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RADIANT FROST
Newly fallen snow, seen just before dawn, is captured in this photo taken in a sleepy Cheshire neighborhood, Feb. 4. The scene recalls a quote from poet Percy Bysshe Shelly: “I love snow, snow and all the forms of radiant frost.” | (Joy VanderLek/The Cheshire Citizen)
As regions begin work on a common school calendar, some Board of Education members question whether the calendar is taking auton-omy from local school boards.
A law passed last year re-quires each region to adopt a school calendar starting with the 2015-16 school year. Regions have the option to start during the 2014-15 school year. Some regions are seek-
ing an extension, pushing the adoption date to the 2016-17 school year and making 2015-16 another voluntary year.
There are six region-a l service centers in the state: Cooperative E d u c a t i o n a l S e r v i ce s , Education Connection, Area Cooperative Educational Services, Capitol Region Education Council, Learn, and EastConn.
The six service centers are responsible for creating the common calendar for school
systems to follow.Cheshire, Meriden, and
Wallingford are part of the Area Cooperative Educational Services region. Southington is a part of the Capitol Region Education Council.
According to state guide-lines, the calendars must have a minimum of 180 days; two common professional devel-opment days; a common start date; and three vacation peri-ods, including summer break.
Some questioningregional calendar
By Eric VoSpecial to The Citizen
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While wearing shorts in winter may be an acquired taste, it’s not an unhealthy practice. Cheshire resident Frank Nastri doesn’t feel the cold as he walks out-
side clad in his summer shorts in mid-winter to re-trieve his mail in freezing temperatures.
“I always wear shorts. I don’t like pants, never did,” said Nastri, who is a healthy 86-years-old. “I go to church every morning and then to breakfast, and people com-ment to me all the time. I have always been an athlete and still go to the gym every day. I spent most of my time in shorts in my early years, and it just sort of stuck.”
At Cheshire High School,
kids regularly walk the halls throughout the winter months in their cargo shorts, seemingly in a deliberate defiance to the frigid tem-peratures outside, as Louise Marone, front office secre-tary can attest. “I see many students throughout the win-ter in shorts. One student in particular wears shorts fre-quently,” Marone said. “They feel more comfortable in shorts.”
Dodd Middle School kids have reasonable explana-tions for running around in
shorts. According to Joshua Spataj, seventh grader at Dodd, “I only wear them if it’s not too cold. If the tem-perature drops below 20 de-grees, I put on pants.” He thinks shorts are more com-fortable and less confining. He will wear a long sleeve shirt and a hoodie or jacket, but loves those shorts.
Jared Andrea, also a sev-enth grader at Dodd states, “I will wear shorts depend-ing on what is in my drawer
Shorts-wearers immune to cold and public opinion
Josh Spataj and Jared Andrea throw the football out in the snow with friends. Shorts are more comfortable, they say, even in the winter. | (Photo by Lauren
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when I get dressed. It doesn’t bother me.” Jared also has a logical reason for wear-ing shorts in the wintertime. When he has a test sched-uled at school, he prefers to wear shorts because pants “get bunched up behind my knees if I sit for a long time and it gets uncomfortable. It is a distraction.”
As you look around Connecticut, and greater New England, it seems to be almost common to see folks refusing to give up the free-
From Page 1 dom and comfort of wearing shorts.
For some, it is hard to over-look this habit when we’re feeling chilled to the bone. “Put something on — you’ll catch your death of cold,” is what many have heard yelled by parents throughout the years. Parents and grandpar-ents may worry that their kids will be at risk for colds if they wear shorts to school on winter days.
The Centers for Disease Control provides some guid-ance on the topic. While it explains that exposure to cold temperatures, whether indoors or out, can cause serious or life-threatening health problems — such as hypothermia and frost-bite — there is no mention that wearing shorts (or inade-quately warm clothing) in winter causes a cold.
Kidshealth.org states that colds are caused by “rhino-viruses”, which are invisible droplets in the air we breathe or on things we touch. It specifies that despite some old wives’ tales, “not wear-ing a jacket or sweater when it’s chilly, sitting or sleeping in a draft, and going outside while your hair [is] wet do not cause colds.”
M a t t L e i d e m e r, o f
Plainville, a freelance sports photographer for The Citizen weeklies said, “I’m lucky, I don’t feel the cold that much. I’m in the same garb year-round: T-shirt and shorts. To be honest, I only own a cou-ple of pairs of slacks for for-mal occasions, but no jeans. It was never a conscious deci-sion, as far as making a state-ment for style or attitude. It’s more about comfort than warmth.
When asked whether it is ever too cold for shorts, Leidemer said, “Never. I was shooting Southington football in 2011 when winter storm Alfred hit. In shorts and a jacket, I left at halftime and caught a lot of ribbing for doing so: ‘Oh, did it finally get too cold for you?’ No, visibil-ity was terrible. I’m a pho-tographer, no point in taking photos when you can’t see what you’re shooting. But too cold? Never.”
While it’s a little shocking to see people walk around half-exposed while the rest of us are bundle up, they appear to be immune to the cold and public opinion. But at least now parents and grandpar-ents can be assured that as long as their kids don’t have a rhinovirus, they will be safe from a cold. Even in shorts.
The town’s 2013 net grand list fell by more than 6 per-cent from 2012, dropping the town’s revenue base by about $182 million, according to Town Manager Michael Milone and Assessor Mario Panagrosso.
It’s the first time in at least 20 years that there has been a drop in the grand list, Milone said.
The grand list is now val-ued at roughly $2.71 billion.
The biggest hit came in the real estate sector, with a loss of 7.93 percent, due to the revaluation of properties, Milone said.
The last full revaluation of properties was done in 2008, when real estate values went up 9.2 percent.
“It was not at all surprising. Actually we were somewhat surprised in that we thought it would be much worse,” Milone said. “We thought it was going to be around $211 million.”
Milone said that the downward trend is similar to that seen in other towns statewide.
“We’ve been watching re-valuations in other towns and our declines are not nearly as much,” Milone said, adding that some similar towns saw declines of nearly 13 percent.
Houses at the lower end of the cost spectrum did not decline in value as much as those at the higher end, Milone said.
“There’s no simple way across the board to say what effect this will have,” he said. “Normally, it all trends in one
direction, but this is a swing of almost 13 percent.”
On the 2013 grand list , per-sonal prop-erty went up by 13.8 percent and mo-tor vehi-cles by 1.53 percent, for a total loss of 6.31 percent.
The annual grand list is a tally of all taxable property in town including real estate, motor vehicles and personal property: equipment and ma-chinery used by businesses.
payers did not change much from last year, with Industrial Avenue LLC, the parent company of Bozzutto’s Inc., leading the pack. Industrial Avenue’s taxable values are $37,812,800.
Alfred E. Smith, Jr., has been named the new town attorney for Cheshire.
He replaces Dwight Johnson, who is retir-ing and has served as town attorney since 2006. Both attorneys are with the Municipal Law Practice firm Murtha Cullina, out of Hartford, which serves about 40 municipalities in Connecticut.
— Eve Britton
New town attorney named
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Library Briefs
Cheshire Cats Classics Club
The Cheshire Cats Classics Club is scheduled to discuss “Moll Flanders” by Daniel Defoe, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Moss Room. Registration is required and seating is limited.
For more information, call (203) 272-2245, ext. 4 or register online at www.cheshirelibrary.org.
Guest artistThe Cheshire Art League is scheduled to meet Wednesday,
Feb. 26, at the Cheshire Library, 104 Main St. Artist Tony Ruggiero is scheduled to demonstrate a program on pointil-lism call “Dot to Dot.” The demonstration is free and open to the public.
The meeting follows a reception for the Artsplace Student Art Show, scheduled for 6 to 7 p.m.
For more information, call Karen Dwyer at (203) 389-8419.
Contest for deaf, hard-of-hearing students
Deaf and hard-of-hearing students are eligible to com-pete for cash prizes and more in national contests spon-sored by Rochester Institute of Technology, home to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
T he Spi R IT Writ i ng Contest, in its 7th year, en-courages deaf and hard-of-hearing high school students to use the power of the writ-ten word. The contest will award the winners – two tenth and two eleventh grad-ers – their choice of a schol-arship and travel expenses to the Explore Your Future program at NTID, or $500. EYF is a six-day summer career exploration program for deaf and hard-of-hearing students that gives them the opportunity to sample differ-ent careers as well as college life.
Complete contest guide-lines and entry information are available at www.rit.edu/NTID/WritingContestNR. For more information, con-tact [email protected] .edu or cal l 585-475-7695 (voice) or videophone 585-286-4555.
The second nat iona l competition is RIT’s an-nual Digital Arts, Film and Animation Competition for high school students who are deaf or hard-of-hear-ing. Students in grades 9-12 can compete for a $250 cash prize in each category.
The competition recog-nizes students’ artistic ex-pression with awards in the following categories: film, graphic media, interactive media, photo imaging, 3-D animation and Web page de-sign. Students may submit up to two entries.
Online entry forms, con-test rules and other details are available at www.rit.edu/NTID/ArtsNR.
The deadline to enter ei-ther competition is March 17.
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Students who are entering college or continuing their studies in journalism or re-lated fields are eligible to apply for a journalism schol-arship. Work on the school newspaper or magazine or on a community newspaper counts heavily in the appli-cant’s favor. Also relevant are scholastic achievement, participation in school ac-tivities, community ser-vice and f inancial need. Candidates for a master’s de-gree in journalism also will be considered.
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T h e c o m m o n s t a r t date would be on the last Wednesday of August with a three-day flexible window. With vacations, students should receive five days off from school within the sec-ond or third week of April and another week during the fourth or fifth week of December. Election Day would also be designated as a professional develop-ment day with no school for students.
In addition, the state is asking regions to come to an agreement for holidays, such as Veterans Day, Columbus Day and other single-day holidays.
The state has touted ben-efits such as transportation savings and collaborative professional development days, according to Board of
From Page 1 Education member Kathy Castelli. Another possible benefit is the sharing of a part-time teacher.
“If you only need a part-time teacher, the person can be part-time in Wallingford and part-time in Cheshire,” Castelli said.
For parents who have children attending different schools, a regional calendar would align vacation day, Castelli added.
Not every board mem-ber is sold on the idea. Wal l ingford Board of Education Chairwoman Roxane McKay said she can see the advantages of adopt-ing a common calendar, but she’s also concerned with the
loss of control.“I am a little concerned
that it is taking away our au-tonomy and our ability to see what’s most appropriate and valued in our district,” she said. “It suggests that they know our district bet-ter and we obviously know our districts the best ... what the culture is and what is important.”
School superintendents, Greg Florio of Cheshire and Mark D. Benigni of Meriden said they hope the common calendar would grant school systems flexibility for things like religious holidays.
Board of Education Vice Chairman Joe Marrone agreed.
“I don’t support it at all. I think it’s there to diminish the power of local boards of education and bring it up to the state,” he said.
School Superintendent Salvatore Menzo said he sees the benefits of the common calendar, but didn’t believe it had to be a law.
“We’ve done many of the things they hope would ben-efit a regional calendar,” he said.
Castelli said it’s important to give the calendar a chance and “try to embrace change with an open mind.”
“You’ve got to give it some time to try to work out the kinks and to see if it’s feasi-ble,” she said.
Calcagni Real Estate has scheduled an animal food drive to benefit the Meriden Humane Society, Wallingford Animal Control, and the Friends of Cheshire Feral Cats.
Donations may be dropped off Thursday, Feb. 13, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday, Feb. 14, 10 a.. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 15, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 924 North Main St. Ext., Wallingford.
Animals are in need of wet and dry dog, cat, kitten and puppy food; treats, blankets, towels, collars, leashes, kitty litter, paper towels and clean-ing products.
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Clergy Corner
The peculiar power of love — and chocolate
Contrary to popular belief Valentine’s Day was not cre-ated by the combined efforts
of the Hallmark greeting card company, FTD florists, and the chocolate truf-fle industry. It came about from the story of a priest in third century Rome, named
By Rev. Ray AndersenSpecial to The Citizen
Valentine.As the story goes Emperor
Claudius II (known behind his back as “Claudius the Cruel”) was waging several difficult military campaigns. He believed that soldiers fought better if they had no families at home; hence he forbade young men to marry. Valentine, believing that young people should not only marry but also have God present in their rela-tionship, secretly married couples defying Claudius. For this he was executed (by decapitation) in 269 A. D.
Before dying he sent a letter to a blind girl he had been praying for and signed it “from your Valentine.” The rest, of course, is his-tory; and a piece of history that no self-respecting en-trepreneurial greeting card company could possibly ignore.
Today marriage seems to be in a state of disrepair. There is such a high rate of divorce that first mar-riages are sometimes called “starter” marriages. There’s strong social debate on civil unions and same sex mar-riages. Young people often fear that marriage may ruin
their relationship. At any rate no one thinks marriage is easy, especially whoever wrote the wedding service: “for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health…”
Perhaps St. Valentine, in support of marriage, might say love needs to be more than just a warm fuzzy feel-ing for someone. After all it’s as easy to get a warm fuzzy feeling about someone as it is to make yourself yawn. Love requires a decision of the will, an intentional, determined choosing of another that will help both get through the “better or worse” parts of their future.
Valentine’s Day may have become one of the secular world’s high holy days, but it’s also a good time to think about the peculiar power of love. Love is both the stron-gest and weakest force in the world. It’s strong enough to conquer that most impreg-nable of fortifications, the human heart; yet it can only do so with the consent of the conquered. Love can breach a wall, but can do so, not by its own strength, but only at the invitation of the one whom the wall defends.
Love has a strange arith-metic to it. You see this at every wedding. One person plus one person does not equal two persons. When two people give themselves away in love to one another it creates a new life-form,
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The program explores the public policy of water use and features women whose careers are water-related positions. Panelist include Wallingford Representative Mary Muchinsky, involved with legislative efforts to implement a statewide wa-ter plan and who was instru-mental in the creation of the Quinnipiac River Watershed Association; Lori Mathieu, the public health section chief for the drinking water section of the Connecticut Department of Public Health and Betsy Gore, executive director of the Connecticut Water Works Association.
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The Cheshire Women’s Club is scheduled to meet on the first Thursday of each month at the Senior Center for a general busi-ness meeting at 11 a.m. fol-lowed by a program at 12:15 p.m. that is open to the public.
Cheshire Women’s Club has no age requirements, and is open to all women of Cheshire and surround-
ing town who would like to be involved in volun-teering for the good of the community.
The club participates in civil projects and offers a scholarship to a woman returning to or continuing her education.
For more information about joining the club, call Paulette at (203) 272-8779 or attend any meeting.
Women’s ClubThe organization be-
hind the local on-line re-source encyclopedia called Cheshirepedia will soon submit its video project to Kickstarter.com, an on-line funding tool.
Organization president John Fournier describes Kickstarter as a useful re-source for new and novel projects. “[Kickstarter will help] Cheshirepedia on its way to being another unique part of the Cheshire landscape.”
Funding is needed to f inalize design on the Cheshirepedia website and to secure 501(3)c non-profit status, allowing tax-deduct-ible donations.
Cheshire Town Historian, Jeanné Chesanow initiated the Cheshirepedia concept. “So many people have asked me if there was a website where they could find ‘all things Cheshire’ and one day I simply said why not create Cheshirepedia for this pur-pose.” She envisions an on-line go-to place for students
and educators, including well-referenced submissions being available on any topic relating to Cheshire.
Similar to Wikipedia, states Chesanow, “Ours will be one of very few non-Wiki sites as-sociated with a town of this size.”
Diane Calabro, president of the Cheshire Historical Society is enthusiastic about the project, hoping that fund-ing will allow the website to be up and running soon. “We have so many people submit-ting research articles, pho-tographs, oral histories and more,” Calabro said.
The Cheshirepedia video was shot in various locations throughout town, including Lock 12 Historical Park. Local videographer Rick Smith filmed the group. Participants wrote their own scripts.
The Kickstarter entry will be available on Valentine’s Day on www.kickstarter.com by searching for proj-ects in Cheshire. The group will be at the Cheshire Public Library at 4:30 p.m. to kickoff
Group Kickstarts Cheshirepedia projectits Kickstarter project.
Interested donors can go to the website and make a dona-tion of any size to the project. “A donation can be as little as $1. We’d be over the top, of course, with larger amounts, but every donation will be gratefully received,” Calabro said.
For more information, con-tact John Fournier at (860) 930-3331 or e-mail [email protected].
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Although common calen-dars for education regions may generate budget savings, negatives seem to outweigh positives.
A Connecticut law, signed last June by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, requires that each region of academic districts adopt a uniform schedule by the 2015-16 school year. Meriden, Wallingford and Cheshire are members of one region, while Southington be-longs to another. Under new legislation, school systems in these groups would have to implement identical cal-endars, despite differences in how each municipality operates.
For instance, issues could arise regarding existing con-tracts for employees. Legally, certain workers may have specific days off in one dis-trict. What happens when a regional calendar mandates all staff be in classrooms on that date? Before the law takes full effect in 2015-16, these contracts will have to be reevaluated and, perhaps, readjusted.
Regions may face other problems. Not all districts have academic years of sim-ilar length. Wallingford stu-dents, for example, typically attend school for more than the state minimum of 180 days. Additionally, inclem-ent weather can affect differ-ent areas to varying degrees. What happens if one district must close classrooms to re-cover after a powerful hur-ricane? Do all schools in the same region have to wait? Or,
Calendar concernswhat if one education sys-tem must alter its calendar because of ongoing building projects, as in Southington and Meriden?
The most troubling aspect with the common calendar is a lessening of municipal con-trol over its own classrooms. Boards of Education stand to lose a portion of their deci-sion-making abilities to re-gional-level officials. On this questionable rearrangement, we agree with Southington School Superintendent Joseph V. Erardi: “I’m a be-liever for local governance for local schools.”
The upside for municipal-ities resides in cost reduc-tions. Regional combination of services — like student transportation or part-time employees — is simpler when calendars align. And districts could jointly host profes-sional development programs for staff from several towns or cities. In this manner, the law encourages greater shar-ing of resources, a better fi-nancial practice than each district purchasing individ-ually. To his credit, Malloy acted with school savings in mind.
However, these are but a few helpful elements against a slew of drawbacks. While academic administra-tors surely will appreciate cost-savings, common calen-dars may cause too many is-sues to be overall beneficial.
Area school officials are right to voice concerns about these flaws, espe-cially the shifting of local power to regional authori-ties. Connecticut politicians should heed such protests and reconsider this short-sighted law.
This editorial originally ran in the Feb. 4 edition of the Record-Journal.
Commentary
Once again, Cheshire’s community pool faces choppy waters.
Back in November, resi-dents approved a new ten-sion membrane cover for the outdoor facility — an end to the latest search for better shelter from inclem-ent weather. The pool’s beleaguered past includes multiple collapses by its synthetic bubble roof un-der the weight of heavy snowfall. Large accumula-tions of wintry precipita-tion fell through or off the bubble, which caused sig-nificant damage and posed considerable safety risks. (Fortunately, nobody was hurt.)
As expensive and frus-trating repairs mounted, Cheshire leaders sought a more re l iable f ix . Installation of a tension membrane should do the trick. Capable of holding 50 inches of snow and sustain-ing 130 mph wind gusts, the new cover is a structural upgrade over synthetic
bubbles that perpetually burst.
But, late last month, Town Planner William S. Voelker discovered an un-anticipated complication. The pool is within a resi-dential zone, where a height ordinance caps buildings at 40 feet. Blueprints call for the tension membrane to be 55 feet tall.
Cheshire officials de-bated whether to try to rezone the surrounding area as industrial — where structures can reach 65 feet — or request a height vari-ance. Town Council mem-bers voted 6-3 for the latter. Rezoning would have been an overextension, opening the door for other build-ings to rise above 40 feet in the primarily residential district.
The 6-3 vote came down along party lines. Democrats, in minority, voiced concerns of “fair-ness.” Would officials set bad precedent by permit-ting circumvention of mu-
nicipal rules? “If we keep trying to do back-door things, it’s a slippery slope,” stated Democrat councilor Liz Linehan (R-J, 1-17).
She has a valid point. To allow zoning deviations for town-owned proper-ties could raise questions of ethics, and possibly in-fluence future instances of Cheshire bypassing its own ordinances.
However, permitting the new pool cover is a necessary exception. Construction of a tension membrane could stop the recent pattern of expensive, dangerous, weather-related mishaps. Members of the Zoning Board of Appeals should approve the height variance. The only prece-dent being set is that mu-nicipal leaders are willing to make special cases when protecting public safety and taxpayer dollars — nothing is unjust with that.
This editorial originally ran in the Feb.3 edition of the Record-Journal.
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Senior Menu
Lunch reservations must be made 48 hours in advance by calling (203) 272-0047. A donation is requested.
Monday, Feb. 17: Senior Center closed in observance of President’s Day.
are Hooked on Reading - Tuesday, Feb. 18, 10 to 11 a.m. at the Senior Center library.
Intergenerational Bingo - Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1 to 3 p.m. Students join seniors for Bingo.
Cheshire Senior Variety Players - Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1:30 p.m. New members al-ways welcome.
C H AT P r o g r a m - Wednesday, Feb. 19, 10:30 a.m. “Home Safety: What’s Your Fall Risk?” Registration required.
Cooking with Chef Craig at The Highlands Health Care Center - Wednesday, Feb. 19, 11:30 a.m. By ticket only; limited to 15 partici-pants. For more information, call the Senior Center at (203) 272-8286.
Military Whist Card Party - Thursday, Feb. 20, 1 to 3 p.m. A fee is charged.
Lunch and a movie - Monday, Feb. 24. Lunch at 11:45 a.m. “Moonstruck” at 12:30 p.m. (A fee is charged for lunch; movie is free.) Registration is required by Feb. 21.
C a r e g i ve r S u p p o r t Group - Wednesday, Feb. 26,
10 a.m. For more information, call Stefanie D. Theroux at (203) 272-8030.
Monthly Dance Party w i t h Vi n n i e Ca r r - Thursday, Feb. 27, 1 to 3 p.m. Bring a non-perishable food item or paper good to bene-fit the Cheshire Food Pantry.
TripThe Cheshire Senior Travel
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corned beef dinner. A fee is charged. Tickets
may be purchased at the Cheshire Senior Center, Monday and Thursday from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
For more information, call Shirley Gilhuly at (203) 272-4984 or Evelynn Henriques at (203) 272-8889.
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Dr. William Petit has de-c i d e d n o t to run for Congress.
In a Feb. 5 s t a t e -ment, pro-vided to The Associated Press Petit said he will not be a candidate in the 5th Congressional District. Although he had been ap-proached by a number of people who urged him to con-sider running, Petit said his “clear priority” is spending time with his new wife and 10-week-old son.
“I feel particularly blessed to be able to devote my time to them and to continue to volunteer for the Petit Family Foundation at this stage of my life,” he wrote.
Petit told reporters in
November he was “50-50” on running. The district is rep-resented by Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Esty. While Petit has never held elected office, he was deeply involved in campaigning against the re-peal of Connecticut’s death penalty.
Petit was the only survivor of a hostage ordeal in which his wife and two daughters were killed inside his home in Cheshire. Steven Hayes, 50, and Joshua Komisarjevsky, 33, were sentenced to death for the killings.
“I have always felt it is a great responsibility and privi-lege in a democracy to run for public office, and that those who care about good govern-ment need to be willing to get involved,” Petit said.
Petit was considered a for-midable candidate if he ran and the seat is one where Republicans would have a chance to break Democrats’ lock on the state’s congres-sional delegation.
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For one couple, Chris and Jennifer Koshak, Feb. 14, is a date they can never forget — that’s because no one in town will let them.
Chocolatier Chris Koshak and his wife, Jennifer, are pro-prietors of Cocoashak, a cozy shop tucked into the lower level of Town Center, on Elm Street, across from the Watch Factory Shops. The name of the business is derived from their last name.
“Once it hits Feb. 1, it’s like everybody realizes what that means,” said Jennifer Koshak. “Chocolate.”
So why is it that people are consumed with consuming chocolate?
“They say it’s the food of the Gods,” laughed Chris Koshak. “It’s delicious.”
Valentine’s Day is a major sales date for the Koshaks. Halloween, Christmas, and especially Easter are also huge for chocolate pur-chases. In-between the hol-idays, though, the Koshak’s have found a steady stream of chocolate-lovers to insure a reliable customer base since opening their shop a little over two years ago.
A constant influx of people, many of them repeat custom-ers, frequent the shop. On a recent winter afternoon. Nancy Santa Croce picked up a box of chocolates which would be “the perfect gift” for a friend’s housewarming that day. The Dimech family also stopped, to buy choco-lates on their way to grand-ma’s house. Parents Michael and Jennifer let the kids pick out birthday chocolates for grandma, which ended up to be chocolate pieces fashioned as Legos. There were a few orange-infused truffles in the mix, too. The family also sam-pled bacon toffee with plenty of “yums” to be heard.
“It’s good,” said Michael Dimech. The special treat is crafted both for Valentines
‘Food of Gods’ is close at hand
Sweets at the Cocoashak for Valentine’s Day. | (Joy VanderLek/
The Cheshire Citizen)
By Joy VanderLekThe Cheshire Citizen
Customers Michael DiMech and his son, Matthew, taste the bacon toffee at Cocoashak. | (Joy VanderLek/The Cheshire
Citizen)
and Father’s Day. Freshness, insists Jennifer
Koshak is one of the main reasons Cocoashak has such a popular following. “We also take requests,” Chris Koshak said. “I listen to what people want.” That includes selec-tions for their vegan custom-ers, and white chocolate for customers who are lactose in-tolerant. The choices of types of chocolate are mind-bog-gling: white chocolate bark with dried cherries; coconut haystacks, s’mores, choco-late-covered cherries swirled with gold dust luster and red cocoa finishes.
Truffles are definitely a go-to Chris Koshak specialty. In all, it takes about two days to make a batch of truffles. Peanut butter is one of the best sellers, but who knows what the next big truffle idea will be, said Chris Koshak. At any one time, the assort-ment in the chocolate case might include liquid centers, zesty orange, thai and wasabi, creamy peanut butter, mint-oreo, coconut, mint julep and
liqueur centers. “There’s not that much (alcohol) in there,” he said.
While Chris Koshak won’t give away all his secrets, he will allow that he crafts his own signature chocolate with a unique blend of premium Belgium chocolate from Callebaut. “Belgium choco-late is the best in the world,” he said.
Asked how happy he is with his decision to become a chocolatier and open his shop in Cheshire, Chris Koshak said, “On a scale of one to ten? I’d say about 11.”
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Friday, Feb. 14Boys basketball -
Cheshire vs. Fairfield Prep at Cheshire, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 15Boys ice hockey -
Cheshire vs. North Haven at Northford Ice Pavillion, 8:30 a.m.
Sunday, Feb. 16Winter beach walk -
Southern Connecticut Cycle Club has scheduled a winter beach walk for Sunday, Feb. 16, 10 a.m., at Hammon-asset State Park. Inclem-ent weather will cancel the walk. For more information, call (203) 272-3316 or (203) 606-4128.
Feb. 26Guest artist - The
Cheshire Art League is scheduled to meet Wednes-day, Feb. 26, at the Cheshire Library, 104 Main St. Artist Tony Ruggiero is scheduled to demonstrate a program on pointillism call “Dot to Dot.” The demonstration is free and open to the pub-lic. The meeting follows a reception for the Artsplace Student Art Show, scheduled for 6 to 7 p.m. For more in-formation, call Karen Dwyer at (203) 389-8419.
March 8Ziti dinner - Boy Scout
Troop 92 has scheduled its annual ziti dinner for Satur-day, March 8, 5 to 7 p.m., in the parish hall at the First Congregational Church. A fee is charged. (scouts in uniform and children under 3 are free). Tickets are available at the door or from any Troop 92 scout. For more informa-tion, call Robyn Housemann at (203) 376-5840.
Monday, March 10DAR - Daughters of the
American Revolution Lady Fenwick Chapter is sched-uled to meet Monday, March 10, at noon, at Gaylord Hos-pital. The planned program is “Food and Nutrition”.
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Chamber awards dinner planned
The Cheshire Chamber of Commerce annual meeting and awards dinner is sched-uled for Thursday, Feb. 27, at 5:30 p.m., at Aria, Wedding & Banquet Facility in Prospect. Representatives from WS Development and Ball & Socket Arts, Inc. are scheduled to speak. WS Development is the developer of the Outlets at Cheshire, a mixed use project in the north end at I-691 and Rt. 10. Ball & Socket Arts Inc. plans to redevelop the former Ball & Socket Manufacturing Co. into mixed use space for the arts, theatre and retail.
The Chamber plans to recognize new and retiring directors, and present achieve-ment awards. Award winners this year include Chamber Member of the Year Derek Gromko; Enhancement of
the Business Community A d v a n c e d D e n t i s t r y, Feldman Orthodontics , R i c c i C o n s t r u c t i o n , Richard Chevrolet; Special Recognition Mark Thomas; Special Support of the Chamber Elim Park; New Chamber Member of the Year Ben Mills; Special Support of the Community Lucinda Beaty; Health & Wellness Council Member of the Year Barbara Wormer; as well as awards for Educator of the Year Kristen Shanley; Fireman of the Year Dan Ford; and Policeman of the Year Jeff Falk. Past presidents of the Chamber, and Chamber mem-bers of 10, 20, and 30 years will also be acknowledged.
For more information and make reservations, call the Chamber at (203) 272-2345.
Chocolate
a new being that equals much more than two. My math skills never got me past Algebra 101 so don’t ask me how it works. It just does. Being a preacher I’m tempted to say it has some-thing to do with holiness
and that love is of God. On the other hand it might
be wise to recall Charlie Brown who said, “All you need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
Reverend Ray Anderson is a priest at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Cheshire.
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The Cheshire Land Trust is in need of new volunteers to assist with land steward-ship efforts on its 560-plus open space acres across Cheshire. Volunteers pro-vide help with picking up litter, cleaning and mowing trails, maintaining infor-mation kiosks, performing periodic inspections, cut-ting fallen trees, and other activities. There is a va-riety of work to be done, from easy to technical.
To volunteer, contact Mark at [email protected], Rick at [email protected], or leave a message at (203) 806-5165. Individuals, families, scout groups, church groups, stu-dent groups, senior groups, and civic groups are all welcome.
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SportsRam Notes
Locals roll up points at ‘LL’ meet; Swimmer Bishop dominates
Indoor trackNEW HAVEN - Southington
senior Matthew Bennett earned a Class LL shot put championship with a toss of 52 feet, 4 ½ inches at the Floyd Little Athletic Center.
B e n n e t t e d ge d o u t Norwark’s Evan Adams (49-6) and Cheshire’s Chibueze Njoku (48-2) for the title.
Cheshire junior Mark Fusco placed second in the 600 me-ters (1:26.42). Liam Nicoll also pocketed a second place fin-ish in the 300 meters with a personal best 36.02.
Rafael Phillip was fifth in the 600 meters (1:27. 63) for the Rams.
Cheshire’s Selina Sampieri placed third in the pole vault with leap of 10 feet. Fellow Ram Patricia Larson was fourth in the shot put with a toss of 33 feet, 11 inches and sophomore Janaia Skibitky placed fifth in the long jump (16-5).
Cheshire finished third in the girls 4x200 meter relay
with the team of Skibitky, Kristin Cabrera, Kimberly Grove and Alexandra Pelletier in 1:48.94.
The Cheshire boys finished fifth (26 points). Danbury won the event with 64 points. The Cheshire girls placed 11th with 18 points. Staples won the title with 63 points.
Boys swimmingCheshire 96, Hamden 81:
Karl Bishop didn’t just win two races and contribute to a first-place relay for Cheshire against host Hamden. He did it back to back to back.
Bishop opened the meet swimming anchor on
Cheshire’s 200-yard medley relay, then stayed in the pool to win Event 2, the 200 free-style, and Event 3, the 200 IM. That work earned the Rams 20 points and sent them on their way to a SCC victory over the Green Dragons.
Bishop swam a 1:52.46 in the 200 free and a 2:15.47 in the IM. He teamed with freshman Ryan Mostoller and fellow sophomores Michael Goodrich and Kyle Shadeck on the medley relay (1:49.82).
Also swimming well for Cheshire was senior Alex Bauer. He won the 50 free (25.18) and teamed with Matt Pinciaro, John Gaudio and Ryan Nguyen on the 400 free-style relay (3:46.97).
Cheshire’s Sal DeLucia captured diving with 141.95 points.
The Rams improved to 8-2 overall. Hamden fell to 3-4.
Boys basketballCheshire 76, Wilby 68:
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MIDDLETOWN — Senior goalie Joey Solla recorded his second shutout of the season and the Cheshire Rams hockey team defeated the Daniel Hand Tigers 2-0 Saturday morning in Spurrier-Snyder Rink at Wesleyan University.
“Joe Solla was tremen-dous for us in goal, especially during the second period” said Cheshire coach Karl Sundquist. “He was a wall for us.”
Solla saved 12 shots in the second period alone, half of his game total of 24, including a number of close calls during three Hand power plays that spanned the second and third periods. The Rams killed all three penalties.
“We work awful hard at it in practice, so for us to kill off all
record to 7-6-1 and marks the team’s second victory over Hand this season. The Rams defeated the Tigers 2-1 on Jan. 4.
“We’ve played this team twice now and only given up one goal,” Sundquist said. “So it’s a great effort defensively by all three lines.”
The game was scoreless for the first 13 minutes, with ac-tion moving back and forth. With 1:35 left in the first pe-riod, Rams senior forward Joe D’Errico put one past Hand goalie Chase Briggs, who was down on the ice after diving for a previous shot, giving the Rams a 1-0 lead.
Cheshire would add to their lead just over five min-utes into the second period, when junior forward Ben Klanica blasted a rebound
Cheshire, Solla blank HandBy Joe VirgillitoSpecial to The Citizen
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Cheshire’s goalie Joey Solla (30) Saturday at Spurrier-Snyder Rink in Middletown Feb. 8, 2014. | (Justin Weekes/Special
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CHESHIRE — Cheshire had this one in hand right from the start Feb. 4.
Cheshire point guard Collin Jordan made a steal on Shelton’s first possession and fed Andrew Yamin for a fast-break layup. Eighteen sec-onds later Jordan and Yamin did exactly the same thing.
From there, the Rams glided to a 74-54 SCC Housatonic boys basketball victory, their fourth straight win, at Cheshire High School.
“It was two big Housy games in a row for us after coming off three tough losses to Top 5 teams. These are four big wins for getting our season back on track,” said Yamin, who led Cheshire with a game-high 20 points three steals.
The Rams (9-4, 5-0 Housy) took an 8-0 lead, extended it to 16-7 on a three by Reid Duglenski (9 points, 3 steals) with 3:55 left and 21-11 on a layup by Dylan D’Addio (12 points) with 1:59 to go before finishing the quarter up 21-13.
“We had a good crowd, we got off to a good start, which we always look to do,” Yamin said. “Collin always hits me deep. I know it’s going there. We were able to finish early, it was good to jump out to a lead like that.”
Shelton (7-7, 3-2) made its only run in the second quar-ter. After falling behind 34-20 with about three minutes left in the half, the Gaels scored six straight points, four by Chris Pawlowski (8 points) to cut it to 34-26 at the intermission.
“Shelton made a great run, they cut it eight,” Cheshire coach Dan Lee said. “They had three or four really solid offensive possessions. Coming back in the second half, eight can turn into four pretty quick.”
But it didn’t.Cheshire stretched eight
to 16 after three, 51-35, behind eight points from Yamin, including one of his three threes. It was more of the same in the fourth, with the Rams moving to a 23-point lead, 62-39, with 6:06 to go on a free throw by Tyler Post (7 points, 6 rebounds). Shelton
came no closer than 17 af-ter that on a layup by Matt Terrasi (12 points) with 4:20 left.
“The starting five does a great job of doing what they have to do,” Lee said. “It’s a defense born out of assign-ments and they do a great job of covering. Our big thing is we have to communicate. If they don’t talk, it doesn’t work. It was good to see the communication resulted in some steals.”
Cheshire’s Jon Rizzo con-tributed with 15 points, eight in the first half, and Jordan finished with nine points, three steals and four assists.
“We go pretty deep even in the first half,” Lee said. “We’re very happy with the varsity. Every one of them seems to add a little bit extra. Jon Rizzo had a great night tonight. Heath (Post) came out and did a great job. Our starting five, they come to play everyday, but we can’t win with five. Not with the style we play and not with our opponents.”
Casey Belade had a team-high 16 points for the visiting squad.
Rams remain atop Housy roost
By Paul RosanoSpecial to The Citizen
Ram
Cheshire rallied from an 18-point halftime deficit to knock off Wilby in a non-con-ference showdown in the Brass City.
The victory was the fifth straight for the Rams, who now stand at 10-4 overall.
Andrew Yamin led the way for Cheshire with a game-high 32 points. Collin Jordan scored 19 and Reid Duglenski knocked down a trio of 3-pointers en route to 11.
Cold out of the gate, the Rams fell behind 22-5 after the first quarter. They found their scoring stride in the second quarter, but Wilby didn’t waver. The Waterbury school took a 45-27 lead into the locker room. The game turned around in the third quarter, when the Rams went
on a 26-5 run to seize the lead.Denzel Mitchell scored 26
points for Wilby (10-4). Taifa Wright added 14.
Cheshire 48, Amity 45: John Rizzo sank a pair of free throws with eight seconds left to give the Rams the winning margin.
The Spartans took a con-tested and errant 3-pointer at the buzzer, and Cheshire held on for the SCC Housatonic victory at home on Senior Night.
The victory kept the Rams unbeaten in the division at 6-0 and, coming one night after their upset of Wilby in Waterbury, put them at 11-4 overall.
Col l in Jordan paced Cheshire with 21 points. Rizzo chipped in with eight.
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Ram
David Ryan led Amity (5-11, 3-4 Housy) with 13 points.
Girls basketballCheshire 43, Shelton
42: Missy Bailey hit a late 3-pointer and drained two free throws to help Cheshire hold off Shelton in a SCC
From Page 14 Housatonic game on the road.Sara Como led the Rams
with a game-high 14 points. Bailey and Jill Howard fin-ished with nine apiece as the Rams completed a season sweep of the Gaels.
Sara Skarowronski paced Shelton with 13 points.
With the win, Cheshire hit the 10-win plateau at 10-7 overall. The Rams are 3-3 in the Housy. Shelton fell to 2-14 and 0-5.
Amity 54, Cheshire 38: Missy Bailey scored a team-high 22 points for the Rams in the SCC Housatonic loss in Woodbridge. The senior guard now needs 22 points to reach the 1,000-point milestone.
The Rams fell to 10-8. They
are now 3-4 in the Housy.Amity, which leads the
division at 7-0, got a game-high 19 points from Mikaila Schmitt. Elsie Graham added 12.
The Spartans are now 16-1 overall. They haven’t lost since falling at Mercy 59-38 back on Dec. 13.
WrestlingCheshire 32, Fairfield
Prep 30: Sean Black got the Rams rolling in Fairfield when he reversed and pinned his opponent with two sec-onds left in his bout at 106 pounds.
Up to that point, Cheshire was trailing (12-0) and so was Black. He was down 2-0. Decisions by Owen Brown (6-4 at 113) and Aaron Barrile
(7-4 at 120) kept momentum going for Cheshire.
Lucas Swan later delivered an 11-0 major decision at 132 and Jake Cervero followed with a pin 3:05 into the 138 match.
Karl Jacobs scored a 5-1 de-cision at 145. Matt Robidoux, wrestling up two weight classes, won 2-1 at 160. Gabe Vega posted an 11-0 major at 11-2.
F r e s h m a n A r t e m Samiannin clinched the win by reaching overtime against a senior opponent. He lost 4-3, but limiting the setback to three points worked de-cisively for Cheshire on the scoreboard.
The Rams are now 11-9 overall.
Hockey
past Briggs. The assists on the goal went to senior defense-man Greg Zovas and senior forward Luke Vendetto, who took the puck on a breakaway and skated at right at Briggs, who poked the puck loose for Klanica.
The second period also fea-tured the first penalties of the game, with two going against Cheshire. With some stellar goaltending by Solla, though, Hand (7-7) wasn’t able to get on the board.
Solla didn’t see much ac-tion in the third period, as the Rams were able to con-trol play and keep it mostly in Hand’s end. This could prove to be a key victory for
From Page 13
Ben Klanica (21) gets hooked by Hand’s Andrew Rossi (5) during the second period. | (Justin
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Cheshire, which is thinking playoffs with a 5-2-1 record in the Southern Connecticut Division II Hockey League.
“We’re excited about this one, because we’re still chas-ing that fourth playoff spot in our conference,” Sundquist said. “But tomorrow we’ll wake up and see who’s next.”
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