Volume 9, Number 50 Southington’s Hometown Newspaper www.southingtoncitizen.com Friday, December 5, 2014 Residents can now view Town Council meetings live on the town’s web site. For now, only council meetings can be viewed live, but the eventual goal is to have all meetings at the Mu- nicipal Center streamed over the Internet, said Town Man- ager Garry Brumback. The town started stream- ing council meetings live in October. Residents can watch by clicking on the “Govern- ment” button at the top of the home page. After that, click on the “Agendas, minutes, live stream and video” button. “It’s going very well,” Brumback said. “We’ve had a few technology glitches initially but it seems it’s all ironed out.” The live council meetings are the latest offering as part of a virtual Town Hall effort started three years ago. Previously, it took a day or two to record and broadcast meetings on the web site, said Jay Baker, town information Council meetings can be seen live online By Lauren Sievert Special to The Citizen See Meetings / Page 2 Santa comes to Southington Children were floored to see Santa Claus arrive at Recreation Park on a fire truck Nov. 30 during his annual visit. Families enjoyed hot chocolate, horse-drawn hay- rides, balloon animals and one- on-one time with Mr. Claus. The event, sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Depart- ment, also gave children a chance to tell Santa what they want for Christmas. Recreation Director David La- preay said the event started over 30 years ago and was originally held on the Town Green. “It’s a good, fun, free event for the kids to get everyone excited for the holidays,” Lapreay said. Lines were long but spirits were high as kids bounced around anx- ious to meet Santa or take a hay- ride. Lapreay said he expected over 200 people. Cody Robinson, 7, rattled off a long list, including video games and a stapler. “And I want a life- By Leigh Tauss Special to The Citizen Seven-year-old twins Regan and Riley Heddings show Santa their Christmas list in Southington at an annual Parks and Recreation holiday event. | Leigh Tauss / For The Citizen See Santa / Page 4 A recent proposal for a $20 million, 265,000-square-foot sports complex in Berlin has Southington officials, who are trying to attract a sports complex to the West Street area, questioning if it’s feasible to have two similar facili- ties in neighboring towns. Rival sports complex could affect town’s plans By Farrah Duffany Special to The Citizen A $20 million, 265,000-square-foot sports complex is being proposed in Berlin, which drew some concerns for officials in Southington. | Photo courtesy of Quisenberry Arcari Architects See Complex / Page 2 808-05
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Volume 9, Number 50 Southington’s Hometown Newspaper www.southingtoncitizen.com Friday, December 5, 2014
Residents can now view Town Council meetings live on the town’s web site.
For now, only council meetings can be viewed live, but the eventual goal is to have all meetings at the Mu-nicipal Center streamed over the Internet, said Town Man-ager Garry Brumback.
The town started stream-ing council meetings live in October. Residents can watch by clicking on the “Govern-ment” button at the top of the home page. After that, click on the “Agendas, minutes, live stream and video” button.
“It’s going very well,” Brumback said. “We’ve had a few technology glitches initially but it seems it’s all ironed out.”
The live council meetings are the latest offering as part of a virtual Town Hall effort started three years ago.
Previously, it took a day or two to record and broadcast meetings on the web site, said Jay Baker, town information
Council meetings can be seen live onlineBy Lauren SievertSpecial to The Citizen
See Meetings / Page 2
Santa comes to Southington
Children were floored to see Santa Claus arrive at Recreation Park on a fire truck Nov. 30 during his annual visit. Families enjoyed hot chocolate, horse-drawn hay-rides, balloon animals and one-on-one time with Mr. Claus.
The event, sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Depart-ment, also gave children a chance to tell Santa what they want for Christmas.
Recreation Director David La-
preay said the event started over 30 years ago and was originally held on the Town Green.
“It’s a good, fun, free event for the kids to get everyone excited for the holidays,” Lapreay said.
Lines were long but spirits were high as kids bounced around anx-ious to meet Santa or take a hay-ride. Lapreay said he expected over 200 people.
Cody Robinson, 7, rattled off a long list, including video games and a stapler. “And I want a life-
By Leigh TaussSpecial to The Citizen
Seven-year-old twins Regan and Riley Heddings show Santa their Christmas list in Southington at an annual Parks and Recreation holiday event. | Leigh Tauss / For The Citizen See Santa / Page 4
A recent proposal for a $20 million, 265,000-square-foot sports complex in Berlin has Southington officials, who are trying to attract a sports complex to the West Street area, questioning if it’s feasible to have two similar facili-ties in neighboring towns.
Rival sports complex could affect town’s plansBy Farrah DuffanySpecial to The Citizen
A $20 million, 265,000-square-foot sports complex is being proposed in Berlin, which drew some concerns for officials in Southington. | Photo courtesy of Quisenberry Arcari ArchitectsSee Complex / Page 2
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technology director. Now res-idents can watch the meeting live, or if they miss it, a video is uploaded to the website the
next morning, Baker said. Baker said there was some
confusion initially with the new technology, but after some additional training ev-erything is working better.
Brumback said some resi-dents have said they appre-ciate the live meetings, but asked for better camera work.
“We don’t have a producer,” Brumback said.
There are three or four cameras set up for the live streaming. Brumback said the new process costs less than the previous one. The town will save about $1,000
this year and $2,000 annually starting next year.
“It’s another step toward the virtual town hall an-nounced three years ago,” Brumback said.
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Washington Management LLC, of Hamden, proposed the sports complex at a Ber-lin town meeting this week on behalf of Addi Develop-ment Group LLC, owned by developers Ernest Addi and Moustapha Diakhate. The complex will be built on 57 acres off the southern end of Berlin Turnpike, south of Meadow Lane.
The plans are similar to Southington’s proposal for a sports complex revealed in September, though larger. Southington is planning for a 200,000-square-foot building at 1601 West St. on 35 acres. There is no private devel-oper involved yet, although the Town Council approved a $38,000 contract with Wood-ard & Curran last week to complete engineering and conceptual work for the com-plex in hopes of encouraging development.
“It certainly could affect us,” said Cheryl Lounsbury, the Southington Town Coun-cil vice chairwoman. “We have to look at the concept and see, can a community that close to us, can this pop-ulation support two? I don’t know. We have to look at
that.”The Berlin facility is slated
to include multipurpose in-door fields for soccer, la-crosse and other sports. Plans also call for an indoor base-ball training area, a climbing wall, basketball courts, a fit-ness facility and a restaurant. Four outdoor fields are in-cluded in the proposal.
The project also has a 16,000-square-foot pad dedi-cated to sports retail.
Southington Town Council Chairman Michael Riccio and Councilor John Barry said they recently heard about the proposal and needed more details before knowing how and if Southington’s plans could be affected.
“There are too many fac-tors,” Riccio said.
“I don’t know enough about the market,” Barry added. “Can both be successful? I have no idea.”
While some councilors were questioning if there is a
large enough market for po-tentially having three sports complexes in the central Connecticut, with another in Farmington, Tom Arcari, an architect with Quisenberry Arcari Architects in Farm-ington, said he thinks there is a demand.
Arcari has been contracted to work on the Berlin project.
“Southington’s proposed location is not far from the (Interstate 84) corridor which connects a lot of towns west from Southington like Waterbury, and it will align with (Interstate 691), so it’s in a location where it will have a regional draw,” Arcari said. “The facility in Berlin is go-ing to draw from the Berlin Turnpike corridor: Meriden, Berlin, and Rocky Hill.”
Berlin Mayor Rachel Ro-chette said the two projects are slightly different and could still work if they were
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These images show an artist’s rendering of a $20 million, 265,000-square-foot sports complex is being proposed in Berlin, which drew some concerns for officials in Southington. | Courtesy of Quisenberry Arcari Architects
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time supply of chocolate,” he blurted out.
Sister Sadie Robinson, 10, said the event is a family
tradition.“I’ve been coming since I
was tiny,” she said. She told Santa she wanted a robotic dog.
It was the first time town
resident Carrie Heddings and her family attended.
“It’s nice ... it keeps us away from the big mall crowds,” Heddings said. “It’s nice that the town does this.”
R a q u e l B a t i s t a , o f Southington, said she was going to bring her sons to the mall but changed her mind.
“It’s just an amazing way for them to see a little bit of everything,” Batista said. “It’s awesome.”
Her son Bryann Jimenez, 5, said the Christmas tree in Santa’s workshop looked familiar.
“That Christmas tree looks
like my Grandma’s. Who are those presents for?” he said, pointing to the wrapped packages under the tree. “Are they for us?”
After getting off the hay-ride, Louis Rodriguez took his daughter Angelica, 5, to wait on line to meet Santa.
“We’re having a great time,” Rodriguez said. “Car-riage rides and Santa, there’s nothing better.”
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Brayden DeAngelo, 5, looks at the balloon sword he received from Valentine the Clown at the annual Parks and Recreation holiday event. | Photos by Leigh Tauss / For The Citizen
Louis and Angelica Rodriguez enjoy the hayride.
Ava Flanigan, 7, tells Santa Claus her Christmas wishes with brothers Will, 8, and Joe, 6.
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both constructed.“The Southington piece …
was going to require some taxpayer assistance, where in this case, it’s not the case at all. It’s completely privately funded,” Rochette said. “I think (Berlin) is unique in na-ture and size and really will attract a different group of people.”
Southington’s Economic
Development Department will use $50,000 from its con-sulting budget to pay for en-gineering and site design.
The town will fund site work on the property, get Planning and Zoning Com-mission approval for the proj-ect, and then turn it over to a private developer to revise the plan and build a complex. Officials said there is a poten-tial to lose money if a devel-oper isn’t interested, but the
town could gain thousands more in tax revenue and boost the local economy if the complex is built.
“Southington has already shown its commitment to a facility by putting forward an initial investment,” Town Councilor Chris Palmieri said. “They are desirable, which is why we’re trying to market it. The fact another neighboring town is explor-ing similar options reinforces
that fact.”Rochette mentioned a
good amount of funding for the Berlin project will come from team sports in the area interested in using the facil-ity. A few soccer teams have already showed some inter-est, she said.
For Southington Town Manager Garry Brumback, Berlin’s proposal illustrates the competitive environment, he said. He also agreed with the councilors that the town has to look into whether the market can sustain multiple facilities.
“If it makes sense to have three we’ll have three. If it doesn’t, then one of us is going to have to look else-where,” Brumback said, in-cluding Farmington in the
discussion. “It’s just some-thing we’re going to have to continue to work on. If this doesn’t demonstrate the com-petitive environment we are in, I don’t know what else does.”
Arcari said he has been working with the developers on a site plan and renderings for the past six months. Ber-lin hopes to have approval from town boards in the fall of 2015 and if all goes accord-ing to plan the facility would be slated to open in fall 2016, Arcari said.
“They’re a step ahead of us because we don’t have a specific company coming in,” Lounsbury said. “I’m glad that if it happens, it comes now and not later.”
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A day care center planned for 447 N. Main St. (Route 10) will be run by Denise Rivera, owner of Center Stage dance studio.
Center Stage is in the same office building as the planned day care center, which is ap-proved for up to 23 chil-dren. Plans also include a 600-square-foot play area outside the building.
According to the town, the 447 N. Main St. property is owned by Burma LLC, which is owned by Rivera. The build - ing is north of Darling Street.
The Planning and Zoning
Comission approved the day care plan at a recent meeting.
At the meeting, PZC mem-bers asked if Rivera would be allowed to increase the num-ber of children in the center. Town Attorney Mark Sciota said any increase would re-quire local and state approval.
PZC members were con-cerned about the outside play area as part of a parking lot.
PZC members recom-mended that Rivera use some additional steel posts in the fence that separates the park-ing lot from the play area.
The fence and protection will have to be approved by town engineers.
Day care center plannedBy Farrah DuffanySpecial to The Citizen
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Markley interested in GOP leadership position
There could be a change in state Republican Party lead-ership and state Sen. Joe Mar-kley of Southington is among those interested in the job.
J e r r y L a b r i o l a , a Wallingford resident, is now the state GOP chairman. Lab-riola, whose four-year term ends in June, didn’t return calls for comment at press time.
Brian Callahan, Southing-ton’s Republican town chair-man, said he didn’t blame Labriola for Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s victory over Republican challenger Tom Foley, but said the chair-man nonetheless takes the responsibility.
“You bring in a new face,” Callahan said. “(Labriola’s) a good guy. He’s worked hard,
but unsuccessfully.”Southington’s GOP town
committee voted unani-mously last week to support Sen. Joe Markley for state party chairman. Markley just won his third consecu-tive term representing the 16th Senate District, which includes Southington, Wol-cott, Prospect and parts of Cheshire and Waterbury. Markley first served in the state legislature in 1984.
Bob Prentice, Walling-ford’s Republican Committee chairman, said he is back-ing Labriola and touted his contributions.
“I think he’s done a tremen-dous job raising funds and getting people to back the Re-publican party,” Prentice said.
The party chairman isn’t necessarily to blame for a lost gubernatorial election, Prentice said. Although they
lost the top spot, Republicans did pick up seats in the state house.
“The Republicans are in a tough position” in the state, Prentice said.
Labriola was elected after Chris Healy decided not to run in 2011. Healy had faced criticism in 2010 after the party failed to make major gains in the state — losing races for governor and other key offices. The party also didn’t benefit from sweeping Republican victories across the country, losing each of the state’s five congressional races.
Callahan said Markley had been successful in running campaigns and opposing the majority party.
“He can articulate very clearly the differences be-tween our party and what Malloy and the Democrats
are doing,” Callahan said.Markley is one of four re-
portedly interested in the po-sition. Two lost elections in November, Mark Greenberg and Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti, while another, JR Romano, was spokesman for Tim Herbst’s unsuccessful campaign for state treasurer.
Markley said he’s working on a plan to guide the Repub-lican Party. His objectives in-clude building support in the cities, holding on to gains at the municipal level and sup-porting candidates with data.
“I want to make sure we have someone in charge that has a clear vision and the wisdom and maturity to do a good job,” he said.
Some Republicans, includ-ing Romano, have argued that the party needs a full-time chairman similar to the Democrats’ Nancy DiNardo.
Romano could not be reached for comment at press time.
Prentice said Romano in particular should not be crit-icizing Labriola. Romano worked for Herbst’s failed campaign against incumbent Denise Nappier, a Demo-crat who Prentice said was vulnerable.
“They should just be quiet,” he said of Labriola’s critics from Herbst’s campaign.
Markley said he respects Labriola and isn’t demanding that he step down.
“Jerry’s in the tough po-sition of a coach who’s had a difficult season,” Markley said.
By Jesse BuchananSpecial to The Citizen
Winter ordinancesThe Southington Police
Department announced the Town Ordinances applicable to the winter months.
Sec. 12-72. Parking During Winter Restricted at Night ($10 fine).
It shall be unlawful from Nov. 15 to April 15 for the owner or operator of a vehi-cle to allow such vehicle to stand or park on any street in Southington for more than (1) hour between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. on any given day.
Emergency Parking BanSec 12-73 Termination of
all parking authorized ($10 fine).
The chief of police or his designee may termi-nate street parking on any or all streets of the Town of Southington during a snow-storm or other emergency.
The illegal parking could lead to the vehicle being ticketed and towed at the owner’s expense.
Sec. 17-2 Maintenance of sidewalks ( $75 + $20 fee= $95 fine).
(c) Whenever any side-walk adjoining and fronting any land or premises shall be wholly or partially cov-ered with snow, the owner, tenant or occupant of such adjoining premises shall cause such sidewalk to be made safe and convenient by removing such snow there from within twen-ty-four (24) hours after the accumulation of the same thereon, and, should ice be accumulated on any side-
walk so that the same can-not be removed, such ice shall be covered with sand or other substance within three (3) hours after the ac-cumulation of such ice.
Sec. 17-3 (b) Snow Re-moval ($25 fine) - Snow Throwing
No owner, tenant, occu-pant or other individual shall throw or cause to be blown by machine or other implement snow into the right-of-way or sidewalks
in the Town of Southington. Cul-de-sac residents shall be subject to consideration of the difficulties of snow re-moval in such areas.
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Work begins on local arts center After
nearly three
years of planning and fundraising, ren-ovations started inside the Gura Build-ing on Main Street. The building will be transformed into an arts center.
Last week, employees with Florian Properties began work to accommodate art classes and other activities. The Gura Building is the former Town Hall annex, which used to house town offices.
The hope is to open in September or October of next year, said Mary De-Croce, Southington Community Cul-tural Arts chairwoman. “It’s just really exciting,” said DeCroce. “We’re really excited to start and do what we’ve been dreaming of for the last three-and-a-half years.”
In July, the Town Council approved a lease for the arts group to occupy the Gura Building after the group raised more than $1.1 million, or 80 percent of the money needed to renovate it.
“It has been a long trip just to get here, but I’m impressed with the way the en-tire arts group has hung in there,” said Town Manager Garry Brumback. “We’re very excited. This is going to renovate a building that is in desperate need of renovations.”
A dumpster has been placed near the Gura Building to collect the materials stripped from inside. DeCroce received permission to have the dumpster spray painted with designs by Ryan “ARCY” Christenson of Wallingford, owner of RC Murals.
“Having a dumpster for several months at a time in one location isn’t aesthetically pleasing,” said Town Coun-cilor Dawn Miceli who has been an ad-vocate of the arts center. “The creativity of the dumpster is indicative of the cre-
ativity that’s going to be going on in the interior of the art building.”
On the end of the dumpster the words “art matters” are spray painted in big black letters, DeCroce said.
Town officials will tour the inside of the building next week to see the progress.
“This is an opportunity for everyone to benefit,” Brumback said.
Southington’s Gura Building, seen here in August 2008, is becoming an arts center. Florian Properties employees have started working on classes.
The Annual Holiday Party is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 11, at noon, at the Aqua Turf. A fee is charged. The deadline to purchase tickets is Friday, Dec. 5. For more information and reservations, call (860) 621-3014.
Learn how to manage your financial investments, includ-ing stocks, bonds, CDs, money markets, mutual funds and other investment instruments with Connie Proll, a Southing-ton-based certified financial advisor on Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 1 p.m.
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Local stores join the Shop Small effort
Shop owners here in Southington and across the U.S. hung their banners and discounted merchandise Sat-urday, Nov. 29 in the hopes of grabbing a share of holiday shopping dollars.
Small Business Saturday joins Gray Thursday, Black Friday and Cyber Monday to let Main Street retailers re-mind shoppers there are al-ternatives to malls and big box stores. Although not as big as the other three days, Small Business Saturday and the Shop Small campaign are gaining momentum.
A sign in the window at Just For You Gift Shoppe on Mer-iden-Waterbury Turnpike en-courages people to support local businesses. Owner Flo Legat said the shop had been busy all day.
“This is a destination,” Legat said about her store, which carries unique and trending gift lines and jew-
elry. Like other retailers, Legat relies on the holiday season to boost the store’s earnings and she counts on loyal customers, who bring new ones.
“I don’t like crowded stores,” said Sharon Manley, of Southington. “I needed a gift for someone. This has particularly nice things and the prices aren’t bad, either.”
The Saturday promotion was created by American Ex-press in 2010 and is slowly taking hold in the U.S. to help businesses get more custom-ers. The credit card company even attached a reward sys-tem to the card to allow card-holders to spend more to get more.
Small Business Saturday tries to educate people about the benefits of supporting local businesses instead of malls and big boxes; the prof-its stay in the community, re-duces empty storefronts, and provides local employment.
“This is my most favorite place in the whole world,”
said Jennifer Steffanci, of Southington. “The people who work here have become like family and I want to sup-port them.”
Most shoppers might not be as loyal, but savvy busi-ness owners have leveraged the Internet and social me-dia sites such as Facebook and Twitter to give them a competitive edge against the national chains. The hashtag #ShopSmallSaturday saw significant traffic on Twit-ter Saturday from retailers, restaurateurs offering deals, and customers.
According to a recent arti-cle on Fortune.com, the econ-omies of scale that used to signal “bigger is better” have changed. Small businesses and entrepreneurs can suc-cessfully compete with far
larger competitors because of their global reach, cloud com-puting, nimbleness to act on a new idea, and more back-room services.
Jodie Shorette, owner of Southington Athletic Shop, on Meriden-Waterbury Turn-pike, also owns www.varsity-girl.net, an online shop for girls’ apparel for lacrosse, softball and other sports. Her shop carries Cheshire and Southington team gear for boys and girls, and fun-themed athletic wear for girls.
Shorette supports the rea-sons behind Small Business Saturday but can’t get com-pletely behind it because it’s an American Express promo-tion. Her store doesn’t accept American Express because of its higher fees, she said. Her website, however, will take an
Amex credit card.“I support the reasons be-
hind it,” she said. “But I feel hypocritical.”
David Katz, who owns Katz Sport Shop in South Meriden, said he didn’t think the hype surrounding Small Business Saturday would bring in the volume needed to take on large chain and Internet sales.
“Get rid of the Internet and big box stores,” Katz said. “The whole thing is getting out of hand.”
Palumbo’s Jewelers on North Main Street took to sending coupons to its cus-tomer mailing list offering steep discounts for purchases over $150, and less for $75. The promotion worked and the store enjoyed a steady line of customers Saturday.
“My grandmother got something in the mail,” said Diana Hernandez, of Southington. “They seem like they have a real personal touch. It’s a more intimate setting minus the chaos in the mall. I shop small.”
Hernandez said the aware-ness campaign, and having a boyfriend with a local land-scaping business, has led to a greater understanding of the values of patronizing local businesses.
“I would like to do more of it,” she said.
Dottie Perry, owner of Tres Chic Boutique on Center Street, placed a newspaper advertisement with a coupon to attract customers.
“It’s been steady,” she said.
By Mary Ellen GodinSpecial to The Citizen
Flo Legat, owner of Just For You Gift Shoppe on Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike in Southington, talks with customer Sharon Manley on Small Business Saturday. | Mary Ellen Godin / For The Citizen
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Foresters will be marking trees for a thinning project at Crescent Lake this winter that is intended to help tree growth and bring in some money for invasive species removal.
Assistant town planner Dave Lavallee said a for-estry company chosen by the Town Council’s open space committee will do the mark-ing. Trees have crowded atop each other and young trees aren’t able to get enough sun-light, he said.
“The thinning will promote growth of the younger trees in there,” Lavallee said.
About a third of the trees in two management areas will be removed. The town will sell any good wood for lum-ber which will be marketed as Connecticut Grown.
“Any money we get from it will go right back into (Cres-cent Lake) for invasive spe-cies management,” Lavallee said.
A company to cut and re-move the trees will be cho-sen in the spring, Lavallee said. Ferrucci & Walicki LLC, a Middlefield forestry firm, will mark the trees.
Removing trees brings more sunlight which can help younger trees but also plants that town officials don’t want. Lavallee said the thinning has to be combined with other management of the area.
Tree thinning and inva-sive species removal was recommended in a report completed last year by faculty and students of the UConn College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. It divided the Crescent Lake area into five sections and discussed the age and health of trees in each.
Two sections adjacent to the lake north and south were marked for thinning. Old and damaged trees would be re-moved to allow for younger, healthy trees. Other trees would be removed to more evenly space trees to keep them from crowding each
other.The two main invasive spe-
cies are Japanese barberry and oriental bittersweet. The report said the shrubs crowd out other growth and change the soil composition. Stepha-nie Urillo, a town councilor and chairwoman of the open space committee, said forest management would be ongo-ing as necessary to maintain the 221-acre Crescent Lake.
“We’re creating a healthy environment for one of the most pristine open space in Southington and raising funds by doing so,” she said.
Dawn Miceli, a town coun-cilor and open space com-mittee member, said she was glad that work was beginning
at the lake.“I’m glad that we’re mov-
ing forward on this,” she said. “We need to make sure we’re maintaining our open space parcels to make sure they’re as healthy as possible.”
Miceli hoped residents would understand that the foresters marking and delin-eating trees weren’t clearing the forest or developing the land.
“It’s important that resi-dents know this is for main-tenance,” she said.
Both Miceli and Urillo said they were grateful for the work done by UConn’s for-estry program which came at no charge to the town.
Tree thinning to begin at Crescent LakeBy Jesse BuchananSpecial to The Citizen
Tom Worthley reviews the safety features of a chainsaw with teachers from Southington High School before they go into the wooded areas around Crescent Lake for a demonstration of forest management in Southington, Oct. 1, 2013. | File photo / Record-Journal
Kevin B. Sullivan, Com-missioner of the Con-necticut Department of Revenue Services, warns state homeowners about a new ploy claiming govern-ment agencies placed liens on the victim’s property.
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The spirit of giving came to Southington last week as organizations around town went to work helping others. Top left: Southington Knights of Columbus, Isabella Council 15 member and former Fire Chief Rich McCullough rings the Salvation Army bells at TOPS market as generous shoppers contribute to Southington Community Services. Right: STEPS Youth and adults ring the bells at Stop & Shop, supporting the efforts of Southington Community Services to provide food, clothing and other items for families in challenging circumstances. | Photos by E. Richard Fortunato
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Southington Youth Ser-vices Parent Information Se-ries has scheduled “Helping Children Overcome Anxiety” for Thursday, Jan. 22, 7 to 8:30 p.m., at Southington Youth Services, 196 North Main St., Municipal Center.
Dr. Thomas Finn, psychol-ogist, plans to discuss the role parents play in help-ing children prevent, man-age and overcome anxiety. The program is available to Southington residents only. Admission is free. Space is limited.
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There’s good news for those dreading the cold this winter. Despite recent occurrences of immense snowfall in Buffalo, New York, and a record-break-ing cold temperature for the date recorded in Bridgeport on Nov. 19, there are some signs this winter may be less cold and snowy than originally pre-dicted by the Farmer’s Alma-nac, which forecasts a winter snowier and colder than aver-age. Gary Lessor, assistant di-rector of the Weather Service at Eastern Connecticut State University, said some long range computerized models of weather systems are suggest-ing that this December, January and February will be warmer than average in Connecticut.
Long-term predictions are tricky, but there are many in-dicators experts use to predict the weather, Lessor explained. “It has a lot to do with different
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example, may force cold air southward, and oscillations in the Atlantic and Pacific can also have a large impact on local weather. Although the North-east may have a milder win-ter according to some models, those same models also suggest a colder winter to the west.
Colder than average weather should not be taken as evidence that global warming — climate change — is not occurring, however, Lessor said. There is overwhelming consensus in the scientific community that global climate change is occurring, Lessor said, but in-creasing average temperatures doesn’t mean that the earth will not continue to experience ice ages, as it has in the past. If an ice age did occur, however, it may be warmer than it would
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Lessor said this is why global warming can be responsible for greater extremes of both heat and cold. Although Connecti-cut has seen record-breaking cold temperatures on some days this year and last year, the trend is generally toward warming, with the 20 warmest years on record occurring since 1981 and the 10 warmest years on record occurring in the past 12 years, according to NASA.
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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 145 Main St., has scheduled its ninth annual holiday bou-tique for Saturday, Dec. 6, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event fea-tures hand-crafted Christ-mas items, jewelry, children’s gifts, and more. The cafe plans breakfast and lunch items for purchase. Proceeds benefit the Southington Fuel Bank.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church has scheduled a meditative Taize service for Sunday, Dec. 14, 7 p.m. Taize is an ecumenical sung and silent participatory prayer service. At the conclusion of the ser-vice, healing prayer will be offered for those who desire. The service is intended to participants age 13 and older, as silence is required. For more information, call (860) 628-8486.
First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church of Southington, 581 Meriden Ave., has scheduled a pro-
gram of music celebrating Christmas for Sunday, Dec. 14, 4 p.m. A free will offer-ing will be accepted. All are welcome.
First Baptist Church of Southington has scheduled a bus trip to Boar’s Head Feast and Bright Nights for Thurs-day, Dec. 11. All are welcome. For more information, reser-vations and costs, call Bev at (860) 621-3024 or Sharon at (860) 770-1557.
Blue Christmas, a service of remembrance, hope and healing, is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 17, 7 p.m., at First Baptist Church of Southington. The service of-fers respite and comfort to those who may be grieving a loved one, a job loss, es-trangement or coping with any situation bringing sad-ness or stress during the hol-iday season. All are welcome.
For more information, call (860) 628-8121.
Christmas Craft Fair
St. Aloysius Ladies Guild’s annual Christmas Craft Fair is set for Saturday, Dec. 6, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at 254 Bur-ritt St. The event features gift baskets, vendors, baked goods, swags and handmade items.
Holiday Boutique
St. Paul Church, 145 Main St., has scheduled its ninth annual Holiday Boutique for Saturday, Dec. 6, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call (860) 628-8486.
Tea and Bazaar
Grace United Methodist Church, 121 Pleasant St., has scheduled its annual Christ-mas Tea and Bazaar for Sat-urday, Dec. 6, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event features knitted and craft items, ornaments, gift items, homemade Christ-mas cookies and fudge, and a tea luncheon. For more infor-mation, call (860) 628-6996.
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Food for FinesThe Southington Library
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The “Food for Fines” col-lection, scheduled through Wednesday, Dec. 31, is a time when Southington patrons may offset their overdue fines with non-perishable food items. All donations go to help Southington Community Services restock their shelves during the holiday season.
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A c c o r d i n g t o t h e Southington Community Ser-vices Department, the items especially needed include: cereal, tuna fish, peanut but-ter, jelly, pasta sauce, canned fruit, canned vegetables, juice boxes, macaroni and cheese, soups, snacks, household pa-per goods, toiletries (soap, shampoo, toothpaste).
The library “Mitten Tree” will also be ready for decorat-ing. Patrons may bring new mittens, hats, gloves, scarves and socks. Handmade items are always appreciated.
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The Friends of Southington Library Book Store is sched-uled to be open Monday and Thursday, 2 to 5 p.m.; Mon-day and Wednesday, 2 to 8:30 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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The Southington Library has scheduled classic movie matinées for Friday, Dec. 19, Jan. 9 and Feb. 20, 11:30 a.m. Bring a brown bag lunch. No registration is required. For more information, call (860) 628-0947, ext. 5.
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The Southington Library has introduced a new collec-tion of current bestsellers. Formerly called “Fast Track,” the collection will circulate for 14 days instead of one week. All titles are available first come, first serve.
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ObituariesJanet (Russo) Cekovsky
SOUTHINGTON — Janet (Russo) Cekovsky, beloved wife of William
Cekovsky, p a s s e d away at her home on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014, after a long and courageous battle with
cancer.Born in New Haven on
Nov. 7, 1948, she was the daughter of the late Antho-ny and Camille (Formichel-la) Russo. She graduated from Sacred Heart Acad-emy in Hamden, Conn., and Anna Maria College in Paxton, Mass.; earned a Masters in math educa-tion from Boston College; and taught at schools in Massachusetts and Con-necticut. She also enjoyed tutoring students in math out of her home. She was a Southington resident for 34 years and an active parishioner at St. Thom-as Church. Her greatest joys were her husband, her children, her grandchil-dren, and spending sum-mer weeks in Nantucket, Mass., sitting on the beach
with her toes in the water.Besides her husband of
35 years, she is survived by her children, Antho-ny and his wife, Charlene Cekovsky, of Middletown; Richard and his wife, Jacqueline Cekovsky, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; William and his wife, Kelly Cekovsky, of Prospect; and Valerie Ce-kovsky and her boyfriend, Tyler Smith, of Boston, Mass.; three grandchildren Amber Sekoll, and Andrew and Myla Cekovsky; a sis-ter, Diane and her husband, Robert Bixler, of Irmo, S.C.; a stepsister, Elisa Ber-nardo, of Vail, Colo.; and several nieces and neph-ews. She will be deeply missed by her dog, Tucket; and three granddogs Lola, Bentley, and Chimes.
Her funeral took place Tuesday, Dec. 2, at 9:15 a.m. from DellaVecchia Funeral Home, 211 N. Main St., and at 10 a.m. at St. Thomas Church for Mass. Burial followed in St. Thomas Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Thom-as School, 99 Bristol St. Southington, CT 06489; or to the Jimmy V Foun-dation, www.jimmyv.org. Visit www.dellavecchiafh.com for online tributes and directions.
Joseph ZoniSOUTHINGTON
— Joseph Zoni, 91, of the Plants-ville section of Southington, passed away on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014, at Southington Care Center. He was the lov-ing husband of Madeline (Casadonte) Zoni.
He was born in Bristol on Oct. 30, 1923, the son of the late Joseph A. and Frances (Rulli) Zoni. He attended Bristol schools. Mr. Zoni was a veteran of World War II serving in the U.S. Coast Guard. Prior to his retirement he had been employed by New Depar-ture in Bristol.
In addition to his wife he is survived by two sons, State Representative Da-vid Zoni and his wife, Su-san, and Daniel Zoni, all of Plantsville; he also leaves his grandsons, David J. Zoni and Steven C. Zoni Esq.; and a sister, Jean-nette and her husband, Carl Malachowski, of Na-ples, Fla.; and several niec-es and nephews. He was predeceased by a brother, Ambrose Zoni
Private services and buri-al will be held. The Della-Vecchia Funeral Home, 211 N. Main St. is assisting with arrangements. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in his memory to Fa-ther B’s Scholarship Fund. 254 Burritt St., Plantsville, CT 06479 or the Disabled American Veterans, 64 Main St., Southington, CT 06489. For online condo-lences visit www.dellavec-chiafh.com.
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For decades the people in Southington have gathered on the Tuesday evening be-fore Thanksgiving for an in-terfaith service. This year’s host church was the First Evangelical Lutheran Church. The service was led by the clergy of a dozen local faith communities, each taking a role in the readings, prayers and spiritual messages of the Old and New Testaments and the musical prayer service of the Sikh.
The voices of many congre-gations sang as one choir as the group participated in the service, reinforcing centu-ries old American traditions of faith as well as celebrating the ethnic, racial, religious and cultural diversity of the local community today.
One participant said, “It was heart-warming – just
praying with my friends and neighbors of different reli-gious denominations.”
Among the hundreds who participated were Jew-ish, Catholic, Protestant and Sikh Americans. The assem-bled were invited during the offertory to come up with gifts of food and money to be donated to Southington Community Services. The meditation of hosting pastor, Rev. Joshua Rinas, included the following message:
“We celebrate Thanksgiv-ing, pausing to take stock and to reflect, taking a step back for a day, giving thanks. I am concerned though about rampant consumerism and the messages it sends. Over the next few weeks, we will be inundated with advertise-ments on radio, television, In-ternet, billboards and street signs suggesting that we buy
Interfaith service celebrates diversity By E. Richard FortunatoSpecial to The Citizen
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A generous Thanksgiving
M e m b e r s o f t h e Southington Knights of Co-lumbus Isabella Council 15 took turns ringing the Sal-vation Army bells at TOPS Market on Tuesday, Nov. 25. Thanks to the generous support of shoppers, more than $500 was raised for Southington Community Ser-vices. The town agency offers a host of services for quali-fied individuals and families while also providing food, clothing and other needs, in-cluding Christmas gifts for the children of Southington families unable to make ends meet. That same evening, 25 to 30 of the STEPS Youth Committee rang the bells at Stop & Shop for donations to Southington Community Services. The collection had not been totaled at the time of this writing. On the eve of Thanksgiving, members of American Legion Kiltonic Post 72 in Southington pur-chased and delivered com-plete turkey dinners with all the trimming to local families in need this holiday season.
Remembering vets in nursing homes, hospitals, care centers
Rachel Wache has given de-cades of service to the Auxil-iary of American Legion Post 72. She’s also a valued member
of the STEPS Advisory Board representing the military. Wa-che recently initiated a cam-paign to gather donations of 2015 wall calendars for veter-ans living in nursing homes and those being treated in healthcare facilities around the state. Working with Kelly Leppard, coordinator of the STEPS coalition, Wache made up decorated collection boxes and posters which were placed around town at busy places such as the YMCA, the Southington Public Li-brary, Calendar House, Town Hall, Southington Commu-nity Services and Youth Ser-vices. Within the first week hundreds of calendars were collected. Wache’s goal is to reach about 1,500 veterans. There’s still time for you to make a gift of a 2015 wall cal-endar, an item many of us re-ceive in multiple quantities. But these gifts will be mean-ingful for a veteran to add to the personal items in his or her room.
Walmart joins in the community spirit
On Tuesday, Dec. 9, from 3 to 5 p.m., anyone who lives, works or visits Southington will have an opportunity to make a donation at the Salva-tion Army red kettle placed at the entrances to Walmart on Queen Street in Southington. State Sen. Joe Markley and state Rep. Rob Sampson will be ringing the bells. The com-munity’s donations will be matched by Walmart, thus doubling the collection to be presented to Southington
Spirit of the holidays abounds around town
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Good government To the editor:It was encouraging to see
the Op Ed letter in the news-paper last week from the Southington Town Council chairman.
It is rare that you find gov-ernment leaders who think outside of the box and take a proactive approach with a plan to generate increased tax revenue that will lead to re-duced tax burden for all tax payers.
I am very pleased to see the Town Council, Board of Education and Board of Fi-nance working extremely well together to provide ex-cellent service to our commu-nity while protecting us from large tax increases.
State and federal elected government leaders would be well served if they used Southington’s current lead-ership as an example of how
well a government can oper-ate with intelligent leadership whose only agenda is the bet-terment of the community as a whole.
Brian CallahanSouthington
Extend tax waiver
To the editor:The Nov. 21 edition of the
Southington Citizen sug-gests that we get to know our elected officials. I’ll suggest a conversation starter.
Rep. Dave Zoni and his Democrat Party enacted a law to provide a phased-in 50 percent state income tax wav-ier for state teacher pensions. This benefit was not given to Social Security or private pension recipients. As April 15 approaches, current and fu-ture Social Security and pri-vate pension recipients may want to calculate the poten-tial impact of a tax waiver on
their state income tax liability and discuss their finding with their representatives.
My state senator, Joe Mar-kley, has introduced pension reform bills in the past. I’ve spoken to my state represen-tative, Dave Zoni, and did not sense a high interested level in pursuing this. Perhaps ad-ditional voices can raise the interest level.
Rep. Zoni recently sent out a bulletin advising how to seek help with heating costs. Extending the tax waiver to Social Security and pri-vate pension recipients will certainly help retirees with heating, electric, and other household costs.
This is not the most im-portant issue in our state, but it is one that is likely to have widespread interest and can be quickly dealt with in the general assembly.
Bill MarcarelliSouthington
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665 accidents, 25 DUI arrests in Connecticut
MIDDLETOWN (AP) — Connecticut State Police say they’ve responded to 665 car crashes and arrested 25 peo-ple for driving under the in-fluence during beefed-up enforcement during the Thanksgiving holiday period.
Extra patrols began early Tuesday morning, Nov. 25 and was to continue through Sunday night.
Troopers say 88 acci-dents involved injuries and one person died. Police say 29-year-old Luis Contreras of Norwalk was killed Nov. 25 when his car crashed on Route 7 in Norwalk. The
cause of the accident is un-der investigation.
State police say they were targeting drunken drivers and aggressive drivers.
Troopers say they’ve is-sued nearly 890 speeding tickets and nearly 300 tickets for failure to wear seat belts.
State News
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Community Services. Walmart initiated this program a couple of years ago. Each time it was held, the amount donated in Southington increased. In the last collection, the Southington com-munity contributed $25,000. With the matching funds of Walmart, our town’s community services agency received $50,000!
SCS Director Janet Mellon said, “That was enough to carry us through the holiday season and beyond into the cold winter months.”
Try to imagine how much this meant to families who would otherwise be living through stretches at a time with hunger and precious little hope, the kind of hope that many of us know and take for granted. Mellon sug-gested that groups around town, organizations, associations, busi-nesses, clubs, institutions and professionals take up an advance
collection within their own group and then deliver it at the pre-scribed time of 3 to 5 p.m. at the Salvation Army bells at Walmart. What this does is increase the participation of individuals who might otherwise not be able to get to Walmart within those hours or perhaps forget to do so. In this way, every dollar col-lected becomes two dollars with Walmart’s matching contribution. Alternately, groups may deliver their collections to Southington Community Services at 91 Nor-ton St. (Rt. 10), in Plantsville by noon on Tuesday, Dec. 9. SCS will then deliver those collections to Walmart at 3 p.m. The amount you contribute, large or small, in-dividually or as part of a group, is private. What counts is for our community to strive to increase the participation of everyone, even if it is only a few coins in some cases. So let’s all join the caring spirit of Southington. Are you in?
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State
They’ve also cited nearly 2,600 drivers for hazardous moving violations includ-ing tailgating and illegal cell phone use while driving.
— Associated Press
State mulls changes in social studies
HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut is considering the biggest change in social studies lessons in more than 15 years to confront a vast and growing web of cul-tural information and current events on social media, websites and other sources.
Social studies teachers want students to not only know the answers to key ques-tions in history, economics, geography and civics but to also understand what questions to ask. The intent is to separate valuable information from what’s useless or inaccurate.
The changes are associated with Com-mon Core standards. Opponents are wary about revisions to social studies that may be more subjective than changes to math
and science.The curriculum proposal is called the
Connecticut Elementary and Secondary Social Studies Frameworks. Districts can decide whether they want to use it.
— Associated Press
Open houses planned for new bus lane
HARTFORD — Connecticut transpor-tation officials are holding open houses over the coming weeks to help educate commuters about the new, soon-to-open central Connecticut bus-only corridor.
The first open houses for CTfasttrack were planned in Hartford on Tuesday at the Hartford Public Library and Thurs-day, Dec. 4 at the Old State House. Others are scheduled in December and January in New Britain, West Hartford, Newing-ton, Waterbury, Southington, Plainville, Cheshire and Bristol.
Members of the public will be able to learn more about purchasing tickets, plan-ning trips, new routes and connecting to
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STORY TIME AT THE SUMMIT
Fifth grade students from Plaintsville Elementary School visited The Summit at Plantsville recently. The students dressed in costumes that matched the stories they read to residents. Pictured, Margaret Perfetto and her daughter, Laurie Luponio, listen to Annaleese Cook.
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other bus routes. A new CT-fastrack bus, a ticket vending machine and online trip plan-ner will be available at each open house.
The $567 million, 9.4-mile bus-only corridor between Hartford and New Britain is scheduled to begin opera-tions on March 28.
— Associated Press
Pilot describes emergency landing
WEST HARTFORD — The pilot of a single-engine plane that made an emergency landing on a bus-only road-way in Connecticut says he’s lucky to have survived and is glad no one on the ground was hurt.
Danny Hall of Torrington says he experienced en-gine problems and lost power while flying the Sky-line Cessna from Robertson Field in Plainville to Hart-ford-Brainard Airport on Sat-urday afternoon.
Hall says he called Hart-ford-Brainard Airport to have them tell his four kids he loved them if he didn’t sur-vive, then put the plane down on a road with no traffic on it. It turned out to be the un-der-construction busway.
Federal off icials are investigating.
Hall says he also survived a plane crash in 2008 into the Pawcatuck River in Westerly, Rhode Island, and is consid-ering giving up flying.
— Associated Press
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Interfaith
more stuff. Women will hear they can be beautiful if this cream is purchased, men will hear they may be worthy of respect if only they buy this suit. As a child, I was part of a congregation involved with refugee immigration ministry. A sponsored fam-ily of seven came to live with us. We made space as best we could in a small house. Three young men slept on the floor of our tiny dining room squished between table,
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Local drummer marches in Macy’s paradeOn Thanksgiving Day, lo-
cal musician Bryson Teel played drums among dozens of building-sized balloons, enormous floats, celebrities, and a crowd of thousands during the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City.
The 2013 Southington High School graduate is a member of the Madison Scouts march-ing band, a youth perform-ing arts organization with members across the country and the globe. Teel is among the 426 band members and alumni who marched and performed during the parade.
“It’s pretty incredible,” said Teel prior to the perfor-mance. “With being in Drum Corps International, you still have a bunch of fans that will follow you, but the parade, everyone will see it.”
More than 50 million peo-ple across the country tune
in to watch the Thanksgiving Day parade on average, ac-cording to the Macy’s parade website. This year’s parade was the 88th.
For four years Teel was in the Southington High School marching band’s drumline. His passion for the music led him to join the Madison Scouts after he graduated high school in 2013. Teel is a
sophomore at Western Con-necticut State University.
“He was a very, very good player here and a hard worker and great kid,” said Jeff Shaw, the band director at the high school. “I’m not surprised; he really works hard.”
Trish Teel, Teel’s mother, remembered how Teel started drumming when he was nine and hasn’t stopped since.
“He just fell in love with it,” Teel said.
Band members have been individually preparing for the performance since the
end of the group’s season in the summer.
As they walk through the
By Farrah DuffanySpecial to The Citizen
Above and right: Bryson Teel performs with the Madison Scouts drumline earlier this year. | Photo courtesy of Bryson Teel
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HQ Landscaping, located on Granger Lane in Plainville, is moving to Southington, according to Kurt Holyst, part owner of the company. Holyst said the move was necessary, as HQ Landscap-ing needs more space.
Holyst said the company has offered to sell the half-acre Granger Lane land to the town of Plainville for $495,000.
Before the Plainville Town Council could approve the sale, a public hearing was to be held Dec. 1.
Plainville Town Manager Robert E. Lee told the Town Council on Nov. 17 that the Granger Road property was appraised by Calciano&Stern Appraisal Associates. The town manager said the loca-tion could help the Roadway Department with equipment storage.
HQ Landscaping paid $500,000 for the Granger
Lane property four years ago. Holyst said the com-pany “sold it to the town for $495,000 because the town has been very good to me as far as the last four years are concerned, and I thought that before someone else bought it, they could have it because they would need it. So I of-fered it to them at a discount.”
The move to Southington could take three to nine months to complete.
Plainville landscape firm plans move to SouthingtonBy Adam StuhlmanSpecial to The Citizen
HQ Landscaping has outgrown its Granger Lane property, and is moving to Southington. | Adam Stuhlman / For The Citizen
Interfaith
chairs, and close walls. After two weeks, the jet-lag sub-sided, my father spoke to the eldest brother. He apologized for the arrangements. The man laughed and explained, for the past two years in the refugee camp their family of seven had lived with another family of seven in a house smaller than the 10 foot by 10 foot dining room we called
small. Further, the sleeping bags on carpeted floor with carpet pad underneath were the finest beds they had ever experienced. It’s a matter of perspective – how we see what we have. There’s hardly one among us who doesn’t have so much extra stuff… we’re burdened by it. Yet, we hear messages daily that our value is based upon how
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The DMV and Trav-elers teen safe driving video contest, Steer Your Friends in the Right Di-rection, is open to all state high school students. The 25-second videos must illustrate 2 or more of the state’s teen driv-ing laws. The deadline for submitting a video is Jan. 14. For rules, visit www.ct.gov/teendriving /contest. Prizes are awarded to the schools of the students creating the top five winning videos.
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Scam
ing government officials is a popular ploy and it is be-ing used in the letters sent to victims claiming that DRS and the IRS filed property liens against the victim,” said Sullivan.
The letter instructs vic-tims to call an 800 number to resolve the matter, which is when the scammer attempts to scare the homeowner into
sending a payment.Said Sullivan, “We have
shared this information with the Connecticut Attor-ney General and the Con-necticut Intelligence Center with Homeland Security in the hope of stopping these thieves. We will also post in-formation on our website and in our offices warning taxpay-ers about this scam.
“If anyone receives any phone calls, emails, letters, or other communication claim-ing to be from the IRS or DRS
and demands immediate pay-ment for taxes, contact our department immediately! All phone numbers and methods for contacting DRS can be found on the DRS website at www.ct.gov/drs.”
For more information about the Connecticut tax is-sues, visit www.ct.gov/DRS or call 1-800-382-9463 (Con-necticut calls outside the Greater Hartford calling area only) or 860-297-5962 (from anywhere).
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Macy’s
parade, Teel said the Madi-son Scouts were to be play-ing “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” When they were to arrive at the famous Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade red carpet, the drumline was to play a melody of the song “Happy” by Pharrell and the Christmas song “Joy to the World.”
Although Teel’s parents
couldn’t make it to New York, Trish Teel said she would be watching from home.
“I think it’s going to be an incredible experience for him. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” she said.
“It’s pretty sweet,” Teel said. “It’s definitely some-thing I’d like to show my kids that I marched in the parade once, it’s pretty cool.”
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much more we acquire — or give. After we helped our refugee friends, they were moving into an apartment. My father offered to help paint the walls. Upon enter-ing the hardware store, the eldest brother began laugh-ing again as he took in a wall of thousands of paint chips. He explained that commu-nist guards in the ‘Re-educa-tion Camp’ back in Laos had warned against dreams of the U.S., for it was a poor country with no rice, so poor that it had attacked Vietnam in or-der to steal their rice. Again, it’s a matter of perspective, how we see. I’m concerned about the infection of con-sumerism; its effect on us. We hear continually that our value is caught up in our pur-chases and possessions. But there is another way. God, our Creator, does not see us this way. He formed us and called us good and wonder-ful. We are the beloved apple of God’s eye. It’s a matter of perspective. Let’s be thankful and try to see ourselves and one another as God sees us.”
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Faith Bible Church, 168 Unionville Ave. in Plainville, has scheduled its fifth annual Christ-mas tree sale Mondays through Fridays, 4 to 9 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to 6 p.m. Trees range from four to 10 feet. Call (860) 747-5209 or email [email protected].
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With your help, we can make a Southington child’s or seniorcitizen’s holiday wish come true.
Local restaurants have teamed up with Southington CommunityServices to raise money to make this Christmas brighter for them.
A special tent card will be on each table and a donation envelopewill be available with your meal check or on the table for a voluntarycontribution. All monies collected will go to Community Services tobe spent on Southington children and seniors to brighten up theirholidays.
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Festive holiday party
Our Annual Holiday Party at the Aqua Turf, Kay’s Pier South will be held Thursday, Dec. 11 beginning at noon. Last day to purchase tick-ets is Dec. 5. If requesting to
be seated at a specific table, please decide the designated person, before purchasing tickets, be sure to specify that name as the group you wish to be seated with. Even if you do not have enough for a table, and wish to be seated with one or several other in-dividuals, please indicate that when purchasing tickets. Menu: tossed salad, penne pasta, baked scrod, roast beef, maple glazed carrots, garlic whipped potatoes, Cherries Jubilee. DJ Jerry Limmer will entertain. Cash bar available.
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Membership meeting
The Calendar House Mem-bership Association Meet-ing is set for Thursday, Dec. 18, 1 p.m. All are welcome. Celebrate the season as the DePaolo Middle School stu-dents delight you with their musical talents. After a brief update on the membership business, join us for a special opportunity to acknowledge and appreciate Sharyn Mur-phy who recently retired after 10 years as our program co-ordinator. Light refreshments will be served. RSVP at (860) 621-3014.
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Calendar House will be closed on Christmas Day, Dec. 25 and New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, 2015. Calendar House will close at noon on Wednes-day, Dec. 24 and Dec. 31.
Senior advisory board will meet Jan. 13
The Senior Citizen Com-
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Friends of Feral Cheshire Cats announces a holiday sea-son donation challenge. An anonymous donor has pledged to match all donations to the nonprofit rescue group from now until Dec. 25. Last year’s donations exceeded the $5,000
goal, enabling the group to help more feral cats, as well as friendly cats and kittens.
Although the rescue group works with feral cats in Cheshire, many requests for help were received and re-sponded to this year from the surrounding towns of Ham-den, Wallingford, Meriden and Southington. This fundraising opportunity allows FFCC to continue to humanely reduce the feral cat population and to help abandoned cats and kit-tens in the community.
FFCC recognized the con-tinued generosity of the do-
nor and stated its hope that this challenge will inspire the community to meet the goals of its fundraising efforts. No amount is too small, and with this challenge, the donation will multiply.
Tax-deductible dona-tions may be made payable to Friends of Feral Cheshire Cats, and sent to P.O. Box 946, Cheshire, CT 06410 or may be made securely online at www.friendsofferalcheshirecats.org. Call FFCC toll-free at (844) 337-2528.
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Shoreline Arts Alliance has scheduled the 15th annual New Voices in Children’s Literature: Tassy Walden Awards competition for un-published writers or illustra-tors of children’s books. The statewide, juried competition is open to those not published or under contract for publica-tion. Categories are: Picture Book (text only), Illustrated Picture Book (author and illustrator must be same person), Children’s Book
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Southington, 34 Hobart St., has scheduled an open house for Saturday, Dec. 13, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Orchards at Southington is an indepen-dent and assisted living community. For more in-formation and to RSVP, call (860) 628-5656.
Pet PartnerSouthington Care Center,
45 Meriden Ave., has sched-uled Pet Partner evaluation test to those interested in serving with their dogs as pet therapy partners.
Participants must first com-plete the Pet Partners course at www.petpartners.org.
A fee is charged for the course.
The certificate of com-pletion and rabies certifi-cate must be brought to the on-site evaluation testing, scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 25, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Southington Care Center.
Evaluations are by ap-pointment only. Evaluations are free but a donation is re-quested to the SCC Jane Haze Memorial Pet Therapy Fund.
Mulberry Gardens sched-ules a support group for families and caregivers on the second Tuesday of each month.
For information, call Marie Terzak at (860) 276-1020.
Briefs The Town of Southington has scheduled its 2014 food, coat and toy drive.
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Man faces charges in gas station robbery last month
Police arrested an East Windsor man Dec. 2 in the robbery of the Sunoco gas station on West Street last month.
Travis Gornto, 43, was
charged with first-degree lar-ceny and fifth-degree larceny. He was held on $50,000 bond and arraigned in Bristol Supe-rior Court.
Sgt. Jeffery Dobratz, the po-lice spokesman, said the rob-bery was reported on Nov. 23 at about 11:40 a.m. No weapon
was shown, but the clerk said the robber implied he was carrying one. The clerk was able to give police a license plate number and descrip-tion of the robber, which po-lice broadcast to other police departments. New Haven po-lice reported seeing the ve-
hicle, and Gornto was taken into custody by Derby police, Dobratz said.
At the time of the incident, Gornto was hospitalized for an evaluation. When he was released from the hospital on Dec. 2 he was turned over to police, Dobratz said.
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Southington defeats Cheshire in a real dogfight
C H E S H I R E — Th e Southington High School powder puff team defeated Cheshire High School Tues-day, Nov. 25 by the score of 28-12.
The annual rivalry game was hard-fought and two Cheshire players had to leave
the game d u e t o injury.
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were scored in the first quar-ter. The first touchdown was scored by Southington’s Em-ily Lippincott, who ran 86 yards with 11 minutes and 34 seconds remaining in the sec-ond quarter. Her teammate Adalain Meier kicked the ex-tra point.
During the second quarter, Southington’s Carissa Sirois intercepted a pass.
Cheshire’s Olivia Oder-matt scored her team’s first touchdown near the end of the second quarter.
During the fourth quarter, Southington’s Hayley Arduini intercepted another Cheshire
pass.The final touchdown of
the game was scored by Odermatt.
Despite the loss, Cheshire’s
Jill Pulek was proud of her team’s effort.
“I think we stayed together as a team,” Pulek said. “We had fun, it was about the fun.”
“I had a great group of girls this season,” said Cheshire head coach George Gilhuly.
“My girls did a great job.”As the clock expired, the
Southington team ran on to the field in celebration.
The girls huddled into a circle and chanted “senior year, senior year, senior year” as they jumped up and down.
“You guys played really hard,” said Southington High School Principal Marty Sem-mel. “It got a little aggressive, but you kept your cool. Con-grats girls.”
Southington head coach Charlie Kemp said he was proud of his team.
“Now comes the hard part,” Kemp said. “Now comes the goodbye. I can’t thank you enough for all the fun you gave me this fall on the field.”
Lippincott and teammate Jessica Goralski, who also
By Farrah DuffanySpecial to The Citizen
Second Quarter• Emily Lippincott, No. 1,
Southington High School, Touchdown, 11:34 left on the game clock. The conversion was good.
• Jessica Goralski, No. 24, Southington High School, Touchdown, 7:12 left on the game clock. The conversion was good.
• Olivia Odermatt, No. 5, Cheshire High School, Touchdown, 4:44 left on the game clock. The conversion was no good.
Fourth Quarter• Emily Lippincott, No. 1,
Southington High School, Touchdown, 11:35 left on the game clock. The conversion was good.
• Jessica Goralski, No. 24, Southington High School, Touchdown, 9:50 left on the game clock. The conversion was good.
• Olivia Odermatt, No. 5, Cheshire High School, Touchdown, :40 left on the game clock. The conversion was no good.
Southington 28
Cheshire 12
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S O U T H I N GTO N — When Southington junior quarterback Jasen Rose surveys the scene prior to the snap, he has a world of support.
He’s sur-rounded by a deep and talented receiv-ing corps.
His offensive linemen pro-vide such a protective shield that his game uniform hardly needs laundering. After he puts the finishing touch on a well-executed drive, he gets the chance to watch an equally skilled defense take away what its foes do best.
Blend in the tradition of a great rivalry, the emotion
generated by an enthusias-tic crowd and the time and effort put in since last sea-son ended, and the scope of
Southington’s gridiron prow-ess comes into focus.
Rose passed for over 400 yards and five touchdowns
Saturday as the undefeated Blue Knights galloped to a 44-7 victory to end Cheshire’s bid for a playoff berth in the
19th annual Apple Classic at Joseph Fontana Field.
Southington (10-0), pend-ing official acknowledgment from the CIAC Football Committee this morning, has earned the top seed in the Class LL’s four-team large-school tournament. Cheshire (8-3), which would have qual-ified for the Class LL small-school tournament with a
Sports
SOUTHINGTON — The 19th annual Apple Classic wasn’t lack-ing for story lines heading into Saturday’s high noon showdown at Fontana Field.
Cheshire was playing for its first trip to the playoffs since the Class LL state championship season of 2009.
Cheshire senior Jack Cunning-ham, just six months off ACL sur-gery, was back on the field full time and playing quarterback and earning his team’s Offensive MVP award.
Offensive coordinators Steve Croce of Cheshire and Chuck Drury of Southington were re-newing acquaintances. Croce was OC at Pomperaug when Drury was head coach there before joining his
son Mike’ staff in Southington. At Cheshire, Croce has installed the double-wing he’d learned from Drury.
Everything tends to come full circle in this game.
And so does Southington wide receiver Alex Jamele.
In fact, the senior goes long, goes short, goes inside, goes out. Above all, he goes into the end zone, and that’s how he’s once again grabbed headlines in the local paper.
With his two touchdown recep-tions Saturday, Jamele not only helped Southington rout Cheshire 44-7 in the most lopsided Apple Classic, he surpassed Aaron Her-nandez on the state list for TD catches in a career. Hernandez had 47 at Bristol Central before his days with the Florida Gators and New England Patriots. Jamele now has 48.
We wish we could report that it’s the new state record, but it’s not. Only a few days ago, New-town’s Julian Dunn reeled in his 49th career TD reception.
So, while Jamele broke the “old” record, he’s still vying for the new one, which will be settled in the upcoming playoffs.
All the same, as Southington head coach Mike Drury remarked, “It’s a great feat and it couldn’t happen to a better kid. Alex is one of the hardest workers on the team and he’s been that way since he came in here as a freshman ... He’s going to go down as one of the greatest receivers in our high school and statewide.”
“It’s definitely special to me, but I can focus on that after my senior year,” Jamele said. “I just want
It’s Alex’s excellent adventure
By Bryant CarpenterSpecial to The Citizen
Southington’s Alex Jamele turns the corner on the way to a touchdown. | Justin Weekes / For The Citizen
Southington’s senior wideout passes former Bristol Central standout Aaron Hernandez for career touchdown catches in state high school
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A Rose blooms in the Apple orchardBy Ken LipshezSpecial to The Citizen
Southington’s Jasen Rose threw for five touchdowns in a 44-7 win over the rival Cheshire Rams Saturday in the Apple Classic at Fontana Field to keep the Southington Blue Knights undefeated. | Justin Weekes / For The Citizen
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win, finished 11th in a race for eight slots.
The Knights will host No. 4 Glastonbury (8-3) next Satur-day. Southington defeated the Tomahawks, 41-38, on Fon-tana’s turf opening night. On the other side of the bracket, No. 3 New Britain will travel to Norwich Free Academy. The Knights trampled New Britain, 54-20, in Week 4 and decimated NFA, 52-14, in the 2013 Class LL semifinals.
On Saturday, Rose was named Southington’s offen-sive Most Valuable Player in the Classic, a series which Southington now leads 10 games to 9. Linebacker Matt Thomson earned the defen-sive MVP on the strength of an interception and fumble recovery.
Jack Cunningham, who courageously came back from an ACL tear sustained last spring to play multiple roles, was the offensive MVP for the Rams. Linebacker Tyler D’Errico took home the hard-ware for the Rams’ defense.
Rose completed 30 passes in 37 attempts for 417 yards, 299 in the first half when the Knights were building a 27-7 lead. Two of his scoring strikes went to Alex Jamele, who surpassed Aaron Her-nandez on the state list for ca-
reer touchdown receptions. Two went to tight end Matt Maxwell and another to Aus-tin Moran.
“Jay’s a great player,” Southington coach Mike Drury said, as he shook off the effects of his Gatorade shower. “He’s a very intel-lectual football player. There are a lot of things that our of-fense does, a lot of different variables and it’s tough when you’ve got guys coming after you. He makes great plays, the receivers made plays and up front we did a great job. He was really throwing the ball great today and it’s good to see.”
M e a n w h i l e , t h e Southington defense wouldn’t allow Cheshire to establish its dynamic running back. Andrew Yamin.
“You take the whole season and look at any game we go into and that’s the mentality,” Cheshire coach Don Drust. “Guys are looking to stop your best player. That’s what it comes down to. They did a pretty good job of it. They did a good job of running guys to the football and it created some problems for us. We didn’t make plays when we needed to make plays.”
Yamin, who led the state in rushing and broke the all-time SCC rushing record, was held to 25 yards on 14 carries.
Thomson’s trophy was symbolic of a total team effort that held the Rams to just 80 yards on the ground, 266 be-low their season norm.
Fellow linebacker Steve Hamel recovered a fumble and deflected a third-down pass early in the second quarter. The defensive front — ends Matt Koczera and Dan Williams, nose guard Zack Spooner and sopho-more Dave Pastor, who was inserted for support against the run — jammed up the running lanes. Peter Majchr-zak recovered a fumble.
“Defensively, our guys flew to the ball,” Drury said. “They tackled well at the line of scrimmage and point of attack. We had a great game plan and they followed it to a T. [The linemen] are strong, aggressive and fast. Defense is about 11 guys doing to their job, rallying to the football and not giving up the big play, and we did that. It was a great defensive effort.”
Cheshire’s lone touchdown came on an 89-yard kickoff return by Colin Thorne after Southington had taken a 14-0 lead early in the decisive sec-ond quarter.
“You can’t lose the turn-over battle the way we lost it,” Drust said. “When you have the opportunity to make plays, you’ve got to make some plays against a good football team, and that’s a good football team. We turned the ball over and it hurt, but I’m proud the way our senior group hung together.”
After the opening kickoff, Southington went 74 yards in five plays, requiring just 1 minute, 43 seconds to take
the lead on a Rose-to-Jamele strike for 51 yards.
“Jamele’s a stud,” Rose said. “Everybody knows that. He’s my main focus. He’s the one I’m looking for.”
The Southington defense then provided a glimpse of what was to come. Linebacker Logan LaRosa stuffed Yamin for a two-yard loss on the first play. Koczera wrapped up Cunningham for a one-yard loss after an unsportsman-like penalty cost the Knights a three-and-out series.
An apparent 46-yard touch-down run by Cunningham was nullified by a holding call on the next series.
Southington was also beset by penalties and the scored remained 7-0 until midway through the second quarter. A 37-yard strike from Rose to Kyle Borawski was punc-tuated by a slick move that tacked on yards after the catch. Maxwell made a TD catch in traffic moments later from 36 yards out.
After Thorne’s return of the ensuing kick cut the gap to 14-7, the Knights went on the march again. Rose con-nected with all four of his
receivers during a nine-play, 65-yard voyage that ended with a three-yard pitch-and-catch to Maxwell.
Minutes later, Hamel’s fumble recovery on a poor exchange triggered a four-play blitzkrieg that ended with Moran toting a Rose pass 41 yards to the end zone 58 seconds before halftime.
With the forward pass not an essential weapon in Cheshire’s arsenal, coming back from a 27-7 halftime deficit would have required mistake-free football. But Spooner stalled the first drive of the third quarter by stick-ing Yamin for a two-yard loss and forcing a punt.
Alessio Diana stirred the Knights’ ground game with a first down before Rose’s 36-yard connection with Maxwell took them to the Cheshire 2. Diana finished off the drive and, with 7:54 left in the third quarter, it was mop-up time with the score at 34-7.
Jamele snagged another TD pass — his 16th of the year — and Dan Parzych added a 24-yard field goal for the game’s lone scoring in the fourth quarter.
Southington out-gained Cheshire, 504 to 174.
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“It’s great to know I can support my team like that,” Goralski said.
“After our hard work the adrenaline rush made it come together in the end,” said Lippincott.
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Above: Cheshire’s Meghan Carroll chases after Southington’s Emily Lippincott who was on her way into the end zone. Top: Carroll takes the handoff from Mackenzie Juodaitis (left). | Stephen DeBaise / For The Citizen
Jamele
to get the W’s and the state championship. That’s way more important to me.”
That isn’t some line. That’s how Jamele has been talking dating back to last year, when he exploded on the scene as a junior with 79 catches for 1,623 yards and 29 touch-downs. The first two num-bers are Southington school records. The third one is a state record.
Jamele’s interest lay in the Class LL championship Southington was winning and, this year, defending. At 10-0, the Blue Knights are on track. They host rival Glastonbury next Saturday in the LL-Large semifinals.
Southington goes into the postseason with an aerial at-tack led by Jamele, but by no means wholly reliant on him. With fellow seniors Matt Maxwell and Kyle Borawski, along with breakout junior Austin Morin, in the mix, ju-nior quarterback Jasen Rose has options and goes to them all.
Consider Saturday’s first half. It was virtually perfect. Rose was 21-24 for 308 yards and four touchdowns. Along with a screen to running back Alessio Diana, Rose com-pleted five passes apiece to his four receivers.
“This year, I think we’re a bit more spread out with the receiving corps,” Jamele said. “We definitely im-proved since last year. We re-ally made it a focus to make a mesh with our quarter-back on timing this year with everyone.”
Jamele’s 48th career TD catch, which came midway through the third quarter, was certainly a picture of timing. It was a 41-yard streak down the right sideline and Rose hit Jamele in stride.
Jamele’s 47th career TD catch, which opened the scoring 1:43 in, featured the skills that make Jamele the receiver he is. With Rose get-ting flushed out of the pocket, Jamele circled back toward the line of scrimmage, made the catch, made a couple of defenders miss with phone-booth moves and was gone 51 yards down the sideline.
“Alex is just an all-around athlete,” said Rose. “The catches he makes are unbe-lievable. You see him. He’s always moving to make plays and that’s exactly what you need in a receiver. He’s got skills and a special talent that not many people have.”
There is a psychological element to complement the physical. Jamele, coaches and
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Town Council approves recommendation for contract on sports complex work
The Town Council unan-imously approved a recom-mendation Nov. 24 to contract with Woodard & Curran to complete engineering and conceptual work for a sports complex on West Street.
The work, which includes traffic studies, ground studies and zoning application, could begin in a few weeks and take three to four months, accord-ing to project manager Scott Medeiros.
Woodard & Curran was chosen by the town’s Eco-nomic Development Strike Committee to complete the approval process for a 200,000-square-foot “place-holder” building. The town
will fund site work on the property, get Planning and Zoning Commission approval for the project, and then turn it over to a private developer to revise the plan and build a complex.
Lou Perillo, the town’s eco-nomic development coordi-nator, said the town could lose the $38,800 invested if no developer was interested. But the town stood to gain thousands in tax revenue if a sports complex is built and even more if it prompted other development, such as a hotel.
“Yes, we are spending some money, and there could be a perceived benefit (to a pri-vate developer) if there is ap-proval, but the benefit really lies with the town,” Perillo
said.Earlier this year the town
signed a contract with the Sepko family, which owns the land, to market the prop-erty to developers. If the land is sold to build a sports complex through the town’s efforts, money spent on engi-neering and site work will be refunded to the town.
Tom Lombardi, a Republi-can councilor, said the coun-cil had received three letters from residents saying that private developers should pay for their own site work and zoning approval.
John Barry, a Democratic councilor, voiced hesitation with the economic develop-ment approach although he voted to accept the strike committee’s recommenda-
tion. The money for the work was already in the economic development budget, he said, and the vote on Nov. 24 was only to choose an engineer-ing firm.
“I’m not enthusiastic about the concept that tax-payer money is used for pri-vate property development,” Barry said.
Perillo said town money had been successfully in-vested in other areas of town, such as Industrial Drive, and that the resulting develop-ment boosted the town’s rev-enue. Bringing in businesses is getting more and more difficult without spending money, he said.
“We can’t do no-money-down deals anymore,” Perillo said.
Funding the engineering work and getting approval for a conceptual sports complex removed some of the risk and expense of starting a sports complex in Southington, ac-cording to Perillo. While there is interest in develop-ing the West Street property, Perillo said there is no devel-oper in mind yet.
“We feel there is a market for the complex,” he said. “We had several people provide indications of interest.”
The plan Woodard & Cur-ran will submit to the Plan-ning and Zoning Commission includes a 200,000-square-foot building with a restau-rant serving alcohol. Such features are necessary for a business to be profitable, Perillo said.
By Jesse BuchananSpecial to The Citizen
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teammates say, plays with a rage, the sort of fire that en-ables him to battle out extra yards. Though only 5-foot-10, 176 pounds, Jamele can carry a pile, such as on a third-quarter swing pass Sat-urday that was well covered by Cheshire, but resulted in a nine-yard gain.
“It’s his mental piece. He’s ticked and that’s what you need,” Rose said. “He’s fired up all the time. He’s the type of energy you need around a team.”
“He doesn’t want to go down; he won’t go down,” Mike Drury said. “It’s not like he’s avoiding hits. He’s a physical player. He’s a good running back and a good re-ceiver combined into one.”
Jamele also plays free safety on defense. He and Maxwell, the strong safety, are the only guy to go both ways full-time on an otherwise two-platoon team.
He’ll be playing some-where next year. Jamele said FCS schools are showing in-terest. Colgate has made an offer. Army might be in the
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“A lot of schools have a lot of interest in him,” said Mike Drury. “He’s definitely going to land somewhere and he’s going to be successful.”
HEY, JACK: A tip of the cap has been well-earned by Cheshire’s Jack Cunningham, whose senior season seemed doomed when he tore his ACL in lacrosse season.
Instead, the third-year var-sity player underwent re-constructive surgery in May, rehabbed with diligence and was back by Week 2.
Not in full, mind you, but each week he gained strength and saw a bit more playing time until, by Saturday, he was the feature quarterback.
Cheshire, with its assort-ment of sets, also uses Colin Thorne (double wing) and Josh MacNiven (spread), at QB. Cunningham, a running back by trade, was used in a pistol formation that’s essen-tially an inverted wishbone. Andrew Yamin was lined up at tailback, while fullbacks Tony Marcucilli and Tyler D’Errico were split almost like wings.
This was the formation Cheshire mostly used in the first half. On one play, Cun-ningham went around left end for a 46-yard touchdown. It was nullified by a holding penalty, but the run featured much of the speed and shift-iness that Cunningham has been known for.
“I definitely felt better than I have all season,” he said.
Cunningham, the grand-son of former Cheshire head coach Bill Cunningham, will be taking his game to Trinity, where his father, Bill Cun-ningham Jr., also played.
On Saturday, the latest in the Cunningham line rushed 10 times for 50 yards and caught two passes for 50 yards.
“He was by far the offen-sive MVP,” said Steve Croce, Cheshire’s offensive coor-dinator. “Listen, he’s been a warrior all year. You don’t come back five months off an ACL and play the way he did. It’s just amazing. You could tell he maybe lost a step be-cause of it, but next year, when he becomes 100 per-
cent healthy, he’ll be a steal for Trinity.”
Said Cunningham: “I’m go-ing to play football for Coach (Jeff) DeVanney. I’m very ex-cited for that, but I wish we could have two more games.”
Instead, the Rams are fin-ished at 8-3. It was their best season since the 11-1 champi-onship year of 2009, but it still fell short of the postseason.
Had the Rams won Satur-day, they would have hosted a banged-up Hall team in the LL-Small semis with a very good shot at reaching the ti-tle game.
“I think we had a good sea-son,” Cunningham said. “This last game does not define our season. We were 8-3 and that’s the best we’ve been in a couple of years. I have big expectations for next season for the senior class.”
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Steve Croce, offensive coordinator for Cheshire, roams the sidelines Saturday during the Apple Classic at Fontana Field. | Photos by Justin Weekes
For The Citizen
The “Colonel,” Brian Durbin, leads the Blue Knights onto the field.
Coaching career goes full circle for Wholley
Jon Wholley was a 5-foot-9, 175-pound running back for the Southington teams that won a 1998 Class LL champi-onship and finished second to Greenwich the following year.
He was the Blue Knights’ leading rusher as a junior and ran for over 1,300 yards as a senior, but the thought of him bringing his game to a UConn team trying to make its way in Division I was a long shot, except in his own heart.
Wholley walked on at UConn in 2001, earned him-self a scholarship and played in two bowl games.
Now his heart and mind are focused on becoming a big-time college coach, and who’s going to tell him he can’t?
Wholley, 33, is currently the co-defensive coordina-tor and linebackers coach at
Fordham, which hosted Sa-cred Heart last week in the first round of the FCS Tour-nament and bested the Pio-neers 44-22. Defying the odds was a major development in his persona and a deep run with an experienced and con-fident Fordham squad may be just the next chapter his story requires.
“It helped me. It was un-believable,” Wholley said, in retrospect of his version of the American dream. “The reason I transferred from Wagner. I learn about foot-ball from Randy Edsel, but it also helped me learn about myself.
“I couldn’t do what most kids did physically. It was a constant grind. You always have to have faith and belief, and continue to work.”
Wholley wondered right after arriving at UConn if he had made the right choice.
“After my first camp, I was
outside in the hallway liter-ally crying,” he said. “Dan Or-lovsky was right next to me, crying and calling his dad, and he’s played 10 years in the NFL.
“I almost quit 10 times, but I didn’t and it changed my life dramatically. When you have good people around you, you can accomplish anything. I learned from football about the difference relationships make. Continue to focus on the process, not the product, and have the faith and the good things will come.”
Wholley now interjects that powerful philosophy for the benefit of the young men he leads. Among them is a pair of local first-team All-Pa-triot League performers, de-fensive back Jordan Chapman from Southington and defen-sive end Brett Biestek from Wallingford-Sheehan.
“Intense. He’s very, very intense, which is very good thing,” Chapman said. “He’s extremely focused on what the goal is for a game. He’s very detailed and that’s a great aspect to have as a coach.”
Wholley carefully tempers his intensity by including good strategy for life as it per-tains to playing the game, par-ticularly for those whose next step is into the real world.
“We have a lot of seniors and we talked to them be-fore our Senior Day,” Whol-ley said.
“The best part of football isn’t the touchdowns or win-ning, it’s life’s lessons learned and relationships made.”
By Ken LipshezSpecial to The Citizen
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The following bond ordinance was passed at ameeting of the Town Council of the Town ofSouthington on November 24, 2014:ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING $585,000 FORCOSTS RELATED TO THE ACQUISITION OF ACLASS A PUMPER FIRE TRUCK AND RELATEDEQUIPMENT FOR USE BY THE SOUTHINGTONFIRE DEPARTMENT AND AUTHORIZING THEISSUE OF $585,000 BONDS AND NOTES TO FI-NANCE SAID APPROPRIATION BE IT ORDAINED, That the Town of Southington, appropriateFIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOL-LARS ($585,000) for costs related to the acquisitionof a Class A pumper fire truck with rescue stylecompartments, including a 500 gallon water tank,1,500 gallon per minute Waterous pump, minimum270 cubic feet of compartment storage, and a mini-mum 450 HP motor on a custom chassis from asingle source manufacturer that has at least 30years of experience in the fire apparatus industry,and the acquisition of related equipment, for use bythe Southington Fire Department. The appropria-tion may be spent for acquisition costs, legal fees,net interest on borrowings and other financingcosts, and other expenses related to the project. That this Ordinance shall become effectivetwenty (20) days after publication of notice of pas-sage thereof in at least two newspapers having ma-jor and substantial circulation in the Town. Dated at Southington, Connecticut, this 25thday of November, 2014. TOWN OF SOUTHINGTON Garry Brumback, Town Manager 3532
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The following bond ordinance was passed at ameeting of the Town Council of the Town ofSouthington on November 24, 2014:ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING $407,000 FORCOSTS RELATED TO SOUTHINGTON HIGHSCHOOL ATRIUM ROOF REPLACEMENT, ANDAUTHORIZING THE ISSUE OF $407,000 BONDSAND NOTES TO FINANCE SAID APPROPRIATION,approving the appropriation of $407,000 for costsrelated to the design, removal and replacement ofthe entire roofing assembly of the Southington HighSchool Atrium at 720 Pleasant Street inSouthington, and related work and improvementsincluding repairs as necessary to the metal deck,curbing work, and water proofing of all flashing ma-terials and penetrations; and the issuance of bondsand notes, and temporary notes to defray said ap-propriation.This Ordinance shall become effective twenty (20)days after publication of notice of passage thereofin at least two newspapers having major and sub-stantial circulation in the Town.Dated at Southington, Connecticut, this 25th day ofNovember, 2014. TOWN OF SOUTHINGTON Garry Brumback, Town Manager 3527
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1. ORDINANCE AP-P R O P R I A T I N G$5,160,000 FOR THEDESIGN AND CON-STRUCTION OF THEEAST SIDE PRES-SURE ZONE PROJ-ECT; AND AUTHOR-IZING THE ISSU-ANCE OF $5,160,000BONDS, NOTESAND TEMPORARYNOTES TO FINANCESAID APPROPRIA-TION, FOR AN AG-GREGATE APPRO-PRIATION AND BOR-ROWING AUTHORI-ZATION OF$5,775,000. 2. ORDINANCE AP-P R O P R I A T I N G$905,000 FORCOSTS RELATED TOTHE ELIMINATIONOF THE MILLERFARMS FORCEMAIN AND EXTEN-SION OF GRAVITYSEWER AND AU-THORIZING THE IS-SUE OF $905,000BONDS AND NOTESTO FINANCE SAIDAPPROPRIATION.
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