B EE I NTELLIGENCER B EE I NTELLIGENCER Informing the towns of Middlebury, Southbury, Woodbury, Naugatuck, Oxford and Watertown Volume VIII, No. 8 Friday, February 24, 2012 A FREE COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER FREE Prst. Std. U.S. Postage Paid Naugatuck, CT #27 “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” ~ Lillian Dickson Adoptable pets................. 8 Classifieds ........................ 7 Community Calendar........ 3 Computer Tip ................... 8 Fire Log............................ 2 In Brief ............................. 4 Library Happenings........... 2 Library Lines ..................... 2 Obituaries ........................ 5 Parks & Rec ...................... 6 Puzzles............................. 7 Reg. 15 School Calendar ..3 Senior Center News.......... 3 Varsity Sports Calendar..... 6 Inside this Issue Published weekly by The Middlebury Bee Intelligencer Society, LLC - 2030 Straits Turnpike, Middlebury, CT 06762 - Copyright 2012 Editorial Office: Email: [email protected]Phone: 203-577-6800 Mail: P.O. Box 10, Middlebury, CT 06762 Advertising Sales: Email: [email protected]UPCOMING EVENTS Our office is at 2030 Straits Turnpike, Suite 1 203-577-6800 Mail: P.O. Box 10, Middlebury, CT 06762 SUNDAY Feb. 26 Fifth Congressional District Democratic Candidate Forum When: 2 to 4 p.m. What: Moderated by John Dankosky, host of “Where We Live” on WNPR. Participating candidates include Chris Donovan, Elizabeth Esty, Dan Roberti and Randy Yale. Where: Pomperaug High School in Southbury Region 15 Board of Education Meeting When: 7:30 p.m. What: School Superintendent Dr. Frank Sippy is expected to present his 2012-2013 budget numbers. Where: Pomperaug High School All-Purpose Room MONDAY Feb. 27 Glebe House seeks volunteers Page 8 Pomperaug High School (PHS) e-com- merce students decided the best way to learn about guerrilla marketing was to brainstorm, create, and enact an activity. As part of their class studies on guerrilla marketing, students developed a market- ing plan with the goal of collecting canned goods and non-perishables for the South- bury Food Bank. As an incentive for students to donate, Ally Ruddy half-jokingly came up with a concept. “Students could throw a pie-in- the-face to some of the teachers,” Ruddy said. “Mrs. DeGregory was very willing to do it. The other two teachers, Mrs. (Adri- enne) Brevetti and Mrs. (Belle) Garafola joined in when they knew it was going to benefit the food bank.” The e-commerce students, joined by the Interact Club and the PHS Student Council, developed the idea with the guid- ance of PHS business and marketing teacher DeGregory. The first part of the plan was to let the school community know about their ef- forts and how they wanted the students to participate. “Matt Murphy, Evan Altami- rano, and I set up the food collection boxes throughout the school and created the advertising posters,” PHS student Joe Han- son said. Students who donated five food items were entered into a raffle to throw a ball into a bucket. The three students whose balls stayed in the bucket were then se- lected to be the pie-throwers: Arbes Klenja, Liana Van, and Hanson – the same student who helped with the marketing plan! In front of an audience of more than 500 students during a lunch wave, the three “throwers” hefted homemade ba- nana cream pies and creamed their teach- er’s faces, much to the delight of the au- dience. The event was all in good fun and for a good cause. “The pie was stickier than I thought it was going to be,” said DeGregory. “To know, however, that this was the culmi- nation of a lesson on guerrilla marketing and the Southbury Food Bank was going to benefit – the pie-in-the-face was well worth it!” “We felt our guerrilla marketing was successful evidenced by the huge amount of food we collected,” said Hanson. The students delivered 10 large bins of cereal, soup, canned meats, and pasta to the Southbury Food Bank at the end of the school day. PHS students cream teachers to help food bank Left to right, Arbes Klenja, Mrs. Lois DeGregory, Mrs. Adrienne Brevetti, Joe Hanson, Mrs. Belle Garafola, and Liana Van are shown after the teachers were creamed by the students. The three PHS students won the privilege of putting a pie in the face of the three teachers during an activity that was part of a guerrilla marketing lesson benefitting the Southbury Food Bank. Interact member Nolan Birtwell, left, and Interact President Matt Murphy, right, load 10 bins of donated canned goods and non-perishables for delivery to the Southbury Food Bank following a pie-throwing activity at PHS. (Submitted photos) By JONATHAN “CHIP” LONGO The Middlebury Board of Se- lectmen (BoS) Tuesday night heard a presentation from the Elderly Tax Relief Committee (ETRC) and took a re-vote on Police Chief Richard Guisti’s con- tract. The board also voted on the proposed Property Maintenance Ordinance. They met Tuesday due to the Monday holiday. ETRC Chairman and Region 15 Board of Education member Paul Babarik presented the com- mittee’s recommendations for providing elderly Middlebury homeowners a way to reduce property taxes on their homes. Before his presentation, Babarik thanked former selectman Rob- ert Desmarais, who was in atten- dance, for his help to the com- mittee since its inception in 2008. Babarik said the group’s mis- sion was to find ways to keep elderly residents in town by eas- ing their tax burdens. He talked about possible benefits to the town as well. He said elderly home owners offset younger homeowners with children in public school. He noted that 84 percent of communities across the state, including the surround- ing towns of Southbury, Wood- bury, Naugatuck, Oxford and Watertown, have adopted some form of elderly tax relief. Under the ETRC plan, tax relief would be available to all home- owners age 65 and older provided they met income and residency requirements. Applicants would have to be the principal owner and live in the home at least 183 days a year, and all tax assess- ments would have to be current. Tax reductions would be based on the median assessed value of all Middlebury homes, not the assessed value of the owner’s home. The tax relief would be on a sliding scale from 0 to 20 percent based on gross household in- come. Reductions in assessed values would range from 5 per- cent for those with gross house- hold incomes of $80,000 to $95,000 to 20 percent for those with gross household incomes of zero to $39,500. Homeowners with gross household incomes of more than $95,000 would not be eligible. Babarik gave several examples of the resulting reduction in taxes. One was for a property owner with a gross household income of $39,500 and a home valued at $170,000. Using the current mil rate of 23.79, that homeowner’s taxes would be re- duced by $1,174. Tax reductions would be less for those with higher gross household incomes. Babarik said approximately 1,222 people over 65 live in Mid- dlebury, and the potential for applicants is as high as 435. This could cause a potential reduction of close to $300,000 a year in rev- enue to the town. Babarik said this likely would be offset by not having to educate any new stu- dents at a cost of $13,000 per student. Babarik asked the BoS to ap- prove the plan and present it to the Board of Finance (BoF) with the ultimate goal of a town-wide vote in conjunction with the pro- posed blight ordinance referen- dum. Before he asked the board for questions or comments, he asked, “Isn’t it time to give some- thing back to the elderly who have given us so much?” First Selectman Ed St. John said, “These are tough times. We are going to have to balance the needs of the community.” Noting that two of the selectmen were seeing the proposal for the first time Tuesday night, he said he would need time to act on it. He also wanted to see more numbers as to how this would affect the budget before he presented it to the BoF. Babarik said there is a lack of data, and the committee had to make assumptions on some of the numbers. “You won’t get any new numbers,” he said. “They are just not out there.” Selectman Ralph Barra asked about the residency restrictions, and Selectman Elaine Strobel wanted to know why they used $95,000 as a threshold when the state “Circuit Breaker” program uses $39,500 as the cutoff. Strobel doubted the savings associated with keeping children out of the school system. She also had con- cerns about where the money would come from to offset the tax breaks and how it would affect other taxpayers in town. Babarik said they could use money from any contingency funds, or they could raise taxes. ”There is no free lunch,” he said. Barra wanted to see the num- bers from other towns. He also suggested a cap of $500 as the maximum tax reduction. BoF Chairman Michael Mc- Cormack was in attendance and asked some questions. He said he doubted some of the data and had concerns too many people would take advantage of the pro- gram, throwing off projections. Babarik asked the BoS what they would like to do, noting the committee has been working on this for 3-1/2 years. St. John said they should use $39,500 as the income cutoff and $500 as the maximum credit. He said those were numbers the BoS could take to the BoF. “You left with some- thing tonight,” he told Babarik. Next up on the agenda was a re-vote on the police chief’s con- tract. Barra, who was a police commissioner when the vote was taken last October and recom- mended it to the former admin- istration, made the motion to void that vote and re-vote on Guisti’s contract. This was in re- sponse to a complaint from Ray Rivard, who lost his bid for a spot on the police commission last year, regarding a perceived con- flict of interest by then First Se- lectman Thomas Gormley and Selectman Robert Desmarais during their vote on the contract. St. John presented a written opinion by attorney Michael Mc- Verry, who was retained by St. John to look into the matter. Mc- Verry found there was no direct conflict of interest or violation of the Town Charter, and suggested the new administration vote to ratify the actions taken at the Oct. 3, 2011, BoS meeting, “thereby eliminating any suggestion of Selectmen re-vote police chief’s contract impropriety in the formal ap- proval.” Prior to the vote, Rivard, who was at the meeting, attempted to have a personal statement read into the record. St. John would not allow it. “It’s not going to change anything, Ray,” St. John said. The board then voted unan- imously to approve Guisti’s con- tract. The board voted without any discussion on the next two items, the police commission’s action on extra-duty contracts and the proposed Property Maintenance Ordinance. St. John said the next steps for the Property Mainte- nance Ordinance are to go to Planning and Zoning, then a pub- lic hearing phase, and then a town-wide referendum vote. During public comments, Ex- ecutive Secretary Barbara Whitaker read the letter Rivard tried to have entered before the vote on the police chief’s con- tract. In it, Rivard complained about abuse of power by “lame duck Selectmen Gormley and Desmarais and their police chief and the Police Commission.” He said not all the Police Commis- sion members had favored ap- proving Guisti’s contract and then said the current BoS is abus- ing its power. “It looks bad on your resumé, – See Contract on page 3
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Bee IntellIgencerBee IntellIgencerInforming the towns of Middlebury, Southbury, Woodbury, Naugatuck, Oxford and Watertown
Volume VIII, No. 8 Friday, February 24, 2012A FREE COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FREE
Prst. Std. U.S. Postage PaidNaugatuck, CT
#27
“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” ~ Lillian Dickson
Fifth congressional District Democratic candidate ForumWhen: 2 to 4 p.m.What: Moderated by John Dankosky, host of “Where We Live” on WNPR. Participating candidates include Chris Donovan, Elizabeth Esty, Dan Roberti and Randy Yale.Where: Pomperaug High School in Southbury
Region 15 Board of Education meetingWhen: 7:30 p.m.What: School Superintendent Dr. Frank Sippy is expected to present his 2012-2013 budget numbers.Where: Pomperaug High School All-Purpose Room
moNdayFeb. 27
Glebe House seeks volunteers
page 8
Pomperaug High School (PHS) e-com-merce students decided the best way to learn about guerrilla marketing was to brainstorm, create, and enact an activity. As part of their class studies on guerrilla marketing, students developed a market-ing plan with the goal of collecting canned goods and non-perishables for the South-bury Food Bank.
As an incentive for students to donate, Ally Ruddy half-jokingly came up with a concept. “Students could throw a pie-in-the-face to some of the teachers,” Ruddy said. “Mrs. DeGregory was very willing to do it. The other two teachers, Mrs. (Adri-enne) Brevetti and Mrs. (Belle) Garafola joined in when they knew it was going to benefit the food bank.”
The e-commerce students, joined by the Interact Club and the PHS Student Council, developed the idea with the guid-ance of PHS business and marketing teacher DeGregory.
The first part of the plan was to let the school community know about their ef-forts and how they wanted the students to participate. “Matt Murphy, Evan Altami-rano, and I set up the food collection boxes throughout the school and created the advertising posters,” PHS student Joe Han-son said.
Students who donated five food items were entered into a raffle to throw a ball into a bucket. The three students whose balls stayed in the bucket were then se-lected to be the pie-throwers: Arbes Klenja, Liana Van, and Hanson – the same student who helped with the marketing plan!
In front of an audience of more than
500 students during a lunch wave, the three “throwers” hefted homemade ba-nana cream pies and creamed their teach-er’s faces, much to the delight of the au-dience. The event was all in good fun and for a good cause.
“The pie was stickier than I thought it was going to be,” said DeGregory. “To know, however, that this was the culmi-nation of a lesson on guerrilla marketing
and the Southbury Food Bank was going to benefit – the pie-in-the-face was well worth it!”
“We felt our guerrilla marketing was successful evidenced by the huge amount of food we collected,” said Hanson.
The students delivered 10 large bins of cereal, soup, canned meats, and pasta to the Southbury Food Bank at the end of the school day.
pHs students cream teachers to help food bank
Left to right, Arbes Klenja, Mrs. Lois DeGregory, Mrs. Adrienne Brevetti, Joe Hanson, Mrs. Belle Garafola, and Liana Van are shown after the teachers were creamed by the students. The three PHS students won the privilege of putting a pie in the face of the three teachers during an activity that was part of a guerrilla marketing lesson benefitting the Southbury Food Bank.
Interact member Nolan Birtwell, left, and Interact President Matt Murphy, right, load 10 bins of donated canned goods and non-perishables for delivery to the Southbury Food Bank following a pie-throwing activity at PHS. (Submitted photos)
By JONATHAN “CHIP” LONGO
The Middlebury Board of Se-lectmen (BoS) Tuesday night heard a presentation from the Elderly Tax Relief Committee (ETRC) and took a re-vote on Police Chief Richard Guisti’s con-tract. The board also voted on the proposed Property Maintenance Ordinance. They met Tuesday due to the Monday holiday.
ETRC Chairman and Region 15 Board of Education member Paul Babarik presented the com-mittee’s recommendations for providing elderly Middlebury homeowners a way to reduce property taxes on their homes. Before his presentation, Babarik thanked former selectman Rob-ert Desmarais, who was in atten-dance, for his help to the com-mittee since its inception in 2008.
Babarik said the group’s mis-sion was to find ways to keep elderly residents in town by eas-ing their tax burdens. He talked about possible benefits to the town as well. He said elderly home owners offset younger homeowners with children in public school. He noted that 84 percent of communities across the state, including the surround-ing towns of Southbury, Wood-bury, Naugatuck, Oxford and Watertown, have adopted some form of elderly tax relief.
Under the ETRC plan, tax relief would be available to all home-owners age 65 and older provided they met income and residency requirements. Applicants would have to be the principal owner and live in the home at least 183 days a year, and all tax assess-ments would have to be current. Tax reductions would be based on the median assessed value of all Middlebury homes, not the assessed value of the owner’s home.
The tax relief would be on a sliding scale from 0 to 20 percent based on gross household in-come. Reductions in assessed values would range from 5 per-cent for those with gross house-hold incomes of $80,000 to $95,000 to 20 percent for those with gross household incomes of zero to $39,500. Homeowners with gross household incomes of more than $95,000 would not be eligible.
Babarik gave several examples of the resulting reduction in taxes. One was for a property owner with a gross household income of $39,500 and a home valued at $170,000. Using the current mil rate of 23.79, that homeowner’s taxes would be re-duced by $1,174. Tax reductions would be less for those with higher gross household incomes.
Babarik said approximately 1,222 people over 65 live in Mid-dlebury, and the potential for applicants is as high as 435. This could cause a potential reduction of close to $300,000 a year in rev-enue to the town. Babarik said this likely would be offset by not having to educate any new stu-dents at a cost of $13,000 per student.
Babarik asked the BoS to ap-prove the plan and present it to the Board of Finance (BoF) with the ultimate goal of a town-wide
vote in conjunction with the pro-posed blight ordinance referen-dum. Before he asked the board for questions or comments, he asked, “Isn’t it time to give some-thing back to the elderly who have given us so much?”
First Selectman Ed St. John said, “These are tough times. We are going to have to balance the needs of the community.” Noting that two of the selectmen were seeing the proposal for the first time Tuesday night, he said he would need time to act on it. He also wanted to see more numbers as to how this would affect the budget before he presented it to the BoF.
Babarik said there is a lack of data, and the committee had to make assumptions on some of the numbers. “You won’t get any new numbers,” he said. “They are just not out there.”
Selectman Ralph Barra asked about the residency restrictions, and Selectman Elaine Strobel wanted to know why they used $95,000 as a threshold when the state “Circuit Breaker” program uses $39,500 as the cutoff. Strobel doubted the savings associated with keeping children out of the school system. She also had con-cerns about where the money would come from to offset the tax breaks and how it would affect other taxpayers in town. Babarik said they could use money from any contingency funds, or they could raise taxes. ”There is no free lunch,” he said.
Barra wanted to see the num-bers from other towns. He also suggested a cap of $500 as the maximum tax reduction.
BoF Chairman Michael Mc-Cormack was in attendance and asked some questions. He said he doubted some of the data and had concerns too many people would take advantage of the pro-gram, throwing off projections.
Babarik asked the BoS what they would like to do, noting the committee has been working on this for 3-1/2 years. St. John said they should use $39,500 as the income cutoff and $500 as the maximum credit. He said those were numbers the BoS could take to the BoF. “You left with some-thing tonight,” he told Babarik.
Next up on the agenda was a re-vote on the police chief’s con-tract. Barra, who was a police commissioner when the vote was taken last October and recom-mended it to the former admin-istration, made the motion to void that vote and re-vote on Guisti’s contract. This was in re-sponse to a complaint from Ray Rivard, who lost his bid for a spot on the police commission last year, regarding a perceived con-flict of interest by then First Se-lectman Thomas Gormley and Selectman Robert Desmarais during their vote on the contract.
St. John presented a written opinion by attorney Michael Mc-Verry, who was retained by St. John to look into the matter. Mc-Verry found there was no direct conflict of interest or violation of the Town Charter, and suggested the new administration vote to ratify the actions taken at the Oct. 3, 2011, BoS meeting, “thereby eliminating any suggestion of
selectmen re-vote police chief’s contract
impropriety in the formal ap-proval.”
Prior to the vote, Rivard, who was at the meeting, attempted to have a personal statement read into the record. St. John would not allow it. “It’s not going to change anything, Ray,” St. John said. The board then voted unan-imously to approve Guisti’s con-
tract. The board voted without any
discussion on the next two items, the police commission’s action on extra-duty contracts and the proposed Property Maintenance Ordinance. St. John said the next steps for the Property Mainte-nance Ordinance are to go to Planning and Zoning, then a pub-
lic hearing phase, and then a town-wide referendum vote.
During public comments, Ex-ecutive Secretary Barbara Whitaker read the letter Rivard tried to have entered before the vote on the police chief’s con-tract. In it, Rivard complained about abuse of power by “lame duck Selectmen Gormley and
Desmarais and their police chief and the Police Commission.” He said not all the Police Commis-sion members had favored ap-proving Guisti’s contract and then said the current BoS is abus-ing its power.
“It looks bad on your resumé,
– See Contract on page 3
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middleburyTuesday BookwormsTuesday Bookworms will meet
Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 6:30 p.m. to discuss “The Adventures of Tin-Tin” by Hergé. The Adventures of Tintin series was created in 1929 by a Belgian artist who called himself Hergé. Tintin is a report-er-turned-detective whose pur-suit of villains, criminals, treasure and the occasional artifact takes him all over the world along with a colorful cast of friends. The Tin-Tin stories are based on re-al-world events and cultures brought to life for readers in in-spiring and exciting ways.
Bird Feeder WorkshopFlanders Nature Center and
Land Trust will offer a workshop on making bird feeders Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 6 p.m. at the library. Each bird feeder will cost $20. Register at the library, or call 203-758-2634. Space is limited, so pre-registration is a must.
Discovery SeriesThursday, March 1, at 6:45
p.m., Chris and Molly Parker will share their trek through Turkey during a Friends of the Middle-bury Library Travel Discovery Series program. A camel be-decked with Christmas decora-tions will be one of the highlights you’ll see in their presentation.
Puzzlemania in March The Sixth Annual Puzzlemania
Contest will be Tuesday, March 6, at 5:30 p.m. at the library. Call the library at 203-758-2634 to reg-ister your team, or stop in and pick up a set of rules at the circu-lation desk. Pre-registration is a must as entrants are limited to 10 teams.
Brown Bag Book Discussion
The brown bag book discus-sion group will meet Wednesday, March 7, at 1 p.m. to discuss “Sa-cred Hearts” by Sarah Dunant. New members are welcome. For more information, call Sue at 203-758-2634.
The Middlebury Library is at 30 Crest Road in Middlebury.
naugatuckTequila Grill Fundraiser
Thursday, March 8, from 5 to 9 p.m. at The Tequila Grill at 9 Church St. in Naugatuck, support the Howard Whittemore Library while enjoying a great meal with family and friends! Specials for this night only will be $5 on select appetizers and margaritas.
Donate Cartridges, Electronic Equipment The library greatly appreciates
donations of old computer car-tridges, cell phones, and digital cameras for its recycling program. A portion of the proceeds gener-ated from this ongoing program will benefit the book budget and programs at the library.
The Howard Whittemore Me-morial Library is at 243 Church St. in Naugatuck. For information, call 203-729-4591.
southburyChildren’s Story Time
SignupThe Children’s Department
will begin registration for its six- week Spring Story Time sessions
Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 9:30 a.m. Ba-bies & Books begins Tuesday, March 6, at 10:30 a.m.; Stories & Crafts for three- to five-year-olds begins Wednesday, March 7, at 10:30 a.m.; Mother Goose Time for ages three to 12 months begins Thursday, March 8, at 10:30 a.m.; and Stories & More for two-year-olds will begin Friday, March 9, at 10:30 a.m. All story times in-clude stories, songs and crafts.
Wednesday FilmThe Wednesday afternoon
movie Feb. 29 at 1:30 p.m. in the Kingsley Meeting Room, origi-nally shown on BBC, uses docu-mented accounts and her own words to probe shadowy areas of Agatha Christie’s life, especially her 11-day disappearance in 1926. Anna Massie portrays the author looking back at her younger self. For more informa-tion, call 203-262-0626.
Second Annual Dr. Seuss Breakfast
The Children’s Department will celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birth-day with green eggs and ham and other breakfast goodies for chil-dren ages 3 and up Friday, March 2, at 10 a.m. in the Kingsley Meet-ing Rooms. Stories and a simple craft will be shared, and the car-toon “The Lorax” will be shown. Registration is required; stop at the Children’s Department or call 203-262-0626, ext. 3, to register. The Friends of the Southbury Li-brary is sponsoring this program.
Get Children MovingThe Children’s Department is
launching a new monthly club to get kids in grades one to three moving. The first “Wii Have Fun” meeting will be Tuesday, March 6, at 4 p.m. in the Kingsley Meet-ing Rooms. A variety of Wii games will be available for play, and light snacks will be served.
Registration is required; call 203-262-0626, ext. 3, or stop by the Children’s Department.
Lunch Bunch The Children’s Department
will offer a special Lunch Bunch program for children of all ages and their parents or guard-ians Thursday, March 8, at 12:30 p.m. They are invited to bring a brown bag lunch to the library for an “indoor picnic.” A newly re-leased movie also will be shown. For more information, call 203-262-0626, ext. 3.
Teen Tech Week 2012Duct Tape Tech Covers
Teens in grades five to 12 can make duct tape covers Tuesday, March 6, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Protect those tech toys – smart phones and iPads and Kindles – with covers. Registration is re-quired.
Teen Tech Petting ZooTeens in grades five to 12 can
bring their devices to the first ever Teen Tech Petting Zoo Friday, March 9, from 4 to 5 p.m. Share the latest and greatest technology has to offer and learn how to download audio and e-books from the library’s website. Regis-tration is required.
Needle Felting for TeensLocal crafter Katie Stevenson
will instruct teens in grades five to 12 in the art of needle felting Thursday, March 8, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Create a 3D sculpture using this fun and easy technique. Reg-istration is required. Call 203-262-0626, ext. 110, to register.
Parenting Book ClubThis ongoing book club dedi-
cated to parents and caregivers will meet Thursday, March 15, at 10 a.m. in the Brown Meeting Room to discuss “Loser” by Jerry Spinelly. The Parent/Parenting Book Club’s goal is to share and learn about the parenting adven-ture. It meets the third Thursday of every month and is facilitated by Southbury resident Yarel Mar-shall. Copies of the book are avail-able for pickup at the circulation desk.
Youth Art Month ExhibitRegion 15 schools are observ-
ing Youth Art Month with a dis-play of local student art work at the Gloria Cachion Art Gallery in the Southbury Public Library Wednesday, Feb. 29, through Thursday morning, March 29.
Check www.southburylibrary.org for more information. The library is at 100 Poverty Road in Southbury (203-262-0626).
WoodburySuper Hero
Movie Marathon Teens in grades six and up can
drop in for a super hero movie marathon Saturday, Feb. 25, be-ginning with “Thor” at 11 a.m. “X-Men: First Class” will begin at 1 p.m. The library will provide freshly made popcorn, candy and drinks. Drop in for one movie or make it a double feature day.
Anderson Exhibit Held Over
The Leroy Anderson exhibit from January has been held over a month. “A Sleigh Ride Together With You,” celebrates the life and music of composer Leroy Ander-son. Anderson, Woodbury’s world-renowned resident, passed away in 1975, but his music has taken on a timeless quality throughout the world. A 9-minute segment of a PBS documentary can be viewed, along with large informational posters and four display cases filled with memo-rabilia. For more information about the composer, visit www.leroyanderson.com/biography.
Programs are free and open to area residents. For information, call 203-263-3502 or visit www.woodburylibraryct.org. The li-brary is at 269 Main St. South in Woodbury.
By DONNA HINE
It’s dark and dreary and cold and rainy here right now – in the middle of the afternoon.
I bet it’s 85 degrees and sunny in Acapulco – ohhh – it’s partly cloudy and only 84 degrees … with a low of 73 for the day.
Time for this armchair trav-eler to take off and see the sights in Mexico. Cancun, Puerto Vall-arta, Cordoba, Veracruz – with names so exotic and different, Mexico just sounds like an excit-ing place to visit. With the drug-related violence escalating in the tourist areas this past year, though, armchair traveling may be the only way to see many ar-eas in Mexico for a while! Our imaginations will have to create the images if our eyes cannot see them, and isn’t that one of the best things books can do for us?
Buenos dias! Before we actu-ally pretend-visit Mexico, maybe we should learn the language. Although not the official lan-guage of Mexico, Spanish is spo-ken by the majority. Let’s start small with DK’s “15-Minute Spanish” (463 SPA). A 12-week course set in 15-minute incre-ments will have you speaking elementary Spanish before you know it! The companion book gives you not only the spelling, but phonetically shows the word pronunciation to make them
easier to speak. Easy to order a meal or ask directions – now you have to decipher the answers! Use your “Spanish/English Vi-sual Dictionary” (463 SPA)! Not only pictorial, this handy little book has simple phrases to help you communicate – nice to know el mosquito at least is the same in both languages! If you really want to get into the language, look for DK’s “Spanish Com-plete” (468 SPA). This compre-hensive pack claims to take you from beginner to fluency in just three months! With three CDs and a guidebook, you will hear native speakers, build vocabu-lary and develop conversational skills … plan ahead and under-stand more clearly what the na-tives are saying!
If a child is accompanying you, check out “Sing and Learn Spanish” (J 468.34 SIN) and fol-low along with him as he learns the basic colors, numbers, food and even simple phrases. Try “Alphabet Fiesta” (J 468 MIR) by Anne Miranda – illustrated by young schoolchildren in Spain – or “My Very Own Room” (J 468PER). Each paragraph of the story is written in English – the Spanish version follows.
Now that you understand the language, what do you want to see, and where do you want to go in Mexico? We have the stan-dard guidebooks to help you
choose a location, but I would certainly pop on the Internet for up-to-the-second news about political and social conditions in the area … Things have been slightly warm recently in areas highly popular with tourists – the drug cartels are not doing the tourist industry any good at all, though the government is trying to create safe areas for visitors.
“Frommer’s Mexico” (917.2 FRO) will help you choose the right time of year to visit, tours available, sights to see in each location, and lots more essential information. Hotels also are listed, and rated for comfort, but look first at “The Best of Mexico” section – do you want a beach vacation? Maybe you want to explore the best archaeological sites, or maybe you just want to get away from it all! Whatever your intent, you will find specific suggestions for each activity.
“Fodor’s Mexico” (917.2 MEX) also will help you plan your trip. Watch for the orange stars indicating “Fodor’s Choices” for the highest-rated things to see, eat, visit or places to stay. If Eyewitness Travel is your favorite guidebook when traveling, “Mexico” (917.204 INM) offers colorful examples of wildlife, tropical forests and ex-citing architecture, among many other recommendations.
“An Archaeological Guide to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula” (917.204 KEL) by Joyce Kelly fo-cuses on that specific locale and includes maps and illustrations of these ancient sites. You will be good to go with the information on what type of clothing, camera and miscellaneous items to bring! Each site is rated by the author, and museums are dis-cussed and described in detail.
“The Great Cities: Mexico City” (917.53 COT) by Time-Life Books is a pictorial stroll through Mexico City with useful informa-
tion about its many facets – his-torical and archaeological, social and cultural. It’s an in-depth look at a culture with roots deep in the past but with an eye to the future.
Just feel like looking at pic-tures? “Treasures of Ancient Mexico from the National An-thropological Museum” (917.2 CER) is composed by Maria An-tonieta Cervantes. You can dally away an afternoon looking at the images of incredible Mayan art and amazing stone sculpture and also viewing the growth of pre-Hispanic people to their modern-day counterparts.
No article would be complete without a discussion about food – and traditional Mexican food is spicy and imaginative. “Wil-liams-Sonoma Mexican Favor-ites” (641.5972 PAL) includes recipes by Susanna Palazuelos for any occasion. Mexican foods have become a major part of our daily lives; who doesn’t love a Tex-Mex cheese dip, enchilada or taco? “Mexican Feasts: 50 Dishes Full of Fire and Spice” (641.5 ORT) by Elizabeth Lam-bert Ortiz is filled with colorful pictures of tempting Mexican dishes – everything from corn soup to Mexican hot chocolate! Finally, “The Essential Mexican Cookbook” (641.59 THO) edited by Heather Thomas gives us step-by-step instructions for cre-ating dishes such as huevos rancheros, chile verde and even chimichangas!
Our armchair visit to Mexico is complete – and the sun is even out to create that warm feeling that is so much a part of that cli-mate! Ole!
Do you have a favorite subject that hasn’t been covered in Li-brary Lines? Let me know what library books you would like to read about by calling 203-758-2634.
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middlebury volunteer Fire Department call Log
(Kathleen Brown-Carrano cartoon)
Middlebury Road (Opposite the Shell Station)Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily
Anthony Calabrese 203-758-2765
Local eggs. Fresh daily. $3 per dozen
Deer Corn • Livestock and Poultry Feed
Bird Seed Headquarters Black Oil, Premium Mix, Sunflower Hearts,
Niger Seed (thistle for finches)
Date Time Address/Incident2/14/12 19:35 777 Breakneck Hill Road. Oven fire.
The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) ranked the Pomperaug High School (PHS) student-run liter-ary magazine Abraxas in the “ex-cellent” category after reviewing the 2010-11 issue. In past years, PHS has ranked “above average.” This year, however, PHS placed in the excellent category along with 10 other schools across the state, including districts such as Masuk, Newtown, New Milford and Bethel.
The 2010-11 student editors under last year’s advisor, Marga-ret Hartshorn, were Madison Clough, Colleen Francke, and Cierra Rouse. Students share their creative pieces – photo-graphic art, drawings, poems, or short fiction pieces – with the members of Abraxas, who review them as a group. At the end of the school year, the team pub-lishes a collection of student work to be released and distrib-uted to the students.
Editors’ notes stated the 2011 issue encouraged individuality for the high school student: “In this magazine, you will find a collection of writing that has top-ics ranging from history to heart-break, travel to childhood and even subjects as trivial as the SATs. We hope you find Abraxas 2011 original, and we encourage you to strive to be the same.”
NCTE recognizes literary mag-
azines and ranks school publi-cations based on percentage of student participation, interdis-ciplinary writing, use of technol-ogy, artwork, quality of the prose, etc. PHS was among 391 schools that competed in 2011. NCTE’s Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines recognizes students, teachers, and schools for producing excel-
lent literary magazines. This year’s advisor is PHS En-
glish teacher James Randall, and head editors are Alex Danieli and Christopher Russo. Every Tues-day afternoon, Randall and more than a dozen students meet to debate, discuss and decide which pieces meet the publica-tion’s standards.
pHs magazine ranks excellent
Naomi Miller, left, provides constructive criticism and feedback on an author’s poem as Maggie Kuck, right, listens in during a re-cent Abraxas meeting at Pomperaug High School (PHS). Abraxas, PHS’s student-run literary magazine, was ranked excellent by the National Council of Teachers of English for its 2010-11 issue.
(Submitted photo)
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The Memorial Middle School (MMS) Mathcounts Mathletes came in third place in the Feb. 11 Northwestern Chapter Math-counts Competition. The team – Sarmed Imadulla, Tanishq Kan-charla, Adaijay Thammana and Connor O’Sullivan – competed at Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury. The Con-necticut Society of Professional Engineers organized the compe-tition.
The MMS students who com-peted as individuals for the school were Nicholas Deierlein, Katrina Hon, Henry Hu, Andrew Kelbley, Clara Ma and Westwood Suther-land.
The students have been pre-paring for the competition since September under the supervision of MMS Mathcounts advisor Donna Horbachuk. At the com-petition, the students competed individually and as teams in writ-ten and fast-paced oral matches. Subjects included algebra, prob-ability, statistics and geometry. The MMS team now advances to the Connecticut State Mathcounts Competition Saturday, March 10, at the University of Hartford.
Mathcounts is a national pro-gram designed to improve math skills among U.S. students. The competition is a national middle school coaching and competitive mathematics program that pro-
motes mathematics achievement through a series of fun and engag-ing “bee” style contests. Local/
chapter competitions are in Feb-ruary, followed by the state com-petitions in March. The grand fi-
nale is the 2012 Raytheon Math-counts National Competition in Orlando, Fla.
By Dr. ROBERT L. RAFFORD
Last week I wrote about Titus Bronson, a Middleburian who headed west and founded the city of Kalamazoo, Mich. While the Bronsons were plentiful in Mid-dlebury, so were the Abbotts. More people inquiring about the Abbott family have visited the Middlebury Historical Society in my tenure as municipal historian than any other family.
Another Middlebury pioneer who went west to seek his fortune was William Hawkins Abbott (1819 to 1901), one of 12 children of David Abbott and Hannah Hawkins, born in Middlebury. The prolific Abbott family today has many descendants through-out Connecticut and the country. William worked in Watertown in the general store and married Jane Wheeler in September 1845.
When oil was discovered in Titusville, Pa., by Edwin L. Drake in 1859, he became one of the first people involved in the oil trade. He built the first petroleum refinery in Titusville in 1861 and
moved there the following year. He also established the first retail coal business.
William prospered in business and possessed a marvelous char-acter. John J. McLaurin, author of “Sketches in Crude-Oil” (Har-risburg, Pa.: published by the author in 1898), described him thus:
“His generosity was compre-hensive and discerning … a most exemplary, public-spirited citi-zen. To give bountifully was his delight. He bore financial disas-ter heroically and labored inces-santly to save others from loss. At seventy-two he is patient and helpful to those about him, his daily life illustrating his real worth and illumining the path-way of his declining years.”
Middlebury has contributed many fine citizens, and William Hawkins Abbott was one of our best. Read more about him at Wikipedia.org. His attributes were all the more astonishing considering the fact that, in 1841, when William was about 21, his father, David Abbott, apparently
insane, murdered his wife, Han-nah, and then tried to kill himself in what was probably Middle-bury’s first major crime.
Rafford is the Middlebury His-
torical Society president and Mid-dlebury’s municipal historian. To join the historical society, visit middleburyhistoricalsociety.org or call Rafford at 203-206-4717.
Elderly abuse can take many forms. A study done for The Na-tional Center on Elder Abuse reports the following can be considered abuse:• Failuretoprovidefood,water,
shelter, medicine and other essentials.
• Financial or material ex-ploitation: Cashing checks without permission, forging a signature, stealing, coercing a senior into signing docu-ments.
• Caregiverneglect:Failuretorespond to needs.
• Physical abuse: Hitting,punching, shoving.
• Sexualabuse:Inappropriatetouching.
• Emotional abuse: Yelling,
screaming, belittling, name calling.The study states the majority
of the elderly abuse victims were female, with nearly half of them being age 80 or older. Most of the abuse occurred at home, and more than half of the abusers were female.
The study was done a few years ago, but as we “baby boomers” age, the numbers are sure to rise.
Here are some scenarios that might indicate there is an abu-
sive situation.• Yourelderlyfemaleneighbor’s
husband died and her son moved in. He seems to have taken over.
• Youworkatabank,andthecaregiver for an elderly cus-tomer has been continually withdrawing funds in excess of what your customer used to withdraw.
• Afriendconfides,“Mydaugh-ter wants me to sign papers I don’t understand.”In each case, there could be
a perfectly reasonable explana-tion – or not.
Stay alert to the possibility of abuse. If you’re a mail carrier, bank clerk, hospital staff, gro-cery checker, newspaper carrier,
home health aide, social ser-vices staff or any number of pro-fessions that come into contact with the public, you’re in a po-sition to spot possible abuse of a senior.
If you need help or more in-formation, go online to the Na-tion Center on Elder Abuse (www.ncea.aoa.gov) or call 1-800-677-1116.
Matilda Charles regrets she cannot personally answer reader questions, but she will incorpo-rate them into her column when-ever possible. Write to her in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send email to [email protected].
(c) 2012 King Features Synd., Inc.
spotting elder abuse
senior Center News
Region 15 school CalendarMonday, Feb. 27
Enrollment & Facilities Task Force....... PHS Media Center, 5-7 p.m.Board of Education ......................... PHS AP Room No. 103, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 28PHS Talent Show Rehearsal ................................................ 3 to 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 29PHS Talent Show Rehearsal ................................................ 3 to 6 p.m.
Thursday, March 1PHS Talent Show ........................................................... 7 to 10:30 p.m.
Friday, March 2CMEA ................................................................ Middle School FestivalPHS Talent Show Snow Date ........................................ 7 to 10:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 3CMEA ................................................................ Middle School Festival
Region 15 website: www.region15.org
St. Patrick’s Day PartyThe Middlebury Senior Center
St. Patrick’s Day party will be Fri-day, March 9, at 11:45 a.m. Tom “T-Bone” Stankus will entertain in the traditional Irish way, and the menu will be the traditional Irish corned beef and cabbage with the works. The cost is $7 per person. Call 203-577-4166 to re-serve a seat.
Trip
West Point Dress ParadeTravel to West Point Academy
in New York to view its famous dress parade Saturday, April 28. With great pomp and circum-
stance, the cadets march in full uniform in cadence with military music, presenting arms in uni-son. Enjoy a bountiful buffet at the Hotel Thayer, which offers an assortment of salads, hot and cold entrees and an extensive sweets table. Also included in the excursion are guided tours of West Point’s highlights: the Cadet Chapel, Trophy Point and the Hudson River Lookout.
A Friendship Tours luxury coach will depart from Shepard-son Community Center at 8 a.m. and return to the lot at 6 p.m. The cost is $83 per person. Call Mid-dlebury Parks and Recreation at 203-758-2520 to reserve a seat.
Chase Collegiate kindergarteners Matthew Segal, left, of Southbury and Andrew King, right, of Middlebury visit Yale’s Peabody Museum during a class field trip Feb. 8. They and their classmates visited the museum in conjunction with their study of dinosaurs, which they have been studying through language arts, math, science, music and art activities. In ad-dition, there is a dig site in the classroom where students, as paleontologists, excavate fossils and record their findings. (Submitted photo)
Kindergarteners Visit Peabody Museum
middlebury Community CalendarTuesday, Feb. 28
Mental Health Support Group6 p.m. ........................... Russell Place, 1F, 969 W. Main, Waterbury
Economic and Industrial Development Commission6:30 p.m. ............................................Town Hall Conference Room
Thursday, March 1Planning and Zoning7:30 p.m. ....................................................Shepardson Auditorium
Calendar dates/times are subject to changeIf your organization would like your event included in the community calendar, please e-mail the information to [email protected]
Memorial Middle School students, front, left to right, Connor O’Sullivan, Adaijay Thammana, Clara Ma, Nicholas Deierlein, Westwood Sutherland, Tanishq Kancharla and Sarmed Imadulla, and rear left to right, Principal Dr. John Sieller, Henry Hu, Katrina Hon, Andrew Kelbley, and Advisor Donna Horbachuk are shown with their awards from the Feb. 11 Mathcounts Competition.
(Submitted photo)
mms mathletes place third in competition
middlebury heads west again
not mine,” he said. Rivard said he was not happy with the way the board voted Tuesday night. Barra responded to him by saying his allegations of discord among the Police Commission members were untrue. Barra said members voted unanimously to forward Guisti’s contract to the BoS.
This newspaper then asked the board if Barra should have re-cused himself from the vote due to conflict of interest. Acting as a selectman, Barra voted on a con-tract he had voted on and recom-mended to the BoS when he was a police commissioner. St. John said Barra was “acting in a totally different capacity” as a selectman and he was “hard pressed” to see any conflict of interest.
Deaf and hard-of-hearing stu-dents from across the country are invited to attend one of three summer career awareness camps focusing on science, technology, business and art at Rochester Institute of Technology’s (RIT) National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) in Rochester, N.Y. Hundreds of students are expected.
Each program features hands-on activities during the day, so-cial activities in the evenings and accommodations in a college dorm room. The programs are intended to promote interest in specific fields and determine what career options may interest and motivate students. • Explore Your Future is a six-
day career awareness program for college-bound high school
sophomores and juniors who are deaf or hard of hearing. Students experience college life, enjoy hands-on activities, and get a taste of careers in the fields of business, computing, engineering, science and art. Choice of two sessions: July 14 to 19 or July 21 to 26, 2012. The registration deadline is Monday, April 30. Details are at www.rit.edu/NTID/EYF.
• TechGirlz and TechBoyz are week-long summer camps held July 28 through Aug. 3 for deaf and hard-of-hearing girls and boys, respectively, entering seventh, eighth and ninth grade who are interested in careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Campers build computers to take home, discover the secrets
of roller coasters, conduct ex-periments in a high-tech lab and more. The registration deadline is Thursday, May 31. Details are at www.rit.edu/NTID/TechGirlz or www.rit.edu/NTID/TechBoyz.
• Steps to Success is a weekend mini-camp Aug. 3 through 5, for seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade African American, Native American and Latino students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Campers will enjoy hands-on career-related activities and meet new friends. The registra-tion deadline is Thursday, May 31. Details are at www.rit.edu/NTID/StepstoSuccess.RIT is internationally recog-
nized for academic leadership in computing, engineering, imaging technology, sustainability and
fine and applied arts, in addition to unparalleled support services for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. RIT enrolls 17,000 full- and part-time students in more than 200 career-oriented and professional programs, and its cooperative education pro-gram is one of the oldest and largest in the nation.
NTID, one of nine colleges of RIT, was established by Congress in 1965 to provide college oppor-tunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who were underemployed in technical fields. A record 1,547 students attend NTID; more than 1,350 are deaf or hard of hearing. Others are hearing students enrolled in interpreting or deaf education programs. Visit www.rit.edu/NTID.
RIt offers camps for hearing-impaired students
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Fly Fishing MeetingThe monthly meeting of the Housatonic Fly
Fishermen’s Association (HFFA) will be Thursday, March 1, at 7 p.m. at St Paul’s Episcopal Church at 65 North Main St. in Wallingford. The HFFA is dedicated to preserving and protecting the Housa-tonic River as well as furthering the sport of fly fishing. Monthly meetings are the first Thursday of the month from September through June.
The March meeting will cover the Hendrickson dry fly and nymph along with patterns that are effective on the Housatonic River. There also will be fly tying demonstrations, both fresh- and salt-water types. The meeting is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
NOFA ConferenceThe Northeast Organic Farming Association of
Connecticut (CT NOFA) welcomes all to the 30th Annual Winter Conference Saturday, March 3, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Manchester Community College to discuss the future of sustainable farming and celebrate local food. Conference registration is $50 for NOFA members and $60 for nonmembers ($35 for students or seniors). For more information and registration online, visit www.ctnofa.org, or call 203-888-5146.
Robotics, Arts Open HousesRobotics And Beyond and Village Center for the
Arts (VCA) will share Open House Day Saturday, March 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at VCA at 12 Main St. on the New Milford Green and at the railroad station at 11 Railroad St. in New Milford.
Both nonprofits are dedicated to providing ed-ucational and enrichment opportunities, re-sources, programs, and summer camps in science, technology, and engineering and the arts, with a focus on programs geared toward children in grades K to 12.
VCA will offer hands-on activities, live music, classes-in-progress, demos, games and refresh-ments. At the railroad station, Robotics And Be-yond will unveil lots of hands-on computer science, robotics and other gadgetry for inquiring minds to discover and active hands to engage. There will be plenty of displays, contests, raffles, and prizes to keep the whole family busy, so make this outing a family event!
For more information on VCA, visit www.vil-lagecenterarts.com or call 860-354-4318. For sum-mer camp details and more information on Ro-botics And Beyond, visit www.roboticsandbeyond.com or call 203-788-5971.
French ClassesThe Alliance Française of Northwestern Con-
necticut (AFNWCT) will offer a beginner class in French for adults on five consecutive Saturdays beginning March 3 from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at the Southbury Library at 100 Poverty Road in Southbury. Intermediate classes in French for adults will be in Watertown Tuesday evenings from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m starting March 6. The cost is $66 depending upon enrollment. For information, call 203-262-8594 or e-mail [email protected].
Kosher Ski TripThe Chabad community will converge at the
Butternut Ski area for the “Ski With Chabad” event Sunday, March 4, beginning with a hot kosher breakfast at 7 a.m. at Chabad at 7 Village Green Dr. in Litchfield. Then attendees will board a coach bus to the Butternut Ski Area (www.skibutternut.com). Also featured will be a Great Slopeside all-you-can-eat kosher barbecue. The bus is scheduled to be back in Litchfield at 5:30 p.m. Reserve your space at www.chabadNW.org/SKI or by calling 800-297-6864.
Candidates DinnerThe Waterbury Regional Chamber will host its
annual Legislative Dinner Monday, March 5, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the CoCo-Key Water Resort
Hotel and Convention Center at 3850 East Main St. in Waterbury. The costs are $85 per person and $1,100 for reserved table with priority seating for nine and program recognition. A 5:30 p.m. recep-tion will be followed by the program and dinner at 6:30 p.m. Reservations are requested by Feb. 28 at www.waterburychamber.com, or contact Court-ney Ligi at [email protected] or 203-757-0701.
Cooking for Hope Sip wine and sample dishes from more than 50
of Boston’s most popular chefs and some of New England’s favorite wineries at the 14th annual Chefs Cooking for Hope, hosted by the Friends of Dana-Farber, Thursday, March 8, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at 125 High St. in Boston. Admission is $100 per person. Proceeds benefit cancer research and care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. For tickets, call 617-632-3909 or visit www.dana-farber.org/friends-chefs. Tickets also may be purchased at the door.
Fly Fishing ExpoThe Housatonic Fly Fishermen’s Association will
hold their annual Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Expo Saturday, March 10, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 65 North Main St. in Wallingford. Admission is free; visit www.hffa.net for directions.
The expo will feature fly tying demonstrations by some of the best fly tyers in the state, including a special saltwater fly tying class. The cost is $3. Fly rod casting demonstrations and lessons (weather permitting) will be available. Fishermen also can bring their own fly fishing gear to sell or swap.
Seating is limited for the classes. For more in-formation, call Paul Dinice at 203-305-3850 or email [email protected].
Garden Club Bee LectureMiddlebury Garden Club will present “Making
Peace with Bees,” a lecture by Kathy Olson, a.k.a. The Bee Lady, Tuesday, March 13, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Larkin Room at the Middlebury Public Library. Colony collapse disorder and other bee concerns will be discussed. A honey tasting will follow the lecture.
The public is invited to attend. The suggested donation is $5. For more information, call Christine Peckaitis at 203-758-8165.
St. Patrick’s Day DinnerMiddlebury Knights of Columbus will hold its
St. Patrick’s Day dinner Wednesday, March 14, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Shepardson Community Cen-ter auditorium. Doors open at 5 p.m., and the Hor-gan Academy of Irish Dance will perform at 7 p.m. The menu is a traditional corned beef and cabbage dinner with a side dish, beverage, coffee and tea, and dessert.
Tickets are $14 for adults, $11 for seniors, $7 for youth, free for children younger than 8 and $35 for five immediate family members. Tickets will be available at the door. All proceeds will go toward the Knights of Columbus Scholarship Fund.
Dunkin’ Donuts ScholarshipsDunkin’ Donuts will award 50 $1,000 scholarships
to qualified high school seniors in the state. The application deadline is Thursday, March 15. Apply at www.dunkindonuts.com/scholarship.
Candidates must be high school seniors who plan to enroll in a full-time undergraduate course of study at an accredited two- or four-year college, university or vocational-technical school for the entire upcoming academic year. They must be Connecticut residents and have a minimum cu-mulative grade point average of 3.0. Full- and part-time Dunkin’ Donuts employees who meet the requirements are encouraged to apply. Merit-based scholarships will be awarded to students who demonstrate a well-rounded character both in and out of the classroom.
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In Brief
Jane Doe No More, Inc. will offer Escape Alive-Survival Skills, a low-cost self-defense and sur-vival skills training program for women, beginning Thursday, March 8, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the University of Connecticut Water-bury campus. Classes will be offered throughout March and April at other Waterbury loca-tions and in Southbury, Middle-bury, Naugatuck and Litchfield.
Each session includes both lecture and physical training components; no experience is necessary. Classes are open to women ages 15 and older; par-
ticipants younger than 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian at the time of entry. Girls 12 and younger are wel-come in the mother-daughter sessions.
Now in its third year, the Jane Doe No More/Escape Alive pro-gram teaches women the phys-ical skills, techniques and strat-egies they need to both identify and escape danger, including domestic violence and sexual assault. Classes are taught by professional self-defense in-structors and East Coast Training Systems owners Drew and Da-
niele Serrano.A full schedule of classes and
locations and online enrollment are at www.escapealive.net. For questions or to register over the phone, call Daniele Serrano at 203-768-2866 or email her at [email protected].
Jane Doe No More, Inc. was founded in 2007 to improve the way society responds to victims of sexual assault. Through edu-cation, awareness and support programs, Jane Doe No More has had a direct and lasting impact on sexual assault victims in Con-necticut and across the country.
Jane Doe No More/Escape Alive self-defense classes like this will run in the area throughout March and April. (Submitted photo)
self-defense classes for women
The Wednesday, Feb. 29, Love & Knishes lunch program, “The Glory of Love,” will feature Jeanne Hinkson and Ercole Gaudioso as they present a col-lection of solos and duets made
famous by Nat and Natalie Cole, Frank and Nancy Sinatra, Dean Martin and Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett and Diana Krall, Louis Prima and Keely Smith, Sammy Davis Jr. and Carmen Rae, Bette
Midler, The Everly Brothers, and others. Lunch is at noon and en-tertainment will follow at 1 p.m. in the Jewish Federation’s social hall at 444 Main St. North in Southbury.
All area adults age 60 and bet-ter are invited to enjoy Jordan Caterers of Cheshire’s hot lunch. Lunch reservations should be made by noon Monday. All pro-grams are open to the public, and there is a suggested lunch dona-tion of $7.50 for adults age 60 and better and $9.50 for those younger than 60. To RSVP, call Debby Horowitz, Brownstein Jewish Family Service director, at 203-267-3177.
Lunch to feature duets
The Mattatuck Museum will feature New York jazz vocalist, Glenda Davenport and bassist John Mobilio, accompanied by James Santucci on piano and drummer Jack Varanelli, at First Thursday March 1 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the museum at 144 West Main St. in Waterbury.
Davenport began her singing career in June 1992. She was a winner at The World Famous Apollo Theater’s Amateur Night in April 1993 and the opening act for comedian Bill Cosby in 1994 at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College. In July 1995, she performed with tenor saxo-phonist Carmen Leggio’s Quartet
at the Saratoga Jazz Festival in Saratoga, N.Y. She performs reg-ularly throughout the tri-state area.
Mobilio is a jazz bassist who performs regularly with a num-ber of jazz combos and big bands in Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts. As a bassist, ed-ucator, musical director and per-former, Mobilio brings his joy of jazz and music to audiences and students throughout Connecticut and the surrounding states.
To purchase tickets in ad-vance, call Cathy Filippone at 203-753-0381, ext. 10, or visit www.mattatuckmuseum.org for more information and to register
online. Admission is $7 for mu-seum members and $15 for non-members. Join the museum or renew your membership on First Thursday and get in free.
First thursday to feature jazz vocalist, bassist
Jazz bassist John Mobilio(Submitted photo)
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The Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department (MVFD) is host-ing a training seminar with for-mer New York Fire Department Battalion Chief John J. Salka Jr. Saturday, March 3, at the fire-house at 65 Tucker Hill Road in Middlebury. Registration begins at 8 a.m., and the presentation begins at 9 a.m. This fundraising event for the MVFD is an oppor-
tunity for fire officers and fire-fighters throughout the region to take advantage of Salka’s expe-rience and expertise.
Salka has more than 31 years experience in the fire service. He is a contributing editor for Firehouse magazine and also has written for Fire Engineering, WNYF, Size-Up, and the Wharton Leadership Digest. His book,
“First In Last Out, Leadership Lessons From The New York Fire Department” was published in 2004 and is the basis for his new “Leadership” lecture series. His seminar will cover the topics “Fire Ground Responsibility” and “Five Alarm Leadership.”
Lunch is included in the $45 per person fee. Pre-registration is encouraged. For complete in-formation and to download the event brochure and registration form, visit knightlite.com/spe-cial. For further information, contact MVFD Chief Paul Perrotti at 203-577-4036, or email Lt. James Redway at [email protected].
Robert John BiscoeFather of Barbara Tzepos
Robert John Biscoe, 80 years young, of Newtown passed away Feb. 18 sur-rounded by his lov-ing family. His Mass of Christian burial
was Feb. 23.Bob was born Dec. 14, 1931, in
Astoria, N.Y., the son of the late John and Helen Biscoe. He graduated from Stamford High School in 1949, where he met his sweetheart, his wife, Joyce Eleanor Sikora. They were married Jan. 26, 1952. He then served in the U.S. Army during the years of 1952 through 1954 as a great cook.
After getting married, they first lived in Stamford. While Bob was in the Army, they lived in Louisville, Ky. After serving in the Army, they relo-cated to Danbury, where they started their family. They had three chil-dren, Robert Edward, Bruce Stephen and Barbara Ann, who were their pride and joy. They relocated to Newtown in 1970, where they watched their beautiful children grow up.
During the first half of his working career, he was employed by E. Paul Kovacs of Danbury. He was a well-re-spected heavy equipment operator and was a member of Local 478 Op-erating Engineers. In 1979, Bob and his son Bruce formed Biscoe Exca-vating LLC. For the next 28 years they built dozens of roads and did site work for hundreds of new homes in the Newtown area. He loved to move dirt and drive his green dump trucks and operate the excavating ma-chines. His equipment always was immaculate.
His other passion in life was re-storing and collecting antique cars. He would spend hours working on them in his beloved garage. You would never catch Bob without wear-ing one of his favorite hats his grand-children gave him.
His three children then went on to give him 12 beautiful and loving grandchildren. His son Rob resides in Cary, N.C., with his wife, Charlotte (Titus), and their two children. His son Bruce resides in Newtown with his wife, Linda (Tichey), and their four children. His daughter, Barbara Tzepos, resides in Middlebury with her husband, George, and their six children. Pop-Pops/grandpa loved his grandchildren and adored each and every one of them. He also is survived by his sister, Shirley Forte of Watertown, and nephew, Frank.
Bob and Joy just celebrated their 60th anniversary in January with their loving family. Joy was a devoted wife to Bob during his years of illness. Her constant care for him showed the devotion and love they shared for one another during their mar-riage and was admired by all.
The family would like to thank Dr. Ken Pellegrino, Danbury Hospital staff, Dr. Vincent Rella and the won-derful caring staff of Praxair Cancer Center during his final years.
Interment was in Resurrection Cemetery in Newtown. The Honan Funeral Home in Newtown handled the arrangements. Memorial contri-butions may be made in honor of Bruce Biscoe to the ALS Association, Connecticut Chapter at 4 Oxford Road, Unit D4, Milford, CT 06460.
Cecile A. BrierFormer Middlebury Resident
Mrs. Cecile A. (La-brie) Brier, 97, died in Waterbury at Saint Mary’s Hospi-tal Feb. 15. Cecile, wife of the late Li-onel Brier, was born
Oct. 19, 1914, in Domar, Kan., the 11th child of Peter and Alexina (Breault) Labrie. Her funeral was Feb. 23.
Cecile was married to Lionel in 1935 in Swanton, Vt., where she lived until moving to Middlebury, Conn., where she raised her family and worked for many years. In her later years, she moved to Waterbury and resided with her daughter, Phyllis, where she remained the rest of her life. She and Lionel enjoyed 54 won-derful years of marriage until his death in 1990. She was a communi-cant of St. Pius X Church. She loved to travel, cook, sew, visit the casino, and pull practical jokes. Her family was the joy of her life.
She will be missed by her daugh-ter, Phyllis Rodrigue and her hus-band, John, of Waterbury; her son, George Brier and his wife, Bonnie, of Watertown; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; three great- great-grandchildren; and nu-merous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her daughter, Pauline Schmidt; a great-grandson, Alan Gelmini; and her brothers and sisters, most recently Albina Bernier, who passed away Feb. 10.
Burial was in Old St. Joseph Cem-etery. Memorial gifts may be made to Church of the Epiphany, 1750 Huckins Road, Cheshire, CT 06410 or the Animal Rescue Foundation, P.O. Box 538, Thomaston, CT 06787. Leave words of comfort for Cecile’s family at www.woodtickmemorial.
Michael R. Chester IIIFather of Kristine Cura
Mr. Michael R. Chester III, 52, of Oakville died unex-pectedly Feb. 20 at Waterbury Hospital in the presence of his loving family. He
was the husband of Sheryl (Tate) Chester.
Michael was born in Waterbury Nov. 24, 1959, a son of Angela Chester Miller of Waterbury and the late Michael Rocco Chester Jr. He attended Watertown High School. He was a self-employed carpenter and mechanic until becoming dis-abled seven years ago. He enjoyed boating with his wife and family. His greatest joy in life was spending time with his cherished grandchildren.
Besides his wife of 27 years and his mother, he leaves a son, Keith Baker and his fiancé, Crystal Ander-son, of Oakville; two daughters, Kris-tine Cura and her husband, Robert, of Middlebury and Terri Baker of Bristol; three sisters, Patricia A. Petruny and her husband, Gerald, and Susan M. Fiermonte and her husband, Keith, all of Waterbury; and Angela M. Chester of Middle-bury; and nine grandchildren, sev-eral nieces and nephews, a great niece and a great nephew. He was predeceased by a brother, Christo-pher J. Chester, and a stepfather, Edward A. Miller.
His funeral is today, Friday, Feb. 24, at 9:30 a.m. from Chase Parkway Memorial/The Albini Family Funeral Home 430 Chase Parkway to SS. Peter and Paul Church for a Mass at 10:30 a.m. Burial will follow in Cal-vary Cemetery.
Mary S. ColellaSister of Joseph Mastroianni
Mrs. Mary S. (Mas-troianni) Colella, 93, of Waterbury passed away Feb. 17 at the Vitas Unit at Saint Mary’s Hospital. She was the widow of
Vincent J. Colella. Her funeral was Feb. 21.
Mary was born in Waterbury Dec. 28, 1918, a daughter of the late An-tonio and Christine (Riccio) Mas-troianni. She was employed at Timex Corp. for 14 years until she retired.
She leaves two sons, Vincent I. Colella and Ronald Colella and his wife, Angela, all of Waterbury; a daughter, Mary Gloria Carangelo and her husband, William, of Hyannis, Mass.; two brothers, Anthony Mas-troianni and his wife, Marie, of Wa-terbury; and Joseph Mastroianni and his wife, Nancy, of Middlebury; a sister, Catherine “Kay” DiPietro and her husband, Jerry, of Waterbury; seven grandchildren, William and Robert Carangelo; Mark, David, Kris-tin and Lynn Colella; and Ashley Riddle; 18 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her brother, Ralph Mastroianni, and her sister, Phyllis Vendetti.
Burial was in Calvary Cemetery. Memorial contributions in Mary’s memory may be made to Vitas Unit at Saint Mary’s Hospital, 56 Franklin St., Waterbury, CT 06706. For more information and online condolences, visit www.chaseparkwaymemorial.com.
Mary E. JanusaitisMother of
Michael A. Janusaitis
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth (Dickenson) Janu-saitis, 84, of Middle-bury, passed away Feb. 17 at her home. She was the widow of Frank A. Janusai-
tis, who passed away in 1981 after 30 years of marriage.
Mrs. Janusaitis was born in Water-bury Jan. 30, 1928, the daughter of the late Gary and Elise (Muckle) Dick-enson and was a longtime Middle-bury resident. She was a communi-cant of St. John of the Cross Church. She was a retired employee of the Newmatico Corp., where she worked for more than 10 years, prior to her retirement more than 30 years ago. She enjoyed bird watching and was associated with the Cornell Labora-tory of Ornithology. She also enjoyed cooking, sewing, crafts and playing the organ.
She was a former volunteer at Wa-terbury Hospital, The Holy Cross Mothers Club, and the Ladies Auxil-iary of the Middlebury Vol. Fire Dept.
She leaves two sons, Michael A. Janusaitis of Middlebury, with whom she made her home, and Robert G. Janusaitis of Houston, Texas; two grandchildren, Kimberly and Bran-don Janusaitis; and three great-grandchildren, Bradley, Braiden and Roman Janusaitis.
Her funeral is today, Friday, Feb. 24, at 10 a.m. at the Alderson Funeral Home at 201 Meadow St. in Nauga-tuck. Burial will be in Middlebury Cemetery at the family’s conve-nience. For more information or to send an email condolence, visit www.aldersonfuneralhomes.com.
Rufus L. LydemUniroyal Retiree
Rufus L. Lydem, 92, died Feb. 21 at Gardner Heights Health Care Cen-ter in Shelton. He was the husband of Laurentina (Pereira) Lydem.
Mr. Lydem was born July 18, 1919, in Frelighsburg, Quebec, Canada, a son of the late Thomas and Amanda (Guilmain) Lydem. Rufus entered the U. S. Army March 20, 1941, at Ft. De-vens, Mass. He was in the 1st Cavalry Division and 12th Cavalry Squadron. He received the Good Conduct Medal, Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He retired after 33 years as a lab tech-nician with Uniroyal Chemical. He also was a member of the VFW Wa-tertown Post #5157.
Besides his wife, he leaves a daughter, Debra Lydem-Furey and her husband, Christopher, of Can-terbury, Conn.; a brother, John P. Lydem of Naugatuck; a sister, Mary P. Metzger of Kentucky; and several grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. He was prede-ceased by a daughter, Sandra Lee Lange.
The funeral will leave today, Fri-day, Feb. 24, at 9:15 a.m. from Lyons Funeral Home at 46 High St. in Thomaston and proceed to St. Thomas Church for a Mass of Chris-tian burial at 10 a.m. Burial with military honors will follow in St. Thomas Cemetery. To leave online condolences, visit www.lyonsfuner-alhome.com.
Michelina I. Martino Mother of Francis J. Martino
Michelina (Peggy) (Iannucci) Martino, 97, of Middlebury died Feb. 16 at Wa-terbury Hospital with her family by her side. She was the
widow of Francis N. Martino. Her funeral was Feb. 21.
Mrs. Martino was born Aug. 2, 1914, in Waterbury to the late Gio-vanni and Antionetta (Conti) Ian-nucci. She was retired from Pratt & Whitney Aircraft.
She is survived by her children, Francis J. Martino of Middlebury and Rosalie Rinaldi of Waterbury; her grandson, Paul D. Rinaldi and his wife, Kim, of Wolcott; three great-grandsons, Dana, Justin and Jeremy Rinaldi of Wolcott; a sister, Sr. Rose Mary Iannucci, DHS of Putnam; and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by five sisters and two brothers.
The family would like to thank Martha Dorsey, her home health aide, as well as Village Green and Waterbury Hospital for the care and support they gave her.
The Colasanto Funeral Home in Waterbury handled the arrange-ments. Burial was in Calvary Ceme-tery. Contributions in her memory may be made to St. John of the Cross Church, P.O. Box 361, Middlebury, CT 06762.
Sharon Kim Blakeman Schoeller
Wife of George A. Schoeller
Sharon (Pooky) Kim Blakeman Schoeller, 46, of Middlebury, beloved wife of George A Schoeller Sr., entered into rest Feb. 16 at Waterbury
Hospital. Her memorial service was Feb. 23.
She was born in Derby Aug. 22, 1965, a daughter of the late Phillip Jr. and Dorothy Smith Blakeman. She was a nurse’s aide at the Home Healthcare Associates of Southbury for many years. Pooky had previously worked at Schreiber’s Farm of Oxford. She was a graduate of Nonnewaug High School of Woodbury.
Pooky enjoyed crafting, scrap-booking, Johnny Cash and UConn men’s and women’s basketball. She also loved kneeboarding, being out-side and bow hunting with her son, George. Pooky will be sadly missed by and her family and many friends.
Her loving family in addition to her husband, George, includes her son, George A Schoeller Jr. of Mid-dlebury; her daughter, Ashley Ann Schoeller, of Middlebury; her four brothers, David Blakeman and his wife, Sue, of Ansonia; Richard Blake-man of Seymour; Donald Blakeman and his wife, Debbie, of Southbury; and Brian Blakeman of North Caro-lina; her seven sisters, Claire Beamer of Ansonia; Barbara Hyman and her husband, Richard, of Oxford; Susan Brooks and her husband, Austin, of Oxford; Carol Cyr and her husband, Timothy, of North Carolina; Jill Crisp and her husband, Bruce, of South-bury; Sandra Boudreau and her hus-band, Gerald, of Southington; and Karen Blakeman of Waterbury; and her dog Pepper and her cat Ozzy. She was predeceased by her brother, Phil-lip Blakeman III.
The Miller-Ward Funeral Home in Seymour handled the arrangements. Interment will be private and at the family’s convenience. Memorial gifts may be made to the Farm Aid, 501 Cambridge St., Third Floor, Cam-bridge, MA 02141.
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Timeshare vacations sound good on the surface. You get lux-urious accommodations at a resort location loaded with ame-nities. Your scheduled time is set aside each quarter or year, and someone else does the mainte-nance.
What could go wrong? With timeshares, many things. Here are some facts:• Therearemorepeoplewanting
to unload their timeshare than there are buyers. You’ll lose money if you try to get out of it.
• You(andyourheirs)couldbelocked into a 50-year contract.
• Theunityougetmightnotbeanything at all like the model or the pictures.
•Maintenance fees can sky-rocket over the years.The way to avoid getting
trapped with a timeshare is to avoid the high-pressure presen-tations – and don’t buy.
If you get a card in the mail saying you’ve won a “free” vaca-tion, tear it up. It’s timeshare. If you receive an invitation to a
presentation about joining a “travel club,” pass it up. It’s time-share. If someone invites you on a resort tour and asks whether you have your credit card with you, run. It’s timeshare.
Those who sell timeshares will do or say anything to get you to sign a contract. If you’re on va-cation at a popular resort, be-ware. These scammers hang out in airports and even your hotel lobby, doing everything they can to get you to a presentation. If you end up at a presentation (which is no doubt high-energy and exciting), timeshare sellers will wear you down – literally – until you sign a contract. If a pre-sentation is supposed to take only an hour, expect that you’ll be there many hours later. Remember: You can get up and
walk out. (Ideally you haven’t accepted their transportation to a distant location, or you could be stuck.)
They’ll make promises that aren’t in writing on the contract. Perhaps you’ll be told, “You have five days to cancel if you change your mind.” The fine print on the back of the contract might say something completely different.
Should you get caught up in timeshares (or be stuck now) and want to sell, there are even scam-mers who work that angle. They’ll “guarantee” to get your timeshare sold, take your money (thousands of dollars) in an ad-vance fee, and put your listing on a website ... which you could have done for yourself.
David Uffington regrets he can-not personally answer reader questions, but he will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Write to him in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send email to [email protected].
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Members of Westover School’s Varsity Squash team hold their second place trophies after the U.S. High School Squash Nationals Feb. 5. Members and coach are, from left to right, Bethany Simmonds of Cornwall Bridge; Jocelyn McKenzie of Bronx, N.Y.; Stuart Lemay of Harwich Port, Mass.; Alexandra Pape of Middlebury; Jazmin Matos of New York City; Sarah Krueger of Naugatuck; Coach J.P. Burl-ington; and Ashley Sanchez of New Haven. (Submitted photo)
Spring Gala 2012
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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I believe I read in your column about something that can be given for hepatitis C. My doctor says there isn’t any treatment. Will you please advise me? – Anon.ANSWER: Chronic infection (lifetime infection) happens to about 80 percent of those in-fected with the hepatitis C virus. Worldwide, the virus infects 170 million people. In the U.S., 3.2 million are infected. Of the chronically infected, close to 20 percent will develop either liver cirrhosis or liver cancer. It takes 20 to 30 years before signs of such complications become apparent.
Predicting who benefits from treatment, therefore, is not an easy task. Perhaps your doctor said you would not benefit from treatment now. Indications fa-voring treatment are finding hep-atitis C virus RNA (ribonucleic acid) in the blood and document-ing liver changes suggesting cir-rhosis is beginning to take place. As I said, only 20 percent of those infected with this virus are at risk for these complications.
Treatment isn’t 100-percent effective for all. Success depends on which strain of virus infects a person. Strains 1 and 4 are less susceptible to treatment.
Standard treatment is ribavirin and peginterferon. New treat-ments are about to become avail-able, and they show great prom-
ise in improving treatment suc-cess. Boceprevir and teleprevir are going to be launched for general use later this year. They will establish a new era for treat-ment.
The booklet on hepatitis A, B and C details these illnesses, how they are acquired and how they are treated. Readers can obtain a copy by writing to Dr. Donohue – No. 503W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and ad-dress. Please allow four weeks for delivery.DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Please tell me what causes brown spots on the hands and arms. Is there anything you can do to prevent them or erase them? – A.C.ANSWER: Sunlight and aging cause those brown spots, known as solar lentigos. To prevent them, use sunscreen on the af-fected skin every day of the year, whenever you go outdoors. You
can’t prevent aging. In popular language, these spots are called age spots or liver spots, even though the liver has not one thing to do with them.
If you’re desirous of getting rid of them, doctors can freeze them off or use a laser on them. You can apply tretinoin cream, an acne medicine. It takes a long time to fade the spots, but they will lighten in time. Bleaching creams like Eldopaque and Solaquin also work.
You have to be sure your in-surance covers the cost. This is cosmetic medicine and often not covered by insurance policies.DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Is it pos-sible for a man with prostate can-cer, before it is treated, to pass the cancer to his wife through intercourse? This subject came up during lunch with friends. Some said it was possible. – C.N.ANSWER: Prostate cancer is not passed from a man to his wife through intercourse or in any other way.
Dr. Donohue regrets he is un-able to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.
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1. Hall of Fame pitcher Steve Carlton recorded at least 10 wins, 190 innings and 161 strikeouts a year for how many consecutive seasons?
2. How many times did Harmon Killebrew belt 40 or more home runs in a season?
3. In 2010, Navy’s Ricky Dobbs threw the longest TD pass in the history of the Army-Navy football game. How long was it?
4. How many times have the Boston Celtics and Los Ange-les Lakers met in the NBA Finals?
5. In 2011, Ken Hitchcock recorded the best five-game NHL start for a coach in St. Louis Blues history (4-0-1). Name either of the two coaches who started 4-1.
6. How many times has Ron Hornaday won a NASCAR Truck Series season title?
7. The U.S. has won the most men’s tennis Davis Cups with 32. Which country is second?
Answers:
1. Eighteen.2. Eight, including a high of 49
twice.3. It was 77 yards.4. Twelve times, with the Celtics
winning nine of the series. 5. Leo Boivin (1976) and Jacques
Demers (1984).6. Four times, the last in 2009.7. Australia with 28.
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Pomperaug High school Varsity Games
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Boys Indoor TrackTuesday, Feb. 28 .................. State Opens (A) ................................ 12 p.m.
Girls Indoor TrackSaturday, March 3 ............... New England Championships (A) .............. TBA
Boys SwimmingThursday, March 1 ............... SWC Diving Championship (A) .............. 6 p.m.Friday, March 2 ................... SWC Championship (A) ........................ 6 p.m.
WrestlingSaturday, Feb. 25 ................ CIAC State Open (A) ............................. 8 a.m.
(H) Home (A) Away
Litter VolunteersThe Parks and Rec Depart-
ment is providing supplies to volunteers who want to help pick up trash along the Greenway. Stop by the Parks and Rec office to sign up and get your supplies.
Pop Warner Football, Cheer Teams
The Pomperaug Pop Warner Football and Cheer Teams are open to Middlebury and South-bury residents who enjoy youth football and cheerleading. The football program is for players ages 7 to 15; the cheerleading program is for ages 5 to 15.
Register Saturday, March 3, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Mid-dlebury Parks and Recreation of-fice in Room 5 at the Shepardson Community Center at 1172 Whit-temore Road, or register at the Southbury Parks and Recreation office Wednesday, March 7, from 6 to 9 p.m. or Saturday, March 10, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Registration is walk-in only! Football players must be present to be weighed in! Football and cheer participants must present a certified copy of a raised-seal birth certificate or passport! For more information, visit www.pomperaug warriors.com.
Babysitting ClassAn instructor from CPRO
Heart, LLC will teach a babysit-ting class for youth ages 11 to 15 Saturday, March 10, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Shepardson Commu-nity Center in Room 5. The course covers skills necessary to care for children of all ages with a focus on safety and basic first
aid, including CPR, and an em-phasis on prevention. Other top-ics include hand washing, dia-pering, feeding and fire safety. Please bring lunch and a snack. The fee is $57 for residents and $67 for nonresidents.
Bus TripNew York City
Two-Option TripSaturday, April 14, a deluxe
motor coach to New York City will depart from Shepardson Community Center at 9 a.m. on a trip that offers two choices: New York City on your own or a “Million Dollar Quartet” mati-nee. The bus will depart NYC at 5 p.m. for the return trip.
For New York City on your own, enjoy the sights, sounds and food of NYC at your leisure. The 24 seats for this option cost $30 per person.
The “Million Dollar Quartet” option includes a 2:30 p.m. mat-inee of the acclaimed Broadway musical that recreates a 1956 gathering of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins at Sun Records in Mem-phis for one of the greatest jam sessions ever. The performance lasts 1-1/2 hours. The 20 seats available for this option cost $96 per person. Call 203-758-2520 for information or to reserve seats.
The Pomperaug High School boys soccer team was honored at the January Board of Educa-tion meeting for the team’s Class LL state championship and its first state title after a 21-1-1 sea-son. The team also was recog-nized by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) as the no. 7 ranked
team in the nation.Region 15 Athletic Director Jo-
seph Velardi presented the Class LL championship plaque to boys’ soccer coach Joe Mancini and, on behalf of the Board of Education, gave each member of the team a commemorative sweatshirt.
“The boys’ soccer team had a phenomenal season. The team
played beautiful soccer, and the boys were unselfish, hardworking, and tough competitors. They held their composure, displayed sportsmanship, and conducted themselves with class in every situation,” said Velardi.
Mancini also was recognized as the South-West Conference, Connecticut and Northeast U.S.
regional coach of the year. On Jan. 21, Mancini attended the national convention of the Soccer Coaches Association of America, where he was one of four finalists for National Coach of the Year honors.
“Our model this year was ‘fam-ily’ – the boys really came together and got it done,” said Mancini.
The State Champion PHS Boys Soccer team, front left to right, Nick Adams, Mike Burke, Tommy Adams, Brian Cantor, Ricky Pitman, Matt Murphy, Josh Abromaitis, Drew Rushton, Nate Smith, Marc Almeida, and Kostika Kosova and back left to right, Coach Joe Mancini, Nick Lasewicz, Keith Gilette, Jack Shannon, Foreign Exchange Student Bastian Kalaschek, Jake Michaud, Ben DeRidder, Zach Goodridge, Evan Altamirano, Scott Grant, Noah Altamirano, Zach Longo, Jung Kang, Taylor Ellsworth, Tyler Longo, Manager Paige Santos, and Manager Coley Rosa had a full season record of 21 wins, one loss, and one tie. (Submitted photo)
pomperaug Boys soccer team wins state championship
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will celebrate the Fifth Annual Rare Disease Day Feb. 29 with a day-long celebra-tion from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the NIH Clinical Center (Building 10) in Masur Auditorium in Bethesda, Md. It is co-sponsored by the Office of Rare Diseases Re-search-National Center for Accel-erating Translational Research, and the NIH Clinical Center. The event will recognize rare diseases research activities supported by several government agencies and advocacy organizations.
Attendance is free and open to the public and the media, and pre-registration is encouraged. In
association with the Global Genes Project (a grassroots effort to use jeans to raise awareness for rare genetic disorders), organizers urge all attendees to wear their favorite pair of jeans. Those inter-ested can register and learn more at rarediseases.info.nih.gov/Rar-eDiseaseDay.aspx.
Rare Disease Day was estab-lished to raise public awareness about rare diseases, the chal-lenges encountered by those af-fected, and the importance of research to develop diagnostics and treatments. There are about 7,000 identified rare diseases in the U.S. affecting an estimated 25 million Americans. About 80 per-
cent of rare diseases are genetic in origin, and it is estimated about half of all rare diseases affect chil-dren. In addition, what research-ers learn by studying rare diseases often adds to the basic under-standing of common diseases.
Organizers have put together an agenda of scheduled talks cov-ering new technologies, such as genetic sequencing and stem cell therapies; new research para-digms like accelerated drug de-velopment; and new rare dis-eases, including PANDAS. NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins will make remarks.
Additionally, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will hold a
Rare Disease Patient Advocacy Day March 1. For more informa-tion, visit www.fda.gov/ForIn-dustry/DevelopingProductsfor-RareDis eas esCondit ions/ OOPDNewsArchive/ucm277194.htm or call Sandy Walsh at 301-796-4669.
The NIH Clinical Center (CC) is the clinical research hospital for the National Institutes of Health. Through clinical research, clinician-investigators translate laboratory discoveries into better treatments, therapies and inter-ventions to improve the nation’s health. For more information, visit clinicalcenter.nih.gov.
Brass City Ballet is offering a Yoga special this spring that gives new Yoga students unlimited Yoga classes for just $25 for one month. Yoga Alliance certified yoga instructor Karin Terebessy teaches the classes, which meet Tuesday mornings from 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. and Thursday eve-nings from 7:45 to 9 p.m. All classes are in Brass City Ballet’s studios at 1255 Middlebury Road in Middlebury.
Terebessy believes there is a yoga practice for everyone dur-ing any phase of life. She takes a student-centered approach to teaching, leading classes based
on special requests of partici-pants. Offered a variety of mod-ifications, participants are en-couraged to challenge them-selves or nurture themselves based on their needs on any particular day. Yoga is not about progress – it’s about presence. With a deep focus on breath and alignment, students are encour-aged to take traditional yoga asanas to the next level of aware-ness.
Brass City Ballet is a nonprofit dance school and performing company. It offers training in ballet, jazz, modern dance and yoga with open enrollment
throughout the year and has classes for children ages 18 months through adults.
For more information, visit www.brasscityballet.org, call 203.598-0186 or email [email protected].
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Yoga poses like this warrior pose are taught at Brass City Ballet.
Ballet offers Yoga special
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It’s still February, but spring planting season is just around the corner – even in traditionally colder areas of the country like the Northeast, which experi-enced a warm winter with little snow this year. That means homeowners should be going over their outdoor lawn-care and garden tools and equipment, making sure everything is ready to go when March roars in.
If you treated wooden-han-dled tools with linseed oil or other wood treatment and hung them up over the winter, take those tools down now and wipe away excess oil and check for water damage or other problems. Make sure hinged parts move smoothly and are free of corro-sion and dirt. Then, place the tools in an easily accessible place, ready to grab when you need them.
Lawnmowers and other equipment also need to be read-
ied for the growing season, even though it may be awhile before they’re needed. Take the lawn-mower out of the garage or shed to a well-ventilated area. Check the blades to make sure they’re free of rust and corrosion; if you detached the blades for storage, reattach them now.
Turn the mower upright and, with the spark plug disconnected and the fuel tank empty, give the starter cord a few pulls. Next, connect the spark plug and fill the tank with the proper fuel-oil mixture (see the manufacturer’s manual for details). Start the mower and allow it to run for a
minute or two. Then, shut it down and store it upright in an easily accessible place, ready to use.
Do the same with other out-door equipment over the next couple of weekends. Not only will you know your tools are ready when the weather is, but you’ll be able to repair any dam-aged tools or equipment before they’re needed.
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Knowing how to manage your own money – how to save, spend and invest wisely – requires un-derstanding simple concepts that will transform what seems com-plicated and overwhelming jar-gon into a set of everyday skills, strategies and techniques one can apply successfully with ease and confidence. Money Matters for Women was designed by ex-perts specifically to meet the fi-nancial education needs of women, – to educate, inform and empower them as they take con-trol of their financial present and future.
Money Matters for Women founder and president Joan Ka-plan has more than 15 years as a professional communications and education specialist in the financial services industry. She has seen time and again the tre-mendous gap in many adults’ understanding of financial con-cepts and tools and recognized the need for actionable education that would help them develop basic knowledge and sound hab-its of savings, spending, and in-vesting wisely.
Registration is recommended. For more information and to reg-ister, contact Joan Kaplan at [email protected] or visit www.moneymatters2women.com.
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Lindsay Farrell, Ph.D., an as-sociate professor at Australian Catholic University (ACU), will deliver two lectures at Fairfield University that will explore art in hospitals and the way people use art to make meaning in these places. The events, “Art and Spir-ituality in Healthcare,” Wednes-day, Feb. 29, at 5 p.m. in the Bar-one Campus Center Oak Room and “Research on Art, Spirituality and Healthcare,” Thursday, March 1, at 1 p.m. in the Bellarm-ine Museum of Art, are free and open to the public.
Farrell is involved with an in-terdisciplinary group from health sciences, social sciences, theol-ogy and the creative arts re-searching art and spirituality in health. “I lead a team of health researchers, theologians and arts researchers who are investigating the way art can affect health and social outcomes for patients and the hospital community,” said Farrell. “The issue of spirituality and meaning making emerged as
key concerns with many of the people we surveyed and talked with. I will be talking about a re-cent funded research project called ARCH, which engaged with Art Research in Catholic Hospi-tals, and was conducted within a number of Catholic healthcare providers and the Queensland Art Gallery.”
As an artist, Farrell has become increasingly interested in seeing what art does in unexpected places. In the Fairfield lectures, he will consider two historical case studies and then three con-temporary projects, and also talk about his research approach. “I want to take people on a journey into art and spirituality in health-care and talk about some of the research our team from ACU has been involved with,” said Farrell, who had an exhibit at Fairfield’s Walsh Art Gallery in 2006, entitled “Australian Landscapes: Earth, Sky and Water.”
Suzanne Chamlin, associate professor and director of the Stu-
dio Art Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, said Farrell will have opportunities to meet with students and faculty while on campus. Marice E. Rose, associate professor of Visual and Perform-ing Arts, said as part of his visit, Farrell will critique paintings by Studio Art Program students en-rolled in “SA 139 Watercolor” and have dinner in the Creative Life residence hall with students.
Suzanne Hetzel Campbell, dean of the School of Nurs-ing, said, “We are so excited to welcome Dr. Farrell to Fairfield to share his expertise with the university. His insight will help nursing and health professional students on campus recognize the benefits of art to patients’ overall well being. This builds on our university goals for the inte-gration of core curriculum.”
The lectures are part of the University’s Arts and Minds of-ferings for the regional commu-nity.
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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: We adopted a kitten, “Charly,” a little more than a year ago, and she tested positive for feline leuke-mia. Our vet prescribed a med-icine and she has been fine. She is an indoor cat. Now a new kit-ten has found its way into our yard, and we have fed it. She will not come to us, but she and our cat play through the window. We were told our cat should not be around any other cats, as she could give them the disease. If the new kitten comes to us and receives the shot that protects against feline leukemia, would it be possible for the two cats to cohabitate? – Amy V. via emailDEAR AMY: There is a possibil-ity both cats eventually can live together; however, if or when the
stray kitten trusts you enough to come to you, you will need to keep her isolated from Charly for a little while longer.
First, the new kitten will need to undergo tests by the veterinar-ian for both feline leukemia (FeLV) and feline immunodefi-ciency virus (FIV), as well as for other illnesses and parasites like worms and fleas. She’ll need to be spayed and receive her re-
quired vaccinations. Second, kittens are at higher risk to con-tract FeLV, so she’ll need to be housed separately from Charly until she reaches six months to a year in age. Both should receive twice yearly checkups and their immunizations kept up to date.
Charly and the new cat may not mesh indoors as well as they do at the window. If they fight at all, they’ll need to be kept sepa-rated, so introduce them to each other very carefully. Also, the new cat might never adjust to the indoors. Be prepared for that, and at least get her spayed and vaccinated to protect her and the neighboring cat population.
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The Glebe House Museum and Gertrude Jekyll Garden seeks volunteers to join the museum team to help engage people of all ages and backgrounds in explor-ing and experiencing the history of the community at its 18th cen-tury house and garden in Wood-bury. Volunteer training will take place in two sessions: Tuesday, March 20, and Wednesday, March 21, from 10 a.m. to noon each day. The sessions will be repeated Saturday, March 24, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. for those who cannot make class during the week.
Training will include an over-view of the history of the house and garden, and training in spe-cific techniques of giving a guided tour or working in the gift shop. Returning volunteers will have a refresher class Saturday, April 14, at 10 a.m. A luncheon for all volunteers will be Satur-day, April 14, at noon. All classes will be at the museum at 49 Hol-low Road in Woodbury.
Volunteers assist in a variety of capacities at the Glebe House, working at the information desk, as a shop assistant or taking vis-itors on guided tours. They also help with special events, quar-terly newsletters, garden main-tenance, and assist in the office, or serve on various committees.
In addition, volunteers can travel to area museums and his-
toric sites, and attend volun-teer-only lectures, workshops and events. Monthly meetings of the Friends of the Glebe House provide volunteers the chance to get acquainted with one another and share ideas for making their volunteer experience satisfying.
The Glebe House Museum has welcomed visitors since 1925. It was built around 1750 by the Hurd family, who settled in the Hollow in the 1670s. Offering a glimpse of life in Revolutionary War-era Connecticut, the house is furnished to represent the life of the Marshall family in the
1770s and 1780s when they lived here and reflects Woodbury as a prosperous hub of agricultural and commercial activity.
Later it became the home and place of work for silversmith Gideon Botsford who lived there for the next 64 years. The old-fashioned garden was designed by famed English horticulturalist and writer Gertrude Jekyll.
The museum is open for tours May through November every afternoon except Mondays and Tuesdays. Call 203-263-2855 or email [email protected] to regis-ter for training.
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PRISCILLAPriscilla is back once again, and sadly it is because
her owner got very ill and cannot take care of her any longer. She adored her owner and the mere fact of her being back here has been a sad setback for her. Priscilla is a good girl who is very playful and loveable. She is 2 years old and originally came to Meriden Humane Society (MHS) after being shuf-fled around from home to home. She is a little con-fused and would love to have a stable home and a family that will be responsible for her and love her. She loves the outdoors, car rides and to play.
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an all-around wonderful dog! She is 2 years old and gets along wonderfully with children and other dogs. She needs a yard to play in and people who understand she will need to get her exercise as well as the love of a family.
For more information on these dogs as well as others and felines at Meriden Humane Society, email [email protected]. MHS is open from noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, and volunteers can be available to meet with you through an appointment. MHS is at 311 Murdock Ave. in Meriden.
The Woodbury Lions Club is reaching out to the public to help them in their effort to produce an antiques auction in April. What they need is a “core” col-lection of about 100 consignment items in order to attract other items to auction. In previous auctions, this “core” has come from either a single estate or col-lection and has had an average value of $200 per item.
As for past auctions, Lion Wayne Mattox, nationally known auctioneer and antiques expert, will chair the event. “We are not asking for charity and free con-signments,” Mattox said. “We are only keeping a 20 percent com-mission, and the rest goes to the consignor. It’s just like doing
business with a regular auction house with two major excep-tions: Our Lion auctions have drawn large audiences in the past, and more bidders means higher prices for the consignor, and that the money raised from our small commission (minus expenses) will go to help Lions’ charities.”
While not one of the three an-nual fund-raising events that the Woodbury Lions tradition-ally hosts, the antiques auction is held about once every five years and has been very success-ful in raising money for their charitable work. At the last auc-tion, to a standing room-only audience, a blanket chest sold for around $15,000. Wood-
bury Lions Club President Wil-liam Barthelmess said, “This is a great way to raise money, not only for the Lions, but for the consignors.”
The Woodbury Lions Club contributes to the community through donations to local sight- and hearing-related causes, scholarships to local high school students continuing to college, the Woodbury Food Bank and other local charitable organiza-tions.
If you have a large number of collectibles, possibly an inheri-tance, you are looking to liqui-date and would like to help the Woodbury Lions in this ef-fort, call 263-7800 with any ques-tions.
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