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AVON • BURLINGTON • CANTON • FARMINGTON • GRANBY • SIMSBURY
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May 28, 2015
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one that didn’t wane in the face
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a heart attack April 27. She was 64.
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Progress made
in ‘pedals’ drive
About 100 bicycles and 50 sewing
machines were donated during
the 14th annual Pedals for Progress drop-off at Holcomb Farm
in Granby Saturday, May 23.
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Remembering the fallen
Photo by David Heuschkel
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Caroline Sikora shows off her
patriotic spirit via her sweater.
Avon
Photos by Lisa Brisson
Dora Lamerlampreia is eager for the parade to begin.
Members of the Gildo T. Consolini VFW Avon Post 3272 get the parade started.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the chartering of the local VFW post.
Above: The Avon High School Marching Band sparks
everyone’s spirit with its march-worthy songs.
Below: Members of the Avon Red Hot Hat Society enjoy a
ride through the parade.
VFW Post 3272’s Color Guard shoots a three-gun salute in
East Avon Cemetery.
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Members of the Avon Volunteer Fire Department’s Color
Guard carry their flags proudly.
he Gildo T. Consolini VFW Avon Post 3272’s 70th Annual Memorial Day parade and observances were held Monday, May 25, where local patriotic marchers stepped off from Sperry Park, making their way to a moving ceremony
at the Avon Veterans Memorial on the Town Green. The War Memorial lists 719 veterans from Avon who served
their country from the Mexican War to the Gulf War and separately honors 41 veterans who gave their lives in four wars.
Four new stones are being added to the memorial this coming week in order to have names of those residents who served
in the War on Terror that began Sept. 11, 2001. This year also marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and
the 70th anniversary of the chartering of the local VFW post. During the parade, a C-130 flyover by the 103rd Airlift Wing
of the Connecticut Air National Guard brought cheers from the crowds lining Simsbury Road and Route 44.
Burlington
The Lewis S. Mills marching band, the crew team (below) and residents of all ages marched
in the annual parade.
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fter Burlington’s Memorial Day Parade, parade watchers and attendees gathered on the
Town Green for a ceremony in memory of all the servicemen and women who have
given their lives for the sake of freedom. As First Selectman Ted Shafer put it, folks were
gathered to pay tribute to the nation’s finest and bravest, those men and women who made
the ultimate sacrifice to protect our way of life, “those who believed the idea that America is
worth fighting for,” he said. Parade special guest John Piscopo echoed Shafer’s sentiment when
he also spoke. “Memorial Day
began in an effort to heal the
wounds of war,” he said. Piscopo described Memorial
Day as a day for veterans but
also for all Americans, a day
to pause and think, a time to
reaffirm the commitment to
stand up for freedom. “Be sure
that they did not die in vain,”
Piscopo said.
Photos by Sloan Brewster
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Soldiers, officials, such as State Rep. Mike Demicco and Town Council member Amy Suffredini (above, center), veterans, the
Farmington Fire Department and others marched in the parade while kids, adults and even canines looked on.
Farmington
Photos by Ted Glanzer
T
he Farmington community gathered together on the morning of Monday, May 25 for the annual Memorial Day Parade on Main Street. Those marching in the parade included members of the military, veterans, members of the Town
Council, state Rep. Mike Demicco, various Boy and Girl scouts, Little League teams, the town’s beloved fire department,
police officers, marching bands and Farmington High School’s robotics team and crew teams. Following the parade, a ceremony
was held at Riverside Cemetery to honor those who died while serving in the U.S. armed forces.
Unionville
A variety of groups took part in the parade.
Above, left to right: World War II veterans Col.
Ragner Peterson and Edgar King along with
Justin Bernier.
H
undreds of people lined the streets of Unionville Monday, May 25 for
the annual Memorial Day parade to honor those who died while serving in the U.S. armed forces. The parade, in which members of the
military, local groups, volunteers, children and high school students marched,
was followed by a ceremony at the gazebo at Alice Clover Pinney Park, during
which Justin Bernier, an Afghanistan war veteran and senior vice commander
of Farmington Memorial VFW Post 10361, gave a tribute to the fallen soldiers.
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The Simsbury Spinners, local Boy Scouts,
drum corps, veterans and soldiers all took
part in the annual parade.
Tariffville
A
Photos by David Heuschkel
s the Henry James Middle School
band was playing the final notes of
the Star Spangled Banner, a small
private plane buzzed low over St. Bernard
Cemetery on its approach to Simsbury airport. “Whoever said timing is everything,”
Len Lanza joked, unaware there would be
an impromptu flyover. Lanza, the Simsbury
Veterans Memorial Committee Chairman,
was among three speakers at a ceremony
that followed the parade through the Tariffiville section of Simsbury. Father “J” from
St. Bernard’s Church and retired army veteran Jason Lill of Tariffiville also addressed the
gathering of hundreds. A wreath of remembrance was placed on a stand and there was
a gun salute to those who lost their lives in
combat followed by Taps.
Simsbury
A variety of local organizations and residents participated in the annual parade.
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s Simsbury’s Memorial Day Parade, a long and showy affair with antique cars, marching bands and majorettes,
among other things, came to a close, a service was held
outside of Eno Memorial Hall. The main speaker at the service
was Simsbury resident Dwight Merriam, an attorney from Robinson & Cole, teacher at the University of Connecticut School of
Law and veteran of the U.S. Navy, who has appeared on “The Today Show,” according to Master of Ceremonies Ray James. Merriam spoke of local historic veteran Noah Phelps, who fought in
the Revolutionary War, a war in which nearly 1,000 residents of
the town participated in one way or another, he said. He said
that, today, fewer people not only serve in the military, but there
are also fewer and fewer people with connections to someone
who has served. While on Memorial Day people show their
gratitude to those who have served, Merriam said he is grateful to have done so. While in the service, he learned the importance of giving up freedom to serve and then returning to life
as a civilian. After the service, a groundbreaking was held for
the Veterans Memorial. “That’s been a long time in coming,” said
Leonard Lanza, chairman of the Simsbury Veterans Memorial
Committee after ceremonially digging the first shovelful of dirt
on the site.
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Photos by Sloan Brewster
Canton
Photos by Alison Jalbert
The Canton High School Band provides musical accompaniment to the parade.
Far right:
One wheel
is enough
for this Boy
Scout.;
Right: Some
veterans rode
in red sports
cars, but
others chose
less traditional modes
of transport.
Canton’s fire stations are all represented in the caravan of fire trucks that closed out the
parade.
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One of Canton’s many Girl Scout troops
tosses candy to the crowd.
Parade Grand Marshal Bill Gimignani rides
in style.
anton’s Memorial Day Parade traveled a slightly different route than in previous
years, due to the Collinsville Streetscape Project construction. It kicked off at the
Community Center instead of at the Canton Intermediate School and marched
on to the Village Cemetery. A memorial service took place at the end of the parade,
with the Rev. Linda Spiers of Trinity Episcopal Church conducting the invocation and
benediction. Leslee Hill, chair of the Canton Board of Education, was this year’s speaker.
World War II veteran Bill Gimignani served as the grand marshal. He fought in the Battle
of Iwo Jima.
Granby
Photos by Alicia B. Smith
Above: Tractors of all kinds were a part of the parade; Right: Darcy and her
son Jack, 3, watch the parade.
Granby Memorial High School cheerleaders
Caylin Viets and Natalie Muller ready to march
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he 2015 Granby Memorial Day Parade
stepped off at 10 a.m. on Memorial
Day with Korean War veteran Jim Hall
leading the way from the town center to the
cemetery where he served as emcee for the
day’s memorial service. En route to the ceremonies, Hall stopped at each of the town’s
war memorials where members of the 103rd
Fighter Squadron of the Granby-based Connecticut Air National Guard laid wreaths to
honor the fallen. Veteran Howard Berg was
presented with the American Legion Silver
Above: The Webster family, Brandon and Amanda and their sons Hanke
Star Award as well as the playing of taps and
and Theo, found a great spot to watch the parade; right: veterans Jim Hall,
a gun salute.
Howard Berg and American Legion Commander Allen Christensen
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Veteran plays the pipes for Memorial Day service
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
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the Gulf War and later Okinawa, so piping fell off for a
time.
After his first enlistment, he returned home
and, in 1992, went to college
in Buffalo, where he started
playing with The 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band.
He played with the band,
which was from Toronto, all
through college.
“It was the only band in
North America that ever won
the World Pipe Band Championship, at that time,” Feeney said. “These guys were
the first.”
Feeney, who is now associate director of trauma
at St. Francis Hospital and
Medical Center in Hartford,
went to medical school and
again moved away from piping. After med school, while
in New York City on his residency, he took up playing
again when he could squeeze
it in, though he was not with
a band.
“You know, residency is
hard,” he said. “You never really have a schedule that you
could commit to anything.”
When he started his fellowship, it was even more difficult to find the time to play.
“It wasn’t really until I
moved to Milwaukee that I
started playing again,” he said.
Photo by Sloan Brewster
Gulf War Veteran Commander James Feeney of the Naval Reserves, played “Amazing Grace”
on bagpipes during a service after Simsbury’s Memorial Day parade.
Lindsay, his old teacher,
asked him to play in Òran
Mór in 2007, an entertainment venue in Scotland.
Òran Mór means “big music” in Gaelic, and represents
“the music that moves them
of their inner soul,” Feeney
said.
He and the band he was
playing with at the time returned to the venue every
year until 2012, when he
was deployed to Afghanistan with the Navy Reserves,
which he joined in 2001, just
after Sept. 11.
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While many people
he knew were turning their
backs on the situation, it was
important to him to be there
for his fellow soldiers, especially as a surgeon with a specialty in trauma.
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of was, who’s going to take
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Because of that he knew
there were many wounds
that, in times of peace, would
not be fatal but at war were
more likely to end in death,
so he wanted to do his part
to even those odds.
He returned home in
2014, but the band did not
stay together. Soon enough,
he and some guys from a
band he played with as a
kid had formed a new band
called the New York Metro
Pipe Band.
“[Parlon District] was
the best pipe band in America at the time,” Feeney said.
“Parlon District, when it
broke up, it kind of was a
hole in everyone’s heart. ...
We didn’t realize how good
we were together until the
band was gone.”
When he realized members of Parlon District were
in New York Metro, he knew
that was the band for him.
Feeney, who moved to
Simsbury in 2008, marched
in Simsbury’s Memorial Day
parade and played the pipes
at the service at Eno.
He enjoys performing at
events, “especially as it pertains to veterans,” he said, and
“like-minded individuals.”
Feeney said he has noticed a shift in the social
awareness of veterans’ issues
in the Farmington Valley area.
“People have risen to
taking care of their vets, especially the vets of the last
two conflicts,” he said. “They
have an ingrained ... sense of
ownership for these folks. It’s
really heartwarming to see
because not every community in America espouses those
emotions. ... It’s really touching to me to see how they
treat their veterans.”
Farmington veterans part of CT Day of Honor in D.C.
By Ted Glanzer
Staff Writer
Farmington resident Ray Giunta was a “Tin Can Sailor” who
served on a destroyer in World War
II and was in every major naval battle in the Pacific – Midway, Coral
Sea, the Philippines and Okinawa.
“We saw a lot of action,” Giunta said in a recent interview, noting
that he was on the USS Thatcher
when it was struck by kamikaze
planes on two separate occasions
in Okinawa. “They ran us up on the
beach so it didn’t sink. And that’s
when the war ended.”
Lou Kozikowski, also a Farmington resident, served in World
War II from 1943-45 as a naval aviator who chased German U-boats in
the Atlantic Ocean.
“I was in a sea plane squadron
looking for submarines in the Caribbean,” Kozikowski said. “I was
a member of a crew that went out
every other day covering convoys
[that] were bringing supplies to Europe. ... We flew as far as Brazil.”
Yet despite being members of
what has been tabbed as the Greatest Generation, the two men – Giunta, 97, and Kozikowski, 92 – said
they were the ones in awe of having
taken part in The Connecticut Day
of Honor in Washington, D.C., on
May 2.
The Day of Honor was an
all-expenses paid trip to various
war memorials in Washington, including the World War II Memorial,
which neither of the two had seen.
“It just was a marvelous trip,
right from the beginning. The people were so wonderful,” Giunta said.
“I feel honored and humbled.”
Kozikowski said he, too, was
proud to have taken part in the
event. “I couldn’t believe that I was
finally getting an airplane ride
[to] go and see the monuments in
Washington, D.C.,” Kozikowski said.
“I had just seen the World War II
monument from the car when we
drove by it. This was very exciting trip for me because I could see
everything.”
“I had tears in my eyes all
the time. To see 91-year-old
guys together all lined up –
it was heartbreaking and
very uplifting.”
– Lou Kozikowski
The event was sponsored by
the American Warrior Project, a
nonprofit organization out of Norwich that honors American veterans and patriotic operations. About
50 veterans took part in the Day of
Honor this year.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Kozikowski said of seeing so many veterans
together again. “I had tears in my
eyes all the time. To see 91-year-old
guys together all lined up – it was
heartbreaking and very uplifting.”
In addition to the monuments,
the two men met Bob Dole, a former U.S. senator and presidential
candidate. Kozikowski and Giunta said
that the whole event was terrific,
but that they really felt like a stars
when they were greeted at Bradley
International Airport on their return.
“The thing that impressed me
more that anything was the reception we got at Bradley when we
came back,” Giunta said. “It was
overwhelming – so many people
and bands.”
“That was heartwarming,”
Kozikowski added. “You’re somebody special. I couldn’t believe it –
there were hundreds of people on
either side. … They were thanking
us for our service. It took us three
quarters of an hour – we couldn’t
get out of there.
“We were famous.”
Giunta grew up in Hartford
while Kozikowski was raised in
Bristol. Both men settled and
raised families in Farmington
for decades before moving into
their current residence at Village
Gate, a senior living community in
town.
Kozikowski worked at Pratt
& Whitney as a production engineer after he got out of the service,
while Giunta stayed in the Navy
for 22 years.
“I built my home [in Farmington],” Giunta said. “I say I built
it: I did everything, including
Courtesy photo
Farmington residents Ray Guinta (left) and Lou Kozikowski attend The
Connecticut Day of Honor in Washington, D.C. May 2. Guinta and
Kozikowski both served in the U.S. Navy in World War II.
digging the hole.”
Village Gate Manager Wayne
Wright, who accompanied Giunta
and Kozikowski to Washington,
said he was also honored to take
part in the event.
“This generation is just incredible. … They sacrificed more than
anybody,” Wright said. “They did all
the heavy lifting so we didn’t have
to, for the most part. ... I’d do anything for those two.”
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On Saturday, May 30
at 7 p.m., the Asylum Quartet will perform outdoors
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the stars. On Friday, May
29 at 7 p.m., the Simsbury
Meadows Performing Arts
Center will be transformed
into a stylish moonlight
lounge alive with the classic rock sounds of the Preiser & O’Brien Band. The
popular group plays tunes
from legends such as The
Beatles, Beach Boys, CSN
and Van Morrison. The
event is made possible by
the sponsorship of Simsbury Bank, Paine’s, Robert Hensley & Associates,
Garrity Asphalt Reclaim-
ing, D.E. Jacobs Associates,
Fitzgerald’s Foods and
Simsbury Chiropractic &
Wellness Center. It is a rain
or shine event under the
open air if clear and under
a tent if inclement weather. Food and beverages will
be available for purchase.
No outside food or beverages allowed. Gates open
at 6 p.m. General admission is $10. For tickets call
the Simsbury Meadows
Performing Arts Center
box office at 860-651-4052.
“The PAC is primarily known for its family-friendly outdoor summer concerts,” said Tom
Vincent, president of
Vincent Promotions and
manager of the PAC. “We
wanted to totally shake
things up by creating a sophisticated hot spot where
everyone can get their
groove on. There’s never
been a party like this in
town.”
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Bodytalk Boutique has
just celebrated 30 years of
featuring fashion forward
apparel and is pleased to
showcase three unique artists who work very differently,
yet share a common passion
for offbeat style, bold color and spontaniety. Zweig,
who organized this Street
Chic art show, is an Avon
artist specializing in abstract
mixed media inspired by midCentury designs. She has a
full-time studio at The Farmington Valley Arts Center in
Avon. Healy, a lover of pop
culture and nostalgia, is widely known for his Metal Men
robots created out of vintage
advertising tins and old metal
appliance parts. He is also a
painter, cranking out bold figurative graffiti style paintings
that are a combo of folk art
and outsider art. Holzman,
an art educator at Simbury
public schools and Central
Connecticut State University, leaves the real world each
day to escape into his home
art studio where he creates
paintings described as surreal and suggestive of spontaneous expression. His carved
wood reliefs and paintings are
edgy, quirky and exciting.
Street art is thought of
as art created in public places. True to the objective of
involving the community in
the art experience, Bodytalk
is planning some outdoor
art experiences such as a
giant mural which visitors
will be encouraged to paint,
draw and add their marks to.
There will also be other artsy
surprises, music and refreshments.
PRESSARTS&ENTERTAINMENT
Member/guest show
at Gallery on the Green in Canton
Gallery on the Green,
Canton, presents new
work by members and
guests May 29-June 28,
with an opening reception
Saturday, May 30 from 6-9
p.m., free and open to the
public. The Founders Gallery on the first floor has
an exhibition of new work
by artist members and invited non-member artists.
This is an opportunity to
view the imaginativeness
and talent of diverse local artists in an intimate
exhibition space and to
meet with the artists at
the opening reception. The
Upstairs Gallery has the
winners of a competition
juried by the Capelli d’Angeli Foundation in which
artists respond to “How
My Art Helped Me Deal
with My Cancer.” Diverse
media are represented, and
each work is accompanied
by an essay about how the
making of art contributed to the artist’s recovery
and current life. The Capelli d’Angeli Foundation
was established in 2004 by
Marcia Reid Marsted and
her family to publish a new
edition of her book, “About
My Hair: A Journey To Recovery,” making it more
readily available to hospitals, cancer centers, libraries and, most importantly,
to cancer patients and
their families. For the past
decade, the foundation
has been raising money to
help artists with cancer.
Marsted will be speaking and presenting artist
awards at the Opening Reception. Foundation literature will be on display, including copies of her book.
The Spotlight Gallery features oil and watercolor
paintings by Carol Mintell,
an Avon artist and founder
of The Traveling Valley Artists. Her landscapes have
frequently been on exhibit
in the local area. Hours are
Friday-Sunday, 1-5 p.m.
(860-693-4102)
Stanley-Whitman House
presents country dancing
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Elin Hilderbrand will
headline the second annual
Brunch for Babies.
Hilderbrand to
headline Brunch
for Babies
On Saturday, June 6
from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at The
Riverview, 10 Winslow Place,
Simsbury, residents are invited to attend the March of
Dimes second annual Brunch
for Babies – a morning to
celebrate women and moms
– all for a great cause: stronger, healthier babies. Joining
the festivities is New York
Times best-selling author
and New England native Elin
Hilderbrand, author of 14
novels including seven New
York Times bestsellers. Hilderbrand lives year-round
on Nantucket with her three
young children. Brunch for
Babies will feature a meal
served by Farmington Valley
area restaurants, a silent auction, a “gently-loved” high-end
purse auction, the keynote
speech and Q&A by Hilderbrand, and the presentation
of the second annual Mom of
the Year award. The festivities
will be emceed by Sarah Cody
of FOX CT. Tickets are $65 per
person or $650 for a reserved
table of 10. To reserve a seat
or to make a donation, visit marchofdimes.org/ct and
click “events.” The Stanley-Whitman House Museum, 37
High St., Farmington, will
present an old-fashioned
celebration of country
dancing and family fun
from 4 p.m. until dusk
Saturday, June 6 on the
grounds of Miss Porter’s
School in historic Farmington Village.
The
fundraising
event for the museum
will feature contra dancing, an early dance form
akin to square dancing,
and live music by Wry
Bred. The event is expected to appeal to contra dance enthusiasts
and complete novices
alike, under the guidance
of expert caller Jim Fischer, a well-known name in
country dancing circles.
Those
attending
are encouraged to bring
their own picnic dinners.
Adult beverages will be
sold, and soft drinks also
will be available. Prizes
will be awarded for the
best picnic dinner and
presentation. The event
also will feature a pie
and dessert auction, and
hats and bandanas will
be sold. Tickets for the
event are $25 for adults
and $10 for children ages
13-18; children age 5 and
younger will be admitted
free. Tickets are available
at the museum at 37 High
Street, or by calling 860677-9222, ext. 302. Tickets also will be available
on the day of the event.
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A program on the Korean warhorse Reckless will be held June 4.
‘They Called Her Reckless’ author talk
at the Simsbury Library
“They Called Her Reckless – A True Story of War,
Love and One Extraordinary Horse” centers around
a Korean pony that became
the real-life warhorse of the
U.S. Marine Fifth Regiment
during the Korean War. The
program will be held Thursday, June 4, from 7-8:30 p.m.
at the Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St.
Acquired to haul the
heavy shells uphill to 75mm
recoilless rifles on the front
lines, Reckless packed more
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a horsewoman gave her a
particular appreciation of the
tight bond that developed
between Reckless and her fellow Marines, from which the
story springs.
The author’s first book
was “On the Fence: A Parent’s
Handbook of Horseback Riding.” She has also written for
magazines, newspapers and
in the public relations field.
Registration is requested at
860-658-7663, ext. 2200, or
www.simsburylibrary.info.
Free and open to all.
ammunition than anyone
thought possible, saved
lives, raised spirits and won
the love and respect of all
who knew her. To her fellow
Marines she was, quite simply, just another Marine – a
courageous and indomitable
partner whose service made
it possible for many men to
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Friends mourn the passing
of beloved salon owner
Pedals for
Progress
By Alison Jalbert
Assistant Editor
A
Top to bottom: Kirk
Johnson prepares
a donated bike for
shipment after it was
donated; volunteer
Jackie Johnson
stands among some
100 bikes that were
donated during a
the collection; Gary
Michel stands next
to a 100-year-old
restored treadle
sewing machine.
bout 100 bicycles and 50 sewing
machines were donated during
the 14th annual Pedals for Progress drop-off at Holcomb Farm in Granby
Saturday, May 23. Pedals for Progress is a
non-profit organization that collects used
bicycles and sewing machines and sends
them to Third World countries. The bicycles that were donated last Saturday were
slated to be shipped to Albania, according
to Pedals for Progress’ Gary Michel. Michel
said that once the bikes are shipped, a
shop, which is run by nationals, is set up in
the country. There, the bikes are repaired
and then sold to people for a nominal fee,
Michel said. The event was coordinated by
Jackie Johnson, who said she was “thrilled”
with the turnout. Johnson estimated that
volunteers in Granby have received 2,000
bikes in the 14 years since the collection
started. Michel said that Pedals for Progress has received some 145,000 bicycles
nationwide. For more information on Pedals for Progress, visit www.p4p.org.
-By Ted Glanzer
SIMSBURY – Linda Gelineau’s legacy will live on not only
in her salon, but also in her positive, upbeat personality, one that
didn’t wane in the face of a breast
cancer diagnosis.
Linda, owner of L Designs
Salon, passed away unexpectedly
in her sleep of a heart attack April
27. She was 64.
She was diagnosed with
breast cancer in February 2014,
and although she was declared
cancer-free one year later, her
heart was affected by the treatment, her husband, Phil Gelineau, explained.
A Simsbury native, Linda
graduated from Simsbury High
School in 1969 and started hairdressing school upon graduation.
After spending many years
in the industry, she opened L Designs in 2007, originally in a location on what was then Mall Way.
The salon moved to its current
location in the Simsburytown
Shops a year and a half ago.
“We did all the work ourselves in both of them,” Phil said.
Linda’s staff consisted of
three stylists – Danielle Mathias,
Nicole Bidon and Nancy Doyle –
all of whom said she lived by the
salon’s motto: “Love is in the hair.”
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Fundraiser to benefit melanoma
research during awareness month
By Abigail Albair
Editor
FARMINGTON – Jen Rojas is hoping a cardio dance and
yoga event will help knock out
melanoma.
She is organizing a charity
event for melanoma research this
Sunday, May 31, from 1 to 3:30
p.m. at Farmington Farms Tennis
and Athletic Club in Farmington.
The day will include a dance
class to pop, hip-hop and Latin
music, a yoga class, a presentation by dermatologist Dr. Sabrina
Waqar and table displays from
vendors such as Bodies in Motion
Fitness Apparel as well as chair
massages from Back in Touch
massage therapists.
Rojas’ father recently passed
away from metastatic melanoma,
giving her the desire to spread
melanoma awareness and help
support research.
“Since melanoma can be
cured if recognized and treated
early, I am very ambitious and
passionate to raise melanoma
awareness,” she said. “If melanoma advances, it is harder to treat
and can be fatal.”
Her father was not aware
he had melanoma until it was
diagnosed in his lung. It then
See MELANOMA on page 18
Historical society event supports upkeep of White Memorial Fountain
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
SIMSBURY — Dr. Roderick
White, once a well-known Simsbury physician, was one of the first
doctors in Connecticut to recognize the importance of fresh water
for drinking.
That’s why, when his wife,
Elizabeth Hungerford White of
Torrington, then Wolcottville, requested that the White Memorial
Fountain be built in his memory,
she made certain it would be fed by
fresh water, an uncommon thing at
the time, said Elaine Lang, Simsbury Historical Society president.
Most fountains at the time
repeatedly ran the same water
through the pumps.
“Water was pumped from a
spring about a mile away,” she said.
White, who was born in 1809
in Enfield, received his medical
training at Yale, according to a
press release from the historical society. He practiced in Manchester,
Conn., and Granville, Mass., before
moving to Simsbury in 1842, where
he eventually took over the town
practice. Having learned the importance of fresh, clean water, he
spread the word, teaching townsfolk what he could.
His understanding of the benefits of clean, fresh water were new
in his day; when he attended medical school, bloodletting and surgery sans anesthetics were commonplace, Lang said.
“This was a frontier area at
that point,” she said.
Hence, his wife thought to
memorialize him with a fountain
resplendent with fresh water.
The fountain provided fresh
water to school children attending
the district school located behind
the structure and was also means
for horses, dogs and wildlife to get
a refreshing drink.
It had a horse trough, a bird
bath and a small trough for dogs,
all of which were stipulations in
the easement given by the property owner so the fountain could
be erected on his land, Lang said.
Those additions brought appreciation from the Connecticut
Humane Society, which sent a
representative to speak at the dedication for the fountain.
Photo by Alicia B. Smith
The White Memorial Fountain
While based on the layout of
the modern roadways, the fountain appears tucked away. That,
according to a press release, was
the result of the widening of Route
10 from a country lane to the busy
thoroughfare it is today. However,
in its day, the fountain was situated in a hub of community activity
in what was considered the Town
Green of Weatogue.
“There was a lot of traffic
May 28, 2015
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Zoning rewrite nears completion
By Alison Jalbert
Assistant Editor
CANTON — The zoning regulation rewrite in
Canton is almost complete.
The rewrite, which
began after a charrette
held last June, will adopt
a form-based code, explained Bob Bessel, chair
of the Economic Development Agency. Once applied, form-based code will
go from concept to theory
to actually showing what
it means, what it does and
how it functions.
Selectman Tom Sevigny explained that traditional
zoning separates things into
designated areas, like business or residential, whereas
form-based code encourages mixed zoning.
The style of traditional
main streets, while not built
under that type of code, is
what it tries to emulate.
One reason why formbased code is best for Canton
is because there is a limited
amount of space available
for new commercial construction, Bessel said.
“There is a lot of commercial real estate out there
that already has buildings on
it that can be redeveloped or
in-filled,” he said. “We can
take greater advantage of
that area. It’s the difference
between having a hardware
store standalone and a hardware store that has some offices above it.”
Form-based code eliminates “that single-story, strip
mall look” with a large parking lot in front of it, Sevigny
said. Along with aesthetic
benefits, from the town’s
perspective, it allows for the
tax base to increase.
Also increased is the
vibrancy of the town, Bessel
said. He used the example of
West Hartford’s Blue Back
Square, which was deliberately designed to have people on the streets 14 to 16
hours a day.
“You don’t want those
areas where you walk down
the street and go, ‘This is a
ghost town,’” he said.
The type of environment form-based coding
creates is what people love
about major cities such as
New York City, Boston or
Seattle. There aren’t large
gaps between the stores and
it feels “walkable,” he explained.
Nearly every study Sevigny has seen shows that
when a downtown area is
made “walkable” and “bikeable,” people will spend more
money.
“If you’re just driving
to get to one spot and one
spot only, you’re not looking
around,” he explained.
Bessel used Provincetown, Massachusetts, as an
example that form-based
code will not only increase
the tax base, but it will increase vibrancy.
“It’s very compact.
That’s a tremendous asset.
You don’t have to go all that
far to get a rich, varied experience,” he said.
The form-based code
will apply to Route 44 at
the Avon town line west to
Hart’s Corner, Sevigny said.
“We broke it up into
sections. Each has its own
little character about it,”
he said.
Once the form-based
code is approved, the next
step is to sell it to the town,
which is part of what the
EDA does, Sevigny said.
Form-based code is
more appealing to developers, Bessel explained, as
they currently have to pay
lawyers and architects to sit
with them through planning
and zoning commission
meetings.
“All the minutiae will
be spelled out in form-based
code,” Sevigny said, as it
will explain exactly what
the town wants and what it
wants further development
to look like. “Now, nobody
really knows. This makes
zoning decisions more
transparent.”
Bessel said the town
hopes that this will “dramatically” reduce the amount of
time developers and people
who want to expand their
businesses will spend getting approvals.
The regulations break
up Route 44 into three sections, and Collinsville is a
separate section.
“We don’t want the
same zoning [in Collinsville]
as on Route 44,” Sevigny
said. “It’s important to have
form-based code to protect
Collinsville from that kind of
development.”
Once the rewrite is
complete, it will be presented to the Board of Selectmen, then put out to the
town for a vote.
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Fifth-grade teacher Sue Geissler’s dance students perform at the 2014 Johnnycake
Mountain Musical Fest. Geissler was one of last year’s Make a Mark Enrich Fund grant
winners, receiving the Just Dance Grant.
Music Fest returning to Johnycake Mountain
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
BURLINGTON — The
Johnnycake Mountain Music
Fest is a one-of-a-kind family
event.
This year, the fourth year
the event will be held, will include a surprise firework display at the end of the night,
said Dwight Harris, owner of
Johnnycake Mountain Farm,
where the event is held. An
anonymous donor donated
the fireworks.
The event is a fundraiser
for the Make a Mark Community Enrichment fund, which
offers grants for educational
opportunities not paid for in
the Region 10 School Budget, Harris and Festival Chair
Shelley Watts said.
Things the fund has supported in the past include a
book club and a robotics club
at Lewis Mills High School
and instruments for a local
elementary school classroom.
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“It’s a whole range of educational opportunities,” Watts
said.
Last year, the event had
approximately 1,000 attendees and brought in about
$2,000 for the fund.
“When people make a
donation, it really is going
to the charity, to Region 10,
Make a Mark,” Harris said.
“Overhead is covered by outside donors.”
While the fest originally
started as a stage on which
talented students could perform, it has since been honed
and now paid performers take
the stage, Watts said. The performers are paid for by event
sponsor Farmington Bank.
This year, The Zolla Boys, a
trio consisting of two brothers
and their father, will perform
bluegrass, with the brothers
on guitar and banjo and the
father playing base.
Cajun Ray and the
Steamers, a “fun local band,”
according to Watts, will
finish the night.
Thrive Capoeira and Just
Sayin’ will also take the stage.
In addition, there will be
bouncy houses for children,
a camper set up with chess
boards to play a round or two
and other fun.
The Lions Club, the
event’s host, will be on hand
grilling and selling burgers
and fries, Watts said, but lots
of people also pack picnics,
spread their blankets on the
lawn and relax to the music.
“It’s like being in a park
atmosphere, and you can just
sit in on a chess game and
then go back,” Watts said.
“Kids bring lacrosse sticks
and Frisbees. ... They just kind
of hang out.”
Watts, who pointed out
Harris’ generosity in donating
his farm for the event, said the
views were spectacular.
“It’s going to be a great
day. It’s a great place; really
there’s no other event [like it]
in Region 10 anywhere,” she
said.
Harris also said it is a
very nice family event and
a great cause. The coming
together of community was
what inspired him to offer his
property for it.
“I mean, when I see the
number of families that come,
that just enjoy the outside,
there are families that relax
together,” he said. “This is the
most family oriented event
I’ve ever seen. It’s unreal.”
The fest will take place
June 6 from 3-9 p.m. Suggested donation is $5 per person
or $20 per family/group of
five. Check www.Makeamarkr10.org for the final
schedule or visit the Facebook
page “Johnnycake Music Fest.”
For more information, contact Shelley Watts at 860-6735894 or Sbwattski@comcast.
net, Kelly Fecteau at 860-7294823 or [email protected],
Megan Mazzei at Mazzeim@
Region10ct.org or Stephanie
Cowger at 860-404-0085 or
[email protected].
Fundraising event to benefit the Farmington Valley Arts Center
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
AVON — A benefit for the Farmington
Valley Arts Center will pair art with food.
During Palette to Palate, a fundraising
event held years ago by the center that is returning this year, visitors will be able to stop
by studios, visit with artists and enjoy various
dishes.
“Envision quite a night on June 9, coming
strolling through the studios on a warm summer night,” said Maureen Berescik, event chair.
“In each studio [will be] a restaurant and small
plates, goodies that represent the restaurant.”
The list of restaurants that have agreed to
donate food and services to the event includes
Abigail’s, Avon Prime Meats, Doms Coffee,
Dzis-tinctively Cookies, First and Last Tavern,
Flaggstead Smokehouse, Fresh Market, MaxA-Mia, Meadow, Metro Bis, Taste by Spellbound, Trader Joe’s, Treva, Little City Pizza,
Deep Water Seafood and Urban Oaks Organic
Farm. Two Pour Guys Bartending Services will
have a cash bar.
In addition to the restaurants in each studio, there will be an exhibit in the gallery. There
will also be a silent auction for gift certificates
to local restaurants, artwork and antiques.
The special guest of the night will be Jacqueline Coleman, education consultant for the
arts at Connecticut State Board of Education.
The event supports programs at the center, including a wave of new children’s programs, said Facilities Manager Jim Brunelle.
It will also help pay for modifications made to
a studio in order to transform it into a youth
classroom with mounted cabinets, tables and
chairs, a kiln and other amenities.
“Ultimately, we’re looking to highlight
the youth programs,” Brunelle said. “It’s one
of those ideal campuses for summer activities
for youth because of the canopy of trees, this
span of green grass and the cultural stimuli of
visual arts.”
There are also adult classes at the center,
including art parties and classes held in the
Fisher Gift Gallery, said Sandy Buerkler, Fisher
Gallery coordinator.
The benefit will also help support the
artists in residence program, in which artists
occupy studios in the center rent free for six
months, said Roy David, arts center president.
This year, due to more studio vacancies than
usual, there are four artists in residence.
The emerging artists chosen for the slots
are expected to keep their studios open a certain amount of time during the week and are
also supposed to create a new body of work
while in residency.
Hopefully, they will stay on after the period ends, David said.
Since December, when Clark and
Brunelle spoke of the need for funds to make
some much needed repairs to the buildings,
the center has been looking for ways to in-
crease revenue, Clark said. The benefit is one
idea and the children’s activities another.
“We’d love to see more funding coming
forward for our building needs,” Brunelle said.
No white knight has come along and offered to save the place, David said.
“We have applied for two substantial
grants to fix the boilers and the windows
through the Neighborhood Assistance Act of
2015 through the town of Avon, and also we
are working with the town of Avon with Parks
& Recreation to provide services in the summer and looking for and exploring the possibility of senior citizen classes for the town of
Avon,” David said.
The center makes much of its money
from rents paid by artists occupying studios,
David said.
Tickets for Palette to Palate are $45 and
$15 for children 10 and under. They can be purchased online at artsfvac.org/palette-to-palate
or by emailing [email protected].
Student and staff accomplishments recognized by Board of Education members
By Ted Glanzer
Staff Writer
GRANBY — The Board of Education
celebrated some of the school district’s best
and brightest in scholastics and athletics. During its May 20 meeting, the school
board first recognized the Division II state
champion co-operative hockey team that
Superintendent of Schools Dr. Alan Addley
renamed Granby-Suffield-Windsor Locks.
Head coach Nick Boorman said the
Granby team members embody the town
ethos: hard work and humbleness.
“They bring a winning attitude on and
off the ice,” Boorman told the board. “They
are great role models. I couldn’t be happier
as a coach. We played game the right way.”
In addition to winning the state title, the
co-op was given the sportsmanship award
by officials and other teams, Boorman said. There were four team members on
hand at the board meeting, with others playing in a boys lacrosse game. They thanked
the school board for, among other things,
providing buses to and from practices and
games.
The board also recognized the members of the Granby Grunts, the high school’s
FIRST Robotics team, which won the Connecticut state championship earlier this
month.
Some 20 team members took turns explaining the FIRST Robotics competition,
which this year was Recycle Rush.
The Grunts performed so well in their
competitions – they won the New England
FIRST Pioneer Valley District Event, the first
time the team ever won an event, and had
a strong showing at the Hartford District
Event – that they qualified for FIRST Championship in St. Louis in late April.
In addition to traveling to St. Louis, the
team also competed in the unofficial Connecticut championships, which the Grunts
won with freshmen operating the robot.
According to one team member, the
Grunts were among the top 1 percent of the
teams in the world this year based on performances at competitions.
While the competitions are fun and exciting, there is a practical aspect to the program, according to team mentor Aaron Beal.
“[United Technologies Corporation]
dumps a lot of money into this program and
recognizes the hands-on experience these
students gain,” Beal told the school board.
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Officers, citizens recognized with awards
By Ted Glanzer
Staff Writer
GRANBY — Two police
officers, two town residents
and a dispatcher were recognized with awards for their
good deeds in a ceremony
at the Granby Police Department May 20.
Sgt. Jeremiah Dowd and
Officer Jeffrey Murphy were
each recognized with the
Granby Police Department’s
Lifesaving Award for their
response to an incident Aug.
13, 2014. According to Capt.
William Tyler, at 12:35 a.m.,
the two responded to a report of an audible alarm in
the area of Hartford Avenue. “They determined that
it emanated from a condominium unit in Rushford
Meade, and they could hear
faint moaning from inside,”
Tyler wrote in an email.
“They forced entry and
found the unit to be filled
with smoke. A female [Mary
Garbeck] was found semiconscious, and they dragged
her outside to arriving EMS
and fire personnel. Both officers were treated at Hartford
Hospital for smoke inhalation.”
Granby resident Cassia Shoaf was recognized
with a Citizen’s Award for
a potential life-saving incident that took place June 16,
2014. Shoaf, who was then
a student at Granby Memorial High School, saw a man
whom she did not know collapse while running on the
school’s track, Tyler said. “After determining he
was in cardiac arrest, she initiated and maintained CPR
until the arrival of an officer
and EMS,” Tyler wrote. The victim, a Granby
resident, was shocked with a
police defibrillator and eventually made a full recovery,
Tyler said.
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to meeting
June 2
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
Courtesy photos
Above, left to right: Dispatcher Nancy Silkey, Chief Carl
Rosensweig, James Kinsley, Maria and Michael Shoaf accepting Citizen’s Award on behalf of their daughter Cassia, who is attending college, and Sgt. Jeremiah Dowd;
right: Maryann Garbeck hugs Dowd at an awards ceremony at the Granby Police Department May 20. Dowd, along
with officer Jeffrey Murphy, responded to an alarm May
13, 2014 and found Garbeck unconscious at her condominium, which was filled with smoke.
his location, and also took
cellphone photos of the suspect vehicle as it fled,” Tyler
said. “[Kinsley] was able to
direct Simsbury and Granby
officers to the vehicle, and
the operator was arrested for
DUI, among other charges.” The suspect, according
to Tyler, had previously been
convicted of DUI several
times, and, even though he
was under a court order not
to operate a vehicle without
an ignition interlock device,
he did not have one installed
in the vehicle.
“The suspect presented
an immediate danger to the
motoring public, and his actions aided in a quick arrest.”
Finally,
Dispatcher
Nancy Silkey was honored
for her retirement after more
30 years of dedicated service
to the department.
from page 13 taining the fountain.
“People drive by assumbecause Route 44 was a toll ing that it’s their tax money
road,” Lang said. “So, every paying for it,” Lang said.
In truth, the society
cheap Yankee wanted to go
to Litchfield County on this spends between $6,000 and
road because there were no $10,000 per year to care for
tolls ... There was a green, a the granite structure, she
post office, a district school said. The annual fundraising
and a community center. event at Abigail’s, which proThere was a very thriving vides food and beverages, is
downtown here. Weatogue the only one that is dedicatwas very much its own vil- ed to the fountain.
The fountain, which is
lage and this was the village
lit at night, runs seasonally
center of Weatogue.”
White’s wife outlived and while it is not on yet,
him by two years but was water will soon begin to flow
not alive to see the fountain over the beautiful 110-pluserected, Lang said. She left year-old structure.
“When you come over
provisions in her will to build
it and left a sum of money for that mountain, the fountain
its construction and mainte- is what welcomes you back,”
Lang said. “The fountain is
nance.
That money was used really a welcoming sign that
for a number of years before you’re back in Simsbury.”
Generally, the fundraisit ran out.
The Historical Society, er brings in about $5,000,
which cares for the fountain so the rest of the money to
and pays for its upkeep, held support the fountain comes
a benefit for the fountain from the Historical Society’s
Tuesday, May 19 at Abigail’s budget, Lang said. A few genGrill and Wine Bar. All pro- erous donors, including the
ceeds from the well-attend- Mitchell family, specifically
ed event went directly to the give funds for the fountain.
The fountain is also
cost of running and main-
supported by the Main
Street Partnership and the
Simsbury Cemetery Association.
“Even though it’s Historical Society property, the
cemetery association has really been a huge supporter,”
Lang said.
Jackson Eno, longtime
president of the Cemetery
Association, was remembered at the benefit. He died
in April.
“We’ve received many
memorial donations on his
behalf,” Lang said. “He normally would’ve been here. He
would’ve been here tonight,
absolutely, and is missed.”
Funds are needed annually for the fountain’s upkeep, utilities and maintenance. To make a donation,
please send a check in any
amount made out to Simsbury Historical Society, with
“Friends of the Fountain” in
the memo line, P.O. Box 2,
Simsbury, 06070.
For more information
about the White Memorial
Fountain and other historic
sites, visit www.simsburyhistory.org.
not have survived,” Tyler
said. Granby resident James
Kinsley was also recognized with a Citizen’s Award
for his actions in response
to a Feb. 7 accident involving two vehicles on Route
10. One of the vehicles fled
the scene, according to
Tyler.
“[Kinsley] followed it
into Simsbury while updating 911 dispatchers with
FOUNTAIN
BURLINGTON — The
town proposes to spend $33.7
million in the next fiscal year.
Of that, $24.6 million
is the previously approved
Region 10 Budget. The $9.1
million balance would cover
town operations and capital
expenses, First Selectman Ted
Shafer and Director of Finances Eleanor Parente said in a
phone call May 21. The town’s
budget will go before voters at
the Annual Budget Meeting
June 2.
Shafer said of the Board
of Finance, “They’ve been very
diligent to try and keep the
increases as low as possible to
the taxpayers.”
The overall increase over
last year is 5 percent, with
4 percent for schools and 1
percent for the town, Parente
said.
Since the approval of the
Board of Ed budget, the Region 10 Board of Education
has agreed to send the town
approximately $150,000 in
surplus from last year’s budget, which will offset its 201516 spending by that much,
Parente said.
As far as the town budget goes, drivers for the slight
increase include an extra payroll period next year, Shafer
said. A new police vehicle and
new apparatus for the volunteer fire department were also
reasons for the increase.
The town is also making financial preparations to
build a new storage building
for Highway Department
equipment, Shafer said. The
plan is to fund the project
over two years and build the
shed in 2017- 18.
Another added expense
was for the snow removal
budget, which went over by
$89,563 this year, Parente said.
To compensate for additional
snow removal next year, the
town added $69,000 to that
budget line.
The town would also like
to spend some extra money
on the growing population of
senior citizens, Shafer said.
“There are more senior
citizens living in Burlington
than in past years. We feel that
the demographics are trending upward, and to support
that we wanted to increase
the funding for Dial-a-Ride
and also find a senior citizen
project coordinator,” he said.
The June 2 Annual Budget Meeting will take place at
7:30 p.m. in the town hall auditorium.
Photo courtesy of the Collinsville Farmers Market Facebook page
The market, which sells all locally-grown produce, will start up this summer in a temporary
location due to the Collinsvile Streetscape Improvement project.
Market’s 10th season launches in June
By Alison Jalbert
Assistant Editor
CANTON — The Collinsville Farmers’
Market will kick off its 10th season in a temporary location.
Due to the Collinsville Streetscape Improvement Project, the market is unable to
use its usual location: the town hall parking
lot. Its season will begin by operating temporarily from the parking area behind the
Canton Community Center at 40 Dyer Ave.
Mary Engvall, marketing chairperson
for the farmers’ market, said the volunteers
from Canton Advocates for Responsible
Expansion, the group behind the event,
learned in the late winter that the timing
of the streetscape construction would likely
go to the end of June. The market normally
starts the second Sunday of June.
“We got together as a group and took a
look at the plans, how the reconstruction of
the parking lot would impact us,” she said.
“Fortunately, we’re losing just one space.”
CARE talked about the situation; Engvall said running a farmers’ market is more
complicated than people realize. Insurance
is involved, and it is connected with the
market being held on town property.
“We decided, well, it’s just going to be
two to three weeks. We’ll have to explain
the situation in our vendor meeting and
that we’ll start the market later than normal this year. The overall Collinsville construction project is going to be worth it in
the end.”
Some of the vendors, especially those
with spring produce, “felt strongly” that
they wanted CARE to look into holding
the market elsewhere in town for those
few weeks. The group worked with town
officials and its insurance agent to seek a
solution.
“The town was very helpful,” Engvall
said. “They connected us with the community center and library. They were thrilled to
give us the space in the back.”
The support has continued; there is a
display on the farmers’ market inside the
library alongside a poster explaining the
temporary location, and there will be signage out front along Dyer Avenue as well.
Engvall acknowledged that the change,
albeit brief, will be difficult.
“People aren’t going to get the message
and [will] go looking for the market and
think maybe it’s not coming,” she said. “Behind the community center is not a visible
location like we have behind the town hall.”
The market will host a smaller group
of seven to eight vendors for the first three
weeks, mostly those who offer produce and
fruits that come out in the spring. An expansion to the full market will occur the
first Sunday in July.
Despite the different location, Engvall
said the market will operate as it always
has; people can bring dogs and children,
and the section of the parking lot will be
cordoned off to prevent any vehicular
access.
CARE manages, staffs and funds the
market, and Engvall said it’s been almost
the same small group of volunteers for 10
years.
“We’ve had some folks move and had
some folks have life situation changes.
We’re finding our core group is getting a
little too small to handle all the responsibilities,” she said. “We’re making a real
push this year to have people think about
volunteering.”
CARE is “seeing the writing on the
wall” with regard to what is happening to
other markets, especially the popular Coventry Regional Farmers’ Market, which will
end after this summer.
“What people don’t recognize is once
a volunteer group gets in place and gets
something running, they don’t think about
it again,” Engvall said. “Many people think
the town runs it, but they don’t. They generously let us use the lot.”
She feels, in terms of the ability to connect residents with local produce and products, that the Collinsville Farmers’ Market is
“a very special market.” It was started to promote agriculture as smart land use, which is
the group’s whole mission.
“It’s why we don’t have craft vendors,”
she explained. “Other markets have different missions. We work very closely with our
vendors to make sure everything is grown
locally or made from locally grown products. We do inspections at the farms. We
have a really close working relationship.”
Engvall and the other members of
CARE want to see the market continue,
but after losing two key volunteers over
the past few years, all have had to take on
more work. She encourages those who are
interested in volunteering to visit www.
collinsvillefarmersmarket.org for more information
The Collinsville Farmers’ Market runs
every Sunday, ran or shine, June 14 until
Oct. 25 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. For more information, visit the market’s website or find
them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/
collinsvillefarmersmarket1.
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LINDA
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“If you interviewed her clientele, they’d say
this was like a second home,” Doyle said. “She
was so welcoming and caring.”
Both Phil and the salon have received
hundreds of cards since Linda’s passing, and he
said in many of them, clients said they couldn’t
wait to get to the salon and have a conversation
with Linda.
“They loved talking to her,” he said.
Pam Lacko, a client of Linda’s, “teamed up”
with her as they each fought cancer.
“I was her client, she was my hairdresser,
but we were each other’s strength for one year
and it made all the difference to me,” Lacko
wrote in an email. “I was always drawn to Linda because of her sense of humor and positive
thinking. She was a beautiful and classy lady.”
Mathias said Linda was like her mentor,
as she started working at L Designs not long
after it opened.
Bidon admired that, despite having done
hair for more than 40 years, Linda was very
open-minded about trying new things, having
taught for Beauty Seminars International.
“She didn’t just stick to her ways – she
was always teaching us and letting us show her
things we learned.”
Her concern for her clients was a notable aspect of Linda’s personality. Mathias said
when a client hadn’t been in for a while, Linda
would call them and make sure everything was
OK. She drove out to McLean to tend to clients
who were unable to travel to the salon.
“She would help out clients struggling fi-
MELANOMA
from page 13
metastasized to his brain a year later. Statistically, he only had three months to live, but was
able to survive a little more than a year due to
immunotherapy, a new treatment given to advanced melanoma patients and other cancer
patients, Rojas said.
“Move Over Melanoma’s mission is to
nancially,” Bidon said. “She would work something out with them. [Her goal was to] make
sure everyone was happy.”
Outside of the salon, Phil said Linda was
well known in the community. She was an
active member of the Simsbury Chamber of
Commerce and a member of the board of the
Simsbury Main Street Partnership, as well as
an active alumna of Simsbury High School, in
charge of her class reunions.
Bidon said Linda volunteered L Designs’
services for plays at the high school, and Doyle
said anytime a charity basket was needed for
an event, the salon would make a donation.
Phil called Linda a “devoted mother” to
their three children – Evan Kenney, Kailin Kenney and Abbey Gelineau – two from her first
marriage and one from his.
“She treated them all like they were ours,”
he said. “She was always loving to all three of
them and involved in what they were doing. …
She was a good friend to the kids; a real, genuine friend to the kids.”
“There was never a day at the salon where
she didn’t talk about them,” Mathias said.
A favorite tradition of Linda’s was to call
Evan and Kailin on their birthdays at the exact
hour they were born, Phil said, offering them
an additional detail about their birth each year.
Recalling a favorite memory of Linda,
Mathias said her song was “Mustang Sally”
because she drove a Mustang when she was
younger.
“I remember it from my wedding because
she danced to it. The last wedding I was at, I
sent her a video of me dancing to it,” she said.
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One of Phil’s favorite pictures of Linda involves the aforementioned Mustang. Shot in
profile, 18-year-old Linda was on her way to
Woodstock, and he said she looks nearly identical to Kailin.
Bidon said Linda always personalized
cards she gave to people, printing out pictures
of their face and pasting them over the faces of
people on the card.
“She would go out of her way to find a card
with faces on them,” she said. “She would do
that all the time. I don’t know how that started,
but it was fun.”
“She thought she could do that as a side
business,” Phil said.
Doyle said everyone always had a special
lunch on their birthday – “any excuse to celebrate and have some wine.”
The salon was always filled with laughter when Linda was around, Mathias said, remembering the year she and Bidon dressed as
their boss for Halloween, complete with long,
blonde wigs and the same pair of reading glasses she wore.
“It never felt like work,” Bidon said. “I didn’t
know how to tell my friends; my boss died, but
she’s more than a boss.”
“We’re more like a family,” Doyle added.
A celebration of Linda’s life was held at
The Riverview May 2, the response to which
Phill called “amazing.” More than 300 people
came through to pay their respects and share
stories and memories.
An email was sent out to L Designs’ client
list, and Bidon said clients who have moved or
no longer get their hair done there reached out
to express their condolences.
Doyle said it has been hard for clients to
come to the salon and not see Linda.
“We had clients crying when they came in
to get their hair cut,” Bidon said.
Mathias called their clients awesome, “obviously because Linda was awesome.”
“That’s the challenge,” Doyle said, “going
forward and making sure it stays that way.”
L Designs will stay open, as Phil felt that
Linda wanted to keep it going.
“This is her legacy,” he said. “This is her
thing. I’m learning, with the help of these three
great ladies. We’re all a team here. They’ve
stepped up amazingly. It sounds like all of her
clients have switched over, which is a real plus.
... Of anybody, she put the most into it, but we
all have stock in it.”
Memorial donations in Linda’s name can
be made to the American Cancer Society, 825
Brook St., I-91 Tech Center, Rocky Hill, 06067.
Farmington Farms, which is why she decided
to host the event there.
She first had the idea in March, and has
spent the last few months pulling resources
together to host the day of dance and yoga,
and donations have already started to come in.
The timing was right to host it in May, which is
Melanoma Awareness Month.
“I go to fitness workshops all the time, so
I’m just pulling together all these ideas,” she
said. “I’m hoping to make it into a yearly event.”
Her goal is to raise $5,000 this year.
The fee to participate in Move Over Melanoma is a $25 per person minimum donation
the day of the event. The donation includes
both classes. Participants will receive gift bags
including organic products and sunscreen and
information about melanoma awareness.
An auction will also be part of the event.
“I never knew melanoma was fatal,” Rojas said of her own experience and her father’s
death. “I always thought it was just skin disease. … It’s important to me [to raise awareness] because when my dad had it, it was already not curable [when he was diagnosed]. If
people get it in time, it doesn’t have to be fatal.”
She added, “The most important thing is
prevention. My dad never wore sunblock. …
Go to a dermatologist yearly and check your
skin. Just like breast exams, be aware of your
skin.”
The funding is also a crucial piece.
“When we’re faced with cancer, we want
the best treatment and we expect it, so it’s important that we keep helping with the funding,” she said. “This whole process has been
overwhelming; people who sent donations for
the auction, who responded that they want to
come because they know someone who died.
It’s been very therapeutic for me.”
For more information email jcrojas09@
gmail.com.
File photo
Linda Gelineau hugs friend Pam Lacko after
both shaved their heads in March 2014
before starting cancer treatments.
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Remember the message
of Memorial Day
Even with men and women on active duty
in the military, too often we find ourselves embroiled in the picnics and the pool as we enjoy
a day off on the Monday of the last week of May,
and we forget to take true time out for remembrance.
Even if a fallen soldier is not your father,
mother, sister, brother or child, each soldier is
someone’s father, mother, sister, brother or child.
They are an American soldier and they deserve to
be honored for their sacrifice.
Memorial Day, originally referred to as Decoration Day, is a time when we pause to honor
the memory of those who have died serving our
country.
As the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
website explains, Congress and President Lyndon
Johnson declared Waterloo, N.Y., the “birthplace”
of Memorial Day in 1966, though several places
claim to have originated the holiday.
It seems that perhaps multiple places all had
the same instinctual motivation to gather together and honor those who gave their life.
According to the department site, origins
of the day stretch back to the 1860s as people
grieved in the wake of the Civil War.
It was first officially observed May, 30 1868
when graves of soldiers were decorated with
flowers. The timing after the end of that war
seems to signify the importance of the way Memorial Day serves to bring people together and
not to divide them.
It is important to continue to hold parades,
join in song and salute local veterans who march
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These men and women know better than
most living individuals what it means to sacrifice
for your country.
We must all take the time to honor those
who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Now that the parades have passed, the picnics are over and everyone has gone back to work
after the long weekend, the holiday is done for
one more year but the sentiment it brings with it
is no less poignant.
We saluted the American flags carried in parades and paid homage to those who gave all they
could to ensure the flag would still fly.
We should not only take time to pause before
the flag on Memorial Day, but every day, as soldiers still fight and the sting of lives lost is felt by
families all 365 days of the year.
In 2000, the National Moment of Remembrance resolution was passed.
As it states, “Greater strides must be made to
demonstrate appreciation for those loyal people
of the United States whose values, represented
by their sacrifices, are critical to the future of the
United States.”
Celebrations and services bring communities together for just a brief time of rememberance, but the message is one citizens should keep
with them always. We should all have grateful
hearts for those who gave everything they had to
protect our nation.
Take time for reflection.
Our fallen soldiers deserve to not be forgotten and our future demands that we not forget.
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Celebrating LGBTQ with open and affirming
re-dedication at First Church
Courtesy photo
Scholarship recipients (left to right) Yea-Jin Lee, Valentina
Ossa, Yoon-sun Houh
UNICO awards scholarships
Three graduating seniors from Farmington
High School were selected
to receive scholarships from
the Farmington chapter of
UNICO National, an Italian-American community
service organization. The
scholarship recipients and
their families were invited
to the May dinner meeting
held at Cugino’s of Farmington. Yea-Jin Lee, Valentina
Ossa and Yoon-sun Houh
were introduced by Scholarship Committee Chairperson Jim Kane. Each of
the young ladies explained
their interests and plans for
their college careers. Having received this scholarship from Farmington UNICO, they become eligible to
apply for additional annual
scholarships throughout
their college studies from
the Aldo DeDominicis
Foundation.
First Church of Christ,
Congregational 1652 in
Farmington will celebrate
two years of becoming an
Open and Affirming community, which offers an
extravagant welcome to
people of any age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, mental or physical
ability, theological tradition,
and to families of all and
varied composition Sunday,
June 7.
A special worship service at 10 a.m. will be followed by festivities on the
church grounds at about
11 a.m. including a potluck
lunch and live music.
The service will focus
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The Rotary Club of
Avon-Canton
presented
checks totaling $1,850 to
area non-profits during its
April 24 meeting at Avon
Old Farms Hotel. Recipients were McLean Meals
on Wheels, $500; Dog Star
Rescue, $500; Canton High
School Drug-Free Graduation Party, $250; Avon High
School crew team, $500 and
the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, $100.
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Rainbow hued rendering of First Church Farmington by
Katie Lisher, a youth of the congregation
Main St., near Miss Porter’s
School.
Sunday services are
held at 10 a.m. For further
information about the
church and its many activities, call the church office
at 860-677-2601.
Rotary Club of Avon-Canton donates to local organizations
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on the re-affirmation of the
covenant to welcome all
who wish to follow Christ
without exceptions or exclusions. First Church will
celebrate in song, testimony and words of assurance
and love to all. All are welcome to
participate and picnic following the service.
The ‘rainbow’ banner
reflecting the open and
welcoming stance for all
who need a sanctuary in
which to express their faith,
embrace their uniqueness
and be accepted and loved
will be on display.
The First Church of
Christ,
Congregational 1652, is located at 75
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide through local clubs that
provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical
standards in all vocations,
and help build goodwill and
peace in the world. Rotary
clubs are united through
Rotary International with
approximately 1.2 million
Rotarians – members of
32,000 clubs in more than
200 countries. All Rotarians
share their dedication to the
ideal of “Service above Self.”
The 65 men and women of the Rotary Club of
Avon-Canton
work
at
many fundraising projects
Courtesy photo
Paul Mikkelson, Rotary Club of Avon-Canton, Community
Service Committee co-chair, presents a check to Vickie
Direnzo, McLean Meals on Wheels.
throughout the year to provide support of local, state
and international organizations. Non-profit charitable organizations in need
of funds for the benefit of
Avon or Canton residents
are invited to download and
submit a Community Service Grant Application at
rotaryclubofavon-canton.
org.
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garners
awards
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A range of emotions shows on the faces of the Children’s Academy of Simsbury preschoolers
as they line up to make their grand entrance in a performance of “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.”
The Children’s Academy of Simsbury
presents ‘Chicka Chicka Boom Boom’
On May 12 at Squadron
Line Elementary School,
A told B and B told C, “I’ll
meet you at the top of the
coconut tree.” This might
only make sense to parents
of preschoolers, who are familiar with the lively rhyming book “Chicka Chicka
Boom Boom.” The parents/
guardians of 40 preschoolers in Cari McCann and Meg
Keating’s Children’s Academy of Simsbury classes were
treated to a performance in
which children recited parts
of the book and shared the
spotlight with a homemade
cardboard coconut tree.
“Chicka Chicka Boom
Boom” is a best-selling children’s book by Bill Martin Jr.
and John Archambault. In
the story, the letters of the
alphabet race each other to
the top of the coconut tree.
When X, Y and Z finally
scramble up the trunk, however, the weight becomes
too much and all of the colorful letters tumble down
into a heap.
Nikki Mahan, director
of The Children’s Academy
of Simsbury, addressed the
crowd of almost 70 parents/
guardians,
grandparents
and siblings. “Like every
preschool
performance,”
she said, “you don’t ever
know what you’re going to
get, but you know it will be
adorable.”
The performance was
nearly flawless – and certainly adorable. At the end
of the show, the children
sang, “Now I know my ABCs,
can I have a cookie, please?”
Mahan invited the audience to come back to the
classrooms to share some
cookies – along with a
healthy alternative of fruit.
To find out more about
The Children’s Academy of
Simsbury preschool program, visit www.simsbury.
k12.ct.us/childrensacademy.
On Friday, May
15, the Har-Bur Middle
School Grade 7, Grade 8,
and Symphonic Bands,
consisting of more than
180 students, took part in
an accredited adjudication festival sponsored by
Creative Arts Workshop
Inc. They performed a
full concert program and
were judged by two prominent New England-based
music educators. The criteria and assessment process was based upon national standards set forth
within the area of music
education. The Grade 7
Band received a rating of
“excellent” with an average score of 85, and the
Grade 8 Band received a
received a rating of “superior” with an average
score of 92. Also scoring a
‘superior’ rating, the HarBur Symphonic Band
earned the highest score
of all 30+ participating
ensembles that day with
an average score of 95.5.
Both Mr. Riccio and Mr.
Crameri thanked all of
the teachers and parents
that accompanied the
students that day as well
as the Region #10 administration and staff.
Simsbury Junior Woman’s
Club donates funds
The Simsbury Junior
Woman’s Club held its annual appropriations coffee
reception Friday, May 8 at
Freemason Hall to award
grants to 15 area nonprofit organizations located in
Simsbury, the Farmington
Valley and Hartford.
The appropriation coffee reception gave SJWC
members the opportunity
to thank these organizations who do so much for
the community.
Simsbury
Junior
Woman’s Club was able
to gift close to $10,000
to these organizations
through its annual Luminary Night fundraiser,
which takes place the first
Sunday of December. The
purpose of Luminary Night
is to both raise funds that
can be appropriated back
to deserving non-profit
organizations as well as to
bring neighbors together.
The complete list of
the 2015 recipients include:
Simsbury Social Services,
The Simsbury A Better
Chance Program (ABC
House), SpiritHorse Theraputic Riding Center of Canton, Interval House, Gifts
of Love/Community Farm
of Simsbury, Dress for Success Hartford, Freemsons
Valley Lodge 36, The Simsbury Veterans Memorial,
The MLK in Connecticut
Memorial, McLean, Simsbury Free Bike, Simsbury
Main Street Partnership,
Sinsbury High School Unified Sports, Simsbury High
School Unified Theater and
The Connecticut Brain Tumor Alliance.
Simsbury
Junior
Woman’s Club also provides a scholarship to a
female Simsbury High
School graduating senior
who exemplifies the club’s
mission of volunteerism,
community service and
outreach.
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PRESSKIDS
Celebrating May
C
herry Brook Primary
School celebrated the
beautiful weather with a
May Day event May 22. Parents
and friends were invited to enjoy student performances that
included dances by each grade,
singing and a maypole.
Left: The completed maypole is
decked out in vibrant colors of red,
green, blue and yellow; below:
third-graders were selected to
perform the traditional maypole
dance.
Logan Haynes knows it’s good to be the boss when he takes a seat in the superintendent’s
office. Logan won an auction bid to be Superintendent for the Day.
It’s good to be the boss
Logan Haynes is superintendent for the day
By Alicia B. Smith
Staff Writer
CANTON — Sitting in
the overstuffed chair with his
hands behind his head Logan Haynes, 12, said, “It feels
good.”
The Canton Middle
School
seventh-grader,
dressed in a shirt and tie,
was getting a break from the
school day routine to try his
hand at being superintendent
of schools for the day.
Logan won the opportunity through an auction held
earlier this year at the district’s Winterfest. He said he
knows the job of the superintendent is to “help people.”
The morning was spent
visiting classrooms at both
the Canton Middle and High
schools. There was a brief
stop at what is typically Superintendent Kevin Case’s
office where Logan met some
of the central office staff and
had the opportunity to try
out the boss’ chair — a seat
Above, left: Cherry Brook Primary School students celebrate May Day with
dancing; above, right: third-graders have fun with a square dance.
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in which Logan felt very comfortable.
“His” desk even had an
official nameplate on it so
that others would know the
special position he had. The
plate stated: Logan Haynes,
Superintendent of the Day,
May 22, 2015.
Logan and Case then
headed out of the office for a
visit to Cherry Brook Primary
School, but not before Logan
let Sue McDonald know he
would be gone for the rest
of the day, just the way Case
would inform his administrative assistant when he leaves
the office.
“It’s great to have a partner visit the classrooms with
me,” Case said of his student
shadow.
When Logan arrived at
his old school he received a
rock star welcome as several
of his former teachers and
staff members greeted him.
Betty Rae Robinson, who
works in the office, teasingly
tried to get a raise from the
newly appointed superintendent. Logan agreed, although
any decision would have to
be approved by the Board of
Education.
Logan visited the kindergarten classroom of Cora
Mutch, his former teacher.
“You look just like a superintendent should,” Mutch
said of the formal attire Logan
was wearing. “I’m incredibly
proud of you.”
Down the hall, Logan
received a big hug from Carey
Campbell, the student’s former first-grade teacher.
It was an interesting experience for Logan to be back
at his former school. He said
now he can reach the top part
of the doorframes, with a little hop, a feat he could not
achieve when he was in elementary school.
Kevin Case and Logan
Haynes ran into Logan’s
mother, Elizabeth Haynes,
at Cherry Brook School.
The visit also included a
stop in the third-grade classroom for a brief visit with Logan’s sister, Megan.
Teacher Laurie Burrill
greeted her former student
with a strong handshake.
When she learned he now
had a bit of power, she requested a pizza machine for
the school’s cafeteria.
“What a good assistant
you have here,” Burrill informed Case.
After watching most of
the Cherry Brook May Day
outdoor celebration, Case
and Logan headed on to the
rest of their day as they had
another school to visit. They
were going to stop in at Canton Intermediate School to
visit classrooms there before
having lunch at Panera Bread
with his school principal, Pamela Hamad, and another
one of his teachers.
“Logan loves to visit other schools,” Elizabeth Haynes,
Logan’s mom, said as to why
she put in a bid to win this
prize for her son. “I thought
it was a great opportunity for
him to go back and see his
teachers and let them know
how far he has come.”
Case said this was the
first year the Superintendent
for a Day was offered to a student, and he looks forward to
continuing this new tradition
in the upcoming school years.
PRESSBUSINESS
Avon Chamber of Commerce honors members at annual meeting
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
When Peg Mayer of Howard
L. Page & Company received the
Loren Bristol Spirit Award from the
Avon Chamber of Commerce, she
was moved to tears.
The chamber, which is celebrating 50 years this year, handed
out awards at its annual meeting
Wednesday, May 21 at the Golf Club
of Avon.
“Thank you all so much,” Mayer said, with noticeable emotion, after accepting her award. “I was not
expecting this. Thank you all. I am
so surprised.”
The Loren Bristol Spirit Award
is given in memory of committee
member and director Loren Bristol,
said Lisa Bohman, Chamber executive director. Established in 2007,
this award is presented annually
to a member of the Chamber who
possesses those same attributes
that Bristol personified: devotion to
one’s family, demonstrated commitment to bettering the community
and a dedicated leader in business.
The long list of things Mayer has done to deserve the honor
include volunteer work, such as
helping with recovery efforts after
different floods.
While Mayer was tearful when
she accepted her award, the recipients for the Small Business of the
Year Award were excited. TCBY
owners Lisa and Mark Arnold accepted the award and remain in
the Avon Chamber despite the local
store’s closure in April.
According to the store’s Facebook page, the Arnolds have relocated to their Bloomfield location
in Wintonbury Mall.
Mark started out his acceptance speech calmly, but soon had
the entire audience in an uproar.
“We are TCBY inside and out,”
he said. “In fact I was told by someone – I’m not going to make any eye
contact – that I may not be recognized here.”
He then ripped open his dress
shirt to reveal a TCBY T-shirt beneath it, lest anyone truly be unable
to recognize him without it.
The 2014 recipient of the Small
Business of the Year award, Ed Queirolo of E.N.E. Realty Associates,
presented the Arnolds with the
award.
The Large Business of the Year,
which was presented by the 2014
recipient Robert Hensley of Robert Hensley & Associates, went to
Carmon Funeral Home & Family
Center.
The whole Carmon family:
John Carmon and his wife, Linda
Carmon, John’s mother, Nan Carmon, and Matthew Carmon, John
and Linda’s son, were named in the
presentation.
“There are three generations of
us,” John said when he accepted the
award. “My mother is 92.”
“In August,” Nan replied from
the audience.
John spoke of the privilege of
being there for people at their time
of need and being taken into people’s hearts.
He gave the audience a laugh
when he listed everyone in the family, giving each one credit with the
smooth operations of the business
and then, just as he was about to
return to his seat, he was hit with
the realization that he had missed
a very important name.
“And my wife,” he said, stopping suddenly.
The New Member Advocate
of the year award is the chamber’s
version of the Stanley Cup, Bohman
said. Winners take home the award
and return it a year later to present
it to the next winner.
That award was given to Ron
While awards given at Avon Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting
were mostly for members, the chamber was also a recipient. Lisa
Bohman, at right, was presented with a Volunteer Recognition Award
for her participation in the Salvation Army Holiday Store.
Huston of State Farm Insurance
for the Recruitment of three new
members.
The 2014 recipient of the New
Member Advocate of the Year
award, Chip Janiszewski of SendOutCards, presented Huston with
the award.
Since Huston was not present,
Bohman accepted it in his absence,
promising to get it to him.
Janiszewski’s record of five
new members has yet to be broken,
Bohman said.
Overall, in 2015, the chamber
has welcomed 37 new members,
Bohman said.
“By the time we close out our
fiscal year, it will be 47,” she said.
Outgoing President Jim Gordon of the Salvation Army welcomed incoming President John
Shea, Esq., of Pullman & Comley,
PC.
“I think it’s going to be a really exciting year,” Gordon said. “And
it’s the 50th anniversary. I think it’s
going to be a great one.”
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Children’s clothing boutique rebrands as Lemon Llama
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
forever, she said. When the
time came to do an actual
rebranding, she had a twoweek time frame to come up
with a name.
A few thoughts came to
mind, but the idea inspired
by the llama won.
Soon enough she was
launching a new website and
having new signs made.
Besides wanting a more
fun name for the store, she
wanted to stop people from
AVON — When Susan
Macko looked at her llama,
she came up with a new
name for her children’s clothing store.
That’s when My New
Wardrobe in the Avon Village
became Lemon Llama Kid’s
Boutique.
Macko had wanted to
change the name of the store
THE STATE OF WISCONSIN
CIRCUIT COURT
BMO HARRIS BANK N.A.
f/k/a HARRIS N.A., successor by merger to
M&I MARSHALL & ILSLEY BANK
770 North Water Street
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Plaintiff,
v.
ONLY HER, LLC
c/o Pamela K. Kindschuh, Registered Agent
213 Watson Street
Ripon, WI 54971
FOND DU LAC COUNTY
Case No. 15CV78
Case Code: 30404, 30303 and 30301
Mortgage Foreclosure, Replevin and
Money Judgment over $10,000.00
PAMELA K. KINDSCHUH
14 Mallard Drive
Avon, CT 06001
FILED
APR 08 2015
RAMONA M. GEIB
FOND DU LAC COUNTY, WIS.
Clerk of Circuit Court
JOHN DOE SPOUSE, unknown spounse of PAMELA K. KINDSCHUH
14 Mallard Drive
Avon, CT 06001
CITIBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION as successor
by merger to CITIBANK (SOUTH DAKOTA), N.A.
701 East 60th Street North
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
CAPITAL ONE BANKK USA NA p/k/a
CAPITAL ONE BANK
c/o Registered Agent
1111 East Main Street, 16th Floor
Richard, VA 23219
ASSET ACCEPTANCE LLC
c/o Corporation Service Company
8040 Excelsior Drive
Suite 400
Madison, WI 53717
MIDLAND FUNDING LLC, by its servicing agent
MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT INC
c/o Corporatioin Service Company
8040 Excelsior Drive, Suite 400
Madison, WI 53202
JOHN DOE TENANTS (S), unknown tenant(s) of
PAMELA K. KINDSCHUH
213 Watson Street
Ripon, WI 54971
And
JANE DOE TENANT(S), unknown tenant(s) of
PAMELA K. KINDSCHUH
213 Watson Street
Ripon, WI, 4971
Defendants.
PUBLICATION SUMMONS
TO:
PAMELA K. KINDSCHUH
14 Mallard Drive
Avon, CT 06001
ONLY HER, LLC
c/o Pamela K. Kindschuh, Registered Agent
213 Watson Street
Ripon, WI 54971
JOHN DOE SPOUSE, unknown spouse
of PAMELA K. KINDSCHUH
14 Mallard Drive
Avon, CT 06001
You are hereby notified that the Plaintiff named above has filed a lawsuit or
other legal action against you. The Complaint, which is also served upon you,
states the nature and basis of the legal action.
Within Forty (40) days after April 23, 2015 you must respond with a written
Answer, as that term is used in Chapter 802 of the Wisconsin Statutes, to the
Complaint. The Court may reject or disregard an Answer that does not follow the
requirements of the statutes. The Answer must be sent or delivered to the Court,
whose address is:
Fond du Lac County Circuit Court
160 South Macy Street
Fond du Lac, WI 54936-1355
and to Krawczyk, Duginski & Rohr, S.C., Plaintiff’s attorneys, whose address is
16620 West Bluemound Road, Suite 500, Brookfield, Wisconsin 53005. You may
have an attorney help or represent you.
If you do not provide a proper Answer within Forty (40) days, the Court may
grant Judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the Complaint, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or
may be incorrect in the Complaint. A Judgment may be enforced as provided by
law. A Judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you
own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure
of property.
Dated this 6th day of April, 2015.
KRAWCZYK, DUGINSKI & ROHR, S.C.
Attorneys for Plaintiff
By: Matthew J. Krawczyk
State Bar No. 1064349
P.O. ADDRESS
KRAWCZYK, DUGINSKI & ROHR, S.C.
16620 West Bluemound Road, Suite 500
Brookfield, WI 53005
Phone: (262) 827-5800
Fax: (262) 827-5809
Email: [email protected]
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coming to the incorrect conclusion that the children’s
clothing boutique was a secondhand store.
The store has been open
for about eight years, 2 1/2 of
them at the current location.
Macko sells high-end fashion
for children in the store.
“I have half a dozen different designers that sell pretty well here. [Most] of them
are made in the U.S,” she said.
While she has some offerings, including nice suits
and jackets, for boys, most of
the clothing she carries is for
girls, Macko said.
Her biggest market is
tweens, girls between the
ages of 8 and 13.
“I’ve always liked fashion. I think it’s fun. I like the
creative aspect of it, the design aspect of it. I like the colors, fashion, the kids and babies. They’re very expressive,”
Macko said. “They use clothes
to express themselves.”
There are dresses by
Sandy Miller, a New York designer, and by Little Debra.
She also carries European brands including Desigual,
Mayoral and 3 Pommes.
She is sometimes surprised at how young some
girls are when they start to
know what styles they like.
“Nowadays, the 3- and
4-year-olds, can be very
fashion-conscious,” she said.
“Some of the moms don’t
know where it comes from.
It’s true, they’re just so surprised and there’s a few of
them who have such a sense
of style, it’s amazing.”
Macko also has trust in
her customers and offers at
least one service folks won’t
find at big department stores.
“One thing I do that I
think is a great idea is we will
Simone Routledge, 10, of Avon models an outfit from Lemon
Llama Kid’s Boutique while looking for other pieces.
let people take things home
‘on approval,’” she said. “A
busy mom can come in at 10
o’clock, take out four dresses,
have her daughter try them
on at night and bring them
back the next day.”
Lemon Llamas has
clothing for children from infant to junior sizes.
“While I do have higher-end items, I like to have
price points for everyone so
there’s always merchandise
at half price,” Macko said,
“sometimes even less.”
Next fall, she will focus on name brand clothes
to fit the challenging needs
of dress codes for private
schools.
For more information
about Lemon Llama visit
www.lemonllamakids.com.
Simply No Excuses opens in Farmington
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
FARMINGTON — Since
she was in high school, Chelsea Benard had a dream of
merging fitness with wellness
in a new kind of center.
Now, at age 27, she and
her fiancée, Hank Carisio,
have brought that dream to
fruition. On May 2, Simply No
Excuses, a fitness and wellness center, opened its doors
at 10 Forest Park Drive in
Farmington.
The facility provides
small group personal training, nutrition guidance, cooking classes for healthy eating
and sports massage, all in one
facility.
Benard, who has her
master’s degree in occupational therapy, has done
sports her whole life and has
always had gym memberships or worked at gyms, she
said. That experience led to
the realization that people
were not getting the most out
of the efforts they made.
“What I would always see
was kind of that people would
work with a personal trainer
at the gym and get a little bit
of results, but they wouldn’t
do anything with diet and nutrition,” Benard said.
Some people would seek
nutritional support outside
the gym, or folks with injuries
would go to a chiropractor or
physical therapist. Sometimes
they would see all the different professionals at the same
time, expecting results in all
categories, but the effort was
disjointed.
“None of those individuals would be talking to each
other,” Benard said. “To me,
wellness is a lifestyle, a whole
lifestyle, so what I wanted to
do was bring that concept together.”
That is what she does at
Simply No Excuses.
The center offers small
group fitness classes that Benard said are “based on functional movement like boot
camp.”
Because of the type of
equipment used, which includes resistance bands and
is controlled by the user, the
workouts are great for beginners and pros.
“You can have somebody
in the class who’s been working out for 30-plus years and
knows what to do, [and] you
can have somebody in that
class that has never picked up
a weight,” Benard said.
The small group training
sessions feature a mixture of
yoga, interval style weight
training and heart pounding
cardio, all done in under one
hour. The small groups range
in number from four to 14
people. Individual personal training sessions are also
available.
The workouts keep the
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heart rate “in cardio zone,” she
also said. Because of that, they
also force the body to recover itself throughout the day,
meaning the metabolism goes
up and the body burns higher
calories for hours after working out.
In addition, the workouts use different movements
rather than continuously repeating the same ones and so
reduce stress to the joints.
Different memberships
include unlimited fitness
classes with two nutrition
classes per month and one
group or individual class.
There are packages with detailed nutrition consultations
and one 30-minute massage
and a punch card for workouts.
To celebrate its grand
opening, Simply No Excuses is
offering a free two-week trial
membership.
“Simply No Excuses is a
personalized fitness and wellness solution,” Benard said.
“We give our members every
tool they need – small group
exercise sessions, healthy
cooking classes, nutritional
guidance and access to a variety of therapies – to help them
reach their fitness and wellness goals. ... We want every
client to achieve their optimal
self and will work with each
client individually to make
sure it happens.”
For more information,
go to simplynoexcusesfitness.
com, email the Simply No
Excuses Team at [email protected] or call
Simply No Excuses at 860470-7369.
check it out
AVON–––––––––––––
Sew Thankful Quilters making Quilts of
Valor for service people touched by war
Thursday, May 28, 6-9 p.m., at Avon Congregational Church, 6 West Main St., drop in
Avon Senior Center, 635 West Avon Road,
860-675-4355:
• Caregiver Support Group Thursday, May 28,
2:30 p.m.
• Breakfast with October Kitchen Friday, May
29, 10 a.m., Five Healthy Steps for living over
65, breakfast by Chef Paul, sign up, open to
Avon and Canton residents
• Free hearing screenings Friday, May 29, 11
a.m.-2 p.m., appt. required
Senior Citizens of Avon Organization Monday, June 1, board meeting at 10:30 a.m., pizza and salad at noon, dessert and bingo
Mobile Food Pantry change in location Tuesday, June 2, 10-10:30 a.m., from St. Ann’s
Church to Farmington Valley American Muslim
Center Inc., 35 Harris Road (860-693-5811)
Farmington Valley VNA blood pressure
screenings Tuesday, June 2, 11:30 a.m.-1:30
p.m., at the Avon Senior Center, 635 West
Avon Road, and Thursday, June 4, 12:15-1:45
p.m., at the Avon Library, 281 Country Club
Road
First Friday Dinner of baked ham at Avon
Congregational Church June 5, 5:30-7:30
p.m., at the church, 6 West Main St., dine or
take out, $13/$7 (860-678-0488)
Avon Boy Scout Troop 274 can and bottle drive and car wash Saturday, June 6, 8
a.m.-1 p.m., at Avon High School, 510 West
Avon Road
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
Garden Club of Avon bus trip June 24 to
Wayside Inn Historic Site in Sudbury, Mass.,
and The Garden in the Woods in Framingham,
Mass., $78, call Lynn at 860-989-7590 by
June 10
Weekly meditation class ongoing Tuesdays,
7:15-8:30 p.m., at Be.Yoga, 17 West Main St.,
$10 per class, info at 860-266-6041, everyone welcome – (Really) Enjoying Relationships with resident teacher Kadam Eve Arias
from Odiyana Center, East Hartford
Rec and Parks Department registration for
summer programs including swim memberships and swim lessons at www.avonrec.com
BURLINGTON–––––––
Burlington Library’s board of library directors looking for a few dedicated people
to serve on the New Building Committee,
send or email letter with qualifications by
Friday, May 29 to: Marie Spratlin Hasskarl,
Library Director, Burlington Public Library, P.O.
Box 1379, 34 Library Lane, Burlington, 06013
Burlington Parks & Rec programs at www.
burlingtonctparksandrec.com: Cardio Kickboxing Mondays and Wednesdays thru June
17, 6:30-7:30 p.m., at Lewis S. Mills Aerobics
Room, walk-ins $10 per class;Toning and
Shaping ongoing thru June 22, 7:15-8:15
p.m., fee $45, at Town Hall auditorium or Senior Center, walk-ins $4 per class at the door
with signed waiver; Total Body Fitness Tuesdays and Thursdays thru June 25, 6:15-7:15
p.m., at the Senior Center, $4 per class at
the door; accepting applications for counselors-in-training and junior counselors for Foote
Road camp program, info on website
CANTON––––––––––
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
support group meeting Monday, June 1,
7-8:30 p.m., at the Canton Community Center,
40 Dyer Ave. (860-693-9310, 860-371-8111)
Senior and Social Services Department
summer office hours commencing Monday,
June 1-Monday, Aug. 31, Monday-Friday, 9
a.m.-4:30 p.m.
VNA blood pressure screenings Tuesday,
June 2, 9-10:30 a.m., at Walgreens at Canton
Village, 220 Albany Tpke., and Wednesday,
June 3, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., at the Canton
Community Center, 40 Dyer Ave.
Household Hazardous Waste Collection
for residents of Canton Saturday, June 13,
8 a.m.-noon, at the Simsbury Public Works
facility, 66 Town Forest Road, Simsbury, for
info, go to www.townofcantonct.org or call
860-693-7863
Current dog license renewal 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
Candidates being sought by both Democrats and Republicans for: first selectman,
selectmen, board of finance, board of education, assessment appeals and constables,
if interested contact Brian First, Republican
town chairman, at 860-693-8188 or Tom
Sevigny, Democratic town chairman, at 860830-3994
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
FARMINGTON––––––
Farmington UNICO and Amy’s Angels’ A
Taste of Italy Thursday, May 28, 6:30-9 p.m.,
at Farmington Gardens, 999 Farmington Ave.,
NBC News anchor Todd Piro as MC, pouring
by Wine Cellars, tickets $35 at the door or at
Franklin Jewelers, Post Office Square
At the UConn Health Center, 263 Farmington
Ave.:
• Comcast NBC Connecticut Jim Calhoun
Ride and Walk for Life Saving Research and
Care Saturday, May 30, 7 a.m. registration at
Northwest Catholic High School, West Hartford, rides of 15, 30 and 62 miles
• Free IVF Information Session Thursday,
June 4, 6-8:30 p.m., Cell and Genome Science Building, 400 Farmington Ave., register
at 860-679-4580
Cardio Dance & Yoga Sunday, May 31,
1-3:30 p.m., at Farmington Farms Tennis &
Athletic Club, 94 Brickyard Road, 860-67872489, $20 per person minimum donation preevent, $25 per person minimum donation day
of event, schedule: 1-2:15 p.m., cardio dance,
and 2:30-3:30 p.m., yoga, register online at
www.myjimmyfundevent.org/2015/moveovermelanoma
American Red Cross blood donation opportunities: Monday, June 1, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.,
MW Financial Group Ltd., 197 Scott Swamp
Road, and Monday, June 1, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.,
UConn Main Building Academic E Wing, 263
Farmington Ave., to make appt. visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-733-2767
Support Group for Caregivers of Seniors
in Farmington Tuesday, June 2, 3:30-5 p.m.,
at Staples House, 1 Monteith Drive, contact
Martha Taylor for info and to sign up at 860675-2390
screenings Wednesday, June 3, 9-11 a.m., at
the Farmington Library, 6 Monteith Drive, and
Thursday, June 4, 9:30-11:30 a.m., at Middlewoods of Farmington, 9 Middle Road
Shred Day hosted by Farmington Bank
Saturday, June 6, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., at branch location at 282 Scott Swamp Road, open to the
public – old checks, tax forms, financial statements, medical records, legal documents,
monthly bills, receipts, credit card statements
or other personal materials
In Plain Sight: Discovering Enslaved People in Connecticut Saturday, June 6, 9:30
a.m.-3 p.m., at The Stanley-Whitman House,
37 High St., $25 a person includes coffee and
lunch, register at 860-677-9222
To submit an event for the calendar,
e-mail Sally at
[email protected]
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––––––––––
Granby Grange #5 Community and Square
Dance Friday, May 29, 7 p.m., at 212 North
Granby Road, admission donation: singles $8,
couples $15, students $5, info by calling Carol
at 860-627-5053
Just Songs, an afternoon with Mark D.
Watkins and Victor Evans, Sunday, May 31,
4 p.m., South Congregational Church, 242
Salmon Brook St.
At the Granby Senior Center, 15 North Granby Road, 860-844-5352:
• Ask the Expert series, Ask the Pharmacist
with Beth Galloway Tuesday, June 2, 11 a.m.
Safety Check with Sandee Fleet, Farmington
Valley VNA, Wednesday, June 3, 12:45 p.m.
• Shopping at Enfield Mall Friday, June 5, 10
a.m., $3 fee
Granby Women’s Breakfast Group meeting
Wednesday, June 3, 8:30 a.m. breakfast, 9
a.m. program, Fashion Show Especially for Us
from Chico’s, at the Granby Senior Center, 15
North Granby Road, $3
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
Summer sessions at Maple View Farm,
Salmon Brook Street, starting July 6, weekly
thru Aug. 14, sign up on website or in Farm
Store
seafood salad sandwich, take out or eat in,
$3 sandwich, $3 soup Simsbury residents
age 50 and over, non-residents and Simsbury
residents under 50 $4
• Dinner and Bingo Monday, June 1, 4:306:30 p.m., $3, sign up by Thursday, May 28
Foot Care Clinic Tuesday, June 2, appts. starting at 8:30 a.m., cost $29
• Massage Wednesday, June 3, appts. starting at 10 a.m., cost $10
• Lunch at Eno Wednesday, June 3, noon,
seasoned cod, $3/$4, sign up by noon Friday,
May 29
• Healthy Cooking/Eating Demonstration
with Meagan Molloy and Margarita Cartegena Thursday, June 11, 1-2 p.m., sign up by
Friday, June 5
Concert Series: Music in the Garden Saturday, May 30, 7 p.m., Phelps Homestead lawn,
Simsbury Historical Society, 800 Hopmeadow
St., Asylum Quartet, free admission, donations
suggested
American Red Cross blood donation opportunity in honor of World Blood Donor
Day (June 14) Monday, June 1, 1-6 p.m.,
First Church of Christ, 689 Hopmeadow St., to
make an appt. visit redcrossblood.org or call
1-800-733-2767
NAMI Family Support Group Monday, June
1, 7-8:30 p.m., at the Simsbury Senior Center, Eno Memorial Hall, 754 Hopmeadow St.
(www.namify.org)
screenings Wednesday, June 3, 11:45 a.m.2:15 p.m., at Eno Memorial Hall, 754 Hopmeadow St.
Simsbury Volunteer Fire Company and
Ladies Auxiliary Golf Tournament Friday,
June 12, at Blue Fox Run Golf Course, 65
Nod Road, Avon, cost per player $150, guest
dinner tickets $35, registration form at www.
simsburyfd.org, or call 860-658-1971
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]
SIMSBURY–––––––-– VALLEY & BEYOND–
Movie “To Catch a Thief” Thursday, May 28,
1 p.m., at Simsbury Free Library, 749 Hopmeadow St., RSVP 860-408-1336 or [email protected]
Slow and Easy New Rider/Refresher Ride
Friday, May 29, beginning at 1 p.m., at Simsbury Free Bike shop, 710 Hopmeadow St.,
hosted by First Selectman Lisa Heavner, part
of National Bike Month
At the Simsbury Senior Center, Eno Memorial Hall, 754 Hopmeadow St., 860-658-3273:
• Lunch Café Friday, May 29, 11 a.m.-noon,
beef noodle soup, oven roasted chicken and
Farmington Valley VNA Caregiver Support
Group Thursday, May 28, 2-3 p.m., at the
Avon Senior Center, 635 West Avon Road, Avon,
pre-register by contacting Karen Bignelli, R.N.,
or Laura Perednia, LCSW, at 860-651-3539
Tunxis Community College 44th commencement Friday, May 29, 6:30 p.m., in the Tunxis
courtyard in Farmington (860-773-1300)
Registration for summer credit courses at
Tunxis Community College in Farmington
under way, five- and eight-week sessions:
June 1-July 2, June 1-July 21 and July 6-Aug.
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friends. For many foster children, that support
network doesn’t exist.
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a foster child, you can provide safety, stability,
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6, visit (860-773-1300)
Farmington Valley VNA free program,
“Who Me? Procrastination and How to
Fix It,” Wednesday, June 3 at 12:45 p.m.
at the Granby Senior Center, 15C North
Granby Road, Granby, call 860-844-5352
to reserve a space
Connecticut Kitchen & Bath Studio
cooking class June 5, Tapas with Rocio,
$60 per person, register at ctkitchenandbath.com
Farmington Valley Farmers Market
open Sundays 11 a.m.-2 p.m., at Riverdale Farms Shopping, 124 Simsbury Road,
Avon, new vendors offering certified organic produce, local meats, breads, local
eggs, baked goods, prepared and readyto-eat foods, fresh local seafood, fresh cof-
fee, Italian ice, local goat soaps and fresh
cut flowers, SNAP/EBT credit/debit cards
accepted ([email protected])
Connecticut Swish Basketball Camp at
Farmington High School for boys entering
grades 1-9, 3 weekly sessions starting
June 29, July 6 and 13, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.,
email [email protected] for registration form and camp info
John Mirabello’s Northwest Catholic
Basketball Clinic 2015, cost $125, registration accepted until enrollment full, 860236-4221, ext. 130 or 860-670-0030, [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
At the Library
Avon Public Library,
281 Country Club Road, 860-673-9712,
www.avonctlibrary.info:
• Teen Karaoke Thursdays, 2:30-4 p.m.,
May 28, June 4 and 11, drop in, grades
7-12
• 3D Printing Thursday, May 28, 7 p.m.,
what is it, why it’s important and how
to do it
• Shakespeare Festivus Saturday, May
30, 2 p.m., professional actor Richard
Clark presenting “The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet,” a solo performance of
Shakespeare’s greatest hits featuring
12 different characters, 25 monologues
and soliloquies
• Teen Nail Art Tuesday June 2, 3-4
p.m., grades 7-12, drop in
• WWII: The Pacific Theater with Bill
Newman Wednesday, June 3, 2-3 p.m.
– what was WWII like for veterans who
fought in the Pacific? Hear eyewitness
accounts from veterans of Avon’s VFW
Post 3272
Free blood pressure screening by VNA
Thursday, June 4, 12:15-1:45 p.m.,
walk in
• “Celluloid Highway” Film & Discussion
Series beginning Thursday, June 4, with
“Easy Rider,” 6 p.m. introduction by Bob
Kagan, 7 p.m. film, followed by postfilm discussion
Burlington Library,
34 Library Lane, 860-673-3331,
www.Burlingtonctlibrary.info:
• Bag Sale Saturday, May 30, 10 a.m.
-1 p.m.
• Journey Around the World children’s
program Saturday, May 30, 1 p.m., all
ages, register
• Adult Writing Group Monday, June 1,
6 p.m., register
• Welcome to Medicare Wednesday,
June 3, 6 p.m., with Cynthia Del Favero
from North Central Area Agency on Aging, register
• Homeschooler’s Book Club Thursday,
June 4, 1 p.m. (book TBA), all ages,
register
Canton Public Library,
40 Dyer Ave., 860-693-5800:
• Storytime Storywalks Thursdays, 1:30
p.m., for children 4-5-K with caregiver:
May 28, Raindrops Keep Falling on My
Head (Precipitation)
• Music for Me: Drop-In Music and
Movement Time (lap-sit edition, prewalkers) Fridays, May 29 and June
5, 10:15 a.m., ages 12-36 months;
for toddlers and walkers ages 12-36
months Fridays, May 29 and June 5,
11 a.m.
• Saturday Book Conversations Group
Saturday, May 30, 1 p.m., “Year of Wonders” by Geraldine Brooks
• 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)
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Farmington Library,
6 Monteith Drive, 860-673-6791, ext. 1,
www.farmingtonlibraries.org:
• Afternoon at the Bijou Thursdays,
2 p.m.: May 28, “Room for One More”
and June 4, “The Heiress”
• Director’s College Event: Growing Up
in World War II Thursday, May 28, 78:30 p.m.
• Two-Part Meditation Workshop Tuesdays, June 2 and 9, both at 7 p.m.,
with Clare Vidich, longtime meditator,
demonstrating natural and effective
techniques, register
• Spring Art Show in Community Room
thru July 10, contact library in advance
on room’s availability
Barney Library,
860-673-6791, ext. 2
71 Main St.,
• Free showings of “Midsomer Murders” served with tea and biscuits
Thursdays, June 4, July 23 and Aug. 20
at 1 p.m.
Granby Library,
15 North Granby Rd., 860-844-5275:
• Zumba for Kids Saturday, May 30,
10:30 a.m.
• Something about the Author Monday, June 1, 1:30 p.m., discussion of
works of American science fiction writer
Frank Herbert, best known for his novel
“Dune”
Simsbury Library,
725 Hopmeadow St., 860-658-7663:
• Friday Flicks 1-3:30 p.m.: May 29,
“The Music Man” and June 5, “Empire
Falls”
• Introduction to Excel, 6-session
course, Tuesdays, June 2, 9, 16 and
Thursdays, June 4, 11 and 18, 6:308 p.m.
• “They Called Her Reckless – A True
Story of War, Love and One Extraordinary Horse” Thursday, June 4, 7-8:30
p.m., with Janet Barrett
• Books wanted for September Used
Book Sale, collection site at library thru
Aug, 29
Teen programs
• Wii Wednesday June 3, 3-5 p.m.,
drop in
Children’s programs
• Baking: Grades 3-6 Thursday, May 28
at 4 p.m., Best Ever Brownies and Old
Fashioned Gingerbread, register
• Story Time at Rotary Park Playground
Wednesdays, June 3, 10, 17 and 24, 11
a.m., drop in
• Ongoing Story Time Sessions, drop
in: Once Upon a Story Time with Mrs.
Moody Mondays and Fridays, 10 and
11 a.m., ages 2 and up with caregiver; Bouncing Babies Tuesdays and
Wednesdays, 10 a.m., birth-23 months
with caregiver; Ring Around the Rosie
Thursdays, 10:30 a.m., ages 2 and up
with caregiver
May 28, 2015
Arts & Events
“Dogfight” the musical by students
from the Warner Theatre Center for
Arts Education Performance Lab
Thursday and Friday, May 28 and 29 at
8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, May
30 and 31 at 2 p.m., in the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre, Main St., Torrington,
tickets $12.50 at 860-489-7180 or online at www.warnertheatre.org
“Oleanna” by David Mamet at Playhouse on Park, 244 Park Road, West
Hartford, Thursday, May 28 at 7:30
p.m., Friday and Saturday, May 29 and
30 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, May 31 at 7
p.m., tickets $22.50/$20 at 860-523,
5900, ext. 10 or at www.playhouseonpark.org
Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s Masterworks Series season-long tribute
to Gustav Mahler with Mahler’s Fourth
Thursday, May 28 at 7:30 p.m., Friday
and Saturday, May 29 and 30 at 8 p.m.,
and Sunday, May 31 at 3 p.m. in Belding Theater at The Bushnell, Hartford,
featuring HSO’s principal trombone
Brian Diehl and soprano Jamilyn Manning-White, world premiere of “Fanfare
for the Hartford Woman,” tickets starting at $38.50 at 860-987-5900
Party at the PAC featuring Preiser &
O’Brien Friday, May 29, 7 p.m., at Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Center,
Simsbury, gates open at 6 p.m., general
admission $10 (860-651-4052)
At Infinity Music Hall and Bistro:
20 Greenwoods Road North, Norfolk,
860-542-5531: May 29, 8 p.m., Kal
David & The Real Deal featuring Lauri
Bono; May 30, 8 p.m., Big Eyed Phish
celebrating Dave Matthews Band; May
31, 7:30 p.m., Samantha Fish; June 3, 8
p.m., Robert Cray Band; June 4, 8 p.m.,
Gaelic Storm; June 5, 8 p.m., The Nice
Ones with Stone Cold Fox
32 Front St., Hartford: May 28, 8 p.m.,
Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra; May 29,
The Boston Comedy Festival Presents:
Boston Irish Comedians; May 30, 8
p.m., Soul Sound Revue; June 3, 8 p.m.,
The Psychedelic Furs; June 4, 8 p.m.,
An Acoustic Evening with Rich Robinson
of the Black Crowes w/David O’Grady
At Maple Tree Café, 781 Hopmeadow
St., Simsbury, live music at 9 p.m., cover charge, 860-651-1297: Friday, May
29, Charmed, and Saturday, May 30,
Eight to the Bar
Open Farm event Saturday, May 30,
noon-4 p.m., at Sub Edge Farm, 199
Town Farm Road, Farmington – family
day of farm tours, music and other activities, meet the farmers, visit the farm
shop ([email protected])
At Hartt School, 200 Bloomfield Ave.,
West Hartford, 860-678-4228:
• Hartt Community Division Suzuki Orchestra Concerts Saturday, May 30, 2-4
p.m., Lincoln Theater
• Hartt Community Division Guitar Day
Saturday, May 30, 3-6 p.m., Hillyer Hall
H 125 (Auerbach Auditorium)
Northeast Blues Harmonica Showcase featuring Steve Guyger Saturday, May 30, 9 p.m., Black-Eyed Sally’s,
350 Asylum St., Hartford, $10 admission (860-693-9762) – other players:
Dave Howard, George Dudack, The Kosher Kid, Eric Ducoff Band
Time for Tea: A Mad Hatter’s Tea
Party Sunday, May 31, 2-4 p.m., at
the American Clock & Watch Museum,
100 Maple St., Bristol, 860-583-6070 –
crafts, snacks and tea
At the Mark Twain House & Museum,
351 Farmington Ave., Hartford:
• Springtime Steampunk Social Saturday, May 30, noon-3 p.m., in Hal Holbrook Hall featuring author and chocolatier Nikki Woolfolk and the music of
Venus Lens Cap, showing of film “1873:
The Insidious Intrigue,” Victorian-style
afternoon tea with treats, come in costume (not required), tickets $15/$10,
860-280-3130
• Book/Mark, “The Mysterious Legacy
of Samuel L. Clemens’ Granddaughter,
Nina Clemens Gabrilowitsch” with author Susan Bailey Wednesday, June 3, 7
p.m., in Lincoln Financial Services Auditorium, moderated by Hartford Public
Library employee Jeff Mainville who
previously assisted with the research,
reservations recommended at 860280-3130
• Best-selling author James Patterson
Wednesday, June 17, 7:30 p.m., at
Immanuel Congregational Church, 10
Woodland St., Hartford, tickets $60/$50
at 860-280-3130, $175 tickets for preevent reception at Town & County Club
At Bridge Street Live, 41 Bridge St.,
Collinsville, 860-693-9762: May 28, 8
p.m., The Amazing Kreskin; May 29, 8
p.m., Comedy Night: Will Noonan; May
30, 8 p.m., James Montgomery Blues
Band; May 31, 6 p.m., Wild Heart (A
Tribute to Stevie Nicks) and Good to
Be King (a tribute to Tom Petty & The
Heartbreakers); June 4, 8 p.m., Selwyn
Birchwood
“Hairspray” final performances Friday-Sunday, May 29-31 at The Repertory Theatre in New Britain, 23 Norden St.,
tickets $25/$23, Friday and Saturday at
7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m., www.connecticuttheatrecompany.org – appearing are Valley residents Jodi Dickson,
Michael Ruby and Mallory Thompson
At Crown & Hammer, 3 Depot St., Collinsville: What She Said Friday, May 29,
9-11:45 p.m. and Strawberry Machine
Saturday, May 30, 9-11:30 p.m.; Happy
Hour Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 4-6 p.m.
Hartfolk Festival Saturday, May 30,
open mic at 5 p.m., concert at 7:30
p.m., Hoffman Auditorium, University of Saint Joseph, 1678 Asylum Ave.,
West Hartford, tickets $22/$17/$10,
860-232-4571 – headliner: The Nields,
opening act: Han and , round-robin
showcase:, Kristen Graves, The Levins
Bloomfield Festival Sunday, May 31,
11 a.m.-4 p.m., at the 4-H Education
Center at Auerfarm to kick off Bloomfield Week – hayrides, tours, yoga class,
free samples of Starbucks coffee, ice
cream and other treats, vendor area
Artists Anne Pingpank of Farmington and Amy Conover and Marianne
Flynn of Simsbury exhibiting at the
Stanley-Whitman House Museum, 37
High St., Farmington, thru Sunday, May
31, Thursday and Friday 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
and Saturday and Sunday, noon-4 p.m.,
$7/4/$5 (860-677-9222)
Adult auditions as well as young
males ages 11-16 for Theatre Guild
of Simsbury’s production of “The
King and I” Tuesday and Thursday,
June 2, 4 and Tuesday, June 16 from
7-10 p.m. at Eno Memorial Hall, 754
Hopmeadow St., Simsbury, for audition
forms, requirements, etc., go to www.
theatreguildsimsbury.org
At the Wadsworth Atheneum, 600
Main St., Hartford:
• First Thursday Block Party, "¡Viva
Peru!" June 4, 5-8 p.m. – folk music
and dance by Inca Son, Peruvian-inspired food and more, film “El Elefante
Desaparecido (The Vanished Elephant)”
at 8 p.m., $5, free for members
• “Mark Bradford/MATRIX 172” opening Thursday, June 4, a wall drawing
inspired by Sol LeWitt, with talks about
his project June 4 at 6 and 7 p.m. in
MATRIX’s Bunce Gallery
• Gallery Talk: “His & Hers of the Colt
Collection” with curator Alyce Perry
Englund celebrating the wedding anniversary of Samuel Colt and his wife,
Elizabeth, with a look at the couple’s
firearms and art collection, free with
admission
The Art of Michael Toti at The Simsbury 1820 House, Hopmeadow St.,
Simsbury, with an opening reception
Friday, June 5, 5:30-7 p.m. (860-6587658)
Friday night film, “The Goonies,”
June 5, 7 p.m., at the Warner Theatre,
Main St., Torrington, 860-489-7180 for
tickets
Country dancing and family fun
Saturday, June 6, 4 p.m.-dusk, on
grounds of Miss Porter’s School in
Farmington, presented by Stanley-Whitman House Museum, tickets $25/$10
available at 37 High St. or by calling
860-677-9222, ext. 302, or on day of
event
Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra’s “Give My Regards to Broadway”
Saturday, June 7, 4 p.m., under tent on
lawn of Miss Porter’s School, 60 Main
St., Farmington, $15/$12/$7 (1-800975-FVSO, www.fvso.org)
“Jesus Christ Superstar” by Phoenix
Theater Company Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m.
at Trinity-on-Main, 69 Main St., New
Britain, tickets $22 in advance, $24 at
the door (860-292-2072)
Farmington Valley Arts Center fundraiser Palette to Palate Tuesday, June
9, 6-9 p.m., at 25 Arts Center Lane,
Avon Park North, Avon, tickets $45 per
person at 860-678-1867, $50 at the
door
Art Party – Simple Printmaking
Thursday, June 11, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at
the Farmington Valley Arts Center, 25
Arts Center Lane, Avon, $35, register at
860-678-1867 – design one’s own tea
towel while sipping a glass of wine and
nibbling on goodies with artist Deborah
Velasquez
At the Farmington Valley Arts Center,
25 Arts Center Lane, Avon, 860-6781867: StoryWalkR thru Sunday, May
31, pages from Peter H. Reynolds’ children’s book “The Dot” posted throughout FVAC grounds for all to enjoy
Susan Dorazio exhibiting at the Ethel
Walker School Library Gallery, 230
Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, thru June 7,
gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5
p.m., obtain guest pass from receptionist in Beaverbrook, the main building
([email protected])
At La Trattoria, 21 Old Albany Turnpike,
Route 44, Canton: music by Andre Balazs every Thursday from 6-9 p.m. and
music by Swing Jazz starting at 7 p.m.
every Friday
Jim Bean Art Show at Art League of
New Britain, 30 Cedar St., New Britain,
Saturdays and Sundays from 1-4 p.m.,
thru Sunday, May 31
New England Carousel Museum,
95 Riverside Ave., Bristol, open to the
public Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5
p.m. and Sunday from noon-5 p.m., admission $6/$5.50/$3.50/$2
PRESSSports
Gray
Brothers stick together
Matters
By Scott Gray
Submitted photo
The Simsbury boys lacrosse team is a brotherhood with 12 players – roughly half the roster – having a sibling on the squad. The six sets
of brothers, from left to right: Hunter and Riley Chapman, Keith and Sean Penney, Demitri and Alex George, Jordan and Sam Briggs, Zach
and Jacob Magaw, Zach and Ben Levin
Simsbury lacrosse a family affair
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
Family and friends are
among the most important
things in a teenager’s young life.
The two are interwoven on the
Simsbury High boys lacrosse
team.
Every spring, head coach
Jim Martocchio searches for
the right mix and combinations while attempting to create a family-type atmosphere
in hopes of establishing a closeknit group. In that regard, there
isn’t another high school team in
the state as close as the Trojans.
The six sets of brothers on
Simsbury comprise about half of
the varsity roster. Eight are starters
and all 12 get regular playing time.
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last week, all but one of Sims“We know where we’re gobury’s goals was scored by a sibing,” Zach Levin said about
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That also makes for a sibling competition.
“Oh yeah, in everything,”
Zach says. “Grades, sports, you
name it.”
The Levin brothers skate
on the same line in hockey. Riley and Hunter Chapman are
forwards on the ice and midfielders in lacrosse. Zach and
Jacob Magaw are defensemen
in both sports. Sean and Keith
Penney are wrestlers, and Alex
and Demitri George just play lacrosse. Jordan Briggs, who plays
football, and younger brother
Sam are defensemen-middies.
Martocchio said having
that many sets of brothers on
the team serves as a built-in
See BROTHERS on page 32
Westminster and Ethel Walker win New England softball titles
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
Simsbury is home to two
New England champion softball
teams, which isn’t a first-time
occurrence.
For the second time in
three years, Westminster School
and the Ethel Walker School
won their respective Western
New England Prep School Girls
Softball Association class championships.
On May 17, Westminster
scored a run in the final inning
to defeat the Taft School 4-2 to
win the Class A title. It was the
seventh title in the past eight
years for the Martlets.
The next day, the Ethel
Walker School captured the
Class B championship by scor-
ing two runs in the seventh inning to beat Kingswood Oxford
5-4. It was the second title in
three years for Ethel Walker.
Allison
Nuenke,
an
eighth-grader, drove in the tying
and winning runs with a tworun double with two outs in the
seventh. Players rushed onto the
field and mobbed each other,
screaming and weeping with joy
after the walk-off hit.
“I was just in shock,” Neunke said. “I saw my teammates
ahead of me running the bases
and I was so happy. We worked
so hard for this and we really deserved this.”
With the score tied at 1,
Kingswood scored three runs
in the sixth. Ethel Walker
See ETHEL WALKER on page 32
There is crying in softball, but those are tears of joy from Ethel Walker
team captain Gigi Kieltyka after a walk-off win over Kingswood
Oxford in the New England Class B championship game.
Define pressure. I asked Anne Donovan to do just that
at the Connecticut Sun’s preseason media day last week,
feeling if anyone understood pressure it would be the head
coach of the local WNBA team.
Donovan’s first two seasons as Sun coach were disappointing. Two years ago, they missed the post season, one
year after reaching the league finals under her predecessor, Mike Thibault. Last season, the void stretched to two
years. The ante increases this year with Donovan entering
the final year of a three-year contract, charged with charting a return to the playoffs without her best player, forward
Chiney Ogumike, the number one pick in the 2014 WNBA
draft, who underwent knee surgery in January. At the long
end of the rehab spectrum, with no reason to believe the
Sun will risk rushing her back, Ogumike will miss the entire
season.
“The contract isn’t my concern,” Donovan said. “Chips
fall where chips fall, so that’s not even an issue. The issue
is winning games, figuring out how we’re gonna do that.”
A week after Ogumike’s surgery, the Sun responded
by trading former UConn star Renee Montgomery and this
year’s third overall draft pick to Seattle for forward Camille
Little and swing player Shekinna Stricklen, a pair of talented, seasoned WNBA veterans.
In March, Donovan’s quest for a turnaround took another
downturn when guard Allison Hightower, an important element in the Sun’s team makeup, underwent knee surgery,
the latest in a string of setbacks that limited her to just 14
games in 2014. Hightower will be on the sidelines when
the regular season opens June 5 at home against Thibault’s
Washington Mystics. Hightower and her infectious personality are expected to be the center of the chemistry that will
be critical to this season’s success.
“The biggest key right now,” Donovan said, “is just
blending one more time. We did a pretty good job of blending with new players in our lineup last year. I’d like to think
coming back this year we’d have some consistency, but
with Hightower out and a new point guard [Alex Bentley],
the biggest hurdle right now is getting the best team on
the floor.”
Putting that “best team” on the floor will require a solution for replacing Ogumike on the front line. It’s not likely it
can be done with one player.
“You don’t replace Chiney Ogumike,” Donovan said. “You
just don’t. She does so much for us, just from an energy
standpoint, how hard she runs the floor, how hard she goes
to the glass, how committed she is, if she misses the first
shot, to getting a second shot. You cannot replace that.”
Donovan looks to a multiplayer option. “By committee, we’re going to plug the holes. It’s not going to be one
player. Camille Little can play that position, but she can’t
do everything Chiney did. She can do different things, but
she can’t plug the hole by herself. As a group, we have to
get that done.”
The leadership issue will also have to be addressed
following the retirement of 14-year veteran guard Katie
Douglas.
“The biggest reason we brought her in [two years ago]
was, with a young team, we wanted her leadership,” Donovan said.
Again, Donovan turns to Hightower. “Allison Hightower and [forward] Kelsey Griffin are in their sixth years and
they’ve been in Connecticut their whole careers, so they’ve
studied other players and I think they’ve done a great job.”
The Sun has a new look this season, a team confident in
its own personality, no longer dependent on the UConn signature to establish themselves with fans. The Montgomery
trade left a team that has sported as many as a half dozen
former Huskies with just one, second year guard Kelly Faris.
“Nobody works harder than Kelly,” Donovan said, admitting the transition wasn’t always easy for the former
UConn mainstay. “Offensively, she struggled last year, but
early in camp she’s doing what she does, working hard
and hustling. Her offense looks better at this point. It’s just
gotta shake out.”
“It was completely different,” Faris said of the transition from college. “Luckily, I had the opportunity I had at
UConn and I came from a program where expectations
are off the charts high.”
Faris agrees that chemistry will be critical to this Sun
team, saying, “Hopefully, by the time training camp is over,
we’ll have a little more gel and chemistry and a better idea
of how things will pan out finding a leader to replace Katie.”
The Sun looks to eradicate a two-year playoff void without their star player and minus a key leadership ingredient. No pressure here. Not if you ask Anne Donovan, who’s
ready to bet a new contract on it.
May 28, 2015
The
Valley Press
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Athletes of the Week
Brendan Moore
Boys Lacrosse
Photo by Brendan Driscoll
Granby senior Olivia Johnson has the back of the net in her sights before unleashing a shot past Canton defender Carly
Atkinson (18) and goalie Amanda Gottlieb. Johnson scored five goals to lead the Bears to a 16-10 win.
Granby takes NCCC regular season title
By Brendan Driscoll
Correspondent
In the final game of its
most successful season, the
Canton High School girls
lacrosse team had a chance
to capture the NCCC regular season title for the first
time. The only problem
was the Warriors had to
beat a more experienced
team, one that has been in
that is used to playing for
league championship, and
it proved too difficult.
Granby scored the first
five goals and led from start
to finish in a 16-10 win over
host Canton May 19, avenging a one-goal loss to the
Warriors in April.
“We just didn’t show
up to play in the first game.
We knew it. This game we
showed up to play and
showed up to win,” Granby
coach Terri Ziemnicki said.
“I’m proud of how we played.
It wasn’t the prettiest game
and it wasn’t a perfect game,
but I thought we persevered
and kept our composure.”
With the win, Granby
earned the top seed and a
bye in the NCCC tournament this week. The Bears
finished 8-2 in the conference and 12-4 overall.
Canton went 7-3 in
the NCCC (9-7 overall) and
will play Somers (7-3, 13-3)
Tuesday, May 26, with the
winner playing Granby for
the NCCC tournament final
May 28 at Suffield High.
Granby’s senior tandem
of Olivia Johnson and Krista
Iwanicki scored five and four
goals, respectively, against
Canton. Johnson also had
three assists for the Bears.
“I thought O.J. up top
was great, and Iwanicki
played great on defense,”
Ziemnicki said. “I think our
defense as a unit played better in the second half.”
Granby senior goalie
Hala Van Nostrand made
seven saves.
Trailing 10-6 at the half,
Canton scored the first two
goals in the second half but
Granby answered by scoring
six of the next seven, taking
a 16-9 lead with 4 minutes
left. By scoring 10 goals in
the first half, Granby nearly
equaled its total in a 12-11
loss to Canton April 22.
“Our effort was abysmal to start the game. Our
energy was non-existent. I
sensed it in warm-ups that
we were going to have tough
beginning of the game,” Canton coach Sean Cole said.
“Then, the kids just started
to step up and play a little
better. I think that today the
better team won. They obviously played better from
their goalie to their best two
players. Johnson and Iwanicki played terrific for them.
They played a little hungrier
than we did throughout.”
Granby
sophomore
Grace Giancola scored three
goals. Olivia Sullivan, Emma
Charron, and Carly Atkinson
each scored twice.
The nine wins by Canton included first-ever victories over Avon and Granby,
which have battled for NCCC
supremacy in recent years.
Previously, the most wins in a
season by the Warriors, who
began playing as a varsity
team in 2010, was eight – the
team went 8-10 a year ago.
But the Warriors fell
short of their goal.
“I expected to win this
game today and to win the
conference. I’m disappointed we didn’t achieve that
goal that we had from the
beginning of the year,” Cole
said. “I’m not going to let
them accept the fact that
we got to a game where we
could have won the conference but lost. I think they
will use this as motivation
[this] week in the NCCC
tournament, which is a good
precursor moving into the
state tournament.”
Granby and Canton
both qualified for the Class
S tournament, which begins
with play-down rounds May
29-30.
Granby has won 10 or
more games in eight straight
seasons and has made it to
the Class S final in three of
the last four years, losing all
three. However, Ziemnicki
is not focusing on the state
tournament just yet.
“My theory is, it’s one
day at a time and just take
what’s in the moment,” she
said. “Yesterday is gone; the
future isn’t here yet, so let’s
focus on the moment.”
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The
Valley Press
May 28, 2015
Brendan Moore
Granby Memorial
Class: 2015
Will attend: Morrisville State College
Key to success:
“Practice makes
perfect.”
Academics: Honor
Roll student
Best word that describes me as an athlete: Relaxed
Motto: “My goal is to deny yours”
Pre-game ritual: Prayer
Favorite snack: Ice cream
Favorite meal: General Tso’s chicken
Song that pumps me up: “R-Cali” by ASAP Rocky
Been listening to: Slightly Stoopid
Hidden talent: “I can do a jump up double-heel click.”
Favorite movie: “Drumline” Famous person I met: Brad Field
My must-see TV show: “Impractical Jokers”
TV show character who cracks me up: Key & Peele
Dream vacation: Skiing in Colorado
Dream car: Gull-winged Lamborghini
My three dinner guests would be: Chris Farley, Will Ferrell and
Gabriel Iglesias
Katie Walker
Softball
Katie Walker
Canton High
Class: 2015
Three-sport athlete:
Also played soccer,
basketball
Will attend: Albany
College of Pharmacy
and Health Sciences
Keys to Success:
Determination and
hard work
Awards/honors: Academic scholar, NCCC All-Conference in
soccer and softball, team MVP for soccer
Best word that describes me as an athlete: determined
Motto: “Pain is power.”
Pre-game superstition: “I always wear the same cleats to
the point where they are falling apart and have to be taped
together.”
Favorite Snack: Chewy Dipps granola bars
Favorite meal: Olive Garden chicken parmesan
Song that pumps me up: “Jungle” by the X Ambassadors
and Jamie N Commons
Been listening to: Meghan Trainor
Hidden Talent: Juggling
Favorite movie: “Frozen”
My must-see TV show: “Grey’s Anatomy”
TV Show character who cracks me up: Stewie Griffin from
“Family Guy”
Dream job: Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Dream vacation: Puerto Rico
Dream Car: 1960s Volkswagen Bus
My time machine is set to…: “2015 so that my basketball
team could win the Class S championship.”
My three dinner guests would be: Jennifer Lawrence,
Ellen DeGeneres and Channing Tatum
Freddie was ready
Farmington girls have strong No. 1
and a higher seed in tournament
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
With six seniors on the Granby Memorial tennis team
attending the prom, junior Freddie Moffa stepped up to play
his first match at No. 1 singles and had a successful debut
May 22. Moffa, who went 10-4 at No. 2 singles, rallied from
one set down for a 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 victory over Canton senior
Rich Hefler at Mills Pond courts. Following a pep talk from
Granby coach Kevin Imbt, Moffa closed out the second set
to even the match and overcame a 4-2 deficit in the third
and decisive set.
Paradis wins
Simsbury’s Derek Paradis was on his game in a 6-1, 6-2,
win over Farmington’s Kyle Dopp in the No. 1 singles
match May 22. The Trojans won the match 5-2 and finished with an 8-5 record in the regular season. Farmington went 10-5. Both teams will compete in their respective state tournaments.
Farmington High School girls tennis
coach Charlie Butterfield didn’t anticipate his team would go nearly unbeaten
in the regular season after his top three
singles players graduated last spring.
He had a reason to be more optimistic when senior Hannah Friend stepped
onto the tennis court and displayed the
athleticism that showed why she will be
playing Division I college basketball.
“I had a pretty good idea,” Butterfield
said about his expectations of Friend,
who will play basketball at the University
of Delaware. “Hannah’s a pretty special
athlete. She’s a really good tennis player
and a great athlete. When the athleticism kicks in, the tennis can be taken to
another level.”
Friend, who transferred to Farmington for her senior year, went undefeated
(13-0) in No. 1 singles and didn’t lose a
set, according to Butterfield.
In her 6-2, 6-3, win over Hall’s Alyssa
Freiman, Friend used forehand smashes and backhand dropped shots to win
volleys. She went about it with the same
steely approach she displayed on the
basketball court.
“It’s kind of fun to watch,” Butterfield said. “You see a lot of good high
school tennis players, but you don’t see
that extra. ... I don’t know if it’s a gear or
athletic ability.”
Carolyn Szwed and Mia Singer have
been solid at Nos. 2 and 3 singles, respectively. Julia Meehan and Kathryn Quirk
returned at No. 1 doubles and are having
a strong season.
As a team, Farmington improved to
11-1 with a 5-2 victory over Hall May 18.
The Indians were tied atop the CCC West
with Southington and Northwest Catholic heading into their final match against
Simsbury May 22.
Farmington’s only loss was to
Southington, 5-2. Butterfield said that
match was closer than the score – three
matches went to tiebreaker sets and
could have gone either way. Farmington
beat Northwest Catholic, which defeated
Southington.
When the Class M state tournament begins May 30, Farmington will
have its highest seeding in Butterfield’s
There’s no doubt
who is No. 1 on the
Farmington High
girls tennis team
this spring. For
doubles (above), the
top team is once
again Julia Meehan,
preparing to serve,
and Kathryn Quirk;
Right: Senior
Hannah Friend
had an undefeated
record without
losing a set in No. 1
singles heading into
the final week.
six seasons as coach. The Indians will be
a sixth or seventh seed.
“We can make a little bit of noise. It
all boils down to the draw,” Butterfield
said. “There’s some strong teams from
the shoreline.”
The two finalists in Class M last
spring moved up and down. Wilton, the
champion, is in Class L. Weston, which
beat Farmington 7-0 in the quarterfinals,
is in Class S.
Butterfield said his team will be
better prepared for states, mentally and
physically, than it was a year ago. When
he talked to the players, he said they were
“burnt out.” There was just three days
between the end of the regular season
and the start of the state tournament.
He purposely scheduled just 13 matches
this year, four fewer than last spring, to
give his players more time to take care of
school-related issues and a full week to
practice.
Butterfield also said the weather
has been more cooperative this spring.
A year ago, he said the team was able
to only practice a couple times after the
season started.
“This year we’re getting more practices in and the kids are getting their
studies done,” he said. “They’re much
more relaxed.”
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Seven-peat for FHS
Photo by Ted Glanzer
Farmington goalie Allie Kawicki denies Simsbury’s Sara Colglazier in the waning seconds of the first half.
Simsbury finds scoring touch in second half
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
As the sun ducked behind the
clouds in the first half, the lights at Holden Field were never turned on. When
twilight arrived in the second half, the
switch remained in the off position.
The players on the Simsbury and
Farmington girls lacrosse teams didn’t
appear to have trouble seeing the ball
at any point in the game, both coaches
later said. Finding the back of the net
was a challenge, though.
Simsbury found its scoring touch
faster than Farmington. The Trojans
scored on five of their first six shots and
held on for an 8-6 win May 21 in the final regular season game.
Simsbury coach Kim Rabbitt said
she didn’t make any major adjustments
at halftime to spark the offense.
“I appealed to their sense of playing our game,” she said. “I knew the first
half wasn’t close to playing our game. It
was senior night. They were silly during
warm-ups.”
Going with the usual starting lineup may have had something to do with
it. Because it was Simsbury’s final home
regular season game, Rabbitt started all
11 seniors.
Going back to the regular lineup
to start the second half, the impact was
sudden. About 10 seconds in, junior Callie Bredice scored an unassisted goal.
Senior Meg Corcoran made the
biggest impact. She had a hand in
Simsbury’s next four goals, scoring one
and assisting on the other three as the
Trojans took a 7-3 lead with 18:19 left.
“They came out faster than we
did,” Farmington coach Jeff Manaresi
said.
Following a timeout, Farmington
had some good scoring chance, but
goalie Mackenzie DuBois made several
good saves to keep it a four-goal game.
Farmington senior Linna Jalinskas,
held scoreless in the first half, finally beat DuBois (10 saves) and scored
again 40 seconds later to make it 7-5
with 10:54 left.
Simsbury padded its lead to 8-5
on senior Sutton Wunderle’s third goal
with 5:22 remaining. Farmington’s Lauren Batton answered and the Indians
won the ensuing face-off, but they were
called for an illegal pick.
With his team leading 3-2 at halftime, Manaresi told his players the
team that makes the fewest mistakes in
No team was able to block John Dunphy (4) and Farmington
from repeating as CCC West champion in boys volleyball.
With straight-set wins over Hall and Simsbury last week,
the Indians have won or shared the CCC West title seven
years running. The team went undefeated (8-0) in the CCC
West for the fourth straight season and 38 straight matches
against divisional opponents since 2011.
Spartans win tournament
Simsbury’s Meg Corcoran (27) gets a
step on Farmington’s Lauren Batton.
the second half would win. He counted
eight turnovers on 15 possessions in
the half. For the game, Farmington had
18 turnovers on 31 possessions.
Ali Sheehy scored two goals for
Farmington. Rabbitt was pleased her
team held Jalinskas to two and fellow
senior Abby Arena without a goal.
“Our strategy was to make it
difficult for them to be fed and made it
difficult for them to get a pass off,” Rabbitt said.
Submitted photo
The Simsbury Spartans girls basketball team went 4-0
to win the AAU Tournament in Albany on the weekend of April 18-19. The team is coached by Sam Zullo,
Katie Martensen and Emily Alonzo. Front row, from left
to right: Mary McElroy, Ellie McElroy, Kate Sullivan, and
Riley Peterson; back row: Madison White, Nora Griffiths,
Sadie Gould, Rachel Sullivan, Madison Knapp and
Sophie Greggains
FHS medalists
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Ben Green each claimed medalist honors for posting
low match scores in leading the Indians to back-toback wins over Northwest Catholic and Southington
last week. Fagan shot 37 in a 165-172 victory over
NW Catholic May 20 at Tunxis Plantation CC. Two days
later, Green had a 35 and Farmington shot a season-low
154 in a 5-stroke win over Southington at Tunxis
Plantation. The Blue Knights beat Farmington by 15
strokes April 23 at Hawk’s Landing in Southington.
Burlington’s Gallicchio beats Lewis Mills
By Ted Glanzer
Correspondent
Pitcher Justin Gallicchio, Northwest Catholic
High’s willowy ace, had one
regular-season game circled on the schedule that he
knew he had to start: Lewis
S. Mills, May 23.
It seems an odd choice
at first blush, as the two
teams rarely square off
against one another. But
Gallicchio, a Burlington
resident, attended Mills his
first two years of high school
before transferring to Northwest Catholic at the start of
this school year.
While Gallicchio wasn’t
his sharpest, he did get what
he was looking for in a 9-4
complete-game victory over
his former team on a blustery, sun-splashed day in
Burlington. He yielded two
earned runs on four hits and
struck out six over seven innings. He walked one and hit
two batters.
“I’ve been waiting all
year for this game,” Gallicchio said. “I just wanted to
be able to beat them. … I
knew if I lost, I’d never hear
the end of it.”
Gallicchio said that his
velocity – he hit 90 mph
on the radar gun a couple
of starts ago – wasn’t where
it usually was, accounting
for a couple of wobbles.
He improved to 6-1, accounting for two-thirds
of the wins by Northwest
Catholic (9-10).
“The location was there
and my teammates were
able to make a couple of
plays,” Gallicchio said.
Northwest took a 2-0
lead in the third inning on
an RBI single by Leon Babcock (2-for-4, 2 RBIs) and
run-scoring double play. The
Indians padded their lead to
6-0 in the top of the fourth
when Hunter Tralli (3-for3, 4 RBIs, 2 runs scored) hit
a two-out, three-run double, and Babcock followed
with his second run-scoring
single.
Mills (8-10) got back
into the game in the bottom of the fourth, scoring
three runs on just one hit. Gregory Campbell, who
reached after being hit by a
pitch, scampered home on a
passed ball. Jared Czarnecki reached on an error and
eventually scored on a
fielder’s choice. James Principi walked and eventually
scored on an error to make
it 6-3.
“We battled,” Mills
coach Jesse Darcy said.
“We’ve been working on that
all year. When we’re down,
[we’re] staying tough and
trying to claw our way back
into games."
The Indians responded
with a run in the sixth on
Tralli’s sacrifice fly and two
more in the seventh on RBI
singles by Aaron Renker and
Luke Fox.
Mills’ fourth run came
in the bottom the sixth
when Nick Gauthier executed a suicide squeeze, scoring William Coughlin, who
reached on a single.
“We did all right with
the little things,” Darcy said.
“[Gallicchio’s] velocity didn’t
bother us. We knew exactly
what to expect coming into
this game. With these guys,
velocity isn’t something
that’s going to beat us. We
want to face that. We’ve got
guys who are hungry for
that."
The victory was Northwest Catholic’s third in a
row, representing the longest streak of the season for
the Indians.
“We’re playing better
baseball, which is good going into the tournament,”
coach Cory Carlson said.
“We’re happy with the way
we’ve been playing lately.
We’re just trying to keep the
momentum going into next
week and into tournament
time."
Carlson praised Gallicchio for his performance,
noting that facing his former
teammates on such a windy
day didn’t represent ideal
conditions.
“It’s a lot harder than
people think, for someone to
come back in a situation like
this and throw against kids
you’ve been playing with
your whole life, especially in
high school,” Carlson said.
“On a day like this, we’ll take
that every time.”
And despite Northwest’s record, Carlson said
that teams wouldn’t look
forward to playing the Indians when the state tournament starts.
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Northwest Catholic junior Justin Gallicchio pitched a complete game and got plenty of
support from his teammates.
Darcy said that games
like the one against the Indians will only serve the Spartans well as they enter the
state tournament. “Every year, when we
go out of conference, I try
to schedule tough teams,”
Darcy said. “We want to
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Farmington Track
Photos by Daniel E.S. Kornegay III
These are some of Farmington’s outdoor track athletes in action against Hall May 12.
Clockwise from top left: Senior Conor Habecker has a winning hand off in the 4 x
400 to junior Xavier Amos; freshman Jasmine Shack completes the 1600 strongly
(6:11); junior Jonathan Rodriguez finished first in the 100 (11.7 seconds); senior
Omar Tawh soars 35-4 to win the triple jump as well as the long jump 17-7; senior
Dan Hardiman threw the discus 160-1 and the shotput 50 feet; senior Abby Corrigan
leaped 26-11 in the triple jump; senior Devon Michaelis has winning form by throwing the javelin 125 feet; sophmore Brianna Bermudez finished first in the 400 with
the time of 62.4 seconds; Conard Habecker goes over the finish line first in the 400
with a time of 53.1 seconds; Devon Michaelis also threw the shotput 29’ 7” 1/2
and discus 72’ 10”; junior Xavier Amos leaps over the high hurdles in 16.5 and 42
seconds in the 300 hurdles to qualify for the state championship; sophmore John
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support system. It’s common for one to push
the other to improve, he said.
“The closeness in talent to the kids is cool,”
he said. “It keeps them competing with each
other, which gets us better.”
There are times when that competition
gets a bit heated, forcing the coach to step in.
Like any family, feuds often occur between
siblings.
“But it always works out in the end. We’re
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answered with two in the bottom half. Freshman Sydney Racevicius had an RBI double
and Alex Connor drew a bases-loaded walk to
force in another run, making it 4-3 going into
the last inning.
Nunke, the winning pitcher, allowed a
leadoff bunt single in the seventh before retiring the next three batters. In the bottom half,
Joellen Racicot singled with one out but was
thrown out attempted to steal second.
With two outs and nobody on, KO pitcher
Issie Pratt walked junior captain Gigi Kieltyka and
hit freshman Sara Fallon. Nuenke drove a ball to
deep left-center, scoring both runners to end it.
Ethel Walker finished 14-3 this season.
Coach Brock Dunn said a 3-0 start on the
team’s spring trip to Disney World put the
team on the right path.
Dunn noted that players from Westmin-
Last week, Martocchio said he threatened to install a “timeout rule” if the incessant whining between brothers didn’t cease.
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better than your older brother. There’s a little internal competition that we have within
ourselves. It’s really cool.”
ster were among the spectators who watched
Walker beat KO.
“It was so fantastic for them to show up
and cheer us on,” Dunn said.
Ethel Walker was the only team to
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the job done without overspending. Plus, when you’re
done with the tools you
won’t have to worry about
finding somewhere to store
them. To find a local store,
visit www.rentalhq.com.
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IRRIGATION, INC.
Protect your grass and landscaping
investment! Have an efficient
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or alter your existing system to be
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Floor your house guests with creative design twists
(BPT) - Hardwood
flooring brings enduring
beauty, charm and value
to a home. Not content to
keep a good thing underfoot, inspired homeowners
are now finding new and
creative locations to use it
for a dramatic effect.
Using hardwood flooring on walls and ceilings is
becoming an increasingly
prominent trend. The rationale goes beyond aesthetic.
While the wide variety of
colors and finishes do provide myriad design options,
hardwood flooring is also
very durable and easy to
maintain.
Here are just a few of
the many considerations
for creatively using hardwood flooring:
Deck the walls. Just
like floors, there are a multitude of colors, patterns
and finishes that can be in-
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stalled on walls.
After choosing the
hardwood to match your
decor, design a layout for
how high you want it to
go and how you want the
planks positioned. Choose
a horizontal layout for a
traditional look, or go with
a vertical or diagonal layout for a more distinctive
statement. It’s important
to decide this in advance to
avoid wasting materials.
Ceilings to look up to.
If you want your ceiling to
take center stage, it’s best to
keep the floor neutral and
muted. For cohesion, use
the same tone on both the
ceiling and floor. In an allwhite room, try a wooden
ceiling with a matte finish
for a complementary look.
Make more of less.
Hardwood flooring accents
can help you make the most
of a smaller space. In the
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•
bedroom, place hardwood
flooring around and above
your bed to create a headboard. This creates a familiar look and ties a room
together without taking up
extra space. Another idea is
to use hardwood flooring to
create an accent wall. This
makes the room feel larger
by focusing attention to one
wall.
Choose the right
flooring. It is important to
choose the right hardwood
flooring for specific applications. Lighter-weight products - usually 5/16-inch to
1/2-inch thick - are easier
to install and keep in place
over time. Flooring types
and textures such as acacia
or handscraped styles add
a distinctive character to
rooms.
The Virginia Mill Works
line from Lumber Liquidators features a variety of
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Hardwood flooring brings enduring beauty, charm and value to a home.
choices well suited for this.
Creative options still
abound if you’re a homeowner who literally remains
grounded with their flooring. When deciding how
to decorate an expansive
room, for example, different colors or species of
hardwood can be used to
section off separate areas
- especially in open spac-
es commonly found in loft
style and other contemporary construction.
Imagination is ultimately the only limit for
homeowners.
Classifieds
Help Wanted
Companions &
Homemakers Inc.
CAREGIVERS WANTED
Immediate Openings
We are looking for responsible,
mature individuals who enjoy
working with the elderly and making
a difference in someone’s life.
Good Pay
Choose Your Own Hours
Health/Dental/401k Benefits Available
Positions Available
Throughout the State.
Must have car available
(except live-ins)
Apply Online Today At
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or call 888-844-4442
DCP HCA 0000101
House cleaner Wanted: Make your
own consistent hours, must be reliable, independent, and experienced.
Call Sandy 860-651-4601.
SCHOOL BUS
DRIVERS - AVON
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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At Your Service
Help Wanted
At Your Service
Established asphalt pavement milling, crack sealing, and bridge maintenance contractor seeking multiple
experienced foremen, operators and
laborers. Valid driver’s license with
clean record, ability to pass pre-employment drug test and work in all
weather conditions. All public sector
work with prevailing “high” wage and
benefits. Email resume to jacostello@
costelloindustries.com. EEO
COINS, paper money, &
collectibles bought, sold,
and appraised for over 36
years.
Call Bob Kevorkian for an
appointment.
Blue Devil Aquatics Swim School
Sign-ups for June and
July now available
For information call 860-832-3073 or
email [email protected]
All lessons held at CCSU
Higleyville Coin
1418 Hopmeadow St
Simsbury, CT
(860) 658-1344
Take lessons from a patient and experienced teacher, all ages and levels
welcome. Private instruction with a
classically-trained pianist, graduate
of McGill University (B.Mus and
M.Mus). Studio located in Tariffville.
Please contact Claire for more information: 201-213-6645, claire.paik@
gmail.com
PHYSICAL THERAPIST
The Farmington Valley VNA is seeking
highly skilled, compassionate, registered physical therapists with 2-3
years clinical experience to conduct
home care visits on a per diem basis.
Our dynamic “HomeCare Elite” agency offers competitive per-visit rates,
mileage reimbursement, and a flexible schedule. Please contact Dyanne
Hanelius, OTR/L at 860-651-3539 or
[email protected].
Farmington Valley VNA
8 Old Mill Lane
Simsbury, CT 06070
www.farmingtonvalleyvna.org
EOE
Per Diem School RN
The Farmington Valley VNA manages the School Nursing Program for
the Town of Granby in their elementary, intermediate, middle, and high
schools. We are in need of CT-licensed RN’s for per diem coverage
in the Granby School nursing clinics
during the school year. Experience
with pediatric or school nursing preferred. Please send resume to Jodi
French, RN at [email protected].
ct.us.
Farmington Valley VNA
8 Old Mill Lane, Simsbury, CT
06070
www.farmingtonvalleyvna.org EOE
May 28, 2015
SWIM LESSONS
A Dept of Simsbury Pharmacy
PUBLIC
NOTICES
LEGAL NOTICES
Deadlines for legal notices is Friday
at noon. Notices may be faxed to
860-606-9599
For questions about rates or
placing a notice please call
860-651-4700
At Your Service
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GUITAR LESSONS
in your home. I am a Hartt School of
Music graduate with thirty years of
teaching and recording experience.
I have helped many students prepare
for Jazz Band music auditions,
improvise, and learn to play their
favorite songs. All styles, levels, and
ages with references available.
Tom Tribuzio, 860-673-1210.
[email protected]
TRAVELING MUSIC
TEACHER
Music lessons in the comfort of
your own home. Musician Billy
Romanos offers piano and guitar lessons for all levels, ages,
and styles of music. Over 40 years
experience.
Graduate of Berklee College of
Music in Boston.
Billy 860-978-3333
LANDSCAPING
Northern Pine Landscaping. Weekly
lawn cutting. Consistent meticulous
maintenance. Very conscientious,
3rd generation landscaper. Spring &
Fall cleanups. Trimming, mulching,
organic lawn fertilizing. Long-standing references. Reasonable rates.
860-836-9620.
Gambling Problem?
Gamblers Anonymous can help you.
Take back your life.
Phone: 855-2-CALL-GA
855-222-5542
to speak with someone
Gamblers Anonymous is a non-profit fellowship of men and women who
share their experience, strength and
hope with each other that they may
solve their common problem and help
others to recover from a gambling
problem.
www.gamblersanonymous.org.
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Call James at 860-940-8713 or visit
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Daily, Weekly and
One-Time Rates Available.
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MORAWSKI CLEANING LLC
A Super Service Award Winner
Call Sandy at 860-651-4601 • MORAWSKICLEANING.COM
[email protected]
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Does Health Insurance confuse you?
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the Affordable care act
plans!” Call us to make
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Your local licensed independent Health Insurance Broker. [email protected]
Gambling Problem?
I BUY houses
AS-IS. Cash.
Call TODAY
860-674-9498 or
Email:
john@boucherbuilding.
com.
CT.REG.# 530518.
Gamblers Anonymous can help you.
Take back your life.
Phone: 855-2-CALL-GA
855-222-5542
to speak with someone
Gamblers Anonymous is a non-profit fellowship of men and women who
share their experience, strength and
hope with each other that they may
solve their common problem and help
others to recover from a gambling
problem.
www.gamblersanonymous.org.
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NOTICE
All real estate advertised in this
newspaper is subject to the Federal
Fair Housing Act of 1968, revised
March 12, 1989, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on
race, color, religion, national origin,
sex, sexual orientation, handicap, or
familial status or intention to make
any such preference, limitation or
discrimination; and is also subject to
the State of Connecticut General
Statutes Sections 46a-64c which
makes it illegal to advertise any
preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, creed, color,
national original, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age,
lawful sources of income, familial
status, or physical or mental disability, or an intention to make any such
preference, limitation, or
discrimination.
This newspaper will not knowingly
accept any advertising for real
estate or for the sale or rental of
residential property which is in violation of these laws.
Our readers are hereby informed
that all dwellings advertised are
available on an equal opportunity
basis.
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DECKS
• Textured Ceilings • Drywall & Plaster Repair
• Ceiling Painting • Interior & Exterior Painting
& Refinishing
• New Ceiling Installation
• Bathtub Reglazing
CT License #557873
Call
Insured • Prompt Service
SPRAY-TEX
• We specialize in wood and
composite decking/railing
• Professional craftsmanship
• EARLY SPRING SPECIALS
• Free design/consultation
for
FREE estimate
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EQUIPMENT REPAIR
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EQUIPMENT REPAIR
ADVANCED
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EQUIPMENT
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✔ Excavating
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Brannack Electric Inc.
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• Additions
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• Garages
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• Consulting
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203-819-1612
Over 25 Years Experience
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HOME IMPROVEMENT
Rocke
Construction
Handyman Service
• Painting, Carpentry, Tiling, Flooring
• Kitchen and Bathroom Remodeling
• Maintenance and Repairs
All your home improvement needs at one place!
Call David 860-539-0495
HOME IMPROVEMENT
A.D. FLOORS
Wood Floors
Sanding & Refinishing
of West Hartford
Floors
Tile • Slate • Linoleum • Stone • Stripping
Refinishing • Waxing & Polishing
35 yrs. consistent, quality service.
Very reasonable prices.
Call Tony - leave a message or
available after 6:00pm.
860-953-4732
Fully Insured • Free Estimates • Locally Owned & Operated
Over Three Decades of Service
HOME IMPROVEMENT
Hebert Construction
Home Improvement
Framing • Siding • Roofing • Doors
Sheetrock & Tape • Intall Finish Stairs
Inside & Outside Trim • Replacement Windows
Kitchens & Baths • Room Additions & Blueprints
Over 35 years experience • References
Call 860-977-3621 or
HIC 050743
860-953-1489
HOME IMPROVEMENT
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Old Fashioned Quality You Can Live With
Remodeling
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•Additions • Bath • Kitchens
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Since 1988
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HOME IMPROVEMENT
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LANDSCAPING & TREE SERVICES
• Expert Tree Removal
• Pruning
• Stump Grinding
• Landscaping
• Lot Clearing &
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HOME IMPROVEMENT
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A Full Service Building Contractor
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ALISTAR SERVICE CO.
A Professional Cleaning Service • Commercial & Residential
24 Hour Emergency Service
• Generator installations
• Interior & Exterior Lighting
• Remodeling & Additions
• Service Upgrades
• Telephone, Cable TV, &
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• Pool & Spa Wiring
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More Like A Friend Than A Company
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Service Up-grades * Service Calls
* Generator Hook Ups * Prompt Service
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35 Peters Road
Bloomfield
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Over 30 Years In Business
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155 Brickyard Road, Farmington
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• Patios
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MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED.
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HOME IMPROVEMENT
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BARRETT ENTERPRISES LLC
Home Improvement Contractor
So Many Amateurs . . . So Few Professionals!!
- COMPLETE MAINTENANCE & REPAIR • Siding
• Decks
• Kitchens
• Bathrooms
• Remodeling
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SMALL OR LARGE • WE DO IT ALL!
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860.738.4931 or 203.232.9114
Lic. #HIC0625936
• Complete Basement Renovations
• Kitchen & Bathrooms Updated
• Windows/Doors Installed
• Pre-Finished Floorings • Custom Ceramic Tile
• Maintenance-Free Decks • Finish Carpentry
• Complete Painting Service • Custom Countertops
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HOME IMPROVEMENT
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HOME IMPROVEMENT
We canCHARLIE’S
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CONSTRUCTION
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• Site Work
• Backhoe Service
• Bobcat, Wood Chipper For Hire
• New Lawns Installed
• New Septic Systems & Repairs
• Small Demolition Work
Serving the Farmington Valley
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* Concrete * Stone Walls * Patios
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203-206-2839
HOME IMPROVEMENT
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In business for a blessed 29 years
(860) 582-0712
Fax: (860)410-1190 or (860) 583-2183
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• Additions • Vinyl Siding Trim
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what
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LANDSCAPING
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Weekly
• Mulching
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• Overseeding
Hedge
Trimming
& Pruning
• Mulching • Weekly Mowing
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remove junk from basements,
attics, and garages
Mattress & Box Springs
$50 extra.
“Building Trust By Doing Jobs Right!”
P.O. Box 791
[email protected] Farmington, CT 06034
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LANDSCAPING
D.H. RADOMSKI, INC.
HOME IMPROVEMENTS
High in Quality and Dependability
FREE ESTIMATES
LANDSCAPE
CONTRACTORS
• Pool Patios
• Poolscapes
• Lawn Installation
• Tree & Shrub
HYDROSEEDING
Planting
EROSION CONTROL
• Pruning
Based In & Serving The Farmington Valley • Walkways
For Over 18 Years
& Patios
Fully Licensed & Insured
• Walls & Steps
• Yard Drains
• Excavating
• Grading
cell: 860-250-2908
• Snowplowing
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LANDSCAPING
MASONRY
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LANDSCAPE & DESIGN, LLC
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Sidewalks • Fire Pits • Pruning • Plantings Tree Removals
MASONRY
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Brick Walls • Blue Stone
Steps • Fireplaces
Chimneys • Patios • Sidewalks
Pavers • Retaining Walls
860.225.3077
cell 860.839.8971
SPECIALIZING IN:
Stone Wall Patios & Veneers • Patio Walls - Walk Ways
Chimney Rebuilding - Brick & Block Additions - Partition Walls
Basement Waterproofing - Drainage Work - Pre-Cast Retainer Walls
Pre-Cast Artificial Stone Veneers - Ceramic Tile Installed
Bobcat Service - Snow Plowing - Trucking
Satisfaction Guaranteed ~Free Estimates ~ Lic#0637095
Andi’s Masonry
860-417-9968
MASONRY
Olde Tyme Service
I will respond to all phone calls and will be present on all jobs.
Over 25 years experience. Insured • Free estimates • 24 Hour Message Center
CT LIC. #621995 • RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL
www.OldeTymeServiceLLC.com
• Patios
• Walls
• Driveways
• Pools in Stone
• Brick, Bluestones
& Pavers
• Stairs and Walkways
Serving the Farmington Valley
for over 17 years!
FREE ESTIMATES
CT Lic# 602717
860-368-9486
MASONRY
KC MASONRY
Stonewalls • Brick Walls
Bluestone • Steps
Fireplaces • Chimneys
Patios • Sidewalks
We can also do all
Masonry Repairs!
Fully Insured
Call Tom Ajro
860-274-7681
Cell - 203-565-4381
Quality Workmanship
Free Estimates • Lic#0604514
Ken (203) 558-4951
Satisfaction Guaranteed ~Free Estimates
PAINTING
Call Andrew at 860-930-0392 or 860-659-1296
All type of Masonry Work
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Blue Stone • Steps
Chimneys • Sidewalks
Pavers • Retaining Walls
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• Ceilings – Textured or Smooth –
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• Woodwork – Crown Molding, wainscoting,
etc – Installed, Repaired or Replaced
• Drywall & Plaster Repairs
• Wallpaper Removal & Hanging
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Tom’s Masonry
Stone/Brick Walls
Side Walks/Steps
Fireplaces/Chimneys
Firepits/Outside Living
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Cell: (203) 558-8019
WATER DAMAGE REPAIR
PAINTING -ALL PHASES
MASONRY
MASONRY
Free Estimates
Booca
Masonry Company
PAINTING
203-232-0257 Lic. #0580443
860-810-4196
30 Years Experience • License #0630165 • New Britain, CT
All Masonry Repairs
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MASONRY Dennis Volpe
MASONRY
Retaining Walls, Chimney Repair,
Steps, All Masonry Services
Land Clearing • Brush Clearing
Shrub Removal • Hardscaping
New Lawn Installations
MASONRY
Buki -
Over 30 years experience
Expert Tree Climbers & Crane Service
Spring Cleanups • Mulching • Mulch Deliveries
860-296-3405
LANDSCAPING
Arboretum
CT LIC# 0630444
FULLY INSURED
FULLY
INSURED
Lic. #578351
Junk Removal
CT REG.
ROOFING
#509749
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DOORS • GUTTERS • DECKS • AWNINGS
JUNK REMOVAL
AVALLONE ADVANCED PRO HOME IMPROVEMENT
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SIDING
REPLACEMENT WINDOWS
GUTTERS
ADDITIONS
TOTAL REMODELING
INTERIOR & EXTERIOR
LOW
PRICES
860-653-4677
HOME IMPROVEMENT
CONTRACTORS
Visit us at www.dhradomski.com
We can rebuild stone walls
CT License #HIC0616677
HOME IMPROVEMENT
PAINTING
PAINTING
Simsbury’s Hometown Painting Company
VALLEY PAINTER
Serving the Valley since 1980
FULL CREW READY TO GO
EXTERIOR SPECIALS
Quality Craftsmanship • Competitive Prices
Call Peter Sottile 860-658-7745
Insured - Interior & Exterior • CT Reg. #562798
May 28, 2015
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Valley Press
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PAINTING
PAINTING
Quality Painting by Joseph’s & Co.
PAINTING
PAINTING BRECHUN PAINTING
Exterior Experts
Since 1950
PROFESSIONAL HOME
IMPROVEMENT-REMODELING
ALL WORK The Experienced, and Reliable Company.
GUARANTEED Staining • Power Washing • Carpentry
We also Spray Paint Faded Aluminum & Vinyl Siding
like new with a 15 Year Written Guarantee
Insured
Lic. #062380
860-561-0146
PAINTING
OWNER
MR. JOSEPH PONTILLO
MANY SATISFIED CUSTOMERS
Let
Speedy Pride Painting
beautify the inside of your home.
Scheduling interiors as well as exteriors.
If you sign within the next 2 months, receive $25 gift card to Starbuck’s
860-459-6705
[email protected]
lic. #0623272
We also offer general handyman/repair services.
Akcent
PAINTING
PAINTING
ZB PAINTING
Interior & Exterior
Aluminum, Vinyl & Wood
Siding & Shingles
Painting and Remodeling
Specializing in:
INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR PAINTING
• Powerwashing • Deck Staining
• Ceiling Repairs • Spraying
• Home Improvements & Renovations
and more
Over 15 years of experience
Call Chris @ 860 944 9100
www.AkcentRestoration.com
POWER WASHING
• Good painting preparation
• Trim, Window Painting & Glazing
• Shingle Repair • Power Washing
INTERIOR WORK: repair ceilings, walls, trim,
moldings, baseboards, doors, windows
EXTERIOR WORK: Small Masonry Repair
Free estimates. You can count on us for a precise & excellent job!
20 year experience. HIC #0575928
Call: Zenon 860-518-0630
Bodgan 860-518-2625
POWER WASHING
ROB’S
GUTTER CLEANING
POWER WASHING
ROOF CLEANING
978.67 includes materials
Refer a friend, you both receive 10% OFF
Our success is based on your satisfaction. Since 1986.
785 includes materials
Any 3 rooms plus a 1/2 bath
$
860-982-3300
RobPolo.com
RAINBOW
HYDRA-BLAST
WHY JUST POWERWASH
Specializing in high pressure
house detailing since 1988.
Fully Insured/Free Estimates
860-649-4953
860-402-7672
ROOFING
ROOFING
STUMPS?
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Call
VALLEY STUMP
GRINDING, LLC
Lic #:HIC0607969
Power Washing,
Deck Staining, Light Carpentry
(860) 675-4025
Farmington
25 years of experience
in Farmington Valley
KITCHENS - BATHROOMS - WALLPAPER
TILES- BASEMENTS - ATTICS
ALUMINUM SIDING
Reg #0562179
[email protected]
EPA
CERTIFIED
CONN. LICENSE NO. 536406 COMPLETE INSURANCE
PAINTING
PAINTING &
CEILING REPAIR
Small renovations,
home repair, carpentry
& painting.
Complete prep.
INTERIOR SPECIALS FOR
THE NEXT TWO MONTHS
2 rooms plus a 1/2 bath
$
Interior & Exterior Painting
ZIBBY DRZAZGOWSKI
PAINTING
In need of having a couple of rooms painted?
PAINTING
T.C. Home Improvement
Cell 860-916-6287
Free
Estimates Home 860-523-4151
860-673-7280
PAINTING
HIC#0629057
Pro Quality
Painting & Home
Repair, LLC
860-201-7788
www.pqpainting4u.com
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• All home repair • Fully licensed and insured
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• General Pests
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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.
Call today and we will
show you quality still
makes a difference!
STUMP GRINDING
STUMPS?
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VALLEY STUMP
GRINDING, LLC
Licensed & Insured - 35Licensed
years of craftsmanship
& Insured - 35 year
ROOFING
ROOFING • SIDING
• WINDOWS • & more...
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HARMONY
Home Improvement (860) 645-8899
Creating HARMONY
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contractor & community
Fully Insured
FREE Estimates
Lic. #604200
SIDING
VINYL SIDING SPRING SPECIAL
SAVE 35% OFF NOW
Free estimates. Absolute lowest prices possible!
Deal direct with owner.
REPAIRS/GARAGES
860-614-1173
Lic. #0639246
STUMPS
WINDOW WASHING
860-614-1173
Lic. #0639246
WINDOW WASHING
When It Comes To Tree Service
We Run Rings Around The Competition.
WE CLEAN WINDOWS!
Grimshaw Tree Service
and Nursery Company
Commercial & Residential
rv
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860-563-2001
WINDOWS
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• Free estimates • Fully Insured & Bonded • Uniformed • Reliable
“Residential”
WINDOWS & DOORS
*Sales * Service * Installation*
A BETTER VIEW
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860-249-1558
www.fishwindowcleaning.com/3053
860-747-8875
thewindowmanofct.com * [email protected]
*Bill Morrell Contractor * Ct Lic.#0509785 * Insured*

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