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More than 10 people at-tending a training session put on by the Durham Ani-mal Response Team learned life-saving techniques to as-sist horses in perilous situ-ations at the equine rescue training held at Rivendell Farm May 4.

Firefighters, animal con-trol officers, and horse own-

ers attended the six hour event which featured inter-actions with live horses as well as a demonstration of rescue techniques on a simu-lated plastic and metal horse named “Lucky.”

Attendees learned how to fasten a Large Animal Lift, a device with a metal spreader bar and many numbered straps, some of which cross over each other to allow an large animal to be safely lifted by a tractor or backhoe.

“Have a firm and long lead in case he thrashes,” warned Roger Lauze, adding tension and life to the plastic form of the 600 pound false horse.

Lauze, the equine rescue and training coordinator for the Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Animal Cru-elty, instructed the session.

Lauze frequently warned that the animals being as-sisted by the large animal lift

Farm animal rescue a specialized skill By Sam Corey and Charles Kreutzkamp Special to Town Times

Durham Animal Response Team during equine rescue training May 4 at Rivendell Farm. | Photo by Sam Corey.

Voters in Durham and Mid-dlefield approved the pro-posed 2014-2015 District 13 school budget on May 6 by a margin of 622 to 338.

Both towns approved the proposed budget, with Durham voting 441 to 215 and Middlefield voting 181 to 123 in favor.

Board of Education mem-bers and Superintendent of Schools Kathryn Veronesi gathered at Korn School in Durham to hear the results.

Reacting to the vote, Vero-nesi said, “I’m thrilled. I went into this feeling confident of the outcome and very proud of the work the administra-tion did.”

Even feeling confident, Veronesi said, “On referen-dum day, you’re holding your breath.”

“I’m thrilled,” said BOE Chair Kerrie Flanagan. “It’s a very good budget.”

Flanagan said she was grateful to the members of the public who provided feedback, volunteered at the

polls, and voted.The number who voted

once again was low. With 622 voting in Durham and 338 in Middlefield, only 960 resi-dents voted on referendum day. Last year, in what was re-garded as a low turnout, 1,141 residents voted and passed the school budget at the first referendum.

The approved budget rep-resents a net 1.74 percent in-crease over the current year’s budget. That figure never changed from the original proposal. Starting with a pro-posed net reduction of 13.2 staff positions, three teachers were added back to the bud-get in response to a higher than expected kindergarten class and concerns about class sizes.

At a district meeting at-tended by approximately 20 memebers of the public on the eve of the referendum, Flanagan and Veronesi called the budget responsible and also detailed the plans to re-instate two teachers after the vote.

School budget approved, just 960 residents vote By Mark DionneTown Times

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Catching up to Town Times founders

(As Town Times reaches its 20th year of publication, we asked past and present staff and contributors to write a few words about their experiences working for the newspaper. )

Three of the four found-ers of Town Times met last week at Brewbaker’s in Mid-dletown (formerly Manhattan Bagel). It was at Manhattan Bagel over 20 years ago that Phyllis Sheridan approached Sue VanDerzee and said, “A friend and I have been talking about starting a local newspa-per ...”

And that started a conver-sation that came to include Bill Currlin (computer guru) and Marilyn Keurajian (ad whiz and artist).

It also started months of planning, years of late nights, fond friendships with local businesses and officials and a steep learning curve.

Now, 20 years later, we’re proud that Town Times is still part of our communities even as we have moved on to other primary endeavors.

As always, Phyllis is ahead

of the curve, having moved with husband Austin to a combined use office-residen-tial building on Broad Street in Middletown.

She continues to contribute

to Austin Sheridan USA, knits and crafts in her “spare time” and has recently completed Reiki I training.

Bill continues active with the Durham Fair Association in the Entertainment Depart-ment (big surprise) and in administration.

He is also active in the Mid-dletown Elks and still goes to lots of meetings.

Marilyn is the Minister to Children and Youth at the Middlefield Federated Church, active on the Joint Task Force on Energy and Sustainability in our towns, a happy grandmother and proud supporter of young-est daughter Aubrey, now a student at Cornell, who was our “Town Times baby” with

her own “thinking room” (our supply closet).

Sue has “somehow” found herself blessed with a dozen grandchildren, the youngest of whom — a set of twin boys —live in Cromwell. She and husband Bob are delighted with their twice-a-week babysitting gig.

She also continues to be ac-tive with the Middlefield Fed-erated Church and the Local Wellness Council and has helped launch another initia-tive, Coginchaug Area Tran-sition, a group dedicated to making the communities of Durham and Middlefield as sustainable and compassion-ate as possible in a some-times threatening and always changing world.

For us, though the many long, long nights are a distant memory, the idea of making a difference up-close-and-per-sonal is alive and well even 20 years later.

Happy birthday, Town Times!

By Sue VanDerzeeSpecial to Town Times

20th Anniversary

Town Times founders recently reunited to note the paper’s 20 year anniversary. From left: Phyllis Sheridan, Bill Currlin and Sue VanDerzee . Not pictured, Marilyn Keurajian.

“A friend and I have been talking about starting a local newspaper ...”

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The Durham-Middle-field Energy Task Force has scheduled a presentation on residential energy saving pro-grams for Thursday, May 22, 7 p.m., at the Durham Public Li-brary, 7 Maple St. The presen-tations are offered through Energize Connecticut and are free of charge and open to the

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For those who sign up, CL&P-authorized energy specialists will come to your home or apartment and pro-vide energy improvement services which include locat-ing and professionally sealing critical air leaks, replacing up to 40 incandescent lights with energy-saving bulbs, and insulating hot water pipes. A fee is charged for these ser-vices. Additionally, energy experts will be on-hand to answer questions and pro-vide more information about energy incentives for resi-dents and options for deeper improvement measures for older homes.

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At a previously reported on BOE meeting, Flana-gan pledged to use line item transfers from transportation, engineering, interns and sub-stitutes and other lines after the budget referendum to re-instate third and fifth grade teaching positions in the con-temporary program.

Eliminating the two posi-tions created class sizes of 23.7 for the fifth grade and 22.3 for the third. According to members, the board heard concerns and “valid points” from parents and decided to reinstate those positions.

Because the total budget figure of $35,178,402 and the salary line had already been

publicized as part of the ref-erendum, Flanagan said that the board should not change those figures before the vote.

Unlike at many recent BOE meetings and the recent pub-lic hearing, public comment at the May 5 meeting was dominated by those critical of the education budget. Kurt Peterson of Durham said that the spending increase of 1.74 percent was much larger if measured as cost per student.

One man who identified himself as a business owner in town said that taxes made him consider moving his business out of town. One speaker asked why the teach-ers had to be reinstated if the new class sizes were still within BOE recommenda-tions. “Why don’t we follow

our own guidelines?”At different times, Fla-

nagan, Veronesi, and board member Merrill Adams an-swered that question. “It mat-ters how many kids and who they are,” Adams said.

The make up of those classes, including the num-ber of special needs students and the current educational changes, made what Adams called a “perfect storm” not appropriate for higher class sizes.

“As we move forward, we need to keep our eye on the fact that our enrollment is dropping,” said Veronesi, who will detail the reinstate-ments at the BOE’s May 14 meeting.

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The Middlefield Lions Club is seeking civic-minded men and women to make a difference in the community.

The club scheduled an information session for Thursday, May 15, at the Mid-dlefield Fire Department.

For more information and to RSVP, contact Lion Me-lissa Kowal at (860) 305-1544 or email [email protected]

Future Lions events in-clude its annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 12, at Peckham Park.

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The third annual “Sprint Into Spring” 5 & 10K road is scheduled for Sunday, May 18 at Peckham Park.

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Beavers can also cause headaches for municipalities by flooding roads or block-ing culverts — the drainage tubes that run underneath roads. Continual problems sometimes necessitate pro-tective fences to prevent beavers from continuing to interfere with proper drainage.

Durham animal control officer John Miller said that beavers occasionally block

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“Apart from that beavers haven’t caused any signif-icant trouble [in Durham] that I know of,” Miller said.

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“Beaver/human conflicts have been increasing in re-cent years,” according to DEEP, due to humans mov-ing into wildlife habitat as well as the recovery of the beaver population.

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A felled tree bearing beaver teeth marks on private property near Hatchery Brook in Berlin. Beavers have taken down dozens of trees in the area. | Charles Kreutzkamp / Town Times

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DEEP receives hundreds of complaints about beavers annually. Beavers are nor-mally docile, but may slap the water with their tails to warn people and other ani-mals away from getting too close to their lodge.

“In many circumstances, people experience relatively insignificant beaver dam-age,” DEEP says, “tolerating their activity is part of co-ex-isting with wildlife.”

However, DEEP also notes that beavers may cause prob-lems, including millions of dollars of property damage from flooding and falling trees nationwide.

For property owners with beavers on their property, there may also be concerns about increasing mosquito populations because of the increase in stagnant wa-ter, or a temporary but un-pleasant smell of rotten eggs caused by flood-related decomposition.

Giardia, a micro-organ-ism that thrives in stagnant water and causes intestinal infections in humans and other animals, may also be a concern.

When property owners want to remove beavers from their property, DEEP refers them to volunteers like Jules Perrault, of Wallingford. “We have about 120 volunteers in the area,” Perrault said. “We have a special permit from the state to trap beavers in the off-season.”

Trappers like Perrault ben-efit from the fur, which can be valued at anywhere be-tween $18 and $28. Beavers are also prized by many for their succulent meat.

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Timely removal of bea-vers can prevent headaches for landowners, and in some cases may even save small farming operations that would be threatened by flooding.

Alternatives to trapping, like water level control de-vices, can cost as much as $1,000.

“That can be lot of money to a local farmer,” Perrault said.

There are no known effec-tive beaver repellents, and harassment is rarely effective in getting them to abandon a site, according to DEEP.

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Local artwork auctioned for CVEFLocal artists filled a tent

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The charitable auction, called “Flights of Fancy and Song” and held on May 2, featured 36 colorful and cre-ative birdhouses and 13 pieces of art made from unplayable music instruments.

CVEF member Connie Brown, who served on the event’s committee, said that CVEF had a successful bird-house auction two years ago and this time partnered with Coginchaug Regional High School’s Parents of Perform-ers group to make this year different.

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Those instruments were turned into creations like lamps and candlesticks from clarinets, insects from organ pipes, carry-alls from music cases, and something called a Trombosaurus.

The instrument art, like the birdhouses, went home with the highest bidder at the end of the night.

Speaking at the event, CVEF president Betsy White Booz emphasized the foun-dation’s mission to benefit the broad community. Over the last 5 years, CVEF has awarded 33 grants totaling ap-proximately $45,000 to com-munity groups that provide educational enrichment to different age groups.

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According to Brown, the birdhouse auction was con-ceived as a “mini-cultural event” as much as a fund-raiser. While “Flights of Fancy and Song” was de-signed with fundraising in mind, Brown said, the artists spent their energy “throwing themselves into the creative.”

The birdhouses, display-ing a wide variety of colors and materials, reflected that creativity.

Colleen Manassa, John Darnell, and Duncan Milne, of Durham, created a bird-house modeled after Egypt’s Temple of Dendur. Manassa and Darnell, both Egyptol-ogists, decorated the wood structure with hieroglyphics calling it “The Temple of the Birds,” the rising and setting sun, and the god Horus.

“We worked on this for probably about three weeks,” Manassa said.

The same team also created

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“We have two three-person birdhouses,” Manassa said.

Milne had another, yet-to-be-created birdhouse for auc-tion. Milne offered to build a

replica of the winning bid-der’s house in birdhouse form. Mary Elizabeth Taylor, of Durham, turned her bird-house structure into a stone

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These creations, based on birdhouses and an instrument case, were among the artwork auctioned for CVEF at “Flights of Fancy and Song.” | Mark Dionne / Town Times.

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Taylor marked her bird-house for indoor or outdoor use. The thatch roof would repel water, she said, and the cottage could stand up to the elements. “The cedar will rot before the rest of the house,” Taylor said. Most of the artists started with a bird-house structure built by Jay McKernan before following their own ideas. CVEF will announce its next grants in June.

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While Mother’s Day is filled with sentiment and warm-fuzzy thoughts — as well it should be — there’s another side of mother-hood to explore. There are lots of moms who appre-ciate how much a sense of humor can help when it comes to the world’s toughest job. We’ve gath-ered a few famous quotes on the topic from a range of observers.

Share a laugh with your mother this Mother’s Day and see which of these funny quotes rings true for her experience. — The editors

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.” - Phyllis Diller

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served the family nothing but left-overs. The original meal has never been found.” - Calvin Trillin

“A mother is a per-son who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly an-nounces she never did care for pie.” - Tenneva Jordan

“My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.” - Buddy Hackett

“Any mother could per-form the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.” - Lisa Alther

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” - Mark Twain

“If evolution really works, how come moth-ers only have two hands?” - Milton Berle

“When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere for-mality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it any-way.” - Erma Bombeck

(And a few last thoughts from that prolific writer “author unknown.”)

Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. - Unknown

“I’d like to be the ideal mother, but I’m too busy raising my kids.” - Unknown

“To the world you might just be one person, but to one person you might be the world.” - Unknown

A good laugh for Mother’s Day

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In March, my mother marked her 90th birthday. It was a small celebration, in keeping with her “don’t make a fuss” attitude. Now, at a time when people are liv-ing longer, marking nine de-cades of life is not unusual. But I mention my mother’s achievement because, for her, some of those years were quite unusual, to say the least.

She grew up in Poland during the Second World War. For her, life under the Nazi occupation was some-thing she and her family had to deal with everyday. And then, later, the Soviets pushed in on the eastern side and that posed its own hardships.

My mother’s memories are similar to what many ci-vilians had to endure during that terrible time. I had heard her stories often while grow-ing up, but lately, I’ve been writing them down to pre-serve them and share them with my family and friends.

My mother was born in Adams, Mass. to parents who were immigrants from Po-land. She was the fourth of seven children. When she was one and a half years old, her father, my grandfather, got word from his mother that his older brother had died. That meant that he had to pack up the family and go back to Poland to take care of the farm in the village of Frysztak.

And so, while my mother was born in America, she is culturally Polish; she was born an American citizen but she was raised and educated in Poland. So were her broth-ers and sisters.

Life on the farm was quiet, but that all changed in 1939 when the second World War broke out with an invasion of Poland. My mother was 15-years-old at the time. It was practically impossible to

be anywhere in Poland and not be affected by the fight-ing. My mother’s village was often caught in the crossfire.

One day her father, my grandfather, noticed that a hay wagon on the farm was missing and so he went to look for it. Nazi soldiers sus-pected him of being a spy and they took him in for in-terrogation. For three weeks no one knew where he was

until he was released.

At another time, young men from the village were rounded up against their will and they were taken to a labor camp.

Mom’s oldest brother, my un-cle Julian, was forced to work as part of a road construction crew in Bavaria. His family didn’t know if he was dead or alive for three years until he came home.

My mother’s village had a large Jewish population. She had many Jewish classmates before the war, but after the war only one was left. She told me of a day when, as she walked to the post office, she saw soldiers execute a Jew-ish man across the street. On her way back home, she saw two more Jewish men be-ing killed; one was the town baker.

One day, Nazi soldiers on the way to the eastern front stole livestock on the farm and set fire to what my mom called the “old house.” Rifles were pointed at her and her family to prevent them from putting out the blaze. Later, when the soldiers left, they scurried to put out the fire so it wouldn’t spread to the “new house” next door.

When Soviet soldiers ad-vanced west, they occupied the “new house” for a time, while my mom and her fam-ily took refuge in a root cellar.

Her mother, my grandmother, caught pneumonia from the damp conditions and never recovered.

After the war, there was little left for them in Poland and so, over the course of sev-eral years, they went back to America. As American citi-zens, my mother and her sib-lings had easy entry, but my grandfather’s return was not so smooth. It took the efforts of a senator and congressman from Massachusetts to cut through the red tape.

About a year after she ar-rived, my mom met my father and she settled into a quiet life and raised three children, including me. She was deter-mined to learn English. Even today, when she’s reading a newspaper or book, there’s always an English- Polish dic-tionary at her side.

For a long time I wasn’t sure if she wanted to go back to Poland. Finally, in 1994 I asked her and when she agreed I went with her. I took five hours of video.

Now, of course, my moth-er’s life wasn’t all gloom and doom. She, along with my aunts and uncles made the most of life, and family gath-erings were always filled with laughter.

But six of my mother’s 90 years were spent during the war. They were the defin-ing years of her life. And, of course, she wasn’t alone. Sto-ries like hers could be told by thousands and even millions of people who lived through those same terrible times.

But, for all of that, my mom doesn’t speak of those years with bitterness. What got her through was the strong support of her family and the even stronger faith in God they all shared.

It was faith in God’s incred-ible love that gave my mother, and people like her, hope, in-credible hope in the face of

At 90, memories remain vivid of wartime Poland By Rev. John GwozdzSpecial to The Town Times

Gwozdz

See Memories / Page 9


Memories

incredible trials. During the hardship of the

second World War, it was the faith of my mother, and peo-ple like her, that helped them to hear God’s voice of com-fort and strength — strength that gave them patience and resilience.

God provided for my mother every day of her 90

years. He provides for her now as she enjoys the care she receives in an assisted living facility.

And it is with her kind of faith that I can hope and pray that God will continue to pro-vide for her, and people like her, all the days of their lives.

Rev. John Gwozdz serves at St. Thomas Becket Church.

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Free community supper A free community supper

is scheduled for Sunday, May 18, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., at the Church of the Epiphany, 196 Main St.

The meal will be prepared and donated by the Durham Lions. The Church of the Epiphany will supply dessert. All are welcome.

For more information, call (860) 349-9644.

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For more information and reservations, call (860) 349-1431 or (860) 239-3248 by May 12.

Notre Dame Church, 280 Main St., has scheduled its monthly flea market and tag sale for the first Saturday of each month, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., through Oct. 4. The tag sale will be located in the church hall, rectory garage, parking lot and lawn, rain or shine. Breakfast and lunch will be available. Vendor space is available for purchase. For more information, call Bob Smith at (860) 349-0356.

Religious Briefs

When the Pizza King restaurant closed over two years ago, Peter Kokis was retired and living in Greece but his connection to the restaurant pulled him back to America and the pizza busi-ness with the opening of Our Place Pizza Restaurant.

Kokis taught himself to make pizza shortly after ar-riving in America on a date he delivers specifically, “June 3, 1968.” After arriving, Kokis cooked in New Haven for a while. Even in that city fa-mous for its thin pies, Kokis

used his Greek heritage. “They do make Greek style pizza in New Haven,” Kokis said.

Kokis opened the Pizza King in 1972 at 2100 South Main Street, Middletown, just outside of Middlefield.

After years of running the restaurant, Kokis sold the restaurant in 2002 and semi-retired to Greece for 11 years, where he was a fisher-man. “It started as a hobby, but then I made money.”

When he heard that the restaurant he started was closing, Kokis started the

Pizza a family affair at Our PlaceBy Mark DionneTown Times

Peter and Ermioni Kokis stand in front of the dining area of Our Place Pizza Restaurant. | Mark Dionne / Town Times

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SportsSpartans win a pair against tough opponents

The Strong baseball team won two games last week against two tough oppo-nents, Woodrow Wilson and RHAM. Monday the Spartans hosted Woodrow and Pre-vailed 3-0. James Salemme pitched a complete game 1 hit shut out. It wasn’t easy. In the second inning Wood-row loaded the bases on the lone hit and two walks with no outs. An attempted safety squeeze bunt was thwarted when Dan Turecyk bounced out of the catchers box and grabbed the bunt tagging

home before the Woodrow runner recording out number one. Salemme struck out the next batter and ended the in-ning by getting the next hitter to bounce back to the mound and the threat was over. The score stayed at 0-0 until the bottom of the 4th inning. Griffen Saks led off with a base hit and stole second and third with Dan Munro at the plate. Munro hit a hard ball to second that the fielder could not handle and reached first safely and Saks scored the games first run. Salemme

then walked and Cal Pitru-zello ran into a bunt attempt recording the first out of the inning. A past ball moved the runners to second and third with Macquire O’Sullivan at the plate. O’Sullivan would hit a ground ball by the third baseman scoring Munro put-ting the Spartans up 2-0.

Salemme pitched awesome and the Spartan defense was flawless. An insurance run would be added in the 5th in-ning and the Spartans went on to victory 3-0 for their third win in a row.

May 2 the Spartans faced RHAM on the brook field in Durham. The sun was finally shinning and the tempera-ture was a balmy 65 degrees. Macguire O’Sullivan took the mound for the first time this season and would not disap-point. He pitched 4-1/3 in-nings giving up just one run

on one hit and 5 walks. The RHAM pitcher was up to the task as well, holding the Spar-tans to just one hit through 3 innings. With RHAM leading 1-0 heading into the bottom of the 4th inning the Spartans came to life. A walk to Luke Garofalo and Griffen Saks set the table for a beautiful hit and run shot to left by Peter Onofrio scoring Garofalo and the score was tied.

O’Sullivan reached on a fielders choice putting run-ners at the corners. RHAM attempted a pick off play which back fired as O’Sulli-van got into a pickle and Saks scored the go ahead run.

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cleanly threw to Cal Pitru-zello at second for one and onto Saks at first for an in-ning ending double play. This juiced up the Spartans, and in the bottom of the 6th the Spartans added two more runs.

Garofalo reached on an error and would steal sec-ond. Saks flied to right and up came Onofrio. With the count 2-1, Peter connected with a blast over the left field-ers head scoring Garofalo as he trotted into second for a double. Eric Debrum fol-lowed with a blast of his own in the Left field gap scoring Onofrio and recording the teams first triple of the sea-son. That would all the Spar-tans would need to secure the 4-1 victory and improve their record to 4-0.

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The season begins with try-outs in mid-October and runs through the end of February.

Travel basketball typically practices two nights a week. Games are played on week-ends (mostly Sunday).

The CBC has teams avail-able for boys and girls going into grades 5 through 8. Each team has a head coach and two assistants.

If you are interested in coaching, contact Scott Pen-ney at [email protected].

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Coginchaug National Honor Society has scheduled its spring cleanup fundraiser. NHS members will clean Durham and Middlefield yards and gardens of leaves and twigs, spread mulch, paint and more. An hourly donation help support NHS charities.

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Coginchaug Little League has scheduled a family day at the New Britain Rock Cats for Sunday, June 1, at 1:35 p.m. The Rock Cats are sched-uled to play the Bingham-ton Mets. A fee is charged. Tickets are available for pur-chase at www.coginchaugll.org, through Sunday, May 18h. Online ticket orders will be available for pick up between May 19 to May 23 at the CLL Concession Stand in Durham during evening game times.

The Rock Cats have sched-uled a players and coaches clinic for ages 6-12, 10:30 a.m. to noon before the game on the field at New Britain Sta-dium. No preregistration is required for the clinic. Pro-ceeds benefit ongoing im-

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lengthy process of acquiring the building and reopening it as Our Place. Kokis said he was tempted to remain retired but appreciates the challenge.

After the addition of a pa-tio, painting and repairs to the floors, cooler, and plumb-ing, the restaurant re-opened as Our Place in August, 2013.

“When people found out that I came back, they hon-ored me. They came back,” Kokis said. People who used to eat in Pizza King as kids have returned with their kids

to Our Place.Our Place, which is open

for lunch and dinner, offers a full menu with appetizers, burgers, sandwiches, grind-ers, pasta, chicken, seafood, and beef. The children’s menu includes pasta, cheese-burgers, and chicken fingers. The restaurant also has a full bar.

The specialty, however, is pizza. Kokis said many ex-periments led to the creation of his recipe. Kokis described Greek style pizza, “It’s pizza pan. It’s not the thick and it’s not the thin. It’s in between.”

For the summer, Our Place

will open dining on the patio in back and expand its menu.

Cooking is a family affair at Our Place. Kokis’ wife Ermi-oni, daughter Julieta, and son Bill all work at Our Place. That is an atmosphere Kokis hopes to extend to the restau-rant. “My goal is to make it a respectable, family-type restaurant,” Kokis said. “We like people. We respect peo-ple. We try to make them feel at home.”

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Free dog training for a fun 4-H competition is accepting sign ups throughout April. Mutts and purebreds are welcome.

For more information, call Pet Grillo at (203) 407-3161 or email [email protected].

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Vinal Technical High School, 60 Daniels St., Mid-deletown, has scheduled TECHNO Camp for July 8 through 26, 8 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

TECHNO Camp is free of charge, for seven and eighth students interested in automo-tive, manufacturing, carpentry, culinary arts, collision repair, HVAC, CADD, computers, hairdressing and cosmetology,

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Senior Happenings

Renter’s RebateApplications are being ac-

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Required documentation from 2013 includes: 2013 1099 income statement, a copy of the 2013 tax return (if filed); proof of rent paid; utility pay-ment history printouts; proof of interest or dividends from bank accounts, stocks, bonds.

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Monday, May 19 - Conti-nental breakfast and fall pre-vention program, 10 a.m.

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Tuesday, July 8 - All You Can Eat Lobster at Delaney House.

For more information, call (860) 346-0724.

The 2014 Durham Memo-rial Day Parade is scheduled for Monday, May 26, rain or shine. The parade will step off at 9:15 a.m. at the corner of Haddam Quarter Road and Main Street, and con-tinue down Main Street to the Durham Town Green. Partic-ipants should assemble at the corner between 8:15 and 8:30 a.m.

A ceremony honoring our nation’s servicemen and ser-vicewomen is scheduled to immediately follow the parade.

Organizations wishing to participate in the parade and for those who know of a Durham or Middlefield resi-dent who is currently serving in the military, are asked to contact Bob Francis at (860) 349-0881 or [email protected].

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are not unconscious but may be sedated, and continually warned rescuers to show cau-tion and avoid being kicked by the false horse so that the rescuers would learn not only how to fasten the straps, but also how to safely approach an actual injured animal.

“We want everybody to learn that safety comes first, so you can take care of your-self, your team, and the ani-mal,” said Sue White, DART response team leader.

The day began with ac-quainting newcomers, with little to no experience with horses, with placing a halter on a live horse, walking the animal out of its stall, and guiding the horse out of the barn to safety.

Afterwards, members split into two groups to res-cue Lucky from a barn and a trailer.

The session finished off with learning how to move Lucky using the Large Ani-

mal Lift.“Everyone gets a chance

to perform different rescue scenarios with a fake horse so they don’t have to deal with a real horse body and real horse movements,” said Lauze. “This gives everyone a chance to see how the equip-ment works, become more efficient using it, and become faster.”

“They don’t become faster by being fast, they become faster by being more effi-cient,” Lauze said.

According to Lauze, the majority of rural community rescues involve horses, but the techniques can be applied to other animals.

“These farm animals are big, powerful animals, so per-sonal safety is stressed during these courses. When people learn how to deal with these types of animals, they’re not being put in a position of dan-ger when they’re called into these rescues,” Lauze said.

The rescue training was “very interesting,” according

to David Chowaniec, Middle-field’s animal control officer, who came to the session for professional development. Chowaniec said DART would be the first group he would call when dealing with an emergency situation involv-ing a large animal.

DART is a volunteer-based organization founded in 2006, comprised of teachers, veterinarians, and horse in-structors from Durham and nearby towns. DART assists first response teams and fire departments during any ani-mal-related emergency.

“There’s a strong emo-tional connection between animals and their owners, especially with horses,” said Chowaniec, who also is a fire-fighter with the Middlefield Volunteer Fire Company.

“Firemen are usually the first ones called to deal with burning barns and houses, so learning how to properly res-cue animals is very import-ant,” he said.

“Rescuing animals can be tricky because for them it’s fight or flight, whereas humans are more docile,” Chowaniec said. “Personal safety comes first, but we’re still trying to protect life.”

White said the goal of these events is for each person to leave with practical experi-ence with animal rescue.

Pat Bandzes, who has horses on her farm, said she came to the event to be pre-pared in case an emergency arose at her farm.

“This is a great training for anyone who keeps horses.” Bandzes said. DART team leader White said the training event has been a great suc-cess since it began last year.

“We invite barn and stable owners as well as firefighters and responders to these kind of events because we want them to learn ways they can prevent disasters and how to respond to tragedies,” White said. “If each person comes away with learning some-thing new, that’s all we can hope for.”

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DART team leader Sue White (right) keeps “Lucky” the model horse calm with a towel over his head while a rescuer-in-training approaches carefully to tie his legs to prevent him from kicking and to keep them from getting broken. | Charles Kreutzkamp / Town Times

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Riggles takes genealogy and history to heart

Elven Riggles, minister of the United Churches, in Durham, likes knowing where he came from. He’s in his 25th year of service to the church and is the longest-serving minister of the church since 1850.

His passion for genealogy took root when he was in high school, and was an ex-tension of his grandparents’ interest in family history and the history of North America. “Everyone wants to find out that they’re descended from famous people,” he said, “but I think it’s far more interest-ing to study ordinary people who settled the country, and who made it possible for us to be here today.”

His mother’s side is French Canadian, and those ances-tors were the original set-tlers of New France (which is now called Canada). Riggles found that he and a woman in town are both descended from a man who lived there in the early 1700s. “Mathe-matically speaking, we are all related,” he said. “If you go back to the Middle Ages, the number of ancestors you have is larger than the popu-lation of western Europe. My maternal grandparents were distant cousins.”

His father’s side consists of Pennsylvania Germans and New England Puritans, with the first Puritan com-ing to Plymouth in 1621. The majority of these ancestors came to New England during the Great Migration (a pe-riod from 1620 to 1640 when the English migrated to Mas-sachussetts), arriving with the Winthrop fleet. (John Winthrop became the first governor of Massachusetts.) Riggles discovered that his neighbor’s ancestors were the neighbors of his ancestors in Framingham, Mass. in the late 1600s.

Those early Puritan set-tlers were Loyalists (loyal to the crown of England), and were part of the Admi-ral Digby evacuation to the Maritime provinces in Can-ada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island), which took place

during and after the Ameri-can Revolution. “My family can’t be part of the Daughters of the American Revolution,” Riggles said, “because our an-cestors fought on the wrong side of the Revolution.” He is, however, a member of the Winthrop Society, a genea-logical society for the descen-dants of the Great Migration.

Another interesting fact he uncovered – the father-in-law of Riggles’ older daughter is descended from a family that lived next to the Riggles family in Nova Scotia in the 1700s.

Riggles was not always the family name. Until the Civil War, it was Riegel. The min-ister credits this to inaccurate records for the census. “Now-adays spelling counts,” he said. “Back then spelling was more fluid and not so exact.”

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School Briefs

Scholastic achievements

Bonnie C. Ryder of Durham has been awarded a 2014 Academic Award for accounting from Middlesex Community College.

Rachel Kowalski of Durham has been awarded a Wheaton Fellowship for a summer experience work-ing with Child Life at the CT Children’s Medical Center.

CRHS Project GradCRHS Project Grad has

scheduled the following events:

Saturday, May 10 - Moth-er’s Day flower sale at Strong School parking lot, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Proceeds benefit Project Graduation.

Sunday, May 11 - Mother’s Day flower sale at Strong School parking lot, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Proceeds benefit Project Graduation.

Saturday, May 31 - Car

wash at Carolyn Adams park-ing lot, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Rain date is June 1. Proceeds ben-efit Project Graduation.

Xavier High SchoolXavier High School stu-

dents named to the third term honor roll.

High honors - James R. Rosborough, Connor M. Marszalek, John-Rudy Fronc, William J. Egan of Durham; John W. Yusza, Patrick J. Hocking of Middlefield.

Honors - Joseph A. Braun, Ryan J. DeVille, Kevin M. To-bias, Lawrence H. Bourland, Patrick McCann, Timothy S. Morris, Richard J. Mur-phy, Christopher J. Peach, Joseph F. Prifitera, Xavier Watson-Coleman, Nicholas C. Cumello, Steven M. Fumi-atti, Scott R. Marks, David Pakech, Ryan W. Child, Dom-inick J. DeMartino, Trevor A. Morris of Durham; Patrick A.

Booth, Michael R. Scherer, Nicholas Carta, Nicholas J. Pitruzzello of Middlefield.

Mercy High SchoolMercy High School local

students named to the third marking period honor roll.

High honors - Molly Breen, Madeline Dumas, Kendra Landy, Olivia Marran, Ash-ley Mason, Caitlin McAuliffe, Gabrielle Pakech, Macken-zie Scotto of Durham; Amy Boyle, Victoria Conroy, Stephanie Mangiameli, Alice Ochterski of Middlefield.

First honors - Demery Coppola, Flannery Keenan, Abigail Marran, Isabella O’Keefe, Nina Peach, Katelyn Richardson, Danielle Rich-ardson of Durham; Brittany Hall, Tiffany Mangiameli of Middlefield; Mikayla Maz-zotta of Rockfall.

Second honors - Erin Houchin, Hannah Pakech,

Ashley Scotto of Durham.

Records to be destroyedThe Pupil Services Office

of Regional School District 13 is scheduled to destroy the confidential special ed-ucation records of all for-mer students from the class of 2007. The action is al-lowed by State Regulations per authority of the State of Connecticut Office of Public Records Administration and Federal Regulation 34 CFR 300.573.

Copies of these special ed-ucation confidential records of all former students are available following submis-sion of a written request by the students before June 12.

Send letters of request to Amy Emory, Director of Pu-pil Personnel Services, Re-gional School District 13, P.O. Box 135A Pickett Lane, Durham, CT 06422.

Students from the The In-dependent Day School in Middlefield were selected to perform in the 2014 South-ern Region Music Festival recently.

Kieran Anderson, Emily Dell’Orfano, Elise Gendrich, Kevin Huveldt, Finlay Mac-Donald, Emma Mears, and Shreia Poetti placed in the Mixed Choir.

Connor Mulberry was se-lected to the Treble Choir and Andrew Mahr and Caroline Sabo were selected to the or-chestra. Matthew Marottolo earned a perfect score, plac-ing him with the highest so-prano score in the region.

Kieran Anderson received the highest alto score possi-ble with a perfect score. Da-vid Marottolo placed first chair clarinet in the orches-tra and Andrew Mahr placed second chair trumpet in the orchestra.

Emily Dell’Orfano was se-lected to sing a solo at the concert.

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CalendarFriday, May 9

Casual bridge - The Durham Activity Center, 350 Main St., schedules casual bridge every Friday at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome. For more information, call Jim Martinelli at (860) 346-6611.

Historical Society - The Durham Historical Society is scheduled to meet Friday, May 9, 7:30 p.m., at the Cen-ter School. All are welcome.

Plant sale - Mid-Lea Gar-den Club has scheduled a plant sale for Saturday, May 9, 9 a.m. to noon, at the Community Center, 405 Main St. Rain or shine. Proceeds benefit a scholarship for a graduating senior and for continuing town beautifica-tion projects.

Yoga - Core Club & 24/7 Gym, 350 Main St., has scheduled free ‘Vin & Yin’ yoga class for Friday, May 9, 5 to 6 p.m.

Baseball - CRHS vs. North Branford at CRHS, 3:45 p.m.

Softball - CRHS vs. North Branford at CRHS, 3:45 p.m.

Boys tennis - CRHS vs. Haddam-Killingworth at CRHS, 3:45 p.m.

Girls tennis - CRHS vs. Haddam-Killingworth at Haddam-Killingworth, 3:45 p.m.

Square dance - The 4C’s Square Dance Club has scheduled dance for Friday, May 9, 8 to 10:30 p.m. at the Brewster School. Caller is Bruce McCue; cuer is Sue Lucibello. For more information,call (860) 349-8084 or (860) 828-6978.

Saturday, May 10 Postal food drive - The

National Association of Let-ter Carriers and the United States Postal Service is scheduled to collect food for the local food pantry, Satur-day, May 10. Place non-per-ishable donations in bags by your mailbox. Carriers will collect the donations when they deliver the mail.

Historical Society - The Durham Historical Society is scheduled to be open Sat-urday, May 10, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Cemetery open house - The Durham Historical

Society and the Durham Cemetery Company have scheduled an open house at the Old Durham Cemetery for Saturday, May 10, 9 a.m. to noon. The event includes tours, demonstrations, activi-ties, and more. Parking avail-able at Strong School. For more information, call Sarah Atwell at (860) 716-5497.

Track and field - CRHS vs. Old Saybrook, away, 8:30 a.m.

Monday, May 1260+ Club - The Durham

60+ Club is scheduled to meet Monday, May 12, 1:30 p.m., at the Durham Activity Center. A blood pressure clinic is scheduled prior to the meeting. Entertainment by Bruce Hazzard is planned. New members are welcome.

Baseball - CRHS vs. Valley Regional at CRHS, 4 p.m.

Softball - CRHS vs. Valley Regional at CRHS, 4 p.m.

Boys tennis - CRHS vs. Old Lyme at Old Lyme, 3:45 p.m.

Girls tennis - CRHS vs. Old Lyme at CRHS, 3:45 p.m.

Boys golf - CRHS vs. Old Saybrook at Fenwick, 3 p.m.

Tuesday, May 13Track and field - CRHS

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Wednesday, May 14Baseball - CRHS vs. Old

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Softball - CRHS vs. Old Saybrook at CRHS, 3:15 p.m.

Boys tennis - CRHS vs. East Hampton at CRHS, 3:45 p.m.

Girls tennis - CRHS vs. East Hampton at East Hampton, 3:45 p.m.

Boys golf - CRHS vs. Haddam-Killingworth at Lyman Orchards.

Thursday, May 15Music - Perk on Main, 6

Main St., has scheduled the bands ‘Grace Band’ and ‘If Not for Dreaming’ for Thursday, May 15, 6 to 8 p.m. For more information, call (860) 346-2641.

Friday, May 16Baseball - CRHS vs.

Cromwell at Cromwell, 3:45 p.m.

Softball - CRHS vs. Cromwell at Cromwell, 3:45 p.m.

Saturday, May 17Concert - The Middlesex

Vocal Chords has sched-uled its annual spiring con-cert “Music Changes the World” for Saturday, May 17, 7:30 p.m., at Portland High School, 95 High St. Portland. A fee is charged for tickets. For more information, call (860) 347-2787, (860) 342-3120 or visit vocalchords20.org.

Sunday, May 18Pet Fair - The 6th annual

Help Willy’s Friends Pet Fair is scheduled for Sunday, May 18, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Coginchaug Regional High school.

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Calendar

Monday, May 19Baseball - CRHS vs.

Morgan at CRHS, 3:45 p.m.Softball - CRHS vs.

Morgan at CRHS, 3:45 p.m.Boys tennis - CRHS vs.

Cromwell at Cromwell, 3:45 p.m.

Girls tennis - CRHS vs. Cromwell at CRHS, 3:45 p.m.

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vs. Westbrook at Westbrook, 3:45 p.m.

Wednesday, May 21Baseball - CRHS vs.

Haddam-Killingworth at Haddam-Killingworth, 3:45 p.m.

Softball - CRHS vs. Haddam-Killingworth at Haddam-Killingworth, 3:45 p.m.

Boys tennis - CRHS vs. Westbrook at Westbrook, 3:45 p.m.

Girls tennis - CRHS vs. Westbrook at CRHS, 3:45 p.m.

Boys golf - CRHS vs. Hale Ray at Fox Hopyard, 3 p.m.

Thursday, May 22Baseball - CRHS vs.

Portland at Portland, 3:45 p.m.

Boys golf - CRHS vs. North Branford at Lyman Orchards, 3 p.m.

Track and field - CRHS vs. Valley Regional at Valley Regional, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 23Softball - CRHS vs.

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Boys tennis - CRHS vs. Morgan at CRHS, 3:45 p.m.

Girls tennis - CRHS vs. Morgan at Morgan, 3:45 p.m.

Tuesday, May 27Softball - CRHS vs.

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Boys golf - CRHS vs. Westbrook, away, 2 p.m.

Track and field - CRHS at Marty Roberts Invitational at CRHS, 2 p.m.

Wednesday, May 28Boys golf - CRHS vs.

Valley Regional at Fox Hopyard CC, 3 p.m.

Thursday, May 29Boys golf - CRHS vs. East

Hampton at Banner Lodge CC, 3 p.m.

Saturday, May 31E.J.K. car show - The

9th annual E.J.K. car show is scheduled for Saturday, May 31, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Xavier High School, 181 Randolph Road. A donation charged. Proceeds benefit Eric J. Kalber Xavier High School Memorial Scholarship Fund. Entertainment by Champions Karate School Demo Team and music by Volume Entertainment. Food, raffles, trophies. For more information and entries, call (860) 780-8590 or [email protected].

Family movie night - The Durham Cooperative Nursery School has scheduled

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Monday, June 2Boys golf - CRHS vs. Old

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Wednesday, June 4Boys golf - CRHS at

Shoreline Championship at Alling Memorial Golf Club.

Track and field - CRHS vs. Danbury, away.

Monday, June 9Track and field - CRHS

vs. Middletown, away, 1:30 p.m.

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Durham Middlefield Youth and Family Services has scheduled a production of “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” for its youth summer stock theater.

Students entering grades 5 through 9 are welcome to register to participate.

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A parent information meet-ing is scheduled for Wednes-day, June 11 at 6 p.m. at the Middlefield Community cen-ter, 405 Main St.

Auditions are scheduled for Monday, June 16.

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The Durham Public Works Department has scheduled its annual brush pick-up.

Residents should place brush along the curb. Each house is limited to one truckload of brush. Town crew will make only one pass on each street.

Stack brush for easy and effi-cient pick-up as follows: Piles need to be placed cut end to-ward the curb, piles cannot be stacked more than 4 feet tall, brush must be less than 8 foot in total length, trunks or branches are to be no larger than 4 inches in diameter, o processed wood or stumps, do not place piles within 15 feet of any electrical transformers or phone/cable

boxes, (be careful when work-ing near power lines), piles must be 10 feet from telephone poles and mail boxes. Brush piles not conforming to require-ments will not be picked up. The intent of the annual spring brush pick-up is to allow home-owners to pick up branches and limbs that have fallen naturally over the course of the win-ter onto their property. Land clearing or evidence of newly cut trees does not comply with these regulations and will not be removed by the town crew.

For more information, call the Public Works Department at (860) 349-1816, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Annual spring pick-up

Riggles

The Riegels came from a Protestant state in western Germany. When the prince died without an heir, the throne went to his nephew, who was Roman Catholic, and who told his subjects they either convert to Cathol-icism, or leave.

The Riegels left. They went to Pennsylvania in 1732 and bought land from William Penn.

Riggles cloaks himself in history every day. He makes reproductions of early Colo-nial furniture, and treasures the 1892 clock passed down from his great grandfather.

“That clock has been passed down to the oldest son in the family, which puts the pressure on my son to have a

son,” he said. As much as he loves family

history, Riggles has, however, broken one family tradition. Every generation for five gen-erations has had an Elven, but Riggles named his son John, after his great grandfather.

“I love history,” Riggles said. “For me genealogy is the direct connection we have to the history of our area. It’s not just a connection to our past, but also a gateway into understanding our history as human beings.

“If we could help kids see this connection, it might make history more interest-ing for them. They wouldn’t just be reading about some boring dead guy, but some boring dead guy that they’re related to,” he said.

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