Volume 20, Number 8 Serving Durham, Middlefield and Rockfall www.TownTimes.com Friday, June 13, 2014 DUCK STOP This ducky scene unfolded June 4 on Haddam Quarter Road in Durham. A quick reaction by Michael Greenwood, of Middlefield, resulted in his snapping this photo. Do you have a great wildlife photo taken recently in the towns? We’d love to see it. Send photos to [email protected]. | Submitted by Michael Greenwood In Middlefield and Durham, the towns’ Departments of Emergency Management are assisted by more than 75 vol- unteers through Community Emergency Response Teams and the Durham Animal Res- cue Team, led by Sue White. Many volunteers are drawn from emergency response professions, like police and fire departments, according to Durham’s Director of Emer- gency Management Francis Willet. DART springs into action during animal-related emer- gencies, helping to coordi- nate the pet shelter, which is housed in a corridor at Cogin- chaug Regional High School when the school is being used as an emergency shelter. DART also helped with a barn collapse that occurred during Winter Storm Alfred. In Middlefield, Emergency Management is directed by Volunteers keep towns disaster-ready By Charles Kreutzkamp Town Times See Volunteers / Page 2 Organizers of the Durham Farmer’s Market have been planning for a busy summer with more visitors and more options to keep those visitors on the green. “What we’re really encour- aging is people coming for dinner,” said Tina Hurlbert, one of the market coordina- tors. New food trucks have been set up to tempt visitors to picnic on the green. On a recent Thursday — the Farmer’s Market is open from 3 to 6 p.m. on Thursdays at the Durham town green — food truck options included the GMonkey truck, the new Perk on Wheels, and Frank’s Wood Fired Pizza from Clinton. “We love it here. The place is awesome,” said Frank De- Musis, former owner of Frank’s Wood Fired Pizza, who was preparing a variety of pizzas in a mobile kitchen with his stepson and current Farmer’s Market plans for busy summer By Mark Dionne Town Times Bailey Basiel (left) and a representative from the Fresh Food Network dressed as peas and carrots to attract attention to the Durham Farmer’s Market, which takes place every Thursday, 3 to 6 p.m., on the town green. | Photo by Melynda Naples See Farmer’s / Page 2 79978R
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Volume 20, Number 8 Serving Durham, Middlefield and Rockfall www.TownTimes.com Friday, June 13, 2014
DUCK STOP
This ducky scene unfolded June 4 on Haddam Quarter Road in Durham. A quick reaction by Michael Greenwood, of Middlefield, resulted in his snapping this photo. Do you have a great wildlife photo taken recently in the towns? We’d love to see it. Send photos to [email protected]. | Submitted by Michael Greenwood
In Middlefield and Durham, the towns’ Departments of Emergency Management are assisted by more than 75 vol-unteers through Community Emergency Response Teams and the Durham Animal Res-cue Team, led by Sue White.
Many volunteers are drawn from emergency response professions, like police and fire departments, according to Durham’s Director of Emer-gency Management Francis Willet.
DART springs into action during animal-related emer-gencies, helping to coordi-nate the pet shelter, which is
housed in a corridor at Cogin-chaug Regional High School when the school is being used as an emergency shelter. DART also helped with a barn collapse that occurred during Winter Storm Alfred.
In Middlefield, Emergency Management is directed by
Volunteers keep towns disaster-readyBy Charles KreutzkampTown Times
See Volunteers / Page 2
Organizers of the Durham Farmer’s Market have been planning for a busy summer with more visitors and more options to keep those visitors on the green.
“What we’re really encour-aging is people coming for dinner,” said Tina Hurlbert, one of the market coordina-tors. New food trucks have been set up to tempt visitors to picnic on the green.
On a recent Thursday —
the Farmer’s Market is open from 3 to 6 p.m. on Thursdays at the Durham town green — food truck options included the GMonkey truck, the new Perk on Wheels, and Frank’s Wood Fired Pizza from Clinton.
“We love it here. The place is awesome,” said Frank De-Musis, former owner of Frank’s Wood Fired Pizza, who was preparing a variety of pizzas in a mobile kitchen with his stepson and current
Farmer’s Market plans for busy summer
By Mark DionneTown Times
Bailey Basiel (left) and a representative from the Fresh Food Network dressed as peas and carrots to attract attention to the Durham Farmer’s Market, which takes place every Thursday, 3 to 6 p.m., on the town green. | Photo by Melynda Naples
See Farmer’s / Page 2
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owner Max DeMusis. Frank’s Wood Fired Pizza, which is based out of Clinton, exists only as a mobile entity, spe-cializing in farmer’s markets, fairs, and private parties.
The Farmer’s Market opened in May with some rainy Thursdays, but Frank DeMusis said that the sum-mer in Durham was still off to a good start. “Everyone is welcoming here. There’s a lot of warmth here.”
Frank DeMusis said that, as often as possible, they use ingredients from local and organic farmers and also
participate in Connecticut’s Farm to Chef program. This keeps in line with the ethos of the Farmer’s Market of em-phasizing local and healthy.
Farms from Durham partic-ipating include Naples Farm, Deerfield Farm, Tuttle Ridge Farm, and Starlight Gardens, in addition to other regional farms. There also are local, non-food offerings, such as goats milk soaps made in Durham.
The Farmer’s Market also is hosting different organi-zations and non-profits this summer. On June 5, UConn’s Middlesex County Extension Center sent a representative
to the green to talk about its Master Gardener program and a representative of the new Fresh Food Network also worked a table.
Hurlbert said she would like to see more non-profits using the Farmer’s Market. Contact information for the Farmer’s Market committee, in addition to a vendor list, is available at www.durham-farmersmarket.org.
The presence of organiza-tions on the green is part of an effort to turn the Farmer’s Market into a place to linger, instead of a place to buy your tomatoes and leave. “I’d love to see families come and to
see more kids really using the green for its intended purpose - community gather-ing,” said Hurlbert.
Children’s Librarian Chris-tine Michaud from the Durham Public Library hosts a story time at the market at 5 p.m., weather permitting. The Farmer’s Market also will partner with the library’s
summer reading program to draw a crowd in July.
“We hope to get differ-ent entertainment. We’d like to see more activities,” said committee member Claudia White, adding that offerings like cooking challenges, rec-ipe swaps, and performances were possibilities for the future.
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William Roberts. The towns cooperate heavily in emer-gency situations – for example, during major power outages, Coginchaug Regional High School has served as an emer-gency center for both towns, owing to the greater resources available there. When needed, Middlefield has its own emer-gency shelter at Memorial Middle School, which has more limited shower facilities and generator power, Roberts said.
During more run-of-the-mill severe weather, like extreme heat or cold, Emergency Man-agement may open the town hall, libraries, and senior cen-ters to the public “so they can get some respite,” Willet said.
Emergency Management also assists planning for school evacuations, like the precau-tionary evacuation from Korn School May 30 in response to a minor propane leak.
Both Roberts and Willet emphasized taking a proactive approach to disasters – both as
advice for individuals living in town, and as Emergency Man-agement teams.
Roberts said that it’s a good idea to keep at least several days’ worth of non-perishable food and fresh water stored. “That’s what my family does,” he said. “If there is an ex-tended power outage, the food
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Wine tasting returns to Durham Fair
At its June 9 meeting, the Durham Board of Selectmen granted permission to the Durham Fair Association to allow wine tasting at the 95th annual Durham Fair in Sep-tember, making it the second year in a row alcohol has been permitted at the traditionally dry fair.
Wendy Manemeit, coordi-nator of entertainment for the fair, attended the BOS meet-ing for the vote. In an e-mail, Manemeit wrote, “The vote for the wine tasting was ap-proved, in part, I believe, be-cause of the care and attention we paid to keep it traditional to agriculture and classy.”
The wine tasting tent will be run by the same group that ran the tent at the 2013 Durham Fair. The group is part of the Connecticut Department of Agriculture’s attempts to sup-port Connecticut wineries.
According to Manemeit, “The group is sanctioned by the state of Connecticut and
is allowed to only have two events a year. One is a full wine tasting event in Goshen and the other is within our fair.”
At the fair, the focus will be on wines made with enough
Connecticut grapes to qualify as Connecticut wines.
“We have to remember that the wineries are farms, as well,” wrote Manemeit.
According to First Select-man Laura Francis, the wine
tasting tent caused no issues last year. The tent required a separate admission charge of $12 on Friday and $15 on Satur-day and Sunday as well as age verification at the entrance.
The wine tasting tent was
part of a redesigned town green. For the 2013 Durham Fair, the green, which in the past has hosted the craft tent and a car dealership tent, of-fered smaller rides for younger children, entertainment on the smaller green stage, and some food booths, in addition to the cordoned-off wine tent and a Cabot cheese tasting table.
“To have alcohol approved at our fair after 96 years was a big deal. And I feel we did it right,” wrote Manemeit.
Before the 2013 Durham Fair, Manemeit and DFA Pres-ident Dan Miramant empha-sized the Connecticut and agricultural roots of the wine tasting tent.
“The governor has sanc-tioned their particular group [of wineries] to host this par-ticular wine tasting in two venues this year and we are fortunate enough to be consid-ered as one of them,” said Mi-ramant to the BOS in July 2013.
“I want to emphasize that this is not [just] a wine tast-
The wine tasting tent drew a large number of visitors in 2013, the first time alcohol was officially served at the Durham Fair. The wine tasting tent will return for the 2014 fair. | Mark Dionne / Town Times
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be able to keep for a couple of days, especially if you keep the fridge closed as much as pos-sible, but many people in town
have had to deal with power outages of five days or more in the past several years.”
Roberts also suggested keeping a flashlight around with fresh batteries. It can also be helpful to have a bat-tery powered radio to use to receive alerts during a power outage, Roberts said.
“You never know what is going to happen. A little bit of preparation can go farther than we think,” Roberts said.
“It’s also important to know how to operate a generator safely,” according to Roberts. If improperly ventilated, gen-erators can cause issues with
carbon monoxide fumes. Both emergency manage-
ment departments take prepa-ration to heart for themselves, as well. “Proactive” is a watch-word for Willet and Roberts.
In June, “we devote a full day to activating our unified command,” Willet said. When working with the state, the team will drill various disaster scenarios, which can be any-thing from “what if a tornado touched down at the Durham Fair?” to a short-term power outage from a hurricane. Both departments drill at least four times per year, which is a re-quirement for grant funding.
“We don’t claim to be pre-pared for all scenarios, but we do our best and in years past we have been very successful in dealing with challenging sit-uations,” Willet said.
Willet maintains a very active Facebook page with
emergency management infor-mation, which can be followed at facebook.com/DURHAM-EMD. In Middlefield, there are
fliers available during regular business hours at the Emer-gency Management office, 405 Main Street.
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An anonymous donor provided Durham with a Jeep Wrangler, which will be used as a “chief ’s car” for the Durham Volunteer Fire Department.
The car, a four wheel drive vehicle with approximately 11,000 miles, will be used by Fire Chief Rob Chadd. The Jeep will be marked and stocked with equipment and al-low Chadd faster responses to calls, a practice common in many small towns.
The Board of Selectmen had to vote to accept the do-nation, which they did at their June 9 meeting. “Con-gratulations,” Durham First Selectman Laura Francis told Chadd after the vote.
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“It’s more educational in na-ture than it is just a wine tast-ing event.”
Manemeit said the group was “professional” and easy to work with in 2013.
The Durham Fair is sched-uled to take place Sept. 25 - 28.
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June 14: A good day to explore area museums
On June 14, nearly 200 mu-seums, restaurants and other attractions will be offering discounts or free admission during the 10th Annual Con-necticut Open House Day.
The Southington Drive-in and Barnes Museum in South-ington and Paradise Hills Vineyard and Winery in Wall-ingford are among this year’s participating attractions.
“Connecticut Open House Day is really a great oppor-tunity for Connecticut resi-dents to go around the state that day and to experience some great opportunities through some of the small and some of the larger attrac-tions and venues around the state,” said Randy Fiveash, director of the state Depart-ment of Economic and Com-munity Development office of tourism. “Some are free, some are reduced cost and some are special deals.”
On Saturday, the town-owned Southington Drive-in kicks off its season with a showing of the movie “Jaws.” The following week, the drive-in will participate in the open house day for the first time, Dawn Miceli, a mem-
ber of the drive-in commit-tee, said.
The first 100 carloads will get in for the Southington res-ident price of $10. Non-resi-dents typically pay $15 a carload. The movie “Ice Age” will be playing that night.
“The whole goal of the CT open house day is to show-case all the different ameni-ties and venues we have in our state,” Miceli said. “We at the Southington Drive-in be-lieve we have one of the most interesting and unique ven-ues in the state. We definitely wanted to be a part of this statewide celebratory event.”
Barnes Museum curator Marie Secondo said the mu-seum will be offering free admission for tours of the facility.
The Barnes family built the house in 1836 and it was do-nated to the town by Brad-ley Barnes in 1973. Three generations of the Barnes family lived in the 17-room house until Bradley Barnes ,
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“We’re featuring the gar-dens because June is a won-derful time and we’ve really enhanced our gardens a lot. So we’re trying to highlight the garden and have people not only visit the inside, but we encourage them to walk around the grounds and see the roses in bloom,” Secondo said. “Roses… are indicative
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New principal selected for CRHS
Brian Falcone, a Cheshire resident, and current princi-pal of Terryville High School, has been appointed as the next principal of Coginchaug Regional High School.
Falcone’s hiring, voted unanimously by the Board of Education at a special meet-ing, June 10, ends a search that began over a year ago.
Falcone is a graduate of Sa-cred Heart University, with a bachelor of science degree in psychology and a master’s degree in elementary educa-tion, and also has a sixth year in educational leadership degree from Southern Con-necticut State University. In 1999, Falcone began his teach-ing career as a sixth grade teacher before serving as an assistant principal at elemen-tary and middle schools.
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In a statement released by the BOE, Falcone said, “I am grateful for the opportunity to join the Coginchaug fac-ulty and the Region 13 com-munity. I am looking forward to meeting all of the students and working with the faculty to enhance the already im-pressive programs offered. Working together as a team with parents, community members, and our faculty I am confident that we will be able to provide innova-tive 21st century learning ex-periences for all students at Coginchaug Regional High School.”
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Saturday, June 14Farmer’s Market - The
Dudley Farm Farmer’s Mar-ket is scheduled for every Saturday through October, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 2351 Durham Road, North Guil-ford. Fruits and vegetables, flowers and plants, baked goods, eggs, naturally raised meats, arts and crafts, ma-ple syrup, jams and jellies, pickles and more. Subject to cancellation due to inclem-ent weather. For more infor-mation, call (860) 349-3917 or www.dudleyfarm.com.
Open house - Middle-sex Dance Center, 500 Main St., has scheduled an open house for Saturday, June 14, 9 a.m. to noon. Video and scrapbooks.
Car show - The Vinyl Technical High School Par-ent Faculty Organization has scheduled a spring car show for Saturday, June 14, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Durham Fair Grounds. Trucks and motorcycles are welcome. Registration for those show-ing vehicles is scheduled for 8 to 9 a.m. A fee is charged for exhibitors and specta-tors. Proceeds benefit stu-dent programs a Vinal Tech High School. For more in-formation, visit www.cttech.org/vinal.
Walk-a-thon - The 2014 CAT WALK fundraiser Walk-a-thon is scheduled for Sat-urday, June 14, at Middlesex Community College, 100 Training Hill Road. Registra-tion at 9:30 a.m.; 2.2 mile walk and 3.1 mile run at 10 a.m. Proceeds benefit Cat Tales Inc. For more informa-tion, visit www.CatTalesCT.org.
Strawberry Festival - No-tre Dame Church, 272 Main St., has scheduled its straw-berry festival for Saturday, June 14, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine. The event in-cludes a classic car and motorcycle show, bake sale and craft show. Proceeds benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. Bake sale proceeds benefit Heifer International. For more information, call (203) 213-2070.
Fun Festival - Grippos on Main Street, 349 Main St., has scheduled a fun festival
to celebrate its 50 years for Saturday, June 14, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. DJ, raffles, bouncy, raffles and treats. For more information, call (860) 349-3487.
Friday, June 27Concert - The Higganum
Congregational Church, 23 Parsonage Road, has scheduled “A Very Amer-ican Summer Concert” for Friday, June 27, 7 p.m. Pa-triotic tunes, the Westbrook Drum Corps, pipe organ and a capella singing group. Ice cream will be served. The concert is free. Free-will do-nations will be accepted.
Wednesday, July 9Get Stitchy - Durham
Recreation has scheduled Get Stitchy, an open event for quilters and sewers, for Wednesday, July 9, 7 to 9 p.m. at the Durham Activity center, 350 Main St. Bring project materails, sewing machine and extension cord. For more information and to sign up, contact Pam Carey at (860) 349-0453, [email protected] or Vicki Berry at (860) 343-0879, [email protected].
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INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
From left: Middletown Rotary Club President Garry Mullaney, Middletown Rotary Club New Generations Service Committee Chairperson Cathy Stebbins, IDS student Vincent Salabarria, IDS student Jack Bergentino, IDS student Olivia Haouchine, and IDS Head of School Jessi Christiansen.
The Independent Day School in Middlefield estab-lished a Rotary Interact Club which is sponsored by the Middletown Rotary Club. The IDS Interact Club secured over $1,000 to help support Rotary International Service Projects.
IDS students were driving forces in helping the In-teract Club raise money. Jack Bergentino manages the school store which collected $754 for Bio-Sand Filters providing clean water in developing countries. Olivia Haouchine focused on fundraising for Eradicate Polio and securing $350 toward polio vaccines. Vincent Sala-barria handled the fundraising events and coordinated the advertisement programs for the Interact Club.
The Middletown Rotary Club Board of Directors ap-proved a dollar for dollar match on the IDS gift providing a total of $2,000 to support the global initiatives.
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The Rev. Dr. Elven W. Riggles, Jr. DURHAM — The Rev. Dr. Elven Walter Riggles, Jr., 55, of Durham, and
Bellows Falls, Vt., husband of the late Jill (Fiorini) Rig-gles, passed away on Fri-day, May 30, 2014 in Ver-mont.
Born in Milford, he was the son of the late Elven and Marguerite (Des-rosiers) Riggles. The Rev. Riggles was the minister at the United Churches of Durham for 25 years. The Rev. Riggles is sur-vived by his children, Mer-edith Huntley and her hus-band, Matthew Huntley, Elizabeth “Posey” Riggles, and John Riggles; his sis-ter, Deanna Lavoie; two nieces, Danielle and Mi-chelle Lavoie; his mother-in-law, Jean (Dugan) Fiori-ni; and his many cousins and loved ones. Graveside services will be held in private at the convenience of the family. In lieu of flowers, dona-tions may be made in El-ven’s memory to the Unit-ed Churches of Durham, P.O. Box 66, Durham, CT 06422. Doolittle Funeral Home, 14 Old Church St., Middletown, is handling the arrangements. To share memories or send condo-lences to the family, please visit www.doolittlefunerals-ervice.com.
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Life without Town Times? I simply couldn’t imagine it. It all began in 2008 with an impromptu trip to Wisconsin. I was interviewed by Town Times re-porter Pamela Morello for a story about meeting Johnny Depp at his “Public En-emies” film set. Thanks to that first ap-pearance in the Town Times and the support of then editor Sue Vanderzee, my column Diagnosis Movies was born.
The movies have always been a pas-sion for me. They are more than escapist fare; they are life perspective on what-ever ails you. Movies can be smile-in-ducing, enlightening, purging and even therapeutic. Writing movie reviews for Town Times has not only made my childhood dream come to life but has also made my life richer by allowing me a creative outlet. Town Times sup-ported me as I made my way from the East Coast to the West Coast, press cre-dentialed to the LA Film Festival in 2009. While I may not have been around for all of Town Times’ 20 years, these past six years have been some of the best of my life. Thank you, Town Times!
(Tanye Feke is currently in Los Angeles for the 2014 Film Festival.)
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Fights for seniors To the editor:While I have always enjoyed working with
retiring Sen. Meyer, I must respond to what I believe was a “pre-election cycle” op-ed that he published in Town Times, implying that I am insensitive to the plight of our seniors. I have been fighting for and funding senior tax relief programs for decades and I take this seriously. When it comes to senior tax relief the devil is in the details.
As a former selectman, I felt the anguish as our seniors have been forced into an ago-nizing choice: Stay in their homes and forego basic necessities or sell-out and leave com-munities that they built. Towns respond by creating senior tax relief funds - but the money doesn’t go far enough.
One problem is underfunding, but another is a flaw in the system. Existing law lets town governments only consider income in their aid calculation. Town officials have told me
that some people with million dollar homes take aid that could go to help more people.
Several town officials, including the First Selectman of Madison, asked for help to make aid money go farther. I responded and spon-sored a bill that gives towns the option to consider home value as well as income. They aren’t required to do it - but they can.
I have been voting to increase senior tax relief year after year in my decades of pub-lic service. I have received wide, bi-partisan, support on this bill - particularly from peo-ple who have their feet on the ground and engaged with our seniors. This has been a problem that has been hurting our seniors for decades and it is time we did something about it.
Senior tax relief is a statewide crisis and we all need to come together to listen to our towns to help more people.
Noreen KokorudaState Representative 101st District
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Movie reviewer got her start right here
By Tanya Feke M.D.
Tanya Feke visits with Johnny Depp at the 2009 LA Film Festival. She also had a chance to interview Martin Landau. | Submitted
Tanye Feke with Martin Landau at the 2009 LA Film Festival. | Submitted
Flag Day is June 14. Several Veterans organizations have scheduled ceremo-nies to properly retire unserviceable Amer-ican Flags. Our Na-tion’s Flag has seen many faces, but, here are a few things that may be useful to know:
After declaring America’s independence in 1776, our new nation was still largely unsettled.
A variety of flags were flown that were typically homemade and reflective of the region where they flew.
Our new nation needed a uniform flag to assist our country continue its momen-tum and unify the people.
On June 14, 1777, the Con-tinental Congress passed the first Flag Act: “Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of 13 stripes, alter-nate red and white; that the union be 13 stars, white with a blue field, representing a new constellation.”
After Vermont and Ken-tucky were admitted to the union, Congress passed the second Flag Act of 1794, which stated that by May 1795, the flag should have 15 stripes and 15 stars. This flag flew over Fort McHenry in 1814.
The third Flag Act of 1818 reduced the number of stripes
to its original 13 and ordered that a new star would be added for each new state.
Again, there were no instructions on how the stars should
be placed, so flag makers placed them in a variety of patterns (circles-lines-one large star). In 1912, by execu-tive order, President William Taft declared that the stars should be in six horizontal rows and that a single point of each star should be pointed upward.
On Jan 3, 1959, with the addi-tion of Alaska, the 49th state, President Eisenhower ordered the stars to be set in seven rows of seven stars, staggered horizontally and vertically.
Just eight mounts later when Hawaii joined the union, Eisenhower directed a new arrangement for the flag in which five horizontal rows of six stars would alternate with four staggered rows of five stars.
This flag remains the one that flies today.
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Flag Day is June 14 20th Anniversary
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Durham(Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings are held in the Durham Library. Check the town website at www.townofdurhamct.org for updates.)Tuesday, June 17Board of Finance, Town Hall, 7 p.m.Agriculture Commission, Town Hall, 7 p.m.Wednesday, June 18Planning and Zoning, library, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, June 19DMIAAB, Middlefield Community Center, 7 p.m.Monday, June 23Board of Selectman, Town Hall, 7 p.m.Tuesday, June 24Ethic’s Commission, library, 7 p.m.Wednesday, June 25Senior Citizen Board, Durham Ac-tivity Center, 1 p.m.
Middlefield(Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings are held in the Commu-nity Center.)Tuesday, June 17Board of Selectman, 7 p.m.Wednesday, June 18Inland/Wetlands Commission, 7 p.m.Thursday, June 19DMIAAB, 7 p.m.Board of Finance, 7 p.m.Tuesday, June 24Zoning Board of Appeals, 7 p.m.Wednesday, June 25Lower CT Valley RPA, 9 a.m.Thursday, June 26Middlefield Housing Authority, 3 p.m.
Government Meetings
Cooper-Atkins Corpora-tion, of Middlefield, was re-cently presented with the President’s “E” Award for Exports by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. CEO Carol P. Wallace re-ceived the award on behalf of the company. The “E” Award represents the highest recog-nition any U.S. entity may re-ceive for making a significant contribution to the expansion of U.S. exports.
State Sen. Dante Bar-tolomeo visited the company when Cooper-Atkins employ-ees raised a flag, bearing the letter “E”, in front of building that identifies the company for its growth in exports.
In her congratulatory let-ter to the company, Secretary Penny Pritzker wrote “Coo-per-Atkins Corporation has demonstrated a sustained commitment to export expan-sion. The “E” Awards Com-mittee was impressed with Cooper-Atkins’ innovation in entering the international
healthcare market. The com-pany’s development of mar-ket entry strategies was also particularly impressive. Coo-per-Atkins’ achievements have undoubtedly contrib-uted to national export ex-pansion efforts that support
the U.S. economy and create American jobs.”
Cooper-Atkins Corpora-tion is a leading manufacturer of quality time, temperature and humidity instruments, with focus on the Foodser-vice, Industrial HVAC and
Healthcare markets both do-mestically and abroad. Coo-per-Atkins Corporation is a woman-owned business, cer-
tified by the National Wom-en’s Business Enterprise Certification.
Cooper-Atkins wins top export award Press Release
State Sen. Danté Bartolomeo with Carol Wallace, CEO of Cooper Atkins in Middlefield. Cooper Atkins manufactures tools to measure time, temperature, and humidity that are sold to companies around the year. The company was recently awarded the President’s Award for Exports in Washington, D.C. for growing its exports by 36 percent in the last four years. | Submitted
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Levi E. Coe Library
Library hours are: Mon-day through Thursday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; closed Fridays.
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Summer reading program
Levi E. Coe Library’s 2014 Summer Reading program “Fizz, Boom, Read” begins Tuesday, June 24.
Tuesday, June 24, 11 a.m. - Color Me Happy Summer Celebration. Face painting and sandcastles. Registra-tion is necessary.
Wednesday, June 25, 11 a.m. - Homemade ice cream with Auer FArm. All ages.
Thursday, June 26, 11 a.m. Storytime on the Farm. Pre-school - grade 1.
Museum passesLevi E. Coe Library has
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Durham Public LibraryMovies
The Durham Public Li-brary schedules Classic Movie Matinee for Thurs-days, 1:30 p.m. The film se-ries is free and open to the public.
June 19 - “Stage Door” (1938) starring Katharine Hepburn.
June 26 - “His Girl Friday”
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Sciencetellers: Dragons and Dreams - Monday, June 30, 6:30 p.m. Sciencetellers uses visual experiments to bring the sights and sounds of a story to life. Registration is required.
Programs for teens:Teen Book Club - Wednes-
day, June 25, 6 p.m. “Distant Waves” by Suzanne Weyn.
After Hours Summer Kick-off Party - Saturday, June 28, 7:30 to 9 p.m. Kick off the summer at an after hours party for teens.
Programs for adultsMystery Book Discus-
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What’sanOceanBowl? HelloHELOBy Jeffrey Peracchio
“What’s an ocean bowl?” Is a question I have re-ceived hundreds of times. Sophomore year I was curi-ous as well, so I attended a meeting and immediately wanted to join. For the unaware, National Ocean Sciences Bowl is an organization that holds regional and national com-petitions where students answer trivia questions relating to oceanography, marine policy, chemistry, and biology. The questions are multiple choice, and you and your teammates must try to buzz in with the right answer before the other team. If your team correctly answers the four-point multiple choice question, you have the op-portunity to answer a six-point short answer ques-tion. Regardless of whether
By Abigail Eisneror not your team answers the short answer correctly, the moderator then moves on to another toss-up mul-tiple choice question. As a Connecticut school, every year our team has the opportunity to attend the Quahog Bowl, the Con-necticut and Rhode Island regional competition held at UConn Avery Point. Our coach, Mrs. Lorrie Martin has been involved with NOSB for nine years. Prior to this year, her teams have gotten as far as second place but have never won and gotten the chance to travel to nationals. This year our practice schedule started as any other. We met weekly and practiced our trivia ques-tions as we always had. The night before com-petition, we drove to the
Since its indoctrination to the Wise Individual Senior Experience (WISE) program in 1998, Coginchaug’s se-lect seniors have been hard at work pursuing fields outside of the broad and typical areas of math, Eng-lish, and science. WISE, an extracurricular indepen-dent study, gives students a chance to explore areas of interest outside of the core academic areas, pre-senting students with new opportunities and insight into potential careers. “WISE is a half-year in-dependent project on any topic,” describes WISE co-ordinator Matthew Taber. This year, “any topic” in-cluded landscape architec-
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Many of us take for grant-ed the small but valuable things in life from the sim-plest task such as flipping a switch to turn on a light to reaching into your re-frigerator to grab a snack. On May 5, a 12-year-old boy by the name of Jean Michel presented himself in front of Coginchaug’s French Honor Society. He shared the story of who he is and where he comes from, exemplifying the rea-sons why most Coginchaug students and faculty are lucky to have the opportu-nities that are presented to them each day. On January 12, 2010 an earthquake struck the in-ner coast of Haiti, only a few miles away from the town of Léogâne. This earthquake left only fifteen percent of Haiti’s cities standing and hundreds of thousands of people with-out homes. One of those victims who was able to find refuge from this ter-rible catastrophe was Jean Michel. HELO is an international organization that takes care of victims of trau-matizing events and of serious injuries. Jean Mi-chel was lucky enough to be found and taken in by HELO where he was then given health attention and put into a school system where he could grow as a student. Through all of Jean Michel’s struggles, his positive attitude to-wards life was never af-fected. French Honor So-ciety member Sarah Brady spoke about the purposes of Jean Michel’s visit. “We [the French Honor Soci-
ety] sponsor the HELO or-ganization. We thought it would be great for him to be able to share with us who he was and where he came from. Also, it was a great way for Jean Michel to explore Coginchaug to see how the student life in America is compared to where he is from.” “Jean Michel is 12, or-phaned by the earthquake, and our brightest student. He has been invited several times to speak at various functions for Orphaned Starfish Foundation, who funded the computer cen-ter at HELO, but was unable to attend because of issues with the visa and regula-tions of the Haitian govern-ment for orphans to leave Haiti post-earthquake,” says HELO Co-founder Elis-abeth Kennedy. Soon after, Jean Michel’s visit to Amer-ica was finally approved. Brady also noticed some-thing very interesting about Jean Michel: “When he entered the school, he walked very slowly. He wanted to take everything in, and he was interested in Coginchaug.” Jean Michel’s life story explains just how lucky we are. With education, food, and shelter at our finger-tips, we sometimes forget how our necessities in life can be met by driving a few minutes down the street to the store or by calling our family on a cell phone when we want to hear their voices. Although Jean Mi-chel is now back in Haiti, his message of opportunity and perseverance will re-main with us for a lifetime.
Project Oceanology build-ing at UCONN Avery Point and prepared to settle in. All around us, teams had textbooks sprawled on the table and were intensely studying their contents to make sure they had all the information they needed to compete. Meanwhile, our team felt pretty out of place by not studying. We were confident that we had prepared enough be-forehand to do well in the competition. On competi-tion day, we hit a winning streak, and were ecstatic when we made it to the championship round. Af-ter an intense battle for the lead, we were able to jump ahead and win the match. An indescribable feeling of pride swept over the team, as we were only the second Connecticut team to ever win the Quahog Bowl. We were incredibly excited to be able to attend nationals in Seattle. CRHSStudentsareWISE
ture, music improvisation, and outdoor education among others. “We’ve seen everything from perfor-mances to internships to learning completely new skills,” says Taber. “It’s a great opportunity to pur-sue an individual project.” This year, WISE included ten seniors with a variety of interests – Jesse Aze-vedo, Kristen Burtt, Marty Daniels, Abby Eisner, Caro-lyn Fetchel, Nate Graichen, Kat Hamilton, Julia Orosz, Jeff Peracchio, and Maha Yaghi. After five months of studying and document-ing their respective topics, each WISE student put on a half-hour presentation depicting his or her own
personal journey. “It’s a lot of hard work,” says Hamil-ton. Orosz, agrees– “It’s a big commitment, but it’s a great opportunity for any-one who has a passion and the time to dedicate.” After a month of final pre-sentations, the ten WISE se-niors saw some extra time in the spotlight at a school-wide assembly, showcas-ing the product of their individual efforts. “It was really cool,” remarks soph-omore Damien Pastore. “I wish I saw more of every-one’s presentations.” But aside from the half-credit and extracurricu-lar fulfillment, the par-ticipants of WISE have all gained something that will
Sure, the classic turtle walk to your dreaded next class is fine, but eventually you’re going to get there. What do you do when that class is P.E.? These 10 easy steps, developed over the course of four years of high school P.E. classes, will help you avoid the impending doom, or maybe just major embar-rassment, that ensues upon entering the intimidating gym-nasium.
1. If the ball is ever approaching you during a game, fake a sneeze: “I’ve got it! I’ve got it! I - I - ACHOO!”2. If the game happens to be team handball - start with the ball. Trust me, you do not want to be the last one who needs to touch the ball before your team can make a goal. You’ll know you’ve made this rookie mis-take when you are suddenly and shockingly guarded by the best opposing players. 3. In team games, you need to at least look like you’re participating. The trick? Get guarded and stay guard-ed by an opposing player. This will discourage your teammates from passing the ball to you.4. Volunteer to keep the score. You’re better at math anyway.5. If setup is required, set up the materials slowly. Those nets with the numbered parts can be quite complicated, even for a nerd such as yourself. This will result in less playing time.6. Treat every game like dodgeball - don’t even think of getting near that foam sphere of death...7. ...Unless of course, it is dodgeball. Then you dive for it. Get out as soon as possible. You may think staying out of the fray is a good idea, but you’ll realize your fatal mistake when you’re the last person left and the entire opposing team is glaring at you, weapons at the ready. Meanwhile, your team’s last hope of survival is...well...you.8. If getting hit with a ball during dodgeball is just not happening (which is a mystery because you seem to get hit in the face during almost every other game), the trick is to take an opportune moment to walk out. It’s not like you’re the star player - in a moment of at-tack, no one will notice whether you were actually hit. 9. Relax and try to have fun - this class doesn’t count toward your GPA. Make sure you tell your disap-pointed, and sometimes quite angry, teammates to relax too when you miss the ball for the umpteenth time. I mean, did they really expect anything more from you?10. Always avoid sharing your strategies publicly until you’ve earned your mandatory gym credit (and let’s face it, your mandatory credit will be your only gym credit).From one nerd to another: Good luck!
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The CRHS Yearbook Club would like to thank the Middlesex Dance Center for their support. We apologize for the ommission of your ad in our 2013-2014 yearbook but appreciate your continued involvement in shaping the lives of many CRHS students!
As my graduation rap-idly approaches, I tend to look back on all the lessons I learned while at Coginchaug. Besides learning math, science, and who’s America it is, I learned a lot of lessons about life. So for my last column for the Devil’s Ad-vocate, I’d like to impart some of those lessons on you. Be friends with people who make you feel good and you can make feel good. When you’re in high school, your friends are your support system against all the stress and catty meanness. You don’t need friends who make you feel bad about your-self. You don’t need to do everything. Trust me; I know. Colleges do want to see that you partici-pated in something in
high school, but you don’t have to be the president of five clubs and a concert pianist. All that stress can get to you. If you find something you’re good at and become the best at that thing, the right col-lege will pick you. Be good to yourself. This one seems the easiest, but it’s actually really hard. You have to take care of yourself and do things that make you happy. Keep out the negative voices that tell you that you aren’t good enough. Treat yourself every once in a while. Find a balance between helping yourself and being unselfish. Most of all, do your best. That’s all anyone can ask.
And that’s all from me. I’ll miss you next year my won-derful readers. Do great things.
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The town of Durham runs a Senior Cafe program that holds events for the senior citizens in town. The Rec-reation Department holds this program so that the seniors can have nutri-tious lunches. It is run by Amanda Peterson, who put together the latest luncheon called “Spring Back to School with Barbe-cue Lunch,” held at Korn Elementary School. At this lunch, students from Coginchaug’s Life Skills class waited on the seniors and helped make the event a success. All the students had a great experience and
BondingoverLunchwere able to grow from in-teracting with the seniors. Gwen Clark, a resident of Durham said, “The lun-cheon was a nice experi-ence; it was wonderful seeing the students from Coginchaug interact. They had great courage for talk-ing and waiting on us.” The students in the Life Skills class helped prepare and serve the food. They also talked to the seniors about themselves, which for some included what they plan to do after graduation in June. The luncheon was successful with the stu-dents helping the commu-nity and the seniors enjoy-ing a relaxing lunch.
By Jenn CrandallFast forward three months, and we were ready to go to Washington. After inten-sifying our studying and creating our own “Scientif-ic Expert Briefing” for the competition, we were more than prepared. The Scien-tific Expert Briefing was a requirement to compete; its goal was for us to pres-ent our findings to a simu-lated “congress” on how to attack the issue of ocean acidification. We needed to do extensive research be-forehand and come to con-sensus as a team on our recommendations. Our goal at the national competition was to “just beat one team.” We were at nationals after all and were competing against 21 other regional winners, many of them with previous experi-ence at nationals. Most of all we wanted to have fun, enjoy the city, and befriend the people from across the country. The first two days we ex-plored the city and went on a field trip with other NOSB members for a duck tour and visit to the Space Needle. As the weekend ap-proached, so did competi-tion, and we were ready. Saturday started with a round robin competition in which we performed phenomenally. We ended the round with a 3-1 re-cord, which seeded us in ninth place. We moved on to the double elimination round, where we won our first match. After a head-to-head battle in our sec-ond match, we lost again to the only team that had beat us to that point. We left in good spirits and were ready to take on the next match. After another neck-and-neck battle, team member Ryan Gossart put us in the lead with a toss-up question at the last minute. With a score of 57-56 we were given our short an-swer question and used the clock to our advantage. We waited to the last second to answer, and even though we didn’t answer correctly,
there were only 10 seconds left in the round. The mod-erator started to read the next question, but we all knew the time would run out. The other team decid-ed to take a risk and buzz in without hearing the full question or answer choices and remarkably answered correctly. This allowed them to win the match and move on while we were unfortunately eliminated. Despite our frustration, we were grateful to have done so well in the competition. As Sunday rolled around, we watched the final matches and saw Boise High School take the cham-pionship with Arcadia High School of Los Angeles close behind. Then came the awards ceremony. They started to place every-one, starting with twenty-second. We listened for name after name, none of them Coginchaug up until tenth place. This was more than we ever expected or could’ve asked for for our
first time attending nation-als. Ocean Bowl was one of the most fun experiences I’ve ever had. I learned so much and got to see a part of the country I might otherwise have never been able to see. I met so many people that impacted my life and made friends I will never forget. I couldn’t be more proud of our team and all that we accomplished. I can’t thank Mrs. Martin enough for all the hard work she put into coaching our team. Now instead of get-ting the question “What’s an ocean bowl?” I’ve heard many more “Where can I sign up?”
WISE(Continued from pg 1)follow them into the future. “It wasn’t just a presenta-tion,” remarks Orosz. “It’s what I’m going to be doing all the time next year.” “It gave me more confi-dence working with other people… and it taught me to be a good problem solver,” says Graichen, ex-plaining how WISE was able to benefit him despite his music remaining a hobby. “WISE made me better at speaking to people,” says Eisner. “WISE helped me figure out a game plan,” Aze-vedo adds. “Most of what we learn in school is short term stuff, but WISE taught me how to plan for the long run.” For others, though, WISE provided great insight into long-pursued careers. “It’s a project, sure, but it’s also what I want to do with my life,” says Daniels. “I al-ways sort of knew what I wanted to be,” says Perac-chio. “Now I’m certain.”
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By Nora Khalil
I can distinctly remem-ber the first time I spent a day at Coginchaug. I was an awkward eighth grader shadowing my old-er brother who was in the final stretch of his senior year. I remember thinking, “Wow! Everyone here looks so old.” Well, here I am in my final stretch of senior year, and I couldn’t think any more differently. I feel so young. I am definitely ready to move on with my life, start new experiences and enjoy college, but holy crap I am young. At the start of my senior year, I was ecstatic to be done with high school for-ever. Yes, I was that senior who complained constant-ly. I would say “Ugh I’m so close why can’t I be done with school?” or “Do I re-ally have to do this?” I’m guilty of living up to the teenage stereotype of an annoying complainer. But I am also living up to the other teenage stereotype of someone who constant-ly changes her mind. I’ve hit fourth quarter of my senior year and everything is starting to feel real. I’ve been accepted to and com-mitted to my dream school, Bentley University. We just
...venture on a relaxing vaca-tion to Rhode Island, where she plans to lounge on the beach, rollerskate through the town, shop ‘til she drops, and spend quality time with fam-ily and friends....nanny an adorable 7-month-old....continue her employment at Larkin’s Run. ...volunteer at the Humane Society.
Senior Abby Eisner plans to...
voted on our song for grad-uation, which still feels like light years away. And I am looking for a roommate. I feel like I just watched my brother go through this, and here I am. My homeroom teacher Mr. Bradanini has said the same thing to us since freshman year: “Your four years in high school are going to fly by.” My first thought when I was a fresh-man was that he was being ridiculous. Four years is a long time. I thought, “Four years is my time spent at Memorial and Strong com-bined.” As freshman year flashed by, Mr. Brad still had the same perspective, “You think freshman year went by quick? Wait un-til the end of sophomore year.” As a new sopho-more my thoughts on the subject changed but not positively. “God I hope this year goes by quick,” and “I can’t wait to be an upper-classman.” Soon enough, my wish came true. Junior year came and went quick-er than all of the previous years. My attitude towards high school was still “I hope graduation comes quick” at the beginning of senior year when Mr. Bradanini said, “Senior year is the fastest of all of the years spent in high school. Can you believe you are already
almost done?” But recently my perspective has shift-ed. Believe it or not, I like it here. I may not show it all the time, but I am going to miss the amazing atmo-sphere Coginchaug has. My friends have become fam-ily, teachers have become mentors and this commu-nity is my home. I do want to move on and travel and find my place in this world, but I am going to miss the people I’ve met and be-come so attached to here. I never would’ve thought that I would be entering the business field fresh-man year of high school. I saw the opportunity to join Future Business Lead-ers of America freshman year and jumped on it. I learned that I liked busi-ness and wanted to learn more about it. I signed up for some business cours-es and fell in love. I also didn’t know I wanted to do Public Relations until this year. I attended a journal-ism workshop as a field trip, and public relations was one of the classes. It sparked my interest im-mediately, and I saw how easily it would blend with my marketing major. I guess what I’m trying to say is, don’t take your time here for granted. Try new things. Break away from “cliques.” Expand your in-terests and find what you
Freshman Paige Larkin plans to......drive across the US in a rented RV with her family, travel down to Lousiana, and meet the Duck Dynasty family in West Monroe. ...visit amusement parks and haunted towns across the South. ...spend two nights in the Grand Canyon....visit Mount Rushmore and Yellowstone National Park....shop in the Mall of America....travel to Ohio for a Luke Bryan concert.
Sophomore Taylor Marino plans to...
...visit her beach house in Rhode Island. ...relax on the East Matunick beach in
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Freshman Lauren Donnelly plans to......play softball for Shorelines Sting...travel to Rhode Island and New Jersey, where her softball team will compete in tournaments, and to Virginia, where her team will compete in nationals....spend her summer pursuing her softball passion by playing 3 softball games every Saturday and up to 4 games every Sunday.
Sophomore Kenny Gribko plans to…...camp in Vermont...rent a beach house in Cape Cod...stroll down the boardwalk of NJ“It’s a family tradition to go to Vermont in the summer. We have a blast.”
Freshman Lizzie Whitaker plans to…...attend a 6-week over-night camp in Maine where the family-owned camp hosts ac-tivities and sports on a lake.
Sophomore Gilia José plans to......attend a summer intensive with the Rockettes, where the Rockettes members will teach dancers to perfect their techniques in ballet, tap, jazz, and kick-line. ...travel to Florida with her brother, John John, who is playing in the baseball championship for the Wolfpack.“I have high expectations for summer 2014 because I know that it is going to be filled with fun and relaxation.”
...visit Holland and France
...see the Eiffel Tower in Paris
Junior Brianna van Eyndhoven plans to…
With summer just around the corner, students are eager to experience the familiar freedom and relaxation that comes with the warm weather. From freshmen to se-niors, the students of CRHS have extravagant plans for the summer of 2014.
Mrs.ZBy Jeffrey Peracchio On March 17, Coginchaug had the opportunity of wel-coming student teacher Mrs. Jennifer Zettergren into our school. Assisted by Ms. Suchy, she taught various English courses and worked with many stu-dents. Prior to teaching at Coginchaug, Mrs. Zetter-gren was a real estate at-torney in MIddletown for 16 years. From this oc-cupation, Mrs. Zettergren developed the knowledge and experience to become an adjunct political science professor at Quinnipiac University for two years. “This is when I realized that I wanted to teach,” Zettergren commented, “but it took a while to make it happen.” Soon later, the students at Coginchaug had the privilege of meet-ing Mrs. Zettergren. “Her passion for teaching and
sweet personality made it very easy for us [her stu-dents] to learn the content easily,” said senior Katelyn Williams. Mrs. Zettergren was a student of the ARC (Ac-celerared Route to Certifi-cation) program, designed for working professionals who wish to change their career. The difference be-tween this program and others is that it is run at a much faster pace, and her classes were only held on Fridays and Saturdays. She has recently graduated from her school and is cur-rently working in a seventh grade middle school Eng-lish class in West Haven. “It’s been a great oppor-tunity to compare this to my high school experience at CRHS,” recalled Mrs. Zettergren. Although she was only with us for a short time, Mrs. Zettergren’s positive personality and engaging character created a com-forting environment and enjoyable working area that many of her students will remember for a long time. Coginchaug senior Tyler Kovacs had this to say about his former Psych in Lit teacher, “Mrs. Zetter-gren was a very nice person and always had a smile on her face. She presented the class with a fun approach on what we were learning.”
are truly passionate about in this world. High school is your time to experiment and figure out what you are really interested in. By dipping your feet into dif-ferent things, what you end up liking best might sur-prise you. You really don’t know what high school will throw at you, but some curveballs may end up leading to a home run.
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By Nora KhalilThe countdown to sum-mer has begun. Less than week is all that is left of my freshman year at CRHS. As I travel through hall-ways littered with eager students, I catch snippets of conversations as I pass. The experienced seniors of CRHS discuss their college plans and career dreams. Words like “UNH” or “Southern” drift away from the conversation and settle in my ears, where my young brain draws them in and rattles them back and forth. Each senior in the group shares their plan for the upcoming years, the names of colleges, degrees, and applications bombard-ing me all at once. But yet, the seniors seem perfectly content. How in the world do the seniors keep track of all these colleges? How, out of all the possible career opportunities available to them, are they able to nar-row their choices down to one? I can hardly fathom it. I can never imagine my-self in their place, forced to pour my passions into a single career choice out of the thousands available. As I continue past the group of seniors, their discussion melts away. I am only a freshman. I have plenty of time before I have to think about these things, right? I tuck the words of their conversation deep into the folds of my mind and out of sight. I embed the words “college resume,” “dorm,” and “registration,” all for-eign concepts to me, under the safety of my thoughts. For now, I am only a fresh-man. It was extremely daunting to listen to the upperclass-men discuss their future plans. As a freshman, I have no idea what I plan to do tomorrow, much less in the next ten years. I’m still working to figure out my passions and in-terests, but I’m in no rush. With three long years left of high school, it seems as though a future outside of CRHS is unimaginable. I
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sincerely wish that my last three years in high school go by as slowly as possible. I wish to savor each high school memory and take up as many opportunities as I can. There is a common mis-conception that freshman year in high school is simi-lar to that of Dante’s nine circles of Hell. Many people visualize freshmen as the “bottom of the food chain,” the prey to the predatorial upperclassmen. In popu-lar movies, the freshmen are often portrayed as the punching bags for the old-er teenagers. In the begin-ning of my freshman year, I also bought into this false assumption. I believed that the upperclassmen, the seniors especially, were out to get me and all my freshman peers. In reality, I could never have been more wrong. Personally, I found the upperclassmen to be ex-tremely welcoming and kind. Although my opinion may not accurately rep-resent every freshman’s experience at CRHS, I feel that the older students’ approachable attitudes contributed to a fantastic first year. There was no case of “Freshmen Friday” that I had witnessed here. In CRHS, I never felt like the seniors were in any way trying to cause trouble for the freshmen.The up-perclassmen often took the younger freshmen un-der their wing, in a sense, and shared their experi-ences over the years with us. I appreciate the kind students who reached out to us small, amateur fresh-men and displayed amaz-ing character and morality. The highlight of my fresh-man year would have to be the CRHS soccer season. Every day after school, I looked forward to attend-ing soccer practice. The CRHS soccer girls are ex-tremely welcoming and supportive. I enjoyed all of the soccer games we played. As a team, we were tough and determined,
which made for an excel-lent, exciting atmosphere on the field. CRHS soc-cer allowed me to develop meaningful friendships with the older students and gave me the chance to learn from them. I was also happy with my freshman classes. Like any other student, sometimes I found my classes a little boring or frustrating, but I can honestly say that I am grateful for the knowledge that the classes taught me. The material that I learned was valuable and useful. Out of all my classes, I fell in love with my global studies class the most. The teacher of this class, Julie Lagace, did an amazing job of teaching the lessons and sharing information in a way that was easy to understand. I have always been interested in social studies and the behavior of society, but this class re-ally broadened my view of the world and helped me understand many of the conflicts that occur today. I was fascinated with the topics because it displayed different ways of life and various cultures. I honestly enjoyed every one of the classes I attended. It was obvious that all the teach-ers of CRHS did everything they could to see the fresh-man class do well, and for that I am thankful. Entering the ninth grade is a big change. I have no complaints about my first
year at CRHS. I enjoyed ev-ery minute of being a ninth grader and wish I could re-live it again. I feel like my time as a freshman flew by, like sand slipping through my fingers. I wish my next few years at CRHS to pass as slowly as possible. I
have fallen in love with ev-ery part of CRHS. As I grow older, I know I will be faced with the difficult challenge of figuring out the path to my future, but for now, I am just a freshman going on to sophomore year.
ACROSS:1. CRHS Mascot9. Billions of years10. Fourth composite number11. Baby words12. Base x height14. Right under your nose16. Boxer Muhammad18. One to look up to20. Builds in dryer22. Dog of The Thin Man23. He who would strike the sun26. Prestigious championshipDOWN:1. Post-Alpha2. “__ and behold”
3. League of Nations successor (abrv.)4. Bane of the student5. Justifies the means6. Small, cylindrical container7. Between blue and violet8. Every fourth year13. Take delight in15. June exam16. Expression of grief17. “Out of the frying pan, __ the fire”19. Common location for ear piercing21. Produced in cigarettes24. Friendly greeting25. Indefinite article
By Marty Daniels
Vet Brings Novel to Life for Students After reading Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, CRHS students were honored with a visit from Harold Reid Sterrett III (Rollie) who shared his experiences from the Viet-nam War. Rollie (who is CRHS Special Education teacher Mrs. Kim Ragnow’s father) served the Air Force as an officer in Saigon, Viet-nam. During his time in the Air Force, Rollie was assigned to the Director-ate of Targets and served as a second lieutenant.
Students from Ragnow’s English 11 course and Mrs. Melissa Frey’s (film?) elective listened in awe of Rollie’s experience. “When he started tell-ing us about his story, the room got silent,” said junior Justin King. Rollie’s journey through Vietnam was powerful and had a lasting effect according to students. “My presenta-tion’s primary purpose was to enhance patriotism toward our country...to re-inforce the importance for each of us to give back to the country through mili-tary or civilian service,”
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Backpacks:UsefulorStressful?By Lauren Melchionne
With the amount of home-work given to high school students, their backpacks, carrying the added weight, become heavier as the year goes on. In addition to the backpack weight, some students have to carry an additional bag for sports or P.E. class. “When you do a sport, you have another bag so it adds more weight,” said sopho-more Caitlyn Sibiskie. With textbooks and notes filling a student’s bag, a backpack’s weight can range from 16-28 pounds. For a student, lugging that amount of weight every day can be strenuous. “I think for people who don’t have time to do their homework during school, it’s a problem because of binders...and it causes back problems and stress,” said sophomore Hannah Rea. Having a heavy backpack does play a factor in a stu-dent’s health. Doctors say that students shouldn’t carry more than 10 percent of their body weight. Many other factors do come into play, such as the location
By Lauren MelchionneFrenchClassBecomesReal
CRHS French students and their guests from Toulouse, France cel-ebrate in front of the New Britian Museum of American Art (below)
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of where a student carries his backpack. “It puts strain on your back and your neck, and depending on where you carry it (some kids carry it on one shoulder), that’s not healthy,” said CRHS Nurse Mrs. Branciforte. Strain on the back isn’t the only down side to back-packs being too heavy and bulky. “Where I think backpacks are a hazard is in a crowd-ed classroom with twenty-five students...It becomes a hazard for students and teachers tripping on them,” said History/Social Studies teacher Mrs. Lagace. The way some teach-ers try to battle this issue is by telling the students not to bring in their text-books every class. Others feel that the use of elec-tronic resources, such as tablets, could help lower a student’s backpack weight. Even the use of their lock-ers between classes could help improve the situation greatly. “I try to tell my students that they don’t need to car-
ry their book around with them; I’ll tell them when they need it,” said math teacher Ms. Kavanaugh. Though backpack weight is concerning, some people disagree; in some ways, a heavy backpack can be beneficial. “I don’t think it’s a prob-lem because my backpack may be heavy, but it helps to build muscle,” said sophomore Chris Back-strom. As an added bonus, for students who may not walk straight, a heavy backpack may help correct the prob-lem, due to the bag pulling them backwards. “I think it helps your back because it straightens it because most kids walk hunched over,” said senior Cody Troutman. Either way, there are many factors such as electronic books, the use of lockers, the location of where a stu-dent carries his backpack, and added bags for sports that can make a huge dif-ference in a student’s life. A heavy backpack can be both beneficial and det-rimental to a student’s health.
On April 28, eleven high school students and two chaperones came to Dur-ham/Middlefield for an eight-day stay. They stayed with thirteen host families in hopes for the French students to get a taste of American culture and also for the American students to speak French with native speakers. “It’s a cultural exchange between French students and American students to build a cultural under-standing and sensitivity,” said CRHS french teacher Madame Cashore. To start this program, CRHS french teacher Ma-dame Taweh worked with the American Association of Teachers of French, the AATF, to find a school in France that would be in-terested in this program, and a school in Toulouse, France was. “It’s a lot of time to pre-pare but very rewarding,” said Madame Taweh. To further prepare for this program, CRHS had to find thirteen families that would be willing to host the French students and chaperones here in RSD13. To do this, the families had to fill out a survey much earlier in the school year to determine if they would be a good fit as a host family. Once the families were de-
termined, planning had to be done. During the school day, the French students would stay with their host student, but outside of the classroom was a dif-ferent story. The program included field trips to dif-ferent places such as the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Clinton outlets, CHRS’s Fajita Fies-ta, and even an American-style picnic at the Romeyn house. The program went be-yond just learning and field trips; there was also a lot of bonding between the French and American students. “At the beginning of the week it was difficult to communicate because she didn’t speak a lot of Eng-lish, but by the end of the week, we were able to com-municate better and build a friendship,” said junior Dena Branciforte. This program started off as a learning experience in which the students were just expected to learn more about the culture and lan-guage, but by the end of the week, the students had built such strong friend-ships that it was difficult for them to say goodbye. Freshman Scott Romeyn said, “When they were all leaving, everyone was cry-ing. I definitely miss him.”
Jean Michel in Haiti.Photo from HELO website
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Sprint to the FinishAt the end of the girls track season, the girls were one of the top teams in the Shoreline Conference. They have been able to keep training strong with the beauti-ful weather. The girls are now able to see that winning the Shoreline Conference is an achievable goal. At every meet, the girls either placed or won. The season was led by an unstoppable 4x8 team made up of freshman Allie Alsup, sophomores Jessica Drop and Samantha Drop, and junior Bailey Thayer. The 4x8 team quali-fied for State Opens and Nationals! This report was due before both meets, but see the CIAC website for their final results! Freshman Megan Decker helped the team by gaining a lot of points and consistently placing in her events. Allison Luther will stay involved in track by running for Stonehill College. Next year, the team will be led by the current juniors who are very involved in motivating the team to keep working hard. They will have big spikes to fill as multiple teams and individuals broke school and state records this season.
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Principal Gates and Molly MacDuff enjoy their time in DC.
Coginchaug girls tennis team really stayed on a path to success. The season went extremely well with the team qualifying for States with a record of 500. All season, the girls have been focused on making it a memorable one for the seniors, holding a senior night at which the underclassmen gave speeches to the seniors and each senior received an Alex and Ani to remember their last season as a Devil. The season was led by senior Melanie Frank who was their singles one player and helped to gain the team some points. Gaining the points isn’t all a leader does though; the girls turned to senior Molly MacDuff for positivity and motivation. Throughout the season, the girls learned many new skills and improved their mental game on the court. The season was a very successful road, and the girls are hoping next season will be just as or even more successful. Their success and hard work brought the girls closer together. Next year, the team will have many of the juniors step up as leaders. Sophomore Carlie Annecchino said, “The up-perclassmen helped to keep everyone motivated. It was a very exciting and successful season.” The girls season ended by making it to round two of States; they worked hard, and the season went better than expected.
The boys tennis team gave 110% while on the court for matches and practices. The season has ended even better than the team expected. The boys were able to come out with enough wins to have five of their play-ers advance to States. The boys went 8-12 in the regular season, led by Luke Fowler and Alex Preneta as a strong pair for doubles. The most exciting news of the sea-son was sophomore Kyle Judson who made Shoreline Semifinals as a singles player. It was the furthest that Coginchaug ever had a tennis player advance in the tournament. Kyle Judson has held the best individual record this season by winning matches that helped the team as a whole advance into the Shoreline and State tournaments. Kyle Judson said, “This season has brought our team so much closer together; the season had a truly amazing turn out.” Next year, the team hopes that Judson’s scores will increase as well as his fellow junior Tyler McDonald. They had a great season filled with wins over difficult competitors. They’re ex-cited about how far they’ve made it and hope to repli-cate the successful season next year.
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Class of 2014 Farewell Message: What a pleasure it has been for me to be a part of your senior class year here at CRHS. We have enjoyed each other passing in the hallways, attending athletic events, spending several days together on the senior class trip, attending dances and assemblies, witnessing the ex-emplary talent so many of you possess whether on the stage, in the studio, or on the athletic field, along with meeting many of your families. Each of you is about to embark on many new chal-lenges as you continue to prepare yourselves for “life beyond high school.” As you climb that ladder of suc-cess, it is so important that you keep your confidence and always remember who you are and what you stand for. Our society needs young people who will come alive and make a difference in an ever-changing and challenging world. You will work hard! Learn to be-come a team player because it takes teamwork to make your dream work. Many of you will emerge as strong leaders with the skills necessary to be successful in your careers and in your community. The senior class is very special to me. I am honored that the class dedicated the school yearbook to me and Mr. Ted Lombardo. It holds special meaning to me on many levels. I was a teacher at Coginchaug when it first opened in 1972. That year, my student teacher was none other than Mr. Lombardo. When I left that year to pursue my dream of being a school administra-tor, TL took over my classroom and began his long and illustrious teaching career. My journey came full circle when the Board of Education hired me last spring to serve as your principal. Hopefully, my contributions to Coginchaug have influenced your thinking and made a small difference here at the school and throughout the community. Thank you for having me, and I sincerely wish each and every one of you continued success and happiness. As you move on, I am convinced our future is in good hands because you possess exemplary character and the highest qualities of morals that will contribute to shaping our society. Fondest regards, Mr. Donald Gates, Principal
said Rollie. Rollie was welcomed with breakfast and bal-loons, communicating students’ gratitude for his ser-vice, making him feel valued by CRHS. Rollie noted, “A week or so after my classroom presentation, I received warm, very well written thank you letters from the students, indicating that my message of patriotism and service to our country came through loud and clear.”
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The 2014 baseball season was not as many expected it to be. With a solid line of upperclassmen and a strong group of cap-tains, many believed this team would bring home a championship title for Coginchaug. Our talent and skill on the team was at an all-time high. Some of our players take the field for travel comp teams as well. Coginchaug junior, John Mormile, plays not only for our own Blue Devil team but also for a comp team in Middletown (Middletown Post 75). As the season be-gan with its first couple of games, it was proven that it was not our skills that hurt us but the chemistry on the field. Our players’ emotions got the better of them, and they slowly be-gan to lose sight of what they were striving for, a championship win. Con-nor Wenchell, Coginchaug sophomore, stated, “Dur-ing the beginning of the season, the team chemis-try was very low; we only had a few key players who had the drive to win. But as the season went on, I be-lieve that our whole team began to come together and everyone began to show that same drive.” The Devils ended their season with a record of 6-13. “It was a rebuilding year for us,” said Mormile, “we had some young players this year who will hopefully grow to become a power-ful team for next season.”
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COGINCHAUG SPORTSHOME OF THE BLUE DEVILS
Coginchaug Continues On
The Lady Devils put on quite a show this past sea-son. With an 11-game win-ning streak and an overall record of 13-8, the girls proved to their school, community and their state that they were one of the top contenders for both the Shoreline and State championships. Although this year’s softball team only had three seniors, their hard work and pride for their school drove them to achieve an even higher accomplishment than what they imagined. “We hit a rough spot at one point in the year, but we are moving through that now; we are hoping to do well in Shore-lines and States,” said Cap-tain Deanna Puchalski at the end of the regular sea-son. After finishing strong, the girls had both Shore-lines and States to prepare for. Ranked 34 of 113 in CT Class S, Coginchaug soft-ball is definitely a team to watch out for. “We have the potential to make a power-ful impact in States,” says senior Katelyn Williams. “Our team’s perseverance, determination and confi-dence are far greater than any other team’s. We have already proven to the state that our talent alone has the capability to bring us to the top of the charts, but now it is our time to prove that we can reach even higher limits and be one of the best softball teams to ever exist at Coginchaug.” Unfortunately, the girls lost in the first round of Shorelines but hope to make a strong stand in States. At the time of pub-lication, the girls had made it to the semi-final round in the State tournament.
The boys track team had a great season, full of break-ing personal records and significant improvement. They hope to have the same kind of turnout next year for another successful spring. “Our season was great! We had a lot of people come out for the team and ev-eryone worked the hardest they could possibly work,”
said junior Jake Ober. “Our team chemistry was incom-parable, and we all became brothers over the season. We hope to have just as good of a turnout next year.” Wes Benjunas, Alec Bogen, Zach Lein, Tyler Meeker, Jake Ober, Michael Decker, Jack Temple, Chris Brooks and Nathaniel Weir quali-fied for States. When asked about the
Shoreline track meet, Wes Banjunas said, “We did well; a lot of people broke personal records, and we came in fourth place against some very competi-tive competition.” At the time of publication, the boys were preparing for States and hopefully State Opens. Congratulations to all boys track athletes on a successful season!
Boys Track: Talent and Team Chemistry Lead to State Opens
Congratulations to all of our 2013-2014 athletes!
By Jordan Cowles
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monthly flea market and tag sale for the first Saturday of each month, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., through Oct. 4. The tag sale will be lo-cated in the church hall, rectory garage, parking lot and lawn, rain or shine. Breakfast and lunch will be available. Vendor space is available for purchase. For more information, call Bob Smith at (860) 349-0356.
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Durham/Middlefield Youth and Family Services has sched-uled a babysitting training class for Tuesday, July 29, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Middlefield Community Center. The class is for youth entering grades six through nine. Basic childcare information, first aid and CPR training, and more. Limited to 12 participants. A fee is charged. Registration deadline is July 22. For more information and to register, call (860) 349-0258.
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SeniorsAttorney series
The Middlefield Senior Center has scheduled a series of talks on topics that directly affect seniors. Middlefield at-torney Edward Lang is sched-uled to speak as follows:
Friday, July 11 - Hospital ob-servation, what it means in terms of Medicare and skilled nursing facilities, 1 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 12 - Power of at-torney and living wills, 1 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 10 - Planning for Medicaid and use of trusts, 1 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 7 - The Probate Process, 1 p.m.
R.S.V.P. is not necessary, but appreciated. For more infor-mation, call (860) 349-7121.
ScrabbleThe Middlefield Senior
Center Scrabble Group meets Thursdays at 1:30 p.m. at the Middlefield Senior Center. The group is looking for more players. All are welcome. For more information, call (860) 349-7121.
Computer courseThe Middlefield Senior
Center has scheduled a basic computer course for Wednes-day, July 9 and 16 at 1 p.m. The course covers BASIC computer information. Reg-istration is not necessary, but appreciated. For more infor-mation, call (860) 349-7121.
Renter’s RebateApplications are being ac-
cepted for the Renter’s Rebate program.
Required documentation from 2013 includes: 2013 1099 income statement, a copy of the 2013 tax return (if filed); proof of rent paid; utility pay-ment history printouts; proof of interest or dividends from bank accounts, stocks, bonds.
Filing dates through Oct. 1.Income limits are: single,
$34,101 and married $41,600.For more information and to
schedule an appointment, call Amanda at (860) 349-3153.
TripsTuesday, June 17 - Shopping
in Orange. Lunch at Bertucci’s in Orange.
Wednesday, June 18 - Mohe-
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Aquarium and IMAX movie. Lunch at the aquarium.
Wednesday, June 25 - Trol-ley Museum. Lunch at Village Inn in West Haven.
Trips are open to senior residents in Middlefield and Durham. For more information, reservations and fees, call (860) 347-5661.
Beach tripThe Middlef ield and
Durham Senior Centers have scheduled a trip to the beach on Thursday, July 10. Senior bus will pick up participants at the Middlefield Senior Cen-ter at 11:15 a.m.; the Durham Senior Center at 11:30 a.m. Lunch scheduled at Lenny & Joe’s. Trip includes stops at
Hammonassett Beach State Park, the campground and Meigs Point. The trip is free of charge. To sign up, contact St. Luke’s at (860) 347-5661.
BocceThe Middlefield Senior
Center has scheduled summer bocce group, for Tuesdays, be-ginning June 17, 6 p.m. No sign up is required, just drop-in in back of the Community Cen-ter. Games are informal and run by senior volunteers. No experience is necessary. Those interested in volunteering should call the senior center at (860) 349-7121. For more information, call the Middle-field Senior Center at (860) 349-7121.
Yarn donations
The knitting/crocheting group at the Middlefield Se-nior Center is looking for donations of 4-ply yarn. The group makes hats, mittens and afghans to donate to Mid-dlefield/Rockfall residents, the Middlesex Hospital Hos-pice Program and residents in nursing homes.
For more information and to donate, call the Senior Cen-ter at (860) 349-7121.
60+ Club day trips
The 60+ Club has scheduled the following day trips.
Tuesday, July 8 - All You Can Eat Lobster at Delaney House.
July 23 - Newport Luncheon Cruise and slots.
Aug. 17-23 - Mackinac Island.Sept. 19 - Scallop festival at
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(860) 346-0724.
The Recreation Center office has scheduled its sum-mer hours for Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Monday, Wednesday and Thursdays, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., June 10 through Aug. 28.
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MEDAL AWARDED
Ned Ray Cassady, of Rockfall, was honored recently at Lincoln Middle School’s CT Veterans Wartime Service Medal Ceremony. The program was sponsored by State Sen. Dante Bartolomeo. Commissioner Linda Schwartz, Department of Veterans Affairs, presented the medals. | (Submitted by Ellen Cassady)
The time has come to curl up in the hammock, or perch under your biggest shade tree, with a good book and a frosty glass of lemonade. So just what are people reading these days?
The number one fiction book on the New York Times Best Seller List is “The Un-dead Pool”, wherein a witch must prevent a supernatural war. For non-fiction, “The Fu-ture of the Mind” tops the list, predicting future mapping of the brain and stating the case for the possibility of telepathy, mind-controlled robots, and the uploading of memories.
And what are the locals up to, book-wise? Patti Holden, a library assistant at the Durham
Public Library, sees a lot of people checking out myster-ies and fiction, with James Patterson being an especially popular author. “The Gold-
finch” and “The Fault in Our Stars” are popular right now, as are travel books in paper-back. “People are getting in-formation for their summer vacation,” she said, “and the paperback travel books are easy to take with them.”
Holden herself likes his-torical fiction, with the “Out-lander” series being her favorite. “I love these books because I love history and I love time travel,” she said. “The character goes back to the 1700s.
“I love to read-I’ve always got a book with me. I especially love to read in the morning, even if it’s just for a half-hour. I have my cup of coffee, and it’s so nice and quiet then.”
Carol Herzig, also a library assistant at the Durham Public Library, likes to read before go-ing to sleep at night, and is cur-rently reading “Jamaica Inn”, a book that was written in 1936. “Jamaica Inn” is the gathering place for a group of scoundrels known as wreckers, who sabo-tage boats, kill the people on-board, and steal their cargo, which they sell illegally.
Malcolm Pearce enjoys swapping books with his brother-in-law every Wednes-day morning over coffee and pastries. “I read a lot,” he said. “My favorite author is Rich-ard Marcinko. He writes nov-els based on the real history of some of the operations that oc-curred when he was with the Navy Seals. I like his books because they are easy reading and exciting and believable, and they’re about events that have happened.”
Helen Pearce loves myster-ies, reading them in the eve-nings and on vacations. “I got tired of reading romance nov-els,” she said. “My favorite au-thor is James Patterson. I like his books because the chapters are short and I’m always in sus-pense until the end.”
John and Christine West are avid readers. They en-joy the Jack Reacher series, The Dresden Files series, and books by local author Kris-ten Higgins. Christine also loves murder mysteries by au-thors Lisa Gardner and Carol O’Connor.
“Christine reads every day,” John said, “and I like to crawl into bed with cookies and milk and read until I fall asleep.”
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EDUCATION AWARDS
Coginchaug Regional High School’s Alex Markoski was awarded the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education Student Leadership Award, presented by BOE chair Kerrie Flanagan, right, at the May 28 BOE meeting. Markoski won the CABE award along with fellow CRHS student Sarah Brady, who was unable to attend the meeting. The two students were nominated for the award by CRHS principal Don Gates for showing positive leadership qualities in the classroom and community. Markoski is a two sport captain, a member of the National Honor Society, and active with the Lions club and at the Durham Fair. Markoski will attend the University of Vermont next year.| Mark Dionne \ Town Times
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Sports
Kyle Roberts pitched a complete four-hit game as Powerhold defeated Durham Dental 12-2 to walk away as the 2014 Coginchaug Little League Majors champions on Saturday night.
Durham Dental struck first in the championship bout. Michael Eisner began the game with a triple, followed by Devon Geogehan’s home run to give Dental a quick 2-0 lead.
Powerhold responded in the bottom of the first in-ning to take a 3-2 advantage of their own. T.J. Isleib got the rally going with a base-hit, and Hugh Barrett’s dou-
ble a mere three batters later tied the score at 2-all. Nathan Strang’s groundout brought home Barrett from third to give Powerhold the lead.
Both starting pitchers, D.J. Arnold for Durham Dental and Roberts for Powerhold, quickly settled down for a scoreless second, but the Powerhold offense was back to work in the third.
Powerhold’s first four bat-ters safely reached base to take a 4-2 lead, and John Vumback’s two-run double quickly gave his team a power hold on the game, 6-2. A Jer-emy Mangiamelli two-out single to plate Terry Murphy in the fourth inning extended Powerhold’s lead to 7-2.
After his difficult first in-ning, Roberts proved to be impossible to solve for the remainder of the game. The youngster scattered two hits, six strikeouts, and only one walk through the rest of the contest. Roberts was also backed by a strong defensive effort all over the field. Pow-erhold’s catcher Barrett threw out Dental’s Geogehan at-tempting to steal second, and Strang snared a backhanded line drive at third base to rob Dental’s Arnold of a surefire basehit in the fourth inning.
The impressive Powerhold offense struck again in the fifth inning, rattling off six straight hits –including base knocks by Eli Block, Isleib, and Barrett’s second dou-ble –to help take an 11-2 lead. With only one out in the in-ning, Strang’s RBI single to
Powerhold powers way to Majors title
Powerhold ran away with the Coginchaug Little League Majors title, defeating Durham Dental 12-2 in five innings.| Submitted
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The Durham Recreation Department has scheduled two summer running programs.
Fun Runs - Tuesdays, 6 p.m., at the Cogin-chaug track beginning July 1. The weekly event is open to all, age groups as follows: 0-4 years, 5-7 years, 8-10 years, 11-14 years, high school, and adult.
Track & Field Clinic - July 7 to 11, 6 to 8 p.m. The clinic is open to fifth to eighth graders as of June (exceptions are con-
sidered) and provides instruction in hur-dles, long and triple jump, high jump, pole vault, shot put, javelin, discus, sprinting, and relays. Athletes of all ability levels are welcome. A fee is charged. Register at http://www.townofdurhamct.org/ con-tent/28562/27556/27769/ 27781/default.aspx.
The Strong Spartans com-pleted an improbable run to perfection, beating Wash-ington Middle 6-1 and East Hampton 15-4, en route to a spotless 13-0 final record.
Against Washington, the 1-2 pitching punch provided by James Salemme and Luke Garofalo proved to be too dominating for Strong’s foes. Salemme pitched six strong innings, allowing only one run on two hits, before Garo-falo slammed the door shut with a perfect seventh inning.
The Spartans, held score-less through the first two in-nings, got on the board thanks to an RBI single by MacGuire O’Sullivan. Luke Bourland came around to score after reaching base on a double earlier in the inning. After Cole Neidmann walked to load the bases, Danny Ture-cek roped a two-run single to help the Spartans stretch their lead.
Strong put the finish-ing touches on a strong win thanks to a two-out rally in the top of the seventh. Fol-lowing a Neidmann single, Turecek struck again with an RBI double.
In the season finale, it didn’t take long to see that the Spar-tans were well on their way to finishing off East Hampton with ease. Strong jumped on their opponents in the top of the first, plating five runs on hits by Neidmann, Turecek, Garofalo, and Peter Onofrio.
As Eric DeBrum and O’Sul-livan continued to shut down East Hampton from the pitch-er’s mound, the rest of the Spartans continued to inch towards perfection at the plate. Strong put up three runs in the fifth inning, two more in the sixth, and five in the seventh to put the contest out of reach.
The win, which not only helped the Spartans to finish perfect, also put the boys into the school’s history books, as they became the first team to finish undefeated at Strong.
“This team is made up of an unbelievable group of young men,” said coach Ken Vallone. “They refused to think of the possibility of losing.”
While there were only 17 total players on the roster this
year, 12 of the Spartans were eighth graders: Turecek, Ga-rofalo, Onofrio, Salemme, De-Brum, O’Sullivan, Bourland, Griffin Saks, Dan Munro, Ty Ryer, A.J. Kleczkowski, and Cal Pitruzello. Neidmann, T.J. Vallone, Ryan Genest, Kyle Roberts, and Connor Rulnick served as the team’s only sev-enth grade players.
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Powerhold
bring home Barrett made the score 12-2, putting the 10-run travesty rule into play and the league title into Powerhold’s hands.
Powerhold’s offense was dominant all postseason, notching 24 hits through two playoff games. Isleib was a perfect 6-for-6 at the plate in postseason play, while Con-nor Willett (3-for-4), Michael Salley (2-for-4), and Andrel Correa (3-for-4) also made strong playoff contributions.
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Project Graduation send off
The Coginchaug 2014 Proj-ect Graduation Send off is scheduled for Friday, June 20, 10 p.m., at Coginchaug High School. The public is welcome.
For more information, call (860) 349-7215.
GraduatesEndicott College, Massa-
chusetts - Amanda Bedding of Middlefield.
Southern Connecticut State University - Benjamin Anteck, Katharine Conrey, Monica D’aria, Nicole Fekete, Amber Lake, Aaron Markel, Amber Ryan, Olivia Swerling, Noah Ventola of Durham; Bai-ley Berardino, Luke Drenzek,
Laura Farnsworth, Jessica Ro-bison of Middlefield; Saman-tha Carle, Justin Giambrone, Kathryn Mitchell of Rockfall.
Western Connecticut State University - Melanie Rogers of Rockfall.
Dean’s listEastern Connecticut
State University - Jac-quelyn Benson, Alexander Shoudy, Leah Slawinowski of Durham; Michael Lisi-tano, William Malcolm of Middlefield.
Saint Anselm College, New Hampshire - Mark W. Cronin of Rockfall.
Springfield College, Massachusetts - Michael Mastroianni, Jessie Manis-calco, Gretchen Donovan of Durham; Marissa Puchalski of Middlefield.
University of New Ha-ven - Emily Carria, Kevin Donovan, Aaron Norowski, Laura Reimer, Jessica Ze-rillo of Durham; Jennifer Roth of Middlefield; Eric St. Armand of Rockfall.
Scholastic achievements
Chelsea Tuttle of Durham has been named the recipient of the 2014 Jack Kaplan Award in the Department of Mathe-matics and Computer Science at Quinnipiac University.
Stevie Thompson of Rockfall has been inducted into the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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