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Volume 19, Number 34 Serving Durham, Middlefield and Rockfall www.TownTimes.com Friday, January 2, 2015
Since I’m in no position to make New Year’s resolutions for Durham and Middlefield, I’ll use the turn to 2015 to look back on some of the projects and events covered in 2014.
Although the 2014-2015 win-ter so far can be described as “shorts in December weather,” heavy snow storms in early 2014 punished homeowners and the snow removal budgets of Durham, Middlefield, and Dis-trict 13. You can plan for snow in 2015, and you can cross your fingers.
The swing bad weather can cause in snow removal budgets and school schedules is noth-ing compared to the swing four sunny days can bring to the Durham Fair.
After a string of fair week-
ends with at least one washout day, the fair has had two years in a row with beautiful weather. Instead of exchanging stories about getting towed out of a cornfield and feeling like the ad-vance ride bracelet purchase is a risky gamble, fair-goers enjoyed a slightly overcast Thursday and then three days of beautiful weather and healthy crowds.
Civic organizations running booths felt the impact. Instead of worrying about losing money at the fair, many civic organiza-tions sold out of items.
Middlefield First Selectman Jon Brayshaw said the Middle-field Republicans’ booth was down to its last tank of lime rickeys, which had never hap-pened before. “We’ve sold a lot of lime rickeys,” said Brayshaw. “I’m tired of hearing the name.”
Civic organizations were also busy outside of the fair.
The Coginchaug Valley Ed-ucation Foundation held a “Flights of Fancy and Song” fund raising event, selling ar-tistic birdhouses and creatively altered musical instruments. CVEF awarded 10 grants in 2014, their highest number yet.
CVEF executive board mem-ber Betsy White Booz said of the grant winners, “It’s a good cross section of arts, [public] schools, private school, libraries, and towns.”
Some of the projects from our civic organizations have become tradition, things we expect at certain times of the year. Go Far held its annual Go Far Go Fast race, the Public Association of Library Supporters drew in restaurants, caterers, and eaters to the Durham Public Library for the Taste of Durham, and
The year in reviewBy Mark DionneTown Times
At the Durham Fair Talent Show on Saturday, Sept. 27, Alex Woznyk danced her way to a first prize with her high-flying, tumbling routine to the Disney Creulla de Vil song “I’m Gettin’ Good at Being Bad.” | Mark Dionne / Town TimesThe Town Times featured several memo-
rable human interest stories in 2014, from a rapping job interview candidate to some heart-warming acts of charity.
When a fire ruined the home of Jeff Sie-na’s neighbors, Karen and Ted Dyndiuk, Siena helped bring the community together to help the family through the difficult weeks that fol-lowed. A dinner held June 5 at the Middletown Elks club raised more than $6,000 to help with medical bills and “to help them rebuild their lives,” Siena said.
“I was absolutely amazed,” Karen Dyndiuk said. “One of the nice things about the dinner was that most of the servers and workers were all our neighbors. I was just so surprised that so many of them wanted to help out.”
Ted Dyndiuk is a veteran, and Karen Dy-ndiuk is active in the United Churches of Durham community, according to Siena.
“I’m only 51, and I wouldn’t want to have to rebuild my whole life,” said Siena, express-ing sympathy for what his 72- and 79-year-old neighbors are going through.
“That’s our Jeff,” Karen Dyndiuk said. “He’s just the kind of neighbor who would do some-thing like this … I keep telling him, you don’t have to do this, and he says, ‘but I want to,’” Dyndiuk said.
***In May, it was announced that the Cogin-
A look back at memorable 2014 happeningsBy Charles KreutzkampTown Times
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The Coginchaug Cephalopods in Seattle. | Submitted
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chaug Cephalopods placed 10th out of 22 in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl teams in the entire nation at their first ever national compe-tition in Seattle, Wash. The team was recognized for this astounding accomplishment by the Region 13 Board of Ed-ucation at John Lyman School May 14.
It all came down to “pulse-stopping five sec-onds at the end,” according to Cephalopods coach Lor-rie Martin. “Coginchaug had
led the entire match and was winning by one point with five seconds left on the clock when Alaska just hit the but-ton without even hearing the question, guessed and guessed correctly!”
Alaska won by only two points, before going on to take third place over-all. Boise High School from Boise, Idaho took top honors at the bowl which is hosted by Washington Sea Grant and the University of Washington.
Coginchaug won three out of four round robin matches, defeating California, Texas, and Florida. Coginchaug lost to Virginia, which placed fourth overall.
One of the members of the Virginia team said “Your team scared us like no other team has done so far,” accord-ing to Martin.
In double elimination, Coginchaug defeated Wis-consin before their second loss to Virginia, and the final game against Alaska.
“They did very, very well,” said Diana Payne, Education Coordinator with the Con-necticut Sea Grant and for-mer head of the National Marine Educators Associ-ation. In 17 years of compe-tition, this is only the third time a team from Connecticut has gone to nationals, and the
first time a Connecticut team has done so well.
“I have a background in bi-ology and [Cephalopod Ame-lia] answered some questions even I didn’t know the answer to,” Payne said.
“Overall, though 10th place sometimes doesn’t sound like a spectacular number in a basketball tournament scheme of things, the fact that this was only the second time in history that a Connecticut team has made it to Nation-als and that two years ago, the only other CT team to reach Nationals never even won a match, I can’t even contain the pride I feel for these ex-ceptional Coginchaug stu-dents,” Martin said. “It will take many years for me to come down off this oceanic tidal wave!”
***Joanna Perricone, Durham
resident and CRHS alum, was nervous when she first heard that her interviewer at Gate-way Financial Partners of Glastonbury had discovered her hip-hop music online.
Prior to asking Perricone to come in for an interview, the company’s Director of Mar-keting and Communications, Shannon Berube, discovered Perricone’s rap online. About
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halfway through the initial interview for a marketing assistant job, Berube asked Perricone to elaborate on the musical interests they had discovered online.
“I just thought it was the funniest thing, because she was caught off guard,” Berube said, recalling that Perricone confessed she was “turning 50 shades of red.”
But when company Presi-dent David Wood later sent Perricone an email asking her to write and perform a rap about the company during a second job interview, she ac-cepted the challenge — and landed the job.
At first, Perricone said she was uncertain whether the re-quest for a rapping interview was a joke or not.
It definitely wasn’t, and “Dropping a Line and Land-ing a Corporate Job” can now be viewed on Gateway’s You-Tube page.
The rap featured lines like
“Confidently, I know I could add to your successes/I would like to help Faith and Shannon write a press kit” and “Impressions are imper-ative, see how well I handle it/I just marketed myself, so I know I’m your candidate.”
Perricone received a phone call with a job offer mere hours after performing the pitch in November.
The company was im-pressed by the personalized content of the rap, Berube said, and the guts it took to perform it. She set herself apart, which is what Gateway looks for in its marketing.
Several weeks into her new job, Perricone continues to impress.
“She’s a rock star,” said Berube. “We could not have made a better decision.”
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Melissa Greenbacker, right, introduces tour visitors to a friendly calf at Greenbacker farm during the weekend of June 21. | Charles Kreutzkamp / Town Times
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the Local Wellness Council and the school district held the Community Round-Up food drive.
A l l h a d h e a l t h y participation.
When over 100 students performed “The Wizard of
Oz” on April 25-27 for three full audiences, it marked the stage debut of Paper House Productions, a new commu-nity theater organization. Af-ter the production of “The Wizard of Oz” partnered with the John Lyman Parents Association, Paper House partnered with Durham Mid-
dlefield Youth and Family Services for “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown!” in July.
(In terms of disclosure, I’m one of the founders of Paper House and that statement pretty much sums up my 2014 projects.)
Students had some nota-ble athletic accomplishments in 2014 as well. The CRHS girls cross country team won the Shoreline and state championships.
Chris Fosdick of Middle-field was featured in an arti-cle in Golf Digest magazine about what golf means to his family and then competed along with Middlefield’s Dylan Sartor for a national PGA Junior League champi-onship in Georgia.
CRHS cross country run-ner Christian Alberico domi-nated his conference and won numerous titles including Shoreline Runner of the Year.
The schools were busy in 2014 with ongoing implemen-
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tation of the Common Core and new teacher evaluations. Kathryn Veronesi started as the new Superintendent of Schools in the first month of 2014 and had the task of find-ing a permanent principal for CRHS. Brian Falcone was in-troduced to the community at the Class of 2014 gradua-tion ceremony and started working as principal over the summer.
New Athletic Director Nick Barbieri, the district’s first full time AD, started in late 2013, making 2014 his first full year. In March, Barbieri delivered the results of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Con-ference study to the Board of Education. Many of the CIAC recommendations centered on the relationship and com-munication of the athletic programs and the parents of athletes.
Passing the school bud-get is an annual project that starts with the administrators and ends with the entire com-munity, or at least those who show up to vote.
In the spring, the two towns approved a school bud-get with a net 1.74 percent in-crease, one of the smallest in memory. Some features of the budget included more Com-mon Core training for teach-ers, additional advanced
placement classes, in house PSAT Administration, a new K-4 technology teacher, a ninth grade Chromebook initiative, music equipment leases, professional develop-ment funding, and Connecti-cut Association of Boards of Education membership.
On the night of the refer-endum, Veronesi said, “I’m thrilled. I went into this feel-ing confident of the outcome and very proud of the work
the administration did.”Some projects are hard to
ignore because they make you sit in a line of cars. Durham and Middlefield completed extensive bridge repairs in 2014 on Pickett Lane and Route 147. The Middlefield construction reduced a ma-jor road to alternating traffic and the Durham construction overlapped with the opening
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Kindergarten registrationDurham and Middlefield
children who will be five (5) years old, on or before Jan 1, 2016, must be registered to at-tend kindergarten in Septem-ber 2015 or apply for a waiver of attendance. In Regional District 13, children may at-
tend kindergarten in either the Contemporary Program or the Integrated Day Program. Par-ents need to choose the pro-gram for their child prior to kindergarten registration.
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K-4 and is housed at Brewster School for grades K-2 and at Korn School for grades 3 and 4. The Integrated Day program serves students in grades K-4 at John Lyman School. While the two programs share many similarities, they also have differences that must be con-sidered when deciding which program is best.
Parents are urged to visit all three schools and to observe at least one classroom at every grade level. Parental visits may be scheduled Jan. 7 through
Jan. 30. Appointments may be made by calling Lyman School at (860) 349-7240 to visit the Integrated Day Program. To visit the Contemporary Pro-gram, call Brewster School at (860) 349-7227 and Korn School at (860) 349-7210.
Decisions about which pro-gram to register their child must be made by Feb. 1, ac-cording to Regional District 13 Board of Education policy. Children not registered in a specific program by that date may not be able to attend the
program chosen by parents. Scheduling an appointment for kindergarten registration confirms program choice.
Kindergarten registration for the 2015-2016 school year is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 3 through Thursday, Feb. 5, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., with hours ex-tended to 6 p.m. on one eve-ning. Once the registration appointment has been made, the school will send a regis-tration information packet that includes a residency form and questionnaire, a stu-dent information/emergency form, a school entry health questionnaire and a parent questionnaire, which should be completed and brought to registration along with a copy of the child’s birth certificate. Children should attend the registration appointment with you.
Parents of an eligible kin-dergarten child who wish to hold his/her child out of school for another year must sign a form at the Office of the Superintendent of Schools.
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months of school.Lake Beseck spent 2014
looking little like a lake. While the dam repair project that required the large draw down of the lake was essen-tially completed in 2014, Lake Beseck needs more rainfall to bring the water up to former levels.
While the timing of the dam repair and the difficulty of the on-going weed issue at Lake Beseck drew con-cern from the public, a proj-ect that did not get out of the planning stages was the most controversial of the year.
Durham First Select-
man Laura Francis and the Clean Energy and Sustain-ability Task Force planned a solar farm at the corner of Haddam Quarter Road and Brick Lane to use clean en-ergy for some town facili-ties. Haddam Quarter Road residents, among others, ob-jected at multiple meetings to both the location and process.
Of course, 2014 was not long enough to contain many projects, which will spill over into 2015.
Middlef ield launched plans, including a celebra-tion for the town’s sesqui-centennial and a revision of the town charter. “You open Pandora’s Box when you re-open the charter,” selectman Dave Burgess said. Brayshaw
has stated that he would not seek re-election and indi-cated that starting a charter revision would be one way to “go out with a bang.”
Several years ago, the BOE studied declining enrollment in the district and in 2014 they received a report with four school plans, three of which close at least one school.
It has been over three de-cades since pollutants were detected in the groundwater underneath central Durham. The EPA plans to pipe public drinking water into the area as a solution. While that proj-ect’s most optimistic end date is 2018, planning, study, and one public hearing took place in 2014 and 2015 will likely see more on that project.
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“An Evening in White” gathered diners in white for a flash mob style event. | Mark Dionne / Town Times
The first day of school for 2014-15. | Mark Dionne / Town Times
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My son says I jinx the trains in Sweden, and he may be right. I just got back from visiting him and my 4-year-old grandson, Hayden, and oh yes, it was an adventure. Again.
It’s the fourth time the trains have turned ornery on me. This time it was the tracks down yonder being crooked and going in the wrong direction, or some such thing (I’m having trou-ble even imagining this). It always means getting off the train with a suitcase that feels like it is filled with lead. What in heaven’s name did I put in there? Then finding a bus to take me to another town, where I must find another train going my way. I can always count on an extra three hours added to the trip.
So let me tell you about this latest mishap, which ac-tually turned into something
quite wonderful. The train station is in the Copenha-gen airport, so after getting my ticket I went downstairs to the tracks, and I asked a woman if this is the place I need to be for the train going to Vaxjo. She said yes, and that she was going there, too. “Oh, good,” I said, “I’m going to follow you.” I do that. Her eyes widened in surprise as she offered a weak, “Okay.” To my credit, though, if I’m going to stalk someone, I feel like the only polite thing to do is give them a heads-up.
Eva was her name, and she turned out to be my guard-ian angel. She took care of me from start to finish. We bonded while sitting on a bench waiting for the train, then sat next to each other when we boarded. We talked about deep things and silly
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As we wrap up the 113th Congress, I’d like to thank you for the honor of representing our great state in the United States Senate. My family goes back generations in Connecti-cut, and I wake up every day feeling so lucky to represent a state that has meant so much to me and my family. As I wrap up my first two years in office, I wanted to update you on the issues and legislative fights that have dominated my first two years in Congress, and to ask you to continue to provide me with feedback on how to serve you better moving forward.
As we all remember, tragedy struck New-town just over two years ago. Since that day, I have done everything in my power to push Congress to pass legislation that will help prevent gun violence in our schools, in our homes, and on our streets. While the legis-lation I’ve worked on with Senator Blumen-thal to reduce gun violence still needs to be passed, we’ve helped lead a national con-versation to end our country’s gun violence epidemic. Just like the Newtown families, I will fight with every ounce of my being, ev-ery minute of every day, to get gun violence legislation over the finish line. Congress must reverse course and take action on common sense legislation, and I won’t stop fighting until I see that happen.
One issue that I plan to do much more work on in the upcoming session of Con-gress is improving our nation’s broken sys-tem of mental health care. While improving mental health care will undoubtedly address the gun violence, it is important to remem-ber that people with mental illness are far more likely to be the victim of violence than the perpetrator of violence. So this year I’ve started convening roundtable discussions with mental health professionals, provid-ers, and advocacy groups across Connecti-cut. Too often people struggling with mental illness have to wait in lines to receive care, and when they get it, it is often uncoordi-
nated with the rest of their health care needs. Insurers, and the federal government, continue to make it harder to get care for mental illness than for physical illnesses. We can do better, and I intend to introduce legislation next year that will com-prehensively reform our broken system.
In addition to keeping up the fight for sensible anti-gun violence legis-lation, I’ve been working hard over the last two years to make Connecti-cut an even more attractive place to
grow a business and create jobs. Connecti-cut’s economy is growing and our unem-ployment rate is inching down. To support these trends, I’ve introduced legislation to grow manufacturing jobs throughout the state. Specifically, I’ve introduced two pieces of legislation that will strengthen existing standards and prioritize the purchase of American-made goods by federal agencies. My bills, the 21st Century Buy American Act and the American Jobs Matter Act, would close loopholes in federal law that allow the U.S. government to circumvent buying American-made goods, ultimately leaving our hardworking manufacturers in the dust. The longer these loopholes exist, the more likely we send jobs overseas. It’s time to update these laws so we can maintain and grow jobs here at home.
While I’ve been working hard on legisla-tion that will help people in Connecticut, I’ve also grown my constituent services office in Hartford. Helping people in Con-necticut get what they are owed, or what they need, from the federal government is the most rewarding part of my job. Over the course of the past two years, my office has saved or recovered millions of dollars for constituents across Connecticut. We have assisted individuals in all parts of the state with matters related to federal agencies
Things are improving, but work remains
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Murphy
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Letters to the Editor
A first-hand look at Cuba
To the editor:From Nov. 21 to 30, Allan and I were able
to visit Cuba, a trip sponsored by the Martin Luther King Center for Social Justice, based in a suburb of Havana. Cuba is now front and center in the news.
We will be talking about our trip at the Durham Library on Jan. 15, with a snow date of
Jan. 22, sponsored by Coginchaug Area Tran-sition. We will focus on the organic agricul-ture movement at 7 p.m., and will be happy to stay on after to answer other questions people may have.
It was fascinating to be there, and see for ourselves, what Cuba is.
Nancy Winship-PooleMiddlefield
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day morning offering will provide a snapshot of the enriching programs pro-vided to our own students. Classes are hands-on, expe-riential and fun.
The Home School Enrich-ment program is planned for Jan. 22 through March 19 (no classes the week of Feb. 16), from 8:15 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.
For more information, visit www.independentday-school.org.
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things and we laughed. And then we laughed some more. We talked about our life philosophies, and I really liked hers. She was such a beacon of light.
And then it happened. The announcement, in Danish (thank heavens I had her to interpret for me, or I might still be sitting there), about the recalcitrant tracks up ahead, and the necessity for finding another train. As we schlepped along to the next train station, she even took care of my suitcase, dragging it behind her and lifting it on and off the trains. I imagine she was trying to put a little giddy-up in my step. For the life of me I can never seem to keep up with those Scan-dinavians. I have to trot to keep up with their leisurely stroll. Picture a Chihuahua trying to keep up with a Great Dane.
When we finally got to Vaxjo we hugged, and she said she wanted me to call her sometime during the week. She really was my Christmas miracle.
Well, one of them. The other one, and an even grander one, was that sweet grandson of mine. Now I know this just sounds like a grandma bragging, so you may not take me all that seri-ously, but he is just beautiful, both inside and out. The face of an angel, with a heart and spirit to match. We played from the time he got up un-til the time he went to bed, and I don’t remember when I’ve been so happy. Even jet lag didn’t dare intrude. I was never tired. We played games every child knows, and we played games I re-member from my own grow-ing-up years, and we made up new ones. We danced – yes, like no one was watch-ing. On a regular basis he
hugged me and kissed me and told me he loved me. If I left the room for any reason, he went looking for me, call-ing “Grandma.” That word is now, to me, the most beauti-ful word in the English lan-guage. Every time he said it, something inside me turned to mush.
Those six days with Hayden have been tucked deep inside my heart, for safe keeping. And whenever things seem to look a little gloomy, I will take them out and polish them off, and the sun will be out again.
When my son was putting Hayden to bed the night be-fore I was to leave, he told him that I had to go home the next day, and Hayden said he wanted to go home with Grandma. Ryan ex-plained that I live far away and had to take a train and a plane, and Hayden said he wanted me to stay with him for a million years. If only.
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such as the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the Social Security Administration, and the Department of Home-land Security. Our work is focused on ensuring that constituents’ rights are re-spected, that they receive the benefits they are owed, and that any procedural errors they encounter are corrected.
It’s the honor of my life to serve the people of Con-
necticut in the U.S. Senate, either by working on legisla-tion, or helping constituents get the services they need. I hope you’ll stay engaged and continue to share your ideas for how we can make Connecticut and our country even better. I commit to you that I will bring continued passion and work ethic to my job each day in the year ahead. Thanks for a great two years.
-- Press Release
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A recent public hearing concerning the polluted groundwater under central Durham and a proposed ordinance to mandate con-version to public drink-ing water at the Superfund site has renewed attention on the water problem in Durham.
The proposed solution – a $20 million project – and the proposed forced aban-donment of approximately 110 private wells leads to the question: What’s in the water?
Many pollutants have been detected at the Super-fund site (sometimes called “Area A”), which occupies roughly Main Street and Maple Avenue from Talcott Lane to the Town Green.
A “Record of Decision,” a lengthy document of facts, history, and remedies from the Environmental Protec-tion Agency, issued on Sept. 30, 2005 details approxi-mately 20 types of contam-inants in the groundwater
and soil of the Superfund site. Many of the contam-inants listed, such as tri-chloroethylene (TCE) and 1,4-dioxane, continue to be discussed at public hear-ings. Some others, even chemicals popularly known as dangerous, such as ar-senic and mercury, are not discussed as often.
Anni Loughlin, inter-viewed after the Dec. 16 public hearing, said, “TCE is definitely the most com-mon contaminant in the Su-perfund site area and that’s the one that we typically show on figures.”
Most of these contami-nants at the site fall under the category of Volatile Or-ganic Compounds (VOCs).
According to Loughlin, “These are contaminants that will evaporate quite readily when exposed to air ... they can pose risks a number of different ways to people.” Contaminants that evaporate quickly may sound like a good thing, but in some cases that volatil-ity increases the risk of ex-posure through the air and
skin.One of the CT Depart-
ment of Public Health fact sheets handed out at the public hearing focused on TCE and explained the risks. “TCE is a toxic chem-ical that can harm multiple organs and induce cancer. It is known to affect the liver, kidney and immune system. It can also harm fetal de-velopment, and so is a risk during pregnancy.”
People can be exposed to TCE from drinking con-taminated water, and also by absorbing it through the skin from moisture put into the household air from a shower or a dishwasher.
Many wells within Area A have never tested posi-tive for TCE while others have gone far over accept-able levels.
The EPA has determined that the source of the pollu-tion in Area A was solvents, paints, and degreasers from Merriam Manufacturing and the Durham Manufac-turing Company.
What’s in the water?By Mark DionneTown Times
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The Department of Motor Vehicles has announced the 7th annual Department of Motor Vehicles and Travelers teen safe driving video contest. “Steer Your Friends in the Right Direction,” is open to all Connecticut public and private high school students, including home schooled. The 25-second videos must illustrate two or more of the state’s teen driving laws. Deadline for submitting a video is Jan. 14, with winners announced in April. For infor-mation and rules, visit www.ct.gov/teendriving/contest. Prizes are awarded to the high schools of the students creating the top five winning videos.
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The public discussion has combined these two sites into one plume. They can be mapped as two different plumes, although they share many of the same pollutants, such as TCE.
At the Dec. 16 public hear-ing, Loughlin presented a graph showing the highest levels tested from bedrock groundwater. The four con-taminants shown were all significantly over accepted levels. For TCE, which has a state action level of 1 part per billion, Durham has had bedrock groundwater tested at 2,500 ppb.
In shallow groundwater at the Durham Manufactur-ing site, meaning water not as deep as bedrock water or deep enough for a regular drinking water well, levels of TCE were tested as high as 66,000 ppb, which Loughlin called “extraordinarily high.”
The chart displayed at the public hearing also showed 1,4-dioxane tested at 58 ppb with a drinking water limit of 3 ppb.
First detected in June, 2004 in Durham, 1,4-dioxane requires different remedies than TCE. Loughlin explains, “The reason why it’s so prob-lematic ... is because it’s not effectively captured by car-
bon filters which is the most popular way to try to address individual drinking wells.”
Residents with wells where 1,4-dioxane has been detected or are considered at risk are using both carbon filters and bottled water.
Durham residents and of-ficials may be talking about different chemicals in the future as the VOCs break down. As with evaporation, contaminants breaking down may sound like a good thing, but the resulting chemicals can be just as dangerous or worse. Loughlin said that they have already started de-tecting breakdown products. “Vinyl chloride is a break-
down product ... and some-times we tend to see the levels of vinyl chloride go up as TCE degrades. Vinyl chloride is actually general-ly-speaking more toxic than the other chemicals.”
Vinyl chloride has a water limit of 2 ppb and has been detected as high as 18 ppb in
Durham.Given the chemical and
physical characteristics of the site, Loughlin said, “We don’t necessarily think that time is going to solve this problem any time soon ... we do think that this plume is probably going to be around for hun-dreds of years, unfortunately.”
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Library Programs
Levi E. Coe LibraryLibrary hours: Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.;
Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; closed Fridays. Levi E. Coe Library is scheduled to be closed Monday, Jan. 19 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Passes, ZinioLevi E. Coe Library has museum passes. Multiple state
parks and forests are available.The Levi E. Coe Library subscribes to Zinio. Patrons may
access over a dozen different magazines online.
Durham Public LibraryLibrary hours: Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.;
Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.Preschool programs begin Jan. 5 - Drop in.Bouncing Babies! (birth - crawlers). Mondays at 11 a.m.Mother Goose Storytime (walkers to 30 months). Mondays
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a.m. and 1:30 p.m.Paws to Read (6 to 9 years). Three-week session, Satur-
days, Jan. 10, 17 and 24 at 10:15, 10:30 or 10:45 a.m. Improve reading skills by reading aloud to a therapy dog. Registra-tion is required.
LEGO Club (6 to 12 years). Thursday, Jan. 15, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Drop in.
Programs for adultsBood Lover’s Circle - Wednesday, Jan. 7, 7:30 p.m. “The
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Tot Time - MOMS Club of Durham/Middlefield has scheduled Tot Times for Fridays, 10 a.m., at the Mid-dlefield Community Center, 405 Main St. Durham and Middlefield babies, toddlers and children are welcome. No registration required. For more information, email [email protected].
Boys basketball - CRHS at Hale Ray, 7 p.m.
Girls basketball - CRHS at Hale Ray, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 3Ice hockey - CRHS vs.
New Fairfield-Immaculate, 8 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 5Boys basketball - CRHS
vs. Westbrook, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 6Girls basketball - CRHS
at Westbrook, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 7Ice hockey - CRHS at
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Thursday, Jan. 8Boys basketball - CRHS
at North Branford, 7 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 9Girls basketball - CRHS
at North Branford, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 10Ice hockey - CRHS vs.
Newtown, 6 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 1260+ Club - The Durham
60+ Club is scheduled to meet Monday, Jan. 12, 1:30 p.m., at the Durham Activity center, 350 Main St. A blood pressure clinic is scheduled for 1 p.m. Bingo is scheduled following the meeting. New members are welcome.
Boys basketball - CRHS vs. Old Saybrook, 7:30 p.m.
Ice hockey- CRHS at Brookfield/Bethel/Danbury (Danbury Ice Arena), 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 13Girls basketball - CRHS
vs. Old Saybrook, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 14Ice hockey - CRHS vs.
Hall/Southington (Veterans Memorial Rink), 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 15Boys basketball - CRHS
at Cromwell, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 16Girls basketball - CRHS
vs. Cromwell, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 17Boys basketball - CRHS
vs. Haddam-Killingworth, 7 p.m.
Ice hockey - CRHS vs. Mt. Everett, 8:40 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 19Ice hockey- CRHS vs.
Westhill, 1:45 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 21Ice hockey- CRHS vs.
North Branford, 4 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 23Girls basketball - CRHS
vs. Old Lyme, 7 p.m.
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Monday, Jan. 26Girls basketball - CRHS
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Tuesday, Jan. 27Boys basketball - CRHS
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Government Meetings
Durham(Unless otherwise indicated, all meet-ings are held at the Durham Library. Check the town website at www.town-ofdurhamct.org for updates.)Tuesday, Jan. 6Compensation Review/Person-nel Policy Board, Town Hall, 7 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 7Planning & Zoning, Town Hall, 7:30 p.m.Monday, Jan. 12Board of Selectmen, Town Hall, 7 p.m.Inland/Wetlands, Town Hall, 7:30 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 14Board of Wetlands, Memorial School, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Jan. 15Water Commission, Town Hall, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 20Board of Finance, Town Hall, 6:30 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 21Planning & Zoning, Town Hall, 7:30 p.m.Monday, Jan. 20Board of Selectmen, Town Hall, 7 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 28Senior Citizen Board, Durham Activity Center, 1 p.m.Board of Education, Korn Ele Middlefield
Monday, Jan. 5Board of Selectmen, Middlefield Community Center, 7 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 7WPCA, 7 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 14Board of Education, Memorial School, 7:30 p.m.Tuesday, Jan. 27Zoning Board of Appeals, 7 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 28Board of Education, Korn School, 7:30 p.m.
A special town meeting of the electors and citizens qualified to vote at town meetings of the Town of Durham is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 12, 8 p.m., at Town Hall. According to First Selectman Laura L. Francis, the meeting will discuss:
1. To transfer a total of $105,700 from the Reserve Fund as recommended by the Board of Finance at the Dec. 16, 2014 meeting:Up to $33,400 from #9200 Building Maintenance Reserve to the following accounts:$5,800 #6700-473 Town Hall Building Maintenance $10,000 #6700-496 Ambulance Building Maintenance$12,600 #6700-497 Library Building Maintenance$5,000 #6700-508 Fire Company Building MaintenanceUp to $12,000 from #9210 Unanticipated Building Maintenance and $58,000 from #9645 Library Roof Reserve to #6700-497
Library Building Maintenance.Up to $2,300 from #9630 Fire Dept. Equipment Reserve to #2568-452 Facilities Building Maintenance.2. To transfer up to $30,000 from #9580 Apparatus Reserve to #6700-474 CIP-Fire Apparatus for the purchase of 4,600 feet
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3. To transfer $7,006 from #9150 Ambulance OSHA Gear Reserve to #6700-493 Ambulance CIP for the purchase of rescue coats and pants as recommended by the Board of Finance at their December 16, 2014 meeting.
4. To adopt a Resolution of Endorsement and Authorization for Uniform Chart of Accounts.
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Volunteers are needed for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program to help low-to moder-ate-income households prepare and file their taxes to ensure they get back the money they have earned.
VITA is a national program of the IRS, and volunteers are trained and certified to ensure that working families and individuals are filing for all of the appropriate tax cred-its. The program also helps people avoid costly fees associated with tax preparation and rapid refund loans.
The program is looking for volun-teers for two VITA sites located in downtown Middletown to provide free tax preparation assistance for eligible taxpayers. Tax preparation assistance is offered Jan. 24–April 11, 2015 at the offices of Middlesex United Way and the North End Ac-tion Team. No prior experience is necessary. Volunteers complete training and are certified by the IRS. Training will be held from Jan. 5-8 or Jan. 12-15. Volunteers must attend consecutive evening sessions. Vol-unteers will be trained to let filers
know if they qualify for additional tax credits, such as the federal and the state Earned Income Tax Cred-its and the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit. VITA volunteers must complete a minimum of one four-hour shift per week during tax season in the late afternoons and evenings or on Saturdays; maintain confidentiality of all client informa-tion; and interact with the public in a helpful and supportive manner. Opportunities to become certified as an advanced tax preparer for the VITA program are also available. In
2014, the two VITA sites in Middle-town helped more than 530 Middle-sex County area residents file their taxes for free and returned $767,781 back to taxpayers. Those who filed with Middletown VITA sites had an average Adjusted Gross Income of $19,676 and received an average refund of $1,706, money they have earned. This impacts not only those who filed their taxes, but also their families and the local economy.
For more information, contact David Morgan at [email protected] or (860) 346-1522.
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The Durham Public Li-brary has been awarded a $1,360 grant from the Coginchaug Valley Edu-cation Foundation.
The project will bring a teacher from the Eli Whit-ney Museum in New Ha-ven to the Durham Public Library to conduct a se-ries of hands-on work-shops for children age 8 to 12 years. The Eli Whit-ney Museum promotes experiential learning and teaches via experiments that encourage creativ-ity and innovation. The workshops offer children the opportunity to learn important science and en-gineering skills by exper-imenting with building and design in a fun and creative environment. Each workshop focuses on a different scientific area, such as force and motion, electricity, mag-netism, and sound and light. Each project will also teach practical build-ing skills and tool use.
Registration is open for the first program, sched-uled for Saturday, Jan. 17, 1 to 2:30 p.m., to make a pinball machine game. To register, call (860) 349-9544, ext. 1.
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So you want to start a small business?The United States is home
to millions of small busi-nesses. While many thrive,
there are cer-tain risks and challenges that often accompany operating an independent company. If you’re think-ing about starting a
small business, keep these considerations in mind.
• Create a business plan. When you’re fired up about an idea, it’s easy to overlook the details. A business plan forces you to define your business goals and how you plan to achieve them. It also helps you examine your com-petition and identify where your products or offering fit in the mix. Lastly, a thorough plan includes the strategies and tactics you will employ to move from ground zero to profitability and the costs and timeframe for getting there.
• Beware of going “all in.” You may have read about people who maxed out their credit cards or mort-gaged their homes to fund a business that brought them quickly into wealth. Unfor-tunately, this is not the norm and the odds are stacked against this financial house of cards. Think twice before put-ting everything on the line for your business. Invest as much time and energy as you can afford, but avoid overextend-ing yourself financially as you
pursue your business plan.• Test the waters. To
minimize your financial risk, consider launching your new business on a small scale be-fore quitting your day job. Many small businesses have been started on the side while entrepreneurs maintain a full-time job. The idea here is to keep income flowing until your business is viable and you can pull a salary without compromising your income.
• Save for a rainy day. Even the savviest entrepre-
neurs can get caught in a market down cycle. And no one can predict all the things that might affect your bottom line. Individuals who are in business for themselves are doubly in need of a financial buffer should things take a turn for the worse. If sales falter, you’re still on the hook for your business expenses, and you need to pay yourself too. Build savings into your business plan and keep your credit in good standing so you have access to cash if and when you need it.
• Invest wisely. When you do need to put money into your business, be smart about spending so that your dollars multiply down the road. Hire competent people who are as passionate about the business as you are.
• Protect yourself. Every business is vulnerable to po-tential risks, and it’s import-ant to think about the worst case scenarios and how you’d handle them. What if a fire destroyed your office? Would your company collapse if you or a key employee were injured? If a customer, ven-dor or employee sued your business, could you afford your day in court? There are insurance products made to address all of these risks. Factor in adequate protection as part of your cost of doing business.
• Create an exit strategy. When you’re just starting out, it’s hard to envision the day you’ll turn the reigns over to someone else. Succession plans are an essential part of a sustainable business, espe-cially if you hope to sell and use the proceeds to fund part of your retirement.
• Seek financial advice. If you’re serious about starting your own business, get on the right track with financial guidance. Find a qualified fi-nancial advisor to look over your shoulder as you develop your business plan and launch your new career. Their finan-cial acumen and fresh per-spective can help you steer clear of financial trouble.
Jeff Jolly is a Financial Advi-sor and Senior Vice President of Root, Borajkiewicz, Lucarelli Wealth Management, with Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. in North Haven.
Jeff Jolly
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