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Fire officials continued to investigate the cause of a blaze July 28 they say could have been much worse if not for a couple of good Samaritans.

Numerous calls came in to the Fire Department about a house fire at 56 Laurel St. shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday, according to Fire Lt. Glenn Dube.

Richard and Jaclyn Piccirillo, of Southington, were driving by when they saw the fire, according to authorities. They kicked down the door and alerted the occupants, then helped them get out.

“We came around the cor-ner and saw the garage had been inflamed and it was al-ready going into the house, so we parked the car and ran up to the door, kicked the door in and started pull-ing the husband out,” Jaclyn Piccirillo told WVIT-TV.

The residents, who in-cluded grandparents and adult grandchildren, did not realize the home was on fire, Dube said. The house next door had also caught fire, and the couple quickly helped those residents get out, Dube said.

They “did a good job,”

Dube said.Captain Alan Zygmunt

said the incident could have been much worse.

Richard Piccirillo is a fire-fighter, according to WVIT. The couple could not be reached for comment.

No injuries were re-ported. The fire is believed to have started in the at-tached garage of 56 Laurel St., then spread into the house and to the house next door. The house at 56 Laurel St. will be uninhab-itable for an undetermined time, Dube said. There is fire damage in the garage and kitchen and smoke and water damage throughout the house, Dube said.

The house next door sus-

tained mostly exterior wall damage, Dube said.

Four engine companies responded, and the scene was cleared about 12:30 a.m., Dube said. Plainville sent an engine and was on mutual aid to help cover the rest of the town, Dube said.

The fire is thought to be accidental, but the fire mar-shal’s office is investigating, Dube said.

The family indicated they had a place to go for the time being, Dube said. At the house on Monday after-noon, about a dozen people were cleaning and sorting out items. A truck and car in the driveway and carport looked to have sustained heavy damage.

Family saved from burning home by off-duty firefighter

By Lauren SievertSpecial to The Citizen

Residents begin the process of cleaning up after a fire heavily damaged their home on Laurel Street July 29.

Four Republican incum-bents will not be seeking re-election to the Town Council this November, say-ing that they would like to spend more time with their families and take a break from politics.

Chairman John Dobbins, Vice Chairman Peter Romano and Al Natelli all have served four years. Louis Martocchio

joined the council last year when then-Chairman Edward Pocock III stepped down af-ter receiving a promotion with the Southington Police Department. Martocchio served as assistant town at-torney three years prior to his role on Town Council.

“For all of us, it is a per-sonal decision and a tough one,” Dobbins said, “but we all have our family lives, our personal lives, and every-

Four Southington ‘ins’ bow out

By Farrah DuffanySpecial to The Citizen

In the effort to save money and improve eff iciency, Town Hall and the Board of Education are seeking ways to combine services.

The initiative is being led by School Superintendent Joseph Erardi and Town Manager Garry Brumback.

“We are looking at what’s unique and what’s the same about what we do,” Brumback said.

Combining human re-sources and purchasing functions is being explored. Officials are also analyzing

maintenance and finance services.

Erardi said the partner-ship idea started when the Board of Education and Town Council agreed the municipal building would be used for school and town government offices.

“We’ve been meeting often and are in a position where we are including similar goals and objectives and have an opportunity to collectively merge offices in the best in-terest of the town,” Erardi said.

Before the proposed part-

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Preparing for the advent of full-day kindergarten this year, Karen Smith, assistant superintendent of schools, has been working closely with a group of administra-tors and teachers to expand activities around the exist-ing kindergarten curriculum in time for the first day of school, Aug. 29.

“Team members and I have met over the summer to de-velop curriculum to be ready before the school year,” Smith said. “We’ve completed units of study through September, and the next step is to com-plete it through the fall. It’s a wonderful piece of work.”

The curriculum will re-main the same for students entering kindergarten, but she said full-day kindergar-ten offers the opportunity to expand activities around the existing curriculum, based on the common core state standards.

“There will be more time to develop skills,” Smith said.

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“It’s another way to retell the stories and learn lan-guage,” Risser said, as she stressed that these activities are made possible because of the extended-day program.

“We have the time and op-portunity,” she said. “Our cur-riculum is mandated by the state and we have the devel-opmental opportunity to ex-pand the program.”

Risser said she was grate-ful to work with the team of administrators and teachers and brainstorm and “produce a well-written curriculum to share with teachers before the school year starts.”

Smith said students will

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Construction continues on a two-story Center Street building that will soon house a restaurant and a medical office.

“We’re looking at finishing construction for September,” said Simon Delbuono, the developer of the 56 Center St. building. “We can prob-ably open for October or November.”

The first floor will be occu-pied by an Asian-fusion style restaurant, to be managed

by the owners of Puket Cafe Thai Cuisine in Wethersfield and Rocky Hill. A medical office will occupy the sec-ond floor. Delbuono is still seeking a tenant for the third floor. Each floor provides 3,500 square feet of space.

Another building owned by Delbuono, at 142 Center St., will soon be home to an Irish pub. About a month ago a frozen yogurt shop moved into another of his buildings, at 25 Center St.

Economic Development Coordinator Louis Perillo said the additions show that Center Street continues to at-

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The three-story building currently under construction on Center Street.

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“I feel, personally, the econ-omy is not good, and to have this type of activity shows people are willing to invest,” Secondo said.

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HARTFORD — A review of rates proposed by insur-ance carriers offering the low-est-cost plans for individuals in Connecticut’s new health in-surance exchange shows there are narrow differences be-tween the different companies.

According to a report re-leased Tuesday, the rates filed with the state’s Department of Insurance for individuals vary, at most, by a little more than 10 percent.

“In general, our review indi-cated the rates within a bronze medal tier are pretty narrow,”

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For a single person age 21 living in Fairfield County, the most expensive county in Connecticut for individual and small group insurance, av-erage rates for bronze plans range from $222.24 a month to $245.51. For a family of four, including a couple in their for-

ties with two teenage children, the rates range from $904.72 to $999.45 a month in Fairfield County. That’s before any eli-gible federal subsidies might apply.

The proposed rates exam-ined by Wakely are not yet final. The Department of Insurance still needs to approve, reject or change the proposals for both individual and small group plans to be offered by Access Health CT, the state’s health insurance exchange. While the department had faced a Wednesday deadline for ac-tion, it appears new changes in federal rules could give the agency until next month. Open

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“That, to me, is a great exam-ple of how the marketplace is working,” Counihan said. “We want those carriers to be in that marketplace, fighting it out.”

But Lambert stressed that the amount of people’s pre-miums will ultimately depend on numerous factors, such as where they live, their age,

their family size and other is-sues. Hartford County had the lowest premiums for the pro-posed individual plans, while Litchfield County had the low-est for small group plans, which include less than 50 people.

Lambert’s group con-ducted a cursory comparison of 2013 rates to the ones pro-posed for the health exchange. Considering the new plans will likely offer expanded benefits, among other reasons, some younger people ineligible for subsidies could see some fairly significant premium increases.

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Next week’s Taste of Southington will give peo-ple a chance to sample items from 13 local restaurants.

The Aug. 7 event on the grounds of the Barnes Museum, 85 N. Main St., is expected to draw more than 2,000 people. Many will also take advantage of a free con-

cert on the nearby town green that is part of the Music on the Green series. Taste of Southington runs from 4 to 7:30 p.m. The rain date is Aug. 8.

“People go to the Taste of Southington, eat delicious food and go down to the green and listen to the per-former,” said Sue Smayda, the executive director of the Barnes Museum. “It becomes

a wonderful night on the town.”

Tents are set up on the grounds of the Barnes Museum and each business provides a food or beverage item for guests to sample for a small fee. Marie Secondo, the Barnes Museum curator, makes sure that every restau-rant brings something differ-ent. As guests enter, they will be handed a menu listing the

Taste of Southington coming next weekBy Farrah DuffanySpecial to The Citizen

items at each restaurant’s station.

Part icipat ing restau-rants are: Anthony Jack’s Wood Fired Grill, Cork & Brew, Machiavelli ’s , Moe’s Southwest Grill , Paul Gregory’s Bistro, Randy’s Wooster St. Pizza Shop, Saints Restaurant & Catering, Sixpence Pie Company, Smokin’ with Chris, CC Carvers Gourmet Sandwiches, Napoli Café Deli & Catering, Christina’s Gourmet Cookies, and Namaste India.

“We told them that their choice of food items must not be anything like any other restaurant’s,” Secondo said. “That’s how we keep it a nice variety.”

The event is also a chance for businesses to promote their food.

“It’s an opportunity to get our food out there,” said Chuck Carlette a co-owner of CC Carvers Gourmet Sandwiches, on North Main Street. “I think it’s great.”

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“There was a good crowd,” Michalski said. “I especially like doing it because my storefront is, like, 20 feet away, so it’s nice.”

Last year, Michalski said, she gave away free samples of soda and if people wanted to walk to her business, they could also try samples of homemade wine.

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Three years ago, Carole Mi lano’s o lder s i s ter, Kathleen Sena, died at 68. Milano often f inds her-self reminiscing about their younger days, which she was in charge of taking care of Sena after school.

“I would tap dance and sing for her,” Milano said, laugh-

ing. “If she liked it, she would clap her hands and say, ‘Le le le’ and if she didn’t like it she would throw things at me.”

Until Sena was a teen, she stayed home under the care of her family because she could not communicate well. She had Cornelia de Lange syndrome, a genetic disor-der present from birth that “causes a range of physical, cognitive and medical chal-

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growing up,” Milano said.To honor her sister’s mem-

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As landline phones con-tinue to decline in use, local emergency services encour-age residents to register their

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Wallingford Police Lt. Mark Mikulski said people without a wired, landline telephone can’t get those messages un-

By Lauren SievertSpecial to The Citizen

less they sign up their wire-less phones.

“We are trying to get as many people to sign up as possible so they receive the alerts,” Mikulski said. “We are anticipating a very active tropical storm season this year and want to ensure ev-eryone gets an alert message who wants one.”

Mikulski said the town has used the reverse 911 sys-tem since 2009. Messages are only sent when an emer-gency has been declared, he said.

At a recent emergency management drill and round table discussion, Mikulski said, the group discussed getting more residents to register.

Residents can choose to get alerts by text, email or a pre-recorded message by registering their mobile phone numbers at www.ct.gov/ctalert.

Wallingford, Meriden and Southington use the Everbridge reverse 911 sys-tem. Cheshire uses a pro-gram called Code Red.

Southington Lt. Michael Baribault said the town and the Board of Education share the Everbridge system. Police and town officials use the system to send out mes-sages concerning weath-er-related hazards, including those encountered during the blizzard in February. The message told residents of warming centers and how the town was progressing.

When a message is go-ing to be sent out, it is re-corded then “kicked out” to all the registered numbers, Baribault said. Baribault said the system works for all types of phones.

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“I think they should give everyone the opportunity to showcase their work,” Zygmunt said.

As the president of the Southington Arts Council for 31 years, Milano said she’s al-ways wanted to display the work of artists with disabil-ities but it never came to fruition.

“My whole feeling is a lot of people have conceptions about people if they look different or act different,” Milano said. “Growing up like I did, and having someone at

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home, it just made me a very accepting person and willing to be open and a regular fan of what anyone could do.”

“People with disabilities don’t want to be treated dif-ferently from anyone else,” Zygmunt said. “My hope is that I don’t know anything about the artist before I see the work. I think the art should speak for itself.”

The Southington Arts Council will be accepting work from 1 to 6 p.m. Aug. 9 at Paris in Plantsville Gallery on 15 W. Main St. Winners will be announced on Aug. 10. The first-place work gets $300, second place $200 and third place $100.

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Links are available on the Cheshire town and fire de-partment websites to sign up, as well as the Southington town website.

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“Students will be using ob-jects to see what floats and what sinks,” Risser said.

Board of Education Vice Chairwoman Terri Carmody said she can’t imagine how kindergarten was properly taught in the two-and-a-half-hour, half-day format.

“The more time students spend being in school, the

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more beneficial it is to them,” said Carmody, head of the board’s curriculum commit-tee. “I’m very confident in the curriculum the teachers and administrators worked on all summer and am ex-cited to see the results.”

Risser said that students will deal with the transition from half-day to full-day kin-dergarten differently.

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Carmody said classes will range in size from 15 to 18 stu-dents from 4 to 6 years old.

“I understand people were hesitant about this,” Carmody said. “I respect that. But educationally, this is a very sound decision.”

The administration at each elementary school will provide help for parents and students with the transition, Smith said.

“Bottom line,” school board Chairman Brian Goralski said, “now students will get everything kinder-garten has to offer and the teachers won’t have to rush through the subjects to truly teach it.”

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“Diners don’t have to select a specific restaurant,” Perillo said. “They just go to down-town Southington and see what they feel like when we get there.”

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thing else. We put four good years in, with a lot being ac-complished in the town.”

Romano also said he’d like to spend more time with his family and that the last four years were a lot of work.

“I enjoyed doing it and hopefully someday I can re-turn,” Romano said. “But now is not the time.”

Southington Democratic Town Chairwoman Elaine Bedard said that whether the four incumbents ran or not “wouldn’t have made a dif-ference” in the election. The Republicans hold a 6-3 major-ity on the council.

An issue that caused a

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lot of tension between the Democrats and Republicans this year was charter revi-sion. In March the coun-cil voted along party lines to form a Charter Revision Commission. A major change that was discussed during some contentious debates was giving the town man-ager authority over the fire and police chiefs and turning the police and fire commis-sions into advisory boards. Republicans supported the change and Democrats op-posed it.

“From where I sit, this council was just different from most I’ve seen,” Bedard said. “I think, had they run, I don’t know if they would win.”

Attending up to six meet-ings a month for four years, Republican Town Chairman Brian Callahan said, the councilors have worked hard, accomplished a lot and wanted to take time off.

“You just get to the point

where you need to take a break and get the batteries recharged and that’s why they are doing it,” Callahan said. “They’re not doing it to walk away from problems; they need time off.”

Democratic Councilor Chris Palmieri said it was a “pleasure” working with the four councilors and that “they will be missed.”

“I think they’re all great guys; it’s just we don’t always agree,” Palmieri said. “I think they do what they believe is in the best interest of the town, and so did we.”

Natelli said Monday af-ter the slate was announced that he’s looking forward to spending time with his daughter and son.

“While they say parent-ing is the greatest job on earth, this was one of the top five greatest jobs on earth,” Natelli said. “But it’s not just about that. It’s also time to meet new people and new ideas.”

Dobbins and Romano also said it is time to let others have a chance to run and bring new ideas to the ta-ble. They said the mix of veterans on the slate — Michael Riccio and Victoria Triano — and newcomers Thomas Lombardi and Paul Champagne is a positive one.

“The crew that is po-

tentially coming in on the Republican side is very knowledgeable,” Dobbins said.

“We have to look to a fu-ture now that says, ‘We ap-preciate what’s been done by the last incumbents and we want to keep on that track, but we think we can make it better this way,’ ” Natelli said.

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nership moves forward, it will be presented to the Board of Education and Town Council. Erardi said the board won’t act until September.

Board of Finance Chairman John Leary said this partner-ship would avoid redundan-cies and benefit the town.

“Some of the positions are redundant,” Leary said. “Combing departments will be better for the taxpay-ers and will break down the barriers between the two departments.”

Leary said the effort will

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lead to a “lean and more ef-fective operation.” Trust be-tween the two entities is crucial, he added.

“We have two excellent leaders in charge,” Leary said. “They have proven them-selves to be positive collabo-rators and this can be a highly functional unit.”

Sherri DiNello, director of business and finance for the Board of Education, said this transition is only a “natural progression,” because of the combined offices in the mu-nicipal center.

Brumback and Erardi said they want to include the part-nership in the next operating budget.

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A- f r a m e s i g n s a r e once again prohibited on Southington roadsides, as the Planning and Zoning Commission has decided to allow a pilot program per-mitting them to expire. The signs will still be allowed on sidewalks inside plazas, courtyards and other off-road locations.

“There was a conversation with the commission (that in-dicated) that they were dis-appointed,” Town Attorney Mark Sciota said.

The signs had been illegal in town until September 2012. At that time, the commission suspended the ban until Jan. 1,

2013, or until new regulations were passed.

Commission member Steve Kalkowski, a member of the subcommittee that devel-oped the regulations, said in January that signs have to be for a special service or event, can’t be used for general ad-vertising, and are allowed on sidewalks in business zones for 14-day periods six times a year.

“It was determined that very few people came to Town Hall to follow the proper procedures for the A-frame signs,” said Michael DelSanto, the chairman of the commission.

At the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting last week, Kalkowski explained

that businesses weren’t going to Town Hall for applications. He also said signs weren’t be-ing taken inside at night and some businesses were even using more than one sign.

“There was one application over six months,” Kalkowski said. “When I presented to the full commission, I told them our recommendation from the subcommittee is to not continue with the pilot and let the regulation (allow-ing A-frame signs) along the public roadway lapse.”

The subcommittee also said that the Southington Chamber of Commerce wasn’t upholding its com-mitment to help enforce the rules and the town doesn’t have a zoning officer to help


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Planning Department is un-derstaffed, with no zoning enforcement officer or even a town planner. He added that the problem shouldn’t be blamed on the chamber.

“We’re the chamber of commerce, not an enforce-ment agency,” President Art Secondo said. “We can only do so much.”

Secondo said he sent fliers and emails about the regula-tions to member businesses. He agreed that having an offi-cer to enforce the zoning reg-

ulations would make it easier to follow the rules regarding A-frame signs.

“The issue isn’t totally dead yet,” Secondo said.

The subcommittee is working on A-frame design and appearance standards, Kalkowski said.

Once a zoning enforce-ment off icer is hired, DelSanto and Kalkowski said then the commission can look at the A-frame sign reg-ulations again.

“We’re definitely going to revisit it in the future,” DelSanto said.

Education officials pushed state legislators July 23 to consider shifting some of the burden of proof from school districts to parents in special education hearings that deter-mine a student’s placement and program.

Superintendent Joseph V. Erardi Jr. told state Sen. Joe Markley, Rep. Joe Aresimowicz and Rep. Rob Sampson that the town bud-gets tens of thousands of dol-lars annually to handle such hearings, which could con-sume large parts of the school year. The burden of proof in these cases now rests entirely on the school district, which is why the town is calling for a shared responsibility.

State and federal laws call on school districts to pro-vide “free and appropriate” education to children with special needs, and hearings usually deal with disputes be-tween parents and districts over which classroom envi-ronment and individualized program is “appropriate” for a child.

Perri Murdica, director of pupil services, said the law does not define “appropri-ate,” which “creates a tug-of-war between the district and

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It was 23 years ago July 26 that Ann Dandrow and her daughter Judy were in Washington, D.C., stand-ing among about 4,000 peo-ple in the White House Rose Garden as former President George H. W. Bush signed the

Americans With Disabilities Act into law.

“I saw him,” Judy Dandrow said about Bush, with a smile on her face. Sitting comfort-ably around the coffee table Tuesday evening in her home on Tanglewood Drive, Ann Dandrow and her daughter remembered that day.


Ann Dandrow, left, and her daughter, Judy Dandrow, sit for a portrait in Ann’s Southington home July 23. The pair went to Washington D.C. 23 years ago to witness the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Judy Dandrow is deaf.

“Walking down Capitol Avenue, you could feel the hope in these people,” Ann Dandrow said. “Some were blind, some were deaf and some had wheelchairs. It was unbelievable. It was really something. You had to be there, but you could feel the overwhelming emotion.”

It was a day that struck a chord with Ann Dandrow because Judy Dandrow was born 49 years ago profoundly

deaf. Through the years she has learned to read lips and to use sign language to com-municate. Sometimes Judy Dandrow had to pause to ask her mother for clarification of a question or comment, but she communicated well.

“It was hot out,” Judy Dandrow said, remember-ing the day 23 years ago. “Interpreters were there.”

The Americans With Disabilities Act was passed on July 26, 1990, to make pub-lic places more accessible to people with disabilities and to prohibit discrimination based on disability.

When Judy Dandrow be-came old enough for grade school, her mother became heavily involved in politics to try to make a difference in the life of her daughter and others with disabilities. Before she became a state representative for the 30th District, covering Berlin and Southington, a position she held for 16 years, Ann Dandrow had helped form a group of 200 parents who had children who were born with impaired hearing. They worked to get their children access to public schools. For years she worked with Ella Grasso, who became gover-nor of Connecticut in 1974.

“It was quite a battle, to say the least,” Ann Dandrow said.

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who are most often parents, but Connecticut regulations slap schools districts with the responsibility.

Bills introduced in 2007, 2009 and 2010 tried to swicth the burden of proof to plain-tiffs in Connecticut, one of six

states that places a burden only on school districts, but all have failed. Murdica said parents lobbied against the bills, claiming local school districts have more expertise and resources than parents in legal cases.

Proponents of a shift ar-gue legal proceedings pull staff members, who are often witnesses, away from time in schools and pile attorney and other fees on school districts, which win the cases two-thirds of the time.

Aresimowicz, a Democrat, said he wanted the State Board of Education to review the standard, reaching out to other states to weigh pros and cons.

The local Board of Education also called on the legislators, who had re-quested a meeting with the town during the more relaxed summer time, to fight against mandates the state places on local districts without provid-ing funds to help carry them out.

“Given the situation we’ve got in the state, the re-sources probably aren’t go-ing to come,” said Markley, a Republican, adding that he agreed state demands, such as various data reports, are often more time consuming than beneficial.

Aresimowicz said a com-mission has promised to streamline the number of re-ports that local districts have to submit to the state, but it has failed to provide results.

The three legislators prom-ised to introduce or cospon-sor bills to cut unfunded mandates

Aresimowicz said his of-fice would conduct research on the history of each item on a two-page list of state requirements to determine which were redundant and which were still relevant. The cost of an unfunded or par-tially funded mandate ranges from $60 to $216,000. Some require the district to spend two hours per year to meet state standards while others, such as student physicals and immunizations, entail 1,000 hours per year.

Zaya Oshana, a Democrat and local school board mem-ber, highlighted upcom-ing changes in the district’s teacher evaluation system. New state mandates require teachers to visit other schools and note how classroom set-ups differ from their own, but board members worry the visits will pull teachers away from time with their students.

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FIRST students show off Frisbee-tossing robot

Twenty-four students, a 120-pound robot named “Oddjob,” and teacher men-tors packed up last weekend for a 14-hour car ride to the Indiana Robotics Invitational. The Southington High School robotics team represented the state of Connecticut when it received an invitation in May to take part in the national competition.

“This is the first time we were invited,” Bailey Kahl, 16, said. “This competition felt so different and it meant so much more being here.” This was Kahl’s first year on the team, and he said once he

met the people involved, he knew he had to be a part of it.

The IRI is a national competition. The Cyber Knights were competing against teams from Canada to California, robotics team mentor Sandra Brino said.

Each year, robotics teams are given a task that tells them what the robot they build and program must per-form. This year’s task: The robot must throw a Frisbee. Once the 42-student robotics team received its task, it went to work.

“It’s hard for humans to play and throw Frisbees,” Kahl said. “I first thought how we are supposed to get a ro-bot to throw a Frisbee.”


Damiaen Florian and Bailey Kahl, standing left to right, and Daniel Arnson and Phi Trinh, below left to right, surround “Oddjob,” the robot.

The team had six weeks to prepare the robot for the IRI. Though Kahl had his ini-tial doubts, he and teammate Daniel Arnson, 17, approached the task with one thought in mind: Keep it simple.

“So many people try to do so many strategies and differ-ent things,” Arnson said. “We did one thing and we did it re-ally well.”

The Cyber Knights de-signed their robot to stand stationary, which allowed it to shoot, full-court down a 54-foot field, with 85 percent accuracy, into a 12 inch by 4.5 foot hole.

“We must have put in 40 hours a week. It’s like a full time job,” Arnson said.

Kasia Kalinowski, math teacher at the high school, has been the liaison for the Cyber Knights for the past two years.

“I got asked by the princi-pal if I wanted to do it and I

said yes,” Kalinowski said. “The kids are great, I feel like this is my second home. The students call me the mom of the team.”

Kalinowski said she wasn’t planning on attending the IRI competition. It wasn’t until

the team approached her and asked if she could be there, and she couldn’t say no.

“To come out as high as we did really shows how hard the kids have been working, not just within this competition, but in everything they have done,” Kalinowski said.

Though the Cyber Knights didn’t win the IRI competi-tion, the team placed ninth out of the 69 that competed, Kahl said. Phi Trinh, 18, and Damiaen Florian, 17, along with Kahl and Arnson were part of the engineering and manufacturing team that built Oddjob, the robot.

The team has been in Southington since 1998. The Cyber Knights use a facil-ity on South Main Street in Plantsville to plan and build their robots. The space is do-nated entirely by Gary Saucier of Saucier Mechanical so the robotics team has a place with enough space to work, Kalinowski said.

“There are mentors in the program,” she said. “But all the work is done and built by the students.”

After attending the com-petition, Florian said, “It was nothing like I’ve seen before.” Florian is a senior and has been involved in the Cyber Knights since his freshman year, and he said he was proud to be included.

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Italian tradition carries on through festival

An Italian flag — il Tricolore — was hoisted into the air, fol-lowed by an American flag. The flags waived proudly in the summer breeze as nearly 100 people lined up behind them. Drums began to echo and trumpets were sounded loudly by members of the Sam Vinci Marching Band. An old tradition started again July 28 as the crowd marched up Center Street and through downtown Southington for the annual Italian-American Festival procession.

After an outdoor Catholic Mass that was celebrated en-tirely in Italian, the proces-sion followed to honor the Madonna Della Strada, the “lady of the road.” A large statue of the Madonna was sitting on a bed of red, pink and white flowers. Four fes-tival volunteers, with red, white and green Italian sashes draped over their shoulders, carried the statue.

The procession was led by the Rev. Frederick Aniello of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Waterbury, and members of the Italian Rosary Society Committee of Saint Thomas Church in Southington, helped by people

singing and praying in Italian.“We believe that she per-

forms miracles,” Maria Perreault, a member of the committee and a Southington resident, said. “They say if you pray together, miracles do happen, so that’s why we do this.”

As the procession made its way through town, there were five places where the statue was placed on tables for a rest and a blessing. Tables were set up in the middle of the road, with light blue hydran-gea flowers and other petals lining the sidewalks. After a blessing was made by Aniello and a prayer was said, the per-son who offered the table then tossed flower petals onto the Madonna statue, which was then lifted back onto the men’s shoulders and the procession continued until returning to Center Street.

“It’s a tradition in Italy,” Antonietta Barbato, a member of the Italian Rosary Society Committee, said. “We brought it back here to Southington to bring a town tradition and the Italian culture and heritage to the community. There are a lot of Italians here in Southington and it’s an honor for us to be able to celebrate this here in our own town.”

The ceremony also signi-

fied the closing of the ninth annual Italian-American Festival, which started Friday on Center Street. It was the eighth year of the procession.

When Judy Gozzo saw members of the procession making the final stretch be-fore coming back to Center Street, she crouched down and peered between the Italian and American flags to get a glimpse of her husband, Conrad Gozzo, who was play-ing the baritone horn in the Sam Vinci Marching Band. After she caught his eye, she smiled and waved.

“He’s been doing this since its inception,” Gozzo said. “It’s nice, because he meets his old friends.”

People exercising on the Rails to Trails linear path stopped to take photos or paused to catch a glimpse of the ceremony. Dozens of peo-ple followed the procession through its course while push-ing baby strollers or walking hand in hand. Some chimed in with the prayers.

“This brings back the Italian traditions and hopefully it stays for years to come,” said Carmine Mennone, a mem-ber of the procession com-mittee and the Italian Festival Committee. “It seems like its growing.”


Southington High School announces new selections for its Wall of Honor; 2013 honorees are Rosemary and James Champagne, active in local community service in-cluding the Relay for Life, Christopher Jones, biomed-ical research chemist, and Karl Pytlik, environmental activist working in the U.S. Virgin Islands. They will be honored in a brief, free cer-emony on Monday, Oct. 21, at 6 p.m., in front of the high school auditorium. The pub-lic is invited to attend.

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T h e C h a m b e r o f Southington will kick-off a new monthly pro-gram, called “Chamber Round Table” as another Chamber Advantage for members and continuing on the second Thursday of each month, a one-hour session will allow business owners or managers to share ideas, tips and opin-ions about how to improve traffic for each specific business. This informal

gathering should also pro-vide a forum for large and small business owners to meet fellow members. Each session will be from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Summit of Plantsville, Summit Street. There is no charge and any chamber member is wel-come to attend. There will be a free continental break-fast available.

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“I survived,” Judy Dandrow said, laughing and giving the thumbs-up. “My high school was not bad.”

To continue to help the community, Ann Dandrow also served on the Town Council and the Board of Education, and started the Southington Commission on Disabilities. She wanted to bring new ideas to the table to help those with disabilities.

“She got into politics be-cause Judy was deaf,” said husband Gerald Dandrow. “That’s what motivated her.”

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joined the Commission on Disabilities to bring her knowledge to the table.

“Having Judy Dandrow on the commission was a good insight with people that have hearing loss,” said George Pohorilak, a mem-ber of the commission. “We have an interpreter for all our meetings.”

With other commission members’ help, Pohorilak said, initiatives have started in Southington to help the disabled. The commission has been working on estab-lishing a registry for people with special needs to be on file with the police and fire departments in case of an emergency. For the first time this year, the commission had a breakfast forum for hiring people with disabili-

ties. Speakers talked about the benefits and 70 busi-nesses from the community attended.

“That was a big success,” Pohorilak said.

Judy Dandrow hopes that one day every person with disabilities “will be equal,” and people will understand them and not discriminate.

Now that Ann Dandrow has retired from politics, she spends a lot of time with Judy Dandrow, going shopping, out to restaurants and to the beach.

But the two will never for-get that day 23 years ago that helped shape the future for Judy Dandrow and others with disabilities.

“We’ve come a long way,” Ann Dandrow said, smiling. “We really have.”

“Make It POP”, a C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t Exhibition co-curated by Josh Blumenthal and Nick Foreman opens Saturday, Aug. 3 at Community Central, 117 W. Main St., New Britain, with an open reception from 6 to 9 p.m., free to the public. This exhibition’s theme is Contemporary Pop Art. This is an open call for all local and regional Artists who have the opportunity to appropriate the Pop Art theme into present day con-text. All media is accepted – painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ce-ramics, etc. The exhibition

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With 3-D printer, Southington library’s future is now

On Wednesday afternoon, July 24, Joe Petruzzi con-nected his laptop to the three dimensional printer at the Southington Library, then sat down with a book and waited for the printing to finish.

Petruzzi, a senior at Southington High School, was creating a 3-D dragon for a stop-motion film that chil-dren from ages 9 to 12 are put-ting together.

“This isn’t the first year we are making stop-motion films,” said Cindy Wall, the children’s library director,

“but this is the first year we’re using the 3-D printer to make figures for the films. We used Legos, clay and Hot Wheels in the past.”

Wall said the students will still be using Lego sets for the short films, but now they have more freedom and expression in characters and props.

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Wall said, so far, the high school students have created dogs, skateboards and the Empire State Building for the films.

“We’re letting the kids make the movies about what-ever they want,” Wall said. “It allowed them to show off


Joe Petruzzi was at the Southington Library July 24 printing out a 3-D dragon for the stop-motion film project. He is one of the high school students designing and printing the objects out for the films.

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Younger generation steps up in Southington

The Town Council has been looking for ways to get the younger generation in-volved in government, and 2013 might be the year that can be accomplished. The Republican and Democratic slates were announced this week, with two new and young nominees running for a seat on the council for the first time: Thomas Lombardi, a Republican, and Chris Kelley, a Democrat.

Lombardi is 28 and Kelley is 23. Both say they’re look-ing forward to taking the next step, sharing their ideas and making a difference in Southington. They also hope to reach out to their genera-tion and get them interested in government.

“I think every time you look at the results of an election, the actual number of people that come out is always a lit-tle disheartening because the actual percentage is low,” Lombardi said. “The younger people are even less than the overall. My goal is to get peo-ple to come out, have an open mind, let me know what their concerns are, and I think I can do a great job of bringing the people’s voices into the local

government.”“I think a lot of things with

our generation is that we’re happy to nitpick at the issues that we see, but it’s a whole entirely different thing if we stand up and try to change the system,” Kelley said. “I hope to get some young people out there to vote. If you’re inter-ested in politics, try to get out there and do something.”

Lombardi graduated from Southington High School in 2004. From there he went to study at Bentley University in Boston, where he majored in accounting and minored in law and government. After graduating, he worked for an accounting firm and became a certified public accountant. In 2012, he earned a master’s degree in business adminis-tration from the University of Hartford. He works for Centerplan in Middletown as a CPA. In January 2012, he became an alternate on the Zoning Board of Appeals, where he said he learned a lot about town government.

“It’s our job to really lis-ten to the citizens and try to accommodate their requests while juggling that with the rules and the regulations of the town,” Lombardi said. “It involves a lot of judgment, too.”

Kelley was a 2008 grad-uate of Southington High School. From there he went to Western New England University in Massachusetts, where he majored in philos-ophy and minored in history. He also dabbled in business management and adminis-tration. Kelley is working on a master of public admin-istration degree from the University of New Haven, concentrating on city man-agement. He hopes to some-day work in town or state government.

“It’s something I’ve always been interested in,” Kelley said.

Family influencesSo, why did they decide to

run for a seat on the council?Lombardi’s mother, Terry

Lombardi, holds a seat on the Board of Education and is running again this year, an-other reason he took an inter-est in town government.

“She didn’t really push me to run,” Lombardi said. “She was an influence in the form of how to give back to the community and how to do what’s best for the community.”

Terry Lombardi said she is proud of her son and his de-


cision to run and is going to support him as he supported her when she first ran for the school board, two years ago.

“My whole family helped me with my campaign and he met a lot of people through

that and he saw the process,” Terry Lombardi said. “He was giving me pointers on what to do.”

Kelley’s grandfather, Urbin

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Residents in regional towns – including Plainville -- have been spotting black bears the last few weeks.

Two types of bears are on the move in late spring, early summer said officials at Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Because late spring is the bears’ mating season, male bears on the move looking for females. Also, young bears are leaving their mothers and moving into less-desirable habitat.

“This is the most active time for bears,” said Dwayne

Gardner, spokesman for DEEP, adding the activity will die down as tempera-tures rise.

Jason Hawley, a biologist who studies bears for DEEP, said it is only a matter of time before local towns start see-ing more and more bears. More bears mean more in-teractions between bears and humans.

DEEP does not know ex-actly how many bears are in the state. Their official state-ments put the population be-tween 500 and 1,000.

Gardner said a study of the state’s bear population will finish next year and that will give a better picture of

the bear population. The study, run by the University of Connecticut, collects hair samples from the bears at special stations designed to attract the animals.

For now, DEEP relies on people reporting bear sight-ings to keep a pulse on the bear population. However, bear sightings can be flawed. If a bear walks through a town, multiple people could report the same bear.

According to the DEEP log of black bear sightings, black bears mostly live in the Northeastern part of the state. There, bear sightings run into the hundreds per year.

A growing population

By Daniel JacksonSpecial to The Citizen

means more interactions between bears and humans: bears loping through yards, darting into traffic and guz-zling down seed from bird-feeders. With more bears, has the bear/human rela-tionship become dangerous

for humans?“We haven’t seen any evi-

dence of that,” said Gardner. Gardner said bears are

mostly docile. An interaction where the bear has to be eu-

DEEP estimates Connecticut is home to between 500 and 1,000 bears.

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The stop-motion films are created on the library’s iPads through an application called Stop Motion Studio, Wall said, for which 24 pictures need to be taken to create one second of the film.

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ing of the final project. Each film is about a different topic and ranges in setting from parks to cities.

Sue Smayda, executive di-rector at the library, said “I love that they are doing this project. It’s a combination of science skills and art and it brings so much excitement to the library.”

Smayda said that, since the 3-D printer has been at the library, the fascination she’s seen from people walking by and seeing it in action has been amazing.

“The future starts here,” one patron told her.

Younger

T. Kelley, was on the school board for more than 40 years. Kelley School was named af-ter him. Kelley’s father, Kevin Kelley, also held a spot on the school board in the 1980s and on the Town Council in the ’70s. His family was a big in-fluence on his life and his de-cision to run.

“It’s like a tradition, but a lot of people say it’s in my blood,” Kelley said. “At the same time, a lot of people in my family over the years have instilled public duty and civic service (in me).”

School board member David Derynoski, a Democrat, has been a friend of the Kelley family for years and was close

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with Kelley’s father. Through the years, Derynoski said, he was impressed to see the pro-fessional growth that Chris Kelley has made.

“Just the way he carries himself; he is very intelli-gent,” Derynoski said. “And he listens intently and is ab-sorbing everything around him. I think he would be a good asset to the Town Council.”

If elected, Lombardi wants to make sure the town is fis-cally responsible while pro-viding services that citizens depend on to make the town “a better place to live, social-ize, and do business.”

Kelley hopes to work to keep the mill rate consistent each year, or lower, as prop-erty values increase.

“I would like to bring some

economic stability to town,” Kelley said.

The chairs of the town’s Republican and Democratic committees say they’re look-ing forward to having young candidates on the slate this year to give the town an op-portunity to reach another generation of voters.

Brian Callahan, Republican t ow n c h a i r m a n , s a i d Lombardi is “well spoken” and “mature in his thinking.”

“I was thrilled to find someone as young as he is and at that age to be so well informed and have the prin-ciples that he has. I couldn’t be more happy,” Callahan said. “All the candidates, I think they’re all great, but I’m thrilled about him because it’s a new generation coming in to run the town.”

D e m o c r a t i c To w n Chairwoman Elaine Bedard is excited to have Kelley on the slate this year. She has been giving him advice and help-ing him through the process, she said.

“He came along this year and we always said and talked about getting young people involved in the political pro-cess and having the perspec-tive of young person,” Bedard said. “When he came along,

it was perfect. It’s something we’ve been looking for.”

Both candidates are look-ing forward to establishing new relationships in town and meeting new people during the election process.

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Dozens of dresses and items of boys clothing decorate the sanctuary of First Baptist Church of Southington during the May 19 worship service. Church member Emily Lamy, of Thomaston, started the clothing ministry project last year with great results. Clothing is distributed to needy children in the poor sugar cane villages in the Dominican Republic.

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thanized is very rare. However, Hawley has be-

come very busy. Almost every day he is out in the field, deal-ing with bears and other wild animals. The biologist works with the furbearing animals of the state: beavers, foxes, coyotes, for example. These days, 80 percent of his calls have to do with bears.

He accompanies game war-dens as they set traps, tran-quilize and relocate bears, scare them away from pop-ulated areas with less lethal shotgun rounds, and occa-sionally euthanize animals. He said he does this because he is skilled in handling the tranquilizing and euthanizing drugs. He also takes measure-ments of the animal.

The day that Hawley was interviewed for this article, he responded to a call in New Milford. He had to euthanize a bear that was hit by a truck.

According to Gardner, 25 bears were killed last year when they darted in front of vehicles.

In May, a West Hartford woman was injured by a bear. A sow that had two cubs with her chased the woman’s dog and tried to get in her house. The woman was bit on her right leg when she defended her dog. Hawley said this was

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the first time that a human was injured in Connecticut by a bear.

Hawley responded to the incident that day. He believes the bear was not going after the woman. But because the bear injured a person, regard-less of how it happened, it had to be put down.

Hawley said the cultural capacity of humans to live in proximity to bears is near its limit. While Connecticut’s woodlands can produce enough food and shelter to accommodate more bears, he thinks Connecticut is near capacity of how many bears it will tolerate living near humans. While statistically deer are more dangerous to humans -- more deer dart in the way of cars -- bears in-habit a grey area where they are perceived as more dan-gerous, Hawley said.

He expects in the future, the state will start some kind of bear control program, such

as a bear hunting season. However, Gardner said

there is not even a procedure in place to set up a season. A plan to implement a bear hunt needs to pass through the Connecticut General Assembly and plans to es-tablish a procedure of how DEEP would eventually man-age a bear hunt died twice in the state’s legislature.

DEEP encourages res-idents not to feed bears. Gardner said if bears get their food from human sources, they lose their fear of people. They can become aggressive.

Humans can unintention-ally feed bears by leaving out trash, bird feeders or food for domestic animals.

For more information on how to live with bears, visit DEEP’s website: www.ct.gov/deep.

--Town Times reporter Mark Dionne contributed to this report.

Having gone through phys-ical testing on the way to becoming a volunteer fire-fighter and a member of the Air Force Reserve, Jonathan Micalizzi wanted to share his knowledge with people in his hometown working toward similar goals.

Micalizzi recently be-gan to volunteer his time at the Southington-Cheshire YMCA, leading a program that specializes in those who serve. Linda Prus, personal training coordinator at the YMCA, had been looking to institute a program to better prepare people for the phys-ical tests that reservists, fire-fighters and police have to pass. With his experience,

Prus thought Micalizzi was a good fit to run the program.

“We looked at a lot of vid-eos, bought some equipment to match what they have to do during the test and we’re ready to go,” Prus said.

For the past three years, Micalizzi, 25, has been a volunteer firefighter with Southington Fire Department Co. 1. In October 2012 he enlisted in the Air Force Reserves and worked as a firefighter. He’s taken the Candidate Physical Ability Test to become a firefighter and the Complete Health & Injury Prevention Test re-quired to become a police officer.

The tests, especially the firefighting test, are strenu-ous and Micalizzi said people should take a few months to

get ready for them.“A lot of times, with a

70pound weight vest and do-ing stairs for three minutes, it’s a lot of wear on your legs,” Micalizzi said of part of the firefighting test. “With these tests, you have to prepare for it. And a lot of times, people don’t pass because they think they can just go do it.”

Micalizzi said the fire test includes a hose drag and carrying other firefighting equipment. There is also a confinement training ex-ercise in which one has to crawl into small, dark, tight areas. All this is part of the training that will be included at the YMCA. The CHIP test for police work, Micalizzi said, is about endurance and working on pushups, abdomi-nal exercises and running.

Program at the Y specializes with those who serveBy Farrah DuffanySpecial to The Citizen

Jonathan Micalizzi, a volunteer firefighter in Southington and Air Force Reservist, holds up a barbell for a portrait in the gym at the Southington YMCA, Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Micalizzi is offering a program at the YMCA where he will help someone train for the physical challenges of firefighting, police work, or military service. | (Christopher Zajac/

Record-Journal Staff)

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A vote to curtail a National Security Agency program that’s collected data on mil-lions of Americans’ elec-t ron ic communicat ion divided representatives from Connecticut.

Despite differing votes federal legislators represent-ing Meriden, Wallingford, Southington and Cheshire said the NSA’s methods need consideration and revision.

The House failed to pass the measure in a 207 to 215 vote last week.

Two of Connecticut’s five Democratic representatives voted against an amendment to the 2014 defense bill that would have prevented the NSA from interpreting fed-eral spy laws in a way that

allows it to collect informa-tion about citizens’ commu-nications. That information can include the location of a phone call, who was called and the duration of the call but not the content. The NSA’s program was initially revealed in leaks by for-mer government contractor Edward Snowden who was concerned.

Representatives Elizabeth Esty and James Himes voted against the amendment while representatives John Larson, Joe Courtney and Rosa DeLauro supported it.

“Whether you’re in the ad-ministration or in Congress, we all want to protect Americans from danger,” Larson said in a statement. “While I respect the enor-mous weight put on the President to ensure our na-tion is safe and secure, we

must continue to protect our civil liberties.”

Esty opposed the amend-ment calling it “too broad, too hasty, and too problem-atic to our national security” although she said reconsider-ation of counterterrorism ef-forts was needed.

“The Patriot Act and our national security laws need to be revisited, debated, and reformed,” she said in a statement.

DeLauro voted against the reauthorization of the Patriot Act in 2011.

“Recent events have shown that we may have moved too far toward infringing on civil liberties,” she said in a state-ment. We must engage in a meaningful debate on domes-tic surveillance programs, our national security, and our ex-pectations of privacy while—at the very least—providing

Connecticut delegation split on NSA spying voteBy Jesse BuchananSpecial to The Citizen

How they votedVote on Amash-Conryers amendment to end bulk telecommunications data by the NSA

Rep. John Larson (D) - yes

Rep. Joe Courtney (D) - yes

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D)- yes

Rep. James Himes (D)- no

Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D)- no

Vote on Amash-Conryers amendment to end bulk telecommunications data by the NSA

Rep. John Larson-yes

Rep. Joe Courtney (D) - yes

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D) - yes

Rep. James Himes (D) - no

Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D) - no

greater privacy protections and transparency measures to these programs.”

Uproar over the reve-lation of domestic spy-ing led to the defense bill amendment named after sponsors Justin Amash, a Michigan Republican, and John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat. The narrow vote last week defied party lines.

All five Connecticut rep-resentatives joined other Democrats in a letter to President Barack Obama questioning the “NSA’s abil-ity to collect bulk telecom-munications” and “whether the bulk metadata telecom-munications collection pro-gram sufficiently protects the privacy and civil liber-ties of Americans.” The let-ter also asked the president to increase transparency on intelligence and surveillance decisions are made.

In June, Obama said there was transparency with sur-veillance programs, pointing to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court which

rules on the act and how it could apply to American citi-zens. That court’s rulings are made in secret.

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Sen. Joe Markley (R-Southington) recently completed a town hall tour discussing the 2013 Legislative Session with constituents. Major issues covered included the state’s continuing fiscal problems, the mis-use of transportation funding, prog-ress on education reform, and the stagnant condition of the state’s economy.

Markley also revealed some of the disturbing trends in legisla-tive practice, including the passage of bills without public hearings or proper scrutiny. Methods used to skirt established procedure include Emergency Certification, strike-all amendments, and misuse of imple-menter bills.

“Last-minute additions like man-

dates on municipalities and raises for judges is a new way of doing business at the capitol,” remarked Markley.

Markley previously served in the senate during the 1980s and said that legislative leaders then made mem-bers promise that any additions to the implementer bill were purely technical in nature. Implementers are intended to make changes in statute necessary to enact the state budget.

“This implementer legislation has become like a Christmas tree: every-thing gets hung on it. This year, it was festooned with bills that died along the legislative path or entirely new laws made without any public input,” said Markley.

Markley said he didn’t even see a physical copy of this year’s 508-page implementer bill until after the sen-ate -- over his objections -- had voted to approve it. Lawmakers received a 25-page summary packet before the vote that reduced each complex sec-tion of the bill to a sentence or two.

“I think it’s important that we rec-ognize that the way we’re handling that is bad public policy. Of the things I’ve seen change, the change I’ve seen in the implementer process is the single worst thing,” Markley said.

The town hall tour visited Prospect, Cheshire, Waterbury, Wolcott and Southington. Along with Markley at each stop was one or more of the State Representatives from those towns as well.

Markley completes town hall tourPress Release State Sen. Joe Markley and State

Rep. Lezlye Zupkus listen to constituents from Prospect at a recent stop on Markley’s town hall tour.

Chamber a positive force in town’s economy

History is about our lives. What came before what we have now? Was it good? What looms on the horizon? Important questions, because society and our economic culture is ever-changing.

The Greater Southington Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1938 by a small group called the Southington Businessmen’s Group.

“The Chamber has grown in 75 years from 150 mem-bers to 585 businesses today,” Chamber President Arthur H. Secondo pointed out.

The focus back in 1938 was on promoting business in the downtown areas of Southington and Plantsville. But the upward spiral and downward tumbles of com-merce, cultural change and technological sophistication were challenging, so eyes turned to new ways for a community to thrive.

Today, Southington is a vi-brant suburban community of 42,000. The texture of busi-ness has changed, so it was the Chamber’s role to envi-sion direction, strategy and effective action to promote the local economy.

Located between Hartford and New Haven and sur-rounded by Waterbury,

Wolcott, Bristol, Plainville, New Britain, Berlin, Meriden and Cheshire, Southington is accessible from five exits along I-84 plus Rt. 10 cours-ing through town with both crossing I-691.

Location, population and access are excellent for labor and supply sources while the expansion of new housing in the past two decades, along with developing business, particularly retail and profes-sional services, have all been positive factors.

With the ups and downs of industrial changes from 1938 to 1988, Southington has emerged in the past 25 years with its head high, a town on the upswing again.

“October 2003 was the start of a new era,” Secondo said. “We (the Chamber) took bold new approaches, realiz-ing we had to re-engineer our efforts to effect change. We partnered with the Town of Southington to promote and market the economic ame-nities of this community. We sponsored grand openings, had fun growing our busi-ness strength through an-nual dinners and prestigious golf tournaments. We applied common sense to assisting members who know that our focus is Southington and that we have an office working daily to be creative, enthusi-

astic and articulate.”Secondo, a long-stand-

ing member of the Board of Directors, was appointed president 10 years ago.

Rosemary DeFeo, vice president and manager of the TD Bank downtown, is a Chamber member of about 10 years, a director for six.

DeFeo is a core member of the Women’s Chamber com-mittee, involved in planning events such as the Pizza Fest, Wing Fest, Girls Night Out, and social events that bring citizens together.

“As one of the largest cham-bers around, Southington is very effective,” DeFeo said. “It’s important to business people and the town. The value of networking can-not be stressed enough. We share best practices, refer-ral sources and what’s work-ing with fellow members. Our events such as grand openings, Advantage Nights, Business After Hours, are all great ways to meet new businesses in town and stay abreast of what’s happening in the community. Chamber membership provides cama-raderie, social opportunities, and it is enjoyable.”

Asked how effective the Women’s Chamber is, DeFeo responded, half smiling: “Ask the men. They all say the women are the hardest

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working and most effective members.”

Al Monbaron of Baron Realty is chairman of the Chamber’s Central Business Alliance.

“The Alliance keeps an eye on downtown areas to en-sure proper conditions and enhancements of public and private property to make it attractive to do business in Southington,” Monbaron said.

Asked about Southington property values, from a real-tor’s perspective, Monbaron added: “Southington is fortu-nate because of its location and the community itself. Residential property values have stood up better than others during the economic downturn. Values have actu-ally improved over the past

two to three years, especially in the past six months. The Chamber keeps in touch with town actions effecting busi-ness, but there is a positive relationship between the town and the Chamber.”

Town Manager Garry Brumback echoed that.

“ T h e S o u t h i n g t o n Chamber of Commerce is essential to our economic development program,” Brumback said. “Their tire-less efforts to retain and sup-port our local businesses are an essential component of our strategy to attract new businesses. Art Secondo and his team have partnered with the town to ensure that the business community has a voice. We have an outstand-ing Chamber because of Art and the board.”

The 20th annual “Music on the Green” concert series, sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Department, takes place Wednesday evenings through Aug. 28 (Thursday, if it rains) at the Southington Town Green, Main St. (Route 10). These are free live music/car shows.

Upcoming show: Aug. 7: The Groove Time Band, spon-sored by Billy Carlson Heating and Air Conditioning LLC.

For more information call (860) 276-6219 or visit www.southington.org.

Music on the Green


SeniorsCalander House

Registration for the fall 2013 Computer Learning Center session is scheduled for Monday, Aug. 12 and 19, in the Perry Room for the follow-ing classes: Introduction to Computers, Computer Basics for Beginners, Computer Tune Up, Managing Windows 7 Files and Folders, Using Your Windows 8 Laptop, iPad Basics, Twitter and Facebook and information is on the website. There is a fee for the classes.

Trips: Lake George and Saratoga, N.Y., Wednesday through Saturday, Aug. 21 to 23,

Rocking Horse Resort, N.Y., Monday through Friday, Oct. 7 to 11, depart at 9 a.m. A five-day, four-night trip to the Rocking Horse Resort.

Round trip transportation, hotel/meal gratuities, New York state sales tax and bag-gage handling are included.

For more information, call (860) 621-3014. Copies of the new Calendar House news-letter are available at the office, or online at www.cal-endarhouse.org.

Join the clubSpecial interest clubs meet

monthly on Wednesday af-ternoons from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Perry Room. No fees, experience, or membership is required. Walk-ins are welcome.

The Financial Investments Club meets the second Wednesday of each month, led by Constance C. Proll, CFP. The club discusses

stocks, bonds, CD’s, money market, mutual funds, retire-ment healthcare, social se-curity, and estate planning, among other topics.

The Digital Photography Club meets the third Wednesday of each month, 1 p.m., and discusses camera equipment, latest software, photo editing, and takes field trips to practice taking pic-tures. Led by Peter Freeman, who teaches digital photog-raphy at the University of Connecticut. Bring a camera.

The Computer Club meets the fourth Wednesday of each month to discuss com-puter fundamentals, tablets, smartphones, hardware, soft-ware, and anything else com-puter-related. Led by Mark White, assistant manager of the Computer Learning Center.

Dial-a-RideThe Dial-a-Ride Bus pro-

vides transportation at no charge for Southington res-idents age 55 and older and for people with disabilities. Transportation is available to and from doctor and den-tal appointments. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday rides are available to certain shop-ping locations. Two days no-tice is required.

Medical appointments should be made between 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. for in-town and between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. for out of town.

To schedule a ride, call

KNIGHTS AWARD

The Southington Lions Club awards the prestigious “Knights of the Blind Award” to Tops Supermarket for its support and generosity. From left: Betsey Tooker and John Salerno, Tops Supermarket; Teresa Benning, Lion President.

Photo courtesy of Southington Lions Club

(860) 621-3014 between 10 a.m. and noon weekdays.

Friendship Club

M u l b e r r y G a r d e n s , 58 Mulberry St., offers Friendship Club, a free, monthly club for seniors. Activities, fitness, games, music, arts and crafts, coffee socials and more are offered. The club includes lunch and transportation. Seating is limited. Call Marie Terzak at (860) 276-1020 if interested. The club meets every third Thursday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Mulberry Gardens. For more information, visit www.mul-berrygardens.org.

Volunteers needed

Southington Care Center, 45 Meriden Ave., seeks ac-tive and friendly folks to help maintain and grow the con-cierge program for the res-idents. Volunteers assist in greeting, escorting, and pro-viding short-term rehab res-idents information about the concierge services available. Volunteers needed Monday to Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., flexible hours. If interested, fill out a volunteer applica-tion at the front desk.

For more information, con-tact Antoinette Ouellette, [email protected]; (860) 621-9559.

From now through Aug. 14, customers at participating Taco Bell restaurants, will be invited to the Jimmy Fund’s “Strike Out Cancer” pin-up campaign. In return for their contributions, customers re-ceive a baseball pin-up on which they can write their name.

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(testing) is very grueling,” Prus said.

For the past three years, Cory Brown has worked as a volunteer firefighter in Southington with Micalizzi. They often exercise together and attend fire training op-portunities to advance their knowledge in the field.

“He’s an extremely hard worker and very dedicated,” Brown said. “He’s a kid who works hard and he is in great shape and has a lot of knowl-edge for people who want to work toward (firefighter) and military training.”

The two put together a weight room at the fire house on North Main Street so fire-fighters can exercise and stay in shape. Both aspire to be ca-reer firefighters.

“We work hand in hand together,” Micalizzi said. “Anytime there is training to better ourselves in this field, we do it together.”

Micalizzi now works as an emergency dispatcher for American Medical Response in addition to his volunteer efforts at the Fire Department. He maintains a strict workout schedule, exer-cising five days a week at the YMCA and Cardio Express in Southington.

Staying in shape is im-portant for the job, Micalizzi said, and he hopes to share his knowledge and pointers with others aspiring to do the same.

“If you can prepare your-self it will help,” Micalizzi said. “I’ve prepared myself so I know what to expect.”

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Equipment exchange

Do you have medical equipment that you would like to donate? Are you or a family member in need of medical equipment but do not know where to look? Managed and staffed entirely by volunteers, the Special Care Equipment Exchange accepts donations of used durable medical equipment and supplies: canes, walk-

ers, tub and shower chairs, manual wheelchairs, com-modes, and raised toilet seats. This expensive equip-ment, not always covered by insurance, is made available, free-of-charge, to community members.

Equipment donations may be brought to the Equipment Exchange during week-day business hours. To re-quest equipment, call the Equipment Exchange.

For more information, con-tact Hospital for Special Care Foundation, 2150 Corbin Ave., New Britain, (860) 612-6302.

Gardens that heal

Jerome Home, 975 Corbin Ave., New Britain, has sched-uled a two-part program called “Gardens That Heal: A Prescription for Wellness” that will run Thursday, Aug. 15 and Sept. 12, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Discussion will revolve around herbs and backyard “weeds” that have been used

medicinally to support health and well-being. Participants will learn to identify them. The program is presented by Lisa Withers, owner of Down to Earth Gardening and Design. RSVP to Jerome Home at (860) 229-3707. Jerome Home is a not-for-profit member of Central Connecticut Senior Health Services.

Senior fairThe 2nd annual Life Begins

at 50 Senior Fair is scheduled at Lincoln College of New England, 2279 Mt. Vernon Road, Friday, Oct. 25, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The fair is geared at caregivers, and individu-als in retirement or getting ready for retirement. It is free and open to the public. Collecting packaged food for Southington Community Resources is the suggested admission charge.

This event is sponsored by the Record-Journal and Lincoln College.

Blood pressure screenings

The Connecticut Center for Healthy Aging offers the following blood pressure screenings to the commu-nity, free, during the month of August:

Thursday, Aug. 1, 11 a.m. to noon, at Calendar House, 388 Pleasant St., Southington.

Tuesday, Aug. 6, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., at Southington Community YMCA, 29 High St., Southington.

Friday, Aug. 9, 11 a.m. to noon, at Plainville Senior Center, 200 East St . , Plainville.

Wednesday, Aug. 14, 10 to 11 a.m., Stop and Shop, 1309 Corbin Ave., New Britain.

Monday, Aug. 19, 10 to

11 a.m., Price Chopper, 410 Queen St., Southington.

Wednesday, Aug. 28, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., at Cheshire Community YMCA, 967 S. Main St., Cheshire.

Wednesday, Aug. 28, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Calendar House, 388 Pleasant St., Southington.

The Connecticut Center for Healthy Aging, a not for profit member of Central Connecticut Senior Health Services, is a resource and assessment center designed to enhance access to services and information related to at-taining optimal quality of life for seniors and their caregiv-ers. For more information call the New Britain office at (860) 224-5278, Meriden of-fice at (203) 694-5721, or the Southington office at (860) 276-5293.

Every Dollar Feeds Kids Poker Run is scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 18, at 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Wolcott American Legion, 1253 Wolcott Road. There is a fee to attend.

For information call Frank Thielman, at (860) 970-3663.

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SportsPost 72 earns victory over Montville...

The rhythm of the game had swung in Montville’s fa-vor and the resultant chat-ter didn’t sit too well with Southington Legion Post 72.

Southington’s (23-5) three-run first-inning lead had melted away due to errors, walks and ultra-aggressive Montville (27-3) base-run-ning. The lead run came across on a brazen straight steal of home in the third inning.

Southington was on the short end of the score for the first time in the state tour-nament. Montville starter Chad Mooney had settled into a groove and retired seven in a row. With the onus on Southington to make a statement, a bevy of players stepped up to the mic and the chirping from the other dug-out suddenly stopped.

The offense supported the resilient work of starter Craig Frobel by batting around in the fourth inning July 28 as Southington eased into the driver’s seat in the Northern Division sectionals with a 10-5 victory at Fuessenich Park.

“In a double-elimination tournament with nine-inning games, [the survivor isn’t] going to have much pitching left,” Southington manager

Marc Verderame said. “We have two of our aces (Joe Rivera and Brett Susi) ready to go. I like our chances right now.”

Southington struck the first blow when Matt Sirois stroked a three-run double with two out in the first in-ning, but Montville took ad-vantage of an error, a walk and two of their six stolen bases to score twice in the home half. An infield hit by Corey Wilcox struck Frobel in the leg and drove in a run. A second scored on an infield out.

Frobel yielded singles to Nick Clemons and Tyler Guetens in the second and Brandon Haas plated the ty-ing run with a grounder to short.

An inning later, another inf ield miscue enabled Montville to take the lead without a hit. Wilcox, who reached on a fielder’s choice, stole second, took third on a fielder’s choice and dashed for home as Frobel was in his windup.

Mooney (5-1) had settled in and Verderame sensed that Montville thought it would be smooth sailing from there.

“They’re a rowdy team. They like to talk smack, but we let our bats do the talking,” he said.

Dave Palladino, Sirois (2-for-4, 3 RBI), Mike Rogalski

By Ken LipshezSpecial to The Citizen

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The Southington Sports Hall of Fame selection com-mittee unveiled its Class of 2013 Wednesday, July 24.

The fourth induction group is a fair cross section of Southington’s sports tradi-tion. The honorees represent 10 different sports as well as the media.

“These guys are the cream of the crop,” said Southington Sports Hall of Fame Chairman Dennis

Stanek, Jr. “When you talk about really fine, successful athletes in their sports, this is a list that stands up to all of our previous classes. Most of them have won state titles. Many have gone on to suc-cessful careers — some in athletics and some in other areas.”

The class includes Ernie Blue (basketball), Kristy Dougan (gymnastics, diving), Ryan Glasper (football, bas-ketball), Paige Kopcza (soft-ball), Scott Mackie (baseball),

Megan McNicholas (soccer, basketball, softball), Scott Otis (football, track), Michael Ryan (cross country, track, NFL trainer), Brian Solomon (wrestling), and Joseph Testa (soccer).

Former SHS wrestling coach and program founder Bob Wittneben will be in-ducted, as well as former sports writer and radio an-nouncer Jim Senich.

These 13 individuals join the 1978 Blue Knight wres-tling team and the 2005 Lady

Knights gymnastics team as the Class of 2013.

“The committee has really begun to pay close attention to the statistics when we’re picking out inductees,” said Stanek. “It’s so hard to pare down the list to just 10 ath-letes, and I think that this will continue to be a challenge every year.”

This year’s banquet is slated for Thursday, Nov. 14 at the Aqua Turf Club. Tickets will be available soon and will cost $50. Contact Jim

Verderame at (860) 628-7335 to reserve tickets.

In addition, the selection committee welcomes nom-inations from the public. To nominate a team, player, booster or media member, send a request along with supporting documentation and contact information to Mike Boissonneault, 115 Panthorn Trail, Southington, 06489. Boissonneault can also be reached at (860) 628-5225 and [email protected].

Hall of Fame announces Class of 2013By Record-Journal staff

and Zac Susi slashed four consecutive singles to start the fourth. Ted Shaw (3-for-4, 2 runs) cracked another and Matt DiNello (1-for-3, 2 walks, 2 runs, 2 RBI) ripped a two-run single into right-center.

Southington had a 7-5 lead and Frobel (5-2) began mixing in a slow curve and spotting his fastball more ef-fectively. Montville managed just a run on two hits over the next four innings and Frobel’s strikeouts mounted.

“It wasn’t until like the fourth inning where I started to get sharp and find my com-mand,” Frobel said. “The past few weeks I started working on [the slow curve] out of

HURRICANE SEASON

The UBSA Hurricanes, including seven players from Southington, advanced to Gil Hodges World Series in Brooklyn, NY. The team is pictured, front row, from left: Mitchell Lanza, Ethan Rembish, Jared Kelly, Caleb Richert, Ty Goldberg. Back, from left: Kevin McIntyre, Jack Greene, Jack Drewry, Ethan Agli, Jacob DelMonte. Not pictured: Billy Wadolowski.


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nowhere so we stuck with it and they started having trou-ble at the plate.”

Southington put it out of reach with three runs in the eighth, courtesy of Andrew Goralski. After Susi (2-for-4, 2 runs) and Shaw set the table, Montville opted to walk DiNello intentionally with two outs so reliever Stan Kesilweski could face Southington’s cleanup hitter, and he cleaned up.

Goralski pushed the count full and socked a bases-clear-ing double into right-center to provide a five-run cu-shion.

“When they intentionally walk the guy in front of me, it’s my job to come through and put a good swing on the ball,” said Goralski, 0-for-4 coming into the at-bat. “I was looking for a good pitch to hit, watched some balls go by, swung at a couple strikes, fouled them off and he gave

me [a fastball] right down the middle.”

Verderame brought in ace Joe Rivera to close it out. Rivera retired six of the seven hitters he faced, three on strikeouts.

“It was his bullpen day anyway and he has a rubber arm,” Verderame said. “He threw [24] pitches and he’ll be ready to go Tuesday.”

Sirois turned in two de-fensive gems at third base on successive plays in the fourth inning. He raced in on a bunt by Guetens and threw him out by a step. Haas whistled a

one-hopper that seemed des-tined for the left-field corner but Sirois scooped and fired to first to retire the side.

“Those two plays back to back were unbelievable,” Frobel said. “That was the turning point of this game. I just had to make the pitches. The f irst three innings weren’t us and we turned it around.”

Frobel allowed five hits and five runs in seven frames but only two of Montville’s tallies were earned. He walked three, fanned seven and threw 118 pitches.

Locals go on to best Branford, advance to state finals

Manager Marc Verderame and his streaking Southington Post 72 team chose the fast lane to the American Legion’s Northern Division sectional championship.

They knew what it would take to get there, accepted the hard work that lofty goals entail and reached there with their hearts, minds and bats in overdrive.

With every hitter in the lineup contributing, Southington unleashed a 14-hit attack on an Enfield pitch-ing staff tattered by heavy use Tuesday night in Torrington to notch a 12-2 mercy-rule victory in seven innings at Fuessenich Park and gain a spot in the state champion-ship series.

Southington (23-5), which won all five of its Northern Division tests after finish-ing second to Avon in Zone 1 in the regular season, will meet once-beaten Zone 2 and Southern Division champion Branford in a best-of-three series at Cubetta Field in Stamford slated to begin Friday at 6:30 p.m. Branford (29-1) came from four runs

behind to oust Cheshire, 7-6, at Cubetta Tuesday.

The Southington/Branford winner wi l l represent Connecticut in the Northeast Regionals slated to start August 8 at Middletown’s Palmer Stadium.

“Our one goal was to get back here,” Verderame said. “We worked our (tails) off; we went through adversity. I told them they were going to go through adversity and it’s how you respond. We re-sponded. We’re back here in the state championship and we’re going to win it this time.”

Southington sat atop the winner’s bracket after dumping Montville Sunday and rested on Monday while Enfield (22-8) battled 12 in-nings to oust Montville. Enfield would have had to beat Southington twice to ad-vance, but Verderame had no intention of letting the series linger. He sent that message by starting his ace Joe Rivera.

Rivera (4-0) allowed just a run on three hits, but needed 95 pitches to get through five innings. He walked three and struck out five.

“He struggled finding the zone a little bit,” Verderame

said. “He wasn’t at his best.” The Southington defense

picked up the slack. The in-field turned a double play to end the second. Third base-man Matt Sirois and sec-ond baseman Matt DiNello turned in exceptional plays in the third. A relay from left fielder Brett Shaw to short-stop Ted Shaw to catcher Dave Palladino cut down a runner at the plate in the fifth.

Meanwhile, Enfield ran out five pitchers who couldn’t cope with the Southington bats.

“Our strategy was to make them pitch deep so on the off chance we lost tonight they wouldn’t have anything left tomorrow,” Verderame said. “But we got to (Boulette) early. His pitch count was high and we got into our offense.”

Enfield’s southpaw starter Matt Boulette (2-1) began by walking Ted Shaw (2-for-4, 3 runs, 2 RBI). Brett Shaw doubled and DiNello walked to load the bases with nobody out. An infield hit by Palladino and a loop-ing single to right by Sirois (2-for-2, 2 RBI, walk, hit by pitch) brought in runs. Mike

By Ken LipshezSpecial to The Citizen

Rogalski beat the back end of a potential double-play to make it 3-0 after one.

Walks to Palladino and Sirois ignited a two-run up-rising in the third that fea-tured Rogalski’s RBI single and a sacrifice fly by Josh Dobratz. Sirois had an RBI hit in the fourth and doubles by Dobratz and Ted Shaw were the key strokes in a three-run fifth.

All that remained was to save Enfield’s beleaguered pitching staff from having to work an eighth inning and Southington did that with three consecutive extra-base hits to start the seventh.

DiNello allowed a run on two hits in two innings of relief.

Only Branford stands in the way of uncharted terri-tory for Post 72.

“This is the farthest we’ve been since 1993,” Verderame said. “We’ve had some good teams here but in baseball anything could happen.”

Verderame will start either Craig Frobel or Brett Susi against Branford, leaving the possibility that Rivera will pitch in relief.

“We’ve got to keep the fo-cus,” Verderame said. “We’ve got to keep it going.”

LightningTryouts for the 12U Southington Lightning Travel

Softball team (girls born in the year 2001) will be held at Panthorn Park, Aug. 6-7, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Bulletin Board

Kiwanis golfThe Kiwanis Club of Southington will sponsor its 36th an-

nual Robert E. McCormack Golf Tournament Wednesday, Aug. 7 at Hawks Landing Country Club. To pre-register, or for more information, call Len (860) 621-3792 or Ed (860) 621-5838.

The Southington Town Pools located within Memorial Park and Recreation Park are now open for the season. Both pools are open from noon to 8 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., on Saturday and Sunday. Hours are subject to change based on weather conditions. Town Pools are open to Southington residents only; however, each resident may bring one non-resident guest. Proper identification and proof of residency is required to gain entry to the pools. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

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The 20th Annual “Music on the Green” Concert Series, sponsored by the Parks & Recreation Department, takes place Wednesday evenings through Aug. 28 (Thursdays, if it rains) at the Southington Town Green, Main Street (Route 10). This is free live music and weekly car shows. For more information, call (860) 276-6219 or visit www.southington.org.

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8Breakfast, Bible, Banter -

A Bible study for men, led by Rev. Ron Brown of First Congregational Church of Southington from 7 to 7:45 a.m. is held on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month. The group will meet in Memorial Hall at the church for brief Bible study and banter. No previous bi-ble study experience is nec-essary. Men of all ages are welcome.

Tai Chi for Arthritis - The Orchards at Southington, 34 Hobart St., offers Tai Chi for Arthritis classes Thursdays 4 to 4:45 p.m. Classes led by Certified Tai Chi Instructor, Jennifer Wade-Vauter, BS.ED, CPT. There is a cost to at-tend. To reserve a spot, call Jennifer, (860) 628-5656, ext.

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Pas ta n ights - The Southington Elks Lodge No. 1669 is having Pasta Night ev-ery Wednesday night through the end of August from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Lodge, 114 Main St. There is a price which in-cludes pasta, bread, salad and dessert.

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The 20th Annual “Music on the Green” Concert Series, sponsored by the Parks & Recreation Department, takes place Wednesday evenings through Aug. 28 (Thursdays, if it rains) at the Southington Town Green, Main Street (Route 10). This is free live mu-sic and weekly car shows. For more information, call (860) 276-6219 or visit www.south-ington.org.

Pasta nights - The Southington Elks Lodge No. 1669 is having Pasta Night ev-ery Wednesday night through the end of August from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Lodge, 114 Main St. There is a price which includes pasta, bread, salad and dessert.

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Tai Chi for Arthritis - The Orchards at Southington, 34 Hobart St., offers Tai Chi for Arthritis classes Thursdays 4 to 4:45 p.m. Classes led by Certified Tai Chi Instructor, Jennifer Wade-Vauter, BS.ED, CPT. There is a cost to at-tend. To reserve a spot, call Jennifer, (860) 628-5656, ext. 140. Visit online at www.southingtonorchards.org.

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The following residents made the dean’s list for the spring semester:

High honors : Alyssa Aligata of Plantsville and honors: Jacobs Rhiannon, of Plantsville; High Honors: Timothy Brown and Kathryn Sikosk, both of Southington,

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U n i v e r s i t y o f N e w Hampshire, Durham, N.H.

M i c h a e l P e t i t , o f Southington Ithaca College’s School of Music, Ithaca, N.Y.

J a k u b G o r s k i , o f S o u t h i n g t o n , L o y o l a Un ive r s i t y M a r y l a n d , Baltimore, Md.

Anna Dudac, Jahmal Clarke, Jessica Small, Jamie Pinto, Suzanne Ahmed,

Sharon Antoniou, Angelica B a r ba ga l l o , K a t h e r i n e Hammell, Sara Paradis, Rhonda Pintek, al l of Southington , Goodwin College, East Hartford.

S h a r o n A n t o n i o u , A n g e l i c a B a r b a g a l l o , Katherine Hammell, Sara Paradis, Rhonda Pintek, all of Southington, made the president’s list at Goodwin

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Cortney Graham, Mitchell Mueller, Stephen Murphy, Domenic Pascariello, April Pinto, Jenna Tellerico, Allison Vachon, Asia West, all of Southington, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven.

Niels Thomsen, The Elm’s College, in Chicopee, Mass.

Mallory Bichunsky, of S o u t h i n g t o n , P a u l i n a Piotrowski, of Plantsville, B r i t t a ny Vo l p e , o f Southington, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.

Two academically out-standing Plantsville resi-dents earned a spot on the second semester honor roll at Northwest Catholic High School, West Hartford. Senior Elizabeth Lathrop and junior Rani Vance both earned First Honors.

The following residents graduated from their re-spective schools, colleges, universities:

Steven C. Zoni received his Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude from UMass-Dartmouth School of Law on May 11. Steve served as Editor-in-Chief of UMass Law Review and received numerous awards, includ-ing the Alumni Association Award, given to the student who most epitomized the

school’s mission. He was a Dean’s Fellow, tutoring other students.

Jaclyn Louise Balkun, graduate certificate health care systems management; Joanne Gardner, master of science, nursing; Kelsey Lynn Mazzocco, bachelor of science, nutrition; Donna L. Morand, graduate certificate health care systems man-agement; Kailyn Christine Polzella, bachelor of science, mathematics; Jennifer Ann Proffitt, master of arts, special education; all of Plantsville; Jennifer Mary Bunger, mas-ter of arts, early childhood education/special education; Alison Marie Frega, bache-lor of arts, history; Patricia Goodman, bachelor of sci-ence, social work; Jennifer Rebecca Irazabal, master of arts, education; Corrine F. Khawaja, master of arts, edu-cation; Alyssa Mary Moleski, bachelor of science, social work; Steven C. Tolles, mas-ter of arts, special educa-tion; Sarah Grace Violette, bachelor of science, nursing; University of St. Joseph, West Hartford.

Sarthak Agrawal , of Southington, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sanjeev Kumar Agrawal and Ryan Conlan, of Southington, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Conlan, both graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford.

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SOUTHINGTON — The following people were charged by police:

July 7:Justin Sieracki, 22, 111 N.

Summit St., third-degree burglary, carrying danger-ous weapon, 1:06 a.m.

Martin McCulloch, 19, 1048 S. Main St., second-de-gree breach of peace, 7:49 p.m.

Karen S. Cappuccetti, 51, 737 Spindle Hill Road, Wolcott, driving under the influence, 10:03 p.m.

David B. Chesanek, 26, 27 South Plains Road, Southington, second-de-gree failure to appear, noon.

Roland Garneau, 50, 1845 Meriden Waterbury Road, probation violation, first-degree failure to ap-pear, 4 p.m.

Michael B. Turner, 55, 131 West Center St., sixth-de-gree larceny, 4:55 p.m.

July 8:Gregory Blackledge, 44,

72 Henry St., East Haven, second-degree failure to appear, 6:56

Rafael A. Molina, 31, 441 Peidmont St., Waterbury, operating motor vehicle with suspended registra-tion, failure to have insur-ance, 6:23 p.m.

Rafael A. Molina, 31, 441 Peidmont St., Waterbury, second-degree failure to appear, 6:45 p.m.

Jessica L. McKinely, 26,

67 Fifth St., Bristol, oper-ating motor vehicle with suspended license, failure to have insurance, 5:03 p.m.

Kelly Charbonneau, 25, 4 Long Meadow Drive, Wolcott, operating unregis-tered motor vehicle, failure to have insurance, 7:50 p.m.

Ricardo Tamariz, 38, 37 Webster St., Milford, oper-ating motor vehicle with-out a license, operating unregistered motor vehi-cle, operating motor vehi-cle without insurance, 8:42 p.m.

July 9:Patrick K. McGourn, 26,

112 Old Cider Mill Road, is-suing a bad check, 6:15 p.m.

July 10:Janine D. Mangassarian,

42, 184 Deckert Drive, Plantsville, second-degree harassment, criminal im-personation, 8:10 a.m.

July 11:Theresa A. Burhans, 43,

1845 Meriden Waterbury Road, second-degree fail-ure to appear, 11 a.m.

Pau l A lexander, 26 , 6 8 S u m m e r f i e l d S t . , Naugatuck, sixth-degree larceny, 4:08 p.m.

Stacey R. Sender, 24, 63 Wolfe Ave., Beacon Falls, sixth-degree larceny, 4:15 p.m.

Eric C. Wallace, 29, 666 Prospect St., Plantsville, third-degree assault, disor-derly conduct, 5:40 p.m.

Cassandra J. Elmer, 23, 185 Whiting St., Plainville, evading responsibi l i ty, reckless driving, 7:30 p.m.

Matthew Berube, 23, 259 Pleasant St., evading re-sponsibility, operating un-registered motorcycle, operating motorcycle with-out a motorcycle license, 11:04 p.m.

Charlene A. Miron, 45, 27 Burnham Road, Terryville, sixth-degree larceny, 12:56 p.m.

July 12:Freddy Torres, 23, 23

Humphrey St., Hartford, third-degree burglary, con-spiracy to commit third-de-g ree burg lary, s imple trespass, sixth-degree lar-ceny, conspiracy to commit sixth-degree larceny, 9 a.m.

July 13:Adam M. Dzilenski, 24,

1069 Old Turnpike Road, second-degree failure to appear, 1:45 a.m.

July 14:Giovanni Volo, 54 171

Sams Road , Mer iden , breach of peace, 2 a.m.

Larissa M. Byrd, 20, 50 Wacona Ave., Waterbury, two counts sixth-degree larceny, 5:49 p.m.

Guillermo Murillo-Malta, 34, 62 Peters Circle, operat-ing motor vehicle with sus-pended license, failure to have insurance, operating unregistered motor vehi-cle, 7:04 p.m.

erty in 1900 from Oliver Lee, a wealthy local land owner. Kopec said the house on the property was torn down.

Walkley then donated $5,000 to the town, offering to build the town’s first library if his donation were matched. The town agreed and the li-brary was built for $10,000.

In 1930, the historical so-ciety expanded the library building with an addition.

“It’s the nicest building in town,” Sokolowski said, add-ing that he is amazed the original framework and ar-chitecture is still intact.

In the early 1900s, Walkley built a mansion where The Summit at Plantsville is today.

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“He made his fortune in the late 1890s,” Kopec said. “He built a giant mansion and was riding the tide around the turn of the century.”

Walkley was known to lo-cal residents as a “gentleman farmer,” Kopec said. Though he owned a farm, she said, he was never known to get his hands dirty. Instead, he in-vested his money in livestock and let others do the breed-ing, feeding and selling.

“There was a lot of money in breeding good stock and, though he never lived on a farm, he bid $65,000 for a bull,” Kopec said. “That was a lot of money back then.”

However, Kopec said, Walkley had trouble manag-ing his finances. He lost his mansion and was forced to sell Belleview Farm and the

Spring Lake property.“He might have lost two

fortunes during his lifetime,” Kopec said, “which might have been millions in today’s world.”

Kopec said she is unsure when Walkley died. Neither the town nor the historical society have any records.

Phil Wooding, vice presi-dent of the historical society, said Walkley will always be “the first paper bag man in town.”

Though Walkley was known as a big spender, Wooding and Kopec agreed that he shaped Southington into a thriving town of good businesses. Sokolowski said Walkley Road honors his accomplishments.

“He seemed to be quite the character,” Kopec said.

Southington Elks Lodge No. 1669 will host its annual golf tournament Friday, Aug. 16, at Hawks Landing Country Club. Registration deadline is Friday, Aug. 9. Individuals or four-somes welcome. For more information, contact Chairman Ralph Hedenberg, (860) 276-8395, or the Elks Lodge, (860) 628-6682.

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ALWAYS Buying machinist tool boxes, tools & bench

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MERIDEN CLEAN SAFE ROOMS. Includes Heat, HW, Elec, Kit Priv, East Side. Off-St Parking. $125/wk.+ sec. Call 12-8pm 203-630-3823 or www.Meridenrooms.com

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North Haven Meadowstone Motel Off I-91. Satellite TV. Short Stay/Daily/ Wkly. On Bus Line. 203-239-5333

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PROSPECT Imm. Occ. 2 BR, 12”x16” Cov. Patio, $48,000. Liberty 860-747-6881 or 203-592-7641

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MERIDEN 5 Rooms, Appli-ances, Off Street Parking. Quiet Dead End. $925/month + Security. (203) 630-1102.

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MERIDEN 16 Platt Ave. 1st FlL, 2 BR, 1 Bath. Lg Kitchen & Dining Rm. Dishwasher, WD Hookup. Remodeled. $875/mo. + Utils. Avail Sept 1st. Call Nat (203) 605-1616

Doughboy Above ground pool, with filter, new ladder, skimmer and vaccum robot. 24 foot, beige color. Only 7 years old in excellent condition. Must sell before Septem-ber and must take down yourself. Price $700.00 or negotiable. Call Maria at 634-3720 before 8:00 PM.

MERIDEN 2 BR RH, Avail Sept Quiet, Clean, 1.5 BA, Lg closets, wall to wall, hookups, deck, etc. No Pets. Credit Chk $1,000 + utils (203) 269-9755


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