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AVON • BURLINGTON • CANTON • FARMINGTON • GRANBY • SIMSBURY
IN SPORTS
Granby out
to ‘reverse
the curse’
PAGE 25
Vol. 7, Edition 20
Thursday
May 14, 2015
in the press
Horse Guard
funding could
be cut by state
State funding for the First Company Governor’s Horse Guard in
Avon has been threatened, and
one resident said he would wage
a war to keep the equines in town.
PAGE 17
Board discusses
televising
meetings
Nutmeg Television has recorded
and shown the Farmington Town
Council’s meetings on cable TV
and online for years; last week, five
residents voiced their support for
the school board to do the same.
PAGE 17
Photo by Ted Glanzer
Art and activities fill annual ‘fun day’
The eighth annual Granby Artists Association’s Fun Day was held on a summerlike day at Holcomb Farm Saturday, May 9. Pictured above: Adam
Florian makes a huge bubble during the event. See more photos on page 6.
NEWS
Wild about animals
THIS WEEK
A&E
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Kids
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The Buzz
10
Town News
17
Business
23
Editorial
24
Sports
25
Calendar 30
Home and Garden
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Classifieds
36
Quotes
of Note
“Televising changes the
dynamic. This is how we
have a dialogue – at the
table. ... If we find that it
will lead to more
discussions off-table,
then I’m not sure I want
to do that.”
-Paula O’Brien in “Board of
Education discusses...” on page 17
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Avon reader Karen Marcus said she often helps young deer get through the winter. This year, she spotted
a very white fawn among her backyard visitors. If you have a photo of a critter that you’ve spotted locally,
submit it for this segment to Abigail at [email protected]. Include “Wild About Animals” and the animal
spotted in the subject line. Be sure to mention your town of residence as well. All submissions will be
considered for inclusion in a future issue.
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May Market
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Photos by Lynn Woike
Above: Pam Mackiewicz, one of the owners of Mack & Twine Farms, a retail greenhouse in Torrington, was one of the many
plant vendors at the market. Above, right: The eagle is a favorite of Phil Jonker of Rollin Thunder Home Accents, one exhibitor at the market. Right: Marshall Deming of Hartford Denim Company displays products – made in Hartford on antique
machinery with a lifetime guarantee – on natural elements.
Ginny Hadfield and Kathy Lindroth of the Farmington Garden
Club sell gloves.
H
Trying on a bracelet is Cathy Billian of New York City, in
Farmington visiting family.
Nancy Richardson of NR Designs sells pillows on the porch.
ill-Stead Museum’s signature two-day gardening
and arts & crafts event, the May Market, featured
more than 60 exhibitors and drew more than 1,300
people May 8 and 9. Musicians and dancers, along wiith
food, were also part of the event.
Left and above photos by Lisa Lappe
Left: Helen Hayes of Avon and Marie Baker of Farmington leave with plants; Above: The Morris Dancers from New Haven
entertain festivalgoers.
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PRESSARTS&ENTERTAINMENT
Rockwell and spirituality
Civil War
book event
The Salmon Brook
Historical Society presents Lesley Gordon,
author of “A Broken
Regiment: The 16th Connecticut’s Civil War,”
Wednesday, May 20, at 7
p.m., at the Senior Center,
15 N. Granby Road, Granby. Tickets will be available at the door: members $3, non-members
$5, students $2. Light refreshments are included.
Professor Gordon, a graduate of East Granby High
School, will talk about her
recently published book
on the 16th CT Regiment,
which fought at Antietam. The soldiers in this
unit came from towns
throughout the Farmington Valley, including 21
from Granby. After the
talk, autographed copies
of the book will be available for sale. Additionally,
a student exhibit about
the 16th Connecticut
Volunteers will be on display in the Senior Center,
along with many photographs of men from the
Regiment.
Courtesy photo
Synchronicity - Garah Landes and Gregory Landes
Duo featured at Shepherd Music Series
The piano and percussion duo Synchronicity
will be featured in the final
concert of this season’s
Shepherd Music Series
at Collinsville Congregational Church, 7 South St.,
Collinsville, Saturday, May
16 at 7 p.m. Comprised
of pianist Garah Landes
and percussionist Gregory
Landes, Synchronicity fuses jazz and classical music
into a visually and aurally
exciting experience. Their
program will include transcriptions by the duo of
works by Béla Bartók and
Alberto Ginastera, solo
compositions by Johann
Sebastian Bach and Enrique Granados, and three
newly commissioned pieces by contemporary jazz
artists Jeremy Beck, Steve
Kenyon and Rory Stuart.
The concert is free and
all are invited to attend.
No reservations or tickets are required. As well
as transcribing works and
composing their own music, Synchronicity has premiered a diverse range of
new music by established
and emerging composers
including Paquito D’Rivera, Dafnis Prieto and Jack
Gulielmetti. Their newest
project, Synchronicity Voyager!, saw the commissioning of seven new works
for piano and percussion,
three of which will be
heard at this concert.
Lee Robin Band to perform at Westminster School
The Lee Robin Band
will give a free performance
at Westminster School, 995
Hopmeadow St., Simsbury,
Tuesday, May 19 at 7 p.m.
in the Gund Reading Room
of the school’s Armour Academic Center that is open
to the public. It is part of a
series of readings, lectures
and concerts held at Westminster during the academic year. As a singer and songwriter, Robin spent her early
career drumming for several
bands. She then submerged
herself in the contemporary
songwriter folk scene and
switched from drums to
guitar and formed the Lee
Robin Band. Writing songs
from a place where tragedy
meets triumph, and heartbreak meets heartfelt, Robin
quickly compiled an abundance of original and immediately accessible material.
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Most of us know that
Norman Rockwell was contracted by the federal government to paint the Four
Freedoms as advertising
for war bonds during World
War II, but how many know
the story behind the paintings? Rockwell, perhaps the
most famous of American
illustrators, was born into
a devout Episcopalian family and he was active in the
congregation during the
early part of his life. Fred
Biamonte will discuss the
life of Norman Rockwell,
with an emphasis on his
spirituality Sunday, May
17 at 2 p.m. at Memorial
United Methodist Church,
867 West Avon Road. Biamonte is a docent, educator and lecturer at the
New Britain Museum of
American Art. He gives art
history talks with a focus
on the psycho biographies
of over 35 American and
European artists, including
Norman Rockwell, Mary
Cassatt, Winslow Homer,
Edward Hopper, Claude
Monet, Vincent Van Gogh,
Andrew Wyeth and others.
He worked for 40 years as a
management consultant to
major corporations, with a
focus on organizational cultural change. He also taught
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New York University and
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KC Sisters in Burlington
The
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all to the Spring Music Series concert featuring The
KC Sisters Sunday, May 17
at 3 p.m. The KC Sisters are
a talented band of sisters
ranging in age from 11 to 17.
They have performed in over
500 concerts that include
vocals, instrumentals, country fiddling, a capella hymns,
pop, jazz, standards, country; a wide variety of genres
and styles.
The church is located
at 268 Spielman Highway
(Route 4), Burlington. Refreshments will be served
after the performance.
There is no admission;
consider a free-will donation. For more information
call 860-673-4618.
Garmany series: Swing Band concert
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The Lee Robin Band will perform at Westminster School.
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Maria Caracciolo works on her piece during the Granby
Artists Association’s Fun Day at Holcomb Farm May 9.
Gabriella Fisher isn’t feeling blue over her picture as she
paints during the event.
Siena Fisher enjoys her time during the Granby Artists Association’s Fun Day.
Ashley paints on a canvas during the event.
Photos by Ted Glanzer
Amanda Scoville makes a big bubble as one of the activities at Holcomb Farm.
Artists Association hosts annual Fun Day
Isabella Lopez gets a tutorial on compressed air painting
from Bill Scheel during Fun Day.
M
ore than 300 children and adults attended the eighth annual Granby Artists Association’s Fun Day at Holcomb
Farm Saturday, May 9. Children got the opportunity to work with a dozen Granby artists to paint flowers, create
watercolor pictures for Mother’s Day, make jewelry out of washers, and draw and color in fish for a fish tank by
Matt Ryan. The kids also made giant bubbles outside.
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Friends Coffeehouse: Hungrytown – original roots music
Hungrytown will be at
the Simsbury Library, 725
Firetown Road, Friday, May
22 from 8-9:30 p.m. Hungrytown is the musical and married duo of Rebecca Hall and
Ken Anderson. Their concert
will feature close harmony
singing, strong melodies and
accompaniment on multiple
instruments. The duo tours
full time, their songs have
been performed by many other artists, and their music has
also appeared on several television shows. Hall learned to
sing in church as a child and
had developed into a skilled
interpreter of jazz and blues
standards by the time she
was in her 20s. Her discovery
of roots music coincided with
the reissue of the Harry Smith
Anthology of American Folk
Music in 1997 and inspired
her to write her own material.
Anderson is an accomplished
multi-instrumentalist as well
as a talented producer and
arranger. He learned to play
drums and keyboard as a
child, and has since moved
on to bass, guitar, mandolin,
banjo and harmonica.
When not touring with
Hall, Anderson is often hiding out in their home studio,
Song Catcher Recording.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Reserve a seat at 860-658-7663,
ext. 2200, or www.simsburylibrary.info.
Dorazio, fine art painter, equine and sporting art, exhibiting at EW Library Gallery
Nationally renowned
artist Susan Dorazio, who
has gained wide acclaim
for her ability to capture
the spirit, energy and personality of all she paints, is
exhibiting thru June 7 at the
Ethel Walker School Bell Library Gallery, 230 Bushy Hill
Road, Simsbury.
Dorazio is a versatile
artist, equally accomplished
in the use of oils, watercol-
or and pen & ink. Whether
depicting race horses thundering toward the finish
line, foxhounds leading the
hunt, or portraying a favorite family pet, Dorazio’s
work captures the essence
of her subjects -- the observer feels their motion
and vitality as their unique
Left: Susan Dorazio’s piece
“Sophie”
Renaissance and Baroque
The Windy Hill Guitar
Ensemble and the Windy
Hill Baroque Ensemble will
present a concert of Renaissance and Baroque music
at the East Granby Library,
24 Center St., East Granby,
Saturday, May 16, at 1 p.m.
The students of the Windy
Hill Guitar Studio in Granby,
both school-age and adult,
will be performing music
written between 1550 and
1750 in England, Germany,
France and Italy arranged for
two, three and four guitars as
well as solo repertoire from
the time of Queen Elizabeth
and pieces by John Dowland,
Gaspar Sanz, Johann Pachelbel and J.S. Bach.
The Baroque Ensemble
concert will feature student
guitarist Emily Uhl, a student at Granby Memorial
High School, performing
Vivaldi’s Concerto in D,
Nathan Woodruff playing
Handel’s Recorder Sonata
in F, and Deborah Robin,
ensemble coach, performing
Telemann’s Partita in G for
recorder.
Ensemble director Laura Mazza-Dixon of Granby
will play Telemann’s Sonata in G for viola da gamba.
Continuo players for the
ensemble are Ryan DeFranzo and Mazza-Dixon. Other
Granby residents performing
are Erin Keener, a student
at Granby Memorial High
School; Evelyn Danke, a student at Kelly Lane School;
and Sue Canavan.
Admission to the concert is free. For more information contact the library at
860-653-3002.
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An elected member of the
American Academy of
Equine Art, Dorazio shares
her expertise by teaching
watercolor workshops for
the Academy, and through
painting classes at her Colebrook studio. With many
local and national awards
to her credit, including numerous “best in shows,” she
has gained national recognition for the quality of her
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Alumni art
exhibit
Westminster School’s
third annual Alumni Art
Exhibit will showcase the
work of the late Bryan
Nash Gill, a member of
the class of 1980, who is
best known for his sculptures and large-scale
wood cross-section relief
prints. The show will continue through May 25 in
the Baxter Gallery of the
school’s Armour Academic Center, 995 Hopmeadow St., Simsbury. Gill died
unexpectedly in 2013, and
the show is being held in
honor of his 35th reunion.
The exhibit is free and
open to the public Mondays through Fridays from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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PRESSKIDS
The Joe Carter Duo performs during the second annual Evening of Arts and Culture May
7 at Irving A. Robbins Middle School.
The Sivasankaran family enjoys the offerings of the event that has become an annual one
at the Farmington middle school.
IAR cultural event
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rving A. Robbins Middle School hosted the second annual Evening of Arts and Culture May 7. The event was a joint effort of the World Language Club and the art
department, spearheaded by art department chair Julie Sawyer and world language
teacher Amy Clark-Garcia. Clark-Garcia said the event was an ideal way to enforce the
curriculum taught at IAR as well as give students a taste of what was to come at Farmington High School, which has a huge international showcase every years. “It prepares
students to think about what they want to know more about,” she said. Hundreds of
attendees were first treated to an international potluck dinner, including empanadas
and chips and salsa, provided by parents as well as Besito of West Hartford. In addition,
there were workshops and performances, including salsa dancing, stilt-walking students, international songs and dances, and world language presentations. The World
Language Club also raised funds to help a boys foster home in Peru that is located in
the middle of the Andes Mountains. The foster home does not have a van, and its residents must walk in order to purchase food and sundries; the club was raising money to
help purchase a mode of transportation for the home.
Photos by Ted Glanzer
Above, left: Eighth-grader Shreya Harshavarshana performs a song; above, right: Camille
Hoheb sings “On My Own” from the musical “Les Miserables.”
Group of Walker’s students inducted into Cum Laude Society
Ten students have been inducted into The Ethel Walker
School chapter of the Cum Laude
Society, an organization that recognizes academic achievement in
secondary schools for the purpose
of promoting excellence, justice
and honor (cumlaudesociety.org).
Inductees from the class of
2015 are Jianna Footman, Claire
Graham, Margaret Hegwood, Alice Li, Lila Reynolds, Ella Ross,
Becky Xu and Sally Yao. Juniors
Emily Peairs and Isabel Huang
were also inducted for academic
work so extraordinary as to merit
early recognition into the society.
Faculty speaker Grace Epstein shared her hopes for the new
inductees, encouraging them to
strive for knowledge, seek fairness
for everyone and nurture a strong
moral compass. She said, “Know
deep inside what your interests
and moral beliefs are. Respect
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On April 27, the halls
near the chorus room of
Henry James Memorial
School were buzzing with
even more excitement than
usual for an afterschool session of the Unified Theater
club.
On this day, the students were about to Skype
with a real celebrity, Kevin
Chamberlin, who plays the
character of a butler named
Bertram on the Disney
Channel hit television series
“Jessie.”
In Unified Theater, students with or without disabilities work together on
every aspect of theater production, including dance,
writing skits and assembling
props. The club develops
student leaders, emphasizes
creativity and breaks down
barriers between students.
Although music and performing arts teacher Lisa
Grant and technology education teacher Craig White are
present at the twice-weekly
meetings, the production is
entirely organized, written
and directed by the students
themselves.
While waiting for White
to set up the Skyping session
so students could all see the
actor on a large screen, the
students worked in groups,
practicing their dance moves
or crafting their scripts.
Eighth-grader and student leader Margaret Budlong explained why she
joined Unified Theater.
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Eighth-graders
Kyra
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friends.” Poole added, “It includes everyone.”
Inside the chorus room,
the Skyping session with
“Bertram” began. Students
took turns asking questions,
ranging from “What’s your
favorite color?” to “What’s it
like to work with a real, live
lizard?” The actor’s answer
to the latter brought some
giggles as Chamberlin explained that although the
law protects the child actors
on the show by requiring
metal guards to be worn on
their legs, there is no such
law protecting the adult actors, thus he made a habit
of keeping his legs far away
from “the 2,000 teeth.”
The students were impressed at Chamberlin’s résumé, especially when they
found out that he had played
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Active learning at The Master’s
School about blind and deaf living
While learning about famous American Helen Keller,
third graders at The Master’s
School wondered how a person who is blind or deaf, or
has another physical disability, negotiates the world we
live in. Mark Tyler, TMS parent and employee at Guide
Dog Foundation for the
Blind, offered the students
hands-on exercises to experience varying levels of blindness, and taught them how
service dogs can help people
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national recognition for
excellent performance on
the 2015 National Spanish
Examinations.
Students from Avon
Middle School earned a
total of seven gold, 17 silver and 18 bronze medals
along with 45 honorable
mentions.
“Attaining a medal
or honorable mention for
any student on the National Spanish Examinations is very prestigious,
because the exams are the
largest of their kind in the
United States with over
157,000 students participating in 2015,” said Kevin
Cessna-Buscemi, national
director of the exams.
The followng students achieved the highest
scores and received a gold
medal: Jillian Jurczyszak,
Huyen Nguyen, Max Raha,
Rosemary Salchert, Pranav Tadepalli, Ellie Zwolensky and Sofia Olivares.
Spanish teachers are Orazio Donato, Bruce Mitchell, Marlene Patterson and
Sarah Gutierrez.
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From left to right on the bottom row are: Elisabeth Neff; Terri Wilson, president; Dr. Helaine
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right are: Sebastian Saraceno, Leonard Tolisano, Peter Wright and Ben Isaacson. Missing
from photo: John Forster, Capri Frank, Satvinder Mayall, Sue Cho and Eric Throndson
Historical Society elects new board
At the 41st annual
members meeting of the
Avon Historical Society last
month, a new board of trustees was elected. Highlights
of the meeting were reports
on activities of the year including the restoration of
the 1865 Pine Grove School
House, the reconstruction of
the roof on the c. 1880 Horse
Guards Barn and the listing
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• Lacrosse, Baseball, Soccer & Tennis
• Volleyball, Basketball, Gaga & Archery
• Climbing Tower, Zip Line, Mountain Bikes
• Arts & Crafts, Ceramics, Cooking
• Science Lab, Performing Arts, Dance
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ets to a New Britain Rock
Cats game, a one-hour facial at Nails & Skin Care
at the Mill, or one week
of camp at the Simsbury
Community Farm. A press
release calls on residents:
“Do come to support Tariffville School at this wonderful, annual event.”
Pedals for Progress
annual collection
Pedals for Progress will
hold its 14th annual Granby
sewing machine and bike
collection Saturday, May 23
from noon to 3 p.m., rain
or shine, at Holcomb Farm,
113 Simsbury Road, West
Granby. Anyone with working sewing machines, or an
adult or child’s bicycle in
working or repairable condition is encouraged to donate
it to this cause.
For more than 20 years,
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and nearly 3,000 sewing
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families are living better
lives because they have the
simple mobility of a bicycle.
Through sewing machine
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program partnerships, Pedals for Progress is creating jobs and contributing
to school enrollment and
health care.
The cost to collect,
process, ship, rebuild and
distribute each bicycle is
$40. A $10 minimum donation toward shipping costs
in requested with each bike
or sewing machine, and any
additional donations are
appreciated to cover the increasing cost of shipping. All
cash and material donations
are tax deductible. Pedals
for Progress is a 501 c (3)
corporation and a registered
charity in Connecticut. For
more information call Jackie
Johnson at 860-653-7758, or
go to www.p4p.org.
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West Avon Congregational Church presented the Children’s Musical “Malice In the Palace: The Story of Esther” written by Tom Long and Allen Pote last month.
The musical depicts how acts of courage even by the
smallest among us can make a big difference in the
world. Pictured above: Braden Distel as King Ahasuerus and Isabel Andrews as Queen Vasthi
‘Strut Your Mutt’ May 16
It’s time to show off
your mutt (or purebred, of
course) at the Paw Meadow
Dog Park annual Strut Your
Mutt event Saturday, May 16
from noon to 4 p.m. Prizes
are awarded in various categories, so any pooch might
win. There will be vendors
showing off their products
and services, as well as
an array of Paw Meadow
T-shirts and hats available.
All proceeds will go directly
to the dog park, as will the
suggested donation of $10
per family or group.
“With Strut Your Mutt,
we are raising money to pay
Math Night supports CCMC
More than 50 elementary school students celebrated Math Night last
month at Union School
in Farmington. Students
collected donations for
The Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in
exchange for working and
playing with math for an
hour. They raised more
than $650.
Students from kindergarten through fourth grade
Avon- Canton VFW Post 3272
announces Buddy Poppy Drive
and their siblings participated in a variety of games
and activities. Teachers
and other staff from Union
School volunteered their
time to support the cause.
Also during the evening, parents participated
in a workshop with Mike
Buccetti, Union School’s
math specialist.
The Union School
PTO hosted a pizza party
after Math Night ended.
for the upkeep and maintenance of the park,” according to dog park committee
chairwoman Nikki Perry.
“We have projects to finish,
such as a walkway, which
can be maintained to provide easy winter access.”
Kane’s Market will
serve food, and local experts will offer demonstrations. The event will take
place next to the dog park
on Iron Horse Blvd., near
the Performing Arts Center.
Information is available at
www.pawmeadowdogpark.
com or on the park’s Facebook page.
The Gildo T. Consolini
VFW Post 3272, Avon announces its annual event
that supports charities and
causes providing relief to
current and past servicemen
and women in this state and
region. The annual Buddy
Poppy Drive will be held at
various locations in Avon
and Canton through May 24.
The familiar red paper
poppy, normally worn in the
lapel, is a symbol from WWI
memorialized in a poem
written in 1915 by John McCrae about Flanders Field,
Belgium, where, in 1914,
American soldiers were engaged in battle in the fields
of poppies that grew there.
The VFW conducted its first
buddy poppy distribution before Memorial Day in 1922,
becoming the first veterans’
organization to organize a
nationwide distribution. The
buddy poppy soon was adopted as the official memorial flower of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United
States.
Military veterans of the
Avon Post, with the help of
the VFW Ladies Auxiliary,
will be distributing poppies
at Walmart in Avon, Stop &
Shop in Simsbury and Shop
Rite in Canton during the
10-day event. Donations are
accepted. Last year, the Post
raised more than $22,000,
which was distributed to a
few national causes and local ones such as the Veterans
Oasis Centers at Tunxis Community College and Central
Connecticut State University, Connecticut’s Operation
Stand Down for homeless
veterans, Simsbury Veteran’s
Memorial Fund, Veterans
Home in Rocky Hill and the
Iwo Jima Memorial in New
Britain. The Post also sends
relief packages to current military servicemen and women
from the area. Checks can be
sent to: Avon VFW Post 3272,
P.O. Box 297, Avon, 06001.
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Wide Open Golf Classic brings
Project Purple to the Valley
The Wide Open Committee invited Chris Herren,
a former guard for the Boston
Celtics and sought-after motivational speaker, to speak
again this year to students
at the local high schools. He
will be presenting his experiences with drugs and alcohol,
which resulted in the eventual loss of his NBA basketball
career. Herren is scheduled to
tell his story to the students
of Northwestern Regional 7
High School May 26 at 9:30
a.m. followed by Lewis S.
Mills High School at 12:15
p.m. Herren will also present
at 1 p.m. May 27 for students
and at 6:30 that night for the
public at Canton High School.
Canton Valley Dental and The
Wide Open will be sponsoring the event.
Herren has been substance free since August of
2008 and created The Herren
Project, followed by Project
Purple, an initiative that assists individuals and families
struggling with addiction.
The organizers of the Wide
Open Tournament, Dave Regan, Ryan Mains and Dr. Matthew Keefe of Canton Valley
Dental, hope to help students
realize what drugs and alcohol can do to a career and
personal life, according to a
press release.
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any of the presentations, contact Canton Valley Dental at
860-693-0887.
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Students from Villari’s Martial Arts Center of Simsbury won medals and trophies at the 2015 Spring Championship
Tournament held at Canton High School recently. More than 65 Villari’s students ranging in age from 4 to 55 years of
age participated at the annual competition.
Barbara Palazzini turns 100 years old
Barbara Palazzini of Cherry Brook
Health Care Center celebrated her
100th birthday last month with family
and friends.
A citation sent from the Connecticut General Assembly and Canton’s state Rep., Timothy LeGeyt was
given to Barbara for a life well lived.
Palazzini was born in Salisbury
April 15, 1915 and has remained a
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Connecticut. She has experienced everything from the invention of the jet
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Granby Lions donate to VNA
As part of the Lions
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Club is a long-term supporter of the Farmington Valley
Visiting Nurse Association.
Bob Francolini, chair
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Incy S. Muir with a $3,000 donation designated for therapeutic and nursing supplies
to directly benefit clients, as
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Simsbury Boy Scout
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induction of three new
Eagle Scouts earlier this
year, continuing the tradition maintained by Troop
76 and bringing the total
number of Troop 76 Eagle
Scouts to 185 since 1921.
The ceremony was
held at First Church of
Christ, Troop 76’s sponsoring organization. Patrick
Sullivan, Harrison (Cole)
Starrett, and Cameron Ballard, all high school seniors,
started their scouting careers with Tootin’ Hills
School Cub Scout Pack 276.
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leadership skills he has
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The three boys chose
service projects that supported their community
in different ways. Patrick
chose to support FAVARH’s, the ARC of the
Valley, wood bundling operation by building two
wood sheds that retailers
had requested to store
wood bundles which are
sold to support FAVARH.
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Simsbury Public Library
by cleaning up the land between Boy Scout Hall and
the library. Cameron chose
to support Troop 76’s sponsoring organization by rebuilding the dumpster enclosure at Palmer Hall.
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SVFC firefighter 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.
NSO competition winners
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Two Farmington High School students were recently
named the winners of the Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition held at Trinity Episcopal
Church in Torrington. The competition sponsor is the
Oles Family Charitable Foundation. Pictured left to right:
violinist Shayamal Datta, second prize; singer Benjamin Aube, first prize; Bridget de Maura Castro, competition pianist. Shayamal performed the first movement
of Joseph Haydn’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
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$1,600 raised at Relay dinner
Students from West
Woods Upper Elementary
School in Farmington were
chefs and waiters for one evening all while raising funds for
their Relay for Life team. “Cure
to the Future” Relay for Life
Pasta Dinner was held April
26 and served more than 150
members of the community. The 15 boys raised nearly
$1,600 for the American Cancer Society. Relay for Life will
be held May 16.
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Remembering and honoring pastors luncheon a success
On April 17, 55 people
from Memorial United Methodist Church in Avon en-
joyed the celebration of their
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back three of them and one
daughter. The Committee on
Records and History reflected
back to 1816 on its churches
and pastors with a program
brochure, album, slide show
and pastors and/or wives’ recipes from old cookbooks.
Memorial welcomed
back Penny and Dick Yerrington (1960-1978), Dorothy
and Mel Kawakami (1995),
Judy and Jim Hoffman (19992009), and Christine Carroll
for her parents Bill and Doris
Carroll (1978-1981). Current
Pastor Joseph Piccirillo, the
100th pastor (2014 to present), led the blessing.
In addition to the program brochure, they also had
available the brochures “A
Walk Through Our History”
for those who would like to
visit the church’s six sites, and
“A Brief History of Methodism in the United States and
Memorial United Methodist
Church.”
Guiding Eyes open house May 18
Guiding Eyes for the
Blind puppy Drew recently
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her daughter, Scarlette. When
Amandine was a little girl, she
had an adult friend who was
also a guide dog user. She
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her dog and vowed to volunteer one day to help sight-impaired individuals.
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The nonprofit’s Puppy
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Carolina. Guiding Eyes for the
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Puppy raising classes are held
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Hope Noar says farewell
Courtesy photo
Farmington High School jazz students pose for a photo with Middlewoods of Farmington residents after performing at the
community.
FHS jazz students perform at Middlewoods
Residents and staff at
Middlewoods of Farmington Independent and Assisted Living Community
welcomed the Farmington
High School Jazz Combo for
a special performance April
23. Students entertained
the community audience
with favorite songs from a
variety of artists, including
a fun arrangement by The
Beach Boys, and afterward
took time to visit and chat
with the residents.
Residents were thrilled
to be able to enjoy the students’ musical talents in
the comfort of their home.
Many thanks to the Farmington High School Jazz
Combo for offering their
time and talent at Middlewoods.
For more information
about senior living options at Middlewoods of
Farmington, contact Katie
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or visit www.middlewoodsoffarmington.org.
Middlewoods of Farmington is
affiliated with the UConn
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Farmington.
Piano teacher Hope
Noar had her 41st and last
recital in Simsbury recently at the Simsbury Library.
Every seat was filled, and
the recital lasted well over
two hours. Most of the students played duets with
Noar, and the music was
upbeat and jazzy.
Noar will be relocating to North Carolina
and will open up a piano
studio there, bringing her
contemporary teaching
methods with her. She has
taught for 51 years in all,
and continues to research
new and creative ideas for
her students.
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A cake wished teacher
Hope Noar farewell
Noar said she has
had “many wonderful experiences” here, including
raising three sons, and
making many lifetime
friends. “Simsbury is a
terrific place to raise children, and [I] will cherish
all my wonderful memories of this town.”
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anniversary of the founding
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quarter century of service
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
Photo by Alison Jalbert
Funding for the care and feeding of the horses at the First Company Governor’s Horse Guard in Avon, along with
funds to cover a caregiver’s salary, would be cut under the proposed state budget.
Horse Guard funding could be cut by state
Officials will fight to keep Avon location open if one of CT’s two facilities must close
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
AVON — State funding for the
First Company Governor’s Horse
Guard in Avon has been threatened,
and one resident said he would
wage a war to keep the equines in
town.
Avon residents flocked to the
May 7 Town Council meeting in
a show of opposition against the
elimination of funding to the Horse
Guards under Gov. Dannel Malloy’s
proposed 2015-16 budget.
Council Chairman Mark Zacchio said the proposal is to cut
funding for the care and feeding
of the horses in Avon and those
in the Second Company, which is
stationed in Newtown, and to cut
funds that cover a caregiver’s salary.
Another option is to relocate Avon’s
horses to the Newtown facility.
According to its website, the
Avon unit is holding a fundraiser in
the event of a worst case scenario in
the hopes it will get $35,000 to cover
its half of the $70,000 that pays for
the annual support of the two units.
Zacchio and other speakers
said the horse guard funding is constantly being used as a budget tool.
“We were as surprised to hear
about it as you all; we were as appalled that that is what’s being
used,” Zacchio said.
He has spoken with state legislators and has received a verbal
agreement that if a move were to
take place, legislators would propose that Avon’s guard stay put
and Newtown’s be moved, Zacchio
said. Some arguments in support
of keeping that facility open are
that Avon’s facilities are newer and
better and that the guard was stationed in that town first.
“I’m cautiously optimistic at
this point,” he said.
Several speakers rose to the
podium to vocalize their dismay.
“We’ve always been a political
football for the state budget,” said
Gary Brooks, a longtime member
of the First Company, who gave a
presentation on the guard at the
meeting.
He spoke of the First Company’s long history, which started in
1778 and is the oldest continuously
active mounted cavalry unit in the
United States.
Brooks also read a few documents, including a 1964 memo
from the state of Connecticut Adjutant General’s Office to the major
commandant of the First Company, which acknowledged receipt of
a letter that established the Avon
land as assigned to the First Company for use “as a Military Reservation in perpetuity.”
See GUARD on page 32
AVON — After 26 years, Steven Kushner, Avon’s director of
planning and community development, is retiring.
Kushner will leave his post
June 30, however, he will not entirely give up his employment
with the town, he said. Rather he
will be moving his office down the
hall and will continue to work as
a part-time consultant for a year
and will be there to assist his replacement in the transition.
Still, it’s going to be a loss to
the town.
“The thing about Steve is
that Steve knows the history on
every parcel in town, and I can sit
down with him and have a parcel
map or a zoning map and he can
walk me through the history since
Photo by Sloan Brewster
Steven Kushner, Avon’s director
of planning and community development, is retiring June 30.
King George to the present time,”
Town Manager Brandon Robertson said. “You can’t replicate that.”
See KUSHNER on page 21
Board of Education discusses
televising meetings
By Ted Glanzer
Staff Writer
FARMINGTON — During
its May 4 meeting, the Farmington Board of Education discussed the possibility of having its meetings recorded and
shown on cable television and
the Internet.
Nutmeg Television has recorded and shown the Town
Council’s meetings on cable TV
and online for years; five residents voiced their support for
the school board to do the same.
“Nutmeg TV is in our backyard,” former school board member and current town councilor
Jon Landry said. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for Farmington
public schools and for the community to have access to public
meetings.”
Landry referenced the recent referendum that had just 13
percent of the town’s registered
voters show up at the polls.
See TELEVISING on page 32
‘Take a good school system and make it great’ is Perron’s parting message
By Ted Glanzer
Staff Writer
GRANBY — Citing work commitments, Ben Perron resigned
from the Granby Board of Education at its regular meeting May 6.
Perron was in his third stint
on the board and 12th year overall.
He served two years in his most recent term on the board.
He thanked his fellow school
board members for serving with
him. “It’s been fun to see the growth
of the board in this term,” Perron
said. “Two years ago, in November,
we had new leadership and different roles. We all embraced the
challenge. It feels good.”
Perron described the board
as a “vibrant” one that worked together well.
When he first started on the
board in 1997, Perron said “the
mission was simple: take a good
school system and make it great.”
Back then, Perron said, there
were significant challenges, including an aging infrastructure.
The high school was “a collection
of buildings,” Perron said, and Kelly
Lane and Wells Road needed to be
upgraded.
“We had changes in the curriculum that were always coming
at us,” Perron said.
Concepts such as magnet
Photo by Ted Glanzer
Granby Board of Education member Ben Perron (left) receives a plaque
in recognition of his service from Chairman Ron Walther May 6. Perron
stepped down from the school board having served for a total of 12 years,
including the last two.
schools, computers inside the
classroom and No Child Left Behind were either just taking root
or weren’t part of the lexicon at all,
Perron said.
“Now we have the Common
Core and Smarter Balance Assessment,” he said. But, Perron said, even with the
new changes and challenges, he
believed the school board would
always be on the right path if it
stayed true to the mantra of taking
“a good school system and make it
great.”
Perron’s replacement is Stephen Royer, a former Planning and
May 14, 2015
See PERRON on page 32
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Flower bridge coming to Collinsville
By Alison Jalbert
Assistant Editor
CANTON — Collinsville will soon be home to
a flower bridge, welcoming
drivers, pedestrians and cyclists into the village with
brightly colored blooms.
The bridge at the intersection of Bridge Street,
Maple Avenue and River
Road will be transformed
this summer. Bob Bessel,
chairman of the Economic
Development Agency and
a member of the Canton
Main Street Association,
said that intersection receives 12,000 automobile
trips per day, the greatest
number of trips of any area
in Canton outside Route 44.
The Main Street Association spearheaded the
project, with Marge Harmon and Angie Roman
coordinating all aspects of
it. Bessel said the members
of Main Street all thought
a flower bridge would be a
good addition to Collinsville and, initially, targeted
the bridge over the trail by
the Collins Company Axe
Factory. It was soon realized
the visibility on that bridge
is significantly lower than
the one at Bridge, Maple
and River.
“We wanted something that can be seen. …
This is a great area to do
something,” Bessel said.
“The whole thing with Main
Street is to create a sense
of place, to inform people
you’ve come to a different
place. We’ve done signage,
but to have something substantial or planned is great.”
The members of the
EDA and Main Street see
the bridge as being a space
for functions; Bessel said
there have been discussions
about having contests or
festivals on the bridge, giving it a haunted theme near
Halloween and having art
exhibits or flower contests.
“It’s a long piece of real
estate,” he said.
Like the Old Drake Hill
Flower Bridge in Simsbury,
people can buy plants to
hang on the bridge. Main
Street has reached out to
the business community,
and the Collinsville Savings
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said Main Street already has
most of the money for the
flower bridge, and the rest
will be raised through plant
sales and fundraising.
Winterberry
Landscape & Garden Center in
Southington will provide
the plants. Though Main
Street received many bids,
Bessel said Winterberry had
the most complete proposal
and has a great reputation,
as it does the plantings at
The Shoppes at Farmington
Valley.
Local artist Shelby
Barnhart will be creating
the hooks on which the
plants will hang, forging
them in her Shagbark Lane
workshop.
Bessel complimented Harmon and Roman on
their efforts in coordinating
the bridge project.
“This kind of thing gets
more complicated than you
would think,” he said, explaining it goes beyond simply hanging the plants. They
need to be watered, so it
must be determined where
the water will come in from
and how to get the electricity necessary to pump the
water.
Winterberry is currently growing the plants
that will decorate the
bridge, Bessel said, and
they need time to be hardened off, which enables
the seedlings to adjust
to strong sunlight, cooler
temperatures at night and
infrequent watering.
He expects the
bridge to be up and functional in early- to mid-July,
around the same time the
Collinsville Streetscape
project is anticipated to
be complete.
Courtesy photo
Work continues on the mechanical, plumbing and electrical systems inside the temple, and
stone masons are on site installing granite on the exterior walls. Drywall is being hung on
interior walls. The parking lot area is being prepared for asphalt.
Burlington man to lead Mormon community
FARMINGTON — A
change in leadership for The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Connecticut
recently took place when a local man, William Elwell, was
called as the new president
of the Hartford Connecticut
Stake to oversee the Mormon
congregations in central and
northern Connecticut. The
new Mormon temple being
built in Farmington is within
the jurisdiction of President
Elwell and his first and second counselors – Alan Wade
and Cory Nielsen.
More than 1,000 members of The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints in
Connecticut gathered at an
area conference to show their
support for the new presidency. Local leadership assignments within the church,
such as stake presidencies,
bishops and Relief Society
presidencies, are unpaid lay
minister positions. The new
members of the stake presidency will serve in the church
as they continue to balance
full-time employment and
family obligations.
Elwell and his wife, Shannon, live in Burlington and are
parents of four children. Shannon is currently a counselor
in the Canton Ward Relief Society presidency. A graduate
of Georgetown Law School,
Elwell is an attorney with The
Hartford Financial Services
Group.
“As church members, we
are committed to following
the example of our Savior, Jesus Christ, and supporting and
loving our neighbors,” Elwell
said. “We look forward to the
upcoming dedication of the
Hartford temple in Farmington and are excited to share
with our friends in this area
the importance of the temple
and our belief in the enduring
nature of eternal families.”
Former Stake President
Wayne Taylor said of the temple in Farmington, “Breaking
ground for a temple to be dedicated in Farmington was a
monumental event in the lives
of our Connecticut members.”
President Taylor served
in the position for more than
nine years.
“With fewer than 150
Mormon temples in the
world, this is an extraordinary
opportunity for the residents
of Connecticut,” he said.
An open house will be
held just prior to the temple’s
dedication.
“The growth of our faith
is in large measure the result
of a successful culture of voluntary service,” said Robert J.
Bazyk, Hartford Stake director
of public affairs. “Our members and our lay clergy leaders
financially support themselves
and their families in secular careers. They are doctors,
lawyers, teachers, business
owners, property owners, carpenters, plumbers, tradesmen,
fishermen, tax collectors, etc.
They serve in church positions
as called upon. They give of
their time and talents, and also
contribute monetarily through
tithes and offerings, because
they believe in the values
and principles for which the
church stands. The church’s
emphasis on faith in God, family values, self-improvement,
and helping others is a powerful influence in the daily lives
of our members.”
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Voters approve all budget-related referendum questions
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
SIMSBURY — Simsbury’s mill rate is going down.
At the May 5 referendum, voters approved five
budget related questions,
including the $98.6 million
town and education budgets
for fiscal year 2015-16.
According to a press release, 988 votes were cast out
of 15,775 eligible voters, representing a 6.26 percent participation.
The board of finance set
a 37.12 mill rate, a decrease
from last year’s 37.14 mill rate.
The $18.9 million budget for
the town – put to voters in
question one – was approved
with 808 yeses and 176 nos.
“This budget lowers taxes while still delivering what
our residents ask for – quality
services, modernized technology and responsible stewardship of our natural resources
and town assets to keep Simsbury a vibrant, beautiful, safe
and desirable place to live and
do business,” First Selectman
Lisa Heavner said.
The three primary goals
of the budget are to maintain
fiscal responsibility by delivering services in a cost-effective manner, stewardship of
open space and modernizing
technology, Heavner said in a
presentation at the Board of
Finance hearing in March.
The budget includes the
cost of filling contractual obligations, she said.
Had the town done
nothing but pay those raises,
the budget would have been
1.88 percent above last year,
Heavner said. Instead the
town saved money in other
areas to end up with a .84 percent hike.
“This is a responsible
budget,” Board of Finance
Chairman Peter Askham said
in a press release. “For the
second year in a row taxes
have inched downward. This
was made possible by the various boards working together
and an increase in the town’s
Grand List.”
The $66.4 million education budget, an increase of
$850,188 or 1.30 percent over
last year – put to voters in
question two – was approved
with 775 yeses and 211 nos.
“Crafting a budget for
a high-achieving school system like ours is no simple
task,” said Superintendent
of Schools Matthew Curtis.
“With the ultimate goal of creating great schools for each
and every child, we have had
to balance fiscal responsibility with our need for growth
in programming at all levels
K-12. Additionally, funding for
capital projects and support
for a myriad of other variables impact our bottom line.
This required working cooperatively with the town of
Simsbury’s governing boards
to find a way to achieve this
balance.”
The $13.3 million in
question three was approved
with 794 voting yes and 187
voting no. The funds will
pay for the sewer treatment
plant, residential rental
properties, special programs
at Simsbury Farms, nonpublic schools, debt retirement/
capital and capital non-re-
curring annual budgets.
Question four, which
was approved with 728 in favor and 256 opposed, requested $1.1 million in improvements to the Simsbury Farms
skating rink and pools.
Question five, which
voters approved with 742
in favor and 242 against, requested $2.15 million for the
installation of climate control improvements at several
schools.
Cost savings, combined with common goals of
boards, input from residents
and the work of town staff
made the tax decrease possible, Heavner said.
Officials review racial profiling report, take ‘totally proactive’ approach to the matter
By Ted Glanzer
Staff Writer
GRANBY — Granby
town officials recently met
with the authors of a report that concluded that the
Granby Police Department
may have engaged in racial
profiling.
Town Manager William Smith told the Board
of Selectmen at its regular
meeting Monday, May 4, that
he and Chief of Police Carl
Rosensweig met with the report’s authors to discuss the
conclusion that the Granby
Police Department was one
of five law enforcement agencies in the state that had “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.
Smith said there were
several issues and mistakes
contained in the report, including double counting
some infractions. In addition, while the report utilized
Granby’s minority population as one reference point
in its analysis, it did not take
into account minority drivers who were perhaps driving through town who were
not residents.
“The review from us is
very marginal,” Smith said.
Smith said he and Rosensweig were “totally proactive.” “We found no evidence
of any officer engaging any
bias or a culture [of bias],”
Smith said. “We care about
that immensely.”
In response to the report, Rosensweig reissued
his policies and the police
department would continue
to participate in the U.S. Department of Justice training
programs concerning fair
and impartial policing, Smith
said. “I feel we are not in noncompliance with any of that
activity,” Smith said. In other business, the
Board of Selectmen, acting
as the town’s Water Pollution
Control Authority, unanimously approved setting water rates for the 2015-16 fiscal
year.
The rates increased 10
percent to $190.58 at a maximum of 55,000 gallons of
use for residential customers
and $266.70 for up to 100,000
gallons of use for commercial and industrial consumers, according to Smith.
“We are very low with
respect to our rates,” Smith
said. “We would be lower
except for the fact that we
are dependent on the costs
for discharge to the town of
Simsbury. We don’t have our
own facility, and they had to
upgrade their facility. They
also had to redo the Wolcott
Road pump station, which
kicks into effect for our rate
increase. … The town is required by law to charge users
for water use. It’s a benefit to
the town as a whole and a
benefit to the local users. It’s
a fair share to the users and
the community. We try to envision that as best we can.”
The selectmen also
approved
transferring
$22,911.28 of taxes to the
suspense list. That amount
is how much the town tax
collector was unable to reasonably collect. The amount,
which
increased
from
$20,395 in 2014, is typically
comprised of motor vehicle
taxes that could not reasonably be collected.
Smith said that moving
the amount to the suspense
list does not relieve a resident of his or her burden to
pay the tax, but simply allowed the town to properly
and accurately calculate a
Grand List and mill rate.
“It doesn’t mean the
taxes go away,” Smith said.
“People can’t re-register their
vehicle [until they pay their
motor vehicle taxes]. All taxes are still collectible.”
The next meeting of the
Board of Selectmen is scheduled for Monday, May 18.
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FHS students want ‘electric’ welcome to school
By Ted Glanzer
Staff Writer
FARMINGTON —A group of
Farmington High School students
is seeking to change the town’s zoning regulations to have an electronic sign replace the current sign at
the entrance of the high school on
Route 4.
Austin Zhu, the current president of the student council at the
high school, told the Board of Education May 4 that the junior and
senior classes wanted to gift the
school with an electronic sign to
replace the old, weathered sign that
requires changes be made manually.
“A lot of labor goes into changing it,” Zhu said. “Students are not
allowed to do it during the school
day. … The sign does not represent
the direction Farmington is going.
We stress innovation here. Everything is more technology-oriented
and more advanced.” Zhu, who appeared before the
board with council executive Vice
President Akash Kumar and Treasurer Danielle Swanson, noted that
schools such as Lewis Mills and
Bristol Eastern currently have electronic signs that have the ability to
scroll different messages. Currently,
the sign that sits at the entrance of
the high school, Town Hall and library complex could have the same
message for several weeks.
The electronic sign could be
changed easily to reflect important
meetings, a referendum being held,
as well as high school events such as
sports and plays.
Voters approve Region 10
Board of Ed budget
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
Photo by Ted Glanzer
The junior and senior classes at Farmington HIgh School want to gift the
school an electronic sign to replace the old, weathered sign that requires
changes to be made manually.
Zhu also said the sign could
be used for safety purposes, such as
during a snowstorm to inform people that a road is being closed.
Town zoning regulations currently prohibit signs with LED or
LCD letters. However, Town Planner Bill Warner has been working
with students to craft a change in
the zoning regulations that would
permit public service electronic
signs on town-owned property.
School board Chair Mary Grace
Reed inquired where the equipment
that changes the sign’s messages
would be housed – Town Hall or at
the high school.
Zhu said that Town Hall would
supply the electricity for the sign,
but that it had not yet been deter-
mined where the equipment would
be kept.
School board member Jean
Baron said she believed it to be “a
wonderful idea” and that she is “100
percent behind it.”
Reed said she and the rest of
the board supported the proposal,
as it is a gift from two grades, it improves the safety of the community
and it will be run by students.
“This is a huge gift,” she said.
“I only hope it moves forward. It
moves us into the 20th century –
not even the 21st century.”
The town Plan and Zoning
Commission was scheduled to hear
the proposed change to the town’s
zoning regulations at its meeting
Monday, May 11.
BURLINGTON — The Region 10 Board of Education budget was approved by voters.
In a referendum held May
5, 762 Burlington residents and
370 from Harwinton cast votes.
Of those, 413 from Burlington
agreed to spend the $37.9 million
and 349 did not. In Harwinton,
voters narrowly denied the expense, with 183 saying yes and
187 no. Overall approval came
with 596 yeses and 536 nos.
The budget numbers, which
represent a 2.95 percent increase
over last year, were driven by
health care and salaries, both
certified and noncertified, according to Superintendent Alan
Beitman.
The increase for the certified
teaching staff was 1.66 percent.
“Salaries are on the rise
again after many years of being
relatively flat,” Beitman said. “To
retain quality teachers and quality staff, the district needs to raise
the base pay and the increases.”
In Beitman’s message to
voters, which he included in his
initial budget proposal, he said
local schools offer a wide variety
of subjects such as world languages, reading, mathematics
programs, computer technology,
social studies, science and science labs, as well as extracurricular activities, performing and fine
arts programs.
The district supports best
practices and professional development with principals who set
high expectations and teachers
and staff who translate those
expectations to the classroom,
Beitman said.
Health care also comprises
a large percentage of the budgetary increase, Beitman said.
“We were hoping to bring in
a lower budget, but health care
has become a flashpoint for a lot
of districts,” he said.
The district is working with
a new insurance company and
initiating programs to keep staff
healthy, he said.
At an earlier referendum
in March, Burlington voters
approved $6.38 million in local
bond projects.
The first bonding project,
the replacement of the Lake
Garda Fire Station, will cost the
town $1.6 million with $1 million
toward the project coming from
the State Bond Commission.
The second bonding project, the
addition, improvements and
renovation to the public library,
will be a $2.6 million project for
a 3,500-square-foot expansion
to the 9,000-square-foot existing
building.
The final bonding project
approved was to spend up to
$2.18 million for the future purchase of active recreational land
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The thing with Avon, according to
Kushner, is that it started long range planning very early in the game and, in 1957,
was one of the first small towns in the state
to come up with zoning regulations.
“Avon has had a long history of master
planning, Plan of Conservation and Development. The town prepared the first plan in
1956,” he said. “There were less than 3,000
people then. A lot of small towns would not
have invested the time and resources to do
that.”
Before that, there were no rules and
people were freer to make their own zoning
decisions.
“It was kind of an open door policy
where you could do what you wanted to
do,” Kushner said. “To have zoning rules in
the 1950s in a town with only 3,000 people,
that was kind of progressive.”
As towns began to look more and more
at zoning regulations, there was a great deal
of controversy because people didn’t want
to let go of their freedom.
“It does create an opportunity to long
range plan,” Kushner said. “It also takes
away freedom. ... You had to be able to give
up certain liberties.”
When he first became a town planner
in the 1980s, there were about 10 towns in
the state, including five or six in the Northeast, that had no zoning regulations at all.
“There may be still one or two left actually, I’m not sure,” Kushner said.
That’s one of the few points on which
he is unsure. According to Robertson, Kushner not only has a wealth of information on
local land use and individual parcels, he
also has a lot of depth when it comes to the
subject.
Kushner attributes that to having more
than 3 1/2 decades of experience.
He has been in planning for 36 years,
10 of which he worked in other towns. He
started his first out of college job at age
21, after graduating from the University of
Massachusetts, as a planner in Northampton, Mass.
Kushner’s undergraduate degree was
in natural resource studies, a new field at
the time. People were starting to look at
man’s relationship to the world and give
more consideration to environmental concerns, Kushner said.
“[They were starting to] figure you
can’t do things like dump pollutants into
the ground,” he said. “That kind of interested me.”
His adviser was a city planner with a
consulting firm and made Kushner understand that planning incorporates many
facets, he said, listing science, philosophy,
political science, architecture, engineering
and law.
He took some graduate level courses
in regional planning at UMass Amherst and
realized how much he enjoyed the subject
matter.
He worked, first for one year in
Northampton, then, when the temporary
gig ended, at a regional planning agency
in eastern Connecticut for five years. Then,
he became the town planner in Ellington.
Next he took a job as Farmington’s assistant town planner under then Town Planner Bruce Hoben.
At that point, he decided to return to
grad school and get his master’s degree.
“Working in Farmington, commuting
to Amherst, I used to say that the hardest
part of grad school was the drive,” he said.
By the time then Town Manager Phil
Schenck Jr. hired him as Avon’s town planner in 1989, Kushner had 10 years in the industry under his belt.
“I was 32 years old and found a home
here and I’ve been here 26 years,” he said.
Since the 1950s, the town’s population
has increased from 3,000 to 19,000 and, in
the 26 years Kushner has worked there, the
town has added housing, commercial properties and manufacturing while working to
maintain its rural character.
Commercial and manufacturing
“Avon has had a long history
of master planning, Plan
of Conservation and
Development. The town
prepared the first plan in 1956.
There were less than 3,000
people then. A lot of small
towns would not have
invested the time and
resources to do that.”
–Steve Kushner
growth in Avon has created jobs and increased tax revenue, he said. Retail establishments, grocery stores, for instance, have
made life for locals more convenient.
Planning the continued growth of
town is in the beginning stages. As of press
time, the Planning & Zoning Commission
kickoff meeting for updating the POCD was
scheduled for Tuesday, May 12.
That update is another reason Kushner will remain with the town for a year. It
will be his third go-round at updating the
POCD. He worked on an update in 1991 and
again in 2006.
“The POCD is the most important document that any town has,” he said. “It’s a
blueprint for towns in terms of growth and
conservation.”
Over the next 20 years, the town will
continue to transform, Kushner said. There
will be new roads, houses and businesses,
but the town will remain rural in character.
“Avon is not going to be an urban
place,” he said. “In Avon, in Connecticut, in
New England, in general, in a sense, we’re
fortunate. It’s easy to predict the future because we don’t have mega projects.”
In Avon, between 40 and 150 homes
are built per year compared with some other states, Kushner said. In Arizona and Nevada, entire new towns have been approved
or built, and, in Florida, housing complexes
can have as many as 19,000 homes.
One plan for the future involves Avon
Park North, where there remains 80 acres of
undeveloped land. The plan for a mixed use
development with 600,000 square feet of
commercial property and 400 apartments
and condominiums is scheduled to come
before the Planning & Zoning Commission
in June, Kushner said.
In Kushner’s tenure, the town has preserved more than 500 acres of open space,
and there are a total of 2,000 preserved
acres, Kushner said.
Kushner has been an asset to the town,
Robertson said. It will take a lot of work to
transfer his knowledge.
“It’s going to be a challenge,” he said.
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Race will let teacher’s memory ‘Shine On’
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
partment also gets a small portion of the proceeds, as does a scholarship for a local high
school student planning to go into education.
Aside from improving the prizes and adding gifts for the children, there will also be more
fun activities during the race. There will be a
bounce house, face painter, a DJ, a bubble machine and food.
The race was named for Karen DuCotey, a
local teacher, who passed away unexpectedly in
October 2010 at the age of 31. Seven months later, the first Shine On 5k was held in her honor.
DuCotey was an intern at Lake Garda
School after college, then taught there for eight
years. When the school community learned of
her passing, everything seemed to stop as she
was a part of its fabric.
“You see someone so vibrant, so outgoing,
so energetic all of sudden stopped in her tracks,”
said then Principal Bob Choiniere shortly after DuCotey passed. “So, it stopped the entire
school community in our tracks.”
This year’s race is the 5th annual, taking
place Sunday, May 17. The 5k race route is USATF certified. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m.
The one-mile kids’ run starts at 12:40 p.m. and
the 5k run and walk begins at 1 p.m. Online
registration is available at burlingtonctparksandrec.com. Additional information can be found
by finding Shine On 5K on Facebook or @shineon5k on Instagram. Email shineon5k@gmail.
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All children in the race will get prize packs
with goodies such as gift certificates for free
cones at Ben & Jerry’s, pencils, key chains and
bracelets for older children, said race director
Amanda Fioretti.
In the past four years, the overall winners
were awarded watches; this year they’ll be getting cash, she said. The top male and female will
receive $100 and, like in past years, the top three
males and females will be awarded medals.
The first male and female finishers that are
teachers will receive prizes as well.
In last year’s race, 183 runners and 100
walkers took to the streets for the 5k race, and
12 children joined the one-mile run for kids 13
and under, Fioretti said. There were also little
children in the “Dolphin Dash,” a one-quarter
mile run for children 8 and under.
Since the race started, more that $30,000
has gone into the Karen DuCotey Fund for Kids,
which is administered by Main Street Community Foundation of Bristol. Teachers in the Region 10 school can apply for grants for students
and families that have needs, such as having
been hit by hard times and needing groceries,
Fioretti said.
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Financially coping with the death of a spouse
their ability and
One of life’s
experience in each
most
difficult
area that you ask
challenges is copfor their help before
ing with the death
following their adof a spouse. The
vice.
impact of your
• Gather esloss is not only
sential documents
emotional, but is
John W. Eckel
such as wills, trusts,
also socially and
financially stressful and insurance policies, death
certificates, Social Security
overwhelming.
Unfortunately, the emo- numbers, marriage license,
tional toll makes it more dif- military discharge papers,
ficult to deal with the other account statements and inchallenges. In this time of formation about the benefits
grieving, it is helpful to keep provided by your spouse’s
in mind the following when employer such as life insurdealing with financial and ance. Again, if you need help
from a close family member
estate issues:
• Don’t make quick de- or friend, you should ask.
• Contact the insurance
cisions other than the ones
that require immediate ac- companies to collect life
tion – especially ones that insurance and other benecannot be altered, such as fits. You should receive paychanges in your job or life- ments relatively quickly, and
style or the purchase of an this may help with shortannuity. It is much more term cash flow needs.
• Contact Social Securiimportant to make those decisions correctly rather than ty. You may be able to collect
survivor benefits as early as
to make them quickly.
• Of course, you need age 60. But before you begin
to take care of urgent needs, collecting, it is worthwhile
such as funeral arrange- to discuss this with a professional advisor knowlments.
• If you have someone edgeable about the Social
you trust and who is quali- Security system to make
fied to help, do not hesitate certain that you choose the
to use them. This might be optimum strategy for cola family member, friend, lecting benefits. Oftentimes
minister, attorney, financial it is helpful to delay Social
planner, accountant, or a Security to obtain increased
combination of these. They benefits later. But note that
may be able to help you if you and your spouse were
make decisions more objec- already collecting Social Setively than you are able to curity, you will lose the bendo yourself after suffering a efits of the spouse with the
significant loss. But assess lower benefit.
• If your spouse was
collecting a pension or annuity, notify the appropriate
company so that future payments are made payable to
you
• If you have an estate
planning attorney, ask them
to help you settle the estate,
go through probate and retitle assets, so that the title of
everything that should be in
your name is changed. If you
do not have an estate planning attorney, ask friends or
other advisors for recommendations and choose one
you like and is competent.
• Try to identify your immediate cash flow needs as
well as your cash needs over
the next year. The review
should include considering life insurance proceeds,
health insurance needs and
assessing what liquid reserves you may have to use
during the next year.
• After you take the
preliminary steps above,
your primary financial goal
during the remainder of the
first year is to get a sense of
where you are and what you
need to do to make certain
you take control of your
financial life so you understand what your financial
needs are and what resources are available to meet
them.
• To help with this, you
may choose to work with a
trusted professional or qualified relative or friend to put
together a longer term financial plan to ensure that you
will not run out of money.
• If necessary, change
your investment portfolio
to one that is appropriate to
your new financial circumstances and one that you are
comfortable with. This may
mean making changes to a
portfolio that was appropriate when your spouse was
alive to one fitting you and
your financial goals.
While the steps above
may address important financial aspects of a traumatic loss, they, of course, do not
address emotional or social
aspects of your loss. However, by taking the appropriate steps and making a plan
to get your finances under
control, you should have less
to worry about and be better
able to address other important aspects of your life.
John W. Eckel, CFP, CFA
This article is intended to
be general in nature and not
intended to be comprehensive
nor a substitute for personal
tax advice.
John W. Eckel, CFP, CFA
is President of Pinnacle Investment Management Inc.
of Simsbury. He has been included in BusinessWeek.com’s
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Reasons to Relay
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For my grandfather.
That’s one person who
gives me a reason to support
Relay for Life.
When I was a little girl,
my grandfather was diagnosed
with colon cancer. Throughout his treatment process, it
Abigail Albair,
was discovered he needed
Editor
major heart surgery in order
to have the surgery to treat his
cancer. A long battle later, he was cancer-free and
he has remained so for nearly 20 years.
For my best friend’s mother.
My best friend and I were inseparable
from age 14 until the time that college took
us to different states. We spent every weekend
together from the moment school ended Friday afternoon until Sunday night. As students
of a private high school who lived 45 minutes
apart, we regularly ran up our parents’ long
distance phone bills staying up too late talking
about nothing in particular. We enjoyed the
innocence of youth. We talked about boys,
we helped each other with homework, we
watched movies and we shared secrets. When
I was 16, her life, and my life with it, changed
forever when her mother was diagnosed with
bladder cancer.
At first the prognosis was good. She had
surgery and chemo and was expected to make
a recovery. After some time passed, however,
her cancer returned aggressively and metastasized to her bones. I spent as much time as I
could with their family until the end. I served
as a babysitter for my friend’s five-year-old sister,
helped make dinners and watched as her mom
took more than a dozen pills a day and made
photo albums and keepsakes for her three kids.
My best friend watched her grandmother die of
cancer, and, not long after, we buried her mom.
For my husband’s family.
Multiple members of my husband’s family
have lost their battle with cancer or are, thankfully, living as survivors.
In the last year, we lost his aunt at the end
of her fight with cancer. It had been just a few
years since her husband passed away from it
as well. When he died, all she could talk about
was how she always thought they’d have years
of retirement to spend together and time had
suddenly been cut short. There is only a small
amount of solace in the fact that they are now
together again.
For my dad.
My dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer last fall. I’ve been told of all the forms of cancer one can get, prostate cancer is a better one
because it is known to be quite treatable. One
major surgery later, he was fortunate to need
no chemo or radiation, and simply be declared
healthy once again.
The thing about these stories, is that none
of them are unique. Everyone has been impacted by cancer in some way. We’ve all known a
survivor, or lost a fighter – be it a friend or family member. The effects of cancer are far-reaching and they can be devastating.
These are just a few reasons I support
the American Cancer Society Relay for Life.
Throughout my year’s covering local Relay
events, I’ve met incredible survivors of all ages
and heard stories of sorrow and hope.
The Relay for Life of the Farmington Valley
is this weekend at Farmington High School.
There is still time to make a donation or
show up Saturday to support survivors and
caregivers and to “Celebrate, Remember and
Fight Back.”
Everyone has been touched by cancer. Everyone has a reason to Relay.
For more information visit relayforlife.org.
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Give back during special event
By Ian Costello
Tootin’ Hills student, age 12
At the end of every month, locally owned LaSalle
Market and Deli hosts a great event called a “Give Back
Night.” The events are on the fourth Saturday of every
month, from 7 to 10 p.m.
The event has existed for around three years and
was founded by singer-songwriter, Bill Benson, with
the support of LaSalle’s awesome owners.
Basically, a Give Back Night is a perfect example
of what I like to call “arts and activism.” A band or two
performs, and the people who come to the Give Back
Night donate money to a selected cause; a cause that
the band playing that night cares about, hence the
words “give back.” It’s a way for people to give back to
the community while having a fun time jammin’ along
with musicians.
When I first heard of the Give Back Night, I knew
I wanted to host one of my own. Luckily for me, I have
gone to so many open mic nights in the area that I
have developed relationships with other local musicians. With their help, and support from LaSalle’s
owner, we got together and scripted out our Give
Back Night. This Give Back Night is a little different because not only is it a Give Back Night, it is also kind of
a Tribute Night. Essentially, we are hosting four different bands, The CRB, The Cody Bondra Band, my band:
BRO-kin, and musician Melanie Michaud. We will all
be performing the music of artists we respect.
I will be paying tribute to my idol, Jason Mraz,
and others will honor Bob Marley, Bon Jovi and Ed
Sheeran. These artists where selected because they
all have made efforts to use their music and fame to
support charitable causes to make a difference in the
world. The entire night is celebrating the principle of
arts and activism.
I got my idea for hosting this event in part because I help lead a community service club called the
Take Action Club at my elementary school. We are
supported by an incredible organization called Free
the Children www.freethechildren.org. It’s a long story
but the organization helps empower youth to make
the world a better place. We tackle many issues including how to break the cycle of poverty, locally and
globally. I helped start this club at our school two years
ago, and it’s been a great success.
We have just recently raised over $10,000 to help
build a school in a community in Ecuador. We are now
shifting our focus from a club-wide global campaign
to a personal “finding your own spark” focus where
we are encouraging everyone to use your own passion
and talents to help change the world. So when I first
got my eyes on the idea of a Give Back Night, I was
psyched.
Because I think that all kids should have lots of
chances to learn music, donations for our Give Back
Night are going to the Burns Latino Studies Academy’s
music department in one of two ways; money donations will be accepted and used to purchase percussion instruments for the school, or pre-owned/used
instruments can be donated.
Now the Burns Latino Studies Academy might
sound like a fancy private school or even college.
But really, it is a Pre K-8 grade public school located
in Hartford’s Frog Hollow neighborhood; that lacks
many resources for their students.
For example, at my school, we have 400 kids and
three music teachers; one chorus, one orchestra, and
one band. At the Burns Latino Studies Academy, there
is one music teacher for 650 kids, and a lack of instruments meaning that kids do not have as many opportunities to experience the awesome power of music. The Give Back Night event is a special night
where people young and old come together to celebrate the love of music and hold out a hand to the
community. LaSalle Market has and will always be a
special place to me. The music community is warm,
loving, and a really fun place to hang around with old
friends and to get to know new ones. We hope to see
you there May 23.
For more information, visit www.lasallemarket.
com.
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By Scott Gray
Photos by David Heuschkel
Granby seniors Olivia Johnson (5), left, and Krista Iwanicki (8), right, are determined to make a strong run in the state tournament and leave
high school the same way they came in – as state champions.
Granby out to ‘reverse the curse’
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
Krista Iwanicki has maxed
out in her high school athletic
career in one aspect. A threesport athlete in her four years
at Granby Memorial, she has
earned 12 varsity letters – four
in field hockey, four in basketball
and four in lacrosse.
She has been named to AllState teams in field hockey and
lacrosse, and was All-Conference in hoop. In the fall of her
freshman year, she played on a
state championship field hockey
team. She’s also played on four
teams that lost in a state final.
So, as the final weeks of her
playing days at Granby wind
down, Iwanicki has set her sights
on leaving with a state title.
“That would be the cherry
on top,” she said after Granby
defeated Lewis Mills 18-8 last
week. “I went in with a state
championship [in field hockey].
To close it with one would be so
neat and so cool.”
Her teammate, Olivia Johnson, echoed that sentiment. Like
her senior classmate, Johnson
has played four years of field
hockey and four years of lacrosse
and earned All-State honors in
both sports.
In the 2014-15 school year,
Granby has won state championships in the fall (girls volleyball) and winter (ice hockey)
seasons. To win one in lacrosse
would mark the first time that
Granby won a title in the fall,
winter and spring in the same
school year.
What would be bookend
state titles for Johnson and
Iwanicki would be the first one
for their coach. Terry Ziemnicki is 0-2 in the finals as Granby
lacrosse coach and 0-3 as Avon
field hockey coach.
“Oh yeah, we’re reversing
the curse,” Johnson said, smiling.
Leave it to a player on Granby’s baseball team to use the
same phrase once associated
with the Boston Red Sox’s championship drought, which lasted
86 years until the team finally
won the 2004 World Series.
According to Johnson, se-
nior Jake King, who also played
on the Suffield/Granby/Windsor Locks co-op hockey team
that won the Division II state
title in the winter, has jokingly
made it a point to remind the
lacrosse players of the goal.
“He’s the little devil nephew,” Johnson says, laughing. “He
goes in the school hallways and
goes, ‘Reverse the curse! Reverse
the curse!’ He gives her a little bit
of flack for that, but we’re aware.
We’re working for that.”
Johnson was among the
throng of Granby supporters
who traveled to New Haven
March 21 and watched King
score two goals to help the
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Patrina leads Simsbury over Farmington
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
Jack Patrina is a hardnosed player, his baseball
coach says. But like his teammates, the Simsbury second
baseman doesn’t have a nose
that can withstand the impact
of a collision.
Of course, Patrina has
heard of Pete Rose. However,
he had never seen a YouTube
clip of Rose at full throttle barreling into catcher Ray Fosse
to score the winning run in the
1970 All-Star Game.
“That’s the last thing I
need to show him,” Simsbury
coach Dave Masters said. “He’d
probably do it.”
In a game that saw Patrina
Photo by David Heuschkel
Reaching for a low throw, Simsbury second baseman Jack Patrina manages to stay on the bag for the
force out of Farmington’s Derek Fern.
getting shaken up and ace
lefthander Jordan Whaley delivering a shaky performance,
Simsbury took advantage of
several fielding miscues by
Farmington that paved the way
to a 9-3 win over the Indians
May 6 under the lights at Memorial Field.
When the game ended,
Masters gave a game ball to
lefty Sam Collins for striking
out six in two scoreless innings
of relief. Patrina went home
with a nose that appeared
crooked to his mother Andrea.
Simsbury scored all its runs
in two innings and didn’t get a
base runner in the other four.
I once caught Wade Boggs cheating me in a card
game. What else did I expect playing a game
called Liar’s Poker? Each player at the table has a
stack of dollar bills and bets on poker hands using
the numbers from the serial numbers of their own
bill and the bills of the other players in the game.
The winner of each hand won every bill in play in
that hand.
Boggs was a regular player, as he frequently
came to my room for a beer after dinner. Ace reliever Bob Stanley, who, because his wife disapproved,
kept his tobacco chaw in our room for an after
dinner chew, was also a regular, as were reliever
Steve Crawford, Red Sox radio play-by-play man
Ken Coleman and my best friend and spring training
roommate Frank Benettieri. We each started with a
$50 stack of bills. After each hand, the bills in that
hand were supposed to be removed from the table.
One night, however, Boggs was on a solid winning streak. I noticed he was doing most of his
winning by playing the same number, seven, and
after a particularly frustrating loss, I called him on it
and discovered he’d been using sleight of hand to
return the same winning bill to his pile, repeatedly
returning it into play.
“You just signed a $3 million contract,” I bellowed at him. “Do you know how much I make?
And you’re cheating me out of dollar bills?”
“It’s not the money,” he said sheepishly, after
being caught. “I just have to win.”
No one will ever doubt Boggs’ ability to hit a
baseball. He hit his way into Cooperstown. Likewise, no one will doubt future Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady’s ability to throw a football. But
even elite athletes often believe talent alone isn’t
always enough. Some seek an edge.
Last week, more than three months after suspicions first surfaced, Manhattan attorney Ted Wells
released the results of an investigation into allegations that the Patriots deflated the footballs used in
the AFC Championship Game with the Indianapolis
Colts below the NFL legal limit of 12.5 pounds per
square inch. At the time of the original allegations,
Brady denied having knowledge of any such activity. The Wells Report pointed to two primary culprits,
both part-time, game-day employees of the team:
Jim McNally, the attendant for the game officials
locker room, and John Jastremski, a game-day
assistant equipment manager. McNally, who called
himself the “deflator,” reportedly removed the balls
from the officials’ room after they’d been checked
before the game and took them to a men’s room,
where he defelated them to a PSI level apparently
preferred by Brady.
The quarterback denied knowing either McNally
or Jastremski, but a string of cellphone calls and
text messages among the three indicated otherwise. The Wells Report concluded “that it is more
probable than not that Tom Brady was at least generally aware” of what McNally and Jastremski were
up to, and they may have acted on his behalf for
payments that included athletic shoes and memorabilia items. Brady may not have been caught with
his hand in the cookie jar, but his fingerprints are
all over it.
The report went on to clear Patriots owner Robert Kraft and head coach Bill Belichick of any complicity in the scheme, but added that Brady “was
presented as not especially forthcoming in the report.” Brady, reportedly, refused to share any of his
cellphone records with Wells.
Breaking the NFL rules is a more serious infraction than cheating an underpaid sports reporter out
of a few bucks, even if the objective in both cases
is to gain an edge.
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Stephan wants to speed things up
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
Initially, the players on
the Lewis Mills girls lacrosse
team were intimidated by
the new coach. Part of it had
to do with Dee Stephan’s voluminous knowledge of the
sport. Another part had to do
with the volume of her voice.
Sprint! Sprint!
Hustle back!
Sticks on the line!
“Everybody knows I’m
loud and I talk a lot during
game,” Stephan said after a recent game. “Yeah, I yell. But I
don’t actually yell at kids. I yell
direction at kids. It takes kids
and parents a while to get
used to it. One of the girls said
the reason they were intimidated was because of how
much lacrosse I know.
“I get that, but you
shouldn’t be intimidated
by that. You should want to
soak it up. I think now that
we’re over that, they’re much
more comfortable. I see a lot
of good stuff coming. It’s just
we have to be exposed to
better teams. We’re only as
good as the teams we can
play against.”
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Wildcats hockey team to a
4-1 win over North Branford
at Yale’s Ingalls Rink.
“At the end of the game,
I was almost in tears,” Johnson said. “I was so happy
The intimidation has
since subsided.
“We used to be so scared
of her,” one player said.
“I think Dee’s a big
teddy bear,” another player
chimed in.
Last week, the Spartans
faced their biggest challenge
to date in an 18-8 loss to
Granby. It was the first loss
by Mills (6-1-1) and the fifth
straight win by the Bears
(8-2).
The outcome aside,
Stephan welcomes nonleague challenges because
she doesn’t expect her team
to be tested in matches that
involve Western Connecticut
Lacrosse Conference opponents. The other teams in
the WCLC are Capital Prep,
Amistad, Housatonic, Watertown and Holy Cross.
In its first five league
games, all wins, Mills outscored the opposition 83-24.
“I don’t see us losing a
[WCLC] game in that this
year. I see us running the
table,” Stephan said. “That’s
why these outside games are
so important.”
Of the remaining games
on the schedule, Somers and
Danbury figure to be the only
challenges. Of the 16, there
may only be two competitive
games – the tie with Newington and an 11-10 win over
Sheehan, a two-year-old program, last month.
“I’d much rather play a
competitive game,” Stephan
said following the loss to
Granby May 5. “If we were
to play Granby again, I think
the score would be very different. I’m not sure we’d win.
If we played 10 times, they’d
probably win nine, but I do
believe we could compete
much better. We haven’t
faced this speed. So, we
didn’t know what to do. We
have never seen it yet this
year.”
Mills won’t see it again
until May 15 and 16 against
Somers and Danbury, respectively. Playing in the FCIAC
against the elite programs in
the state, Danbury is used to
that speed.
“We need to be able to
have opportunities to play
against teams that are faster
and better than us, that are
going to push us and show
us what we’re not doing so
that we can start doing it,”
Stephan said. “It’s really hard
when you have a small school
to get that competitive practice mode going because
they only know half speed,
because that’s all they have
in their league. You have to
go outside of the league to
see what full speed is.”
Stephan sees that speed
with players on her premier
club, the CT Dodgers. None
of the current players on
Mills have played on that
squad, she said.
Stephan has experienced players who are athletic. Some played on the
field hockey team that won
the state championship in
the fall.
But the players have
had three different coaches in each of the past three
years. Margaret Dunlop was
a fill-in coach last spring for
Killeen Leonard, who was
on maternity leave, before
Stephan took over this year.
Stephan said the situation is not similar to her previous coaching gig at Canton
when she took over that program in 2013. The Warriors
qualified for the state tournament for the first time last
spring, going 8-10, and are
contending for the NCCC
championship for the first
time under Sean Cole this
year.
“Canton’s issue when I
first took over there is they
didn’t know how to win. So,
we had to teach them how
to win,” Stephan said. “These
guys [on Mills] know how to
win from other sports. It’s
just believing it now on the
lacrosse field.”
for their team. I was like,
‘I want to feel this.’ I felt it
in my freshman year with
field hockey. I know what
it’s like to win. I know what
it’s like to lose. Being aware
of both really gives you the
emotions you need to really
fight to win.”
Granby lost a 13-10
heartbreaker to Stonington in the Class S final
last spring. The Bears only
scored two goals in the second half after leading 8-7 at
halftime.
“That was a tough one,”
Iwanicki recalls.
In 2012, Ziemnicki’s first
season as coach, the Bears
lost 12-10 to Northwest
Catholic in the final. Granby also lost in the 2011 final.
No other team is 0-3 in the
finals since the CIAC staged
the first state tournament in
2004.
“It is a motivator,” Johnson said of losing in the final
two of the last three years.
“I think our team is actually looking to finish this
year. We have been working
hard in practice, and as the
season’s progressed, we’ve
developed as a team. I think
we look back at those past
losses and say, ‘Hmm, what
do you need to do to get the
win this year?’ I think the
coaches and the teammates
and the captains have done
a great job of pulling it all
together to find that extra
piece to get us a championship this year.”
Photo by David Heuschkel
Lewis Mills girls lacrosse coach Dee Stephan, who took over the program this spring, addresses
three players following a loss to Granby.
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Quick run by Simsbury and many more
By Brendan Driscoll
Correspondent
Just one pitch, that’s all it took for
the Simsbury softball team to get on
the scoreboard.
Alexa Guglielmino stroked the
first pitch from Farmington’s Taylor
Westerberg to deep right field and circled the bases for a leadoff homer.
It was not the first time Guglielmino crossed the plate in a 20-0
five-inning “mercy win” over the Indians May 6 at Tunxis Mead.
“That home run set the tone for
the game. It got [Farmington] on their
heels and we took it from there,” Simsbury coach Jed Flaherty said.
Guglielmino went 2 for 5, driving
in two runs and scoring four times.
Simsbury, which had 18 hits, sent nine
or more batters to the plate in three
separate innings.
Sophomore catcher Kathlene Euting hit her first career homer in the
second inning. With a full count and
Lauren Catalano on third base, Euting
drilled an outside pitch over the right
fielder’s head and scored standing up
to make it 12-0.
Euting said it was the first time
she ever hit a homer in 10 years of
playing softball. As she rounded sec-
ond base, she sensed this would be
her first.
“I got really excited and I thought
this is finally it. It’s been a really long
time,” said Euting, who had two hits
and drove in four.
Junior Lauren Catalano had three
hits and three RBIs for Simsbury.
Junior pitcher Lauren Rivera also
had a productive day at the plate, as
well as in the circle. She struck out
11 in five innings and limited Farmington to two hits. With the bat, she
went 3 for 4 with three RBIs and
scored three runs.
“Our pitching performance was
really stellar tonight,” Flaherty said.
“Lauren is quite a competitor. She
was terrific.”
Rivera was equally terrific the
last time the Trojans played at Tunxis
Mead. She pitched a one-hitter and
struck out 13 in a 6-1 win last spring.
“I think we are still kind of a work
in progress,” said Flaherty, whose
team has no seniors in his first season as coach. “We have a lot of young
players, which is awesome, but they
are learning how to manage game situations. Hopefully we are on the right
path now.”
It was the fourth straight loss for
Farmington. The Indians were out-
Pitcher Lauren Rivera struck out 11 for
Simsbury.
scored 69-6 in those games and 16016 in their nine losses.
Farmington (3-9) must go no
worse than 5-3 in its final eight games
to qualify for the state tournament
for the second straight year.
“We have lost a few games that
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have won, so it’s going to be tough,”
Farmington coach Betsy Harvey said.
“We have to turn it around and play
better defense in the future.”
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Tough week for Farmington girls lax
By Brendan Driscoll
Correspondent
From a competitive standpoint, the Farmington girls
lacrosse team began the most
difficult stretch of the regular
season last week. It was mentally challenging as well.
The week began with a
loss to Glastonbury on the
same day that Farmington
senior captain Linna Jalinskas
said goodbye to her older sister. Larissa Jalinskas sadly succumbed to her syndrome, according to Farmington coach
Jeff Manaresi. The Farmington
High graduate (Class of ’12)
was 21.
The following day, Farmington defeated Newington
14-2. Two days later, playing
its third game in four days, the
Indians lost 10-8 to Conard.
Abby Arena scored three
goals and Jalinskas had two
goals and three assists for
Farmington. Tessa Sinatro led
Conard with three goals and
three assists. Both teams are
7-3.
Trailing 5-2 midway
through the first half, Farmington scored three quick
goals to pull even with about
4 minutes left. Conard coach
Meg Cersosimo called a timeSIMSBURY
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Patrina was the first batter
to reach, poking a leadoff
double down the left field
line to open the fourth after
Farmington starter Jay Palais had retired the first nine
batters he faced.
With two outs and
Patrina still on second, Jake
Pohl lined a single to right.
Patrina rounded third and
beat the throw home. Sliding
feet first, his face made contact with catcher Joe Nadel,
who was blocking the plate.
Patrina’s nose took the
Photo by Brendan Driscoll
Farmington senior Linna Jalinskas (11) looks for a teammate in front of the net in a game against Conard.
out and made a defensive adjustment.
In the closing minutes of
the half, Arena and Jalinskas
had good scoring chances
but couldn’t put the ball past
Conard goalie Lauren Scheid
(six saves).
The Chieftains held
Farmington scoreless for 18
minutes. Sinatro sparked
Conard’s offense in the second
half by intercepting a pass
and feeding Marisa Haverbrunt of the collision. He sat
on the ground for a couple of
minutes as a trainer checked
him out. He played the final
three innings with a gauze in
his nose, and was scheduled
to have it examined by a specialist this week.
“He’s tough,” Masters
said.
Patrina’s second hit was
an RBI single in a five-run sixth
as Simsbury (10-2) sent 10 batters to the plate and scored
five runs on just two hits.
Farmington reliever Joe Harrell
faced four batters, walking two
and hitting another with Sims-
ty (three goals) with the first
of four straight goals by the
Chieftains.
“We had a tough week
mentally with the loss of Linna’s sister. That finally caught
up to us a little bit,” Manaresi
said. “Not to say that’s the reason why we lost, but I think
in the second half after playing so hard to get back those
goals in the first half, we came
out a little bit on our heels and
they attacked us right way. We
bury leading 4-3.
Simsbury’s Rick Olechna, who had two hits and
drove in two, greeted reliever Derek Duffy with an
RBI single to center just out
of the reach of Derek Fern,
who made a diving effort.
Jack Falkner followed with a
grounder that was mishandled by third baseman David
Maljanian. Patrina followed
with an RBI single to right,
making it 7-3.
Olechna scored on Patrick
Werle’s groundout. An error by
second baseman Dom Alfano
allowed another run to score.
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righted ourselves, but we ran
out of time.”
This week will be similarly challenging for Farmington with games against Hall,
Avon and Trumbull.
“We have the strongest
team I’ve had in quite some
time,” Manaresi said. “We
have a nice balance of a senior group and some young
players that can really play.
Even in this loss I feel good
going forward.”
“The score wasn’t indicative of the competitiveness
of the game,” Farmington
coach Mike McGuire said.
Alfano had three hits for
Farmington (6-6) and Noah
Gulino two. The Indians outhit
Simsbury 9-7, but the Trojans
capitalized on a misjudged
fly ball and a fielding error by
Farmington in the fourth inning to grab a 4-1 lead.
After Pohl’s two-out single scored Patrina to tie it at
1, Mike Amato lofted a ball to
left center. As Fern was drifting
over from center, the ball fell
behind left fielder Peter Dunst,
allowing Pohl to score. Amato
moved to third on a wild pitch
and scored when Whaley hit
COLLEGE corner
Jenn Whaley (Farmington ’12), a junior on the Quinnipiac University women’s golf team, tied for 28th at
the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship
April 24-26. In addition, Whaley and teammate Alexa
Gentile (Avon ’12) both were named to the MAAC
All-Academic team. Whaley is majoring in economics,
while Gentile is majoring in finance. To be eligible for
the MAAC All-Academic team, a student athlete must
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a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a 4.0
scale. … Also at Quinnipiac, Jess Soja (Simsbury ’10),
a graduate student on the Bobcats women’s track and
field team, set a new personal-best in the 3,000 steeple
chase, running the event in 11:50.86, which was good
enough for eighth place overall, at the MAAC Championships May 2. Soja’s performance scored a point for
the team, helping the Bobcats to a second-place finish
at the conference meet. Soja also placed 23rd in the
1,500 run with a time of 5:19.95 at the Yale University Spring Invitational April 26, which was also Senior
Day for the team. … Sarah Benedetti (Canton ’11),
a senior on the St. Francis Brooklyn College womens
basketball team, was named one of six Northeast
Conference Winter Scholar-Athlete award winners. According to a press release, "all scholar-athlete award
winners must have earned a minimum of 60 semester
hours at their institution, maintained a minimum cumulative grade-point-average of 3.20 and participated
with distinction as a member of a varsity team.” On the
court, Benedetti had a terrific season for the Terriers,
averaging 14.2 points per game in the regular season
and being named the MVP of the NEC tournament after
she led the fifth-seeded Terriers to three straight road
wins and the program’s first league championship. She
averaged just over 21 points in those three games. The
Terriers eventually fell to UConn, the eventual national
champion, in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
… Avon resident Graham Welter (Avon Old Farms ’14)
is a freshman midfielder on the Sacred Heart mens
lacrosse team. Welter played in three games this year
and scored one goal for the 6-7 Pioneers. …
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collegiate athletic careers of former high school students
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a grounder to the left side
that was muffed by Duffy.
Griffin Myslow and Olechna
followed with back-to-back
singles, scoring Whaley.
On the mound, Whaley
allowed three runs on seven
hits in five innings. He struck
out seven and walked one.
Farmington scored twice in
the fifth on Alfano’s RBI single
and a sac fly by Duffy, trimming Simsbury’s lead to 4-3.
Masters said Whaley,
Simsbury’s top pitcher, had
a lot on his mind earlier that
day and struggled to refocus
in the game.
“Not to make excuses,
but the kid sat for eight hours
in AP testing today,” Mas-
ters said. “He got out really
late, ran home. Tried to nap,
couldn’t nap. Tried to eat,
couldn’t eat …He just didn’t
have his best stuff tonight,
but he certainly had enough
to win the game. It was good
to have Sammy come in and
shut that door. That was big
for Sammy, too.”
Collins replaced Whaley
to start the sixth and gave up
a leadoff single to Fern. Two
batters, the tying run was in
scoring position when Patrina
muffed a slow roller by Maljanian. After Collins struck out
Raus, the runners moved up
on a wild pitch. But Collins
struck out pinch hitter Robert
LeConche to keep it 4-3.
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By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
Mackenzie DuBois is
the girl behind the mask. The
Simsbury senior has spent
her high school athletic career as a goalie, transitioning
from ice hockey in the winter
to lacrosse in the spring.
Whether she’s playing
on ice or field turf, her experience as a two-sport goaltender allows her to remain
cool in the crease. When the
stakes are high, DuBois has
risen to the occasion. And
when the game is on the line,
as it was in the closing minutes against Hall last week,
she can be a stone wall.
In what her coach called
a “rock star” performance,
DuBois stopped 14 of 21 shots
and made a huge save late
as the Trojans held on for an
8-7 win over the Warriors in
an evenly-played CCC North
game May 9 at Holden Field.
“Amazing,”
Simsbury
coach Kim Rabbitt said. “She’s
always been pretty consistent,
but she’s come up big for us in
the last three games.”
DuBois came up every bit
as big in a 7-6 win over Ridgefield May 2, stopping 15 shots.
Her 14-save performance
against Hall mirrored that.
It was the seventh
straight win for Simsbury
(8-2) following back-to-back
losses to New Fairfield and
Daniel Hand last month. The
streak has included three
one-goal wins by the Trojans.
The win over Hall was
close throughout. Neither
team led by more than one
goal and the score was tied
on seven occasions.
With the scored tied at
7, Simsbury’s Callie Bredice
took a pass from Regan Sebolt and beat goalie Gabrielle
Gershon (six saves) with 5:14
remaining.
Hall had several chances to pull even, only to be
denied each time by DuBois.
The Warriors had possession
with less than 2 minutes
left. Mackenzie Molodetz
took a high shot that DuBois
stopped. Seconds later, Cammie Cho couldn’t beat DuBois with a low shot in front.
In the final minutes, DuBois dropped to her knees
to stop a low shot by Cho.
Seconds later, Cho tried to
bounce a shot past DuBois
and the ball glanced off the
crossbar.
Following a Simsbury
turnover, Hall called a timeout with 30 seconds left.
With the clock winding
down, Christine Taylor had
the ball on her stick in front
with nobody between her
and DuBois, but the Simsbury goalie made the save
with 12 seconds left.
“She tried to go high with
it and I think it hit my wrist or
chest protector,” said DuBois,
a two-year starter in goal and
three-year varsity player.
As a junior, DuBois was
the starting goalie on the
girls ice hockey team that
won the 2014 state championship. The Trojans were
co-champs with East Catholic this year when the teams
played to a 2-2 tie. In the
championship game, DuBois made 33 saves, including 17 in the two overtime
periods.
“I can tell you being a
hockey goalie, it definitely
helps with not being afraid
to drop low and get hit by the
ball,” DuBois said. “If you see
me a lot, I end up going into
butterflies. Being a hockey
goalie, just having all that
practice with reaction time,
it helps so much.”
Photo by David Heuschkel
Simsbury goalie MacKenzie DuBois stood tall – and occasionally dropped to the ground – to
make 14 saves like this one against Hall’s Natalie Nordyke (26) in an 8-7 win over the Warriors.
Bredice and Sutton
Wunderle each scored twice
for Simsbury. Sebolt, Meg
Corcoran, Lizzie Moore and
Annabelle Iler had the other
goals.
Three players accounted for all seven goals by Hall.
Molodetz had three while
Cho and Taylor had two
apiece.
The first half was pretty
even. Each team led twice,
and each won four face-offs.
And when Moore scored off a
free position as time expired
in the first half, the score was
tied at 4.
Hall took its first lead
in the second half, 7-6, when
Molodetz weaved through a
maze of players and beat DuBois with 8:28 left. Simsbury
won the ensuing faceoff, but
Gershon denied Bredice.
The Trojans regained
possession and Iler tied it
with 6:54 left. After Hall won
the subsequent draw, Natalie
Nordyke had a good scoring
chance in front, but her shot
was corralled by DuBois.
“We had our chances.
That’s why I can’t be disappointed,” Hall coach Meg
Chaplin said. “It’s a fluky
game and the little bounces
didn’t go our way, but it was
anybody’s game. It went right
down to those last 12 seconds and the kids never gave
up for one second.”
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Road, 860-693-0263, [email protected]:
• Muddy Kids Are Healthy Kids Saturday, May
16, 3 p.m., pre-register, $4/$6 – “get the dirt”
on soil and learn how playing in the mud can
benefit children
• May-June Discovery Days four-week program, “Exploring Together,” for preschoolers
ages 3-5 and a parent/grandparent, beginning Friday, May 22 and running thru Friday,
June 12, 1:15-2:15 p.m.
• “Wildman” Steve Brill Saturday, May 23, 1
p.m., pre-register for $15, $20 at the door
from Odiyana Center, East Hartford
Rec and Parks Department registration for
summer programs including swim memberships and swim lessons at www.avonrec.com
Avon Arts Association Spring Members
Show June 7-29 at the Simsbury Library, with
opening reception June 7, 1:30-3:30 p.m. and
presentation of scholarships
BURLINGTON–––––––
Burlington Garden Club meeting Thursday,
May 14, 7 p.m., at the Burlington Historical
Society, 781 George Washington Turnpike,
with Jeffrey Ward talking about “A History of
Connecticut’s Forests”: plant sale Saturday,
May 16, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., at Town Hall parking
lot, 200 Spielman Highway
VNA blood pressure screenings Tuesday,
May 19, 9:30-11 a.m., at Walgreens at Canton
Village, 220 Albany Turnpike, and Wednesday,
May 20, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., at the Canton
Community Center, 40 Dyer Ave.
Burlington’s 5th annual Shine On 5K Race/
Walk/Kids Fun Run to benefit The Karen
DuCotey Fund for Kids Sunday, May 17 at
Lewis Mills High School, 26 Lyon Road, registration beginning at 11:30 p.m., kids run at
12:40 p.m., and 5K and walk at 1 p.m., register at burlingtonctparksandrec.com and at
shineon5k.com
Current dog license renewal during months
of May and June at town clerk’s office, or by
mail with a stamped, self-addressed envelope
to Canton Town Clerk, c/o Dog Licensing, P.O.
Box 168, Collinsville, 06022–all dogs whose
licenses are purchased or renewed by June
30 entered in a special drawing to receive Tag
#1 and a basket of goodies
Congregational Church of Burlington
Spring Music Series concert featuring KC
Sisters Sunday, May 17, 3 p.m., at the church,
268 Spielman Highway, 860-673-4618, freewill donation
Register now for all Canton Parks and Rec
summer programs and events online at www.
cantonrec.org or call 860-693-5808: Explorers
Day Camp, CAST, Red Cross swimming lessons, Dusky Dolphins swim team, Lifeguard
and Water Safety Instructor Certification courses, Mad Science Camps, Let’s Gogh Art Camps,
Tiny Tots Pre-School Camp, Teen Adventure
Travel Camp, SCUBA certification course, Water
Aerobics, Water Polo, Skyhawks Sports camps,
self-defense class and more
Burlington Parks & Rec programs at www.
burlingtonctparksandrec.com: Cardio Kickboxing Mondays and Wednesdays thru June
17, 6:30-7:30 p.m., at Lewis S. Mills Aerobics
Room, walk-ins $10 per class;Toning and
Shaping ongoing thru June 22, 7:15-8:15
p.m., fee $45, at Town Hall auditorium or Senior Center, walk-ins $4 per class at the door
with signed waiver
Farmington River Coordinating Committee
offering two scholarships to high school
graduates or current undergraduates from
Canton who will be attending college to major
in environmental science or a related field,
info at farmingtonriver.org
CANTON––––––––––
Garden Club of Avon bus trip June 24 to
Wayside Inn Historic Site in Sudbury, Mass.,
and The Garden in the Woods in Framingham,
Mass., $78, call Lynn at 860-989-7590 by
June 10
Collinsville Volunteer Fire Department. Inc.
Jamboree Thursday-Saturday, May 16-18, at
Jamboree Field, 91 Powder Mill Road, Collinsville, bracelet nights $22 each night, carnival
rides from 6-10 p.m., fireworks Friday, May
15 and parade Saturday, May 16 at 6 p.m.
beginning at Canton High School
Weekly meditation class ongoing Tuesdays,
7:15-8:30 p.m., at Be.Yoga, 17 West Main St.,
$10 per class, info at 860-266-6041, everyone welcome – (Really) Enjoying Relationships with resident teacher Kadam Eve Arias
Friday Night Dinner May 15, 5-7 p.m., at the
North Canton Community United Methodist
Church, 3 Case St., North Canton, country
roasted pulled pork, $13/$6, take-out available (850-593-4589)
FARMINGTON––––––
Movement for Change sponsored by The DeFilippo Fund Saturday, May 16, 6-11 p.m., at
the Marriott, 15 Farms Springs Road, $100 per
ticket, register at defilippofund.eventbrite.com
Farmington Eagle Open Golf Event Monday,
May 18 at Farmington Woods Golf Course in
support of Farmington elementary schools,
$150 per golfer/$600 foursome, dhacker33@
To submit an event for the calendar,
e-mail Sally at
[email protected]
hotmail.com – 18 holes of golf, raffles, contests, silent auction and hot breakfast and
lunch served
Farmington EDC’s Business Breakfast
Wednesday, May 20, 8-9:30 a.m., at the
Farmington Club, with Mike Freimuth, executive director of the Connecticut Regional Development Authority, ponter@farmington-ct.
org for registration
Game Night Benefit Auction Thursday, May
21, 6-10:30 p.m., at the Hill-Stead Museum,
35 Mountain Road, 860-677-4787 – multicourse dinner, live and silent auctions
At the UConn Health Center, 263 Farmington
Ave.:
• Free Sickle Cell Disease and Reproduction:
From Genetics to Delivery Thursday, May 14,
5-7 p.m., Low Learning Center, register at
1-800-535-6232
• Celiac Disease Nutrition Class Monday, May
18, 8-9 a.m., Outpatient Pavilion, fee $20, call
860-679-7692 to register
• Free Cosmetology Services for Cancer
Survivors Monday, May 18, 1-3 p.m., Neag
Comprehensive Cancer Center, “Looking
Good…Feel Better” to improve self-image
and self-esteem of women experiencing appearance-related side effects from cancer
treatment, register at 1-800-227-2345
• Exercise As Medicine” Wednesday, May 20,
7 p.m., Low Learning Center, with physician
assistant Bradley Biskup, register at 860679-7692
• IVF Info Session Thursday, May 21, 6-8:30
p.m., Cell and Genome Science Building, 400
Farmington Ave., register at 860-679-4580 or
www.uconnfertility.com
• Infertility Peer Support Group Thursday, May
21, 7 pm., Center for Advanced Reproductive
Services, 2 Batterson Park Road (860-523-8337)
Support Group for Caregivers of Seniors
Tuesday, May 19, 3:30-5 p.m., at Staples
House, 1 Monteith Drive, contact Martha Taylor for info and sign up, 860-675-2390 (meets
1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month)
Farmington Chamber of Commerce annual
dinner Thursday, 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––––––––––
At the Granby Senior Center, 15 North Granby Road, 860-844-5352:
• Excursions to: Meadowview Nursery Friday, May 15, departing 9:30 a.m., $4 for ride;
Ocean Beach, New London, Wednesday, May
27, departing 9:30 a.m., $5 for the ride
• Stroke Awareness with Sandy Flagg/Jane
Archer Tuesday, May 18, 1:30 p.m., call to
register – hear personal stories of those who
have experienced a stroke
• Annual Veterans Luncheon Wednesday,
May 20, 12:30 p.m., for Granby veterans as
a thank you for their service, menu: baked
ham, mac and cheese, and more, entertainment by Roland the Keyboard Guy, RSVP to
860-844-5350 by Friday, May 15
“A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut’s Civil War” Wednesday, May 20, 7 p.m.,
at the Granby Senior Center, 15 North Granby
Road, hosted by the Salmon Brook Historical
Society, $3/$5/$2
Summer sessions at Maple View Farm,
Salmon Brook Street, starting July 6, weekly
thru Aug. 14, sign up on website or in Farm
Store
Pilgrim Covenant Church Vacation Bible
School June 22-26, 6-8 p.m., open to the
public, registration forms at the church, 605
Salmon Brook St., or printed from www.pilgrimcovenantchurch.org
SIMSBURY–––––––-–
Bike to Work Day Friday, May 15, bike-in
social 6:30-8:30 a.m. at Simsbury Meadows
(by the playground), Iron Horse Boulevard,
and Simsbury Silver Celebration 5 p.m. at Red
Stone Pub, part of National Bike Month
At the Simsbury Senior Center, Eno Memorial Hall, 754 Hopmeadow St., 860-658-3273:
• Lunch Café Friday, May 15, 11 a.m.-noon,
beef barley soup, sliced ham and egg salad
sandwich, take out or eat in, $3 sandwich,
At the Library
Avon Public Library,
281 Country Club Road, 860-673-9712,
www.avonctlibrary.info:
• Shakespeare-Inspired Movies Thursday,
May 14: 1:30-4 p.m. “Yellow Sky” and 6 p.m.
“Much Ado About Nothing”
• Kids Choice Book Club “The Familiars”
Thursday, May 14, grades 4-6
• Pajama Storytime with Mrs. McCabe
Thursday, May 14, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
• Evening Book Club “The Postmistress” by
Sarah Blake Thursday, May 14, 7-8:30 p.m.
• Meet a Ballerina Friday, May 15, 11-11:45
a.m., ages 3-5, dance class w/ballerina
• Children’s Hula Hoop Show with Amanda
Saturday, May 16, 11 a.m.-noon, ages 4 and
up, register
• World War II Memorabilia collection on display in Marian Hunter Room starting Monday, May 18 thru Aug. 31
• International Student Exchange Tuesday,
May 19, 6-8 p.m., learn about studying
abroad, hosting and meet current exchange
students and their host families, AFS volunteers and returnees
• Teen Advisory Board meeting Tuesday, May
19, 6-8 p.m.
• Morning Book Club Wednesday, May 20,
10-11 a.m., “Orange Is the New Black” by
Piper Kerman
• Computer Classes with the Uberbots
Wednesday, May 20, drop in, Keyboard
Crash Course
• Blood Pressure Screening Thursday, May
21, 12:15-1:45 p.m.
• Teen Karaoke Thursdays from 2:30-4 p.m.
thru June 11, grades 7-12, drop in
30
The
Valley Press
• Family Game Night Thursday, May 21,
6:30-8 p.m., ages 7 and up
Burlington Library,
34 Library Lane, 860-673-3331,
www.Burlingtonctlibrary.info:
• T(w)een & Adult Craft: Romantic Book Roses Thursday, May 14, 6:30 p.m., grades 5
and up, adults welcome, register
• AM Book Discussion Group Tuesday, May
19, 11 a.m., “The Boys in the Boat” by Daniel
Brown
• TAC meeting Thursday, May 21, 6:30 p.m.,
grades 6 and up, register
Canton Public Library,
40 Dyer Ave., 860-693-5800:
• Music for Me: Drop-in Music and Movement Time Friday, May 15, time TBD
• Drop-In Story Time: Farm Yard Beat Tuesday, May 19, 10:300 a.m., ages 3 and up
with parent/caregiver
• Hand in Hand: Stories of Those Who Help
One Another with storyteller Carol Birch
Wednesday, May 20, 7 p.m.
• Storytime Storywalks: Clouds (Condensation) Thursday, May 21,, 1:30 p.m., for children 4-5-K with caregiver
• Artist Mary Wooten in main gallery space;
Collinsville Farmers Market exhibit in display
case (market in the library/community center parking lot last three Sundays in June)
• Earring making workshop scheduled for
May 9 postponed until June 13, register
Farmington Library,
6 Monteith Drive, 860-673-6791, ext. 1,
May 14, 2015
www.farmingtonlibraries.org:
• Afternoon at the Bijou Thursdays, 2 p.m.:
May 14 “Kiss Them for Me” and May 21, “A
Face in the Crowd”
• Friday Afternoon Games – Mystery Jigsaw
Puzzle May 15, 2:30-4:30 p.m., grades 7-12
Sci-Fi Movie “Guardian of the Galaxy” Monday, May 18, 2:30-4:30 p.m., grades 7-12
• Singalong with Mike Tuesday, May 19,
10:30-11 a.m., all ages, register
• Garmany Music Series: Survivors Swing
Band Tuesday, May 19, 2-3 p.m., register
• Red, White and Blue Storytime Wednesday,
May 20, 10:30-11:15 a.m., wear red, white
and blue celebrating Ameriica’s colors, ages
3-6, register
• Gardening Lecture: Container Gardening
Wednesday, May 20, 7-8:30 p.m., with Master Gardener Roxanne Lovell, owner of Aerie
Mountain garden shop in Barkhamsted, register – how to choose plants and maintain a
container garden
• What’s; the Buzz? Honey Bees and Beekeeping Thursday, May 21, 7 p.m., with Ned
Farrell, beekeeper and owner of The Bee
Happy Co., register
• Spring Art Show in Community Room thru
July 10, contact library in advance on room’s
availability
Barney Library,
71 Main St., 860673-6791, ext. 2
• Make Delicious Gluten Free Pizza with
Rebecca Tuttle, author of “The Story of My
Gluten Free Cookbook: No Chicken, No Turkey, No Gluten, Oh My!,” Thursday, May 14,
1-2 p.m., register
• Crafting quilts with old T-shirts Thursday,
May 21, 1 p.m., free – no prior knowledge of
sewing or quilting required
Granby Library,
15 North Granby Rd., 860-844-5275:
• Crafters Café II Thursday, May 14, 6:30
p.m., Seashell birdhouse
• Around the World Book Club Monday, May
18, 6:30 p.m.
• Possum Writers Group Tuesday, May 19,
6 p.m., at Cossitt Library, 388 North Granby
Road, 860-653-8958
Simsbury Library,
725 Hopmeadow St., 860-658-7663:
• Simsbury Adult Book Discussion Group
Thursday, May 14, 7-8:30 p.m., “Unaccustomed Earth” by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Tea and Talk – Safe Steps: Freedom from
Falling Thursday, May 14, 11 a.m.-12:30
p.m., with Raymond Shaw Jr., licensed
physical therapist and certified orthopedic
specialist and certified manual therapist,
registration suggested
• Friday Flicks 1-3:30 p.m.: May 15 “The
Producers” and May 21 “Mame”
• National Stuttering Awareness Week thru
May 17 to help Stuttering Foundation, with display of books and DVDs available on stuttering
along with display of authors who stuttered
• Iraq: The Creation of Colonialism Thursday,
May 21, 10-11:30 a.m., by Professor Mark
Albertson
• Friends Coffeehouse: Hungrytown – Original Roots Music Friday, May 22, 8-9:30 p.m.
• Art display for the month of May: Frank
Marotta’s sportraits, Bernard Duffy’s paintings and Shirley Mae Neu’s contemporary
paintings in the Program Room; Donna
Morency portrait paintings in the West Gallery; Sally Sargent Markey’s watercolors and
crafts in display case; Simsbury Camera
Club photographs in East Gallery
Teen programs
• Teen Advisory Board Meeting Thursday,
May 14, 7-8 p.m., drop in
• SAT Essay Writing and Critical Reading
Workshop Monday, May 18, 7-8:30 p.m.,
RSVP
• Keep Calm and Choose a Career Tuesday,
May 19, 7-8 p.m., RSVP
• Practice PSAT Exam Saturday, May 23, 11
a.m.-2 p.m., RSVP
Children’s programs
• Baking: Grades 3-6 Thursdays, May 14
and 28 at 4 p.m., Best Ever Brownies and
Old Fashioned Gingerbread, register
• Lego Mania Saturdays, May 16, 23, 30, 10
a.m.-2 p.m., ages 5 and up, drop in
• Lunch with Mike Saturday, May 16, noon,
with local guitarist Mike Markowitz, bring
picnic lunch, drop in
• Tails of Joy Saturday, May 16, 1-3 p.m.,
with R.E.A.D. dogs, grades K-6, drop in
• Discover Dance: Meet a Ballerina Tuesday,
May 19, 1:30 p.m., ages 2-5, registration
encouraged
• Chess and Go Club Tuesday, May 19, 3:454:45 p.m., grades 2-6
• Maker Buddies: Water Balloons Wednesday, May 20, 4-5 p.m., grades 1-6, register
• Baking: Grades K-2 Thursday, May 21 at 4
p.m., Lightning Cake, register
check it out
$3 soup Simsbury residents age 50 and
over, non-residents and Simsbury residents under 50 $4
• Monday Supper May 18, 5 p.m., sign
up by Thursday, May 14, make your own
taco bar
• Food and Medical Myths Thursday, May
21, 1-2 p.m., sign up by Monday, May 18
• Bird Watchers led by Roger Preston and
Gil Kleiner Wednesday, May 20, 8 a.m., at
Great Pond State Forest Park, sign up thru
Senior Center
• Massage Wednesday, May 20, appts.
starting at 10 a.m., cost $10
• Lunch at Eno Wednesday, May 20, noon,
baked meatloaf, sign up by Friday, May 15
• Jump on Board: Monday, May 18, Buckland Hills Mall & Christmas Tree Shop
Try-Simsbury River to Ridge Try-athlon Sunday, May 17, 11 a.m., starting at
Simsbury Performing Arts Center for a
3.6-mile running segment, 11.5-mile bike
segment, 2-mile kayak paddle segment
on the Farmington River, with post-race
festivities at Performing Arts Center, entry
fees: $90 for individuals/$115 for teams,
www.trysimsbury.com
Red Cross blood donation opportunity
Monday, May 18, 1-6 p.m., First Church of
Christ, 689 Hopmeadow St., appt. at redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-733-2767
Simsbury Chamber Music Festival’s
second concert in the Chamber Music Masterworks Series Monday, May
18, 7:30 p.m. at Eno Memorial Hall, 754
Hopmeadow St., $15 suggested donation,
[email protected] or 860-205-6290
– Mozart Horn Quintet, Brahms Clarinet
Quintet and movements from Mozart’s
Clarinet Quintet
Farmington Valley VNA blood pressure
screenings Wednesday, May 20, 11:45
a.m.-2:15 p.m., at Eno Memorial Hall, 754
Hopmeadow St.
Genealogy Road Show at Simsbury
Free Library. 749 Hopmeadow St., Saturday, May 23, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., RSVP at
860-408-1336
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–
Duncaster’s Art & Science of Graceful Aging Thursday, May 14, 3 p.m., at
Duncaster Retirement Community in
Bloomfield, changes in bones as people
age including osteoporosis presented by
Rohini Becherl, M.D., register at 860380-5006 or [email protected]
American Cancer Society Relay for
Life of Farmington Valley 8 a.m. Saturday, May 16 to 8 a.m. Sunday, May 17
at Farmington High School, 10 Monteith
Drive, Farmington
Connecticut Daylily Society’s annual
Daylily and Plant Sale Saturday, May
16, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., on grounds of Avon
Senior Center, 635 West Avon Road,
Avon, with prices starting at $5 – member-grown hardy daylilies available in all
colors, sizes and forms at 50 percent or
more off retail, as well as companion
perennials
Farmington Valley Farmers Market
beginning Sunday, May 17 from 11
a.m.-2 p.m. at Riverdale Farms Shopping
Center, 124 Simsbury Road, Avon, to run
thru end of November
Farmington Valley NFL Flag Football
League’s spring clinic Sunday, May 17,
2-4 p.m., at Avon Middle School, 375
West Avon Road, Avon, hosted by Mike
and Chris Golic, Avon Parks and Rec, info
at 860-409-4332
“Food and Medical Myths” Thursday,
May 21, 1 p.m., at the Simsbury Senior
Center, Eno Memorial Hall, 754 Hopmeadow St., Simsbury, call 860-6583273 to reserve a space
Avon-Canton VFW Post 3272 Buddy
Poppy Drive thru Sunday, May 24, in
three locations in Avon and Canton, all
proceeds benefiting local, state and national veteran causes
Registration for summer credit courses at Tunxis Community College in
Farmington under way, five- and eightweek sessions: June 1-July 2, June
1-July 21 and July 6-Aug. 6, visit , (860773-1300)
Red Cross blood donation opportunities in May Wednesdays from 11:45
a.m.-5:30 p.m. and Saturdays, 6:3011:30 a.m., at the Farmington Blood
Donation Center, 209 Farmington Ave.,
Farmington, to schedule appt. visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-733-2767
Connecticut Swish Basketball Camp
at Farmington High School for boys
entering grades 1-9, 3 weekly sessions starting June 29, July 6 and 13,
8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., email Swishcamp@
comcast.net for registration form and
camp info
John Mirabello’s Northwest Catholic Basketball Clinic 2015, cost $125,
registration accepted until enrollment
full, 860-236-4221, ext. 130 or 860670-0030, [email protected]: boys
entering grades 8-9 June 22-25, 8:30
a.m.-noon; boys entering grades 5-7
June 29-July 2, 8:30 a.m.-noon; bonus
boys weeks (grades 5-9) July 6-9, 8:30
a.m.-noon; girls entering grades 5-9
July 13-16, 8:30 a.m.-noon
Farmington Valley Health District offering free in-home asthma program
called “Putting on AIRS,” for info or to
make referral, call 860-352-2333 Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Arts & Events
“Tasting at Tunxis” to benefit Alumni Association Thursday, May 14, 7-9 p.m. in
Founders Hall at Tunxis Community College
in Farmington featuring a selection of wines,
beer, cheese, chocolate and liquor, sponsored
by Wine Cellars 4 of Farmington, must be 21
to attend, tickets $20 at the door, contact
Helen Lozada at 860-773-1425 or Ashley
Fosterat 860-773-1549
At Bridge Street Live, 41 Bridge St., Collinsville, 860-693-9762: May 14, 8 p.m.,
Marshall Crenshaw Trio w/special guest
Ray Mason; May 15 and 16, 8 p.m., Comedy Night: Tom Cotter; May 17, 7 p.m., Sonny Knight & The Lakers
At the Hartt School, 200 Bloomfield Ave.,
West Hartford, 860-728-4428:
• Kevin Gray Memorial Concert Thursday,
May 14, 7-9 p.m., Handel Performing Arts
Center, 35 Westbourne Parkway, Hartford
• Connecticut Children’s Chorus: All Choirs
Concert Sunday, May 17, 2-4 p.m., St.
Thomas the Apostle Church, 872 Farmington Ave., West Hartford
At Infinity Music Hall and Bistro:
20 Greenwoods Road North, Norfolk,
860-542-5531: May 14, 8 p.m., David
Lindley; May 16, 8 p.m., Jane Monheit;
May 17, 7:30 p.m., Leo Kottke; May 21, 8
p.m., Art Garfunkel
32 Front St., Hartford: May 14, 8 p.m.,
Dar Williams w/special guest Lucy Wainwright; May 16, 8 p.m., The Spirit of Johnny Cash Tribute Band; May 17, 8 p.m., Diane Schuur; May 21, 8 p.m., Mullett; May
22, 8 p.m., Art Garfunkel SOLD OUT
Suffield Players production of “Hearts”
by Willy Holtzman Friday and Saturday,
May 15 and 16 at 8 p.m., at Mapleton Hall,
1305 Mapleton Ave., Suffield, tickets $17,
800-289-6148 or 860-668-0837
At the Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main
St., Hartford:
• Hartford Gay Men’s Chorus’ “Men on
Broadway” Friday, May 15, 8 p.m., and
Saturday, May 16, 8 p.m.
• Gallery Talk Sunday, May 17, noon,
“America’s Playground” with Robin Jaffee
Frank, chief curator and exhibition curator
of “Coney Island: Visions of an American
Dreamland,” free with admission
• Sunday Serenades, “Copland and Coney Island,” Sunday, May 17, 2 p.m., with
Hartford Symphony Orchestra performing
chamber music concert offering a musical
counterpart to “Coney Island,” tickets online or call 860-987-5900
• Talk and Book Signing, “Listening to
Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi,”
Thursday, May 21, 6 p.m., with author
Hayden Herrera discussing her book “Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu
Noguchi,” arrive between 5 and 6 p.m. to
FEDERATION HOMES
view American art galleries and attend a
pre-lecture reception, free and open to the
public
At the Mark Twain House & Museum,
351 Farmington Ave., Hartford:
• The Artists Collective’s annual Jackie
McLean Memorial Celebration May 15-16
at 8 p.m. at 1200 Albany Ave., Hartford,
featuring historical theater production
of Celeste Bedford Walker’s “Black Wall
Street,” tickets $25/$20 in advance, $30 at
the door (860-280-3130 or 860-527-3205
• An evening with author and actress Issa
Rae discussing her book “Misadventures
of Awkward Black Girl” Sunday, May 17,
7:30 p.m., in Lincoln Financial Services
Auditorium, tickets $10/$5, 860-280-3130
• Book/Mark Wednesday, May 20, 7:30
p.m., an evening with author Brian Abrams
discussing his just-published book “Party
Like a President: True Tales of Inebriation,
Lechery and Mischief from the Oval Office,” free, reservations recommended at
860-280-3130, book sale and signing
• Collection of Han Dynasty stone rubbings
exhibition with a free opening reception
Thursday, May 21, 5-7 p.m., in Webster
Bank Museum Center, reservations recommended, exhibition on display thru Aug.
31
• An evening with author Thomas Santopietro discussing his book “The Sound of
Music Story: How a Beguiling Young Novice, A Handsome Austrian Captain, and Ten
Singing Von Trapp Children Inspired the
Most Beloved Film of All Time” Thursday,
May 21, 7 p.m., free Book/Mark event followed by book sale and signing, reservations recommended at 860-280-3130
“Hairspray” May 15-31 at The Repertory Theatre in New Britain, 23 Norden St.,
tickets $25/$23, Fridays and Saturdays at
7 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m., www.connecticuttheatrecompany.org
Charity live music and juried art show
Saturday, May 16, 4 p.m., with live music
starting at 6 p.m. in the Hurley mill building in New Hartford hosted by Peter and
Christine Greenwood of Greenwood Glass
Blowing Studio Gallery School, artists participating donating a piece of work for a
raffle with 100 percent of proceeds sent
to Save the Children Foundation in Fairfield for disaster in Nepal and Syria – two
bands, guest R&B singer, dancing, full cash
bar and other entertainment (860-7389464, www.petergreenwood.com)
Portable Folk Festival at The Sounding Board Coffeehouse, 433 Fern St.,
West Hartford, Saturday, May 16, 8 p.m.,
$16/$14/$8,
[email protected] or call Janet at
860-635-7685 – benefit for folksinger
Don Sineti
Shawn Taylor at Crown & Hammer, 3
Depot St., Collinsville, Saturday, May 16,
9:30 p.m.; Happy Hour Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 4-6 p.m.
Connecticut Women’s Chorale “Concert
of American Songs” Sunday, May 17, 3
p.m., Sacred Heart Church, 26 Wintonbury Ave., Bloomfield, special guests will
be Chinese chorus the Kang Hua Singers,
free-will donation accepted, call 860-2425213 for more information
Jazz with the Fred Hersch Trio Sunday,
May 17, 4 p.m., part of The Music Series
at South Church, 90 Main St., New Britain,
tickets $30/$20/$10, 860-223-7555
Vermont Beer Social Tuesday, May 19,
6:30 p.m., at Lisa’s Crown & Hammer
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Susan Dorazio, fine art painter, equine
and sporting art, exhibiting at the Ethel Walker School Library Gallery, Bushy
Hill Road, Simsbury, thru June 7, gallery
hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., obtain guest pass from receptionist in Beaverbrook, the main building (gepstein@
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Exhibits at the Gallery on the Green in
Canton thru May 24, hours: Friday-Sunday,
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Maxwell Shepherd Memorial Exhibit of
painting and sculpture by Peter Waite, “IN/
TRANSITIVE,” in the main gallery downstairs; “The Florence Five,” work of Kent
McCoy, Walter Kendra, Rowena Okie, Jane
Hoben and David Owen, all of Canton, in
the main upstairs gallery; Diane Wright in
the Spotlight Gallery with “Limbo”
Westminster School’s Alumni Art Exhibit thru May 25 in Baxter Gallery at the
school, 995 Hopmeadow St., showcasing
work of the late Bryan Nash Gill, class of
1980, gallery hours: Mondays-Fridays, 9
a.m.-3 p.m., Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
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TELEVISING
from page 17
“When it comes to budget season, people can send links of the meetings to PTOs,”
Landry said. “Residents have the opportunity
to become informed. [Taping the meetings]
may engage them to come out to vote [and]
turn 13 percent into 26 percent.”
Town Council Chair Nancy Nickerson
also spoke in favor of the school board recording its meetings because senior citizens
can’t always be in attendance, but may wish to
watch on television or online.
Resident Darlene Dopp said that making
the meetings available on television or online
would cut down on the amount of misinformation that spreads throughout town.
“It’s essential that an objective form of
communication [be provided so parents] can
be accurately informed of every dimension of
our children’s education,” she said. “It will enable community members to hear verbatim all
points and counterpoints shared. … This small
addition is certain to yield positive outcomes.”
Former school board member and current town councilor Meredith Trimble said in
an email that she, too, was in favor of having
the school board’s meetings recorded.
“I think any time you can increase access and participation, it is a good thing,” she
said. “I’ve heard from seniors who want to
be more informed about the education budget, for example, so they can be supportive at
referendum time, but for whom getting to or
sitting through a lengthy nighttime meeting
might not be practical. I’ve also heard from
parents with obligations to small children at
PERRON
from page 17
Zoning Commission alternate. The Granby
Board of Selectmen voted May 4 to approve
his appointment. School board member Jenny
Emery said the board would miss Perron.
“Thank you for doing such a good job and
home, or who give evening time to church,
sports or civic groups, and can’t always be
present for meetings even of great interest
to them. For all of these groups, offering the
opportunity of a meaningful connection to
the process would be a very welcome and
positive service.”
No vote was taken on the issue, with the
board instead seeking to gather additional
information on the issue, including inviting a
Nutmeg TV representative to a meeting.
Still, Republican school board members
Bill Baker, Mark Blore and Christopher Fagan
appeared to support the measure, while Democratic member Bill Beckert and Vice Chair
Paula O’Brien expressed some concerns.
“I haven’t heard anyone in the public say
they don’t want us to do it,” Blore said.
Beckert said he was concerned about the
legalities of whether children who attend the
meetings could have their images shown on
television or online. He also said he was concerned about “people using it as an opportunity to grandstand.”
“I don’t subscribe bad motives to people,”
Beckert said. “But I’m not naive either.” O’Brien said she was concerned about
how recording the meetings could change
public and board participation.
“Televising changes the dynamic,” she
said, noting that the Town Council Republicans and Democrats caucus off-camera. “This
is how we have a dialogue – at the table. ... If we
find that it will lead to more discussions off-table, then I’m not sure I want to do that.”
The school board’s next meeting is scheduled for May 18 at Union School at 7 p.m.
don’t leave,” she said.
“We’ll miss you, Ben,” Walther said.
The school board also heard a presentation on the annual technology report from Jon
Lambert, director of technology.
Lambert said that highlights from the
2014-15 school year included the 1:1 comput-
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“Losing history: it’s being eaten away,
things are not being funded; it’s not being
taken care of,” said John Caruso, a resident.
Caruso said he “would wage a war” to
keep the horses in Avon and that there were
a number of lawyers, including himself, willing to work pro bono on the case.
“What they’re doing is wrong,” he said.
The council echoed residents’ concerns
and even discussed making a resolution to
show its support of efforts to reinstate the
funding. Caruso, who said he has lived in
town since 1962 and often visited the horses
with his children and grandchildren, asked
the council if it would consider the motion.
Zacchio said he wasn’t opposed to
the idea, but was not sure if such an action
ing program for grades seven to 10, the Smarter Balance Assessment testing, new software
and improvements and security systems upgrades.
Lambert said the district’s vendor was replacing all 750 Chromebooks at no cost with
an upgraded version.
“The devices that were purchased didn’t
hold up as well as we thought, particularly at
the middle school level,” Lambert said. “It’s understandable because kids tend to be rougher
on the devices and [the devices] needed to be
designed better.”
Lambert said the newer Chromebooks
would have tougher cases and better screens
and likely won’t have screws falling out of
them.
The Chromebooks will be swapped out
over the summer, with the replacements arriving in the fall, Lambert said.
Other upgrades include parents of more
than one student in the district being able to
log in just once to Schoology, a minor but particularly helpful change, according to school
board member Melissa Migliaccio.
“That’s huge and greatly appreciated,”
would have any pull. After some discussion,
Town Manager Brandon Robertson suggested penning a letter stating the council’s
concerns and objections to the proposed
cuts. The council agreed.
Zacchio advised residents to call and
write their legislators, requesting that the
funding be reinstated, or that the horses remain in Avon.
“We’re going to continue to apply as
much pressure as we can,” he said.
He also said the council and town
staff would look into the legalities of the
situation.
“There’s seemingly a preponderance of
evidence that the land can’t be used for any
other purposes,” he said.
Donations to support the guard can be
made at www.ctfirsthorseguard.org.
she said.
Technology initiatives for the 2015-16
school year include network and systems upgrades, 1:1 computing program expansion to
grades seven to 12, an upgrade to the district’s
website and new software applications and
improvements, Lambert said.
The new school district website is a project that was started last year, Lambert said.
The technology department is in the process
of transferring existing content onto the new
site, which will accommodate mobile devices,
according to Lambert.
“There were some delays, but it’s starting
to pick up pace again now,” he said.
The school board also recognized the
Granby Memorial High girls volleyball team,
which won the state Class M championship
in the fall, just six years after the team was
formed. In addition, the team was provided
with a Sportsmanship Award as well.
“You’ve elevated the program,” Superintendent of Schools Alan Addley said. “The
board is extremely proud of all your efforts. It
was a thrill to see you perform throughout the
year.”
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Students from the architecture courses
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department at Simsbury High School presented their models and designs, along with other
school districts in the state earlier this year, at
the 67th annual Student Design Competition at
the Connecticut Home and Remodeling Show at
the Connecticut Convention Center.
A student design contest was hosted by
the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Central Connecticut. To compete in the
contest, the students must submit both a floor
plan design and a scale model of a 3-bedroom,
2,000-square-foot home, based on the criteria set
by the CT HBRA.
A panel of HBRA members, including local
architects and contractors, served as the contest
judges. Winners were announced at the home
show by competition chair Bob Hanbury and
were presented with the Sen. Richard Blumenthal Award.
The student design contest has become a
tradition for students who are interested in pursuing careers in architecture, construction management, building and engineering. This contest
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showcase their work and creativity, as well as the
opportunity to win cash prizes and scholarships.
SHS junior Jake Floryan’s architecture design
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(BPT) – The kitchen is
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homebuyers. Does yours
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Start by looking at Houzz,
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you’re drawn to. Are you
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help to see backsplashes
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of how different materials
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For up close and personal
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When exploring tile or
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A backsplash isn’t necessarily
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Was winter hard on your hardscape?
Tips for simple DIY repairs
(BPT) — Heavy snowfall that lingers for weeks
or months, extreme temperatures, ice that thaws
and then refreezes — Old
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on your home’s hardscape.
When the last vestiges of
cold weather finally melt
away, you can find yourself
heading into spring with
pitted driveways, cracked
asphalt and crumbling
landscaping. It’s important to make repairs before
summer heats up and puts
further stress on these important areas.
Doing your own hardscape repairs isn’t difficult. You’ll save money,
and doing it yourself gives
you the opportunity to get
some outdoor exercise this
spring. Here are some hardscape features that commonly need a little TLC in
the spring:
Asphalt driveways —
Winter delivers the perfect
mix of conditions to cause
potholes, pits and cracks in
asphalt surfaces. Wet, cold
conditions work to weaken
minute fissures, cracks and
other flaws in an asphalt
driveway. Add in the vehi-
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the occasional snow plow
— and when spring arrives,
your asphalt driveway could
need some serious repair.
While you may need
pros to pour new asphalt,
repairing existing asphalt
is well within the abilities
of most DIYers. For pothole
repairs, start by sweeping
and removing any loose
materials from the area
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spread evenly to a depth of
no more than 2 inches at
a time. Use the back side
of a shovel to compact the
material, then, since there
is no oily tracking with this
material, just drive over it
a few times with your vehicle. The compaction causes
the product to cure into an
effective patch. For deeper
potholes, keep repeating in
2 inch amounts until completely filled.
Patios and pavers —
Patio pavers and bricks can
shift, sink or raise, and even
crack during a tough winter. If your patio has a sand
underlay, fixing problems is
relatively easy. For broken or
cracked pavers, simply remove the damaged pieces,
check that the sand is level,
and fill the gap with a new
paver or brick. If your patio
has become uneven over
time, you’ll need to lift all
the uneven pavers, level the
sand beneath — you may
have to add sand — and
then put the pavers back
atop the now-level sand.
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hardscape material around
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walkways and steps can
all succumb to cracking,
crumbling, chipping and
spalling after a harsh winter. Fortunately, concrete is
an easy material to fix, and
patching a problem while
it’s small may help prevent
a much costlier repair or
even replacement down the
road. To repair cracks of virtually any size, simply apply
an easy-to-use product like
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debris. For larger fissures,
it may be necessary to use
a hammer and chisel to remove crumbling concrete
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For resurfacing old,
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Five projects to recreate your basement
(BPT) – Have you ever
wished you had more space
in your home? Maybe you’d
use the space to pursue a
hobby, host out-of-town
guests or just spread out
and get some quiet time to
yourself. The space you desire could already be in your
home in your basement. If
your cellar is nothing but
a series of unfinished areas
used for storage, you’re not
getting all the benefits you
could be from the space.
Making the most of
your basement doesn’t have
to mean costly contractors
and expensive remodeling
scenarios. Several easy DIY
projects that you can take
on alone, with the aid of
the right tools, can help you
gain that extra space you
wish for.
Ready to get started?
Give these projects a try:
* Build walls. Adding drywall to your basement has a big impact on
the space immediately. Use
2-by-4s to mark where the
walls will stand and place
studs 16 inches apart. Then
nail the panels to the wall
where the edges meet the
studs and cover the seams
with drywall tape. Once
the walls are up, mud the
seams and areas where nail
pops appear. A drywall saw
or power saw will help you
shape your drywall perfectly, but if you don’t own
one, you don’t have to buy
one. It’s more cost efficient
to simply rent it instead for
this one-time project. Your
local American Rental Association member rental store
will have what you need.
Don’t forget to add drywall
stands to your rental list.
* A touch of paint. A
fresh coat of paint means
you won’t have to stare at
those drab walls in your
new space. You can paint
the space by hand, but if
you have a large basement
and you want to give every
room that professional look,
rent a paint sprayer instead.
The cost is worth the time
saved.
* Freshen up your
floor. If your basement is
completely unfinished, you
probably have cold, concrete floors. How you improve them is up to you. If
you want the polished, marbled look, consider renting
concrete floor finishing
equipment for a look that’s
sure to amaze. And if the
appearance of hardwood is
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steps a pleasure.
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you do about that musty
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purchase one at your local home goods store and
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Hiring and training for
September 2015. Four
hour minimum daily
guaranteed, other hours
available. $17.20/hour.
For details contact
Kim Bush 860-470-7200
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Positions Available
Throughout the State.
Must have car available
(except live-ins)
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Simsbury, CT
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PIANO LESSONS for all!
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welcome. Private instruction with a
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favorite songs. All styles, levels, and
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Tom Tribuzio, 860-673-1210.
[email protected]
TRAVELING MUSIC
TEACHER
Music lessons in the comfort of
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and styles of music. Over 40 years
experience.
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Billy 860-978-3333
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accept any advertising for real
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that all dwellings advertised are
available on an equal opportunity
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DECKS
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• Ceiling Painting • Interior & Exterior Painting
& Refinishing
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HOME IMPROVEMENT
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• Kitchens
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FLOOR & CARPET CLEANING
ALISTAR SERVICE CO.
A Professional Cleaning Service • Commercial & Residential
24 Hour Emergency Service
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BARRETT ENTERPRISES LLC
Home Improvement Contractor
So Many Amateurs . . . So Few Professionals!!
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- COMPLETE MAINTENANCE & REPAIR • Siding
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SMALL OR LARGE • WE DO IT ALL!
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• Complete Basement Renovations
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HOME IMPROVEMENT
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• New Lawns Installed
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Serving the Farmington Valley
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* Concrete * Stone Walls * Patios
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HOME IMPROVEMENT
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In business for a blessed 29 years
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• Additions • Vinyl Siding Trim
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LANDSCAPING
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• Snowplowing
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LANDSCAPING
MASONRY
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Call Andrew at 860-930-0392 or 860-659-1296
I will respond to all phone calls and will be present on all jobs.
Over 25 years experience. Insured • Free estimates • 24 Hour Message Center
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All type of Masonry Work
• Patios
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Cell - 203-565-4381
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New Lawn Installations
Spring Cleanups • Mulching • Mulch Deliveries
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PAINTING
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Call Peter Sottile 860-658-7745
Insured - Interior & Exterior • CT Reg. #562798
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PAINTING
PAINTING
Quality Painting by Joseph’s & Co.
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Home Improvement (860) 645-8899
860-614-1173
STUMPS
Creating HARMONY
between customer,
contractor & community
STUMP GRINDING
STUMPS?
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VALLEY STUMP
GRINDING, LLC
Lic. #0639246
WINDOW WASHING
860-614-1173
Lic. #0639246
WINDOW WASHING
When It Comes To Tree Service
We Run Rings Around The Competition.
WE CLEAN WINDOWS!
Grimshaw Tree Service
and Nursery Company
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SIDING
VINYL SIDING SPRING SPECIAL
SAVE 35% OFF NOW
Free estimates. Absolute lowest prices possible!
Deal direct with owner.
Ct Lic. #547581. Fully licensed & Insured.
Hann’s On Home Improvement
860-563-2001
WINDOWS
(SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO)
TREE CARE OR TREE REMOVAL
Call 860-658-4420 for a
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FREE Estimates
Lic. #604200
REPAIRS/GARAGES
LICENSED ( HIC0503809) & INSURED
Roofing, Siding, Gutters, Chimney Flashing & Carpentry
Call now.
Roofing
& Siding
Sale!
Lic #:HIC0607969
Call today and we will
show you quality still
makes a difference!
ROOFING
ROOFING • SIDING
• WINDOWS • & more...
ANDY WOTTON
PLUMBING &
HEATING, LLC
(860) 833-8153
Old fashion, honest, reliable
service at a reasonable price.
All residential plumbing, repairs
done from leaky faucets to
snaking your main drain.
PAINTING
HIC#0629057
T.C. Home Improvement
POOLS
POOLPAINTING
CONSTRUCTION
& REPAIR
860-673-7280
Pro Quality
Painting & Home
Repair, LLC
860-201-7788
www.pqpainting4u.com
Small renovations,
home repair, carpentry
& painting.
Complete prep.
INTERIOR SPECIALS FOR
THE NEXT TWO MONTHS
2 rooms plus a 1/2 bath
If you sign within the next 2 months, receive $25 gift card to Starbuck’s
Interior & Exterior Painting
ZIBBY DRZAZGOWSKI
PAINTING
In need of having a couple of rooms painted?
PAINTING
• Free estimates • Fully Insured & Bonded • Uniformed • Reliable
“Residential”
WINDOWS & DOORS
*Sales * Service * Installation*
A BETTER VIEW
WINDOW CLEANING, PLUS
(203) 284-8836
860-249-1558
www.fishwindowcleaning.com/3053
860-747-8875
thewindowmanofct.com * [email protected]
*Bill Morrell Contractor * Ct Lic.#0509785 * Insured*