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According to a service plan re-leased recently, The Connecticut Department of Transportation is changing very little to the local bus routes feeding into the CT Fastrak system in the towns surrounding New Britain.

DOT hopes to have Fastrak, the busway that will shuttle riders from New Britain and Hartford, oper-

ational in 15 months, in February 2015. It has opened a comment pe-riod on bus routes that service the region.

Local towns hope DOT will add more bus routes or more times when buses travel through their towns, as a way to help residents connect to and from the Fastrak system.

Under the current plan, DOT will keep about the same number

Regional towns looking for Fastrak connection

By Daniel JacksonSpecial to The Citizen

The CT Fastrak bus station in New Britain undergoes construction. Connecticut Department of Transportation expects the project to be finished in 15 months. | (Dan Jackson/The Citizen)

See Fastrak / Page 24

Plainville police Capt. Brian Mullins has been recognized by the Prudence Crandall Center as one of the First 100 Plus Men, an honor given to males who have made ad-vancements in ending domestic vi-olence in Connecticut.

PCC is a domestic violence cen-ter that serves those affected by do-mestic violence.

“He was very active in wanting the assessment program in his de-

partment,” Nikita Carmona, direc-tor of intervention and systems change for PCC, said of Mullins.

“Because of our relationship with that program, be-cause he’s inter-ested in having education about domestic vio-lence,” Carmona said of Mullins’

Captain honored for domestic violence work

By Julie Sopchak The Plainville Citizen

On the evening of Nov. 28, Jews celebrating Hanukkah will gather around and light the second candle in the Jewish Festival of Lights. For many Jews living in the United States, they will be stuffed from a meal of turkey and pumpkin pie, the tradi-tional Thanksgiving meal.

T h a n k s g i v i n g a n d Hanukkah fall on the same date this year, an extremely

Thanksgiving, Hanukkah intersection a rare occurrence

By Daniel Jackson Special to The Citizen

A turkey-themed menorah, designed for Hanukkah 2013 is being marketed as a “menurkey” this year. | (menurkey.com)

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See Rare / Page 12

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A2 Thursday, November 21, 2013 The Plainville Citizen | plainvillecitizen.com

Town Council will consider transferring responsibilities of the Plainville Affordable Housing Corp. to the town due to dwindling support and not enough interest in people to fill vacant board position.

Created in 1990, the group first created 32 housing units on Cassidy Drive for mili-tary families, then 20 more units on Bruce and Franklin avenues, according to Town Manager Robert E. Lee.

If the transfer is made, the town would oversee ad-ministrative responsibilities, including sales of housing units. Unit sales do not hap-pen often, and Lee said the town would have to handle maybe one sale per year.

“I don’t think it would take up a tremendous amount of time,” Lee said.

Additionally, Lee said the State of Connecticut has al-ready approved the transfer should the town be interested in taking over.

Ray Corsini, retired presi-dent of Plainville Affordable Housing Corp., said tenants have had difficulty selling homes because of certain restrictions. Lee said the units can’t be sold without some sort of administrative oversight.

“The need for affordable housing is truly unbeliev-able,” Corsini said.

Lee suggested the item go on the agenda for a decision for the Dec. 2 meeting.

In other business, Lee also provided an update on the Fiscal Year 2014 budget. In the first third of the year, he said 47.45 percent of proposed revenues have been received, while 32 percent of proposed expenditures have been ex-pended. He said tax collec-tions have been strong: 54 percent collection revenue has been received, and 83 percent of prior taxes have al-ready been collected, as well as 63 percent of delinquent interest. Building permit fees have come in at 111 percent, but Lee said that was largely due to the Hospital of Central Connecticut’s cancer center project being worked on.

“Very positive to date,” Lee said of the budget.

At least one resident brought up the issue of the town not having a blight or-dinance during another por-tion of the meeting. The town does not have one all-encom-passing blight ordinance, but rather numerous other ordi-nances that cover areas per-taining to blight. The topic has been brought up in dis-cussion in the past with resi-dents hoping to have a blight ordinance enacted.

“I’m still looking for the town that has the blight ordi-nance that has no blight,” Lee said. “We’re probably as good as any other community that

Town considers absorbing affordable housing group responsibilities

By Julie Sopchak The Plainville Citizen

has a blight ordinance.”Counci l Chairwoman

Kathy Pugliese said issues have been resolved under the current process, and the enforcement officer goes out routinely whenever there is a call or complaint.

“There are ways to re-solve some of those issues,” Pugliese said.

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Arturo Dascanio, 48, 8 McKernan Drive, operating under suspension, control signal violation, emissions violation, 7:16 a.m.

Nov. 9:Edward T. Wyslick, 43, 441

Dowd Ave., Canton, identity theft, fifth-degree larceny, credit card theft, illegal use

of credit card, 4:25 p.m.Christopher M. Dressel, 23,

82 Linden St., possession of marijuana, 11:09 p.m.

Nevan Bard, 22, 28 Prentice St., possession of marijuana, 11:12 p.m.

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While she was working the concession stand for a wrestling match last spring, Holly Martino took notice of the awards showcase in the front lobby of Plainville High School.

She saw all kinds of awards for things like math, art, and maybe even one for excel-lence in gym class badminton.

Among those awards is the annual valedictorian and salutatorian display where pictures of the top two stu-dents from the previous year’s graduating class are on display. Once the next two are chosen, the display is changed accordingly.

Martino, whose daughter was valedictorian in 2010, noticed that once the display

is changed, there is no fur-ther recognition – no trace of the students who earned the highest academic achieve-ments of their class.

“I assumed her name went on to some plaque,” Martino said. “And I’m looking around and I don’t see it.”

That’s because no such plaque exists, but Martino hopes to change that with the help of a couple friends. So she, Barbara Willard, and Michelle Rogan are in the midst of tracking down ev-ery valedictorian and sa-lutatorian in the history of Plainville High School. A tough task given they’re not even sure what the starting point is. The earliest they’ve found, so far, Martino said, is the salutatorian from 1928. The school didn’t even start keeping a record of the names until 1998 – quite a gap to fill.

Local moms seek past PHS vals and salsBy Julie Sopchak The Plainville Citizen

Taking into consideration the sports wall of fame and other displays, Willard, whose daughter was saluta-torian in 2012, said adding an academic component to the array of awards and rec-ognitions at the high school would be a nice complement.

Also, a member of the Board of Education, Willard said there isn’t an approval process that really needs to be done at this point. She said funding will be a discus-sion for the future, but right now the focus remains on finding the names. She said she has been sifting through

old newspapers, and applied for a membership to the Connecticut State Library in Hartford to access the news-paper archives there. Even social media, she said has been a help.

“What I have found en-joyable, it’s been fun trying to track people down and reconnect,” Willard said, a graduate of PHS Class of 1973.

Martino said she discov-ered that while vals and sals are a celebrated part of graduation tradition now, that wasn’t always the case in past year. They weren’t

even publicized at particu-lar points and the top five ranked students’ names were drawn from a hat to deter-mine who would speak at graduation.

“We’ve run into a lot of ob-stacles, but we’re not giving up,” Martino said.

Willard said a lot of good leads have come from post-ing on Facebook, but they are taking verification seri-ously, so proof of being in the top two class rankings is needed.

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Area town officials are taking exception to the low ranking of their towns in the latest edition of Connecticut Magazine.

Every other year, staff mem-bers of Connecticut Magazine rate each municipality on factors such as economy, schools, and crime. Cities and towns are typically divided into categories by population to compare and rank similar municipalities, but this year the breakdown was changed. Because upper-income towns typically dominated the rat-

ings, the magazine opted to categorize municipalities by median home sales price.

Previous rankings by pop-ulation “seemed like a weird, unnatural way to group things,” said Ben Doody, ed-itor of Connecticut Magazine and its sister publications. “If you want to move to a town in Connecticut, you don’t say ‘I really want to live in a place with a population of 25,00050,000.’ You say ‘this is the budget I have and this is how much I can afford.’”

Meriden was ranked last out of 39 communities in the lowest median home sale price category of $175,000

and under, while Southington ranked 40th out of 41 in the $225,000 to $299,999 category. The eight highest population cities were given their own separate category.

Plainville fell into the same category as Meriden and was ranked 14th of 39. Town Manager Robert E. Lee said he wasn’t surprised with where Plainville was, but didn’t take too much stock in the rankings as a whole. He said he paid more attention to the town’s overall ranking, which was 84. Southington’s overall was 168, Farmington 92, and Avon 83.

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Area towns not thrilled with magazine rankingsBy Dan BrechlinSpecial to The Citizen

Southington’s one of the worst places to live?” Lee said. “It’s not all that scientific.”

“I don’t understand how Connecticut Magazine thinks that grouping municipalities by home median sales price is comparing apples to apples,” said Meriden City Council Majority Leader Brian Daniels. “You can’t compare a city of 62,000 to a rural town with a population of 1,500 who may not even have its own police department or fire department.”

Among the highest rank-ing towns that fit into the same category as Meriden were Colebrook, Cornwall and Westbrook. Colebrook and Cornwall have popula-tions under 1,500, according to Connecticut Magazine’s research, and Westbrook is just under 7,000.

Doody admitted that there is some “gray area” and the ratings system is not perfect, but editors agreed it was the “most fair way of doing it.” He added that Meriden is in a complicated situation be-cause it has a high population compared with most other

municipalities, but it was not high enough to be grouped with the eight largest cities.

“It had to be cut off some-where,” Doody said, noting that Meriden ranked higher than New Haven, Waterbury, Hartford, and Bridgeport in some categories.

Among the factors rated was education, which was calculated based on stan-dardized testing results. The economy factor was ranked by a score compiled by the state Office of Policy and Management that takes into account per capita income, the unemployment rate, the mill rate and other data. Crime was judged based on the amount of major crimes committed in 2012 per 1,000 people. The category of civic engagement included 2012 voter turnout and the amount of local news cov-erage available. Leisure and culture was based on several factors including the prox-imity to state parks, number of colleges and universities, restaurants listed in the mag-

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But they’re best known for their wings. Unlike some places that have a decent se-lection of flavors of wings, the Firehouse offers a whop-ping 90 different flavors, which have been given very high ratings on various on-line review websites such as Foursquare and Yelp; their wings have been called not only great, but outstanding. Some of their hotter wings have drawn attention pre-viously: on July 23, 2011, Firehouse took part in the Plainville Police Association’s Wing Ding competition for local restaurants, an annual event, and won first place for hottest wings.

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They offer more than just food and drinks, however. Every night of the week, they host an array of differ-ent events for their custom-ers. Monday and Saturday are Karaoke nights, featur-ing DJ entertainment. Then, Tuesday is Ladies’ Night,

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Society President Nancy Eberhardt said the women have been coming in on Saturdays and doing a sub-stantial amount of research.

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Unfortunately, looking for the yearbooks yields poor results since vals and sals aren’t announced until af-ter the publication deadline. Instead, they’ve been going through newspapers and have been able to fill in some of the names.

“I think the women are trying hard and they are checking, so the list that they come out with should be as accurate as they can get it,” Eberhardt said. “From watching them doing their research here, I would go with the list that they come

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Eberhardt said the high school held its first classes in either 1927 or 1928, some years the val and sal weren’t even named at all, but no one is sure what years those are.

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are predicted to coincide is 79,811 A.D.

For many local Jews, this year presents an opportunity to combine and celebrate the holidays at the same time.

Rabbi Joshua Ratner of

Congregation Kol Ami, a conservative synagogue in Cheshire, said the buzz-word in Jewish circles is “Thanksgivukkah” (Spell it however you like, he said). For those who do not have menorahs in his congre-gation, the nine-branched candle holder used in the cel-ebration of Hanukkah, Ratner encouraged them to make their own.

This year, Thanksgiving-themed menorahs are being used by some practicing Jews, for example, a turkey-shaped menorah with the candles placed in Tom turkey’s fan.

Ratner said the symbols of Thanksgiving are being incor-porated into the Hanukkah celebration.

A quick search Online shows recipes such as Challah bread stuffing, sweet potato latkes with cranberry pecan applesauce and cinna-mon yogurt and let’s not for-get the Manizchewitz-brined turkey.

“I think it’s a really great opportunity to think about the message of both,” Ratner said, “and how we can com-bine the two to highlight the meaning behind the holidays as we head into the new cal-ender year.”

Hanukkah, in the Hebrew, means “re-dedicat ion,” Ratner said. The Jewish hol-iday is to commemorate the re-dedication of the temple in Jerusalem after the Jews revolted from the Greeks around 165 B.C.

The holiday celebrates the miracle of one small flask of oil fueling the menorah in the temple for eight days while more oil was prepared. Jews commemorate this, in part, by eating foods cooked in oil, like latkes.

When this celebration is combined with the tradi-tional American holiday of Thanksgiving, Ratner said the celebration turns to “ded-icating our lives in light of opportunity.”

But “Thanskgivukkah” has a different dimension for Rabbi Shelley Becker,

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also a celebration of religious freedom, and Thanksgiving commemorates a band of Pilgrims who traveled to the New World to worship God outside the state-mandated Church of England.

I n d e e d , H a n u k k a h shares more s imi lar -ity to Thanksgiving than it does to its more com-monly compared-to holiday — Christmas.

“Hanukkah is not the

Jewish Christmas,” Becker sa id , adding because Hanukkah is so far separated from Christmas this year, there is an opportunity for Jews to stress Hanukkah is a very different holiday than

Christmas. Hanukkah coinciding

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Citizen every day, we’ve rounded up all the words from the week and printed them here for you. See if you can challenge your-self to use these words while talking to a friend, or writing a paper, or maybe just shout them out ran-domly in a hallway some-where. As a reader, you’ll even get the benefit of a definition, something my co-workers are left to dig up themselves:

Jargogle (v.) – To con-fuse or jumble.

Gregarian (ad j . ) – Belonging to the herd or common sort. Ordinary.

Bumwhush (n.) – Ruin, annihi late, obscur i ty. Something once active, but since suppressed or quashed.

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Jocuserious (adj.) – A blend of jokes and serious matter.

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2. For American Baptists, the local church is the funda-mental unit of mission in de-nominational life.

3. American Baptists par-take of two ordinances: be-lievers’ baptism and The Lord’s Supper.

4. American Baptists be-lieve that the committed in-dividual Christian can and

should approach God directly, and that individual gifts of ministry should be shared.

5. American Baptists take se-riously the call to evangelize and missionary work.

6. American Baptists sup-port religious freedom and respect the expressions of faith of others.

7. American Baptists ac-knowledge that God’s fam-ily extends beyond our local churches, and that God calls

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9. American Bapt is t Churches USA celebrates the racial, cultural and theo-logical diversity witnessed within its membership.

10. American Baptists heed the biblical call to renewal and the need for a vital wit-ness to a new millennium.

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recounted, Becker said, but it adds another layer of mean-ing to the holiday.

“Thanksgivukkah” comes with its own unique commer-cial opportunities.

“If there’s going to be an opportunity to make a prod-uct and sell it, that’s going to happen,” Becker said.

Take, for example, the story of Asher Weintraub, a 9-year-old who lives in New York City. When he heard how the dates of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving coincided with

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each other, he sketched out a menorah in the shape of a turkey with 3D modeling soft-ware, according to menurky.com. A few tweaks later, and the “Menurkey” was born.

“We’ve all seen it,” Becker said.

And while the menurkys and Jewish/Thanksgiving crossover cooking is novel and fun, Nov. 28, 2013 rep-resents a once-in-a-multi-mil-lennial time of thankfulness and re-dedication, a time to look back and look forward, a time to “Give thanks to God that we live in a coun-try where religious freedom is guaranteed,” Becker said.

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selection.Mullins explained the de-

partment has undergone policy changes and imple-mented programs to stymie domestic violence.

“Out of necessity, we’ve expanded our role as not just enforcers, but we’ve be-come part of victim advo-cacy,” Mullins said.

The department also works in conjunction with PCC. Mullins explained a new program where an offi-cer responding to a domes-tic violence call will put the victim on the phone with a social worker at PCC.

Mullins explained it can be more comforting for a victim to speak with a social worker, rather than a police officer.

“They’re undergoing all this emotional and, some-times, physical trauma,” Mullins said. “Now the vic-tim is not only getting help from police.”

Police officers in town have received more exten-sive training to handle such situations, Mullins said.

“Each domestic violence incident has to be inves-tigated in a serious and thoughtful way,” he said.

Domestic violence sit-

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uations are diff icult, he said. With emotions run-ning high, getting the truth -- even from victims -- can be tough. Some of the train-ing includes being able to pick up on verbal cues and closely investigating the scene.

The department also has a follow-up program to en-sure victims remain safe. It includes making calls or vis-its to victims.

Mullins said it’s difficult to say whether the efforts have made a huge impact, but he has seen a change for the better.

“Based upon my judg-ment and feedback that we get from victims and the courts and PCC,” Mullins said, “I’m very confident that we have made a differ-ence in either preventing domestic violence from oc-curring, or arresting some-one that otherwise may have slipped through the cracks, or got away with something because victims were afraid to call the police.”

The focus on domestic vi-olence certainly isn’t friv-olous. Mullins said there were 55 incidents alone last month in town.

“I would just say that I think that domestic violence incidents constitute a sub-stantial part of our duties here,” he said.

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Rankings

azine’s Best Restaurants issue, among others.

Lee said he would take a town’s public investment community score more se-riously, a more formulaic approach to town rankings by the Office of Policy and Management. He said it’s dif-ficult for Plainville to com-pete with towns with different demographics. The higher ranked ones are always the ones with the most money, he said.

“It’s very hard for us to compete against those,” Lee said.

On the other hand, he said he felt Plainville has a lot to offer, and that the list indi-cates that. In its category, Plainville ranked fifth in cul-ture, seventh in education, 16th in economy, 18th in com-

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munity, and 38th in crime.“I think we’re an affordable

community,” Lee said. “I think we’re a well rounded commu-nity given the resources avail-able to us.”

Unlike in previous years, Doody said the magazine in-cluded stories about some up-and-coming towns this year, including Storrs, which is undergoing a massive eco-nomic development and school expansion. Though the project did not help Storrs’ rating, it could improve in the rankings in future years. Comparatively, Meriden’s two public high schools are undergoing $220 million in renovations, while a $13 mil-lion redevelopment of the va-cant former Meriden Hub site and a new train station are planned. Though they could not be factored into the rat-ings, Meriden’s ranking could be impacted in the future.

Southington’s ranking also

drew frustration from the town’s promoters.

“Maybe they went to Stonington instead of Southington,” said Chamber of Commerce President Art Secondo. “The tax rate is very, very good here. We have beau-tiful parks, a drive-in theater, softball fields and (artificial turf) on our football fields. Our crime is low. We have the Apple Harvest Festival and the Italian Festival. The fact that it’s not even in the top 10, I don’t even understand.”

Similarly, Southington was up against municipalities with much lower populations. The top finishers in its median home sale price range were Simsbury, Glastonbury and Granby. Only North Branford finished behind Southington.

“It isn’t a true measure of an overall community,” Lee said.

--Julie Sopchak contributed to this article

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Richard Cronin DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.— Richard “Dick” Cro-nin, 78, of Daytona Beach, Fla., formerly of Plain-

ville, passed away following a brief illness on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. Born in Bridgeport on Dec. 7, 1934, he was one of four children to the late Edward and Julia Cronin. He was raised and educat-ed in Seymour, enlisting in the U.S. Air Force shortly upon graduating. He proudly served his country from 1954 thru 1958, receiving an honorable discharge. Dick married the

love of his life, Beverly (Dery) in 1963, recently celebrating their golden wedding anniversary. Dick had a lifelong love of family, travel, the beach and car racing. He was a master electrician, working for various companies throughout his career. He and Beverly fulfilled their love for the beach, retiring to Florida 10 years ago, where he was able to con-tinue his passion for racing and NASCAR living near Day-tona International Speedway. A loving husband and father, Dick’s proudest role was that of a devoted grandfather for his six adored grandchildren; all who will miss him dearly. In addition to his wife, Beverly, he leaves his daughters and sons-in-law, Cathy and Jay Cassineri, of Plainville and Carol and Marc Gordnier, of Chesapeake, Va.; his grand-children, Nicole Zaza, Samantha Zaza, Alexandra Zaza, Joseph Cassineri, Beau Gordnier, and Lea Gordnier; his brothers, Edward and his wife, Florence and John and his wife, Ellen, all of Seymour; his brother-in-law, David Greywacz; and many nieces and nephews. He was prede-ceased by his sister, Anne Greywacz. Family and friends may gather in celebration of Dick’s life on Saturday, Nov. 30, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., with a service of remembrance and military honors at 1 p.m., at Bailey Funeral Home, 48 Broad St, Plainville. For online expressions of sympathy, please visit www.bailey-funeral-home.com.


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Sorting through myths

To the editor:I read a political adver-

tisement for the Republican Party in a local publication that not only shocked me, but left me totally confused. Specifically, it centered on two “myths” town residents might be living with, followed by “factual” responses.

Myth 1: “Town council meetings are not televised.” The response: “The meet-ings are televised by Nutmeg TV on Comcast channel 96. You can view the program on Tuesday at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 11 a.m. the week of the meeting.”

At the Oct. 21 town coun-cil meeting, I addressed the council on this issue and was told that meeting agenda item

1, Citizen’s Forum, although conducted prior to the pledge to the flag, was indeed an “of-ficial” part of the meeting. If that is the case, why do res-idents never get to see it? Agenda item 1 starts at 7 p.m. and the filming of the meet-ing starts at 7:30.

Myth 2: “Claims have been made that we do not have a way to handle blight in our community.”

The response cites Section 11-17 of the Town Ordinances, last updated Aug. 20, 2007. Its focus is on “parking of unregistered or inoperable vehicles or other unsightly materials or equipment.”

After reading the “fac-tual” response I cannot help but wonder if an inoperable vehicle had been left at the “Chung” property, would that area have been cleaned up by now?

I can assure you that this myth vs. fact scenario has gotten my attention, and I will be questioning our town council.

Unfortunately, that por-tion of the meeting is not televised.

Lou FrangosPlainville

Excited to serveTo the editor:I would like to thank all

of the people who have sup-ported me over the past year during my run for Town Council. Thanks to all who gave advice.

To the citizens of Plainville, I look forward to having bi-partisan support on current and future issues before the town. I look forward to prov-ing to you over the next two years that I will do what is in the best interest for every cit-izen of our community. Your opinions are most important and I will listen openly and freely. To the best of my abil-ity, I will work to enhance our community. Please re-member that local elections affect our everyday lives much more than most.

To the candidates not elected, thank you for stand-ing up to enrich our com-munity; each one of you had great intentions for everyone in our town and I am sure you will continue to work to better the community. To all of the candidates who were elected, I look forward to learning from you and work-ing with you to keep our town a beautiful, progressive and prosperous place to live.

Patrick M. KilbyPlainville

Letters to the Editor

I love fall. I love the colors, I love the smells, and I love that I can wear my favor-ite boots again. I love that I can be outside without freezing or sweating, and fall is the ideal time to hike the trails at Sleeping Giant State Park.

Our family has taken advantage of the tower path, a mile and a half climb that boast a nice wide trail, a lovely view, and a good incline for kids and adults alike, a few times this season. We leash up our black lab, pack some water and snacks, and head for the hills, sometimes with friends, sometimes just the five of us.

Sleeping Giant, as all locals know, is named for its shape, because the hills resemble a gi-ant lying down, asleep. Right around where the giant’s left hip would be is a stone tower that offers an amazing panoramic view of New Haven County and Long Island Sound, and is a great place for kids to pretend they are knights and princesses. Since it takes us over an hour to get to the top, due to the vast amount of time spent exploring and rock col-lecting, my kids are usually starving at the

tower, and ready for a bite to eat.After our little break, and our little snack,

we begin the much quicker trip down the hill. We still stop to explore spider webs, “Look at this big one!” or to balance across fallen trees, “Just one more time! Pleeeease?” My four-year-old collects every interesting rock she sees, and places them, gently at first, and eventually cramming them, into my overflowing pockets. When we arrive home she will lovingly wash them, and carry them around for days in a plastic zippered bag, fi-nally forgetting about them so I can return them to the wild.

We stop to chat with other dog owners, al-lowing our pets to say hello by sniffing each other, which never stops being funny to our children. The main trail is family-friendly, and is easily the most populated trail in the park. For a more isolated or difficult trail, see the trail maps and entrances at the Sleeping Giant Parks Association website (SGPA.org).

There are tired legs, and always some tears from my preschooler who would forever be carried or pushed in stroller if we allowed it, but it is always fun, and it feels great to

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Halloween is over, and the first batches of leaves have been removed from the edges of our lawns by the hardworking North Haven Public Works Department. If these two facts haven’t alerted me to the fact that we’re solidly in Thanksgiving sea-son, the Facebook posts sharing what oth-ers are thankful for certainly have.

With Thanksgiving near the end of this month, November is a natural time to re-flect on the bounty of things in our life that we should be thankful for. In the past few years, a movement has taken hold, and folks are choosing to share one thing they are thankful for each day leading up to Thanksgiving.

Gratitude journals have been used to improve mood and studies have found that subjects who kept a daily gratitude journal reported fewer ailments, a greater sense of feeling connected to others, higher levels of alertness, more enthusiasm, were more optimistic about the future, and exercised more.

Naysayers worry that Facebook statuses are insincere, or that others are bragging

or embellishing the great things in their lives for the benefit of others, or that thankfulness should be observed all year long, and not just in November.

As someone who has participated in the November thankful posts in years past, I can say that focusing on positive things, both large and small, does carry over into the rest of the year. I appreciate a great cup of coffee every day, and I marvel in the magic of my strong marriage continually, but taking the time to write it down gives those feelings weight and make them more tangible. The activity of transcribing my gratitude helps minimize the negativity that creeps into everyday living.

After three years of giving thanks in November, I am skipping the exercise this year, and instead I’m enjoying the grati-tude that is spilling onto my Facebook feed from my friends around the world. I am thankful for November, a month where gratitude is plentiful, and where positivity is shared, and I look forward to my friends experiencing all of the wonderful side ef-fects of keeping a daily gratitude journal, on social media or in their privacy of their homes.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

Explore the many dimensions of gratitude

By Amy Flory Special to The Citizen I’ve been raking leaves this

afternoon. I used to love rak-ing leaves. I loved the crisp, cool fall weather and beau-tifully multi-colored leaves. That was about 15 or so years ago, when most of my body parts still functioned correctly. My shoulders and back aren’t too thrilled with the whole raking thing now.

Back when I actually liked to rake, I would even call it fun. The house was new … make that new to us. We liked the responsibility of caring for our property … and our leaves. Not so much now.

Even our daughter, albeit just a toddler way back then, would help to rake. Granted she wasn’t too good at that part, being her arms were so short and everything. One thing she was good at though, was stuffing the leaf bags. My husband and I would hoist her up, which made her gig-gle before we even started, then we’d use her to tamp down each bag of leaves to get even more leaves into them. Over and over, up and into the bag she’d go with her little purple, light-up sneak-ers, one bag after another and another until the bags ultimately lined the whole driveway waiting for the town to come and take it all away.

We would also try other leaf collection systems (if nothing more than to give our daughter and her sneak-ers a break). We had the

blower/mulcher combina-tion. That worked great, but the zipper on the bag kept breaking. We gave up and gave it to the neighbor. He sewed a new zipper on the bag and is still using it to-day. We don’t talk to those neighbors anymore. We also hired a friend’s son who in a fit of crazed inventiveness, created a monster leaf-suck-ing, leaf-mulching machine out of old lawnmower parts. Since none of us had a truck to transport the contraption, Jacob walked the thing all the way to our house, about five blocks, and went to work. It was impressive, really im-pressive—until it broke, about 10 minutes into it.

What really gets me about leaf season, though, is our neighbor with the forest. He doesn’t have just one or two trees. No, he has them in the dozens. These are oak trees, about 100-years-old and 100-feet-high. Did you real-ize oak trees are the last to lose their leaves? So, when every single last leaf of our dogwoods and maples and birches are raked and stuffed into bags, those oaks are just waiting for us —because as you know, each and every leaf will blow into our yard, year after year.

To be honest, I have since moved on to a new way to take care of the annual leaf collection. One day, I simply announced that I would rake no more. It’s now my hus-band’s job.

Come to think of it, I don’t shovel snow anymore either.

Leaf lament leads to enlightened solution

By Joy VanderLekSpecial to The Citizen

When many of us think of Thanksgiving, we think of Norman Rockwell’s painting of a happy family gathered around a table fea-turing an enormous roasted turkey and overflowing dishes of other seasonal foods. It is the idealized rendering of Thanksgiving.

Not all of us attain it, and some Thanksgiving Days don’t even come close.

It’s ages since I thought about my first attempt at making the holiday meal. At the time we lived in a house with a small kitchen. There was an inlaid brown industrial-grade linoleum on the floor. Wanting to brighten up the kitchen, I naively proposed that Art and I paint the linoleum. I had read in a magazine that

it could be done. So the eve-ning before Thanksgiving Day we painted the lino-leum a lovely blue.

Next morning, surprise! The paint was as wet as it had been when we dipped our brushes into the paint cans the night before. What to do? I had prom-ised to cook the dinner. My resourceful husband found some planks which he laid on the floor. From these, I maneuvered from cupboard, refrigerator and stove to dining room ta-ble to sink back and forth, bearing dishes and food, both hot and cold. It was a nightmare. Over the next several days we painstak-ingly removed all of the paint, cleaned off all of the wax embedded in the lino-leum and successfully ap-plied the paint.

Another year we had

planned to gather at my mother and step-father Ken’s house to celebrate the holiday. Ken loved be-ing the host and always en-joyed roasting the turkey. My sister-in-law Grace had come from New York on Wednesday afternoon in anticipation of our get-ting an early start the next day for the drive to Dummerston. We often drove the 100 miles up, spent the day with my fam-ily and drove back late the same day. But when we rose on Thanksgiving morning we discovered that it had snowed hard during the night and was still snow-ing. There was no chance of getting out of the driveway, much less of driving north. I called with our regrets. Then I pulled a small roast

A little blue at Thanksgiving isn’t so bad

By Laura ClementsenSpecial to The Citizen

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Leaf collection in Plainville began Oct. 21 and will con-tinue to Thursday, Dec. 5. Rake leaves to the curbline. Grass clippings will not be collected. No sticks or stones. Do not put leaves on a street “island.” Bagged leaves will not be col-lected. For more information, call the public works depart-ment, (860) 793-0221 ext. 208, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday to Wednesday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Friday.

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Seniors

From increased unemploy-ment to commonplace home foreclosures, it’s hard to for-get the devastating effects of the 2008 financial crisis and the worst recession since the Great Depression.

While the hope is that reg-ulatory bodies and bureaus created in the crisis’ wake will help prevent a recur-rence, some experts say these reforms were shaped by the same entities responsible

for the cri-sis -- but that citi-zens have the power to chart a different course for their own eco-nomic futures.

“Whether policies were formed with selfless or selfish intentions, you don’t need to quietly agree to them, espe-cially if they are misguided.

We have a system that can respond to the efforts of in-dividual citizens,” says Jay W. Richards, Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics and author of the new book, “Infiltrated: How to Stop the Insiders and Activists Who Are Exploiting the Financial Crisis to Control Our Lives and Our Fortunes.”

In his book, Richards sug-gests that complacency on

the part of ordinary citizens will lead to more serious fi-nancial disasters. He encour-ages readers to take steps to prevent future crises and protect their own nest eggs:

-Get informed: “Many culpable entities used the cri-sis fallout to lay blame else-where and increase their own power,” says Richards. “But with knowledge, prudence and intelligent action, history won’t have to repeat itself.”

“The only way to pre-vent deception and cyni-cism during future crises is for ordinary citizens to get informed and outraged enough to change our fiscal and regulatory trajectory,” says Richards.

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During the holidays, it can be all too easy to overeat. But there’s more at play when it comes to packing on pounds this time of year. Another hol-iday tradition that can affect your weight is stress.

Here are some important things to know about your body’s response to stress:

Stress hormonesWe all have a built-in stress

response. It’s a complicated set of physiological reac-tions that help keep you alive during dangerous situations. Here’s how it’s supposed to work:

You experience an acute stressor. Thousands of years ago, this could have been a ti-ger trying to eat you. Today, it could be the in-laws com-ing to stay with you over the holidays. In response, adre-nal glands release the stress hormone cortisol into your bloodstream, initiating an in-crease in blood sugar used

for immediate energy to fight, run or slam on your car brakes.

Once the stressor is dealt with, the cortisol leaves your system and things return to their normal metabolic state. But unfortunately today, many of us are constantly stressed, causing significant metabolic imbalances.

Chronic stressFrom when we wake up to

when we go to bed, the aver-age person deals with hun-dreds of low-grade stressful events, like rush hour traf-fic, projects with impossible deadlines, troubles with kids, spouses or pets.

According to Michael A. Smith, M.D. host of “Healthy Talk” on RadioMD.com and senior health scientist with the Life Extension Foundation in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, this state of affairs is chron-ically elevating cortisol lev-els, which means blood sugar

is constantly being mobilized for energy.

“And when you don’t burn the sugar, it gets stored as body fat,” says Dr. Smith. “This is just one of the met-abolic imbalances caused by too much cortisol. There are many other problems caused by chronic stress that can pack on the fat.”

For example, too much cor-tisol, which results in a drop in serotonin, can drive sugar cravings and significantly in-crease appetite.

SolutionsNew research shows that

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In more recent years I have found other ways of celebrat-ing the holiday. Sometimes the invitation has come from my niece Diane and husband Alan in northern Vermont. That means being away from home two or three days. It is 250 miles to their place, too far for me to drive to and re-turn the same day. There are other differences. The guests are mostly her in-laws, farm

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chores have to be done be-fore we can sit down to eat and her dog sits by the table eagerly waiting for any tid-bit. Diane is very proud of the fact that, except for the turkey and the desserts that guests bring, the food on the table has come from their own farm.

Other times I have partici-pated in the holiday feast cre-ated by Nancy Frieberg and held at the Congregational Church in Wallingford on Thanksgiving Day. Volunteers do all the work, roasting turkeys, cutting them up, peeling and cook-

ing vegetables, setting ta-bles and serving food. There has even been entertain-ment. Everyone is welcome. Sometimes I have delivered dinners to shut-ins and spent a few minutes chatting with the recipients. It has been a rewarding experience. It re-minds me of an old hymn.

Now thank we all our God; With heart and hands and voices; Who wondrous things has done; In whom the world rejoices; Who from our mothers’ arms; Has blessed us on our way; With countless gifts of love; And still is ours today.

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The Blue Devils season has been full of highs and lows as the young squad continues to rebuild after a disappointing 3-7 mark last year.

Unfortunately, Plainville witnessed another low for this season after falling to Bloomfield 19-0 Friday night in Bloomfield. With the loss, the Blue Devils now stand at 4-5 with only one game remaining on the season. Bloomfield moves to 8-2 with the win.

From the start, the con-test was all Bloomfield, as the Warhawks found the end zone twice in the first quarter to take a 13-0 lead. After scoring both touch-downs on the ground,

Bloomfield stuck with their recipe for success, finding paydirt in the third quarter on a 26-yard run to bring the score to its final count of 19-0.

Although the game re-mained close on the score-board, it was far from close on the field. Plainville couldn’t muster anything offensively, and finished the game with only 82 to-tal yards.

With a week off, the Blue Devils will look to recollect themselves as they prepare for their Thanksgiving Day show-down with Farmington (8-2). Plainville will host the Indians at Alumni Field for a 10:00 a.m. start time, as Plainville looks to fin-ish the season with a .500 record.

Plainville stymied in loss

By Nate Brown The Plainville Citizen

They say that déjà vu can be a horrible occurrence in one’s life.

It can be even worse when it happens on multiple occasions.

Plainville came across that exact situation last We d n e s d ay n i g h t a t Rosek-Skubal Stadium in Middletown, when the Blue Devils lost in the Class M Seminfinals to the top-seeded Suffield Wildcats, 4-1, ending their season and state title aspirations.

Yet even more frustrating for the team is that their sea-son has ended at the hands of Suffield for three consecutive years. In 2011, Plainville lost to Suffield in the Semifinals, 2-0, before faltering to the Chiefs again last year in the second round, 1-0.

“It’s always tough to be eliminated. The worst part about being eliminated is

the very definition of it,” said coach Tim Brown. “It’s a crushing blow to something that myself, my co-coach, all the kids, all the effort we put into it, the finality: the switch off.”

After moving through the first two rounds of the tour-nament with relative ease (6-0 over Ellis Tech, 5-1 over Windham Tech), 12th-seeded Plainville faced a much more difficult opponent in fourth-seeded Nonnewaug. Yet the Blue Devils persevered, de-feating the Chiefs 2-1 and set-ting up a highly anticipated matchup with Suffield, hop-ing that the third time would –in fact –be the charm.

Yet Plainville’s time in the postseason was grow-ing short, especially against a team that had been as dominating all season long as Suffield, who through 19 games was a perfect 19-0-0.

Even more impressive was just how dominating Suffield had been on the pitch. Prior

Plainville meets familiar foe, demise in state semifinalsBy Nate BrownThe Plainville Citizen

to its matchup with Plainville, Suffield had scored 78 goals throughout the season and state tournament, while only allowing five goals during that same time period.

Knowing the task that stood in front of them, Plainville and played a tough first 15 minutes, as the Blue Devils and Suffield were deadlocked at zero. Yet a miscommunication between Plainville’s back line and their goal keeper led to an offensive chance that Suffield couldn’t pass up, as the Chiefs’ Robert Della Penna put the ball past a grounded Alex Bawol to give Suffield a 1-0 lead.

“They are very opportu-nistic,” said Brown. “You can’t give opportunities to a team like that; they’re quick, they finish, and they’re aggressive.”

A f t e r t h e m i s s t e p , Plainville played taught de-fense for the rest of the half, and even almost evened the score, as a Blue Devil header

seemed poised for the back of Suffield’s net; however, the Chiefs were seemingly two steps ahead of Plainville, as a well-timed header by Suffield prevented the Blue Devils from making their way onto the scoreboard.

In the second half, Plainville once again looked to tie the contest at 1-1 before a 10 minute stretch that saw Plainville’s hopes of upset-ting Suffield go from “hope-ful” to “trounced”, as the Chiefs score three goals to extend their lead, 4-0.

Although down, the Blue Devils refused to count themselves out. With about six minutes remaining in the contest, Nick D’Amico did something that so many hadn’t been able to do all sea-son long: score on Suffield.

“We don’t panic in the back. We don’t panic any-where. Even when we were down 4-1 with five min-utes left we still had belief; we still tried,” said Brown. “We’re not a team that stops

and says ‘Game over, we’re packing it in now.’ We kept fighting until the very end and I’m very proud about that fact.”

Although Plainville wasn’t able to score again and make the final score closer in the box score than what had played out on the field, there was no shame in losing to the back-to-back Class M State Champions. In the cham-pionship game on Saturday, another case of déjà vu took place, as Suffield cap-tured its third straight State Championship with a 2-0 victory over Ellington.

“I reminded them that there were only three teams left in this; there were an awful lot of teams sitting at home,” said Brown. “We achieved a lot in a great sea-son, we had done a lot of things that maybe people didn’t think we would do. I loved the fact that til the very end, we were playing hard.”

Plainville finished the sea-son with a record of 13-7-1.

While their regular season record may not have been the most appealing, it was never about the regular season for Plainville.

The Lady Blue Devils overcame a 5-9 dual meet season to finish 13th at the Class S State Finals this year on Wednesday, November 13, with a score of 142.

Led by senior Megan Farmer and sopho-more Taylor Rogers, both of whom competed in four events, Plainville’s youth movement helped them to build upon last season’s 17th place finish at States.

Farmer proved to be Plainville’s top indi-vidual scorer, as the senior finished with 30 points. Farmer finished sixth in the 50 yard freestyle with a time of 26.01 for 23 points, and 18th in the 100 yard freestyle, completing her swim in 58.92 for seven more points.

Rogers also competed in two individual events for the Blue Devils. The sophomore product finished 22nd in the 200 yard free-style, scoring three points off a 2:09.65 time, and 20th place in the 500 yard freestyle with a time of 5:45.42 and scored Plainville an ad-

ditional five points.Plainville’s relay teams also had solid perfor-

mances throughout the meet. Led by Farmer and Rogers, the Lady Blue Devils scored most of their points through their team efforts.

Plainville’s 200 yard medley relay team, comprised of Farmer, sophomore Sydney McGough, and juniors Nicole Basile and Megan Dalena, finished in 10th place with a time of 2:07.17. The girls’ efforts were strong enough to score the Blue Devils 34 points.

Plainville’s other relay team’s shared simi-lar success throughout the evening. The girls’ 400 freestyle relay team that included Rogers, Dalena, senior Morgan LaCombe, and junior Molly Schade finished 12th (4:16.24; 30 points) while the 200 freestyle relay team finished 14th with a time of 1:55.72. That team, com-prised of Farmer, Rogers, Basile, and freshman Audrey Gediman, helped the Lady Blue Devils to score 26 points.

McGough was Plainville’s only other scor-ing individual throughout the meet. The sophomore finished the 100 yard backstroke with a time of 1:05.84, which was good enough for 13th place and 14 more points for the Blue Devils.

Blue Devils swimming and diving finishes 13th at States

By Nate Brown The Plainville Citizen


MAGICAL RUN ENDS IN SEMIS

The Plainville High School boys soccer team’s quest for the CIAC Class M state championship was halted in the semifinals with a 4-1 loss to Suffield Nov. 13 in Middletown. The Blue Devils ended the year with a mark of 13-6-1. Suffield improved to 19-0. | (Photos by Patrick Matthews)

People of all ages are invited to support the Saturday, Nov. 23 bowlathon to benefit PARC, Family-Centered Services for People with Developmental Disabilities. The fundraiser will be held 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., at Laurel Lanes, 136 New Britain Ave., Plainville.

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Yes, winter is upon us and some great skiing is in your future. There are 64 resorts open in North America – 10 in New England – with more opening this week. Now is the hour to get ready for some great slope time this winter.

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checked out, your body into shape and -. the fun part of late Fall – your travel planned. Are you going to spend Christmas at Cannon, Kwanzaa at Killington, holiday break at Bretton Woods, or President’s Week at Park City?

Start with your equipment. Get it out, clean it, and check it over. Those old boards may need a good tune up. Are your old skis or boots getting a little tired and sad? It could be time to treat your self to some new gear.

If you’ve been like a stone all sum-mer, and just sat around the yard, you’d better get to working out. If not, those first few runs on a mountain will be painful. Anything you do now will help. Walk around the neighborhood or jog a little. At work, take the stairs instead of the elevator. Bicycle around town.

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Don’t skip the smaller resorts. They offer some great family fun and you won’t lose the little ones on a giant mountain. The mega resorts will have more miles of trails covered with ma-chine made flakes, but there are five ski hills right here in Connecticut. A stay-cation could save some money and leave some great family memories.

Here at home there is a new kid on the block. After almost seven seasons in the weeds, Powder Ridge is set to come back to life. The people that run Brownstone Discovery Park in Portland have resurrected the 50-year-old resort and plan to offer skiing adventure in time for Christmas. Check it out, but check the conditions before you travel.

Mount Southington is in its 50th season and ready to crank up the guns when the weather cooperates. They have eight new Alpine Tec fan jet snow guns and the wiring to make them run.

“The investment will allow us to make snow on both sides of the hill at the same time,” Ed Beckley, general manager at Mount Southington, said. “That will give us more runs open when we start up the lifts and better conditions on the whole mountain ev-ery day. As soon as it gets cold, we’ll be ready to run”.

Mount Southington also has 1,000 new skis in the rental shop and new furniture in the Alpine Eatery.

Mohawk Mountain, Woodbury Ski Hill, and Ski Sundown are also ready to open for the season as soon as Mother Nature gives us some winter weather.

Snow Views: tuning up for the season

By Dave MongilloSpecial to The Citizen


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Southington before swooping up to Hartford.

Michael Sanders, transit administrator for the state’s DOT who will oversee the busway once it is operational, said the CT Transit busway is about linking places together.

“The more connections we can build in the better,” he said.

Sanders said DOT has al-ready talked about adding more feeder routes that carry passengers to CT Fastrak.

However, the routes on the map presently are the routes DOT is committing to opening day of the busway, Sanders said.

For example, there is a pos-sibility DOT will send more buses to the Berlin Train Station in the future. Today, the BK bus travels from New Britain and passes by the train station nine times on a weekday.

After the infrastructure is built, Sanders said, it is easy to expand service.

“It’s easy enough to do,” he said. “You just throw buses out there. You can always add.”

Throughout the plan-ning process, the Central Con n ec t i c ut Reg i on a l Planning Agency has taken

comments from the pub-lic and passed them onto DOT, as well as adding their own, such as the suggestion to add a new bus route that would run to Pymouth and Thomaston.

CCRPA is an organiza-tion that plans and pro-motes regional economic, land use and transporta-tion polices. They also plan disaster response. Berlin, Plainville, Southington, New Britain, Bristol, Terryville and Burlington work with CCRPA.

Jason Zheng, an associate planner with the transporta-tion program at CCRPA, said DOT released the revised service plan only a few weeks ago, and CCRPA is still ana-lyzing the plan. However, in the document, DOT denied CCRPA’s request to service Plymouth and Thomaston.

After DOT ran their rider-ship models, Zheng said, it decided it could not support the proposed route.

During this comment pe-riod, Zheng said CCRPA will propose additional bus lines to service Southington, espe-cially along the Route 10 and Route 229 corridors.

ESPN and many industrial parks are located along those routes.

“It seems logical that they would have a bus route for these big corridors,” Zheng said, adding CCRPA will look into the accessibility of bus stops by cyclists and pe-destrians. “Some routes don’t even have signs,” while others don’t have sidewalks.

While CCRPA solicits funds to distribute around the region, Zheng said CT Fastrak is funded by DOT.

Jim Mahoney, Berlin’s eco-nomic development director, said DOT is creating the ini-tial bus way, and the next step is to talk about improving the region’s local service.

And while improved bus service between Berlin’s train station and the beginning of CT Fastrak is not on the plan at this point, Berlin has sug-gested it to DOT.

Mark DeVoe, Plainville’s director of planning and eco-nomic development, said “We’re not going to benefit directly from the Fastrak,” but local residents in regional towns such as Planville, Berlin and Southington could use the Fastrak by driving to the nearest station, or “hop on one of the local lines.”

Whether or not local ser-vice will improve, “it’s a lit-tle difficult to predict at this time,” DeVoe said.

For more information about CT Fastrak and to view the new service plan, visit ct-fastrak.com.

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StatePoint – One of the best parts about holiday en-tertaining is spend-ing quality time with friends and family. If you’re rush ing a round trying to cook and prepare everything, your food may taste great, but you’re missing out on a key element of the sea-son -- togetherness.

But the quality of your food doesn’t need to suffer for g reat conversa-tion, say cooking experts.

“With a little ad-vanced planning you can have it all at your holiday gath-ering -- both a deli-cious, hearty meal, and quality time with your friends and family,” says Christy Jordan, author of the new cookbook “Come Home to Supper,” a collection of bud-get-conscious, kid-friendly

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Jordan is offering this handy checklist for a more fulfilling holiday entertain-ing season:

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Shop for groceries and make dessert.

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Jordan points out that re-frigerator cakes are wonder-ful for holiday entertaining, because they can be made in advance and actually get better as the days go by. They also taste great cold.

One to Two Days AheadAssemble the main course.Many entrées can be made

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Welch St., illegal possession of suboxone, 10:45 p.m.

Cameron S. Vincelette, 24, 18 Hickory Lane, illegal pos-session of suboxone, 10:20 p.m.

Kirk D. Van Allen, 41, 386 Fairfield Ave., Hartford, il-legal possession of phency-clidine, possession of drug paraphernalia, 3:02 a.m.

George W. Slater, 55, 409 East St., driving under the influence of alcohol/drug, failure to drive a reasonable distance, 9 p.m.

Antonio Perez-Agustin, 39, 4 E. Main St., third-degree as-sault, third-degree criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, second-degree threatening, 4:31 a.m.

Nov. 13:Christopher A. Anglis,

18, 11 Cloverdale Road, Southington, possession with intent to sell, illegal posses-

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sion of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, pos-session of alcohol by minor, improper number of head-lights, 11:11 p.m.

Patrick J. Pepin, 19, 141 Oak St., Southington, possession with intent to sell, illegal pos-session of marijuana, posses-sion of drug paraphernalia, 11:40 p.m.

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141 Smith St., New Britain, possession of oxycodone with intent to sell, illegal pos-session of oxycodone, posses-sion of drug paraphernalia, narcotic not in original con-tainer, 1:02 a.m.

Thomas Z. Baginski, 20, 271 Booth St., New Britain, pos-session of oxycodone with intent to sell, illegal posses-sion of oxycodone, illegal possession of suboxone, il-legal possession of ecstasy, possession of drug parapher-nalia, narcotic not in original container, window tints, 10:51 p.m.

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WALLINGFORD - 4 rooms, 2 BR’s, hdwd flrs, stove/ref. incl. W/D hookups in bsmt, oil heat, off st park-ing. $1,000/mo. + utilities. Sec dep & refs. No pets/smoking. 203-410-3980 or 203-265-7546

KAYAK PADDLE Werner Camano. 220 cm. Straight standard diameter shaft. Excellent condition. Used in fresh water only. Color: red. Great Christmas gift! $175. Call (860) 645-7245.

Apartments For Rent

FALL SPECIALMERIDEN- 1BR

$695/month. HEAT, HOT WATER &

ELECTRIC INCLUDED. Private Balcony. 203-639-4868

Rooms For Rent

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MER. 1 BR, 2nd flr, new car-pet, W. side, prvt backyard & 2 attic rms, w/d, stove/re-frig incld. $865/mo. + sec. 203-634-1195 12pm-8pm

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203-239-5333

COLONIAL HutCH 2 PC. tOP HAs 3 sHeLves, bOttOm 2 dOOrs, 2 drAwers. 42”w x 16”d x 61”H. exCeLLeNt CONdItION, $50. CALL (203)

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MERIDEN. 1 BR, 17 South First St $675. 2 BR, 75 Reservoir Ave $800. 3 BR, 71 Randolph Ave $900. All 2nd flr, off st parking. 203-982-9051

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MERIDEN. 2 BR, 2nd flr, off st parking, gas heat. Qui-et street. No util. $800/mo plus sec. 860-349-0819

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MERIDEN. 2 BR, 1 1/2 bath, deck, carport. No pets, no smoking. $900/mo + sec. 203-631-5595

STUDIO, In-law apt or room w/bath in private residence. Semi-retired prof. woman, willing to do handy work around the house. Non smoker. Please Call Sissy 860 308-4756

MERIDEN. 3 BR apt, 3rd flr, $850/mo, 1 1/2 mo sec dep. 250 W. Main St. Call 203-589-1010

COLEMAN Generator 4000 watts. Exc. cond. Asking $250. Call 860-426-0199

MER. Furn. Apts. East Side Incl Heat, HW, Elec. 2nd flr. Studio, $180/wk+ sec. 203-630-3823 12pm-8pm www.meridenrooms.com

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Apartments For Rent

BERLIN 1st FL 1BD Apt. Re-mod. New appls. Ref, Sec. Parking. No smoking, no pets. $650 + utils. Call 860-628-4907/860-621-5955

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