare-Inspired Movie “Kiss Me
Kate” Thursday, April 30, 1:30-3:30 and 4-6
p.m.
• Open Art Studio Thursdays, April 30 and
May 7, 2:15-4 p.m., drop in
• The History of Our Nation Set in Stone:
Arlington National Cemetery Saturday, May
2, 1-3 p.m.
• Preventing Consumer/Business Fraud
Monday, May 4, 7-10 a.m.
• Teen Nail Art Tuesday, May 5, 3-4 p.m.,
grades 7-12, drop in
• “Kiss Me Kate”/”Taming of the Shrew” discussion Tuesday, May 5, 7-8 p.m., presented
by Elizabeth Williamson from Hartford Stage
• Teen Games Unplugged Wednesday, May
6, 3-4:30 p.m., grades 7-12, drop in
• Computer classes with the Uberbots
Wednesday, May 6, 3:30-5 p.m., drop in
• National Day of Prayer Thursday, May 7,
noon-1 p.m.
• Free Blood Pressure Screening Thursday,
May 7, 12:15-1:45 p.m., walk in
• Teen Karaoke Thursdays, 2:30-4 p.m., thru
June 11, grades 7-11
• Junior Explorers Thursday, May 7: Titanic,
34 Library Lane, 860-673-3331,
www.Burlingtonctlibrary.info:
• Writing Group for adults Monday, May 4,
6 p.m.
• Homeschoolers Book Club Thursday, May
7, 1 p.m., all ages, “Animals That Make Me
Say Wow! by Dawn Cusick, come prepared
to share something about three animals featured in the book, register
• Coffee and… Monday, May 4, 10 a.m.
• Drop-In Story Time: Butterflies Tuesday,
May 5, 10:30 a.m.
• Teen Advisory Group meeting Tuesday,
May 5, 4-5 p.m.
• Teen Book Club Tuesday, May 5, 5-6 p.m.,
“Seraphina” by Rachel Hartman
• Young Writers Club Tuesday, May 5, 7-8
p.m., grades 6 and up, register
• PJ Story Time: Bees Wednesday, May 6,
6:30 p.m., ages 3 and up, register
• Storytime Storywalks: Puddles and Waterfalls Thursday, May 7, 1:30 p.m., ages 4-5-K
with caregiver, register
• Artist Mary Wooten in main gallery space;
FV VNA exhibit in display case
Canton Public Library,
Farmington Library,
4:15-5:15 p.m., register
• The American Homefront in World War II
Thursday, May 7, 7-8 p.m., with Jim Genco
of Avon
Burlington Library,
40 Dyer Ave., 860-693-5800:
• Music for Me: Drop-in Music and Movement Time Friday, May 1, time TBD
• Eleventh Annual Crossword Puzzle Tournament Saturday, May 2, 1-4 p.m., pre-registration by April 30, check in between noon
and 1 p.m. on day of tournament,
• From the Heart: Songs of Longing, Peace
and Joy with singer/songwriter/poet Howard Banow and his guitar Saturday, May 2,
2 p.m., register
6 Monteith Drive, 860-673-6791, ext. 1,
www.farmingtonlibraries.org:
• Daddy and Me Saturday, May 2, 10:30-11
a.m., ages birth-3
• Pajama Storytime Monday, May 4, 6:307:15 p.m., ages 3 and up
• Terrific Toddlers at Night Wednesday, May
6, 6:30-7 p.m., ages 1-3
• The Healing Power of Meditation Wednesday, May 6, 7-8 p.m., with Matthew Raider,
M.D., clinical physician and coordinating
director of Geriatric Teaching program in
Family Medicine at Middlesex Hospital presenting latest clinical research on how meditation can improve physical, mental and
spiritual health
• Afternoon at the Bijou Thursday, May 7, 2
p.m., “Harriet Craig”
• Garmany Music Series: S’Fere, jazz group,
Thursday, May 7, 7-8 p.m., register
Granby Library,
15 North Granby Rd., 860-844-5275:
• Crafternoon for Kids Thursday, April 30, 4
p.m.
• Community Supported Agriculture Thursday, April 30, 5 p.m.
• Make Pierced Earrings at the Cossitt Library, 388 North Granby Road, North Granby,
Saturday, May 2, 1 p.m.
Simsbury Library,
725 Hopmeadow St., 860-658-7663:
• Classical Music in the Afternoon: Mother’s
Day Concert Saturday, May 2, 3-4:30 p.m.,
Rosewood Chamber Ensemble and Mia Kang
on piano
• Bicycle Trails in the Farmington Valley:
Past, Present and Future, lecture and ride
with Larry Linonis Sunday, May 3, 1-4 p.m.
• Photography Series – Black and White Imaging with the Simsbury Camera Club Monday, May 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
• Live Your Happiest Life Today Wednesday,
May 6, 7-8:30 p.m., with Lynn Healy, lecture
7-7:45 p.m. followed by an optional guided
meditation, register
• Natural Lawn Care Thursday, May 7,
7-8:30 p.m., with Aimee Petras from Farmington Valley Watershed Association, register
• Art display 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 program
• Start Your Career in Art: Portfolio Preparation Saturday, May 2, 10:30 a.m.-noon, RSVP
Children’s programs
• Lego Mania Saturdays, May 2, 9, 16, 23,
30, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., ages 5 and up, drop in
• Chess and Go Club Tuesday, May 5, 3:454:45 p.m., grades 2-6
• Baking: Grades K-2 Thursdays, May 7 and
21 at 4 p.m., Wacky Cake and Lightning
Cake, register
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from Route 20 trailhead in Barkhamsted to terminus in Granville, Mass., RSVP to Karen/Ed Cox
at 860-658-6530
• Cathles property hike Saturday, May 3, 1 p.m.,
RSVP by Thursday, April 30 to 860-651-8773
(postponed from April 5), meet in cul de sac of
North Saddle Ridge Drive, moderately difficult hike
Simsbury Open Studios weekend Saturday and
Sunday, May 2 and 3, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. each day
Red Cross blood donation opportunity Monday, May 4, 1-6 p.m., at First Church of Christ,
689 Hopmeadow St., appts. at redcrossblood.
org or 1-800-733-2767
NAMI Family Support Group Monday, May 4,
7-8:30 p.m. at the Simsbury Senior Center, Eno
Memorial Hall, 754 Hopmeadow St., Simsbury,
info at 860-803-4139 or 860-299-5705
Training session for Memory Care volunteers
at McLean, 75 Great Pond Road, Tuesday, May
5, info at 860-658-3941
Farmington Valley VNA blood pressure
screenings Wednesday, May 6, 11:45 a.m.-2:15
p.m., at Eno Memorial Hall, 754 Hopmeadow St.
National Day of Prayer Tuesday, May 7,
observed: 6:30 a.m. at Covenant Presbyterian Church (The Barn), 124 Old Farms Road;
noon, in front of Simsbury Town Hall; 7:30
p.m., New Life in Christ Fellowship, 250 Firetown Road
Simsbury Newcomers annual meeting and
spring luncheon Wednesday, May 13, 11:30
a.m.-3 p.m., at Hop Meadow Country Club, 85
Firetown Road, featuring fashion show by Chico’s, cost $25, RSVP at [email protected]
Calling all pet-friendly vendors for 5th annual Strut Your Mutt event May 16, noon-4 p.m.,
at Paw Meadow Park, contact [email protected] or [email protected]
Registration open for 2nd Annual Run,
Bike, Paddle Triathlon May 17, 11 a.m.,
fees $75 individual and $100 team online,
$90/$115 after Monday, May 4, go to www.
trysimsbury.com; to volunteer, contact [email protected]
Simsbury Chamber of Commerce’s Good
Morning Simsbury vendor space available
for $150 for a 10’ x 10’ space at Simsbury
Spooktacular Chili Challenge in October, info
at 860-651-7307 or [email protected]
VALLEY & BEYOND––
Connecticut Civil War Round Table meeting Friday, May 1, 7 p.m., at the Torrington
Historical Society, 192 Main St., Torrington,
author Dr. Richard Sommers presentation
entitled “The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant
and the American Civil War”
Women in Business Networking Friday, May
1, 7:45-9:15 a.m. at Village Gate of Farmington,
88 Scott Swamp Road, Farmington, “Insights
to Better Connect with Your Clients” with Linda
Coveney of Healthy-Behaviors, RSVP to 860584-4718 or [email protected], info
at 860-677-4912, Alice Sawyer
Natural Lawn Care Workshops, Farmington River Watershed Association: Saturday, May 2, 9-10:30 a.m., at Winding Trails
in Farmington, register at Winding Trails
website; Thursday, May 7, 7-8:30 p.m., at the
Simsbury Library, register by May 4 at the library website
Open figure drawing sessions beginning
Saturday, May 2, 1-3:30 p.m., ongoing Saturdays, $10/session, at FV Sports Medicine, 112
South Main St., Unionville, sign up with Andrea
at 860-418-0737, [email protected]
Tunxis Community College hosting Fresh
Check Day Tuesday, May 5, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., in
Tunxis parking lot – a celebratory fairlike event
including expo booths, free food, music, prizes
and giveaways; created to help people on college campuses recognize the signs that could
lead to suicide and act on awareness in preventing suicide among college-age students
Carmon Community Funeral Homes hosting info about pre-planning of final arrangements and how to protect one’s assets
if Title 19/Medicaid is needed Tuesday, May
5 at Carmon Funeral Home & Family Center,
301 Country Club Road in Avon, and Thursday,
May 7, at 2 and 6:30 p.m. at Hayes-Huling &
Carmon Funeral Home, 364 Salmon Brook St.,
Granby, seating limited, registration required
at 860-673-8610, online at www.carmonfuneralhome.com
Mother’s Day with the Chef, the Baker, the
Tea Maker Saturday, May 9, 10 a.m.-noon, at
Connecticut Kitchen and Bath in Avon, class
for moms and their children ages 10-adult,
with Chef Celeste Borelli and cake artist Bonnie Samberg, ending with tea party with Daryl
Stanko, sign up by Thursday, April 30 at www.
ctkitchenandbath.com
Spring scramble fundraiser for Nutmeg
State Games Monday, May 11, 9 a.m. check
in, 10:30 a.m. shotgun start, 3 p.m. cocktail
hour, 4 p.m. dinner at Stanley Golf Course,
245 Hartford Road, New Britain, $250/players,
$1,000/foursome, 860-788-7041
Red Cross blood donation opportunities in
May in honor of World Red Cross and Red
Crescent Day May 8, the birthday of International Red Cross and Red Crescent founder Henry
Dunant, 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
Arts & Events
Westminster School Spring Cabaret
Thursday, April 30 and Friday, May 1 at
7 p.m., at Westminster School, Werner
Centennial Center, Hopmeadow St., Simsbury, free, public invited
Café” cocktail reception, $35 in advance,
$45 at the door, 860-838-4100; Saturday,
May 2, 2-3 p.m., Floral Demos in Avery
Court, free with admission; Sunday, May
3, 1-2 p.m., Meet the Arrangers, free with
admission
• Contemporary Art Series, “Hank Willis Thomas: History Doesn’t Laugh,”
Wednesday, May 6, 6 p.m., arrive early
5-6 p.m. to view reinstalled contemporary
art galleries and attend a pre-lecture recepetion
• Gallery Talk, “Coney Island: A Photographic History” Thursday, May 7, noon
• First Thursday Block party, “Dreamland,”
Thursday, May 7, 5-9 p.m. – live music,
tours of “Coney Island,” performances by
Coney Island Circus Sideshow, film at 8
p.m., “Water for Elephants,” $5, free for
members
At the Hartt School, 200 Bloomfield Ave.,
West Hartford, 860-728-4428:
• Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz Ensemble Concerts Thursday-Saturday, April
30-May2, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Millard Auditorium
• “As You Like It” Thursday-Saturday,
April 30-May 2, 7:30-10 p.m., Handel
Performing Arts Center, 35 Westbourne
Parkway, Hartford
• Hartt Orchestra Friday, May 1, 7:3010:30 p.m., Lincoln Theater, performing
Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 in D Major
and “Prague,” joined by Hartt Chorus
• Hartt Wind Ensemble and Symphony
Band Saturday, May 2, 7:30-9:30 p.m.,
Lincoln Theater
• Greater Hartford Youth Wind Ensemble
Sunday, May 3, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Lincoln
Theater
At Infinity Music Hall and Bistro:
20 Greenwoods Road North, Norfolk,
860-542-5531: May 1, 8 p.m., NRBQ;
May 2, 8 p.m., The McCartney Years; May
3, 7:30 p.m., The Steve Chapin Band; May
7, 8 p.m. Nils Lofgren
32 Front St., Hartford: May 1, 8 p.m.,
Back to the Eighties Show with Jessie’s
Girl; May 2, 8 p.m., D.A. Foster & The Shaboo All-Stars with Duke & The Esoterics:
A Musical Extravaganza to Benefit Work
Vessels for Vets; May 3, 7:30 p.m., “La
Boheme” presented by Connecticut Lyric
Opera and Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber
Orchestra; May 7, 8 p.m. Travis Tritt
“The Importance of Being Earnest” at
Playhouse on Park, 244 Park Road, West
Hartford, performances Thursday, April
30 at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday,
May 1 and 2 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, May
3 at 2 p.m., tickets $15-$35 at 860-5235900, ext. 10
Suffield Players production of “Hearts”
by Willy Holtzman April 30, May 1, 2, 8,
9, 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. and May 10 at 2
p.m., at Mapleton Hall, 1305 Mapleton
Ave., Suffield, 860-289-6148 or 860-6680837
People’s Action for Clean Energy sponsoring tour/seminar of zero energy
house in Killingly Saturday, May 2 at
noon and 2:30 p.m., non-refundable tickets $15 per person at www.pace-cleanenergy.org and click on events (860-6934813)
Farmington Valley Chorale’s “Farmington Valley’s Freedom Trail: A Choral
Tribute” Friday, May 1, 7:30 p.m., First
Church of Christ, 689 Hopmeadow St.,
Simsbury, tickets $15 at farmingtonvalleychorale.org
Father and son duo of Tim and Myles
Thompson at Roaring Brook Nature Center, 70 Gracey Road, Canton, Saturday,
May 2 at 7:30 p.m., $20 in advance, $22
at the door, 860-693-0263
Ct. Lyric Opera and Ct. Virtuosi Chamber
Orchestra production of “La Boheme”
by Puccinni Friday, May 1, 7:30 p.m., at
Trinity-on-Main, 69 Main St., New Britain,
tickets $15/$25/$35 at 860-299-2072
Gil Gutierrez, Mexican guitarist and
composer, Saturday, May 2, 7:30 p.m., at
Northwest Park Nature Center, Lang Road,
Windsor, $20, reservations at www.northwestpark.org or at 860-285-1886
At Bridge Street Live, 41 Bridge St., Collinsville, 860-693-9762: May 1, 8 p.m.,
Ronnie Spector w/special guest The
Crown Imperials; May 2, 8 p.m., Back To
The Garden 1969: The Woodstock Experience; May 3, 7 p.m., Professor Louie &
The Crowmatix; May 7, 8 p.m., Seth Glier
w/special guest Martyn Joseph
Westminster School’s Alumni Art Exhibit
May 2-25 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.
At the Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main
St., Hartford:
• May 1-3, Fine Art & Flowers: Friday,
May 1, 5:30-7:30 p.m., “Coney Island
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Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra’s “Celebrity Maestros Gala” Sunday, May 3, beginning at 1 p.m. at The Country Club of
Farmington, 806 Farmington Ave., Farmington, $75 per person for brunch and
silent and live auctions, visit www.NutmegSymphony.org, guest conductors:
Cal Miller Stevens, owner of Miller Foods
& Oma’s Pride; Nancy Weiner-Anstey, executive director of Farmington Valley Visitors Association; James Albert, president
and CEO of Central Connecticut Chambers of Commerce; and Courtney Zieller
from WFSB, Channel 3
Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra’s
“Life’s Journey” Friday, May 8, 8 p.m.,
Lincoln Theater, University of Hartford, 200
Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford, $15/$12/$7,
1-800-975-FVSO, www.fvso.org
Photos of Siro Soliani and pottery of
Charlene Li on exhibit in the Ethel Walker School Library Gallery, 230 Bushy
Hill Road, Simsbury, thru May 9, gallery
hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Exhibits at the Gallery on the Green in
Canton thru 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”
“Angry Robots Liquefied My Brain,”
Karl Lund exhibit at the New Britain Museum of American Art, 56 Lexington St.,
New Britain, thru May 31 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
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Matters
By Scott Gray
Bases clearing
Photos by David Heuschkel
Above: Stepping to the plate with the bases loaded, Granby freshman Gavriella Rutigliano
clears them with a mighty swing. Her three-run double was the big hit in a 10-2 win over
Stafford April 24 as the Bears won for the third time in as many days last week. Right: Granby
freshman Kari Marks steals second base after hitting a two-run single.
Three-hit game by Rutigliano
lifts Granby to win
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
Granby Memorial softball
coach Brian McDermott has
no reservations about putting
freshman Gavriella Rutigliano in the cleanup spot of the
batting order. As she showed
in a 10-2 win over Stafford last
week, the girl can hit.
“She is a bear among
Bears,” senior Kaylee Jerman
said.
Rutigliano is not what you’d
call a rare Bear, considering she
was one of four freshmen in
McDermott’s starting lineup
against Stafford. However, she
made her mark at the plate and
has a mark to prove it.
Rutigliano went 3-for-3,
drove in four runs and scored
twice. In her first at-bat, she
doubled and scored when a fly
ball by freshman Ashlie Novak
was dropped by Stafford’s center fielder.
Rutigliano was in the middle of a big inning in the fourth,
delivering an RBI single. Freshman shortstop Kari Marks followed with a two-run single
and scored on Jerman’s single,
which capped a five-run inning.
A 6-0 cushion was more
than enough runs for senior
pitcher Jen Szilagyi, who had
three hits and scored two runs.
Rutigliano had the biggest
hit, a bases-loaded double off
pitcher Hannah Davis as the
Bears blew it open. Rutigliano
and Davis are teammates on
Mirage 2K Team, a 14-and-under travel team.
“I’ve known her for five
years when we started at 10-U.
Now we’re both on 14-U,” Rutigliano said.
The next time Rutigliano
came to the plate, she did not
get a chance to swing the bat.
She did not get a chance to
make it a 4-for-4 day. Rather,
she got hit by a pitch from her
travel teammate. As she limped
to first, Rutigliano pointed to
her own eyes as she looked at
Davis.
“I just kind of did the
two-finger eye thing. Then I
just kind of went, ‘Rude.’ She
just started laughing,” Rutigliano said. “We’re friends. We
don’t hate each other. If I didn’t
know her, I would have never
done anything like that, but
I’ve know her for five years.”
Rutigliano did not think
she was intentionally hit by
Davis because she had cleared
the bases with the double in
the previous at-bat.
See LIFTS GRANBY on page 31
New Avon softball coach a winning choice
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
This being Avon’s last year
in the NCCC, coaches have expressed a desire to leave with a
conference title. Several teams
accomplished that in the fall
and winter seasons, adding a
piece of hardware to the trophy
cases at the high school.
This spring, the Avon softball team will not join the list
of teams to celebrate championships. In her first season as
Falcons coach, Meg Godwin,
who has experienced plenty of
winning on a softball field, is
looking at more modest accomplishments.
“What I want to accomplish is them taking pride in
what they’re doing every day,”
she said recently as her team
prepared for a game against
Stafford. “For them, a lot of that
is in presentation and the little
things, like they match for practice every day. Everybody wears
navy, they wear their shirts
tucked in. They sort of have a
pride in what they’re doing. I
think that’s the big thing.”
That may seem like a little
thing to most softball teams.
But when a team hasn’t won
more than four games in any of
the last 12 years, including one
where things were so bad the
team wound up forfeiting all 17
of its scheduled games, adhering to something as simple as
a dress code is a fresh place to
start for a new coach.
Godwin acknowledges that
building a winning program is
a sizable challenge at a school
where softball is much closer
to the bottom of the sports totem pole than the top. On the
success scale, it weighs considerably lower than most
other sports. As for popularity, it’s not in the
same conversation
as lacrosse.
“I kind of like
a challenge. A
Photo
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Heuschkel
ing them
believe in
themselves,”
Godwin
said
Avon coach
Meg Godwin
before a 17-0 loss to
Stafford. “The other
day when they won
[against Farmington], I
had one girl say, ‘Wait, we
won?’ I said, ‘Yeah, you guys
can do this.’
“You can do this.’
I think a quote I gave
them is ‘good isn’t
good when better is
expected.’ I expect
more from them
than they’ve ever
had expected of
them.
“I
never
realized
the
Avon softball
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Put yourself in Kevin Ollie’s position, between a rock and
a hard place.
For the third straight year, speculation about the
UConn men’s basketball coach’s future swings on the
grapevine. Ollie’s NBA ties are well known, particularly
with his last team, the Oklahoma City Thunder, and its two
star players, Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, both
of whom can become free agents in the next two years.
It’s only natural Ollie’s a hot topic, now that the NBA regular season is over and the future of coaches comes into
question as teams are eliminated from the playoffs. The
flames of speculation were stoked following the firing last
week of Thunder head coach Scotty Brooks.
It may not have been as ironic as it seems that just
hours before Brooks’ firing, Ollie released a statement reaffirming his commitment to UConn: “I have no plans to
pursue other offers.”
Ollie’s agent later told the Hartford Courant any reports
that his client was in consideration for the Thunder job
were “made up,” and that Ollie had no intention of leaving
UConn.
Following the Brook’s firing, Ollie announced via Twitter, “Everybody has their sources, but this is the only
source I need.” He attached a photograph of the Bible.
Despite two ensuing reports that he had removed himself from consideration for the Thunder job (though his
agent said “consideration” reports were “made up”), others, including from one of the best connected NBA reporters in the business, old friend Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo.
com, persisted that Ollie is the Thunder’s primary target.
Ollie’s isn’t the only name to figure in Thunder speculation. Some suggest Chicago Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau will be fired after the playoffs and, with his NBA
experience, he’d be a better choice than another favorite,
Florida coach Billy Donovan, who has none.
That brings us back to Ollie, awash in NBA experience.
He built a 13-year playing career on an ability to coach
other players. After tutoring Allen Iverson in the ways of
the NBA for the Philadelphia 76ers, Sixers coach Larry
Brown advised the Cleveland Cavaliers their next move
after drafting LeBron James out of high school should be
to acquire Ollie to ease James into the NBA lifestyle and
style of play. Ollie’s success in fine-tuning James led the
Thunder to make the same move, acquiring Ollie after
drafting Durant. When asked if the emergence of Durant
made the Thunder a force in the NBA, James responded,
“The Thunder are going to miss Kevin Ollie,” who had returned to his alma mater as an assistant to Jim Calhoun.
Though he’s never been an NBA head coach, Ollie
has an element even Thibodeau can’t offer, a relationship with the Thunder’s two star players that would be
invaluable. If younger players saw Ollie taking Durant
and Westbrook to task over fundamentals, they would
never question who’s in charge.
“We have a pretty clear identity of the type of person
and a specific vision for that role going forward,” said
Thunder general manager Sam Presti at the announcement of Brooks’ firing.
Presti’s love for Ollie since he acquired him to tutor
Durant has never been a secret. Before Ollie opted for
the job under Calhoun, Presti offered him a job in his organization.
The Thunder can wait. They won’t need a coach until draft time, in June. By then, Ollie’s UConn buyout will
drop from $5 million to $4 million. A major market team
wouldn’t balk at the extra million, but the Thunder might
be inclined to wait for the price reduction. In the interim,
Ollie must protect recruiting. Rumors that he won’t be in
Storrs in the fall won’t bolster what has already been slim
pickings due to the league UConn is in. There’s speculation chances of getting out of that league took a hit when
Gov. Dannel Malloy ordered Ollie and all other state employees to stay away from the Final Four in Indianapolis
over Indiana’s religious freedom law. The Big Ten, with
two teams in Indiana and two teams at the Final Four, reportedly didn’t take kindly to that. Think of, then, Attorney
General Richard Blumenthal’s suit against Boston College
over its defection from the Big East to the ACC and the
role Boston College and Miami then played in keeping
UConn out of the ACC. Without an entrée to a “Power 5”
League, UConn’s basketball program faces devaluation
and this may be an opportune moment for Ollie to think
about his own future.
Kevin has never been an open book. His dealings
with the media are close to the vest, so he’s hard to
read. The only thing we know for sure is these rumors
won’t go away until the dust settles and Ollie is still at
UConn. In that case, we’ll just wait for them to begin
again next spring.
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Connor Roche
Max Skalski
Successful switch for FHS girls lax
By Brendan Driscoll
Correspondent
Nick Knisel
Photos by David Heuschkel
Simsbury boys team right on par
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
The Simsbury boys golf team started
the season nearly two weeks later than last
spring. When the Trojans played their first
match April 21, coach Ed Lynch said it was
the first time his team was on a golf course
together this spring. The clubs did not appear rusty.
Playing on their home course, Simsbury
shot a 152 and beat New Britain by 67 strokes.
You have to go back to 2009 to find the last
time Lynch’s team had a score that low in its
first match of the season at Simsbury Farms.
Junior Nick Knisel was the medalist,
shooting a 36 in the nine-hole course. Connor Roche and Nick Sullivan shot 38 and
Max Skalski 40.
“We’re not going to practice anymore,”
Lynch joked the next day before his team
edged Northwest Catholic by two strokes,
167-169, at Wampanoag CC in West Hartford.
Knisel and Roche both shot 41, sharing
medalist honors with Northwest Catholic junior Matt Sottile.
With schools on vacation the prior
week, temperatures finally rose and courses
dried up. It was up to individuals to practice
on their own, Lynch said. Earlier this spring,
the team went over to the Canton Indoor
Golf Center, hitting balls on simulated courses because Simsbury Farms wasn’t playable
at the time.
“They had fun. I watched them and I just
made sure their swing was on point,” Lynch
said. “We were watching all the younger
kids. It’s just hitting off a mat.”
Lynch, in his 34th season as golf coach,
wound up keeping three freshmen, two
more than he had last season. He says there
are a couple eighth-grade golfers who could
be in the varsity lineup next season unless
the three juniors playing on the JV squad
this spring improve vastly.
Even though his top five players from a
year ago are back this spring, Lynch won’t go
as far as to say his team should contend for
the Division I state championship.
“It has the potential of doing well,” he
said.
Simsbury figures to have a better
chance at winning the CCC West championship for the second year in a row. The
Trojans went 13-1 last season, losing only to
Southington at Hawk’s Landing CC.
“It’s going to be very tough,” he said.
“Newington is going to be tough. They return all five. I don’t know what Hall has.”
Simsbury defeated Hall 160-168 to
make it three wins in three days last week.
Knisel and Skalski shared medalist honors
with 39 at Simsbury Farms.
Having his top five golfers back from
a year ago, Lynch said they will really work
with the juniors and three freshmen. He said
Roche’s accomplishment on the soccer field
– he was an All-State back – will carry over
onto the golf course. He finished tied for
third in the state tournament last spring.
“Connor’s leading the way simply because of the soccer [career] that he had,” said
Lynch, who stepped down as Simsbury soccer coach following the 2013 season. “He’s
respected. The kids like him. They want him
to play well. That’s what it takes. It’s going
to take someone like Connor or Maxwell to
bring to the guys together.”
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Seven days between games appeared
to impact the Farmington girls lacrosse
team in its game against Northwest
Catholic last week.
With his team trailing by four goals
midway through the first half, Farmington coach Jeff Manaresi used a timeout.
He wasn’t bothered by the scoreboard as
much as the time of possession.
Northwest Catholic senior Lauren
Cenci had won seven off the first eight
face-offs. As coach, it was Manaresi’s job
to curtail that advantage.
“I knew that once we had the ball, I
have a lot of confidence in what we can
do offensively,” he said. “Girls lacrosse is
one of those sports where possession is
everything. As soon as we had Abby Arena take the face-offs, which got the ball
going in the direction we wanted, we did
a better job of winning the ball.”
With the senior captain taking
draws, Farmington scored
seven unanswered goals.
What had been a fourgoal deficit was
now a three-goal
lead at halftime. The
switch worked as Farmington cruised to a 20-9
victory.
Arena finished with eight
goals and two assists. Linna Jalinskas
scored four of her five goals in the second half as Farmington improved to
4-0.
“They’ve been with me since their
freshman year. They are very skilled
players,” Manaresi said. “I kind of give
them the reins and let them take control
because I trust them seeing what they are
seeing, opposed to what I can yell from
the sidelines. They are going to create
opportunities for themselves and others.
They’ve done a spectacular job in four
games showing that they can get others
involved.”
Freshman Ali Sheehy scored twice, as
did sophomore Michaela Triputti. Cenci
and Elena Hynes each finished with four
goals for Northwest Catholic.
Farmington’s previous game was
April 16, a 13-10 win over Cheshire. The
Indians had to wait more than a week to
play Northwest Catholic. The gap in the
schedule was weather-related, Manaresi
said.
“I knew that might have been an issue. I think it had a little bit to do with the
slow start,” he said.
Farmington didn’t have to wait long
to play its next game. Making their longest trip of the regular season, the Indians
were held to a season-low five goals in a
10-5 loss to Joel Barlow in Redding. Barlow and Farmington are both in Class M.
“Everybody needs to be beaten. They
aren’t just going to give us the win. We
have to fight for it,” Manaresi said, “We’ve
done well so far, but we are taking it one
game at a time. We are not looking ahead.”
Farmington was scheduled to play
back-to-back
road
games
against South Windsor
and Southington
this week. And
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program wasn’t that
great. You hear Avon
and you think of a sports
town. You think it’s a
top-notch program, and
it really wasn’t.”
Godwin played for
a winning program at
Eastern
Connecticut
State University the last
four years. The Warriors
went 132-37 and qualified for the NCAA tournament twice. The Avon
team went 14-64 in that
same span and has not
played in the state tournament since 2001, averaging three wins in the
subsequent 13 seasons.
“Megan was a total
team player,” Eastern
Connecticut
softball
coach Diana Pepin said.
“She was always willing
to help the team on the
field and off the field.
Meg brought leadership and a positive
energy every day. She
was well respected by
her teammates and
the coaches because of
her hard work and dedication to the team.”
John Snyder, whom
Godwin replaced, told
his successor that most
of the girls in Avon opt
for other spring sports
than softball. Lacrosse
remains the sport of
choice, attracting field
hockey and soccer players, two perennially
winning programs with
coaches who have been
in place for two-plus decades.
Godwin said Snyder, who retired, wished
her “good luck getting
girls” to try out. Two
dozen players showed
up for tryouts and no
cuts were made, Godwin
said. So the Falcons have
a varsity squad and a JV
roster, which includes a
handful of players who
dress for both teams,
although a number of
schools in the NCCC
do not have JV teams,
she said.
When she played
at Manchester High
school, Godwin said 30
to 35 girls would try out
and cuts were made.
She also played high
school soccer and was a
personal level. But I
think that also being
able to get on that level with them makes
me able to push them
harder.”
Before the season,
Godwin had players
set goals. When it was
mentioned the team
won just two games
last spring, she asked
them to come up with
goals that are attainable and write them
down. The players said
they’d like to make
the state tournament
and beat some teams
they’ve never beaten.
When Avon beat
Farmington 11-9 April
18, it was the first time
the Falcons beat the
Indians in three years.
The teams play twice a
year.
“I say to them WIN
– What’s Important
Now. If you do what’s
important in the small
moments, it’s going to
lead to a win,” said Godwin, who also coaches
a premier travel team
based in Cromwell. “I
feel like a lot of these
girls don’t know
what level softball
can be taken to.
It’s almost like,
‘OK, I’m going to
be really hard
and push you
guys. This is why.’
And it’s like eye
opening to
Avon pitcher them. I keep
Lindsey Sitaro it fun but
intense.”
ers along to help out.
It doesn’t hurt to
be in the school system
– Godwin is a paraprofessional at Avon
Middle School – but it
doesn’t necessarily help
to get girls interested
in softball. Before his
retirement, Snyder was
a physical education
teacher at the middle
school.
But Godwin, who
graduated from Eastern
last spring, believes being a female coach may
be beneficial.
“I just went through
this recently, so I get
what’s going on,” she
said. “I understand. I’m
an approachable coach.
You don’t always have
an approachable coach.
Not that John’s not
approachable, but
he’s an older guy,
they
really
can’t relate
to him on
a more
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Heuschkel
two-sport
athlete at
Eastern Connecticut, a Division III school.
Godwin is
planning to sit
down with Avon
Little
League
softball officials,
hoping to set up
clinics and work with
coaches and players.
She envisions bringing
some high school play-
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Canton a contender in girls lax
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
The Canton girls lacrosse team visited unchartered territory twice last week.
First-year coach Sean Cole took his team to
Fairfield County, the first time the Warriors
traveled to the state hotbed for lacrosse. A
16-5 loss at Fairfield Warde, a Class L team,
illustrated what Cole already knew. His team
is not in the same class as the Mustangs.
But if anyone wondered how Canton
stacks up in Class S and the NCCC, the answer came two days earlier when Cole’s team
knocked off Granby 12-11. It was the first time
the Warriors beat the Bears since Canton’s
varsity program debuted five years ago.
Sophomore Grace Giancola scored the
winning goal with 4 seconds left as Canton ended a 10-game slide against Granby. The Bears
won eight of those games by 10 or more goals.
For the first time since 2008, Granby has
lost back-to-back games to NCCC teams.
The Bears, who fell to 3-2, lost to Avon 12-11
in overtime in their previous contest.
For Canton, which lost to Avon 11-9 in
the season opener, the five-game winning
streak was the longest since the Warriors
first played a varsity schedule in 2010. The
streak came to a halt with a 16-5 loss to Fairfield Warde April 24.
“Sometimes a bad loss can be a great learning experience,” Cole said, adding he has scheduled a rematch against Warde next spring.
Canton learned plenty from watching
Avon beat Granby in overtime April 16. Cole and
18 of his players were among the spectators that
evening and got their first look at the Bears.
Canton senior captain Olivia Sullivan
said that was the first time the players gathered as a team to watch two opponents play.
“We liked the idea of it,” Sullivan said. “It
helped to watch from a distance.”
Junior goalie Amanda Gottlieb said
when she was a freshman, her and a teammate watched Granby and Avon play. “But
we were the only two there,” said the All-State
goalie, who has already committed to play
lacrosse at the University of New Hampshire.
Giancola scored four goals in the win
over Granby and Emma Charron had three.
Devon Daubert and Sullivan each scored
two for the Warriors.
Olivia Johnson led Granby with five
goals, Kathy Kleis scored three and Krista
Iwanicki had two.
After watching the Avon-Granby game,
Cole said he had no doubt his team could
beat the Bears.
“I absolutely thought we’d be successful,” he said. “I didn’t expect it to be a onegoal game, but at the end of the day you take
that over a one-goal loss. I just thought we
could have put them away earlier in the second half. When you have a great player like
OJ, she’s not going to let that happen.”
A key to the win was Canton’s ability to
gain possession after face-offs. Cole said Giancola took every draw and controlled about
75 percent of them, none bigger than the one
with 14 seconds left and the score tied at 11.
She sprinted down the field and ripped a shot
past goalie Hala Van Nostrand (nine saves).
Following the goal, Giancola’s stick was
checked to make sure it was legal. Cole said it
was a smart move by Granby even though the
netting on the stick was at the correct height.
On the final face-off, the ball went up
in the air and Giancola knocked it to the
ground as time ran out and Canton players
rushed onto the field.
“It was a pretty emotional kind of meeting with the kids after the game,” said Cole,
whose team trailed 4-1 early. “It was perseverance, all those words you want to use
to indentify a big win. I told the kids, ‘Any
big win you guys have had in the past, this
trumps that ten-fold.’ ”
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In a tune-up for its much-anticipated
clash with NCCC rival Somers this week,
the Granby Memorial boys lacrosse team
defeated Canton 9-1 April 21.
Keith Marlor and Zac Parker scored
two goals apiece for the Bears. Dominic
Pagana and Logan Strain both had a goal
and two assists in the victory.
The Bears improved to 4-0 in the conference and 4-1 overall, their only loss to
CCC opponent Hall. Canton fell to 1-4.
Granby’s defensive unit played its second consecutive impressive game, yielding just one goal with 17 seconds remaining. The Bears gave up just four goals in a
5-4 victory over Avon April 17.
“We wanted to be disciplined again
just like we were against Avon,” Granby
coach Dave Emery said. “We also wanted
to be a little more disciplined offensively
than we were in the past. We have a tendency to freelance. Today I think we did a
good job.”
The Bears took a 6-0 lead into the half
against Canton and cruised in the second
half, with its game against Somers (7-0)
scheduled to be played April 28.
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playing at the varsity level, continued to
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17 seconds remaining off an assist from
John Comerford.
While the game was out of reach at
that point, the goal represented a moral
victory of sorts, as it not only prevented a
shutout but also was the only goal scored
in the fourth quarter by either team.
“When you get shut out in a lacrosse
game, your whole offense just gets deflated,” Canton coach Chris Weller said. “That
was a rough game for us. We’re the new
program around; we’re trying to get our
foot in the door. We ended the game on a
positive note. We won the fourth quarter.”
Weller said that he hoped the goal
would spark some life into the team,
which it appeared to do. The Warriors lost
a heartbreaker to Bristol Central 8-7 two
days later but bounced back with a 16-5
win over Windsor.
“I feel good about the year so far,”
Weller said, “because it took us five games
to get that first win [last year] and we got
it in three this year.”
A year ago, Canton, which was 2-5
going into this week, didn’t get its second
win until May 10.
“Our youth program is playing right
now and competing pretty well,” Weller
said. “When you play well in the youth
program, it translates years down the road
in high school.”
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If the Granby Memorial baseball team gets performances out of pitcher
Randy Wardrop like the one
he turned in against Canton last week, the Bears are
poised for a successful season.
Wardrop, a tall lefty
with a slingshot delivery,
pounded the strike zone
and baffled the Canton hitters over the course of four
innings in what turned out
to be a 6-0 rain-shortened
win for the Bears.
Wardrop struck out six
and allowed four singles in
recording his first shutout.
“He was great today.
Only one walk,” Granby
coach Todd Shufelt said.
“We’ve had issues with that
in the past few games. We
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what to expect from her
because I’ve seen her before but I was also pumped
for this game for so long. It’s
the first one for my [high
school] team. It’s time for
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my team most of the time,’”
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she toed the line of trash
talking.
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we’re going to crush their
souls,” she added. “I don’t
even know what trash
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threatened again when Jake
Schaetzel led off with a single and advanced to second
on a single by Sam Beadle
with one out. Once again,
Wardrop got out of the jam
with a pop to short and a
strikeout.
Kyle Desjardins pitched
a scoreless fifth for Granby.
With Granby batting in the
fifth, the game was called as
the rain and wind began to
pick up. A game becomes
official after five innings,
or in this case after Canton
batted in the top half of the
inning.
Canton coach Greg
Brisco was disappointed
with his team’s performance,
particularly with the defense
in the first inning.
“We kicked too many
balls, there were too many
errors,” Brisco said. “We
didn’t back our pitcher up.
It’s not a good start.”
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Granby left-hander Randy Wardrop pitched four scoreless innings in a 6-0 win over Canton.
call it. It wasn’t particularly
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The victory meant
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with the game kicking off a
brutal string of five games
in six days. The Bears won
three out of the four, including a 12-2 victory over
Haddam-Killingworth Sat-
Brisco said his team
played better in the latter innings, but the improvement
proved to be too late in light
of the weather conditions.
“We started hitting, but
we need to start quicker,” he
said. “You dig a hole, and
with weather like this, it
gives the umps the opportunity to say we’re going to
urday, April 25 to close out
the week.
“Every good outing
we can get from a starting pitcher will be great,”
Shufelt said, acknowledging
the tough schedule. “This
game was our best yet, our
cleanest all around. … I can
see a little life in the players
right now. I like it.”
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“No, it’s not a purpose
pitch. It’s only in baseball,”
Rutigliano said. “I haven’t
played softball long enough
to tell if it’s a purpose pitch
or not. Forget the fact that
I’ve been playing since I was
five. I can’t tell if a pitcher
is trying to hit someone on
purpose or not, but I don’t
think she’d do that. She’s
not like that at all.”
McDermott also did
not believe Davis purposely
drilled Rutigliano.
“No, she didn’t mean
to do that,” he said. “I have
yet to see [a pitcher hit a
batter] with intent. Baseball, yes.”
Rutigliano was more
nervous doing a post-game
interview than stepping to
the plate against her friend.
“I’ve seen TV shows
where they twist people’s
words. I was really scared,”
she said.
Sensing this, McDermott gave Rutigliano a
pep talk. He told his chatty
vided Wardrop with all the
offense he needed in the
bottom of the first. John
Hickey led off with a double and scored on an error.
Jake King singled home
Ryan Ohannessian and Jake
Nichols drove in King with a
sac fly to make it 3-0.
The Bears added to
their advantage in the second when Nick Mazzucco
(2-for-2) scored on an error.
Granby tacked on two more
runs in the third when Jack
McCartney’s single scored
Clayton Stupienski. McCartney eventually came around
to score when he stole second and alertly took two
bases on a wild pitch.
Canton didn’t get its
bats going until the third
inning, when Justin Mulcahy led off with a single and
advanced to second on
James Treacy’s base hit. But
the runners were stranded
as Wardrop retired the next
two batters.
In the fourth, Canton
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The River Run
Photos by Ted Glanzer
About 800 runners – adults and children alike - took part in The River
Run 5K, 10K and kids races Sunday, April 26. For the 20th year, the
event was sponsored by the Simsbury-Granby Rotary Club, with all
proceeds going to college scholarships for local Simsbury and Granby
Memorial High School students, as well as other causes. Jason Dufour
of Bristol won the overall 5K, with Emily Kunsman of Weatogue placing
first among the women. Stephen Pretak of Torrington won the 10K,
while Marshall Potter was first to break the ribbon in the children’s race.
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(BPT) – As the U.S. housing industry
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Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University states that the home improvement
industry could see record spending in 2015.
It’s news like this that may have you contemplating an update to your house. Even if you
plan to stay in your home for years to come,
it’s important to consider which home remodeling projects offer the potential for a
positive return on investment.
“Research shows that more homeowners intend to remain in their homes after
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Five improvements with
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The 2015 Remodeling Magazine Cost vs. Value report identifies these top five mid-range
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a substantial percentage of their investment
when they resell their homes: replacing
the front door (steel 101.8 percent); adding
manufactured stone veneer (92.2 percent);
replacing the garage door (88.4 percent); replacing the siding (vinyl 80.7 percent); adding a deck (wood 80.5 percent).
The cost-value ratio compares resale
value to construction cost. The higher the
percentage, the more of the job costs you are
likely to recoup when selling your home.
“Homeowners want lasting value from
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The 2015 Remodeling Magazine Cost vs. Value has identified mid-range exterior home renovations such as replacing the front door with
steel, replacing siding with vinyl, and adding stone veneer as beneficial investments.
tures and stylish colors homeowners want
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Once you’ve decided which replacement
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Generally, renovation costs should not
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Draw kitchen inspiration from locations and cultures around the world
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Create with color –
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Windows and doors
From a full window replacement to a simple
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If your windows felt drafty this winter, it
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Double-pane windows can help you
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Excess water near your foundation can
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(BPT) – Bathroom remodels are one of
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Ambient lighting is the main source of illumination and is fundamental to a solid
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Wall-mounted picture lights, halogen spotlights and table lamps are a few examples of
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The right lighting is a key element to perfecting your bathroom redesign.
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Due to privacy concerns, many bathrooms
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